Long before going on patrol, Keiji had already instructed Dazai Jiza to count the population data of Wu and conduct an up-to-date census.

Therefore, half a year has passed, and Qingji naturally wants to inquire about this matter!

And Ji Za was already prepared, so he said: "Back to the king, the overall planning of the population and households of my Wu country has been completed. According to the preliminary planning, there are now nearly 200,000 households in Wu State, and the population is about 1.15 million! ”

As soon as these words came out, the ministers were in an uproar!

Is such demographic data real?

All the ministers and doctors couldn't help but be suspicious in their hearts.

After all, when the household registration books of Wu were in the time of the first kings, more than ten years ago, there were only 140,000 households in Wu State, and the population was only 830,000.

How did it get to now, in more than ten years, the population of Wu has actually grown explosively?

Isn't that appalling?

Moreover, at the beginning of his ascension to the throne, Qingji also synthesized various household registration data, showing that the population of Wu was only 850,000.

Now, why has it grown to 1.15 million people all of a sudden?

More than 300,000 people, didn't they appear out of thin air?

The ministers were puzzled.

Only Qing Ji, who was sitting on the throne, already had a rough guess in his heart.

"Preliminary co-ordination? Dazai, isn't it a matter of population co-ordination that hasn't been completed yet? ”

"Exactly."

Ji Za replied: "Great King, the population of the Han Kingdom that was conquered at the right time can only be coordinated according to the roster of the past classics, and as for the Huaiyi people, they are also making a register. ”

"The ministers estimate that if you add the population of Huaiyi, the population of my Wu country should be about 1.2 million!"

"Good!"

With a population of 1.2 million, at this time, among the vassal states divided by Zhou Tianzi, it was already the first sequence of existence.

Large countries have millions of people, while small countries have only tens of thousands of people, and the population is very different!

For example, the Jin State, the Chu State, and the Qi State all have a population of more than two million and belong to the hegemonic powers.

Like Wu and Qin, countries with a population of more than one million are powerful countries in the first order.

With a population of 1.2 million, if there is a big war at every turn, all the people of Wu will be soldiers, and Qingji can recruit at least two or three hundred thousand troops to fight!

This is the existence of the war heritage of the state of Wu.

Of course, unless it is absolutely necessary, Qingji will never put all the living forces of Wu into the battlefield.

This will ruin the country of Wu!

At this time, Qingji pretended to be casual and asked: "Dazai, when the widow remembers the first king, the number of households in my Wu Kingdom was only 140,000, and the population was only 830,000, and now there are so many households, why is it also?" ”

"The king, thanks to the king's succession to the throne, more than 50,000 people have been collected from Chu, and more than 50,000 people have been killed, and the mountains have been leveled, the Han country has been destroyed, the Huaiyi has been fixed, the thieves have been broken, and the people have been naturalized, so there are the people!"

After a pause, Ji Za said again: "Moreover, it is the implementation of the new law in Wu State, the growing national strength, and the people-oriented national policies to consolidate the people's livelihood, so the people of the neighboring Chu, Yue, Xu, Zhongli and other countries have entered Wu and entered the household registration of my Wu State!" ”

"This time and again, the population of my Wu country is naturally better than before!"

Jiza's words were indeed correct.

The world is bustling, all for profit.

The world is crowded, all for profit!

Wu is thriving, the national strength is growing, and the various policies introduced by Wu are really preferential to the people at the bottom, Wu Wang Qingji encouraged the Li Shu of other countries to enter Wu.

In this case, the people who entered Wu to make a living were naturally eager to make a living, and moreover, they moved their families to help the old and the young.

This made Qingji feel very relieved!

He inherited the throne of King Wu for only two years, but he has already completed the great feats that a whole generation of kings can accomplish.

However, Qingji also knew that the real population of Wu State might be more than 1.2 million.

Because almost every minister's family has a lot of slaves in the fief, and the slaves are not in the order of the countrymen, they will not be registered and included in it.

Every time I think of this, Qingji's mood is quite heavy!

"Since the people of all countries intend to settle in Wu, they are Wu people, and the widows should be encouraged."

"Therefore, the widow's will, issued an edict, from now on, all those who enter Wu to settle in Lishu, there are those who go to Wu, the government will give a house, three acres of land, a cloth, a set of farm tools, and rent a ploughing ox to cultivate, and the rest should be treated, equal to the countrymen!"

"The 'savages' in Wu can also be registered, and all treatments are from those who have settled in Wu."

As soon as Qingji's words came out, it immediately caused an uproar among the ministers.

The servant Shen Xi couldn't help but come out and said: "King, don't do it!" ”

"The king's encouragement of the people of other countries to settle in Wu was of course a concern for the country, but it was intended to increase the population. However, if the king gives such treatment, isn't it favoritism? ”

"If the people of the country knew that the king gave such preferential treatment to outsiders and to exiled savages, they would have been dissatisfied. In this way, will the country lose the support of the people? ”

Shen Xi is reminding Qingji that the latter's favoritism over one over the other may cause the resistance of the countrymen, and then let the Wu people deviate from his Qingji, which is really a bad impact.

Of course, this is only one side of the story.

Even if the people of Wu are red-eyed and jealous of those outsiders, so what?

Qingji is completely out of consideration of national interests, how can he look ahead and look backward and be timid?

The people's will is important, but the people of Wu are only "suffering from widowhood but not equality", so how can they spurn Qingji?

"My lord, what the servant said is very true!"

Shaofu was separated and said: "Whether it is a fugitive savage, or a foreigner who has settled in Wu, he should be self-reliant, why is my Wu country so favorable?" ”

"Please think twice!"

"The minister seconded the proposal!"

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty seconded the proposal!"

The ministers of the old clan, led by Shen Xi and Shu Li, all strongly opposed Qingji's preferential treatment of outsiders and savages.

Guyin, as soon as these people came, they were registered, and they became the people of the Wu Kingdom.

And they were all slave hunters of the nobles before!

For those black households, the nobles can capture them at will and make them their slaves!

And once Qingji promulgated a decree that was as generous to outsiders and savages, it is conceivable that the number of slaves in the slave market would drop sharply.

The inherent interests of the ministers and doctors involved in this will also be damaged, how can they be willing?

How could Qingji not be clear about the thoughts of these old clan ministers?

Therefore, Qingji immediately made a decision, and waved his big hand and said: "The widow has decided to issue such an edict, and the second and third sons do not need to say more. ”

In addition, the widow should also forbid all slave hunting in the country. From now on, it is strictly forbidden to arrest slaves, and violators will have their property confiscated and their families will be exiled to the frontier. At worst, they will be beheaded, and their families will be exiled to the frontier, or demoted to official slaves! ”

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