At this time, the state of Wu was full of nineteen counties.

It can be said to be the native of Wu, there is only one Wu County, and there are also parts of Jiujiang County and Yuzhang County.

After years of blending, in a generation, Huiji County will slowly become a county in Wu Province, but it is too reluctant.

For a full eighteen years, Qingji, as the king of Wu, how much territory did he open up for the country of Wu?

Almost twenty times more!

This expansion has been rapid, but it has also caused some potential problems.

For example, the territory of Wu is difficult to digest.

Even if Qingji has always adhered to the principle of "the sea is inclusive, tolerance is great", and does not rely on several generations, for hundreds of years, Wu Guo cannot really absorb the trust of all Li Shu and let them become real "Wu people"!

Among them, the biggest problem is population.

At the beginning of Qingji's accession to the throne, what was the population of Wu?

Eight hundred and fifty thousand!

After Qingji's policy of encouraging childbirth for many years, Wu's population showed a blowout growth.

As an old Wu person, the population has soared, and it has long exceeded one million.

Moreover, there are a lot of newborns, and some newborns have grown up, such as Gongzi Heng, Gongzi Hong and others, who have been able to go into battle to kill the enemy and make contributions to the country.

There are more than one million old Wu people, which is indeed a lot.

However, the population of Wu has always been high.

According to the latest census data, after the annexation of Chu and Yun, what is the current population of Wu?

Before the battle to destroy Chu, there were 1.42 million households and 7.16 million people in Wu!

Now the state of Wu has increased the population of Chu and Yun, with 1.76 million households and 8.82 million people!

What is this concept?

According to a statistic, on the whole, the population in the early Spring and Autumn period was less than 20 million in the early Spring and Autumn period, but in the late Spring and Autumn period, the population rose to about 25 million.

After the Han, Zhao, and Wei families were divided into Jin, and after entering the Warring States Period, the population exceeded 30 million at its peak, and it was reduced to more than 20 million when Qin unified the Six Kingdoms......

I don't know if it's reliable.

However, Qingji estimated that the total population of the Chinese countries in this era must not exceed 20 million.

This is not counting the total population of the six counties in Lingnan and the three counties in the southwest opened up by Qingji......

The population of the Jin State is almost five million, and the population of the five medium-sized countries of Zheng, Lu, Yan, Wei, and Song should be around 500,000 to 800,000.

It is possible that the Qin state had a population of no more than two million, and the Qi state had a population of nearly three million......

The rest of the small countries such as Chen, Xu, Xu, and Cai, plus a Zhou royal family, must be more than two million.

In this way, the total population of the countries of the North is 15 million......

Outrageous?

Outrageous!

Qingji felt very outrageous.

It's just that during Qingji's reign, he also invented the Quyuan plow, and constantly improved the means of production, developed people's livelihood, encouraged fertility, and added a lot of population to Wu.

Seeing this, the rest of the countries also encouraged childbearing in the same way, so it was inevitable that in more than ten years, the population of the world showed a scene of blowout growth! ….

This has both advantages and disadvantages for Qingji.

The disadvantage is that the population of the countries is overpopulated, and the difficulty of Wu conquest is increased.

The advantage is that once the state of Wu destroys its country and wins its people, it will be able to pick up ready-made.

Population, throughout the ages, has been the foundation of a country's survival.

At this time, the territory of Wu State has occupied half of the territory of Kyushu in China, and the total population accounts for more than one-third!

It's just that it's too late to digest it, and Wu's military mobilization ability may not be comparable to that of Jin and Qi.

Moreover, because the territory is too vast, once the Jin army goes south and the Central Plains princes join forces to go south, the strength of Wu will be very large

In terms of degree, it needs to be scattered in various fortresses to defend against ......

"Slippery, edict!"

"No."

With a wave of Qingji's big hand, the CRRC Fuling, which had been prepared a long time ago, took out a silk book and read it out loud: "Wang Zhao-"

"There are 100 officials in the Xia Hou clan, and the Son of Heaven has three dukes, nine qing, two *** husbands, and eighty-one yuanshi."

"There are four auxiliaries and three princes, it is not necessary, but it is others. Words can be spoken."

"Yin Yi is the third prince and the ninth prince. Yin Yin said: The three gongs tune yin and yang, and the nine Qings pass the cold and summer......"

What is this to do?

Reform the bureaucracy again?

No!

Definitely!

Qingji is to carry out a personnel transfer in the Wu dynasty, in order to reform the rule of officials and highlight the new atmosphere of the Wu state.

At the same time, Qingji is to commend the ministers of Wu State for their hard work.

Among them, the three princes and nine secretaries have all undergone major changes.

Zhou took Taishi, Taifu, and Taibao as the three dukes, and Wu had two different sets of "three dukes", one was honorable and the other was powerful.

Taishi Ji Zha, Taifu Laozi, and Taibao Yanying, the titles of the three remained unchanged, but they were rewarded with thousands of acres of fertile land, 500 gold, and 100 silk horses.

This is Qingji's outstanding contribution to the Wu State in rewarding the three of them culturally.

The "three princes" with real power are none other than the great Sima Sun Wu, the imperial historian Wu Zixu and Dazai Jiran.

Ji Ran still served as Dazai, the head of the hundred officials, and was rewarded with 500 gold, 100 horses of silk, and 1,000 households in the feudal district.

Wu Zixu was reappointed as the Great Sima, and was rewarded with 500 gold, 100 silk horses, and 1,000 households in Yiyingdu.

The previous Great Sima Sun Wu was specially appointed by Qingji to be a "national captain" equivalent to the official rank of the Three Princes, and shared military power with the Great Sima Wu Zixu.

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Sun Wugong is outstanding, he is already a very human minister, and there is no way to promote, so Qingji named Sun Wu as "Shen Jun" and sealed it in Shendi, and the entire Shen County has been Sun Wu's fief since then, and it is hereditary and replaceable......

It is worth mentioning that among the many heroes of Wu before, only Taishi Jizha enjoyed this honor.

Ji Za was sealed in the state by Qingji, and he couldn't refuse, so he could only agree.

The rest of the ministers and doctors of Wu did not enjoy fiefdoms, only food estates, and only enjoyed the rent and taxes of one place or hundreds or thousands of households.

Even Ji Za did not dare to ask the state to be used as a fief, and decided to return the state after his death to avoid being "liquidated" in the future......

With the departure of Sun Wu, the position of the imperial historian was vacant, and Qingji was promoted to Fan Li, who had been the ruler of Su Neishi for more than ten years, and served as the imperial historian.

For Fan Li, Qingji still feels indebted.

In terms of merit, Fan Li is not much different from Sun Wu and Wu Zixu, and he often follows Qingji's side to give advice, and manages the country's finances with remarkable achievements.

If you don't give Fan Li a position of three princes, it is really unreasonable.

The rest of the ministers and doctors also have their own rewards, or silk, or fertile land, or jade silk, or increase food.

The reason why Sun Wu was awarded the title of "Shen Jun" was because Qingji basically had nothing to seal Sun Wu in his official position.

Sun Wu's food town is already 5,000 households, do you want to give him a food town with 10,000 households?

Wu Zixu is the same, there are 5,000 households in the food town, and if he goes further, he will be able to be like Sun Wu, and be named a hereditary feudal lord! .

Confused little lamb