The matter of separating the family was left to Deng Hong.

At that time, the second clan of Deng Shen was headed by several brothers of Deng Hong.

But with the death of Deng Mao and other clan elders one after another, Deng Hong became the highest-ranking existence of the Deng Shen second clan.

More importantly, he is also one of the three princes of the Han Dynasty, although he has no real power, his political status is extremely high, and he has a very large voice within the clan.

Therefore, it is the best choice for him to convene a clan meeting, gather the elders of the rest of the clan, and persuade many relatives to split up their families, disperse separately, and migrate to other places to multiply.

Shen Chen also considered this matter.

Now the Han Dynasty is a vast and sparsely populated situation, and the Guanzhong Plain has a population of only 200,000 or 300,000 square kilometers, and it needs to migrate over.

There is also the Henan Plain, because of the war, the entire Henan has millions of square kilometers of land, the population can be two or three million people, and Henan Province, the most populous in later generations, can now be said to be a hundred miles without people.

Therefore, if you can allocate land to your relatives and send them away from the ancestral land of Nanyang, there should probably be no problem.

Moreover, this policy is not only for the Deng Shen Ers, but also for the entire Han family, which can adopt this method to force those big clans to split and forcibly relocate the population to alleviate the problem of the family's door valve.

But it's just a temporary relief.

Because the big family splits into the small family, the small family migrates to a large number of places, occupies a large number of fields, and slowly develops, and when the population increases, it will become a new big family.

Although this also solves the problem of fewer people and more land, it will lead to the entrenchment of local clan power after tens or hundreds of years.

Therefore, if you really want to completely solve the clan, you still have to rely on urbanization and industrialization.

After Shen Chen knew these things, he immediately went to the palace in the early morning of the second day, hoping to hold a small meeting with the emperor in the three provinces to talk about the situation.

Knowing that Shen Chen asked to see him, Liu Chan hurriedly waited for him to arrive in the Chongzheng Hall, another small hall in the North Palace, and at the same time asked Xu Shu, Pang Tong, Jiang Wan and others to be summoned.

Soon everyone arrived one by one, Shen Chen arrived first, and then Xu Shu and others also arrived one after another, and after everyone arrived, Xu Shu asked, "Your Majesty, what's the matter with summoning the ministers?" ”

He is a subordinate secretary, and now the Han Dynasty has just been built, and there are all kinds of waste waiting to be rebuilt, and the three provinces and ministries have to do a lot of things every day, and they are very busy, and it is a waste of time to run to the palace every day.

Liu Chan said, "It's the hussar general who has something to discuss with you. ”

Shen Chen looked at the three of them and asked, "Are the three provincial ministries busy now?" ”

"It's a bit busy, indeed."

Pang Tong said in a deep voice: "After the recovery of the whole country, at least tens of thousands of official documents are processed every day, and the manpower has not yet been replenished, so that many colleagues are busy every day. ”

Shen Chen thought for a while and said, "If the number of officials is insufficient, Your Majesty can open Enke and specially appoint scholars." Those who are talented and outstanding should also be transferred to the rank of officer. ”

"What do hussar generals mean?"

"I thought that now the Han Dynasty has not yet taken back Liaodong, and what is in front of Gongsun Yuan is either surrender or stubborn resistance. From next year to the year after next, the army will be restructured, leaving behind elite garrisons, a large number of soldiers will be given land to return to their hometowns for cultivation, and officers can be transferred to local areas to become officials. ”

Shen Chen said: "Now that the whole country has just been pacified, a large number of local officials are needed to maintain order, and officials from the military may not know how to govern the localities, but as long as they can learn and train quickly, they are much more vigorous and resolute than ordinary officials in terms of efficiency, especially there are many generals who read and learn to write." ”

In the Han Dynasty, there was no separation between civil and military families, and many literati were generals. For example, Sima Yi, Guo Huai, Jia Kui, Wang Ling, etc., are all from big families and have read scriptures. Even the children of civilians, like many of Shen Chen's disciples, are both civil and military, and they can fight at the top and settle the people at the bottom.

If these officers were transferred to local areas to become magistrates, it would still be very easy to govern with the population of a county in the Han Dynasty from a few thousand to at most.

"Hmm."

Pang Tong Xu Shu and Jiang Wan looked at each other, feeling that what Shen Chen said was very reasonable, and this matter could indeed be arranged like this.

"In addition, on the issue of insufficient manpower in the three provinces."

Shen Chen said: "In the past, when I was in the south, the population and land of the Han Dynasty were not large, and the three provinces and ministries were more than enough to handle the official affairs of the whole country. Now that the population and land have doubled, it is a bit stretched. I think that one can enrich the number of officials with rich experience in government affairs into the ministry, and the other is to divide the blame and add new departments. ”

"Add new departments?"

"Yes."

Shen Chen immediately talked about the Tang Dynasty's three provinces and six ministries system and the cabinet system.

To put it simply, the system of three provinces and six ministries had a prototype in the Wei and Jin dynasties, but it was not clearly divided before, and now it is completely divided.

The original six Cao Shangshu of Shangshutai was proposed as six departments, in charge of officials, households, rites, soldiers, criminals, and workers, and some functional departments were subdivided under the six departments, and at the same time, Tingwei and Dali Temple were set up outside the criminal department.

Among them, the function of the criminal department is similar to that of the Ministry of Public Security in later generations, the function of Tingwei is the procuratorate, and the Dali Temple is the court, forming a public prosecutorial legal balance.

The other is the establishment of the Military Affairs Yuan, which is one of the superior organs of the Ministry of War, which is subordinate to the Cabinet and is under dual leadership. The cabinet plays the role of managing the affairs of the whole country, while the Military Affairs Yuan manages the military of the whole country, and the military and the government are separated from the central to the localities.

A series of central functional reforms, listening to Pang Tong, Xu Shu, Jiang Wan and others with relish, Liu Chan was bored, looking left and right, until Shen Chen finished the system, he said: "The hussar general said very well, I think it can be implemented." ”

Xu Shu said: "Your Majesty, these things still have to be discussed when the prime minister comes back." ”

"So be it."

Liu Chan launched his skills to delegate power, waved his hand and said: "I am a little tired, I want to go back to rest and rest, everything is up to my brother-in-law." ”

So saying, he got up from his seat and went back from the apse.

Seeing his lazy style, Shen Chen said speechlessly: "Has Your Majesty always been like this?" ”

"It's always been like this."

Xu Shu shrugged.

"Okay."

Shen Chen said: "Your Majesty's ability to let us do things also shows that Your Majesty trusts us, which is a good thing. As for what I just said, when the time comes, when the prime minister returns, we will discuss it together. ”

"Okay."

Several people nodded.

Zhuge Liang is in Jizhou and will probably not return until the end of December.

Because at the beginning of next year, Liu Chan will hold a sacrificial event, and at the same time, he will also give amnesty to the world, reward the ministers, arrange the meritorious heroes, and so on.

At that time, next year, the officialdom will definitely be greatly reshuffled, a large number of meritorious heroes will be awarded posts, and the entire Han Dynasty will also enter a period of stable and peaceful development.

After talking about the restructuring, Shen Chen talked to them about the separation.

"If a country wants to develop in the long run, it must work together and help each other," he said. But the clan has always been a cancer that hinders the country's strength, what do you think should be done? ”

"What is Xiaoqing's opinion?"

Xu Shu asked.

"The clan power is incurable, the key lies in the family, for thousands of years, because of the ancestral beliefs and united, and finally the small family becomes everyone, everyone is the country. Only when there is a country can there be a home, and only when there is a family can there be a country, regardless of you and me. However, the internal personnel of the clan huddle together to keep warm, fight against the government, do not pay taxes, do not levy labor, once the clan has a high-ranking official, it will immediately soar and become the family gatekeeper, and influence the court, which is naturally not good. ”

Shen Chen said: "However, it is impossible to completely disintegrate the clan forces, we can only reduce its influence and increase the authority of the government. In addition, transportation and communication are underdeveloped, and the people need to be restrained by clans in order to reduce the occurrence of crimes and disrupt the rule of law in the country. Therefore, for clan forces, brute force cannot be used, but ingenuity should be used. ”

"Ingenuity?"

Pang Tong asked, "What kind of coincidence?" ”

"In fact, there are also strife and oppression within the clan, the main line occupies a lot of resources, and the rest of the branches are either tenants of the main lineage, or eat some leftovers, and there will be dissatisfied."

Shen Chen pointed out the crux of the problem: "No one wants to be the master of the house, even if the clan is restrained, once the rules are not established, to achieve fairness and justice, it will not be able to control the dispersion of people's hearts." Therefore, local governments can be asked to register their household registers, persuade tenants and serfs with little or no land to migrate to vast and sparsely populated areas, and the imperial court will lend them food and seeds without interest, and the local government will help them build houses and reclaim wasteland, all of which will be included in the achievements of local officials. ”

"Does that sound like a push?"

Xu Shu's eyes widened.

Shen Chen said with a smile: "It's okay, anyway, it is to divide the big clan into small clans, reduce the influence of the clan, and weaken their strength, after that, the three township elders will continue to be retained, but the township has a township chief, and the pavilion has a pavilion chief, and the influence of the government must be no weaker than the clan in the township pavilion!" ”

"Hmm"

Pang Tong muttered: "Now the Han Dynasty is in ruins, and the population in the north has not yet been registered, but Guanzhong, Henan, Xuzhou, Qingzhou and other places are indeed less populous. If you just do this, will a large number of new clans be spawned? ”

"There's no way."

Shen Chen shook his head: "Any policy in any era can only solve the current dilemma, there has never been a perfect policy in this world that can maintain hundreds of years or thousands of years, treat the present first, and then focus on the future." ”

For thousands of years, all dynasties and dynasties have not wanted to cure stubborn diseases such as landlords and clans.

But without industrialization and urbanization, it is impossible to solve the problem completely, and can only barely survive for tens or hundreds of years.

In later generations, many people said that Yongzheng divided the land into the mu, the fire consumption was returned to the public, and the officials and gentry paid grain in one, which completely solved the problem of the landlord and gentry not paying grain, but in fact, in the late Qing Dynasty, this system basically existed in name only.

Therefore, it is already very good to be able to solve these problems for a short time in ancient times, first to treat the symptoms, and then to treat the root cause. Governing a big country is like cooking a small fresh, and many things cannot be rushed.

Fortunately, because the productivity of the southern Han has been greatly improved, the grain output is abundant, which is enough for the development of the entire Han now.

Therefore, the imperial court has the ability to contribute money and food to help the people in various places to migrate, to move from places with many people to places with fewer people, and to average the local population.

This averaging is not as simple as sending the population over.

The development of various places is limited by the terrain.

For example, Huiji County, which is Fujian in later generations, has eight mountains, one water and one field, and there are few people and few lands, so it can basically only migrate the population from the outside and not to the inside.

So this average population means to move from a place with a large population and a lot of land to a place with a small population and a lot of land.

For example, Hebei now has a large population, so a large number of people from Hebei will be transferred to Henan.

Although the current land utilization rate in Hebei is far from reaching the limit.

Because Jizhou occupies more than 200,000 square kilometers of the North China Plain, with today's productive forces, it is more than enough to reclaim more than 100 million mu of land, enough to feed 20 million people.

At present, there are only seven or eight million people in Jizhou, and there is still a lot of wasteland that has not been cultivated.

However, if the ratio of population to land in Jizhou is 4 to 10, then the ratio of population to land in the whole of Henan is now 1 to 10.

This well averaged the population of the two places, so that Henan, the population and economic center of the Central Plains Dynasty since ancient times, could recover from the war as soon as possible.

Therefore, migrating the population is the best way to reduce the influence of the clan and alleviate the small population in Henan and Guanzhong.

It's the best of both worlds.

"Now the most populous place is Jingzhou and Hebei, I suggest that next year, first check the population of the world, count the specific number, and by the way, let the local government understand the power of the clans in various places thoroughly, and then carry out the matter of migrating the population."

Xu Shu said: "The best situation is to migrate people from Jingzhou to Guanzhong, and from Hebei to Henan. In addition, Huainan is now thousands of miles uninhabited, and it may be possible to migrate from Jiangdong to the past. ”

"Hmm."

Shen Chen nodded and said, "The migratory population should pay attention to the principle of nearby migration, and in addition, the last thing is transportation. ”

"Do you want to build a road?"

Jiang Wan asked.

Shen Chen said: "No, you want to repair the river." ”

"Repair the river?"

"Yes, I thought that if the big river, the big river, and the Huai River could be connected, and then a canal could be built from Youzhou, the transportation in the world would be greatly convenient except for Bashu."

"It's a big project."

"Yes, so we need to think long-term. I think the central government should set up a geological department to draw mountains and rivers in all counties across the country, and draw up a map of China. ”

Shen Chen made a suggestion.

There are records about rivers in the Book of Han, but there is no picture and no truth, and second, there are few records, and even many rivers have disappeared in the long river of time.

A more comprehensive understanding of water conservancy is the "Notes on the Book of Water" written by Li Daoyuan of the Northern Wei Dynasty, but this thing will not come out until 300 years later.

Therefore, the Han Dynasty officials had to carry out their own "Water Jing Note", through the power of the imperial court to search the mountains and rivers across the country, and at the same time encourage counties to look for minerals in their own counties, use the steel irrigation method to develop smelting technology, and strengthen the improvement of agricultural tools.

First, agriculture should be encouraged, agriculture should be emphasized and business should be suppressed, and then industry and commerce should be gradually released to promote commercial development. Just like after the establishment of our country in later generations, we must first solve the problem of feeding the people, and then we can reform and open up and develop the economy.

In this way, agriculture and the construction of the canal will be carried out simultaneously, and when agriculture is developed and the canal is repaired, it will be possible to strengthen the circulation of the economy and population throughout the country and strengthen the national strength.

Xu Shu, Pang Tong, Jiang Wan and others felt very reasonable when they heard this, and they all nodded in agreement.

The four of them talked about some other things, and they talked about it for more than an hour, and finally the meeting ended.

"That's it."

Pang Tong felt that today's meeting was still very fruitful, and at least several of the troubles he was encountering now were solved.

Jiang Wan listened to the whole process and did not express many opinions.

Although he is a Chinese scholar and one of the deputy ministers, his qualifications are still young and not enough to discuss with everyone, so listening and learning more is the best choice.

At the end of the meeting, the three provincial ministries and ministries will first make arrangements in this regard and summarize the documents of the meeting.

Wait until Zhuge Liang comes back before making the final decision.

(End of chapter)