It is said that after Yao Xiang, Pu Jing and others raised troops to expel Pu Xiong, they supported the young Pu Chang as the king of Qin, but when they learned that Pu Xiong had defected to Wei, they couldn't help but be terrified and scared.

In the end, several people decided to send an envoy to Wei to pay tribute, and asked Ran Min to canonize Pu Chang as the king of Qin and rule the land of Guanzhong.

But where is Ran Min willing?

If you let the Qin State become your own vassal state, and you have no name in your own division, it will be difficult to crusade against Guanzhong. So Ran Min immediately rejected the letter from Yao Xiang and others, and angrily reprimanded the envoy, saying that he would soon conquer the Qin State and recover Guanzhong, so let Yao Xiang and Pu Jing wash their necks and wait!

Rao is like this, Wei is still in the recovery stage at this time, and he will not fight at every turn.

And it was precisely because he understood this that Tuoba Shiyijian, who agreed to fear the crusade of Wei, repeatedly sent troops to harass and annex states, robbed houses, raped and plundered, and did all kinds of evil, making the northern border of Wei a miasma, and the people were not able to make a living.

Under the anger of Ran Min, he wanted to send troops to the Northern Expedition, but he was advised by the ministers, and finally decided to appoint Su Lin, a native of Zhongshan, as the general of the Northern Expedition, leading 60,000 people of the Northern Army to defend Dai County, fortify the walls and clear the wilderness, and move the people along the northern border to the interior, so as to avoid war.

It is worth mentioning that Surin is also a figure who has left a strong mark in history.

In the original history, in October 352 AD, Murong Ke was stationed in Anping, stockpiling grain, preparing weapons and equipment for attack, and was about to crusade against Wang Wu.

Bingxu, Su Lin, a native of Zhongshan, raised troops in Wuji and claimed to be the Son of Heaven. Murong Ke returned from Lukou to crusade against Su Lin.

Later, Murong Jun sent the Guangwei general Mu Yugen to help Murong Ke attack Su Lin, who was defeated and killed.

Mu Yugen and Murong Ke were both famous generals in the world at that time, and they defeated Su Lin with a great advantage in military strength, so you can imagine how strong Su Lin's combat ability is.

Moreover, Su Lin was born in the beggar army, and almost all of his subordinates were rabble, with such an army, he could still fight against the powerful Yan army for so long, I have to say that Su Lin also has the qualifications to become a famous general in the world.

After Ran Min's sudden rise, Su Lin joined the Wei army, made many military exploits, and was finally promoted to the position of general of Zhengbei.

Su Lin's ability is really not covered, as soon as he took office, he defeated Tuoba Xianbei's partial division near Yanmen Mountain, beheaded more than 6,000 people, captured 1,000 people, and finally killed them all without leaving them alive.

Then, Su Lin led his army to ambush the Dai army at Gubeikou and beheaded more than 5,000 enemies. Later, he used to be a tour guide, found the main force of Tuoba Xianbei, opened the camp, led the army to break the enemy, beheaded 30,000, and captured more than 4,000 people.

Su Lin's three battles in Daibei completely shocked the world, making everyone in the world look sideways, and the Xianbei people were even more frightened!

Girder, Forbidden City.

"Okay, okay." Ran Min smiled and said, "Su Lin won three battles and three victories in Daibei, so that the Xianbei people did not dare to go south to herd horses, which really greatly increased the prestige of my Wei army!" But now there is a question, in the three battles before and after Surin, in addition to the first 1,000 prisoners of war were killed, nearly 5,000 people were also captured, how should these 5,000 prisoners of war be disposed of? ”

The order to kill Hu had passed, so Su Lin did not dare to disregard human life and execute prisoners of war unscrupulously. The 1,000 people killed earlier were just for the sake of prestige, and it was inconvenient to take them with them.

Shang Shu Ling Cui Hao said first: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the Central Plains is under great rule, and he has already been served. Now His Majesty is going to build a grand canal connecting the north and the south and the east and west, and he is in urgent need of manpower, so he might as well arrange these prisoners of war to build a canal in the Qingzhou area. ”

Ran Min bowed slightly, at this time, there was a lot of labor to build the Grand Canal. There are more than 50,000 prisoners of war from the Wa Kingdom, more than 10,000 Di people who have just been annexed, 10,000 prisoners serving prison sentences, and more than 200,000 Hu people who are surviving from the order to kill Hu, which adds up to more than 300,000 people.

But that's not going to work, it's still too slow.

However, Ran Min didn't want to be in a hurry, after all, the Grand Canal project is a major event that will benefit the future, and it is estimated that the requisition of the people will make people angry and hurt the country, so it is necessary to think about it slowly.

How did Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty build the Grand Canal?

The Grand Canal, the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, is as famous as the Great Wall, and is two of the greatest projects in ancient China, famous all over the world.

The Grand Canal dug by Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty is one of the canals with the longest river transportation mileage, the largest amount of engineering and the oldest history in the world. The human, material and financial resources used for the construction of the canal were also the largest in the world at that time.

Perhaps it is precisely because Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty ordered the construction of a huge canal project shortly after becoming emperor, which involved the use of huge manpower, material and financial resources of the people, which caused deep resentment among the people, which eventually led to the premature demise of the Sui Dynasty, and also made the Yang Emperor of the Sui Dynasty Yang Guang himself leave an indecent reputation in the history of ancient emperors.

After Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty succeeded to the throne, in the first year of the great cause, he "sent more than 100,000 men and women to the counties of Henan, opened the Ji Canal, and led the valley from Xiyuan and Luoshui to the river". In the fourth year of the great cause, "more than 100,000 men and women in Hebei counties were issued to open the Yongji Canal, divert Qinshui, reach the Yuhe River in the south, and pass Zhuo County in the north."

Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty ordered the use of millions of laborers in order to dig the Grand Canal, and such a large amount of manpower is very amazing even in modern times.

The reason why Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty wanted to dig the Dadong River so vigorously and mobilize the people to dig the Great Movement River, according to the most widely circulated folk saying, in addition to the fact that Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty went to Yangzhou to see Qionghua by boat from the canal waterway for his convenience, and then it was for Yang Guang to vent the "local atmosphere" in the Suiyang area.

Of course, Ran Min naturally wouldn't believe this nonsense.

Ran Min believes that the purpose of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty in building the Grand Canal was to facilitate the northward transportation of a large number of materials from the Jiangnan region, the land of fish and rice, to supply the needs of Kyoto and the imperial palace, and to facilitate his own parade and inspection along the river, etc.

For example, after the successful excavation of the Grand Canal, a steady stream of rice, silk, brocade, and treasures from the Jiangnan region to Luoyang entered Beijing and entered the palace, which is enough to illustrate the problem.

In any case, the Grand Canal ordered by Emperor Yang of Sui to be dug is a matter of sin in the present and beneficial for the future.

Next, Ran Min discussed politics with the ministers.

"Your Majesty, the minister has something to do." Wang Meng stood up again.

"Please."

"Your Majesty has previously put the ministers and the rank of the ministers of the province in charge of counting the population of the country, and the data has been obtained. The current population of our Great Wei is still more than 11 million, all of whom are Han Chinese. ”

And 11 million people? So much!

Ran Min's heart was slightly surprised, according to his estimates, the population of Wei should be less than 10 million. After all, after such a harsh order to kill Hu, the Hu people and the Han people attacked each other, and under the same party, it was a blessing that the population of the Central Plains could be left with 10 million!

It is worth mentioning that when the population of Wei was at its largest, it exceeded 16 million, but after some time of turmoil, millions of Hu people were expelled and killed, and many Han people also died.

But after all, Ran Min still has a requirement, that is, to kill Hu Ling, the Han people must have a premise, that is, women who can give birth and children who are not taller than the wheel cannot be killed, so the remaining 11 million people, in fact, some of them are Hu people who have entered the Han nationality, or the surviving Hu women and the descendants of the Hu people.

However, they are all Han Chinese, so they are all Han Chinese.

Wang Meng said again: "Your Majesty, the current chaos in the Central Plains has calmed down, but many orphans and widows have not been properly settled. The minister suggested that it would be better for the court to raise those orphans who had no father or mother, and that if there were fathers or single-parent children such as mothers, they could be allowed to remarry with their mothers, and the man who married his mother should be responsible for raising the children. ”

"Good!"

"In addition, given that there are too many widows who are not properly settled. Your Majesty is requested to issue an edict ordering a married man to marry another bride within his means, and the court may give him a certain reward. ”

"Good!"

"And there's that. The population of the Central Plains is too small today, and many of them are ten rooms and nine empty phenomena, please make another decree to your Majesty, requiring the people to have more children, and the rewards will be doubled, whether it is money and grain, or cloth, or land, you can be rewarded. ”

"Good!"

Ran Min said again: "Then I will make another will." 14. Men and women of any age or older must marry and have a son, and whether they are men or women, they shall be rewarded with five pieces of money, or two acres of land, or ten horses of arrowroot. ”

"Your Majesty Shengming!"

Ran Min: Actually, this is also a helpless move.

He also knows that in this era, fertility conditions are low, many babies are dead, and there may even be a situation where one corpse and two lives may occur. Especially for pregnant women at such a young age, the situation is even more serious!

Alas, the situation in modern China is that there are more men and fewer women, and there are more monks and less porridge, but in this era, as long as a man has the ability and can afford it, he can marry more women, or even an ordinary person, and three wives and four concubines are not a problem at all!

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Chapter 0359: Three Wives and Four Concubines Are Normal