When everyone in the hall listened, some were surprised, some were surprised, some were happy, and so on. Ma Teng touched his chin and said suspiciously: "Chao'er, isn't this the Jingtian system?" ”

Ma Chao said: "My father can think the same way. "Because both the well field system and the uniform field system emphasize that the land is owned by the state, it has a great deterrent effect on land annexation.

Ma Teng said: "Although this Juntian system sounds good, there are still many differences with the Jingtian system, and no one has implemented it before. Why not use the tuntian system? In the past, Zhao Chongguo was in Huangshui Tuntian, and it still benefits the people. ”

Of course, Ma Chao knew the benefits of the tuntian system, such as Cao Cao's implementation of the tuntian system, but he harvested millions of grains in a year. However, Ma Chao believes that the Juntian system is more advanced than the Tuntian system. Ma Chao said: "Although the tuntian system can gather a large amount of military food in a short period of time and maintain the supply of the army, it is extremely unfavorable to the people: the households can only get less than half of the grain. And our army is about to cut troops, and we don't need too much food and grass for the time being; The people of Liangzhou are suffering from war and famine, if I can eat enough, the people's hearts will be far away from me; In addition, the reason why Liangzhou is constantly in war is also related to the large-scale annexation of land by the indigenous wealthy clans, once the Assassin Mansion recovers the ownership of all the wasteland, it will be difficult for the cunning people to annex the land, which poses a threat to me, so that the people can rest smoothly, and the foundation of my Ma clan will inevitably be more stable. ”

Ma Chao said this, Ma Teng and others couldn't help but be impressed, and immediately there were many Taishou and county commanders who praised the festival, and everyone talked about it, and they were all talking about the benefits of this Juntian system.

One person said: "The young master is really powerful, and in one fell swoop, he won the hearts of two million people in the twelve counties of Liangzhou, and it only cost thousands of miles to wasteland!" ”

Another person said: "Not only that, but the young master's move has also enabled me to get stable taxes and servitude in Liangzhou." In the future, if I want to collect taxes and levy conscription in Liangzhou, it will be much easier than before! ”

Another humanitarian: "What's even more powerful is that the young master has taken advantage of this to gain many military services in one fell swoop. Imagine that my Liangzhou is a place where the people are fierce, how many people will become the reserve force of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry? At least three or four hundred thousand! ”

"Shhh As soon as they heard this, everyone couldn't help but gasp, because everyone was sure that if there were three or four hundred thousand Xiliang iron horses, it would be enough to plow the world and sweep the holes several times!

The last person concluded: "It seems that I have a young master in Liangzhou, and I am about to get out of the decline and usher in a prosperous era in the near future!" ”

Jia Xu listened attentively on the side, and did not speak, but his heart was extremely shaken. As the officials commented, this system of equalization is so powerful that Jia Xu deeply regrets that he has not been able to design such a system that benefits the people. At the same time, he also felt more and more that Ma Chao, his new young master, was elusive. He thought that with his wisdom, he had already pondered Ma Chao for most of his time, but he didn't expect that Ma Chao actually far exceeded his imagination.

Ma Teng also sighed: "My unicorn alone can be worth ten thousand people!" In this case, Chao'er, you can quickly draw up the rules of this uniform field system, and you will definitely implement it to the end for your father. ”

Hearing Ma Teng's assurance, Ma Chao was also very happy. The equalization system allowed the people to obtain arable land for a comfortable living, and they paid much less taxes, levies, and military service than the tuntian system.

Ma Chao said: "Well, my son can hand over the charter to his father tomorrow." As for the second thing, which is also related to the equalization system, that is, the reconstruction of household registration, the statistics of household registration, the facilitation of the implementation of the equalization system, and the collection of taxes and the collection and issuance of conscription and military service. During the war, the son had already preliminarily carried out the statistics of the household registration of some counties in Liangzhou, and the results would be handed over to his father tomorrow. ”

Ma Teng nodded and said, "This matter is already being done by my father." After considering the factors such as the concealment of the hukou and the departure of the displaced people, the father roughly estimated that there were about 150,000 households and 750,000 people in the four counties of Wuwei, Jincheng, Beidi, and Anding. Although it has not been completely accurately calculated, there is probably not much disparity. I don't know how much Chao'er counts? ”

Regarding the matter of household registration, Ma Chao is the most concerned, otherwise he would not dare to draw his hand to count when he is fighting to the death with Han Sui, because Ma Chao knows Xiao He's story. Ma Chao is also familiar with the estimated data, and said: "There should be 70,000 households and 350,000 mouths in the four counties of Hanyang, Longxi, Wudu, and Tianshui. There should be 100,000 households and 500,000 mouths in the four counties of Xihai, Hequ, Min and Jishi. ”

Ma Teng sighed and said: "In this way, in addition to the four counties occupied by Han Sui, there are 320,000 households and 1.6 million people in the twelve counties of Liangzhou. There are too few hukou in Liangzhou, Runan County and Nanyang County, which one does not have 400,000 households and 2 million people? ”

Ma Chao was also a little disappointed. In 157 AD, the population of the Eastern Han Dynasty peaked at 56 million. After the Yellow Turban Uprising, there should have been probably 40 millions. Many counties have large populations, with a population of more than one million, such as Runan, Nanyang, Chenguo, Pingyuan, Changsha, Yuzhang, Bohai, Henan, Lingling, Yongchang, etc. In particular, Nanyang and Runan have populations of 2.43 million and 2.1 million, respectively. The rest of the counties also had an average of five or six hundred thousand. Looking at the world, only Liangzhou and Bingzhou have the fewest hukou.

Although the population of Liangzhou that is estimated now does not include the population of Hexi, which is still in the hands of Han Sui, it also counts the population of Qiangzhong, and the population of Qiangzhong is more than that of Hexi. In this way, they are less than two million people. This population will undoubtedly leave a lot of difficulties for Ma Chao, and he has to take a long road of recuperation, at least the starting point and strength are much lower than those of Nanyang Taishou and Runan Taishou.

Ma Chao said: "Father doesn't have to be discouraged, it is not easy for Liangzhou to have such a hukou after a hundred years of war. Besides, with the diligence and benevolence of my Ma family, I believe that in less than ten years, Liangzhou will not lose Jizhou! ”

Jizhou has a population of six or seven million, the highest in the world.

After hearing this, Ma Teng, although he didn't believe that Liangzhou could catch up with Jizhou, looked at Ma Chao's serious and hopeful eyes, and was still deeply encouraged, and said: "Chao'er is right! Encourage it! ”

Ma Chao said: "Our third most urgent thing is to reduce troops. ”

Ma Teng nodded and said, "That's true." The imperial court did not allow the allocation of one million stones of grain this time, but only gave 500,000 stones, and it seems that it will not support my Xiliang army in the future. And Liangzhou is stable, and it is not able to feed the 200,000 people, unless Liangzhou returns to war. ”

Ma Chao said: "Father, there are fewer soldiers, and the extra grain can make the soldiers eat better and have more strength to fight, which is not a bad thing." In addition, with fewer soldiers and more grain, our army will rarely have the dilemma of running out of food in the future, and this is a great good thing for our army. ”