The problem of land seems to have passed, and all the areas within the scope of the song have been implemented, the land has been remeasured, a large amount of wasteland has been distributed to the peasant households, and at the same time, a large number of tenant farmers and servants have been released, and they have re-registered their household registration, so that the number of people in the morning song, which was originally more than 1 million, has suddenly increased the population to about 1.8 million.

A few days later, at the court meeting, Sun Ming took the new population number, and sat there silently without saying a word, these are not all the population, and there are still many servants who have not been registered, these people are still working in the homes of officials and large families, but I think it should not be much.

Chaoge has always maintained an army of 100,000, which is a standing army, responsible for conscripting non-ministers, but the number of this army is too small, but if the army is recruited again, then the labor aspect is a problem, and now it is more important to cultivate the land.

"Prime Minister, has such a large number of people been settled?" asked Sun Ming after reading the report.

"King Qiqi, it has been properly settled, and now the new plough has begun to be issued, but because of the time constraints, each village can only be divided into ten. Shang Rong said.

"Well, it's okay, ten is enough, the speed of the new plough is very fast, and the craftsmen should not stop, continue to build, and strive for all the farmers within the Chaoge area to use the new plow. ”

"Yes, but the new plough has no name yet, please name it king. ”

"Hmm, let's call it a merchant plow. By the way, although many tenant farmers and servants have been released by the master's family and re-registered the population, there are still many who have not been registered, and this is not possible, so let the local officials find out all the people who have not registered, even if they do not become farmers, I also need to know how many people are on their land. "Sun Ming is very serious about the population.

In this era, we need a population for everything, and we need a population for farming, conscription, conscription, and so on, and in an era when a person is so good at doing things, Sun Ming naturally will not let those officials and servants of large families be idle, after all, they don't pay taxes, don't they even pay labor? This is too unfair to the peasant households, and Sun Ming will also waste these laborers.

"Yes, but it's a bit difficult, after all, the servants are private property. Shang Rong's words made Sun Ming's face sink.

"Hmph, the whole world is not the king's land, and the coast of the land is not the king's ministers, what private property do they have? Are they ready to pay taxes for these servants? Or are they ready to serve for them? Taishi Wenzhong. ”

"The king, the old minister is here. ”

"The army is divided into four, and the troops are stationed in all directions, but there are those who do not cooperate with the population inventory, and directly raid the house and exterminate the clan, and the same is true for those with bad intentions. "Sun Ming is not used to these people, they are now the prototype of the scholar clan, if you don't clean them up, then you can only be led away by them in the future, now you have loyal ministers in your hands, don't care about personal interests, and at the same time the army is loyal, when will you wait if you don't clean them up at this time."

Wen Zhong is a cultivator, and he doesn't value the family at all, while Shang Rong is an old minister of the Three Dynasties and is loyal, and Uncle Wang is a royal family, so he is naturally loyal to the royal family. The Huang clan of Wucheng Wang has always been glorious, because they are loyal and conscientious to help the royal family manage the army, and their family's prestige is not as high as Wen Zhong, even if they have ideas, they are useless.

Sun Ming promoted the officials to three levels, not three percent, but three levels. In this way, the prosperity of officials can be guaranteed, and some officials can be divided, after all, not everyone has a lot of land.

"King, under such heavy pressure, the ministers are afraid that the land of the court song will be restless!" Shang Rong said worriedly.

"Haha, the prime minister is too worried, it's better to be restless, I'm waiting for them to be restless, the more this kind of thing, the better, I look forward to it very much, just so that the master can train the soldiers, and it's a waste for soldiers to always not fight, and they need actual combat training. Sun Ming laughed, he actually needed to clean up a group of Emperor Yi's old ministers to succeed to the throne, and then promote a group of ministers himself to serve as his loyal team.

At the end of the meeting, Shang Rong and Wen Zhong acted at the same time, and the army was divided into four to garrison the four sides of Chaoge, and Shang Rong ordered officials in various places to start counting the population, and no one should hide the number of their own population.

Sun Ming returned to the harem to greet the Queen Mother, the Queen Mother was overly sad, and now her body is very average, and she has been recuperating, as her mother in this life, Sun Ming is still very concerned, and is ready to give her a small amount of pills after the Queen Mother is in better health.

"Wang Er has worked hard, and he has to deal with state affairs at a young age, but fortunately, Wang Er is smart. The Queen Mother began to feel sad again as she spoke.

"The queen mother doesn't have to worry, it's not hard for me to deal with state affairs, and there are so many ministers here, I just need to make a decision, and not everything needs to be done by me personally. Sun Ming comforted the Queen Mother, and then spoke for a while before leaving.

Sun Ming returned to his dormitory, sent all the servants out, and then began to continue refining the skin, this is a persistent thing, there is no day to slack off, and Shang Rong and Wen Zhong have already begun to act.

All localities received orders, and then led people to start an inventory of the large households in the jurisdiction, "What are you doing? Do you know who our lord is?" This is generally the first problem encountered by officials in various places, but this kind of thing can't stop them, because this is a death order, no matter what, it must be completed, and if you can't complete it, you can directly resign and leave.

The second problem is that the local landlords are strong, they are very famous in the local area, not a good reputation, but they have a large number of subordinates, and they occupy a large amount of land while concealing the population, and this decree has a great impact on them, if they want to keep the land, then they need to have enough people at home, or hide the amount of land.

However, in the recent inventory of their land, these people also had a way, and hurriedly used some servants to occupy the land, but the servants could not get actual benefits, but they could not resist, and everything could only obey the arrangement of the head of the family.

The tenant farmers ran away, they went directly to claim their own land, and the extra land could only be cultivated by the servants, which did not matter, anyway, it was all exploitation, and who was not the same for exploitation?

But now continue to count the population, so it is tantamount to abolishing their means of coping, how can this be endured, some landlords directly let their family members and servants with sticks to resist the inventory. At this time, the officials generally retreated directly, and when the landlords thought they were victorious, the army arrived, followed by bloody suppression.

Many large families in various places were directly uprooted, family property was confiscated, and all servants were farmers and allocated land. The earth was dyed blood, a large number of landlords were wiped out, only a few were preserved, they were all sent by Chaoge, so that they would actively cooperate with the inventory of the population, and the land received was directly confiscated, and then the servants were dismissed, and their strength plummeted, but they finally saved the life of the family.

The name of Sun Ming's tyrant then spread, and rumors began to circulate about robbing the people's land and cruel methods, but it is not very clear where it came from, and Sun Ming finally waited for the arrival of the ore.

There was a lot of ore piled up in the large open space in front of the council hall, and Sun Ming asked people to take some and send them outside his bedroom, the servants didn't know why, but they didn't dare to ask more, and the king gave an order to kill a person's head.

In the next half a month, the work of population inventory has been paid off one after another, and the population has risen again, surpassing the number of two million, Sun Ming took the bamboo slip and looked at the numbers on it, "It's really amazing, there are so many hidden, there will still be some servants who have not been registered, but the number should not be much." There is still a short time before Fengming Qishan, so that the population can grow explosively, and there will be a steady stream of people if there is enough food. ”

Although there are many things, but with the commercial plow, spring ploughing has not been delayed, and this year's cultivated land area has increased by more than five times compared with last year, and the population has more than doubled, but Sun Ming is not happy. The last battle of the Shang Dynasty on the earth concentrated more than 400,000 people, and as a result, the soldiers on the battlefield directly turned against the water, why is this? Those 400,000 people are the hidden population of large families, this force is very terrifying, usually you don't know their existence at all, and when you use it, you can't be reassuring at all, and now it is found out that it has become a peasant household, which is the most certain thing.

In order to protect their land, farmers can burst out with the greatest strength, this is what Sun Ming wants, give them land, let them have enough to eat, then they will always support you.

"Prime Minister, how many landlords have been eliminated?" Sun Ming asked directly.

"It's too much, and the specific number hasn't come back yet, but now rumors are spreading, all saying that the king is brutal, which is very unfavorable to the king. Shang Rong's face was full of sorrow.

"Hehe, it's okay, let them go, it's just a few people, the people's opinion of me is the most important, I think their reputation must be very good. Sun Ming laughed, Shang Rong was stunned for a moment, and then came to his senses.

"The king is wise, it is true that the reputation of the people is the most important, but the king also has to guard against it, our actions have attracted the attention of all the princes. ”

"Hmph, they won't move, after all, this matter has nothing to do with them at the moment, so they will only watch from afar, okay, the prime minister has worked hard recently, take a good rest, and when I study the smelting method of ore, it will be our big move at that time, and the prime minister must take care of his body." ”

"The old minister understands. ”

Sun Ming has been refining ore for half a month, but now he can't use the Six Flavors Divine Fire, he can only use the Yuanying Fire to calcinate the ore little by little, although he has rich experience in refining, but he is not very proficient in the application of his own Yuanying Fire, and he has been practicing.