Chapter 752

For a country that is on the rise and in a pioneering period, the more the population, the better, especially in an era when everything depends on manpower.

Under the other major premise of Huayi, it is naturally the best to turn Hu into Han, but it usually takes time to digest, and there must be a quantitative limit to turn Hu into Han. Otherwise, there are several times more naturalized Hu people than real Han people, that is, Han people are most likely to be transformed by Hu.

On the premise that it is impossible to absorb too many naturalized Hu and there is an extreme lack of labor force, enslavement of foreign nationalities has become an inevitable choice, not only in Zhuxia, but also in most countries in the world.

Look at those powerful countries in the world, whether they have perished or still exist, the rise of the vast majority of powerful countries is basically casting their own glory with the flesh and blood of another nation.

Rome is the best example. Their original native population was several million, but they enslaved ten or twenty million foreign nationalities. The Romans were only responsible for war and development. Domestic projects were basically built with foreign nationalities. Not only in engineering, the Romans used slaves in all aspects, creating a strong Empire and making it strong for more than 2200 years (from 753 BC to 1453 AD).

Rome is the most striking example. Behind it, there are more countries whose own prosperity is based on the exploitation of foreign races, such as the empire with the sun never setting. There were Spaniards before and Britons after. The Brits ruled a quarter of the world's land with their own population of nearly 30 million, and the population that ruled the territory also accounted for a quarter of the world.

If a nation (country) wants to develop, even if it occupies the best land itself, it can only rely on internal cycles, and its strength will also be limited. Even if that kind of strength is very fragile, if we do not pay attention to the rise of the outside and wait for that strong enemy to attack, the strength of oneself will probably be broken like a bubble.

At the beginning, Zhuxia's power also knew how to exploit and develop outward, but the later he lost his enterprising spirit

Distant ancestors knew that only by supporting the enemy, turning the enemy's wealth into their own wealth, turning the enemy into their own slaves, or simply integrating the enemy with themselves, could they ensure their continued strength.

I don't know when Zhuxia lost his desire to explore the external world and immersed himself in the power built by his own thoughts, so constant internal reincarnation became inevitable. Even he passively expanded his territory only when he waited for the invasion and destruction of other races... Or the mode of "recovering" the territory of other races that had invaded him before, Only a few ambitious emperors have opened up a little bit.

"We need people, we need land." Liu Yan has never concealed this ambition: "in our generation, there are many things we can do."

The current era is not the best era of Zhuxia. There were many stages. As long as Zhuxia was willing to look outside, they could easily open up a large territory, but they didn't take that step for some reason.

Liu Yan's time point can be said to be the worst time in Zhuxia. The Han people have experienced the Holocaust. There are no two out of ten people. The ruins everywhere are almost destroyed.

Xu Zheng said, "that's why the big man needs more people."

In an era when everything depends on manpower, without enough population, you can't do anything big. Even the civil service group that believes that the war should be suspended can't refute Xu Zheng's words. It can even be said that as long as the military fighting abroad can always transport slaves to China, the civil service groups have to bite their teeth to support the military's foreign development.

"Since the sixth year of Yuanshuo, the Great Han has obtained 1.79 million slaves..." Sang Yu whispered to Ji Chang, "in addition to the necessary rewards for meritorious soldiers, most of them have been used for national infrastructure."

The term "infrastructure" does not come into being in modern times. Li Ying, a legalist, is a sage who strongly supports infrastructure. He believes that there is nothing that infrastructure can not solve. If the problem is not solved, it must be that the scale of infrastructure is not large enough.

Li Ying said that the infrastructure construction is not to build palaces for emperors or build forest gardens. It is a folk infrastructure. It can be roads, but he prefers to build irrigation systems. The construction of irrigation system can generally get the support of the people, because the people know that the construction of irrigation system is beneficial to them.

After entering Guanzhong, Liu Yan had the desire to build a palace city. Before, the national corvee was basically used for irrigation systems and roads. It took nearly seven years to gradually repair the original irrigation systems in various places. He also attached great importance to the roads connecting the counties in various villages. Such behavior by the state was warmly supported by the people.

Eight years after Yuanshuo, the construction of the road from the county to the county capital was put forward to the plan, but the plan could not keep up with the change. The large-scale drought speculated became a reality and turned to the construction of national roads at the north and south ends of the country.

At present, the total labor force used to build the national highway is more than 5 million. It is the nearby labor of counties along the national highway, and the more dangerous mountain opening is the use of slaves.

Five million people account for almost one-third of the total population of the Han Dynasty. The past dynasties have never used this population base to do national projects. It not only puts great pressure on management, but also consumes a lot of energy. However, compared with ensuring social stability, the role of the national highway in trade circulation and troop dispatching speed after its completion is worth the effort.

The time has come to the ninth year of Yuanshuo (A.D. 450), which is only one year away from the full outbreak of drought in Northern Xinjiang and Central Plains. After the drought, there is a plague of locusts. This degree of natural counterattack is really not human resistance.

The most serious thing about the Han Dynasty... Or Liu Yan is that the imperial power of Zhuxia is basically linked to the divine power, especially after the heaven and man of the Western Han Dynasty sensed that the Eastern Han Dynasty was fully accepted, but any natural disaster is basically linked to the morality of the rulers.

At the end of the eighth year of Yuanshuo, there was a drought in the northwest, and there was a statement that Liu Yan's morality was not enough to rule the northwest. The remaining evils of Zhang's cool country jumped up and down. It was the timely response of the Han country that did not cause great trouble, but the trouble was not completely eradicated.

Li Kuang, who was originally in charge, first killed a group and closed a group, and Xie AI comforted him from the side. Or did he wait until ran min passed to let things down to the greatest extent. The problem is that the speech that Liu Yan's morality is not enough to rule the Northwest has not completely disappeared.

"It's appropriate for young people to leave Yangguan and go to the western regions." Sang Yu is the head of the imperial palace. Although the Imperial Palace has less power after the reform, it still has the right to speak: "I think we should go further, or we can move the people in the northwest to the southwest?"

"Wrong." Ji Chang frowned at sang Yu and said, "it's very inappropriate for the young people in the northwest to go out of the pass and move their people again."

The southwest of Han is a little large, including Bashu and the former Southwest of Jingzhou. It was owned by Zhuxia during the Western Han Dynasty, but the Western Han Dynasty, the Eastern Han Dynasty, the separation of the Three Kingdoms, the Western Jin Dynasty to the Eastern Jin Dynasty, except for Bashu's intentional construction, the rest of the region seems to have been forgotten.

Take the original Jiaozhou as an example, or the Qin Empire sent the southern expedition corps to the south. With the collapse of the Qin Empire, the southern Xinjiang corps established its own country. It was built during Zhao Tuo's administration, but those places have been standing still since Nanyue was destroyed by the Western Han Dynasty. Even if the Sun Wu regime, which once separated the south, had construction, it only focused on the south of the Yangtze River (Modern Zhejiang and Suzhou) and ignored the rest.

Hundreds of years have passed. What was the place in Southwest China like before and still looks like now. The only difference is that the number of Han people has increased, but the local natives are not few.

The state of Han adopted a "one size fits all" approach to people. There were only Han and non Han people. After the attack on the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the military swept the past all the way into the southwest. Due to historical factors, it rarely used a knife. It was usually decided by public opinion, but the necessary population registration was not small. The natives who were willing to cooperate turned into glorious Han people, Unwilling natives were either killed or arrested as slaves.

So far, the Southwest has not really settled down. The natives who are unwilling to give up customs take refuge. They occasionally come out to attack the Han villages. Then the Han garrison sweeps them from time to time, and encourages the slave team to arrest the natives in the southwest.

Ji Chang opposes moving the northwest people to the southwest. One of the reasons is that it is not stable there. The northwest young people go to the western regions to fight hard, but their families are forced to go to the southwest to fight hard with the natives. If those northwest young people who go to the Western Regions know the news, should they rise up and form an army to fight back?

Sang Yu said that there are certain reasons for that. The northwest people have no sense of belonging to the Han state. As a result, the rest of the region also began to take the northwest people as their own people. The more intense the resistance in the northwest, the more disgusted the people in the rest of the region are with the northwest.

With estrangement, it may even evolve into confrontation. Should we start before the confrontation occurs?

Liu Yan glanced over and found that sang Yu's remarks had a market, especially this politically correct proposal. For civil and military officials, if northwest people dared to oppose today's rule, there would be no problem in how to deal with it, even if they were wrong.

"The northwest is also a Han land, which is the hometown of few people." Liu Yan had to set the tone. He really wanted to target the northwest. If something similar happened in that area later, would he have to target it again? Would there be a basic plate in the end? But he couldn't help saying, "the southwest is too far away, but open the grassland to make it."

Sang Yu immediately smiled. The northwest is the northwest, the grassland is the grassland, and the north and east of the northwest are the grassland. The grassland is now captured by the Han Army, but only some official groups are doing things such as grazing. There are really not many people living in the grassland.

It's just that the territory Map looks better and even a burden. It's too ugly for people from the northwest to go to the southwest. There are many ways to let them go to the grassland nearby.

"As usual, those who are willing to follow will be loaned by the government?" Ji Chang is the prime minister. Even if he dislikes any group, he should ensure the greatest degree of gentleness. When Liu Yan responded, he immediately said, "Your Majesty is kind."

The Han state's lending to the private sector is an inevitable behavior at present, and once supported the people who had nothing to live on. Of course, official loans have interest, but they are much less than private loans. This is what Liu Yan has been grasping. Even if there is no less trouble, he has to deal with a group of officials who dare to operate secretly every year.

Liu Yan always wanted to make use of the grassland. It has been four or five years since the Han Army captured the grassland, and it has been nearly a year or two. There were no Han people on the grassland. He came up with troops with the same nature as the reclamation Corps. The difference is that the reclamation Corps reclaims farmland and the Grassland Construction Corps grazes.

The state of Han accepted a considerable number of naturalized Hu. Even if they had forgotten their grazing skills before, they also picked it up again with the absorption of a large number of naturalized Hu.

At present, there are not many construction legions in the grassland in the Han Dynasty. They divide pastoral areas and place troops respectively. They are also responsible for cleaning up non compliant tribes. While building, they ensure that there are no uncontrolled grazing tribes on the grassland.

The Grassland Construction Corps has been providing a large number of livestock to the mainland. After Yuan Shuo studied the use of wool in six years, the textile industry has become a giant beast from scratch, but it also let the people know the profit-making way of the grassland. More and more capital can't wait to get a share. Liu Yan naturally supports this.

"Your Majesty." Ji Chang bowed, hesitated and said, "in Northern Xinjiang and Central Plains, can we take northwest as an example?"

Liu Yan naturally agreed. If he remembered correctly, Northern Xinjiang would be completely dry in A.D. 350, and then it would sweep most of the Central Plains. Even if the country made more preparations, it would only reduce losses.

"I have some suggestions." Xu Zheng bowed and said, "Your Majesty, please expand the county soldiers."

At present, there are 13 standing armies in the Han Dynasty. Except for a few who go out to fight, the rest are transferred to areas that are considered to be chaotic. In addition to the standing army, there are as many as 560000 County soldiers and nearly 400000 field troops in the establishment. They are all part of the public food.

"Minister..." Ji Chang echoed, "please expand the county soldiers again."

Then all the important officials came out and agreed. They did not become militants all the time. It was a change in the current situation. It was really necessary to do so.

Liu Yan has no hesitation. In difficult times, bringing more vigorous young people into the scope of management is to reduce and mitigate risks.

Once the drought sweeps down, disaster relief is not the first sequence. How to prevent the turbulence caused by the disaster.

Because of the special political style of Zhuxia, it is absolutely necessary to roar an ambitious man who "the son of heaven has no virtue and can not sit in the world", and it is also necessary to follow the foolish people. That was the most difficult time since the founding of Liu Yan.