Chapter 1311: Huge increase in registered residents

Chapter 1311: Huge increase in registered residents

As time entered the second half of the year, the various decrees and affairs previously implemented by the court also gradually produced results and ushered in feedback.

The first and most important thing is the expansion of military organizations.

Before the attack and destruction of Northern Qi, the Guanzhong regime had an army of about 300,000, including the government soldiers and local garrison troops in Guanlong, Shuzhong and Shannan. If it is an extreme mobilization, on this basis, it can be mobilized to nearly 100,000 men, but if it really reaches this level of conscription, then all kinds of domestic production activities will basically be suspended, and the people's livelihood order will be in chaos.

Of course, the court did not need to conduct that level of conscription at all, because after the end of the Tongdi Battle, the Western Wei Dynasty completely established military suppression against the Northern Qi Dynasty. Even if the subsequent war of annihilation of the country did not require the conscription of the entire people, it was only the mobilization of conventional forces that successfully completed the task.

However, maintaining such a conventional armed force was a heavy burden for the Western Wei Dynasty at that time.

It should be noted that at that time, the Western Wei Dynasty had only more than two million registered households, and the number of regular soldiers reached more than 300,000. This was a large proportion of the social productivity. Even if it was not a war of aggression, if a small-scale foreign war failed, it would cause national power consumption and long-term stagnation.

After the Northern Qi Dynasty was conquered, the territory expanded by more than double, and the military organization, which was originally under a heavy pressure, seemed to be somewhat insufficient. In particular, there were still a large number of rural armed forces in the original Fubing system, which had a strong regional nature and needed to take into account the wishes of the people. It could not be arbitrarily migrated and dispatched, so the expansion of new military organizations was imminent.

The Fubing organization created by Yuwen Tai had a strong replication and expansion attribute. Wherever the Fubing troops reached, they could basically recruit and expand the local armed forces, making these local forces part of the Fubing system.

Such rapid expansion certainly had great disadvantages, but there was an advantage that could not be ignored, that is, low cost and quick results, which was a magic weapon for the Western Wei Dynasty to defeat the strong with the weak. Especially during the same period, Northern Qi was still implementing relatively rigid policies. The Jinyang nobles refused to open up and share military resources. The two sides had a gap of an era in the efficiency of united front work. This meant that the demise of Northern Qi was not an accident, but a general trend.

After the establishment of the Tang regime, the old land ruled by the former hegemony could no longer maintain new military pressure, so it could only be transferred to the newly occupied areas. At the beginning of the year, Li Tai ordered the pursuit of the remnants of Northern Qi and sent 20,000 Guanzhong soldiers to Hebei to establish a military government.

A part of the army that had previously gone to Northern Qi, and a considerable number of soldiers chose to stay in Hebei in the future.

Because these people saw with their own eyes in Hebei that the livelihood foundation and development space here far exceeded Guanzhong, and as conquerors, they also had certain psychological advantages when facing local people. In addition, the court offered very generous conditions for the soldiers who stayed in the garrison, which naturally attracted many people to stay.

So the number of soldiers who chose to stay in Hebei reached more than 50,000. These were not ordinary rural armed forces, but real elite soldiers. When the Six Garrisons were wreaking havoc in Hebei, excluding the old, weak, sick and disabled and the scattered soldiers, there were probably only so many elite armed forces. With the stay of these soldiers, the Tang Dynasty established the most reliable rule over Hebei.

When the war against the remaining bandits of Northern Qi came to a temporary end, military offices in various parts of Hebei were quickly established. In addition to the settlement of the Guanzhong soldiers, the reorganization of the local armed forces in Hebei was also carried out at the same time. Those Hebei tyrants and their subordinates who successively surrendered to the king's army were also incorporated into the system of soldiers, and large and small military offices were also established, and corresponding fields were granted according to their respective verifiable merits.

After only more than half a year of reorganization and expansion, the number of registered soldiers in Hebei has now reached more than 100,000, and Henan and Shandong, which started later, have also formed more than 60,000 soldiers. In the absence of large-scale and high-intensity wars, it is more than enough to maintain stability and establish effective rule.

In the future, the Fubing organizations in various parts of Guandong will also enter the process of refined expansion. They should not only pursue an increase in quantity, but also take into account the improvement of quality. On this basis, they should remove the dross and retain the essence, implement a policy of regular main force elite soldiers, ordinary Fubing specialize in production, and gradually turn into civilians.

Of course, this process will inevitably last for a long time, and it will take until the internal and external wars come to an end and the war mission is no longer so heavy before it can be gradually completed.

Compared with the development and decline of the original Sui and Tang Fubing system, the current Tang Dynasty court has adopted a plan to use space to exchange time and let the Fubing system complete its historical mission more smoothly and calmly. Because in the middle of the dynasty, with the changes in the internal and external environment, the Fubing system may not be able to meet the military needs at the time, and naturally it is necessary to leave a space for innovation.

No matter what happens in the future, the current military strength of the Tang Dynasty court is always steadily improving under the development of the Fubing system.

In addition to further military expansion, the envoys from all over the Kanto region also reported results one after another. Although Yang Jian lives in his gentle country and is unwilling to leave home for business trips, the Da Suo Mao Yue household system he created was still used in the Guandong household system this time, and achieved very remarkable and impressive results. Results.

During this time of household inspection in Guandong, various envoys inspected nearly fifty states and more than 150 counties in the former Northern Qi Dynasty. In the end, the number of households inspected reached more than 3.5 million!

When this data was reported to the DPRK, the monarchs and ministers in the DPRK were all amazed by it. There are many aspects to the strength of a country's national strength, and population is undoubtedly the most important indicator.

Judging from the data on households in Guandong this time, even on the eve of the Western Wei Dynasty's attack on the Northern Qi Dynasty, there was still a gap of more than one million households in population alone!

Among the extra population of more than one million households, even if ten households take a small digit, they can draw out more than 100,000 strong soldiers! As for the more productivity and arable land represented by these populations, as well as the tax gap they can pay, they can have a great impact on the confrontation between the two countries!

However, in the previous confrontation between the two countries, the impact of the gap in population of more than one million households was not reflected at all. It was as if these people were directly wiped out from the territory of Northern Qi, and even the Northern Qi court could effectively The national power exerted was far less than that of the Western Wei Dynasty at that time.

However, judging from the memorials submitted by various envoys, these populations were almost wiped out directly. Various household envoys reviewed the registers provided by the local state and county governments. As a result, these registers themselves contained many errors and omissions. The unclear number of registered households, households and other information were inaccurate. Count into.

Rich and powerful families are vying for shelter, but the Baishi family only has one account. Those who have registered are either young or old, and only a few can fulfill the task of renting and transferring. The taxes and labor that a place should originally bear can only be shared equally by those honest people who have the means to directly hide their household registration. When they are unable to bear the heavy endowment and their families are ruined, they will be absorbed by powerful families, thus forming a vicious cycle.

Some counties are clearly located in fertile soil, but as a result, less than half of the registered households are able to collect taxes, making the political situation even worse than in remote areas.

If these wealthy and powerful families always have to open an account and bear a share of taxes, the temples scattered throughout Hebei are even more excessive. They shelter a large population and occupy large tracts of fertile land, but they do not bear any obligations at all. .

During this time of household registration in various provinces in Guandong, the number of people collected from temples in various places alone reached hundreds of thousands. It can be seen from this that due to the treachery of the rulers of the Northern Qi Dynasty, the Shaman power was more powerful in Hebei and other places than in the Southern Dynasties.

"Looking at all these things, Qi's decline and fall did not depend on the attacks of powerful enemies! Its master treated the people as enemies and served them like animals. If the country is undefeated, how can the laws of heaven exist?"

Now that Li Tai was the victor, he could naturally evaluate the rulers of Northern Qi at will. But even putting aside the belittling of the losers, the various problems of governance in the Northern Qi Dynasty revealed by simply clearing away the fog are indeed shocking.

Although household registration is only the beginning, with such a foundation, there will be a general strategy for the restoration of various administrative management and production orders. Vitality will naturally recover quickly.

While military and political affairs in various places in Hebei and Henan are progressing smoothly, affairs in the Taiyuan Basin centered on Jinyang have encountered many obstacles.

Jinyang is the ruling center of the Northern Qi Dynasty, especially where the nobles of Jinyang are run. Many situations are different from other places. They are all consolidated. Even the Lord of Qi can't handle it, and it's even harder for outsiders. Step in and solve them one by one.

He had only ordered to temporarily stabilize the stability of this area. After order was re-established in various parts of Hebei, he would directly solve the problem fundamentally and merge the remaining Northern Qi Jinyang nobles and Jinyang soldiers with them. The family members moved away directly and did not stay where they were.

This task seems arduous, but in fact it is not that difficult. Jinyang soldiers were formed based on the soldiers and civilians of the six towns. Even under the rule of the Eastern Wei Dynasty and the Northern Qi Dynasty, the population increased significantly, with a population of only three to five million. After various losses of prisoners, shunts, killings, etc., there are probably less than 200,000 people left around Jinyang now, and most of them are old, weak, sick and disabled.

Excluding those who could not endure long-distance migration and those who were willing to be dispersed and resettled by the government, there were at most only 100,000 people who needed to migrate long-distance.

Nowadays, Xiangzhou, as the center of production of sugar cane raw materials in Shannan, and the newly discovered mineral resources in Ningzhou, need to invest a lot of manpower to expand production. It is just right for these people to move to those places. It is far better than staying in Taiyuan to become local security forces. Hidden Hazards is much better.

After the digestion and absorption of Northern Qi and the rectification of the internal personnel order of the Tang Dynasty came to an end, the attention of the government and the public naturally turned to the south. At the same time, Nan Chen also had a tacit understanding of sending envoys to the DPRK to strengthen interaction.