Turbulent Times Chapter 1698: A model of concubine taking the lead
The six young officials saw Luo Cheng, the senior official, coming out in person, thinking to himself that this general-born chief executive seemed to have no pretensions, and at the same time hurried forward and bowed his hands in salute.
The six young officials apparently hadn't agreed to salute in unison before, so it seemed a bit chaotic.
Luo Cheng looked steady, with just the right smile on his face, and meticulously returned the salutes one by one, saying: "Everyone has come all the way from Yangzhou City, and the journey has been exhausting, but it has been hard work."
Pause for a moment, then said with a smile: "I don't know if you are satisfied with the six Nanzhao ladies arranged by the manager."
The six young officials were a little embarrassed. To be honest, if Luo Cheng hadn't sent someone to notify them in advance, let them perform a scene on the road, and let them each take a Nanzhao woman as a concubine. They wouldn't do the rash thing like pulling the girl they met for the first time into the car on the road before.
However, having said that, the road is full of soft fragrance, and I feel... very good.
The six young officials looked at each other, bowed together, and said in unison: "Thank you, sir, the officials are very satisfied."
As Luo Cheng invited the six people into the mansion, he said: "Don't thank me, this is the first important thing you have to do when you take over the government affairs of the six towns. The girls who match you six people are all from the six towns. The old daughters or granddaughters of the six clans with the highest prestige and status, General Yuchi killed the Nanzhao people a little bit ruthlessly before. You married these six Nanzhao girls as concubines to appease the students of the six towns. I have given You have made arrangements, and you will get married in three days, and the momentum might as well be bigger by then."
After a pause, Luo Cheng joked again: "It's just that the six of you are all young men of our Da'an Kingdom. I've wronged you by asking you to marry a woman from the birth."
One of the six young officials hurriedly said: "My lord, you are being polite. The six girls are all as beautiful as a flower. It's too late for me to like them. There is no sense of grievance."
"That's it, that's..."
The other five young officials quickly agreed.
When Luo Cheng saw the attitude of the six people, he was completely relieved, thinking that the civil servants of my Da'an Kingdom are really different from those of the previous Sui Dynasty, at least the concept of this disciple is no longer pedantic.
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At this time, more than half a year has passed since the six Nanzhao clans were led by Yuchi Jingde to break through their ancestral land. There were many fierce conflicts and contradictions. Later, Wang Junlin sent Luo Cheng over, dispatched a lot of manpower and financial resources to build these six towns, and arranged more than 60,000 students here.
There are 1,500 elite soldiers stationed in the other five towns, and 2,500 soldiers are stationed in the largest Lanzhao Town, all of which are elite soldiers brought by Luo Cheng from Youzhou.
In order for his son Luo Cheng to gain a foothold in the six towns of Nanzhao, Luo Yi selected the most elite 10,000 of the 100,000 troops of the Youzhou Army and assigned them to his son.
Wang Junlin personally instructed that the court of Da'an Kingdom has a detailed follow-up plan, so Luo Cheng doesn't need to think too much about the general regulations. Just implement them one by one.
The original plan was to resettle in the fields near the city of Nanzhao County, but the surrounding fields are limited, and there may be some troubles if people who are familiar with Zhao and those who are born are mixed together. So at that time, the imperial court directly chose two hundred miles southwest of Nanzhao County City, on this small plain on both sides of the Nanzhao River, several Shuzhao clans
Zhazi Tuntianzha Town, which was abandoned due to the war.
With the full planning of the imperial court and the strong support of the military and political officials of Nanzhao County, the settlement of more than 60,000 Nanzhao students went smoothly. It took more than two months to build the six towns of Nanzhao.
Later, cloth, food, and living utensils were scattered, and they barely survived.
"With the support of the previous imperial court and the county government, the foundation of the six towns is very good, but this is just the beginning, and there are still a lot of problems in the future..."
After entering the mansion, Luo Cheng briefly explained the final finalization of the six towns. During the period, he occasionally mentioned that His Majesty the Emperor intends to make the six towns a pilot site for the Da'an Kingdom to rule the alien race, which made the six young officials who are full of ambitions listen. The eyes are bright.
Luo Cheng continued: "There are 43,725 households in the six towns, more than 60,000 people. The firewood, rice, oil, and salt is not a small amount. Now the farming has just begun, and the harvest in the fields will not be expected in a short time. Although I have the support of the imperial court and the county government, but before I came here, His Majesty once explained that the living needs of these 60,000 people can only rely on the help of the imperial court in the previous year, and they must rely on themselves in the future, and they even have to pay a certain amount of tax every year. Money"
"With more than 60,000 people, there are more than 40,000 households?"
These young officials are all graduated from Fanyang College. They have all studied mathematics and are very sensitive to numbers. They can see the problem from the data Luo Cheng said.
Luo Cheng sighed: "That's right, most of them belonged to one family, and most of them died. When they rebelled against the Liang people, they fought with the people of Liang. Some died, and later they were killed by General Yuchi."
The six young officials were obviously not interested in how the six townspeople died, they just frowned. What they thought was that most of the more than 60,000 people were old, weak, women and children, how could they live in the fields?
Luo Cheng said with a smile: "I have a countermeasure for this matter."
A young official asked: "What countermeasures does your lord have?"
Luo Cheng said: "The policy of recruiting people is to only recruit bachelors, and not only to give ten acres of land, but also to give gifts such as cloth and silk if they marry a concubine."
This is actually not what Luo Cheng thought of, but one of the strategies Wang Junlin came up with before he came here. Among the more than 60,000 people in the Zhao clan, there are more than 20,000 women of the right age, who are either unmarried or Widows, as long as more than 20,000 Han Chinese are brought in to marry, the foundation of the people's hearts in the six towns of Nanzhao will be stabilized.
With the arrival of more than 20,000 Han people, the six towns of Nanzhao will no longer be restricted, and will be governed like inland counties. The six young officials are all selected capable officials. After a little thought, you will understand The deep meaning of this.
"However..." Luo Cheng added: "This is also a long-term strategy. It is impossible to recruit more than 20,000 Han people at once, and many Han people are imprisoned by their thoughts, so they may not be willing to marry Nanzhao women. Let you The six concubines each took a Nanzhao woman, which actually served as a role model.”
"Actually, according to His Majesty, these six towns in Nanzhao are just a start or a pilot project. Sooner or later, His Majesty will conquer the Tang Kingdom, and his ambition is to conquer the Turks in the north, the Tubo in the west, the Nanyue people in the south, and even all the tribes in the Western Regions." In the end, I belong to Da'an. Therefore, from the beginning of the establishment of the six towns in Nanzhao, I governed by the county system."
"Your Majesty is indeed a generation of emperors and heroes..." Luo Cheng's words made the six young officials gasp for breath, and they looked at each other with a blazing light in their eyes. This sentence "aspires to make all the alien races in the world return to Da'an" It is not the general words of scholars, but the real meaning.
As Luo Cheng said, the six towns of Nanzhao were established according to the inland county system. What is the core of the county system?
Naturally, it is Qimin, a registered household.
This
During the era, there were roughly two sets of household registration systems, one was the rural system following the ancient origin and tax collection, and the other was the Dubao system based on households and public security, that is, the Baojia system.
The six towns in Nanzhao are just a blank sheet of paper, so Luo Cheng can naturally draw them calmly.
Actually, he didn't come up with anything new, after all, registering an account is a top priority even in later generations.
The difficulty lies in the problem of the connection between people and land (industry) in order to collect taxes, collect taxes, and mobilize through registered households.
And people and land (industry) are always changing.
Although Wang Junlin and the court gave Luo Cheng very detailed regulations for these matters, some things may be easy to plan, but extremely difficult to implement.
It should be known that even in later generations with highly developed communication technology, it is impossible to realize the complete unity of man and earth. It is possible to find people, but it is difficult for people to find land (industry). It is possible to find land (industry), but it is difficult to find people from the land. Unless you completely tie people to the ground.
From the Republic of China to the early period of the Republic, these two systems were actually followed. One is the township system (village system) in the administrative region, and the other is the Baojia system (production team system) in the tax and labor system.
Of course, Luo Cheng didn't know this, but Wang Junlin and Nie Xiaoyu who came from later generations knew about it, and gave Luo Cheng instructions on some things, otherwise Luo Cheng wouldn't be able to take this matter so seriously Transparent.
Therefore, Luocheng is currently only used as a regional division.
At present, each of the six towns in Nanzhao has twelve capitals, and under the twelve capitals, there are major and minor protections.
Ten households have a small insurance, twenty-one households have a large insurance, and the metropolitan insurance ranges from one hundred to three hundred households.
The other four miles are divided according to the four residential areas in each of Nanzhao's six towns, just like the squares of Chengkuohu.
The management of each ri is the responsibility of the designated rizheng, and the rizheng is basically filled by the insured households living in the ri.
"My lord, the six towns of Nanzhao are still places of detention, and the imperial court doesn't collect taxes, so what are they doing?" a year-old young official asked humbly.
Luo Cheng said with a smile: "Although there are many households in the six towns of Nanzhao, they are mainly widows, orphans, and the elderly. You don't need to worry about being incorporated into the official system of counties and counties by the imperial court."
"Besides, the registration of households is still for public wealth. The six towns of Nanzhao are poor and white now, so we can only organize everyone to work."
That said. Everyone understands that Luo Cheng's account registration is more for the purpose of recruiting servants, but the servants are for the construction of the six towns of Nanzhao.
If you want to be self-reliant, you have to do a lot of things such as opening up wasteland, farming, repairing ditches, etc.
The six young officials looked at each other, bowed and said in unison: "My lord, then each of us will manage a town. What can we do specifically? Please give me instructions."
After talking for a long time and finally getting to the point, Luo Cheng said with a smile: "The six towns of Nanzhao are now poor and white. It will be broken in more than a month, and how the six towns of Nanzhao will be self-reliant and self-sufficient is what the six of you need to study, think and plan to implement..."
Luo Cheng's eyes were deep. He had been thinking about this issue for a while, and he had some ideas, but he was not mature enough. These six people were selected by the imperial court to take care of the people's livelihood, and they happened to be able to help him with these things.
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