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

Under the big premise of Hua Yi, it is best to be able to turn Hu into Han, but it usually takes time to digest, and there is a limit on the number of Hu into Han, otherwise there are several times more naturalized Hu people than the real Han. , That is, the possibility of Han people being humiliated is mostly.

Under the premise that it is impossible to absorb too much naturalized Hu, and there is an extreme lack of labor, enslaving foreign races has become an inevitable choice. Not only Zhu Xia is like this, in fact, most countries in the world are in the same situation.

Look at the powerful countries in the world, whether they have died out or still exist, the rise of the vast majority of powerful countries basically uses the flesh and blood of another nation to create their own glory.

Rome is the best example. Their original ethnic population was only a few million, but they were enslaved by 10 to 20 million aliens. The Romans were only responsible for war and development, and domestic projects basically used aliens for construction. Not only engineering, the Romans used slaves in all aspects, creating a strong empire, and making this empire strong for more than two thousand two hundred years (from 753 BC to 1453 AD).

Rome is the most vivid example, and there are more countries whose prosperity is based on the exploitation of foreign races, such as the empire that never sets. There were Spaniards before, and then there were British. The Brits ruled a quarter of the world's land with a population of nearly 30 million, and the population that ruled the territory also accounted for a quarter of the world.

Even if a nation (country) wants to develop, even if it occupies the best land, its prosperity will be limited only by the internal circulation. Even that kind of prosperity is very fragile. If you accidentally fail to notice who is rising outside , Waiting for that powerful enemy to invade, his own strength is very likely to be burst like a bubble.

Zhu Xia was powerful at the very beginning and he knew how to exploit and open up, but the more he got behind, the more he lost his enterprising spirit...

The distant ancestors knew that only by fighting the enemy, turning the enemy's wealth into his own wealth, turning the enemy into his own servant, or simply fusing the enemy with himself, could he remain strong.

I don’t know when Zhu Xia lost his exploration of the external world, and was immersed in the power built by his own thoughts. The constant internal reincarnation became inevitable, and he was only passive if he waited for the invasion of foreign races and was destroyed. Expansion of the territories...It is still the mode of "recovering" the alien territory that invaded oneself 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 that can be done."

The current era is not the best for Zhu Xia. There were many stages when Zhu Xia was willing to look outside, and he could easily open up a large area, but I don’t know why he didn’t take that step. .

The time when Liu Yan was in can be said to be the worst era in Zhu Xia. The Han people have survived the catastrophe and the population has not survived. The ruins that can be seen everywhere are basically destroyed.

Xu Zheng said: "For this reason, Dahan needs more population."

In an era when everything depends on manpower, there is not enough population and don't want to do anything big. Even the civil official group that thinks that the war should be suspended cannot refute Xu Zheng's words. It can even be said that as long as the military conquering abroad can continue to send slaves to the country, the civil official group has to grit their teeth to support the military's foreign development.

"Since the sixth year of Yuanshuo, Dahan has gained 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” did not come into existence only in modern times. The legalist's Li Chuan was a sage who strongly supported infrastructure. He believed that there is nothing that infrastructure can’t solve. If the problem is not solved, the scale of infrastructure is definitely not large enough.

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

Liu Yan started the construction of Miyagi after entering Guanzhong. 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, and for the roads connecting the county towns in various townships. It also attaches great importance to the country’s enthusiastic support for adopting such behavior.

It was eight years after Yuanshuo that the construction of the road from the county seat to the county capital was put on the plan. It was just that the plan could not keep up with the changes. The large-scale drought under speculation became a reality, and the construction of a national highway connecting the north and south of the country was turned into a reality.

Nowadays, the total labor force used to build the national highway exceeds 5 million people, and the labor is in the nearby counties and counties along the national highway. Slaves are used for the more dangerous opening of the mountains.

Five million people are almost one-third of the total population of Han. There is no example of using this population base to do national projects in the past dynasties. Not only does it put a lot of pressure on management, but also consumes a lot of money, but it is not a guarantee of society. In comparison with stability, the contribution of the national highway to the flow of trade and the speed of troop deployment after the completion of the national highway is worth the effort.

Time has come to the ninth year of Yuanshuo (AD 450), only one year is left until the drought broke out in Northern Xinjiang and Central Plains. After the drought, there is a plague of locusts. This level of natural counterattack is really not human beings who can resist if they want to resist.

For Dahan... or Liu Yan, the most serious thing is that Zhu Xia’s imperial power is basically linked to theocratic power, especially after the heavens and humans of the Western Han Dynasty felt that the Eastern Han Dynasty was fully accepted, any natural disasters that appeared were 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 Liu Yan said that morality was not enough to rule the northwest. The remnants of Zhang’s Liangguo jumped up and down, but the Han country responded in a timely manner to cause serious trouble, but the troubles were not completely eradicated.

Li Kuang, who was originally in charge, first killed and closed a group, and thanked Ai to reassure him, or waited for Ran Min to pass before the matter was suppressed to the greatest extent. The problem was that Liu Yan's morality was not enough to rule the northwest. Did not disappear completely.

"All the young and Zhuangzhuang left Yangguan to go to the Western Regions. This is a proper move." Sangyu is the head of the Yushifu. Although the Yushifu is not as powerful as before, after the reform of the Yushifu, he still has the right to speak: "The minister thought it should be. Going further, or can the people from the northwest move to the southwest?"

"It's not appropriate." Ji Chang frowned and looked at Sang Yu, and said, "The Northwest Youth Group moved out of the customs and moved its people again."

The southwest of Han is a bit large, including Bashu and the original southwest of Jingzhou. It was owned by Zhu Xia during the Western Han Dynasty, but the Western Han, Eastern Han, Three Kingdoms, Western Jin to Eastern Jin, except for the building of ulterior motives in Bashu, the rest of the area seems to have been forgotten.

Take the original Jiaozhou as an example. The Qin Empire sent the Southern Army Corps to the south. With the collapse of the Qin Empire, the Southern Army Corps established itself on its own. During Zhao Tuo’s reign, there were constructions, but after the Nanyue was destroyed by the Western Han Dynasty, those places have always been. No progress. Even the Sun Wu regime, which once ruled the south, had construction, and it only stared at the south of the Yangtze River (modern Zhejiang and Suzhou), and ignored the rest.

Hundreds of years have passed, what the southwest area was like before, and what it still looks like today. The only difference is that the number of Han people has increased a bit, but the local natives are not scarce.

The Han country adopted a “one size fits all” approach to people. There were only two kinds of people, Han and non-Han. After the attack on the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the military marched to the southwest by sweeping the past. It was due to historical factors that they rarely used knives, and they usually depended on rumors. However, the necessary population registration is not lacking. The natives who are willing to cooperate have become glorious members of the Han, and the natives who are unwilling to cooperate are either killed or arrested as slaves.

So far, the southwest has not really settled down. The natives who are unwilling to give up their customs have taken refuge, and occasionally come out to attack the Han villages, and then the Han garrison will sweep up from time to time, and even encourage the slave capture teams to the southwest to capture the soil. people.

Ji Chang opposed the migration of the people from the Northwest to the Southwest. One of the reasons was that the place was not stable. The Northwest Qingzhuang went to the Western Regions desperately, but his family was forced to go to the Southwest to fight with the natives. If those Northwest Qingzhuang who went to the Western Regions knew the news, Do you want to rise up and form an army to counterattack?

Sang Yu said that there were certain reasons for those. The people in the Northwest did not have a sense of belonging to the Han country, which led to the fact that the rest of the region began not to regard the Northwest people as their own. .

There is a barrier, and it may even evolve into a confrontation. So, shouldn't the confrontation happen first before the confrontation occurs?

Liu Yan glanced over and found that Sang Yu’s remarks were very marketable, especially this kind of politically correct proposal. As far as civil and military officials are concerned, the people in the Northwest dare to oppose today’s rule. There will be no problem how to deal with it. Even if you make a mistake, you will not be blamed.

"The Northwest is also a Chinese native. It is a few folks." Liu Yan had to set the tone. He really wanted to target the Northwest. If something similar happened in that area later, would he want to target it again? In the end, there will be a basic plan. ? But he couldn't help but said blankly: "The southwest is too far, so you can open up the grassland."

Sangyu laughed immediately. The northwest is the northwest, the grassland is the grassland, and the north and east sides of the northwest are grasslands. The grassland is now captured by the Han army, but only some official groups are doing grazing and other things. There are really not many people living in the grassland.

Conquering the territory without using it is just that the territorial map looks better, and even a burden. It is too ugly for the Northwesterners to go to the Southwest, and there are many arguments for the principle of letting them go to the grass nearby.

"It's still the case, whoever is willing to follow, the government will give it a loan?" Ji Chang is the prime minister, and he must ensure the greatest degree of gentleness against which group is disgusted. Liu Yan's response immediately said: "Your Majesty is kind."

Han's lending to the private sector is an inevitable act at present, and for a time it also supported the people with nothing to be able to settle down. Of course, official loans have interest, but they are much less than private loans. This is what Liu Yan has been paying attention to. Even the troubles that have arisen are not less than that. Every year, a group of officials who dare to operate in the dark are dealt with. .

The use of the grassland is what Liu Yan has always wanted to do. The Han army has captured the grassland for four or five years, and the most recent one is within a year or two. There were no Han people on the grassland, so he created troops with the same nature as the Tuntian Army. The difference is that the Tuntian Army reclaimed farmland, while the Grassland Construction Army grazes.

Han has accepted a considerable number of naturalized Hus, even if they had forgotten the grazing skills before, they picked up a large number of naturalized Hus.

At present, the Han Dynasty has a large number of construction corps in the grasslands. They divide the pastoral areas to resettle their troops. They are also responsible for cleaning up the unconverted tribes. While building, they ensure that there are no uncontrolled grazing tribes on the grasslands.

The Grassland Construction Corps has always provided a large amount of livestock to the inland. After Yuanshuo researched the use of wool in six years, the textile industry has become a behemoth from scratch, but it has also let the people know how the grassland is profitable. More and more capital can't wait to get into the pie, and Liu Yan naturally supports this.

"Your Majesty." Ji Chang bowed his salute, hesitated for a moment, and said, "Northern Xinjiang and Central Plains, can you follow the example of Northwestern China?"

Liu Yan naturally agreed. If he remembers correctly, Northern Xinjiang will be completely dry in 350 AD, and then more than half of the Central Plains will be swept through. This degree of drought will only reduce losses even if the country makes more preparations.

"The minister has a suggestion~lightnovelpub.net~ Xu Zheng also bowed and said, "Please expand the county and county soldiers again, Your Majesty. "

At present, there are 13 standing armies in the Han State. Except for a few that are mobilized to go out for war, the rest are deployed to areas that are thought to cause chaos. In addition to the standing army, there are as many as 560,000 county soldiers and nearly 400,000 army troops in the army. They are all members of the common food.

"Chen..." Ji Chang echoed: "Your Majesty, please expand the counties and counties."

After that, all the important ministers stood up and agreed. They didn't become militants all at once, but because the situation changed, it was necessary to do so.

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

Once the drought has swept down, disaster relief is not actually the first sequence. How to prevent the turbulence caused by disasters.

Because of Zhu Xia's special political style, careerists who shouted "The emperor has no virtue, can't sit in the world" are absolutely indispensable, and ignorant people must follow. At that time, it was the most difficult moment since Liu Yan was founded.