Han Dao world

Chapter 265
Li Le, who has always been the most scheming, knelt down, and Hu Cai and Han Xian didn't think much about it, and subconsciously knelt down on the ground.

It's like following the trend in combat.

"Get flat." Liu Xie flicked his sleeves, turned around and looked at the river valley behind him. "How many thousand people are hidden here?"

Li Le, who had just stood up, blushed and turned to look at Hu Cai and Han Xian.

Hu Cai and Han Xian were also surprised.

None of them expected that the Son of Heaven would be so direct, exposing all their petty thoughts.

"Not...thousands of people." Li Le spat and stammered.

Liu Xie looked back at Li Le, the corner of his mouth curled slightly. "Then how many thousands of people do you have in total now?"

"Seventy to eighty thousand people." Li Le said vaguely.

"[-] to [-] people." Liu Xie repeated, then turned to Pei Mao and said, "So, nearly half of the lost household registrations in Hedong are here, right?"

Pei Mao didn't take it seriously, but he didn't want to poke Li Le in front of the emperor.

"If there are [-] to [-] people, that's about it."

Li Le could hear Pei Mao's disdain, and couldn't help retorting. "A few years ago, there were even more people, more than [-]."

Liu Xie immediately asked: "There have been [-] to [-] people missing in the past few years? Did they die in battle, starve to death, or return to the fields?"

Li Le's tone was a little slow. "All of them. After Marshal Guo died in battle, Yang Feng led his troops to leave, and more than [-] people were lost. Last year, there was a severe drought, and some people died of starvation. There were also some people who returned to the fields, but not many, and even if they returned to the fields, they were only attached to big households. , being a tenant slave is not necessarily better than being in the mountains. So in the past six months, people have come back one after another."

Liu Xie thought about it, and felt that Li Le's words were generally reliable, and the figures could be matched.

"When the Baibo army was the largest, how many people were there?"

Li Le's eyes dimmed, and he was silent for a while, before he said: "In the first year of Zhongping, when Daxian... started the incident, the number of people was the largest, with a total of [-] people. Later... some died in battle, Some were disappointed, and gradually reduced to about [-] people."

Liu Xie's heart tightened.

[-] people accounted for almost half of the households in Hedong.

The reduction from [-] to about [-], even if some of them left the team, I am afraid that not a few died in battle or starved to death.

The area of ​​Baibo Valley is only so big, and there is only so much arable land, so the number of people who can support it is limited.

When Yang Feng left at the beginning, apart from the internal struggle for power, there were also reasons why he could not support himself in food.

When he was in Yang Fengying, he heard sporadic mentions from the soldiers, but he didn't think about it at the time.Thinking about it now, I feel a chill down my back.

"It's tough in the mountains, let's go out and settle down." Liu Xie changed the subject. "Do you know the news about the military colony? Do you want me to explain it again?"

"I heard..." Hu Cai spoke quickly, and just halfway through speaking, Li Le glared at him and held back.

Li Le bowed and said: "If Your Majesty can explain a thing or two for the ministers, the ministers will be very grateful."

After hearing this, Hu Cai and the others nodded in agreement.

They didn't quite understand the official documents, they just listened to Yang Feng's recitation.It would be great if the Son of Heaven could explain it himself.If nothing else, the Son of Heaven said it himself, so you can't deny it.

Liu Xie had long guessed that these people had little trust in the prefect's mansion - with Wang Yi's attitude of thinking only for the big family, how could the prefect's mansion gain the trust of the Baibo army officers and men.

As for Xun Yu, who knows who he is.

Liu Xie ordered someone to fetch some horses and sat around with Li Le and others.

Xun You and Pei Mao were on the side, Wang Yue and Shi A stood behind, holding the saber ring with their hands, not daring to be careless.

The generals of Baibo were also a little nervous, not daring to get too close to Liu Xie, so as not to cause misunderstanding.

"Juntun is initially set at [-] households." Liu Xie said unhurriedly. "Because at least one person is required to join the army, not everyone can become a military household. Military households are counted as dictation fields, ten mu each for men and women, seven mu each for men and women, and five mu each for men and women... ..."

Liu Xie explained one by one, stopping from time to time to ask them what questions they had.

Most of the affairs in Hedong have become half-baked meals. The military settlement is his last big idea, and it is also the key to stabilizing Hedong in the future. It must be done solidly to avoid deviations in principle in the future.

The purpose of implementing military settlements is to have a stable source of troops.

This is the key to keeping Gyeonggi and Byeongju in the future, and also the basis for rebuilding finances.

Hedong's experience has taught him that it is not easy to take action against a rich family under the premise that the officials are basically rich.If he is not careful, he may become a loner, and the imperial edict cannot be published or even written.

If you want to have the right to speak, you must firmly grasp the military power.

The basis of military power is household registration.

He wants to attract as many accounts as possible to become his solid foundation.

A family of five can own about [-] to [-] acres of land. In addition to meeting their own food and clothing expenses, they can also provide a strong man with a year's rations for fighting.

As long as the military settlement can be implemented smoothly, one year later, he will have [-] soldiers and food for these [-] people to fight for a year.Even in the worst situation, he still has the confidence to hold on to Hedong.

"Your Majesty, won't the army keep the money?" asked a young-looking soldier behind Hu Cai.

"If someone is a soldier, he won't take the money." Liu Xie explained: "You have raised this question very well, and I will explain it emphatically."

The young soldier was a little embarrassed to be praised by the emperor, and the people on the side also laughed.

"For example, in a family of five, there is one strong man. If there is a war, this strong man will go to the army. If there is no war, but there is corvee, this strong man will also go to the army. In short, the strong man must be on standby at any time. Even if there is neither war nor corvee, or even not in wartime, you still have to participate in military training.”

"Then this strong man died or was injured in battle, and he can no longer fight, what should we do?" Someone asked again.

"When a strong man dies in battle, his family has two options. One is to quit the military settlement and become an ordinary registered household. This usually involves moving. The land in the military settlement is fixed and cannot be mixed with ordinary registered households. One is To keep the army, as long as he has children who can be recruited within five years. Before his children reach adulthood, they don’t need to go to war, as long as they provide corvee.”

Pei Mao coughed: "Your Majesty is benevolent, there is an edict that underage men and women are not to do heavy work, and there are special corvee contents, such as working in the ordnance workshop, or assisting the government in cutting bamboo and wooden slips. All in all, it is within our ability It won't hurt your body."

"Is there such a thing?" The soldiers whispered in surprise.

Liu Xie was very satisfied. Pei Mao's positive and measured attitude was the compliment he needed.

It is indeed his request not to allow minors to participate in heavy physical labor, but it is not out of benevolence, but to ensure the quality of the military source.

These [-] soldiers are the foundation of his infantry, so of course they can't be filled with indiscriminate use.

Provide adequate nutrition, coupled with adequate training.In a few years, he can have a real elite team.

There is no hope for those veterans.To be strong, we must start from the young.

(End of this chapter)