Xuande

Chapter 327 Household Registration Population of Liangzhou

Needless to say, this wave is not limited to farmers, but many local officials and officials whose families are not very well off are greedy for these benefits.

Knowing the inside story and knowing that this wave of real benefits has not been mixed with water, some unscrupulous petty officials were the first to rush forward to receive benefits, and many people even borrowed relatives' children to receive benefits .

Because of this advantage and the help of acquaintances, these guys really got a lot of benefits and took advantage of the government, which can be regarded as using power for personal gain.

However, the farmers have indeed received a lot of benefits and felt the call of the welfare policy.

The farmers not only knew about it themselves, but also began to actively publicize the benefits of this policy, which led a large number of people to come to the government to count and receive benefits.

And there are not a few families who decide to have children for this reason.

They don't want to care about so many things, they only know that the government has started to give benefits since pregnancy, or the kind of real benefits that can be seen with their own eyes.

Their limited thinking ability can't think too much, and they can't see too far. They can only see the benefits and plenty of rice provided by the government.

They want to have a full stomach, and they need to have a full stomach now, and for this reason, they don't want to think too much, and they can't think too much.

Despite this, the number of households controlled by various clans living in Liangzhou is still very considerable. Liu Bei preliminarily estimated that this group of people is not only Han Chinese, but also many Hu people, and the total population of this part of the population will not be 30 under.

With the passage of time, while the Luoyang court was devastated by the Battle of Bingzhou and Hedong, Liangzhou ushered in the first real development peak in more than a century.

At the end of the dynasty, the number of "fleeing households" who broke away from the official household registration to survive on their own, or "hidden households" and "shady households" who sought refuge in the families of powerful and powerful landlords would be even greater, even several times more than the official household registration.

Just the policy inducement, coupled with military attacks on foreign nationalities, added 24 registered population to Liangzhou, and almost 20 registered slaves controlled by the government.

The most direct consequence of this matter is that in addition to fertility stimulation, the population outside the household registration after a period of waiting and watching, determined that the government was really bleeding.

If a powerful family wants to use this to deceive the government's policies and benefits, I am afraid it will not be possible, and if they do not do it, the entire family business will be taken into account.

With the advancement of the policy, more and more people returned to the government's household registration records under Liu Bei's prestige and promise in order to obtain government benefits and live a stable life.

This is the level of population resources that the officials of the Shu Han regime can directly control in the late Three Kingdoms period.

The struggle for power is actually a struggle for population. He needs these populations to build Liangzhou, defend Liangzhou, and further push up his personal power. The more people under his direct control, the more capable he is in this area. stronger.

Later, the government found many problems in the statistics, and found that the population was very wrong. Some statistics officials directly saw the same child appearing in five or six families at different times, making it look like a shadow.

Of course, people in the government can think of using power for personal gain, and the old farmers are not that stupid. They quickly figured out ways to take advantage of loopholes to receive benefits, and there are not a few people who borrow each other's children to do things.

After a wave of operations, the overall manpower of this "backcountry" has reached almost 94, which means that the Liangzhou government can directly control the mobilization of manpower is close to one million.

Afterwards, 26 Xianbei population was captured by him, and almost [-] Xianbei women of the right age will be included in Liangzhou household registration by him.

But in fact, counting the number of official households, military households, minority households, etc. that are not within the scope of official household registration statistics, as well as the population of shady households, hidden households, and escaped households that do not pay taxes to the government, in the late Three Kingdoms period, The total population of the land of China will not be less than 3000 million.

So they reported to Liu Bei, and Liu Beicai organized his subordinates to study, punish and curb such things.

Although it is said that during the non-war period, the situation of fleeing households, shady households, and hidden households will be slightly less, and the government will have stronger control, but based on the state of war in Liangzhou, Liu Bei judges that the actual living population of Liangzhou is far more than 50. The registered population of China is a matter of course.

After repeated battles, captures, prisoners, and policy promotion, in June of the fourth year of Zhongping, the registered population of Liangzhou increased by about [-].

In the later period of the Three Kingdoms period, the total number of registered households in the three countries was less than 800 million, which means that there were only that many people paying taxes to the governments of the three countries.

Therefore, Liu Bei's desire to build collective farms and directly control the population became even stronger.

In addition, there are still about 150 million Qianghu population in the semi-agricultural and semi-nomadic state of Liangzhou.

In order to make the policy of encouraging births deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, Liu Bei didn't mind suffering a little loss.

This is all for later.

From this, one can imagine how rough and failed the household registration management in Liangzhou was.

According to Liu Bei's promise, the government did not hold them accountable for their previous actions, and extended the three-month period for returning to the household registration to six months. Settle your life properly.

This is 70 registered households.

In less than two years, Liu Bei did not really go to the entire Liangzhou to search the population on a large scale.

After the promotion of the birth incentive policy and the withdrawal of the population and land by the major families, from July to August, and then to September, in less than three months, the counties of Liangzhou reported a total of about [-] of the population returned to the household registration statistics.

When the government came, they borrowed children from other families to act as statistics for their own children, striving to receive more rice grains and enjoy a few more years of exemption from military service.

This thing really happened.

Especially when the dynasty is in trouble and the ruling ability is insufficient, the problem will be more serious.

The effects of fertility stimulation start from this moment.

Under the premise that the order of the dynasty collapsed and the people lacked the ability to survive, it was only natural to choose to seek refuge with a local power with a strong ability to survive.

No one can stop him.

There are so many population black holes in modern countries, not to mention the population black holes in ancient countries. China's household registration system has always been excellent and advanced. Even so, there are quite a lot of people that cannot be counted.

On policy issues, suffering losses is a blessing, not a curse.

So in order to receive government benefits, the population outside the Liangzhou household registration began to return on a large scale, and those who lived in the barren mountains and even fell into the grass and became bandits also re-entered the government household registration system.

The origin can be ignored, but the destination and resettlement must be strictly controlled. The population who has returned to the household registration will be directly incorporated into the collective farm, starting a new wave of collective farm construction.

If this part of the population can be controlled, Liangzhou will directly be equivalent to a slightly weaker state of Qin.

This is 74.

At the beginning of August, a powerful Mi family in Beidi County conspired to use more than 20 shady households to defraud the government of resettlement funds, land, houses, etc., which was discovered by the government.

Xia Houyuan, the prefect of Beidi County, was furious. According to the regulations set by Liu Bei, he sent people to arrest the whole family of the Mi family and beheaded the mastermind. Shock Xiaoxiao.

In mid-August, the same situation occurred in Anding County, Hanyang County, and Longxi County.

According to the law, Xia Houdun, the prefect of Anding County, Gai Xun, the prefect of Hanyang County, and Zhang Fei, the prefect of Longxi County, respectively killed two, five, and three households of the Haoqiang family, and then passed on to the first ten counties and two subordinate countries to deter Xiao Xiao.

(End of this chapter)