Chapter 381 Tang, Song, Yuanming, Part 1
In the early winter of the first winter of the Xianchun year of the Song Dynasty, the situation on the battlefield in Liaodong had stabilized. Chen Dexing's army was stationed in Chenyang City at this time. It was said that it was a city, but it was actually a city surrounded by wooden fences and rammed earth walls. There were 10,000 households in the city inside and outside the city, which was called Chenyang Road Wanhu. It was the only Wanhu Road in Mongolia that had farmed in Liaodong.
However, when Chen Dexing's army drove, this Wanhulu had no courage to resist. It opened the city and surrendered. Not only because Chen Yang had no danger to defend, but also because Chen Dexing had captured Hong Fuyuan, the Wanhulu of Chen Yang Road in previous battles. With Hong Fuyuan, Hong Junqi and his son came out to persuade the surrender outside the city. Who else would resist?
After entering the city, Chen Dexing and Baoyin and Yang Po'er moved into Hong Fuyuan's original office. This is a very grand courtyard, and the architectural style of the Song Dynasty is a very good comfort nest.
A map of Liaodong drawn by Chen Dexing was unfolded on the desk in front of him. The three prefectures and four prefectures, including Mingdu Prefecture, Chenyang Prefecture, Liaoyang Prefecture, Gaizhou, Haizhou, Fuzhou, Zhuangzhou, etc. are already on it. If it is added to the Ganghua Island, Zhendao, Jujidao, Jeju Island, Busan and other Goryeo territory, which has been merged by Chen Dexing, and the Taiwan-Penglish region named Taiwan Prefecture by Chen Dexing. Chen Dexing now has the land of the five prefectures and four prefectures. It is like creating a country!
However, although the territory is old, the population on these territory is a bit pitiful. Chen Dexing brought nearly 200,000 people from the Song Dynasty, nearly 50,000 people from Yanyun, 70,000 people from Chenyang Road, nearly 100,000 people from the Korean capital in Haidong Prefecture, and various Tartars with a number of as many as 150,000 to 200,000.
"... Han people, Goryeo, Jurchens, and Seme people are about 600,000 yuan in total. It is estimated that they can be divided into 120,000 to 130,000 households. If everyone in the army has a sage soldier, everyone will start a family and start a business, the number of households will increase by about 30,000 yuan."
The person who introduced Chen Dexing's household registration was Huang Zhishen, the judge of the Government Affairs Department under the Beidi Recruitment Department. These days, he and Ren Yijiang, both stayed on Jianghua Island and Jeju Island, and were in charge of government affairs and military production. They had just been ordered to Liaodong in the past two days, but did not stop in Mingdu, but went directly to Chenyang. On the way to Chenyang, the two also hadtily investigated the household registration situation in the Chen Dexing area in Liaodong and came up with an approximate number.
With a household registration of more than 120,000 and a population of more than 600,000, it occupies a huge territory and needs to maintain a huge army with a population of soon exceeding 80,000! It is conceivable how heavy the burden on the shoulders of these two housekeepers is. Now, the task of building the administrative system of the five prefectures and four prefectures has fallen partly on the shoulders of the two of them.
"Of course, the generals with lords have to start a family and start a career. Only in this way can they be stable."
Chen Dexing gently tapped the desk with the map and said lightly: "These people followed me all the way from the Central Plains. They have made great contributions and hard work. Now I have opened a country, so I will naturally help them get married and start a career."
He paused for a moment, as if thinking about something, and then said, "Try to help them marry Han girls as much as possible. If not, both the Goryeo family women and the banner women can do it."
Chen Dexingfeng's "Sir" is also a nobleman, so of course the noble wife should have some status. At least she should be a first-class Han or a bannerman. The women of the nobleman of Goryeo are not very expensive, but they just need a status. This can make Chen Dexingfeng's nobleman look high-end.
"Where are the civilians in Goryeo and the serf women here in Liaodong?"
"You can only be a concubine." Chen Dexing said coldly. This noble must look like a nobleman. How can you marry a serf as a wife? This way you will not be superior. There is no sense of honor or accomplishment.
"After getting married, you will naturally start a career." Chen Dexing asked, "Is the territory enough?"
"Enough. Enough." Huang Zhishen said with his fingers, "Now we have five prefectures and four prefectures. No matter what the still wild Taiwan prefectures are, the remaining four prefectures and four prefectures are large enough. Why can't we arrange 50,000 jeweled farms and about 20,000 bannermen farms?"
The work of allocating farms is progressing step by step, first solving the basic share. The Hanshi is 300 mu, and the Banners are 150 mu, and then the reward is given. About 50,000 Hanshi is calculated based on 300 mu, which means 15 million mu of land. The Banners are estimated to expand to 20,000, which requires 3 million mu of land. In addition, some Han households who are "followed" the revolution need to divide the land. The estimated score is 2 million mu. This is 20 million mu.
Of course, there is some land. Chen Dexing's main territory now is about the Liaoning Province in later generations. It is a major agricultural province. In the 21st century, the planting area of various crops was more than 4 million hectares, almost 50 million acres. Even in the era when the Jurchens and Khitans ruled Liaodong, Liaodong was also an agricultural area with full of seedlings. Even when the Mongolians turned the agricultural area into pastures, abandoned farms, fields and irrigation ditches can still be seen everywhere on the Liaodong Peninsula. It can be said that the agricultural foundation of the Liaodong Peninsula is very good.
However, there is too little labor force that can be used for agriculture. 20 million acres of land can be divided, but to be honest, it is really not easy to find people who grow these lands.
"After the subordinates calculated that even if the 20 million acres of land is a rotation, half of the grass and half of the crops, it will require at least 50,000 strong laborers to take care of them all year round. During the busy farming period, the labor required will have to be several times higher."
Huang Zhishen himself had never planted land, but the Government Affairs Department specially invited old farmers who had plundered from the Haihe River as consultants. What Huang Zhishen is talking about now is the opinions of the old farmers. At this time, because the sequelae of the Mongolian massacre had not disappeared, the population density of Han land in the north was also very low, so horse farming and crop rotation were relatively common. Some wealthy farmers all raised mules and horse farming land. Although this method of farming with horse farming and rotation was relatively labor-saving, a strong labor and a few women and children took care of 400 acres of crops and playgrounds, raising more than a dozen livestock was a limit. In actual operation, 50,000 strong labor was definitely not enough.
Huang Zhishen paused for a moment, thought and said, "If you want to calculate it more abundantly, a serf or a Han farmer of four or five people. A bannerman needs at least one banner slave who can work, otherwise they can only let their families farm. The government department's plan is as follows: the 50,000 serf farmer farmer of 25,000 Han farmers, each farmer will be assigned an additional 30 acres of land, and at the same time, a 20 to 30 acres of land is rented. At the same time, 25,000 local serfs from Liaodong are also needed to immigrate serfs from Liaodong, Han people and banner people live in a mixed place. It is so convenient to control and easy to educate...
In addition, there are four commercial ports and various handicraft workshops in Mingdu Fucheng, Ganghwa Island, Jeju Island and Busan. It is also necessary to have a large number of merchants and residents. It is estimated that the four commercial ports will absorb at least 20,000 households or about 100,000 people."
Obviously, Chen Dexing is about to establish a "backward" serfdom country! The most basic classes that make up this country are the sergeant nobles, bannermen and warriors (equivalent to Han civilians in terms of rank, but they can get more military achievements), civilians (mainly Han people, and there are also Goryeo people, Seme people and Japanese people who freely enter or live in Chen Dexing's territory), Tartars or Goryeo serfs (including banner slaves), and slaves (currently mainly Seme people, Mongolian prisoners of war).
It is truly a very strict hierarchy, but the upward path still exists. Civilians can join the army, serfs and slaves can redeem themselves, and flag slaves can join the war with their masters to make meritorious contributions. In addition, merchants and craftsmen among civilians can also obtain wizards through donations or inventions.
It should be mentioned that in Chen Dexing's "serfdom", the two levels of serfs, flag slaves and slaves have no personal freedom. They can own some personal property (not own real estate or land), and their lives cannot be deprived of at will. However, they are "property" that can be bought, sold and given away by their owners.
The three levels of sir, bannermen and civilians are all free people in theory. With the official identity certificate, they can freely migrate and settle in the lands led by Chen Dexing. They only need the road quotation issued by the government when leaving Chen Dexing's territory. In addition to joining the army or farming, these "free people" can also engage in industry and commerce, serve as Taoist Taoists in Tiandaoism, and can pass the exam or recommend civil servants of course.
The sir is a real nobleman, with the right to vote and can hold a higher official position or military position. The sir's inheritance follows the principle of the eldest son's inheritance. The title and the farm can only be inherited by one son, and the rest of the sons will become free people.
Of course, nobles with higher titles can also choose to "demolite" the title to different sons. In principle, a sir must own at least 300 acres of "secretary farms" (the land bought in the market cannot be counted), a baron owns at least 600 acres of farms, a viscount owns at least 1,200 acres of farms, an earl is 2,400 acres of farms, a marquis is 4,800 acres of farms, a duke is 9,600 acres of monarchs, and a king is 19,200 acres... In short, the title is linked to the land, at least 300 acres, and the division is the matter of each company.
Chapter completed!