In the afternoon, Yuwen Wen continued to talk to someone. The person who came was the Minister of War, Qi Wang Yuwen Li. Yuwen Li just stepped down as the general manager of Jingnan last year. Now he is the new Minister of War. He came to Tongzhou from Chang'an to listen to the emperor's teachings.

Ten years have passed, and Yuwen Li has reached thirty years. After years of training in the position of Jingnan General Manager, his abilities have been developed. Therefore, Yuwen Wen does not intend to let his nephew be idle, but wants the other party to come in handy.

Of course, there are still measures to be wary of.

At this time, the content of the uncle and nephew's conversation was about the reconstruction of Liaodong. The three high-ranking officials discussed this issue in the Shitang a few days ago. Yu Wenwen, who was "off" in Tongzhou, had additional opinions on this.

There are not many additional opinions, and there is no need for the priests to travel far away, so the relevant "responsible person" Yu Wenli has to come to Tongzhou for a trip.

The court's recovery of Liaodong and the war ended, but this does not mean that this is a "reunion". The reconstruction work must begin immediately. Only by restoring people's livelihood and developing it in Liaodong can the court firmly control this area.

Previously, the official army led the attacking party to attack, so what they did was destruction. Now, after regaining Liaodong, the identity needs to be rebuilt. The difficulty and manpower and material resources required to be invested are much greater than that of destruction.

If the reconstruction work is not done well, Liaodong will become a useless piece of money.

This is not the result that Yuwen Wen wanted, so he would not treat Liaodong as a ball of used toilet paper and throw it aside.

In recent years, the Zhou army has continuously raided the Goguryeo city in Liaodong and destroyed farmland and water conservancy facilities. Now, the Zhou State has to invest more manpower and material resources to restore farmland, repair canals, and dams. This requires a large amount of labor and needs to immigrate to Liaodong.

Most of the Goguryeo remnants in Liaodong had to move to the Central Plains, so the population gap left behind needed to be filled by immigrants in the Central Plains. Not to mention how to migrate a large number of people to settle in Liaodong, the security of immigrants in Liaodong must be absolutely guaranteed, which involves garrisons.

It is not good to have too many or too few troops, so one needs to grasp a degree. Then Yu Wenli, the Minister of War, must grasp this degree well to ensure that the troops garrison in Liaodong have enough troops, but not too many.

The garrison must first ensure the safety of each city, and then maintain public security in the Liaodong region. The most important point is to defeat invading enemies at any time, avoid the enemy from harassing various parts of Liaodong and wantonly destroying farmland, bridges, and water conservancy facilities.

As for the Liaodong development that has begun, a large number of immigrants will inevitably appear due to the influx of large numbers of immigrants. The continued increase in the number of these settlements will inevitably require higher and higher security requirements.

Therefore, Yu Wenli, the Minister of War, has been very busy recently and is busy with things in Liaodong. Although immigration matters are not under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of War, he is worried about the public security issues that may arise.

If the government forces the Central Plains people to immigrate to Liaodong on a large scale, it will easily cause civil rebellion. Therefore, the methods of the imperial court immigrating to Liaodong are actually divided into two categories.

The first type is that the government forced the relocation of some people to Liaodong to settle down and settle in the land. The number of forced immigrants is relatively small, mainly military garrisons. In other words, the local garrisons are still responsible for the task of military garrisons, and the Ministry of War must take charge of them.

The second type is "spontaneous" immigration among the people, which does not require excessive intervention from the government, but the Ministry of War also has to take charge of it, because these immigrants are unusual.

There are three types of immigrants of this type: First, a trading company with the main business of operating new farms opened up new territory in Liaodong, hired the people of the Central Plains, and used them as farmers to open up land and farm in Liaodong.

Second, the court conducted a "Kai Zhongfa" campaign in Liaodong, encouraging merchants to transport grain to Liaodong to supply the official army, and then exchanged for salt and sugar to make profits. In this way, merchants would choose to hire people to farm nearby in Liaodong.

Third, the court has announced that the people of the Great Zhou Dynasty can go to Liaodong to open up land by themselves, and the land obtained from the land is owned by the landlords. The landlords (including the first two) can equip weapons such as crossbows (limited to the Liaodong region only), and not only can build forts, but also can build cities.

If this spontaneously formed village, fortress, and city, if you are willing to register your household registration in the government and reclaim the number of land you have cultivated, the court will confirm the identity of the village owner, the village owner, and the city owner and give a formal appointment.

The government will never interfere with his position.

From the year after registration, the wastelands reclaimed under these villages, villages, and cities will have a tax exemption period of 30 years. During these 30 years, the local government will not collect labor and will not charge rent and mediocre remittance.

Therefore, in order to encourage the people to immigrate to Liaodong spontaneously and settle down in Liaodong, the court was actually encouraging the people's armed forces to immigrate to Liaodong.

In this way, civil armed immigration groups will become the support of the Liaodong official army.

But everything has its pros and cons. These armed merchant groups, armed immigrants to Liaodong, are very troublesome to manage. There are very likely various conflicts between these groups, which will also cause major problems.

The specific management of armed groups and armed immigration is naturally mainly managed by the newly established Liaodong General Administration. For the Ministry of War, the more headache is still to come.

Armed groups and armed immigrants can hold firearms in Liaodong.

Firearms, including flintlock guns that fire lead-fired bullets, as well as small cannons that fire shells and shots.

The flintlock gun was previously a new weapon and artillery equipped by the new army, and was a powerful weapon that only the official army could equip. Now it is open to Liaodong immigrants. Once the management is not well managed, major problems are likely to happen.

But the court decided to allow immigrants to arm themselves with firearms in order to give immigrants enough confidence so that they can gain a foothold in Liaodong, open up land on a large scale, guard their land reclamation results, and then continue to expand.

The situation in Liaodong is very complicated. There are wild beasts everywhere, and there are people (family tribes) who are more terrifying than wild beasts. An immigrant group with a size of only a few hundred people, if you want to save your life when you open up the land, you can only rely on firearms to make up for the combat power gap caused by insufficient number of people.

The accurate head of the flintlock gun is not as accurate as a bow and arrow, but it is very powerful and can break armor. When used on the battlefield, soldiers need to line up to shoot to ensure the hit rate. If used by the people, it is just right for hunting.

As long as the special hunting gun is used properly, it can easily kill wild animals such as bears, wild boars, tigers, leopards, and wolfs, and can also shoot and kill various ordinary preys. It is a very good hunting tool for immigrants.

Once an enemy attacks, a thin young man, holding a hunting gun, can kill an armored warrior at more than ten steps. Such power allows the immigration group with a large proportion of women and children to have reliable self-protection force.

Small cannons with a range of about 100 steps can be installed in immigrant settlements and easily defeated the invading enemies. This is a powerful tool for immigrant groups that may only have a size of hundreds of people and are family members to protect their families.

Therefore, in order to encourage the people to immigrate to Liaodong by spontaneously, Yuwen Wen decided to release the control of firearms (limited to Liaodong only), so that armed immigrants from the Central Plains would settle down in Liaodong, gain a foothold, and continue to expand northward and reclaim more land.

The management of firearms is a big problem. The Ministry of War has a great responsibility. An effective management system must be implemented for the management of Liaodong firearms to ensure that the firearms in Liaodong will not be "smuggled" into the Central Plains on a large scale by people.

The power of firearms comes from ammunition. In order to prevent people from privately hoarding firearms to rebel, the Ministry of War will control the supply of gunpowder and leaf springs (key components of the flintlock fire gun firing device) to control the number of firearms in the hands of various armed groups in Liaodong.

There are many related measures, but they must be implemented as soon as possible. Yu Wenli, the Minister of War, was very busy with this. Now, his uncle has added another task.
Chapter completed!