The northeastern lands, Liaozhou, Jizhou, and Yingzhou, are much larger than the Lulong lands controlled by Zhang Zhongwu before, but when it comes to the size of the population, it is not an order of magnitude, and the real population in the huge area is only more than one million people. And this is the result of Zhang Zhongwu trying every means to expand the population after entering the Northeast.

Of course, there are not a few people who are not borrowed, at least not compared to those who are borrowed, but these people are either wild people in the old woods, fierce as tigers. Or they are bandits who wander all over the world, as cunning as a fox. Of course, there are also those Fanyi tribes who come and go like the wind, they are capricious, and they are sometimes reversed, which is quite a headache for Zhang Zhongwu.

It's no longer Lu Longjun.

At that time, in order to appease Zhang Zhongwu, so as to free up his hands to clean up the domestic chaos, at the same time, he also hoped that Zhang Zhongwu's Lu Longjun would sort out the chaotic land in the northeast, and when the time came, he would come to pick up ready-made, so in the name of the imperial court, he canonized Zhang Zhongwu as the king of Liao.

Therefore, it is time to call Zhang Zhongwu's army the Liao army.

It should be said that Zhang Zhongwu still lived up to Li Ze's hopes on the whole. After entering the Northeast, after several years of hard work, the Northeast finally gave the Northeast some of the appearance of ZTE.

When he first entered, Zhang Zhongwu showed a thunderbolt method, killing people and killing those indigenous tycoons in the northeast. Don't look at Zhang Zhongwu's repeated defeats in battles with Li Ze, but when he arrived in the Northeast, he became a figure who could stop children's night crying, and those local tycoons who connected with self-protection chose to bend to Zhang Zhongwu after being defeated and losing in several decisive battles with Zhang Zhongwu.

By this time, Zhang Zhongwu had already gained a firm foothold.

After the stick is cast, the next step is the dates.

Zhang Zhongwu's methods of governing Liaodi surprised Li Ze.

He was in Liaodi, and he directly divided people into three, six, nine and so on

The first class of people are naturally these people who followed him all the way from the land of Lulong to the northeast. These people have the highest power and constitute the highest ruling body of the entire Liao Palace, occupying the key positions of the local government and the position of the chief official in the army.

The second class of people are those local heroes in the Northeast. These people can also enter the bureaucracy as officials, but at most they become deputy officials and adjutants. And the descendants of these families have to enter Zhang Zhongwu's personal guards to become attendants, which is actually equivalent to a proton. When there is a battle, these local heroes also have to organize young and strong, bring their own weapons, become the servant army of the Liao army, and engage in some auxiliary combat work.

The third class of people are those who are attached to the barbarian tribes and those who come from Goguryeo. Some of these people were engaged in breeding and grazing, while others were ploughing the land, and these people could get a share of the land in Liaodi, but of course, they also had to pay heavy taxes and bear all kinds of forced labor.

The fourth group of people is the savages and their families captured by the Liao army from the deep mountains and old forests, those survivors who were suppressed because of the rebellion, and of course, there are also a large number of slaves.

Compared with the first three categories of people, these people do not have the slightest power. If the third type of people can go to the government to shout injustice if they are bullied, if they meet a clear official with a sense of justice, or they can uphold justice, this fourth type of people can only bear everything silently.

A hierarchical society has completed the structure and maintained social stability in a very short period of time, which has to surprise Li Zeqi.

It is precisely such a hierarchical society that made Zhang Zhongwu change from an invader to the real king of Liaodi in a few years.

On top of Liaodi's land policy, Zhang Zhongwu learned from Li Ze's successful experience and successfully implemented it in his territory. The third class of people, who can obtain a large amount of land for cultivation without compensation, is a little heavier in taxes. But at least, these people can pay their taxes in a good situation, and there is still some savings to feed and clothe the family. But the contributions of these people are far from enough to support the economy of Liaodi.

The real economic support of Liaodi is still the first-class and second-class people.

A large number of sergeants were rewarded with fields, and unlike the third-class people, who were required to pay more than seventy percent of the income from the land harvest, they were only required to pay thirty percent. At the same time, these sergeants were given the privilege of entering the old woods to capture wild people as their slaves. Therefore, when there was no war, there were often Liao soldiers who entered the old forest in groups to capture savages.

It's a very risky job. Because although the savages do not have sharp swords, guns, arrows and armor, their combat effectiveness is extremely impressive. Therefore, when entering the old forest, there will be casualties from time to time, but on the whole, the income is far greater than the expenditure. And Zhang Zhongwu strongly encouraged this kind of behavior. Every time a savage is caught, the Liao Wangfu will also give a certain reward to the soldiers. If the soldier himself does not need a slave, then he can sell it to the Liao Wangfu, a strong savage, who can be sold for dozens of dollars.

For Zhang Zhongwu, this is a matter of killing two birds with one stone, first, the Liao Wangfu can obtain a large amount of labor, and second, it has tempered the combat level of the soldiers, so that the combat effectiveness of his soldiers has always been maintained at an extremely high level. It is impossible for him to spend a lot of money like Li Ze to make the soldiers conduct all kinds of drills, so he can only use this more barbaric method.

The Liao Wangfu has a large number of military cantonments, and these military cantonments use slave farming, in addition to keeping these slaves from starving to death, these military cantonments basically have no other consumption. When he is alive, he keeps creating wealth for his master, and when he dies, he digs a pit and throws it into it, and he is done.

In addition to these, the local tycoons in Liaodi are the main contributors to tax revenue. These local tycoons still retained a certain amount of strength after their defeat in the battle with Zhang Zhongwu, and they owned a large amount of land and people, and Zhang Zhongwu may have given them certain privileges, and the taxes paid on their land were fifty percent. At the same time, Zhang Zhongwu also allowed these people to do business, and the caravans in Liaodi were basically from these local heroes.

Naturally, there are caravans for serious business, and there are caravans for smuggling.

As long as Zhang Zhongwu pays enough taxes, Zhang Zhongwu doesn't bother to pay attention to the way these local tycoons do business. If they had the ability to smuggle goods from the area under Li Ze's rule, it would be too late for Zhang Zhongwu to rejoice.

You must know that although Li Ze made Zhang Zhongwu the king of Liao, and the two sides maintained a general state of peace, the economic blockade of Liao has never been loosened.

Strategic materials such as salt, tea, ironware, hemp, oil, and grain are extremely strictly controlled.

However, just as Liu Yan of Weihu Mountain can always get some such materials, under Li Ze's rule, there are also many outlaws who are starting such smuggling journeys for money, and they can't stop it at all.

A simple example, in the border land of Pingzhou, if a person carries a hundred catties of salt on his back, the cost price per catty is less than five wen, and one hundred catties of salt is only five hundred wen, which is not worth a silver dollar.

But if he succeeds in transporting the hundred catties of silver to the other side, each catty of salt will immediately rise to twenty wen, and a hundred catties of salt will be worth two silver dollars. Quadruple profits are enough for many people to take a chance. With such a long border, the risk of getting caught is actually not high, as long as you are not a large-scale smuggler with great fanfare.

In fact, many of the small gangs in these smuggling activities are themselves controlled by the internal guards of the Tang Dynasty, and with the help of this opportunity, they are also desperately infiltrating the Liaodi.

For six years, using this pyramid-like structure, Zhang Zhongwu has been continuously accumulating his strength. The strong military strength in Liao allowed him to sit firmly on the top of the spire and look down on the entire Liao land.

In the past two years, under Zhang Zhongwen's suggestion, this strict hierarchy in Liaodi has been loosened somewhat. The main thing is to give the next level of people some opportunities to fight for the next level.

For example, if a second-class person wants to become a first-class person, he or she will be evaluated on the basis of the taxes he has paid and the military exploits he has made, and once he has passed, he can jump to the first-class person and thus obtain more privileges.

And people of the third rank have only one chance, and that is to become a warrior and make meritorious achievements. Essentially, people of the third estate are still considered freedmen, and they can sign up for the army. Once you have made a military exploit and become an officer, you may be able to jump to the second rank, acquire land, slaves, etc., and thus change your own destiny.

The worst of all, of course, is not the fourth-class slave class, they only have one chance, that is, when the war breaks out, become a death squad, survive and make war achievements, and become free people.

And this suggestion is exactly the decision made by the Zhang brothers in the face of the current overall situation, when they feel that the opportunity for a counterattack has arrived. In this way, they can gain more combat power.

Although their strength has basically returned to the level they used to have in the Lu Long era, their opponent Li Ze's strength is far from being comparable to that year. Although Li Ze's main focus is now on the reunification war, for the Zhang brothers, this is still a behemoth.

This is their only chance. If Li Ze is allowed to successfully complete the great cause of reunification, they will no longer want to live in Liaodi in such a leisurely manner.

Speaking of which, the current Zhang Zhongwu no longer has the original desire to compete for the world. He just wants to be able to stay in Liao forever and be his Liao king, but this is not what he wants, only through war makes Li Ze have to recognize his status. Otherwise, one day, the front of Li Ze's army will be directed at him.