Xu Shiji said to Li Jing with a little pride, "Kill Yuan Taizuo, Gao Yanshou, Gao Huizhen, etc., and then sell these Goguryeo people to the Central Plains as slaves, and this Xuansu County will completely become the territory of my Han family in the future." With a population of nearly two million, that's a lot of money. ”

Li Jing still maintained a calm smile, although many civil officials in the court shouted that they were unkind, and many people thought that it was enough to kill Yuan Taizuo, Gao Yanshou and others, and the rest of the Goguryeo people as long as they were attached, then they would also be the people of my Han family. Some scholars even said that Yuan Taizuo should not be killed at all, because he was right, he had already joined the imperial court, and this time he helped to exterminate the rebellious Goguryeo.

But Li Jing clearly knows that in the places outside the Guan, the total number of Han people is now less than two million, and what about the Goguryeo people? Although the population has suffered serious losses in recent years, many have died in battle, more people have been captured as slaves, many have been sold to the Central Plains, and many have fled to Baekje, Silla and other places, and some have fled to the Janga, but after all, the country has been established for 700 years.

Earlier, there were several million people registered in Goguryeo, and this is not counting the slaves who were not registered in the household registration. So this time, there were more than 2 million captives in Xuansu County alone.

As long as you walk on two legs, it doesn't matter if you are a man, a woman, an adult, a child, an old man, a woman, whether you are a nobleman or an official, a landlord, or a commoner or a slave, now they only have one identity left on Li Jing's roster, slave.

All their property, land, houses, livestock, and money and silk became Li Jing's spoils of war.

"I heard that the soldiers and soldiers of each town can get some Goguryeo slaves this time, at least one, there may be several more, and some meritorious soldiers may have more than a dozen. The rest will be sold to merchants as commodities, and many will be used as official slaves and arranged to be enslaved in various workshops, or to be slaves in the official fields. ”

It is quite rare to enslave millions of people at once.

This time, not only the two million Goguryeo people in Xuanju County were enslaved, but even the millions of Goguryeo people in Buyeongchuan before, as well as those Goguryeo people in Liaodong and other places who had already obtained status, were also implicated this time, and all of them were enslaved.

Luo Cheng commanded more than 200,000 soldiers, and the plan was to give 1 million Goguryeo slaves to the soldiers to replace Qian Bao, after all, the imperial court did not have much money now.

The other two million were sold, and merchants, nobles, landlords, nobles, and wealthy people could buy them, whether they were farming or working.

The remaining million will be used as official slaves in government workshops, mines, and official fields.

There are many people who oppose this matter, including Wei Zheng, Fang Xuanling, and Du Ruhui, but the reason for their opposition is not that they are so cruel and unkind, but that they should set up these people as the people of the imperial court and grant them land, so that they can become the taxpayers of the imperial court and be able to pay rent, pay taxes and serve the imperial court.

And once they are all reduced to slaves, it is a one-time income, and these people will be slaves in the future, they are essentially not the tax households of the imperial court, they do not have to pay rent, they do not have to pay taxes, and they do not have to serve, for the imperial court, this is a bad thing in the long run, and it will make the aristocracy more powerful.

But Luo Cheng's reason for persuading them is very simple, that is, under the new two-tax system, the traditional way of taxation based on ding in the past has been changed, and the main taxation method is now levied according to the amount of land and property.

At the same time, the two tax laws are taxed by the government and the people in a unified manner, and those who are officials are also subject to taxation, but they are only exempt from military service. In this way, Luo Chengcai doesn't care how many slaves you have in your family, it's your business to use more slaves if you have money, but if you have a lot of money, you have to pay taxes.

He was even already contemplating a tax on the possession of slaves, just as a tax on vehicles and vessels.

As for the fact that if millions of Goguryeo people are household members, it is not only a matter of taxation, but also other benefits to the imperial court, Luo Cheng believes that this is not comparable to the hidden dangers of the future.

During the Han and Wei dynasties, a large number of Hu people moved inward, and the result became the later Wuhu Chaohua.

Therefore, for Goguryeo, which has been established for more than 700 years, has a population base of several million, and can reach more than 10% of the Han population in the Central Plains, it must be treated with extreme caution.

Otherwise, maybe one day Liaodong will change again.

Simply set it for all.

"I will do it alone, and I will bear the infamy alone, but I will not worry my children and grandchildren in the future."

Moreover, it is not only millions of people who have been seized, but also countless lands and money, if these are left to the Goguryeo people, then how can there be so much land for the people who migrated from the Central Plains.

Even if these Goguryeo people were moved to the Central Plains, where would the Central Plains get so much land to settle them?

Sometimes, it's just that cruel.

The Great Sui Dynasty was founded with the Juntian and Fu military system, and it was prosperous at the beginning of the founding of the country, but it was only 30 years before it became chaotic, in fact, after the population exploded, the land was insufficient, and the Juntian system could not be implemented, and the tax system based on the Juntian system was naturally problematic.

The people can't get the land, and the taxes are still so heavy, this day is naturally sad, and when Yang Guang is such a toss-loving person, as soon as he has the opportunity, the world will naturally be in chaos.

Therefore, although Luo Cheng is still implementing the uniform land system, the tax system has been changed to a two-tax system, and it is no longer a tax without industry and commerce.

In order to appease the people of the Central Plains and let them live and work in peace and contentment, we must first give them fields and let them live.

And it is simply impossible to get everyone to have every 100 acres of land.

Just like the previous Zhongwu Army in Liaodong, only the Zhongwu Army was allowed to become landlords, as for the other Han refugees were tenant farmers, and the Goguryeo people were serfs, only such a pyramid structure could be supported.

Otherwise, everyone is a landlord and a yeoman farmer, where can there be so much land to be granted? Do you still have to have a job field, a title field, a public office field, a school field, and a pasture?

You must know that when the Sui population was the largest, the official household registration was already 8.9 million, with a population of nearly 50 million, and this was only the registered population on the household registration, not counting slaves, Taoist monks, and prostitutes. If according to this number of people, every ding has enough land, then the Sui Dynasty must have billions of acres of land.

But even in later generations, the country's cultivated land is only more than a billion mu.

The cultivated land in the Tang Dynasty was only more than 800 million mu, and the Song Dynasty only had more than 500 million mu.

And this also shows that it is impossible for everyone to actually grant the full amount of land.

In the past, Luo Cheng's family, five dings and two middle-aged men, the family was only a few dozen acres of land, and after paying the regular rent, they could barely get by.

"Tuyuhun can be said to be a lesson, rebellion and impermanence, and finally the imperial court destroyed Tuyuhun and the county, but as a result, the root has not changed, there is still Tuyuhun, Qiang and other tribes, so it is still a chaotic place that cannot be controlled, and now the lord has directly destroyed Goguryeo and completely destroyed its country, which is also a good thing."

At this time, a cavalryman arrived.

He brought with him the emperor's edict.

"Great Qin Emperor Order!"

The emperor conferred Luo Shixin as the king of Zhao and awarded the envoy of Andong Province and the envoy of Tokyo and the military envoy of Zuo Shence.

The edict enshrined Li Jing as the Duke of Weiguo, awarded the Ministry of Military Affairs the Shangshu, and recalled Beijing to join the auxiliary government of the DPRK.

The edict enshrined Song Laosheng as the Duke of Song Guo, and awarded the deputy envoy of the festival degree as the right god to make the military envoy and the Taishou of Lelang.

The edict enshrined Xu Shiji as the Duke of England, and awarded the title of Jie Du Staff Officer and Deputy Envoy of the Zuo Shence Army and Taishou of Liaoxi.

Li Jing led a group of generals to take over the will, and the emperor's decree not only awarded these four officials, but also gave money and silk rewards to the soldiers of the two armies of Andong, and also issued a special decree to the soldiers of the Shence army, each of whom was specially awarded two Goguryeo young and strong slaves.

All officers are given the rank of disbanded officer, and all soldiers are awarded a medal.

"Has His Highness already ascended the throne?" Xu Shiji asked.

"Well, on the first day of the ninth month, Your Majesty changed Fanyang Mansion to Beijing, changed Linshuo Palace to the Forbidden Palace, and officially accepted the Sui Emperor Yang Chan in the Forbidden Palace in Beijing, and set the country name Daqin, changed the Yuan Kaiyuan, and took this year as the first year of Kaiyuan."