The population of the three counties of Lingnan is only a little more than 370,000, accounting for two-tenths of the country's land.

The Empire's immigration policy has always been carried out, because it is a non-compulsory policy, there is always something to attract immigrants, and the relevant auxiliary conditions include land and funds, and resource immigrants are calculated according to the capitation, and one person can obtain ten acres of land.

When implementing the relevant policies, the central government thought that it would be easier to use land and capital to attract displaced people, but this time they were wrong, for example, there are many notorieties in Lingnan, and such good policies have not been able to attract many people to migrate there.

What is Lingnan's notoriety? It's nothing more than the reputation of barbarism, poor mountains and bad waters, etc., basically thinking that it is too far away from civilization, and in addition, there are more wild people in the local mountains and wilderness and there is no security, so even if there is such a good policy, it has not been able to attract many people to migrate.

Lingnan is indeed a place of poor mountains and bad waters, while the primeval forests are dense, because it is undeveloped virgin land, the number of wild beasts is unimaginably large, and what is more troublesome is that the transportation is very inconvenient, and there are many places that will produce miasma in some special climates.

"Except for the main national highways, there is no road to the whole area because of the lack of labor." Luo Shao has a lot to say, and there is only one national highway he said, and that road was built when the Southern Expeditionary Corps went south. He frowned: "We captured a lot of slaves in the south, but we didn't use them in the local infrastructure......"

The imperial army's capture of aliens was really concentrated in southern Xinjiang, at first it was aimed at the Baiyue people, and later the scope expanded to any group that was not an imperial person, that is, those wild people living in the mountains and forests.

There are many local savages in Lingnan, and the number of aliens captured by the Southern Expeditionary Corps and related slave hunting teams in seven or eight years exceeded 800,000, but because of the urgent shortage of labor in the locality, the slaves captured in the south were basically transported back to China, and then arranged to build roads or mine in various places. There were very few slaves left in Lingnan.

The footsteps of the imperial army stepped further south, and after the conquest of the Ouyu Kingdom, they encountered more foreign races, such as the Xiangyue, Yelang, Lishui, Dian and Dravidian people, and a new round of slave hunting was coming, but even if they caught more slaves left in southern Xinjiang, they were only a small number.

"The army makes a lot of money, doesn't it?" Lu Jia added with a smile: "In just seven years, hasn't the army obtained more than 700 million yuan because of the sale of labor?" ”

Kui Lin, one of the ruling government scholars, touched his chin and beard, and also said: "The Nanyang Fleet has been established for less than a year, and their financial report has come out, and in less than a year, they have obtained more than 80 million yuan of funds for the army. ”

Wang Pi, the liaison officer of the Nanyang Fleet who remained in the imperial capital, laughed twice. "In a few days there will be a new fleet back home, and the numbers will be refreshed," he said. ”

Xiao He's brows furrowed quite a bit, and when he heard some people in the military repeatedly smiling and talking about the profits created by the army, he subconsciously looked at Lu Yi, who was sitting in the main seat.

According to some people's opinions, the military should not actually involve interests, otherwise it will become a disaster. They believe that the scourge does not simply point to the possible corruption of the military, but also to the fear that the military will lose control if it has enough money.

It's not that no one has put forward relevant opinions to Lu Zhe, suggesting that the army should only focus on development, and matters involving profits should be handed over to the ruling government. It is enough for the Imperial Lieutenant and the General's Mansion to focus only on military affairs. Lu Zhe didn't say anything at that time, but he privately interviewed some senior generals, because most of the people who put forward opinions were civilian officials, so there was such a thing, and the military generals group had new opinions on the civilian official group. Said a lot of unpleasant things.

The army is a violent institution, to put it bluntly, the army itself will not lack fighters, and no matter how rich the fighters are, how can they control it? Words that are difficult to control. Will the chances of getting out of control get higher? In other words, there is really some danger in the army where someone has money.

What did Lu Zhe say when he interviewed senior generals? It was about the profits created by the army, which suppressed the backlash of many high-ranking generals. The ruling government has gradually intervened in the arrest and sale of slaves, and the ruling government has intervened in the sale of resources during the period of external expansion. However, because of some things, Lu Zhe did not completely strip the military of the right to participate, but there were a lot more things to do in operation.

The empire was founded for a short time, and many policies were tried to be applied, which means that they did not become the norm. It is because there is still hope for change that many policies are played by the military generals and the civilian clique, both of which want to gain more control, but they also know that whether the policy can be decided depends on the emperor's wishes.

Lu Zhe appointed his eldest son Lu Yi as the prison state, and the signal released was already relatively obvious, and the civil and military forces who stayed in the imperial capital knew that this was the first investigation, if Lu Yi did not make any mistakes during the supervision of the country, it would be equivalent to one step closer to becoming the crown prince.

"What's wrong with the money in the military?" Luo Shao went into battle directly with his bare arms: "There is no money that hinders the people's livelihood." Besides, the army is well-equipped, so it can't better open up the land! ”

In fact, there is no need for Luo Shao to be the first to "charge", but he has his own reasons. He has always been in southern Xinjiang, and there are not many opportunities to contact some colleagues in the military general group, and the first lieutenant to become a military attache is not recognized by everyone, but the appointment is from Lu Zhe, so no one dares to object.

Sima Xin's posture as a lieutenant was mild and tough, and during his tenure, the empire completed the war of liberation against the Central Plains and Qin, and gained a good reputation.

Kuaitong's Taiwei achieved a great victory over the Hu people in the grassland, and at the same time, the imperial army also made great achievements in southern Xinjiang and the sea, although the prestige was not as good as Sima Xin, but it was not too bad.

By the time Luo Shao took office as a lieutenant, the actions of the imperial army were not as many as those of the previous two terms, and they were still facing the implementation of disarmament, which was not a small pressure.

Luo Shao now wants to perform more in the post of Tai Lieutenant, the premise is, of course, to be recognized by more military colleagues, so that he can get more support and make a difference. His term as a lieutenant is by no means easy to be, and it is likely that he does not have much of a good reputation, and he will be scolded by those soldiers who have been laid off, so how to fight for more benefits for the military has become a straw.

The army is well equipped and has better pioneering, and no one will object to this. As far as the civilian clique is concerned, they have been suppressed by the military generals clique for a long time, isn't it because the report card submitted by the military is good-looking.

"We're talking about immigration, right?" In fact, Lu Yi also disagreed that the military had soldiers and money, and also thought that it would become a disaster. But now it's not his turn to be the emperor, and even he is not even a prince now, so he can't offend the military by saying anything, so he can only change the topic with the mud: "Talk about immigration." ”

The three counties of Lingnan are vast and sparsely populated, right? However, many counties in the empire are not much better, and only some counties in the Central Plains and the Yangtze River basin are more beautiful in terms of population data.

In the early years of the empire, Nanhai County and Minnan County were newly established in the south, and the two counties have been included in the empire's territory for seven years, but now the registered population of Nanhai County is 180,000, and the number of Minnan County is 140,000. The topography of the two counties is mountainous and watery, and the current population is due to the development of the shipbuilding industry by the empire in recent years, so the registered population is relatively concentrated along the coast. The population living in the hinterland is also pitiful.

The army left the steppe, recovered the Hetao, and occupied the vast steppe area. Hetao has newly established Jiuyuan County and Yunzhong County, what is the population of the two counties? It has a registered population of 40,000 in Jiuyuan County and 30,000 in Yunzhong County. It is really unreasonable that the land of the two counties is only 40,000 and 30,000 people, but that is also because the empire has only been able to purchase Jiuyuan County and Yunzhong County for less than two years, and the population of such a country in two years is not small, but the results are very good.

“…… In this way, there are some family migrations in Longxi County and Beidi County. Xiao He is talking about the Wu family, the Yi family, the Bang family, and the Xi family, as well as some families from the Central Plains and Yandi who develop animal husbandry. He added: "As we worked out the relevance of wool clothing. It was also the army's smooth war against the Hu people in the grassland, and more and more people became interested in immigrating to the grassland. ”

In addition to Jiuyuan County and Yunzhong County in Hetao, the empire also established new Dai County and Merge County in the grassland. Dai County is connected to Yunzhong County, which stretches from outside Yanmen County to Yuyang County. The county is from the water to the Wuhou Qinshui outside the right Beiping County. And it is the border with the territory of Donghu.

The map of the empire's territory that Lu Yi saw was actually the Inner Mongolia grassland of later generations and the merged counties, and even included part of the land of Outer Mongolia. He didn't know why he chose the name Daijun and Mergegun, but he knew that "Dai" later referred to Zhao Di during the Warring States Period. "And" later refers to part of the Zhao land and Yan land, it seems that there were still Daizhou and Bingzhou in the Han Dynasty, but now it is named in the boundary division between Inner Mongolia and part of Outer Mongolia.

The population of Daigun is 20,000. The county has a population of 40,000, and as a new county that has been in place for less than a year, it is also what people call it a secluded place, to put it bluntly, it is a desolate place on the frontier, and the population of 20,000 and 40,000 can no longer be regarded as a minority.

"As people's interest in animal husbandry increases, the population of Xinzhi County in northern Xinjiang is bound to increase." Xiao He said and looked at Luo Shao.

Luo Shao immediately continued the topic and said: "In recent years, there have been tribes who have taken the initiative to take refuge, probably the Rong and Di people, and there are also some Hu tribes who don't know how to divide the ethnic groups. They are vying to become subjects of the Empire, and we have been discussing how to deal with similar incidents. ”

The grasslands are all called Hu people, but not all tribes belong to the camp. For example, in the Han and Han dynasties, the Han Empire did not have any verification, as long as the tribes living on the grassland were uniformly called the Xiongnu.

What is it actually? Many steppe tribes did not belong to the Xiongnu, they belonged to the tribes of Rong or Di, many Rong and Di submitted to the Xiongnu, and many Rong and Di tribes were hostile to the Xiongnu, but the Han Empire did not care so much at all.

The empire divided the tribes of the grassland in more detail, the Xiongnu were the Xiongnu, and they also knew the distinction between the Rong tribe and the Di tribe, and even knew that the Dingling Tribal Alliance, the Hujie Tribal Alliance, the Hun Yu Tribal Alliance, and the Quoche Tribal Alliance were strictly defined, and it was not like the previous dynasties as long as there was someone on the grassland who was closer to the Chinese territory, and all the tribes on the grassland were considered to be the people of that tribe.

Prairie tribes take refuge? Asking to become a subject of the Empire? In fact, it was all forced by the Imperial army that went out to fight.

After the imperial army came out, many tribes did not explain that they did not belong to the Xiongnu and did not participate in the invasion of China, but the imperial military did not distinguish what kind of power the tribes encountered at all, as long as they encountered it, they would attack, and as a result, as long as the tribes on the grassland were targeted by the military, they would either flee or perish.

The military's indiscriminate strikes did not fail to make many originally neutral tribes join the hostile forces, but the posture shown by the military was indifferent, and even wished that there would be more hostile forces so that they could gain more military successes.

Later, when the slave hunting industry flourished, the military intensified its invasion of the farther tribes, which directly led to the fact that those tribes left their tribes far away, and then there would be quite a lot of grassland with abundant water and grass empty. It is precisely because there are too many pastures with abundant water and grass that are vacant, and there are no new nomadic teams on the Empire's side to fill them, some bold steppe tribes have sent people to tempt, saying that they are willing to accept the rule of the Empire, join the Empire's side, and then go to those pastures with abundant water and grass for grazing.

"Those Hu people were willing to pay taxes, and they agreed that the empire would send administrators to manage it, and what they demanded was to divide the pastures into pastures for their tribes." Ji Bu's two-year-old Zhenbei general was not in vain, and it seems that he has also dealt with related matters, saying: "Some tribes have been fighting for a long time in order to obtain grassland, saying that they are also descendants of Yanhuang and Miao, and they fled to the grassland in the Shang generation. ”

It seems that there is really such a saying, saying that many tribes on the grassland are actually Yanhuang and Miao descendants, who migrated out because of the wars of various dynasties. In addition, there is another place that can be verified, that is, the Jizi Dynasty on the Korean Peninsula was established by the descendants of Yin Shang.

The Jizi Dynasty was indeed a regime established by the descendants of the Yin Shang dynasty, and the empire also recognized this statement, and after the peninsula was incorporated into the empire's territory, the Kaihua Qianshou under the Jizi Dynasty also automatically obtained the imperial household registration, which can be regarded as an example of the empire's absorption of population.

Xiao He said: "There are two voices now, those who agree with and those who disagree with the grassland tribes and recognize their ancestors. Those who disagree believe that the Hu people are just making an excuse to dismiss the military's pursuit and plunder, and that they must rebel in the future as an expedient measure to obtain pasture. Those who agree with it think that it doesn't matter what they say, as long as it can increase the population and taxes for the empire, it is good, and it is possible to educate them to truly become the ethnic group of the empire. ”

Lu Yi didn't say anything, he just blinked his eyes and looked at the civil and military forces present, with a curious expression...... (To be continued.) )