On November 26, the sixth year of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty, the Qinghe Cui clan descended, the original head of the Qinghe Cui clan Cui Zhang took poison and died, and the seventh master of the family hanged himself.

Cui Xiaoli, the head of the Cui family in Boling, committed suicide and died, and his brother Cui Xiaoyi "committed suicide in fear of crime", and there was no suitable successor for the Cui family's lineage, so the eldest son of Cui Xiaoli's father and second brother inherited the position of the head of the family, led the crowd to surrender, and all of them were taken into custody and escorted back to Chang'an to be disposed of.

The inexplicable death of Lu Li, the head of the Lu family in Fanyang, really has nothing to do with Suning, Suning did not instruct the people around Lu Li to kill Lu Li, and Cui Xiaoyi's news is the same, it seems that it was the opposition forces within the Lu clan that killed Lu Li, and they were unwilling to die with Lu Li, so they killed Lu Li, and then overthrew Lu Li's forces, took power by themselves, opened the city and surrendered, and saved everyone's lives......

The four major families, the three major families changed the patriarch, only one Zheng honestly opened the city gate and surrendered, and also received preferential treatment from Li Shiji, and got better treatment, everyone went to Chang'an in a car to be tried, hundreds of small and medium-sized families in Shandong were either wiped out or all arrested, and all were sent to Chang'an for trial, and then the officials sent by Li Er's Majesty quickly entered the power vacuum and seized the local power.

Food, money, quickly entered the prefectures and counties of Shandong, as the emperor's compensation to the people, quickly pacified the people's hearts, there was no imaginary turmoil, Shandong smoothly transitioned to the real control of the Tang Dynasty, and then officials around the country began to start a counteroffensive to count, and began to purge the profiteers who were sheltered during the reign of the Shandong family. Then the commercial forces of the Tang Dynasty were stationed to fully control Shandong from the military, political and economic aspects, and naturalize it in the shortest possible time.

At the same time, the development of the Shandong region was also going on at the same time, and while waiting for the arrival of the sinners in Shandong, Li Ermajesty held six large-scale meetings to discuss the plan for the development and utilization of the North China Plain submitted by Suning, and finally unanimously decided to give priority to the implementation of labor reform in Shandong, especially in the four major counties. Carry out labor reform. Limited abolition of the local people's forced labor to show the emperor's grace and buy people's hearts.

For a long time, because of the obstruction of the Shandong scholars. Li Erma's policy of promoting labor reform in Shandong was difficult to implement. If this policy is promoted. The prestige of the emperor would be greatly increased in a short period of time, which was not conducive to the rule of the Shandong scholars, so the Shandong scholars tried their best to prevent the spread of labor reform. This also indirectly cheapens the promotion of the Guanzhong region and the Shuzhong region and the development of the south of the Yangtze River.

Regarding the reform of labor, Zhenguan also had a relevant law in the sixth year of the "Decree on Labor Reform" promulgated, which made detailed plans and orders on all aspects of labor reform, including the rational use of human resources of prisoners of war and the treatment of prisoners of war, emphasizing that these are precious labor forces, although they are the enemies of our Tang Dynasty, but in the end they are still precious labor forces, and if they die, they will be one less.

The long-disputed issue of the treatment of prisoners of war in the labor reform has finally been stipulated, the public slave division has won, the most basic treatment of prisoners of war has been guaranteed, and the survival rate of prisoners of war has increased several times, which is also the biggest reason why Datang is not short of free labor at present, after all, prisoners of war do not need to pay for work, as long as they ensure a meal, a bowl of gruel and a flatbread, by the way, give some salt to replenish the body, don't die of exhaustion.

With the liberation of Shandong, the huge potential of the North China Plain entered the eyes of the Tang Dynasty monarchs, and Xuzhou, the granary of the world in the Three Kingdoms era, was located here.

According to Suning's opinion, these places can be used to grow rice, because a large number of rivers are distributed here, the North China Plain is not short of water, so it is suitable for growing high-yield rice and other food crops, as for the barren land, it can be divided into potatoes, and the fertile soil is used to grow rice, in addition, in order to ensure that the water in the North China Plain is sufficient and safe, and to avoid floods, the Jianyi court mobilized a lot of manpower and material resources to renovate the Yellow River.

In the early Tang Dynasty, Guanzhong and Shandong, that is, the Loess Plateau and the North China Plain, were very fertile, underdeveloped areas, with sufficient water sources and lush vegetation, which was definitely not the tragic situation of today, and the Yellow River in the Sui and Tang dynasties was not as huge as it is today, and it often stopped flowing, because the vegetation was destroyed and led to soil erosion.

In the process of returning to negotiate, Suning walked through the North China Plain, and unexpectedly found that because the North China Plain, which had been less developed since the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, had been less developed since hundreds of years of chaos and population decline, the granary of the world in the Han Dynasty had gradually returned to its primitive state, and the reduction of human activities was accompanied by the restoration of the ecological environment, and the self-healing ability of nature almost restored the granary of the world to its pre-undeveloped state.

In order to cope with this situation, Suning hurried back to Chang'an, and caught up with the third and subsequent meetings on the development of the North China Plain.

At the meeting, Suning proposed that after on-the-spot investigation, it was found that since Cao Cao attacked Xuzhou and the Guandu War, there was no unified political power that could carefully develop and maintain the Hebei region of Shandong, and the former Sui Xiangzuo was very short, and it was restricted by the Shandong scholars, and it was difficult to develop Shandong, so the North China Plain, the granary of the world during the Han Dynasty, had a tendency to restore the situation before the development of the two Han Dynasty, and after the Shandong scholars were wiped out, the power vacuum in Shandong was filled, but the important problems found immediately were also quite strict.

At this stage, 70 percent of the population of Datang is concentrated in the Guanzhong area, and the remaining 30 percent is distributed in Shandong, Hebei, Shuzhong and Jiangnan, and the population distribution is extremely uneven. The development potential of each place far exceeds that of Guanzhong, and in terms of per capita soil occupancy, it is also the lowest in Guanzhong, while the rest of the places are average, and the per capita soil occupancy in some areas is even more than those of us who own thousands of acres of fiefdom, and these places are not cultivated at all.

This is a strict zhòng people have no land to plant, there is land but no one to plant, this problem must be solved, the land of heaven in the middle of the country, but the amount of land ownership is fixed. With the increase in the population of the Guanzhong area. The per capita use of soil will continue to decline, eventually leading to land problems, and just outside Guanzhong, there is a lot of fertile soil that no one cultivates.

After Qin Shi Huang pacified the land of Lingnan. Millions of immigrants to Lingnan. In order to enrich and determine the occupation of the Lingnan area. During the Han Dynasty, in order to deal with the ethnic minorities in the north, there were also policies to immigrate to the real border, so looking at the current situation of the Tang Dynasty. The relocation of the population from the Guanzhong region to the Jiangnan region alone is no longer enough to support the current crisis, and the land of Shandong and Hebei must also start the immigration policy immediately, and the problem of Shuzhong can wait for the completion of the repair of the Shu Road before discussing it, while the land of Shandong and Hebei must be solved.

In this regard, Suning put forward the idea of immigrating one million to Shandong and one million to the south of the Yangtze River, the registered population of the Tang Dynasty is now 10 million, and the 7 million population is concentrated in Guanzhong, and only 3 million people are distributed in the rest of the country, all some areas are difficult to say about the actual jurisdiction, only where there are people, can the actual political power be established, and no one, just the area where there is zài on the map, can not be regarded as the real jurisdiction of the Tang Dynasty at all, just like most of the area in the south of the Yangtze River, obviously the soil is fertile, But there are no people for thousands of miles, what a serious problem is this?

As soon as this Jian yì was proposed, everyone was silent, and it was not easy to immigrate two million to other areas, but the reason given by Suning was very sufficient, the soil problem in the Guanzhong area has not yet appeared, but with the increase in population, this problem will appear sooner or later, and the land policy will inevitably face challenges at that time, but how is it good at that time?

And at present, we can seize the time to transfer the population of two million to Shandong and Jiangnan, cooperate with the national policy of the imperial court to develop Shandong and Jiangnan, based on the Guanzhong region, the production force of five million people will support the initial immigration for several or more than ten years, and when the immigrants in these areas have a firm foothold and can produce their own food to make up for themselves, the next generation of people will be born, these people will begin to take root in Shandong and Jiangnan, and really begin to develop Jiangnan and Shandong, by that time, The huge production potential of the North China Plain and the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River Plain will gradually be realized.

At that time, there will be several grain-producing areas in the Tang Dynasty, and if each grain-producing area can support a war, it is definitely better than relying solely on the production capacity of the Guanzhong region to support the war now, and it will take a year to reserve food and materials for one to two wars, not counting the tribute from other countries.

But if Jiangnan and North China are developed, Datang can reserve the resources needed for more than five wars every year, although it is not good to have more wars, but it is not only that we need food to fight others, but others also need food to fight our defensive operations and counterinsurgency wars, and it is definitely a good thing to have an extra grain-producing land, not a bad thing, for which we need to pay 20 years, but only 20 years, Datang will no longer lack food, this price is worth paying.

And the current situation is that Guanzhong suffers from disasters and famine across the country, that is the reason why there are no other major grain producing areas, if there are other important production areas, it is completely possible to use the grain disaster relief in those rich areas, the northern grain to the south, or the southern grain to the north, the eastern grain to the west, or the western grain to the east, all in all, as long as there is no major disaster across the country, Datang will not be as hungry as before.

If we want to develop Shandong and Jiangnan, it is necessary to control hydrology, while repairing the embankments of the Yellow River, we must also inherit the foundation of the previous dynasty in the Jiangnan region, find suitable rivers, build dams, prevent flooding, inquire about the local climate problems of the local elderly, collect books, and make comprehensive judgments.

Suning's construction is quite pertinent, after continuing to discuss three times, the vast majority of people support this point of view, and support the policy of immigration to develop Jiangnan and Shandong, of course, there are many problems to worry about, first of all, it is difficult to leave the homeland, sometimes even if it is a disaster, the people will return to their hometown after the disaster, this is how many years of habit, Datang can not use coercive means to move people like Daqin, so how to make the people voluntarily move away, is an important issue.

Secondly, the governance of the Yellow River and the south of the Yangtze River does not require a large amount of labor and material resources, and the Tang Dynasty can currently support the materials, but in terms of labor, there is a considerable shortage. (To be continued......)