Chapter 221: Governance After the Return (II)
After listening to Gao Yuan's words, Li Yinghong also breathed a sigh of relief, what she was most worried about was that her handling method did not meet Gao Yuan's intentions. In addition to this incident, another urgent matter to be solved is how to deal with these people who have been captured, and now the captured people are all taken into custody and waiting for Gao Yuan to come back and deal with them. After all, this is more than 25,000 people, not a minority, and basically all of them are young and middle-aged laborers, and what Daijun lacks most now is labor, and they still have to consume food, so they must be dealt with as much as possible.
After hearing this, Gao Yuan also nodded and said, "Okay, tomorrow we will gather everyone to discuss together, and we will do our best to deal with this rebellion." ”
After eating, several people also chatted together, mainly about the marriage between Gao Yuan and Yun Yao, since the relationship between the two has been clarified, and they have both agreed, of course, it is better to do the marriage sooner rather than later, Yun Yao also lives with them in the name of righteousness. You must know that now Yun Yao is still Jiang Huanwu's family in terms of name.
The next day, Gao Yuan immediately summoned the administrative officials of Daijun to discuss the handling of the captured rebels and their families.
After deliberation by the people, Haoqiang and their immediate family members who had not been separated from the household, such as their wives and children, as well as the relatives of Haoqiang who participated in the rebellion, and some of the Haoqiang's henchmen, such as distant relatives and cronies, were all executed, while Haoqiang's subordinates, peasant households, and other family members of those who participated in the rebellion were all sentenced to hard labor, ranging from three to ten years, depending on the severity of the circumstances. The content of hard labor is mainly based on the expansion of the construction of the county seat.
After the method of handling is determined, all that remains is to interrogate and distinguish the arresting personnel, who should be arrested, who should be punished with hard labor, and how many years of hard labor should be made, there must be a clear distinction, and this matter will be handed over to Shen Shen to be responsible.
In addition, after the confiscation of Haoqiang's property, a total of nearly 1.5 million acres of land were investigated, and now there are people who have migrated from the Yan Kingdom to cultivate, but there is now a decision on how to deal with this batch of land.
Gao Yuan had already considered this point, so he also put forward his own plan, taking out 300,000 mu of land as public land for the government, renting it to the landless people for farming, and distributing all the rest to the regular soldiers of the Wu'an Army.
At the time of the establishment of the Zhou Dynasty, the well field system was implemented, all the well fields were public fields, owned by the state, and distributed by the state to the subordinates, the people of the country to cultivate, and paid taxes to the state, the public land could not be sold and bought, and every few years, it was redistributed. Outside of the well field, the newly cultivated land is private land, and the private land belongs to the private property of the individual, and there is no need to redistribute it, and it can be bought freely without paying taxes.
Therefore, later officials and people have cultivated private land, ignoring public land, coupled with the improvement of agricultural technology, more and more private land, even more than public land, and the income of public land is also constantly decreasing, and later the candidate countries simply tax both public land and private land, and some countries even abolished the distinction between public land and private land, and privatized all public land, but there are also countries that still retain a part of public land, as state-owned property, recruit people to cultivate.
In later dynasties, public land was gradually transformed from state-owned property to the emperor's private property. The income of the public land is regarded as the private money of the emperor's inner government, and it is also the source of the emperor's use to reward his subordinates and seal the royal disciples by rank, although compared with before, the number of public fields has been greatly reduced compared with private fields, but it is still a very large number.
Although when the village was pacified, more than 40,000 acres of land were obtained, but they were all allocated to the soldiers, and now the plateau has only more than 10,000 acres of public land, which can just take advantage of this opportunity to earn a little more land for themselves, otherwise they will not even be able to take out the land property if they are rewarded for meritorious personnel in the future.
However, with this batch of land, it was enough to allocate all the land to the soldiers, and in this way, it was also able to calm the morale of the army, because in the new decree formulated by the plateau, professional soldiers would be able to allocate a certain amount of land.
In addition, the confiscated Haoqiang property, in addition to the field property, there are a large number of other property, the most important of which is more than 500,000 stones, more than 1,500 yuan of gold, more than 2 million copper coins, thousands of white walls, and other such as cloth, silk, animal skins, bronze vessels, etc., there are also a large number of them, it seems that fighting local tyrants is really a way to make money.
If you add the property obtained from the Yan Kingdom, the property and materials of Daijun can be regarded as very rich, and it is a grain stockpile, as high as more than 1.2 million stones, which is enough to support several years. The plateau is also greatly relieved, because the people who migrated from the Yan country must also have enough food supply, although the increase in population is a good thing, but this group of people has just arrived in Daijun, it is impossible to start farming immediately, and the highest is to start farming after the beginning of next year, and there will be a harvest at the end of next year. The plateau knocked 600,000 stone grains of Yan Country hard, in fact, this is also taken into account.
However, Ning Qi also proposed a plan to the plateau for the resettlement and distribution of the people from the Yan Kingdom, this time the people of the Yan Kingdom who came with the plateau were placed in Dai County, and the people of the Yan Kingdom in the future were divided into two batches, which were placed in Yanmen and Yunzhong Counties.
Because the population of Dai County now plus the people who migrated from Yan State, more than 1.1 million people, and at this time, the population of Yanmen and Yunzhong counties is counted, a total of less than 400,000, each county does not exceed 200,000 people, and the male young and middle-aged labor force is only 50,000 or 60,000. Compared to Dai County, these two counties have very small populations and need to be replenished. There are about 250,000 people who have migrated from Yan Kingdom, and if they are supplemented to the two counties of Yanmen and Yunzhong, the population of these two counties can be greatly increased, and it will be of great benefit to the development and defense of these two counties.
After listening to it, Gao Yuan also agreed very much, thinking that Ning Qi was indeed very thoughtful, and he now has the land of four counties, but the development of these four counties is extremely unbalanced, and the Dai County is outstanding, and Shanggu County is also unsatisfactory because of its connection with Yan State, and the two counties of Yanmen and Yunzhong were originally the areas of the nomads such as Hulin and Lou Fu, and the place is not small, but the population is very small, and the economic and social development is also very backward, and it is basically a semi-deserted state.
In the past, the territory of Zhao was so vast that it could not care about the development of Yanmen and Yunzhong counties, and only used it as a buffer area to defend against the invasion of the Xiongnu, but now there are only four counties in the plateau, and of course the two counties of Yanmen and Yunzhong cannot be allowed to continue to be abandoned like this. In addition, the geographical location of Yanmen and Yunzhong counties is also very important, not to mention Yanmen, since ancient times, it has been China's northern defense fortress, and the battleground of soldiers. The location of Yunzhong County is roughly between Hohhot and Baotou in Inner Mongolia, which is the famous Hetao area.
Moreover, from the current military point of view between the countries, the location of the two counties of Yanmen and Yunzhong is still very important, so the terrain of the Qin State is dangerous, as long as the Hangu Pass in the east is held, the entire Guanzhong region can be guaranteed. But if the plateau really has enough strength in the future to build a strong army, it can open up the second battlefield of the war against Qin in the north, use Yunzhong County as a logistics base, go south along the Yellow River Hetao area, and attack the Qin State from the north, just like splitting a sword from the head of the Qin State, and can go straight to the Hexi region of the Qin State! And the elite troops of the Qin State are concentrated in the southeastern region, and by the time the Qin State reacts, it will be too late.
At that time, King Zhao Lingwu had formulated such a strategy to destroy Qin, so he insisted on setting up Yunzhong County, and planned to transfer a large number of people to Yunzhong County, and vigorously develop Yunzhong County, which was prepared for the war against Qin.
This is indeed a very clever strategy against Qin, and King Zhao Wuling is very strong, if it can really be implemented, the outcome of the Warring States may not be known. Even if it can't destroy the Qin state, it will force the Qin state to invest heavy troops in the north, so it can't focus on the east like this. It's a pity that when King Zhao Wuling was in his prime, because of the chaos of Zhao State, he was besieged in the Dune Palace by traitors, starved to death, and his ambition to close the case was not rewarded. But now that the plateau is complete, it is completely possible to re-implement the unfinished strategy of King Zhao Wuling.
However, at present, the plateau has not yet had the conditions to implement this strategy, because the production level of Yunzhong County is too backward to bear the logistics supply of the army, and the strength that the plateau now has is not enough. However, this did not prevent Gao Yuan from making some strategic preparations, if all the people relocated from the Yan Kingdom were placed in Yunzhong County, the population of Yunzhong County could be more than doubled, which would be of great benefit to the social and economic development of Yunzhong County, and it could also make good preparations for the implementation of this strategy against Qin in the future.
Therefore, Gao Yuan also immediately approved Ning Qi's plan, but only asked that all the people who had migrated from Yan State be placed in Yunzhong County, and ordered Ning Qi to send people to Yunzhong County to inform Chen Shi, the general stationed in Yunzhong County, so that he could prepare to meet him. Of course, now Gao Yuan can't say that at this time he is preparing for the implementation of the war against Qin, only that Yanmen County is close to Dai County, and once Yanmen County has an incident, Dai County can immediately send troops to rescue him, and Yunzhong County is far away from Dai County, so the strength of Yunzhong County should be strengthened first.
After Ning Qi heard this, he had no objections, but immediately obeyed the order.
Later, Gao Yuan ordered that now that the battle against Yan Yan was over, the new decree would be implemented in Yunzhong and Yanmen counties immediately, and after all the compensation of Yan Guo was in place, it would also be implemented in Shanggu County.