Upstairs in Chengtianmen City, Li Jing was already talking softly with Gai Yu.

"How's the preparation of the Production and Construction Corps?" A large number of soldiers are being formed, which is a hidden danger. Relying too much on the armament of the Tibetan soldiers, the result may be the same as the Tang Dynasty, and the thugs turned their faces and became robbers after the worst. For Li Jing, there is a truth that he knows very well, that is, the Hu people must not be allowed to control too strong force, even if it is to fight for the Qin army. The barrel of a gun comes out of power, this is a famous saying that everyone in later generations is short. No matter what the purpose was at the beginning, if the Qin army relied too much on these soldiers, there was a possibility that something unexpected might happen in the end. If you want to control these Hu people, the best way is to disperse and disrupt them, and not let them control the army, so that it will not take many years, even the fierce Hu people will no longer be brave. Li Jing is a warrior, so he will not easily let too many Hu people become Qin army soldiers, and the best arrangement is to let Hu people be farmers and herdsmen, not warriors.

"We have drawn up a plan to start the establishment of military cantonments in addition to the three passes of Shanhaiguan and Jundu Pass and Lulong Pass, from Rehe, Liaoxi, Liaodong, and Andong to the newly laid down large areas of northern land to establish military cantonments, and at present it is planned to establish 200 production corps, each corps of 30,000 people, with a total of 6 million peasant soldiers, including 3.5 million Han Chinese, 1.5 million Bohai people, and 1 million other tribes. Disperse them, and the production corps will be based on companies, with 100 men per company, and each company will be a military cantonment. Three companies with 300 men were a regiment, and a battalion was a large army cantonment. Further up, three regiments of three thousand people. Three regiments are 10,000 men for one brigade, and three brigades are one corps. 30,000 people. The Corps is mainly engaged in military cantonment reclamation. However, they will also be armed with a small amount of ordnance. And will carry out military training in addition to production, while reclaiming the north, while guarding the frontier. The tentative service period of the corps is five years, after which the five years are exhausted, and fresh blood is called up every year to replenish it. On the other hand, although the Corps is not on active duty, it is part of the peasant system, so it is not allowed to bring family members. Do so. It is also to prevent the resurgence of tribal power in the northeast. ”

Li Jing liked this plan of the General Staff, and he had just conquered the northeast, so Li Jing was not at ease about returning this place to the tribe. Even in order to develop the Northeast, you have to be careful. The first batch of six million people will be recruited to develop the northeast, which is a huge plan. But for the Qin Domain, whose population has now exceeded 20 million, this is not impossible. Long before the Qin clan won the Battle of the Bohai Sea, the Qin clan conducted a comprehensive census of the population within the domain. This kind of census is not the ordinary check of the original imperial court. Originally, the imperial court counted the population, and the rest counted the tax-paying household registration. The group of people who do not pay taxes are not in the population, and at this time in the late Tang Dynasty, people who do not pay taxes. It's a lot.

The first is the monks, nuns, and Taoist crowns, these people do not pay taxes. Wu Zongshi. There was once a Buddha extermination activity. It was because the power of Buddhism and Taoism was too great at that time, they owned a large amount of land and property, and they had a large number of serf tenants, and not only did they not pay taxes on their land, but also those who depended on them did not pay taxes or even served in the army. At that time, the land of the temple and Taoist temple was very large, occupying a small half of the world's land, and the population attached to them was even more, and even many people directly put the land under the name of the temple, and then they could be exempted from taxes. Not only that, but the number of monks and Taoists alone is also extremely large, and during the time of Wuzong, there were millions of monks and Taoists who were ordered to return to the laity in the country at that time.

However, after Wuzong, not long after Xuanzong came to power, Wuzong's uncle Emperor Xuanzong had escaped from the palace before ascending the throne, and it is said that he was a monk for a period of time in a temple in Jiangxi. Therefore, after he came to power, he began to restore the power of Buddhism, especially after Yizong, the son of Xuanzong, came to power, he worshiped Buddha, and the power of Buddhism and Taoism quickly recovered, and even began to rise. At this time, wars were frequent, but temples and Taoist temples had increased a lot.

Millions of monks and Taoists, plus many more hermits attached to their names, that's a huge number.

In addition, the slaves of the Tang Dynasty are not in the statistical population, even those who are semi-free people who have been freed from slavery, they do not have household registration, but only have an identity record in a department in Chang'an. There were many slaves in the Tang Dynasty, and there were more than 100,000 official slaves in Chang'an City, not counting the more private slaves. In particular, the number of serfs in the estates was extremely large. In addition to slaves, those who fled to their hometowns for various reasons, hidden households in the mountains, and in order to avoid taxes, took the initiative to name their fields and identities to the peasants under the names of wealthy landlords.

In short, in this census, the territory of the Qin Domain does not count those territories south of the Huaihai Province that are not actually controlled. The population of the Qin Domain had already reached more than 23 million, almost 8 million more than the figures reported by the local government at the beginning. This number is staggering, in addition to those hermits, monks and nuns, there are also a large number of slaves, as well as refugees and displaced people. Qin Fan is not counted according to the tax account, but directly counts the capitation, no matter what the identity is, all of them are a population. At this moment, the population of the Qin Domain directly increased by eight million.

During the Sui Dynasty, there was also a national census, and there was an increase in the population of more than one million people. At this time, the Qin Domain's inventory was more thorough, and more than eight million were suddenly released. Li Jing formulated new strategies for those monks, hermits, slaves, etc., who were not originally registered. Through many tough measures, the improvement program of Buddhism and Taoism was carried out, a large number of monastic property, temple and Taoist properties were confiscated, and many monks and Taoists were returned to the laity, more than two million monks were returned to the laity, and countless temples and Taoist properties were confiscated. For those slaves, Li Jing also issued a new decree, and after completing military service, they could obtain free status, or immigrate outside the customs and cultivate outside the customs for five years, and obtain the same free citizen status. As for their original masters, the government compensates their main forces in a certain amount to abolish the master-servant relationship between the two parties. Those hidden households who are affiliated with each other have also been identified and separated.

It was as a result of these measures that a large number of slaves and refugees from other places were resettled in the northeast every year.

And this time, after taking the Guanwai and conquering more than 100 large and small tribes, the Qin Domain not only gained a large amount of territory, but also added a large number of people.

When Li Jing conquered Goguryeo, he had a population of nearly one million. And now, having conquered the entire Northeast, the population conquered is even larger. The Bohai Kingdom alone originally had more than 600,000 households, and the taxpayer population was nearly 4 million, if you count their slaves, monks, and soldiers, etc., the population of the Bohai Kingdom in its heyday once exceeded 8 million, which is why they were once called the prosperous country of Haidong. Although it has weakened over the years and experienced several years of war, by the time Li Jing took full control of the Bohai Kingdom, the Bohai still had a population of nearly five million. The more than 100 tribes in the northeastern regions, such as the Khitan, Murwei, Heishui, Tatar, and Uighurs, were greatly attacked by the Qin clan in recent years, losing many of their population, and a small number fled to Siberia further north and the Mongolian plateau further west. However, the total number of people who remained in the Northeast and surrendered to them was still as high as more than 3 million.

With more than 23 million people in the Qin Domain, and almost 8 million people in the north, the population of the Qin Domain now exceeds 30 million. This amount is huge, even if the other feudal towns of the imperial court are combined, the taxpayer population is only about 20 million, and counting those monks and monks who are not registered in the household register, it is about 30 million.

The Qin Domain now has half of the world's population.

However, even if the Qin Domain had a population of 30 million, it would be a huge number to send 6 million people to the northeast. This means that the six million peasant soldiers cannot all be young men. Sure enough, Gai Yu added to Li Jing, "Of the six million peasant soldiers in the corps, there will be four million male soldiers and two million female soldiers. "Over the years, Qin Fan has been advocating for women to come out and take on more jobs that were originally men. Under the leadership of Li Jing, and in today's troubled times, women come out to do things, and they are slowly accepted by everyone. It is normal for women to be soldiers, or even for women to work. But it was unprecedented to recruit two million young women to serve five years in the far northeast.

Li Jing thought about it, in such an era, there are not enough men, and there is no way to put women in many positions. But after all, this is ancient times, and there are still many inconveniences in recruiting women to the Northeast on such a large scale. Li Jing thought about it and said, you can consider recruiting some young couples to go over and let them go to Northeast Tuntian as husband and wife. However, this article is only limited to the Han people for the time being, and for the Hu people, it is not necessary to let the Hu people bring the women back. If the Han couple has served for five years, they can also be given a choice, and if they are willing to stay in the northeast, they can divide the land and let them settle down on the spot. If they don't want to stay, let them come back when they are done.

The recruitment of the Production and Construction Corps is not mandatory, it is more similar to enterprise recruitment, with a five-year contract and a good salary. Especially for those slaves and refugees from outside, five years of agricultural and military service can become free people and obtain a piece of land of their own, even in the northeastern region outside the Kansai, which is very attractive to them.

The Bureau of Statistics and the Household and Survey Bureau once sent a report to Li Jing, explaining that if the northeastern region outside the Guanxi was to be developed to the point where it could not only maintain local control but also feed back the supply of the Guannai, it would be necessary to at least send a large number of people to the northeast region, so that the population controlled by the Qin clan in the northeast would reach about 30 million. This is a huge number, for the entire Qin Domain now has a population of only 30 million, which means that the development of the Northeast may take ten or even twenty or even Chinese New Year's Eve years before it can truly make the Northeast the Northern Warehouse of the Qin Domain.

Population, the Qin clan now needs the population again. (To be continued......)