When the report of the Gongnu Division was put forward, almost everyone felt a sense of disobedience to the problem of lack of labor, and asked the people of the Tang Dynasty to do what these slaves would do?

The Tang government has become accustomed to not paying the workers who work, and has tacitly agreed that the workers should be the prisoners of war of the Tang Dynasty, and the people should go to farming and producing, and do what they should do, not ...... Corvee......

In many places, forced labor has been abolished, and prisoners of war who do not need to pay wages are used to these things, and the local governments are also used to it.

It has been abolished in many places, and the rest of the places are waiting to be abolished, if this is suddenly restored in a certain place, I don't know what kind of negative impact it will have on the prestige of the Tang government, for this, the Tang Dynasty monarchs and ministers are almost unanimously opposed, and then Hou Junji, the chief of the staff headquarters who represents the interests of the military, said that there are no aliens around the Tang Dynasty, just fight, win, don't kill the prisoners, all of them are captured, and the labor force will not be there? They are all young and strong laborers, how precious!

In this regard, the bigwigs of the staff headquarters who hold the military power expressed their support, and the main battle faction Wenchen also followed suit, and the left and right servants Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui came out to stop it with a depressed face - there is no reason to start a war, and it is not good if the name is not right, in case the true purpose of the Tang Dynasty is exposed, it will cause widespread fear and hostility in the surrounding countries, which has a great impact on the global strategy of the Tang Dynasty, and it is not a last resort. You can't do such a thing!

Also, your ideas have changed too quickly, shouting and killing at every turn, this is not in the interests of Datang, won't Datang's soldiers die? Won't their families be worried? It is not good for Datang to always fight, not to mention that Datang is extremely short of population, and it is the time when it is necessary to increase the population!

The bigwigs of the staff headquarters looked at each other and stopped their mouths in frustration, everyone is not stupid, they all know that the strictest problem facing Datang is not the development problem. It's not a problem with the Shandong scholars. It is not a question of labor reform, but a population problem, and the population of more than 50 million in the Eastern Han Dynasty suffered heavy losses in the hundreds of years of turmoil, especially during the Wuhu Rebellion. The Han people faced the realm of extinction several times. Although in the end it survived. However, the current population is still only 10 million, and it is faced with such a huge territory and a large number of ethnic minorities......

In fact, the Han population in the early Tang Dynasty was not dominant in relation to the so-called ethnic minorities. With a huge territory and a large number of enemies, the 10 million population of Datang is a little overwhelmed......

Lack of population!

Every big guy frowned, looking very helpless, but Suning remembered the later China, hehe, the population is so large that it needs family planning, how is it like now...... However, Suning has never supported such a policy, so why does China alone need to make sacrifices for the control of the world's population? How many countries in the world are encouraging childbearing? The Han Chinese once accounted for 50 percent of the world's population, but now only about a quarter, and it would be a disaster if the demographic advantage was lost.

In terms of land area, plain area, and per capita area, can China compare with Japan? Does Japan have a so-called national policy for family planning? With a population of 3 billion and a land area of only about one-third of China, is there a national policy of family planning? Population density is an important indicator of population, not the total number of people, and in terms of population density, China simply does not rank high.

Datang needs a population, it needs a lot of people, where is 10 million enough? Even if it is 100 million, it is far from enough, and the short-term goal, in the foreseeable future, is to increase the population of Datang to 100 million, with a population of 10 million, a tenfold increase! Well, that's it!

To this end, Suning once again proposed a proposal - to encourage childbirth!

China has a tradition of encouraging childbirth since ancient times, most of them are out of the needs of national conquest, the more people, the more strong men, the more land that can be developed, the more taxes that can be collected, and the more soldiers that can be recruited, so the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the Three Kingdoms Period, the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties periods, the imperial court has encouraged childbirth, but it has not been able to be on the stage, become a formal law, the people raise children is very hard, very difficult, especially today, if there is no help from the government, It is not easy for an ordinary farmer to raise two children.

So Suning feels that it's time for the Tang government to intervene.

For this reason, after the issuance of the "Labor Reform Law", Suning believes that it is necessary to issue a law at a time, that is, the "Law on Encouraging Childbirth", which is that the more children you have, the more rewards you get, and the more children you have, the lighter the burden, because the government will allocate special funds to help families with many children raise children, and will give considerable subsidies every month, and the policy will also favor families with many children, such as exemption from conscription, exemption from military service for several children, land awards, etc.

This strategy was proposed, and the Tang Dynasty bigwigs, including Li Erma, were very interested, and Li Ermaxi asked with interest: "Encouraging childbirth, it has existed in ancient times, and it is mostly a measure to increase the number of soldiers during the war, especially in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, but there has never been such a measure, if there are more children, the government will naturally have some celebratory gifts and the like, but this special money to help raise, this is the first time I have heard of it, what do you think Aiqing thinks?" ”

Xuan Ling, the left servant, has been in charge of civil affairs for many years, and is more authoritative in this regard: "Your Majesty, the old minister thinks that what Su Hou said, although it is relatively hasty, but it is not impossible to consider, as far as the old minister knows, the price that a family needs to pay to raise a child is quite high, although boys over ten years old can go to the field to farm, but there are more people, in the case of grain production has not risen, there is more food, the more children, the more food is not enough to eat, before the child grows up to be granted the field, The burden on the family is quite strict.

Therefore, there are many people who traffick human beings into wealthy families in order to make a living, and these people are all people who cannot be registered, so Lao Chen estimates. This kind of actual population that has not been registered will not be less than one million, but this is a desperate move, this is still the rule of the world, if it is a troubled time, alas, cannibalism is not uncommon, so the suffering of the people raising children, is not something we can imagine. Nor did the people want to give birth. It's just that I can't feed it. ”

Suddenly, Wei Chigong, who was born in poverty, did not agree: "Who said that you can't imagine that my father and mother raised our family at the beginning, do you think it is easy?" The world is in turmoil, which household will not suffer? Which household does not die? Don't say anything! ”

Fang Xuanling was stunned. Nodding yes with a wry smile. Li Erma's old face flushed. Born in a high-ranking aristocracy, he really doesn't feel that it is difficult to raise a child, but it is more difficult to educate. Especially educating the future emperor, it is even more difficult...... However, Suning's policy is indeed not impossible to consider, in recent years, commerce has flourished, and the taxes obtained by the imperial court and the private income of Li Er's majesty have been piled up, and there is no end to the situation.

Usually look at the full treasury and grain depot, although happy, but also a little worried, these money is always piled up here, not less is not less, but not more, and there are so many poor people in Datang, if you don't use them, it is somewhat inappropriate, take it from the people, use it for the people, Datang every year of taxes are taken from the people, these private incomes of Er Li Erxià are their own investment income, and what they get are the wealth of foreigners and the wealth of the rich. It doesn't come from the people.

Therefore, if it can help the people to reduce the burden of life, so that they can have more children, and raise their children, they will be able to be parents at the age of fifteen or sixteen, and they can have children, and it is very common for people to have a child at the age of fifteen, then in thirty years, they can give birth to two generations, three children per family, and there are more than 2.5 million households in Datang, so it may be a short period of time to have a population of 7.5 million, and then counting other bonuses, the first generation of population reproduction can reproduce almost 8 million people, and they are all children. When the child grows up, he can have children again, and in this way, it is a virtuous circle.

If the imperial court increases investment to help the people raise children, and a family can have more children, four or even five, it is not uncommon, then the population will be more, and during their reign, they will definitely be able to exceed the population of the heyday of the former Sui Dynasty, restore the vitality of China, and then continue to rise, the more population, the more soldiers and horses, the stronger the national strength, you can go to war abroad, obtain more wealth and prisoners of war, and completely abolish conscription and some other types of service, the people are grateful to Dade, the Tang Dynasty is eternal, or is it a myth?

Almost instantly, Li Erqi made a decision, interrupting the courtiers who were arguing with Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui below, and said: "What Su Aiqing said, I deeply feel that the people are not unwilling to give birth, but are afraid that they will not be able to support them after giving birth, and it will be even more miserable, so in order to let the people rest assured that they will have children, it is necessary for Datang to make some changes, just like the original battle, the more bitter the process, the more abundant the results."

Let's be harder, spend more money and food, after 20 years, the population of Datang will be more, the population will be larger, the more strong labor, the more food produced, the more land will be developed, the more taxes Datang will get, the more soldiers will be, more wars can be supported, more results will be obtained, the reason for this is the size of the population, as long as the population of Datang is more than him, in the end, we can win.

Therefore, I intend that the Ministry of Civil Affairs has specially allocated funds to the royal family, which will be changed to specifically reward childbirth, and the royal family has also earned a lot of money over the years, and there is really no need to continue to invest the money of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, even if it is some of my intentions, you have obtained a lot of money in business over the years, and handed over 30% of the income to the treasury. ”

Li Er's speech suddenly attracted a tide of sycophants, what the eternal saint, His Majesty Xià Shengming, His Majesty cherishes the people, the people are grateful, the Tang Dynasty is thousands of generations and so on, leading to Li Erma's surging coming, Li Erma's face is like a peach blossom, and he laughs so much that he is called a slap, fortunately, he still has a trace of reason, what do you don't rush to pat my fart, hurry up and draw up a feasible article, try it in Chang'an first, see if it is feasible, and then promote it nationwide, Do you understand?

All the ministers shouted long live, and continued to praise Li Erma's wisdom, Li Ermaxi showed a long-lost comfortable smile, feeling that this period of time was really smooth, crushing the Shandong Shi clan that was pressed on the head, and getting two good policies, it is very beneficial to implement them, the country is getting stronger and stronger, the army is getting stronger and stronger, and the expansion of territory is just around the corner, and the unfinished work of the predecessors must be completed in the hands of my Li Shimin!

Just thinking like this, there was a sudden eight-hundred-mile emergency report outside the door, or a military report, everyone's nerves were tense, what happened?

An inconspicuous historical event suddenly popped up in Suning's mind, and when he checked the information, he just swept it in a hurry, and now that he thinks about it, it seems to be a rebellion of the bureaucrats in Jiazhou and Lingzhou...... Historically, this was still a rebellion quelled by Niu Jinda's unified army...... (To be continued......)