Changfeng Thousands of Miles End Han Song

Chapter 1023

How to appease the internal [residents] as much as possible?Free distribution of land is a very necessary means.

Some of the slogans used by Lu Qian to deceive Manichaeism were used by Lu Yue, such as land to the tiller and house to the dweller.There is unevenness everywhere and no one is not full and warm.That also has a strong appeal to the Russian people.

As mentioned in the previous article, the Ross nobles in this era have already shifted from collecting real tribute to seizing farmers' land.In the folk and in the countryside, although the number of self-cultivating farmers is still quite large, the number of landless farmers is obviously more.

In this case, the free acquisition of a large amount of land is obviously attractive and appeaseable to the Ross people.And Lu Yue has already begun to transfer the titles of the Ross nobles who surrendered to his opponents. It must be very happy to send the nobles of South Ross to North Ross one after another.

In this case, South Ross has vacated a large area of ​​land, which also belongs to the exclusive royal territory of the king in the perception of Western thinking. How to allocate it and who it is allocated to is the exclusive right of the king.Lu Yue is willing to allocate large tracts of land to ordinary people. If he is happy, no one can say no.

A "land grant order" was like a downpour, which extinguished the anger of many Ross people.

However, among the one hundred thousand Rus people, at least 40 are in the territory of the state of Wu, and they are allocated to counties and counties, where they live together with the immigrants who moved from the west. It seems that there are not many people in the country. It is also an absolutely huge project to completely settle down.

Because the agriculture of the Ross people in this period is really touching in the eyes of the Chinese.Compared with the Chinese agricultural management mode of "deep plowing and fine hoeing, thickening manure soil to help soil fertility" in the same period, its rough management mode is far too big.

Let's not talk about the feces and fertilizers, just talk about the farm tools of the Ross people, which will make a hundred people look down on them.

In view of the natural situation of the vast territory of Russia and the sparse population, Lu Yue sent people back to the Central Plains to order heavy plows a long time ago. He also recruited a large number of blacksmiths. Many of the farm tools of the Russian people were even made of wood. It seemed that the iron materials were used by the principals. The knights have used it.There is also an increase in efforts to attract immigrants from Saibei and Hezhong. Whether they are Mongolians, Uighurs, or Turks, they are all good at animal husbandry.The situation of Ross being vast and sparsely populated cannot be changed in three to five years, and they are needed to fill the gap!

But it also requires a lot of funds, right?Whether it is recruiting manpower or improving the attainment level of some key industries in Ross, it will require a large amount of capital investment, and it is difficult to achieve immediate results.

It was also thanks to Lu Yue's previous accumulation of wealth, if not for this money, Xiao Baozhong's head would be ten times bigger!
In addition, there is another big problem facing Lu Yue, which is to expand the army!
With the brothers "scattered" away, Lu Yue needed to lead Nuo Da's territory alone.And the territory of his fiefdom is so large, reaching the border of Poland in the west, and enveloping the Republic of Novgorod in the north, relying only on his [-] guards, there are still [-] people whose will to fight is not strong enough Servant army, it is obviously impossible to suppress the entire kingdom.

In this case, the military expansion of Luyue, which is located at the outermost position, has become a necessary choice.And his situation is much better than that of Lu Yu and Lu Yunlai. Both Lu Yu and Lu Yun are envious of the 2000-odd servant army!

Moreover, Lu Yue's appeal among the nomadic tribes in northern Saibei was obviously better than the two of them. Whether it was attracting immigrants or enlisting the nomads, he would be far better than them.

Lu Yue's so-called whole army was a complete plan.All the armies of the State of Wu are divided into four levels. The lowest level is the militia. They only exist on the books, which is equivalent to the mob infantry of the former Ross Principality - conscripts.

Those people who received large tracts of land without any effort were obliged to serve their 'lords'.This is very Western!
On top of that is the city guards. These people are mainly infantry, accompanied by a small amount of cavalry.Both the infantry and the cavalry were wearing armor roughly equivalent to that of the previous Ross army, and the envoys had similar weapons. There were not many people, but they were distributed among all counties and counties.Cooperating with the militia that can be recruited at any time, that is his main force to suppress the local area.

Putting it on the Ross nobles in North Ross, this is equivalent to their close guard.It is the regular army, the main force in the war!
In addition, there are few people but high salaries, so the elite field troops who dare to fight will have full-frame Chinese-style equipment.Just like the Northern and Southern Army in the Western Han Dynasty, like Lu Qi's Five Army Commander's Mansion, it belongs to the real elite combat force of the kingdom.

And in the end it was Lu Yue's own guard.It was the Forbidden Army directly under the royal family, and it was Lu Qian's Imperial Secretary.

The number of the whole army exceeds [-], which is equivalent to expanding the force in Lu Yue's hands several times at once!
Let’s not talk about soldiers, armor, weapons, and firearms. Just the recruitment and training of personnel and the opening costs of yamen at all levels amount to millions of dollars!In the future, these people will have to be paid and provided with food.

As soon as the money goes out, the Secretary of Government Affairs will be out of pocket, and Lu Yue's "years of savings" will be emptied.Xiao Baozhong's deposit on hand is less than 300 million yuan!

This money not only has to deal with the renovation of the next capital city—Kiev City—and the establishment and operation of officials’ offices at all levels, but also set aside a part of it as a special fee to deal with possible disasters or wars at any time, and even possible disasters of the Russian nobles. loan.Finances can only be described as stretched.

And precisely at this time, the Poles and Hungarians came to add to the trouble again and implemented a harassment policy!Because of the re-declaration of the Holy See, One God World and Lu Qi have entered a state of war.

Although the Poles and Hungarians, as well as the Swedes in Scandinavia and the Danes, whose strength cannot be underestimated at the moment, are all just harassing and fighting, they also make Lu Yue hard to defend and annoying.They more or less have a Rurik in their hands!
This will not touch Lu Yue's foundation, but will slow down his 'construction'.There are also those "barbarians who do not accept the kingship" hidden in the dense forest of North Ross, that is also a big trouble.

"Your Highness..."

Xiao Baozhong walked into the main hall of Lu Yue's dilapidated royal palace, the former grand duke's palace. Before the Rus people withdrew from Kiev, they not only carried out devastating looting, but also tried to set fire in the palace. Although they were unsuccessful, they also ruthlessly destroyed I took a look at this palace which was not very good at all.

The decoration of the main hall, which Lu Yue named 'Zi Chen Hall', was not as good as that of his palace in Jinling.

Lu Yue, who looked unhappy, saw Xiao Baozhong coming in and waved his hand to spare him the courtesy.He opened his mouth and asked: "How much money is left in the account?"

"Your Highness!" Xiao Baozhong's voice suddenly became sharp.

Lu Yue said helplessly: "All those barbarians in the north have come to borrow money, what can I do?"

"Your Highness, people who are not of our race must have a different heart. Those barbarians spend money like water. If they get the money today, tomorrow they will spend ten times the price to buy all kinds of sundries from the Swedes and Danes..."

The long distance hindered the connection between the Central Plains caravan and Ross, and all kinds of Chinese goods were transported to Ross, which was very rare.

(End of this chapter)