sweeping the world

Chapter 596 The widow needs at least [-] million people
The Zhang family has made some contributions to China. After the Sima royal family took the lead in fleeing to the south of the Yangtze River, they have been trying their best to resist the Hu people. Until Zhang Chonghua succeeded to the throne, they respected the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty as Zhengshuo.

Respecting the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty as Zhengshuo is indeed a kind of contribution. No matter what the Zhang family does secretly, they still belong to the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. The idea of ​​"unification" allows the Huaxia nation to maintain unity and continue to pass on.

There are quite a lot of ethnic groups on the earth. The history that can be traced is as far as 7000 BC. There are a lot of ethnic groups that were once glorious, but these ethnic groups disappeared in the long river of time. Even if there are descendants left behind, those ethnic groups The descendants will no longer think that they are the successor of someone, but will be exposed to a new culture and become a new nation.

The Yanhuang clan began to fight at the source of the Yellow River and grew stronger. After the Xia Dynasty and the Shang Dynasty, they continuously competed with the Rong, Di, Yi, Man, and Yue for living space, and only then did they have the basic foundation of Ji Zhou.

In the Zhou Dynasty, the royal family surnamed Ji divided the ministers into enfeoffments, with the intention of allowing those ministers to protect the royal family.The conditions that those ministers who were enfeoffed were actually extremely bad at that time. Not only did they have to withstand attacks and conquests from various alien races, they also had to face extremely harsh environments.The Zhou family surnamed Ji gave away three thousand vassals, and many of their vassals perished at the hands of foreigners. Those princes who were able to persist and develop became the states in the early Spring and Autumn Period after the Zhou family moved eastward.

No matter what kind of ideas the ministers surnamed Ji surnamed Zhou had at the beginning, the big enfeoffment really achieved one thing, that is, to fight for a larger living space for the ethnic group.

The enfeoffment of princes expanded the living space of the same Miao people, but it is hard to say what would have happened without Qin sweeping the world. After all, after hundreds of years, different countries, such as Qin people, Zhao people, Yan people, Han people, etc. People from different countries, people from Chu, etc. have their own names.If there is no Qin to rule the world, and the countries have become independent after a longer period of time, it is conceivable that even if they have the same ancestor, they will definitely become different nations later.

Qin made great contributions to the unification of the world, and the subsequent vehicles with the same track, books with the same text, and weights and measures created the foundation for the kneading of the nation. Without these, I wonder if there is a Chinese nation?
Qin's contribution cannot be erased, but it is the Han Empire that gave the Huaxia Miao people a sense of pride.

It was the strength of the military of the Han Empire that added a boost to the nation. With the prosperity of the continuous destruction of the country and the subjugation of the nation in foreign wars, the rest of the nation began to have the title of "Han people", waiting for Chen Tang to take the flag of Shehou and the head of Zhizhi , the sentence "The strong Han will be punished even if he is far away" supported the backbone of the Han people. in future generations.

How much influence did the great achievements of the Han Empire have?It was the incompetence of the Sima royal family that lost the Central Plains. In order to gain support, Liu Yuan, a Hun, could only call out that he had the blood of the Han family, and even created a notorious "Huang Han".

"Han" was the first name that came to mind when many foreign races established a country. As a result, there were Liu Yuan Han, Li Shoucheng Han, Liu Zhiyuan Later Han, Liu Chong Northern Han, and Liu Yin Southern Han.There are only so many people who have really established a state side by side, but there are even more people who have taken a name but failed to establish a country. The King of Han is also a top-notch prince in all dynasties.

The military prosperity of the Western Han and Eastern Han really had an unimaginable impact. Until Yang Jian replaced Zhou, the slogan he came up with was to restore the dignity of the men of the Han family and rebuild the glory of the strong Han.It is no exaggeration to say that Yang Jian spent his whole life restoring the status of the Han people, and he was also the founder of the imperial examination.Although the Sui Dynasty was short, its contribution to the ethnic group was not low at all. Even after 2000 AD, it was still enjoying the rest of the world.

Liu Yan looks at things differently from many people today. He has a clear concept of nationality and knows how big the world is. Of course, he has the intention to build an everlasting empire, but his focus is on letting the Han family The Miao people have a greater living space, and it would be best if there were Han people everywhere on the earth.

The things he thinks about are different, and he has a broader vision. In fact, when Liu Yan faces an enemy of the same ethnicity, he will adopt more gentle methods, especially because he feels that the enemy has contributed to the ethnicity and lacks a kind of It's so hot to kill.

For Liu Yan, the world is really big. It is so big that even if it is an enemy of the same race, it is okay to drive it to a certain place instead of being completely wiped out. As an enemy, it's better than some foreign races occupying those places.

Liu Yan firmly believes that in an environment where the idea of ​​unification is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, even if his generation indulges his fellow enemies as enemies, the next generation will inevitably "collect" those wandering "wanderers" back by all means.Besides, if he deliberately indulges some times, he will definitely not hesitate when it is time to close the net, and he may not have to wait for the next generation to do it.

Regarding whether to accept Zhang Zuo, the ministers who accompanied Liu Yan to the expedition expressed their opinions in writing one after another on the next day.I don't know if they have communicated in private, but they have no objections, but how to accept it, and what treatment they should give after acceptance, there are different opinions on some details.

Zhang Zuo is not the King of Liang now. He falsely passed on Zhang Chonghua's edict and called himself the General. He has no title to represent Zhang's Liang Kingdom to surrender. He can represent himself, and he may also bring along those counties that are willing to obey.

Zhang Chonghua, the king of Liang in Zhang's Liang Kingdom, was in Xiangguo, just like the heads and minds of those countries and forces who were defeated and captured, they were in captivity.

Zhang Chonghua began non-violent non-resistance after his hunger strike failed. He has always adopted an attitude of non-cooperation, and he is considered one of the more backbones in the minds of all the captured leaders.

As the saying goes, "He is a hero and I am an enemy of bandits." It is a good thing if a person with backbone is one of his own, but an enemy with backbone will appear annoying. What Han wanted was a Xiliang that had not been massively destroyed, and it did not want it. Too many people were killed in the process of destroying Zhang's Liangguo, so Zhang Chonghua's non-cooperation was really an obstacle.

The current population of Han should be more than 2000 million?As of five years before Yuanshuo, the statistical population was more than [-] million. The large gap between men and women is within the scope of the statistics, including Qingzhou, Yanzhou, Xuzhou, Yuzhou, most of Sizhou, most of Jizhou, For the part of Guanzhong, those prefectures and counties that were originally ruled by the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, those ruled by the Chenghan Dynasty of the Li family, and those that were newly occupied are not counted.

Due to the lack of government officials and the serious hidden population in the local area, it is actually not easy to count household registrations now.

Murong Yanguo conducted a census in 37 A.D., and it took only one year to calculate reliable data. The data obtained at that time was 1805 households, calculated on the basis of five people per household. That's 40 million people.The reason why it is easy for them to count the population is that it has the foundation of the previous registration of households, and it is also related to the military law of wartime censorship. (When Yan went south to attack Ran Wei, it was out of a household that took a soldier, with a total strength of nearly [-].)

Countries like Shijie Zhao, Eastern Jin Dynasty, Li's Chenghan, Tuoba Daiguo, Zhang's Liangguo, etc., can't count the population at all. The concealment of the population is one of the obstacles.

Of course, the Hu regime generally did not recruit Han soldiers, and even if they did recruit Han people, they would only be used as civil servants.This habit lasted until the Northern Wei Dynasty before it was broken. That was because a large number of young Hu people were consumed in the wars every year. The Hu regime could not spare more young Hu people to serve as soldiers, so it could only focus on Turning to the young and strong Han people, otherwise there is a clear division of labor. The Hu people are responsible for conquest and the Han people are responsible for production.

It must be said that after the Hu people took the initiative to break the boundaries between the war class and the production class, the so-called military general families emerged. By the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the military general family had developed to a stage that was enough to influence national change. For example, Yang Jian of the Zhou Dynasty was the "Zhu" One of the "Pillar Kingdoms", and the so-called "Pillar Kingdom" is actually a family of generals.

There are a large number of veterans from the Han State who have gone to the local government as grassroots officials, and they are responsible for the population statistics. The reason why the Han State has continued to suppress local tyrants in the past few years is that those tyrants are unwilling to be ruled by the Han State, and more What is more reluctance to hand over encroached lands and populations under control.

The cleanup of the powerful has been going on since Liu Yan founded the country. It was only after the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was officially eliminated that local resistance gradually decreased. By the fifth year of Yuanshuo, there were not many people who dared to resist. speed up.

"800 million, no more." Ji Chang approached Liu Yan today, talking about the census data gradually collected from various states and counties: "The population of Sizhou, Bingzhou and Shuozhou is all declining. Even if we check for omissions, at most 40 can be counted, at most 50 in Shu and Ba, and no more than 800 million in the south of the Yangtze River."

The 800 million people are not simply Han Miao descendants, but at least 600 million are people who have changed their ancestors... or those who are of mixed blood, that is, they were originally Hu people. After completing Sinicization, I was more afraid of being slaughtered and said that I was a Han, but the Han Dynasty did not pursue it at all. As long as you are willing to change your living habits, speak Chinese, and write Chinese characters, you can be a Han except for Jie people.

Liu Yan vaguely remembered some data...

The total population of Shijie Zhao at the end of the period should be about 1000 million. This can also be seen from the fact that Shihu will recruit millions of troops at every turn. It depends on how many households there are.And a household basically needs someone to serve as a soldier or a militia. The so-called million-dollar army includes even the militia.

Of the 1000 million people under the rule of Shijie, the Han people are estimated to be 400 million. The Jie people themselves will not exceed one million, but the Qiang and Di people combined exceed 400 million, and the rest are miscellaneous.These 1000 million people decreased very rapidly during the war, and genocide broke out during the period. The Han people died in the genocide alone exceeded one million, and the rest of the ethnic groups also suffered heavy losses.

Li's Chenghan did not conduct a census. During Li Shou's administration, the largest conscripted army was 13 troops. The popular calculation method was still adopted, and there might be father, son, brother, Counting the fact that the brothers are both soldiers, that means the population of the whole country is about one million.

The long-term army of the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty is about 20, so that means that there are about 20 households that have official records, but each family can have as many trilogy or private soldiers as possible. The population is not on the national household registration, and they are servants or private slaves of the family.

"We have cleaned up a lot of tyrants in the south, and there are 27 people who have their heads recorded. And this does not count Zhuman and Zhuyue." Ji Chang frowned, and said with some dissatisfaction: "It's not that General Zhengnan is wrong to kill people. , the method of killing was inconsiderate."

Liu Yan was not born and bred in this era, so he couldn't understand why so many people were willing to die with the family. When he heard that people related to the powerful had cut off 27 yuan, he couldn't help frowning.

Each regime is divided into periods. Liu Yan only vaguely remembers that there were more than 700 million people in the Eastern Jin dynasty's heyday. As for the current number, he really doesn't know.

In fact, the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty conducted a census a few years after Yongjia, and the population figure was 50 million. The strange thing is that it dropped sharply to less than 400 million in the next few decades.The reason why the population has been reduced by more than half, you can know the answer when you think about the methods used by the family to hide the population.

"If Murong Xianbei is defeated..." Liu Yan showed a longing expression: "How much more population can we add to the big man?"

Ji Chang probably knew that Liu Yan would ask, and quickly answered: "Looking at the severity of the war, if we can attack and destroy it quickly, we should be able to get more than 150 million people."

"That's not 2000 million." Liu Yan mused, even wringing his fingers, not afraid that Ji Chang would leak the secret, and murmured as if talking to himself: "Even if there are 2000 million people, among them are the Miao descendants of the Han family." The ones are less than 1000 million, and the rest are Xibei products... It will take an unknown number of years to make them completely Han Chinese..."

Ji Chang felt that Liu Yan had lost his temper, and he bluntly advised: "Your Majesty, as long as you accept the rule of the great Han and are willing to fight for your Majesty, they are Han people."

Liu Yan looked at Ji Chang for a while with an expression of 'you don't understand', and then said: "Even so, 2000 million people are not enough. The widow is very distressed now, the soldiers are sharp enough, There is enough power to open up a larger territory, but I am afraid that the conquered territory will not be used by the people. The Han population needs to increase to at least tens of millions within 20 years, and the prime minister's primary task in the future is to find ways to increase the population of the Han!"

Ji Chang was immediately stunned.He has been studying very hard in recent years. The Eastern Han Dynasty had the largest population in the previous dynasties. The problem is that it took about 200 years for the Eastern Han Dynasty to have 500 million people. Liu Yan actually wanted to increase it to 20 million in [-] years. [-] million, even if a couple of the right age is risking their lives, can the country afford a series of subsidiary effects? !

(End of this chapter)