Chapter 909 Population Strategy
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It gradually came late December, and it was less than ten days before the New Year. These ten days made the busiest day of the Zhengshi Hall, just one day apart. Nearly 100,000 Hun women and children from Hexi and more than 200,000 Xiongnu women and children from Bingzhou from Bingzhou entered Guanzhong one after another.
Although the government had prepared for a long time, more than 500,000 Xiongnu people entered Guanzhong at the same time, which also brought great pressure to the government. Almost all the governments in the Guanzhong area mobilized. Except for one of the five Shangshus in Pingzhangtai, the other four rushed to Fengyi County and Fufeng County to deal with the resettlement of the Xiongnu people.
Even the Han army immediately dispatched more than 20,000 people to assist local governments in maintaining order in the Huns.
Nearly 100,000 Xiongnus who were rescued from Hexi finally settled in Qi County. This place has entered Guanzhong and belongs to a county in the north of Fufeng County. The landform here is high in the southwest and low in the northeast, and the Jing River runs through the area from northwest to southeast, dividing Qi County into a landform pattern of two plateaus and one river.
The Huns camp was arranged in a huge ravine about a few miles northeast of the county town. The ravine was mild in climate and flat in the terrain, and a small river flowed through it, which was very suitable for camping, so there were also relics of military camps stationed in the ravine here.
The arrival of 100,000 Huns made Qi County particularly lively. Tens of thousands of tents were built in a large mountain valley, and a large amount of supplies were sent to the county town through the ice surface of Jingshui. More than two officials and more than a thousand Chang'anshengs transferred from various places in Guanzhong also arrived at the Huns' headquarters.
What the Huns must do is to stabilize them, including food and bedding for winter, and hay to feed livestock. After stabilizing, they must be registered and recorded. This is also the most important thing: to confirm the Hun prisoners of war and their wives and children, and to separate the elderly and the elderly.
Fortunately, the Huns lived in tribes, so this kind of confirmation was relatively easy. Four days later, more than 20,000 households and more than 100,000 Huns were taken away and sent to Chang'an Xiongnu prisoner-of-war camp to reunite with their husbands or children.
The remaining 200,000 Hun women and children were mostly orphans, and sadness began to spread in the camp, and crying women and children could be seen everywhere.
That morning, Liu Jing also arrived in Qi County to inspect the progress of resettlement of the Huns. The Minister of the Minister of the Shangshu, who was in charge of the resettlement of the Huns in Qi County, came to greet him when he heard that His Highness the King of Han was coming.
"There are five days left before the day, how is the placement progress?" Liu Jing asked with a smile.
"Report to Your Highness, the ascension of the throne and the book is almost over. I am preparing to suspend resettlement after the registration and book is over. After the spring begins, I will start to transfer the population."
Liu Jing tacitly acquiesced to Dong He's plan and asked again: "What are the main difficulties now?"
Dong He sighed: "The biggest problem now is the emotional fluctuation of the Huns. The Huns are originally more women and fewer men. Many Hun men often possess a few wives, and the nobles are even more wives and concubines. In addition, the wars with the Xianbei and ours are consumed, and there are not many Huns men. This time, the 100,000 Huns were sent, and there were less than 10,000 young Huns, and nearly 200,000 young women. The rest are old and children. Now these women listen to their husbands' deaths, and only allow their wife to reunite with prisoners of war. The whole camp cried loudly and cried for two days, and today it was only a little better."
Liu Jing said without hesitation: "Now they are already Han subjects, so they need to do it according to our law. I don't care how many wives and concubines these Xiongnu men used to have. Now they are only ordinary civilians, so they are only allowed to marry one wife. The Hun nobles are no exception. The extra Xiongnu women must remarry the Han people, especially soldiers can marry first. At the beginning, they may be a little noisy. After a year or two, they will accept the reality and calm down. Shangshu Dong, you must remember one thing, we cannot be soft-hearted in this national policy, but we must firmly implement it."
Dong He nodded silently. This is indeed the strategic national policy formulated by Pingzhang Platform, which can completely reverse the unfavorable situation of more men and fewer women in the Han Dynasty, and has a significant impact on the breeding population.
Although it may sound a bit unkind, it will take at least decades, or even last year to restore the population and economy of the Han Dynasty. Hundreds of thousands of Hun women remarried the Han people, which can shorten the time required for this process in a certain way, so it is called population strategy.
This is also the fundamental reason why the Han army had to do everything possible to obtain these Hun women and children.
When they were talking, they arrived at the Huns camp, the largest of the Huns camps, with nearly 80,000 people living in the camp. There was a large tent outside the valley. This place where officials registered population, and there were long queues in front of the large tent. As Dong He said, most of the team were women.
Women are the most realistic. Although their husbands are extremely sad, their lives have to continue. After registering the population, they will obtain Han people's household registration, have the opportunity to obtain land and food, and can continue to survive. This is the number one priority they care about, so grief is still the same.
On both sides of the team, dozens of soldiers were responsible for maintaining order. At this time, the soldiers saw Liu Jing coming up, knelt down on one knee, and whispered: "See Your Highness, the King of Han."
Liu Jing smiled and waved his hand, "Thank you for your hard work, brothers."
At this moment, a nearby woman suddenly rushed up like a gust of wind. Liu Jing's guard was caught off guard and was broken through the defense line by the women. He rushed to Liu Jing. The women knelt down one after another and shouted excitedly. Surprisingly, many people knew Chinese. Liu Jing vaguely understood their crying and seemed to ask to reunite with her husband.
Liu Jing immediately understood the identities of these women. They were all the so-called wives and concubines of the Huns. In fact, most of these women were not Huns. There were a large number of Han people, as well as Qiang people, Jie people, and Xianbei people. Most of them were captured by the Huns.
At this time, the guards waved their whips and wanted to drive these women away, but Liu Jing waved his hand to stop the guards from driving them away, and these women gradually became quiet.
Liu Jing then said slowly: "We have captured more than 10,000 Xiongnu prisoners of war. Perhaps their husbands, fathers and brothers, but they are now all prisoners of war slaves. They have to serve hard labor in the Year before they become civilians. During this year, their food rations are only enough for themselves to make a living and cannot support you. After the Year, they can only obtain a small amount of land and can only support one wife at most. You and your children will fall into the poorest situation. If they can't survive, he will sell his wife and daughters. I believe you don't want to live such a life."
Liu Jing's words are simple, but very realistic. In the past, soldiers translated, many women were touched and slowly lowered their heads. Liu Jing continued: "We have many young men. They have land, houses, food, and live a wealthy life, but they don't have wives. You will live again, become housewives in the family, give birth to their own children, and no one will discriminate against you. The government will also give you land and cattle and sheep as dowry, so that you can remarry and become decent people from now on. Don't you want such a life?"
The women were silent, and it could be seen that many people were moved by it. In the Huns, they were all vassals of men, and their property had no dignity, no dignity, and no property of their own. At the beginning, they were afraid and did not know their destiny, so they cried and made a fuss, wanting to be with the men they used to be.
Now, Liu Jing pointed out a clear idea to them, allowing many women to see hope for a new life. At this time, a young woman shouted: "But I have children and I don't want to marry again, what should I do?"
Liu Jing looked at the woman with a sharp look, and the woman immediately lowered her head guiltily. Liu Jing sneered in his heart. He understood the woman's thoughts and said, "If you really don't want to remarry because you want to raise a child, the government will not force you. However, the Han Dynasty will never encourage young women to be widowed. Therefore, widows will not get land and houses, and they can only sell themselves as official slaves in order to survive. Poverty will inevitably be poor. And I must also be clear that Han Rules do not allow civilians to marry concubines. If you want to take advantage of this loophole and go to find your former husband, then I'm sorry, you will implicate him and the whole family will be dismissed as official slaves."
After Liu Jing finished, he glanced at the woman again. The woman's face turned pale and she didn't dare to say anything. At this time, Liu Jing turned back to Dong He and said, "Tell everyone about me, the government encourages remarriage and opposes widows. Those who remarry will gain benefits and live a wealthy life. Widows will live in poverty and even become slaves, so that they can choose for themselves."
In fact, women understand these principles. To be a widow, you must have a support from your parents. If you don’t have a family, you can’t support it at all, so you can only remarry as soon as possible.
At the beginning, many women were lucky, but these words came out of Hanzhong, which cut off many women's luck. They could only accept their fate and wait for a new remarriage.
Liu Jing walked into the big tent, with a row of tables placed in the tent, dozens of men sat behind the table, and their pens were flying, registering and booking the women, children and elderly people in the tent. At this time, the Secretary of the Shangshu, Fei Yi, came up and bowed and bowed and said, "I am here to see Your Highness."
"How long will the registration be completed?" Liu Jing asked.
"Report to Your Highness, it's over now and it will end tomorrow as soon as possible."
Liu Jing nodded and said to Fei Yi and Dong He: "After the registration is over, everyone can go home on vacation, but I think it seems a bit late to resettle the population in the beginning of next spring. It is best to start to resettle these Hun women and children after the fifth day of the dynasty. What do you think?"
Dong He and Fei Yi looked at each other. They understood that Liu Jing wanted to end the resettlement of the Huns as soon as possible to concentrate on preparing for the Battle of Hefei. The two immediately agreed, "As long as the King of Han wants."
Liu Jing smiled and said, "The main army has begun to register. I heard that the soldiers are very enthusiastic. Many people are willing to marry these Hun women. In the first place, there are more than 5,000 people registered in the cavalry battalion alone, not to mention other military camps. I guess the army soldiers alone can at least be placed in place. The brothers are very anxious, so you should hurry up."
“We will complete the placement as quickly as possible.”
After solving the problem of women, Liu Jing pointed to several elderly people and said, "There is also a plan for the resettlement of the Huns' lonely elderly, Pingzhangtai should also come up with a plan to ensure their basic life as much as possible. I think the plan proposed by Shangshu Jiang is very good, give them official land, and then rent it to support them. After their death, the government will take back the land. You can consider the details of the details here."
Dong He and Fei Yi nodded quickly to agree. At this moment, Zhao Yun hurried into the tent. He saw Liu Jing at a glance and smiled from a distance: "I heard that the palace is down, I'm looking for it everywhere, it's true here."
Zhao Yun stepped forward and bowed, "See Your Highness with a humble position"
"Thank you for your hard work in Yanhai this time."
"Thank you for your concern, but this time there is no question of going out to fight. There are all women, children, and the soldiers basically have no losses."
At this point, Zhao Yun approached Liu Jing and whispered: "Can Your Highness take a step? I have an important matter to report to Your Highness."
Chapter completed!