Emperor Sui Yang

Chapter 615

Lingnan West Road is divided into eight counties, that is, the Guizhou area plus the Jiaozhou area.

The biggest difference between these two places and the Guangzhou area is that one is poor and the other is rich. The criminals exiled by the imperial court in Lingnan were sent to Guangzhou. Coupled with Guangzhou's geographical advantages, that place is very rich.

"Book of Jin" records: "Guangzhou packs out of the sea, rare and exotic, and a box of treasures that can be used for generations."

So Guangzhou has always been the capital of the entire Lingnan, and Qinjiang County in Guangxi is just the place where the old Ning family made a fortune.

The main crop in Guizhou is rice. In addition, there are fish farming, fruit growing, mulberry planting, and silkworm breeding. There are also a large number of gold mines in the eastern area of ​​Guizhou, but because it is close to Yunnan, that is, cuan and In Xi Cuan, there are constant conflicts and dead people are not uncommon.

During the reign of Emperor Kaihuang, Nanning prefecture was set up in Yunnan, and the government was located in Nanning prefecture, which is now Qujing, Yunnan.

There is no way to control it! The Han people are unwilling to go, the climate is not acclimatized, and the local Wuman is too barbaric to control it at all. Therefore, the current situation in Yunnan is that the two major tribes, Dongcuan and Xicuan, continue to control here and pay tribute to the court every year. Tugong means giving what you have.

These two major tribes are basically the ancestors of the Yi, Naxi, Lisu and Bai people.

So it is a hard job to do Xingtai Shangshuling in this place.

Of course Yang Ming knew that Li Shimin couldn't do it, so the meeting he held in the East Palace recently was basically about Lingnan affairs.

"The registered population of the entire Lingnan is only 49 households, with an average of five persons per household. The total population is 245 million. If a large number of concealed household registrations are added, the population will be just over 300 million," Prince Xianma Liu Xuan said:

"And it is mainly concentrated in Lingnan East Road. The West Road where Shimin is located has a registered population of only 15 households, a total of 75 people. Ningyue County has the largest population of 15. The land here is large and sparsely populated. In fact, it is more suitable for relocation and reclamation. .”

Li Gang also agrees: "The Lingnan West Road is vast and sparsely populated. There is a lot of wasteland that can be reclaimed, and the people can be relocated from the narrow villages."

In the Sui Dynasty, there was a distinction between wide and narrow townships: those with enough fields to satisfy the population were called wide towns, and those with insufficient fields were narrow towns.

Since ancient times, China's cultivated land has been mainly concentrated in several places: the North China Plain, the Northeast Plain, the Guanzhong Plain, the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River Plain, the Sichuan Basin and the southern hills.

Among them, the development of the plains in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River is currently underway. Historically, through the Tang Dynasty, there was not enough development, and it was developed by the Song Dynasty. The development of the Northeast Plain was a matter of the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Therefore, the main cultivated land in the Sui Dynasty currently comes from the North China Plain, the Guanzhong Plain, as well as the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River Plain and the Sichuan Basin that are being developed.

As for the southern hills, they haven't been developed yet, and they were developed only in the Song Dynasty, which is why the Song Dynasty had the smallest territory, but the area of ​​cultivated land was not weaker than that of the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

Yang Ming asked, "Where is the best place to migrate from?"

"It should be migrated from Zangke (zangke) County, Mingyang County, Qian'an County, and Yuanling County," Li Gang said.

These four counties add up to a very large area. During the reign of Emperor Kaihuang, it was under the control of the Yizhou governor. Now, it belongs to the Bahan area. The southernmost part is actually Guizhou province.

Bashu is the combined name of Bahan and Minshu.

Until the Ming Dynasty, the amount of cultivated land in Guizhou Province was 91 mu, compared with 5631 million mu in Zhejiang and 1032 million mu in Guangxi during the same period. It can be seen that there is indeed no cultivated land in this place.

Therefore, Guizhou is jokingly called "there is no three feet flat", which means that there is no plain in this place. However, with the support of later generations of scientific level, Guizhou's cultivated land area has been greatly developed.

"So how many people are suitable for relocation? There are not many people in these four counties?" Li Baiyao asked.

In the Sui Dynasty, there were always more people from the north than people from the south, and the southerners were mainly concentrated in the south of the Yangtze River. Guizhou belongs to the southwest region, and this place is also a concentration of ethnic minorities. It is similar to the situation in Lingnan, and it is not easy to manage.

However, after all, the ancient people depended on food as their heaven, and where the food comes from is the arable land. As long as you promise to give them land, they will definitely be willing to go.

What's more, Guizhou and Guangxi are neighbors in the first place. Although there are differences in folk customs, the gap is not as big as that in the north.

Li Gang explained: "It doesn't need much, five thousand households are enough."

It is almost between 5000 and [-] people.

The taxation of narrow townships is halved compared with that of wide townships. Now Guizhou is regarded as narrow townships and Guangxi is regarded as wide townships. Therefore, after the migration, they have to pay full taxes, which is beneficial to the court.

In fact, the difference between wide and narrow is not fixed. If the population in your place has been growing and exceeds the number of farmland, then it is a narrow township. If the population is lost in large numbers, such as wars, and the population is less than the number of acres, it is a wide township.

Yang Ming nodded and said, "You can give it a try."

He is now the Minister of the Southwest Xingtai Province. Guizhou is within his jurisdiction, and the migrant population can completely determine themselves.

Then, Yang Ming said again: "Lingnan this time, we have to proceed step by step, and we can't force the place to go against it. The imperial court is no longer able to send a large army to suppress it. Let's discuss, who is suitable to go down?"

Li Mi smiled and said: "The people of the world want Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui by name, why not just let them go."

Are these two willing to go?Willing to be a ghost.

I am now a close minister of the prince, and I am in the rising stage of my career. You want me to assist Li Shimin?What a joke.

Fang Xuanling frowned and said, "I have always been in charge of the East Palace to appease Shandong. If I leave, Shandong won't care?" "Without you, can Shandong not appease?" Li Mi asked back.

Yang Ming said indifferently, "You guys keep arguing."

The two were stunned at the same time, and did not speak.

Scholars in ancient times valued a word of loyalty very much. Fang and Du were already members of the prince. As long as Yang Ming survived, the two of them would not have to change their families. Even if Yang Ming died, they would follow Yang Rui to continue. There is no one who can become Li Shimin anymore.

So even if the two of them went to Lingnan, Yang Ming wouldn't worry.

Li Mina also joined Zhai Rang after Yang Xuangan's death, and he didn't call it a change of family. Since he joined the Wagang Army, he wanted to keep it for himself. Li Mi didn't like Zhai Rang.

"Lingnan west road travels to Taiwan province, left and right shoots are empty, if you go down, you can come back after a few years, if you do well, you can talk about anything," Yang Ming looked around the crowd.

He doesn't plan to call names, anyone who wants to go will go. After all, his officials in the East Palace are all carefully selected by him. None of them are vegetarians in history. As long as they follow the wishes of the East Palace and implement policies below, they will be fine. up.

The benefits are clearly promised, but everyone is still not happy.

You have a good time with the prince, who wants to go to that place where no shit.

Yang Ming continued: "Five people go."

The chief order, Shi Qiaochun, got up and said, "I am willing to go."

Qiao Chunji's father, Qiao Zhongkui, has been working in Linfen County for many years now, and has no hope of being promoted at all, so he has high hopes for his eldest son, Qiao Chun. Hush, Qiao Chun has almost no room for improvement, so going to Lingnan is an opportunity for him.

Yang Ming nodded with a smile: "The Minister of Rites of Xingtai in Lingnan West Road belongs to you."

"Thank you, my lord," Qiao Chun said with his hands in his hands.

In the letter Li Shimin wrote to Yang Ming, he clearly stated that he hoped that Yang Ming would arrange it himself, as long as he gave it to me, and you have the final say on who to be an official.

nonsense!I am the prince, and the emperor doesn't care about you, so I have the final say.

Zhao Changwen also stood up and said, "I am also willing to go."

This man was considered a loyal minister in history. After Yang Guang died, he supported the king of Yue Yang Tong in Luoyang and proclaimed himself emperor. He assisted the young master with Yuan Wendu, Duan Da, Wang Shichong, Huangfu Wuyi, Lu Chu, and Guo Wenyi. He was killed by Wang Shichong.

He is now Xuanling Sheren of Dianshufang, very capable, and he was born in the Zhao family in Tianshui.

"Who else is there?" Yang Ming looked at the crowd, his eyes deliberately stayed on Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui, and he smiled cunningly.

These two people were considered Prince Yuan Cong, and they followed Yang Ming early on, so they were very familiar with Yang Ming. They knew that the Prince's gaze did not mean to let them go, but it was just a joke.

"Then I'll go," Wang Gui, who replaced Feng Deyi as the right concubine of Dianshufang, got up and said.

Yang Ming smiled: "You can't go, I have a job."

Wang Gui was still downcast at first, thinking that he came late and couldn't enjoy himself in the East Palace, but when the crown prince said this, he immediately became elated.

"Then I won't go," Wang Gui said with a smile, he didn't want to go at all.

Yang Ming did not let him go because the other party was very close to Li Yuan's family and had been in the East Palace for a short time, so it was easier for him to become Li Shimin's person.

After a while, Yang Ming smiled and said, "Since none of you are willing to go, I'll just call the roll. Li Mi, Gao Biaoren, Wei Fusi, you three go."

Li Mi bowed his head in silence with a deflated expression, but then, he was happy again.

Yang Ming said: "Li Mi shoots for the left servant, Gao Biaoren shoots for the right servant, Wei Fusi, Minister of the Ministry of War, Zhao Changwen, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, and Qiao Chunji. There are exactly five people. What should you do when you go down? You have to listen to Menxiafang and Dianshufang. Make arrangements, don't rush to leave right now, smooth out the things that should be done after going down, and then go."

Five people took orders in unison.

Li Mi will definitely not go wrong, and he can help Yang Ming keep an eye on Li Shimin. With Li Shimin's current mentality, he is not Li Mi's opponent. After all, he is still too young. In the future, he will definitely kill Li Mi instantly.

Gao Biaoren is Gao Jiong's third son, the one who married Yang Yong's daughter, and his level is also very high, although he is a bit of a tiger father, but his father is too tiger, so he looks like a dog.

If he was Yang Xuangan's son, he wouldn't be a tiger father.

As for Wei Fusi, he was originally the Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Ministry of Household Affairs. He used to be in Shangshu Province. He was dismissed by Yang Guang because he went to Hebei to collect grain with his cousin Wei Yijie who had the same official position and forced civil unrest.

After a year or two, Yang Ming summoned the two brothers into the East Palace.

Once these five people go, Li Shimin can also bully Qiao Chunji and Zhao Changwen, and the remaining three don't pee on him at all.

(End of this chapter)