Needless to say, this wave is not just for farmers, many local officials and officials whose families are not very well off are coveting these benefits.
Because they knew the inside story and knew that this wave of real welfare was not watered down, some unscrupulous officials and officials were the first to rush in to receive the welfare. Many people even borrowed the children of relatives to receive the welfare. .
Because of this advantage and the help of acquaintances, these guys really got a lot of benefits and took advantage of the government. They were using their power for personal gain.
However, farmers have indeed received a lot of benefits and felt the call of welfare policies.
The farmers not only knew about it themselves, but also began to actively publicize the benefits of this policy, attracting a large number of people to come to the government to collect statistics and receive benefits.
There are also many families who decide to have children for this reason.
They don't want to care about so many things. They only know that the government has been giving benefits since pregnancy, and they are the kind of real benefits that can be seen with their own eyes.
Their limited thinking ability cannot think too much, and they cannot see too far. They can only see the benefits provided by the government and sufficient rice.
They want to have a full stomach, and they want to have a full stomach now, and for this, they don't want to think too much about it, and they can't think about it too much.
The effects of fertility stimulation begin at this moment.
Of course, people in the government can think of using their power for personal gain, but the old farmers are not that stupid. They quickly figured out ways to take advantage of loopholes to receive benefits, and there are not a few who lend each other's children to do things.
When the government came, they borrowed children from other families to serve as their own children for statistics, trying to get more rice and enjoy a few more years of exemption from military service.
Later, the government statistics revealed many problems and found that the population numbers were very wrong. Some statistical officials directly saw the same child appearing in five or six households at different times, making it look like a shadow clone.
So they reported it to Liu Bei, who organized his subordinates to study and punish and curb such things.
This is all for later.
In order to make the policy of encouraging childbirth deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, Liu Bei did not mind suffering a little loss.
When it comes to policy issues, being at a disadvantage is a blessing, not a curse.
The most direct consequence of this incident was not only the stimulation of fertility, but also the fact that after a period of waiting and watching, the population outside the household registration confirmed that the government was really bleeding.
As a result, in order to receive benefits from the government, the population outside the Liangzhou area began to return on a large scale. Those who lived in the barren mountains and ridges and even became bandits also re-entered the government household registration system.
There are so many population black holes in modern countries, let alone the population black holes in ancient countries. China's household registration system has always been excellent and advanced. Despite this, there is still a large number of people who cannot be counted.
Especially when the dynasty is in trouble and has insufficient governance capabilities, the problem will become more serious.
Under the premise that the dynastic order has collapsed, the people lack the ability to survive, and it is natural for them to choose to seek refuge with local powers with strong survival capabilities.
At the end of the dynasty, the number of "fugitive households" who broke away from the official household registration to survive on their own, or the "hidden households" and "shady households" who sought refuge in the homes of wealthy and powerful landlords, would be even greater, even several times greater than the official household registration.
In the late Three Kingdoms period, the total number of registered residents in the three countries was less than 8 million, which meant that there were only that many people paying taxes to the governments of the three countries.
But in fact, counting the number of household registrations such as official households, military households, minority households, etc. that are not included in the official household registration statistics, as well as the people who do not pay taxes to the government, such as shadow households, hidden households, and deserted households, etc., in the late Three Kingdoms, The total population of China will not be less than 30 million.
Although it is said that during non-war periods, there will be slightly fewer cases of people fleeing, hiding, and hiding, and the government will have stronger control, but based on the war situation in Liangzhou, Liu Bei judged that the actual living population in Liangzhou is far more than fifty The registered population of 10,000 is a matter of course.
After successive battles, seizures, prisoners, and policy promotion, in June of the fourth year of Zhongping, the registered population of Liangzhou increased by about 100,000.
After that, he captured the Xianbei population of 260,000, of which almost 100,000 Xianbei women of the right age will be registered by him in the Liangzhou household registration. When the household registration is completed, the population will increase by another 100,000.
This is 700,000 registered households.
After the birth encouragement policy was promoted and major families withdrew their population and land, in less than three months from July to August, and then to September, Liangzhou counties reported a total of about 40,000 more population has returned to household registration statistics.
This is 740,000.
In less than two years, Liu Bei did not actually conduct a large-scale population search throughout Liangzhou.
Just policy inducement, plus military attacks on foreigners, increased Liangzhou's registered population by 240,000, and almost 200,000 registered slaves controlled by the government.
After a wave of operations, the total manpower of this "backwater" has reached almost 940,000, which means that the manpower that the Liangzhou government can directly control and mobilize is close to one million.
This is the level of population resources that the Shu Han regime can directly control in the late Three Kingdoms period.
Despite this, the number of household registrations controlled by various major ethnic groups living in Liangzhou is still very considerable. Liu Bei initially predicts that this group of people will not only be Han people, but also many barbarians, and the total number of people in this group will be less than 30 Under ten thousand.
In addition, throughout Liangzhou, there are still about 1.5 million Qiang and Hu people living in a semi-agricultural and semi-nomadic state.
From this we can imagine how rough and failed the previous household registration management in Liangzhou was.
Therefore, Liu Bei's idea of setting up collective farms and directly controlling the population became even stronger.
If this part of the population can be controlled, Liangzhou will be directly equivalent to a slightly weaker Qin State.
The fight for power is actually a fight for population. He needs these people to build Liangzhou, defend Liangzhou, and further increase his personal power. The more people under his direct control, the greater his ability in this area will be. The stronger.
No one can stop him.
As time went by, while the Luoyang court was struggling with the war to merge the states with Hedong, Liangzhou ushered in its first real peak of development in more than a century.
As the policy was promoted, more and more people returned to the government's household registration records in order to obtain government benefits and live a stable life under Liu Bei's reputation and commitment.
In accordance with Liu Bei's promise, the government did not hold them accountable for their previous behavior, and extended the three-month period for returning to household registration to six months. Those who voluntarily returned to household registration within six months will not be held accountable, and their household registration will be re-granted. Arrange your life properly.
The origins can be forgotten, but the destination and resettlement must be strictly controlled. The people who have returned to their household registration will be directly incorporated into the collective farms, starting a new wave of collective farm construction.
If a wealthy and powerful family wants to use this to defraud government policy benefits, I'm afraid they won't be able to do it, and they might even be robbed of their entire family business.
This thing really happened.
In early August, a powerful Mi family in Beidi County plotted to use more than 20 shadow houses to defraud the government of resettlement funds, land, houses, etc., which was discovered by the government.
Xia Houyuan, the governor of Beidi County, was furious. In accordance with the regulations set by Liu Bei, he sent people to arrest the entire Mi family, beheaded the mastermind, and made the rest into official servants to work. Their family property was confiscated, and he also spread the law to ten counties and two vassal states. Shocked Xiaoxiao.
In mid-August, the same situation occurred in Anding County, Hanyang County, and Longxi County.
According to the regulations, Xiahou Dun, the governor of Anding County, Gai Xun, the governor of Hanyang County, and Zhang Fei, the governor of Longxi County, killed two, five, and three powerful families respectively, and then spread the news to the first ten counties and two vassal states to frighten Xiaoxiao.
(End of chapter)
