Yang Qing has been very busy recently, so busy that he has not been home for several days. Like later generations, at the end of the year the court began to make various summaries, the most important of which was the top plan at the end of each year.
According to the Han system, local counties and counties need to compile statistics on household registration, money and grain income and expenditure, public and private land reclamation, mountain geography, number of thieves and other data every year. At the end of the year, officials must be sent to Beijing to report these books and books to the court. Of course, the official who goes to Beijing to report is usually the chief planner of the state or county.
When each county reports, the emperor will usually receive the accounting records in the palace or mausoleum, but the subsequent specific affairs will be overseen by the Prime Minister's Office. The drawings and plans of each county are generally divided into originals and copies. The originals are left for the historians to archive for future reference or historical materials for writing history books, and the copies are left for the Prime Minister's Office to archive as a basis for future administration. After the imperial court accepts the accounting ceremony, the prime minister, on behalf of the emperor, will announce to the county and state accounting officials an edict to reward meritorious deeds, punish meritorious deeds, and offer favors and comforts. In this way, the court's annual accounting is completed.
At this time, the emperor had completed the ceremony of accepting the plan in the palace, and the annual plans of each county had been delivered to the Prime Minister's Mansion. Ji Caopu, who was in charge of the affairs of the princes and countries in the Prime Minister's Mansion, took the lead in sorting, sorting, and making statistics. Although the current Han Dynasty only has one state, the bamboo slips and silks that need to be verified are still piled up in two rooms, and the officials under Ji Cao are working overtime to verify them.
As the prime minister's chief recordkeeper, Yang Qing also led his subordinates to order Shi to supervise and review. These data, which are related to the country's policy policy for the next year, must not make any mistakes. Once the statistics of these atlases are completed, he will personally report to Zhuge Liang, so He didn't dare to be careless at all. These days, he was almost focused on Ji Cao's official residence.
Fortunately, after days of statistics, Ji Han's family fortune this year has basically been calculated. Yang Qing did not dare to neglect and went to Zhuge Liang's public house to report.
"There are 190,000 households, 870,000 men and women, 55,000 armored soldiers, and 30,000 officials." After Yang Qing reported the current population of Ji Han, he immediately stopped and waited for Zhuge Liang's instructions. The number of people is what everyone is most concerned about, so Yang Qing put it in the final announcement so that everyone can discuss it.
Before Zhuge Liang could say anything, Wang Lian on the side sighed: "Alas, after the battle of Yiling, this is all I have left."
Zhuge Liang looked calm. These numbers were not much different from what he had estimated. He remembered that when the late emperor ascended the throne in the first year of Zhangwu, there were 200,000 households, 900,000 people, about 100,000 armored soldiers, and more than 100,000 officials. The number of people didn't change much. Alas, after the tragic defeat at Yiling, the Han army alone lost more than 50,000 people, and they were all elite veterans who had been fighting for many years. Whenever he thought about this, Zhuge Liang couldn't help but sigh in sorrow.
Of course, these data are not for the entire Yizhou, but only for the three regions of Bashu, Hanzhong and Nanzhong. Due to its remote location and large number of barbarians, the Nanzhong region has not been able to make a statistical calculation of the counties in Nanzhong from the first year of Zhangwu to the present. Of course, now The rebellion of the three counties in Nanzhong is even more unpredictable. Just based on the data from the reign of Emperor Huanling, the number of households should be more than 100,000.
Yang Qing calculated in his mind for a while and said: "In this way, if we estimate that there are four to five people in each household, excluding 870,000 civilian households, 55,000 military households, the number of people will be around 25, and 30,000 official households will be around 10 About 40,000 people, then the population that our big man can currently control is about 1.3 million."
Seeing that Yang Qing had calculated the specific population, Ma Di also said: "I remember that during the Yonghe period, the entire Yizhou still had a population of more than 7 million, and in the last years of Emperor Ling, there were more than 6 million. But now, even if the population of Nanzhong counties is included, There are only between two and three million. It seems that the population has been greatly reduced due to years of war."
Ma Su is right, although since the great chaos in the world, Yizhou has not seen as many wars as the states in the Central Plains, and there are many refugees from Sanfu and Nanzhong who moved in to avoid the chaos. But in fact, since the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the land of Yizhou has been affected by many wars, such as the melee between Liu Yan and Liu Zhang's father and his son and the powerful people in Sichuan and Dongzhou people, and the battle of the late emperor's entry into Shu. Although these wars are not as good as those between the princes of the Central Plains. The war for hegemony was so wide-ranging and long-lasting, but it still caused damage to the living order in Yizhou. It is understandable that the population has been reduced.
Thinking of this, Yang Qing couldn't help lamenting the cruelty of war. All parties were fighting constantly, and it was the common people who suffered after all. Only by completing the unification of the world as soon as possible could the common people live a peaceful and stable life.
It's just that Yang Qing also knew that the population was declining. Although the war was a big factor, the fact that the household registration was concealed and hidden by the wealthy families in Shu was probably an important reason. There were a large number of slaves, tribes, bankers, and personal relatives who were not counted.
Since the middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty, the power and privileges of powerful aristocratic families have continued to increase. The fields under their names have been extremely vast, and there are countless slaves and villagers. The Wubao manor economy has gradually become the main economic method of society. Therefore, the wealth controlled by these aristocratic families has Resources continued to increase, while the resources available to the court continued to decrease.
In fact, the Shu Han's situation in this regard is pretty good. After Liu Bei entered Shu, Zhuge Liang took the lead in formulating the "Shu Ke" with serious laws and regulations. This changed the governance attitude of Liu Zhang who was lax in law and indulged in tyranny. After Zhuge Liang became prime minister, he paid more attention to restraining tyranny. Therefore, although it is impossible to say how many resources have been recovered from these big names, it has finally stopped the powerful people from sucking the blood of the country at will.
As for Cao Wei and Soochow, they were in a miserable situation. One wanted to usurp the Han Dynasty and received too many benefits from aristocratic families when the country was founded. The other was controlled by distant but powerful distant clans and the deep-rooted Jiangdong indigenous gentry since its founding. Therefore, the situation of hiding their registered residence is even more serious.
It's not that Ma Su didn't understand the reason, he knew that the stakes involved were too deep to mention at this time. In fact, other people present also knew that the population decline was caused by the involvement of famous families, but they could only take a look at the powerful families. If they were dealt with too much, disaster might occur, so everyone tacitly avoided talking about it. .
Yang Qing looked at these more than 50,000 troops and wanted to have a good talk about the issue of power. Needless to say, Zhuge Liang, Ma Su and Wang Lian here were also from Jingzhou and were not powerful families in Shu, so they were not afraid of them leaking secrets. explain. But today is not the time to talk about this, so he has the right to hold back.
But the more he looked at this pitifully small force, the more he felt heartbroken. Now these few people could only barely do defense, and it was impossible to attack Cao Wei in the north.
At present, Ji Han's more than 50,000 troops are mainly distributed in Hanzhong, Yong'an, Jiangzhou and Chengdu. Hanzhong is a barrier against Cao Wei's invasion, and its location is extremely important. Wei Yan, the general of Zhenbei and the prefect of Hanzhong, leads 20,000 troops to guard this place. During the Eastern Expedition, the late emperor left more than 10,000 men to guard Chengdu, and Zhao Yun left 10,000 men to command Jiangzhou. Therefore, Fei Guan, the governor of Jiangzhou, now has an army of 10,000 men. After the late emperor escaped from Yiling and returned to Yong'an with only his own life, Yan Zhi, the prefect of Brazil, mobilized 5,000 soldiers from various counties and sent Ma Zhong, the current governor of the prime minister's office, to rush to Yong'an to protect him. He has more than 5,000 soldiers under his command. The remaining counties and counties have a total of ten thousand soldiers, so the total number is fifty-five thousand. It is estimated that there are still thousands of troops in the counties and counties in Nanzhong that are still holding on, but have not been included in the statistics.
Of course, among the more than 50,000 troops, except for the soldiers in Hanzhong and Jiangzhou who are old soldiers and can be considered elites, the rest of the troops are those who have been away from the battlefield for a long time and are not strong in combat power. Therefore, if we want to conquer South Africa next year, we will have to integrate two troops. An army of 30,000 capable of fighting a battle cannot come out.
Therefore, after Zhuge Liang reported that Yang Qingdao had insufficient troops, he immediately thought that in addition to training his soldiers and giving military exercises, he also needed to recruit a certain number of soldiers so that he could not only do a good job in defense but also have mobile troops to go south to quell the rebellion.
Ma Su was good at discussing military matters. When the conversation turned to military training, he said excitedly: "Prime Minister, if you want to train a strong soldier, you must use strong formations. I also know the art of war and battle formations well, and I am willing to join the army." Talk about military exercises."
Well, Brother Youchang, it's perfect for you to become a military instructor. It will give you the best use of your rich military knowledge. Yang Qing couldn't help but sneered when he saw Ma Su asking for battle.
Zhuge Liang also agreed: "It is best if you are young and willing to train troops. The eight formations I created are still imperfect. You can come over and review them in detail in your spare time."
"Yes. I will definitely go."
