Chapter 351 Threats
Chapter 352 The State Prison
After completely destroying the docks around the country and releasing the million people in the docks, Ran Min didn’t stop there, but made up his mind about those bandits who occupied the mountain.
Bandits are mountain thieves and robbers. Many people have done all kinds of bad things. The officials in the past dynasties have been deeply troubled by these bandits, but they have been repeatedly banned and killed.
It’s like troubled times, when heroes come out, but troubled times also bring out bandits and more.
In ancient China, no matter whether it was prosperous or troubled times, bandits were still there. Even if the imperial court wiped out bandits, they would burn like weeds, otherwise they would not be crowned "bandits"
Of course, a large part of the reason why these bandits can’t be completely wiped out is that the common people can’t live. The government has put too much pressure on them, heavy corvees and heavy taxes have forced them to "go to Liangshan"!
They are bandits, and many people actually want to make a living, that’s all.
Ran Min knows this very well, but Wei can’t get more people and more effective forces unless these bandits are eliminated. Moreover, these bandits have robbed the family and robbed the road, which has made Li Shu so annoyed that even the businessmen in the past have a headache and are afraid.
When the docks were demolished, Ran Min did not forget to send troops to destroy bandits and bandits around the country. Is it more important on the one hand or to prepare for the coming political reform?
After Ran Min’s efforts, the whole Wei State has taken on a new look!
The old fort that stood tall in that Central plains and dot the banks of the yellow river are gone, leaving a ruin and a desolation.
The bandits who used to haunt villages and towns and rob houses in narrow mountain roads have disappeared. Many of them were either killed or put into prison for reeducation through labor, but more bandits were generally distributed to mulberry fields to live their own lives.
In this way, the equal land system has been successfully implemented, and the real population of Wei has to be known by Ran Min and registered and widely publicized.
The total population of Wei is about 10,000, and the population exceeds 130,000. Among them, the Han family has a population of more than 50,000, while the population of Liuyi, such as Xianbei, Xiongnu and Qiang, has reached nearly 10,000!
It is really beyond Ran Min’s expectation that there are so many people in the Central Plains.
Since the end of the Jin Dynasty, the king’s chaotic war has caused disasters, man-made disasters and people’s displacement. I don’t know how many people have died. Ran Min expected that the population of the Central Plains would be around 10 million, but it didn’t happen that there were more than 13 million!
Around this, Ran Min’s mood is also very heavy
You know, at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, during the Three Kingdoms period, due to the large-scale war, the population dropped sharply, and the conservative estimate was less than 10 thousand, which was not as good as that during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period
Cao Cao once described the horror of the people when the curtain was hung in Crab in Artemisia. "Bones are exposed in the wild for thousands of miles, and chickens crow, giving birth to a hundred relics and breaking people’s intestines."
In AD 2, the population of the unified country in the Western Jin Dynasty was restored to 160,000.
At the beginning of the 4th century, when the Western Jin Dynasty entered its peak, the population recovered to about 40,000, but then the outbreak of Wang Rebellion made the population drop sharply, and the lowest time was only about 120,000.
But these people are almost all Han Chinese!
Ran Min estimated that the population of the Han family in the southern state of Jin should be only three or four million.
That is, the Han family now has a population of one million!
What a tragedy!
So Ran Min went to Wang Meng to discuss population issues.
"Jinglue, according to the data obtained from this census, the population of Dawei now exceeds 130,000 to 10,000, but the population of the Han family is only over 5 million. Do Hu people hate and reject me?"
"You know, at the peak of the Jin Dynasty, the population was nearly 40 million. Now, I want to encourage childbearing and encourage Hu-Han marriages, especially Hu-Han women marrying Han-Han men. I also want to give some preferential treatment to Han people on some cultivated land and education issues. I don’t know what you think?"
Wang Meng smell speech nods, "This is all about encouraging fertility when the king doesn’t do these things for a while. I also want to put it on the agenda that preferential treatment for Han people by the king is likely to destroy the harmony between Hu and Han people."
"I don’t care about these," Ran Min said with the wave. "The Han people are our foundation, and I am the great Wei people, like Schleswig, and when Shi Hu was in power, the Jie people and the rest of the ethnic groups were all six barbarians. I didn’t criticize or deliberately labor or expel the conference semifinals. This is already an extra-legal grace for the conference semifinals! Since it is my palm, the Han people must get preferential treatment. "
Now that Ran Min has decided on Wang Meng, it’s hard to refute it.
"Your Majesty, the land equalization system is almost implemented now, and I can set up education on the agenda!"
"Do you have an idea?"
"Your Majesty, please invest first to build ten official schools in Yecheng to see its effect. Every official school can be attended by thousands of people. On the theory that Hu Han people can go in to study if they want to pass the test, and in the official school, they can be taught four or five classics and six arts, which are based on piano, chess, painting poetry and songs, and even planting grains to build iron studies. Anyone with a skill can be set up in his place and perform his duties."
"good"
Wang Meng added, "In addition, please ask the king to recruit private school teachers because there are skilled blacksmiths and boatmen who can all enter the official school road to solve their doubts. To a certain extent, the king can ban private schools and set up official schools throughout the country, so that all the talents come from Wei?"
"Good!"
After thinking about it, Ran Min went on, "I still want to build a national prison, just like when Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty set up a imperial college, the highest institution of learning in Wei State, and the national prison specially let the widowed children and all the princes and ministers inherit outstanding talents from all directions to study. I wonder what the scenery is like?"
"It couldn’t be better," Wang Meng agreed.
"In addition, the plan to enrich the warehouse by improving water conservancy and ploughing farmland should also be implemented."
"good"
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Chapter 352 The State Prison
Chapter 353 Gunpowder
On this day, after the big meeting, Ran Min changed into a secret hiding place in the past.
There are only thirty or fifty people in this crypt, but everyone is dressed in ordinary people’s ornaments, and at worst, they are dressed in a robe and sage like type.
Taoist priest?
What did Ran Min want these people to do in this crypt?
"Is Mr. Ge Hong’s gunpowder refined?"
That’s right. Ran Min just called these Taoist priests and alchemists to refine gunpowder.
Gunpowder is made by Chinese people and studied in ancient alchemy.
China was the first country to send gunpowder. Nitrate, sulfur and charcoal were born in the Sui Dynasty, and black powder officially appeared in the late Tang Dynasty (at the end of the 9 th century)
Gunpowder was developed by ancient alchemists from the Warring States Period and the early Han Dynasty. The emperors and nobles indulged in the fantasy of immortality, which drove some alchemists and Taoists to refine the "elixir" and gradually developed the gunpowder formula during the refining process.
There is a story in Tai Ping Guang Ji that a man named Du Chun visited an old man who was an alchemist in the early years of Sui Dynasty.
Live there that night.
In the middle of the night, Du Chunmeng woke up and saw that there was "purple smoke passing through the house" in the blast furnace, and the house suddenly burst into flames. This may be caused by the negligence of the alchemist when preparing flammable drugs.
There is also an alchemist named "A Brief Introduction to Zhen Yuan Miao Dao", who also talked about the fire in the alchemy of sulfur, saltpeter, realgar and honey. The torch burned the face and hands and went straight to the roof to burn down the house.