People in Dasong: starting from the sign-in

Chapter 217 Planning a long-term peace and stability in Southeast Asia

Chapter 217 Planning a long-term peace and stability in Southeast Asia

Different from the joy in the Great Song Dynasty Hall, Xiao Qi is worrying now.

As for why you are worried, the reason is very simple. The place has been laid down, but how to manage it has become a problem.

In order for the people here to live and work in peace and contentment, good policies must be formulated.

What to do in the Song Dynasty is very difficult, and a proposal must be debated for a long time in the court.

It's different here, Xiao Qi can say that he is the same, and that will make these lands won by Changshengying soon develop better than Da Song.

This is okay in the short term, but over time, the people in these places will become stronger and stronger. A hundred years later, there may be people again clamoring to separate from the Song Dynasty, and even invade the north.

Xiao Qi would never allow such a situation to happen.

Holding various data such as the number of people who have been registered and reported, these data are registered together with Annan and Champa, although many people living in deep mountains and old forests have not registered.

But 90.00% of the people in this place are recorded on it.

Judging from these data, the male-to-female ratio of the population in these two places is seriously imbalanced. The male-to-female ratio is more than one to three, and one man can marry almost three and a half wives.

Xiao Qi had a general understanding of the situation in Southeast Asia in his previous life. In this area, not only Annan and Champa he had already occupied, but also women in Chenla, Siam, and Bagan (Myanmar) were very hardworking.

On the contrary, those men are really living like uncles, idle all day long, all the farm work and housework at home are done by women, and the climate here is very good, crops can be grown in four seasons, for the hardworking people of Song Dynasty, it is a fast treasure land ah.

After thinking for a long time, Xiao Qi finally decided to use the previous Western colonial policy to send criminals from the Song Dynasty here first.

For this reason, he formulated two treatments. One is for Song criminals who were sent here. They only gave ten acres of land to let them find a way to marry wives and have children.

There are also people who voluntarily moved south during the Song Dynasty. When they came, they were given twenty acres of fertile land, houses, furniture and farm tools, and those who did not have a daughter-in-law were assigned a daughter-in-law.

Of course, these citizens of Song Dynasty who came voluntarily have a higher status than those criminals.

If the assigned criminals want to restore their status to be the same as those of the people who came here voluntarily in Song Dynasty, they have to live here in peace for three to five years, and the most important thing is to get married and have children.

After they have lived here for three to five years and married a local woman, as long as their first child is born with the local woman, even if it is less than three years, then his status will automatically resume as a citizen of the Song Dynasty, and he will no longer be a criminal.

Although Xiao Qi himself felt that this method was a bit too nonsense, but there is no way, the population here is not large, the land is small, and there are too many women.

Xiao Qi is planning to take advantage of the fact that one man marries one wife and there are almost two and a half more women here, and send a large number of men from Song Dynasty, so that two and a half of the three and a half families will be Song people.

Over the past few decades, this place will be assimilated by the Han people, and it will become more stable in the future, becoming the real land of Song Dynasty.

And think about the fact that I will take down the entire Southeast Asia in the future, and I will need more people.

In a few years, there will be a huge uninhabited island further south, and it will be no problem to move the entire population of Song Dynasty there.

To this end, Xiao Qi once again wrote a memorial to his father-in-law Zhao Shen, detailing his colonial plan and hoping that his father-in-law would encourage the people of the Song Dynasty to have children.

For this reason, Xiao Qi very coquettishly wrote a slogan in the memorial: If you want to be rich, have more children and weave more cloth.

He also proposed to Emperor Zhao Shen the first policy of rewarding births in the world. From now on, every time the people of Song Dynasty give birth to a child, the court will reward them with money.

Zhao Shen was overjoyed after reading Xiao Qi's memorandum, and now he is already worried that the treasury has too much money and food to run out, no matter who's warehouse is always filled with a lot of things, when there is no going out, everyone is happy and starts to worry.

Xiao Qi made it clear in the memorial table that the country is rich and the people are strong, and now that the country is already rich, the imperial court should feed back the people and make the people strong.

Moreover, the Song Dynasty urgently needs a large number of people to occupy the new lands that have already been conquered. Otherwise, these places may be lost again in a few decades.

Zhao Shen was very happy. He didn't understand colonization, but he knew how to spend money. Besides, Xiao Qi also said that there would be more and more gold and silver in the Song Dynasty in the future, so there was no need to worry about the treasury being empty.

When Zhao Shen announced this policy of encouraging people to have children, the ministers in the court all praised Zhao Shen, saying that Zhao Shen was the most enlightened emperor in history.

There has never been an emperor in the past who was so concerned about the livelihood of the people and gave them such great benefits.

Of course, Zhao Shen also followed Xiao Qi's method and ordered all prefectures and counties to implement Xiao Qi's sentence: If you want to be rich, have more children and weave more cloth.The propaganda slogans are all over the world.

As for sending prisoners to Zhancheng in Annan, Xiao Qi was amazed by the fact that the ministers in the court played with thick black.

This group of ministers all opposed sending those criminals to Annan and Champa, and they unanimously suggested that this should be changed to the emperor's amnesty.

Let the emperor decree that the crimes of those criminals are temporarily pardoned, and let them go to Annan Kingdom to live in peace, if these people reform there, work hard, marry wives and have children.

Then three years later, these people will resume their status as citizens of the Great Song Dynasty, and they will be allowed to bring their wives and children back to the Great Song Dynasty to visit their relatives.

These ministers in the court are so shameless that Xiao Qi is speechless, it's so far away, these people can go back several times in a lifetime.

But this method is really good, at least those who are homesick can save enough travel expenses for a few months, and take a boat to Dasong to walk back to relatives.

The people of the Song Dynasty were very excited when they heard the news. There has never been a dynasty where the people gave birth to a child, and the emperor rewarded them with consistent money.

Since ancient times, the more children there are in the family, the harder it is to live. Now the Song Dynasty government sends a consistent money to each newborn child. At this time, the purchasing power of the consistent money can basically support the children until they are one or two years old. It is no problem to save a little three years old.

Just when the people were elated for this imperial order, the emperor issued an imperial decree.

The meaning of the imperial edict was that because some people in the Song Dynasty were worried about having more children and no land to cultivate in the future, the emperor asked everyone not to worry.

From now on, as long as poor people who have no land for farming are willing to sign up and voluntarily go to the new territory of the Southern Song Dynasty, each person in the Song Dynasty will be given twenty acres of fertile land, and those who go together as a family will be given a house and farm tools.

When single adults go there, King Zhenbei promises to give them each a daughter-in-law until the land and women there are exhausted.

(End of this chapter)