If the saints allow or even encourage these powerful people to colonize, they are afraid that there will be trouble at that time." Wei Zheng appeared in front of the emperor with some concern.

"What trouble do you think will be?" Luo Cheng was reading the newspaper with a glass of wine.

"The main trouble is of course that these powerful people take this opportunity to colonize and explore abroad. At that time, the sky is far and wide and the earth is beyond reach, and the court will find it difficult to truly manage them, and those colonies will inevitably become their private kingdoms. If the court cannot manage them effectively, then they will do whatever they want in these colonies, and may even transfer property, population, etc. This will undoubtedly lose our population and wealth, and weaken the national strength."

Luo Cheng put down the newspaper and nodded, "What you said does make sense, but we cannot give up on the choke. You know, there are often records of fugitives in history books, and most of the fugitives usually appear when a dynasty is at its most powerful moment. Old Taoist, can you tell me why?"

Escape usually refers to abandoning one's family and escaping.

In ancient times, the management of household registration was quite strict. Generally, population mobility was strictly restricted and people were prohibited from leaving their household registration location at will. Even if they had something to leave, they would get certificates issued by the government. As for wanting to move to another county or even further away, it was even more impossible.

Household registration was an important basis for managing the people in ancient times and the basis for tax collection.

Only with a household registration can there be a population, only with a population can there be a student, and only with a tax.

Wei Zheng was certainly very clear about such a problem.

"In ancient times, the problem of household fugitives was always endless, but why the issue of household fugitives was most important when the dynasty was prosperous, which was actually very simple. In the final analysis, it was caused by serious land annexation. When the dynasty was prosperous, it was mostly when a dynasty was founded for about a hundred years. At this time, the dynasty entered its heyday and its annexation often reached its peak, especially in the Central Plains. As the dynasty was stable over time, the population also increased, but the land was unchanged. In addition, the annexation of the powerful nobles led to more and more people who lost their land. However, most dynasties were taxed based on the dynasty. There was no need to bear the heavy work of the family if there was a land or no land. There was a tax for the people who had no land. If there was a land, there was a tax. If there was a land, there was a tax. If there was no land, they had to bear the heavy work of the family. So the people began to abandon their homes and fled to the border areas or mountainous areas and became people who had no home. If there was a land, they naturally did not have to bear the work of the family. When there was a land, they could often reclaim wasteland and farm to maintain the family's food and clothing."

Luo Cheng nodded.

In ancient times, many dynasties generally strengthened the investigation of these fugitives who fled. Once discovered, they were sent back to their hometowns, and they might even be sentenced to sentence.

Of course, there will be some other disposal occasionally.

For example, during the reign of Wu Zetian, the people in the world were seriously out of their jurisdiction and fled, so Wu Zetian also issued an order to place the people who had left their posts and fled, regardless of their homes, and admitted that they were re-naturalized in the local area and allowed them to stay in the local area. In this way, the people who were fleeing were re-identified and did not have to be black households, and the land they re-entered were also recognized. On the other hand, the imperial court re-naming these people, which means that they were re-entered and taxed.

"Old Master, if you escape from your hometown, you actually have to take on tax service for the people who have lost their land, but you still have to take on tax service for the rank of the people, so you have to escape from your hometown. Our dynasty has already prevented it, so it has been changed to a two-tax system. The dynasty is no longer the basis for taxation, but is taxed by households and other acres of land, with low household tax as the auxiliary and land tax as the main one. Therefore, even if the people really lose their land, they don't have to bear much tax. But even if the people don't have to pay land tax, it is difficult to guarantee their lives after losing their land. Therefore, our dynasty allows the people to move, especially encourages moving to the border areas to settle down."

"For the imperial court, there is a lot of land, so the land tax remains unchanged, so whether the people move or not is actually not very important. As for the colonies that are far from being managed, I don't think so, I think it may not be necessary. The imperial court may have the Maritime Bureau manage the management, or specialize in building a yamen to manage these colonies, levy taxes and management. The imperial court can even manage the fiefs of the princes, so why can't these colonies be managed? Although the colonists have pioneered colonies and have greater influence on the colonies, they cannot make them an independent kingdom."

When the colonies were small, they had little influence. Even if the court could not directly manage these small colonies, their influence on the court would be less harmful. When they developed more, the court would inevitably send people to manage them, and might even station troops. At that time, their power would of course be in the hands of the court.

In the long run, Luo Cheng feels that it is beneficial to encourage the development of colonialism to the outside world.

The population of the Qin Dynasty now exceeds 80 million. Although there are more than 20 million naturalized barbarians and slaves, there are still more than 50 million Han people. This is thanks to the court's ability to check household registration. In recent years, all Han people in the world have been cleared out, and there are no hidden households or escaped people. Even the Han slaves in the past have been relieved in recent years, and the court has moved them to the border to give them land and divided the land.

Many bachelors were married and married by the court and formed families. Some of them were impossible to get married in the past, but now they are married. Even if the poor beggars are disabled, they will find ways to get them to marry a Hu girl for them to get married when they arrive in the border area.

When Hu married a Han husband, he became a naturalized person, and the children he gave birth to naturally became Han nationality.

In this regard, there is nothing to choose freely. It is impossible for a Goguryeo woman to retain her identity as the Goguryeo after marrying a Han Chinese. It is impossible for them to say that the children they gave birth to can freely choose their father or mother tribe, and it is even less likely that there will be any other Huyi barbarians who can have any preferential treatment.

Even the barbarians in the border areas need to change their territory and return to the current state, find ways to naturalize them and turn them into Xia, how can they finally turn the bloodline of the Han people into barbarians?

In this case, not to mention too much, the population exceeding 100 million in 20 or 30 years is almost no problem. For the productivity of this era, it can only be enough to raise a population of 100 million. No matter how many, it is very dangerous.

If these newly conquered places in the border are developed, then perhaps they can support tens of millions of people, but it is impossible to fully develop them in a short period of time.

So, let people go out.

In addition to the development led by the court, the people must also be involved.

Luo Cheng's arrangements actually imply that he is not very at ease with the future development led by the court. He is not that he does not believe in himself, but that he is worried that after he leaves one day, Prince Jiawen will not be able to take over it.

The biggest root of the Anshi Rebellion in the Tang Dynasty in history is that the Tang Dynasty was too fast to explore the outside world, and the subsequent management of the court was not at the bottom of the ground and was out of touch.

During the Li Longji era, the foreign pioneers were more victorious than defeats, and the border troops were very powerful. However, although the imperial court's martial arts were great, they could not keep up with it in the future, or the return of the war was not proportional to the efforts, which aggravated the internal conflicts and eventually the Anshi Rebellion was caused.

Prince Jiawen has average abilities. Luo Cheng is worried that if he dies, the prince will be in control of the Qin Dynasty and will be difficult to maintain the current balance that is still extremely difficult under continuous development. Therefore, he hopes that in the future, this task of external development will be transferred from the hands of the court to the people.

The people are the main force, and the court will take the lead in the back.

"To be honest, I am not worried that those powerful people will not be able to colonize foreign countries in the future. Even if they really do not lose their own territory in the future and become a country, it is actually nothing. No matter what, they will have the same roots and roots as us, right? The Qin Dynasty may be two hundred years, three or five hundred years, but it will eventually be replaced by other dynasties. I just hope that the Han family will be replaced by the Han family, not the Rongdi or the barbarians!"

"In this way, at least even if the Qin Dynasty is destroyed, the Han world will not perish, and the Chinese civilization can still be passed down from generation to generation. Do you think it is not?"

Wei Zheng was stunned. He had never thought about which founding emperor would think about the demise of the dynasty in two or three hundred years. This was a bit too far.

"Your Majesty never thought about letting the Qin Dynasty last forever?"

"For thousands of generations? It would be great if we could be for thousands of generations. After Qin Shihuang became emperor, he also thought about the future for thousands of generations. Therefore, he called the First Emperor, his son was the second generation, and his grandson would be the third generation in the future. But in fact, Qin was the second generation. The Zhou Dynasty had been in the world for eight hundred years, but in fact, how many years did the Zhou emperor really control the world?"

"The Han Dynasty said it was four hundred years, but isn't there a new dynasty in the middle? I don't believe in the past, it would be good if it could last for two or three hundred years. I only hope that the Qin Dynasty can make China go further in these two or three hundred years, and no longer limit itself to the small circle of the Central Plains."

Not only colonial development, Luo Cheng also encouraged the powerful people in the Central Plains to go to the newly developed Anton, Anxi, Yunnan and other places. Those places were conquered and seriously lacked the Han people.

Just the Baekje, which Xu Shiji had just conquered, there are now more than three million Baekje and Goguryeo. The court planned to eliminate one-third of the indigenous people and then move more than one million Han people. This is the only way to truly make the Han people gain a foothold there, but it is not easy to raise one million people from the Central Plains now.

Moreover, not only Anton needs to immigrate, but many places such as Yunnan, Guangnan, Liuqiu, Xishan, etc. are extremely in need of immigrant filling.

The imperial court organized immigration to pass, but many places were still poor and it was far from enough to rely on the power of the court alone. In this regard, we still have to rely on the power of the people, especially the power of these powerful landlords and wealthy businessmen.

"In order to encourage and attract these people to invest in border areas, I think that some attractive benefits can be promised to these powerful people. For example, for those powerful people who invest in border areas and even settle down, they can make an exception and choose their children to be given foreign officials, so that they can serve in border areas. If they do their jobs well and have excellent assessment results, they can be promoted to the current situation."

"Sage, in this way, I am afraid that the power of the nobles and gentry and powerful men will further grow."

"As long as you ensure the core basic foundation of the Central Plains, you are not afraid."
Chapter completed!