Chapter 805 Active ethnic integration
Lu Bu knew that it was not enough to rely solely on Lu Bu's civil and military achievements to expand his territory by the Han people in the third century AD. If Lu Bu wanted the Han people to expand his territory by one million, he would not be able to form an effective rule by relying on more than 40 million people now. He had to have sufficient population density to carry out long-term and effective rule on the newly occupied territory and thus make it belong to the Han territory forever, without having to repeat the tragedy of the ineffective occupation of Goryeo during the reign of Emperor Gaozong of Tang, nor did he have to repeat the ineffective rule of the blood-consuming vassal states such as North Korea during the Ming and Qing dynasties.
Lu Bu calculated that according to the productivity of the third century AD, if the Han Dynasty had an indisputable influence and dominate the entire East, and all the vassal states that had once belonged to the Han Dynasty's dynasties were unified by the Han Dynasty. Forty to 50 million people were far from enough. At least 40 million people were to reach the 40 million in the late Qing Dynasty. Only 40 million people could turn the entire East into a paradise for the Han Dynasty.
This is the fundamental reason why Lu Bu mobilized the masses to mobilize the whole nation to encourage childbirth.
Lu Bu knew that his good intentions would not be understood by all the people.
Many people were short-sighted and used erroneous assumptions to obtain a bullshit conclusion that resources were limited but the population could not be expanded. They were neither willing to accept the fact that the imperial army led by Lu Bu in the Eastern Han Dynasty could sweep the entire East, nor did they ignore the conclusion of the census that the Han Dynasty currently has only more than 40 million people. They did not look at the Han Dynasty's grain yield increasing year by year. They did not look at the Han Dynasty's high-yield crops such as corn, potatoes, and sweet potatoes. They did not look at the Han Dynasty's territory being expanding. They ignored all the facts that were beneficial to the population's fertility policy, but were spreading a shameless argument, "If you continue to give birth like this, sooner or later, everyone will not eat it." They not only opposed to stimulating fertility, but also wanted to restrain fertility, but only opposed it to oppose Lu Bu.
Of course, a large part of them are brainless and followers, and are fooled by the aristocratic families that oppose Lu Bu's rule as cannon fodder. Most of them are from poor families and are tragic and exploited, ravaged and trampled by the aristocratic families. However, they are very loyal to the aristocratic families. There are many tragic and pitiful and hateful people like this, and almost three-tenths of the Han people. They are fooled by the aristocratic families, thinking that their interests will be infringed upon by Lu Bu sooner or later, and the extra population will divide the remaining pieces of their mouths. They are spreading rumors, and all kinds of rumors that are not conducive to Lu Bu's rule begin to spread.
Lu Bu knew that the reason why these pitiful and lamentable people were fooled by the aristocratic families and opposed their rule was because they had no brains and did not know how to think. They believed whatever the aristocratic characters instilled them. These people always occupied a large part of the Chinese people. These people have always played the role of cannon fodder for the next one or two thousand years, but they can never recognize their position.
Lu Bu deeply felt from these people the helpless feeling of Mr. Lu Xun's "sading his misfortune and angering his uncontestedness". Although he had such a feeling, Lu Bu was not prepared to cultivate these people into citizens with free thoughts. Because the idea of freedom and democracy is too high-end for people like them, Lu Bu could not predict at all. Once these people under their qualities had such an almost anarchist thought, how would they view Lu Bu's rule? So Lu Bu resolutely learned the practices of many leaders in history to make the people have thoughts, but not their own thoughts.
In the field of ideological propaganda, Lu Bu would not suppress it with all his might, would not scrutinize it with all his might, nor would he waste too much effort to fool the people, and turn the people into fools. Lu Bu focused on ideological indoctrination and induction. When every Han people received higher education, the national strength of the Han Dynasty would be so huge, but such education was harmless to Lu Bu, because Lu Bu firmly grasped a line, what the people must understand and what the people could not understand, if this line was grasped well, it could lead these people as cannon fodder to realize Lu Bu's ambitions like a cattle and horse in a trap.
Lu Bu didn't want to engage in politics like this, but the longer he had contact with the people, the more disappointed he was. He found that the Han people had a bad root that had been deeply rooted in thousands of years. They worshiped power and bullied the weak. Perhaps some people were real men who did not fear power and advocate justice, but there were very few such people. Most of them were short-sighted and only stared at the little bit of interests in front of them. There was a person standing in front of him as long as he was a little more powerful than him, just like the dark clouds covering his head that made him worship him without daring to resist at all. A country with such a strong social atmosphere was temporarily unworthy of democracy and freedom. It was a long time for the people to become people and then become citizens.
Lu Bu understood the practices of many dictators. It was a forced one to engage in dictatorship in the Han Dynasty, especially during the Eastern Han Dynasty, when you talk about democracy to the people, they not only would not understand you, but would stand up and overturn your rule. Of course, there is a certain degree of democracy at the top, and this kind of democracy is reflected in the containment of imperial power by the aristocratic families. In the long run, this kind of containment is not beneficial to the entire country, because those aristocratic families only value the interests of the family and ignore the interests of all the people in the entire country. The short-sighted and greedy selfishness of the aristocratic families is the fundamental reason for the collapse of the Three Kingdoms and the Five Barbarians' invasive and invasive Chinese. What's ridiculous is that no family in later generations will learn from this experience and lessons. Each family desperately harms the interests of the country for the gains and losses of a family and a family, and quickly ruins dynasties.
Lu Bu understood history, so he could not sit and see such a situation happen again. So from him, he would implement a dictatorship with the characteristics of the Han Dynasty, so that the people could not feel Lu Bu's dictatorship, but their thoughts and behaviors were guided by Lu Bu to a safe and reasonable range.
Such a political attempt is difficult, perhaps the first time in history, but for a time traveler who has a strong sense of death, the interest in changing history and improving the political system is greater than anything else.
Lu Bu is guiding the people to gradually realize that inspiring childbirth is not only good for the long-term development of the country, but also for the reproduction of their own family and also has a growth effect on their immediate interests. After all, the government will help you raise the extra children. When the children grow up, the country benefits and parents benefit more. There are more and more people who want to understand that the policy of inspiring childbirth is beneficial to them without any harm. There are fewer and fewer brain-destroying elements who hold narrow ideas or are deceived by those with ulterior motives. Even if there are fewer and fewer untouchables who refuse to recognize the benefits of this policy because of brain-destroying, there are still a certain number. They are even fooled and started a civil unrest.
Lu Bu was shocked when he suddenly heard about the changes in the people. He asked himself, "The good things he treated the people below over the years are unprecedented and never come." The people have been greatly satisfied both spiritually and materially. Why do they still change in the people? Lu Bu couldn't figure it out.
If he couldn't figure it out, he wouldn't think about it for the time being. Lu Bu quickly sent troops to suppress the civilians and arrested the civilians and asked carefully. He found that every reason they opposed Lu Bu was not only absurd but also ridiculous, and they were all fooled by the aristocratic families. Although these so-called uprisingers were brainless, Lu Bu would not forgive them because they were brainless. All 40,000 to 50,000 were punished for ten years of labor. During their labor, the army trained by the Central Army carried out ideological and political guidance on them, especially when they were exhausted, physically tired, and their minds were empty, and they instilled Lu Bu's thoughts into them. These untouchables who were originally opposed to opposition for day after day of labor and thought indoctrination, dramatically became Lu Bu's craziest supporters.
From this matter, Lu Bu completely saw that the people's hearts and public opinion were not constant, they were completely controlled and could be used. From then on, he became more and more bold in his actions and would not take into account the feelings of the people below, because before he acted, he had already done the ideological work of the people below.
The prerequisite for motivating childbirth is to motivate early marriage and early childbirth and more children. A boy and a girl have passed the age of twenty, and their physiological development has matured, and they still have not gotten married and have children. It is completely fine in the 21st century when the population explodes. In the third century when the population withered, it is something that those in power cannot tolerate. Lu Bu does not need to do the job of the pioneer, because the laws of the Han Dynasty have clearly stipulated that late marriage and late childbirth must be levied. Basically, most dynasties in ancient society could not tolerate late marriage and late childbirth, and all had to be levied heavy taxes. Lu Bu did this just to put similar bills in more detailed, more specific and more closely to the pulse of the Han Dynasty's development.
Of course, early marriage should not be too early. It must be over fifteen years old and physically developed to a certain level. Moreover, parents of both parties must provide education in any aspect. Medical clinics in various places also have similar premarital education. Before and after marriage, the physical and mental health of the couple who are about to become parents must be guaranteed, so that they can give birth to qualified successors for the man.
As for excessive marriage, the current great man is not just the privilege of dignitaries. Ordinary businessmen, soldiers, and scholars can afford to take concubines, because Lu Bu's army fought and fought in the east and west, and the population trade carried out around the world, plundered millions of women, from a few years old to a forty, and those under fifteen years old were trained aside first, and those over fifteen years old could do population trading.
These foreign concubines were slaves at the beginning, but once they gave birth to a man and a half woman for the Han people, they immediately became Han people. Lu Bu promoted a lifetime of population trade, which made white, black and brown women all over China. As a result, the Han Han people had tens of millions of women and tens of millions of mixed-race children. Because Lu Bu realized this change, he deleted the provision that black eyes, black hair and yellow skin from various documents such as the Tongtian Cult and the Han Law. Instead, it stipulated that as long as he believed in the gods and culture of the Han people were Han people, he would attract all rivers and attract outstanding races from the world to supplement the bloodline of the Han people. This active and proactive national fusion was what Lu Bu liked.
Chapter completed!