"people!"
"The Wu Dynasty was still short of people, specifically farmers. The saying that the land is vast and the people are sparse is not casual. In the Han Dynasty, the three states of Ji, Hebei, and Qing Dynasties could support 40 million people. In the Tang Dynasty, with the help of canals, the northern border could support 40 million people. We have raised 80 million people, of which Bingzhou alone supports 20 million. How much have we supported now? The combined population of the three states is only 20 million!"
The craftsman Li Yannian thought of people, and people reflected the problem of population.
The more land, the more output, and the more people it can support.
Wanwan must be an imaginary number, but the yellow records left by the Han and Tang Dynasties have not been preserved, and with a bunch of crazy students, the Epang Palace was burned down by fire when the Qin and Han Dynasties changed. All kinds of supporting evidence were dug out. There are too many things.
"Eighty million, how much is that?" Equation was somewhat dumbfounded.
The number of tens of millions is imaginary, and it is also measured in units of hundreds of millions. In the Tang Dynasty, the northern border could really support 80 million people. How many people were there in the entire Kyushu at that time?
Li Yannian shook his head, "The real population is only a lot more. I said 800 million is recorded in the yellow book. No matter what family, noble family, noble family, or big family, there is no hidden household, runaway household, and fleeing to the mountains. The specific number of people in the water pool has expanded to 30%. The northern border was destroyed, the people were displaced and exiled in the Central Plains. It is difficult for us to imagine that there are 800 million people. However, our neighbors, the Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, did not have any people under their rule. Thirty or four hundred million?"
"Today, the Song Dynasty has the largest population. We don't know the details, but the Records Department has found that the population of the Song Dynasty is at least 386 million. Including those who have not been edited, 40 million is not the upper limit. !" After Li Yanting added, he directly added, "It's a pity that there are too many people, and the bones are vulgar, and they are just a batch of pigs waiting to be slaughtered!"
"Population is wealth, but it is also a burden. The more people, the better. The key is to look at quality. But if the court can use the population, it is wealth. If it is not used, the daily consumption of individuals can kill people. !” Fang Fang couldn’t agree more with this.
In the previous life, the mysterious big country in the East had a population that was unparalleled, and young people dominated the population structure. Can it develop? Can it develop? Will there be any development as a result?
The answer is obvious. When the number of people exceeds the limit that a country can bear, the excess is simply a devouring machine.
Li Yannian agreed, "Sir, despite the lack of food in our dynasty, it seems difficult to feed a larger population. In fact, much of the cultivated land inherited from the Tang Dynasty has been abandoned. Let's not talk about the special situation in Qingzhou. Sir, do you know? How much land can the people of Gyeonggi receive if their families have meritorious deeds?"
"Thirty acres!"
Li Yannian wrote with a six on his finger, "The basic Yongye field is thirty acres, plus five acres for each military merit, and thirty acres for males and ten acres for females. Of course, these are the ancestors with military merits!"
The military merit system has been implemented since the founding of the Wu Dynasty. It has been patched and patched for three hundred years, and military merit has almost bound the entire Wu Dynasty.
"With three generations of a family, based on eight people, as long as someone gets merit, the Yongye field can occupy at least 200 acres. But how can we cultivate so much land? One year of spring plowing, summer harvest, summer planting, and autumn harvest, all in total. In just over a month, there are 700,000 to 800,000 civilians outside the city looking for a living, but it’s not enough at all!”
“This is still Gyeonggi!”
Li Yannian patted the armrest.
The Wu family is not a commoner who manages the household. However bad they are, they still have a different family. This is like a poor family in the Song Dynasty. Anyone who regards the children of the Wu family as ordinary people is really having their brains pinched.
Even if one cannot claim to be a martial artist, the so-called civilians who are born as children of soldiers have far better family conditions than barefoot commoners.
Again, military merit is everything to a warrior, and military merit guarantees everything a warrior needs.
"I don't know about other places, but in our hometown, the land allocated for military merit is much more than this per capita. Nowadays, many pastures were acres in the early years. No one really cultivated them anymore, so they were abandoned and turned into grasslands. , plus there is one species a year, and after planting, you have to be prepared to thresh the grain. Most people don’t plant it at all. If it weren’t for the government decree to ensure the cultivation of military fields every year, the military fields would be abolished!” Li Yanting laughed.
"The price of rice is too low, so the refugees don't grow it?" Fang Fang laughed.
Li Yannian seconded, "The land reclamation order is useless. One stone of rice is available on the market. The output of the land to be reclaimed is very small in the first three years. If you open less land, you won't be able to support yourself. If you open too much, other costs will go up, and you still can't survive. Really It’s better to gather near the county town. As long as you work hard, you will survive in the end. Let’s not mention anything else, just talk about Tai’an City!”
"Grain transportation is open once every five days. From the opening of the city gate at Yinshi to five o'clock on the same day, 50,000 shi of rice are transported in from the four city gates. However, it can mobilize 10,000 people and feed 30,000 or 40,000 people. What else is there? Caihou, Mahou, even though the work is dirty and tiring, all you get is cash, and people don’t necessarily need to eat rice, noodles, dregs, or wine dregs, as long as they can fill their stomachs!"
"The most important thing is that when there is a famine, Tai'an City will open a warehouse as soon as possible. There is no need to report to the court. The procedures are handed out and the process is still going on. The warehouses outside the city will directly release grain. No one will watch them hungry. die!"
It seemed that he only said half of what he said, but there was more that no one present could have imagined.
In Tai'an City, under the emperor's feet, there will never be corpses everywhere or scenes of famine at any time. But if you can't see it in another place, then you really have to rely on yourself to carry it, and there is no guarantee at all.
"It is indeed necessary to rob people and farmers, but how to rob, how much to rob, how to resettle the robbed, what kind of policies to give, and how to settle the land. Have these issues been considered?"
The war to snatch people was a scene in the past life. Behind the Western bullshit humanitarianism and disaster victim policies are all to replenish the low-end labor market.
We can certainly learn from the situation of the Wu Dynasty, but how and what methods should we use?
First of all, hatred must not be suppressed. Anything caused by hatred is thunder.
"We don't know that!" Li Yannian licked his face and smiled.
Being able to discover this need is already the limit, and a good solution would have been solved long ago.
"They're all pointing at me!"
"Fine!"
Fang Fang smiled, "It's hard to leave your homeland. There are roughly two reasons for a person to leave his homeland. Once he can no longer survive at home, that's how refugees are formed. But there must be a head here. Without this head, people can't leave even if they want to. If you dare to leave, you will be happy every day at home, but it will be difficult for you to leave home for a thousand days!"
"There is indeed a head behind a refugee group. Without this head, a head will be chosen, otherwise people will not be at ease!" Li Yannian agreed, "There are too many things that may happen along the way. You will leave your home and career behind, and the rest will be left behind." There is only one life to escape from, and your life is not your own very early on, but a family, or even the last incense of a family!"
"Snakes cannot live without heads, birds cannot fly without wings, and people cannot flock without heads. Therefore, if we want to move farmers, we have to find a head. If there is no natural one, then we must cultivate a group of heads and then help us complete the work of the people." The most difficult step of moving!" Fang Fang said in a deep voice.
