sweeping the world

Chapter 539
"Has the ice and snow in Bingzhou melted?"

"Your Majesty, yes."

Liu Yan is all over a plank road built on the edge of the cliff. There are many similar corridors in the palace complex of Xiangguo. In terms of current industrial strength, it is unknown how many people were folded into Shihu when it was built.

Sizhou has fully entered the appearance that spring should have. The melting ice and snow in winter brought enough water to the plants. In less than half a month, the land has returned to a piece of green. All kinds of animals also became active.

"All the prefectures have begun to resume agriculture, and Yangzhou was the first to sow seeds." Ji Chang followed half of Liu Yan. Relevant incentive policies make them very enthusiastic about production, and Yangzhou will have a good harvest in autumn."

Liu Yan likes to hear this. Only when the people feel that there is hope can production be stable, and when there is output, the society will be stable. Once the society is stable, the growth rate of the population will increase.

The current territory of the Han Dynasty should be slightly larger than that of the later Northern Song Dynasty, but the population is only less than 500 million. Strictly speaking, it is definitely considered a vast land and sparsely populated.

The Huaxia ethnic group has some habits that I don’t know whether it is good or bad. They like to live in groups and don’t like to open up new living habitats. As a result, the longer the place is developed, the more populated it is. The place where people live comfortably is often deserted.

What Liu Yan took over is such a phenomenon. The country's population is small, but the population is relatively crowded, and too many places are in a state of desertion.

In order to encourage the private sector to develop more land, the Prime Minister's Office came up with a set of strategies after research, and made some modifications on the basis of the original lease, such as who took over which piece of land from the government, and how much tax was reduced depending on the region.

The Taiwei Office also came up with relevant policies. When approving military merits, how much land should be rewarded to meritorious soldiers, and the areas that the country wants to develop should be given priority.

In order to reduce the complaints of the soldiers, with Liu Yan's permission, the Taiwei Department will increase some of the original rewards, and the biggest increase is an increase of [-]% of the land.

Because most of the land is owned by the state, in the Han Dynasty, if you want to obtain private land, you can't get military merits. Liu Yan still prefers that the land for rewarding soldiers is located in the border area.Those soldiers are people killed from mountains of corpses and seas of blood. They have enough pioneering spirit and are more capable of self-protection in the face of wild beasts or other threats. Furthermore, they constitute the main population of the border and make the border more solid. .

Of course, the way things were going, it seemed extremely unfair.For example, some people work hard to get those things, and some people get them even if they don’t do some personnel work. Can this be called fair?

What is emphasized now is that a gentleman of Tian Xingjian strives for self-improvement. He deserves more and less harvest for how many things he does, and he deserves to be starved to death if he does nothing.

Under the land policy of the Han Dynasty, land rewards for meritorious officers and soldiers were increased due to regional issues. Although some rules were broken, everyone including Liu Yan felt it was justified.

Perhaps the shackles were broken and the Prime Minister's Office had new ideas. This was why Ji Chang asked to see Liu Yan after the court meeting.

"Every family went south to develop, and how much land (colonies) they developed could have the right to harvest for a limited number of years. Therefore, they were enthusiastic about developing." Ji Chang pondered over his words again and again. He couldn't see anything from the back of Liu Yan's head, so he paused before continuing. Said: "Can the rest of the area also be open to development rights?"

The agreement between Liu Yan and each family is that they will go to the southwest peninsula to develop, and after occupying the next place, they can have the income rights for up to 20 years, that is, the local resources belong to the occupied family within 20 years, and the country only trades those resources taxation power.

What resources each family discovers can choose to develop independently or in partnership with someone from the private sector, or they can choose to sell it to the state.Resources include but are not limited to gold mines, silver mines, copper mines, iron mines, timber, and various luxury goods, but they are divided into what resources have ownership for how many years, such as various gemstones and gold, silver, and copper ownership. In just five years, once iron is discovered, the state must own [-]%.

There are many development contracts of all kinds, and the more strategically related the resource restrictions are, on the contrary, the resources on some wealth will be looser.

"The rest of the area?" Liu Yan stopped and turned to look at Ji Chang, and asked with no apparent joy or anger: "Which area?"

"At present, Qingzhou, Sizhou, and Yangzhou are the most populated areas of the Han Dynasty. The situation in Xuzhou, Yanzhou, Jizhou, and Yuzhou is slightly better. Yongzhou, Qinzhou, Yizhou, Liangzhou, and Jiangzhou are sparsely populated. The recovered Jiaozhou, Guangzhou, Jiaozhi and other places probably won’t have many people.” Ji Chang smiled wryly, and said: “The territory is so large that there is no development, and there is no output without development. If you want to have output, you need a population. I have been thinking for a long time, and Yizhou There are not many Han family and Miao descendants in Liangzhou, and they are all barbarians and barbarians. It is not advisable for the government to migrate the population, or the land can be used to lure private immigrants to fill the population for production.”

Yizhou and Liangzhou are the Yunnan-Guizhou region of Sichuan in later generations. The terrain there is mountainous and the transportation is extremely inconvenient.

The land of Shu is relatively good. After the Qin State wiped out the ancient Shu State and Cuba State, people have been migrating to the local area, but to be honest, there are still too few people compared to the people who originally lived there.

Because the transportation in Badi is more inconvenient, and the mountains and jungles are more complex than those in Shu, from the Qin Empire to the Eastern Han Dynasty, local chiefs were appointed as officials for governance. In fact, there are not many Han people in Badi.

"Shu has its own overhaul of water conservancy in the Qin Dynasty, and the plains around Chengdu, which is a rare grain-producing land in Shu. The Li family of the Di tribe has ruled for 1 years. Although there is no repair and maintenance, the local ecology has never been. If it is destroyed, it can be farmed and produced as long as it is sorted out a little.” Ji Chang must have done a special investigation, seeing Liu Yan’s eyebrows raised, and then said: “The great Han destroyed Chengguo, which originally belonged to the nobles and leaders of Chengguo. of the land has been taken over as state-owned, and less than 46% of the people own the land. Now those lands belonging to the state... are in a state of neglect."

Liu Yan seems to understand a little bit. The territory of the Han Kingdom is getting bigger and bigger, and the population is also increasing accordingly, but the output can't keep up with the consumption. To open source.

"The Han Dynasty has never stopped the diplomatic war, and the military rations are calculated at tens of millions of stones and fodder every year. As of the third year of Yuan Shuo, the previous reserves were almost exhausted..." Ji Chang began to sweat on his forehead, and said with a little difficulty: "The minister and the subordinates Liao has made rigorous calculations, and there is still looting in the southwest to support the battle of Shijie, but the amount of looting is full of variables. In the future, there will be the cost of the battle to destroy Shijie, and the battle with Murong Xianbei will also require Reserve military rations, and go deep into the grasslands to fight and go west. If you don’t want to produce a lot, I’m afraid..."

In fact, Liu Yan does not necessarily insist that most of the land belongs to the state. On the contrary, he still hopes that the land can be in the hands of the people. The problem is that not only the government cannot accept the land equalization, but the people are also hesitant. After all, before The Qin Empire did something similar to land treatment during the Shang Yang Reform period, and the land treatment of the Shang Yang Reform had a surprisingly heavy burden on the people.

The land equalization of Shang Yang’s reform first established private ownership of land and allowed land to be bought and sold freely, but it changed the way to forcefully buy land from nobles and those who held a large number of land, and then sold or leased it to the common people.There is actually not much difference between people who have their own land and those who do not have their own land. Most of the output of hard work every year and every season belongs to the country, and they can only keep the annual rations, and the country will give back with the title of title. The improvement of social status and the increase of land holdings means that most of the people's labor output is contributed to the country. In fact, there is not much wealth and food reserves.

The output of the country cannot make ends meet, especially since there are still so many wars to be fought in the future, and those wars must be fought, one can imagine how heavy the burden will be on Ji Chang.

The Prime Minister's Office is not only responsible for the military food needs of the war, they also have to consider the food consumption and necessary reserves of the people. What natural and man-made disasters can be extremely bad.

When it comes to natural disasters and man-made disasters, the Han Kingdom Center is convinced that there will be natural disasters in the next few years.That is judged from the abnormal weather, that is, it is unknown when a natural disaster will occur, so we must pay close attention to the food reserves, or it will be too late before the natural disaster really arrives.

Liu Yan did know the exact time when the natural disaster occurred, which was the drought in the Central Plains and the plague of locusts that followed the demise of Ran Wei in history. After calculation, it would be five years later.This gave him a sense of urgency, and he wanted to at least get rid of Shijie Zhao Guo and Murong Yan Guo to be weak before the natural disaster happened. If there is a large-scale disaster in the Central Plains, the Han army is unable to fight outside. The thing is, it is not impossible to be pushed back.

"Prime Minister, the situation of the country, Qing should be more clear than the widow." Liu Yan did not object to the thinking of the Prime Minister's House, as long as the method is correct, open source is right in any era.He said seriously: "I want to know what solution the Prime Minister has."

This is what Ji Chang worries about. After the pre-Qin example, the general public is mostly afraid of the goodwill from the state.

That's really not a joke. After all, everyone wants land, but people now think that if they want land, they must have corresponding sacrifices, such as using military merit to obtain rewards, or using money to buy it.If anyone wants to give someone land for no reason, that person may be more puzzled and surprised than pleasantly surprised.

"This..." Ji Chang can come up with too many plans, but he is afraid that some plans will generate fierce opposition, and some plans may even cause future troubles: "What I think, can I rent at a discount?"

Liu Yan showed a disappointed expression. The country leased land to the people, and it was not done without a reasonable premise.

There are not a lot of land rented out by counties and counties in the Han Dynasty. Since it is rented, what the people want is to be around the living habitat, and they will not go to certain areas even if they are preferential.

Ji Chang swallowed when he saw Liu Yan's expression.He didn't know that it was all rent, and the common people would not look far away, but the land could not be given away for no reason.He is deeply aware that the land cannot be given away for free, otherwise not only the people will be confused, but the army will also be unable to explain it.

The land can be obtained for nothing, but what is the value of soldiers working hard to earn military merits! ?
The mountain wind was a bit strong, so the two of them walked off the plank road to a platform and looked at the city below the mountain.

The state of Xiang in the spring did not become very lively, and the population of the Han state did not migrate, resulting in a city with more soldiers than civilians.

At present, there are not many people wandering around in the city of Xiangguo. Since there are no entertainment venues and shops, the family members of hundreds of officials mostly stay at home, and usually go to the suburbs to play when they go out.

"Your Majesty, the founding of the country should have a new atmosphere. For the future of the country, perhaps there should be some new policies." Ji Chang was only in his forties, and his temples were graying due to overwork. He said in a deep tone: "Population growth requires For food, the people will consider having more children if they have a surplus of food. The minister is thinking about it, whether increasing the population of the country is considered meritorious service? If it is considered meritorious service, can we give land rewards?"

Liu Yan was shocked. He clearly remembered that he hadn't mentioned the relevant idea, so it was Ji Chang... Or the officials came up with a set of plans that can be said to pass after thinking over and over again.

Giving birth to children is at least an unprecedented example. It was not until the Sui and Tang dynasties that similar policies existed, and the most prevalent was the Nazi Third Reich during World War II.

For a lot of time, the Central Plains dynasty was afraid of the country's large population, and only in the early days of the founding of the country after every major chaos would it desire to have a larger population.

Those dynasties who are afraid of a large population are worried that there will not be enough land for the people to produce, but they have never thought about it...or they are unable to lay down territory outside, and the result is an overpopulation and uneven wealth (land) brewing The next dynasty change.

The Kingdom of Han... at least during the period of Liu Yan, the Kingdom of Han was destined to be a pioneering and offensive country. The fear was that there would not be enough people to fill the land that had been laid down, and it would not be afraid of not having enough land!
"Tai'an's move won my heart." Liu Yan rarely showed excitement: "The big man will forge ahead with this national policy, so that the place where his feet can step on is the hometown of Han people!"

What Ji Chang wanted was to change the way to transfer the land to more people, but he didn't think deeply about the rest. Liu Yan, who was so excited that he couldn't help himself, was a little at a loss.

"Before increasing Dingkou and granting land rewards, Tai'an has to formulate a set of sanitation measures..." Liu Yan said that the current sanitation conditions are too poor, and there is not much difference between women giving birth and passing through the gate of hell: "Don't let Good things turn into bad things."

Ji Chang was still in a daze, and could only nod his head in a ignorant way.

(End of this chapter)