Small Landlords of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 79 105. The Autumn Harvest
Regardless of whether Hu Che'er can cook eagles, as long as Wang Hao's generals need them, there will be an unlimited supply of three-month-old vultures. Young eagles in this period are suitable for cooking eagles. Vulture, as to success or failure is their business.

This year is still a year of severe drought, and the harvests in the entire Central Plains are not very good. The only two families that are not short of food are Wang Hao and Yuan Shang. Food and grass can basically be maintained.

The remaining Liu Bei and Ma Chao, two of them are relatively poor, one is a new land of Yizhou, Bashu, and the other has just pacified Xiliang and suffered a big defeat.

The remaining Sun Quan is not as simple as lack of food. After the autumn harvest, the people have no food to pay taxes. If Sun Quan does not handle it well, there may be a big problem such as mutiny or population outflow.

The territory under Wang Hao's rule has a total of more than 400 million households, with a population of 500 million.

After a period of health and rest, coupled with Wang Hao's estimated birth rate and other policies, by the time of the autumn harvest, the population exceeded 2000 million.

Liu Bei's Yizhou has only 70 households, with a population of nearly 300 million. With Fa Zheng's advice and Zhuge Liang's clean and honest internal affairs, the population has also increased by about 20 to 330 million.

There are more than 50 households in the territory of the Sun family in Jiangdong, with a population of less than 200 million. The harvest in the past two years has not been very good, and Sun Quan wasted a lot of manpower in his eagerness for success, so the population has dropped by nearly one level.

Since Cao Cao ordered the farming system, he has ruled 90 households and a population of 400 million, which has also increased to 450 million.

In the north, under Yuan Shang's rule, there were nearly one million people. In addition to the settlement of the Karasuma and Xianbei tribes some time ago, the population increased to 150 million.

Yuan Tan annexed the southern Xiongnu near Bingzhou, and enslaved a group of nomads to help him graze pastures. In addition to the soldiers captured from Han Sui in Xiliang, the population also reached one million.

Although Ma Chao occupies Xiliang, the population is small. However, Xiliang is located outside the Great Wall, so there is no shortage of cattle, sheep and people. Ma Chao's Xiliang also has a population of nearly 150 million (80 of which are nomads and are not under Ma Chao's management).

According to the difference of each person's cultivation in one year, the income is also different.

Farming: 1.5k stone grain

Grazing: 3 cattle and sheep (about [-]k stone grain)
Doing business: merchants are not fixed (about 10k stone grain/person)
Except for serving government soldiers and going out to the army, the income is basically the same in all regions.

In the Han Dynasty, the calculation of grain and grass was based on capacity, so it was difficult to accurately calculate the weight, and this era was similar to the original.

It's not that their culture is backward, but that the monetary system is very unstable, and people often barter, which makes the currency and currency disproportionate.

In the Han Dynasty, thirty jin was one jun, and four jun was one stone, so 120 jin was one stone, 1 stone = 10 buckets, 1 bucket = 10 liters, that sentence does not mean five buckets of rice, it means sixty kilograms of rice .

可是容量单位和物质有关系，1石=10斗=100升，1石谷是120斤，1石米是180斤，1升油是1公斤。

This kind of algorithm is basically unable to prepare for judging the weight, which naturally leads to falsely high or low market prices, which is also a serious reason for the confusion of the monetary system.

The 2000 million people under Wang Hao's rule consume nearly 800 million tons of food every year, which is a terrifying familiarity.

Now Wang Hao Ranch collects gold coins intensively, which are used to unlock rare species in space, so it depends on the territory under its rule for self-sufficiency.

The 20 pastures produce 18 cattle and sheep annually. On average, one cow or sheep is equivalent to [-] kilograms, which is close to [-] tons of meat. If converted into grains at a ratio of [-]:[-], that is [-] tons of grain.

Fifteen major production areas, the average planting area of ​​each production area is not less than 100 million hectares, nearly 500 million acres of good mountain land, according to the minimum yield of [-] catties per mu, nearly [-] tons of grain per season .

There are [-] tons of grain in the two seasons, and nearly [-] tons of grain in the [-] production areas, and the pastures only have about [-] tons of grain.

Faced with the consumption of 800 million tons of grain, Wang Hao's own production area can only maintain one percent, even so Wang Hao has a surplus of grain.

Wang Hao has only 30 troops under his command, plus civil servants, growers in production areas, and some idlers, Wang Hao needs to support 40 people at most.

The remaining 2000 million people must be self-sufficient. Things produced in Wang Hao's space are sold by the Chamber of Commerce and exchanged for supplies, such as iron, copper, cloth and other daily or strategic supplies.

The 40 soldiers and horses do not need to be borne by Wang Hao alone. All the counties in the territory under his rule have income, and the transactions of cattle, sheep, rice, grain, liquor, etc. all need to pay taxes, as well as tariffs and other taxes for North and South merchants.

Under Wang Hao's rule, each person has five acres of paddy fields, and five acres of mountain land totals ten acres. This is the field Wang Hao promised at the beginning.

The common people all have the types of grain distributed by the government. Even if the yield per mu is only [-] grains, ten mu of land still has four tons, and there is still surplus grain in a year.

Even if only three of the seven members of the family work on the farm, they can still ensure that the whole family has enough to eat, and at most they will live in poverty.

Sun Quan's territory has a population of 150 million, and military service continues to make the people miserable. Nearly 30 soldiers are recruited, and 20 people are needed to develop Yizhou Island, and nearly 60 people are added to servants and maids.

There are less than 100 million people left, and the old, young, sick and disabled, as well as various merchants, landlords and powerful tycoons must be removed.

There are less than 30 people left farming. Due to poor harvests in drought years, some places may have no crops, but lands with sufficient water sources still have some harvests. Sun Quan did not have water trucks to irrigate, nor did he dig canals to build roads. Many places The farmer died of drought...

Jiangdong is vast and sparsely populated, and Sun Quan is willing to give [-] acres per capita. The problem is that those good fields have been taken over by powerful landlords, and the rest are water-dry swamps of Susukina, which can only be cultivated by artificial labor. It can cultivate seven or eight mu of Susukida.

In ancient times, the yield per mu was not high, and it was very normal to produce [-] catties of grain per mu. Unless there were only [-] catties in a bumper harvest year, there might be no harvest in a year of severe drought.

This year is a year of severe drought, and the per capita annual output value of Jiangdong is less than one ton of grain, but more than 20 tons of grain have to feed nearly 200 million people.

An average of one ton of grain for ten people is not enough to starve to death. The people who have land to cultivate will not be starved.

Sun Quan himself did not have so much food to support soldiers and horses, because there was only so much tax revenue. In addition to eating and drinking for the 30 troops, he also had to supply military supplies.

Even if the harvest from Yizhou is added, it is not enough. Sun Quan wants soldiers to help fight, and food and salary must be paid. Sun Quan was forced to raise taxes again, but this time the people quit.

A population only has two hundred kilograms of grain, and after paying the autumn tax, there is still two-thirds and two. What will they do to feed themselves if it happens again?And a cold winter staring at them!

This caused a large number of refugees to flee to Jingzhou and other places after the autumn harvest, and even refugees from the north fled to the south.

This time Cao Cao has also learned a lot. He knows that population is the root, so Cao Cao sent troops to garrison the north bank of the Yangtze River. Any refugees who go south will be detained. He still has a large area of ​​land in the Huaihe River Basin. As long as these people are fed for the winter, they will be the next year. large workforce.

This time Wang Hao didn't rob Cao Cao of the population either. Cao Cao could keep the refugees, but he couldn't keep those merchants and wealthy people. After seeing the prosperity of Jingzhou, these people were unwilling to go back to the north.

Moreover, Wang Hao did not have time to compete with Cao Cao for population. He was now busy organizing the treasury. After the autumn harvest stabilized, he could send troops to attack Sun Quan.

Now the soldiers of the three armies are ready to go, and they are waiting for Wang Hao's order to ask Sun Quan for the blood debt of the previous year. Everyone has always remembered that bloody oath!

(End of this chapter)