Zhu Cijiong sat in Yuzhou City, with a piece of paper in front of him:

The cultivated land area of the country is 485.22 million mu, the national population is 76.55 million, and the enclosed land is 19 million mu......

Nanyang has an area of 6.31 million mu of cultivated land, a population of 3.27 million people, 38,400 mu of enclosed land, and 18,700 mu of tribute land......

(The information is from Mr. Wang Yumin's "History of the Chinese Population", Beijing Court Network "Enclosure Order during the Qing Dynasty", and Nanyang County Records.) ）

He frowned, and the people who were enclosed by the banner people were all anointed lands - because according to the provisions of Article 2 of the enclosure order, the banner people encircled the alkali salt barren land, and they would change the land, which was called "full exchange".

In this era, the average yield per mu is not even 100 catties, so the annual ration of the average population of the country is only 600 catties.

In this way, we have to face the fact that there are many paddy fields in the south of the Yangtze River, three crops a year, and a lot of grain; Jiangbei has a lot of dry land, three crops in two years, and little grain.

Especially in the large plains area like Nanyang, which does not produce rice and is densely populated, the per capita grain per capita throughout the year is as little as a pitiful 200 catties......

The lack of food has become the biggest problem in front of Zhu Cijiong!

Although it is foreseeable that with the high yield of sweet potatoes, sweet potatoes will be planted on a large scale in Nanyang next year, thus making up for the problem of food shortage.

However, there are still eleven months to go until next year's sweet potato harvest.

……

"I'm still too soft-hearted!"

Zhu Cijiong sighed.

The solution is not impossible to find in history - the vivid example of more than ten years ago is still in front of him and still remains in his memory.

There has been a great drought in the north for more than ten years, and the people have no food to eat—just kill.

Thousands of miles of slaughter are uninhabited, the city wolves are in line, and the remaining people have food to eat, so that the world will naturally be stable......

Zhu Cijiong shook his head.

How could he do that?

Mad dogs can bite people - can people still get on all fours, teach themselves mad dogs, and bite back?

- What do you do with empty hands and feet?

Eat?

For him, the best way to deal with mad dogs is to slaughter and eat meat!

……

Zhu Cijiong was thinking about it, and Li Henggong rushed in happily: "Your Highness, great joy!" We successfully took Wuyang County and closed the east gate of Nanyang Mansion! ”

"Really?"

Zhu Cijiong stood up suddenly, and his eyes suddenly lit up.

"Your Highness, you see, this is good news, Yang Qilong's regiment is taking advantage of the news that we have captured Yuzhou, and when it has not yet reached Wuyang County, he led five hundred cavalry to march quickly, he changed the clothes of the Qing army, and successfully took Wuyang County by night!"

Li Henggong handed the good news to Zhu Cijiong to see.

"Only half of it!"

Zhu Cijiong looked at it carefully and sat down slowly: "If you want to defend the east gate of Nanyang, the risk of Yuzhou alone is not enough, you need to take Yexian and Wuyang!" ”

This Ye County and Wuyang are located in mountainous areas and have dangerous terrain.

In order to prevent local chaos, later generations cut off such dangerous places and assigned them to Pingdingshan City next door.

Dividing important areas into neighbors became a common practice in later generations.

Of course, such methods also abound in history.

For example, Hanzhong belongs to Shaanxi, not Sichuan.

For example, Nanyang and Xiangyang, which are located in the same plain, are divided into two provinces......

Zhu Cijiong's eyes narrowed, and he had an idea, the east of Nanyang Mansion is Ruzhou, which will be called Pingdingshan City in later generations, and almost the entire territory is mountainous.

If a small unit is sent into this place to fight guerrillas, then it will definitely be able to contain the Qing army.

……

All of this depends on the belonging of Ye County!

……

Li Henggong said with a smile: "Your Highness, rest assured, General Yang is fast, and the good news will naturally come first, and General Huang Ji is on foot, this good news is naturally slower." ”

"Your Highness, just rest assured, I expect that the good news from Ye County will come soon!"

Zhu Cijiong nodded: "I hope so!" ”

He suppressed the thoughts in his heart and spoke: "It has been a whole day since our army entered Yuzhou, has the security in this city been stable?" ”

When they entered Yuzhou, because the green camp was scattered, it was because there were remnants of the Qing army everywhere.

Even, some local prodigals, have joined in.

They burned, killed and looted, and there were even some die-hard Qing court loyalists, who burned houses everywhere, making the wolf smoke billowing in Yuzhou City.

"Your Highness, rest assured, according to your orders, as long as there are people who take advantage of the fire to rob, whether it is the green camp, the people of the city banner, or the local rangers, we will correct the law on the spot."

"Since last night until now, we have cut off a full 128 heads, and these heads, according to His Highness's orders, have been hung at every intersection."

"At the same time, according to His Highness's order, as long as it is a voluntary surrenderer, whether it is the green camp or the bannerman, he will only be held and not killed."

Li Henggong admired Zhu Cijiong's method very much: "It is precisely because of His Highness's strategy that the remnants of the Qing army in the city surrender from time to time, which makes the city quickly stable." ”

"It's not enough to be in the city!"

Zhu Cijiong waved his hand, although Li Henggong's sycophant made him very useful......

With a straight face, he asked, "Have those local village elders and security chiefs ever arrived?" ”

It is not enough to control the city, if you want to control a place, you must control the village.

Only by using the methods of our party can we control the whole country like an arm!

Only by doing this, can we make a big deal with a small one!

"We can't count the various security chiefs accurately, 1,847 people have come, 16 townships, 45 villagers from 15 townships have come, and only three villagers from Erlang Temple have not come."

Li Henggong said.

"Have our people been informed?"

Zhu Cijiong frowned slightly, Erlang Temple was in the middle of the mountains, and the road was a little difficult to walk.

However, the cavalry they sent to various townships were only dozens of miles of road, so naturally there was no reason why they could not catch up in a day.

"No messenger has returned to ......"

Li Henggong sighed in his heart, His Royal Highness didn't ask, but he ignored this point after a day.

"Let Zhang Ruotai come over!"

Zhu Cijiong frowned, the geographical location of Yuzhou is too important, and there is no room for the slightest difference!

"Yes, I'm going to pass it on!"

Li Dashao turned around and was about to leave.

"By the way, tell the whole city that from tomorrow, the entrance tax will no longer be collected at the city gate, and all taxes will be changed to stall tax and shop tax."

Li Henggong nodded and wrote it down seriously.

Zhu Cijiong walked around the city just now and found that half of the people who cut braids and those who kept braids were among them.

He can't do this kind of beast edict without braids, after all, people and beasts are embarrassed, but this starts from the other side-

"And!" Zhu Cijiong chuckled: "Notices have been posted on the streets and alleys of the city, and this king does not restrict the people from wearing, this is personal freedom." ”