"I have listened carefully, and I am really pleased with the growth of my Great Qin's population, fertile land, and finance, but the question also arises, Jia Aiqing, is what I said right?" The smile on Ying Chang's face disappeared instantly, and he looked at Jia Luo with a solemn face and said.

A look of admiration appeared on Jia Luo's face, and he immediately raised his hand and replied: "Your Majesty Shengming, the ministers are full of admiration, it is indeed as Your Majesty expected, while the population and fertile land are growing, huge problems will also follow, this problem is that the population of Hedong County and Huainan County in Daqin North Prefecture and Zhongzhou is too much, and even some places are already overcrowded!" ”

"Local governments want to expand the county seat and increase the population limit of the city, but the expansion of the city will inevitably encroach on the surrounding fertile land, such as the expansion of Xianyang City is a good example, and now the imperial court is facing two choices!"

"First, expand the city at the cost of losing fertile land, so that more people have a place to live, and second, the migrating population goes to Zhongzhou and Dongzhou, where the population is weak, choose the former, the imperial court will lose money and food, but it will not be too troublesome to solve the problem quickly, and if you choose the latter, the imperial court will lose money and food, and it will be very troublesome, after all, migrating the population is not an easy task!"

"In addition to the danger of overpopulation, the speed of the people to reclaim the fertile land is also a danger, some people in order to cultivate the fertile land, drain or fill the lake, seriously affect the water conservancy and laxative, the people not only to the lake, but also cut down the forest, reclamation, if colleagues have the opportunity to go to Beizhou, you will find that at a glance, whether it is a mountain or a lake, all have become fertile fertile land!"

After hearing this, Yingchang suddenly felt a little difficult, don't look at the choices given by Jarrow, but they are not the best choices.

"You Aiqing think about it, think of what to say, the court discussion, just let you Aiqing think of a way together, it doesn't matter if you can't think of it for a while, anyway, there is a lot of time, think slowly!" Ying Chang looked at the civil and military officials and said.

The hundred officials fell silent, and each fell into deep thought, not only the civil officials were thinking, but also the military attachés were thinking, for a while, the Qilin Hall was silent, silent, quiet enough to hear the sound of needles falling, and Ying Chang did not make a sound to disturb the hundred officials to think of a way, and also fell into contemplation.

Time passed slowly, about half a pillar of incense time later, an old minister in a black peacock complement court uniform walked out of the civil official queue, this old minister's face is very unfamiliar, strange is right, this old minister's name is Li Li, the former Great Jin Empire is the third grade of the household department Zuo Shilang, and now he is also the Great Qin Empire is the third product of the household department Zuo Shilang, but there is no household authority, and he is currently serving in the Zuo Prime Minister's Mansion.

"Your Majesty, the minister has a way!" Li Li bent down in awe to make a report.

In the face of the emperor of the Great Qin Empire, Li Li has always maintained a heart of awe, awe does not mean respect, now they, the promoted officials, will not have respect for Yingchang, and Yingchang does not care, anyway, after a long time, they will naturally be very respectful, just like Qin Chen.

When the civil and military officials heard that someone broke the silence, they looked at Li Li with their eyes, and Ying Chang also subconsciously looked at Li Li, and when he saw Li Li, the promoted official, stood up, Ying Chang couldn't help but smile and said: "Li Aiqing proposed, it seems that these problems can be solved perfectly, haha!" ”

"Your Majesty's praise!" Li Li bent down slightly and replied.

"Say it!" Yingchang said!

"Your Majesty, the minister believes that it is necessary not only to expand the city, but also to relocate, and the imperial court must also issue an order to prohibit the cultivation of lakes and mountains and forests without permission, and those who violate the order will be severely punished to achieve the purpose of protecting lakes and mountains and forests!" Li Li replied with a solemn expression.

"Reason!" Ying Chang simply replied with two words.

"If you only expand the city without migrating the population, it is a symptom but not a cure, the city is dead, people are alive, people can grow automatically, and the city will not, so it won't be long before there will be a population shortage in various places, and then the city will have to be expanded, and it will never stop, which is a huge burden and loss for the court and the people!"

"But if the expansion of the city is accompanied by the migration of a part of the population to a poor place, then it can ensure that there will be no population shortage for at least ten or twenty years, and in addition, it can also solve the problem of land shortage!"

"For example, a certain land can only be cultivated out of 100 acres of fertile land, and there are 10 households here, each of whom has five sons, and the 10 households work hard to open up all the 100 acres of fertile land, and each household gets 10 acres of fertile land, and when the children of the 10 families grow up, they will be separated, and the 10 households will become 50 households, and each household will get 2 acres of fertile land!"

"When these next generation children grow up, they will have to divide their families, and 50 households will become hundreds, how will hundreds of households divide this 100 acres of fertile land? In the face of this situation, they must select a group of people to survive somewhere else, otherwise hundreds of families will all starve to death! ”

"This is the population and resources are not equal, under the asymmetry, a rich land will soon become a poor land, this is the same as the empire, if the population and resources of the empire are not equal, no matter how rich the empire is, within three generations, it will become a poor country!"

Li Li analyzed the problem very thoroughly, so that people can understand it as soon as they hear it!

"If this is the case, how much budget will be needed?" Ying Chang then asked.

"The minister can't tell Your Majesty the exact number, but you can give an approximate budget, there are forty county seats, four county towns and one state capital in the five counties of Beizhou, and it will take about 500,000 taels of silver to expand the state capital, about 200,000 taels of silver to expand the county seat, and about 100,000 taels of silver to expand the county seat!"

"There are also Zhongzhou Hedong County and Huainan County that need to be expanded, there is a county town, a state capital and fourteen county seats, it is estimated that the expansion of each city alone will require a budget of eight million taels of silver, and if you add various expenses such as labor, you need a budget of more than ten million taels of silver!"

"The cost of migrating the population depends on how many people are to be migrated, and if one person is moved, the imperial court needs to give ten taels of silver as compensation, and if the relocated person has fields and houses in the same place, the imperial court will also have to compensate for it, and the population density of the two counties west of Beizhou and Zhongzhou will be at least two million people to be migrated, and a budget of about thirty or forty million taels of silver will be required!" Li Li said with a solemn expression.

I have to say that the court does not need to compensate the people for the fertile land that was encroached upon by the expansion of the city, nor can it be said that it will not compensate for the real money, but only for the houses, for example, the expansion of Xianyang City has embezzled a lot of people's fertile land, and the imperial court will not compensate the people for silver, only compensate for the house, and if one mu is embezzled, the court will compensate for a house.