Chen Mo's busy days did not last too long, after the structure of the Prime Minister's Mansion was completed, he could start running immediately, in the past three years when the Son of Heaven lived in seclusion, the affairs of the imperial court were basically in charge of Shang Shuling and the General's Mansion, but now there is a Prime Minister's Mansion, Shang Shuling has been replaced by Xun You, but the operation is still running like that.

After the new law of the Central Plains was changed, it gradually stabilized, once this physical structure was formed, what the imperial court had to do was to supervise, and what Chen Mo did every day was to select the more important chapters of Xun You and Jia Xu for review, as well as further encouragement for folk agriculture.

Efficient manure in the state, Guanzhong, river. The successful promotion of the north, and later Chen Mo was specialized in people in several locust plagues in the more frequent areas began to treat locusts, not to mention the radical cure, but in recent years, even if the locust plague appeared, the scale is far less than in the past, Guanzhong now as long as there is no natural disaster, basically a bumper harvest year after year, from the beginning of the destruction of Li Guo and the two, Chen Mo began to implement the policy of encouraging childbirth in Guanzhong, nearly 20 years, in the latest household registration visit, only in Guanzhong, there are nearly 10 million people, that is, more than the peak of the population of Guanzhong.

You must know that after the Li Guo Rebellion, when Chen Mo checked the population in Guanzhong, the population was less than 3 million at that time, and it tripled in 20 years.

Policy is on the one hand, the promotion of manure makes the same field, can produce more food, coupled with the upgrading of agricultural tools, Diannong Zhonglang will have begun to cultivate higher yield grain in Xiliang, Bingzhou and other places in recent years, if these measures can also be used in the Central Plains, Chen Mo feels that the population of the world is probably much more than in the heyday of the Han Dynasty.

It is precisely because he tasted the sweetness of industry, so after Chen Mo stabilized the political situation, he began to increase the encouragement of agriculture and industry, and the scale of the personnel in the palace continued to expand, and now almost all counties have craftsmen affiliated to the imperial court, who are responsible for the construction of water conservancy in various places.

Chen Mo fights, no matter who he can afford to spend with, the confidence comes from Guanzhong, whether it is population or financial resources, before the conquest of Cao Cao, Chen Mo is the most in the world, and now the Central Plains has fallen, in terms of manpower and material resources, Chen Mo has an absolute advantage, if it is not blocked by mountains and rivers, it is not difficult for Chen Mo to pacify the world.

In the scorching summer, the sun is like fire.

Chen Mo was fine today, so he nested at home, it was too hot, sitting in the shade of a tree, touching the neck of the black dog next to him, while thinking about the cold of winter.

Cai Yan brought Zhen Mi and Diao Chan over, and Diao Chan was still holding a tray in his hand, and the tray contained melons and fruits.

"Husband, this is a melon and fruit sent from the Western Regions, husband taste it." Cai Yan put the fruit plate on the stone table in front of Chen Mo and said with a smile.

Since Xu Rong took charge of the Western Regions Protectorate, the Han Dynasty and the Western Regions began to re-contact, Hua Xiong will lead the army to the Western Regions every year, although many countries in the Western Regions have not re-attached to the Han Dynasty, but they do not dare to provoke, every year they will send a lot of strange objects from the Western Regions, the melons and fruits of the Western Regions are very sought-after in Luoyang, and Chen Mo is also quite fond of them.

"It's rare to have peace in the world now, in fact, it's not bad like this, but this thing, after all, there are only a few people in the world who can eat it, and I don't know when everyone in the world can eat it." Chen Mo reached out and picked up a watermelon, ate two bites, and enjoyed the juice with a hint of coolness sliding into his stomach, being able to eat watermelon in summer is really a kind of enjoyment, this thing has also begun to be tried in Dahan, as for whether it can be done, it depends on the side of the farmer Zhonglang.

"The concubine knows that her husband cares about the people of Li, but the manpower is poor, and what the husband does, the ancient Mingjun is nothing more than that." Cai Yan and Zhen Mi sat on Chen Mo's left and right, the two women have been obsessed with Chen Mo the most these days, and their faces are radiant, even if Cai Yan is no longer young, but the charm still exists, plus the husband and wife for many years, Chen Mo respects this wife and also loves it, not because of her appearance, this thing will disappear with age, what really makes him still love this married wife is because with her, Chen Mo will be very comfortable, which other women can't give him.

"The power of one person is poor, and the power of many people is infinite, you see if it was placed twenty years ago, Guanzhong may be as prosperous as it is today? Just because you can't do it today doesn't mean you won't be able to do it in the future. Chen Mo smiled and beckoned to his son who was playing on the side: "Rui'er, have you finished reading the book that your father gave you?" ”

"The child has finished reading." Chen Rui straightened up and said, "Father, the child has a doubt that he has been puzzled about. ”

"Oh?" Chen Mo smiled: "Let's talk about it." ”

"Why is there war in this world?" Chen Rui said curiously.

"Why do you ask this?" Chen Mo raised his eyebrows and asked with a smile.

"The child flipped through the ancient books, the ancient Yaoshun period, there were not many records of wars, but why since the Shang and Zhou dynasties, the practice has always been disputed, from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, it was not easy for Qin to destroy the six kingdoms and unify the world, but for decades, the world is chaotic, although my Han has four hundred years of national fortune, but during it is also a constant dispute, and Wang Mang is chaotic country, in fact, the child feels that the Han after Wang Mang is no longer the Han of Gaozu." Chen Rui asked with a puzzled expression.

"Rui'er, don't talk nonsense!" Zhen Mi was taken aback, and hurriedly scolded, can this kind of thing be said nonsense?

"It doesn't matter." Chen Mo waved his hand and said: "There are some things, you don't have to hide them, your family is together, it doesn't hurt to talk about it, cicada, go get pen, ink, paper and inkstone." ”

"Huh~" Diao Chan agreed, quickly took a pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and spread the paper on the stone table in front of Chen Mo.

Chen Mo thought about it carefully, and outlined the current territory of the Han Dynasty on the paper, although it may not be accurate, but Chen Mo's painting skills are not bad, and he pointed to the drawings and said: "This is the territory that my Han actually occupies now." ”

Chen Rui looked down at the drawings, a drawing for a child, it is impossible to imagine how big the territory of the Han is.

"There are two kinds of what my son said before, the first is the internal power struggle, such as the rebellion of the Seven Kings, and the chaos of the Lu family, these are all small chaos, and they are caused by the power disputes within the court, regardless of this for the time being, you are too young to understand this thing now, I don't understand, today I will tell you why there seems to be no war when Yao Shun was in the time." Chen Mo smiled.

Chen Rui nodded hurriedly, looking at his father with big eyes flickering.

"First of all, the Yao Shun era is too far away from us, and there is no exact time record, this Xia Dynasty has been at least two thousand years, and the words that have been handed down at that time are quite rare, let alone documents, so what I said is that there is no war is too one-sided, there have been, but there is no text circulating." Chen Mo sketched a few strokes on the map: "This is probably the territory of the Xia Dynasty, what do I think?" ”

"It's so small!" Chen Rui looked down and frowned.

"It's very small, so the country is small, the people are few, and the enemy at that time guessed that it was not the enemy country, but the jackals, tigers and leopards in the mountains, and the sickness, etc., so it's not that there is no war, it's just that the scale of the war is small, and there is no written circulation, we don't know." Chen Mo smiled.

Chen Rui thought for a while and said, "Then now that my Han territory is larger, why are there constant wars?" ”

"Food." Chen Mo thought for a while and sighed: "There is always a certain truth in everything in this world, anything will appear if it is solved, and when the jackals, tigers and leopards are no longer a threat to our human race, a new threat will also appear." ”

"Is the new threat food?" Chen Rui said curiously.

"Hmm." Chen Mo nodded: "At that time, the cultivation was definitely not as good as now, now after the continuous replacement of manure and farm tools, the yield per mu is about four hundred and fifty catties, and when my father was young, if I planted millet, I remember that one mu was about three hundred and sixty catties, so to speak, if I eat one pound of grain a day, the yield of this mu is probably only enough for me to eat for a year, but this land must be good land, and it must not encounter natural disasters and man-made disasters, otherwise I will be hungry, and my father will not eat more than one pound a day, as well as food, clothing, housing and transportation at home, as well as taxes from the imperial court, So to feed a family of five, at least ten acres of fertile land are needed, if it is a thin field, then it needs twenty acres or even more, but many people, in fact, do not have so many fields, so calculated, a city to 10,000 households, it needs 100,000 acres of fertile land to plant, the Han Dynasty now has recorded county roads have 1,135 counties, naturally it is impossible for every county to be 10,000 households, many counties in the border areas may not even be enough for 1,000 households, in the heyday of the Han Dynasty, according to 10 million households, that feed these 10 million households, It needs 100 billion mu of fertile land (100 million was 100,000 in ancient times), but it can't be all fertile land, so it may cost 400 billion or 500 billion or even more. ”

"Father, I understand, the big man doesn't have enough farming." Chen Rui said suddenly.

"Enough, according to the data roughly calculated in the Central Plains at present, plus the fields in Guanzhong and Hebei, there are more than 600 billion mu, and if Yangzhou, Jingzhou, and Yizhou are added, now the Han will cultivate more than one trillion acres!" Chen Mo smiled.

"Then why ......" Chen Rui was puzzled.

"When I was a child, my family only had five acres of thin fields, and my life in the village was not good, but it was not the worst." Chen Mo touched his son's head and said: "Among the 10,000 households, there may be 1,000 households that occupy 80,000 acres of fertile land, and it needs 9,000 households to divide it. ”

"Then why not divide it equally?" Chen Rui said curiously.

"If you reclaim a hundred acres of fertile land by yourself, are you willing to let you share it with others?" Chen Mo asked with a smile.

"I don't want to." Xiao Chen Rui said with certainty.

"They don't want to." Chen Mo touched his son's head and said: "The questions in this actually don't stop there, but the rest of the answers, you have to think about them yourself in the future, and think about them now, it's too far away, you just need to learn the knowledge well, and you will verify them one by one in the future." ”

"Got it." Chen Rui nodded and said with a serious face.

The family no longer dwelled on this, but turned to talk about some recent interesting things in Luoyang, such a quiet and pleasant day is a rare enjoyment for Chen Mo......