"Haha!"

Knowing that the battle had been won at the front and the prestige of the country had been greatly enhanced, all the ministers showed bright smiles and let out bursts of applause.

Ying Chang's face also showed a smile of relief, and the small stone he raised in his heart fell down, but when he loosened the small stone, he also mentioned a bigger stone in his heart, Ying Chang knew very well that with Wei Shang's style of acting, when he learned that his army was defeated by the Qin army, he would definitely use the whole country to fight against the Qin army, and it was also very likely that he would drive the expedition himself.

Although the national strength of the Southern Wei Dynasty has dropped greatly, there is still a battle force, and there are many fierce generals, which is definitely a lot of pressure on Yang Hu, Yingchang is really worried that Yang Hu will fall in the Southern Wei Dynasty, after all, Wei Shang can destroy the two dynasties of Wu and Yue, and he must not be a fool.

"Pay close attention to General Yang's battle situation, no matter what happens, report to me as soon as possible!" Ying Chang looked at Yang Ze with a solemn expression and said.

"Obey the order!" Yang Ze bent down solemnly in response, and then retreated to his position, letting the next person who wanted to report start playing.

Jialuo, the head of the household department, walked out of the civil official queue, stood in the center of the main hall and bent down towards Yingchang to make a report: "Your Majesty, the minister has something important to do!" ”

"Quasi-play!" Yingchang snorted softly!

Jia Luo raised his hand with a solemn expression and said: "Your Majesty, as of December 30, the 26th year of the Holy Qin, according to the repeated and strict investigations of the household department and local governments, the five prefectures within the Great Qin Pass have an additional population of 3.6 million, 800,000 births, old age, sickness and death, and the three states outside the Guanxi have an additional population of 1.6 million, with 400,000 births, old age, sickness and death, and the total population of Great Qin has increased by 4 million throughout the year!" ”

"Today, the population of Daqin Pass has reached 27.7 million, of which Beizhou accounts for 9.3 million people, Zhongzhou accounts for 8 million people, Dongzhou accounts for 6.2 million people, Fuzhou accounts for 2.7 million people, and Wuzhou accounts for 1.5 million people!"

"Among the five states in the Great Qin Pass, Dongzhou's population has increased the most, with an additional population of 700,000 a year, followed by Zhongzhou and Beizhou, Fuzhou and Wuzhou have gradually begun to recover on a large scale!"

"The total population of the three states outside the Great Qin Pass has reached 11.4 million, of which Guzhou accounts for 3.9 million people, Yuanzhou accounts for 3.8 million people, Ningzhou accounts for 3.7 million people, and the total population inside and outside the Great Qin Pass has reached 39.1 million!"

"Of the 39.1 million, 29 million are women, children, old and young, and 10 million are young and strong!"

"As of December 30, the 26th year of the Holy Qin Dynasty, according to the repeated strict inspections by the household department and local governments, 13 million mu of fertile land has been added to the whole country in Daqin, which is 5 million mu more than the new number last year, making the total number of fertile land in Daqin exceed 57 million mu!"

"Among them, Beizhou accounts for 19 million mu, Zhongzhou accounts for 17 million mu, Dongzhou accounts for 15 million mu, Fuzhou accounts for 4 million mu, and Wuzhou accounts for 2 million mu!"

After hearing these words, the smile on Ying Chang's face became richer and richer, as the emperor, the monarch of a country, seeing that the country was rich and the people were strong during his reign, it was definitely the happiest time in the emperor's life.

"Now, what is the price of my Daqin grain?" Yingchang asked Jia Luo with a smile.

If you want to know whether the people are doing well, just ask about the price of grain, low food price means that the people are not short of food and will not go hungry, and high food price means that the people are short of food, and there will be things of hunger.

"Back to Your Majesty, the average grain price of the countries is one tael of silver and one stone of grain, and the price of grain in Daqin is sixty wen yuan per stone of grain, which is lower than the grain price of forty wen yuan in other countries!" Jarrow replied respectfully.

"In this way, the people will not lack food, and there will even be a lot of more food, so where will all this extra food end up flowing into?" Ying Chang continued to ask with a calm expression.

"This—" Jarrow stopped talking, a look of embarrassment on his face.

He really couldn't answer where the excess grain flowed in, after all, it was not within the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Households.

Seeing this, Zhang Feizi, who was standing at the top of the civil officials, immediately took a step forward, bent down respectfully and saluted: "Your Majesty, the surplus grain in the whole country generally flows into the countries through the hands of merchants, because the price of grain in Daqin is very low, businessmen from all countries like to come to Daqin to purchase grain, so as to make profits!" ”

"Today, my Great Qin is already the largest food supplier to the countries of Kyushu, and ninety percent of the grain bought by the people of the Qi Dynasty is Qin grain!"

As soon as Ying Chang heard this, he was immediately happy, good guy, Daqin has quietly become the largest food supplier.

It seems that Daqin is going to have another title again.

Ying Chang thought for a moment, and then said sonorously: "The price of grain has to be reduced, at least to ten cents a stone!" ”

"Ten pennies and one stone!"

"Oh my God, how is this possible!"

"yes!"

All the ministers immediately discussed, and they didn't think that it was impossible to do ten pennies and one stone.

"Your Majesty, the price of grain depends on the amount of output, the higher the output, the lower the price of grain, but the output of my Daqin is not very high, if it were not for the huge foundation of fertile land, with the current population of my Daqin, it would have been insufficient for food!"

"In addition, if the price of grain is too low, the people will have no profits, and if there is no profit, the people will not be willing to farm, but according to the law of our Great Qin, the fertile land shall not be wasted, so if you are not willing to plant, you have to plant, if this situation continues for a long time, first, the people will complain, and second, the people will have no extra money except for the food that cannot be eaten!"

"Reducing food prices seems to be the law of enriching the people, but it is actually the law of the weak people, please think twice, don't forcibly reduce food prices!" Jarrow frowned, and bent down solemnly.

"Haha!" Ying Chang chuckled, "Who told you that I want to forcibly lower the price of grain, what I mean is, why can't you let an acre of land grow a few stones of grain?" As long as one acre of land can harvest three or four more stones, then the decline in grain prices will not affect the profits of the people at all, and can even make the people more profits! ”

"Maybe you will think, how can an acre of land harvest a few more stones of grain than usual, even if it encounters a bumper harvest, it is just a few more buckets, but you have not thought about developing a new type of rice seed?"

"This kind of rice seed can be harvested in two or even three seasons a year, or one ear of rice can grow hundreds of grains of rice, so that there is more grain, the price of grain has also risen, the people are richer, and the court no longer has to worry about the problem of food!"

When the ministers heard these words, they were dumbfounded, not that they were shocked by this idea, but that they didn't understand it at all, in their cognition, everything in the world is prescribed by God, how could it be possible to change the rules and let the crops grow for two or three seasons?