"Since the southwestern countries have promised to the family, the territories of Zhu Yizhou and Yizhou should also be planned to be recovered." Yuan Shu said resentfully.

Although Cai Mao's move this time was arranged and formulated by him, Yuan Shu was also very happy to see this result, but he did not ignore Yuan Shu, the black hand behind this matter.

Cai Mao has a cautious and timid personality, this kind of plan that seems to be seamless, but in fact has many loopholes, he can take the risk of implementing, and there is definitely a group of people who will wipe his ass in the back. No matter how stupid Yuan Shu was, he knew that it must be those families who were making trouble in the southwestern countries.

Insatiable and insatiable appetite is the perfect way to describe these families.

On the original historical trajectory, they were unwilling to be the managers of this country, and constantly took advantage of the troubled times to absorb the nutrients of this country to strengthen themselves, and gradually came to the front of the stage and became the controllers who replaced the emperor. The period from the Jin Dynasty to the Sui and Tang dynasties was completely a gluttonous feast for the family, and the imperial power was just a bargaining chip for their compromise, and their power developed to the extreme.

And now, with Yuan Shu's pressure and guidance, these people are no longer ready to fight the idea of this country, but have set their sights on a broader foreign country. The southwestern countries opened up by Yuan Shu were a feast for them, but the territory was a little too small.

A family that can "blow up" a big man, if it is really all scattered abroad, it is estimated that there is no problem in controlling an Asia. Not to mention anything else, behemoths like the Xiang Xun family, the Cai family, and the Lu family, as long as there is enough population, it is not a matter at all to manage and control a state.

Yuan Shu can now be said to have let go of a crazy giant beast, a giant beast that is enough to sweep the world. At the end of the Han Dynasty, in the era of demons dancing wildly, there were many good generals and talents on the surface, and there were countless hidden talents within these families. Maybe these people are not as strong as Xun Yu and Chen Qun, but their abilities are definitely not bad, and the most important thing is that there are a lot of them, such as Xun's Balong, Sima Bada, Ma's Wuchang, and Chen's Sanjun, and there are as many talents as a cow's hair.

The Han Dynasty died because there were too many people, too many families, and too many talents. There are too many people, there is no food supply, and people are everywhere; There are too many families, wealth is wildly concentrated, and small armed forces are everywhere; There are too many talents, heroes everywhere, and countless civil and military forces. The Han Dynasty is not just talking about it, the royal family is weak, but the Han Dynasty is very strong. To put it bluntly, the Han Dynasty's talent pool and population management are three or five times that of the Han Dynasty's territory. Just by looking at the Three Kingdoms of later generations, you can know that which of these three countries is not full of talents, and there is no problem for each of them to manage such a large territory as the Han Dynasty.

The southwestern regions released by Yuan Shu could not satisfy the appetite of the families at all, and their eyes had long been impatiently focused on the body poison and Guishuang around them, and even the rest was targeted by them.

Zhuge Liang's refusal was not a reason to stop them. These families have been holding back for hundreds of years, and it is not something that Zhuge Liang can block back with a word. If you don't do it on the surface, you have already used continuous means in the dark. Now the chaotic situation within Guishan is completely what they are best at, constantly cultivating and infiltrating, and the minions of the family have already slowly infiltrated into Guishan.

As for the body poison, although it is also a big country, there are only more than 100,000 soldiers, and it can only rely on the geographical advantage to protect itself under the invasion of Guishan. Even the army of Yizhou is not needed, as long as Yuan Shu gives an order, the families themselves can solve it. But Yuan Shu is not Yuan Shao, there is no shortage of troops and money and food, there is no need to compromise with the families for such a trivial matter, and the families of the country of the hundred times cannot move at all.

Yuan Shu knew that the family had a big appetite, but he didn't care, as long as he followed his path, it would be "foreign" anyway, which would be of great benefit to the Han people. But he didn't want to affect the matter because of these people's haste and behavior, he didn't want to stop the family, but to grasp a degree for the family.

How big this world is, Yuan Shu couldn't be clearer, that is, no matter how big the appetite of the family is, he can't eat it. The combined land area of the four empires is only a little more than a tenth of the entire world. As long as the population is enough, you can have as much land as you want.

The family is like this, and Yuan Shu naturally has to be punished a little. At the same time, it is also a preventive shot for the families to prepare for the expansion of the territory of Dachu in the future.

"Your Majesty, this matter should not be rushed, Zhu Yizhou and Yizhou have just been developed for only a few years, although they have been developed well, but the population of our Dachu is still not enough to fill. When the families leave, the people under their control will definitely leave with them, and if the population is not replenished, this area will probably be abandoned again. Tian Feng advised.

"Population!" Hearing the problem of population, Yuan Shu became worried again: "The territory is still so big, how did the situation of being full of displaced people become scarce?" ”

"Your Majesty has been through the continuous efforts of the farmer's disciples over the years and the techniques such as superior hybrid fertilization proposed by Your Majesty, the yield per mu of my Dachu grain has increased by at least more than two percent on average, and it is still increasing. In addition, Yangzhou and Jingzhou are now mostly converted to rice, and during this time, an excellent early-maturing rice variety (Zhancheng rice) was also found in the southwestern countries. In addition, the continuous development of cultivated land in Yangzhou, Jingzhou, and Jiaozhou, as well as the return of private land after the evacuation of the families, now our food production in Dachu is indeed far exceeding the demand. Tian Feng said with a strange expression.

He never imagined that this would happen in troubled times, the granaries were already full of rice, and this year many large granaries were built. Today's grain reserves in Dachu, even if there is no harvest in the next few years, are enough to support, and a lot of grain is about to become moldy because of improper management.

"My Dachu's current grain production is enough to feed twice the current population, which is indeed too rich. If it weren't for our government's stubborn support for grain prices, it is estimated that this year's grain prices would have fallen by 50 yuan per stone. In order to maintain the price of grain at 100 cents per stone, it is estimated that we have lost about 300 million yuan this year. Zhang Zhao, who was in charge of grain, said with a wry smile.

What does a hundred dollars per stone of grain mean? At the time of the peaceful and prosperous times, the price of grain hovered between 200 yuan and 300 yuan, and now the price of grain in Cao Cao and Liu Bei in the Central Plains is more than 1,300 yuan per stone, and the price of grain in Yuan Shao in Hebei is also more than 900 yuan. This is still the result of Yuan Shu's intervention, otherwise the real grain price at the end of the Han Dynasty would not have been lower than 2,000, or even 5,000 or even tens of thousands, and the cost of Yuan Shu to win over Lu Bu was only 200,000 stone of grain, which was barely enough for 80,000 foot soldiers to eat for a year.

"Can't we cut the agricultural population? Didn't I tell you to develop handicrafts and animal husbandry? Yuan Shu frowned.

"We are already trying our best to cut it, and the proportion of people engaged in agriculture in Dachu has dropped by nearly 10% last year. However, with the popularization of ox carts and the improvement of agricultural tools, the area of cultivated land is still increasing, and the number of people has decreased, but the output has not decreased. Zhang Zhao smiled bitterly.

Having just experienced that dark and troubled era and starving days, how could these people easily relax their hearts? Although there is enough food, many people are still working hard, and they are not tired at all, and he does not know whether to stop it. Every time he looked at the mountains of grain in the warehouse, Zhang Zhao felt half happy and half sad in his heart, and he was quite happy and worried.