What is the most expensive in the 21st century?

Talent!

What is most lacking from ancient times to the present?

Talent!

But there is no shortage of talents in Jimo, only people.

In other words, what Yang Shaofeng lacks now is a capable labor coolie, not the so-called talent.

"Aren't Renhe County and Haining County affected?" Yang Shaofeng said with a straight face: "The next days of the people will not be very easy. It just so happens that let's ask Lao Zheng to borrow a few treasure ships to transport people, or let them come to Jimo by land, our problem of lack of people has been solved, and the people have a way to live, wouldn't it kill two birds with one stone? ”

"Doesn't it work?"

Zhu Zhanji hesitated: "Will anyone be willing to come?" ”

Yang Shaofeng said: "Do you understand whether there are dates or not?" If you can coax one to be one, one more person is one more force, isn't it? ”

Zhu Zhanji just nodded, and then shook his head again: "No." ”

Yang Shaofeng said: "What's wrong? ”

Zhu Zhanji rubbed his chin and said: "The local disaster has occurred, and there are still permanent liquidations and reserve warehouses, the people can survive, and who is willing to leave their hometowns?" ”

As soon as he heard Zhu Zhanji mention the regular closing and reserve positions, Yang Shaofeng suddenly became depressed.

Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Chongba has set up a system of reserve warehouses, and each county has set up a reserve warehouse in the east, south, west, and north corners, which stores enough grain for the people of a county to eat for two years to prepare for the famine year, which is guarded by the rich households in each county.

After Zhu Laosi's martyrdom, on the one hand, it was because the treasury was empty, on the other hand, it was also due to the war, and natural disasters gradually began to increase, so that there was not much food in the reserve warehouse.

And sixteen years after Yongle, Xia Yuanji can finally raise his eyebrows and shout that Lao Tzu is rich, and then the reserve warehouses in various places began to be full again, and Zhu Laosi began to toss the community warehouse, the righteous warehouse, in short, the grain storage and grain storage, and the grain storage must be used for three years after the disaster in any state and county.

And it is Zhu Laosi's way of doing this that makes Yang Shaofeng have a headache now.

It is a fact that Renhe County and Haining County were affected, but it is also a fact that there is grain in the reserve warehouse in the county.

The only consequence of having food is that the people are unwilling to leave their homes - is it uncomfortable to wait for the government to provide relief?

Rubbing his chin and pondering for a long time, Yang Shaofeng spoke: "I remember that there are a lot of lowly people over there?" Even if they are given citizenship now, it is estimated that there is not much land to be distributed to them.

It just so happens that there is no shortage of land here in Jimo, and the land that ends will be scored sooner or later, who is not a score? ”

Zhu Zhanji snorted, then frowned again, and said, "Do you remember the border city?" At that time, when the border city was first built, how many people were there? Later, how many people are there in the entire border city?

There is also the Yang family Zhuangzi, when Yongle was thirteen years old, how many babies were there in Zhuangzi? How many babies are there in Zhuangzi now? There is also Suncheonfu, which is almost the same situation.

Do you remember that you asked me to go through the changes in household registration of the past dynasties?

I found that in any dynasty, from the barren fields at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the withering of Dingkou, to the dense Dingkou, and the people have no land to divide, most of them will not exceed 100 years.

In fact, most of the dynasties since the Zhou Dynasty have only had two or three hundred years of national fortune, and those that have lasted for four hundred years like a strong man are basically impossible to find.

After discovering this problem, I went through other related files and found an even more surprising problem! ”

Yang Shaofeng didn't care at all that the topic had gone astray, but stared at Zhu Zhanji meaningfully and said, "What's the problem?" ”

Zhu Zhanji said: "The price of things is getting more and more expensive, more and more land is gathering in the hands of magnates, gentry, wealthy businessmen and others, and the people are getting poorer and poorer. ”

"And then?"

"And then it was a change of dynasty." Zhu Zhanji's face was full of helplessness: "It seems to be a dead end, no matter how you go, the final result seems to be the same." I'm particularly worried now, will Daming one day also end up in the same dead end? ”

Yang Shaofeng was silent for a while, and then asked, "Have you thought of a solution?" ”

Zhu Zhanji shook his head and said, "No." When the border city first appeared, I thought it was a solution, but later I found that it didn't work.

When the construction of the Imperial City of Suncheonfu began, I thought that the method of Suncheonfu should be able to solve this problem, but it turned out that it still didn't work. ”

After thinking about it, Zhu Zhanji seemed to simply spread out his hole cards: "Later, after we arrived in Jimo, I thought that what you instructed Tang Sai'er to do could be solved, but in fact, it could be relieved for a while, but it could not be completely solved." ”

Yang Shaofeng snorted, but asked a few irrelevant questions: "The sheep kidneys on the grassland, do you want to make up for it?" Let's Jimo's oysters, do you want to make up for them? ”

Zhu Zhanji looked at Yang Shaofeng suspiciously: "What do these things have to do with what I said?" ”

Yang Shaofeng sighed and said: "You say, how much is the sheep's kidney in the border city worth on the grassland?" How much is it worth to ship to Suncheon? How much are Jimo's oysters worth in Jimo? You can buy four for a penny! But how much is this thing worth when it is transported to Shuntianfu? What if it's a border city? ”

Although he didn't know the purpose of Yang Shaofeng's question, Zhu Zhanji still replied honestly: "Sheep kidneys are naturally worthless in the border city, although the price of two cents a piece is not cheap, but it is much cheaper than ten cents a piece in Shuntianfu.

Oysters are naturally the same, including lychees from Lingnan, coal slime, coking coal, blankets, and North Korean ginseng, which are actually the same. ”

Yang Shaofeng said: "That's right, what do places like Liaodong and Shandong need it?" The slime of the border city is needed, and the border city and Shuntianfu need the oysters of Jimo.

Many things that cannot be sold locally are often shipped to other places but can be sold at high prices, and the people can profit, the merchants can make profits, and the treasury can make profits.

What's more, as you just said, the reason why the people rebel is because they can't eat enough and don't have warm clothes, which means that they can't live anymore - they are all dead anyway, there is still a glimmer of life in rebellion, and if you don't rebel, you can only wait for death.

What we are doing now is actually to divert the people's attention from the land, whether it is to work, or to do business, or to study, or to join the army, in short, to find a way to live for the people.

The people have a way to live, even if it is more difficult, they will not think of rebellion, and this problem is basically solved. ”

After thinking about it, Yang Shaofeng continued: "Of course, we don't have to worry too much about this issue now.

Just like in Jiaozhi, the army of the Ming Dynasty found land that could be cultivated for the people, such as Nuergandusi, such a large piece of land, empty and empty, it is better to give the people cattle and seed farming tools, let them go to the wasteland to cultivate, the final benefit is the people Yes, but the dynasty has become more stable because of this. ”

Zhu Zhanji groaned: "That's really the case. However, it is still the problem I just mentioned, when the people slowly become richer, the population growth will inevitably accelerate, and the land of Jimo is limited, have you ever thought about this problem? ”

Yang Shaofeng was stunned and said, "Didn't I say it just now?" There is still a large area of land in Nurgandus, and if it is too cold, there is also a large area of land on the other side of Cochin.

In addition, arranging for people to work in the workshop, there is a way to make money and make a living, where is the problem? ”

"Where's the grain?"

Zhu Zhanji asked rhetorically: "No matter how you argue, you will not be able to get around the food problem in the end.

In particular, if you arrange for the people to work and make the people rich, the faster they will have children, the greater the consumption of food, and the land will still be these lands, and what should the extra people eat when the time comes? Do you eat dirt? ”

was said by Zhu Zhanji, Yang Shaofeng was also stunned for a moment - it seems, there is nothing wrong?

In later generations, there was hybrid rice tossed out by Old Man Yuan, where did anyone in Daming study hybrid rice?

Of course, it's not true that no one tosses.

Jiashen had previously started to study hybrid crops - but before anything could be studied, the ground was burned, and the person who started the research was also hanged, leaving only a half-claw record in his family's family tree.

As for the Yongle period, in this era when no one started tossing hybrid rice or other high-yield crops, and when the land, sweet potatoes, and corn were not introduced into the Ming Dynasty, if the grain output could not keep up with the growth rate of the population, then the consequences would indeed be as Zhu Zhanji said.

Rebel.

After being silent for a long time, Yang Shaofeng said, "Then what do you say to do?" Stop all this, and then leave the people to fend for themselves, and set a more stringent law to prevent the annexation of the land? ”

Zhu Zhanji shook his head blankly: "I don't know either." But I don't want to stop it, on the contrary, I want it to continue. ”

After a slight pause, Zhu Zhanji continued: "Even if Da Ming really wants to walk into that dead end that can't be escaped, I want to try to see if I can make a hole in this dead end, even if I die on the south wall, it's better than doing nothing, and then quietly waiting for the reincarnation once in two or three hundred years, right?" ”

Yang Shaofeng suddenly found that he was led astray by Zhu Zhanji, the second fool: "There is less land in Jimo, and there is more land in Jiaozhi and Nuergandusi!"

Also, from the west of the Western Regions, are there many other countries? Do you remember the last time I discussed with Dingguo Gong and them, how much land will be newly included in the territory of the Ming Dynasty in the middle of building roads and cities until Europa?

And if you want to kill those barbarians, it will take decades or even hundreds of years to defeat them one by one, right?

Let's not talk about how many people will die in the middle, let's just say that in the past 100 years, will we find more land? Is it possible to make more productive food? ”