Chapter 298: This Is Your Territory
"Relocation...... Migration? ”
Cao Yang and the others looked at Li Yuanjing with a confused expression, this ...... Is this going to be a distribution frontier?
No, this is not a frontier at all, this is not the territory of Datang!
"You should be grateful to the imperial court for opening up the new Donghai Prefecture, and now is the time to migrate, otherwise, what kind of life will you live after returning to the Tang Dynasty? Does this still use this king? Li Yuanjing said directly, although there is some compulsion, but in the current era, this is already a blessing.
"Your Highness, Prime Minister Fang, please move over for a moment!"
Just when Li Yuanjing continued to talk about some of the policies of the imperial court, someone suddenly came to report.
Li Yuanjing looked at it with some surprise, Fang Xuanling would come over in person to say anything in the past, why did he let himself go this time? Could it be that something happened again?
With a lot of doubt, Li Yuanjing left these soldiers behind and went straight to Fang Xuanling's office not far away.
This goods has moved all the information of Tamna here, and during this time, he has been mysteriously flipping through all kinds of materials, although he admires it very much, but Li Yuanjing still can't understand it.
"Your Highness, the plan to move to Tamna may be about to change!" Seeing Li Yuanjing, Fang Xuanling didn't say much, and went straight to the point.
"Why?" Li Yuanjing was a little puzzled, and continued to ask: "Isn't it a matter of a long time ago to settle 10,000 families of military families here, and another 50,000 families to settle ordinary people?" Without so many immigrants, how can we swallow those natives? ”
Swallowing the natives can also be regarded as assimilating the natives, the speed of the industrialization depends on the number of Han people who have migrated over, the more the number, the faster the assimilation speed, on the contrary, if the number of migrants is equal to or inferior to the other party, then it is undoubtedly a tug-of-war for hundreds of years or directly assimilated by the other party.
This is something that Li Yuanjing cannot tolerate, why assimilate? It is to let this land belong to China and the Han people forever, and let some ideas completely disappear from here at this moment.
"There is not enough arable land!" Fang Xuanling naturally knew the importance of devouring the natives, but another more serious problem lay in front of him.
“???” Li Yuanjing looked confused, such a big Tamluo Island, I'm afraid there is no problem in housing millions of people, right? You told me that there wasn't enough arable land?
"According to the official records of Tamna, the amount of cultivated land in the entire Tamna is only less than one million mu, the old man found someone to understand, the size of one acre of land is not much different from Datang, and this is almost all the area that can be cultivated in Tamna, even if it is being developed, the amount of cultivated land developed is also limited, and many places are not suitable for cultivation at all, and the government has tried before, but none of them have failed." Fang Xuanling's tone was a little solemn.
He has been sorting out all kinds of information these days, and he was really shocked when he saw the area of cultivated land.
The climate here is so good, and there is no shortage of water resources, it is like a natural cultivated land, at first when he saw this result, Fang Xuanling was still a little unconvinced, and after confirming it again and again, he found a few local officials to understand, but finally had to temporarily accept this statement.
"Let's calculate the cultivated area of 1.2 million mu for the time being, according to the previous plan, 200 mu per person, which is enough to resettle about 6,000 people, according to the current average of five people per household in Datang, that is, 1,200 households......"
"Are you sure you're right? Where did all the grain come from in the Tamna storehouse? Where did the food for the 100,000 natives come from? Li Yuanjing felt unbelievable, such a large Tamna Island could only accommodate 6,000 people?
And on the premise of counting all the cultivated land, if some is left for the natives, wouldn't Datang only be able to settle a few hundred households here?
What is this special purpose to assimilate others? Or are you here to bring meat to someone else to eat?
"There is no miscalculation, the old man has learned about these, and found that the fertility of the land here is acceptable, even if there are no auxiliary measures, the yield per mu can reach two stones, and the people here are not good at farming, basically sowing the seeds and waiting for the harvest, if it is carefully managed, according to past experience, the yield per mu is likely to double, and no matter how bad it is, it will reach between three and four stones, and this is only a preliminary estimate of the minimum yield.
According to the monthly grain consumption of each household, a household needs about 12 stone of grain a year, that is to say, only three or four acres of land are enough for a family's own use, and counting the daily expenses, a maximum of 20 acres of land is enough to ensure that a household can live a carefree life. Fang Xuanling said.
With Fang Xuanling's words, Li Yuanjing is becoming more and more confused, three or four acres of land can provide a family's rations, according to Fang Xuanling's words, twenty acres of land outside is everyone's idea of running to a well-off?
The monthly food consumption of one stone per household is not much in the absence of other non-staple foods, but it is not too little.
If converted, one stone is equivalent to about one hundred and six catties, which is equivalent to about twenty-one catties of food per person per month according to the calculation of five people in each household.
Taking into account the separation of adults and children for men and women, it is basically possible to ensure that men in the prime of life can ensure one pound of rations per day, and although women and children are correspondingly reduced, they can also eat enough.
Li Yuanjing felt as if he had fallen into a spell, looked at Fang Xuanling in confusion, and subconsciously asked: "Since three or four acres of land can solve the family's rations, why does the imperial court allocate one hundred acres of cultivated land to everyone?" ”
One hundred acres is eighty acres of Yongye field, and twenty acres of mouth field, Yongye field can be inherited, and mouth field needs to be returned to the government after death.
Fang Xuanling rolled his eyes and said helplessly: "Who have you seen that have got more than 100 acres?" ”
"......" Li Yuanjing was suddenly stunned, yes, who got more than 100 acres?
According to the current situation, even if it is a wide township, there is no sufficient grant, at most it is to give thirty or forty acres of land and it will be done, and the narrow township is even more miserable, if you can give twenty acres, you will burn high incense, and there are many people who are less than ten acres of arable land.
It's not that the imperial court deliberately didn't give it, but there was really no land to give, and the whole county was full of people, where to go?
Therefore, the collapse of the uniform land system was determined almost from the day it was established, and the land annexation was actually only one of the triggers that hastened the collapse of this system.
"Forget it, you have a headache in this matter, anyway, the more people you resettle, the better, the geographical location here is very important, you can attack and retreat, you can defend it......" Li Yuanjing scratched his head speechlessly, if this kind of headache is solved by himself, it is estimated that it will be difficult for his hair to fall out one by one, so it is better to leave it to Fang Xuanling to think about it.
"Wait, you're the Governor of Tokaido! This is your territory, okay? The old man is here to help temporarily......"