Of course, the rise of the 9,000-year-old will certainly not be easy.

But he had no other choice.

Or he and Qi have no other choice at this time, these two people who used to rely on Yang Xin used to talk about guys, and they can only rely on themselves after Yang Xin irresponsibly shook his hands and left, in the past, they could indeed increase the salary of the peasants, but now there is no reason to increase the salary.

Don't dare.

Yang Xin is still playing up the disasters of the future, and the frequent disasters of the past few years are indeed showing them a terrible future......

Nine thousand years old is very superstitious.

If nothing else, the frequent earthquakes in recent years alone are very frightening.

It's been several times in the capital alone.

Then floods, droughts, and locust plagues kept coming out one after another, so dense, so frequent, that it was a warning to an extremely superstitious person.

The same goes for Enlightenment.

Although Kai is a scientist.

But scientists are just as frightened by the situation.

Yang Xin has also told him about climate change in the past dynasties, and the connection between every chaos and climate change, and the severe cold of the climate in these years is obvious to all, and even Guangzhou suffered heavy snow in the first year of the Qi! He himself also used a thermometer to record the daily temperature, which was as low as minus 20 degrees, and the canal freeze period was getting longer and longer. As a scientist, he attaches the most importance to data, and with the minimum temperature and average temperature of each winter, and the number of canal freezes every year, he can clearly see that the climate of his empire is gradually getting colder.

It's getting colder every year.

Yang Xin didn't lie to him, the climate is indeed undergoing drastic changes.

Disaster is indeed coming.

He also has to prepare, but he must first have silver to prepare, the original historical Qi may not understand the problem of the Ming Dynasty, but the current Qi Ke is very clear.

Why doesn't he have any money?

When Taizu was in power, he could collect more than 30 million stones a year.

He is now twenty-five million a year.

The vast majority of the conscription during the time of Taizu was not converted into it, because it was a service at that time, and his annual income was still converted into silver, in fact, there was Ding Yin, Tian Fu of the Ming Dynasty, Ding Yin, and the conscription was converted into silver, which was unified in the annual income, and the annual income was 25 million. The rest of the miscellaneous items such as commercial taxes were not included, which were collected from the land, and there were also some cotton and linen and even forage that were not worth much.

Up to now, after more than two hundred years, his income is not as good as when he was Taizu.

And what about the population?

Of course he wouldn't believe the official one.

No, he knows very well how many people there are in the capital alone, because the new police system has been implemented, the capital has already conducted a census, and the population of the entire inner and outer city walls of the capital and its suburbs has reached nearly 1.5 million.

And the number of population inventory in the time of Taizu added up to 1.9 million in the entire Northern Zhili.

Slightly more than in the capital at this time.

With this number, how could he still believe that the officials reported to him, the population figure that was actually several million less than the Hongwu period? He didn't believe this number, so how could he believe the amount of arable land reported to him together? But those are all fake, and they don't even have reference value, and the purpose of the officials is very simple, that is, to cover up the fact that a bunch of people do not pay taxes. The gentry do not pay taxes, the gentry do not pay taxes on the fields and properties concealed, the clan does not pay taxes, and the servants of the wealthy families also do not pay the poll tax, these people are not in the number given to him by the officials, and Yang Xin has already told him that the most gentry family slaves in Jiangnan are already thousands.

There is no tax on this.

According to the official data of Beizhili, 50 million mu of farmland paid a total of 590,000 stone in taxes.

And the highest yield per mu Yang Xin went to Qishi.

Yang Xin can't be regarded as a standard, after all, he has guano to assist, but the Yang family's corn fields in the mountains around Xishan are often frequented, even if these were regarded as going down to the field in the past, the corn can also be harvested forty or fifty catties!

This is the agriculture of North Naoli.

Then 50 million mu he collected a total of 590,000 stone tax, an average of more than one liter per mu, and the weight was about more than one catty, but the common people could not eat enough, and the land and corn could yield forty catties per mu, he collected an average of one liter of tax per acre, and the people still couldn't eat enough, so where did the grain go?

Kai knew very well who he should attack at this time.

As for these Rao rebellions......

It's a joke that an emperor can't even carry out the decree, if he dares to oppose it, he will be removed from office and sent to prison, and if he can't cut off his head, even Chongzhen can do it, Qi can't even be as good as his younger brother, right?

In a word......

In short, Yang Xin didn't have time to care about him.

The king of Zhennan is also in charge now, and tens of millions of people are waiting for him!

There should be more than 40 million.

At this time, he was in the process of census and land clearance, and with the help of militia, the work was progressing very quickly, and it was estimated that the results would be available early next year, and 40 million was an estimate, but basically there was not much difference.

Nanjing alone has exceeded two million.

This was the first to complete the census, and it was actually completed during the siege, and the whole of Nanjing Shangyuan and Jiangning combined exceeded two million, while Suzhou and Nanjing were almost the same, and Changzhou and Wuxian should also be more than two million combined. As for Yangzhou, it is certainly not as much as these two places, but it is also absolute that the population of Jiangdu County is close to one million, leaving Huai'an and Yangzhou at the same level, at most slightly less, and the cities in the south of the Yangtze River, including Zhenjiang, Changzhou, and Songjiang, are between fifty and one million.

In this land alone, the population is already on the verge of catching up with Europe.

Ten million young and strong.

This is not Yang Xin's exaggeration.

"In the end, more people is more power!"

King Zhennan stood in the ancient Anfengtang and looked at the scene in front of him.

In fact, this ancient water conservancy project is still in effect, and it has been renovated in the 46th year of Wanli, but the overall situation is not what it used to be, and the most critical problem is that it is seriously occupied and reclaimed by the gentry. Therefore, Yang Xin's repair is very simple, that is, to clean up these and dredge the water source of the Wei River to re-divert water, and then repair the Zhongxing Rolling Dam from the original time of the fourth elder brother, and refill this ancient reservoir with water, how can it irrigate hundreds of thousands of acres of water.

Hundreds of thousands of acres is already a lot.

In other words, he wanted to build all the irrigation projects in Shihang, but the problem was that he didn't have the technology.

But that's fine.

"The last time the old man came, he was still the governor of Shouzhou, and now it's been fifty years!"

Huang Kezhang, who was beside him, looked at the militia who were busy in front of him with emotion.

The militia were reinforcing the embankments, dredging the canals, and even rebuilding the doumen with reinforced concrete, and the whole construction site was busy as far as the eye could see, because it was summer, it was the season of water storage, so a vast water surface had formed in the distance. And not only men, but also many women and even the elderly and children participated in the construction, and flags were planted everywhere, and the flags carried the number of a certain militia unit on them.

There are also people beating drums to inspire.

Women and children were constantly handing out large buns carrying buckets and buckets among the militia.

The scene is still spectacular.

Along the way, all the places he passed were mostly this kind of large-scale construction, and there were even many new dikes, especially those built on mountain streams, which artificially formed lakes and then diverted water for irrigation.

It's all over Huainan.

Even some places have the luxury of using reinforced concrete to repair some supporting facilities.

I have to Yang Xin, this guy, is really keen on farming, as the governor of Shouzhou fifty years ago, Huang Kezhang is very aware of the depression along the Huai, but now relying on the construction of various water conservancy facilities, it has been called prosperous, and the original barren land has been reclaimed. Rice is planted where water can be diverted, corn is planted in large quantities in dry fields that cannot be diverted, and the driest land is also planted with melons and sorghum, and even on barren sandy land, Lu Lu and the like can be planted as fodder, and you can hardly see the idle wasteland.

Although the yield per acre of most of these lands is not very high......

Higher than in the north, of course.

Huainan is stronger than Beizhili after all.

But the key is that there is no Lin master to collect rent, and Yang Xin collects about one to two percent, which is definitely not the same level as Jiangnan, so that even if the average yield per mu is only one stone, a family of five with thirty acres of land is still enough to eat.

After all, this is a double cook.

And the yield of corn in serious farmland is not low.

The Yang family planted corn in the north of the land, and the yield per mu of forty or fifty catties did not look high, but in Huainan it was a serious farmland, in fact, it was generally more than one hundred catties at present. Moreover, Yang Xin is still using a lot of compost, some of which are introduced with bird droppings, and there are all kinds of things that Huang Kezhang can't understand at all, such as those instructors of the militia battalions stationed in various militia camps who are filled by Yangjiazhuang households and hold expensive thermometers and measure the temperature in the dung heap, which makes him very confused.

There are too many changes in this land that are too fast, and they are beyond his ability to understand as a former governor.

"I'm really old!"

He sighed.

He has already returned to his hometown.

Or he was frightened by the recent tense atmosphere in the capital and ran away, after all, he is almost eighty, there is no need to continue to stay there, these Li Qi fought against corruption, killed more than a dozen courtiers in a row, and even the Hubu Shangshu and Shijiao were dismissed.

Sun Chengzong was also punished.

The emperor who never went to court went to court from time to time during this time......

The civil servants finally didn't have to scold him for not going to court.

But as soon as he went to the court, the civil officials were unlucky, and even began to learn the court staff, more than a dozen imperial historians were beaten to his court staff, and one was killed, the reason is actually known, that is, the civil officials collectively opposed his reforms, which led to a stalemate in addition to the tax supervisor, the other two were in a stalemate His Majesty Emperor Zheng This is deliberately using this way to force the ministers to submit, in this case, Huang Kezhang, who is almost eighty, did not hurry up and ran away, and the Huang Dao Zhou Gang Kezheng was preparing to form a Fujian party led by him to deal with the tax supervisor.

He didn't want these old bones to be shattered by this struggle.