Of course, for the high-ranking officials and dignitaries in Beijing, they have to eat three or two halves and a stone!

What do you eat without this?

Anyway, the money can't be eaten.

Just a little bit of territory, not only to feed the elite soldiers of the Eight Banners, which have swelled to more than 200,000, but also the more than one million hardcore crops attached to them, as well as a huge officialdom, plus countless scholars who need to be paid by the imperial court and are exempt from taxes......

How can the people of Beizhili have so much surplus food!

Originally, this North Zhili couldn't afford to support himself.

It must be understood that by the time of the Ming Dynasty, Hebei was no longer able to provide for itself, even without the dignitaries in Beijing, and the land had been exhausted after thousands of years of cultivation, coupled with drought and locusts that flew by from time to time, resulting in a pitiful yield per mu.

The average of two years and three crops per mu in the area of Beizhili is a few stones, which is the output of a year, but the number of fields is very small, in fact, all add up to an acre of land and the final average is only seven or eight buckets, you must know that even two or three buckets of the field, so even if it is counted as eight buckets, then it is an average annual yield of one hundred and fifty catties per mu. The total amount of land in Beizhili was 580,000 hectares in the sixth year of Wanli, and Zhang Juzheng cleared 33,000 hectares, which eventually added up to 61 million mu, so that even under the most normal conditions, the annual output was 4.5 billion kilograms.

Rough calculation.

Because there must still be cotton growers.

And what about the population?

Wanli has a population of 4.26 million.

Of course, this figure is pure nonsense, according to the official statistics of the Ming Dynasty, there has been no increase in population for more than 200 years, 60 million people have been founded, and 60 million people have died in the country. Even in the Qing Dynasty, there were officials who stopped fabricating their household registration, because the officials of the household department of the Ming Dynasty had fabricated their household registration for twenty-four years in Chongzhen.

The beginning of the Ming Dynasty was accurate.

Because Zhu Baba attached great importance to this matter, he dared to fake it and find it out and exile him to death, but later generations completely copied or fabricated it there.

Therefore, the official population statistics of the late Ming Dynasty can be ignored directly.

But in this way, the population of the Ming Dynasty is difficult to estimate.

Some estimates peak at more than 300 million, while conservative estimates are more than 150 million.

That's 200 million.

Although the North Zhili is not as good as the South Zhili, it should be reasonable to account for one-tenth of the country's population, then it is 20 million, which can also correspond to the amount of land, three acres per capita, and a household according to the population is more than ten or twenty or thirty acres of land. This is similar to the end of the Qing Dynasty, at the end of the Qing Dynasty, according to the memories of a tenant of the Qixia Mu family, a family of ten rented 30 acres of land and was considered the middle and upper class of tenants. According to the official statistics of the Ming Dynasty, the four million people, that family was a small landlord and made a fart, and the communism had already been realized, and the standard of rich peasants at the time of Jiangxi's land reform was only 12 mu and 3 mu per capita. So according to this figure, it is more than 200 kilograms per capita a year, which is about the same as the modern African black uncle, and it is also about the same as 60 years, and the grain production in 60 years divided by the population is also 200 outcrops. This also corresponds to the memories of the Mu family's tenants, their family, as middle- and upper-class tenants, has been able to build a new house through accumulation, and their 30 acres of land, including 10 acres of upper land, have an annual output of 6,000 catties, which is not counting the seeds, and this is still a normal year, so don't talk about anything in a disaster year.

This is the most real ancient man.

The vast majority are forever struggling on the hunger line.

So Dorgon really had to pick up a mess.

Yang Qing is happy and happy.

However, the basis of Yang Qing's happy life is that Jiangsu and Zhejiang have two crops or even some three crops a year, and the annual yield of five or six stones per mu of land can reach five or six stones, and his average yield per mu is at least three times that of the north, and the top paddy fields can even harvest seven or eight stones a year.

This is the basis of his happy life in the South.

And although the population of Beizhili has plummeted, resulting in a significant increase in the amount of arable land per capita, don't forget that Dolgon also brought a bunch of people who are not productive and do not eat.

The hardcore crops, the Mongol allies, the huge ranks of officials, the slaves, all of these had to be fed by the remaining 10 million ordinary people in the north and Zhili. The latter could not stand it and wanted to rebel, and then the rebels continued to pull down the grain production, and there were those who fled, and these fugitives also abandoned the land and caused the grain production to continue to decrease. This vicious circle is what Chongzhen experienced before, and now it is replaced by Dolgon to suffer from this, but Chongzhen still has a canal, and there are still dignitaries and dignitaries who have been transported from the south to feed Beijing.

Dolgon had no one to give him a blood transfusion to the north at a rate of four million stone a year.

He really can't feed his own people.

As for the original history, why didn't he encounter this kind of food shortage?

This is very simple, because immediately after the Qing army went south to wash the south of the Yangtze River, and in the process of washing the south of the Yangtze River in blood, the grain plundered from the sea of blood in the corpse mountain was enough to stabilize the north, but where did he go to plunder at this time? Xiangxi didn't dare to provoke Li Zicheng, Xiangnan Yang Qing didn't beat him and burned high incense, even if he humiliated with money to buy it, the Beiyang Navy Division always maintained the blockade of the line of the Changshan Islands, not to mention food, any ship dared to be sunk by Ming warships on this line.

Only this smuggling line from Haizhou to Jiaozhou is his silver lining.

And it was with Yang Qing's acquiescence.

It was easy for Yang Qing to pinch it off, he just hung Dolgon with a breath, so that this guy was half-dead and had some hope, so as to prevent him from breaking the jar and breaking it, just like when he was in North Korea, he just used people as food. Every year, he loses more than one million stone of grain through Jiaozhou, anyway, there is silver to be earned, and Dolgon still has some silver in his hands, don't underestimate one million stone, although it is not much compared with the theoretical output of billions of kilograms, but food security is a qualitative difference between outside the safety line and inside the line.

With this million stones, it can be maintained.

Without this million stones, it would have to be looted from the people, and then lead to a large-scale revolt that widened the food gap to 10 million, and then led to a larger revolt that continued to widen the gap and eventually formed a collapse effect, how did the collapse of Louis XVI's empire begin? Isn't it just the price of bread? Food security is like this, and the difference between a sustainable and a total collapse is often the last brick of support.

In addition, Dolgon can also get some livestock from the Mongolian steppe to replenish it, and even the elite soldiers of the Eight Banners can camp their own fields.

Dorgon had already done just that.

Now in addition to Mongolia and Manchuria, the rest of the Han army, Korea, and the Shen army all have to settle some of the grain by themselves.

What else could he do?

He is the one who wants to be the Holy Lord Mingjun, how can he collect taxes on the gentry? What is the difference between him and Yang Qing if he wants to collect taxes on the gentry, so that he does not let the soldiers Tuntian, is there any other way? As for the Eight Banners Mongolia, Xuanda and other places have been completely turned into pastures, and there is not much grain grown there anyway. This state can indeed be maintained before, although the price of rice in Beijing is as high as two taels and one stone, but it is not too high, and the price of rice in the north at the end of the Ming Dynasty is not outrageous. Xuanda and Liaodong have seven or eight taels, Chongzhen ten years of Datong rice price is generally four taels, in the final analysis, as long as there is no large-scale war, only a partial rebellion, will not push the price of grain to an outrageous height, and at this time the tripartite truce is almost two years.

Agricultural production has recovered to a great extent.

But now it's over.

Yang Qing, the bastard, played happily with Donglin Qunxian, but inadvertently ruined Dolgon's fragile food supply.

The grain in the south is reluctant to sell the surplus.

Li Zicheng offered fifteen million stones! The Ming Dynasty has long stopped collecting grain, including the army's grain, which is also directly purchased, although the government warehouse also has it, but it is certainly not enough to pay. Even if Li Zicheng only needs 4 million stones, the final result will inevitably be to buy a large amount of grain from the people, although Jiangnan has enough grain, it does not mean that the surplus grain is so much that 4 million stones is not worth mentioning at all, that is nearly 400 million kilograms. In this era, the grain in the area controlled by the Ming Dynasty is only barely enough, and there is only a slight surplus, otherwise Yang Qing would not have desperately promoted sweet potatoes and even forced people to drink sweet potato wine.

In this ghost year, the landlord's family has no food left!

Even if it is four million stones, almost all the surplus grain in the market must be drained, especially since these four million stones must be delivered within a year.

It would be a fool not to have food.

The price of grain in Nanjing rose from six yuan to one tael within a month, and then Yang Qing intervened compulsively, strictly prohibiting the continued increase in prices and cracking down on hoarding, while putting the grain from the official treasury on the market at a low price. In particular, a large number of sweet potatoes prepared for brewing in various imperial villages and the corn harvested last year were put into the market, and he personally took the prison officials in the palace to eat corn flour cakes together, such as making an iron pot stewed fish and the like, so as to stabilize the price of rice in various places.

But he certainly wouldn't care if Dorgon lived or died.

When the price of grain in Nanjing reached one tael, the grain sold by those smugglers to the north had already reached three taels, and the grain sold by Cao Sanxi and his ilk in Beijing had already broken through four taels and approached five taels.

Northern capital.

"Madamn, I can't live this day!"

Xu Cheng, the stationmaster of Jinyi Weibeidu Station, looked at the clear soup in front of him, and slapped his chopsticks on the table with a depressed expression.

Five taels of silver and one stone of rice!

This is the same treatment as the border soldiers who rebelled because they couldn't eat enough, even if he, a small grocer in name, still has a little money, he can't stand this kind of price! After drinking gruel for three days, his eyes were already green, and now he looked at the rats passing by kindly.

"Yesterday, the Admiral of the Nine Gates carried out more than 100 corpses that starved to death, and I heard that there are still a lot of hardcore crops!"

Said his buddy or his men.

"Deserve it, these dog things were sold very happily when they were sold to Li Zicheng, and now they have finally suffered retribution, saying that there are sweet potatoes to eat with Li Zicheng, and now with Dolgon, they don't even have sweet potatoes to eat!"

Xu Cheng said hatefully.

He remembered how he had crawled out of the stench of the gutter.

Just then, suddenly, gunshots rang out outside.

"What's going on?"

He was stunned.

Almost at the same time, another subordinate ran in with a roast chicken and nibbling on it......

"Quick, the flag army mutiny is robbing the big family!"

He shouted excitedly.