Zeng Guanlan introduced the financial resources of the imperial treasury, and also introduced the agriculture of his empire, especially the grain production and reserves.

"Your Majesty, in terms of agriculture, the original Liu Changyou Liu Daren counted very carefully, and after Lord Wu took over, he sent additional personnel to the newly occupied Vietnam, Shengjing and Jilin to make statistics, although the specific data has not been completely cleaned up, but the general results have been sorted out."

Feng Yunshan came back to his senses and listened carefully to Zeng Guanlan's report. With his familiarity with the history and geography of the Qing Dynasty, he still understands the general situation of the population and the number of fields in the original Manchu Dynasty, with a population of 400 million, and the number of cultivated land per capita seems to be less than two acres. In fact, there must be more than this, after all, there are still some farmlands in the people that have not been registered in the government, and the local gentry will also conceal the area of some acres. But on the whole, it is not much different from that of the household.

However, today's Chinese Empire still did not occupy all the territory of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Xinjiang and Tibet in the northwest, Heilongjiang and Jilin in the northeast still have a large area not occupied, Tibet, and the undeveloped Heilongjiang and Jilin, can basically be ignored, but there are still a lot of fields in the area of Ili and the ancient city in Xinjiang. Moreover, the empire had more Vietnam and Korea than the original Manchu Qing Dynasty, and these two places were many fertile fields that had been developed or could be easily developed.

Zeng Guanlan reported the statistics of the Ministry of Agriculture and the Cabinet: "Your Majesty, as of the end of the third year of Taisheng, the country has a total population of 424.7 million people, and a total of 1.015 billion mu of arable land has been measured, with 2.39 mu of land per capita. If the newly occupied Tohoku is included, as well as the four provinces of Cochin, Ninan, and North and South Korea, the population of the whole country is expected to increase to 436 million, the total number of fields will increase to 1.246 billion mu, and the per capita land occupation will increase to 2.85 mu. ”

After speaking, Zeng Guanlan nodded to Wu Tang, vice minister of agriculture, and continued: "Your Majesty, as for the grain aspect, especially the statistics of per mu yield, it is difficult to come up with data at once, so let the expert in this area, Lord Wu of the Ministry of Agriculture, come to report to you. ”

Wu Tang suddenly looked excited, he understood what Zeng Guanlan meant, this was to give himself the opportunity to behave in front of His Majesty, he couldn't help but take a deep breath, and said respectfully: "Your Majesty, Weichen will start with the yield per mu." According to the understanding when Weichen was still serving in the Manchu Household Department, in the first year of the Manchu Dynasty's pseudo-Xianfeng, the Household Department conducted a nationwide inventory. The total amount of fields in the north and south is 1.128 billion mu, on average, the yield per mu of dry land converted into wheat is about 1.2 stones, and the sweet potato corn after wheat harvest can reach 250 catties of grain per mu every year; and the paddy field is converted into rice and the yield of a single season per mu is about 2.4 stones, the southern paddy field can be double-seasoned or even three-seasoned, although the northern paddy field is one season, but it can also be planted with one season of wheat or rape, and the overall total, if converted into rice, the annual yield per mu of paddy field reaches 580 catties of rice. In the last years of Daoguang, the records of the Manchu household department were that the average annual grain yield per mu was 325 jin per mu, totaling 366.5 billion jin . ”

According to the statistics of the predecessor Liu Changyou Liu, the average yield per mu of the southern rice producing areas of the Chinese Empire in the second year of Taisheng was 2.6 stone per mu in a single season, and the yield per mu of rice in the south was 3.4 stone per mu in a single season because more places in the south began to use phosphate fertilizer in the third year of Taisheng, and the yield per mu of rice in the south was 3.4 stones, and the wheat in the north also began to use phosphate fertilizer, but not very much, with a yield of 1.5 stone per mu. Overall, it is much higher than the output of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. ”

When Feng Yunshan heard this number, it was similar to what he knew, and he was more concerned about food, so he asked: "Wu Aiqing, how was the grain output last year, and the people's rations were enough?" ”

Wu Tang hurriedly responded: "Your Majesty, according to the grain tax and field rent collected by the Ministry of Finance and Taxation, a total of 12.4 billion catties of rice, 7.6 billion catties of wheat, 500 million catties of corn and sweet potatoes were collected across the country, and more than 4,800 million sage yuan of silver tax were put into storage. It can be inferred that the country's grain output is about 1.36 billion stone of wheat and 2.42 billion stone of rice, and the annual grain output per mu has reached 365 jin and last year the communist grain was equivalent to 454.8 billion jin of rice. After calculation, the per capita grain output of the whole country reached 1,043 catties, which was much higher than the 816 catties in the last year of Daoguang. If we can maintain such a high yield, our Chinese Empire will no longer have to worry about food problems. ”

Hearing this data, Feng Yunshan breathed a sigh of relief, but he was still not very satisfied with this figure. It was not much higher than that of the Manchus. He knows that in the last years of Daoguang, because of natural disasters and rebellions, whether it is per capita output or per capita cultivated land, it is much lower than the so-called Kangqian prosperous era, and in the most glorious Yongzheng period, the per capita grain output of the Qing Dynasty has reached a level close to 2000 city catties, it is true that at that time, it was mainly because the population was not as large as it is now, and the per capita cultivated land was more, but Feng Yunshan did not want to be said to be under his rule in the future, and the life of the people was not as good as that of the Kangqian period of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

But now the objective conditions exist is that the population is large, the arable land has not increased much, even if it is its own development of phosphate fertilizer, but after all, there is no later generation of nitrogen, urea, potassium fertilizer and other types of chemical fertilizers are complete, the effect is good, and the increase in output is still limited. The only way to do this is to increase the proportion of arable land per capita if we want to greatly increase the amount of food available per capita and make people live a prosperous life. The most fundamental thing is, of course, to greatly increase the area of cultivated land. The second is to break away from the agricultural population, follow the example of Britain and industrialize, make profits from industrial products and exchange agricultural products for backward agricultural countries.

Thinking of this, Feng Yunshan thought of the development of the Northeast in later generations, and reclaimed the Songnen Plain and the Great Northern Wilderness, where there were hundreds of millions of acres of the most fertile cultivated land, and in the entire Northeast in later generations, the cultivated land reached 300 million mu. According to the total size of the Chinese Empire today, it can already account for a quarter of the proportion. More critically, there are still 200 to 300 million arable land that can be developed along the northern coast of Heilongjiang to Vladivostok in the Outer Northeast Region.

In addition to this, there are the newly occupied provinces of North and South Korea, as well as the provinces of Cochin and Ninam, especially the latter, where there are the world-famous Red River Delta and the Mekong Delta, plus Cambodia, the arable land area can also exceed 100 million mu, and the most important thing is that this place can be harvested three times a year, and the rice cultivation yield is very high, and such a small place in later generations can feed tens of millions of people.

The key is the development of arable land. But those places are all relatively remote and harsh places, Feng Yunshan couldn't help but sigh in his heart: I still have to immigrate and encourage them to develop!

So, Feng Yunshan asked Zeng Guanlan and Zuo Zongtang: "How are the people who have moved into the mainland in the Northeast and North Korea going?" ”

Zeng Guanlan replied: "Your Majesty, some time ago, due to the flood of the diversion of the Yellow River in Shandong and other places, the relocation of 1.2 million people from the Central Plains to Shengjing and Zhelimu League has been completed, some of them have been placed in the captured Manchu Imperial Village and hunting grounds, and some of them have been newly reclaimed wasteland. Now, according to the plan drawn up by His Majesty and the cabinet long ago, it is planned to relocate another 1 million people to Jilin and Heilongjiang this year. ”

Zuo Zongtang added: "In terms of the captive army, 50,000 water people have been relocated from both sides of the Xijiang River in Guangdong and Guangxi to the Ryukyus, some of them to cultivate land, and some of them to make a living by fishing and shipping. In addition, 50,000 displaced people from the original Guangdong Tiandi congregation were moved to Qiongzhou Mansion, plus 100,000 Hakka people from Chaozhou and Jiaying were moved to Qiongzhou Mansion for development. ”

Feng Yunshan nodded and said loudly: "It's good, but it's far from enough!" Summoning Aiqing and others to come today, I am going to announce a policy: immigration! It is not such a small emigration, but a large-scale immigration movement, and I want to occupy every inch of land occupied by the soldiers and soldiers, and the people of the Chinese Empire will reproduce and live on it, and completely occupy it! ”