Chapter 190: The Foundation of the Nation
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The plains on this hill are currently the best developed place under the control of the mountain villa, and the means of defense are also the best in the world, which is the best as a national capital.
Although this plain seems to be a bit small as the national capital, the scope of the entire Huaxia State is not large at present, and it is still very suitable in comparison.
Moreover, no matter how the Huaxia Congress develops in the future, this is a place of rise after all, and it is not an exaggeration to call it the holy land of the future Huaxia Kingdom.
From this point of view, sooner or later, this mountain plain will have to be developed, and it is better to take this opportunity to develop these wastelands.
Isn't it possible that when the time comes, the capital will be all barren, won't that be a shame for the Huaxia Kingdom?
Therefore, under the promotion of some official members of Huaxia Villa, the conditions for non-villa members to enter the villa to do things were relaxed, and they were ready to clean up those small slopes as soon as possible, at least the food around it looked more like a national capital than the weeds around.
For a country, the most important thing is to have enough land, population and tax revenue, which is the basis of the existence of a country.
Although the current territory of this Huaxia Villa is only Zigui County, and even the territory owned by the smallest vassal state during the Three Kingdoms period is far inferior, but everyone does not feel that there is any problem in the slightest.
At present, the land controlled by Huaxia Villa is indeed too small compared with the countries that existed in history, but the ultimate purpose of owning land is to produce enough food for the people of the country, and the amount of land is only the appearance of national strength, and the final determination of a country's wealth is the amount of food per capita.
In this Huaxia Villa, if everyone is fully engaged in food production, the total output that can be achieved can far exceed the output of several counties in this era.
Moreover, if Wei Minsheng does not consider the impact on the real world, he can give Huaxia Villa almost unlimited support in terms of food, because this food problem is no longer a problem in the real world.
Therefore, in the place of Huaxia Villa, it is impossible to determine its national strength only by looking at the amount of land it owns.
After the founding of the country, the existing single tax system that only collects inheritance tax will certainly not be able to support the relevant functions of a country, and it is necessary to carry out tax system reform to expand the source of income of the Ministry of State-owned Assets and Assets, but this is a matter of course for the members of Huaxia Villa who have savings in every family, and appropriately collect a certain amount of taxes.
It has been more than a year since the imperial grain tax was paid, and everyone is still a little unaccustomed to the feeling, Huaxia Villa is really good to the people below, if you don't pay some taxes after the establishment of the country, you feel that you are taking advantage of the villa, it is simply not the style of the people in this era.
At present, most of the money in the hands of the Ministry of State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration is fixed assets, and the meager rents collected cannot support the development of other departments.
Therefore, at present, the most lacking thing in Huaxia Villa is the population, and the low population base has greatly limited the development speed of Huaxia Villa.
Li Yan of the Ministry of Foreign Trade has been working hard to improve the population problem, and some displaced people have come to Huaxia Villa in groups from Yiling recently, but the population in Yiling City is only 20,000 or 30,000, and the displaced people outside the city are only 5,000, among which there are the old, weak, sick and disabled.
According to what Li Yan knew, there were three big cities near Yiling, namely Jingzhou down the river, Wuling in the south, and Xiangyang in the north.
Xiangyang City has the largest population, with a population of 310,000 registered and tens of thousands of garrisons, but there is no way to go directly from Yiling, because there is a vast mountain that is almost uninhabited between Yiling and Xiangyang.
If Yiling wants to go to Xiangyang, the nearest is to take Dangyang, circle around the mountains for half a circle, and the winding mountain road can only be said to be much better than going directly to the mountains.
Wei Minsheng measured it with a map of the real world, and there was at least a straight-line distance of nearly 200 kilometers from Yiling to Xiangyang, and at least 245 kilometers from Dangyang.
Wuling in the south, from the geographical point of view, is the area where Changde is located in the real world, although the population of the city is more than 100,000, but the distance is too far, from the map almost to Xiangyang, there is also a straight line distance of nearly 200 kilometers.
Only Jingzhou, in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, is the closest, with a registered population of nearly 200,000, and it is estimated that there should be close to 250,000 with the number of displaced people outside the city and those whose families hid to reduce their tax payments.
The straight-line distance from Yiling to Jingzhou is only about 100 kilometers, and the flow of people and goods can be easily carried out through the Yangtze River waterway.
About 150 kilometers of waterway is nothing at all for Huaxia Villa, which is about to have a 3,000-ton cargo ship, and it should be the best development direction at this stage.