The interests of all strata in the country were determined, and the existence of Japanese and Vietnamese slaves was acquiesced, and Dai Yan's reform of the land soon began.

The Song Kingdom had Taoqiu, which was the germ of capitalism. However, there is another factual problem: the Song Kingdom is still a predominantly agricultural country to this day. And this situation, even in a few decades, is a situation that cannot be changed!

Not to mention this era, the whole world is still dominated by agriculture. Even in the 21st century, agriculture is still one of the most important foundations of a country! After all, what the common people eat can only grow from the ground!

Dai Yan was in charge of Taoqiu before, and he could take advantage of the good geographical advantages of this place to develop commerce, use the money earned from commerce to develop industry, and completely ignore the development of agriculture. When he owned a commercial city, Dai Yan could do this, but now that he has the entire Song Kingdom, he needs to govern the entire country, and it is completely impossible to use such a method!

After all, it is impossible for him to completely pin the food security of the entire Song Kingdom on other countries!

Speaking of which, the reform of land and even the reform of agriculture are actually the core of the changes in various countries during the Warring States Period. At that time, the Qin State Shang Yang changed the law, and the core policy for agricultural reform was: waste well fields and open up the field. Its specific policy is to abolish the well-field system, recognize the private ownership of land, and allow farmers to develop their own land!

Compared with the Qin State, which had a vast 800-li Qin River, the Song State was located in a plain area, and there were many rivers passing through the country, which was also an extremely suitable place for the development of agriculture. However, unlike the Qin State, which was originally vast and sparsely populated and did not have a large amount of land development, the land suitable for cultivation owned by the Song State had been developed on the surface! After Dai Yan completed the land survey of the Song Kingdom, issued the land deeds, and completed the household registration of all classes, Dai Yan found that most of the Song people in the third class of the Song Kingdom were landless!

Agriculture is an industry that requires a lot of water, and at this time, most of the farmland was actually within five miles of the water source. Beyond that, even if you own more land, it's useless! Now the entire Song Kingdom has been completely carved up by the nobles!

Such a landless stratum that occupies the majority of the population is definitely the biggest destabilizing factor in the Song Kingdom, and only by appeasing these landless peasants can Dai Yan be able to sleep well! And before solving this problem, what he was most worried about was that the "Chen Sheng" all over the Song Kingdom would rise up from all over the country and remove him from the throne of the Song Kingdom!

It is necessary to find enough land for these people in the country, this is not only Dai Yan's idea, but also the consensus of the entire Song Dynasty!

How can I get more land? The easiest way is to expand directly outward and expand the territory! Dai Yan also understood why there are continuous wars in various countries today, and if the desire of those landless peasants to own land cannot be solved, the rule of the whole country will be in crisis!

In the eyes of the kings of all nations, if there is not enough land in our country, then I die; If our country can defeat other countries and seize their lands, it will not be our own death! In this kind of battle between me and you die, any king with an online IQ thinks of you, and it is definitely you who die!

And today's Song State is itself a weak country, surrounded by strong enemies, and blindly waging war with foreign countries is obviously not the solution to the problem! The only thing that can be done is to solve this problem at home!

How can we develop as much land as possible from the country without going to war? There's only one way: dig canals and increase the amount of land that can be cultivated!

In the era of Wei Wenhou, why was Ximen Leopard able to turn Yedi into the richest place in the entire Wei Kingdom? In addition to the fact that Ximen Leopard is relatively strong in governing and dares to offend the interests of the local wealthy families and wizards in Yedi, the biggest reason is that Ximen Leopard is an excellent water conservancy expert! The canals he dug in Yedi directly increased the arable land in Yedi, thus promoting the development of agriculture and the rapid development of the local area!

To this day, Yedi is still the richest area of Wei except for the capital Daliang!

However, in this day and age, digging a canal is not an easy task! Not to mention the size of the project, the investment alone is an extremely staggering number!

In the original history, in the late Warring States period, in order to trap the Qin State and make the Qin State have no energy to go east, Korea sent the famous water conservancy engineer Zheng Guo to the Qin State to build the Zheng Guo Canal. Just such a canal with an irrigation area of more than 40,000 hectares took ten years for the superpower of Qin!

You must know that the Qin State at that time was a super power that was able to mobilize nearly 500,000 troops in Changping, far away from its homeland, and fight for three years!

Although the river density of the Song State is much greater than that of the Qinchuan region in the northwest, and the topography of the Song State also determines that there is no need for a one-time excavation of a huge project like the Zhengguo Canal, the Song State water canal can be dominated by counties and continue to expand on the original cultivated land. However, these canals are still an incomparably huge project for the Song Kingdom!

Over the years, under the research of Mojia and farmer scholars, and with agricultural areas such as Fengyi as an attempt, Taoqiu has gained rich experience in water conservancy construction! Today's Song State does not lack talents in water conservancy construction, but what makes Dai Yan hesitate is whether to spend a lot of money on water conservancy construction in the entire Song Kingdom!

After thinking about it for a long time, he still made up his mind that he must try his best to develop the land in the Song Kingdom, so that the potential of the entire Song Kingdom can be brought into full play as much as possible! After all, what Song Guo is facing now is almost an unsolvable situation. If you want to strengthen the country, you must first tidy up the interior and make the people all over the Song Kingdom rich!

Facts are the best proof, now after digging the canal, Fengyi has become the richest agricultural county in the Song Kingdom except for Sandu!

The cultivated land owned by an ordinary county in the Song State accounts for no more than 5% of the size of the entire county, while the cultivated land in Fengyi has expanded to more than 20% after more than five years of governance by the farmers!

Even if Fengyi is close to Surabaya and has a superior geographical location, this is an extremely rare achievement! And Fengyi, a fief that originally belonged to Dai Yan's own, and the newly developed cultivated land in it, Dai Yan did not take it into his own possession, nor did he hand it over to those local tycoons who owned land, but directly distributed it to those who had no land!

Under Dai Yan's initiative, in the previous five years, the entire Fengyi has completely achieved the amazing achievement of five people per household and more than 100 acres of land! And the people who received these lands were not entirely landless and landless farmers in Fengyi, but also a large part of them were displaced people from outside and Yi people who moved from across the Surabaya!

The 100 acres of land distributed by Dai Yan are not small acres, but large acres! If it weren't for the limited amount of land that each family could cultivate, Dai Yan would have been able to distribute more land!

Although most of the investment in the construction of the canal in Fengyi came from the appropriation of Taoqiu, the self-hematopoietic ability generated by Fengyi itself after owning more land and even more advanced agricultural cultivation methods is also indispensable!

After having the successful experience of Fengyi, Dai Yan also has different thoughts and ideas about the development of farmland in the Song Kingdom!

Soon after, the entire Song Kingdom was boiling because of the announcement issued by the Prime Minister's Office!

In this notice, Dai Yan's policy on the construction of water conservancy facilities in China is perfectly expounded: government planning, private fundraising. If it is just such a policy, of course, it is impossible to cause such a big sensation, and the most critical part of this policy is its unique thinking to balance the relationship between all parties and benefit all parties!

The general steps of this kind of planning are as follows: Suppose Xiaoyi, which is now located on the edge of the Danshui River, upstream of the capital Pengcheng, wants to dig a canal. After the Xiaoyi County Government submitted an application and the Song Prime Minister's Office also approved it, the project began to be officially established.

After the entire canal is established, the prime minister will auction off several pieces of land around the canal and use the money from the auction to build the canal! And when this canal is built, the land that can be irrigated by the canal, except for the private land that is auctioned, will be distributed to the landless peasants!

Of course, in the process, those farmers did not own it for free. They must contribute to the construction of the canal in the process of canal construction, and at the same time, they must also make up enough annuity after owning the land in order to fully own the property rights of the land!

However, even so, such a policy still has a fatal attraction for those landless peasants! Before the land reform, these people were slaves of the nobles, and after the reform was completed, they had no land and had to rely on the local nobles!

And such a policy makes it possible for them to own land. As long as they can contribute to the construction of the canal, and cultivate and pay taxes honestly when they get the land in the future, they will be able to own the land - their ultimate dream!

And such a policy, the ones who are really interested in it, and are willing to make a big contribution to it, are still the businessmen who got rich first in Taoqiu! In the eyes of today's merchants, the wealth they have is no worse than that of the old nobles of the Song Kingdom, and the only thing they lack is that they do not have their own land!

If they own their own land and pass it on for three generations, does it mean that they can also become Song nobles?

These businessmen immediately consulted the matter through various channels, and when Dai Yan saw the strong reaction of the merchants, he immediately gave a positive promise!

Soon, the merchants of Taoqiu went crazy collectively! When the first pilot project of the aqueduct in Xiaoyi was officially established, the land that was circled for auction was sold out in a very short time, and the whole Xiaoyi easily raised funds to dig this canal! And the landless peasants of Xiaoyi immediately began to devote themselves to the construction of the canal with full enthusiasm!

After all, the sooner the canal is completed, the sooner they can complete their dream of owning land!

After the start of the first water conservancy project, the businessmen of the entire Taoqiu looked like they were not full, and immediately suggested to Dai Yan through the right courtyard to carry out more pilots!

Soon, the second water conservancy project in Liuyi was approved, and the required funds were raised and completed in a short period of time, and the construction started!

Dai Yan launched six similar projects in five counties in a row, and the businessmen were only slightly relieved by the shortage of funds. When a similar project was carried out in a small and remote county on the border of Huangyi, the project progress was slow due to a lack of construction personnel. The merchants of Taoqiu immediately recruited displaced people from all over the world through their own commercial channels in the world to speed up the construction of the aqueduct!

Dai Yan, who received such great encouragement, simply opened up the previous allocation of land a little more: even if it is not a Song Min, or even a foreign displaced person who does not have the status of an immigrant from the Song State, as long as he can help the Song State build a canal in the process, he can still obtain half of the land of the Song Min status after the completion of the project!

And even such a harsh policy immediately made the displaced people in various countries who knew the news extremely excited! Countless displaced people, with the help of Taoqiu merchants, rushed from various countries to the Song Kingdom to participate in similar projects with full enthusiasm!

This crazy tide of displaced people, even if Dai Yan later announced that there were no longer enough places, still could not stop the enthusiasm of the displaced people from all over the world! Such a surging tide of displaced people, since the Shang Dynasty changed the law and the Qin State announced the opening of Qianmo, it has not been encountered in the whole world for a long time!