Almighty Cultivation Supreme

Shi Tao's Tuntian Corps now has more than one million people after absorbing soldiers and displaced people from all walks of life.

More than half of the people came to Yiyang Eight Counties after the wheat was sown, and most of them were sent to repair water conservancy, repair roads, dig coal mines, repair fields, and other basic matters, and wait until the wheat harvest is completed, they will be distributed to the land, and after they sow the millet seeds sent down by the Tuntian Corps, they still need five months of wheat to make a living, and these people can do it for one pound a day, and they also need more than 80 million catties of wheat.

In this way, Wei Yan still has 450 million catties of wheat left in the warehouse, in addition to the wheat seeds in the tuntian fields next year, half a year's grain is also reserved, and there are more than 100 million catties of wheat left, it stands to reason that Wei Yan should not go to other places to buy grain, but Wei Yan also asked Huang Chengyan and other government-run grain merchants to go to various places to buy grain under the escort of Gan Ning Shuishi, even if the grain in those places is much more expensive than here in the eight counties of Yiyang, the shopkeepers sent by Huang Chengyan reported that it was not cost-effective to buy, Wei Yan still said one word, buy!

In the late Eastern Han Dynasty, the Three Kingdoms were in turmoil, and food was definitely the most important strategic item.

Now the eight counties of Yiyang under the strong governance of Wei Yan, gradually restored the original weather, become a quiet fertile land in the Han Dynasty, there are wars in other places, the people have not been peaceful, naturally have no intention of farming, anyway, planting is also for those thieves and soldiers, many people are displaced, many are in the grass, whether they are homeless or rogue, food is always the most important thing for them, Wei Yan used the more than 100 million wheat to lure more homeless people, rogues to Yiyang eight counties.

In Wei Yan's eyes, more important than food is population, the more people there are, the more fields are cultivated, the more grain is harvested, and the more people can be requisitioned for military service, which is a virtuous circle.

Wei Yan wanted more population, but because of the previous invasion of Yuan Shu, Cao Cao, and Liu Biao, not only the displaced people in other states and counties felt that the war in the eight counties of Yiyang was constantly abandoned, but even the displaced people who Wei Yan had already enveloped were also abandoned, on the other hand, Gongsun Du's Liaodong, Liu Biao's half of Jingzhou, and Liu Zhang's Yizhou gradually settled down from the war, and became a place where people in nearby war-torn areas rushed to help the old and the young to go to the place.

Wei Yan issued several policies to encourage migrants to enter the eight counties of Yiyang to live and work in peace and contentment.

At the same time, Wei Yan also felt that the Tuntian Corps had one million people under its jurisdiction, which was too large, and some of the tails could not be dropped, so he wanted to reduce the number of people under the jurisdiction of the Tuntian Corps, so he stipulated that in the future, only captive soldiers, thieves, and other people who needed to undergo labor reform would be admitted to the Tuntian Corps.

The second point is that when the displaced people enter the eight counties of Yiyang, they can directly go to the local government to register and make a register, and they can receive an equal share of 10 mu of land per capita, and they can receive free seeds and be exempted from taxes in the first year, and only start to collect a thin tax of one mu and two buckets from the second year, and the displaced people can enjoy subsidies ranging from 50 to 100 yuan per person every day when they participate in infrastructure construction.

The third point is that the displaced people can live in the houses built by the unified construction for free, the children of the displaced people can be admitted to the primary and secondary schools set up in the county and township pavilions free of charge, the displaced people can enjoy the medical services set up in the medical centers set up in the county and township pavilions in each county, and the displaced people can join the army and join the local county and township soldiers.

Wei Yan is particularly concerned about the third point, because he in later generations especially looked down on the imperial capital, the magic capital of a small group of local natives infinitely narrow-minded, in his opinion, it is stupid to engage in polarization between local aborigines and immigrants, since they are all builders of a city, they are all contributing to the country, why bother to divide locals and outsiders, Wei Yan is in power, absolutely can not set up such a wrong hukou system, nor can he sit idly by and watch the people discriminate against each other, and must forcefully let the people accept the concept that locals and outsiders are equal.

Because Gongsun Du of Liaodong, Liu Biao of Jingzhou, and Cao Cao of Yanzhou all realized the importance of population and food, they all worked hard to recruit displaced people, and they all followed Wei Yan's policy of benefiting the people, and the displaced people near their territory were not willing to go to the nearest and far and defect to the eight counties of Yiyang.

Suddenly, as soon as Wei Yan's policy came out, it did not receive the effect of a large number of applicants.

However, Wei Yan has decided to consider introducing a completely new policy from the perspective of the whole nation.

Although it is said that the people of the Han Dynasty have not suffered from the nearly 100-year war of the Three Kingdoms, and the population is still 30 or 40 million, there are only 7 million people under Wei Yan's rule, and 7 million people seems to be a lot, but there are more wastelands and more minerals under Wei Yan's rule, and a large number of laborers are urgently needed.

In the eyes of the people of this era, there are very few minerals in the eight counties of Yiyang, but in the eyes of Wei Yan, it can be described as gold everywhere.

Needless to say, there are a large number of coal mines, iron mines, and salt mines in Pingdingshan.

Runan County has sand and fluorite minerals for glass, and coal minerals are also abundant.

The reserves of trona in Nanyang County reach 85.14 million tons, ranking first in Asia and second in the world. Blue asbestos reserves of 58 million tons, silver metal reserves of 2,729 tons, kyanite reserves of 4.98 million tons, andalusite reserves of 4.5 million tons, rutile reserves of 2.55 million tons, gold metal reserves of 122 tons, marble reserves of 250 million cubic meters, graphite reserves of 21.58 million tons...... Other counties and counties also have a large number of minerals that Wei Yan and the seed artifact can detect, but what is lacking is only miners, a large number of miners!

In this life, Wei Yan only allowed 150 million mu to be reclaimed in order to consolidate the water and soil, but at present, the entire reclaimed fertile land is less than 80 million mu, which is equivalent to 11 mu per person, and there are about 70 million mu of wasteland that needs to be cultivated.

Because Wei Yan's policy was very favorable, he could take credit in advance for grain, seeds, cattle, and farm tools, and the fields cultivated after five years belonged to individuals, and the state only collected a thin endowment of one mu and two buckets, and the rest belonged to individuals.

After the outbreak of wars among the princes and the frequent famines, a large number of displaced people from other prefectures and counties will inevitably pour into the eight counties of Yiyang, and they will be able to solve the problem of insufficient labor for mining and farming for the time being.

Wei Yan was not a man who stared at a small area in front of him, he had thought that with the hundreds of thousands of troops under his command laying down a large territory, the future territory area might far exceed that of the Qin Emperor and the Han Wu period.

However, at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Jiangnan of the world's granary, the land of fish and rice, only developed two percent of the fields, and seventy or eighty percent of the wasteland had not been reclaimed, let alone other places, and the later generations could reclaim 1.8 billion acres of fields, and the territory of the Han Dynasty at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty was not inferior to that of later generations, but the cultivated land area was only more than 600 million mu, so it is inferred that two-thirds of the cultivated land has not been developed.

Wei Yan was a little worried in his heart, with more than 30 million Han people and backward productive forces, how could he develop the land that was barely developed by the 1.3 billion people in later generations with advanced productive forces?