After Wu Zhou and Cao Zhang, Cao Chang invited him to sit down and said to him: "Bonan, I have already found you more than 500,000 military households, is it enough for you to implement military cantonment in the two counties of Hedong and Hanoi?" ”

Wu Zhou's white face immediately turned red, and he said with great joy: "More than 500,000 people! You can develop thousands of hectares of fertile land! With such a large number of people, it is also possible to build water conservancy and divert the water of the Yellow River for irrigation, although it is not possible to say that all the abandoned cultivated land in the two counties can be developed, but it is enough to develop the relatively fertile vacant land. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Cao Zhang pondered for a while and said, "Bernan, tell me, how many people are needed in the two counties of Hedong and Hanoi if they want to develop all the land that can be planted?" ”

Wu Zhou is not at a loss for the management of Tuntian, he knows the local situation well, and answers Cao Zhang's questions like fluent, only listening to him answer: "There are sixteen counties in Hanoi County, and nineteen counties in Hedong County, according to my Han law, the county must be more than 5,000 households, so a county will have at least tens of thousands of people, and more than 10,000 households in a county will be placed in the county order, and below 10,000 households will be placed in the county magistrate, this local county chronicle is divided according to the amount of cultivated land and the distribution of residents. But according to the number of counties, you can also roughly estimate the amount of local land, for example, Hanoi County, a hundred years ago, only one of the sixteen counties was the county magistrate, and the other fifteen counties were county orders, so there are fifteen counties with 10,000 households, a family of five, there are 50,000 people, and there are 600,000 people in 15 counties, as for the 19 counties in Hedong, all of them are county orders, so let's say... ”

Cao Zhang continued: "That is to say, there are nearly one million people, and many families are more than five people, and there are also local squire families, which occupy a vast area, so if the cultivated land in the two counties is fully developed, it will be at least 1.5 million people?" ”

Wu Zhou replied: "This is only a rough estimate, after all, even during the period of our dynasty's total victory, Hedong will still be harassed by the Qiang people and the Southern Xiongnu in Yangping, and there is still a large amount of land that is wasted, and then Hanoi, the Yellow River bursts year after year, so there is fertile soil on the north bank of the Yellow River, and it is difficult to cultivate, so it is impossible to develop all the land in the two counties without three million people." ”

Cao Zhang's head suddenly became big when he heard this, two counties need three million people to develop all the arable land? When I studied history, I vaguely remembered that the population of the thirteen states during the Three Kingdoms period did not exceed 10 million, and the current land of China was vast and sparsely populated in the real sense. ”

Wu Zhou replied when he heard this: "My lord, please forgive the words of the officials, if the policy of recruiting people to land and supporting yeoman farmers is effective, the general will not use the military tun policy, because yeoman farmers are all family units, and now in troubled times, the people's families are not prosperous, even if they are given ploughing cattle and farm tools, they can't plough much fields, not to mention a natural and man-made disaster, even if they are hungry when the green and yellow are not harvested between the summer and autumn, and then they can only receive grain from the local squire, and the interest of the local squires is very high. If they borrowed it, they could not afford to exchange it, and in the end their arable land could only be annexed and reduced to tenant farmers. ”

Cao Zhang smiled: "I have a way to solve this problem. ”

Wu Zhou was surprised when he heard this, he heard the legend about Cao Zhang, all of them said that he was talented in poetry, as well as the foresight of the three ethnic groups, and he was brave and good at fighting, but he didn't hear that the third prince was also proficient in government affairs, you must know that the situation of the yeoman peasants being unable to repay the annexed land because of borrowing grain has existed since the founding of the Han Dynasty, and it has lasted for four hundred years, and there is no solution.

After Wang Mang usurped the Han Dynasty, he tried the Wang Tian system, taking the meaning of "under the whole world, it is not the king's land" in the Book of Songs, which roughly means that the land will be changed to state ownership, and the private sale of land will be eliminated, and the land will be distributed according to the capitation, and a family with eight men can get 900 acres of land, and a family with less than eight men and more than 900 acres of land will have to distribute the excess land to others.

This was a brave attempt, the purpose of which was to eradicate the phenomenon of land annexation, so as to achieve the effect of striking at the clan, but this method not only harmed the interests of the clan, but also greatly damaged the interests of small landlords.

Now Wu Zhou is wondering whether Cao Zhang will propose a method that is similar to Wang Tian's system, if so, he Wu Zhou must stop it, because it will not work, and it will make Cao Jun, who is in full swing, be counterattacked by the landlords of all sizes.

So Wu Zhou now asked cautiously, "I don't know what the adults have to do?" ”

Cao Zhang took out the previously written version of the late Han Dynasty "Qingmiao Law" from his sleeve and said: "This is the solution!" While speaking, he handed the silk to Wu Zhou and explained: "This method is called the Qingmiao Method, which is very simple, that is, to set up a Huimin warehouse in the military tun, so that the homesteaders can come to the Huimin warehouse to borrow grain when they encounter natural disasters and green and yellow crops, and return it with the annual tax after the harvest, and take two cents (two percent) of interest." ”

Wu Zhou was still suspicious when he turned out to be Su Juan, and after hearing Cao Zhang's rough explanation, his face suddenly became serious, and after unfolding Su Juan, the ruddy that had just receded and appeared on his white skin again, obviously he was excited again, and praised loudly: "Wonderful! I now have a grain cache in the military tun, can not be used up at all, helpless to transport in the county around Xudu to build a granary hoard, or it is to reward the sergeant, as long as a small part of the put into the Huimin warehouse, the local yeoman farmers do not need to borrow grain from the squire and borrow grain from our military tun, so that the yeoman farmers have no risk of being annexed, not only can pay taxes, but also can return the interest, although the interest is not high, but the accumulation is the income of the imperial court! My lord, this seedling method is really a good prescription for the ages! It can cure my 400-year-old serious illness! Your Excellency is truly a man of God! You can think of such a wonderful method! ”

It is no wonder that Wu Zhou was excited, Wang Anshi was called a reformer of the "11th century" in China by Lenin, the leader of the Russian Communist Party, and US Secretary of Agriculture Wallace also comprehensively borrowed the basic ideas of Wang Anshi's reform of the Qingmiao Law in his economic policy to solve the Great Agricultural Depression in the United States. Because this is something that makes the faces of the Chinese people shine, Cao Zhang's professor in his previous life never forgot to say every time he talked about Wang Anshi: Our ancestors are very smart! The problems encountered by Lao Mei after a thousand years, our ancestors thought of it a thousand years ago.

At the beginning, Cao Zhang was miserable for memorizing these test points, but now it is used a thousand years before Wang Anshi appeared, this may be the opportunity given to Cao Zhang by God, Wang Anshi finally failed, but he Cao Zhang did not think that he would fail, because he had analyzed the reasons for the failure of Wang Anshi's change on the test paper thousands of times, and he was confident that he could remove those obstacles.

Because he is now Cao Zhang, not the history college student who talks on paper.

At this time, Cao Zhang smiled at Wu Zhou and said: "It is indeed a wonderful method, but all the details still need to be considered, but now the two counties of Hedong and Hanoi are trying to sum up the advantages and disadvantages, promote the strengths and avoid the weaknesses, and then go to the court." (To be continued.) (To be continued.) )