Unconsciously stunned for a long time before suddenly turning around, Gongsun Xian looked at him worriedly, and asked if half an hour had passed since he was stunned. ∮

Embarrassed, he arched his hand: "I didn't notice what Taishou said just now, I'm sorry for being rude." ”

Gongsun Xian is good at retelling empathetically, he has just given a detailed introduction to the arrangements of Shuofang County in the past half hour, especially the resettlement of Luli settlements on both sides of the Yellow River in Shuofang County, Shuofang County's jurisdiction includes the complete Hetao Plain, and there is no separate Wuyuan County to cut the Hetao Plain twice, and the intention of the imperial court is to strengthen the area of the border county to ensure arable land and pastoral areas.

The eastern part of Shuofang County is the core area of the original Jiuyuan County, and the county administration of Shuofang County is also located in Jiuyuan County in the eastern grassland, adjacent to the fertile land of the rivers at the foot of the Yin Mountain in the north, and the dense grassland of rivers and lakes in the east.

Gongsun Xian's plan was to first settle the first batch of 100,000 people in the grasslands with more rivers in the east, and plan to build cultivated land near the river to lay a solid foundation for the grassroots organizations of Qi people in the next step.

Thinking of animal husbandry, Cao Shi suddenly remembered Zhang Qian's entourage in the Parthian Empire, and according to last year's news, they went to Ctesiphon, the capital of the Rest Empire, where the chaos was far more dangerous than the countries of the Western Regions.

Before the Xiongnu entered the country at the beginning of last year, the caravan ranger who stayed in the country of the Dayue clan due to illness asked the merchants of the Dayue clan to dress up in disguise and return to the Qilian Mountains where the Xiaoyue clan stayed behind for thousands of miles to send back the news of the caravan, and the golden eagle eagle infested by the grassland desert was a ferocious hunter who caught carrier pigeons. Conveying a message becomes more tortuous and less efficient.

Instead, it is better to let the reliable merchants of the Otsutsuki clan pretend to be Kangju people and enter the country of Shache (Yarkand County) through the thunderless country of the Green Mountains (Pamirs). Follow the middle line taken by Zhang Qian and stick to the Sea of Death (Taklamakan Desert) to the Xiaoyue people's territory at the foot of the Qilian Mountains, and you can reach it in two months if you walk all the way unimpeded. Along the way, there are uninhabited oases, and only the big oases will be settled.

The merchant of the Dayue clan is named Atu, when he was young, he followed his father to leave his hometown and move west, and in the past ten years, he has traveled to most of the small kingdoms of the Western Regions, only the Wusun country and the small country with the strong power of the Huns in the eastern part of the Western Regions dare not go, he brought various crop seeds sent by the caravan from the Dayue clan, as well as many spices and fruit seeds, among which there is a very important plant seed, alfalfa.

Alfalfa was ubiquitous in the ancient Persian region. Since the fall of the Achaemenid Dynasty nearly two hundred years, the ancient Persian civilization has been washed of more than seven, eight or eight left, as the ancient Persian and even earlier ancient Assyrian relied on the miraculous plant, alfalfa has witnessed the birth of several huge empires, the peak, decline and extinction, each powerful empire because of the discovery of alfalfa rose up cavalry empire, they went east and west to expand the territory to claim hegemony.

They were drunk and drunk, immersed in a life of luxury, and when civilization gradually decayed and the empire collapsed, alfalfa was quickly forgotten. The Sabbatians were a people from the northeastern part of the Persian Empire, with Sarmatian blood from the northern Caspian Sea, who occupied Parthian counties and underwent a Hellenistic transformation from a purely nomadic people to a half-agrarian, half-pastoral Hellenistic civilization. Inherit the fragmented territory of the ancient Persian Empire and soon go to war with their titular suzerain, the Seleucid Empire.

As for alfalfa, the small purple flowers are used to by ordinary herdsmen. At the turn of spring and summer, walking on the steppe, the endless purple flowers bloom, and the Parthians are not uncommon to the magical alfalfa. Perhaps it was because happiness came too easily to be cherished, and only the Parthians, with their rough farming skills, only knew how to collect and preserve plant seeds.

"Gongsun Taishou. I have something to hand over to you to keep carefully, and when the flowers bloom in the spring of the next year and sow seeds in the grasslands of the central and western regions, my Han family will rely on it for the grain and grass supply. ”

In the delicate small box, a box full of seeds was wrapped in fine silk, and Gongsun Xian, with his experience in border affairs, immediately judged that this thing was some kind of important crop, and listening to the tone of the general of the chariot cavalry was obviously very important.

Carefully put it away, Gongsun Xian said quietly: "Don't worry, I guarantee that there will be no mistakes, and after the frozen soil is unsealed, I will send someone to plow the grassland at the foot of Yin Mountain, I don't know what preparations need to be made?" ”

Gongsun Xian called the little official in charge of the record, and carefully wrote down every note, and the county soldiers and subordinate officials who were guarding next to him did not react, they thought that the two distinguished leaders were exchanging agricultural technology experience.

Taking this opportunity, Cao Shi taught him the planting techniques that swept Guanzhong, although the new farming techniques in Guanzhong have long become an open secret, but the developers who can stop until the new technology tell the meaning in person are completely different, talking and saying that they found each other are still agricultural experts, so the two stood by the Yellow River and talked happily, the two discussed the agricultural development ideas of Shuofang County, and debated whether to develop to the west or the east.

Originally, Gongsun Xian didn't plan to discuss the layout of agriculture, he was not a hairy young man in his twenties, he knew what to prioritize and what not to say and there was no need to say, and he accompanied the general of the Che Cavalry who came from afar to talk about the defense of Shuofang County, and briefly introduced the resettlement plan and follow-up arrangements for the settlement in Luli, so as to ensure that the basic goals were set during his tenure, at least not to let the people move over and encounter the attack of the plague and beasts.

"In recent years, the Han family has expanded rapidly, the southern Sanyue and Yelang countries are not mentioned, and the north has also seized the fertile arable land of Yinshan, our population can not keep up for the time being, but the population dilemma will not last too long, my sparse performance will be sent to Weiyang Palace one step earlier, at least in the next twenty years, the imperial court will encourage childbirth, give some tax exemptions to more children, give birth to two children and exempt from the field tax of thirty taxes for three years, give birth to three children and be exempted from the field tax for three years, give birth to four children and renew the field tax for two years, and give birth to five children and the tax will be exempted for two years."

"That's a lot of discounts, isn't it?"

"Not much, it takes at least fifteen years for a child to be raised, and it will be a new generation within fifteen years to give them time, provided that the child's parents feel that childbirth is a big profit, otherwise they have no strong desire to have children."

Gongsun Xian is still full of doubts: "I am worried that the supervision will run into trouble, if someone dies unexpectedly with their first child." If you have a child, you will go to the scam to get tax-free benefits and then abandon the baby and flee, after all, this is an important military town on the border. We are very worried that someone will not be able to hold the mouth and follow the Huns together. ”

"The laying of the grassroots is very important, and the small people dare not make a noise. Those who plot to do evil must be weighed again. Cao Shi put his thoughts and thoughts, even if he doesn't say it now, he will wait a few more months sooner or later to send the county in the form of an official document from the imperial court, Shuofang County is the vanguard of the border county, and it is very necessary to do a good job in increasing the population fertility rate of Shuofang County.

He wanted to take advantage of the fact that the imperial edict was not issued, to do a good job of the pilot project in Shuofang County, and try his best to restore Shuofang to its proper peaceful life, this area does not need the noise of running around, the purpose is to clear those unpleasant topics, he stayed in Shuofang County for half a month and left. If you don't leave, you have to catch up with the spring season.

At the same time, the third group of 100,000 people entered Henan through the abandoned Jiuyuan Chi Road of the Qin Dynasty, and the people on both sides staggered past the ferry to attract his attention, and the last group of people were obviously wealthy families.

Chang'an City is, Weiyang Palace.

Liu Che sat in the greenhouse hall and was busy all day, and in the last few days, he has been busy dealing with complicated government affairs. Weekends are a rare opportunity to pass the time in your free time.

"So soon, Shuofang County has arranged 300,000 people?"

"No, it's just a tent for new residents to live in for the time being, and it's expected that it will take at least three months or more to have reasonable housing."

Dou Ying said in a dry voice: "The new population in Guanzhong will exceed the 300,000 population mark, and the total population will exceed 39 million. In order to reduce the aging population, it is necessary to have more children, and the annual birth rate is as high as 6 percent per year, and we have many population proposals. General Che Rider has us ready for an even bigger baby boom, are we ready? ”

Liu Che was annoyed. He didn't expect to beat everyone's unfavorable hand in a few words: "Have you solved it?" ”

All the officials and ministers in the court shut up, and the baby frenzy is gratifying. However, the economic burden associated with the population explosion is a very difficult problem, and it stands to reason that the more the population, the better for the Han Empire, but the contradiction between land supply and demand brought about by the population explosion will gradually appear, and it is difficult to choose whether to continue to expand or turn to domestic consumption.

Most people don't want a population explosion, and the population growth rate of 4 percent in Guanzhong is very scary, and the figure of doubling the total population in more than ten years is terrifying.

"The population will double in five years, quadruple the population in ten years, basically realize the control of Luo Yue in the south and the Xiongnu in the north, and form the first wave of population maturity peak after fifteen years at the earliest, and then enter the golden age of demographic dividend in the next fifteen years, and rely on the huge strength of 200 million people to crush the enemy in 30 years."

Liu Che asked, "What do you Aiqing think about this?" ”

"I don't think it's appropriate." Doctor Yan said: "Although the minister does not understand the demographic dividend, at least there is a chance in front of him, as long as he seizes the opportunity to become a rich man within twenty or thirty years, it is not a dream." ”

The minister heard that a corner of South Vietnam can support millions of people in Nanyue, and the Jingman's hometown can also accommodate at least five million people, but the capacity to accommodate the population between Huiji County and Dongou and Minyue is from the statistics of the number of household registrations left when Nanyue, Minyue and Dongou surrendered, and the total population of the three kings is about two million, and their farming skills are very backward. So much so that even three crops of rice will not be planted, which shows that there are many people who can produce as many seeds as they can produce indiscriminately, and the good old days are destined to be gone forever. ”

"And yet?"

"The capacity of the southern counties is at least 30 million people, the northern inner counties can accommodate at least 60 million people, and the famous grain harvest in the Guanzhong area makes people envious, jealous and hateful, first of all, I want to say that the grain is definitely not enough, and we must turn Jingman's hometown, Huiji and Wuzhong into a new rhythm point, that is, if there is nothing to do in the vicinity of Roshan, the demographic dividend is very in line with the model of some people, at least it is a little interesting to make up for experience." Xiong Zhen swaggered out, and the hunter didn't dare to shoot at all, so the big guy didn't send anything at all.

Tian Wei was very dissatisfied, it was right for the co-author to double the population, he was wrong, he said angrily: "I don't believe that the plan is completely nonsense, and someone will be deceived." ”

"It's not a lie, it's a fact." Cao Shi walked from outside the main hall and ignored Tian Wei's big words and saluted the ministers.

Wei Qihou Dou Ying smiled dumbly and said, "Pingyang Hou came just right, tell me what you think." ”

"We want to form an advantage in the northern border counties to fight more and less, dock forts, the Great Wall and beacon towers are indispensable, the population of each county should be kept at more than 300,000, less than 300,000 is too little, more than 500,000 will affect the normal development of the local population, narrow pastures will cause disputes and conflicts, no border counties have enough space for northward expansion, carefully calculate that in the northern border counties will need six or seven million people, from the perspective of the Han-Hungarian confrontation, six or seven million border county people will immediately increase the huge advantage of the Han army, and the source of troops will be guaranteed, There is no need to worry about being discarded, and there are many benefits to the large rear of the supply and storage of grain and grass. ”

Cao Shi tirelessly explained, roughly let the bureaucrats who do not understand military affairs listen to a mess, the Huns on the opposite side are busy cleaning up the old loaches in the Daxianbei Mountain, and the Han army has a positive advantage in the grand strategy by virtue of the fisherman's profit, so that the Huns and the Xianbei people can eat the dog's hair, we must keep quiet and do a good job in the migration and follow-up layout of the counties, so that the border counties will change from a sparsely populated desert grassland into a large barracks and granaries within a year.

The northern grasslands are not so useless, at least the fertile land of the southern grasslands is the most suitable for pastures, and it is expected that the Huns will occupy the pastures to the best as the Han people standing, and both sides have their own reasons to fight with rat traps, for fear that a little conflict will trigger the outbreak of a full-scale war between the Han and the Huns, and the timid people are almost stunned when they hear this name.

"In the middle of the night, most people are still immersed in sweet sleep, only a few people will hold on to see the dawn, we can't let the trauma of the Han-Hungarian war stay on future generations, we are the responsible Han family ministers and bureaucrats just want to live a stable life, but the changes in the Han-Hungarian pattern quietly tell us that peace is a beautiful fragile product."

The Son of Heaven stood up: "Thirty years is too long, I want to be faster, faster ......" (to be continued, please search, the novel is better and updated faster!)