Chapter 260: The Food Plan
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Liu Mang's plan to recruit the common people was carried out after his land acquisition order was issued, but the results were not so satisfactory.
Where are the nearest places near Shouchun, one is Si, one is the next dish, after the disaster is Pengcheng, these three places belong to Cao Cao's Xuzhou, Cao Cao fought on this Surabaya when he attacked Tao Qian, and guided Surabaya to stay, not only Tao Qian's army suffered heavy casualties and retreated to Pengcheng to defend it, Lao Cao's own troops were also casualties, Lao Cao was angry and directly made the vicinity of Surabaya a hundred miles uninhabited.
Even if Cao Cao reassigns personnel to enrich Xuzhou later, it will not be done in a day or two, so this Xuzhou generation will not be able to gather a few people at all, and two thousand people will go to Shouchun City to wait for Liu Mangjun's distribution. Could it be that there were nearly 3,000 people in one generation on the way?
Yingshang Ruyin was directly detained by Liu Ranran, Jiangdong Sun Ce is also, with the population can the army be developed, if everyone runs away, what will he take to farm, Cao Cao is unintentionally careful, he is now Guandu and Yuan Shao are fighting hotly and killed Yuan Shao's 100,000 water army, now Yuan Shao has 150,000 troops left, Lao Cao 40,000 horses guarding an official can still hold on, at least in the grain and grass has been greatly improved, the original can only last two or three months, now it can be dragged for more than half a year.
"Just a few thousand! How is this enough! Liu Mang frowned, what he needed was a large population, so as to maintain the war potential of Lu Bu's army in the future, and he was not afraid that someone would starve to death, because of the effect of sweet potatoes, even if he was allowed to take the land of Yangzhou. It is more than enough to feed most of the world's population.
"My lord. It's not that the subordinates don't do their best. It's that the princes of all sides are blocking the arrival of the people, and it is difficult to meet the standard! "Standing below is Liu Neng, he gave all the gold of the private soldiers belonging to their Liu family to the family who died in the war, Liu Mang saw it in his eyes but remembered it in his heart, as soon as Liu Neng came back, Liu Mang appointed him and asked him to be in charge of the migration of the population.
"The obstruction of the princes on all sides?!" Liu Mang really has a bit of a headache, the population thing. In the early stage of the troubled times, it was regarded as human life as a mustard, that is, the life of a dog was more valuable than people, so it was normal for corpses to be everywhere, and the Yellow Turban Rebellion was to carry millions of people to conquer the city, with countless casualties, and all kinds of Yellow Turban thieves, it should be said that once the people who were wrapped in the Yellow Turban Army were defeated by the official army, the official army didn't care whether you were a Yellow Turban thief or not, they were all killed, and after killing, they were rewarded with their heads. So it was a hell on earth.
Later, because of the continuous wars, the princes of all walks of life received the taxes under their rule to the extreme. There are still many places that are deserted, the grain production is not enough, and the people are difficult to even have food and clothing, once there is a famine, it is a large number of hungry refugees pouring into the major cities, and those princes in order to prevent chaos under their own rule, for these hungry people will be driven away, and at worst, they will send troops to kill them, all of which are to drive these hungry people out of their own rule.
Now, there are only a few people left in the original eighteenth road princes, so those princes began to slowly care about the people again, because with the people, you can have someone to farm for you, originally before the chaos in the world, the entire Han Dynasty had 40 million people, and now I am afraid that it is not even half, and a lot of air and fertile fields have been vacated, so those princes of the scholar clan began to care about the people again. This is the reason why Liu Neng has been in charge of these days, only thousands of people have taken refuge, and those princes will not let their people leave their places lightly!
"Hmph, they thought they could stop it!" Liu Mang snorted coldly, population is a big problem, if it is not solved, I am afraid that Lu Bujun will only have one way to lose, because the entire Lujiang River together is a population of more than 100,000, so even if all the people are soldiers, there are only 100,000 soldiers and horses, even if the tactics are good and the weapons are sophisticated, in this era of cold weapons, you will be piled up by people.
You must know that there are nearly two million people under Sun Ce in Jiangdong, which is why Sun Ce will not be too distressed even if he loses 100,000 troops, but the loss of the 30,000 main force makes Sun Ce's heart ache for a while, and the 100,000 army can be pulled out after half a year of training.
Hebei Sanzhou, Yuan Shao's Jizhou Youzhou and Youzhou, and the population of Youzhou and Youzhou is a little smaller, adding up to only one million, but Jizhou has a large population, more than four million, so Yuan Shao can have an army of 300,000, if it is not Cao Cao but Lu Bujun who is facing Yuan Shao on Guandu now, he would have been beaten by Yuan Shao to the point that there is no scum left.
Cao Cao's Yanzhou and half of Yuzhou plus the entire Xuzhou also have a population of more than 3 million, mainly concentrated in Yanzhou, half of Yuzhou has a population of less than one million, Yanzhou has about 1.5 million, and there is Xuzhou, Xuzhou has a population of 3 million in the highest period, but Cao Cao fought Tao Qian, Lu Bu, Liu Bei, Lu Bu beat Liu Bei, Liu Bei beat Cao Cao, so Xuzhou left 560,000 horses.
The most populous still belongs to Jingzhou, a state has a population of five million, Jingzhou is very rich, after all, since the Yellow Turban Rebellion, no princes have ever been to the hinterland of Jingzhou, even if the Jiangdong Xiaobawang is strong, it is also stuck in Jiangxia and difficult to move, many scholars and people in the Central Plains have taken refuge in Jingzhou, so the current Jingzhou is really prosperous, this is the reason why Cai Mao was able to draw out 300,000 sailors when Cao Cao went to Jingzhou in the later period of the Three Kingdoms.
The population of Yizhou Liu Zhang is also quite a lot, there is the land of Shuchuan, although there are many mountains, but it is also a natural barrier, the war is not too raging in Yizhou, Chengdu Hanzhong is known as the granary of the world. It's just that now Hanzhong is in Zhang Lu's hands, and if the two are combined, there will be a population of about three million.
The next population is the Xiliang generation and the Liaoxi generation, Xiliang has Ma Teng and Han Sui, Wu'an Tianshui Qiang Han people live together and have a population of nearly one million, the reason why Xiliang is strong is because the people and horses in the place and the Qiang people fight every year, almost all the people are soldiers, this is the situation that tens of thousands of cavalry are vertical and horizontal at every turn, Liaoxi Gongsun Du, there is Liaodong on the side, if you count Goguryeo, you can also make up a million people, and again it is Liu Ranran, Liu Ranran occupies Runan. Runan is close to Xudu. It is also half of Yuzhou. Cao Cao can be said to have indirectly helped Liu Ranran, so that the population of Yuzhou is more than 300,000, plus Liu Ranran brought from Xuzhou, almost 500,000 or so, and now the poorest is probably Lu Bujun, Wancheng Zhang Xiu, and Zhili Zone, Zhili is because of the annual war. From the eighteenth road princes will be Tiger Prison Pass and Dong Zhuo to fight, Dong Zhuo burned the entire Luoyang, after the death of Dong Zhuo, Li Dao and Guo Yan united to fight Lu Bu, beat Wang Yun, killed Wang Yun and drove Lu Bu away, and the two began to fight again, it can be said that the Luoyang Chang'an generation has been completely abolished, adding up to 200,000 people is good!
Wancheng Zhang Xiu's family originally occupied a city, and the population didn't care how much, the original plan was to wait for the price to sell. He has 20,000 Xiliang iron cavalry and 10,000 foot soldiers in his hands, and he is ready to see which boss Niu will follow. It was Cao Cao's who thought about it, but who let Cao Cao have a leg with his aunt!
In the end, there is Lu Bujun, Lujiang County is good, there are more than 100,000 people, but there are 20,000 or 30,000 people in the Shouchun generation, who let there be an Emperor Yuan here, and after collecting taxes for decades, the people can live before there are ghosts.
Now the population of Shouchun is still the families of those Danyang soldiers brought by Liu Mang, as well as the families of those craftsmen. The population problem is imminent.
Now if you want to get a large population, there are only two ways, the first is to send troops to rob, just like those foreign tribes enter the Central Plains to loot, send soldiers and horses to the areas of the major princes to loot, Cao Cao and Liu Bei on the side are all areas that can be looted, Jiangdong Sun Ce is difficult to grab because of the river, Jingzhou Liu Biao only Xinye Yiyang Zaoyang can be looted, but now there is a problem that is very strict!
Lao Cao is now carrying Yuan Shao in Guandu, you go to rob Lao Cao, don't make Lao Cao anxious and come back desperately, Jiangdong Sun Ce, just make a truce with him, even if you fight that, you have to wait for a while, after all, now Liu Mang's army has no water army, Jingzhou Liu Biao, some time ago he was on his honeymoon with Lu Bujun, so he will fight it like this! Only with a Liu Bei can be bullied, but there is a problem, that is, Liu Bei has a lot of soldiers and horses, and it is difficult to attack across the Huai River, the most important thing is that now Liu Mang's army has a large number of recruits, even if he is killed and injured, it will not be easy to fight in the past, now Liu Mang needs to recuperate, and there is no benefit at all to start a war, otherwise, the little turkey will play like that, according to Liu Mang's previous temper, it has already been beaten.
Then we can only use the second method, to improve the welfare, to raise the welfare of the people in the Shouchun generation to a certain level, people die for money, birds die for food, as long as they can live in Shouchun, can live better, who will want to stay where they are and wait for exploitation.
"Liu Neng, you give me a cloth, as long as you come under my Liu Mangjun, all the people will reward two acres of fertile land and cultivate it for more than three years to belong to the people, and the tax will be charged 30%, if someone opens up the wasteland, the wasteland opened up will help our army cultivate for five years, and after five years, all these fertile fields will belong to the people as before!" Liu Mang said to Liu Neng. "By the way, the taxes on the fields of the soldiers who died in the war have become two percent," Liu Mang can't favor one over the other.
"Two acres of fertile land?!" Liu Neng is also settling accounts, Liu Mang's words, then a family of five is counted, one child, four adults, that is nine acres of land, nine acres of land, and the tax burden of thirty percent is left, that is, there are still six acres of land, six acres of fertile land, that is really a lot of family property.
But what about the expenses of the entire army after such a reduction in taxes! The army not only needs grain and grass but also salaries, so it relies on 30% of the tax burden to drink the northwest wind. Even if it is good land, it is only 400 catties a year, and one acre of land can only be used for one stone, which can only be enough to maintain the food and drink of the army, and there are other expenses, such as river embankments, such as road and bridge repairs, as well as disaster relief, etc., if there is no surplus food, then it is a fart.
"Isn't this too high, lord!"
"You still don't feel at ease when I do things! As long as you plant the fruits I brought, the yield of one acre of land will definitely not be less than two thousand catties," Liu Mang revealed a figure to Liu Neng. Originally, Liu Mang only told Xu Shu and Liu Ye and others about this number, because Liu Mang was not sure.
"What!" Liu Neng's eyes suddenly widened, two thousand catties, what kind of number is this, even in the harvest year, it is less than five hundred catties at most, if you count taxes, it is basically difficult for a person to eat enough, and Liu Mang opened his mouth is two thousand catties, what kind of concept is this four times more, why is the birth rate of ancient people very high, and there is no family planning for seven or eight children in a family, but it has been around tens of millions, even if it is dead, it is less than sixty million. That's because of the food problem. The people did not have enough to eat. If you can't eat, you will naturally starve to death, the birth rate is high, and the mortality rate is higher, and then it took thousands of years for the Chinese population to reach 100 million, hundreds of years or nearly a hundred years to reach 200 million, about 4o years to reach 300 million, and about 3o years to reach 400 million. During this time, it was because of the food problem solved, and the first time the food problem was solved was the introduction of these high-yield vegetation such as sweet potatoes and wheat into China, which made the population grow.
The second time is Yuan Dada's hybrid rice. He directly solved the problem of feeding more than a billion people, you asked Liu Mang why he didn't bring hybrid rice back, there was a reason, this kind of thing can only be planted for one period, and after planting, it will be re-seeded, how can it be possible with the scientific level of the late Han Dynasty!
"The 2,000 catties I said is dry land, and if it's good land, it should be about 4,000 catties!" Anyway, it's all sΓΉ, Liu Neng might as well tell all Liu Mang's guesses! 4,000 catties This is already Liu Mang's statement according to the guarantee, because the yield of normal sweet potatoes in dry land is also 2,000 kilograms, that is, 4,000 catties, and it may reach about 4,000 kilograms in fertile fields. But there is no fertilizer on the land here, so Liu Mang didn't dare to pack the ticket, which reduced the output by a large amount.
"Me. Lord, this! Liu Neng's mouth opened, he didn't know what to say, where is this food, this is completely the divine fruit, if it really reaches this Cheng dΓΉ, then Guangyangzhou alone will be able to feed the people of the world.
"Go ahead, spread out our policies, I want to see, they can't stop it!" Liu Mang waved his hand at Liu Neng, population is a big problem, and now Liu Mang needs to think about too many problems, because now Lu Bujun is completely poor and white, and the industrial base is zero. Like Li Dao and Guo Yan, he only has subordinates, but he doesn't know how to work or manage it, and in the end he can only become a dry bone in the grave, Dong Zhuo left behind the Xiliang cavalry that has seventy or eighty thousand, plus one hundred thousand foot soldiers, what a powerful force this is, but now it is gone. In addition to the 20,000 Xiliang Iron Cavalry in the hands of Zhang Xiu in Wancheng, the other Xiliang Iron Cavalry has disappeared from the stage of history.
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Liu Mang's decree went out, and this time, it was also spread by Yang Hong's intelligence department and scout troops, just like the recruitment order, and it was spread in various cities of all princes.
Under the rule of Jiangdong Wuhu Jiangdong Xiaobawang: "You know! Yangzhou Shouchun, I heard that His Royal Highness the King of Shu recruited people there! A mysterious middle-aged man in Tsing Yi suddenly added such a sentence among a crowd of people.
"Recruiting the people? What is there for the people to recruit?! Someone interjected, the mysterious man in Tsing Yi suddenly smiled, he was not afraid of people asking, he was afraid that people would not ask, and the other people were also looking at this man in Tsing Yi, the people didn't grab a lot of people in the world! What is there to recruit.
"This is different, this His Royal Highness the King of Shu wants someone to farm for him and become his people under his rule!" The man in Tsing Yi explained.
"Yangzhou Shouchun, how far is it for hundreds of miles, and across the Yangtze River! Who wants to go over, and Shouchun? Hehe, our whole family escaped from Shouchun, that place is deserted, and taxes have been received for more than ten years" Another middle-aged man expressed disdain at the man in Tsing Yi who raised the topic.
The mysterious middle-aged man in Tsing Yi also seemed to be a little stunned: "What do you know!" Shouchun is far away from here, but His Royal Highness the King of Shu said that as long as he goes over, each person can get two acres of fertile land" said and raised two fingers,
"Two acres of fertile land? Hehe, a lot, my family is now planting dozens of acres of fertile land! The middle-aged man who asked the question was still very dismissive. They have a family of four and ten acres of land, but the family still can't eat, so they have to go out to fish and sell the coarse cloth made by the seller's wife.
"Your good field can be compared with His Royal Highness the King of Shu!"
"How can't it be compared! The fertile fields of Shouchun are not as good as those in my Jiangdong! "Shouchun belongs to the Anhui region of Jiangsu Province in Huainan, and Jiangdong is in the Anhui generation of Zhejiang, in fact, there is no difference between the two, but this middle-aged man can only say this in order to save face.
"How much do you pay in taxes?" The mysterious man in Tsing Yi didn't refute it, but asked rhetorically.
"Thanks to the prisoner general, the care of Lord Wuhou Sun Ce, my family's tax is only sixty percent!" The middle-aged man was very proud, his family had a soldier from Sun Ce, but he died in battle. Sun Ce wouldn't be too chilling with his subordinates. But he couldn't be as generous as Liu Mang, so he could only reduce taxes by 10% to compensate these families who died in battle. In this way, you can get an extra two or three hundred catties of grain a year, which is really a lot! Let the surrounding people listen to the envy on their faces, so that the middle-aged man's vanity has been improved to a certain extent. He looked at the mysterious man in Tsing Yi very proudly, but who knew that what he got was a kind of contempt and disdain. "Look down on my family! Tell me how much your family has to pay taxes! β
The mysterious man in Tsing Yi stretched out three fingers and looked at the middle-aged man with a smile.
"Heh, it turned out to be seventy percent, what qualifications do you have to laugh at my family!" The middle-aged man was disdainful, didn't three fingers just leave thirty percent of the rations!
The mysterious man in Tsing Yi shook his head with a smile, "It's Sancheng, His Royal Highness the King of Shu said." As long as you go to Shouchun, two acres of fertile land for one person, you can collect three achievements in taxes, and you will never be paid! β
"How is that possible! You liar! The middle-aged man pointed at the mysterious man and scolded, "What is this, your Royal Highness the King of Shu is so likely to only collect thirty percent of the tax, and the tax is so low, how can he feed the army, how can he go to the money of his subordinates!" "Fifty percent of the tax is loved, thirty percent? Let's really go drink the northwest wind! Now it is not the new emperor who ascends the throne and amnesties the world, so it is possible to reduce taxes, and the king of Shu who this man said not only only collects 30% of taxes. And never give more, how is it possible. It's a complete hoax.
The people on the side also nodded, "Yes!" How can it be thirty percent, even if it is the blue sky master, it is impossible! This must be a liar, deceiving us all the way to the past! β
"yes, yes, can't go, can't go!"
The mysterious man in Tsing Yi listened to everyone's discussions, raised his arm, and pressed it, "His Royal Highness the King of Shu is impossible to deceive people, rank, do you still remember the recruitment order some time ago!" The mysterious man mentioned this recruitment order, and the people present still knew a little, because Liu Mang was completely offending the scholars in the world because of this recruitment order, and those princes couldn't wait to let Liu Mang do it, so Sun Ce did not block the propaganda of the recruitment order, and the recruitment order was originally for those poor people, so these people also knew about it.
"It turns out that that is His Royal Highness the King of Shu" "It turned out to be him!" I heard that the youngest son of the Zhao Si family went to Shouchun to have a bright future! The people once again entered the discussion, throwing out their previous distrust of Liu Mang, but they still did not reduce their defense.
"It's not a lie, how do you explain this three layers!" The middle-aged man was very unconvinced, just now he made everyone not believe in His Royal Highness the King of Shu, but now it's okay, everyone doesn't listen to him, which makes him feel very uncomfortable.
"Hehe, you also said before, Shouchun is now uninhabited, and you also said that you yourself are Shouchun people, then let me ask you, do you know how much land Shouchun has!" The mysterious man in Tsing Yi pointed at the middle-aged man and asked.
"A lot, a lot!" How could a middle-aged man know how big the land of Shouchun was, he was just an ordinary person, and he could only explain the land of Shouchun in a lot of ways.
"Hehe, yes, it's a lot, a lot, but now it's deserted, and there is no one to plant the fertile land, so you're out to sell cloth!" The mysterious man in Tsing Yi looked at the middle-aged man and said, because he was holding a coarse cloth in his hand, although it was a coarse cloth, it could be seen that it was very tightly braided, this was a good cloth, at least it was a good cloth in the coarse cloth.
"What's your business!" The middle-aged man hugged his cloth tightly.
"How much is your cloth worth?!" The man in Tsing Yi asked, pointing to the piece of cloth.
"Twenty bucks!" The middle-aged man said a price: "Why do you want it?!" "He came out to sell cloth, and now he almost forgot about arguing with people.
"Twenty bucks? If I pay ten dollars, will you sell it?! The mysterious man in Tsing Yi took out ten copper coins from his arms.
"Of course it's not for sale! This is made by my mother-in-law, and the best hemp is woven by him piece by piece, and I will not sell it to anyone without twenty dollars! β
"Not for sale? Then what if I rob it! Then you may not have a penny," the man in Tsing Yi made a gesture to grab something.
"You dare!" The middle-aged man tightly held the cloth in his arms, "If you dare to snatch my cloth, I will fight with you!" β
"Desperate!? I don't want to die yet! What if the government comes to collect your cloth! β
"Expropriation?!" The middle-aged man was stunned for a moment, in ancient times, the word expropriation sounded good, and expropriation sounded bad, and it was robbery, once the government went to war, it was natural to collect grain and cloth, and at that time the cloth was worthless. "How could it be, Wu Hou wouldn't!" Although the middle-aged man said this, his expression told him that Wu Hou had levied it.
"If you are expropriated by the government and sell me ten big money, which one do you choose?" The mysterious man in Tsing Yi asked.
"Of course I sold it to you!" Although these people have never read a book, they still understand some basic interests, and if they are expropriated, they are worthless, and the government will not subsidize them, and although they sold to this man in Tsing Yi, there were only ten big dollars left, which did not reach the price of twenty big dollars he expected, but they were sold anyway, and they also made ten big money.
"You know all this truth, not to mention the noble His Royal Highness the King of Shu! You see, your cloth is equivalent to the land of His Royal Highness the King of Shu in Shouchun, if no one cultivates, then it is like your cloth is levied by the government, it is worthless, and if someone goes to farm, just like His Royal Highness the King of Shu said, each person has two acres of fertile land, and the tax burden is only thirty percent, which is like you selling this cloth to me, although it is a loss, but there is still a lot to earn! And His Royal Highness the King of Shu also said, as long as you have a half-sized son left, you will be rewarded with an acre of good land, and the female doll will be rewarded with half an acre of land, and half of the child can also receive an acre of land when he grows up. Liu Mang wants to build the whole of Yangzhou into a populous land.
After the mysterious man in Tsing Yi compared the rest of the people really understands, if you want to tell the people directly that it is better for His Royal Highness the King of Shu to plant the field than no one, although such a truth is simple, but it is not impressive to the people, and the people are easy to hesitate, but now with such a piece of cloth as a metaphor, everyone understands the past.
Two acres of land for one person, their family of four is eight acres of land, and there are still five acres of land left after paying over thirty percent, which is all his, and here, although there are ten acres of land, but only four acres of land belong to his family, and this land is still Sun Ce's and cannot be bought and sold, this is not the key, the key is that His Royal Highness the King of Shu said that he would never be endowed, and the first five years of the reclamation of wasteland are also their family, and their family can also have their own land.
"In that case, are you still going?!" The mysterious man in Tsing Yi said with a smile.
"Go, I'll go!" The middle-aged man hurriedly said. Many people on the side were also very moved, and the mysterious man in Tsing Yi released the last news, which completely overwhelmed their hesitant thoughts.
"I tell you, if you want to go, hurry up, although there are many good fields in Shouchun, but only for the first 50,000 people! If it's too late, there will be no more "50,000 people? Liu Mang's Shouchun and Hefei Lujiang can be collected even if it has a population of 500,000, after all, this is Yangzhou, a place that is not inferior to Xuzhou Jizhou, Jizhou now has a population of four million (one million of which were taken away by the Montenegrin thief Zhang Yan).
According to Liu Mang's prediction, this half of Yangzhou under Liu Mang should be able to live a population of 5 million to 7 million. Not only that, but also to export food, Liu Mang does not expect his command to be able to increase the population at one time, but in this way there are only 50,000 people, then those people will definitely rush to sue, their enthusiasm is mobilized, it is too late, then there will be no distribution of fertile land, even under the rule of Sun Ce in Jiangdong, there are few people who starve to death, but most of the people are not full, because every year he Jiangdong has to use troops against Jingzhou, in fact, this is also Sun Ce's helplessness, because there is so much food, Taking these horses to fight can reduce the consumption of grain and grass, so how can you give up when you see such an opportunity now! (To be continued......)