Sun Qing was obviously prepared, and replied very neatly: "Back to the king and princess, if the people have neither ploughing oxen nor horses, nor waterwheels to irrigate, and no dependents to take care of the land. Even if the finest wheat seeds were distributed and used by the people, the yield per mu of the high-grade fertile land would not exceed four stones, and the yield of the inferior land should be less than two stones. ”

This number is a bit beyond Yin Ji's expectations.

It's too low.

Although after coming to this world, she saw the difficulty of farming with her own eyes and improved the grain herself, but Yin Cheng is not an agricultural expert after all, and her improvement of the grain is based on the aspect of witchcraft, which is a supernatural technology, not a scientific graft.

Therefore, she didn't know that water conservancy and farming tools, as well as cattle and horses, had such a big impact on the yield per mu, and that the upper and lower levels could be so bad.

Yin Changying was very indifferent.

He doesn't know everything about the specific situation of the country, but he still knows the number of cattle and horses.

In short, even the small landlord class had no cattle at home, and could only rely on tenant manpower to farm. Unless the big landlords, wealthy merchants, ministers, and the royal family can afford to plough oxen, and there are more extravagant horses.

This is the reason why the superior often feels that slaves and maids are inferior to cattle and horses - they eat more than cattle and horses, but they are not as efficient as cattle and horses.

Yin Ji looked at his expression and knew that there was a big shortage of livestock in Zhaoguo, but she didn't know how much it was missing, so she asked: "Brother, the people of Yongzhou, can you share a ploughing cow with twenty, no, thirty households?" ”

Yin Changying shook his head: "Don't say that Yongzhou is Lulong City, and it is not easy to want a Lu and a cow." ”

Yin Cheng was shocked.

There are so few ploughing cattle in the country!

There are twenty-five households in one Lu, this is the royal capital!

No wonder Zhaoguo decrees that killing ploughing cattle is a capital crime, which is too pitiful, right?

Ploughing cattle is still like this, pulling horses, she doesn't have to ask at all. Because horses are a more precious resource than oxen, and are used more in military and warfare!

Yin Cheng didn't interfere in state affairs before, first, she was afraid that Yin Changying would take care of her, and secondly, she was not very interested.

But now, her mentality has adjusted, and she can't help but take this as a burden on her shoulders, and ask seriously: "What are the main sources of cultivating cattle?" ”

These trivial matters naturally don't need to be answered by Yin Changying, Zheng Gao has spoken extremely smartly: "Back to the princess, the six domestic animals, except for chickens and dogs, are mostly raised by Shaofu, as well as the Western Wu clan, Yang clan and other tribes pay tribute. ”

The so-called six animals are cattle, horses, sheep, dogs, pigs, and chickens.

The only livestock that the people can raise is often chickens, and as for dogs, they are generally raised by the government, and they used to be raised to catch mice.

Since the introduction of cats (originally called raccoon dogs, but Yin Cheng always habitually called "cats", and the name has gradually become popular), the role of dogs has become that of caretaking.

And cattle, horses, sheep, and pigs, basically only big landowners, nobles, ministers and royal families can afford to raise them, especially horses, which ordinary people don't have the strength to raise.

Therefore, there is a saying that there are six animals and five animals in the world, that is, "horses" are excluded from the five animals, because only the state can raise horses in large quantities, and others do not have this capital at all.

When Yin Ji heard this, she couldn't help frowning.

How can this work?

"Shaofu's raising of six livestock should be the behavior of the state." Yin Cheng's concept is very clear, "If you want to expand production, you still need to rely on the people." ”

Yin Changying naturally thought about this problem.

The politics of the six animals, especially the horse politics, is a major national event.

Not to mention, the ancestors of the Yin family started by raising horses.

For the country, raising horses is undoubtedly a great benefit.

good horses, which can be used in military warfare to train cavalry; Bad horses can also be used as pulls and used to plough the land.

The benefits of raising horses, not to mention the hundred officials, even the people of Wangdu City can tell you one, two, three, four, five. Just like in later generations, taxi drivers in the imperial capital liked to point out the country, talk about politics, and talk about the Tao.

But everyone knows the difficulties of raising horses.

One word, expensive;

Two words, no money;

Three words, can't afford to raise.

Ninety-nine percent of all the problems in this world can be attributed to two causes—money, and productivity.

Hearing Yin Ji's thoughts, Yin Changying said slowly: "Someone once suggested to Gu that he should adopt the strategy of fake horses. ”

The so-called "fake" is a loan, that is, the government lends horses to the people to raise, and agrees that too many teenagers will take them back. During the lease period, some of the foals born each year belong to the government and some belong to the people themselves.

After hearing this, Yin Cheng felt that this policy was not the same as the mortgage in later generations?

Although countless people scolded, it endured for a long time, and until the time she was there, there were still people who were willing to spend half their lives as house slaves. Although it has evolved from buying a pigeon cage in the city to taking out a loan to buy the ownership of an asteroid, in the final analysis, isn't it still for living?

But Yin Changying did not directly adopt it......

Yin Ji thought for a while, and asked, "Is the eldest brother afraid that the horses will spread to the people and be sold to other countries?" ”

It's not impossible.

Even if it is a bad horse, it will be sold for tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of dollars on the market, and if it is a good horse, it will be even more unbelievable, and it is difficult to find a thousand dollars.

The people probably won't be able to make that much money in their lifetime, so what if you lend them a horse, and if they sell the horse and the family abscond to another country?

Even if this is a big crime of stealing the family and exterminating the clan, it's not that no one dares to do it!

Putting your valuables to the test is often disappointing.

Yin Changying said calmly: "I'm worried about it, the government of the fake horse is not implemented effectively. ”

Yin Ji just didn't expect this for a while, and when she heard him say this, she immediately understood in seconds.

The so-called ineffective implementation is, of course, not that the state cannot recover its capital, and with the administrative strength of the country, no one really dares to rely on the state.

Yin Changying mainly considered that once this policy is implemented, the bureaucrats will eventually evolve into forced apportionment in order to achieve the target.

Although it was not uncommon for Zhao to impose forced apportionment, it was normal to send the people of a county to fight, and it was not once or twice that forced conscription was made.

But the more this is the case, the more clear the people above actually know that the forced apportionment has a considerable damage to the people's livelihood and people's power, and it is a special operation that can only be carried out in extraordinary times.

It is already too much to send the people of a county to fight and abolish the cultivation of the year. But in a war, first, many people will die and not consume so much food, and second, the living people can often be added to the rank and knighthood, and the people may not have such a big opinion.

The military merit title system of Tian Zhai is doomed, once the war starts, some people die in battle, and some people soar.

Of course, in the eyes of the common people, they can only see examples of success, and think that they will also be the lucky ones.

However, if the imperial court forcibly apportions the people to raise horses, and as a result, the bureaucrats arbitrarily raise taxes, appoint the people in various ways, and even take advantage of this to exploit the people, causing the people's resentment to boil, then the gains outweigh the losses.

Before the unification of the six countries, Yin Changying did not want to do this for the time being.

If you fight the six countries alone, the number of horses in the current storage of Zhao is enough.

What really needed a large number of horses was actually to finish the Six Kingdoms and continue to expand to the outside world, especially after expanding to the northwest.

The grassland in the north of the Saibei is boundless and endless.

To go to such a place, do you not rely on horses, but on two legs?