Chapter 546: Selling Land and Selling a Future (Summoning a Monthly Pass)
"The weather is good, and you guys are also out for a walk, son-in-law?" Uncle Li finally came up with a reason to ask for a long time, and we quickly nodded in unison. "Yes, yes, my son-in-law saw that the weather was good, so he specially asked General Li to send an envoy to inspect the riverbank, in case the Goguryeo army quietly crossed the Yalu River and attacked our army's camp." I replied solemnly. Behind him, Su Dingfang and the others had already been frightened away by their drunkenness, and hurriedly put on a posture of serving the country at any time to show that they were out for business.
"It's so good, the old man is also worried about this, so he has been busy outside for a whole day." Uncle Li is also very cheeky, well, everyone is similar, pretending to be dead to each other, and no one broke the other party's violation of military discipline to come out to eat and drink. Although Uncle Li is the emperor, he is also a soldier, and he likes to set an example in front of others.
Uncle Li also took a look at what we were doing, because Xue Rengui is a rice bucket, but the amount of alcohol is not good, and his face has turned purple.
However, since everyone has gone to do the same thing, then no one will say anyone, after fooling around, please Uncle Li first, we will follow up, with this old rascal to take the lead, the safety factor of returning to the camp will not be found is much higher.
"It's so dangerous, mother, it scared Lao Su into a cold sweat, and most of this wine is sober." Su Dingfang wiped the sweat from his head and let out a sigh, the big guys all looked palpitating, followed Uncle Li's army in a gray manner, and secretly crawled back to the camp with Uncle Li at dusk, and then breathed a sigh of relief.
In order to prevent being discovered by others, several drunkards squatted in a camp tent for a night, and the next day, they finally recovered their normal shape, and they put on the prestige of the general in high spirits, and rushed to the big tent of the Chinese army.
Uncle Li, who was sitting on the throne ----------------------------------------------------, looked a little haggard, it seemed that he had drunk too much yesterday and didn't sleep well at night.
Before he could finish the ceremony, there was an excited shout outside: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, great news." The eldest grandson Wuji rushed into the big tent with a report in his hand.
"Oh? What good news, let me see. Uncle Li happily stretched out his hand to take the report and check it, and the eldest grandson Wuji announced to everyone in the inquiry of the generals: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has sent good news from Chang'an, and in the past two months, I have made a profit of 5.8 million yuan from the sale of Liaodi. ”
Hiss...... It's all gasping, one by two all stand in the corners of their eyes, five million and eight hundred thousand, Datang's annual tax is more than three million yuan, everyone's eyes are red, damn, it's too hanging. I was also taken aback by the number.
"Your Majesty, because of the frequent news of my army, many wealthy businessmen who originally took a wait-and-see posture got the news, and their confidence in my Tang Dynasty to pacify Liaodong has risen greatly, and the household yamen has almost broken the threshold by the people who bought land, because the land price in Liaodong is favorable, and it allows free trading, so Chang'an, Luoyang, Jinyang, Yangzhou and other major cities have reported to the government in order to obtain land in Liaodong and cultivate, and now, the people who buy land have exceeded 600,000 households......"
This is simply the Tang Dynasty version of the enclosure movement, Liaodong is sparsely populated, a lot of fertile land, not to mention no one cultivates, often thousands of miles of land without a figure, now sold more than 11 million acres, although the sale is appropriate, but the problem is that I know very well that the text of later generations has mentioned that Heilongjiang, Jilin, and Liaoning provinces in Northeast China have about 300 million mu of cultivated land, accounting for 16% of the total cultivated land in the country, not including the large plains north of Heilongjiang, I'm afraid that if all the population of the Tang Dynasty is moved over, there will be more than enough arable land.
Lord Yan Lide, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, stood up and said: "Weichen personally went to several state capitals occupied by my army to inspect, and the land in Liaodong is fertile, so that the minister has to be surprised, I am afraid that the good land in Guanzhong is not as good as ......"
Uncle Li threw down the report in his hand, walked a few steps, turned to Yan Lide and said, "How much arable land can be cultivated in the land of Liaodong, check!" Check it out for me! ”
"Your Majesty, don't worry, Your Majesty has already confessed to the ministers when he was in Beijing, and the ministers sent officials from the Ministry of Industry to rush to the capitals of Liaodong occupied by our Tang Dynasty after crossing the Liao River, on the one hand, to investigate the household records left by the original Goguryeo, on the other hand, last year, the ministers had already colluded with Lord Fang, and I think there should be some news from Lord Fang."
"Okay, Yan Aiqing, you did a good job, Fang Jun, do you have a detailed number there?" Uncle Lee immediately turned his attention to me. Looking for me? Simple, because the measurements of later generations are more accurate than they are now, and the knowledge I have obtained from books is absolutely correct.
"Your Majesty, I will borrow a map." I stood up, pulled the map handed by the person next to me and spread it on the ground, and then pointed to the map drawn by my colleagues in the Jinju Academy, and said: "Since the last general was prompted by His Majesty to encourage my Tang people to move to the border by selling the land of Liaodong, the last general has ordered all the intelligence personnel in the land of Liaodong to make a detailed description and statistics of the arable land here, and after more than a year of rough estimates, according to the map, the arable land of our current base alone is about three million dumps......" I was burying my head and said, Suddenly felt that the silence around him was too much, and raised his head to look, but he was startled by the expressions of these people, Uncle Li stared at me with straight eyes, and on the side, Yan Lide covered his chest, looking like he was about to have a heart attack. What's going on? Could it be that I'm talking too much and scaring them? Even a group of old generals all looked stunned.
What are you doing, it's only a little bit of land, compared to those who fool people in the fantasy, this is too much less, I don't have time to pay attention to them, taking advantage of no one who has any doubts, I continued to point to the map and said loudly: "In addition, there are about a million hectares of arable land east of Yalu Water, but north of the Wangjian River, there are only a few intelligence officers from my Datang who have been to the land of Black Water, and they have not been there for a long time now, they are not familiar with the geography, and they have not had too much contact with the locals, so there is no way to investigate for the time being, However, according to the information they sent back, there are also a large number of plains over there, suitable for farming, and I am afraid that it is almost as big as the land of Liaodong. ”
"Virtuous son-in-law, did the old man hear me right? Are you saying that we currently occupy nearly three million hectares of arable land? "Uncle Lee was almost pinching my neck and asking questions. Yan Lide on the side was like a first-grade elementary school student, constantly holding his fingers there, muttering in his mouth: "30,000 hectares, that's 300 million mu, mother, we only sold more than 11 million mu, but one-thirtieth of the number, 300 million mu, that's how many?" ”
"What the son-in-law said is all the truth, there is no half-truth, if Your Majesty doesn't believe it, you can re-explore Liaodong, which is definitely more than what the son-in-law said." As soon as I said this, Uncle Li let go and crouched down in front of the map. "Virtuous son-in-law, do you know how many acres of land my Datang currently has on the register?" Uncle Li stroked the map, as if caressing the tender skin of a beautiful lady, and his movements and demeanor were very disgusting.
---------------------------------------------------- I couldn't help but shudder, and quickly replied, "My son-in-law doesn't know." "Our dynasty now has a total of more than 4 million acres of land, of which only 56 out of 10 paddy fields, Liaodong alone, just now, we have laid 3 million hectares of land, almost equivalent to I have laid a Central Plains land." Uncle Li muttered in a daze.
"Huh?" I was really taken aback, to be honest, I never thought that the cultivated land in Datang was so small now, but Uncle Li would never lie about this kind of thing.
Porphy, the eldest grandson Wuji knelt down with tears streaming down his face: "Your Majesty! Your Majesty's martial arts, eternal prosperity! "Sycophant, the old boy's acting ability is too strong. The veteran ruffians and the ministers who came with them all bowed to the ground, throwing themselves to the ground to the largest landlord of the Tang Dynasty, His Majesty the Great Tang Emperor, chanting in unison the exploits of this great man...... inside and outside the barracks, countless Tang soldiers seemed to have a sense, and gradually shouted together with the generals in the big tent of the Chinese army: "Long live Your Majesty, long live, long live, long live the Tang Dynasty, long live, long live!" ”
I seem to have seen that in the fifties and sixties of later generations, the crazy scene of developing the Great Northern Wilderness, thinking about it, it only takes three to five years, the number of people in the land of Liaodong, the number of the people of the Tang Dynasty will far exceed the sum of the ethnic minorities here, and ten years later, this place will be firmly written in the hands of the Tang Dynasty, and the ethnic minorities here will gradually be assimilated by the agricultural civilization, forget their language and culture, and carry out a great integration movement of the Tang nationality.
The world will become better, the nations will become very harmonious, and the Han cultural co-prosperity circle of the Tang Empire will start from this moment, and one day it will spread throughout the five major states of Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America, so that the barbarians all over the world can feel the power of civilization and Confucianism.
(To be continued)