More food feeds more people, and more people lead to economic prosperity and more talent, while also consolidating newly conquered areas.

Everything in the Great Qin Empire was built on grain, and grain was built on cultivated fields.

Regardless of the 10-year plan or the 100-year plan, we must first know the resources at our disposal.

Eight years have passed since the last time the household was reorganized.

In the past eight years, Great Qin first annexed Wu, then took Liaodong, then swallowed Southern Xinjiang, integrated the Western Regions, and swallowed Dawan, Kangju, and Hezhong.

A new round of household registration is imminent.

This time, it is necessary to find out not only how many people but also how much land.

Cultivated land and pasture land are limited, and the equalization system is not a panacea, and once the population swells to a critical value, the equalization system will become a method of returning harm to the people.

Historically, as soon as Emperor Li Er unified the world and opened the rule of Zhenguan, there was a phenomenon of government soldiers fleeing.

By the time of Li Zhi and Wu Cao, large-scale desertion from the fields was not uncommon.

According to the data sent by the states and counties, Daqin's cultivated land and pastures are as high as 9.3 billion mu, and the population is as high as 47 million......

Yang Zheng looked at these data and was overjoyed, proving that the governance of the country has been quite effective over the years.

But when I think about it, I feel that something is wrong.

Later generations always said that the bottom line of 1.8 billion mu should be retained......

In the later generations with the development of science and technology, the scale of cultivated land was only about 1.8 billion mu, and the cultivation and pasture of the Wei and Jin dynasties 1,700 years ago could reach 9.3 billion mu?

You must know that many areas are still in a primitive and undeveloped state, how can cultivated land and pastures reach the figure of 9.3 billion mu?

The Literature Museum counted the cultivated land data of the two Han Dynasty, and at most, it was 500 million mu during the period of Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty......

Even if Great Qin suppressed the strong and powerful scholars and liquidated the remnants of the previous dynasty, it would not have increased dozens of times......

A careful inventory of the data sent shows that the problem is still concentrated in the Kanto region.

Many prefectures in Kanto have more cultivated land than in Kanchu Prefecture......

It's kind of incredible.

"It must be a local fraud!" Yang Xu was quite angry.

"If you are good at the top, you will obey the bottom, these people are to vote for His Majesty's favor......" Wei Qian arched his hand.

There are policies above, and there are countermeasures below.

This kind of thing naturally occurs when an official's promotion is linked to local performance.

I didn't expect it to be just a start, and the problem came.

"Those who travel a hundred miles are half ninety, and Your Majesty has a long way to go." Lu Zhi sighed.

Yang Zheng also had a sense of frustration, in the feudal era, ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, the fighting methods of the imperial court and the local government were a dark line running through the fate of the empire.

The elders of the court have their own interests, and the local officials also have their own small abacus......

Historically, Emperor Hongwu plucked the bark daylily, but still could not stop the corruption of officials.

In fact, if you think about it, Daqin inherited Cao Wei, annexed the Central Plains of the Sima family, and after capturing Yecheng, all parts of the Central Plains surrendered.

With them, the atmosphere of Daqin's officialdom is not much better.

Or maybe something went wrong in Kanto.

And this problem has existed since the Cao Wei period, and after the Sima family changed hands, the poison was even worse.

Officers and magistrates can clearly mark the price.

Yang Zheng has experienced that period and knows the doorway.

Daqin put an end to the trading of officers and cut off one of their financial routes, but the local officials were left over from the previous dynasty, and they only needed to change their banners and lie dormant for a while, so they could continue to cover the sky with one hand.

There are also the officials of the auxiliary left, who are the group that really controls the locality.

Those who can be officials must be local heroes.

There is no force behind it, and it can't sit in that position at all.

If these thousands of threads are not cleared up, the people of Kanto will not really return to their hearts, and Kanto and Daqin will look like they are separated.

Just like the Tang Dynasty, when the imperial court was strong, it was impossible to see that once the imperial court was weak, the Anshi Rebellion and the division of feudal towns all came.

"Eat the rice one bite at a time, and solve the problems one by one." Yang Zheng cleaned up his thoughts, "First of all, we must confirm whether Guanzhong and Shuzhong are like the Central Plains. ”

"Yui!" Lu Zhi, Wei Qian, Suo Jing and other important ministers of the empire surrendered at the same time.

The Literature Museum, the Xuanyi Division, and the Zhenfu Division are busy again, and fast horses can be seen coming in and out of Chang'an every day.

It took more than two months, and it was basically certain that Yongliang was not cheating.

The population and fields are not much different from what was reported.

After all, at the feet of the Son of Heaven, the supervision is relatively strict.

Three months later, there was a problem with the data found in Shuzhong, and local officials counted the people's houses as cultivated fields for the sake of political performance......

However, there is not much problem in Shuzhong, and only a few counties do this.

Each mile reported more, the county added another sum, the county added oil and vinegar, and the state opened a good situation, and then followed the lump sum, accumulated heavily, and increased the weight, resulting in an astronomical amount......

Most places are still normal, and the Shu Kingdom was a cleanup in the Three Kingdoms back then, and the officials were not yet corrupted.

There is no problem in Guanzhong, but there is no problem in Shuzhong, and Yang Zheng has the confidence to thoroughly investigate Kanto and Jiangdong.

After the Great Qin dominated the world, Yang Zheng attacked Liaodong and Linyi non-stop, and went west into Central Asia, ignoring the interior.

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It was not deliberately ignored, but the situation at the time.

Everyone else has surrendered to Great Qin, can't they be cut with one sword, force local riots, and then the Qin army will fight down and kill city by city?

If this is the case, I am afraid that the population of the Central Plains will be reduced sharply.

Yang Zheng expanded the Literature Museum again, recruited a large number of students, and formed an inventory team, each team was escorted by 1,000 Chinese troops, and began the inventory of the Kanto.

"I want to see the most real Great Qin, and you just have to investigate, no matter what the result is." Yang Zheng prepared for the worst.

It was only six or seven years before Daqin was stable, and problems arose.

In fact, similar things have happened again and again in history.

The cultivated land of the Sui Dynasty was as high as 5.5 billion mu, far exceeding that of the Han, Tang, Ming and Qing dynasties......

The local style of exaggeration prevailed, and the envoys from the Western Regions entered Beijing, and the imperial court decorated the trees of the capital with silk and satin for the sake of face......

The Sui Dynasty was known as the five granaries, but there was starvation everywhere around the granaries.

It can be said that Emperor Yang of Sui's great achievements were not completely personal character, but were stunned by the exaggerated wind of local rises, and did not recognize the true situation of the Great Sui Empire.

Sure enough, as soon as the clearance team came out of Tongguan, Kanto immediately boiled.

There was a blatant attack on the search team.

In front of the Chinese army, no matter how many "bandits and horse bandits" there are, they are a rabble.

In many places, after the investigation teams were stationed, many officials hanged themselves and left a letter of plea to take all the blame on themselves.

However, after in-depth investigation by the Department of Suppression, it was found that every official who committed suicide did not really commit suicide......

Six or seven years is enough time to form a new interest group.

In order to reduce the local rebellion, Yang Zheng issued an edict that those who surrendered at the end of this year could be dealt with leniently.

However, it didn't have much effect.