It is said that in order to encourage farmers in various places to grow grain, Zhao Xing made an astonishing decision to increase the price of 10% to purchase grain in the year of the harvest, which immediately caused a wave of chaos in various places.

The so-called chaos does not refer to some small-scale hoarding within Zhao Xing's control, but refers to the reactions of all parties outside Zhao Xing's sphere of influence.

Unlike other forces, after Zhao Xing took possession of the party from the beginning, he actively tried to take the land under collective ownership, no longer rewarding people with land, strictly prohibiting the use of land for trading and trading, and only leasing the right to use the land to those peasant households who really needed the land, and also stipulating the upper limit of the amount of land that could be contracted per person according to the number of local population.

Zhao Xing's practice was borrowed from the practice of the contract responsibility system in the rural areas in later generations, mainly to prevent the bureaucratic class and the big families from becoming the big landlord class again after a few years of development, enslaving the poor people with the land they occupied.

Of course, in order to reward the meritorious people, Zhao Xing still gave out some things, but it had nothing to do with the land. For example, the brothers who swore to Zhao Xing are now considered wealthy families, but the amount of land they own is also distributed according to the number of heads. However, what Zhao Xing gave them was the equity of various workshops, although they were not necessarily major shareholders, but they really had annual income, and even these benefits were more direct and considerable than land income, so they directly avoided the "hunger and thirst" of meritorious soldiers for land.

Zhao Xing's practice of nationalizing land ownership naturally extended the practice of the grain collected by peasant households being purchased by local governments in a unified manner. The government either processed the purchased grain into real grain and sold it to craftsmen and merchants who had left agricultural production, or sold it to wine farms and feedlots, or stored it in war grain depots as a reserve in the year of famine.

This set of models has been running so far, and has reflected extraordinary advantages. Farmers no longer worry about the ownership of land, and the more grain they produce, the more income they will have, so the enthusiasm for growing grain is already high, and now that grain price protection measures have been introduced, the poor people who have relied on farming for generations to make a living can see the hope and road to prosperity through farming. This will play an inestimable role in stabilizing people's minds and promoting development.

On the contrary, the prefectures and counties outside of Zhao Xing's influence now practiced a form of land ownership dominated by the landlords of the Shi clan. Under this agrarian system, the royal family representing the state was the largest landlord, followed by the big bureaucrats in the court and the local noble class, followed by a small number of peasant households with self-cultivated land, and at the bottom were serfs who did not have any means of production or even personal freedom.

Within the scope of Zhao Xing's control, the rule that any form of slave trade was strictly forbidden was set very early, and the so-called slaves all belonged to the government, that is, the defeated foreign young and strong laborers, all of whom were confined to work in the mines.

Within the scope of Zhao Xing's control, the displaced people have been eliminated so far, and the tide of displaced people caused by the Yellow Turban Disaster in the past has been completely digested and absorbed. When a famine occurs in a certain place and the grain produced by the land cannot feed the people, the grain stored in the official warehouse will be taken out to relieve the victims, and when the famine has passed, the peasant households only need to increase the amount of grain borrowed on credit by a certain amount.

In other words, from the very beginning, Zhao Xing defined land as a means of production to feed the people, rather than an important tool for exploiting the people. Despite this, Zhao Xing still achieved his goal of stimulating the growth of social wealth, and that was because he focused his earning channels on vigorously promoting handicraft production.

According to Maslow's theory of needs, after people are well fed and clothed, they will naturally find ways to live more comfortably and comfortably, and these handmade products and various commodities can meet people's higher material needs. If the common people were struggling to fill their stomachs from the beginning, who would have the ability to consume a large number of goods after they were produced?

The large landlords in the Sili region, Yanzhou, Yuzhou, and Yangzhou, which were adjacent to the Jin Kingdom, Qingzhou, and Xuzhou, found that Zhao Xing had raised the purchase price of grain by 10% within the scope of their control, so they came up with various tricks to transport the grain that had been overcollected this year into the Jin, Qingzhou, and Xuzhou countries for sale.

Although it sounds like the price increase of 10% is not very high, anyone who has been involved in the grain business knows that the price of grain increases by a penny per catty, and if it is multiplied by tens of millions, it is also an astonishing wealth.

The big landlord class can get a huge amount of grain from their fiefdom every year, they must not be able to eat it themselves, and some have to build a lot of grain hoards in order to preserve the grain, and they have to be eroded by rats and pests.

With regard to the practice of large landlords outside the sphere of influence secretly entrusting grain growers from all over the country to sell grain to the official treasury, Zhao Xing adopted an attitude of turning a blind eye and even acquiescing and conniving.

Although he is not an economist, Zhao Xing also understands that the added value of grain is the lowest, and there is almost no profit to be made. The reason why these families and large landowners have such a huge amount of grain is entirely due to the exploitation of the serfs in their territories, not because of the complete surplus of grain produced.

The big landlords from other places who were greedy for profits seemed to have earned an extra 10% of the grain price difference from the Jin Kingdom, but the money they earned had to be returned to the Jin Kingdom in the end. Because the big landlords have always been close to the poor and luxury, because the money comes more, faster, and easier, they don't know how to cherish it, and they will definitely find a way to spend it. And the various commodities made by the Jin Kingdom can greatly satisfy their psychological needs for poverty and luxury.

According to Liu Jili and Qin Yilu's calculations, even if all the grain produced in Dahan this year was secretly purchased by the Jin State, the reserves of the farmers, soldiers, merchants and gold banks would not need to be used more than forty percent. In the following year, the gross profit of the commodities sold by the Jin Kingdom to various places was more than five times that of the purchase of these grains.

Zhao Xing did not believe that such a good year as this year could be encountered every year in the Han Empire, in case there was a major drought, locust plague or flood in the Central Plains and Jianghuai region, which were rich in grain in the next few years, then he would be able to confidently and boldly recruit displaced people from various states to enter the country with the huge amount of grain he had now stored, without worrying about not being able to feed these displaced people.

However, after Zhao Xing purchased such a huge amount of grain from all over the country, how could he properly store and place it? After all, grain is not iron ore and coal and stone, and there is no need to worry about rotting and deteriorating if it is placed in the open air.

It doesn't matter, Zhao Xing has asked the technicians of the Crouching Tiger Academy of Agricultural Sciences to ponder and explore an advanced method of grain storage over the years.