Chapter 12: Something Went Wrong with Great Qin's Foundation

"Drive!"

At this time, the population of Guanzhong can be described as sparse compared to later generations, and the farmers on the roadside are sweating and farming.

A team of horses in black clothes and armor roared past, and a carriage galloped behind the team.

"Wait a minute!"

Since leaving the royal manor, Zhao Wen, who was not riding in the carriage, but following the Black Ice Terrace to learn to ride a horse, raised his hand and shouted.

Jumping off his horse, he looked into the field, where an old man with two children was pulling the plow in front, and an old woman was holding on to the back, struggling to plow the ground.

"Uncle, can you come over for a while!"

The old man pulling the plough stopped, wiped his sweat and walked towards the side of the road, Qin Law is extremely strict, in this place of passing, there is really no matter of nobles bullying the people, so there is no fear on the face of the old man of the group.

"Childe, what's the matter?" Heiichi jumped off the horse and asked in a low voice.

"They use wooden ploughs, which is too laborious, so why not use metal, and can't they pull plows from livestock?"

Zhao Wen frowned and asked with a puzzled face, This is Guanzhong, it can almost be said that it is the richest place today, it is like this, and the other six countries God knows what it will be like.

As the prince of Great Qin, Zhao Wen already regarded Great Qin as his, and since he had encountered it, he naturally had to ask clearly.

"Metal should be given priority to the army, and the price is too expensive, only a very small number of rich and noble families can use it, as for livestock farming, the same is true, there are too few cattle, ordinary people can't afford to use it!"

The Black Ice Platform is not only the escort of the Great Qin Royal, but also an intelligence agency, and Hei Yi naturally knows these problems.

When he came out, His Majesty the Emperor had explained that everything was known to the Twenty Princes, as long as the Twenty Princes wanted to know, so he also explained to Zhao Wen.

Zhao Wen nodded, in the past, the seven kingdoms fought each other, and it was completely life and death, so naturally everything was in the army.

He remembered that the weapons of the six countries were cast by the weapons of the six countries, which was simply a waste to the extreme.

How good it is to have this metal and cast it all into agricultural tools to increase productivity, and what is the role of making a gold man in addition to showing his majesty?

If it hadn't come out once, no one had ever told him about it.

Zhao Wen had secretly decided in his heart that he must suggest to the First Emperor that all the surplus weapons of the Six Kingdoms be cast into agricultural tools.

Although Great Qin has now unified the six countries, in Zhao Wen's opinion, the combined population of the seven countries is probably not 30 million.

Such a large area, but only this little people, is simply the biggest waste.

As the future ruler of this land, increasing the population is definitely a top priority.

To increase the population, there is enough land and food, and the use of wooden farming tools cannot feed many people.

"Hello uncle!" Seeing that the old man had already come, Zhao Wen bowed to the old man lightly and asked with a smile: "Uncle, why is it not the young man who is working in the field, but you are doing this kind of work at such an age!" ”

According to Zhao Wenji, rice and wheat have not yet been planted in large quantities, let alone corn and potatoes.

In this era, millet is planted in the field, that is, millet, and the yield is very low, only a few dozen catties per acre of land, and a family often has to cultivate dozens of acres of land to produce food for a family.

Cultivating so much land with wooden farming implements is definitely a very hard job, and such a thing should definitely be done by young people!

"The old man's four sons are all in the army, I don't do the work in the field, who will do it!"

The old man's face was proud, now that Daqin dominates the world, it is the time when the people of Daqin are the most arrogant, not to mention that this old man has four sons in the Daqin army.

"Thank you for telling me, now that the battle is over, your sons are coming back soon, and the day is coming, I want to congratulate you first!"

Saying that, Zhao Wen took out a small piece of gold and handed it to the old man and said: "I am Zhao Wen, the twenty-son of His Majesty the Emperor of Great Qin, there are four sons in your family in the army, and they are definitely my heroes of Great Qin, this is what I gave to your grandson, take it and make a good set of clothes for the child!" ”

The aristocracy and the common people of this era were completely two levels, and there was no contact between the two at all.

Great Qin is a little better, there is a system of awarding military merits, and the people at the bottom have a way to rise, and the other six countries are all hereditary.

Now the foundation of Great Qin is the Qin people, as the prince of Great Qin, giving himself a good reputation among ordinary people, for Zhao Wen, it is simply the same as instinct.

Ignoring the kneeling of the excited family in the back, Zhao Wen directly got on the horse and left surrounded by a group of Black Ice Platform guards.

"Is there something wrong with Childe?" Hei saw that Zhao Wen's face was heavy since he got on the horse, and he couldn't help but ask strangely.

"I found a fatal flaw in Great Qin!"

Zhao Wen sighed softly, since he knew that Hei Yi came out of the Black Ice Platform and was sent to him by the First Emperor, Zhao Wen naturally knew that in addition to protecting himself, the other party must also have the responsibility to monitor him, and report everything to the First Emperor at any time.

There are some things that are absolutely inconvenient to say by yourself, but a black ice platform can be reported through another channel.

"The foundation of my Great Qin is the Qin people in Guanzhong, but now even the old man with four sons does not have a child by his side, and he has to work in the fields himself, just this point, you can think of the hard work of the Qin people!"

"No way, this is the troubled times, we have won, the people's lives can be better, and the people in the other six countries are even harder than our Qin people!" Seeing that Zhao Wen just sighed, Hei Yi also said casually.

"But after so many years of war, the people of Qin have long been exhausted, and a large number of young people are outside, how can the population increase, and if there is no sufficient number of Qin people, what will they rely on to stabilize the world in the future!"

Zhao Wenke remembered that when Great Qin was about to fall, the Great Wall Army still had hundreds of thousands of troops defending against the Xiongnu, and South Vietnam also had hundreds of thousands of troops.

These were all Qin people, but the people in the places where the Six Kingdoms surrendered were stable, which also caused the rebels of the Six Kingdoms at the end of Qin to crush Great Qin in terms of the number of troops.

Winning Zheng is an urgent child, and he can't wait for a generation to finish hundreds of years of things, and among them, the people of Qindi are the most suffering.

After listening to Zhao Wen's words, thinking of the consequences of continuing to develop like this, Hei Yi and the Black Ice Platform guards suddenly changed their faces one by one.

"So what do you think should be done?" Hei Yi remembered, and when he left, His Majesty had confessed that he would report everything to the twenty princes.

Even from the news from the Black Ice Platform, he knew that no matter how busy His Majesty was, he would take time out every day to read the news he had reported.

Now that this prince is saying this, he naturally has something to say to His Majesty through himself!