Chapter 411: Dynasty Cycle River Valley

The Daqian Imperial Court issued the Shanchuan Heze Decree, which was finally passed after a series of political wrestling, but in the face of being divided by the imperial court, those nobles were not reconciled.

This also caused a large number of nobles to deliberately conceal minerals in the future, and then involved in a series of major cases.

Although there were many twists and turns, the imperial court implemented the decree of mountains, rivers and rivers, but it was finally implemented. So this decree was promulgated all over the world, according to the decree, all the mineral deposits in the land of the Great Qian, belonged to the imperial court, and the nobles, the powerful or others wanted to mine them, they needed to buy the right to exploit them.

Of course, if a mineral is found, it will be reported to the imperial court, and rewards will be given according to the type and quantity of the mineral.

It's just that this kind of reward is only better than nothing for the nobles, and it is a wealth for the people. Of course, in comparison, there are more cases of people discovering minerals, after all, no nobles are willing to drill into the mountains and forests.

Xungui was able to discover these minerals, most of them were inadvertently brought out by the mountain people, and now with the imperial court reward, I think there will be a large number of people going into the mountains to find them.

After the imperial court changed its grassland policy, the amount of money and grain invested was also greatly reduced, and the money saved began to be invested in other places.

Since the founding of the country, the pace of construction of gallop roads has slowed down, partly because of military problems, and partly because of finances, and it is not excluded that some officials have selfish motives.

This time, after the imperial court was financially well-off, Wang Xin was ready to push for the construction of Chidao again.

Since the development of the south by the Great Qian, the population of the south has increased in the past few decades, and it is no longer a wild land full of mountains and Vietnamese barbarians during the Huai period.

Although there are many rivers in the south, there are also many plains, and in the past during the Huai Kingdom, there were not too many galloping roads built here, so that the imperial court had a weak control over the south.

Wang Xin began to build galloping roads in the south, in order to strengthen the imperial court's control over the south.

Because of the geographical environment in the south, the gallop road built by the imperial court in the south is different from that in the north, the gallop road in the north is straighter, and the south has many bends and rivers. Therefore, most of the galloping roads in the south need to cooperate with ships.

At the same time, the imperial court also needed to repair and dredge the rivers, and the construction of the southern gallop road was a lot of work.

After the imperial court implemented the construction of galloping roads in the south, it began to levy labor, and at the same time made the south prosperous. With the input of a large amount of money and grain, the speed of development in the south has become several times faster.

The imperial court developed the south in order to migrate the population of the Central Plains to the south. After decades of peace, abundant food, and the development of medical and health care, the population of the Central Plains has become more and more, and the imperial court can only continue to migrate the population. It just so happens that the south needs to be developed, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

It can not only solve the problem of overpopulation in the Central Plains, but also strengthen the imperial court's control over the south.

After the great cadres dominated the world for 100 years, the population of the great cadres became more and more numerous. The royal family could already foresee that soon population would become an important issue for the Great Cadres.

The land of Daqian could not support the growing population, and the contradiction between man and land would become more and more acute, which was also the reason why the imperial court continued to open up outward.

Daqian attaches great importance to medical skills, and the development of hundreds of years has made great progress in Daqian's medical skills, so that the survival rate of newborns is very high. Coupled with the progress of agricultural cultivation, the use of fertilizers, the improvement of seeds, the peace of the world, and the fact that the imperial court did not overexploit it, etc., this series of factors finally made the population of Daqian far exceed the real world at the same time.

The Western Han Dynasty was established, and during the accession of Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty, the population increased from about 15 million in the early Han Dynasty to 36 million. It took about half a century, and the population of the Western Han Dynasty was close to 60 million at its peak.

The population of 60 million was already unbearable for the Western Han Dynasty at that time, and although the territory of the Great Cadre is larger than that of the Western Han Dynasty, the population is far greater than that of the Western Han Dynasty in its heyday.

Even with the suppression of the royal family, the nobles, the powerful, and the officials did not dare to occupy the acres of land on a large scale, but the population and land problems are still getting more and more serious.

Zijue didn't expect that when he attached importance to medical skills, vigorously promoted medical skills, attached importance to farming, and his descendants were also competitive, he actually let the population of Zhuxia reach such a point.

Because of the development of science and technology in modern society, there are all kinds of high-yield crops, chemical fertilizers and pesticides, which can produce thousands of catties of grain per acre, and the output of one acre of land in this era can be more than 200 catties.

The land of Daqian cannot carry too many people, and when the contradiction between the population and the land can no longer be reconciled, then the people will rise up, the world will be in chaos, and the heroes will compete with each other.

Under normal circumstances, it takes two hundred years for this kind of contradiction to appear, and if you want to solve this contradiction, in addition to natural and man-made disasters and wars, you can only expand outward.

Ancient science and technology were limited, the territory of the empire was limited, and it was impossible to expand indefinitely.

In real history, in addition to the corruption and exploitation of the imperial court, another reason for the collapse of the dynasty was that the wealthy officials of the family wantonly occupied the land, resulting in more and more landless people. Coupled with natural and man-made disasters, it finally broke out completely, completely destroying a dynasty.

It is also because of this that a dynastic cyclical law emerged. After entering the feudal society, all dynasties did not break through the limit of three hundred years. Even the Han Dynasty, which was presented, was divided into the Eastern Han Dynasty and the Western Han Dynasty.

Although they are both Han dynasties, in fact, the relationship between the two is not large, and they can be regarded as two completely different dynasties.

Moreover, the two Han Dynasty were able to last for 400 years, which was also due to the large-scale war in the late Western Han Dynasty, and the population plummeted, and after the establishment of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the population was only more than 20 million. After the contradiction between man and land did not exist, this allowed the Eastern Han Dynasty to continue for more than 100 years.

If the Daqian royal family does not want to take the step of internal fighting and changing the dynasty, it can only open up outward and develop the southern region. Of course, while developing the south, the eastern Liaodong, the western regions, and the Hexi corridor are also constantly migrating.

After decades of migration and development, the Hexi Corridor has a population of more than 2 million, and Wang Xin plans to continue to increase the population of the Hexi Corridor and at the same time begin to develop into the Hehuang Valley. Because of the Huangshui and the big river, the Hehuang Valley is suitable for farming, and because of the Qilian Mountains, the climate is also comfortable.

This was originally the place of residence of the Qiang people, the Qiang people and the Qianren look little different, belong to the semi-farming and semi-nomatric, greatly influenced by the Great Qian, during the Western Zhou Dynasty, and the Bang Zhou and the Qiang people have a good relationship, often intermarry.

After the establishment of the Great Qian, there were many contacts with the Great Qian, and it was easy to be assimilated, so Wang Xin was ready to assimilate the Qiang people and then develop to the plateau. In that year, the Hexi Corridor was opened, and Xiping County was established near the land of Hehuang, which was said to be a county, but in fact it was a military stronghold to protect the Hexi Corridor.

Now that the Hexi Corridor has a large population, the imperial court is ready to completely control the land of Hehuang.

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