Xu Wei's idea of merging villages shocked everyone. Officials simply reduced the number of villages. This was a better strategy, but the village was a bit too big.
Niu Gui said: "In the Han Dynasty, a population of 10,000 households is considered a county, and a population of 50,000 can be considered a medium-sized county. But you want to create a village of 10,000 people. Isn't such a village too big?"
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Old Man Wang also said: "A population of tens of thousands means almost 2,000 households. If one household has 100 acres of land, it would require more than 200,000 acres of land. Youzhou is not a large plain like Jizhou, so it is difficult to find it."
With hundreds of thousands of acres of continuous land, it is difficult to cultivate even if the fields are large. It is impossible to let the villagers ride horses to cultivate!"
Xu Wei then remembered that this was a feudal society after all, and it was difficult to build a large village like it is now.
But Xu Wei still said: "Even if we can't build a village of 10,000 people, we can still put several villages together and try to build some large villages. This can not only save our administrative costs, but also solve our current talent shortage."
It can not only solve the shortage situation, but also provide ordinary people with better living conditions. It can be said that it kills two birds with one stone!"
But Old Man Wang said: "Even so, I'm afraid those people will rarely want to leave their hometowns. After all, people are humble when they leave their hometowns. Moreover, this will also cause the land in the original villages to be abandoned and have to be reclaimed in the new villages."
New land requires a huge price. The people obviously cannot bear such expenses. Only we can bear it if we fight against the imperial court. But in this case, the burden on the imperial court will be too heavy. The financial expenditure this year will be huge. If we merge villages again,
If we plan, our debt will increase again."
Other high-level officials in Daqian can also see the benefits of such a plan, which facilitates management and reduces administrative costs. Such a plan is too expensive, and even a wealthy government like the Daqian court cannot afford such expenses.
Xu Wei thought for a while and said: "We can start a pilot project. This is a plan to pilot it in only one county. If it succeeds, we can gradually roll it out."
If it is only piloted in one county, everyone will be able to accept such a plan. After all, in one county, the cost is not too high.
But Xu Wei went on to say: "The expansion of the fields and pastures of ordinary tribesmen and herdsmen must also be piloted at the same time. Although this time I only investigated the villages in Jizhou, it can be said that the situation I saw is very unsatisfactory, although Youzhou has been
We have occupied it for seven or eight years, but the lives of local people have not improved much."
Niu Gui was unconvinced and said: "The government is already very good now. When I was in the Han Dynasty, there was no year when Youzhou didn't starve to death. Now under our governance, the people of Youzhou can basically have enough to eat. Wenzhou back then
Jing Zhizhi is nothing more than this, this is already a scene of a prosperous age."
Niu Gui is very proud of being able to feed the people of the entire Daqian, and he also believes that this is their biggest political achievement. Counting from now on, the emperor who can do this in the 400 years of the Han Dynasty can be said to be the best.
Very few.
Not only did they keep the people well fed, the food in the Daqian court's treasury was piled up like mountains, and the annual fiscal revenue reached tens of billions. Even in the Wenjing incident back then, they were not as wealthy as Daqian.
In this way, as long as Da Qian unified the Han Dynasty, there was no need to recuperate and it would enter a prosperous age.
After hearing what Niu Gui said, Xu Wei looked at Old Wang waiting and found that they also nodded in agreement. Even Xiangkai did not refute Niu Gui's words.
Only then did Xu Wei discover to his surprise that the standard of prosperity in the feudal era was really very low. In Xu Wei's view, a very poor village and a dynasty composed of countless such poor villages could actually be called a prosperity.
But then I thought about it, after thousands of years of history, if you want to prevent people from starving to death, there are really not many emperors who can achieve this goal.
But Xu Wei still said firmly: "This is the prosperous age of the Han Dynasty, not the prosperous age of my Daqian Dynasty. In my opinion, ordinary people are still too poor. And the reason why these people are poor is also because of us. If we hadn't The price of grain is set at 100 qian per stone, but the grain is sold at the current price of the Han Dynasty. These tribesmen can live very richly even on 30 acres of land."
When Xu Wei said this, everyone was really speechless. Don't look at the fact that the price of food in Hebei is very low, even lower than that of most Han Dynasties.
But the price of food is very high outside. In Cao Cao's Qingxu land, even though Cao Cao is desperately suppressing the price of food, one stone of food now costs more than a thousand dollars.
Liu Bei's land in the south of the Yangtze River was slightly better. The locust plague only affected a small part of Yangzhou. Most areas in the south of the Yangtze River still had a good harvest of food. In addition, Liu Bei continued to open up new land in the south of the Yangtze River, so even if it was such a major disaster, In 2007, the grain he received was 30% more than last year, but even so, the price of grain in the Jiangnan area was only 500 yuan per stone.
In other words, regardless of the price on Cao Cao or Liu Bei's land, just selling grain can make the farmers in Hebei live very rich.
But just because lowering grain prices is most beneficial to them and will also help stabilize prices in the entire Hebei region, no one in the upper echelons of Daqian has ever proposed to liberalize grain prices.
Xu Wei continued: "Our rich people have sacrificed most of their interests. Now we are only compensating them with a little land. Even so, it is still us who make the profit."
After Xu Wei said this, it was hard for everyone to object. The rural tribesmen had indeed paid too much for the great cadres to unify the world.
But Niu Guidao said: "If we really want to do this in power, the focus of our fiscal revenue will be invested in the countryside, which will affect our process of unifying the world!"
Everyone must be allocated 70 acres of land. The original land will definitely not be enough. It may even be possible to sell off all the big-money state-owned farms, which may not be enough.
This requires cultivating new land, building new canals and waterwheels, and finding ways to provide loans to these tribesmen to purchase large livestock and new agricultural tools. Otherwise, it will be difficult for one family to cultivate hundreds of acres of land.
Daqian's planting technology is much better than that of Dahan. In the past, one family in Dahan could cultivate hundreds of acres by planting extensively, so it was not too hard.
But Daqian cultivates intensively and meticulously. The hundreds of acres of land can basically be regarded as a small farm. It is impossible for one family, two strong laborers and three weak laborers to take care of so much land.
For Niu Gui and others, whether such huge resources are used to dominate the world or to develop industry, the benefits obtained are better than investing in the countryside.
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But Xu Wei said: "After this war, our officials are no longer enough to control such a large territory. In the next two or three years, we will have to work hard to digest and annex the land of the Han Dynasty. If we cannot use the new world What's the point of taking over so much territory to replace the old world?
It’s not that this county will become a new world if we do it. It’s that our officials must personally build this world into a new world.
If we can't build it through intensive farming, we will have to rely on the masses to harvest it. Let's allocate this land to them first. When these people have enough accumulation, they will naturally develop this land slowly. We will lay down for them what we want to do. It’s a good foundation. But in the desert it’s even simpler. You just need to divide the pasture, and no investment is needed at all.”
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