So Xu Wei gave up this road without thinking, and the land tax could only be paid in grain. But in this way, he would find a way out for the excess grain, so Xu Wei summoned the senior officials of Daqian to find a way to solve this problem. Question! After reading these materials and Xu Wei’s reminder, some of Daqian’s senior executives reacted!
Jia Xu even smiled bitterly and said: "I didn't expect that problems would arise only after the Han Dynasty had 60 years of rest and recuperation, but now we are experiencing problems. I really didn't expect that problems would arise if there was too much food so quickly. Now we are doing it greatly." Not only the official warehouses were full, but also the private granaries were full. The food was too much and was worthless. I finally understood why Emperor Wu consumed the sixty years of accumulation of the Han Dynasty so quickly. Selling low and buying high could cost a lot. I'm afraid that most of the wealth accumulated by the Han Dynasty in the past 60 years will be swallowed up by those businessmen. This is why Emperor Wu had to issue a warning order to crack down on the businessmen!"
Li Ru said calmly: "A few years ago when he took office, he ordered to return farmland to forest to alleviate the crisis. Last year, he launched an army of 800,000 to attack Cao Cao. Otherwise, I am afraid that the food crisis in Daqian would have broken out earlier. Now we can only agree to those The congressman’s proposal is to increase the planting of cash crops and reduce investment in crops such as wheat. Only in this way can the supply and demand of food be balanced.”
But Niu Gui immediately retorted: "It's still a period of war, and we can't reduce food input. Otherwise, what will happen if there is no food during the war?"
Li Ru said calmly: "Now our official warehouse alone is enough to feed the entire Daqian people for two years. Even if the people of the Han Dynasty are added together, all the food will be enough to last for three years. There is already so much food, but this year we are launching a campaign It is impossible for a million-strong army to consume half of this pair of grains. Unless we launch a million-strong army to attack the enemy every year after taking office, otherwise these grains will not be consumed at all, and sooner or later it will become a big trouble for us."
Jia Xu also followed up and said: "If the Prime Minister is worried about food shortages caused by planting cash crops, we will formulate a food emergency system. As long as the food in the warehouse is less than the food of all the people in Daqian for one or two years, we will immediately expand the food supply. In terms of planting area, there are also restrictions on the cash crops grown by counties. For example, the cash crops in each county cannot exceed 30% of the grain planting area. In this way, people will not flock in to plant cash crops for five baht. I Daqian’s food security can also be guaranteed.”
"You can also leave the land fallow. In the past, the land of the Han Dynasty needed to be left fallow to restore soil fertility. But in recent years, because of the guano that fertilizes the land, not only has it not been left fallow, but the production capacity has continued to explode, which has caused the problem. The current crisis, but this is not without harm. The more struvite is dug, the less it is and the price is getting higher and higher. Reducing the quantity of struvite now will not only combat the rising price of struvite and benefit farmers, but also It can also protect struvite, a precious fertilizer.
After the land is left fallow, we can plant soybeans or other pastures to fertilize the land, or even build small farms. Cattle and sheep are also a type of food, which can greatly supplement my food supply."
Everyone thinks about it and thinks Jia Xu's proposal is good, especially the idea of protecting struvite. Over the years, more and more struvite has been excavated. Now there are no struvite on the islands near Dahan, so we can only dig far away. , the rising price of struvite is not only because it is used more, the islands being excavated are getting farther and farther, and sea transportation has become more and more dangerous, it is also one of the reasons!
Xiangkai thought for a while and said: "Since the number of granaries in my country has reached the point where I can't finish them all, the government can completely implement the prohibition on alcohol. You must know that in the past, the Han Dynasty consumed a lot of food when making wine!"
There are only a few ways to digest food. One is to make wine, and high-quality wine consumes food extremely quickly. But Xu Wei remembered that not long ago, he helped those retired veterans to formulate a development path that included fruit wine. If he let go, With the ban on grain wine making, Xu Wei was afraid that all of his old subordinates would be beaten to death by grain wine.
So he decisively shook his head and rejected the proposal! After all, Chinese people have been drinking grain wine for thousands of years, but fruit wine has only been around for about ten years. I think fruit wine can't compete with grain wine.
Wang Ge thought for a while and said: "In addition to making wine, grain can also be used as feed. Now the animal husbandry of Daqian is developing rapidly, and the breeding industry is also expanding extremely fast. It can be said that Daqian's dining table has changed in recent years. What a huge change. As long as two people in the family are working in the factory, their monthly salary alone is enough to support eating meat every day. Chicken, duck, and fish are now common products on Dagan’s dining table. If I hadn’t had a large number of cattle and sheep in Dagan , there are all kinds of fish and meat in the ocean, I’m afraid the price of the meat will go up to the sky!”
"It just so happens that the price of pork has been rising in the past few years, and even we can't suppress it, so we might as well build more farms to raise pigs. Domestic pigs consume extremely huge amounts of food, and the breeding industry controls most of the market. In the hands of the Daqian government-run factory, the scale of the breeding industry continued to expand, and our food quickly found a market."
Speaking of Daqian's breeding industry, it can be said that it has developed extremely rapidly in recent years. With the hot kang incubation technology and the thermometer also developed by Daqian, the hot kang can finally be relatively stable at an incubation temperature. In recent years, chickens and ducks The price of goose seedlings has plummeted, and the large number of chickens, ducks and goose seedlings has caused the number of poultry in Dagan to expand at a rate of 30-50% per year. However, even at this rate, it is still difficult to satisfy the entire Dagan population of 30 million people. appetite.
Due to their huge scale, whale meat, marine fish meat, beef and mutton are now often seen on the dining tables of ordinary people. Only pigs are difficult to expand rapidly in quantity, and it is even more difficult to adapt to market demand. Expensive, so now the price of pork in the Daqian market cannot be controlled at all, rising by 30-50% at every turn. Pork has become the most expensive meat in the Daqian market. Even Xu Wei can't afford pork. He could only change his habit with tears and eat more beef and mutton.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Xu Wei shook his head and said: "The expansion process of the breeding industry is not completed in one step. If it really needs to expand to a scale that can affect food prices, I'm afraid it will take more time." It took more than ten years. You said that water from afar cannot quench thirst from near.
At this time, Xu Weicai discovered that it was no wonder that so many congressmen wanted to grow cash crops in their hometowns. Food was not valuable, so naturally they had to find ways to grow profitable crops. Maybe these congressmen were closer to the people at the bottom, and they knew better about the people. The problem they encountered, or in other words, was the problem they encountered. Instead, they were in charge of the imperial court. They had been in Jixian County for a long time, and they did not understand local affairs as these councilors did.
After Xu Wei discussed with them for several days, they convened another meeting. Xu Wei seriously and seriously agreed to the proposals of these members. From now on, all states and counties can plant cash crops on a large scale, but the scale cannot exceed 30%. The prefects and magistrates of all counties will be punished!
Xu Wei's proposal excited many congressmen and was passed with a high vote!
Both Youzhou and Liaodong made their fortunes by planting cash crops. The people in Youzhou can earn five times the profit through farming, but the people in their prefectures and counties can only earn one stone and a hundred yuan of food, and even have no food in these years. It is easy to sell, but local merchants in Youzhou can continue to earn 10 times the profit from the price of these cash crops.
But they can only go to Liaodong and Youzhou to import these cash crops. In this way, how can their factories in the Central Plains compete with the trading houses in Liaodong and Youzhou!
Now that all counties and counties can grow cash crops, they finally don’t have to go all the way to Liaodong and Youzhou to buy raw materials. This is what Jizhou wants. Waiting for the county councilors to wait, industry is in full swing across Daqian, and raw materials have become This has solved the biggest problem for these factory owners. If this problem is not solved, they will not be able to compete with the merchants in Bingzhou and Youzhou. Now each county hopes to delineate its own raw material supply areas, so that the supply of raw materials can be guaranteed. This is what both parties want Fair competition!
"The vote to open counties and counties to planting cash crops has been approved!" Xu Wei said seriously to everyone.
The legislators from each county were extremely excited when they heard this, but they could not imagine the competition among factory owners in these counties.
All they see is that the passage of this bill is equivalent to increasing their income several times. Most of the families of the congressmen here have land, so this bill will naturally benefit them, and many people have even started to Do you want to plant some valuable cash crops?
After the Four People's Congress, Xu Wei carefully told the governors of each state to pay attention to the planting of cash crops in various places and not to waste food cultivation in order to make money. Of course, these governors also assured Xu Weifang that they were paying close attention to the situation. In view of the local situation, this lively meeting ended.
The first year of the Daqian calendar (AD 200)
Xu Wei has always used the Dahan era name for convenience. After all, this way Xu Wei can determine the time. However, after the establishment of the Daqian court, it became more and more unbearable for everyone to continue to use the Dahan era name. By this year, both members and officials It is required to replace the reign name of Dahan with the reign name of Daqian.
Now that most of the world is occupied by Daqian, Xu Wei doesn't think Liu Bei can stand up again, but he doesn't want to follow the Han Dynasty's practice of having one emperor with several reign names, so he uses Daqian as the reign name. Daqian has always existed, and there is no need to change the era name. It will be convenient for future generations to read history books.
Crab Island, Caocheng, Pier!
Countless people were looking forward to it at this pier. When they saw a fleet of 5 ships slowly approaching the pier, the people on the pier cheered!
Half a day later, five sea-going ships approached the dock. Cao Zhen went up to the captain and asked, "I don't know, how much cargo did you bring this time?"
Later, the general of Cao Wei, after Cao Cao's forces came to Crab Island, he could only become the steward of the wharf, but this was already the core position among Cao Cao's forces. After all, Crab Island lacked everything, and he could only get goods from The dock is purchased by outside parties, and the dock is where supplies from outside are taken over, so Cao Cao lets Cao Zhen take charge!
Gongsun Yue said seriously: "50,000 stones of grain, 10,000 pieces of ironware, 3,000 books, and all kinds of large canned whales are among them. Let your people transport them. When the things are transported, we need logs." Okay, we have to go back to Yuyang County!"
Cao Zhen immediately said: "If you don't take a few more days of rest, we have prepared a singer to reward you all!"
But Gongsun Yue immediately changed his face and said: "You should know the laws of my Daqing. This matter is going to be reported. I can't live without it. You are trying to harm me!"
Cao Zhen immediately waved his hand and said: "How dare you, little brother? These singing girls are not from Dagan. There are very few Dagan women on the island now. How can we let them show up? They are local Japanese women and have been mediating for a long time!"
Cao Zhen is really not talking nonsense. Among the people who followed Cao Cao and the others, women accounted for less than 30%, and most of them were wives and daughters of powerful noble families. Nowadays, money is very expensive on Crab Island, so naturally Cao Cao cannot let them Show your face!
Gongsun Yue said: "That's not possible, you just need to arrange a place to rest, and prepare the logs and gold for us to take back!"
Cao Zhen could only say: "Okay!"
Then he ordered his subordinates: "Hurry up and get all the cargo off the ship!"
Everyone shouted loudly: "No!"
Then Cao Zhen himself found the newspapers transported on the ship and wanted to know what was happening to the big man. Crab Island can now be said to be isolated from the world, with only savages around. It is difficult for elites like Cao Zhen to endure such a life of being cut off from news. In order to Understanding the situation of Daqian and Dahan, Cao Cao and the others also ordered Daqian's newspapers, basically ordering hundreds of copies of each. Although the news was out of date, it allowed them to understand what happened to Daqian!
"There is so much food in Daqian that we can't finish it. No wonder Fengxiao can easily contact Daqian's friends to get so much food." Cao Zhen looked at the news in the newspaper in surprise. When Cao Cao and the others came to Crab Island, It only brought 2 million stones of grain, which was barely enough for Cao Cao, who had hundreds of thousands of people. However, Cao Cao soon captured a large number of savages on Crab Island as a labor force, and the population more than doubled in just one year. , so there was not enough food.
But Guo Jia thought of a way, which was to cut down the trees on Crab Island to trade grain with Dagan. He believed that Dagan had a surplus of food, enough to feed the people of Crab Island. They wanted to speed up development, not find ways to farm. , but to find a way to cut down trees and trade for grain! Then Guo Jia really helped everyone get a piece of grain through his connections, and only then did Cao Cao and the others agree to Guo Jia's proposal.
Not far from Crab Island, Cao Cao led an army to surround a group of savages. After seeing that they were unable to escape, Cao Cao laughed and ordered: "Try to capture them alive. They are already the only savage tribe on this island."
Well, if too many people die, I will let you cut down the trees yourself!"
The generals around shouted: "No!"
Then Cao Cao pulled out his sword and shouted: "Kill!"
Tens of thousands of Cao Cao's soldiers surrounded the savage tribe of more than 20,000 people. However, these savage tribes used their sticks and stones to not hurt Cao Cao's soldiers. Instead, Cao Cao's soldiers killed more than a dozen warriors and then surrendered.