Three Kingdoms: I Am Not an Ant Thief Chapter 718, Population Problem
"Sell this thing to me, I'm willing to spend 1 million to buy this patent!" Wu Min said anxiously after knowing that this was a new machine.
Buying patents is a common thing in Daqian. Of course, this kind of thing mainly depends on your vision. If you buy a good patent, you can make a lot of money. This is not uncommon in this country. But if you have poor vision, you can make a lot of money. This patent is of no use and is a waste of money.
Wu Min can confirm that this patented radiator is definitely a powerful weapon. Jidu is good for everything, but it is too cold in winter. If it were not for the help of the fire kang, many people would not be able to survive the winter.
Obviously, this heating system is more practical than a heated kang. If you buy this patent, not to mention other places, just one person who installs the heating system will be enough to make back the money.
But Guo Jiajie smiled calmly and said: "It's not that I don't want to give my brother this face. I just made it clear that this heating stove was made by a group of students from the School of Mechanical Engineering under the leadership of the ruling party. The patent is not in my hands at all. How can I sell it to you?" , If Brother Wu really wants this heating patent, he can go to the governor to buy it!"
As soon as Guo Jia finished speaking, Wu Min and others could only smile awkwardly. They never mentioned purchasing the patent again. This was a machine developed by the ruling party. If he proposed to purchase the patent, he would not be asking for trouble.
Guo Jia clapped his hands and said: "Okay, let's not talk too much. This time I come to you brothers to make a fortune. I want you to do it!"
"Did you discover gold or silver on Crab Island?"
How can one make a fortune in a remote place like Crab Island?
In everyone’s impression, Crab Island only has logs and sulfur mines that are worth a lot of money. I haven’t heard of any specialties here!
However, they thought that Treasure Island was near Crab Island, and maybe Cao Cao had done well and discovered a gold and silver mine, so these people asked this question.
Guo Jiadan smiled and said: "If a gold and silver mine is really discovered, my lord can't even mine it himself. How can I share it with all my brothers?"
Wu Min wondered: "Since no minerals have been discovered, what else do you have on Crab Island? It is impossible to buy and sell people, right? This is something that the government severely cracks down on. I don't want to go to jail in the wealthy court!"
They thought about it and found that in addition to logs and sulfur mine specialties, Crab Island also had some savages. In the past few years, Cao Cao sent 100,000 savages to Youzhou and Liaodong every year to work. It is said that he made a lot of money!
Guo Jia laughed and said, "We don't dare to do anything that violates the law. Naturally, it can't be human trafficking!"
"Do you think the business environment in Jidu is particularly unfriendly to us businessmen? The wages of Daqian workers have been getting higher and higher in recent years."
Guo Jia's words suddenly reached their hearts.
"That's not the case. No dynasty in the past has treated workers as well as this dynasty. Not only does it include food and accommodation, but the monthly salary is hundreds or even thousands of dollars, and it has to increase every year, otherwise we won't be able to retain them. Welfare benefits should not be less for people. They have to eat vegetables in winter, cold melons and ice water in summer. Even I am reluctant to eat these things, but I have to prepare them all for them, otherwise they will not do it. This kind of treatment was not available in Han Dynasty back then. This is what a wealthy family is like, and it is unprecedented for a worker to be so wealthy!"
Another person also complained: "Is there any way? If you don't pay better, you won't be able to recruit people at all. There is no shortage of manpower everywhere. Not long ago, during the autumn harvest, we recruited wheat harvesters in the countryside, and the number was 100 per day." Money, a more diligent person can earn 3,000 yuan this month, which is equivalent to the salary of our factory for three or four months."
The countryside today is not what it used to be. Everyone has become a small landowner and has a lot of money. If we don’t improve welfare benefits, we can’t even rob these people of their population.”
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The power of the land equalization order began to gradually appear in Daqian villages. Every ordinary household has 100 acres of land. Just growing grain on this land can earn an income of 10,000 to 20,000 yuan a year. The annual income is roughly around 20,000 to 30,000 yuan. On average, it is not much worse than working in the city. In addition, in recent years, Daqian has opened up the orchard contracting project, and ordinary people can contract orchards in the form of village teams. Therefore, the income of rural people in Daqian is higher.
If it weren't for the good living conditions in Daqian City now, complete infrastructure, abundant supplies, and numerous entertainment venues. This city has crushed the countryside in terms of both spiritual life and material life. Otherwise, the city would The attractiveness of the population inside is really not as good as that in rural areas.
Wu Min also complained: "Where have all the people gone now? In the old days of the Han Dynasty, which state did not have dozens or millions of refugees, and every year the people who could not survive would rebel. Now it is better, the world has just been pacified. , there is actually a shortage of people everywhere.”
Businessman Deng Rui wondered: "Not long ago, the imperial court counted the population of the entire Daqian. There were tens of millions of households and a population of nearly 50 million. It was not much worse than the population of the Han Dynasty. Why is the population so short now? Everywhere No one can be found.
This is also where many people are confused. The Han Dynasty conducted a household registration census about 60 years ago. At that time, there were about 10 million households and a population of more than 54 million in the world.
When the world was first unified, the Daqian court also counted the population once. There were more than 10 million registered households in the world, and the population was slightly less, only about 46 million.
But at the same time, the imperial court also counted the number of newborns. Every year, there were more than 3 million newborns in the Daqian imperial court. Although it is not known how many people died every year, there were not many people who froze to death in the winter in these years, so there should not be many deaths. Calculating this way If so, even if less than three years have passed, Daqian's population should have exceeded 50 million, not much worse than the original Dahan. Why can't we find people doing things everywhere?
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Hearing these people's words, Guo Jiadan smiled and said: "Now the Daqian court has a population of nearly 50 million, which is really the only population. Although it seemed like that during the Han Dynasty, There are the same number, but in fact they are very different. Everyone has experienced this troubled times. The Han Dynasty back then had millions and millions of dead people. It has only been peaceful for a few years now. How can the population recover like this? quick."
Nowadays, there are tens of millions of households in Daqian. However, because of the land relationship, the land equalization order allows one farmer to get 100 acres of land. In the past, people separated their families one after another in order to obtain more land. Now many people's families are composed of two people or even There are three people, so it seems that there are many people with registered residence, but in fact there are very few people.
At that time, the Han Dynasty had to pay a poll tax. In order to pay less, many people had to reduce the number of people in their household registrations. There were also powerful clans in the Han Dynasty that did not pay taxes. Just like the Yuan family, although they were also one family. , but I’m afraid the Yuan family has more than a few hundred people.
Not to mention that during the Han Dynasty, the grassroots government offices had been paralyzed. There were no statistics on the number of refugees among the people, and no statistics on the number of Southern Barbarians and Beidi people in the Han Dynasty. According to my estimation, the real population in the late Han Dynasty was much larger than the population counted by the imperial court. If we include the current population of the desert and southern barbarians, the original population of this land would have been close to 100 million.
Although the turmoil in the late Han Dynasty was not intense, it only lasted for more than ten years before the world was unified by Lei Gong. However, within these few years, the entire world's population died close to 50 million, half of the people. They all died in wars, plagues, and famines.”