Two hundred and sixty-one thinking about the population explosion
"Zhang Tang, Yan Yi!" Liu Che took a step forward and called out the names of these two people.
"I'm here!" Zhang Tang and Yan Yi hurriedly came out.
Liu Che pointed to the second row on the wooden sign and said to the two of them: "From now on, all the documents and notices in the Gu Palace will be collected by Qing Ji, reviewed by the second Qing, and then reported to Gu. All expenses and income should be paid."
Report to the Second Minister, all promotions and transfers of officials, big and small, except for the emperor's edict and the decree of the East Palace, will be issued by the Second Minister!"
Zhang Tang and Yan Yi looked at each other, and they could see shock and surprise in each other's eyes.
If this is the case, then the two of them have too much power!
In charge of administrative orders, finance, and the promotion and demotion of officials.
This is a small Prime Minister’s Mansion!
The Prime Minister's Mansion of the Han Dynasty was a gigantic palace with thousands of officials in charge.
Liu Che smiled.
The position of prime minister was created during the Warring States Period and was created to adapt to the increasingly fierce wars and diplomacy of various countries. In fact, it has gradually completed its historical mission.
From the middle and late period of Xiaozhu's rule, ancient China gradually realized the threat of the prime minister's power to the monarchy. At the same time, absolute power leads to absolute corruption.
After experiencing the three prime ministers Tian Fu, Li Cai, and Zhuang Qingzhai, especially Tian Fu, who took advantage of the power of the prime minister and ignored the people's livelihood, he broke the Yellow! Chang! Feng! Wenxue River embankment and flooded the mouth of the gourd, causing the Yellow River to change its course.
Zhuang Qingzhai created the unjust case of Zhang Tang, implicating the entire government and opposition parties, and hundreds of people were killed. After these two lessons, he began to set up an internal court and evade the prime minister.
With Xiaozhu's lesson, how could Liu Che create another deformed monster?
Ancient Chinese politics was outstanding in terms of checks and balances in the entire human history of the earth.
Later generations will brag about the separation of powers, but in fact, this is all leftover from the failure of the Chinese ancestors.
The fault is not that Jiashen Tianbian changed, Wu Sangui led the Manchus into the pass, and the world of later generations. Who is Boos, there are still two questions.
There is no country that understands the art of balance and checks and balances better than China, an ancient empire.
Liu Che said with a smile: "You two Qings, please don't be happy... Let the Second Qing take care of this. You may not have much power, but there are many things!"
In essence, Zhang Tang and Yan Yi were responsible for the work of the Later Generations, mainly running errands and delivering messages.
And because it is just a palace plus the 72 square kilometers of Sixian Garden, the power is really not that great. At best, it is similar to the power of a county magistrate.
The most important thing is that the two of them have no right to decide or choose.
For example, they do not have the right to decide those orders and those people's promotions. They mainly play the role of supervision and review.
Of course, although the sparrow is small, it has all the internal organs.
This new organization will definitely be staffed with a sufficient number of officials.
When the time comes, we will see whether Zhang Tang is more tolerant or Yan Yi is more tolerant.
Liu Che thought for a while and then said: "Shang Rong, Yi Zong, the two Qings will help you and your servants to deal with these chores, especially Shang Rong. You have done it at the Shangshutai, so you should take care of Yi Zong!"
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"No!" Shang Rong and Yi Zong went out to bow.
Others don't understand the prince's setting, but Shang Rong understands it very well.
Isn't this what he did at the Chancellor's desk in the past?
Organize documents, review documents and laws, supervise the expenditure and income of the Shaofu Yamen, and list them every year.
Although the matter is trivial, it is the key to the entire Shaofu Yamen being able to play its role despite numerous frauds and corruption.
Because the Shangshutai is an institution directly responsible to the emperor, the final results of their audits and reviews will be presented to the emperor.
Liu Che looked at it and found that there were still people who didn't understand it, so he said to Shang Rong: "Shang Qing, please explain it to me!"
When Shang Rong heard this, he kowtowed first and said: "I am stupid. Maybe what I said is wrong and my understanding is wrong. Please forgive me first!"
Then, he stood up, bowed to his colleagues on both sides, and said: "Gentlemen, if I understand correctly, what my family said is that the Ministry of Affairs is responsible for collecting all documents and orders, and passing them on to the Ministry.
The provincial department will review it before submitting it to your home!"
When he said this, many people immediately understood.
The hot inner temperatures of Zhang Tang and Yan Yi also cooled down slightly.
It seems that the power of this sect is limited to just that.
But if you think about it carefully, as an audit agency, how can you say it has no power?
Especially Zhang Tang, he could imagine with his eyes closed that there was huge power hidden in it.
If you think about it, the two official positions of Shi Yushi and Yu Shi Zhongcheng in the Yushi Dafu Yamen are responsible for supervision and review. You can guess the future of this province.
After listening to Shang Rong's explanation, Liu Che smiled and clapped. Although what Shang Rong said was slightly different from what he had conceived, it generally made it clear the difference between the Ministry of Affairs and the Ministry of Menxia.
In short, you can understand the three provinces and six ministries that Liu Che wants to establish as a separation of powers under the framework of a feudal system with Western Han characteristics.
The Ministry of Affairs is responsible for sorting and reporting.
The province is responsible for review and supervision.
Of course, there is still a missing link, the key legislation and implementation.
At this stage, Liu Che's ability to establish a complete division in each of the three provinces is almost the limit.
If you want to bring out the Six Ministries, firstly, the conditions are not mature, and secondly, even in its heyday, the total number of people in the entire palace was only one or two thousand at most, of which soldiers, servants, eunuchs and maids accounted for 80%.
There are only two to three hundred officials left, and the six-department system is of little significance and will give people an excuse to criticize.
Therefore, Liu Che decided not to establish six departments for the time being, but to first explore the operations of the three provinces, accumulate experience, and cultivate talents.
Therefore, Liu Che planned to take the lead in this most critical aspect of the Western Han Dynasty version of Zhongshu Sheng, and then entrust it to his ministers after it was on track and matured.
Of course, you definitely can't say something like "I think you don't have enough experience and something may go wrong. I need to be here to check things out. Otherwise, where will the ministers' face be?"
This book saver still needs a table to support it.
Who is the most suitable?
Liu Che looked at Ju Meng and said: "Queen Ju. From now on, all documents and notices reviewed by the province will be handed over to you for execution!"
Ju Meng came out to pay homage and said: "In my family, I am a vulgar person with little education. This kind of thing..."
Liu Che waved his hand and said with a smile: "I asked Wei Xin, Zhou Yuan, and Master Yan to come and help you. Besides, you should study more! I think so. After three days apart, you should treat each other with admiration! I would like to express these words to you.
mutual encouragement!"
"Since my family trusts me, I will not disappoint my family!" Ju Meng said and kowtowed.
For him, he is indeed feeling more and more pressure.
As Liu De turned into Liu Che and then into the crown prince and moved into the crown prince's womb, the up and down changes were huge.
He is just a knight-errant, and anyone in this hall has read many times as many books as he has.
In fact, he has a great sense of inferiority in his heart.
Especially when seeing Ji An and Yan Yi.
One of these two people has been an official for generations. He has been an official for more than ten generations.
The other one is simply a direct descendant of Yan Hui. The servants can be traced back to the time of Hui Zi. They are from a family of scholars and a family of farmers and readers.
Therefore, Ju Meng has hired someone to give him extra education lessons these days.
But the more he read, the more he realized his humbleness and insignificance.
He was really unsure whether he could carry out the task ordered by the prince.
However, as a knight-errant, he has a stubborn temper.
Once you promise something, you have to do it even to the death!
"I'll treat you with admiration after three days of separation! Your family will regard me as a national scholar, and I will repay you as a national scholar!" Ju Meng swore in his heart.
It is true. At this time, the word scholar has a very important weight in people's hearts, especially in the eyes of people with little education like Ju Meng, it is quite important!
Liu Che had no idea what Ju Meng was thinking at this time. For Liu Che, the main reason why he appointed Ju Meng to be the head of Zhongshu Province was for better control.
He took two steps, pointed at the wooden sign and said, "From now on, you will be the person in charge of the Zhongshu Province!"
Liu Che looked at all the ministers, cupped his hands and said: "From now on, I hope that all ministers, under the guidance of the Ministry of Affairs, the Ministry of Menxia and the Ministry of Zhongshu, will be loyal to Your Majesty and your subordinates will work together!"
"No!" All the ministers bowed and bowed.
At this time, many people began to think of climbing on the giant's lap.
How can you live in officialdom without forming cliques?
After the banquet, Liu Che left behind the three provincial leaders including Ji An, Zhang Tang, Yan Yi, and Ju Meng.
We carefully discussed and broke down with them the things that the three provinces are responsible for and how to deal with them.
At the same time, they were also required to communicate and discuss with him as soon as possible if they discovered any flaws or loopholes or encountered any problems in execution.
After all, the system of three provinces and six ministries was a product that flourished after the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Liu Che had no idea whether it would be acclimated to the current climate and lead to any mistakes or omissions after thousands of years.
In addition, the three-province system he has created now is actually a combination of his previous practice in Hejian Kingdom and the three-province-six-ministry system of later generations, the nine-elder system of the Celestial Dynasty, and the social characteristics of this time. It is similar to the real three-province system.
, there are obvious differences.
This was also the reason why he didn't dare to ask his father for the establishment of these three provinces.
For the time being, Zhang Tang and Ju Meng are still holding their original positions. They are just following the orders of Liu Che, the crown prince, to handle the affairs of the crown prince's uterus.
To put it simply, the current three provinces are three temporary institutions without establishment.
If any mistakes or loopholes are discovered or there are bugs in the execution, Liu Che can abolish it with just one order!
The most important thing is that any new thing requires an adaptation process and time for continuous improvement and improvement.
Liu Che didn't want these people to be timid when they went down, and when they discovered a problem, they just wanted to cover it up instead of talking about it. In that case, by the time he discovered it, it might be too late!
After talking about these things, Liu Che asked Wang Dao to call Gu Zhenrou and several other people who he thought had certain abilities after observation.
After everyone had arrived, Liu Che said to everyone: "The Guanzhong Autumn Harvest is here, and I have been ordered by my father to preside over the formulation and implementation of the grain price protection plan for this Guanzhong Autumn Harvest. Although...it will nominally be under the control of the Shaofu."
In name, but in reality, everyone knows it. This is a big strategy led and implemented by a single person. I asked you to come here because I want to discuss with you how to do this!"
As soon as Liu Che said these words, everyone present looked at him in solemn silence.
In fact, everyone knows the importance and seriousness of this matter.
This is the prince's first government affairs and major policy. The success or failure of this matter is directly related to the prince's reputation and authority.
No one dares to be careless.
Liu Che looked at Yan Yi, Zhang Tang, and Ju Meng, and asked: "Before I went to Hedong, I asked my three beloved officials to investigate the number of registered acres and fake farm households in Guanzhong. How did the investigation go?"
Yan Yi heard the words and went out to pay homage: "Going back to your home, I inquired from the archives in the Nei Shi Yamen and the Shaofu Yamen. Now, most of the population in Guanzhong is gathered in the seven counties around Chang'an, among which Yiyang
There are 21,000 households in the county, with a population of over 100,000, and a total of 2,120,000 acres of land. Changling County has more than 17,000 households, with a population of 84,300, and a total of 1.5 million acres of land.
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Liu Che listened and took notes to write down the data.
For the current Han Dynasty, there is basically no possibility of hiding the field or hiding the household, especially in Guanzhong. The reason why the Guanzhong household registration is so popular is that if you are from Guanzhong, no matter how poor your family fortune is, you can still
It was guaranteed that they would not go hungry and there was land to cultivate. The landlord class could not exploit them too much in Guanzhong. The land rent was too high, so the farmers turned around and went to rent official land in Shanglinyuan and other royal estates.
Therefore, theoretically speaking, these data are unlikely to be false.
While listening to the data reported by Yan Yi, Liu Che calculated.
He suddenly laughed. According to the data reported by Yan Yi, and based on the information he currently has, the average population density in the seven counties near Chang'an has reached more than 400 people per square kilometer.
This is an amazing data!
In particular, the seven counties around Chang'an, plus the population of Chang'an itself, have almost formed a super population gathering area with a total population of more than one million around Chang'an.
With a population of one million, it may be considered a third-tier small city to future generations.
But at this time, it is estimated that there is no other place on the entire planet with such a high population density.
Liu Che rubbed his temples.
The whole problem is very serious!
Because, through data, Liu Che discovered that the population around Chang'an is currently close to saturation.
The land around the entire Wei River that can be reclaimed has basically been reclaimed. If the land is to be reclaimed forcibly, it will lead to serious soil erosion, and then...
Thinking about Shaanxi and the Yellow River in later generations, Liu Che felt that it was really terrible!
Liu Che had seen with his own eyes the consequences of consolidating the lake and leaving the fish behind.
However, the people need enough farmland to feed themselves, their families and future generations. If they are prevented from reclaiming land for so-called environmental reasons, not only will they not accept it, but Liu Che will also think that the person who proposed this suggestion is a swindler.
Human beings are the soul of all things and stand at the top of the food chain.
The purpose of protecting the environment is to protect human beings themselves, but if in order to protect the environment, humans themselves suffer misfortune, wouldn’t that be an idiot?
"It would be great if some farmers could be diverted to other places!" Liu Che thought to himself, so he asked: "What was the population and number of households in Heshang County, the former capital of Qin, and other places?"
Zhang Tang came out and replied: "I have reported it to my family. I have also checked it. According to the records of the Nei Shi Yamen and the archives of the Duwei Yamen, there are currently 23 counties in Heshang County, with a total of more than 110,000 households."
There are more than 600,000 households with a population of more than 8 million acres, so the Qin capital Xianyang and Huayin and other counties have a total of more than 90,000 households, a population of 510,000, and a total of more than 7 million acres of land!"
Hearing this, Liu Che nodded, this is right!
The population of Guanzhong is too concentrated near Chang'an.
The population density near Chang'an is actually more than 400 people per square kilometer, while in other surrounding places, it is only more than 20 or 30 people per square kilometer.
This gap is too big!
Even excluding the nearly 200,000 to 300,000 urban residents who live in Chang'an, there are still more than 300 people crammed into every square kilometer.
If this continues, it will be strange if water and soil are not lost!
It seems that in the future we will have to find a way to divert some of the population to other places in Guanzhong.
But how to divert it is a big problem.
Because the large population around Chang'an and its continuous expansion were actually caused by the Han Dynasty themselves.
The emperors of the past dynasties continued to migrate to the mausoleums of Guanzhong, and the powerful people from all over the world moved to live in the mausoleums of Guanzhong. Up to now, Liu Bang, Xiaohui, the late emperors plus the emperor's father, the total migration population is close to 300,000 to 400,000.
These immigrants will have children...
In addition, Chehou, who is staying in Chang'an, and their children, family, relatives and friends...
This has led to an extreme population expansion around Chang'an, but there are still large tracts of land in the east and west of Guanzhong that are not fully utilized.
No wonder Xiaozhu later established Zuo Fengyi and You Fufeng to support agriculture in the east and west.
But this method only treats the symptoms but not the root cause. What will happen when Zuo Fengyi and Right Fufeng are also filled with people?
History told Liu Che that in less than ten years, the land in Guanzhong would be unable to support the population of Guanzhong. Even if grain was transferred from Guandong every year, it would still be of no avail.
In the previous life, Guanzhong was already short of food by nearly two to three million dan.
It is conceivable that the whole problem will explode within a few years after he takes the throne.
People who have no long-term worries must have immediate worries. As a prince and ruler, Liu Che felt that he had to take a long-term view and see the world a hundred years from now.
Liu Che thought for a long time and felt that he wanted to solve this problem.
For the time being, the only way to alleviate the pressure caused by the population explosion is to develop the land of Zuo Fengyi and You Fufeng.
Then, it can only be alleviated by expanding the land in Guanzhong.
And then……
Liu Che looked to the west...
"If you don't colonize, you will die!" His fists were tightly balled up.
He knew deeply that if India's land and resources could not be obtained to support the people and common people of this country, then no matter how reforms were made, unless hybrid rice and chemical fertilizers were developed, the probability of a three-hundred-year dynasty cycle would be the same as what he was doing.
The fate that our beloved country and nation cannot escape.
For ancient China, no one in the world could defeat it except itself!
The irony is that the Han Dynasty in ancient China was basically defeated by itself. The one that really perished at the hands of foreign enemies was the Song Dynasty! (To be continued...)
