Liu Mang's plan to recruit people was carried out after his order for land acquisition was issued, but the result was not so satisfactory.
Where are the nearest places near Shouchun? One is Si, the other is to serve dishes, and after the disaster, it will be Pengcheng. These three places belong to Xuzhou, which belongs to Cao Cao. After the last battle, Surabaya was not left behind. Not only Tao Qian’s army suffered heavy casualties and retreated to Pengcheng to defend, but Lao Cao’s own trilogy also suffered a lot of casualties. In a fit of anger, Lao Cao directly made the vicinity of Surabaya deserted for hundreds of miles. .
Even if Cao Cao assigns people to enrich Xuzhou later, it can't be done in a day or two, so the Xuzhou generation can't gather a few people at all, and two thousand people came to Shouchun City to wait for Liu The distribution of the reckless army. Could it be that there are nearly 3,000 people in the generation on the way
Yingshang Ruyin was directly detained by Liu Paopao, and so was Jiangdong Sun Ce. Only with a population can he develop an army. If everyone ran away, what would he use to farm? Cao Cao had no intention of taking care of him. He is now in Guandu and Yuan Shao is fighting fiercely. After killing Yuan Shao's 100,000 sailors, now Yuan Shao has only 150,000 troops left. Lao Cao's 40,000 troops can still persist in guarding a Guandu. At least there has been a great improvement in food and grass. What could only persist for two or three months can now be delayed for more than half a year.
"Just a few thousand people! This is not enough!" Liu Mang frowned. What he needed was a large number of people, so as to maintain the war potential of Lu Bu's army in the future. Let him use the land of Yangzhou to support most of the world's population, which is more than enough.
"My lord, it's not that the subordinates are not doing their best, but that the princes of all parties are blocking the arrival of the people, so it is difficult to meet the standard!" Standing below is Liu Neng, who divided the gold belonging to the Liu family's private soldiers All the good ones were given to the family who died in battle, but Liu Mang saw it in his eyes but kept it in his heart. As soon as Liu Neng came back, Liu Mang appointed him and asked him to be in charge of the migration of the population.
"The obstruction of the princes from all sides?!" Liu Mang really had a headache. In the early days of the troubled times, the population was a thing that regarded human life as worthless. Even a dog's life was worth more than a human being, so it was normal for corpses to litter the field. The Yellow Turban Rebellion brought millions of people to attack the city, causing countless deaths and injuries. The Yellow Turban thieves from all walks of life, it should be said that the people who were carried by the Yellow Turban Army were defeated by the official army. Are you a yellow turban thief? Just kill them all. After killing them, you will be rewarded with your head, so that period of time was really hell on earth.
Afterwards, due to the continuous wars, the princes of all walks of life collected the taxes under their rule to the extreme, and many places were desolate, and the food production was seriously insufficient. Refugees poured into the major cities. In order not to cause chaos under their own rule, those princes either drove these hungry people away or sent troops to kill them, all in order to drive these hungry people out of their rule.
Now, there are only a few people left in the original Eighteenth Route princes, so those princes began to care about the people slowly, because you can have people to farm for you when you have people. Originally, before the chaos in the world, There are 40 million people in the whole Han Dynasty, and now it is probably less than half. A lot of good air has been vacated, so those gentry princes began to care about the people again. This is why only a few thousand people have taken refuge in Liu Neng's charge these days. Those princes will not easily let their people leave their residences!
"Hmph, they thought they could stop them!" Liu Mang snorted coldly. If the population problem is not solved, Lu Bu's army may only be defeated, because the entire Lujiang River is worth more than a dozen people. With a population of 10,000, even if all the people are soldiers, there are only a few hundred thousand soldiers. Even if the tactics are good and the weapons are excellent, in this era of cold weapons, if you are piled up with people's heads, you will be killed.
You have to know that Jiangdong Sun Ce has a population of nearly 2 million. This is why Sun Ce will not feel too distressed even if he loses 100,000 troops. It's just that the loss of the 30,000 main force made Sun Ce heartbroken for a while. Wan Dajun was able to pull out after half a year of training.
Among the three prefectures in Hebei Province, Yuan Shao's Jizhou, Youzhou, and Bingzhou, the population of Bingzhou and Youzhou is slightly smaller, and the combined population is less than one million, but the population of Jizhou is large, with a total of more than four million, so Yuan Shao can have an army of 300,000. If Now if it was not Cao Cao but Lu Bujun who was fighting Yuan Shao at Guandu, Yuan Shao would have beaten him to the point where there was not even a scum left.
Cao Cao’s Yanzhou has a population of more than 3 million in half of Yuzhou plus the whole of Xuzhou, mainly concentrated in Yanzhou, half of Yuzhou has a population of less than one million, Yanzhou has about 1.5 million, and Xuzhou, Xuzhou At the peak period, the population with household registration reached 3 million, but Cao Cao fought Tao Qian, Lu Bu, Liu Bei, Lu Bu fought Liu Bei, and Liu Bei fought Cao Cao. In this way, there were only five or six hundred thousand people left in Xuzhou.
Jingzhou has the largest population. There are five million people in one state. Jingzhou is very rich. After all, since the Yellow Turban Rebellion, no princes have been to the hinterland of Jingzhou. It was also stuck in Jiangxia and it was difficult to move. Many gentry and common people in the Central Plains went to Jingzhou to seek refuge, so Jingzhou is really very prosperous now. Because of the Wanshui Army.
Yizhou Liuzhang also has a large population. There is a land of Sichuan and Sichuan. Although there are many mountains, it is also a natural barrier. The war did not rage too much in Yizhou. Chengdu Hanzhong is also known as the granary of the world. It's just that Hanzhong is now in the hands of Zhang Lu. If the two are combined, there will be a population of about 3 million.
The next generation with the largest population is the Xiliang generation and the Liaoxi generation. There are Ma Teng and Han Sui in Xiliang, and there are nearly a million people living mixed with Qiang and Han in Tianshui, Wu'an. The reason why Xiliang is strong is because of the people there. Fighting with the Qiang people every year, almost all the people are soldiers. This is the situation where there are tens of thousands of cavalry at every turn. Gongsundu in the west of Liao, but there is Liaodong on the side. If you count Goguryeo, it can make up a population of one million. Liu Paopao has left, Liu Paopao occupies Runan, Runan is close to Xudu, and it is considered half of Yuzhou. Cao Cao indirectly helped Liu Paopao, making Yuzhou's population more than 300,000, plus Liu They brought from Xuzhou about 500,000 yuan. The most impoverished people are probably Lu Bujun, Zhangxiu in Wancheng, and the Zhili area. Huihulao Pass fought with Dong Zhuo, and Dong Zhuo set fire to the whole of Luoyang. After Dong Zhuo died, Li Jue and Guo Si joined forces to fight Lu Bu and Wang Yun. They killed Wang Yun and drove Lu Bu away. The two started fighting again. , it can be said that the generation of Chang'an in Luoyang has been completely abolished, and it would be nice to have a population of 200,000!
Zhang Xiu of Wancheng originally occupied a city, and he didn't care about the population. His original plan was to sell it for a price. He had 20,000 Xiliang iron cavalry and 10,000 infantry in his hands, and he planned to follow whichever boss he saw. The good thing is Cao Cao's, but who made Cao Cao have an affair with his aunt!
Finally, there is Lu Bujun. Lujiang County has a population of more than 100,000, but the Shouchun generation can have 20,000 to 30,000 people. Who made an Emperor Yuan come out here? After several decades, the common people will have ghosts if they can survive.
Now Shouchun's population is still the families of those Danyang soldiers brought by Liu Mang and the families of those craftsmen. The population problem is looming.
Now if you want to get a large population, there are only two ways, the first is to send troops to plunder, just like those foreigners who entered the Central Plains to plunder, send troops to the areas of the major princes to plunder, Cao Cao and Liu Bei are all available In the looted areas, Jiangdong Sun Ce is hard to get across the river, Jingzhou Liubiao, Xinye Yiyang and Zaoyang are all places that can be looted, but now there is a serious problem!
Lao Cao is carrying Yuan Shao in Guandu now, you go and rob Lao Cao, don't provoke Lao Cao and come back to fight desperately, Jiangdong Sun Ce just made a truce with him, even if he fights, it will take a while, after all, Liu Mang's army has no The navy, Liu Biao of Jingzhou, was on his honeymoon with Lu Bujun a while ago, so let's just fight over there! Only one Liu Bei can be bullied, but there is a problem, that is, Liu Bei has a lot of soldiers and horses, and it is difficult to invade across the Huai River. The most important thing is that now Liu Weijun has a lot of recruits. In the past, casualties would not be easy, but now what Liu Mang needs is to recuperate, and there is no benefit in going to war, otherwise, if the little turkey played like that, he would have beaten him long ago according to Liu Mang's previous temper.
Then we can only use the second method, which is to increase the welfare and increase the welfare of the people of the Shouchun generation to a certain extent. Man-made wealth and dead birds are for food. As long as they can survive in Shouchun, they can live better. Well, who wants to stay put and be exploited.
"Liu Neng, please post it to me. As long as you come to my Liu Mang army, all the people will reward two acres of good land for cultivation for more than three years and belong to the people. They will charge 30% of the tax. If someone opens up wasteland, the wasteland opened up will help our army cultivate it Five years, after five years, all these fertile fields will belong to the common people like before!" Liu Mang said to Liu Neng. "By the way, the tax on the fields of those soldiers who died in battle became 20%." Liu Mang couldn't treat one more favorably than another.
"Two acres of good land?!" Liu Neng is also doing the calculations. If Liu Mang is like this, then the family is counted as a family of five, one child, four adults, that is nine acres of land, nine acres of land, and 30% of the tax The negative means that there are still six acres of land left, six acres of fertile land, that is really a lot of family property.
But with such a reduction in taxes, what will happen to the expenditure of the entire army afterwards! The army not only needs food and grass, but also salaries, and it depends on 30% of the tax burden to drink the northwest wind. Even fertile land is only four hundred catties a year, and one acre of land can only be used for one stone, which is only enough to maintain the food and drink of the army, and there are other expenses, such as river embankments, roads and bridges, and disaster relief. , If there is no surplus food, then what a fart.
"My lord, isn't this too high!"
"Don't worry about my work! As long as you plant the fruits I brought, the yield of one mu of land will definitely not be less than two thousand catties." Liu Mang revealed a figure to Liu Neng. Originally, Liu Mang had only mentioned this number to Xu Shu, Liu Ye and others, because Liu Mang was not sure.
"What!" Liu Neng's eyes suddenly widened, two thousand catties, what a number this is, even in a good harvest year, it would be less than five hundred catties at most, and if taxes are counted, it would be difficult for one person to eat Full, but Liu Mang opened his mouth and weighed two thousand catties. What kind of concept is this four times more? Why did the ancient people have a high birth rate? A family raised seven or eight children and there was no family planning, but if it has been around tens of millions, it will be considered dead. That's less than 60 million. That's because of the food problem. The people don't have enough to eat. If they don't have enough to eat, they will starve to death. The birth rate is high and the death rate is higher. It took hundreds of years or nearly a hundred years to reach 300 million, about 40 years to reach 400 million, and about 30 years to reach 400 million. During this period of time, it was because of the food problem that was solved. The first time the food problem was solved, these high-yield vegetation such as sweet potatoes and wheat were introduced into China, which made the population grow.
The second time is Yuan Da’s hybrid rice. He directly solved the feeding problem of more than one billion people. You ask Liu Mang why he didn’t bring hybrid rice back. There is a reason. This kind of thing can only be planted for one period After the end, they will be re-breeding. How can it be possible with the scientific level at the end of Han Dynasty!
"The 2,000 jin I said is dry land. If it is fertile land, it should be around 4,000 jin!" Anyway, I told Liu Neng that he might as well tell all Liu Mang's guesses! Four thousand catties is already Liu Mang's guarantee, because the normal yield of sweet potatoes in dry land is also two thousand kilograms, which is four thousand catties, and it is even more likely to reach about four thousand kilograms in fertile land, but in The land here has no chemical fertilizers, so Liu Mang didn't dare to guarantee it, so the output was greatly reduced.
"I, my lord, this!" Liu Neng opened his mouth, and he didn't know what to say. This is no food, this is completely a divine fruit. If it really reaches this level, then the entire area of Yangzhou It will be able to feed the people of the world.
"Go ahead and publish our policy. I want to see if they can stop it!" Liu Mang waved at Liu Neng. Population is a big problem, and now Liu Mang needs to think about it There are too many, because now Lu Bu's army is completely poor and white, with zero industrial base. Such princes are not called princes, they can only be regarded as rogues. What are princes? Self-sufficiency is the real princes and warlords. Like Li Jue and Guo Si, they only have men, but they don’t know how to work or how to manage them. In the end, they can only become dead bones in the grave. The Xiliang cavalry left by Dong Zhuo is 70,000 to 80,000, and there are also 100,000 infantry. , What a powerful force this is, but now it has been wiped out. Except for the 20,000 Xiliang cavalry in the hands of Zhang Xiu in Wancheng, the other Xiliang cavalry have disappeared on the stage of history.
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Liu Mang's government order was issued, and this time, like the recruitment order, it was disseminated by Yang Hong's intelligence department and scout troops, and it was disseminated in various cities of various princes.
Under the rule of Jiangdong Wuhu Jiangdong Xiaobawang "You know! Yangzhou Shouchun, I heard that His Royal Highness Shu Wang is recruiting people there!" A mysterious middle-aged man in Tsing Yi suddenly added this sentence among a bunch of people.
"Recruiting common people? What is there for common people to recruit?!" Someone interrupted, and the mysterious man in Tsing Yi suddenly smiled. put it! What a good recruit.
"It's different. His Highness the King of Shu wants someone to farm for him until he governs and become his people!" The man in Tsing Yi explained.
"Yangzhou Shouchun, how far is the Yangtze River for hundreds of miles! Who wants to go there, and Shouchun? Haha, our family escaped from Shouchun. That place is deserted and the taxes have been received. More than ten years." Another middle-aged man expressed disdain for the man in Tsing Yi who raised the topic.
The mysterious middle-aged man in Tsing Yi also seemed a little sullen, "What do you know! Shouchun is far away from here, but His Royal Highness the King of Shu said that as long as you go there, each person can get two acres of fertile land." He raised two fingers,
"Two acres of fertile land? Hehe, how much? My family has dozens of acres of fertile land now!" The middle-aged man who asked the question was still very disdainful. They are a family of four with ten acres of land, but the family still can't get enough to eat, so they have to go out to fish and sell the coarse cloth made by the wife of the seller.
"Your fertile land can compare with that of His Highness the King of Shu!"
"Why can't it be compared! Shouchun's fertile land is not as good as my Jiangdong's!" Shouchun belongs to Jiangsu and Anhui in Huainan, and Jiangdong is in Zhejiang and Anhui. In fact, there is no difference between the two, but this middle-aged man can only So to speak.
"How much tax is your family!" The mysterious man in Tsing Yi asked instead of retorting.
"Thanks to the care of the general who broke the prisoner, Wuhou Sun Ce, my family's tax is only 60%!" The middle-aged man is very proud! His family has Sun Ce's soldiers, but he died in battle, and Sun Ce will not treat his subordinates. It's too chilling, but he can't do Liu Mang's big money, so he can only reduce taxes by 10% to support these families who died in battle. Even in this way, he can produce two or three hundred catties of grain a year, which is really too much! Let the surrounding people listen with envy on their faces, and this middle-aged man's sense of vanity has been improved to a certain extent. He looked at the mysterious man in Tsing Yi very proudly, but who knew that what he got was a kind of contempt and disdain. "Look down on my family! Tell me how much tax your family has!"
The mysterious man in Tsing Yi stretched out three fingers and looked at the middle-aged man with a smile.
"Oh, so it's 70%, what right do you have to laugh at my family!" The middle-aged man disdainfully, three fingers is to leave 30% of the rations!
The mysterious man in Tsing Yi shook his head with a smile, "It's 30%, His Royal Highness the King of Shu said, as long as you go to Shouchun, with two acres of fertile land for one person, you only need to collect 30% of the tax, and there will never be any tax!"
"How is it possible! You liar!" The middle-aged man pointed at the mysterious man and cursed, "Your Highness the King of Shu is so likely to only charge 30% of the tax, so low, how can he support the army, how can he pay his subordinates?" salary!" Collecting 50% of the tax is to love the people like children, 30%? Really go drink Mistral! Now it is not the new emperor ascending the throne to amnesty the world, so that it is possible to reduce taxes, and the king of Shu that this man said not only only collects 30% of taxes, but also never increases taxes, how is it possible, this is a scam.
The people on the side also nodded their heads yes and no, "Yes! How could it be 30%? Even Master Qingtian couldn't do it! This must be a liar who tricked us all the way there!"
"Yeah, yeah, can't go, can't go!"
Listening to the discussion of the crowd, the mysterious man in Tsing Yi raised his arms and pressed down, "His Royal Highness the King of Shu can't lie, everyone, do you still remember the recruitment order a while ago!" The mysterious man Mentioning this recruiting order, the people present knew something about it, because Liu Mang was offending the gentry all over the world because of this recruiting order. The order was given to those children from poor families, so these common people also know it.
"So that's His Royal Highness the King of Shu." "So it's him! I heard that the youngest son of Zhao Si's family went to Shouchun to make a better future!" The people once again entered the discussion, and the previous treatment of Liu Mang The distrust was thrown out, but it still didn't reduce the guard.
"It's not a lie, how do you explain the three levels!" The middle-aged man was very unconvinced. Just now he made everyone disbelieve His Highness the King of Shu. Now it's all right. Everyone doesn't listen to him, which makes him feel very uncomfortable. uncomfortable.
"Hehe, you also said before that Shouchun is now uninhabited, and you also said that you are from Shouchun, so let me ask you, do you know how much land Shouchun has!" The mysterious man in Tsing Yi pointed at the middle-aged man. the man asked.
"A lot, a lot!" How could a middle-aged man know how much land Shouchun has? He is just an ordinary citizen, and he can only use a lot to explain Shouchun's land.
"Hehe, yes, there are many, many, but now there is no one inhabited anywhere, and there is no one to plant the good fields. You are here to sell cloth!" The mysterious man in Tsing Yi said looking at the middle-aged man, because he was holding a Wearing a piece of coarse cloth, although it is coarse cloth, it can be seen that it is tightly woven. This is a good piece of cloth, at least it is a good cloth inside the coarse cloth.
"Never mind your business!" The middle-aged man hugged his cloth tightly.
"How much is your cloth worth?!" The man in Tsing Yi pointed to the cloth and asked.
"Twenty dollars!" The middle-aged man said a price, "Why do you want it?!" He came out to sell cloth, and now he almost forgot to argue with others.
"Twenty coins? If I offer ten coins, why don't you sell them?!" The mysterious man in Tsing Yi took out ten copper coins from his pocket.
"Of course I won't sell it! This is made by my mother-in-law. It is made of high-quality hemp and he weaves it piece by piece. I won't sell anyone without twenty big bucks!"
"Not for sale? Then what if I rob it! Then you might lose a penny." The man in Tsing Yi made an expression of wanting to grab something.
"How dare you!" The middle-aged man held the cloth tightly in his arms, "If you dare to snatch my cloth, I will fight you hard!"
"Desperate!? I don't want to die yet! What if the government comes to confiscate your cloth!"
"Expropriation?!" The middle-aged man was stunned for a moment. In ancient times, the word "expropriation" sounds good, but expropriation means robbery. Once the government fights, it will naturally come to collect food and cloth. At that time The cloth is worthless. "How could it be, Marquis Wu won't!" Although the middle-aged man said so, his expression told him that Marquis Wu had confiscated it before.
"If it is expropriated by the government, which one would you choose, or sell it to me for ten big money!" the mysterious man in Tsing Yi asked.
"Of course I sold it to you!" Although these people have never read a book, they still understand some basic interests. If they are expropriated, they are worthless, and the government will not subsidize them. There were only ten big coins left, and it didn't reach the price of twenty big coins as he expected, but it was sold anyway, and he made ten big coins.
"You understand this kind of truth, let alone His Royal Highness the King of Shu! You see, your cloth is equivalent to His Royal Highness Shu's land in Shouchun. If no one cultivates it, it will be like your cloth being confiscated by the government. Then it is worthless, and if someone goes to cultivate it, as His Highness the King of Shu said, each person has two acres of good land, and the tax burden is only 30%. This is like you selling this cloth to me. But at any rate, there is still money to be made, right? Moreover, His Royal Highness the King of Shu also said that as long as you have one and a half children left, you will be rewarded with an acre of fertile land. One mu of land" This is Liu Mang's family planning plan. As long as you dare to have children, Liu Mang dares to have them. If you give birth to seventeen or eight, I will give you seventeen or eight mu of good land, and girls will give half an mu of land. Only such a reward plan can make the people more motivated to create people. Liu Mang wants to turn Yangzhou into a populous land.
After the comparison by the mysterious man in Tsing Yi, the rest of the common people really understand. If you want to tell the common people that it is better to have people in His Highness Shu's field than to have no people, such a truth is simple but for the common people. The impression is not deep, and the people tend to hesitate, but now using such a piece of cloth as a metaphor, everyone understands the past.
One person has two acres of land, and the family of four is eight acres of land. If you pay 30% of the land, you can still have five acres of land, which is all his family's land. Here, although there are ten acres of land, only 60% of the tax is paid. The four acres of land belong to his family, and this land belongs to Mr. Sun Ce and cannot be bought or sold. Even their family can have their own land.
"In that case, are you still going?!" The mysterious man in Tsing Yi said with a smile.
"Go, I'll go!" The middle-aged man said hastily. Many people around were also very moved, the mysterious man in Tsing Yi released the last news which completely overwhelmed their hesitant thoughts.
"Let me tell you, if you want to go, hurry up. Although there are many fertile fields in Shouchun, they are only given to the first 50,000 people! If you go late, there will be no more." 50,000 people? Liu Mang’s Shouchun plus Hefei’s Lujiang can accommodate even 500,000 people. After all, this is Yangzhou, which is not inferior to Xuzhou and Jizhou. Jizhou now has a population of 4 million (of which one One million was taken away by the black bandit Zhang Yan).
According to Liu Mang's prediction, Liu Mang's half of Yangzhou should be able to live with a population of five to seven million people. Not only that, but it can also export food. Liu Mang doesn't expect his subordinates to have a large number of people at one time, but if there are only 50,000 people in this way, then those common people will definitely rush to report. The surname was mobilized, and if it was too late, there would be no good land to distribute. Even under the rule of Sun Ce in Jiangdong, few people died of starvation, but most of the people could not eat enough, because every year he would eat in Jiangdong. In fact, it was Sun Ce's helplessness to use troops against Jingzhou, because there was only so much food, and taking these troops to fight could reduce the consumption of food and grass, so how could he give up when he saw such an opportunity now! (To be continued.)