Among the Guangling in Xuzhou, today's Guangling City can be described as an empty alley for thousands of people. The entire Guangling City gathered Han people from all corners of the country in an instant.
Within ten days, the passenger flow in Guangling City reached dozens of times that of before.
There is a reason why so many people came.
A few months ago, the Yangzhou Navy, which set off from Guangling and set off with a Yangzhou Sovereign-class warship with a mighty caravan, is coming back.
This is the reason that led to the empty streets this time.
The return of the navy alone is still not satisfactory, but this time it came back with a caravan, which made the entire Yangzhou territory boil.
In particular, ships have already come back to report.
On a tall building at the port of Guangling City, a group of people are looking at the sky-filled coast.
Upstairs and downstairs, there are guards with armored soldiers, and you can tell that it is where the dignitaries are.
"Your Highness has arrived, and I have lost my way to welcome you, Your Highness, please make amends!" A middle-aged scribe came to the base of the tall building wearing an official robe, and he brought dozens of officials behind him and knelt down towards the dignitaries inside the building.
"Isn't that our Lord Inspector!" someone shouted loudly as he recognized the identity of a middle-aged scribe at a glance.
"That's right, that's really Lord Inspector. Look, isn't the Lord Prefect on his left!"
"It's true, not only the governor, but also don't drive!"
Some well-informed people in Guangling naturally recognized the identities of the middle-aged scribes and others.
The governor of a state can be said to be at the provincial governor level. But such a person bowed down to a young man in the building. the youth's identity.
"Master Inspector called him His Highness? Could it be?" someone vaguely guessed.
"Brother Yuanlong. Why are you so ignorant!" A helpless voice rang out from the building, and a man wearing a royal robe came out and said to the governor of Xuzhou over there.
"Ah, really His Royal Highness the King of Han!" Liu Mang's appearance rate can be regarded as very high in Yangzhou, from the scholar-bureaucrats on the upper level to the ordinary people in Liming, as long as they are representatives of all walks of life, they are all Those who have met Liu Mang, Liu Mang is also very close to the people. I went to the fields many times to have fun with the people during the harvest or sowing season.
And this governor of Xuzhou is no stranger, he is the old team member of Lu Bujun, our Mr. Chen Deng and Chen Yuanlong.
Chen Deng looked at the man in front of him who was called His Highness the King of Han with complicated eyes. In the past few years, the whole world has undergone earth-shaking changes. Just a few years ago, on this land of Xuzhou, he Chen Deng and Chen Yuanlong also took tens of thousands of soldiers under their hands to chase and intercept the young man in front of him and those remnants of Lu Bu's defeated generals.
It almost made Lu Bujun a kind of history in this big man's world.
But it was after that time that he Chen Deng Chen Yuanlong. Only then did he board the warship of Lu Bu's army, and then Lu Bu's army changed. Now that he has become the Yangzhou Army, Chen Deng and Chen Yuanlong can also return to Guli. From the beginning, he was the prefect of Guangling, and now he has become the governor of Xuzhou.
Liu Wei's subordinates are only a few states, and it is enough to see how important the status of the governor of Xuzhou is.
Chen Deng became dazed when he thought about it, and even forgot to listen to Liu Mang's shouting.
"Bold!" The two door gods around Liu Mang quit, especially Guan Hai.
The current Guan Haina completely regards protecting Liu Mang as the first priority, and has done a good job as his dog's leg very faithfully.
How could anyone in Yangzhou ignore the words of His Royal Highness the King of Han
Even the governor of Xuzhou can't do it.
"Hey!" Liu Mang waved his hand to stop Guan Hai. Chen Deng was an old man in Lv Bu's army.
"Ah!" Chen Deng finally came to his senses, "Please forgive me, Your Highness, I just lost my mind!"
"Haha, our Lord Inspector, could it be that he misses the girl from that family? It's not okay, I'm going to tell Mrs. Sister-in-law!" Liu Mang said haha.
The awkward atmosphere was swept away.
Liu Mang asked Chen to take the seat. Their purpose of coming here is the same, that is to wait for those warriors who returned from the sea to return to the land of Yangzhou.
There are many storms above the sea, so the distance and plan are completely unacceptable.
The boats that came back to report the news said that according to the water distance, these boats that went out to sea last night should have returned, but it has been delayed until today, but there are still no boats in sight.
Boring, the waiting time is always long.
On the tall building, the tea was changed from pot to pot, and Liu Mang himself went to the toilet several times.
"Your Highness, why don't you just go back for now!" Chen Deng said respectfully to Liu Mang.
Liu Mang shook his head, he looked at Chen Deng, the world is impermanent, everything has changed, the Chen Deng back then was dressed in white, with a gully in his chest, on the battlefield he had a full chest, and Chen Deng Deng's martial arts are not weak, even stronger than Liu Mang, a second-rate peak.
At the beginning, he was silent and humble, but Ru showed his demeanor sharply and delicately.
But after such a meeting, the intimacy before was lost, and instead there was more respect.
Even though Liu Mang was well prepared, he was still smiling wryly in his heart, isn't it so cold at the top! It has already happened in Yangzhou, and now it is also happening in Xuzhou.
In the past Liu Mang could still call Yang Hong Uncle Hong, but now Yang Hong is beaten to death and unwilling to agree. In the past, he could get along with Cheng Yu, Huang Xu and the others, but now when they meet, they are all in front of His Highness and behind His Highness. Very uncomfortable.
Among these individuals, the only ones who haven't changed much are Zhuge Liang, Xu Shu and others, but one of them is still far away in Xiliang, and the other is too busy to be free.
"Delicious. Delicious!" Just as Liu Mang was feeling emotional, a foodie's voice came over there.
Liu Mang's mouth twitched. If it still counts. He, Liu Mo, really forgot one person, and that was Zhou Cang's pitfall. People said that if you suffer from it, you will gain wisdom, but this Zhou Cang is completely a negative teaching material.
Because of his talkativeness, Liu Mang gave him some punishments, such as helping in the kitchen, as long as he was not allowed to eat, such as helping in the stables.
All kinds of punishment. But this Zhou Cang is still indifferent.
You punish yours, I do mine, it makes Liu Mang's teeth itch with anger.
"Yuanlong, how is the harvest in Xuzhou like this?" Liu Mang chatted with Chen Deng over there.
"Reporting to Your Highness, Xuzhou has had a bumper harvest this year!" Chen Deng's face turned red, and Xuzhou was thriving under his hands. Liu Mang also nodded, Xuzhou's grain and grass supply this year is almost comparable to that of Yangzhou.
"Just!" Chen Deng said.
"Just what!" Liu Mang asked suspiciously.
"It's just Your Highness, the people in Xuzhou have many births. Although my Xuzhou has a large population, there is no one to cultivate the fields!" Chen Deng looked at Liu Mang in embarrassment.
Liu Mang understood what Chen Deng meant, since Liu Mang was in politics, he had always encouraged childbearing. How much is rewarded for giving birth to a son, and how much is rewarded for giving birth to a daughter, and most of them are rewarded to the common people with land.
Because ordinary people still don't have much impression of money, you tell her that one gold and one thousand gold are both a lot of money in his eyes, and they don't have a big concept. It can only be abstract.
But the field is different. With the field, there is farming, and with farming, there is food. With food, one can eat enough to live.
For a family of three, five acres of fertile land is enough to eat enough, and ten acres of fertile land is enough to live a good life. It is no problem to eat a little big fish and meat during festivals, or birthdays.
So rewarding fields is very intuitive.
There must be a brave man under a heavy reward. The reward of this field has stimulated many ordinary people. In addition, there were not many entertainment activities in ancient times. At night, the sky darkens. Everyone is in the dark. How can there be no entertainment activities? manage
Create it!
A very simple activity is to make a villain.
The ancients had poor medical conditions, so the fertility rate and survival rate were not high, but they couldn't stand the crowd.
No condoms, no family planning or anything like that.
One doll a year is impossible, but one doll a year and a half is still possible.
Especially after the first birth, the second and third births went much smoother.
All of a sudden, there are a lot of newborns in Xuzhou.
Logically speaking, this is a happy event, but something that worries Chen Deng has happened. Those who have more sons and daughters have more than ten acres of fertile land for rewards, plus some other things. , For example, a woman needs to cultivate herself after giving birth.
There are more than ten acres of fertile land, which is not enough for one man alone, so these ordinary people only have fertile land but no one cultivates it.
There is a serious shortage of labor force. After all, those women now do less work and give birth to babies. A few acres of fertile land can be obtained after giving birth to a baby. If you go to cultivate the land, how much will you earn in a year? The consequence is that the land is deserted and the food reserves are almost insufficient.
A half-grown child eats me to death.
"Haha!" Liu Mang suddenly laughed when he heard Chen Deng's embarrassment, "Yuanlong! These children are our hope for the future of Yangzhou!"
It is impossible for Liu Mang to listen to Chen Deng's words and stop these birth-encouraging policies for him.
Because these policies belong to Liu Mang's real national policy.
How many years has this big guy been in chaos? From the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, before the death of Emperor Han Ling, the Yellow Turban Rebellion began.
As a whole, the population of the big man has changed from the original 40 million to 12 million. This is a reduction of several times. If this war continues and the troubled times come again, then in the end the big man will have several million people. The population just smiled.
Why is there such a mess! One of the very important reasons is that there is no one left for me. The able-bodied people all went out to fight and died in the civil war. The rest are old, weak, women and children. How can this resist the invasion of those foreign races
So Liu Mang has always been encouraging childbirth, no matter what she does, as long as you can give birth, you are a good person.
Liu Mang also specially met a peasant family when he was in Yangzhou. Their mother-in-law is simply a lucky star. She gave birth to four in one birth, which is rare. In modern times, it would be difficult to give birth, but this woman is not. The first child, so the risk is greatly reduced, and there are old doctors like Hua Tuo and Zhang Ji, so it will be safe soon.
After giving birth to quadruplets, two boys and two girls, Liu Mang was conferred the title of title when he was happy, which is a typical example of Yangzhou.
Only with a large population can we compete for future survival.
Now Xuzhou is a bit more difficult, but if you wait another ten or eight years, or another ten years, then the population of Xuzhou will inevitably double, and young and middle-aged people will make Xuzhou exude vitality instead of The kind of negative population growth with too many old people is becoming dead.
"Yes! Deng has been educated!" Chen Deng also nodded, the image of a big man has long been popularized in people's hearts, and Chen Deng also knows the impression of the war on the population, so this big birth policy must not be easily changed.
"As for the food and grass problem you mentioned Yuanlong! Naturally, it can be solved!" Liu Mang said with a smile. Xu Shu had raised such a problem when he was in Yangzhou.
There are two solutions given by Liu Mang!
The first one is to grow sweet potatoes. This thing has a high yield and is easy to survive. However, the starch content of this thing is high, and it will be harmful to the body if used for a long time, so Liu Mang can only treat it as a contingency.
There is another one that is to buy it. Where can I buy it? Those who have food and grass are places like Jingzhou and Yizhou, as well as Lao Cao in Yanzhou, but Lao Cao’s life is not easy. , a lot of land is deserted.
Liu Mang can't let the big Han people here be full, let the big Han people on Lao Cao's side be hungry.
The big man is born from the same root, isn't it
Then the only place left is to go to sea. Liu Mang has known for a long time that there are good fertile fields overseas, and there is also a good supply of grain and grass, so Liu Mang added a condition to those returning ships.
That is to bring food back.
As long as everything goes well in going to sea like this, it will definitely make a lot of money, but you can’t let a businessman become rich alone, even if you are rich alone, it’s nothing more than that.
So the tax on returning from the sea is naturally not low. Now Liu Mang is after going out to sea, I will exempt you from the tax on a ship of grain and grass you bring back. Even those grains and grasses I don't want you for nothing, I will buy them back for you at the world price so that you don't suffer.
"Come, come! They are coming!" Suddenly, an excited voice erupted from the port over there. (to be continued..)