Chapter 965

In the 13th year of Yuanshuo, the time came to the last season of the year, winter.

Northern Xinjiang is far away from Chang'an, and war reports have been sent back, but it has not caused any impact.

At the beginning of winter in Chang'an, it rained for about half a month, and the temperature suddenly decreased. It was only sunny for five days, but it snowed.

For half a month, the rainy season is not only in Chang'an, but also in Guanzhong Plain and Luoyang in Eastern Shaanxi.

When it began to snow in Guanzhong, there was no snow in the Central Plains of Guandong.

However, Northern Xinjiang and Liaodong began to snow earlier than Guanzhong.

The drought from the ninth year of Yuanshuo to the eleventh year of Yuanshuo is extremely impressive to the Han people. There is a continuous rainy season in autumn. In winter, there is another drizzle for half a month before the snow. There are floods in some areas, but the people would rather endure floods than experience another drought.

The drought for nearly three years did not cause people to die of hunger everywhere because the official response was effective, but it has made a significant change to the original population aggregation.

According to official records, the original population of more than 1.3 million in Northwest China was less than one million after 12 years of Yuanshuo. More than 300000 chose to settle down after going to the western regions. In the 12th year of Yuanshuo, the million people in the Northwest were not all the original northwest people. Nearly 200000 people from all over the country moved here.

In the Central Plains, there are more than 20 000 registered residence in Northwest China, and more than ten million settled in the western region. More than one hundred and fifty thousand of them are moved to grasslands, and the largest number of people who move to Liaodong are one million and four hundred thousand.

The population change in the south of the Yangtze River is smaller because the south of the Yangtze River is not greatly affected by drought.

Yangzhou, which was originally the most densely populated, forcibly moved millions of people in the seventh year of Yuanshuo. Most of them were forcibly moved to the original ningzhou and Guangzhou, and a few were moved to Jiaozhi.

By the 10th year of Yuanshuo, population centers including Jiankang, Jianchang and Wuxing were forced to migrate again. This time, under the national policy of building Jingchu grain producing area, the population was moved to the original Jingzhou.

"Your Majesty, I think we should introduce a national policy to restrict mobility." Xie AI is now one of the three attendants. He has just reported on the current population distribution of the country, and has repeatedly talked about the disadvantages of population mobility: "for example, when the central migration population goes to Jingchu, people continue to flow back to the East. If it is not stopped, Jiankang will soon become a city inhabited by more than two million people."

The land of Jing and Chu is a broad name, which is about hu1 north and Hunan of the later Chinese dynasty.

On the other side is the large-scale development planned in the eighth year of Yuanshuo. At the beginning, it was only invested in the field reclamation Corps. The efficiency was too low, so there was the action of forced migration of people.

Divided by the old administrative regions, the original Jingzhou is actually good, but the so-called good is only limited to the north and east of Changsha County. To the South and West, it is still a completely wild land.

The development of Jingchu land is based on the construction of predecessors, that is, a perfect irrigation system is established around the Dongting Lake area, and then the wasteland is reclaimed into good farmland.

It took the Corps three years to complete the construction of the irrigation system around Dongting Lake. By the 11th year of Yuanshuo, 300000 hectares of good farmland had been reclaimed for the country. Of course, those good farmland were owned by the state, but also benefited the local people.

To turn Jingchu into an excellent grain producing area, the most difficult thing is to develop other areas, such as Lingling, Quanling, Yingyang, Wugang and so on.

Not all of the above areas are suitable for grain production. For example, Lingling and Yingyang are mountainous terrain, so they are not suitable for grain production.

Involving Lingling and Yingyang, the premise of building other areas is to divert water from Hunan and Yingyang water to form an irrigation regional network interconnected with Zishui and huanshui water.

Dongting Lake grain producing area is only one of the construction plans, which will be completed in ten years according to the plan.

The overall construction plan of Jingchu grain producing area also includes Poyang Lake grain producing area and Yangtze River Delta (Hanjiang plain). Only in this way can it meet the desired scale of the center, but the center does not naively think that all the construction can be completed within ten years. It is based on enough patience and plans to do it in batches for at least 35 years.

No matter what year it is, if you want to do something, you can't lack people. There is such a construction force as the tuntian Corps in the center, but you really can't lack the participation of the people.

"I don't understand." Liu Yan was really confused: "migration is based on land replacement. Didn't you give more land when replacing?"

Xie AI knew that although Liu Yan paused, he had not finished yet, and quietly waited for follow-up.

"Give land and policy." Liu Yan continued to say in great confusion: "the local environment is really bad enough to survive? Are they willing to give up the land and return to their hometown, or did the local government return the land after they returned?"

"If there is no central policy, the local officials dare not do that no matter how bold they are." Cai you calmly gave the answer: "if there is no land under his name, he may become a tenant of the government, or he may enter workshops and other places to live. There is always a way to continue to live."

Xie AI has to look at Cai you gratefully. He just wanted to say that. He was very sure that it would embarrass Liu Yan. After a little hesitation, Cai gave priority to say it first.

The current national policies of the Han Empire were in some confusion. They wanted to restore agricultural production, but they issued policies to encourage the development of industry. The contradiction between the two sides lies in one. People do not necessarily need to guard the land to survive. They can also rely on working to earn wages and obtain living funds.

Jiankang has been repeatedly displaced, but it can often attract people to settle down because it is a gathering place of handicraft industry and can provide sufficient jobs.

Where there is a need, merchants will see business opportunities to transport goods. Jiankang is a city that relies on merchants to supply food. Most people buy their rations from various stores rather than grow them themselves.

"I really ignored this..." Liu Yan is not admitting his mistake. Even if the world is wrong, it won't be his fault. Without any embarrassment, he asked, "is Mingda's proposal to restrict population mobility to prevent more people from returning to their hometown, or is it worried that more people will abandon agriculture for work?"

"Your Majesty, I have no idea of hindering the people from becoming workers." Even if Xie AI really had such an idea, he dared not admit it: "I think there are workshops everywhere. There is no conflict between farming or being workers. What worries me is the layout of the Han population distribution."

Liu Yan recalled that he really forgot that he began to restrict population mobility from the dynasty, but he knew that the starting point of restricting population mobility was really inseparable from farming.

The first dynasty in history to restrict population mobility was the state of Qin in the Warring States period. After Qin ruled the world, this policy continued.

The state of Qin has made strict restrictions on population mobility. It is precisely because of this policy that the state of Qin has an efficient mobilization system. Otherwise, if the population mobility is too large, let alone troop mobilization, it is a difficult problem to ensure food supply.

Liu Yan didn't think it was the pot of the Qin Empire. According to some vague fragments in his memory, he put the pot on Meng Yuan's head, subconsciously disgusted.

Of course, Liu Yan was not that Liu Yan for a long time. Unless necessary, he would not deny it wantonly because of his inner disgust.

The way of thinking will change because of the different seats. Liu Yan has long known that there are contradictions in national policies and has not come up with a way to get the best of both worlds, but he chose to ignore it.

Xie AI said that it is far fetched that there is no conflict between the two, but it can not be explained.

Farming is most important in spring and autumn all year round.

After farming in spring, only a few people will continue to take care of the farmland every day. Most of them occasionally remove weeds and whole ridges. After planting in spring and before autumn, they are in the idle stage of doing nothing.

After harvest in autumn, farmers need to prepare for spring ploughing in winter, such as raising seedlings or repairing farmland, but it really doesn't take three months or more, and it will be done in two months at most.

In the slack period of agriculture, women need to be busy much more than men because of their family roles. Men usually stay at home doing nothing, or men will go out to drive dogs and chickens. There are some men who spend their energy on eating, drinking, whoring and gambling.

So when you don't need to be busy farming, you really can work in the workshop. Xie AI's statement is not nonsense. The problem is that people who want to work need to be able to find a job.

"The national road from Jiankang to Chang'an has been deserted for most of the four years, and now villages and towns can be seen everywhere." Cai you dares to tell the truth more than Xie AI: "although it's expected, it's due to the hidden worries of the state."

The Han Empire absolutely did not want to see the phenomenon of excessive population density, especially now there are so many people. If there is excessive population density, it would be easier to see uninhabited areas.

Liu Yan understood slightly. Cai you also believed that policies to restrict population mobility should be introduced.

There is a saying in later generations that restricting the flow of population will eliminate the bud of industrial development.

There is such a saying because it is difficult to scale industry without enough workers. Unless there is enough population in a certain place and the primitive handicraft industry is gathered for one reason or another, the rudiment of the initial industry will not appear.

In the early period, the first handicraft industry gathering place in Zhuxia was Linzi. The reason why the state of Qi in the spring and Autumn period was able to ascend to the dominant position was the industrial economic profits generated by the handicraft industry gathering in Linzi.

At present, the prototype of the industrial base of the Han Empire is in Jiankang, which is not the sign of Liu Yan's planning. It is the foundation created during the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

Liu Yan knows that industry is the future of the nation. At the same time, he also understands that there is no future without enough food. It is precisely in this way that he realizes that there are contradictions in national policies and does not fully tend to ensure farming or vigorously support industry.

"The national highway gathers people..." Liu Yan didn't know what the ministers thought. He said: "in your opinion, there are only disadvantages, not benefits

Cai you was asked.

"Officials are worried that population migration will become useless." Xie AI chose to block the gun and said cautiously: "people can go to both sides of the national highway freely. It's natural that they can get land. There is no other way to settle down."

Liu Yan had known for a long time that the national highway would gather people, and he was happy to see such a development. He knew very well that unless the national roads of later generations were really desolate areas, there would be many prosperous towns along the way.

Once the national highway is completed, it itself forms a transportation corridor.

The transportation corridor will attract people to provide various services along the way because of needs, and will gradually develop into an economic corridor.

Now that's the case. The locals along the national highway take the lead in benefiting. If they can buy and sell land freely, I don't know how many people will become rich in an instant.

Even if they can't buy and sell land freely and independently, they can build buildings, or do business by themselves, or rent buildings. They don't become rich in an instant, and they go to the road of prosperity much earlier than people in other places.

"I see." Liu Yan needs to think about it and wave, "you're busy."

Cai you and Xie AI looked at each other, saluted silently, and turned away after a period of space.

In the snowy season, no one will walk around in the snowy weather as long as it is not on a whim.

Because Miyagi is the residence of those who control the world, God doesn't snow in this place. Cai you and Xie AI walking in the corridor outside the room don't walk fast, but they are silent for a long time.

At a corner, they stopped with tacit understanding.

"Your Majesty is in a dilemma." Cai you contacted Liu Yan much earlier and longer than Xie AI. He persuaded: "this topic can't be mentioned again in a short time."

"Agriculture is the foundation of the people and the foundation of the country." Xie AI did not give a positive response: "the big man can squeeze the indigenous people of Indo China Peninsula and a'san continent and continuously obtain food from overseas. However, since the local people have the construction plan of grain producing areas, they have also taken action. Shouldn't they be more determined?"

Cai you "ha ha" smiled a few times. He didn't get angry because his kindness was not accepted: "Mingda, you've seen guns and artillery. You think it came out of thin air?"

"..." Xie AI didn't understand what Cai you meant for a moment: "please teach me."

"Mingda doesn't have a long time to serve your majesty..." Cai Youzhen didn't rely on the old and sell the old. After a long ending, he continued: "I don't know if Mingda has heard your majesty say the word 'industry'?"

Only when Xie AI became a waiter did he have the opportunity to often contact Liu Yan. In the past year, he shook his head blankly: "not yet."

"That's no wonder." Cai you has no malice. At this moment, he has a full sense of superiority. He smiled demurely and said, "Mingda will probably understand your Majesty's thoughts by thinking about what industry is."

Xie AI saluted and watched Cai you leave. His mind was full of the word "industry", and he was determined to find out what it was.