The revival of the Han Dynasty must start with Dong Zhuo

Chapter 475 Volume Fengshan at Mount Tai?

However, now that the ship has not arrived, it is of no use for Liu Xie to be anxious.

"Qingzhou is barren, the most important thing is to plant the food first and maintain the spring farming."

While waiting, Liu Xie had to let Sima Yi be in charge of Qingzhou's government affairs and preside over Qingzhou's spring plowing this year.

Yuan Tan took all the people of Qingzhou away. Now the amount of land in Qingzhou is far greater than its population.

These lands must be utilized as soon as possible to ensure Qingzhou's grain harvest this year. This will ensure that even if all the people of Qingzhou are driven back, there will still be food to provide.

"The grain in Hebei's treasury will probably be used for this expedition to Liaodong. Xuzhou and Huainan can only be self-sufficient in grain this year, and the cost of transferring grain from Jingzhou is too high."

Liu Xie persuaded Sima Yi: "We must restore spring farming to Qingzhou as much as possible."

"Here."

However, it is also true that Qingzhou now has a serious population shortage.

Sima Yi also asked Liu Xie: "Your Majesty, can the number of fields in Qingzhou be increased?"

"For example... one person can get 100 acres, or even 200 acres of farmland? In this way, maybe we can cultivate as much of Qingzhou's land as possible?"

Upon hearing Sima Yi's opinion, Liu Xie's first reaction was -

“Can the farmers take care of it?”

The more land you divide, the better.

Due to the limitations of farming technology, it is actually most suitable for an adult man to cultivate 70 acres of open field.

No matter how much more there is, it will actually be of no benefit to farming.

"should be no problem."

Sima Yi made some estimation in his mind.

"Since we started trading with the grasslands, the number of oxen in Hebei has actually been growing steadily. We can definitely transfer more of them to Qingzhou."

"In addition, the curved plow also produces fertilizer, which saves both labor and time. Now a farmer can cultivate more than 30% more fields than before!"

Today's productivity has made great progress compared to 20 years ago without us noticing.

Not only has grain production increased, but the amount of land a citizen can cultivate has also increased significantly.

It is precisely because of the improvement in productivity that the people have the time and energy to take the imperial examinations and to work in the iron smelting workshops in Hebei and the brick-making workshops in Chang'an.

However, these changes are so subtle that they are extremely difficult to detect.

After Sima Yi gave some detailed data today, Liu Xie realized that today's productivity can no longer be calculated in the past way.

"These are all calculated by Kong Ming when he was sorting out the documents of the Ministry of Works."

Sima Yi did not deliberately conceal his achievements.

"Kong Ming has always been more concerned about matters involving arithmetic. He also came to the conclusion that the number of oxen has increased and the people are now more free than before."

"Ah."

Liu Xie nodded.

"Finally I can hear something good."

"But Zhongda, even if each person gets more land, I'm afraid it won't be able to solve the Qingzhou issue, right?"

Today, there are only about 150,000 households left in Qingzhou.

It is three times less than its peak period.

If it is not handled properly, Qingzhou will probably decline rapidly.

"Your Majesty, there is another plan."

"Zhongda, tell me what you have said." "In the past, when the government was counting the numbers, it actually did not include the slaves who had been reduced to slavery."

"Now that Qingzhou is underpopulated, if Your Majesty can pardon some of the slaves and give them land, the land in Qingzhou will not be so barren."

Servant?

Liu Xie knew this problem a long time ago.

Although he really wanted to shout something like "Han people don't have slaves"...

But slaves, like land loans, are products that are hated but have to exist.

Selling children to wealthy families not only saves the children, but also the parents, and even the parents' parents.

The Jian'an Code actually also contains laws and regulations that limit the number of slaves, but it is only a restriction, not a complete ban.

Now that Sima Yi mentioned this, Liu Xie seemed to be thinking about something.

"It is indeed a good deed to free those slaves from slavery."

"Let Zhongda handle this matter. Besides, in Qingzhou, people can make a living not only by farming. There are other jobs to make a living in the future. If we can turn all those slaves into ordinary people, it will also be beneficial in the future."

Sima Yi still agreed with the previous statement.

However, when he heard the following words, he immediately realized that the emperor might want to do something unconventional again.

"What is the Emperor going to do?"

Liu Xie had nothing to hide.

"Now the river is navigable, and it is possible to reach the sea outlet in Qingzhou from Luoyang."

"Zhongda is smart and has been to Jingzhou before. He should know that China is so vast that it stretches from east to west and from north to south for more than ten thousand miles."

"Even the Chu State in the far south occupied the area north of the Yangtze River before... But now, the territory of the Han Dynasty has extended to Jiaozhou in the south, and communication is really difficult."

"Before the establishment of the Annan Protectorate, the Shu region had a surplus in its treasury. But because of the Qinling Mountains that separated it from Guanzhong, the roads were difficult, so even though there was a surplus of goods, they could only be piled up in the treasury, allowing them to slowly rot."

"If we can use the great rivers, the Yangtze River, the Central Plains water system, and the sea transportation of Qingzhou to dredge the market and promote the circulation of money and goods, it will surely improve people's livelihood and enable the people to live and work in peace and contentment."

The Han Dynasty's economy is too rigid.

Restricted by the system and the almost "indestructible" peasant economy, many of the values ​​created by the people were slowly eroded and turned into nothing in this rigidity, resulting in terrible waste.

A large river that is still navigable.

The Central Plains is densely covered with water networks.

To the south is the God-given Yangtze River.

There is also the vast ocean to the east of Qingzhou.

These should be the big man's blood vessels, transporting blood to various parts and supporting this strong giant.

But the big man's heart was never activated, and it beat weakly every time.

Now that he has actual control over all of these and they constitute a complete set of internal organs, Liu Xie also has the need and obligation to make the big man's heart start beating and let the blood flow in the big man's body, endlessly!
Sima Yi looked at the emperor strangely.

At this moment, he finally understood why the emperor was chasing Yuan Tan who had fled to Liaodong.

The emperor's journey seemed to have turned into a sea of ​​stars very early on.

Now that Yuan Tan has forced a large number of Qingzhou people to Liaodong, it has created an uncontrollable risk factor for the Han Dynasty's eastern sea transportation.

Even if it is for the future shipping of Qingzhou, we must not allow Yuan Tan to act as a thorn in Liaodong in the north!
"Your Majesty, I understand."

Just as the emperor was discussing government affairs with Sima Yi, a waiter suddenly came to report outside the door -

"Your Majesty, Hua Xin and others are outside seeking to see you. They want to ask Your Majesty to perform the Fengshan ceremony at Mount Tai!"

(End of this chapter)