Chapter 505: The Unavoidable Hurdle
After nearly a thousand years of juxtaposing countries, it was the Qin people who rose up to fight and unified the world, so far there is no good example to illustrate what will happen if the forces of the previous dynasty are left, but the rise of a new empire must eliminate the influence of the old forces, even if it is not a large-scale hunt for the remnants of the previous dynasty and the like, it is impossible to let the rule appear to be repeated.
It is already troublesome enough for the king's harem to have concubines such as the princess of the previous dynasty, and the preservation of the princess of the former dynasty must be to leave a trace of fantasy for the remnants of the previous dynasty. Then the princess of the previous dynasty became the queen of the nascent empire, and the child born to the princess of the previous dynasty became the crown prince, and there must be a lot of people with ulterior motives around the two. Waiting for the founding emperor to die, the queen has become the queen mother, and the crown prince has become the emperor, and the remnants of the previous dynasty have been bewitched to re-establish the old country, so that the possibility of the former dynasty being re-established again is definitely not impossible.
The countries expressed their willingness to marry Lu Zhe in detail, and they may not have thought about laying the groundwork or anything at all, simply wanting to take the marriage to increase the intimacy of both parties, and they also have a reliable person to ask for help when they encounter difficulties.
Lu Zhe's life goal has been changing, just after passing through that will be thinking about how to survive in the crisis-ridden late Qin, after occupying Nanjun, he will think about expanding more territory, waiting for Nanjun, Cangwu County, and Hengshan County to start thinking about how to occupy the entire southern territory first, and then take Lujiang County and Jiujiang County, and immediately give birth to the idea of destroying Chu and becoming the sole hegemon of the south.
Human desires are definitely related to the increase in strength and constant change. To take a simple analogy, there is a person who only wants to have enough to eat when he is poor, but one day when he has the ability to eat enough, he wants to have a good house, and when he has enough food and a house, he must want to save money, and if he has a certain amount of money, he will want more money.
Lu Zhe's idea is not much different from the desire to "eat enough to save money", but he just changes saving money to occupy more territory. He now has eight counties, and the progress of the attack on Lingnan has been showing a smooth trend, and he can take care of three more counties after Lingnan is taken. Thus is the territory of eleven counties.
The total area of the eleven counties is about the size of one and a half Central Plains, and it is really vast in terms of the territory occupied, the difference is that only Nanjun, Hengshan County, Lujiang County, Changsha County, and Jiujiang County have been developed, among which Lujiang County and Changsha County have experienced war and are in a semi-crippled state. Cangwu County is in the development stage. The newly occupied land is elegantly called undeveloped virgin land, and directly it should be called a wild land.
LΓΌ Zhe's current population base has exceeded 5 million, and these 5 million registered Qiandu belong to adults, and according to the current custom, those who have not reached the age of 12 are not registered. If children are included, the total population under Lu Zhe's rule should be about 8 million.
Based on the calculation of 5 million adults who can become a labor force, it is almost impossible to develop and improve the area of one and a half Central Plains with 5 million people. The population of the county today is about 2.6 million. Nanjun itself has been developed, and when it came to Lu Zhe's governance, a relatively large amount of manpower and material resources were invested, and a lot of new tools were born, but after two years of construction, Nanjun even the infrastructure was only completed about three-tenths of the progress, and it was not a dream to really achieve water conservancy coverage and smooth roads.
Of course, the so-called "three-tenths" is according to Lu Zhe's standards, and if it is according to the eyes of today's people, Nanjun has already been governed.
How do you understand the "local indigenous" governance? Their so-called great governance is the stability of people's livelihood. There was no starvation of people, and the head of the Qians was satisfied with and supported the rule of the government.
The so-called great rule of the past dynasties really guaranteed that no one would starve to death, that the common people could live a stable life, and that they were satisfied with and supported by the government. Then there is no better word to describe it. Wrong...... Confucianism refers to this situation as the rule of the Three Emperors and the Five Emperors.
What is Lu Zhe's standard? It is probably that the water conservancy facilities for cultivated fields are fully covered, and there should be at least one national standard highway between counties, and there should also be second-class roads between counties and townships, townships and villages, and li and pavilions, and at the same time, the taxes (including grain) paid by each county should also reach a certain level (that is, the commercial level).
It's obvious. Lu Zhe used a "modern eye" to take a bird's-eye view of his territory, and if he really reached the level he expected, he himself would have to live for at least 150 years. Even like Kang Mazi, who praised "I am the Qing Dynasty", he "borrowed from the sky for another 500 years", during which the country did not encounter turmoil, and at the same time the development was not interrupted, so it was possible to form such a construction.
There is no spectrum of how long Lu Zhe can live, not to mention whether he can unify China in his lifetime, even if he forms a substantial and stable occupation of the land in the south, it can be regarded as one of the "great men of the ages".
No matter what time it is, if you want to develop or create something, you can't do without people, and the topic of the next day will also revolve around how to increase the population.
If you want to increase the population, in addition to expanding the territory and turning the population that is not under your rule into your own, you can only start by encouraging more births.
Encouraging fertility with administrative incentives is easy to say, but there are so many things that need to be considered in detail. In the era of sunrise and daily income, in fact, at night, the two husbands and wives had nothing to do except the "man-making movement", and it stands to reason that the increase in population does not need to use administrative means at all.
However, there is no resistance to the idea of having more children, nor is it that the government restricts who can only have one child, but because of low productivity and lack of enough food, or poor health care, which makes babies die prematurely.
There are many prerequisites for Lu Zhe to encourage more births, the first is to ensure that the people under his rule have food at home, and the second is to start with health care, without these two primary prerequisites, don't think about anything.
The guarantee of grain is also related to the number of acres of land, that is, whether a family has enough land to cultivate. Or whether it can provide enough jobs so that each family has enough financial resources to sustain the family and even have a surplus.
In order to increase food production, it is very dependent on the irrigation construction of water conservancy systems, and if you want to make every household have jobs, it also depends on whether the business is developed.
Only when commerce is developed will there be a forest of workshops (factories), and with enough workshops can there be jobs, so that the workers can get funds from the workshops, and with the funds can they buy food.
In fact, everything is linked to each other, and there are basically no independent events.
The hasty issuance of administrative directives and the use of immature or even flawed policies to encourage more births will create a kind of stifling of baby booms in any era...... Or premeditated murder.
"So...... Equalize the field first, and ensure that all the cultivated fields of Qianshou are cultivated? Xiao He asked in an uncertain tone.
Junta? That is, the gratuitous delivery of benefits by state actions. But what about those who originally had acres, and the number of acres was not consistent, and those who didn't have fields gave away for nothing, what should they do? It must be to create a kind of psychological imbalance in society. Is it possible to take back everyone's land and then redistribute it to how many acres of land per head?
"Wait!" Lu Zhe's reaction was relatively large: "We can't do the kind of thing that divides the land into private ownership and then collects it into state ownership after a period of time, it's too ......."
Kuaitong's love xΓΉ was also more excited: "Free gift? How can this be done? We can't even donate porridge for free, so how can we give land for free! β
But it's not, there will be a harvest if you pay, the concept that there is no free lunch in the world must be persistently maintained, once who will give this evil gap for free opens and appears again and again, the people of the world should form a lazy ruffian, but also a wrong mentality that encourages luck psychology.
Xiao He was stunned on the spot, he had considered it in detail, this is not to increase the population, Juntian is one of the most operational and feasible methods.
"We can't do that kind of welfare ...... for nothing" Lu Zhe was also stunned halfway through, he didn't seem to be doing this kind of thing? Every time a foreign war is won, isn't it also a national giveaway? He covered his forehead: "In short, if you don't do the things of Juntian, you will be nationalized again!" β
Not only was Xiao He a little stunned at this time, but Kuai Tong and the others were also puzzled, they didn't say that Juntian would be nationalized again?
"Now that business is in a period of growth, many of the Qianshou who have just migrated over have no land, don't they live well by relying on working for others? If there is good craftsmanship, the life of many Qianshou is even better than farming. "The voice of the delivery ladle is not loud, but it sounds very clear.
"That's right!" Lu Zhe nodded in agreement, and the crown with a beaded curtain on his head swayed for a while: "However, this is a matter of radiating to Nanjun with Nanling as the center, and the situation of the other counties is different from this individual phenomenon." β
He seemed to be very happy to get the approval of his own monarch, and hurriedly said, "With your support, Nanjun has developed rapidly. This means that the counties can also follow the model of the southern counties.
The most special point is to keep the road open with the center, and can accept orders from the center, so the business must be stimulated under the maintenance of the center's orders. The rest of the counties are too far away from the center, even if there are roads, and manufacturing things is never more than just calculating the cost of materials and labor, and transportation accounts for a large part in many cases, and even if there are orders from the center, it is difficult to compete with the local industries in South County in terms of work.
ββ¦β¦ So what to do? "I understood the matter of the work as soon as I heard it, but because I understood, I was entangled. (To be continued......)