Many things in this world are like a game, whether it is administration, business, or war, there is a rule put there, what is called winning, what is called losing, what is called a draw, this is all a rule, the person who violates this rule is either dead or breaks the old rule to make a new rule, and then it is still a rule, and the history of mankind is in the establishment of rules and breaking the rules regardless of moving forward, constantly dying and making progress.

Suning knows that the rules he has set today will definitely not keep up with the development of the times, but before there is no good enough person to improve this rule or completely break it, he needs to set a game rule that can definitely support the development of the Tang Empire in the current state, straighten out Jiangnan, facilitate the officials of the Tang Dynasty to go south to build Jiangnan, and make Jiangnan the most solid backing for the Tang Dynasty to go to war in all directions around the world.

With the soil and climate of the south of the Yangtze River, after the development, under the productivity of this period, it can support the Tang government to raise at least 500,000 troops in the current state. The grain produced by such soil, whether it is rice or potatoes or something else, is definitely enough to feed the millions of soldiers and horses of the Tang Dynasty.

The first step is to straighten out Jiangnan, recover the population, recover the land, dispatch officials, make arrangements for spring planting and autumn harvest, support agricultural development, persuade agriculture to teach mulberry, and at the same time develop animal husbandry, popularize education, and popularize some of the policies that have been greatly successful in the land of Guanzhong in Jiangnan along with this development, and the reserve of about 500 officials in the imperial examination in the past two or three years can come in handy at this time.

The first economic meeting in Lujiang was held soon after. After Suning announced the policy of the imperial court and the successful experience of this policy of the imperial court in Lingnan, these things are naturally not very difficult things, the problems experienced by the big landlords and tyrants in Lingnan, the land of Jiangdong will only be more strict, and they are even more eager to get those seeds and grains, as for the rest of the situation, what tenants and the sale of land or something, they all belong to the category of price that must be paid.

Since there is already a precedent for this matter in Lingnan, then they also understand that this matter must be beneficial to them, and Suning uses the credibility of the imperial court as a guarantee. Assured them that the matter must be done by the imperial court. Therefore, these things are not difficult to do, and the five leading families in Jiangnan - Xiao, Gu, Lu, Yuan, and Zhang - may be in order to express their friendly attitude and lay a good foundation for more important small-scale meetings in the future, they gave Suning a gift.

Five families. Take Shaw as the most. Sold 50,000 acres of land and 1,000 tenants to the imperial court. Subsequently, Gu Lu and Yuan Zhang sold the number of land ranging from 40,000 mu to 30,000 mu respectively, as well as the number of tenants and subordinates of 800 households, 700 households and 600 households respectively, which was regarded as a great gift to Suning. With the five major scholars taking the lead, the rest of the small and medium-sized scholars also spit out a lot of land and tenants, satisfying Suning at the same time, Suning also satisfied them.

After a day's meetings and dinners, Suning counted the amount of land in his hand, not counting those barren mountains and mountains that no one wanted just for good looks, that is, those plain lands in the north of the Yangtze River that have been partially developed, the imperial court accepted more than 2.6 million mu of land, and then to the south, those wastelands that even these scholars and landlords themselves could not develop, there are about 3.5 million mu, that is to say, this time, in the entire Jiangnan, Suning Heping purchased 6.1 million mu of land, More than three times the total amount of land acquired in the land of Lingnan.

As for the number of tenants and population, these families spit out more than 50,000 people and nearly 60,000 people, among which there are many young and middle-aged laborers Suning does not know, but Suning knows that this purchase agreement is just the beginning, Suning believes that the amount of land and population they hold far exceeds what they show on the surface, and the example of Lingnan is a good example of this.

During the period from the end of the land conference in Lingnan to the promulgation of the banknotes, and in the prosperous period after the promulgation of the banknotes, these large, medium and small families changed their methods to make a part of the land and population of a considerable amount to be donated to the imperial court, saying that it was a gift, in fact, they also knew that Suning would definitely pay, after all, the amount was so big, wasn't it? That land is another million acres, most of which is wasteland that no one has cultivated, but it will definitely be fertile land when it is developed.

There is no doubt about this, so the total amount of soil harvested in Lingnan is 2.1 million mu, the number of households is 9,673, and the total population is 30,156, which is one-half of the first round of contribution in the Jiangnan region, and Suning believes that the amount of land owned by these big landlords in Jiangnan and the gifts in return are definitely not only 6 million mu, that is, the number of 60,000 hectares.

The history books describe that some of the rich's families have been rewarded at one time or purchased at one time The land is 10,000 hectares, 20,000 hectares, 50,000 hectares and the like, that is really a large piece of land, looking down from space, you can identify a piece of land, that is, a person's family property, Li Er Majesty Xià stipulated in Guanzhong The amount of land rewarded to the heroes is only for Guanzhong, compared with the vast and sparsely populated Jiangnan region, it is simply not enough to see, Suning himself wants to buy a piece of land in Jiangnan.

Of course, the 10,000 acres of sugarcane manor in Lingnan is also Suning's family property......

The Xiao family, the Lanling Xiao family, can be regarded as a top wealthy family in the Tang Dynasty, nine generations and ten prime ministers, how brilliant it is, is it rare to occupy one or two hundred thousand hectares of land and twenty or thirty thousand hectares of land? Now that the Wang clan has declined, he still spit out 10,000 acres of land, not to mention those Dashi clans who have not lost much at all, the five leaders? Jiangnan's Xiao Gu, Lu Yuan, Zhang Wu's clan, that is, Jiangnan's five wealthy Shandong giants, Cui Lu, Li Zheng Wang.

Now that only the Li family is still alive in the five top wealthy families in Shandong, it is because Li Er Majesty shamelessly classified his family as the Li family in Longxi in order to fight against the Shandong Shi clan, and now there is no need at all. A set of combination punches was even eliminated, and the Li family of Longxi and the Li family of Zhaojun were forced to spit out 60% of the children of the side branch to Datang, and sent them to the normal school to receive Kong Yingda's re-education, and now they are unwilling to return to Longxi and Zhaojun.

According to incomplete official statistics, the Li family of Longxi and the Li family of Zhaojun are estimated to have more than 80,000 hectares of land together, that is, after taking the initiative to give a part of the court to beg for mercy, there are still so many, looking at the big one. And how much land does this Jiangdong clan occupy? Not to mention the plain area of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the plain area of South China. That's basically all they occupy.

The land occupied by a family can basically be compared to the total territory of dozens of small countries during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, how strong should their strength be, how terrifying it should be, Suning felt. After these things are settled. At least another six million acres have been recorded. It can also "liberate" a large number of people, even if they themselves may not be willing to be "liberated", but that's it. After planting high-yield crops, a hundred acres of land should be able to feed them.

The next thing is to build water conservancy in the south of the Yangtze River, use the abundant water conservancy resources in the south of the Yangtze River, and integrate it well, although there is no south-to-north water diversion in this era, Suning does not plan to do any south-to-north water diversion, use water if there is water, develop more agriculture, use less water if there is no water, and develop more commercial industry.

After the start of shipping, the storage of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal has almost become a chicken rib, the sea is a natural waterway, starting from Jinling Port to go north to Beiping Port down, and then transported to the mainland, and the use of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal is basically not much different, and the Grand Canal needs to be dredged all the time and needs to be cared for, and it is a bottomless pit that swallows money, and it is abandoned for a period of time, and the river is almost impossible to exercise ships.

Suning's construction of Jiangnan is to conform to the laws of nature, less to change the landform, thinking that people will win the day, but since the formation of the surrounding landform, how many thousands of years, the surrounding ecosystem is basically determined, you change a little bit will trigger the butterfly effect, and then bring all kinds of disasters, the ecosystem is destroyed, paralyzed, destroyed, can human beings rebuild the ecosystem?

Developing the economy and national strength at the cost of natural ecology is more than worth the loss, and what you get will have to be returned sooner or later, and you will have to post a lot, which may not be able to recover; Don't go through the detours, don't make the mistakes you have experienced, don't make them again, this is a truth that everyone understands, however, human beings always repeat mistakes again and again, and they can't get out.

However, maybe you can give it a try now.

Three days after the first meeting, after everything was generally determined and the local tyrants in the entire Jiangnan were relieved, Suning secretly invited a total of five people from the five leading sheep clans to eat in their current residence, eating all the Su family food, and the contemporary patriarch of the five leading sheep happily went.

That's the way it is, the fate of the majority of people is often decided by the meeting of a few people, and they don't care about what the majority of people think at all, Suning believes that these big families must have discussed some things related to their own interests with the small and medium-sized families below, but in the current situation, these five leaders must care about themselves, don't you see that the Wang family, which still exists now but has a great decline in power, is not even qualified to attend?

Because of Wang Dun's rebellion and the massacre of Hou Jing's rebellion, the Wang family has declined, and there is no storm at all This time I heard that I wanted to have a meeting with Suning Su Houye, and then said something important about the Wang family, but was pressed down by the five leaders, and did not let him come, the leader was the Yuan family, this Yuan's origin is not small, when the Sui army went south to destroy Chen, there was only one official left by Chen's side, that is, the Yuan family, known as the loyal and good family.

Wang's due to a few rebellions and a few renegades, Yuan's family with the origin of "loyalty" as the family style of family learning is the Wang family, this time the Wang family is mainly suppressed by the Yuan family, failed to meet with Suning, naturally there is no Wang's revival, Suning's impression of the Wang family is only limited to Wang Xi one person, what Wang Dun Wang Dao is not in his consideration, for Wang Xizhi only likes his calligraphy and painting.

You have been prominent for too long, too long, in the early years of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, it was all up to the Wang family to be in charge of government affairs, and the Xie family was in charge of military affairs to stabilize the situation in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. You have been prominent for too long, and what used to belong to you is now divided by the rest of the family, doesn't your Wang family's request mean that you want Suning to reach out like the five major families? Whether to ignore it or risk offending the five major families to ruin the good situation, it is clear to everyone.

I'm here to compromise and negotiate, not to fight, everyone is going to compromise with each other, and if you are there alone and ask for a struggle, who cares about you? Wash and sleep! (To be continued......)