I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 381, Specialties of Jizhou
In order to let Xu Wei know more about the drought in Jizhou, Zhang Baiqi took Xu Wei all the way to the most arid area in Jizhou!
Then he smiled wryly and said: "The government cannot look at the situation in Jizhou based on the water conservancy facilities in Mayi. No matter how severe the drought in Mayi is, there will be no shortage of water in the fields thanks to the elevated aqueduct, but most of the land in Jizhou has no water conservancy facilities at all." , when there is a drought, the grain will be reduced by 6-7%, and now there is still a grain harvest of one stone, which is already obtained by the local people doing their best to carry water for irrigation."

Sure enough, far away from the water source, there are neither canals nor windmills to extract groundwater. The people can only use wooden barrels to carry water from streams and rivers a few miles away. Although Zhang Baiqi has tried to subsidize them, these fields The growth of wheat in China is still very poor, and an acre of land is like a stone!

During the harvest, the tribesmen were also full of depression. Obviously, this year's drought is also an unbearable harm to the people of Jizhou.

Xu Wei shook his head when he looked at the field. Didn't he see that it was planted in the middle of the field? He thought it was a weed growing!At this time, most of the fields in Jizhou are harvested like this, and taxes must continue to be collected, which will really drive the people of Jizhou to their deaths!

Xu Wei could only say: "Jizhou will not collect land taxes this year! Let the people of Jizhou breathe! 30 mu of land per household is still too little, so that farmers have no ability to fight drought. We still have to find a way to increase each household. field!"

Xu Wei originally calculated according to the grain output of Mayi. Now the average land in Mayi can have 5 shi of grain per mu, and 30 mu of land is 150 shi of grain. Even if 105% tax is paid, a household can still have [-] shi of grain. , plus three kinds in two years, you can also get a season of soybeans every two years, plus the common people work to earn a little money, this income can already be regarded as the income of the big Han and small landlord class.

But this drought broke Xu Wei's calculations, and he realized that he was calculating according to the most ideal state, but now the big man is in the Little Ice Age, and nine disasters in ten years are not an exaggeration, just like this time In a drought, a family can only receive 30 shi of grain, which is not enough for them to eat!
Why did Zhang Baiqi get funds from Xu Wei to build water canals? It is because the people in Jizhou can only work to support their families, and do not do basic engineering. How can they feed these millions of people!

Zhang Baiqi said: "This is indeed a big problem. At first we thought that Jizhou's land was much stronger than Bingzhou's, and Jizhou's grain income would be higher than Bingzhou's, but we never thought that Jizhou's water conservancy facilities would be so poor, and secondly, we didn't expect The natural disasters in the Han Dynasty will reduce the production of farmland! According to the calculations of the subordinates, a household must have at least 100 mu of land to live a stable life and not be afraid of general drought, at least before the construction of supporting water conservancy facilities!"

Xu Wei smiled wryly and said, "If it's true that 100 mu of land can be allocated in Jizhou, I'm afraid no one will go to the frontier land for any reason! Let's see if we can increase 20 mu of land first!"

Xu Wei doesn't want to immigrate to Jizhou, which is densely populated, and wants more people in Dagan to go to sparsely populated places like Liaodong, so that the entire population of Dagan can be balanced!
The drought this time can be said to be very untimely. Although Youzhou has not been greatly affected, Bingzhou has had a significant impact. Although Bingzhou's water conservancy facilities are much stronger than Jizhou, the grain production has generally been reduced by 2-3%. It can be said that Xu Wei immigrated 200 million people from Bingzhou this year, and all the food saved by the people was swallowed up by this drought.The food crisis in Dagan is still not resolved!

Zhang Baiqi continued: "Jizhou's geographical environment is much better than Bingzhou's. It's just that the land was wasted in the hands of the powerful and powerful. They only occupy the most fertile land, but they are not willing to spend a little money and food to build water conservancy facilities. The fields in the river can only depend on the sky for food. If Jizhou is full of water canals like Mayi, even if there is a drought this year, the harvest in Jizhou will be enough to feed all our tribes!"

"My subordinates plan to take advantage of this drought to dig a canal across the entire Jizhou in Jizhou to connect the nine rivers in Jizhou! With this canal, it will not only connect the waterways of the entire Jizhou, but also make the transportation of goods in Jizhou easier. It is convenient, no matter transporting goods to Bingzhou or Youzhou, it can save twice the time.”

"Moreover, there is such a canal. When we attack the big Han, we will have a waterway to transport grain and grass. When we attack the Central Plains, we will save more than double the grain and grass, and more than 50 people! It can be said that this is also in advance. Prepare to attack the Central Plains!"

"Moreover, this canal also irrigates 3000 mu of land in Jizhou, and then based on this canal, as long as it is built continuously for 5 years, the whole Jizhou will become like Mayi with irrigated land everywhere. Han Congren can become the land of abundance for our Daqian!"

Hearing Zhang Baiqi's grand plan, Xu Wei was not too excited, and asked with a wry smile, "How much does it cost?"

Zhang Baiqi said with a smile: "With an investment of 30 billion yuan a year, the whole project only needs 150 billion yuan. By then, not only can the entire 1 million mu of land in Jizhou be turned into the best irrigated land, but also 5000 million mu of land can be developed. Acres of wasteland!"

"If you are in power, you can think about it. Even if their grain output is only three shi for 2 million mu of irrigated land, this is still 6 million shi of grain. By then, the grain in our Jizhou alone will be enough for each tribe to eat 30 shi. Tickets will completely become history! And if the tax is charged at 3%, this is nearly 2 million shi of grain, even if 100 yuan is a shi, it is 200 billion yuan, and the development of Jizhou can double their strength!"

Looking at Zhang Baiqi who is so passionate, Xu Wei can only smile wryly. The big officials are all raised by Xu Wei. The plans are extremely grand, and Zhang Baiqi dares to think about 2 million stones. !He wasn't afraid to go all out and eat his way up. An example would show how exaggerated Zhang Baiqi's plan was.

Zheng Guoqu, who made Guanzhong the Land of Abundance, was less than one-tenth of Zhang Baiqi's plan.

"Historical Records Hequ Shu" records: "The canal was formed, filled with silted water, irrigated more than [-] hectares of brine land, and harvested every mu for one bell, so Guanzhong was a fertile field, and there was no evil year. Qin became prosperous and strong, and died and the princes , because it was called 'Zheng Guoqu'."

It was this Zhengguo Canal that made the Great Qin Dynasty no longer lack food, and more than 400 hectares are equivalent to 6 million mu, and one bell is equivalent to a little more than 2000 shi. Of course, the unit conversion of the Qin Dynasty may be a bit different from that of the Eastern Han Dynasty, but it will not be too much It is too huge, that is to say, Daqin can harvest [-] million shi of grain every year by relying on Zhengguo Canal, and it is not afraid of drought and flood. It is because of this stable granary that Daqin has always maintained a million troops to fight for thousands of miles!
But now Zhang Baiqi wants to come up with a project equivalent to 50 Zhengguo canals. Even though Xu Wei has been working all the way, the iron, soil and cement, cattle and horses and other large animals have surpassed Daqin, and the productivity is Daqin's. Several times, but this is also an extremely huge plan, and it is almost a project that needs to mobilize the entire force to operate!

Xu Wei could only helplessly shake his head and said: "This plan is too big, beyond our tolerance!"

But Zhang Baiqi said: "It's not big at all to be in power. 30 billion yuan is only one-tenth of my fiscal revenue. The government can invest 30 billion yuan in Liaodong. Why can't I invest 30 billion yuan in Jizhou? Can Liaodong get 6 million shi of grain? But Jizhou can get it! Even according to the production ratio stated by the ruling government, we should focus on the development of Jizhou, the granary!"

Xu Weidao: "The development of Liaodong is not only for food, but also to preserve the land of the big Han in Liaodong. Liaodong now seems to be our land, but there are only hundreds of thousands of Han people in this land of thousands of miles, and the Hu people If we don’t increase the land of the Liaodong Han people, even the local Han people will be turned away, and then we will lose this piece of land that our ancestors spent thousands of years opening up!”

Does Xu Wei know that there is a Goguryeo country in the land behind, which can be regarded as a bully, and it has dragged a powerful dynasty to death!

Xu Weidao: "Furthermore, the development of Liaodong is not unprofitable. In just half a year, nearly 10 billion bonds have been repaid for Liaodong's timber support and fishery resources alone. It can be seen that Liaodong's development has made a lot of difference!"

Then Xu Wei patted Zhang Baiqi on the shoulder and said: "Of course, the construction of water conservancy facilities in Jizhou can't be let go. You should narrow down your plan, and make the required funds and planning period longer! The main funds still need You Jizhou government should find a way to solve it yourself!"

There is no way, the scale of Dagan's army is getting bigger and bigger, the territory is getting wider and wider, and there are more and more things to do. The expansion of Jixian County, the construction of Youzhou Industrial Zone, the infrastructure construction of roads and canals, the construction of Jizhou Industrial construction and so on need a lot of money to carry out, there are too many things to do, too much money to spend, but the income is difficult to increase as before, and now the fiscal revenue of more than 300 billion a year is a bit beyond the means. .

Moreover, Jizhou is not as poor as Zhang Baiqi said. Although Jizhou suffered heavy losses due to the drought this year, because of the reduction of the middlemen of the powerful clans, most of the interests of the powerful clans were taken by the people of Jizhou and the Dagan government. According to Xu Wei's estimate, Jizhou's fiscal revenue this year should exceed 30 billion yuan.

Of course, the financial support of Jizhou is not small. After all, in order to change the situation that the imperial power does not come down to the county, Xu Wei directly builds the officials into a first-level unit in the village. There are thousands of officials in Jizhou to maintain the operation of the government. These people alone will be divided There are hundreds of millions of fiscal revenue, and there is still a standing army of 5 infantry in Jizhou who wants Zhang Baiqi to support them. The annual expenditure of this army alone is more than 10 billion, so the fiscal revenue left in Zhang Baiqi's hands is not a lot !

But now Jizhou can be regarded as poor and white for Zhang Baiqi. His experience in Bingzhou these years has taught him that if he wants to make a fortune, he must develop industries, such as textile factories, steel factories, ocean fishing, salt factories, etc. These factories, but each of these factories need a lot of money to start, and the establishment of an industrial center in Jizhou will spend all of Jizhou's fiscal revenue, so Zhang Baiqi wants the government to help Jizhou's water conservancy Facilities pay!

Zhang Baiqi bowed his head helplessly when he heard that, who made Jizhou have no special products? It shouldn’t be said that Jizhou’s special products are grains, but first, they cannot be sold outside, and second, they must be supplied to the people in Dagan at a low price to maintain the price of Dagan. Stable, so Jizhou will suffer a lot.

Although he also built a fish processing and canning factory, a saltworks, and a soil fertilizer factory, but because they were not built earlier than Youzhou, and the coastline is relatively short, it is difficult to compare with Youzhou. It can be said that there is no special product in Jizhou now!
Zhang Baiqi thought of Xu Wei's ability to turn decay into magic and said: "In power, the price of grain in the Central Plains has exceeded 500 yuan, and it continues to rise. Our Jizhou has made a huge contribution to Dagan. These cheap food alone Food should be worth more than one billion yuan, since the ruling party said that the court can’t afford this money, I won’t say anything, but it shouldn’t be difficult for the ruling party to help us Jizhou to come up with a profitable special product!”

"In Bingzhou, the ruling government has developed the textile industry and the steel industry that are making a lot of money, making Bingzhou a barren land, which can earn tens of billions of dollars every year. In Youzhou, it has also developed ocean fishing, salt fields, guano stones, and shipbuilding. It is easy to make 100 billion to 200 billion a year when these industries develop, but we in Jizhou only have a specialty of grain, and we have to supply it to other regions at a low price. This is unfair to Jizhou. If the ruling government does not help us create a profitable industry, it seems a bit unfair to Jizhou!"

This really made it hard for Xu Wei to refute. Even though there was a drought in Jizhou, he still provided 3000 million shi of grain to Dagan, which greatly alleviated the food problems in Bingzhou and Youzhou.

It can be said that although the entire Dagan has been affected by the drought this time and the grain production has been reduced, but because of the existence of Jizhou, every department in the Dagan this year can eat a stone and a half of grain!If you add the tribes who immigrated to Jizhou from Bingzhou, this is equivalent to increasing the food for each tribe of Dagan by 2%!
The current low food price is indeed unfair to the people in Jizhou. Xu Wei thought carefully for a long time, searching for other profitable industries in his mind. It would be easy to invent ordinary things, such as soap and perfume It is easy to get it out, and it is not difficult for Xu Wei to get something that does not exist in this era, but the potential is not lower than that of the textile industry and the steel factory, because these two industries are the signs of the first industrial revolution. It is possible to be surpassed so easily!

Fortunately, Xu Wei has read hundreds of online novels, and he really found an industry. Although it is not as important as the textile industry and steel factories in terms of output value and importance to the people, it far surpasses the textile industry in terms of making money. industry and the steel industry.

This is known as one of the three treasures of time travel, the glass manufacturing industry!Glass is called Liuli in this world. You may not know that it is also a kind of gemstone. Can selling gemstones make money!And when selling glass doesn't make any money, you can make a profit by making mirrors. Didn't you say that the Queen of the Pope spent 16 gold francs for a small mirror, and there is no better industry than glass and mirrors to make quick money? .

(End of this chapter)