I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

The Governor's Mansion in the New World decided to use food to control the number of gold diggers, and the army of the Kingdom of Jidu is also worrying about the food problem!
"What the hell is going on with your household department? Didn't the imperial court issue an order to find a way to sell more grain to the New World? Why is there only 500 million shi of grain going to the New World this year? What is enough grain for this? Why didn't the 1000 million shi set for it be completed? !"

Wang Guojun found that it is not a good thing to open up too much wasteland. Now that Dagan has entered a comprehensive prosperity, especially after the improvement of medical science, Dagan has to add millions of new babies every year, and the number of pregnant women who die because of dystocia is also plummeting. It has dropped from one tenth of the original to one percent, and there are nearly one million foreigners who join Dagan every year.

Therefore, Wang Guojun has been prime minister for several years, and the population of Dagan has increased by more than 300 million every year. Such a large increase in population can be regarded as solving the problem of labor shortage a few years ago, but this has brought a new problem, that is The labor force is too abundant, and the achievements of the first industrial revolution cannot accommodate such a large increase in population.There is a little underemployment.

This problem is in front of the Royal Army, and the solution to this problem is extremely simple. One is to send people to the colonies of the South China Sea and the New World. Over the years, the islands in the South China Sea have been constantly replenishing their population, but even if there are millions of people who go out to sea, There are a lot of people, but they are still a minority for the people who are doing a lot of work.Immigration cannot fully solve this problem.

The second method that Wang Guojun thought of was to open up wasteland. The land area of ​​Dagan is several times larger than that of Dahan, and the area of ​​wasteland is also extremely large.

Moreover, Dagan has a tradition of reclaiming wasteland, so most of the new household registration population in these years has been assigned by the Wang Guojun to Jiangnan and Liaodong to reclaim wasteland, and these people are placed in the countryside to solve the employment problem!

For adult Dagan people, the imperial court gave them loans to buy farm tools, cattle, etc., and organized them to reclaim wasteland in Jiangnan and Liaodong. A large number of new population was resettled by these two fertile lands.

This brings about an extremely big problem, that is, the production of grain continues to increase, and the more land is cultivated, the more grain there will be!Liaodong was originally the largest granary of the later celestial dynasties, but now it has become the granary of Daqian 2000 years in advance. Liaodong is not considered a cash crop, and it can still have a surplus of hundreds of millions of grains every year, and so much grain depends on dozens of people in Liaodong Ten thousand industrial population is not enough to eat!
The same is true for Jiangnan. Since Liu Bei developed Jiangnan, Jiangnan has been developed for decades. It can be said that Jiangnan now has three parts of the future. A complete Jiangnan can support hundreds of millions of people, and three parts of Jiangnan are enough to support There are hundreds of millions of people, but now the entire Dagan has a population of just over 7000 million. One can imagine how much food there is in the south of the Yangtze River.

The two granaries in Jiangnan and Liaodong bring grain stocks of hundreds of millions of shi to Dagan every year. It is conceivable how much pressure the Kingdom Army is under to destock!
Hubu Shangshu Xizhong said helplessly: "The main thing is that no sea merchant is willing to transport such cheap goods as grain!"

Compared with foreign trade commodities such as silk, ironware, porcelain, and tea, grain is not only large in size and low in price, but also prone to moisture. Few sea merchants are willing to carry grain with them tens of thousands of miles away in the New World (the high grain price in the New World It hasn’t been passed to Dagan yet!)

Although the consumption of 3000 million more in the south of the Yangtze River made Wang Guojun excited, but thinking that there were hundreds of millions of grains in the granary, and it was still increasing, Wang Guojun felt helpless for a while. After communicating with the ruling last time, he also knew the minimum guaranteed price of grain The importance of Daqian, so I dare not say anything not to buy!
Now he can only say helplessly: "There is too much food. Even though there have been minor natural disasters in the past two years, our grain storage is still increasing by hundreds of millions of stones every year. If this continues, the court's finances will be very difficult." If you keep going, how can everyone consume some food!"

The high-level officials of Dagan have intentionally or unintentionally developed the South China Sea as the origin of Dagan's cash crops, trying to suppress the productivity of local grain. area.

Faced with this situation, Xu Wei could only say: "The cheapness of the grain hurts the peasants!"

But Xu Wei's words made Wang Lei laugh for a while, and this made other senior executives laugh out loud, and it soon became a roar of laughter.

However, Xi Zhong still said: "But this year, the South China Sea has increased grain exports by 2000 million shi, and Liu Bei of Tianzhu has also increased grain exports by tens of millions of shi because he has been fighting with the Guishuang Empire! The granaries in the south of the Yangtze River are still safe. On the cordon!"

To a certain extent, so much food is the best compliment for them. Any prosperous food is an important standard, and they do better, and they bear the price of cheap rice and hurting farmers. Well, although this problem annoys them, it also gives them a sense of accomplishment. They have protected the food problem of millions of people!
Wang Lei thought for a while and said, "Duan Peng and the others have received news that they want to ask the imperial court to sell them grain! Moreover, it seems that their demand is very large, it is said that it exceeds ten million stones, but I don't know if the orbit between Xiliang and the Western Regions can accommodate them." Withstand such a large amount of cargo transportation!"

In order to quickly balance the income and expenditure of their territory, the leaders of the South China Sea also tried their best to plant high-priced cash crops, and handed over all the low-value grains to sea merchants to buy. Anyway, Dagan has a lot of grains, and they are transported to them by sea. It's not expensive, but it helped the Kingdom Army and the others complete their plan to control the South China Sea with food!

Xu Wei asked curiously, "Why do they suddenly want so much food?"

The Western Regions are vast and sparsely populated. Even if Duan Peng and his team are not very good at farming, they can only feed on millions of acres of land, but now they need tens of millions of stones. This economical food is enough to feed hundreds of people. million population.

Wang Lei said: "It's not that Liu Bei has been attacking the Guishuang Empire, so a large number of people from the Guishuang Empire fled to the Western Regions and went to Duan Peng's territory. It is said that there are tens of thousands of people, and Duan Peng and the others have been fighting for The population is troublesome, so many people are sent to their territory now, of course they will not let go of accepting them all, but there is not enough food to eat!"

Xi Zhong shook his head and said: "It's beyond the reach of the whip, Duan Peng and his country are more than 7000 miles away from Chang'an, even if Chang'an's grain reaches their hands, it will cost more than ten times. We don't care about such consumption, but they can afford it. The money for this food?"

Land transportation is the most expensive mode of transportation, so most of the merchants who go to the Western Regions transport precious and light materials such as silk. If they really need to use horses to transport grain to the Western Regions, the consumption of this is unimaginable. Anyway, the stupid people back then Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent the generals of the Second Division to Dawan, which directly destroyed the finances of the Western Han Dynasty!