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Chapter 947 False
More food feeds more people, and more people lead to economic prosperity, more talent, and the consolidation of newly captured territories.

Everything in the Great Qin Empire was built on grain, and grain was built on plowed fields.

Regardless of the ten-year plan for starting a war or the one-hundred-year plan, you must first know the resources you have.

Eight years have passed since the last registration of Qimin.

During these eight years, Great Qin first annexed Wu, then Liaodong, then southern Xinjiang, integrated the Western Regions, and swallowed Dawan, Kangju, and Hezhong.

A new round of registered household Qimin is imminent.

This time, it is not only necessary to find out how many people, but also how much land.

Cultivated fields and pastures are both limited, and the equal-field system is not a panacea. Once the population expands to a critical value, the equal-field system will become a method that harms the people.

Historically, just after the Second Emperor Li unified the world and started the rule of Zhenguan, the soldiers of the government fled.

By the time of Li Zhi and Wu Zhao, large-scale fleeing to the fields had become commonplace.

The Literature Museum sorted out the data sent by the states and counties. Daqin's arable land plus pastures are as high as 93 billion mu, with a population as high as 700 million...

Looking at these data, Yang Zheng was overjoyed, which proved that the governance of the country over the years has been quite effective.

But after thinking about it, I felt something was wrong.

Later generations always talk about keeping the bottom line of 18 billion mu...

In the later generations with advanced science and technology, the scale of cultivated land is only about 18 billion mu. 700 years ago, the scale of cultivated land and pasture in the Wei and Jin Dynasties could reach 93 billion mu?

You must know that many areas are still in a primitive and undeveloped state. How could the number of cultivated fields and pastures reach 93 billion mu?

And the literature museum checked the cultivated land data of the Han Dynasty. At most, it was only [-] million mu in the period of Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty...

Even if Daqin suppressed the tyrants of the gentry and liquidated the remnants of the previous dynasty, it is impossible to multiply it by dozens of times...

After carefully checking the data sent up, the problem is still concentrated in the Kanto region.

There are actually more cultivated fields in many counties in Kanto than in one county in Guanzhong...

This is kind of incredible.

"It must be a local fraud!" Yang Xu was quite angry.

"If the superiors are good, the subordinates will follow them. These people are in favor of His Majesty..." Wei Guan cupped his hands.

There are policies and measures to counter.

When an official's promotion is linked to local performance, this kind of thing will naturally happen.

Unexpectedly, just opening a head, the problem came.

"Half-ninety to one hundred miles, Your Majesty has a long way to go." Lu Zhi sighed.

Yang Zheng also felt a sense of frustration. In the feudal era, ancient and modern, at home and abroad, the struggle between the imperial court and local governments is a dark line running through the fate of the empire.

The big bosses of the imperial court have their own interests, and the local officials also have their own little calculations...

In history, Emperor Hongwu plucked day lilies, but he still couldn't stop the corruption of officials.

In fact, thinking about it, Daqin inherited Cao Wei, annexed the Central Plains of the Sima family, and after capturing Yecheng, all parts of the Central Plains surrendered. Previously, they focused on the powerful gentry, but ignored that local officials were selected by the nine-rank official method.

With them around, Daqin's official atmosphere would not be much better.

Or something went wrong in Kanto.

And this problem has existed since the Cao Wei period, and after the Sima family changed hands, the legacy was even worse.

Military officers and magistrates can clearly mark the price.

Yang Zheng has experienced that period and knows the way of it.

Daqin put an end to the trading of military officers and cut off their source of income, but the local officials were left over from the previous dynasty. They only need to change their banners and lie dormant for a while before they can continue to cover the sky with one hand.

There are also officials who assist officials, they are the group that really controls the place.

Those who can be officials must be local tyrants.

There is no influence behind it, and it is impossible to sit in that seat at all.

If these myriad threads are not cleared up, the people of Kanto will not truly return to their hearts, and Kanto and Daqin will be at odds with each other.

Just like the Tang Dynasty, when the court was strong, it was hard to tell. Once the court was weak, the Anshi Rebellion and the separatist regimes all came.

"Eat one bite at a time, and solve the problems one by one." Yang Zheng cleared his mind, "First of all, we need to confirm whether Guanzhong and Shuzhong are like the Central Plains."

"Wei!" Lu Zhi, Wei Guan, Suo Jing and other important officials of the empire bowed their hands at the same time.

The Literature Museum, Xuanyi Division, and Zhenfu Division are busy again, and fast horses can be seen passing in and out of Chang'an every day.

After spending more than two months, it was basically confirmed that Yongliang did not cheat.

The population and fields are almost the same as those reported.

After all, at the feet of the emperor, the supervision is relatively strict.

Three months later, there was a problem with the data collected in central Sichuan. Local officials counted people's houses as farmland for the sake of political achievements...

However, the problem in central Shu is not big, only a few counties do this.

Each district reported a little more, the county added a sum, and the county added oil and vinegar. Once the situation in the state opened up, they also added a sum of money, accumulating and adding more, resulting in an astronomical figure...

Most of the places are still normal. Back then, the Shu Kingdom was regarded as a clean-up in the Three Kingdoms, and the officials were not completely corrupt.

There is no problem in Guanzhong, and there is not a big problem in Shuzhong. Yang Zheng has the confidence to thoroughly investigate Guandong and Jiangdong.

The Kanto was poisoned by the Sima family, and the Jiangdong inherited the decades-old evils of the Soochow. After the Great Qin ruled the world, Yang Zheng continued to attack Liaodong and Linyi non-stop, and went west to Central Asia, ignoring the interior.

It was not intentional neglect, but the situation at the time dictated it.

Everyone else has surrendered to the Great Qin, so they can't be chopped down with a knife, forcing local riots, and then the Qin army will fight and kill city by city?

If this is the case, I am afraid that the population of the Central Plains will drop sharply.

Yang Zheng expanded the enrollment of the Literature Museum again, recruited a large number of math students, and formed an investigation team. Each team had a thousand Chinese army guards, and began the inventory of Kanto.

"I want to see the most authentic Daqin, and you can just investigate, no matter what the result is." Yang Zheng prepared for the worst.

It was only six or seven years since Daqin was stable, and problems arose.

In fact, similar things have happened repeatedly in history.

The cultivated land in the Sui Dynasty was as high as 55 billion mu, far exceeding that of the Han, Tang, Ming and Qing Dynasties...

Exaggeration is prevalent in the local area. Envoys from the Western Regions came to Beijing, and the imperial court decorated the trees in the capital with silk and satin for the sake of face...

The Sui Dynasty was known as the five major granaries, but there were starvation everywhere around the granaries.

It can be said that Emperor Sui Yang's great feats were not entirely due to his personal character, but because he was dizzy by the exaggerated wind rising in the local area, and did not recognize the real situation of the Great Sui Empire.

Sure enough, as soon as the inspection team came out of Tongguan, Kanto immediately boiled up.

There was a blatant attack on the investigation team.

In front of the Chinese army, no matter how many "bandits and bandits" there are, they are mobs.

In many places, after the investigation team entered, many officials hanged themselves, left a letter of incrimination in a serious manner, and took all the blame on themselves.

However, after an in-depth investigation by the Zhen Fusi, it was found that every official who committed suicide did not really commit suicide...

Six to seven years is enough time to form a new interest group.

In order to reduce local resistance, Yang Zheng issued an edict that those who surrender at the end of this year will be dealt with leniently.

But the effect is not great.

(End of this chapter)