Daqin: Who does this throne give to me?

Chapter 12 The foundation of Daqin has a problem

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Compared with later generations, the population of Guanzhong at this time can be described as sparse, and the farmers on the roadside are farming with sweat.

A group of black-clad and black-armored horses roared past, and a carriage galloped behind the horses.

"Wait a moment!"

Zhao Wen, who had not been riding a carriage since leaving the Royal Manor, but learned how to ride a horse from the Black Ice Terrace Guards, raised his hand and shouted.

Jumping off the horse, looking at the field, an old man and two children are pulling the plow in front, and an old woman is behind, supporting them, plowing the field with great difficulty.

"Old man, can you come here for a while!"

The old man pulling the plow stopped, wiped his sweat and walked towards the side of the road. The Qin law is extremely strict. In this Guanzhong land, there is really no such thing as nobles bullying the common people, so there is no fear on the old man's face.

"My lord, what's the matter?" Hei Yi jumped off the horse and asked in a low voice.

"They use wooden plows, which are too laborious. Why don't they use metal ones, and can't they use livestock to pull the plows?"

Zhao Wen frowned and asked Hei with a puzzled face. This is Guanzhong, which can be said to be the most affluent place in the world today. It's all like this. God knows what it will be like in the other six countries.

As the prince of Daqin, Zhao Wen already regarded Daqin as his, so since he met him, he had to ask clearly.

"Metals should be supplied to the army first, and the price is too expensive. Only a very few rich and noble families can use them. As for livestock land, the same is true. There are too few cattle, and ordinary people can't afford it!"

The Black Ice Terrace is not only the guard of the Great Qin Royal Family, but also an intelligence agency. Hei Yi naturally knows about these issues.

When he came out, His Majesty the Emperor had confessed that as long as the twentieth prince wanted to know, he would know everything, so he also explained it to Zhao Wen.

Zhao Wen nodded. In the past, the seven kingdoms fought each other to the death and life. Naturally, the military was the first priority.

He remembered that later Yingzheng collected the weapons of the six countries and cast twelve huge golden men, which was a waste to the extreme.

It would be great if you could cast all this metal into agricultural tools to increase productivity. Besides showing your majesty, making a golden man is of no use.

If he hadn't come out once, no one had ever told him this.

Zhao Wen had secretly decided in his heart that he must suggest to Emperor Shihuang that all the surplus weapons of the six kingdoms be cast into agricultural tools.

Although Great Qin has now unified the six countries, in Zhao Wen's opinion, the combined population of the seven countries may not even be [-] million.

There are only so many people in such a large place, which is simply the biggest waste.

As the future ruler of this land, increasing the population is definitely the top priority.

It is necessary to have enough land and food to increase the population, and the use of wooden farm tools can not support many people.

"Hello, old man!" Seeing that the old man had come, Zhao Wen bowed slightly to the old man, and asked with a smile on his face, "Old man, why don't young people work in the fields, but you do this kind of work at your age! "

According to Zhao Wenji, rice and wheat have not yet been planted in large quantities, let alone corn and potatoes.

In this era, millet, or millet, is grown in the fields, and the yield is extremely low, only a few tens of catties per mu. A family often has to cultivate tens of mu of land to produce food for the family.

It is definitely a very hard work to cultivate so much land with wooden farm tools, and such things should definitely be done by young people!

"The old man's four sons are all in the army. If I don't do the work in this field, whoever will do it!"

The old man looked proud. Now that the Great Qin ruled the world, it was the time when the people of the Great Qin were most proud, not to mention that the old man had four sons in the Great Qin Army.

"Thank you for telling me, old man, now that the war is over, your sons are coming back soon, and good times are coming soon, so I want to congratulate you first here!"

As he spoke, Zhao Wen took out a small piece of gold and handed it to the old man, "I am Zhao Wen, the twentieth son of His Majesty the Great Qin Emperor. There are four sons in your family who are in the army. They are definitely heroes of my Great Qin. This is what I gave to you." For your grandson, take it and make a good suit for your child!"

The aristocrats and ordinary people in this era are completely two levels, and there is no contact between the two.

Great Qin is a bit better, there is a system of conferring titles for military merits, and the people at the bottom have a channel to rise up, while the other six countries are all hereditary.

Now the foundation of Daqin is the people of Qin, as the prince of Daqin, to build a good reputation among ordinary people, for Zhao Wen, it is just like instinct.

Ignoring the excited family kneeling behind, Zhao Wen got on his horse and left surrounded by the guards of the Black Ice Terrace.

"Is there something wrong, Master?" Hei asked strangely when he saw Zhao Wen's serious face since he got on the horse.

"I discovered a fatal flaw in Daqin!"

Zhao Wen sighed softly. Since he knew that Hei Yi came from Hei Bingtai and was sent by Emperor Shihuang to his side, Zhao Wen naturally knew that besides protecting himself, the other party must also have the responsibility to monitor him and keep everything about him. Report to the first emperor at any time.

There are some things that are absolutely inconvenient for me to say, but someone from Hei Bingtai can report them through another channel.

"The foundation of my great Qin is the Qin people in Guanzhong, but now even the old man with four sons doesn't have a child by his side, so he has to go to the fields to work in person. Just this, you can think of the hard work of the Qin people!"

"No way, this is a troubled world. We have won the battle, and the lives of the people can be better. The people in the other six countries have worked harder than us in Qin!" Zhao Wen just sighed, and Hei Yi also said casually.

"However, after so many years of war, the people of Qin land have already been exhausted, and a large number of young people are outside. How can the population increase? If there are not enough Qin people, what will we rely on to stabilize the world in the future!"

What Zhao Wen remembered was that when the Great Qin Dynasty was about to perish, the Great Wall Legion still had hundreds of thousands of troops defending against the Huns, and South Vietnam also had hundreds of thousands of troops.

These are all Qin people. On the contrary, the people in the places where the six countries surrendered have stabilized. This also caused the rebels of the six countries at the end of Qin Dynasty to form a tendency to crush the Great Qin in terms of the number of troops.

Ying Zheng is impatient, wishing that one generation could complete the tasks of hundreds of years, and among them, the people in Qin land suffered the most.

Hearing what Zhao Wen said, thinking about the consequences of continuing to develop like this, Hei Yi and all the guards of the Black Ice Platform suddenly changed their expressions.

"Then how do you think it should be resolved?" Hei Yi remembered that when he left, His Majesty had confessed that he would report everything about the twentieth prince to him.

Even among the news from the Black Ice Terrace, he also knew that no matter how busy His Majesty was, he would spare time every day to read the news he reported.

Now that the prince said this, he naturally wanted to tell His Majesty something through himself!

(End of this chapter)