Reborn in the late Northern Wei Dynasty

Chapter 206 Population and Land

Chapter 206 Population and Land

How can there be so many tigers in this world who are shocked, show their aura of dominance, accept all heroes, and never change their loyalty since then.

Even a guy like Liu Xiu who has opened a cheating device has to lower his posture and shake hands with others.

And even though Gao Cheng is the heir of the Gao family, he will try his best to win over Shi En when dealing with his subordinates. What he is worried about is not the change of people's hearts.

If you are really superior and indifferent to your subordinates, after a long time, who will work for themselves.

Don't look at Xiao Gao Wang having fun with his daughters-in-law in private.

It is not easy to be a high-ranking person when you have to worry about state affairs and make your cronies think of your own good all the time.

In the final analysis, the sense of insecurity is still at work. Maybe it will be much easier when the righteousness is determined in the future and the order of the monarch and ministers is restored.

Farewell to Cui Jishu, Gao Cheng crossed the river from Yanzhou, Yang Min didn't make much fanfare, and only brought the second sister of the Gao family and a group of guards to wait at the state border.

"Your official, Yang Min, pay my respects to the General."

"Zun Yan doesn't need to be polite, get up quickly."

The two were not as excited as Cui Jishu, it's not that Gao Cheng's relationship with this sister-in-law is not as good as Xiao Cui.

A few months ago, Yang Min was transferred from governor of East Jingzhou to governor of Xiangzhou, and they had a conversation in Luoyang.

But Cui Jishu and Gao Chengkuang had been separated for more than a year.

The 15-year-old second sister was sent to marry after Yang Min was transferred to Yecheng, and she was also considered a married woman.

When meeting Gao Cheng, he behaved a little more formally, without the flamboyance he had when he was a daughter.

"Second sister, I'm satisfied with the marriage that my brother made for you."

Gao Cheng joked with a smile.

The second sister was thin-skinned and refused to answer, so she went to the motorcade to visit her younger brother and niece after talking to him.

But the bit of shame on her face can still see her attitude towards this marriage.

Although Yang Min was twelve years older than her, it was exactly one round.

But regardless of character, appearance, talent and learning, they are all excellent choices, otherwise Ge Rong and Gao Huan would not both have the idea of ​​marrying a daughter.

Yang Min and the second sister of the Gao family have not had sex yet. Firstly, he has no shortage of concubines. The second and most important reason is that Gao Cheng is worried that the girl is too young and her development is not complete enough to cause dystocia.

Yuan Zhonghua and Li Zu'e did not enter because of this concern.

Not only Yang Min, under Gao Cheng's order, waited for the second sister to turn sixteen.

Even Yuan Shanjian, who has been married for six years, only practiced husband and wife ethics with Queen Gao this year.

It can only be said that this uncle is really lenient.

Gao Cheng had explained this truth to his two younger sisters long ago, so as not to think of them wholeheartedly, but to be left behind.

The second sister met with a group of younger brothers, and put her heart on her niece again.

Yuan Zhonghua sat in Yuan Mingyue's carriage, and after the second sister only visited, she slipped into Xiao Erzhu's carriage and drove the nurse out.

There is still a long distance between the state and Yecheng. Gao Cheng invited Yang Min to ride a horse and talk while walking, but Yang Min was only half a horse behind to show his respect.

Gao Cheng was always asking questions throughout the whole process, and Yang Min's answer was also about the specific situation of the implementation of various reforms in Xiangzhou.

For example, the promotion of Mengxue, the currency market, etc., and even asked about the situation in the remaining states in southern Hebei.

Yang Min didn't just focus on the area under his jurisdiction, but occasionally inquired about the news of neighboring states and counties for comparison.

Therefore, Gao Cheng's inquiries can be answered one by one.

The southern part of Hebei is worthy of being the place where the Gao clan made its fortune. It has a good mass base and a high degree of support. It has achieved very good results in terms of cultural and educational promotion and economic aspects.

At least bad money has disappeared from the money market in southern Hebei.

As for cooking salt by the sea, after the [-] prefecture soldiers from Xiangzhou and Hebei and the [-] prefecture soldiers from Cangzhou took their positions, production has officially started under the guidance of veteran craftsmen.

In fact, Gao Cheng knew more or less about these things. If he really needed to rely on the reports of the local governors to know the progress of the reforms, it would be too much of a failure for him to be in power.

He asked these questions just to examine the degree of dedication to reform of the local state and county governors, whether he is a confidant or not, he must ask them again.

If you really want to meet a guy who doesn't know what to ask, it is necessary to check his past achievements.

Gao Cheng was very satisfied with Yang Min's answer, at least better than Duan Shao and Hu Luguang who only cared about their own state.

Gao Cheng also did not warn Duan Shao and Hu Luguang that farming is fundamental, as in Northern Yuzhou and Liangzhou, and they should not neglect farming in order to promote the implementation of reform policies.

A group of people entered Yecheng at dark, and the accompanying army camped outside the city, and the family members also settled in the Bohai Palace in the city.

Gao Cheng didn't have time to rest, so he dragged Yang Min and his accompanying Gao Longzhi to continue discussing the next few reform measures and listen to their opinions.

The three talked all night long, and they didn't let them go home until dawn.

Gao Cheng woke up the next day, it was already noon, and he had not eaten yet, but he received an unexpected but reasonable bad news:
The people of Cangzhou complained a lot about the resettlement of the family members of state and county soldiers who boiled salt after the autumn harvest.

The fields have already been cultivated, and the state and county soldiers went to Cangzhou to cook salt. Even if the family members followed, they had to wait for the autumn harvest.

Once these [-] households and even the family members of the salt soldiers moved into Cangzhou, Cangzhou will naturally change the situation of less people and more land.

What followed was that the excess land that was originally worried about being abandoned and sub-leased to the people of Cangzhou must be given up after the autumn harvest and redistributed to the newly moved people.

To say it was an accident, it is true that Gao Cheng did not think of this.

But after thinking about it, I can also know that if there is no sub-rent of excess land, the income of the local people will inevitably decrease. When their interests are violated, it is reasonable to be scolded a few times.

Gao Cheng didn't take this matter too seriously either, he just scolded him, although the land belonged to the country, but in the final analysis, it was also the property of his little King Gao, and it wasn't a plunder, so there was no psychological burden.

It's just a few words of scolding. Since ancient times, which reformer has not been scolded bloody by victims of interests.

He really wasn't afraid of making big troubles, just with the acres allocated according to the land equalization system and the rent adjustment agreed by Gao Cheng, the common people would still have some surplus after a year.

Unless they are coerced, no common people will go to rebel when they are living a good life.

But this incident also reminded Gao Cheng: the contradiction between man and earth.

The Eastern Wei Dynasty, especially Hebei Province, had been without war for six years. While the people were well-off, the birth rate remained high all year round.

At least Gao Cheng received the report from the Ministry of Household Affairs, especially in Cangzhou, the people with fewer people and more people refer to young adults, and young children are not included in this list.

In fact, if you think about it, you can understand that they can contract more acres of land. As long as they work hard, their income must be much higher than that of neighboring states and counties, and they are more capable and willing to have children.

After all, both men and women can share the land as long as they are adults, and there is no need to find a way out for them in the future, not to mention the cost of raising them in this age, just two meals a day and some extra food.

This is also the reason why the original owner in history was able to set up a large salt stove in Cangzhou, and he enjoyed the demographic dividend.

However, because Gao Cheng rectified the salt business in advance, the young children had not yet grown up, so naturally they faced the problem of labor shortage.

After several years of governance by Gao Cheng, all parts of Kanto remained basically stable. In ancient times, long-term stability and affluent people would inevitably lead to a population explosion.

In any case, when the ratio of population to land reaches a certain critical point, the collapse of the land equalization system is an inevitable result.

Unless one of the descendants is as clever as Yang Guang, the population of more than 5000 million in its heyday will be reduced to between 2000 million and 3000 million.

Killing more than half of the country's population, otherwise, according to normal development, how could the land equalization system exist until the middle and late Tang Dynasty.

After the war, there were only more than 200 million households in the reign of Emperor Wude in the early Tang Dynasty, and only 13 million households in the 304th year of Taizong Zhenguan, not counting the annexation outside the Great Wall.

The efforts of three generations of grandparents and grandchildren have finally raised the household registration to half of the 890 million households in the five years of Emperor Yangdi's great cause in Sui Dynasty, which is only 60 households short of the level.

It was not until the Tianbao period of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty that the number of households reached 900 million and surpassed the Sui Dynasty. This is still a situation where a large number of people outside the Great Wall are attached.

Today's Eastern Wei Dynasty, due to Gao Cheng's governance, has a population of more than 2000 million including young people. This is not because the birth rate is astonishing.

But after the Battle of Shayuan, there was no looting of a large number of people in Hedong and western Henan.

In the third year of Shengui (520), the Northern Wei had more than 3500 million households, with a population of about 2000 million. In the early days of the separation, the Eastern Wei was about 1500 million. Gao Cheng had no way of knowing the population of the Western Wei. Ignoring the many years of war in Guanlong, he estimated it as a [-] dollars.

In fact, given the difference in natural conditions between Kanto and Kansai, it is impossible to only have a ratio of 2:1.5.

Even so, 300% to 400% of the population was lost due to the severe drought, and the population of the Western Wei Dynasty was only between [-] million and [-] million.

God knows how many people Yuwen Taidong has replenished in history to survive ten years and seize the land of Shu.

But it is worth noting that even though the Northern Zhou Dynasty occupied the land of Shu, the "Tong Dian" records that on the eve of the destruction of Qi, the population of the Northern Zhou Dynasty was about 900 million.

According to the statistics of "Chinese Population History", the population of the Northern Zhou Dynasty was about 1250 million on the eve of the annihilation of Qi.

This is still the level that has been captured after four or fifty years of development.

At the end of the Northern Qi Dynasty, there were 2200 million people.

From this we can see how much water Gao Cheng has poured into Yuwentai's current estimate of 300 to 400 million.

Now Gao Cheng blocked the population loss of this part of the east and west of Henan, and then managed it for another six years.

In a stable social environment, Gao Cheng is not sure how many babies have been added in the past six years.

For this reason, Gao Cheng decided to conduct a comprehensive census of all parts of Kanto.

As soon as he thought of it, Gao Cheng immediately sent a letter to Gao Huan, saying that Shanxi must be included in this census.

There is no doubt that the land equalization system is suitable for the current situation at this stage, and Gao Cheng is only worried about future generations.

Even if Jiangnan is deeply developed in the future and a large amount of arable land is obtained, the increase in population will inevitably exceed the increase in arable land. The land equalization system is definitely not a sustainable national policy.

It can mobilize the enthusiasm of farmers and restore production in times of war.

But in peaceful times, the collapse of the land equalization system will inevitably bring about turmoil and even overthrow of the dynasty.

In the hands of future generations, who has the courage and prestige to change this land policy.

Instead of pinning his hopes on his children and grandchildren, Gao Cheng decided to do it himself to find a way out.

 A few minutes late, today's update is at night.

  Thanks to book friend Ting for the reward.

  
 
(End of this chapter)

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