A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 499 Daqian can’t stop pioneering

It’s not that the former nobles, powerful men and officials in Bazhong counties didn’t understand this kind of operation, it’s just that time and they have fascinated their eyes.

The strength of Daqian made them feel that the southwest barbarians did not dare to resist. As a result, they did not expect what those people who were forced into a blind corner would do.

The greed of these powerful officials and officials had a huge impact, and the imperial court finally decided to take action personally to deal with the barbarians here.

After the imperial court cleaned up the prefectures and counties in Bazhong, and the southwestern barbarians were defeated again and surrendered, they began to immigrate here. This time, the imperial court transferred people from three places: Central Plains, Jinyang, and Linzi.

The three cities of Zhongyuan, Jinyang and Linzi are the most populous areas in Daqian besides Luoyang, Huai'an and Jinling.

In this era of mild climate, the northern climate was far less dry than later generations, and it was the most suitable area for life. The population of Jinyang Handan is close to that of the Central Plains.

Hebei has a large population. Because there is no wasteland to cultivate, these people have to become noble and powerful tenants. Many people have even become hermits in order to survive.

The imperial court transferred the population from Jinyang, Zhongyuan, and Linzi this time to reduce the burden here. Because there were a large number of landless people, when the imperial court recruited people here to go to Bazhong, many people were willing to come.

Of course, many people heard that they were going to southern Xinjiang and immediately refused. After all, Southern Xinjiang is too far away, and many people are afraid of the poisonous miasma and poisonous insects in Southern Xinjiang. Even though the court has given many assurances, many people still do not believe it.

But after all, many people who were unwilling to be tenants were willing to go. The court spent half a year recruiting 120,000 people from three places, and then moved these people to Bazhong. In order to relocate these people, the imperial court allocated 200,000 guan of silver and 150,000 stones of grain and grass from Taifu.

Fortunately, thanks to the construction of Chidao by the imperial court in recent years, these people can go to Sichuan through Chidao.

One hundred and twenty thousand people were divided into the prefectures and counties in southern Bazhong, but even so, these prefectures and counties were still vast and sparsely populated. The population of each county does not exceed 200,000, which is not comparable to the counties in the Central Plains.

The imperial court enfeoffed two thousand peasant soldiers, and two thousand households of peasant soldiers also began to move their relatives and family members here. Being protected as a peasant and soldier is enough for the rest of the family to live well.

After all, the imperial court allocated 400 acres of land. Although there were oxen for plowing, he could not complete the farming by himself. These two thousand households of farmers and soldiers can probably bring in 10,000 or 20,000 people.

With the addition of this population, the southwestern frontier of the imperial court will be stabilized. After another twenty years of continuous development, it can try to expand outward.

Now the imperial court has regarded external development as one of the future directions of the imperial court. After some complicated calculations on population growth, the Royal Academy of Sciences found that Daqian's current net population growth is around 750,000 to 800,000 per year, and this number will continue to increase due to the increase in population base.

If there were no plagues, earthquakes, droughts, floods or national wars, Daqian's population would have doubled in fifty years.

Relying on current farming technology and land, Daqian will not be able to accommodate any more people in a hundred years at most. In fact, it will not take that long at all, because the situation is that the cultivated land, population, and agriculture are all in the best condition.

After all, no one wants to have more farmland. Land occupation and annexation are unavoidable and can only be controlled as much as possible.

Seeing this situation, the royal family began to expand outwards and also continued to develop agricultural technology and navigation technology. After all, it was too difficult to expand from land with the current level of technology.

It would take five to six thousand miles to go from Daqian to the Western Regions, and another few thousand miles from the Western Regions to Guishang. If we went all the way west to Rome, it would take at least 20,000 miles, and it would take two years to travel by land. Daqian now occupies Kyushu, but there are mountains and jungles in the south, thousands of miles of grassland and bitter cold land in the north, the boundless sea in the east, and yellow sand in the west, with only a few roads accessible.

Daqian has no place to expand even if it wants to. Even though Daqian ranks first in the world in terms of population, combat power, and technological level, it is powerless to be trapped in this place.

Ninety percent of the regional civilizations in this world are in the tribal or city-state period. Daqian can easily crush them, but trapped in China, with high mountains and long roads, there is no way for them to experience the love of Daqian's father.

In the royal treasury room, there is a Huanyu Yi left by the ancestors. The whole body is made of bronze. It depicts the appearance of the entire world. Daqian only occupies a small area on it, and there is a vast area around Daqian. land.

The ancestors even made notes on what materials those lands were rich in, and where the land was fertile and suitable for survival.

Among them, Yangzhou, the fertile land closest to Daqian, is India. India has a flat land and a humid climate. More importantly, the land here is fertile, making it far more livable than China. And the people who live here have not even formed a unified country.

Such fertile land is simply a land given by God. Daqian can easily conquer it with his strength. However, it is very difficult for Daqian to go to Yangzhou, whether from the Western Region or the sea route from the south.

It takes more than 10,000 miles to travel through the Western Regions, and it also takes more than 10,000 miles to travel by sea. Although the sea route is easier to travel by boat, boats can easily capsize in the event of a storm. There are no ships in Daqian that can travel thousands of miles.

In addition to Yangzhou, Yinzhou across the sea to the east is also a fertile land, and there is also a fertile land sailing to the southwest. But it’s too far away from Daqian.

Although the ancestor left behind a universe, it is also extremely difficult to go to those places.

The imperial court has been investing heavily in navigation technology. One of the reasons is to leave a way out, and the other reason is to use sea routes to develop.

If the navigation technology can be upgraded to the point where it can travel long distances before the population reaches its limit, maybe Daqian can directly enter the age of navigation and colonization, or establish overseas feudal states.

Ancient Chinese bronzes are the unique cultural heritage of the Chinese nation. These bronzes reflect the wisdom and superb creation of the ancient Chinese people. Familiar bronzes include the Siyang Fangzun, the Stepmother Wuding, the Yuwang Jiuding, and the Wenwang Jiuding. However, The most precious and incredible bronze is the Huanyu Yi of King Wen of the Huai Kingdom of the Western Zhou Dynasty, which is preserved in the Royal Museum of China.

The appearance of this bronze vessel is unbelievable. Three thousand years ago, the ancient Chinese actually knew what the earth looked like and several other continents on the earth.

The appearance of this bronze globe is incredible. It directly rewrote the history of mankind. Until now, we still don’t know how the Chinese people knew what the world looked like more than 3,000 years ago. Many scholars even believe that the ancient Chinese are the descendants of aliens. Of course, we all know that this is nonsense.

We applied to inquire with the royal family several times and wanted to study this universal instrument, but several studies found that this bronze universal instrument was indeed a product from three thousand years ago. As for some other issues, the royal family has never returned.

——"History of the Development of Ancient Chinese Bronze Ware"

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