The Nameless of the Common Clans

Chen Mo's busy days did not last too long. After the structure of the Prime Minister's Office was completed, it could start running immediately. Originally, during the three years when the emperor was in seclusion, the Shangshu Ling and the General's Office were basically responsible for all matters of the court. Now the Prime Minister's Office has been changed, and the Shangshu Ling has been replaced by Xun You, but the operation is still the same.

After the changes, the new law in the Central Plains has gradually stabilized. Once this physical structure is formed, the court has to supervise. What Chen Mo does every day is to review the more important memorials selected by Xun You and Jia Xu, and further encourage folk agriculture.

The successful promotion of high-efficiency manure in Bingzhou, Guanzhong, and Hebei, later Chen Mo even specially sent people to control locusts in several areas where locust plagues were more frequent. Not to mention eradicating them, but even if locust plagues occurred in recent years, the scale was far less than in the past. Guanzhong now basically has bumper harvests year after year as long as there is no natural disaster. Since the elimination of Li and Guo, Chen Mo has begun to implement a policy of encouraging childbirth in Guanzhong. In the past 20 years, in the latest household registration survey, Guanzhong alone has a population of nearly 10 million, which is more than the peak period of Guanzhong's population.

You must know that after the Li Guo Rebellion, when Chen Mo checked the population in Guanzhong, the population was less than 3 million, and it tripled in 20 years.

Policy is one aspect. The promotion of manure allows the same field to produce more food. Coupled with the upgrade of agricultural tools, the General of Agriculture has begun to cultivate higher-yield food in Xiliang, Bingzhou and other places in recent years. If these measures can be used in the Central Plains, Chen Mo feels that the world's population may be much larger than the heyday of the Han Dynasty.

It is precisely because of the sweetness of industry that Chen Mo began to increase his encouragement of agriculture and industry after the political situation stabilized. The scale of the staff in the General of Craftsmen's Mansion has continued to expand. Now almost every county has craftsmen affiliated with the court, who are responsible for the construction of water conservancy in various places. When the court has newer tools, it will also promote them to various counties through these craftsmen's offices.

Chen Mo can afford to fight anyone, and his confidence comes from Guanzhong. In terms of population and financial resources, before the expedition against Cao Cao, Chen Mo was the best in the world. Now that the Central Plains has been conquered, Chen Mo has an absolute advantage in manpower and material resources. If it were not for the mountains and rivers, it would not be difficult for Chen Mo to pacify the world.

It was a hot summer day, and the sun was scorching.

Chen Mo had nothing to do today, so he stayed at home. It was too hot. He sat under the shade of the tree, stroking the neck of the black dog beside him, and missed the cold of winter.

Cai Yan brought Zhen Mi and Diao Chan over. Diao Chan was holding a tray in her hand, and the tray was filled with fruits.

"My husband, these are fruits sent from the Western Regions. My husband, try them." Cai Yan put the fruit plate on the stone table in front of Chen Mo and said with a smile.

Since Xu Rong took charge of the Western Regions Protectorate, the Han Dynasty and the Western Regions began to reconnect. Hua Xiong would lead his army to the Western Regions every year. Although many Western Regions countries did not re-submit to the Han Dynasty, they did not dare to provoke them. Every year, they would send a lot of exotic things from the Western Regions. The fruits and vegetables from the Western Regions were very popular in Luoyang, and Chen Mo also liked them very much.

"It is rare for the world to be peaceful now. In fact, such days are not bad. However, only a few people in the world can eat this thing. I don't know when everyone in the world can eat it." Chen Mo reached out and picked up a slice of watermelon, took two bites, and enjoyed the cool juice sliding into his stomach. It is really a pleasure to eat a piece of watermelon in summer. The Han Dynasty has also begun to test this thing. As for whether it can succeed, it depends on the General of Agriculture.

"I know that my husband cares about the people, but human power is limited. What my husband has done is no more than that of the wise kings in ancient times." Cai Yan and Zhen Mi sat on Chen Mo's left and right. The two women were the most obsessed with Chen Mo these days, and they looked radiant. Even though Cai Yan was no longer young, she still had her charm. In addition, after being married for many years, Chen Mo respected and loved his wife. It was not because of her appearance, which would disappear with age. What really made him still respect and love his wife was that he felt very comfortable when he was with her, which was something other women could not give him.

"The power of one person is limited, but the power of many people is infinite. If it was put 20 years ago, would Guanzhong be as prosperous as it is today? Just because it can't be done today doesn't mean it can't be done in the future." Chen Mo smiled and waved to his son who was playing beside him: "Rui'er, have you finished reading the book your father gave you?"

"I have finished it." Chen Rui straightened up and said: "Father, I have a question that I have been puzzled about."

"Oh?" Chen Mo smiled and said: "Tell me."

"Why is there war in this world?" Chen Rui asked curiously.

"Why do you ask this?" Chen Mo raised his eyebrows and asked with a smile.

"I read ancient books and found that there were not many records of wars in the ancient Yao and Shun periods. But why have there been constant disputes since the Shang and Zhou dynasties? Since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Qin finally conquered the six kingdoms and unified the world, but after only a few decades, the world was in chaos again. Although our Han Dynasty had a national destiny of 400 years, there were also constant disputes during this period, and Wang Mang also caused chaos. In fact, I think that the Han Dynasty after Wang Mang is no longer the Han Dynasty of Emperor Gaozu." Chen Rui asked with a puzzled look.

"Rui'er, don't talk nonsense!" Zhen Mi was startled and scolded hurriedly. Can such things be said casually?

"It's okay." Chen Mo waved his hand and said, "Some things don't need to be hidden. It's okay to talk about them when the family is together. Chan'er, go get the pen, ink, paper and inkstone."

"Yes~" Diao Chan agreed, and quickly got the pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and spread the paper on the stone table in front of Chen Mo.

Chen Mo thought about it carefully and sketched the current territory of the Han Dynasty on the paper. Although it may not be accurate, Chen Mo's painting skills are not bad. He pointed at the drawing and said: "This is the territory that the Han Dynasty actually occupies now."

Chen Rui looked down at the blueprint. For a child, it would be impossible to imagine how vast the territory of the Han Dynasty was.

"What my son said before can be divided into two types. The first one is internal power competition. For example, the Seven Kings Rebellion and the Lu Family Rebellion are all minor chaos. They are caused by power disputes within the imperial court. Let's not care about it for the moment. "You are too young to understand this thing now. Today, my father will tell you why there seemed to be no war during the time of Yao and Shun." Chen Mo said with a smile.

Chen Rui nodded quickly, looking at his father with his big eyes flickering.

"First of all, the era of Yao and Shun is too far away from us, and there is not even an exact time record. From the Xia Dynasty to the present, it is at least two thousand years old. The writings handed down from that time are quite rare, let alone documents, so my son said that there is no war too It's one-sided, it's true, but it hasn't been spread in writing." Chen Mo sketched a few strokes on the map: "This is probably the territory of the Xia Dynasty, what do you think?"

"So small!" Chen Rui looked down and frowned.

"It is a small country, so the country is small and the people are small. My father guessed that the enemy at that time was not the enemy country, but the wolves, tigers and leopards in the mountains, and there were diseases and so on. So it was not that there was no war, but the scale of the war was smaller. There was no Words spread, we just don’t know about it,” Chen Mo said with a smile.

Chen Rui thought for a while and said: "Then now that my Han territory is larger, why do we have constant wars?"

"Food." Chen Mo thought for a while and sighed: "Everything in this world always has its own reason. Once everything is solved, new ones will appear. When jackals, tigers and leopards are no longer a threat to our human race, new threats will emerge." It just appeared.”

"Is the new threat food?" Chen Rui asked curiously.

"Yeah." Chen Mo nodded: "Farming at that time was definitely not as good as it is now. Now after the continuous replacement of manure and farm tools, the yield per mu is about 450 kilograms. When my father was young, when he was growing millet, I remember... An acre is about three hundred and sixty kilograms. Let’s put it this way, if I eat one kilogram of grain a day If so, the produce of this acre is probably only enough for me to eat for a year, but the land must be fertile and must not encounter natural or man-made disasters, otherwise I will go hungry, and my father will not eat more than one pound a day, and there will be food at home. Food, clothing, housing, transportation, and taxes from the court, so to support a family of five, at least Ten acres of fertile farmland. If it is thin farmland, it would require twenty acres or more. However, many families do not actually have that much farmland. Calculated in this way, if one city has ten thousand households, it would require one hundred thousand acres of fertile farmland. , there are now 1,135 recorded county roads in the Han Dynasty. Naturally, there are no There may be tens of thousands of households in each county, and many counties in the border areas may not even have enough households. In the heyday of the Han Dynasty, if calculated as tens of millions of households, it would take 100 billion acres of fertile land to feed these tens of millions of households (100 million acres in ancient times) (100,000), but it can’t all be fertile land, so it may be 400 to 500 billion or more.”

"Father, I understand, the big man's farmland is not enough." Chen Rui suddenly said.

"Enough. According to the current rough calculation data of the Central Plains, plus the fields in Guanzhong and Hebei, the total is more than 600 billion acres. If Yangzhou, Jingzhou, and Yizhou are added, the cultivated land of the Han Dynasty now exceeds one trillion acres!" Chen Moxiao road.

"Then why..." Chen Rui was puzzled.

"When I was a father and a child, my family only had five acres of thin farmland. Life in the village was not good, but it was not the worst either." Chen Mo touched his son's head and said, "Out of ten thousand households, there may be a thousand households that occupy 80,000 acres of fertile land needs to be divided among 9,000 households, so wars often break out before the maximum population that these lands can support is reached.”

"Then why not share it equally?" Chen Rui asked curiously.

"If you cultivate a hundred acres of fertile land by yourself, would you be willing to share it with others?" Chen Mo asked with a smile.

"I don't want to." Xiao Chen Rui affirmed.

"They don't want to either." Chen Mo touched his son's head and said, "The problem actually doesn't end there, but you have to think about the rest of the answers yourself in the future. Thinking about them now is too far away, you just need to Learn the knowledge well and you will be able to verify it one by one in the future.”

"My child understands." Chen Rui nodded and said seriously.

The family no longer dwells on this, and instead talks about some recent interesting things in Luoyang. Such leisurely and joyful days are a rare enjoyment for Chen Mo...