Valley Emperor

The nineteenth year of Xuanping was destined not to be an unusual year not only for the empire, but even for the whole world!

This year, the DPRK Newspaper Division under the Ministry of Rites of the Tang Dynasty has become the busiest department. Every day, they worry about how to choose the right ones from the many big news and put them on the front pages. After all, what news should be What page is on, that is a major issue, it represents the official direct statement, and it cannot be posted indiscriminately.

In the nineteen years of Xuanping, many major events broke out at the same time. The introduction is of course the large-scale application of trains and ships, etc., but these are just an introduction. The changes that have occurred are an explosion after the empire's nearly twenty years of reform and development in all aspects of politics, military, economy, education, science and technology!

This great change is the inevitable result of historical development!

When the Tang Dynasty rises and carries out many reforms, this kind of thing is bound to happen!

Now, it's just for people to see!

In the past few years, people may also be able to feel the changes in the land of China, but the overall feeling is not very obvious. For most people of the empire, in fact, China under the Tang Dynasty is different from the traditional feudal dynasties. There isn't much difference below.

The vast majority are farmers, who still farm, pay taxes, serve, and, except for a very few, still don't leave the village where they've lived all their lives to go outside and see how the world has changed.

Those who can really feel the great changes in China are still living in cities, especially cities in developed industrial and commercial areas, such as Shanghai.

People who work and live in Shanghai should be most able to feel the great changes in this society. Countless wastelands have been turned into factories, and people from all over the country have flocked to Shanghai, which is a peculiar modern city.

In the nineteenth year of Xuanping, even ordinary people could feel that earth-shaking changes were taking place in the land where they lived.

Their feelings may not be too comprehensive, but they will feel it to a certain extent. For example, the water conservancy construction has entered this year, and the construction of water conservancy facilities in many places has been completed.

These water conservancy facilities are not all super projects such as the Hongze Lake Flood Control Embankment, the Yangtze River and the Yellow River Embankment. In fact, more of them are small water conservancy facilities in the countryside, mainly irrigating farmland.

After several years of construction, most of the places have completed the tasks given by the above, and the basic water conservancy facilities in the jurisdiction have been completed. Maybe some places are just mere formalities, and some places are not perfect, but in general, This water conservancy construction, which has spread across the country, has achieved great results.

One of the most obvious proofs is that during the nineteen years of Xuanping, the country was actually not very good. The good rainfall in many places was insufficient, and there were heavy rainstorms in some places. The empire is so big, there will always be There are some places where the weather is more or less unusual.

However, these climatic changes did not affect the empire's food production too much.

According to the report of the Ministry of Agriculture, in the 19 years of Xuanping, there have been no major disasters such as the loss of grain production in any part of the country. It has become the first-class field, which also further increases the grain output.

In the 19th year of Xuanping, the collection of "agricultural tax" according to the Ministry of Taxation will increase by about 5% compared with last year.

But don’t underestimate this 5%. You must know that the agricultural tax of the empire is basically fixed. Since there is an increase, it means that more arable land has been developed, or ordinary inferior fields have become superior. field.

Because the agricultural tax is not levied according to the proportion of grain output, but according to the number of fields, it cannot truly reflect the changes in grain output.

However, the news reported by the Datang Grain Corporation is enough to reflect the changes in the grain output of the empire.

During the autumn harvest of the 19th year of Xuanping, the branches in several provinces under the Datang Grain Corporation urgently asked the head office for help.

Why ask for help?

Because the branches in various places found that the funds prepared to purchase food were insufficient!

Datang Grain Corporation, as the largest grain merchant in the Datang Empire, has always firmly implemented the policy of grain price stabilization, and used measures such as harvesting and releasing grain to balance grain prices.

This year's grain production has increased a bit. Even though some grain branches have realized that the increase in grain production will lead to a bumper harvest and have prepared huge amounts of money in advance, they still did not expect that grain production would increase to this level.

Especially in the two provinces of Huguang, the data reported by the grain company showed that the grain output in the Huguang area was 20% higher than last year. The local population obviously could not digest so much grain. Take out the food for sale!

Ordinary grain merchants are not fools. They have known for a long time that the grain has been harvested. They are willing to receive grain at the price of last year, and they are not even willing to receive grain at the lowest price in the grain price range set by the local grain company!

According to their expectations, if this is collected, how much will it be lost!

Ordinary grain merchants don’t dare to receive it. Those farmers naturally swarmed the grain to the door of the grain company. In order to stabilize the price of grain, the price of grain in disaster years will not rise, and the price of grain in good years will not drop. Datang Grain Corporation Has it always been firm to collect or release grain according to the price range set by itself, and it is the kind that does not set an upper limit.

However, there was a lot of grain harvested, and there was also a big problem with this fund reserve. In the end, I had to ask the head office for help!

Of course, Datang Grain Corporation has a big business, and it has countless grains and cash in its hands at any time, and Datang Grain Corporation is actually very profitable.

When they buy grain from grain-producing areas, they are all collected at a relatively low price range, and when they are transported to grain-consuming areas, they are often sold at a higher range of grain prices. In this process, although the freight is relatively large, The profit is not high, but it can't stand the large amount of others!

Over the years, Datang Grain Corporation has made a lot of money every year. In addition to paying taxes in the business process, it also handed in a lot of extra profits.

Therefore, even if there is a bumper harvest year in the Huguang area, which has caused great pressure on the local branch, it is nothing in the entire Datang Grain Corporation. After a large amount of money has been mobilized, it continues to open up to purchase grain!

Some of these purchased grains will be shipped to other places for sale, especially in grain-deficient areas, and some of them will be refined and made into various products. For example, winemaking is a major business of Datang Grain Corporation.

Another part will be collected into the grain reserve warehouse as part of the imperial grain strategic reserve.

There are a lot of grain storage warehouses established by Datang Grain Corporation all over the country. It is only the strategic storage warehouse in Jinling City. The grain stored in it is enough to feed the hundreds of thousands of people in the entire Jinling City area. year!

The increase in grain production is enough to show that the empire's water conservancy construction that has lasted for several years has achieved remarkable results!

When Li Xuan saw the relevant reports from Datang Grain Corporation and other departments, he knew that although the great strategic goal of making the people of the whole country full of food was still far away, he had already seen a glimmer of light.

At least, in the past few years, there has been no large-scale famine in the empire!

Of course, it's just that there are no large-scale famine events, and the people in many places are still hungry.

Li Xuan is very clear about this, but he is also very helpless. In the era of no chemical fertilizers and no hybrid rice, it is not easy to feed more than 160 million people. To eat a full meal every day, to be honest, this is a bit difficult.

At least with the technical capabilities of the current Datang Empire, it cannot be achieved.

After all, there is a huge difference between keeping the people of the country from starving to death on a large scale, and keeping the people of the whole country full every day meet this standard.

What's more, since the reunification of the empire, because there is no influence of war, the population growth rate has gradually accelerated in accordance with the ancient tradition, and this growth rate is even faster than the development rate of arable land.

According to the census just completed by the Ministry of Households, the population of the empire has reached more than 160 million.

The household census started in the fifteenth year of Xuanping, but due to many troubles such as backward transportation and communication, it was barely completed until the nineteenth year of Xuanping. In fact, many of the data were not fully prepared, and a considerable part of It is based on speculation and mathematical calculations, especially for the population statistics of remote mountainous areas~www.wuxiaspot.com~ is actually very difficult.

Almost all of the 160 million people live in the local area, while the total population living in several overseas territories is less than 500,000, and the total population living in the colonies is only more than 100,000.

Among them, Ryukyu Prefecture has the largest number of immigrants. The registered population is about 200,000. However, among these 200,000 people, more than 100,000 are naturalized Fuso women. The real permanent population is actually not that many. Just tens of thousands.

Fuso women are naturalized in the empire through formal channels, usually in Dasumi County, Ryukyu Prefecture. At the same time, these Fuso women are only registered here, and the place where they live and live is in the mainland.

Moreover, many people have actually moved their household registration to the location of their Huaxia husband or in other parts of the country. These more than 100,000 people are just Fusang women whose household registration still remains in Dayu County.

Over the years, the total number of Fusang women who have been naturalized in the Datang Empire from various channels should have exceeded 300,000 people.

These 300,000 people are almost all young women of childbearing age, making many single dogs in the country shout Long Live the Empire!