Da Qin: The First Emperor was reborn and made me the crown prince at the beginning

Chapter 340

However, now that Li Si is the prime minister, the position of the prime minister of Daqin Zuo is vacant.

In this case, it is natural that someone needs to replace this position.

In this regard, Yingchen thought about it a little and had a candidate.

During the Qin and Han dynasties, there were two existences that could be called ancient and bright in the feudal history of two thousand years.

Lees counts as one.

The other, of course, is Xiao He, who single-handedly created the 400-year-old Han Dynasty with Liu Bang!

And now, Xiao He is the governor of South Vietnam of Great Qin!

In the past two years, under Xiao He's governance, the entire southern Guangdong region has developed rapidly.

Today, from the Nanling Mountains in the north to the Red River Valley in the south, hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of land have been basically included in the rule of Great Qin.

The people here learn the Qin language, learn the official book, and learn the "370" of the Great Qin.

It can be said that by now, there is no difference between them and the people of Great Qin in the Central Plains.

In addition to strengthening Great Qin's control over the land of Nanyue, Xiao He also added a lot of his own understanding to Yingchen's policy.

Think about what a talented hero Xiao He is!

Speaking of which, compared with Xiao He, Li Si may be a step behind in terms of ability.

And in terms of character, there is no way to compare.

It's just that whether Yingzheng or Yingchen is Yingchen, they all value Li Si's ability more, and they also boast that they can handle this person.

More importantly, Li Si has made a great contribution to Daqin's domination of the world.

In this case, it is enough to save Li Si from dying.

Because Li Si's many contributions are not only to Great Qin, but also to this land for more than 2,000 years or even beyond.

Therefore, with Xiao He's governance, in less than two years, the land of Nanyue has reclaimed 10 million acres of fertile land in the plains of the Pearl River Delta.

More than 10 million acres of fertile land have been reclaimed in the Red River Valley.

And the land of South Vietnam, which grows three times a year, is enough to feed tens of millions of people if it is thoroughly developed.

What's more, under Yingchen's deliberate prompting, Xiao He found the Champa rice that was not found until the Song Dynasty in the land of Nanyue!

The introduction of Champa rice can be described as a leap in the history of our national agriculture.

This effect may be second only to or possibly equal to the subsequent introduction of high-yielding crops such as sweet potatoes, potatoes and corn from the Americas.

Compared to our native rice.

Champa rice has four extremely outstanding advantages!

One is drought tolerance, which means that even in places with less rain, it can be planted.

Second, it is adaptable and born regardless of location.

This means that Champa rice can be grown on relatively poor land.

Third, the growth period is short, only more than 50 days from planting to harvesting.

That's a big deal.

It is precisely because of this characteristic that we can now grow rice three times a year in the areas south of Liangguang and Liangguang.

It is because compared to our native rice, the growth cycle of Champa rice is very short!

Of course, in addition to the above three advantages, there is one of the most important advantages.

The yield of Champa rice is also far higher than that of our native rice.

Combined, these advantages allow us to feed more people in our land.

Before the Song Dynasty, the total population of our land has never been able to exceed 100 million.

For example, at the peak of the Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty, it had a population of 60 million.

And once this limit is reached, and at the same time, the court is decaying, and the nobles of the family are tyrannical, and the people basically begin to rebel.

This phenomenon, even the Sui Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty did not avoid it! (Read violent novels, just go to Feilu Fiction Network!) ）

The Sui Dynasty came into the hands of Yang Guang, with a population of more than 50 million, and because Yang Guang was too anxious to do things, it was finally overthrown by internal and external forces.

In the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty, the population of the Tang Dynasty basically reached 80 million.

This is beyond the predecessors, in addition to the fact that the territory of the Tang Dynasty was far superior to that of the previous dynasties, there were also factors that allowed the development of productive forces when the Tang Dynasty arrived.

However, in the later period of Tang Xuanzong, after the population reached its limit, the Anshi Rebellion broke out.

In later generations, this was called the Malthusian Trap!

The basis of the theory is that population growth is in a geometric progression, and subsistence resources are only increasing in an arithmetic progression.

The increase in the population must always be eliminated in some way, and the population cannot exceed the corresponding level of agricultural development.

In a word, if the number of people exceeds the limits of what the productivity of the land can bear, then various factors must arise to finally eliminate these populations. 0

This is a very cruel theory, but it has been proven by countless dynasties in ancient and modern times.

And this simple cognition was also said by our sages very early.

Heaven is constant. Not for Yao. Not for the sake of ruin!

The person who said this is none other than the Confucian celestial, Xunzi!

Of course, Xunzi's cognition is naturally not as profound as Malthus.

But he also said that the rise and fall of a dynasty sometimes really doesn't have much to do with the quality of the king.

For example, Liu Xie, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, is actually not bad, if he does not encounter the chaos in the late Eastern Han Dynasty and is a king of success, it is not a big problem.

And Chongzhen.

Although Chongzhen had a lot of problems, this was not the result of his complete confusion at that time.

In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, it was impossible for Chongzhen to lose the country.

No matter how bad Chongzhen is, it will not be worse than Zhu Qizhen of Ming Yingzong.

Zhu Qizhen first lost 500,000 elites of the Ming Dynasty in the First War, and even Zhang Fu, an old minister of the Three Dynasties, died in this battle.

and then killed Yu Qian, a loyal minister through the ages.

It can only be said that the Ming Dynasty at that time had a strong foundation, so 3.8 Zhu Qizhen was able to survive by doing this.

And in Chongzhen's hands, ten years and ten years of famine, there is really no way.

And the emergence of Champa rice is simply an epoch-making discovery for our nation.

Because of the emergence of Champa rice, the population of our land can exceed 10,000 for the first time!

In the six years of Xuanhe before the Jingkang Rebellion, there were 23.4 million households and 126 million people in the Northern Song Dynasty!

If the population of the Liao Dynasty and Western Xia is added, it should reach more than 140 million.

Zhancheng rice, great merit!

And the large population is also the key to our nation's ability to repeatedly rise from the trough.

People and land are the foundation of a country's prosperity!

Singapore, it's not much better to kill!.