The issue that Zhao Ziliang focuses on is naturally the issue that officials in Western Qin need to focus on.
Regarding the issue of cotton trial planting, Liu Tiao, Prime Minister of the Government Affairs Council, stated that this matter will be listed as one of the most important priorities in government affairs next year.
Zhao Ziliang asked again: "Prime Minister Liu, as the Prime Minister of the Government Affairs Council, please tell me the policy plan of the Government Affairs Council for next year here today.
I and the heads of other government agencies will listen to it."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
Liu Tiao agreed and said: "The cultivation and promotion of cotton that Your Majesty just mentioned will be one of the priorities of our Government Affairs Council next year.
First, trial planting will be carried out within the Sogdian Protectorate.
The Farmland and Water Conservancy Department will Special officials will be dispatched to take charge of this matter, and official officials will also be dispatched The staff will guide the farmers and teach them how to cultivate, plant, eliminate pests, and conduct correct field management.
After the cotton is harvested, in order to protect the farmers' profits, our government will purchase it at a unified price next year and deliver it to the government-run textile factories. , weaved into cloth Military clothing, shoes, socks, and quilts are first supplied to the military.
Generally speaking, military items are liked by the common people.
When the people are interested, private businessmen will naturally set up textile factories.
At that time, our government gradually The right to purchase cotton is given up, and the price will be left to the market.
The market price is free to float, but the government does not completely ignore it.
Businessmen naturally want to keep the purchase price as low as possible, but farmers’ income needs to be protected.
The government will set the minimum purchase price and the maximum price.
The market price can only be Floating in the middle is the first thing” "Secondly, this year, under the leadership of your Majesty, our Western Qin Army won consecutive battles and successively captured the Protectorate of Kimak, the Protectorate of Yaik, and the Protectorate of Khazar.
In order to completely incorporate these three places into our The territory of Western Qin, the head of our Government Affairs Council next year The big thing is to organize the people to move to these three places.
Of course, the people will not be willing to go to such a far place if they are not familiar with the place without some care and preferential treatment.
We will formulate some measures to allow the people to move.
Take it away" "Third, if we want to have a good harvest, water conservancy facilities must be more perfect and all fields can be irrigated.
Therefore, we will invest more in the construction of water conservancy facilities next year.
In order to prevent floods, we need to continue to build them.
Along the river embankments, we need to clean up the silt in some rivers, and pour the cleaned silt into the fields along the river to make the fields more fertile."
"Fourth, the effect of afforestation in recent years has been revealed.
Populus euphratica, the most common and drought-tolerant tree in the desert, is not very valuable, but it is the easiest to survive.
A large poplar forest can Effectively resist wind and sand, so next year we will continue to plant trees on the edge of deserts, Gobis, and hills, and then gradually push afforestation into the depths of the deserts."
"Fifth, build roads.
Since our territory has extended to the Khazar Protectorate, we should build roads to the Khazar Protectorate, Yaik Protectorate and Kimak Protectorate.
One road leads to Kimak Governorate. , one leads to Khazar, passing through Xian along the way The northern coast of the Sea, the northern coast of the Khazar Sea, and the end of the Crimea seaport cannot be completed in a year or two.
It is estimated that it will take five to ten years to build these roads.
Not only can they be used for military purposes, but also for caravans The speed of travel will also be greatly accelerated.”
"Sixth, continue to encourage industry and commerce.
In recent years, the establishment of a large number of factories and the frequent exchanges of caravans have greatly increased the government's tax revenue, increased the income of the people, and made our Western Qin richer in materials."
Zhao Ziliang expressed his affirmation of Liu Tiao's policy strategy: "Master Liu's policy strategy for next year seems to have been well thought out.
I think it is very good, let's just do it.
What is the number of people who have migrated from the Central Plains in recent years?"
"Back to your Majesty, starting from the twelfth year of Tianbao, due to our Beiting's initiative to introduce refugees and refugees, people from the Central Plains have migrated here every year.
From ten to twenty thousand at the beginning, to seventy or eighty thousand, or even hundreds of thousands, every year.
Basically, the number of people who migrated is increasing every year.
However, starting from the seventeenth year of Tianbao, the number of people who migrated has decreased.
In recent years, it has remained at around 50,000.
This year, the rebellion in the Central Plains was put down, and the number of people who migrated has decreased.
Reduced to thirty-two thousand people.”
Zhao Ziliang asked again: "Master Liu, please calculate how many people can be fed with the current cultivated land area in Western Qin?"
"Our Government Affairs Council has already calculated this issue.
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The current cultivated land area in Western Qin can feed 19 million people.
If the population exceeds 19 million people, there are only two ways to feed these people: First , to open up part of the pastures, grasslands and mountain forests into fertile farmland; secondly, to limit the continued growth of the population.
On the basis of this method, the royal court also ordered strict restrictions on land annexation.
Even if there were more fields in the Western Qin Dynasty, if land annexation was not restricted, The people also don’t have enough land to cultivate.”
Zhao Ziliang nodded and said: "Master Liu mentioned two methods.
I don't think the first method is feasible.
Although converting pastures, grasslands and mountain forests into fields can gain more cultivated area, it will destroy the ecological balance and cause serious problems."
Water and soil erosion will trigger large-scale climate changes over a long period of time.
You will transform grasslands and The mountains and forests have been transformed into fertile fields.
Where will the eagles, birds, wolves, and lions, tigers, leopards and bears in the grassland survive?
Without these top predators in nature, there will be pests, rats and other harmful insects that destroy crops. and the number of animals is overpopulated, then we don’t have to do anything anymore and all we have to do is catch pests and mice.”
"The second method is to limit population growth.
This method has been used in all dynasties and is being used in this dynasty.
However, this method has little effect.
Apart from increasing some tax revenue for the court, it does not have much effect.
Moreover, this method This will cause the poorer you are, the less you can afford to have children, and the richer you are, the more you can have children.
So although this method has some effects, it is not very effective.
Your Government Affairs Council should also think more about this aspect and see what kind of decrees can be issued to effectively suppress the population. rapid growth” "In addition, the problem of poor people who cannot afford wives is also particularly serious.
Most people in this world dislike poverty and love wealth.
Women have to look for rich men to find husbands.
Even many soldiers in the army cannot find wives. , where have all the women gone?
As far as I know, there are actually more women than men in our Western Qin, but why are there so many men who cannot marry a wife?
A man can never marry a wife in his life.
This Isn’t it the saddest thing?
Don’t the government have any responsibility?”
"The bad social atmosphere is a big problem.
Wherever the women go, they go to the homes of the rich and powerful.
It is extremely bad for rich families to marry dozens or even dozens of people from the upper class of society.
These rich and powerful people The family married off all the women, leaving The people at the bottom of society have no women to marry, and they have occupied all the land, leaving the people at the bottom of society with no land to farm.
For a short period of time, the people can tolerate it, but as time goes by, when they can't bear it anymore, then they will forget it.
When doing the general ledger” "Do you think that the Anshi Rebellion can last for so many years just because of the rotten people An Lushan and his son and Shi Siming and his son?
It's absolutely not the case.
They are just the initiators.
The people of the Central Plains can't stand it anymore.
They want to change their way of life. , this is the direct reason” "So I'm here to warn some people, don't be too greedy.
If you make it difficult for the people to live, you just want to destroy the foundation of my rule and you are at odds with me.
I will never let you have an easy time with the entire Western Qin society. level Such a relationship must be formed at all levels: servants, maids, and servants are loyal to their masters; wives and concubines are loyal to their husbands, and children are filial to their parents and teachers; clerks, long-term and short-term workers are loyal to their employers and shopkeepers; subordinates are responsible to the officials; officials are loyal to the royal court and their local government.
King; I am loyal to the people; the people love their country and their families and pay taxes to the court; the court collects taxes to protect the lives and property of the people.
This should be the relationship between the grassroots levels of Xiqing society.
Do you all understand?
This is the responsibility of my king.
Give a hundred My surnames live a good life and protect Western Qin from foreign aggression.
Your responsibility is to be loyal to me and do your official duties well.
If you can't do it well, you will step down and leave.
If I can't do it well, I, the king, will do your best.
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It’s as simple as abdicating one’s position and giving way to someone more worthy.”
After hearing Zhao Ziliang's remarks, the officials began to talk in low voices.
Many people felt that although these remarks were a bit harsh, they actually made sense when they thought about it carefully.
The imperial court collected taxes from the people, so shouldn't they protect the people?
The safety of our lives and property is the same as paying someone to protect ourselves, but the person being hired is replaced by the court.
Zhao Ziliang's remarks at the court meeting were quickly summarized and compiled by the relevant yamen of the Government Affairs Council and published in the imperial newspaper, and then sent to governmental offices all over the Western Qin Dynasty.
After reading them, many scholars in various places praised Zhao Ziliang's wisdom and wisdom.
Zhao Ziliang looked at the crowd and continued: "In addition to increasing the head tax, I think there is another way to solve the survival problems caused by population growth, and that is to put aside the issue of outward expansion for now.
The Government Affairs Council wants Formulate measures to solve the problem of more than one million single men in Western Qin being unable to get married; the issue of restricting land annexation is also an urgent issue that the Government Affairs Council needs to solve at present, because we This problem already exists in our Western Qin Dynasty.
We must not let this problem become more serious, and we must not leave this old and difficult problem to future generations, because this is a big problem that will shake the foundation of the country, and no one can Just wait and see Liu Tiao, your Government Affairs Council must come up with practical and effective measures as soon as possible.
First write it down for Ben Wan to see, and then let the government, the opposition and various localities discuss it."
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