Time flies, and half a year passes in a blink of an eye.

In the past six months, there have been great changes for the entire Jiangnan and western regions.

Since half a year ago, Jiangnan was completely unified and military power was taken down, Zuo Luo cleared out the elderly, weak, sick and disabled in the defenders and placed them in the local area for elderly care and farming, leaving only less than 100,000 young and strong people.

A group of people were then recruited to keep the number at 150,000.

In a county, 150,000 troops are not too much, and it is easy to supply.

Of course, this is just a regular force, and there are their own defenders in various places.

The first census has also come out.

There are more than 21 million people in the entire Jiangnan.

Of course, this must be inaccurate. There must be many people who have not been counted, or who have entered the deep mountains and forests because of hiding from war, or who have children from high-ranking families, and have dead soldiers. The actual population will only be larger.

Of course, there were not so many people in Jiangnan, but over the years, many people have come from Jiangbei, and other counties and counties. There have been so many people in the middle of the journey.

Those who came from Zuo Luolai refused to accept them, and they accepted them all, registered them and recognized them as legal citizens.

It just so happened that he had gathered a large amount of unowned land in his hands, requiring a lot of labor, which could be distributed to them for cultivation.

However, the land belongs to the city, and they only have the right to cultivate and cannot trade.

This is to prevent land annexation.

If you farm for me and then pay taxes according to law, it is equivalent to changing someone else to be a tenant farmer, but this land will not be taken back at will, and it will not exploit farmers like the landlord, and say that they will not plant them, so they will not plant them if they do not plant them.

For ordinary people, they don’t need to pay rent, they just need to pay a little tax. Where can I find such a good thing!

They were tenants, and the land mainly collected 70% of the land, and the remaining 30% were used to deduct various taxes and labor service. Throughout the year, it was just a difficult time to make a living, and it was difficult to guarantee food and clothing.

Now only 15% of the tax is required to obtain land for free. Each farmer regards Zuo Luo, the King of Jiangnan, as an immortal who has descended to the earth, especially when he heard that he is known as the King of Immortals, he believes it even more deeply. He is an immortal who has descended to the mortal world to save suffering.

Many people even provide him with immortality rankings at home.

After being in charge of Jiangnan for a year, ordinary people have no longer resisted the registration and creation of the book.

They concealed the population because in the past, the tax collection was based on the population. One more person would require a lot of taxes. But now it is different. More people can use more land to cultivate, and population and welfare are equal. At this time, naturally no one is willing to conceal it.

There were three people in your family who concealed that one could only cultivate ten acres of land, but if you didn’t conceal, you could have fifteen acres of land. How to choose is naturally clear at a glance.

The wealthy families look down on those little profits, but Zuo Luo doesn't need to know exactly how many people there are.

It's just to know how many are generally there.

The rich indeed concealed part of the population, and they did not look down on the benefits he gave, but how many of them were? Relatively speaking, the most were the ordinary people at the bottom.

He just needs to have their information.

A year passed, a decree he issued began to gradually take effect.

In order to increase the population, he issued laws to encourage childbirth.

Every newborn must register with the local government and receive subsidies from the government.

At the beginning, many people were skeptical, but after more and more people actually received it, they believed it.

There are not many things, just one tael of silver, a little cloth, and a little rice and grain. The total sum is about two taels of silver.

It is indeed not much for Zuo Luo, but for an ordinary family, with these, they will not be unable to raise their children after giving birth.

If you just eat and drink, the rice and food consumed by a family of five will be about four taels a year. In addition to the others, all of them will consume less than ten taels. The income of a family of five may be about ten taels a year.

Therefore, two liang is really a lot.

Moreover, this reward itself is an unexpected surprise. Even if they don’t have it, they should have a child, but with this funding, the newborns are guaranteed to survive.

Because he was worried that some people would use this as a means of making money, Zuo Luo also specifically stipulated the crime of abandoning children, and the punishment was quite serious.

Children who die prematurely need to go to the government to report.

In short, the relevant laws and regulations still involve all aspects.

After the registration and system was formed, the monthly population growth and natural death were summarized, and he could see the changes in the population at a glance.

The population census is just the first step.

Population growth will inevitably lead to greater demand for food.

It is not obvious yet, but it is clear that the consequences of encouraging childbirth in the real world are like that. Of course, he knows that when the newborns grow up, the gap in food will only grow bigger and bigger.

Jiangnan is a hometown of grain production, but it is still too difficult for one county in Jiangnan to support four counties. If there is a problem, it will be even more difficult to deal with it. Therefore, the problem must be fundamentally solved.

First of all, the seeds must be increased. The hybridization technology is ready-made in reality and does not require him to speak out. Wheat, rice, and various related technologies have been sent to him. They can be applied only if they need to be practiced here.

Then there is the function of fertilizer.

There is still only the most primitive manure irrigation here, but how much manure can there be?

And the way of making feces is very useful.

These methods, in modern society, will appear in a large number of them after searching online, so they are not a problem.

With just these two, the grain production can be quadrupled.

It solved the food problem of ordinary people, but Zuo Luo began to worry about other things.

He selected a new type of force to teach them in the training method of modern special forces, and at the same time taught them foreign kung fu, specializing in the practice of horizontal training. This is a group of gold-swalking beasts.

It’s easy to say that there are many related medicinal herbs, so there is no shortage of anything. But they are really good at eating, and the big eaters still eat spiritual rice.

In this way, Luocheng planted himself was not enough. He urgently needed to open up a new spiritual field, but it took too long to open and transform the spiritual field now.

The total amount of spiritual energy between heaven and earth is numerous, and it increases all the time, but because it is distributed in different places, some places are rich and some places will become thin.

For example, there are few people absorbed in the wilderness, and there are many trees in the wild, with rare treasures in the world, so the spiritual energy should be even more intense.

What Zuo Luo had to do was to gather the excess spiritual energy of heaven and earth in other places and artificially create places with rich spiritual energy.

It is not an easy thing to sort out the spiritual veins and gather spiritual energy.

Of course, Zuo Luo didn't want to do this when he got angry.

He had already thought about these things a year ago, but he had no time and was only starting to prepare for them now.

Luocheng is now under construction, and he doesn't need him. He just needs to go back every once in a while, use up the accumulated medicinal materials and help others break through to the innate world. With Xiaobai around and within the Jiangnan area, he can go back soon.

To sort out the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is like building a dam to store water. First, you need to establish a transit station to gather the spiritual energy of heaven and earth around you, and then transport it to a designated place. This requires a transportation pipeline.

To transport spiritual energy in heaven and earth, the pipeline is of course not a real existence. This requires him to construct an illusory spiritual energy channel with inscriptions.

There are six prefectures and thirty-four counties in the south of the Yangtze River, countless large and small towns, with a population of more than 20 million.

Of course, such a place is extremely vast, and the land is vast and sparsely populated, it’s just a talk.

Although Jiangnan has a population of more than 20 million, its area is larger than the three provinces in the real world.

But many places are plains, hills, pristine jungles, and swamps.

Of course, it is not a matter of overnight completion.

Now Luocheng's development has been on track, and the exploration of the ocean is deepening step by step, and investment is increasing.

Something will be shipped back from the sea every once in a while.

So he needs his army to become stronger and the warships will be built as soon as possible. This will take time and you can't even be anxious. He might as well do what he has to do first.

As long as the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is sorted out, he will have the final say whether it will be windy or rainy in the future.

The maturity time of various crops can also be greatly improved with the blessing of spiritual energy.

But this will not affect anything. It just uses the excess spiritual energy and mobilizes it from the wild to humans' living areas.

The biggest impact is that it will be difficult for strange beasts to appear in the wild in the future.

However, he had already raised a strange beast himself and didn't care about these things at all.

Nanyang City and Luocheng are used as the two largest points, just like the two eyes of Yin and Yang.

Next are six major prefectures and six large gathering points, and the thirty-three counties below are medium-sized. Taiping County is covered by Luocheng, so it is not necessary.

Then, small gathering points are established around the county town in a surrounding area.

Just like a big net, the entire Jiangnan is enveloped, and these gathering points are nodes.

It sounds simple, but it is certainly not an easy thing to do.

Even Zuo Luo himself doesn't know how many years it will take to finish this matter.

But it is obvious that most of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth are gathered in the prefectures, county and other places. The spiritual energy of heaven and earth is rich, and those who are in it can achieve twice the result with half the effort in practicing.

One or two is inconspicuous, and it’s nothing in a year or two, but over time, the overall level of all warriors in Jiangnan will definitely make a leap.

Moreover, when you are in a place with rich spiritual energy, it becomes easier to practice and the consumption of resources will be reduced.

For example, it was originally costing one thousand taels to reach the innate world, but now it may only cost eight hundred taels or seven hundred taels. As the spiritual energy of heaven and earth becomes more and more intense in the future, this consumption will be further reduced.
Chapter completed!