Chapter 3649 One goes down and the other goes up
"However, if we want to relocate nearly 400,000 people within a year, it will be extremely difficult.
A population of 400,000 is not a small number!
I have already gone through a rough budget when I had nothing to do.
If we want to relocate about 400,000 people, the manpower and material resources consumed are even 30% more than the food and grass consumed by mobilizing an army of 400,000 at one time.
If we encounter some unexpected situation again, the highest rate may exceed about 50%."
After listening to the amount estimated by Mr. Liu, Song Qing nodded with a clear expression and took a gentle puff of the dry cigarette he had just lit.
"Third brother, this is inevitable.
Compared with the strong soldiers in the army, the physical convenience of ordinary people is much worse.
For example, if soldiers are lightly armed, they can cover at least fifty miles in a day on a forced march.
It's different for the common people. With their families and their families, they can walk thirty or forty miles a day, which is pretty good.
After all, women and children in the team will definitely hold them back.
This day by day consumes not only time, but also tens of thousands of food!
Every day the people are delayed will consume an additional 400,000 people in food rations!
Third brother, maybe your estimate of more than 50% of the manpower and material resources is a bit conservative!"
Liu Mingzhi smiled and nodded, gently pulling the weeds in his hands, looking up at the farmland ahead and scanning back and forth.
"The combined territories of Dashi Kingdom and Tianzhu Kingdom are so vast. Brother, you also know this."
Song Qing nodded slightly and said loudly: "The combined territories of these two countries are not much worse than the entire territory of our Dalong Celestial Dynasty.
There may even be a few more points."
"Yes, it's not much worse than our Dalong territory.
Compared with the vast territories of these two countries, just relocating about 400,000 people will not play a big role in governing the people's livelihood and government in these two countries.
I want to manage the people's livelihood and civil affairs in the two countries as soon as possible. I must relocate more people.
Regarding this matter, brother, I have thought about it carefully before when I couldn't sleep.
Moreover, I have considered this young master not just once, but six or seven times.
Young Master, I have thought about it over and over again, and estimated it again and again.
Finally, we finally came up with a rough number."
When Song Qing heard this, he immediately exhaled the light smoke in his mouth and turned curiously to look at Mr. Liu who was sitting next to him and pulling weeds.
"How many?"
Young Master Liu frowned with a sad look on his face, and after using his arms to tear off the weeds in his hands with a slight force, he uttered a sentence in a solemn tone.
"Brother, at least three million people need to be relocated!"
After hearing the number that Mr. Liu told him, Song Qing couldn't help but widen his eyes.
"What? Three million people?"
"Brother, there are at least three million people, at least!"
Song Qing furrowed his brows and took a puff of dry smoke. With a complicated expression, he stretched out his hand to grab a few weeds around him and pulled them out vigorously.
"Three million, at least three million.
Third brother, even if all the food in the treasury is emptied, and not a single grain of food is left, it is impossible for us to relocate at least three million people in a short period of time!
If you want to achieve this step, you don't have five or six years, so I'm afraid it's unlikely.
The most critical point is that during these five or six days, we can't just focus on relocating people to the Dashi Kingdom and Tianzhu Kingdom, right?
Our Dalong Celestial Dynasty’s own people’s livelihood and official governance also require development in all aspects.
If most of the money and food in the treasury is used for relocating people for five or six consecutive years, then our Dalong people's livelihood and administration will inevitably be greatly affected.
Third brother, if you really act like this, there will be big chaos in our mainland of Dalong Celestial Dynasty!
Third brother, you are a far-sighted and long-term person.
Brother, I believe that you will definitely not do this."
Liu Mingzhi casually threw away the weeds in his hand that were torn into pieces, and rolled his eyes directly at Song Qing with an annoyed look on his face.
"Aren't you talking nonsense? I would have done such a stupid thing only if my brain was kicked by a donkey, young master."
"Haha, hahaha, as a brother, I think so too."
Young Master Liu opened his arms and stretched his body back and forth twice, then shook the hem of his clothes and sat down cross-legged.
"It is precisely because of this consideration that I asked you, brother.
Compared to wasting a lot of manpower and material resources and relocating people on a large scale, don't you think it would be simpler to let the soldiers continue to marry and have children here?
Looking at it from another perspective, it is not only very simple, but also very cost-effective.”
Song Qing gently rolled his eyes a few times, pondered thoughtfully for a while, and then nodded in agreement.
"Yes, if we do this, it is indeed a very cost-effective thing compared to large-scale relocation of people."
Liu Mingzhi leaned forward slightly and stretched out his hand again to pull off a weed from his feet.
"Brother, brother, I have settled the matter with you before.
Our Dalong has nearly one million soldiers of the Western Expedition, even if only half of them continue to marry wives and have children here.
In one year's time, that's nearly 400,000 newborns!
In three years, there will be more than one million people, and in five years, there will be about two million people.
Brother, you just said that if we want to relocate three million people, it will take at least five or six years to achieve this goal.
In the past five or six years, the manpower and material resources we will need to consume will be an immeasurable amount.
But!
Master, if I let the soldiers continue to marry and have children here, and take concubines and have children, it would be completely different.
The time between the two is also five or six years.
In the former, we need to consume a lot of manpower and material resources.
For the latter, I only need the soldiers to put in a little bit of physical strength and energy on a sudden whim before going to bed at night.
Then, our Dalong can easily obtain more than two million people without spending much money.
Such an obvious contrast, do you think I have any reason not to choose the latter?"
Song Qing pondered for a moment with a strange look on his face, then smiled wryly and took a puff of his cigarette.
"It seems, there seems to be no reason!"
Young Master Liu nodded with a smile, then smiled lightly and held the weeds in his hand in front of his eyes, shaking them back and forth.
"Brother, what I just said is from the perspective of being the king of a country.
Now, let's talk from the perspective of soldiers.
First of all, as Lao Yang said to me before, there are too few women in the land of fireworks and too many soldiers in the army.
There are more wolves and less meat, right?”
Song Qing raised his eyebrows and nodded without hesitation and said one word.
"right!"
"Secondly, it's like what I told you before, brother.
The soldiers are all normal men. They endure something convenient and endure it again and again, but there will always be times when they can't bear it anymore.
Brother, you are also a man. If you are asked not to touch women for three to five days, you will definitely have no objection.
If you don't touch a woman for two or three months, you can grit your teeth and endure it.
But what if it were five or six months without touching a woman?
To be continued...