Chapter 12 There is a problem with the foundation of Daqin
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Compared with later generations, the population of Guanzhong at this time can be described as sparse, and the farmers on the roadside were farming with sweat.
A cavalry in black clothes and armor roared past, and a carriage followed behind the cavalry at a high speed.
"Wait a moment!"
Zhao Wen, who had stopped riding in a carriage since leaving the royal manor and instead learned to ride a horse with the Black Ice Platform Guards, raised his hand and shouted.
I jumped off my horse and looked towards the field. I saw an old man pulling a plow with two children in front, and an old woman supporting me from behind, plowing the ground with great difficulty.
"Old man, can you come over here?"
The old man pulling the plow stopped, wiped his sweat and walked towards the roadside. Qin's law was very strict. In this land of Guanzhong, there was really no such thing as aristocrats bullying the people, so there was no fear on the old man's face towards the group of people.
"Sir, what's the matter?" Heiyi jumped off the horse and asked in a low voice.
"They use wooden plows, which is too laborious. Why not use metal ones? And can't animals be used to pull the plows?"
Zhao Wen frowned and asked Hei in confusion—this is Guanzhong, which can be said to be the richest place in the world. It is like this. God knows what it will be like in the other six countries.
As the prince of Da Qin, Zhao Wen already regarded Da Qin as his, and since he met him, he naturally wanted to ask questions.
"Metal must be supplied to the army first, and the price is too expensive. Only a very small number of wealthy families can use it. As for livestock farming, the same is true. There are too few farming cattle and ordinary people cannot afford it!"
Hei Bingtai is not only the guard of the Qin Royal Family, but also an intelligence agency. Hei Yi naturally knows these issues.
When he came out, His Majesty the Emperor had confessed that he could tell everything that the Twenty Prince wanted to know, so he also explained it to Zhao Wen.
Zhao Wen nodded. In the past, when the seven kingdoms fought, it was a matter of life and death. Naturally, the military came first.
He remembered that later Yingzheng collected the weapons of the six countries and cast twelve giant golden figures. This was simply a waste to the extreme.
It would be great if you could cast all this metal into farm tools to increase productivity. What else would it do to turn it into a gold man besides showing off your majesty?
If he hadn't come out once, no one would have told him this.
Zhao Wen had secretly decided in his heart that he must suggest to the First Emperor that all the excess weapons from the six countries should be cast into agricultural tools.
Although the Qin Dynasty has now unified the six countries, in Zhao Wen's opinion, the combined population of the seven countries is probably less than 30 million.
Such a big place, but only a few people, is simply the biggest waste.
As the future ruler of this land, increasing the population is definitely the top priority.
To increase the population, you need enough land and food. You can't feed many people using wooden farm tools.
"Hello, husband!" Seeing that the old man had come over, Zhao Wen gave a gentle salute to the old man and asked with a smile on his face: "My husband, why are you not doing this kind of work at your age instead of young people working in the fields?
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According to Zhao Wenji, rice and wheat have not yet been planted in large quantities, let alone corn and potatoes.
In this era, what is grown in the fields is millet, and the yield is extremely low. One acre of land weighs only a few dozen kilograms. A family often has to cultivate dozens of acres of land to produce enough food for the whole family.
Using wooden farm tools to cultivate so much land is definitely a very hard task. This kind of thing should definitely be done by young people!
"The old man's four sons are all in the army. If I don't do the work in the fields, who will do it?"
The old man looked proud. Now that the Qin Dynasty has unified the world, it is the time when the people of the Qin Dynasty are the most arrogant. Not to mention that the old man has four sons in the Qin army.
"Thank you for letting me know. Now that the war is over, your sons are coming back soon. Good times are coming soon. I want to congratulate you first!"
As he spoke, Zhao Wen took out a small piece of gold and handed it to the old man and said: "I am Zhao Wen, the twentieth son of His Majesty the Emperor of the Qin Dynasty. Four of your sons are in the army. They are definitely heroes of my Qin Dynasty. This is what I give to you.
Take it from your grandson and make him a good set of clothes!"
In this era, the nobles and ordinary people were completely on two different levels, and there was no contact between them at all.
The Qin Dynasty was a little better. It had a military merit conferment system, and the people at the bottom had a way to rise. In the other six countries, everything was hereditary.
Now the foundation of Da Qin is the Qin people. As the prince of Da Qin, it is almost instinctive for Zhao Wen to build a good reputation among ordinary people.
Ignoring the excited family members who were kneeling behind him, Zhao Wen directly mounted his horse and left surrounded by a group of Black Ice Platform guards.
"Master, what's the matter?" Hei Yi asked strangely when he saw Zhao Wen's serious expression since he got on the horse.
"I discovered a fatal flaw in Da Qin!"
Zhao Wen sighed softly. Since he knew that Heiyi came from Heibingtai and was sent to him by the First Emperor, Zhao Wen naturally knew that in addition to protecting himself, the other party must also have the responsibility to monitor him and put everything about him
Report to the First Emperor at any time.
There are some things that are absolutely inconvenient for me to say, but someone from Heibingtai can report them through another channel.
"The foundation of our Great Qin is the Qin people in Guanzhong, but now even the old man with four sons does not have any children around him, so he has to work in the fields himself. From this alone, you can think of the hard work of the Qin people!"
"There is no way, these are troubled times. We have won the battle, and the people's lives can be a little better. The people in the other six countries have a harder time than us Qin people!" Seeing Zhao Wen just sighing, Hei Yi also said casually.
"But after so many years of war, the people of Qin are already exhausted, and a large number of young people are outside. How can the population increase? Without a sufficient number of Qin people, how can we stabilize the world in the future!"
Zhao Wenke remembered that when the Qin Dynasty was about to fall, the Great Wall Army still had hundreds of thousands of troops defending the Huns, and South Vietnam also had hundreds of thousands of troops left.
These are all Qin people. On the contrary, the people in the places where the Six Kingdoms surrendered have stabilized. This also caused the selectors of the Six Kingdoms to crush the Qin in terms of the number of troops at the end of the Qin Dynasty.
Yingzheng was an impatient person, wishing that he could finish hundreds of years of work in one generation, and among them, the people of Qin were the ones who suffered the most.
After listening to Zhao Wen's words, Hei Yi and all the Hei Bingtai guards suddenly changed their expressions when they thought about the consequences of continuing like this.
"Then how do you think we should solve it?" Hei Yi remembered it. His Majesty had told him when he left that he would report everything about the twenty princes to him.
Even from the news coming from the Black Ice Platform, he also knew that no matter how busy His Majesty was, he would take time to read the news he reported every day.
Now that the prince said this, he naturally wanted to tell His Majesty something through himself!