The names and cognitions of locusts are not very clear, so some errors are inevitable. However, judging from this numerical value, locust disasters were actually very frequent in ancient China.

The earliest locusts were mainly concentrated in the Shandong Peninsula. Several major locust plagues before the Spring and Autumn Period all came from the Shandong Peninsula. Fei Qian believes that because the entire climate in ancient times was relatively mild and humid, only that area in Shandong was affected by river impacts and tidal flat structures.

, causing the water level to drop during a drought, and then the basic conditions for a locust plague appeared.

Later, due to climate change, the Little Ice Age came again and again, causing the area that was originally the Daze Wetland to gradually dry up. Therefore, during this period, the locusts developed very rapidly. At the same time, the locust plague's origin gradually spread to the north and south.

It is no longer limited to the Shandong Peninsula.

Fei Qian stood in front of the general office, looked up at the sky, and sighed slightly.

This is a locust problem, but it is also a land problem.

To put it more bluntly, this is a matter of interests.

There is a joke in later generations: when I was a child, I had no money to eat instant noodles, but when I grow up, I still have no money to eat instant noodles.

The Moonlight Clan is not only found in later generations, but has existed since the beginning of China. No matter which dynasty they are in, the people at the bottom are in a state of "moonlight" or "yearlight". They have worked hard all their lives, and then given

The family ate, drank, and used it, but nothing was left behind. Well, maybe it wasn’t all that was left behind. There were many who were left with a lot of debt...

This kind of "moonlight" class without any savings is very dangerous and has no ability to withstand disasters. Once it encounters a natural disaster or a man-made disaster, it will immediately fall apart and its wives and children will be separated.

Take the locust plague as an example. Because of the locust plague, the harvest of crops failed, or even no grains were harvested. This then led to the collapse of the entire chain that was originally barely maintained. The money owed to the young crops and the loan sharks were not repaid, so they either left their hometowns and became refugees, or

When they had no choice but to rebel, and because they had nothing to eat, whether it was wandering or fighting, the old and the weak were the first to die. Once the corpses were not disposed of in time, it was very easy to cause a plague, which would then be taken to other areas and eventually sweep across the country...

Unlike the emperor who became nervous and anxious whenever he heard about locust plagues, droughts and floods, the large landowners generally did not panic when faced with these disasters. As long as they were controlled within a certain range, they would not trigger a full-scale uncontrollable war.

The big landlord class even wishes that there would be famine every year!

Because only in disaster years will these untouchables sell their land! And every piece of grain accumulated by the big landowners can be sold for gold price in disaster years!

Therefore, a very strange pattern emerged in the Chinese feudal dynasties. Once such a disaster occurred, ministers immediately began to criticize the emperor or political opponents, saying that it was the other party's fault, and then asked the emperor to provide money for disaster relief.

Local taxes were exempted, but the big landowners and local officials profited from it, and everyone was full of food.

Fei Qian had reason to believe that spreading rumors and campaigning against Cai Yan and others was only the first step. Immediately afterwards, the children of the noble clans who had been affected by the disaster began to cry and make trouble, carrying the victims and asking Fei Qian to provide money, people and food.

To provide disaster relief, they can then take the largest portion of food and grass and make the thinnest porridge. On the one hand, they can maintain the lowest survival line of these victims and prevent them from starving to death on a large scale or gathering to make trouble;

Taking this opportunity, Feiqian was finally distributed to the fields in the hands of various farmers, and they were obtained in various ways!

Over the years, Fei Qian has led his soldiers to conquer the north and south. Quite a few soldiers have converted their military exploits into farmland in their families. There are many such households in the North and Guanzhong, and these military exploits have been converted into farmland.

The land can still be bought and sold. Even if the sale will cause it to lose the preferential tax of military field, it will not change the use value of the field...

But a thorny problem is that Feiqian cannot do everything for these soldiers, nor can they provide protection beyond the standard.

Because human nature is often lazy and greedy.

Naughty children are not only found in wealthy families.

When the second and third generations of soldiers emerge as naughty children, Fei Qian's protection and help for the soldiers will trigger resentment and cowardice, just like the land equalization in the Tang Dynasty and the soldiers' households in the Ming Dynasty.

The Tang Dynasty restored the land equalization system, and it was in the name of the state that the land could not be bought and sold, but in fact it was quickly corroded and riddled with holes. In the later period, it became a drawback of the Tang Dynasty. There were many powerful people with connections.

They can obtain land through various methods, but even if ordinary people want to buy or sell land to extend their family life, it is illegal and they will be arrested and sentenced to hard labor...

In the Ming Dynasty, soldiers at the tenth level could only use three to four points of their strength for external defense, but after becoming the Green Battalion, they could use the strength of the twelveth level...

Therefore, it was impossible for Fei Qian to establish universal or collective ownership during the feudal dynasty. It was simply unrealistic, which left the problem that he is about to face now.

Of course, from another perspective, land circulation can also stimulate economic development and even break the "small farmer economy" to a certain extent, inspiring more Chinese people to start moving towards a broader sky.
Chapter completed!