Of course, it will definitely not be easy for a nine-thousand-year-old hero to rise.

But he had no other choice.

Or maybe neither he nor Tianqi had any other choice at this time. These two guys who had relied on Yang Xin's habits in the past could only rely on themselves after Yang Xin left irresponsibly. In the past, they could indeed add Liao pay to farmers, but now there is no reason to add Liao pay.

Don't dare.

Yang Xin is still exaggerating the future of natural disasters, and the frequent natural disasters in recent years are indeed showing them a terrible future...

Nine Thousand Years are very superstitious.

Not to mention anything else, the frequent earthquakes in recent years are very shocking.

There have been several times in the capital alone.

Then floods, droughts, and locust plagues are constantly coming out one after another. Such dense and frequent natural disasters are completely a warning from God for an extremely superstitious person.

The same goes for apocalypse.

Although Apocalypse is a scientist.

But scientists are also frightened in the face of this situation.

Yang Xin has also told him about climate change in the past dynasties and the connection between the world's chaos and climate change in the past years. The severe cold weather in recent years is obvious to all. Speaking of which, even Guangzhou encountered heavy snow in the first year of the Tianqi period! He also used a thermometer to record daily temperatures, with the lowest temperature reaching more and more than minus 20 degrees Celsius, and the canal freezing period is getting longer and longer. As a scientist, he attaches the most importance to data. The lowest temperature in winter every year, the average temperature is one comparison, and the number of days of freezing in the canal every year, he can clearly see that the climate in his empire is gradually getting colder.

It's getting colder every year.

Yang Xin did not lie to him, the climate was indeed undergoing drastic changes.

Natural disaster is indeed coming.

He also had to prepare, but he had to have money to prepare. Originally, the apocalypse in history might not understand the problem of the Ming Dynasty, but the apocalypse is very clear now.

Why doesn't he have money?

During the reign of Emperor Taizu, he could collect more than 30 million stones of land a year.

He is now 25 million a year.

During the Taizu period, most of the corvee labor service were not counted in. Because he was in service at that time, he still had corvee labor for the annual income. In fact, there were also dying silver, land tax, dying silver, and corvee labor for the Ming Dynasty, which were unified in the annual income, and the annual income was 25 million. The remaining miscellaneous items such as commercial taxation were not included, and these were collected from the land, and some cotton, linen and even grass materials were not worth much.

After more than two hundred years of development, his annual income is not as good as that of Taizu.

And what about the population?

Of course he wouldn't believe the official one.

Not to mention anything else, he is very clear about how many people there are in the capital. Because the new police system has been implemented, the capital has conducted a census, and the entire inner and outer walls and the suburbs of the capital have reached nearly 1.5 million.

As for the population in the Taizu period, the total number of population in the entire Northern Zhili was 1.9 million.

There are a little more than the capital at this time.

With this number, how could he still believe the number of people reported to him by the official, which was a few million less than in the Hongwu period? He didn't believe this number, so how could he believe the number of cultivated land reported to him together? It can be said that those are fake and do not even have reference value. The purpose of the officials' fraud is very simple, which is to cover up the fact that a bunch of people do not pay taxes. The gentry does not pay taxes, the gentry's concealed land does not pay taxes, the royal family does not pay taxes, and those who are entrusted to the royal family do not pay taxes, and the slaves of wealthy families will not pay cap taxes. These people are not in the figures given to him by the officials, and Yang Xin has told him that there are thousands of slaves in the south of the gentry.

No tax is paid.

Official data of Beizhili, 50 million mu of farmland paid a total of 590,000 stones of tax.

And the highest yield per mu of Yang Xin has reached Qishi.

Yang Xin cannot be considered a standard. After all, he has bird droppings to assist, but the corn field of the Yang family in the mountainous areas of Xishan can be visited frequently. Even if these corn that were regarded as going down to the fields in the past, they can still harvest forty or fifty kilograms!

This is the agriculture in Northern Zhili.

Then he collected a total of 590,000 shi of tax per mu. The average weight was more than one liter, which was about one kilogram. However, the people could not eat enough food. When they could produce 40 kilograms per mu of corn when they went down to the fields to plant corn, they collected 1 liter of tax per mu. But the people still couldn't eat enough food. So where did the grain go?

Apocalypse knew very well who he should attack at this time.

As for the resistance of these people...

It is a joke that an emperor cannot even implement the government orders. If he dares to object, he will be dismissed and issued an edict to imprison him. If he doesn't behead him, even Chongzhen can do it. If Tianqi is not inferior to his younger brother, right?

Anyway...

Anyway, Yang Xin didn't have time to care about him.

King Zhennan is now busy with all kinds of things, and tens of millions of people are waiting for him!

There should be more than 40 million.

At this time, he was conducting a census and land clearance. With the help of militia, the work progressed very quickly. It is estimated that the results will be produced at the beginning of next year. 40 million is an estimated number, but there is basically no big gap.

Nanjing alone has exceeded two million.

This was the earliest census to complete, but it was actually completed during the siege. The total number of Shangyuan and Jiangning in Nanjing exceeded 2 million, while Suzhou is said to be almost the same as Nanjing, and Changzhou and Wuxian should also exceed 2 million. As for Yangzhou, it is definitely not as large as these two places, but it is absolutely true that Jiangdu County has a population of nearly one million. The remaining Huaian and Yangzhou are at the same level, at most, and the cities in Jiangnan, including Zhenjiang, Changzhou and Songjiang are between 50 and 1 million.

By the way, the population on this land is almost catching up with Europe.

Ten million young and strong.

This is not an exaggeration from Yang Xin.

"After all, a lot of people means a lot of power!"

King Zhennan stood in the ancient Anfengtang and said as he looked at the lively scene in front of him.

This ancient water conservancy project is actually still in its function, and it has been renovated in the 46th year of Wanli. However, in general, the present is different from the past. The most critical problem is that it is occupied and reclaimed by gentry. Therefore, Yang Xin's repair is very simple, which is to clean up these and dredge the water source of the Qing River and re-dive water, and then build the Zhongxing Bowing Dam when he was the Fourth Prince, and fill this ancient reservoir with water again, so that it can irrigate hundreds of thousands of acres of irrigated land.

Hundreds of thousands of acres are already a lot.

By the way, he wanted to start the Pushihang irrigation project, but the problem was that there was no technology.

But this is really OK.

"When I came last time, I was the governor of Shouzhou. Now it has been fifty years!"

Huang Kezhang beside him looked at the busy militia in front of him with emotion.

These militia are strengthening dams, dredging channels, and even rebuilding the dock doors with reinforced concrete. Looking around, the entire construction site is busy. Because it is summer and the season for water storage, a vast water surface has been formed in the distance. Moreover, not only men, but many women and even the elderly and children are involved in the construction, and flags are planted everywhere, with the numbers of a certain militia unit on them.

There are still people who are inspiring and stimulating.

Women and children kept carrying buckets of big buns to distribute them among the militia.

The scene is still spectacular.

All the places he passed by were basically built on this large scale, and there were even many new dams, especially those built on small hills and streams, which artificially formed small lakes and then diverted water to irrigate.

There are all over Huainan.

Some places even use reinforced concrete to repair some supporting facilities.

I have to say that Yang Xin is really keen on farming. As the governor of Shouzhou fifty years ago, Huang Kezhang knew the depression along the Huai River, but now he relied on the construction of various water conservancy facilities, and all the originally barren lands have been reclaimed. He grows rice in places where water can be diverted, and a large amount of corn in dry fields that cannot be diverted. The driest lands are also planted with sweet potatoes and sorghum. Even on barren sandy lands, Lu Ke and other feed can be planted. It can be said that there are almost no idle wastelands.

Although the yield per mu of most of these lands is not actually high...

Of course, higher than the north.

Huainan is ultimately stronger than Beizhili.

But the key is that there is no landlord collecting rent, and Yang Xin collected about 10% to 20%. This place is definitely not the same level as Jiangnan. In this way, even if the average yield per mu is only one stone, a family of five with 30 acres is still enough to eat.

After all, here are two familiar.

Moreover, the yield of corn in serious farmland is not low.

The Yang family was the one who went to the fields to cultivate land and 40 to 50 kilograms per mu, but in Huainan it was a serious farmland, which is actually more than 100 kilograms at present. Moreover, Yang Xin was still using a lot of compost, and some introduced bird droppings, and there were also various things that Huang Kezhang could not understand at all. For example, those trainers from the militia battalions stationed in Yangjiazhuang were holding expensive thermometers to measure the temperature in the manure pile, which made him confused.

The changes in this land were too many and too fast, which exceeded his former governor’s understanding ability.

"I'm really old!"

He sighed.

He has retired and returned home.

Or he was frightened by the tense atmosphere in the capital recently, after all, he was almost eighty, so there was no need to stay there. These days, Tianqi fought against corruption and killed more than a dozen court officials in a row, and even Qi Shijiao, the Minister of Revenue, was dismissed.

Sun Chengzong was also punished.

The emperor who never attends court will attend court from time to time during this period...

The civil servants finally didn't have to scold him for not attending court.

But as soon as he went to court, the civil servant was in trouble and even began to learn to be a court stick. More than a dozen censors were beaten to his court stick, and one of them was beaten to death. In fact, everyone knows the reason, that is, the civil servants collectively opposed his reforms, resulting in the two other items in a stalemate except for the assignment of tax prison. His Majesty the Emperor deliberately used this method to force the ministers to surrender. In this case, Huang Kezhang, who was almost 80, did not run away quickly. Speaking of which, the Huang Daoyi gang was about to form a Fujian party with him as the leader to deal with the tax prison.
Chapter completed!