"I have listened carefully. I am really pleased with the growth of my population, fertile land and finances in the Qin Dynasty, but the problem also comes. Jia Aiqing, am I right?" The smile on Ying Chang's face disappeared instantly, and he looked at Jia Luo with a solemn face and said.

Jaro's face showed admiration and immediately raised his hand to revisit, "Your Majesty is wise, I am very impressed. As Your Majesty expected, while the population and fertile land grew, huge problems also arise. This problem is that the population of Daqin Beizhou and Zhongzhou Hedong County and Huainan County are too large, and some places are even overcrowded!"

"Official governments in various places want to expand the county town and increase the population limit of the city, but expanding the city will inevitably embezzle the surrounding fertile land. For example, the expansion of Xianyang City is a good example. Now the imperial court is facing two choices!"

"One, expand the city at the cost of losing fertile land, so that more people can have a place to live. Second, migrant populations go to Zhongzhou and Dongzhou where the population is weak. Choose the former, and the court will lose money and food, but it will not be too troublesome to solve the problem quickly. Choose the latter, and the court will lose money and food, which will be very troublesome. After all, migrating the population is not an easy task!"

"In addition to the danger of overpopulation, the rapid pace of people reclaiming fertile fields is also a danger. In order to cultivate fertile fields, some people drain or fill lakes, which seriously affects water conservancy and laxation. People not only attack the lakes, but also cut down forests and carry out reclaiming. If their colleagues have the opportunity to go to Beizhou, they will find that at first glance, whether it is mountains or lakes, they have all become fertile fertile fields!"

After hearing this, Ying Chang felt a little difficult to deal with. Although Jaro gave a choice, it was not the best choice.

"You all think about it carefully. You will say whatever you think of, and the court discusses it. Just let you all think of it together. It doesn't matter if you can't think of it for a while. Anyway, I have more time, think about it slowly!" Ying Chang said to the civil and military officials.

All the officials fell silent, and each fell into deep thought. Not only the civil officials were thinking, but also the military officials were thinking. For a moment, the Qilin Palace fell silent, silent, so quiet that it could hear the sound of a needle falling. Ying Chang did not make any noise to disturb the officials and also fell into deep thought.

Time passed slowly, and about half a stick of incense, an old minister wearing a black peacock men robbed robes walked out of the civil servant line. The old minister's face was very strange, just so it was strange. The old minister's name was Li Li, the former third-rank left minister of the Ministry of Revenue of the Great Jin Empire. He is now also the third-rank left minister of the Ministry of Revenue of the Great Qin Empire. However, he does not have the authority of the Ministry of Revenue and is currently in the Left Prime Minister's Office.

"Your Majesty, I have a solution!" Li Li bent down with awe and wrote a report.

Facing the Emperor of the Qin Empire, Li Li has always maintained a sense of awe. Awe does not mean respect. Now, these Jin officials will not have respect for Ying Chang, and Ying Chang doesn't care. Anyway, after a long time, they will naturally be extremely respectful, just like Qin Chen.

When all the civil and military officials heard someone breaking the silence, they looked at Li Li with their eyes in unison. Ying Chang also subconsciously looked at Li Li. Seeing Li Li, the Jin official, stand up, Ying Chang couldn't help but smile and said, "Li Aiqing suggested that it seems that these problems can be solved perfectly, haha!"

"Your Majesty praised it!" Li Li bent down slightly and replied.

"Tell me!" Ying Chang said!

"Your Majesty, I believe that we must expand the city and migrate, and the court will also order that it is prohibited to open lakes and forests without permission. Those who violate the order will be punished to achieve the purpose of protecting lakes and forests!" Li Li replied with a solemn expression.

"Reason!" Ying Chang simply replied with two words.

"If the city is expanded and the population is not migrated, it will be treated with symptoms but not the root cause. The city is dead, people are alive, people can grow automatically, but cities will not. Therefore, it will not take long to see population tensions in various places. At that time, the city will be expanded and it will never stop. This will be a huge burden and loss to the court and the people!"

"But if a part of the population is migrated to a poor and poor place while expanding the city, it can ensure that there will be no population tension for at least ten or twenty years. In addition, it can also solve the problem of land tension!"

"For example, a certain place can only reclaim 100 acres of fertile land, and there are ten households here, each with five sons. Ten households work hard to open all 10 acres of fertile land, and each household gets ten acres of fertile land. When the children of ten households grow up, they have to separate the families. Ten households become fifty households, and each household gets two acres of fertile land!"

"When these next generation children grow up, they will have to separate their families. Fifty households become hundreds of households. How can hundreds of households divide this hundred acres of fertile land? It is not enough to divide them. Faced with this situation, they must select a group of people to survive elsewhere, otherwise all hundreds of households will starve to death!"

"This is the asymmetry between population and resources. Under the asymmetry, a rich land will soon become a poor land. This is the same as an empire. If the population and resources of the empire are not equal, no matter how rich the empire is, it will become a poor country without three generations!"

Li Li analyzed the problem thoroughly and made people understand it as soon as they heard it!

"If this method is implemented, how much budget is required?" Ying Chang asked immediately.

"I cannot tell Your Majesty the exact number, but I can give you a rough budget. There are forty counties in the five counties in the North Prefecture, four counties and one prefecture. It takes about 500,000 taels of silver to expand the prefecture, about 200,000 taels of silver to expand the prefecture, and about 100,000 taels of silver to expand the prefecture!"

"There are also Hedong County and Huainan County in Zhongzhou. There is a county town, a prefecture and fourteen county towns. It is estimated that just expanding each city will require a budget of 8 million taels of silver. If labor and other expenses are added, a budget of more than 10 million taels of silver is required!"

"The cost of migrating depends on how many people are to be migrated. If one person is migrated, the court needs to compensate for ten taels of silver. If the migrants have land and houses in the original place, the court will also have to compensate for it. The population density of the two counties to the north and the west of Zhongzhou will be at least two million people, which will cost about 30 to 40 million taels of silver!" Li Li said with a solemn expression.
Chapter completed!