"Ha ha!"

When they learned that the front line had won the battle and greatly promoted the prestige of the country, all the ministers showed bright smiles and shouted loudly.

Ying Chang also showed a gratified smile on his face. The small stone that was raised in his heart fell down. However, when the small stone fell down, he also raised a bigger stone in his heart. Ying Chang knew very well that with Wei Shang's style of conduct, he would definitely use the national strength to fight against the Qin army and would also have a great chance of being in charge of the imperial army.

Although the national strength of the Southern Wei has greatly reduced, it still has the power to fight. It has many powerful generals, which is definitely a lot of pressure for Yang Hu. Ying Chang was really worried that Yang Hu would fall into the Southern Wei. After all, Wei Shang could destroy the two major dynasties of Wu and Yue, so he would not be a fool.

"Follow the battle situation of General Yang. No matter what happens, report it to me as soon as possible!" Ying Chang looked at Yang Ze with a solemn expression and said.

"I obey the order!" Yang Ze bent down with a solemn expression and responded, then retreated to his position and asked the next person to report to start the report.

The Minister of Revenue Jialuo stepped out of the civil servants' lineup and stood in the middle of the hall, bent down to Ying Chang to compile the report: "Your Majesty, I have important matters to report!"

"Accurate!" Ying Chang shouted lightly!

Jaro raised his hand with a solemn expression and wrote a compilation: "Report to Your Majesty, as of December 30, 2016, the Ministry of Revenue and the governments in various places repeatedly investigated, the five prefectures in the Great Qin Pass had a new population of 3.6 million, birth, old, sick and death, and the three prefectures outside the Pass had a new population of 1.6 million, and birth, old, sick and death. The total population of 4 million in the Great Qin Pass was increased by 4 million in the whole year!"

"Now, the population in Daqin Pass has reached 27.7 million, of which the northern prefecture accounts for 9.3 million, Zhongzhou accounts for 8 million, Dongzhou accounts for 6.2 million, Fuzhou accounts for 2.7 million, and Wuzhou accounts for 1.5 million!"

"Among the five prefectures in the Great Qin Pass, the population of Dongzhou has increased the most, with an increase of 700,000 new population a year, followed by Zhongzhou and Beizhou, and Fuzhou and Wuzhou have also gradually begun to recover on a large scale!"

"The total population of the three prefectures outside the Daqin Pass reached 11.4 million, of which Guzhou accounts for 3.9 million, Yuanzhou accounts for 3.8 million, Ningzhou accounts for 3.7 million, and the total population inside and outside the Daqin Pass reached 39.1 million!"

"Of the 39.1 million, women, children, young and old account for 29 million, and young and strong account for 10 million!"

"As of December 30, 26, the 26th year of the Holy Qin Dynasty, according to repeated and strict investigations by the Ministry of Revenue and local governments, 13 million mu of fertile land in Daqin nationwide were added, 5 million mu more than last year's new amount, making the total number of fertile land in Daqin nationwide exceed 57 million mu!"

"The Northern Prefecture accounts for 19 million mu, Zhongzhou accounts for 17 million mu, Dongzhou accounts for 15 million mu, Fuzhou accounts for 4 million mu, and Wuzhou accounts for 2 million mu!"

After hearing these words, Ying Chang's smile became stronger and stronger. As the emperor and the monarch of a country, seeing that the country is rich and the people are strong during his rule is definitely the happiest time for the emperor in his life.

"Now, how much is my food price in Daqin?" Ying Chang asked Jaro with a smile.

If you want to know whether the people are living well, just ask about the price of grain. Low grain prices means that the people do not lack food and will not be hungry. High grain prices means that the people lack food and will become hungry.

"When you come back to your Majesty, the average grain price of all countries is one tael of silver and one stone of grain, while the price of my Daqin is sixty cents per stone of grain, which is 40 cents lower than the price of all countries' grain!" Jaro replied respectfully.

"So, the people do not lack food, and they will even produce a lot of extra food. So where will the extra food flow into the end?" Ying Chang continued to ask calmly.

"This..." Jaro wanted to speak but stopped, and a look of embarrassment appeared on his face.

He really couldn't answer where the excess grain flowed in, after all, this was not within the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Revenue.

Seeing this, Zhang Feizi, who was the first civil servant, immediately took a step forward, bent down with a respectful expression and bowed and said, "Your Majesty, the excess grain in the country is usually flowed into the countries by merchants. Because the price of grain in Daqin is very low, merchants from all countries like to come to Daqin to purchase grain in order to make profits!"

"Now, our Great Qin is the largest grain supplier in the Jiuzhou countries. Ninety percent of the food bought by the people of the Qi Dynasty were Qin grain!"

Ying Chang was immediately happy when he heard this. Good guy, Daqin became the largest food supplier so quietly.

It seems that Daqin is going to have another title.

Ying Chang thought for a moment and then said strongly: "The price of grain must be reduced, at least to ten cents per stone!"

"Ten cents per stone!"

"Oh my God, how is this possible!"

"yes!"

The ministers immediately discussed it, not thinking that ten cents were impossible to make a stone.

"Your Majesty, the price of grain depends on the output. The higher the output, the lower the price of grain. But the output of my Daqin was not very high. If it weren't for the huge foundation of fertile land, with the current population of my Daqin, there would be no food!"

"In addition, if the food price is too low, the people will have no profits. Without profits, the people will not be willing to farm. However, according to our Qin law, fertile land must not be abandoned, so they will have to plant it even if they are unwilling to plant. If this situation continues for a long time, the people will complain, and the other is that the people will have no extra money except having endless food!"

"Reducing grain prices seems to be a way to enrich the people, but in fact it is a way to weaken the people. Please think twice and do not forcefully reduce the grain prices!" Jaro frowned and bent down with a solemn expression to report.

"Haha!" Ying Chang chuckled, "Who told you that I want to force down the price of grain? What I mean is, why can't one acre of land produce more grain? As long as one acre of land can harvest three or four stones of grain, then the decline in grain prices will not affect the profits of the people at all, and can even make the people more profits!"

"Maybe you will wonder, how can one acre of land harvest a few stones of grain more than usual? Even if you encounter a bumper harvest, you will just harvest a few more buckets. But you have never thought about developing a new type of rice seed?"

"This kind of rice seed can be harvested for two or even three or four seasons a year, or a rice ear can grow hundreds of grains of rice. In this way, there will be more grain, the prices of grain will rise, and the people will become richer. The court will no longer have to worry about food!"

When the ministers heard these words, they were stunned. It was not that they were shocked by this idea, but that they could not understand it at all. In their perception, everything in the world was stipulated by God. How could they change the rules and let the crops grow for two and three seasons?
Chapter completed!