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Chapter 947, Census

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    "Although this brewing method is also a method, once the imperial court lifts the ban on brewing, will it lead to a trend of extravagant drinking?"

    Xie Qian thought for a while and then said.

    "Yes, drinking is already very popular in our Ming Dynasty. If the court lifts the ban, I'm afraid there will be even more people drinking. Along with the extravagant drinking style, it will be difficult to get rid of it.  ¡±

    Liu Jian thought about it and said worriedly.

    "Hmm~"

    Emperor Hongzhi also nodded slightly. There is no problem with breeding and animal husbandry. They are all for the common people to eat well and live well, and everyone will support it.

    But you need to be careful when making wine. Firstly, making wine consumes a lot of grain. As the old saying goes, half a pound of wine and a pound of grain are enough for an adult to have a full meal, but half a pound of wine is like drinking water.  , drank it all at once.

    "Your Majesty, gentlemen~"

    ¡°Since ancient times, wine making has been prohibited in all dynasties mainly because grain is too precious and the output of this grain is too small. People cannot eat enough, so wine making is prohibited, and drinking wine is also called extravagant.¡±

    "But now, our Ming Dynasty's grain output is increasing. The cultivated fields in Liaodong are less than one-tenth of the land in Liaodong. There are still very vast fields in the Western Regions and Hezhong that have not been cultivated."

    ¡°In addition, in Nanyang, most areas are still dense virgin rainforests with a lot of land. More importantly, in Australia and Golden Island, we still have extremely vast fertile land.¡±

    ¡°It is foreseeable that in the future, our country¡¯s food output will only become higher and higher, more and more land will be cultivated, and food will be extremely abundant.¡±

    "Under such a situation, after storing enough grain, using the remaining grain to make wine, develop breeding, and animal husbandry can no longer be said to be extravagant. This is called rational use of resources."

    ¡°Furthermore, the people are well-fed, pursuing a better life, and their demand for drinking will become stronger and stronger. Even if our court does not lift the ban, the scale of spontaneous brewing among the people will become larger and larger.  "

    "As the saying goes, it is better to block than to open up. Since this is the trend, we should follow the trend and lift the ban on wine making. Firstly, we can digest the excess food and make the best use of it. Secondly, we can stabilize the price of food and prevent the loss of food.  Prices that are too low dampen farmers' enthusiasm for growing grain, but San Lai can also increase the court's tax revenue. We can classify winemaking as a high-profit industry, which naturally requires heavy taxes."

    Liu Jin thought for a while and said to the ministers of Emperor Hongzhi.

    The ban on wine making is no longer of much significance. It is better to untie it so that the court can still benefit.

    "What you said still makes sense."

    When everyone heard it and thought about it carefully, it seemed that this was really the case.

    "Then order the lifting of the ban and allow brewing."

    Emperor Hongzhi pondered for a while, thought about it carefully and said.

    There is too much food. The food produced this year is enough to last five years tomorrow. If we don¡¯t find a use for this food, it will definitely rot and be wasted.

    So it is better to make wine so that the common people can drink. Anyway, now the common people have money, their lives are better, they drink more, and the court can collect taxes.

    "Yes~"

    All the ministers replied in unison.

    If there is too much food, it is natural to find a way to consume it, and using it to make wine may be a good way.

    As for Zhang Mao, his little eyes started to move, and he looked at Liu Jin from time to time, trying to see something from Liu Jin.

    ¡°Well, brewing is a hugely profitable industry, so I have to get involved.

    After talking about food, Emperor Hongzhi thought for a while and said: "Our Ming Dynasty is at the crossroads of history. If we want to better lead our Ming Dynasty to a more glorious and powerful era, we need to  Have a detailed understanding of the Ming Dynasty."

    "Among them, the most important thing is naturally the people, so I want to conduct a census within the entire Ming Dynasty to thoroughly understand how many people there are in our Ming Dynasty."

    "What do you think, dear friends?"

    Emperor Hongzhi has long wanted to do a census. Especially when conducting immigration, he was very eager to grasp the population distribution of the Ming Dynasty and find out how many people there were in each province of the Ming Dynasty.

    "Your Majesty, I also think that our Ming Dynasty should conduct a nationwide census. Only accurate statistics will be collected."p; "Only after we understand these situations, can the court be more precise when formulating relevant policies. For example, Shaanxi has more people, less land, and poor natural conditions, so we will immigrate in large numbers from here."

    ¡°Another example is the matter of military conscription. If we know the population of each state capital, we can allocate the number of conscripts according to the population. Another example is that our court wants to formulate a population hierarchy system, so it is even more important to accurately understand the population of our Ming Dynasty.¡±

    "How many Han people, how many tribes, how many people are there? How many of these people have changed their surnames to Chinese names, and how many of them can speak Ming Dynasty Mandarin, write Chinese characters, have received Confucian education, etc."

    Liu Jin thought for a while and told some of the contents of the census of later generations. When Emperor Hongzhi, Liu Jian, Li Dongyang and others heard this, they all couldn't help but frowned.

    ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????OUT??? But after thinking about it carefully, I feel that what Liu Jin said is right. If it is just a simple statistics, it will not have much substantive significance.

    In the past, it was said that the purpose of counting the population was to collect capitation taxes and corvees, but now they are exempted, and the statistics do not have much meaning.

    When the imperial court conducts population statistics, it must be to accurately grasp the population information, and what Liu Jin said is the information that everyone really wants to know.

    The workload is heavy and there are many things to do, but it is indeed something that has to be done.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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