The Qing army stayed in the camp honestly and strictly implemented various blockade systems. The number of people fleeing to the Ming army continued to decline; while Ren Tang and Mu Tan could also continue their transportation career and send more men onto the ship wholeheartedly. Now the river surface under the Ming army's complete control no longer needs to consider security issues, so Ren Tang lined up all the prisoners in line, and boarded the ship immediately once a ship returned, and left as soon as it was full, so that the efficiency was highest.

Seeing another ship of people sailing away from the Ming army's pier, Ren Tang sighed to Mu Tan beside him: "These tens of thousands of people should be helpful to the food price when they go back."

The large area of ​​unowned wasteland in Chengdu makes it possible for the people to own a piece of land. Except for a small number of bosses and people who are particularly skilled in craftsmanship, most workers are just side jobs in the slack farming industry, or to save money to store seeds and farm tools for land use. At least the concept of Chengdu has not changed much now. Almost everyone hopes to have a piece of land that belongs to him and can be left for their descendants in the future. If Deng Ming had not allowed to hoard wasteland and stipulated the fine rules for registering last year but continuing to abandon wasteland, businessmen would like to reserve some wasteland while doing business. Anyway, it was ten acres and one hundred yuan in the past, and they could afford it. Except for these merchants, the ones who had no intention of becoming farmers were the pillars of those business banks. These masters had good skills and high salaries, so they were not interested in doing the work of digging food in the soil.

The emergence of a large number of self-cultivated farmers has led to a sharp increase in grain reserves. Last year, the self-produced Chengdu and Deng Ming transported a large amount of material from Jiangnan made the government and most farmers have two years of grain storage. After the wheat harvest today, a large number of bachelors found that their 20 acres of production were enough for them to open their appetites to eat for several years, and the government did not purchase too much grain. However, at that time, it was still far from Deng Ming's stipulated that the agricultural tax was paid (September), so farmers stored the grain. If there was a not-so-outrageous purchase price, they would also sell some as appropriate.

Now September is getting closer. Informed senior officials like Ren Tang and Mu Tan can guess the fluctuation in grain prices after harvesting rice, a large number of new grains are put into storage, and everyone urgently needs IOUs to pay taxes. The traditional problem of low grain damage to farmers will arise again. In fact, as early as May, Xiong Lan and Liu Jinge talked about this with Deng Ming. Because Deng Ming no longer asked Xiong Lan to maintain grain prices, no one was sure of what would fall. Liu Jinge even asked Deng Ming, if the food prices were so low that they could not be seen, could they be partially taxed?

However, Deng Ming disagreed because once the tax collection in kind is restored, the credit of the IOU will be affected. He would rather find a solution to the headache and think of a solution than to bear the risk of a currency crisis. Deng Ming felt that the living standards of farmers in Chengdu are not bad now, and the price of loose grain is low, and there is no need to worry about not having enough food. After tax payment, it is still a problem that a single man is worried about how to eat it all. Moreover, farmers who have been used to hard life will definitely have an action to reserve surplus grain, and there will be no collective selling of food; Deng Ming also pointed out that if farmers think that selling grain is too much, they can do odd jobs first and raise the protection fee for September through similar means of advance wages.

According to Ren Tang's opinion, after these prisoners were sent back to Chengdu and Xuzhou, they would definitely need to consume a lot of food, which would be equivalent to hiring their boss to pay for the food from farmers and alleviate the pressure on grain prices in Chengdu.

"It may be better now, but maybe it's drinking poison to quench thirst." Mu Tan had a different view.

"Drinking poison to quench thirst." Ren Tang corrected.

"Well, that's what it means." People who work in factories do not produce grain, but now those who are actively entering the factory are lesbian scholars. This is for the purpose of reducing or exempting the entrepreneurship, which is a large number of new immigrants who have just arrived in Chengdu. When new immigrants arrive in Chengdu, they may have missed the farming time and cannot afford any production tools. So they work in the factory first, and at the same time investigate the surrounding land and rivers, secretly figure out where they want to settle down. When the time comes, they quit their jobs and spend all their farm tools to open up the land.

In the past, whether they came from Huguang, Guizhou, or Yunnan, it was basically this routine, and the vacancies in the factory were always filled by newcomers. In Mutan's view, these Shaanxi and Shanxi people were probably not different. The workers who had some skills who were finally trained last year would soon start to leave, and the newcomers would fill their positions, and then spend a year teaching them crafts. Next year, they would still buy the grain stored in the first half of the year after the autumn harvest while taking advantage of the cheap grain prices and start operating their own land.

"This year is over, but next year there will be more land and more food that cannot be sold; this year this group of people will leave and then reclaim more land."

Mu Tan did not know how to solve this problem. Ren Tang also did not know that he should have advised agriculture and sericulture, but the situation in Chengdu is quite abnormal now. Mu Tan felt that it might be the same as Liu Jinge said. Only when Chengdu has millions of labor prices can it stabilize without thinking about such ups and downs now - that is, when an immigrant fills all the lower parts, it will tend to stabilize. As the population increases, it will return to traditional intensive farming again - and then it will be dozens, hundreds of years later, and the Western Sichuan government will continue to rise and fall in the bumpy grain prices.

"In order to consume food, we need more workers, and we must tell the bachelors to let their families eat more." The general view in Chengdu and Xuzhou is that if we do not restore taxes in kind and do not abandon the IOU system (we cannot consider replacing them with silver, which may be worse, and even rely on large quantities of printing to alleviate the crisis), then wars must be launched at an increasingly rapid frequency to delay the arrival of the moment when farmers cannot afford taxes.

This theoretical model was jointly proposed by the Central Bank President Xiong Lan and the Taxation Bureau Director Qin Xiucai last year. The model is very simple, which is to assume that the newly arrived male population will open new fields in the second year. Even if each male has a 20 acres of land, the output can be about eight people to eat, and even if it is raised in large quantities, it cannot be reduced to less than four people. Therefore, if the new population in Chengdu is male every year, it must be four times that of last year, and then it will have to grow four times the next year. It will be considered as a crisis until all the wastelands that can be reclaimed are filled in. In order to avoid the collapse of the IOU system, the crisis will be considered as a result of the collapse of the IOU system.

This kind of immigration acceleration must be maintained until all farmland in Chengdu is occupied. A large number of farmers can pay taxes, and the IOUs in the hands of merchants will not be completely turned into waste paper. Xiong Lan, Qin Xiucai and their staff further pointed out that if there are a large number of women in the new population, it will slow down the pace of development of new fields. Women are set as a population that simply eats, and as time increases, they can produce more Chengdu residents who do not produce all their food. For example, if half of the newly added immigrants are women, the immigration pressure in the second year will not be four times but twice as mentioned above.

Deng Ming disagreed with this economic model. Although he didn't know how to build a reasonable model, even using the perspective of Deng Ming's modern art students, he felt that the Qin Xiucai model of proportion was too simple. However, considering that this is the first economic model containing mathematical theory - no matter how simple the mathematics is, it is mathematics, Deng Ming still praised Xiong and Qin, and this model became a consensus among bureaucrats and intellectuals in Chengdu. Last month, Chen Jijiu from the academy realized the danger of grain prices, he even began to teach Xiong Lan in arithmetic class for elementary school students - Qin Xiucai model.

As this model became popular, the subsequent solution to the economic crisis was also imprinted into the minds of Chengdu bureaucrats and intellectual groups (now with Principal Chen's primary school students): that is to accelerate the plunder of the population and ensure at least half or even more of the female population input, but men are also indispensable because they need to fill the factory vacancy, and these newcomers can just produce more agricultural tools and weapons. The former sells them to workers who leave the factory to reclaim their capital to provide military expenditures, and the latter uses them to arm the army to carry out next year's population plunder war - it is still a very simple and rigid model.

Although Ren Tang and Mu Tan's experience in leading troops is much better than Xiong Lan and Qin Xiucai, these two people know nothing about the economy. Deng Ming has seen modern economic models with immunity to this kind of immunity. Like Chen Zuocai, they admired this model with mathematical principles for the first time and became more perfect. Mu Tan especially regards this theory of "grafting and slowing down crisis - grafting creates crisis - increasing grafting and slowing down crisis" as a golden rule, believing that the entire economic world is no longer mysterious because of this.

"What are the benefits of admiral fighting Chongqing? This kind of great victory certainly delays the crisis, but every time a man enters Chengdu this year, we need four next year. I think we should go to Shandong." Mu Tan said his opinion seriously.

"Why Shandong?"

"Because I heard those Shandong people say that it is what Shandong people who defect to you Zhoushan said, Shandong girls are very tall, eat twice as much as Zhejiang girls, work hard and can give birth and raise... They eat a lot, can work, and are good at having twins. What a good girl, isn't it exactly what we need?" Mu Tan, who accepted Xiong Lan and Qin Xiucai's theory, naturally accepted the solution they gave: "And Shandong has a long coastal area, not too far from Susong, and Shandong officials have never discussed with the admiral."

"It's right." Ren Tang nodded in agreement and sighed: "We have been wasting too much time in Chongqing. The admiral should go to Jiangnan as soon as possible and not waste time with Li Guoying."
Chapter completed!