Flying Clouds in Another World

Chapter 380: The Nian Family Has Ten Thousand Stones of Grain

In this world and this era, although the handicraft industry has grown to a large scale, agriculture is still the cornerstone of the country, and most people make a living by farming.

But this was already the twilight of a dynasty, and the extent of land annexation had reached an unprecedented level.

As the saying goes, if there are thousands of people and ten thousand acres of land, one person will occupy half, five people will occupy ninety percent, and after ten people have divided it up, there are only nine hundred and ninety percent left, and it will be difficult to survive.

The vast majority of people can only make a living by renting other people’s land, and the rent is often around half, and at least one third.

The low-rent land offered by Liu Feiyun is really tempting.

As for the source of these low-rent fields, Liu Feiyun was even less worried! Now the government of Anya County was controlled by them, and he had the final say on how much the official land rent was.

In addition, due to the war, many fields that were originally owned became ownerless, which provided him with many sources of low-rent fields.

Finally, for those wastelands that have not been reclaimed for various reasons, there will be no more reasons to prevent them from being reclaimed this time! Liu Feiyun will make these reasons disappear.

As a result, refugees began to return to their homeland, and Liu Feiyun also came to Anya City. In the future, this place will become the core of his Liu family's rule.

"Although we tried our best to spread the word, out of the more than 300,000 refugees, only less than 200,000 left Anping! They moved back to other counties!"

At this time, Liu Feiyun and Gao Xian stood on the city wall, looking into the distance at the scarred city and countryside devastated by war.

Gao Xian stood behind Liu Feiyun and introduced the various information collected from various places in Anya County:

"Now the inventory of land and household registration in the entire county has been completed for the most part, and the basic situation can be estimated!"

"The original Anya County had one prefecture and eight counties, 370,000 households, and more than 1.7 million people!"

"And now, it is estimated that at least 30% of the population has been lost! That is 500,000 people!"

"With only the remaining one million people, it is difficult to support an army of more than 100,000 people to fight against the entire Golden State."

"So! Lord Earl! We need people, lots and lots of people! At least two million people! More than three million would be best!"

"However, with the current farmland in Anya County, it can only support two million people at most! This is based on the premise that there is sufficient labor force."

"In reality, with the current proportion of young and strong people in the population, the farmland that can be cultivated can only feed 1.2 million people at most! It can barely balance supply and demand! There is hardly any surplus!"

"So, if we want to recruit people, we have to use up our stored grain. But among the eight counties in the prefecture, only our Anping County government warehouse has a million dan of grain in stock. I'm afraid that all other places combined can't even get a million dan!"

"My Lord Earl! Otherwise! ... Otherwise ... Otherwise, please use the grain from your private warehouse!"

Seeing Gao Xian's last words were somewhat timid, Liu Feiyun couldn't help but smile and said:

"Uncle Gao, don't you just want my family to give you more food? You really don't have to be so cautious! My Liu family is not that stingy!"

"Just go ahead and recruit as many people as you can! The more the better! There's no limit! As long as you can recruit them!"

"No upper limit!? The more the better!? Lord Earl! How much grain do you have in stock? Could it be that the million-dan granary in the mansion really has a million-dan of grain? But that's only enough for 200,000 or 300,000 people to barely survive for a year?"

Gao Xian was not sure whether Liu Feiyun was bragging or did not understand people's livelihood.

"One million koku!? Haha! Is that amount of food enough to fill our stomachs?"

"The Liu family's grain reserves are not just one million dan! They are more than ten million dan!"

Liu Feiyun smiled confidently.

"Thousands... thousands... tens of millions of shi!? How... how... how is this possible? How did your Liu family store so much food?"

Now, Gao Xian was no longer unsure, but simply couldn't believe it.

"Why! You don't believe it?"

"In fact, when I first learned about this, I couldn't believe it either!"

"But when my father said that this amount of food was accumulated over nearly 30 years since he came to Anping County, I believed him!"

"This is the greatest fortune my parents have accumulated for me in half their lives!"

Liu Feiyun was also distracted for a moment.

"Nearly thirty years!? Half a lifetime!?"

Gao Xian was also shocked and muttered to himself.

But what he didn't know was that it wasn't just the 10 million shi of grain that made Liu Feiyun lose his mind.