parentshiftbook Chapter 771: The Land’S Population Carrying Capacity Of The Third Core Of Dragon-Slaying Skills [Ple
Chapter 771: The Land’S Population Carrying Capacity Of The Third Core Of Dragon-Slaying Skills [Ple
In the eighteenth year of Hongwu, on the fifth day of the first lunar month, the newly built Wanmin Business School was in the small conference room in the dean's office.
Yan Changqing stood in front of the small blackboard on the podium. Sitting in rows from small to large were Zhu Xiongying, Zhu Jixi, Zhu Gaochi, Prince Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Gang, Zhu Di and other princes, and finally Zhu Yuanzhang and Queen Ma. .
Well, Zhu Yuanzhang was afraid that Queen Ma would be bored staying in the palace, so he brought Queen Ma over with him.
Anyway, this was not the first time that Empress Ma was taught "Dragon-Slaying Technique". She had been taught "Dragon-Slaying Technique" on and off several times before.
Zhu Yuanzhang had absolute trust in Empress Ma.
"Before we talked about "Dragon Slaying Technique: The First Core of [Power] Chapter 1 - The Essence and Source of Power", "Chapter 2 - Game of Thrones", "Chapter 3 of the World" Power", and "Chapter 4: Fighting Ten Rulers and the Ruling Class"!!!"
"There are also Chapter 1 of "The Second Core of Dragon Slaying Skills [Money and Profit] - The Origin and Essence of Money", "Chapter 2 - Budget Revenue and Expenditure Planning of the National Financial System", "Chapter 3 - Population, Value and National Fiscal Revenue", and "Chapter 4 - National Economy and State-owned Economy"!!!"
"Today we are going to talk about the first chapter of "Dragon Slaying Skills: The Third Core of [Land]" - "Population Carrying Capacity of Land"!!!"
Yan Changqing wrote "land population carrying capacity" in big letters on the blackboard.
Below, Zhu Yuanzhang, as well as the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes, also copied this title on the rice paper in front of them.
Then they began to meditate on their own, thinking about the meaning behind this title.
Yan Changqing turned around, looked at Zhu Yuanzhang under the "503", as well as the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Fang, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes, and explained:
"The so-called 'land population carrying capacity' refers to the maximum number of people that a piece of land can support and support."
"For example, if an adult man can ensure food and clothing, he will eat about 600 kilograms of grain a year."
"If an adult woman can ensure food and clothing, she will eat about 500 kilograms of grain a year."
"The elderly and children probably eat less, but on average, an elderly person or child eats about a hundred kilograms of grain a year.'
"In other words, a family of five including two elderly people, one adult man, one adult woman, and one child will need to eat about two thousand kilograms of food a year if they can ensure food and clothing! "
"With one hundred acres of land, if you grow ordinary grains that yield two to three shi per mu, and the weather is smooth all year round, and the harvest is smooth, you can probably produce between 24,000 kilograms of grain per year and 36,000 kilograms per mu. Kilograms of grain.”
"If all the grain output from these 100 acres of land belongs to the people themselves, there is no need to pay any taxes on the land and acres."
"So based on the average annual consumption of two thousand kilograms of grain for a family of five, the grain output of these one hundred acres of land can probably support twelve to eighteen families of five. "
"This means that these one hundred acres of land can probably support up to sixty people in Jiuchu District!"
"These sixty to ninety people are the 'land population carrying capacity' of this one hundred acres of land."
"Then the question is, if one hundred acres of land, which can only support 60 to 90 people at most, suddenly increases to 100 people, what will be the consequences?"
Upon hearing Yan Changqing's inquiry, Prince Zhu Biao thought of one of the possibilities almost instantly, and then sighed quietly:
"If you want everyone to survive, then you need the original 60 to 90 people, and each person must give part of the ration to the other people."
"If this is the case, the sixty to ninety people who were originally able to have enough to eat will become a hundred people who will not have enough to eat!"
After Prince Zhu Biao finished speaking, King Qin Zhu Di also coldly said another possibility:
"The 60 to 90 people who were able to keep themselves fed and clothed before will join forces to drive away or kill the extra people in order to keep themselves fed and clothed!"
After Qin King Zhu Xi finished speaking, Jin King Zhu Fan also added:
"But the extra people will not be willing to be driven away or killed. Instead, they will choose to try to drive away or kill some of the original 60 to 90 people. people."
"Finally make yourself one of the sixty to ninety people who can ensure food and clothing!"
King Yan Zhu Di pondered slightly, and then said:
“Alternatively, they can be asked to plant high-yielding grains with a yield of twenty to thirty stones per mu, such as potatoes and sweet potatoes.
"In this way, the grain output of one hundred acres of land can be increased ten times compared to the original, and the 'land population carrying capacity' will also be increased ten times."
"In this way, one hundred acres of land could only support 60 to 90 people at most, but now it can support 600 to 900 people.
"In this way, even if the 100 acres of land increases from 60 to 90 people to 100 people, it can still ensure their food and clothing without the need for them to kill each other."
Zhou Wang Zhu Zhu, who was on the side, heard this and shook his head slightly and said:
"But this only alleviates the problem and does not really solve it completely."
"The number of people now ranging from 60 to 90 has increased to 100. The problem can be solved by changing to high-yield grain with an yield of 20 to 30 shi per mu.
"But what if the number of people increases from the current sixty to ninety to one thousand?!!"
"Is there still high-yield grain in this world with an output of 30 to 40 shi per mu?!!"
On the other side, King Zhu Zhen of Chu thought about the number of acres of land registered in the Ming Dynasty reported by the Ministry of Household Affairs, and then converted it according to what Yan Changqing just said, and immediately said in surprise:
"The number of registered acres of land in Ming Dynasty is: 8,577,623 hectares and 68 acres."
"In other words, the Ming Dynasty now has a total of 850,762,368 acres of arable land!"
"Based on the calculation of one hundred acres of land and an output of two to three stones per mu, it can support sixty to ninety people."
"Then the maximum population that the Ming Dynasty can currently support and support [isn't it about 500,045 city residents to 1,518 Qihuamu people?!!"
After hearing King Zhu Zhen's calculations, Qi King Zhu Shu on the side also looked shocked and said:
"If we calculate it based on the yield of 20 to 30 shi per mu, wouldn't it mean that the current maximum population that the Ming Dynasty's land can support and support is 5.1045 million to 76 156.8 million people?!"
As soon as these words came out, whether it was Zhu Yuanzhang or other princes such as Prince Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di, etc., they all couldn't help but take a breath of cold air.
After all, the current apparent population of the Ming Dynasty is around 60 million.
However, in fact, the current population should be close to 70 million, or it may have exceeded 70 million.
Because since Zhu Yuanzhang implemented the policy of dividing the land into acres, and abandoned the original household registration control policy, the population has no longer been censused. It has always been based on the 60 million population surveyed in the 12th year of Hongwu. to calculate.
Regardless of whether it is 60 million or 70 million people, if calculated based on 5.1 billion people, the current population of the Ming Dynasty only accounts for one-eighty-fifth of the current maximum population capacity of the land. To one in seventy-two?!!
If calculated based on 7.6 billion people, the current population of the Ming Dynasty only accounts for one hundred and twenty-sixth to one hundred and eighty-eighth of the current maximum population capacity of land acres!! !
Regardless of whether it is 1/85 to 1/72, or 1/126 to 108, the current population of the Ming Dynasty is far from reaching the maximum population capacity of the land. It can be said that the upper limit is still very far away.
After all, today's Ming Dynasty does not even have a population of 100 million. If it wants to increase its population to 5.1 billion to 7.6 billion, "I don't know what year it will be."
However, Yan Changqing, who was standing on the podium, shook his head and said after hearing the conversion results calculated by Qi King Zhu Su:
"Theoretically, the number derived by His Highness King Qi's conversion is correct."
"But in reality, this number is unrealistic."
“Firstly, it is because it is impossible for all the acres of land in the Ming Dynasty to be planted with potatoes and sweet potatoes. There is also the need to grow cotton, peanuts, sesame and other crops.”
"The second reason is that potatoes and potatoes are more useful for disaster relief in famine years and as supplementary staple foods in normal times.
"If you eat three meals a day and only eat potatoes and sweet potatoes for a long time, your body will not be able to bear it...
"The best way for ordinary people to use it is to mix potatoes and sweet potatoes with staple foods such as wheat and rice."
"In this way, the consumption of wheat and rice is reduced, and at the same time, it can ensure maximum satiety, and the human body will not have any major problems."
"The third reason is that the current land acres do not really mean that a family of five can be allocated 100 acres of land."
"In fact, a group of civil and military officials, noble marquises, local officials, powerful and wealthy gentry [their land occupied by acres] is far more than the ten acres of land occupied by ten families of five."
"The fourth reason is that a large part of the output of these acres of land must be used as revenue for the national treasury, and then the national court will take the lead to carry out various investments and construction in military, people's livelihood and other aspects."
"So to sum up, if we really want to talk about it, the figure of 510.45 million to 765.68 million calculated by His Royal Highness King Chu is more realistic. "
"According to my estimation, if the imperial court does not increase excessive taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and at the same time there are high-yielding grains such as potatoes, sweet potatoes, and corn as auxiliary staple foods."
"The current maximum real population that these acres of land in the Ming Dynasty can support and support is probably between 400 million and 500 million people."
“When the population is in the range of 400 million to 500 million people, they can probably barely maintain basic food and clothing.
"If the population exceeds 500 million, then the situation will become what His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said, and everyone will starve."
"But even if they are hungry and full, the people can barely survive."
"If the population exceeds 600 million, then the situation will become what His Highness the King of Qin and His Highness the King of Jin said."
In fact, the source of these data mentioned by Yan Changqing is the Qing Dynasty in the previous life.
In the previous life, the Qing Dynasty also implemented policies to benefit the people, such as dividing the land into acres and never increasing taxes. At the same time, it further promoted high-yielding grains such as potatoes, sweet potatoes, and corn.
Therefore, in the Qing Dynasty at its peak, the population exceeded 400 million, and in 1851 it reached 436 million!
Therefore, if we do not consider the Liaodong Plain that is currently being developed by the Ming Dynasty, and the Northern Xinjiang grassland that is being planned.
So the Ming Dynasty in its current state is actually not much different in essence from the Qing Dynasty in its previous life.
Therefore, the peak period of the original history The Supreme Pure One dynasty, from another perspective, can also be said to be the future peak period of the Ming Dynasty that did not develop the Liaodong Plain and plan the northern Xinjiang grasslands!
Therefore, in the original history, The Supreme Pure One was able to support 436 million people at the peak of the dynasty. So even if the Ming Dynasty in 2.5 did not develop the Liaodong Plain and plan the northern Xinjiang grassland, it should be the same when the dynasty peaks in the future. It can support about 400 million to 500 million people.
If we do not consider food and clothing, but simply consider carrying more people, it is not impossible for the number of people to exceed 500 million or even reach 600 million under the condition of being hungry and full.
It's just that if the population exceeds 500 million or reaches 600 million, then it will inevitably be due to the imbalance of resource distribution that many people will not be able to guarantee even a hungry or full meal.
In the end, the common people who could not even afford a morsel of food had no choice but to embark on the path of rebellion and risk their lives to gain a morsel of food for themselves.
It can be said that as the peak of the ancient feudal dynasty, if the Qing Dynasty had not happened to be in a period of overall social transformation, it would have been hit by the dimensionality reduction of the outside industrial era.
So based on the land carrying capacity that has been stretched to the limit of 500 million to 600 million people, the Qing Dynasty has absolutely hope of surviving the 300-year dynasty cycle, and even surpassing the Han and Song dynasties to become the longest-lasting dynasty. dynasty!
However, there are no ifs. At the same time that the Qing Dynasty reached the peak of the ancient feudal agricultural era, the external Western powers also crossed over from the agricultural era and entered the new industrial era!
Under the impact of dimensionality reduction in the new industrial era, the Qing Dynasty finally only lasted for 276 years and then disappeared.
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