457: Chapter 457 The Economic War Is About to Officially Begin!

According to statistics previously gathered by Great Qin officials, Zhao Fusu noted that the total area of cultivated land was 131 million mu.

After Zhao Fusu gained control over Great Qin, he halted the work of over 600,000 laborers who were building the Great Wall, redirecting them to reclaim land in the fertile Hetao region, which stretched for thousands of miles.

Over the past few years, they had reclaimed millions of mu of farmland in the Hetao Plain.

The common people were also constantly reclaiming farmland, and now Great Qin's cultivated land area had quietly approached 200 million mu.

But for Great Qin, this was by no means the end, and far from the upper limit it could reach.

With the continuous mass production of steam rotary tillers, Great Qin's ability to reclaim land steadily improved.

Zhao Fusu estimated that Great Qin's cultivated land area would one day reach 500 million mu.

At that time, 500 million mu of farmland would support a population of 60 million, laying a solid foundation for the prosperity and strength of Great Qin.

At this moment, Great Qin's population was only 30 million, a reality that became the key factor in Zhao Fusu's commitment to vigorously growing the population.

He understood deeply that population is the foundation of a country's prosperity and long-term stability, and the core driving force for national progress!

Zhao Fusu's first five-year plan was agricultural development.

His first step was to lift restrictions on grain circulation. This measure was like throwing a huge boulder into a mirror-calm lake, instantly stirring up a thousand waves.

In order to exchange for the industrial products they desired, farmers and landlords alike did not hesitate to sell off the grain in their hands.

For a time, the entire Great Qin grain market was bustling with activity. Grain merchants, like sharks sensing blood, keenly captured the business opportunities and hurried about everywhere trading grain.

This series of chain reactions greatly promoted the circulation of grain.

Nowadays, in the streets and alleys of Great Qin, people can easily buy grain anytime and anywhere, and grain prices are steadily controlled within a range that commoners can accept, no longer reaching the high price of 3,000 coins per dan.

Only with sufficient grain can Great Qin's population be increased, and only by migrating a large population to the Hexi Corridor for border settlements can Great Qin's frontier defenses be truly solidified and its gates guarded.

That place is the throat of Great Qin, the first solid line of defense against foreign invasion.

The same logic applied to the Southern Desert region.

Only by migrating a large number of Qin People there, ensuring the proportion of Qin People in the Southern Desert reached over ninety percent and making them the undisputed dominant ethnic group of that land, could the region truly be integrated into Great Qin's core territory, becoming a stable cornerstone for outward expansion and contributing to Great Qin's eternal legacy.

In Zhao Fusu's heart, with the Southern Desert as the core, Great Qin's journey extended far beyond this.

Having controlled the Hexi Corridor, he now had a springboard to take action against the Thirty-Six Kingdoms of the Western Regions; his longsword was already pointed toward them.

The economic war Fusu had meticulously prepared for a long time was about to officially begin.

Launching an economic war against the Thirty-Six Kingdoms of the Western Regions would not only weaken their strength and plunder their resources, but also strengthen Great Qin and consume the goods produced by its factories.

Right!

Zhao Fusu suddenly remembered that the Beer had already been transported to Longxi Commandery.

Since the Black Dragon Special Forces Brigade and the Heihe Tribe had contributed the most to taking the territory of the Shule Tribe this time, he planned to hold a grand victory celebration.

Previously, after establishing the new commandery, he had wanted to hold a celebration. However, it was postponed because of the incident where the Great Qin Merchant Caravan was besieged by the Shule Tribe.

Now that all hostilities had ceased, he would hold the celebration and take the opportunity to introduce Beer.

Zhao Fusu believed he could make a fortune by selling Beer.

He needed to think carefully about what to name the Beer.