My Talents make it easy novel - Chapter 534:
Chapter 534: Translate, Translate, What is a Surprise?_l
Translator: 549690339
Twenty years ago, when they had just announced their departure from the Great Zhou, Northern Ice River Town was still a small city. Although the entire northwest region was nominally under the jurisdiction of Northern Ice River Town, in reality, it had not received the recognition of everyone.
It was not until the war with the Great Zhou that shocked the world that Li Yueming led the Star Moon Army to fight against the entire Great Zhou with the strength of the northwest. In the end, the insufferably arrogant Great Zhou army was defeated and fled all the way back to the front line of the Dragon Conqueror Pass, not daring to show up again.
Only then did the Starmoon Troop officially become famous among the countries of the world.
At the same time, they had also subdued the Great Zhou and Great Qin, who were eyeing them covetously. Through this, they had obtained more than 20 years of precious peace in this chaotic world.
After Li Yueming himself, as well as the dozens of reincarnators from the Star Moon Army and countless knowledgeable people, together for decades, Northern Glacier Town had undergone earth-shattering changes.
After the first round of reform, the Star-Moon Army had finally completely digested the benefits of the previous war.
The land controlled by Northern Glacier Town bordered the territory of Prince
Yu to the east, connected to the remaining mountains of the Hundred
Thousand Mountains at the end of the western border to the west, included Dingyuan City and other border tidal towns to the north, and extended to the south all the way to the outside of the Dragon and Tiger Subduing Pass.
The actual territory spanned nearly ten thousand miles from east to west and thousands of miles from north to south.
Even though 70% to 80% of the land was barren land that was unsuitable for human survival and farming, the size of the land was already shocking enough.
At the same time, because Li Yueming attached great importance to production, not only did he send capable people to research high-yield crops, but he also spared no effort to promote them.
As a result, the grain production of Northern Glacier Town had also increased explosively in recent years.
According to Tian Liang’s preliminary statistics, from the start of the first ten-year plan to the completion of the first ten-year plan, the grain production of Northern Glacier Town and its twenty-three first-tier towns and thirty-two second-tier towns had soared by five times!!!
Because this increase was too terrifying, in order not to attract the attention of other countries, Northern Glacier Town took the initiative to hide this data. They also collected all the excess food circulating in the market through various channels.
He was deeply afraid that the detailed information about the grain production of Northern Glacier Town would spread to the outside world.
This caused other countries to covet it for no reason.
Currently, the total population of Northern Glacier Town and the towns under its rule had already exceeded 20 million. If the scattered and hard-to-count residents in other small towns and villages were included, the total population would have already exceeded 30 million.
This population was nothing compared to when there was no war in the Northlands.
After all, back when the Qin army had yet to open up the roads to the Hundred Thousand Mountains, the Northern Lands alone had a population of nearly 20 million.
However, the Star Moon Army was taking over the land that had been destroyed by the Qin army!
After the first ten years of war, the people in the northwest were often disturbed by the Qin army and its elite cavalry. As a result, they had no way to sow the crops even though they had food in their hands. Every year, there was no harvest.
Just the number of people in the North had decreased by about one-third.
In addition, after the Qin army conquered the 12 cities in the north, they burned, killed, and plundered, causing the population of the north to fall even more.
By the time the Starmoon Troops took over, there were less than eight million registered citizens in the Northwest and Northwest regions. Even if there were many refugees who had not been registered, there were at most fifteen million.
In other words, the population of Northern Glacier Town had increased by more than 15 million in just 20 years.
Every household had at least one child.
The reason why the population could recover so much in just 20 years was mostly due to Li Yueming’s promotion of high-yield food.
After all, it was both easy and difficult to make the people have children.
The commoners wanted to give birth, but after giving birth, they had to have something to eat, right?
Only by satisfying their lowest needs could the population grow so quickly.
This was also the main reason why Li Yueming put increasing food production and restoring the population in the first ten year plan. Without food, there was no way to support the human population.
Without a population, they would not be able to support an army.
Without an army, it would be very difficult for one person to contend against a country.
Naturally, he would not be able to complete the difficult hidden mission.
Now that the first ten-year plan had been completed, the people who had gradually become rich in their pockets had gradually developed trust in Northern Glacier Town and Li Yueming. The second five-year plan was much easier than the first plan.
Li Yueming only needed to issue the policies jointly formulated by the upper echelons of the Star Moon Army. There was no need to specially publicize them. The people of the entire northwest region would take the initiative to study them.
Their enthusiasm was like fire, even beyond Li Yueming’s own expectations. The conscription and strengthening of the people in the Second Ten-year Plan were generally supported by the people.
The people basically had no special concept of how to strengthen the people.
After all, most of them were illiterate. They had to rely on scholars to read the documents announced by Li Yueming.
Under such circumstances, it would be too much to expect them to understand what knowledge was power.
However, they did not understand the meaning of the policy of strengthening the people, but they understood what it meant to strengthen the army!
