齐国政治家管仲较早地论述了粮食生产和粮食储备对于国计民生的重要性。《管子·牧民》开篇就讲:“凡有地牧民者,务在四时,守在仓廪。国多财则远者来,地辟举则民留处。仓廪实则知礼节,衣食足则知荣辱。”意思是说,治理国家务必注重农时安排和农业生产,巩固国家的关键则在于粮食储备;国家富裕了,远方的人们就会前来归附,土地得到普遍开垦,农业发展,人 Qi Zhong’s politician Guan Zhong discussed earlier the importance of food production and grain reserves for the national economy and people’s livelihood. At the opening of the “Pipe · Herdsman”: “Everyone who owns a herdsman should keep his position at four o’clock in the morning.” "The implication is that the government must pay attention to agricultural arrangement and agricultural production. The key to consolidating the country lies in the grain reserves. When the country is prosperous, people from afar will come to attachments, the land is generally reclaimed, the agriculture develops, the people