If the farming people and the nomads were not put together, maybe everyone would be fine.

However, once bordered, then the nomads will inevitably be the natural enemies of the farming people, which is determined by the laws of nature.

Nomadism is destined to have less stable output than farming, and once it encounters a natural disaster, it will immediately run out of food.

At this time, plundering is almost an inevitable choice.

From the early Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, to the Qin and Han dynasties, and all the way to the Sui and Tang dynasties, this law has not changed at all.

If there is no Li Kuan, there will be no change in the next few hundred or thousands of years.

"Your Majesty, the reason why there is no way to maintain long-term peace and stability in the grassland is, in the final analysis, because these places do not really belong to the Tang Dynasty. Even through war, after a short period of conquest, in the end, the officials of the Tang Dynasty had no way to bring this land under their rule. If we want the grassland to be stable for a long time, we need to change this state! ”

"Do you mean that promoting cotton farming will change that?"

"Of course, it is not enough to simply promote cotton cultivation. However, as long as the scale of the Yunzhong Governor's Mansion and the northern part of Hedong Province is promoted, these places are full of Tang villages and towns, then these places will gradually become an inseparable part of my Tang Dynasty, just like Guanzhong. When all the pastures in these places have been turned into cotton fields, when cities have been built in these places, and when there are Tang officers and soldiers in these places anytime and anywhere, isn't it inevitable that there will be long-term peace and stability? ”

Li Kuan's current idea is to make the grassland no longer a grassland, but a piece of fertile land, so that these places will be a stable state and county in the Tang Dynasty.

Will there be any adverse effects on the environment?

Who would think about this in this day and age?

Tigers run all over the hills, and trees grow everywhere.

In such an age, it makes no sense to talk about animal protection and environmental protection.

"Shuozhou has been a border city since ancient times, not to mention those honorable heroes, how many ordinary people are willing to go?"

Li Shimin listened to Li Kuan's words and was already a little moved.

Still, he didn't have much confidence in this proposal.

In his opinion, if the grassland problem was solved so easily, how could such a problem fall on his head?

In fact, this can be regarded as a fan of the authorities.

In the past, there was no special crop such as cotton, and there was no cement road connecting Chang'an to Shuozhou, let alone sufficient food.

Therefore, Li Kuan's set, in the past, it was definitely a piece of paper talk, a stupid move.

However, this is not the case.

The whale jerky in Dengzhou and the rice in the south of the Yangtze River can be directly transported to Luoyang by waterway, and then quickly transferred to the states and counties along the line from Luoyang to Shuozhou by four-wheeled carriage and cement road.

With four-wheeled carriages with large loads and concrete roads, the efficiency of transportation has been greatly improved.

Feeding one or two million people is not a problem at all.

After all, although these people mainly grow cotton, it is impossible for them not to grow any other crops.

According to the habits of the people of the Tang Dynasty, even if he is given 100 acres of land, he will definitely plant some vegetables, corn and the like to solve his own food ration problem.

In addition, these places are close to the grassland, and there is no shortage of cattle and sheep, in fact, everything does not rely on foreign transportation.

"The world is crowded, all for profit. Your Majesty, the common people are also human beings, as long as you think about the problem from their standpoint and let them feel the benefits of immigration, then naturally someone will make the right choice.

The Affiliated Medical Center of Guanshishan Academy Medical College is preparing to build at least one medical center in each of these immigrant states and counties, and Wechen will also arrange manpower to set up at least one cotton workshop in each state capital to support the construction of corresponding Mongolian schools and primary schools, and encourage the students of Guanshishan Academy to go to these places for internships to fully support the construction of these states and counties. ”

Li Kuan's promotion of cotton planting is obviously preparing a bunch of combination punches.

Whatever the people are worried about, I will solve it for you.

One person has 100 acres of Yongye land, and the woman will also give you the land, and the whole family will move over, which is likely to be hundreds of acres of land.

This is not too tempting for the people who have little fertile land at home.

Once the imperial court really solves their worries, it will definitely usher in a large wave of immigration.

In recent years, the population of Guanzhong has increased very rapidly, which has exceeded the load of the land, and it is just right to move out to alleviate this situation.

"Now the people of Xue Yantuo are not restless, if a large number of immigrants to the vicinity of Shuozhou, it will be difficult to ensure that the war will be fought together, and the prestige of the imperial court will be greatly reduced at that time."

Li Shimin has basically been persuaded by Li Kuan, but he still has his own worries.

"Your Majesty, the people of Xue Yantuo are already difficult to become arrogant, just let Xue Rengui take an army of 50,000 to destroy them. After that, according to Weichen's idea, from Liangzhou in the west, connecting Yinzhou, and then through Shuozhou, and then connecting to Youzhou, this horizontal line, four nodes, will be the first spinning line in the northern frontier of my Tang Dynasty, and now the cement road from Liangzhou to Yinzhou has been built, and Shuozhou to Youzhou has also started, and after two or three years, this spinning line has been stable. ”

"Why did you put Youzhou in too?"

"Youzhou is the key place together with Liaodong, and it is indispensable for me to control Liaodong and vigorously build Youzhou. According to Wechen's idea, it is best to build a cement road to the sea in Youzhou, and directly take the sea route to connect the east and Hebei provinces of the Tang River, which can greatly improve the efficiency of cargo turnover, whether it is for merchants or for the army, it is of great benefit. ”

Li Shimin was destined to attack Goguryeo.

Although Li Kuan has already started the layout, Youzhou, an important state capital, is not well managed, which is really not conducive to stabilizing the northeastern frontier of the Tang Dynasty.

"How do you need me to cooperate with you as an immigrant?"

Li Shimin was silent for a while, and then such a sentence came out.

Obviously, Li Kuan's proposal made him moved.

If Li Kuan's plan is really successful, then the south of the Yellow River, even if it is completely included in the actual rule of the Tang Dynasty, the frontier of the Tang Dynasty will be greatly advanced to the north.

In time, it is really not a dream to truly realize the long-term peace and stability of the grasslands.

Especially the construction of Youzhou, which touched a certain string in Li Shimin's heart, and was recognized by him.

"Your Majesty, the support that Wechen needs is actually very simple. First of all, when the Tang Dynasty Monument just mentioned above is completed, His Majesty can give a large reward to the land around Shuozhou, leaving the area south of Shuozhou for the use of people from all over Guanzhong. Then the household department needs to prepare the food and grass for the migrants on the way, as well as farm tools and cold materials after arriving at the resettlement site......"

The overall plan for immigration, Li Kuan has discussed it many times with Wang Xuance, Wu Meiniang and others, and it is natural to talk about it.

……

The content of the latest edition of Datang Daily has made many fans of "Dream of Red Mansions" grit their teeth with hatred.

This His Royal Highness the King of Chu has broken off again!

The place that was supposed to be serialized was occupied by articles related to cotton farming.

Here, it not only briefly introduces the various time nodes and precautions of cotton from sowing to picking, but also highlights the current cotton purchase price and cotton output in Chang'an City.

The harvest of one acre of cotton land is as high as twenty acres of corn land.

The income of the cotton fields by the Weishui River is so high this year.

This data, many nobles in Chang'an City know it in their hearts.

However, no one went to publicize it, but I didn't expect that now it was the Chu Wangfu itself that was hyping it.

As soon as this newspaper was sold, Chang'an City, and even the entire Guanzhong Dao, began to move.

But everyone who is a little impulsive thinks about how to grow cotton next year.

"Ah Lang, what kind of name do you say His Royal Highness the King of Chu is selling? Obviously, the imperial court has explicitly forbidden the continued expansion of cotton cultivation in Guanzhong Dao, why did he trumpet the high returns of cotton cultivation in the Datang Daily? Isn't this encouraging everyone to grow cotton secretly? ”

After reading today's newspaper, Yang Dong was very puzzled to discuss things with Yang Benman.

Today, the Yang family also planted a little bit of cotton, and the income is basically consistent with what the Datang Daily said, which is much higher than planting tea.

"It's not that simple, I thought that with Li Kuan's understanding, he was not such a stupid person, otherwise I wouldn't have suffered so much loss at his hands."

Yang Benman frowned, constantly guessing Li Kuan's true thoughts in his mind.

"As soon as he did this, the people of Guanzhong Road didn't have the heart to farm, and they all thought about how to get permission to plant cotton."

"I'll go to a few colleagues to inquire first and see if the imperial court has been brewing anything big lately. I always feel that Datang Daily is so constantly boasting about the benefits of immigration, as well as cotton planting, there should be other means behind it. ”

After Yang Benman finished speaking, he put down the newspaper, got up and walked out.

……

"The rivers and mountains in the north are promising! 》

Li Shimin's actions were very fast, but a few days later, the imperial court officially announced the policy of immigrating to Hedong Province and Yunzhong Prefecture, and began to encourage the people of Guanzhong Province to go to the county government to register.

Naturally, Datang Daily reprinted and interpreted this policy of the imperial court in the most conspicuous place.

At the same time, the list of heroes who have been discussed in the DPRK for more than a month has also been formalized.

Similar to the Lingyan Pavilion in history, the most eye-catching twenty-four heroes.

But unlike Lingyan Pavilion, this time there are not only these twenty-four heroes, but also a total of seventy-two heroes in the list of heroes, and even carved special statues for the great heroes of all dynasties and placed them in the buildings around the Tang Monument.

In contrast, Li Shimin rewarded these heroes with a large amount of land, which was basically in Shuozhou or north of Shuozhou, which was not so remarkable.

"Aya, congratulations on being at the top of the list of heroes."

Eldest Sun Chong smiled and stood beside Eldest Sun Wuji.

"Low-key, this thing is low-key, don't show our complacency in front of outsiders."

The eldest grandson Wuji stroked his mustache, and a smile appeared on his face unconsciously.

Speaking of which, the ranking of these 24 meritorious heroes has caused a lot of waves, and there are not a few people in the DPRK who are not convinced that they are ranked first.

Moreover, it is obvious that these heroes are mainly the old generals of the Qin Wangfu back then, and many of the heroes who followed Li Yuan to fight the world are not in them.

Although there is still a list of 72 people, there is a gap between this list and the list.

"Aya, you have worked hard for the Tang Dynasty, Your Majesty is looking at it, and the opinions of some villains are just jealousy."

In the eyes of the eldest grandson, the credit of his Aya must be the greatest.

Not to mention the rest, as for the matter of Xuanwu Gate at the beginning, if there was no Aya to plan and promote it, it would be difficult to say who it is today.

Of course, you can think about these words for yourself, even if it is between father and son, it is not suitable to take it out.

"This Li Kuan, after so many years, has finally done a serious job. It's a pity that such a good proposal was not put forward by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. ”

The eldest grandson Wuji thought of Li Shimin's reward and reward this time, which was also a little surprised.

is different from when Li Yuan was in power, after Li Shimin registered, in addition to rewarding a number of meritorious heroes in the first year, he was actually very cautious or stingy about various lords and rewards.

This time, it's unconventional.

"It's a pity that these rewarded lands are all in the north of Shuozhou, and they are generally at the boundary of the Yunzhong Governor's Mansion, which is a bit of a chicken rib."

"Twenty-four meritorious heroes, each rewarded 30,000 acres of Yongye field, 72 meritorious heroes, each person also rewarded 10,000 acres of Yongye field, and also allowed everyone to buy no more than 100,000 acres of land with one acre of silver coins, this reward is unprecedented. If it weren't in those border areas of Shuozhou, where would there be so much fertile land in Guanzhong Road? ”

Eldest Sun Wuji's vision is naturally farther than that of Eldest Sun Chong.

Obviously, Li Shimin's hand contains a special meaning behind it.

In addition, the official document of the imperial court just announced the immigration of Hedong Province, as well as the regulations of Guanzhong Province that do not allow large quantities of cotton to be planted, are basically telling everyone: I am rewarding you for planting cotton on these lands!

"This is also true, but fortunately it is Shuozhou, if this is directly rewarded to the Western Regions, it will be meaningless. Now there is the same cement road from Chang'an to Shuozhou, and it will take more than a month to go back and forth, which is barely acceptable. ”

For these nobles in Chang'an City, the safety of Shuozhou is not what they are most worried about.

After all, Datang is now a strong country, and absolutely no one dares to take the initiative to provoke in a short period of time.

What they care about is whether the land has value and whether it can create wealth.

"Chong'er, I asked you to inquire about the income of cotton planting with various families before, how did you confirm it?"

The land in Shuozhou, if you had grown corn in the past, the input and output would not be very valuable.

After all, the imperial court did not reward ready-made fertile land, and it is said that most of it was barren grassland, and there was no way to put it into use directly.

To put it bluntly, if the eldest grandson's family didn't invest tens of thousands of dollars first, there would be no way for these lands to be directly turned into fertile land.

This is also an important reason why Li Shimin will be so generous this time.

Those lands are said to be Datang's, and those are also Datang's.

said that it is not Datang's, but in fact, it is not Datang's.

If it is rewarded to the meritorious heroes, it can really become the fertile land of the Tang Dynasty, and the court will eventually earn it.

It's a win-win, so to speak.

"Aya, I have inquired clearly, that cotton planting is really profitable, except for the sugarcane they planted in Guangzhou in the Chu Palace, it can be compared, and planting anything else is not as good as growing cotton. If all these fields given by the imperial court were used to grow cotton, the annual harvest might be much greater than the income of our iron-making workshop. ”

Changsun Chong can't admire Li Kuan's ability to turn stones into gold.

Thinking about the content of the recent Datang Daily, combined with the recent events, this Li Kuan's pattern is no longer comparable to himself.

"Your Majesty put me at the first place on the list of meritorious heroes, both public and private, I want to support the imperial court's plan to plant cotton there. Now it seems that this cotton planting is also profitable, even if the distance is a little farther, the investment is larger, and the final output is still very considerable. If all the land rewarded by the imperial court this time can be turned into fertile land for cultivation, this will be of great significance to the stability of our northern Tang Dynasty. ”

The eldest grandson Wuji is now more and more jealous of Li Kuan.

However, in this matter, it can only cooperate.

It can be said that Li Kuan's plan to promote cotton planting, although I don't know how much interest is contained in the Chu Palace, but for the Tang Dynasty, it is very beneficial.

The vast world of the north is promising.