"Your Majesty, in addition to building roads, there is one more thing that is imminent." Li Chen said.

"What's the matter?" The First Emperor asked.

"Have children, that's right, Your Majesty, you have to set an example and have more children." Li Chen said seriously.

"Raw...... Kid, I have to lead by example. The First Emperor looked at Li Chen incredulously.

After Qin Shi Huang completed the great cause of unifying the six countries, the population of the country was about 30 million. After continuous territorial expansion, the Qin Dynasty had more than 3.6 million square kilometers by this time.

During the period when the social and economic production of the whole country was seriously damaged, a large number of people died, people's livelihood withered, and there was a miserable depression everywhere in the country, and the prosperity of the original densely populated areas was gone.

Since the development of agriculture in the early period of China's history was concentrated in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, which was the most densely populated and economically developed, the population distribution pattern of the whole country was more in the north and less in the south.

If the Huai River and the Qinling Mountains are the boundaries, then the population of North China at this time is more than 85%.

South China has less than 15% of the population. The five cities of Xianyang, Handan, Nanyang, Yanjulu, Jiuyuan, and the Yellow River, with a population of more than one million, are located in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, and these five cities account for 30% of the country's total population

Xianyang, the capital of Qin, is located in the hinterland of Qinchuan for 800 miles. Weishui passes through the south, Zongshan is in the north, and the mountains and rivers are yang, so it is called Xianyang.

After the first emperor unified the six kingdoms, Xianyang New City was built on the basis of the original Qin capital Xianyang. The imperial city built by Qin Shi Huang, an infrastructure madman, is naturally not bad, covering more than 3,000 square kilometers.

In the late Warring States period, Xianyang was the third largest city after Linzi and Handan. The Qin Dynasty implemented a strict household registration system, with a permanent registered population of 650,000, and a peak population of more than 1.2 million with some floating populations and slaves.

Since the First Emperor unified the Six Kingdoms, in order to enrich this first big city in the history of China, the First Emperor has also taken great pains.

Qin Shi Huang ordered the world's rich and nobles of the Six Kingdoms to forcibly move to Xianyang, and if they did not move, they would die.

Forcibly relocated to Xianyang, a total of 120,000 wealthy households. According to the calculation of six people in each household, there is a population of 720,000, but in fact, the rich family has three wives and four concubines, and there are many servants in each family, and each household is far more than six people, so it can be concluded that the number of people who migrated between the six countries and the rich households is about one million.

With the addition of the original Qin people in Xianyang City, the population of 2 million in the entire Xianyang City should be only a lot more.

"Yes, have children. Although Xianyang has a large population today, it is only a special case. Ours should make all the cities of Daqin have a population that is not inferior to Xianyang, and they are all as prosperous and powerful as Xianyang. Li Chen said.

"Say, plan?" The First Emperor's concise voice rang out.

"Reward the birth of children, link the birth of children to taxes, the more children you have, the more you will reduce."

"Next year, potatoes, corn, and sweet potatoes will be popularized as high-yield crops, and even if the tax is reduced to 10%, it can feed the two million troops of Daqin."

"The minister thinks that the people need to feed 30 million people, and they should occupy eighty percent of the country's grain stocks. The imperial court only needed to feed more than two million soldiers, and it was more than enough to occupy 20% of the stock of grain and grass. ”

"And my Great Qin is now the number of the court and the people, and the people dare not give birth if they have no surplus in their hands."

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The two talked a lot that night, or Li Chen said a lot. From giving the first emperor science popularization of the earth, to astronomy and geography, political insights.

From people's livelihood, to politics, to the army. From building roads to reforming the law, to building armies.

The rain outside the tent had long since stopped, and there was a chill after the rain inside and outside the house. After talking all night, I had forgotten the hour, and it was dawn at this time.

"Your Majesty, the time for the early dynasty is coming."

Just as the two were chatting eagerly, a little eunuch opened the curtain and said respectfully.

As soon as the curtain opened, the fog outside the door could not stop pouring into the tent.

"Ahh

Li Chen couldn't help but sneeze and didn't sleep all night, a little tired.

"I know, let's wait." The First Emperor said.

"If you don't Your Majesty, you go back and rest first, you must be tired after not sleeping all night. It doesn't matter if you're young, I'm afraid your body won't be able to support it when you're older. Li Chen rubbed his back and sat all night, his back hurt and his mouth was dry.

"You lazy boy, I still have to go back to the early court. Today, for the time being, you can communicate more in Yue'er about martial affairs, and you can discuss in Fusu about literary affairs. If you want to see me, you can go directly to Afang Palace. The First Emperor said.

"Your Majesty, rest assured, the minister will definitely give Princess Yue more exchanges and in-depth exchanges." Li Chen said very solemnly, as for Fusu, he will leave it behind for the time being.

"Your Majesty, when you go back, you have to set an example and have more children. It must be treated as a major national matter, after all, your family has a throne to inherit. Li Chen looked at the back of the First Emperor walking out of the tent and shouted cheaply.

The First Emperor really couldn't find anything wrong with this, but he always felt that it was weird.

"Aiqing, you also have to have more lives." The First Emperor shot back.

"I want to give birth, but the key person can't give birth, or let's discuss, your daughter will lend me to make it." Li Chen thought in his heart, of course, he said that he didn't say it, and if he said it, he was afraid that Daqin would have one less population again.

"Let it go, after all, it's a member of the royal family. The culprit has already been bowed, and it is enough to punish him for the crime of lax discipline. The voice of the First Emperor rang out.

Li Chen looked at the back of this middle-aged man, and couldn't help but feel a sense of admiration in his heart.

Since he was enthroned as an emperor at the age of 13, he will do everything himself. Approve the recitals of several carts every day, and look at the big and small things one by one. It is precisely this kind of persistence that has been consistent for decades that has just created such a great cause as Daqin.

"It's tiring to be an emperor like this, it seems that I, the marquis, am still at ease. If life is not for enjoyment, then no amount of power is meaningless. Li Chen thought in his heart.

The sun slowly rose in the east, and the day dawned, and the light of the rising sun began to envelop the earth.

"Phew, wait, thirty years in Hedong and thirty years in Hexi, let you Li Chen be rampant for the time being, let's talk about it in the future." Ying Chengjiao stood in front of the Shenwu military camp, spitting and muttering quietly, the corners of his eyes were a little sparkling.

The swarthy head still hung from the flagpole, and Ying Chengjiao failed to avenge his son, or even remove his head.

The sun was so strong that it hurt my eyes. Ying Chengjiao was covered in rags, and his originally luxurious brocade robe was covered with blood stains and whip marks.

"I let him go after a beating." In the camp tent, Ying Yue held her head high and looked like a victorious general.

"Why are you beating people?" Li Chen is very sympathetic to Win Chengjiao, not to mention that his son was beheaded, and he has to be beaten as an old man.

"The son doesn't teach, the father's fault, and the father and son have long been unpleasant." Yingyue has an expression of I love it, you can't care about it.

"Yo, willful, I really like you a little." Li Chen said.

"In the future, you will like me even more." Yingyue said arrogantly.

"Little girl, you're quite confident." Li Chen smiled evilly.