The current territory of the Tang Dynasty starts from Donghu in the north of the Yan Kingdom in the east, and connects with Yueqiang to the west.

From Mobei in the north to the ancient Great Wall of Qin in the south, it is vast to ride a horse from east to west, and it takes a month to gallop day and night, and half a month from north to south. The entire area is already as large as the entire Central Plains princes combined.

As the land grows, it needs to be digested and turned into real land. So Zhao Xing and the cabinet had a long talk day and night, and finally decided to set up the entire territory of the Tang Dynasty into four states, ten counties, the grassland Lou Fu and Lin Hu's hometown, which was divided into three states, six counties, Hetao and the original Hexi divided into one state, called Hetao Prefecture, under the jurisdiction of four counties. They are Hedong, Hexi, Henan, Hebei. The image is easy to remember.

The reason why the grassland is so fragmented is actually not the dominance of the grassland.

Then the boundaries of the counties began to be divided, and as a result there were a hundred counties in the country.

Officials at all levels are dispatched by the central government according to their ranks, and it is strictly stipulated that all prefectures, pastors, and counties must serve in different places according to the county order, and their term of office in one place can only be 10 years, and they must not be re-elected. This is to prevent officials at all levels from taking root in one place and forming a big tail. The ten-year term of office is enough for the officials to implement their governance concepts and policies.

All of this has been planned, but it turns out that there is a huge problem.

Qi Fei, the household department who manages the population, worriedly introduced to the cabinet and Zhao Xing: "Our territory has expanded by nearly 13, (this includes the entire grassland), but our population has not increased, so that in our Datang territory, there is a serious land and sparse population, thousands of miles of uninhabited is the norm, a county is less than 10,000 people, this is unreasonable." ”

Yin nodded, full of worry: "And there is an extremely huge hidden danger here, that is, our current population structure. More than half of them are herdsmen, and the population of farmers and factories is too small. ”

When he said this, he deliberately glanced at Lou Di, for fear of what kind of thoughts he had in his heart.

Loudi was an open-minded man, and he didn't think elsewhere at all.

But he didn't think about it anywhere else, but Zhao Xing understood the profound meaning of Elder Yin Qige.

The demographic structure of a country determines the nature of a country. For example, now, since the population structure of Datang focuses on nomadic people, strictly speaking, Datang is a nomadic country, not an agricultural country in the Central Plains. And the instability of the fierce nomads has also brought huge hidden dangers to the stability of the country in the future, although logically speaking, the main ethnic group of the Tang Dynasty, Lou Annoying, is already Zhao Xing's nephews. But the nephew, after all, is still a nephew, where is the intimacy of his own children and grandchildren?

Expanding the population of the common people of Central Plains origin has become a top priority.

But the population is born and raised slowly, and it is not possible to be in a hurry to come.

Zhao Xing said to the ministers: "Now we are seriously sparsely populated, this fertile Hetao Plain, there is no development of agricultural peoples, this is actually a serious waste, and at the same time, it cannot enhance our national strength." So now I emphasize our policy again, have more children and raise more pigs, in order to achieve our goal, the widow will now announce a new policy, as long as the sun sets, all the rural towns in our Datang country must implement a curfew, there is no urgency, just go to the street casually, and those who do not sleep at home with their wives will be convicted. Then he pondered for a moment: "Now a new order is issued, and that is to raise the price of lamp oil, so that the price will be so high that the people will not be able to light the lamp." ”

Looking at the stunned ministers, Zhao Xing smiled evilly and said, "If the people can't light the lamp, what can the people do?" Of course, I slept with my wife in my arms, but after a long night, I was bored when I slept enough, so I could only do that thing. And do you need to light a lamp to do that? ”

So everyone burst into laughter.

"In order to increase the population rapidly, the widow now decrees that anyone who has reached the age of 15 and cannot marry a wife will be distributed by the state, which is a limited performance evaluation, that is, our county magistrate should shoulder the heavy responsibility of matchmaking, turn the county yamen into a marriage agency, and tell those officials that as long as there is a 15-year-old man in his jurisdiction who does not marry a wife, he will be fined for one year."

Zhao Xing did this to resolutely excavate the fine tradition of the Han people, and he used all kinds of means.

"There is also the real implementation of the polygamy system, the nobles here must have three wives and four concubines, 7 people, ordinary people, strong men, must have one wife and one concubine." Then he slapped the table with a righteous face: "Everything starts with me, the widow's harem needs-"

"You dare." A striking voice came from behind the screen.

Zhao Xing shrank his neck and defended in a weak heart: "Don't I want to contribute to this country?" ”

"You dare to quibble, phew."

Zhao Xing immediately straightened his thoughts, realized his mistake, and said: "Since the widow wants to devote all his energy to the affairs of this country, I will not follow this order." ”

Behind the screen, a sentence came: "Come to my room in the evening, and we will talk about national affairs." ”

Zhao Xing grinned. Immediately won the praise of the ministers who were afraid of their wives without scruples.

Zhou Tong couldn't help laughing: "Even if the widow leads by example and makes great contributions to the country, it will take at least 15 years for the children to grow up, so we still have to dig up the population in other vassal states, which is the way to solve the problem quickly." ”

Zhao Xing dragged his cheeks and grabbed the tooth flower: "All the vassal states know the importance of population, whose corner are we going to dig?" ”

Zhou Tong immediately proposed: "In the current land of Bashu, the original people of Bashu were unbearable to the oppression of the tyrannical Qin, and they raised troops to rebel, and the suppression of them by the Qin State was even more cruel, in order to show our benevolence, we should send envoys to secretly contact the rebellious Bashu people, rescue them from the hands of the tyrannical Qin, and then place them in our land." ”

Zhao Xingyi slapped the table: "Yes, yes, we Datang are to be the saviors of the oppressed in the world, and to be the defenders of human rights. ”

Everyone was amazed.

Zhao Xing smiled: "But we are just defenders of human rights in other neutralized countries, as for our Datang internally, human rights must be despised and trampled on." ”

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, double standard, this can be had.

And just when Zhao Xing was developing his territory due to the lack of population, the British envoy arrived, and he asked Zhao Xing, a landlord, for help.

When he heard this report, Zhao Xing smiled bitterly: "What? It's all this time, and someone else will take me as the master? The landlord has no food left, I only have money, no food. ”

Now in Datang, there is really only a vast land, countless money, and everything else, nothing.