As the king of a country, Zhao Zhen has long studied the relationship between population and national stability, economic development, social progress, etc., which is an eternal subject for a leader, even if it is a powerful and prosperous Song Dynasty, Zhao Zhen will not relax.

Just like Taitang Sect said, the husband can be dressed properly with copper as a mirror; With history as a mirror, we can know the rise and fall; With people as a mirror, you can see the gains and losses. Zhao Zhen himself admits that he does not have much whimsical governance ability and the means to easily control his ministers.

For so many years, he only focused on the selection and training of talents, which was a very smart and very stupid method, Zhao Zhen would not make laws, he just let the courtiers in his hands improve the constitution of the Great Song Dynasty, and use the progress of this era to change this era.

What he has is just more knowledge, just like a person standing outside the chessboard, he will always see clearly than others, and he is one step ahead, but this has made him an unrivaled place for contemporaries...... I've just seen it.

In fact, in terms of his ruling ability, he is not even as good as his father Emperor Zhenzong, an emperor who can govern the country in an orderly manner and resist foreign invasions, how can he say that he is a qualified emperor, at least he has achieved it through his own learning, which is already remarkable.

Otherwise, why do the people of many countries say that Zhao Zhen is a star in the sky? He is indeed the god of this era, because the things he has in his head are not what people in this era can have, and there are many words that even a person like him as an emperor does not dare to say, such as the earth is round, the sky is infinitely vast, human beings can fly in the air, and even go to the moon, but there is one thing that cannot be changed, these are all truths!

Since the system in his head disappeared, Zhao Zhen seemed to be reborn, not because he had superhuman abilities, but because his brain had become clearer, and he was very quick to think about problems and find out the memories of the past from his brain, nothing more.

If the Great Song Dynasty wants to develop, it must break an important shackle that binds the Chinese dynasties, the problem of grain production, even if the highest yield of Zhancheng rice is cited, the rice yield of the Great Song Dynasty is still not very ideal, this rice is not a hybrid rice with a yield of more than 1,000 catties per mu, the Great Song Dynasty is still in the stage of exploration in this regard, although Zhao Zhen has a sensitive brain, but he can't make something out of nothing, he is not a scientist, and it is impossible to waste time on research.

He is just a guide, leading his philologists to explore in these directions, the Great Song Dynasty is still the Great Song Dynasty, but under the leadership of Zhao Zhen, he has deviated from the track of history, Zhao Zhen has never wanted to admit it, but he has to admit that the current Great Song Dynasty has been transformed beyond recognition by him.

In that case, then how to benefit and how to come! Now that even potatoes and sweet potatoes have appeared, are there any more miraculous things to fear?

Who would have thought that these brand-new crops would become the hammer of the Great Song Dynasty to break the population ceiling, as long as it is planted on a large scale, the Great Song Dynasty will basically not starve to death, because even if these things are not intervened manually, the yield per mu will be amazing!

Zhao Zhen wants to restore the territory of the Great Song Dynasty to the atmosphere of the Tang Dynasty, but what he wants is a stable territory, not a huge building block that is huge today and will collapse in an instant tomorrow! If you want to make these territories a part of the Great Song Dynasty, and let them themselves be part of China, then the best way is to turn the local territory into the territory of the Han people, and it will be owned by the Han people for generations!

Population is an important weapon of China, which is why the so-called ancient civilization has declined or disappeared in the long history, and only China has survived, because the blood of China will never be extinct, even if it is integrated with foreign blood, but the blood of China still remains.

As long as there is enough population, the survival pressure of the Great Song Dynasty will drive the Great Song Dynasty to start the pace of conquest, instead of launching an attack on the Liao Dynasty to capture Yanyun under its own arbitrary decision.

Even if Zhao Zhen won the war, the rumors about the use of troops in the DPRK and China have not stopped, this is still caused by the pressure is not enough, these wonderful crops per mu yield is amazing, then the population of the Great Song Dynasty must grow wildly, the expansion of the population will make the Great Song Dynasty's demand for land high, this is an unavoidable problem.

No matter how clever the courtiers' political methods are, they will not be able to face this problem that must be solved by practical means, and no one can say such stupid words as self-denial and revenge on this issue, and the darkness of this world will be unreservedly revealed.

The nomads understood this one step ahead of the farming peoples, so they kept going in, constantly provoking wars, and constantly sacrificing the population to maintain the balance on the steppe, and every stable nomad was followed by depression and war, because they had to deal with the extra population, either gaining land in the Central Plains or losing population in the Central Plains.

But the method of regulation of the agrarian nation is completely different, it is through internal consumption to complete the self-regulation, every time a dynasty prospers to a certain extent, the whole country will enter a strange state, the officials begin to corrupt, the people begin to be angry, and the natural disasters that could be easily overcome in the past have become more and more severe under the man-made disasters.

Of course, the most important monarch will also become lazy, because in his opinion, there has been prosperity in the past, and the future has nothing to do with him, and there are those who have the ability to clean up the mess for him.

So the uprisings in various places began to occur frequently, this is a minor disease, if the emperor can wake up as soon as possible, cure these problems, and lead the country in the right direction, external expansion, there will not be much of a problem, but at this time, the thousand-year-old dynasty will basically do the same thing before suppressing the uprising.

This is obviously a palliative rather than a cure, the uprising may be suppressed, but the fundamental problem has not been solved, there will be the next uprising, the people will not have enough to eat, they will be starved to death at home, even the most basic right to survival is not guaranteed, are you still afraid of rebellion?!

In the same way, the people of the Great Song Dynasty were well fed, and there were many fewer things to rebel in, because the cost of rebellion was too great, when a person could live in this world, who would fight to die for something that could not be obtained? Human beings are actually the most realistic animals.

This will lead to the lack of land in the Great Song Dynasty, and if the population increases, the land will naturally decrease, and contradictions will appear, and the solution to the contradiction is very simple, external expansion, which is the principle of heaven and the only solution.

Zhao Zhen wants to break the ceiling of the population, but he is actually breaking the shackles of the Central Plains Dynasty! Open the box of war and expansion! Because of this etiquette, the Chinese Dynasty, where Confucianism was popular, never expanded outward in an independent and interesting way, and always entertained itself in the circle it had drawn for itself......

"It's time to get on a bigger stage......"

Zhao Zhen looked at the map on the wall in the imperial study and muttered.