There is more gold and silver than money, and more money than materials, and Yuan Shu is now facing this embarrassing situation.

Through the selfless dedication of the Yingzhou Japanese people, the gold and silver mines were continuously mined, and Yuan Shu did not lack gold, silver and money in his hands. But no matter how much money there is, it is useless to lack materials. In today's era, there is no science and technology, there is no industry and the like, there is very little income from foreign trade, and productivity is basically linked to population. Yuan Shu is now frantically encouraging fertility and expanding the population, so that the productive forces are far from meeting the needs of the country.

There are so many manpower and material resources, that is, no matter how much money you have in your hands, it will only make prices soar, unable to meet the needs of the country, and will transfer the pressure to the people. Today's Dachu has a shortage of manpower. The infrastructure work that was distributed everywhere required a large number of people, and the shortage of slaves was enormous, and it will continue to grow in the future.

Waterwheels, cattle, Champa rice, rice and fish farming, fertilizer, promotion of improved seeds, two-season or even three-season planting, etc. In order to improve grain production, Yuan Shu used all the methods he could think of, and even specially organized some peasant children to study the black technology of miscellaneous optimization of rice, wheat, millet and other crops. Unable to promote industrial cultivation, Yuan Shu could only improve in these aspects, refining the farming methods of the Han Dynasty, and constantly opening up wasteland, expanding the area of cultivated land and improving soil fertility.

In other breeding, fishing, steel smelting, textile, etc., Yuan Shu also put forward his own suggestions, allowing hundreds of people to experiment and realize.

I have to say that the hundred schools of thought are really a big treasure house, and I don't know how many surprises they brought to Yuan Shu. All kinds of talents are surrounded by various factions because of their interests and aspirations, and there are thousands of them, of which only a few dozen are more famous. The various schools of thought exchanged and competed with each other, and finally formed a pattern with Legalism, Taoism, Moism, Confucianism, Yin and Yang, Famous Schools, Miscellaneous Schools, Peasant Schools, Families, Vertical and Horizontal Schools, Soldiers, and Doctors as the core.

Sometimes Yuan Shu couldn't help but imagine how brilliant the era of a hundred schools of thought was. In that era of great changes, it was full of all kinds of contradictions, the interests of the individual and the interests of the state were used interactively, and the lively atmosphere of the people's discussion made countless ordinary people in the market feel free to talk about the general trend of the world, and no mathematical schools appeared one after another, each propagating his own ideas. Countless crystals of wisdom collided with each other, and various schools of thought competed with each other to promote each other, giving birth to countless amazing works.

But unfortunately, that chaotic and glorious era can no longer be replicated, and most of the crystallization of those wisdom has been lost. This is the ill of China since ancient times, the glory is unimaginable, but this glory can rarely be passed on, and will be cut off for various reasons until extinction, and only some mainstream ideas remain.

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"That's the way it is."

After Guo Jia received the gift again, he decisively entered the palace and put the gift list in front of Yuan Shu, and reported the content of the previous conversation to Yuan Shu in detail.

Yuan Shu picked up the gift list and glanced at it, and said with a smile: "It seems that your identity as a minister has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and this gift of Guishuang is not light!" ”

"If it weren't for Your Majesty, the minister would not be willing to do this job, you must know that Yuan Hao's participation in me has not been broken, and my current reputation is afraid that it has become notorious, and it is probably similar to the ten permanent servants at the time of Emperor Ling. If you encounter a few sour literati in the future, it is estimated that Jia is the great traitor of that country, and he will be left behind for a thousand years. Guo Jia couldn't help but shake his head.

"Yuan Haoshen, you are because you have a bad style, you eat, drink and have fun every day, and the last dynasty doesn't know how to restrain it, and the smell of wine and fat powder on your body can almost be smelled. Don't worry, we don't know your situation, that is, we will temporarily deceive those small countries so that we can control them, and I will overturn the case for you in the future. Yuan Shu said with a smile.

Yuan Shu can be regarded as knowing why the emperor sometimes raises some ministers, and some things are indeed more convenient for ministers to do. Just like the matter of Guishuang this time, Yuan Shu, as the head of a country and the representative of Guang Weizheng, will never discuss with the other party like a businessman, but Guo Jia can. Relying on the identity of a minister, it is not too easy and natural to do this kind of thing, and it will easily solve many problems that are not easy to solve on the surface. Today's Guo Jia is somewhat similar to He Shen in history, both of whom are responsible for the emperor, but Yuan Shu will definitely not give Guo Jia and Shen such an ending.

"Your Majesty, you said it easily, you are not unclear about the handwriting of those scholars and Confucian scholars, as long as it is not conducive to their class, white can be said to be black. Don't say it's Jia, I'm afraid that you won't be smeared in the future, after all, you are not much stronger than Jia, ignoring the government, being lazy by nature, and being content with pleasure, Jia will be a minister in the future, Your Majesty, you may also be a faint tyrant. Guo Jia raised his eyebrows and said.

In addition to Yuan Shu, there were only two people present, Jia Xu and Xun You, so he had no scruples when he spoke.

"That's good, a faint king, a minister, we are really compatible." Yuan Shule said. He is not the emperor like Li Shimin who likes to pursue false fame, using Wei Zheng to brush his wisdom and wait for his death to not only scold others but also tear down other people's tombstones. As an emperor with a certain modern thought, Yuan Shu didn't care what future generations would think of him.

What's more, after all, he is a winner, and he has done so many things for the benefit of the country and the people, and he will expand his territory in the future, even if the hearts of those who hold the pen in later generations are black, they will always have to give the same evaluation as Qin Shi Huang. It will definitely not be like Yang Guang, who was directly hacked to death by the gate valve for opening a imperial examination, and finally let Li Tangbai pick up the cheap. Li Shimin basically played the rest of Yang Jian and Yang Guang's father and son, and as a result, he was much more famous than the two of them.

"Your Majesty, Guishuang's posture is very low, which is somewhat unexpected to us. Although we have learned about Kushan's attitude in some records of the Han Dynasty, it is still difficult to imagine that an empire would grovel to us in the face of us. Xun You saw that the off-line monarch and the minister were chatting more and more nonsense, and hurriedly pulled the topic back.

"Yes! Although Ban Chao easily beat them down at the beginning, creating a certain psychological shadow for them, as the overlord of the Western Regions, they would not be so low-minded to us. It's also an empire with a population of millions and hundreds of thousands of armor, and it doesn't have the courage at all. Yuan Shu was also puzzled.

"Your Majesty, in fact, it is normal for Guishuang to be like this. First, their predecessor, the Dayue Clan, was originally a weak country like a wall-to-grass grass, and they were used to groveling to us Han and Xiongnu. Second, the internal composition of the Kushan Empire is very complex, and it started with commerce, with scattered military forces and fierce internal struggles, which is not as strong as we imagined. Third, now His Majesty is also clear about the situation in Kushan, not to mention the countries that have split from the northwest, and the invasion of the poisonous body is enough for them to have a headache. In addition, there is a feuding Rest Empire in the west, and there is a threat from the Northern Xiongnu in the north, if they provoke our Great Chu again, I am afraid that they will really be embattled, and they will not dare to be disrespectful to us. Jia Xu said lightly.

"Indeed, the Kushan Empire seems to be powerful now, but in fact, the internal division and struggle are serious, and there are several strong enemies outside, which can be called walking on thin ice, as long as it rests in peace or the Northern Xiongnu intervene a little, it will overturn in an instant." Guo Jia hit the nail on the head and said the essence of today's Guishuang's external strength and middle dryness.

"It is precisely because of this that it is convenient for us to plan and extract corn from the fire." Jia Xu continued.