Sun Xiangfu knew that Li Tai's thinking could not be changed because of his own ideological education, so he didn't plan to say too much, in case it stimulated his rebellious thoughts and had the opposite effect, it would be bad.

However, since then, Li Tai has not done boring things to harass Sun Xiaomei.

Xunyang County Wharf, Li Shimin boarded the big ship that had been waiting here, the cement road leading from Chang'an to here will be repaired quickly, after that, the official team will go out of Chang'an, you can board the ship here and go south within a day, day and night, four or five days can arrive at Jingxiang, which is not far from the straight line distance from Guanzhong, if some places are slightly dredged, the whole boat process may be faster.

The team that went south this time is not small, except that it did not bring any troops, it is almost the same as the lineup of Li Shimin who went to Dingxiang last year, and several concubines of Empress Changsun and Li Shimin are also impressively listed, anyway, Chang'an needs Empress Changsun to preside over in person this year, but it is Li Mengjiang's wedding in the second half of the year.

"Your Majesty, I heard that my brother is building Jiangling City as the capital, which is much bigger than Luoyang, but Shannan Road is not as prosperous as Guanzhong, such a big city, after it is built, will it be empty?" On the bow of the boat, Empress Changsun, who was looking at the scenery along the Han River, opened her mouth and asked Li Shimin.

Li Shimin smiled and replied, "The current Shannan Road may not be as prosperous as Guanzhong, but in the future, it may not be, you forget, Sun Zhengming is over there now." ”

Empress Changsun smiled when she heard this, "I heard that in the report of the secret guard, the Jiuyuan County where he is located is described as like the Datong world, and the concubine wants to see what kind of paradise this Jiuyuan County is." ”

"The paradise of the world, hehe, the description is really appropriate, the people there, in addition to working every day, is singing and dancing, it is really a paradise on earth, if, the states and counties of Shannan Province, all like this, its prosperity, may be more than Guanzhong."

"More than Guanzhong? How is it possible, the population of Guanzhong is several times more than that of Shannan Road, and there is also an industrial city like Weinan, constantly absorbing foreign population, manufacturing goods for the whole world, Zhengming is no matter how capable he is, it is impossible to let a mere Shannan Road surpass Guanzhong! Empress Eldest Sun said with some surprise.

Li Shimin continued to laugh and said, "You don't know this, Shannan Road extends in all directions, with the convenience of the Han River and the Yangtze River waterway, it is the heart of my Datang locality, go in any direction, absorb the surrounding population, but it is faster than Guanzhong, in addition, Sun Zhengming's field is the land with the highest output and the strongest disaster resistance among the existing land in my Datang, and each household in the field only needs to plant 30 acres of land, which is higher than the output of 80 acres of land planted by people in other places, do you know how fast the population of Jiuyuan County is developing? ”

Empress Changsun shook her head and said, "Jiuyuan County has only been established for a year, no matter how fast it is, it won't be anywhere!" ”

"Yes! Jiuyuan County has only been established for one year, but there are three of them, which have been built for more than three years, and the more than 5,000 households in these three fields alone, in the past three years, there have been more than 6,000 new newborns, and the entire Jiuyuan County, 30,000 households, from the construction of these three fields to the time when all the nine fields have been built, a total of more than 20,000 newborns have been added, including more than 13,000 male babies. ”

"What?"

Li Shimin replied with a smile, "He said that it is a place that is suitable for pregnancy, and it is suitable for birth." Now, many wealthy families who are seeking children in Guanzhong take their wives and concubines to play there, just to have more children. ”

In three years, more than 20,000 newborns have been added, that is, almost seventy or eighty percent of families have given birth to a child in these three years, and they have survived, this growth rate, but it is really fast enough, throwing off a few streets anywhere else in Datang, the reason why there is this data is because there are a few pieces of land that are slowly built up in the future, if calculated according to the population of the entire county now, it is estimated that more than 10,000 newborns will be born in one year.

After all, in the absence of family planning, and contraceptive measures, the people have no economic pressure, most of them can maintain more than a year to give birth to a child, many to the thirties of women, in this era is called the old woman, can also give birth, with 30,000 households as the base, basically every year one-third of the family has a newborn born, this data, compared with the later generations of Taizu to promote the development of China's population, is not fast.

"The concubine understands why His Majesty brought all the sisters with him, and if she wants to come, she is also going to Jiuyuan County to get a taste of the treasure."

Empress Changsun is more concerned about the growth of the Li clan than Yu Xiu'er is about the growth of the Sun clan, before, when Sun Simiao helped her see the qi disease, she said that she had better not give birth, but due to various food supplements in the past two years, her qi disease has rarely attacked, and her body is much better than before, but she wants to help Li Shimin again.

Speaking of this, Li Shimin blushed and said, "The number of Han people in my Tang Dynasty has always been scarce, less than half of the total population under his rule, like several large countries in the West, with a population of more than 20 million at every turn, and the Byzantine Empire, even reaching a population of more than 40 million. ”

Empress Eldest Sun understood the hint in Li Shimin's words, nodded and continued, "In this way, it seems that Zhengming advises you to develop your internal life and accumulate strength, which also makes some sense. ”

Speaking of this, Li Shimin said helplessly, "Most of the time the suggestions made by the ministers are reasonable, because of this, I usually accept advice with an open mind, but between good and better, I have to make a choice."

In my opinion, even if Wang Hao's remnants of manpower are not of great use, but let them disrupt the West, it is also beneficial to our Tang Dynasty, the Western countries are weakened in the war, but my Tang Dynasty is concentrating on upward development, and in a few years, when I set foot in the Western Regions, it will inevitably become a trend of destruction and decay.

And Zhengming is too kind-hearted, unwilling to sacrifice too many people's lives on the way to conquer and expand, according to his strategy, although it is feasible, but it is too slow and slow, I am afraid that in my lifetime, I may not be able to see the day when my Tang Dynasty realizes the unification, which is the reason why I am unwilling to adopt his strategy.

Besides, this time he committed my taboo again, privately instructed the old one, destroyed my layout, and after going to Shannan Province, I decided to reprimand him. ”

"Old? Can Masaaki still mobilize the army now? ”

Li Shimin shook his head and replied, "It's not the army, it's those people from the Overseas Exploration Company, led by Zhao Long, his former guard commander, but I have already sent a letter to Hongshen to deal with it, and it is good to clear out those guys overseas, so that those people left by Wang Hao can be absolutely controlled in their hands." ”

Time rewinds back to a month ago, when Zhao Long returned to Weinan Shipyard to take over the new ship and prepare to do navigation training, he got a message from Zhang Ke, and he took advantage of the situation to find the weapons and equipment workshop to receive a large number of weapons and equipment, and even some of the latest research equipment have received a lot, which is called a test together, such a sensitive news naturally reached Li Shimin on the same day.

The secret guard system is very strict in the monitoring of weapons, but Li Shimin didn't feel that there was any problem at that time, but two days later, the news that Lingnan Feng Ang transferred troops to the sea also came, and combined with Zhao Long's takeover of ten Baotou steel ships, he gathered the skilled seafarers under his command, and a small number of new crew members who needed to be trained, and quickly went to the Yongji Canal and went straight to the East China Sea, Li Shimin guessed what and hurriedly sent a letter to Zhang Gongjin on the Liaodong Peninsula.

Then, when Zhao Long's fleet bypassed the peninsula and went straight to the direction of the Wa Kingdom, he met Zhang Gongjin at sea, but Zhang Gongjin did not prevent Zhao Long from going to the Wa Kingdom, but personally took 20,000 Liaodong Navy and went to the Wa Kingdom with him.

Since Wang Hao escaped overseas from Yunnan, the Wa Kingdom is like a closed country, in the past two years, several groups of envoys sent, and some businessmen who do shipping business, all of them were intercepted and killed by Wang Hao's people, and even, his subordinates, also began to land, captured a large number of young people on the shore, established a walled stronghold in a seaport on Kyushu Island, and constantly based on the population of the Wa State, absorbing war nutrients, and the population of the Wa State during this period was not much, after the huge war losses of Goguryeo, it was relatively civilized, The number of young and strong people who can be used in the military is only 100,000 at most, and after Wang Hao's people have captured and killed more than 10,000 young people, it has already hurt the foundation of the Japanese state.

The Emperor of the Stables had to organize an army to eradicate this force, no, the Stables had been preparing for more than two years, and finally organized an army of more than 50,000 land and water, and when he was ready to go to Kyushu Island to clear this force, he was caught up by Zhao Long and Zhang Gongjin.

Li Shimin has long been dissatisfied with the Wa State, the only country in East Asia that has not yet been assigned to the Tang Dynasty, and the task he gave Zhang Gongjin is to teach the Wa State to be a man, and when necessary, directly land and fight, not to mention the comprehensive domination of the Wa State, at least to occupy the areas where the domestic gold and silver mines are relatively rich, the current development speed of the Tang Dynasty is too fast, although the gold and silver currency is in a state of inflow, but the currency on the market is still in short supply, because, after the issuance of newly minted coins, there is a lot of outflow.

On the big steel ship with a load of more than 30,000 stones, Zhang Gongjin and Zhao Long each held a telescope and looked at the situation in the harbor of Kyushu Island.

On the coast, it is in a kind of war confrontation, through the subtle pictures seen in the telescope, Zhang Gongjin and Zhao Long both know that the war here is estimated to have been fought for a while, and the situation is that the defensive side is dying and struggling.

Wang Hao left behind in the Wa Kingdom of the people were not many, only a few hundred people, the reason why their power reached the point of almost controlling the entire Kyushu Island, is because they used force, or money and materials and other things, tempted, gathered a large number of Wa locals, however, after the Wa Emperor Stables sent a large army to the battlefield, let them gather a large number of these Wa locals defected, and even defected, which led to their sea troops, defeated by ten times their Wa army, the land walled city, They were also besieged by the Japanese army, and with the advantage of the walled city and equipment, they defended for a long time, but it was actually a matter of time before they were destroyed.

"Governor, there are ships coming from the Japanese side, and they should have sent envoys to negotiate with us." Zhao Long, who was familiar with the sea conditions and the official system of the Wa Kingdom, explained to Zhang Gongjin.

In this era, there is no ship of any country, with the size of the battleship of the Tang Navy, especially the more than 30,000 stone Baotou steel warship, without loading heavy cargo, the height of the ship's side is enough to make the enemy who wants to jump ship to start a white-knuckle battle desperate, at a long distance, it can make people daunting, so, when seeing these big ships approaching the port, the whole harbor began to be quiet and terrifying, and the stable sent an envoy to inquire about the situation as soon as possible.

"Can you destroy the ships they sent, this governor thinks that if you destroy the sea power of the Japanese kingdom first, it will be much easier to do the rest of the things." The distance between the two warships was still nearly a thousand meters, and Zhang Gongjin put away the binoculars and asked Zhao Long.

"Hehe, the subordinate also thinks so, but this little matter is just left to my subordinates, and I ask you to give an order to let the warships of the Liaodong Navy line up on the sea to form an encirclement to prevent fish from slipping through the net."

"You only have ten ships under you, more than 3,000 people, and the Japanese navy, but there are thousands of warships, at least 20,000 or 30,000 people, can you take them down?"

"This naval battle is not comparable to the water battle in the Yangtze River and the Yellow River, just look at it." Zhao Long gave Zhang Gongjin a reassuring look, and after walking to the command platform of the flagship, he immediately asked the sailors who gave the order to blow the horn and wave the flag, and suddenly, the huge hull began to adjust on the sea surface and set up a formation.