My father said that in the old days, the Son of Heaven and the imperial court wanted the country to last long, as long as the people were fed and clothed.

Therefore they had to suppress the annexation of the land as much as possible, so that the cultivators could have their land, and the people should have reserves, and then there would be three years of abundant reserves.

But in this case, there is an intractable loop, that is, as a dynasty enjoys more than 100 years of peace, as the population increases, the original traditional Han land will become insufficient.

If there is not enough arable land to feed more people, then only some people will become poorer, and if some powerful people occupy more land at this time, and there are several natural disasters, then a dynasty will enter the end of its life.

Father did not want our Huaxia to repeat this process, he hoped that the people of Huaxia would be rich, healthy, and inquisitive, and even in the face of large-scale natural disasters**, they would be able to endure it for a long time, and even survive it safely.

This is not something that can be done by men and women.

In agriculture, we must expand the land to no corner in front of us, even if the imperial court cannot control it now, we can also divide it out, as long as the feudal country is still the country of the Han people, then in the event of a famine in the country, we can transfer food from the feudal country for disaster relief, or resettle refugees in the feudal country.

In addition, our industry needs a lot of raw materials – iron, copper, coal, sulphur, wool, cotton, etc.

Copper, iron, coal, and sulfur can make our country strong and invincible, and wool and cotton can warm our people, and give them the opportunity to go deep into places that were previously inaccessible to further expand our living space.

These things can also be sold, making back gold, silver and food, making our people and our country richer.

Merchants who went to foreign countries to sell these goods should also be protected by the empire.

As the saying goes, there is no agriculture and no food, no weaving and no warmth, no work is not strong, no business is not rich, and there is no education.

I think that my father told me so much that there was only one core meaning - the empire cannot stop expanding.

Even if you don't see the benefits of the land now, you can't waste it, because no one knows what treasures will be found in the future.

……

Xu Daizhuo closed the notebook.

Xu Shiyang's wives and concubines and children have the habit of keeping a diary, and he prepares a thick leather book for everyone every once in a while, so that everyone can write down the bits and pieces of study, life, work, play and other aspects of the day, or simply remember their mood.

He believes that this can deepen the individual's impression of his past work and life, and can be used as a basis for summarizing the past - to develop his own strengths and be alert to his shortcomings.

So, although he doesn't check other people's diaries like later elementary school teachers, he still encourages everyone around him to keep a diary.

After writing the diary, Xu Daizhuo's hands gently rubbed his temples - this action was also transmitted by Xu Shiyang, saying that it can maintain his eyes, if he works and reads with the help of kerosene lamps or candles at night for too long, he must stop every hour to do this set of actions for three minutes.

Not only the Xu family, but also the current schools, as well as the night schools of workers and soldiers, are also promoting this set of actions, which Xu Shiyang calls "eye exercises".

From this point, Xu Daizhuo felt that his father was particularly careful and lenient in managing certain things.

It's like he always wants to sink the administration of the imperial court down to the villages.

Xu Daizhuo felt that it would be tiring to do so, and it was no wonder that his father worked hard to improve the power of the cabinet rather than the emperor alone, after all, if everything was managed as meticulously as his father imagined, one person's energy would not be enough in any case.

"Chief of Staff Xu." A major sent by the army to the General Staff walked into Xu Daizhuo's tent and whispered, "Commander Feng is looking for you for a meeting. ”

Xu Daizhuo nodded, indicating that he understood.

The dry season of Cochin has arrived, and now to meet only means one thing - to attack.

……

As soon as the dry season began, both sides of the war realized at the same time that the war was about to begin.

Thang Long Mansion, the capital of Da Yue Kingdom, is now in a gloomy fog.

Last year's attack on Da Zhou began at this time, when the offensive of the Da Viet army in the early days of the war was almost irresistible, and both Qinzhou and Lian Zhou surrendered directly to Da Viet without resistance, and as a result, both states were sacked by Da Viet.

Population, money, grain, and other wealth were all shipped back to the country, giving the whole country a feeling of seemingly infinite abundance.

Until the army's attack in Yongzhou was blocked, Yue was still immersed in the carnival of making a fortune.

Soon, though, the situation cooled down.

During the siege of Yongzhou, the Vietnamese army suffered heavy losses, but they were never able to take the city.

Until finally, Feng Sanhu, the general of northern China, led his troops to gallop thousands of miles to help, and defeated the Vietnamese army under the city of Dun in one fell swoop.

Although the tired Feng Sanhu did not pursue, the Vietnamese troops who fled back to China were still pitiful.

Later, the nobles of the Great Yue Kingdom learned that Feng Sanhu ordered the killing of 20% of the captives in order to avenge the slaughter of Qin and Lian.

This news shocked the whole Yue Kingdom, and they were already vaguely aware that Huaxia was different from the previous Northern Dynasties, and their revenge was surprisingly heavy.

For the next year, the Great Yue Kingdom had been hoping to talk to Huaxia - they thought that during the war between Huaxia and the Great Zhou, attacking the cities of the Great Zhou by themselves, if not to help Huaxia, could not be regarded as an enemy of Huaxia, right?

Huaxia was angry with Da Yue for Da Zhou, which seemed a little unreasonable.

The Emperor of Yue and the Empress Dowager Yilan, the ruling Empress Dowager Li Changjie, hoped to end the war between the two countries, and in return, the Yue were willing to return half of the Han Chinese population that had been plundered.

However, almost all of the emissaries sent to the north were not heard from.

Among them, the first three groups of people took the land route, and they didn't even go to Yongzhou, and they were directly ordered by Feng Sanhu to kill them all.

A cave man who fled from the north to the territory of the Yue Kingdom reported to the Yue monarch that an envoy shouted before he died: "The two countries will not fight each other!" ”

And Feng Sanhu's answer was: "Why do Jiaozhi traitors call the two countries? ”

This sentence also changed the death sentence of that envoy from beheading to Ling Chi!

So the last three groups of envoys changed to waterways, and the negotiation conditions were changed from the return of half of the population to the return of all the plundered Han people, and the Yue Kingdom was even willing to pay a certain amount of compensation - maybe 3 million guan was an appropriate number?

But as soon as the fleet went to sea, it was sunk one by one by the sail gunboats of the Huaxia Navy.

The Chinese people even put down the dinghy and chased down the Yue people who fell into the water, and they didn't let go of any of them, and the degree of ruthlessness was jaw-dropping.

After the Chinese army cleaned up the caves that had been attached to Dayue last year, the monarchs and ministers of Dayue no longer had any illusions about peace.

There is no doubt that the Chinese people are here to destroy the country, and they do not want to negotiate any conditions with the Yue country at all.

In unimaginable circumstances, the Great Viet Kingdom is only united in preparing for war.