Chapter 18: The Globe, the Beginning of the Revolution
"Do you really want to marry my daughter?" Li Shimin took Mo Shuyu to the study of Taiji Palace, and sat down to discuss the conditions with Mo Shuyu.
"Well, I really like Yali, and I hope Your Majesty will fulfill it." Mo Shuyu nodded vigorously.
"Although your credit to Datang and me is indeed quite great, is it not enough to marry my daughter? Tell me, what else do you have in your belly? Li Shimin tried to get out of the inventory in Mo Shuyu's stomach.
"Your Majesty, there is a lot of inventory in the boy's belly, but now Datang can't meet the kid's requirements in many aspects, so most of the things can't be made." Mo Shuyu thought about it and said what he thought.
"That is, you can't make the stock in your stomach now?" Li Shimin clasped his big feet and looked at Mo Shuyu.
"Sort of, but give the kid a little time, the kid can make Datang the strongest empire on the earth." Mo Shuyu said his price.
"Earth? What counts as Earth? Li Shimin heard the word earth for the first time and couldn't help asking.
"Your Majesty, do you know that this world is not a round place, but a spherical shape, and the stars in the sky are actually countless stars similar to the sun, because only stars can shine." Mo Shuyu began to popularize knowledge for Li Shimin.
"I know that the world is not a round place, but the stars in the sky are similar to the sun, is there really an immortal in the sky? Is there really an elixir of life? "Since ancient times, no one wants to live forever, and Li Shimin has naturally thought about it.
"Your Majesty, I don't know if there are any immortal boys in the sky, but the master once told the kid that immortals are just a little more powerful than ordinary people, and immortals can't escape the cycle of life." As a materialist in the 21st century, Mo Shuyu naturally does not imagine the existence of any immortals. "There is no medicine in the world that can make people immortal, people can't escape birth, old age, sickness and death, but they can rely on their own maintenance and exercise to make people live longer."
"Hmph, don't try to deceive me, I have such a big country, I don't believe that there is no elixir." Li Shimin seems to be unable to accept the existence of an elixir in the world. "Since you say so, then why are there still so many warlocks in the world who are alchemizing pills and want to practice the elixir of life?"
"Your Majesty is now only in the prime of life, so why talk about things that don't exist." Mo Shuyu didn't want to talk about this with Li Shimin. "If Your Majesty doesn't believe in the kid, you can find an alchemist and ask him to take some pills, and give them to prisoners or living creatures at ten times the dose he said, and Your Majesty is seeing if the pills are edible."
"It's a medicine that is three parts poisonous, according to what you say, any medicine can poison people." Li Shimin still seems to have hope in his heart.
"What are the conditions for alchemy? That kind of Dan is undoubtedly a chronic poison. "Mo Shuyu has heard a lot of rumors about ancient alchemists in later generations, that is, a group of physics and chemists, what medicine do you expect them to make? All of them are heavy metal exceedance, the consequences of heavy metal poisoning.
"That's it, I won't fight with you about this." Li Shimin saw that Mo Shuyu looked down on the pill so much, and thought about it again, its appearance was already a little incredible, and he dared to cut him when others quarreled with him, but Mo Shuyu's origin was quite mysterious, maybe he was really an immortal.
"Your Majesty, the kid wants to marry your daughter, then Your Majesty is also the kid's relative, will the kid still harm you? I really can't eat the pill. Mo Shuyu began to get close to Li Shimin.
"Don't be close to me, since you know the world, do you know how big the world is? Is my Datang the most powerful country? Li Shimin asked curiously.
"Well, this kid can't tell, but in the far west, there are still empires such as Rome and Persia, and the national strength is also very strong, and now that the Tang Dynasty has just been established, the national strength may not be as good as them, but I believe that in a few years, our Datang will be the most powerful empire in the world." Although Mo Shuyu didn't know what countries were in the Western Regions now, he knew in his later life that Datang would stop with Arabia in the future, although he lost, it was 20,000 against 100,000, and he also encountered a mercenary mutiny, so it can be said that he was defeated. And Arabia did not dare to pursue because of their admiration for the combat power of the Tang Dynasty.
"Our Datang now has gunpowder, is it possible that there are other countries that are stronger than my Datang? You got this gunpowder recipe from another country? "Li Shimin, as an emperor who was bent on expanding his territory, heard that there were other powerful countries than him, and thought that Mo Shuyu's gunpowder was obtained from other countries.
"No, the gunpowder formula was discovered by Venerable Master, and no country knows the formula for the time being. However, gunpowder can only affect the situation of the battle, and cannot determine the situation of a battle. Most of the powerful countries in the far west have millions of soldiers, how many soldiers does Datang have now? Defense is enough, but now the jackals, tigers and leopards around Datang are eyeing each other, if Your Majesty wants to go on an expedition to other countries, he must first solve the near worries. What's more, His Majesty's Datang also seems to have some objections within the Tang Dynasty, and the kid suggested that the problem should be solved from the inside to the outside first, from near to far. Mo Shuyu drew the general pattern of the earth on the paper, pointed to the surrounding countries and said to Li Shimin.
"You mean the gentry? I also want to solve the problem of the scholars, but the scholars are deeply rooted, and it is difficult to solve them. Li Shimin never wanted to solve the problem of the Shi clan, but the Shi clan was deeply rooted, and it was not easy to dismantle its rule over the people of the Tang Dynasty.
"Your Majesty, I'm not good at fighting, but I have a way to solve the problem of the nobles in just a few years." Mo Shuyu has countless ways to solve the so-called Shi clan.
"Oh? What can you do to deal with the nobles? The existence of the scholar clan has been hundreds of years or thousands of years, and it is not easy to get rid of the scholar clan. Li Shimin also thought of many ways to solve the problem of the scholars.
"What do the nobles value most? Land! What do each of the nobles rely on to feed so many people? They relied on collecting rent to feed their people. The kid had a way to leave the fields of the scholars uncultivated, and the industries of the scholars were hit. Mo Shuyu remembered the industrial revolution in Europe, where even dynasties could be changed, let alone a few scholars.
"What? You're going to let people not farm the land? What do the people of Datang eat if they don't farm? "The feudal dynasty was an agricultural era, and all dynasties were based on agriculture, and Mo Shuyu suddenly said that he wanted the people not to farm, and even Li Shimin couldn't accept it.
"Nowadays, Datang implements intensive farming, and the yield per mu is not more than 100 catties. I know that there is a kind of rice in the south, with a yield of 300 catties per mu, and it is drought tolerant, adaptable, grows regardless of the land, has a short growth period, and reaches two crops a year. Mo Shuyu tried to convince Li Shimin.
"Is there such a thing? The annual yield per mu is as high as 600 catties? How many manpower will my Datang free up from the fields? Li Shimin's eyes widened when he heard that Zhancheng Rice was divided. Where is this rice? I sent someone to fetch it, if it can be promoted in my Tang Dynasty, this is an immortal achievement that will be immortal. “
"The kid has already asked Wang Cai to follow the caravan to the South Vietnam region to look for Champa rice, if it goes well, he should have already returned."
"Good boy, before you know it, you've made a great contribution."
"Your Majesty, although there is Zhancheng rice, but this is not a bargaining chip to defeat the Shi clan, the kid implores His Majesty to give the kid a fief, the kid wants to experiment with a lot of things, and use a revolution to defeat the Shi clan's thousand-year-old rule over the Central Plains!"