Xihuan's car stopped in the parking lot all the way through Yongtai Gate, and the prince sent Yancong to lead Xihuan to Linglong Pavilion.

Yan Cong is the eldest son of the crown prince Jiang Yu protector Yan Ping, and this prince protector Yan Ping is really unlucky, nine out of fifty this year, and sixty next year, looking at the Central Plains dynasties, it is estimated that there is no prince protector who has not turned positive in sixty, this can be regarded as setting a precedent.

Coming to the Linglong Pavilion not far away, Xihuan looked at the clear transparent glass of the windows of the Linglong Pavilion, and couldn't help but feel envious, she stopped and asked Yan Cong:

"General Yan, this is the Linglong Crystal Window."

"Back to Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess, it is the exquisite crystal window, which was just installed at the end of last year."

"This window is really as rumored, transparent as nothing, crystal clear as clear water, at first glance I thought there was nothing in front of me, but in fact there is no cave."

Xihuan knew the news of the use of glass in the decoration of Linglong Pavilion, but she only heard that because the Jin army was stationed in the north, the border relationship was tight, and she didn't want to have nothing to do but enter the palace to see the glass and the king of Xian, so she had not seen it with her own eyes.

The glass used in Linglong Pavilion is not ordinary flat glass, but several types of strengthened special glass developed by Bailiyan for chemical machinery, medical instrumentation and other industries.

Although the performance is far less than tempered glass, but the thickness of the strong crossing is higher than that of ordinary calcium and sodium glass silicate glass, and the transmittance and thickness are better than all ordinary glass.

After that, the decoration of the palace will use industrial special glass, although the price will be a lot more expensive, but for safety reasons, it is still cost-effective. In addition, the large amount of procurement in the palace is conducive to the dilution of the cost of early research and development and equipment purchase, providing favorable conditions for a large number of industrial production in the future, and at the same time, it can also reduce the production cost and make it produce rapidly, which is conducive to the popularization this morning.

At this time, on the third floor of the east courtyard of Linglong Pavilion, King Xian and the crown prince were sitting in the pavilion to talk about family affairs. On the first floor of the attic sits three rows of pianists and two rows of bell masters and drummers, who take turns playing bells, drums and pianos, sometimes reverberating and sometimes flowing with small bridges, like a large ensemble of ancient symphonies.

King Xian admired the melodious drum music, and his heart was in a reverie, and the next moment, he asked the prince:

"Sting, now that the princes are weak and my country is strong, what do you think of the current market situation."

"Back to my father, the offense and defense have changed shape since ancient times, and the cycle has been repeated, today the princes are weak and I am strong, and I will be weak and the princes will be strong in the future. Therefore, the ministers thought that the strong should not bully the weak, and the weak country also had a time to be strong. Therefore, all countries should respect each other's etiquette and make an oath to make an alliance in order to enjoy peace forever and not return to war. ”

"Oh......" King Xian sighed lightly, did not comment on the prince's words, and then he asked: "Yongxing Hou has ruled the country for more than 20 years, and the sting thinks there is something wrong?" ”

"Uh......"

Jiang Yu hesitated, glanced at his father's face and saw no different color, and he couldn't make up his mind. He still understands his father's temperament to some extent, and the issue of Yongxing Hou is by no means something he can talk about casually.

Seeing that the prince was silent, King Xian said again:

"Today, there are only fathers and sons, no kings and ministers, and there is no need to worry about stinging, but it doesn't matter."

"The boy had the courage to speak to his father this day. The child thought that Yongxing Hou had ruled the country for more than 20 years, and the results were obvious to all, and it could be called the first great governance in the Central Plains for thousands of years. In terms of merit, the Marquis of Yongxing deserves to be the first meritorious hero of my Xianguo. ”

King Xian looked at his son calmly, without any expression on his face, and seemed to have no interest in his son's compliments, and then he sighed lightly and said:

"Oh...... What's wrong with that? ”

"Father Mingjian, the child thinks that Yongxing Hou has done inappropriately in three things, at least it is unfair and contrary to the unification."

"Oh, what's the opposite of the unification?"

"First, the Marquis of Yongxing is unfair in employing people, and only using ordinary people instead of serving as ministers and nobles is biased and excluded. Second, in the name of being superficial, the Marquis of Yongxing laid off officials and cabinet members in the early years and greatly reduced the number of capable officials, but in the last ten years or so, he has privately set up a government office to expand the number of officials, which inevitably leads to the suspicion of forming a party to support forces for private purposes. Third, Yongxing Hou is a discordant person after all, although he is maintained by in-laws, but the broken bones are still connected to the tendons, and the child thinks that he should be restrained. ”

The situation reacted by the prince is basically true, since Bailiyan took power, he has promoted top-down reform measures, and the personnel system is the first.

Twenty years ago, due to the scarcity of educational resources, most of the books and intellectuals were concentrated in the hands of the powerful, so to a large extent, the highest standard for officials was literacy.

Therefore, the scope of personnel appointments is limited to the existing groups, and there are very few talents from the middle and lower classes, either the children of the sect or the nobles, even the commoners, they all spend high tuition fees to study and study in private schools, and the scarcity of educational resources determines that most of the officials can only come from the elite class.

In a sense, if Bailiyan were to enter politics as a simple commoner, it would be difficult to get to this point, at most a senior doctor, the identity of the nobles of the country and the marriage of King Xian undoubtedly provided political opportunities. Of course, it is undeniable that his original two brushes still impressed King Xian.

At the beginning of his administration, while prioritizing agriculture and land reform, Bailiyan did not forget to promote investment in basic education, recruiting educational talents and all available resources, and establishing basic scale education and primary skills education.

The vigorous development of education has directly changed the group structure of society, and scientific progress and the emergence of advanced ideas have accelerated social awakening and group class self-consciousness.

But it is undeniable that at the same time, the children of the option nobles have also received advanced education, but as a vested interest group, they are in a high position and lie on the merit book, with poor subjective and active initiative, do not want to forge ahead, do not seek progress, and do not know that there are many people who seek development through change.

Continuing to support these people and the old aristocratic forces behind them will not only not continue to promote the development of society for the better, but on the contrary, the increasing expansion of advanced technology and productive forces will intensify their greed, hinder reform and development, and support the common people and the technical class to become technical officials.

When the new social structure and the endless political and economic phenomena make the traditional bureaucratic system unable to adapt to the development of new things, it is inevitable to establish a new government agency to manage and standardize it, and formulate reasonable rules and regulations to guide the healthy and orderly development of the market.

In view of the strength and necessity of the traditional bureaucratic system, it is impractical to overturn it all over again, so Bailiyan can only continue to patch the existing bureaucratic system, and at the same time, all the new functional institutions are attached to the name of the Dasi Nong Zhi Su Neishi Ordnance Division, and the officials are also appointed by him.

The redundant layoffs are all wasted and do not work, and the new functional departments are all functional institutions that came into being in response to the needs of society and the times.

The purpose of cutting out wine bags and rice bags is to improve the administrative efficiency of Zeng, and the establishment of new functional departments is also to improve the administrative efficiency of Zeng. But in the eyes of the prince, it has become a party to cultivate forces for private gain, buy people's hearts and cultivate party henchmen. In the final analysis, it is the concentration of power in the hands of one person to the detriment of vested interests.

Once upon a time, in order to avoid conflict with most of the elite groups, Bai Liyan made quite concessions, and co-opted the two lines of Luhou Xuanting, always maintaining a delicate balance relationship. He believed that, with this balance carefully maintained, time and social reforms would be enough to suppress the restoration of aristocratic power during his lifetime.

But there is always a day when this balance will be broken, and unfortunately, the day of the balance will be broken by 30 years.

For his son, King Xian knows his son very well, just like he knows his own fingers, he knows which one is long and which is short. King Xian did not express his position on the first two issues, but he made a key position on the fact that Baili Yan is a Qi person:

"Sting, now I am the people of Xianguo."

"Back to my father, there are more than 17 million people in my country, which is less than Xu Guodu, the eldest grandson of Zhiwei Jin."

"That was four years ago, and now there are more than 18 million people in our country, and there will be more in the future, and among these 18 million surnames, less than 7 million are native Xian people, and the rest are nearly half of the old people of Sun State, about one million are the Central Plains vassal people, and the rest are the people of Sun Qiguo, Yan State, Chen Guo, and Zhao Guo, the head of Weiguozhi.

In other words, the king of the widow is not the king of the salty. If the widow's courtiers are all the people of the Xian country, how will the widow govern other foreigners in the future, and how will the widow rule more territory and more new people in the future.

It is true that Yongxing Hou is a Qi person, but he is also a Xianguo person, and he is your cousin-in-law. In employing people, we must not only look at their background, but also look at their deeds and listen to their words, and see whether their words and deeds are beneficial to the country and the overall situation. ”

The population of 17 million was the result of the second population census in 646, which began in 641, and excluding the abnormal growth rate of refugees and hidden black households in that year, the annual natural growth rate of the registered population of Xianguo was about 1.7 percent.

The natural growth rate of 1.7 percent is quite high, and in about 40 years the population will double in net terms, and in 100 years the population of Xianguo will approach 100 million.

However, in the era of agriculture, where there was a lack of medical care, the lack of sanitation and medical assistance led to a very high rate of infant mortality and maternal death. Coupled with the perennial wars, the population has been greatly depleted, so that the actual effective growth is not 1.7.

To this end, Bailiyan vigorously trained barefoot doctors, developed medical and vaccine research, established a grassroots health center based in the county seat, and carried out nationwide prevention and treatment of infant diseases, so as to improve the survival rate of mothers and young children.

Improvements in sanitation and material life have made it possible to achieve a significant net increase in the population.

By 646 of the Shengyuan Dynasty, the total population of the country could be verified to reach more than 17 million, and in 648 the Shengyuan Dynasty conducted a sample survey, and the population growth rate in some areas reached 2.8 percent, and the lowest sample also reached 1.9 percent, which did not include the labor force moved in by the royal guests and the population abducted by the Yuncang faction.

After deducting premature deaths and accidental deaths, there is no problem in the per capita population growth rate of the whole country reaching about 2.5 percent; although the population growth rate of 2.5 percent is astonishingly high, the total population of the 40 to 50 million square kilometers of inhabited areas in the entire Central Plains is still on the small side, let alone of quality.

As a result, although no census was conducted during the year, the number of permanent residents theoretically exceeded 18.3 million.

In the absence of immigration, the population will double to 37 million to 40 million in about 25 to 28 years. If the territory continues to expand, the population increases rapidly, and immigrants pour in, the population could exceed 100 million in the next 30 years.

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