Chapter 254: Cultivated Land

Chang'an in June has already begun to heat up. The slightly whitish sunlight shone on the top of the heavy eaves of the Taiji Palace, making the eaves with copper duo refract a colorful light. As soon as the hot wind blew, Tong Duo suddenly made a crisp sound.

After the dispersal of the dynasty, Li Shimin called for someone to recall Zhang Yunwen, who was about to leave the palace.

In the Qianqiu Palace, Li Shimin was wearing a thin bright yellow silk robe and was slowly sipping tea. The two palace ladies each held a fan and shook it up and down, sending him a cool breeze.

Zhang Yunwen entered the hall, first saluted, and then asked carefully: "Eh, I don't know why Your Majesty summoned Weichen to come?" ”

Li Shimin put down the teacup, smiled kindly and said: "There are only you and my son-in-law here, you don't have to treat each other as a monarch and a minister!" Come on, sit down and have a cup of tea! ”

After Zhang Yunwen sat down, a palace lady immediately brought a cup of tea.

"I summoned you today, but for the letter from last night!" As soon as Li Shimin finished speaking, an attendant came over with a few thin pieces of paper in both hands.

Taking the pieces of paper in his hand, Li Shimin hurriedly flipped through them: "Yunwen, this piece of yours, I thought about it carefully last night, and there are still many unclear points." Today is for you to speak for me in person! ”

Last night, Zhang Yunwen asked Li Yu to forward the recital, which mainly discussed the relationship between population and land. Zhang Wenji, who was in later generations, was a little puzzled because family planning had just been implemented, and he once carefully studied Ma Yinchu's new population theory.

Now, Zhang Yunwen has directly moved out the views on population and land in the new population theory.

Zhang Yunwen reasoned out his thoughts and said: "Looking around today's Tang Dynasty, it can be said that it is thriving and peaceful. In such an environment, the population is growing very rapidly. However, since the end of the Sui Dynasty, the world has been in turmoil, and the amount of cultivated land has been greatly reduced. Speaking of this, Zhang Yunwen glanced at Li Shimin, and saw that although the latter's face was unnatural, he still nodded and said: "Yes, the arable land of my Zhenguan Dynasty is even worse than that of the Great Cause years!" ”

Zhang Yunwen continued: "The scarce arable land is not enough to feed the growing population. If, after 20 years, the population doubles, but the arable land grows very little, then the contradictions are stimulated, and the people will gradually become dissatisfied with the imperial court. There are two ways to alleviate this contradiction. The first is to actively open up land and develop new farmland. For example, today's population cultivates land, and those who are concentrated in Guanzhong are nearly half. However, the land in Guanzhong is limited, and within 20 years, the land that can be distributed will be exhausted. However, outside of Guanzhong, the land south of the Yangtze River is being developed, and the land of Huguang has not yet been developed. As long as the development of the two places is completed, it will definitely add one million hectares of fertile land to Datang. The second is to increase the grain output per mu of cultivated land. However, this is not a matter of increasing production. So, for now, the best thing to do is to develop as much new arable land as possible. ”

"Therefore, Yunwen, you have always advocated moving the Turks to Jiangnan!" At this time, Li Shimin said.

Zhang Yunwen nodded: "Jiangnan has been conveniently transported, and since the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Southern Dynasties have been continuously developed, a lot of its land has been developed. These 200,000 people moved into the ten provinces in the south of the Yangtze River, which will definitely create a new granary for Datang! ”

Li Shimin listened, stood up silently, and looked at the white sunlight outside the window.

After coming out of the imperial city, Zhang Yunwen went straight home.

"Xianggong, the last time I helped you deliver the documents to your father, you promised the concubine to go to the shop to have a look, I just happened to be free today, so I will accompany the concubine to the store in the afternoon!" Li Yu was half-lying under the willow tree in the courtyard, wearing a thin shirt and taking off his shoes, revealing his snow-white feet and toes like pearls and jade. Seeing Zhang Yunwen coming in, he said lazily.

Zhi Rou, who was sitting on the couch next to her, heard Li Yu say this, and said coquettishly: "Xianggong, are you going to see Sister Yu's shop?" Well, the concubine is going too! ”

Li Yu suddenly smiled and said, "Sister Rou, you have been to those shops many times, why do you want to go again?" ”

"That's different, isn't there a husband with you this time?" Zhi Rou covered her mouth lightly and smiled, and put a wave at Zhang Yunwen in a charming manner, which immediately fascinated the latter.

"Go, go, go! Anyway, when you take Xianggong to your farm in the future, I'm going to follow! Li Yu pursed a small mouth and said.

Zhang Yunwen heard the words of the second daughter, and immediately smiled slightly. Although the second daughter will tease a few times from time to time, her relationship is very good. Maybe it's because I'm in Chang'an, I feel lonely, and Zhang Yunwen is not at home a lot of time.

The sunlight of the white flowers sprinkled in the courtyard through the gaps between the leaves, sprinkled on the body of the second daughter, and set off the second daughter more beautifully.

I had lunch in this courtyard, rested on my soft and sturdy thighs, and then went out of the house with my second daughter under the white sun, got into the carriage, and walked slowly to Chongrenfang.

As soon as he got into the carriage, Zhang Yunwen suddenly felt that it was unusually cool, and when he looked around, he saw a copper basin resting in the spacious carriage, which contained several fist-sized ice cubes. That's where the coolness comes from.

Zhang Yunwen smiled lightly: "Hehe, with this ice cube in the car, this is much cooler!" But as far as I know, this ice cube is not cheap! ”

At this time, the ice cubes were chiseled from Zhongnan Mountain in winter, hidden in a deep cellar, and taken out in the summer to cool off. So the price is very high.

Before Li Yu could speak, Zhi Rou smiled and said: "Xianggong may not know yet, after Xianggong went out last year, in addition to the ice cubes sent by the palace to cool off, many ministers also sent ice cubes. This year, it's only May, and someone has brought ice cubes and other things to cool off! After a while, I'm afraid there will be more things delivered! ”

When Zhang Yunwen heard this, his brows furrowed slightly, and he asked in a low voice, "Who sent it?" ”

Zhirou couldn't answer this question, Li Yu continued: "There are the Wei Chi family, the Lu State Mansion, the Ju State Mansion, and the Qu Tu family...... Oops, a lot of it anyway! ”

Lu Guogong is Cheng Biting Jin, and Ju Guogong is Tang Jian.

Hearing these names, Zhang Yunwen immediately relieved himself, these people are all people who are familiar with him, and they are still in contact with each other, but it is nothing. At the moment, he said: "Sister, since people have given it to us, we also have to give some back, and the gifts are still exchanged!" ”

Li Yu nodded, and suddenly remembered something: "That's right, that's right, there is also a Wang family, that is, the Wang family of Wang Chong, the servant of the Criminal Department!" Well, Xianggong, we are not familiar with the Wang family, how can they send us things? ”

Hearing the word Wang family, Zhang Yunwen suddenly remembered the Taiyuan Wang family, and after a little thought, he knew that the Wang family was showing favor to himself, although he had doubts in his heart, he said: "Wang family? Oh, it's okay! My father had a deal with the Wang family in Taiyuan for a while! ”

At this time, Zhi Rou interjected with a faint sourness: "That is the case, that Xianggong must be familiar with the woman named Wang Yan?" ”

Zhang Yunwen was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but think of the heroic woman who asked her to call her "Sister Yan" and claimed to cover herself. For a moment, he suddenly felt that two eyes fell on him. When he woke up, he saw Li Yu and Zhi Rou's resentful eyes.