"Ten years ago, I was traveling the world with my master, and I have been there from all over the country. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info" Li Chaoda opened his mouth to come, anyway, he has already told countless people about this set, and now he himself has believed it. "For example, I have been to my feudal country."

"You've been there?" Luo Shixin was amazed. Li Chao's fiefdom, in the eyes of many people, is on the edge of the sky.

"Well, the rest of the place isn't as bad as you think, it's a good place. However, the climate there is indeed special, with a rainy season and a dry season. It's mountainous and jungled, and when it's hot, it's like a stove, and the stones under the sun at noon can fry eggs and meat, but when it's cold, it's also cool, and there is no snow. ”

"Generally speaking, April to September is the rainy season, when the weather is hot and rainy, and during the rainy season, it will be quite difficult. However, during the rainy season, the river is full, and it is very convenient to take a boat at that time, and the big river is full of water and the small river is also full, so it can be said that most places can be reached by boat. ”

Luo Shixin shook his head, "That place is too remote and barren, deep in the mountains and old forests, and it rains for most of the year, where can I stay." ”

Li Chao just smiled.

His territory is actually quite good, although it is a high-lying mountainous area, but it is in the area where the Red River, the Heishui River, and the Majiang River flow together, where the copper, iron, gold, tin, lead, coal, salt and other minerals are very rich, and there are rich timber resources, and the water resources are also rich, not to mention that in the rainy season, the big river can lead to various tributaries, so that the entire fiefdom can easily use shipping.

Teak is the finest wood for shipbuilding, and pear is also a valuable wood for furniture. In the area along the river, it is also good to grow rice.

"It is said that the people of the Central Plains are not accustomed to the water and soil of Lingnan, and they will often die of not adapting to the water and soil." Cheng bites the golden road.

"The Central Plains and Lingnan are indeed different in terms of water and soil, weather and climate. But in fact, it is not as scary as imagined, first of all, it is good to avoid the summer season when you go, and secondly, it is necessary to prepare more medicines. Don't drink raw water when you go, pay attention to epidemic prevention diseases, and live there for a while. ”

In the south, there is not only summer heat, but also many snakes, insects, rats and ants, and it is easy to get parasitic diseases after drinking raw water, and it is the same for eating some parasitic snail shells. Even the leeches, poisonous mosquitoes, and poisonous snakes over there are quite a lot, and if a Central Plains person passes, it is indeed easy to be recruited.

"It's a scary place." Cheng Yanjin shook his head and sighed, he lamented that his fiefdom was not in the far south of Lingnan.

Among the people, Li Jing had been to Lingnan before.

He nodded, "Lingnan is indeed not so scary, Guangzhou is still a very prosperous port." Prepare more medicines and avoid the heat, which is indeed not so scary. Li Jing led the Tang army all the way to the southeast, and Feng An, a native of Lingnan, led his troops to annex. Li Jing also served as the general manager of Lingnan Road for a period of time.

However, he felt that Lingnan was really not easy to develop.

"Actually, it's quite easy to give full play to the resources and expertise of the region." Li Chao said, "For example, Uncle Cheng's territory is grassland, and it happens to be on the junction of traditional nomadism and farming, so if Uncle Cheng wants to develop his territory, of course, it is not to reclaim the land for planting, nor for grazing and breeding, whether he is planting or grazing, it is not possible." ”

"Why?"

"Because if you cultivate land and plant, the weather is dry and the land is relatively barren, then you will always be able to grow grain with half the effort, and you will definitely not be able to compare with the harvest planted in the Central Plains. And the grazing over there is also not as good as the herdsmen on the savannah. That's why I said, you can't either plant or graze. ”

He took a sip of tea and continued, "But Uncle Cheng's territory also has its own advantages, and what is the advantage, it is just between the two sides. Therefore, Uncle Cheng can focus on the development of trade and transportation, and the development of the processing industry. Just like what I once did in Longyou and Shuofang, trading trade, the goods of the Central Plains are sent to the grassland, and the goods of the grassland flow into the Central Plains, and you are in the middle, even if it is just matchmaking, just establishing a trading market, you are guarding the golden rice bowl. You can also do transportation, and you can also process the goods from the grassland at your place, even if it is only rough, which is very promising. Processing the harvested skins, processing the harvested wool into textiles, and so on, this profit is more profitable than if you cultivated the land to grow grain and graze and breed it yourself. ”

Cheng Yanjin laughed, "Well, don't say it, that land was originally a worthless wasteland in my eyes, but now that Wen Yuan said it, I suddenly felt that I had picked up a treasure." ”

"Of course, how big is the Central Plains? Today, the population has reached more than 50 million. If there is no war, there will be more than 50 million people, what a big market it is. The people needed cattle to plough the land, horses to transport, and cattle and mutton to eat. Cowhide and wool can be made into clothes and shoes, and the surrounding nomadic tribes also need the goods of the Central Plains, cloth, tea, porcelain, ironware, salt, wine, sugar, etc., if there is no war and plunder, but trading, taking what each other needs, the market is very large. ”

Li Ji asked, "Everyone is engaged in trade and business, is there such a big demand?" ”

Li Chao spread out his hands, "Is there one?" Of course, in fact, we should all open our eyes, in the past the aristocracy liked to buy land, recruit slave tenants, and of course by the way, they also liked to do some money trading, and then get a few caravans, and resell goods from all over the world, and make enough money. ”

"However, this model is actually very backward. If you really want to think in the long run, even if you want to let the family have a long-term development space, and let the court be more prosperous and powerful, this pure agricultural way in the past is wrong. What kind of new model should we build? Li Chao threw out a question.

But no one answered.

Li Chao smiled and replied to himself, "Farming is needed, after all, you must first have enough food to feed the people of the world." However, Datang continues to expand its borders, has more and more land, and Datang's farming technology is also becoming stronger, we have more animal power, better farming tools, better fertilization, breeding, cultivation management and other technologies, which makes our yield per mu greatly increased, that is, even if we use the same amount of land in the past, we can grow more food. ”

"What's more, we now have more land, better technology, and more animal power, so we only need fewer farmers to grow more food to meet the food needs of the people of the world."

"Where does the excess manpower go?"

"Industry and commerce should be developed, people just need to be fed, in addition to being fed, we also need to be warm, we still want to be educated after we eat and clothe, and we want to live a better life. Therefore, what we want is for the country to be stronger, not to be invaded by foreign enemies, to produce enough food, and to have money in our hands to buy more things and live a better life. ”

"Okay, I don't think I understand anymore." Cheng Yanjin patted his head and smiled.

Li Chao continued, "Sufficient food is only a basic indicator of national strength. The country is strong, what else is needed? There are many, for example, first of all, there must be enough food, and secondly, the imperial court must have enough copper output, because even if there is paper money to circulate now, the monetary foundation of the Tang Dynasty is still copper money, and if there is not enough copper money, the currency will be chaotic, and the people's livelihood and commercial economy in the world will also be chaotic. ”

"Third, there has to be enough iron and steel, which are very important to the country. Because steel is the basic material for building armor and weapons, having good steel and having enough steel can keep the imperial army's army well-equipped and extremely high combat effectiveness. ”

"Grain production, copper production, steel production, these are hard indicators, and they must reach a certain amount before they can be strong. In addition, there are quite a few soft indicators, such as literacy rates. ”

What was the literacy rate in the Tang Dynasty? There is no detailed data on this, but based on the data from the last census, it can be concluded that the literacy rate in the early Tang Dynasty was about three percent.

The aristocracy, bureaucrats, landlords, and some merchants were literate classes, and even the daughters of the nobles, bureaucrats, landlords, and businessmen were mostly illiterate. The number of illiterate people is frightening, and the total population of Datang now has more than 50 million, and according to this calculation, there are about 1.5 million literate people.

Li Chao thinks it is very few, but in fact, this number of literate people has made Li Shimin complacent many times, and he feels that Datang's culture and education are very successful.

Does literacy rate have an impact on the country, very much impact.

Illiteracy is blind, not knowing a word, and often ignorant and uncivilized, especially in this era, people are often closed in their hometowns, do not go far at all, and cannot accept things and information from the outside.

The people are ignorant, and how can the country be strong?

Just like in the era of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, those nobles and scholars became big slave owners, they didn't need to do anything else, just get a large number of hidden households to run away from their own land. The country is full of these powerful landlord classes, they don't even pay taxes, the people have nothing to do with the imperial court, and the country's Dingkou is far less than the population occupied by those powerful people, how can this country be strong.

One of the most ambitious ideals of the kings of all dynasties was actually to make the people of the world become yeoman farmers and become the mouths of the imperial court. But this kind of thinking is not realistic at all, people all over the country are farming at home, even if there is so much land to divide, there will only be one result, that is, the whole country is generally poor.

How can it be possible to live a good life just by planting a few acres of land? just planting the land and harvesting the grain are just cheap and hurting the peasants.

Only by developing industry and commerce can the country be rich and the people strong, and the imperial court can increase tax revenue. Second, the development of industry and commerce will inevitably bring about technological progress, and the military equipment will also be more powerful. In addition, the development of industry and commerce will also make commodities more abundant and make people's lives more convenient and better.

Li Chao saw that they were all confused, and he didn't expect them to understand these things right away. But after taking the fief himself, he will definitely operate according to this method.

Of course, he believes that after Cheng Yanjin and them listen to his words today, when they run their own territory in the future, they will definitely not blindly just farm and breed.

Sometimes, new ideas don't need to be instilled in others, and it is good to have a subtle influence slowly. When Cheng Yanjin found out that he was engaged in trade and more profitable in the processing industry, would he still have to farm and raise sheep?

Of course not, Cheng Yanjin is also a very smart person, Li Chao believes that he knows how to choose.

Sooner or later, the aristocracy will become capitalists.