The situation in Jiangnan has finally stabilized, and the whole country is in a state of peace, except for the city of Xiangyang where skirmishes occur from time to time.

In Gao Shun's impression, Xuzhou Thorn Shi Taoqian and Yizhou Mu Liu Yan both died in the fourth year of Chuping, and he had to go back to preside over the work.

In July, Gao Shun took advantage of the southeast monsoon to return north by boat, and after nearly a month of sailing, he did not abandon the ship and return to Yecheng on horseback until Gaotang Port.

It's the beginning of August of the fourth year of Chuping.

Immediately gather everyone to report on their work.

Unexpectedly, everyone did not report the affairs of Yizhou and Xuzhou, and only reported trivial matters.

Xu Ting gave birth to another son, and the mother and son were safe.

Mi Zhen gave birth to a daughter, and the mother and daughter were safe.

Gao Feng gave birth to a son, and the mother and son were safe.

The eldest princess is pregnant.

Subsequently, Xi Zhicai complained that the grain price in the north was too high and suggested that the grain price be stabilized.

Guo Jia consulted about the preferential resettlement methods for the scholars and local tyrants who moved north from Yangzhou.

Now the people in the jurisdiction can produce food to meet their own needs, and the high price of grain stimulates them to intensively cultivate and increase output; The local tyrants and scholars mainly rely on the sale of grain to make a profit, and when the price of grain is high, they are still more settled, and Gao Shun does not want to intensify the conflict with them for the time being; Moreover, the amount of grain sold to foreign countries in the jurisdiction is very large, and it is not in Gao Shun's interests to reduce grain prices, so Xi Zhicai's proposal to stabilize grain prices was vetoed.

As for those local tyrants and scholars who moved north, Gao Shun didn't have time to crack down, how could he take the initiative to resettle them?

Afterwards, Gao Shun came to Li Qiang alone to inquire about the situation, and Li Qiang's reply surprised Gao Shun very much.

Although Tao Qian's body is very weak, it is still very possible to live for a few more years.

What makes Gao Shun happy is that now that Xuzhou has almost been handed over, the administration of the county has been completely controlled by Qingzhou Fang Liang, and more than half of the troops have been controlled.

The small turmoil in Yizhou continued, and Liu Yan, the state pastor, was busy suppressing it, and did not receive information that he was in poor health.

Ren Qi and Jia Long are still training troops, and now they have strong troops, but they have been executing according to orders, and they have not been hidden, but a large number of systematic civil and military officials have been placed in them, and they have a certain degree of control over the troops.

Li Qiang suggested sending troops into Shu as soon as possible to avoid Ren Qi and Jia Longwei from falling out.

Gao Shun felt a dilemma, if he seized Hanzhong County and marched into Ba County, it would inevitably arouse Dong Zhuo's vigilance, and even stop going south, if he didn't occupy Hanzhong County and let Ren Qi and Jia Long develop, it was not impossible for them to have other ideas.

But then I thought about it, even if Ren Qi and Jia Long had different intentions, they would not be afraid, it was a big deal that he would personally go out and seize the checkpoints along the Golden Bull Road, and he would definitely be able to successfully pacify Bashu.

Yu vetoed Li Qiang's suggestion to let Yizhou get into trouble in advance.

With nothing to do, Gao Shun continued to think about the problem of not considering the results on the ship.

The key issue he is now considering is how to get someone else to get rid of Liu Xie, so that he can replace him without leaving a stain on history.

This shouldn't be difficult, just send someone to make a deal with Dong Zhuo secretly before he is defeated, and the goal of getting rid of Liu Xie can be achieved.

After that, he will face the problem of making Gao Shun even more confused.

First of all, he was thinking about how to rule in peace and stability for a long time; The second is how to relieve the invasion of the northern nomads on the farming peoples of the Central Plains once and for all.

In the memory of the previous life, no dynasty lasted too long, at most a few hundred years, because of the contradiction between the limited output of land and the infinite growth of population, which was a cycle that no one could solve.

When the society is stable, the population will inevitably increase, and the increase in cultivated land is limited, even if it is not concentrated by large households, the per capita land will decline year by year, when the land output can not meet the needs of people's life, social contradictions break out, wars are everywhere, a large number of people are consumed in the war, and the change of dynasty is inevitable.

The new dynasty stabilized, the population was small, the arable land was large, the social contradictions were small, and gradually prospered, and the population began to increase until it reached the limit of the land's bearing capacity, and the social contradictions broke out again.

And so on and so forth.

Unless we continue to expand our territory and increase our cultivated land, the Han people's concept of loving land and family is destined to be difficult to realize; Besides, the Han people are not a fighting nation, they have always regarded themselves as the center of heaven and earth, and they have no impulse to expand their territory.

If we raise productivity, increase yield per mu, and increase grain output, it will be more difficult in the long river of history, and even if we can achieve it, we can only alleviate the contradiction for a while, but will not avoid this contradiction permanently.

As for the latter question, there is no solution.

Even if all the alien races on the steppe are wiped out, there will be new nomads who have migrated from other places, and after a long period of reproduction and development, they will eventually become prosperous and powerful.

Due to the limited output of the grasslands, they were forced to go south to plunder the farming peoples.

It's also an unsolvable loop.

Historically, the northern grasslands have been very lively, first there are Xiongnu, then there are Xianbei, and then there are Rouran, Turkic, Khitan, Jurchen, Mongolian and other nomadic peoples continue to rise, one after another, endlessly, can never be banned.

Can humanity only move forward in constant killing?

What he can do now is to unify the Central Plains and avoid chaos, but what should he do in the next thousand years? Society can't be stabilized for a long time, and nomadic invasions can't be permanently banned, so what's the point of his current efforts? It can only be avoided for a while!

As for the Son of Heaven guarding the country, it was also when the Central Plains Dynasty was strong, and when the internal contradictions broke out, it was impossible to defend the country by relying on the power of the Son of Heaven alone.

As for cultural transmission, if the steppe nomads can't even eat, who will go hungry to learn which scripts? It is estimated that even the Han people did not have the heart to study when they did not have enough to eat.

As for accepting them into the Central Plains, it is even more nonsense, even when the Han people have not enough to eat, how can there be food to help the aliens?

Assimilation can only solve temporary contradictions, but it cannot be permanently resolved, because after assimilation of one group, another group of nomads will emerge on the steppe.

Since ancient times, the traitors among the Han people have not been cut off, and it will not be long before there will be traitors who teach it to the nomads of the steppe for personal gain, and use it to attack the farming people, and the consequences will be more serious.

As for the construction of the strong Great Wall, it has never been able to stop the iron horses of the steppe nomads from moving south; It is also ineffective to build tall cities, and there is no strong city that cannot be conquered.

As for dividing the kingdom and guarding the frontier, that is a harbinger of turmoil, and it is not feasible! Han people are good at intrigue and infighting, when can they avoid it?

There is another thing that bothers him, when he doesn't have a son, he looks forward to his son, and if he has more sons, how will he arrange it in the future? All crowns will endanger the authority of the central government, weaken the revenue of the central government, and lead to political instability; If he is not crowned king, his palms and backs are full of meat, and he is a good father?

If the primogeniture succession system is established, the level is too poor and the succession must be made, which will lead to one generation being inferior to the next; If there is no strict succession system, it will lead to a struggle for succession, cannibalism, and even ministers will have their own factions and fight each other, which is the source of civil strife.

Furthermore, how will Li Qiang, Ma Gui and others arrange after the unification of the Central Plains? How will Cheng Li, Tian Feng, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and other civil and military generals arrange after the unification of the Central Plains?

Alas, the more you know, the more troubles you have, and the more confused you become.