April arrives, and the barley is fragrant.

Di Renjie and Wei Yuanzhong came to the palace, handed the Zongzong in their hands to Li Wei, and said happily: "Your Majesty, look. ”

Li Wei opened the file and flipped through it.

After 10 years of governance, the population increased rapidly, and finally the total population of the country exceeded 60 million.

This number not only symbolizes the prosperity of the country, but also has a meaning. There is another reason why Li Shimin has always respected Emperor Wen of Sui and has made civil and military achievements, in Li Shimin's hands, the population has increased a lot, but it has never reached two-thirds of the Sui Dynasty's peak power.

To this day, the total number of the country's population barely exceeds that of the Sui Dynasty.

In fact, this population is only the population of the real jurisdiction, and does not include most of the Western Regions, the vast areas of Transoxian, Khorasan, Tocharo, Sindh, Sestan, Baluchistan, Sindh and the western part of the Maklan Ridge. It also does not include the nomads in most of eastern Liaodong and northern Yinshan.

Of course, the population of the Sui Dynasty did not include the population of the Bondage region. The total population of the Tang Dynasty must have surpassed that of the Sui Dynasty at its most powerful, but it is difficult to say what it really does. In the Sui Dynasty, there were still a large number of fugitives and hidden households. After setting sail for ten years, almost half of the fugitives and hidden households were exposed by various methods and means. In fact, in the past ten years, the population has only increased by more than 10 million. However, because of the stability of life, the number of children has increased, and in another ten years, it will be the second peak of population growth.

This is very similar to the historical Tianbao Weishi, the foundation laid by Kaiyuan can be a real person. The peak of the increase was in the Tianbao year. But unlike Tianbao, after ten years of non-stop stalemate...... It has forced many large families to develop overseas. In addition, a large amount of new cultivated land appeared, and the land crisis was far less serious than that of the Kaiyuan Dynasty. Some seafarers have finally turned their attention to Oceania, opening up some arable land and pastures. Li Wei didn't pay much attention to this.

Overseas management is not effective under the current conditions. The future direction is also very unclear, the concern is the base, one by one bases are established, then the ship to North and South America, it is not a dream. With coarse grains, with the current large-scale development...... and a vast territory, large enough to accommodate 230 million people.

What will this population be known once it appears in the world?

"Okay." A smile bloomed on Li Wei's face.

"Your Majesty, this is what the minister dreamed of more than twenty years ago."

"Di Qing, work hard, the future will be better." refers to the development of technology...... After years of hard research and development, the original blast furnace appeared, as well as converter steelmaking. Steel technology is making a leap forward, and if it continues like this, the steam engine will no longer be a dream in twenty or thirty years.

Once this kind of machine appears, what changes will it bring, Li Wei knows best in his heart.

Wei Yuanzhong said, "Your Majesty...... Song Jing's advice should be cautious. ”

As the population of the Tang Dynasty grew, so did taxes and revenues. Part of it is to move out the tribes and tenants to make new civilian ...... It has become a noodle tax household. But not the main thing, the fastest increase is the commercial tax, as well as the tariff, as well as some of the imperial industry.

Taxes and various incomes, grain, silk and money or other 'combined' slowly approached 50 million yuan. That's a staggering number. However, there are too many places to spend money, and the investment in water conservancy and road construction across the country has reached 140 million bugs, instead of the tens of millions as originally calculated. It will take at least four or five years for the project to be completed, and if it is completely completed, it will take at least twenty years to complete.

Thus, the state income doubled, and did not dare to reduce the taxes of the common people.

After investing such an unimaginable huge amount of money, there are still benefits, and large tracts of fertile arable land have appeared all over the country one after another. There are even pioneers who set foot in Lingnan.

However, when there is money, the number of people who burn incense and worship the Buddha also increases. Temples and forests in various places are such a great rule, and it is impossible for every common person to have no worries about food and clothing. Some people are forced to join the Buddha or the Tao. The population is growing, and so is the number of people living in the temple. And these temples have successively taken advantage of religion to annex the land.

Song Jing's book is precisely for this matter.

Forcibly demolish and relocate illegal temples, or stipulate the number of fields and populations that temples can occupy, and collect taxes on excess fields and people.

Li Wei also agreed.

Wei Yuanzhong doesn't think so, in the past ten years, the country has been developing, which is obvious to the eye, but in order to prevent the annexation and expansion, many means have been used to alleviate the contradiction of preventing the expansion of annexation and occupying water conservancy, but the area is too far away, and it is better to have it at your own doorstep.

There are even people who have such an idea, once an emperor and a courtier, now that the monarch is good, what if it is the next generation? It's better to have resources in your hands. So in the past ten years, the emperor and the monarchs and ministers have fought wits and methods many times against the powerful landlords of the major households, and the soft methods have been used, and the hard methods have also been used.

In some respects, there are also some grievances. Although there are many people who have made a fortune, the hearts of the people are always unsatisfied.

At this time, it is not very advantageous to have some contradictions with the religious circles. Speaking out what he thought in his heart, he added: "Anyway, Your Majesty is in the prime of life, and this move will definitely be implemented, otherwise it will also be one of the major drawbacks of the country." It can't be implemented at this time, at least for ten years. Just like the waist bag, the hour, cut with a knife, both painful and not necessary. Once it grows up, cutting it with a knife not only does not hurt, but it is eradicated. ”

That is, if you cut it now, the opposition will be loud, and there will be many people who don't understand. Let it develop, develop to a certain point, its badness, the impact on the country, everyone has seen, another storm measure. Everyone didn't have anything to say.

Li Wei pondered for a moment and said, "Accurate." ”

Then he said: "Di Qing, Wei Qing, since you are here, I will tell you one thing." I want to use troops against Silla and the Wa Kingdom. ”

The two countries have been fighting for more than 10 years, and the people are struggling to make a living, and there is a huge backlog of contradictions. Li Wei felt as if it was time to do it. Besides, over the years, the imperial court has trained more than 10,000 regular navies. It is mostly used to patrol the islands, or to clear some pirates, and sometimes to help seafarers...... Annihilate hostile forces on some islands. With the experience of fighting across the sea.

Di Renjie frowned and said, "Your Majesty, why do you always want to annihilate these two countries? ”

In his opinion, there is no need for this.

A person who has been fighting overseas for so many years also has a realization that it is not an indigenous person from Nanhai Zhudao, and it is very fierce and difficult to take it down. Someone who is just as strong doesn't need to be in the last ten years to prove that the place where they live is very cold. These two countries were crippled into such a large number of lands, and there was no major threat to the Tang Dynasty, and strategically speaking, there was no need to eat these two countries.

"Di Qing, you also know the history of the Great Food. It originally only had a large territory, and the place where it lived was mostly the desert Gobi region, but it only expanded for decades, and how much territory did it occupy? The country was in civil strife, and it was divided into two caliphate regimes, and they fought each other, but this is it, how many battles did I go through and sacrifice soldiers to force the big cannibals to make a compromise after I occupied the land of Makran and Sindh? ”

But the same cannot be said. The incompetence of the new ruler of the Cavalry Empire, Justinian II, led to a weak Byzantine offensive and increased the burden on the Tang Dynasty. If it weren't for the Holy See being seduced by Li Wei to constantly launch holy wars and bear part of the pressure, the big cannibals would be Maklan, Xinde and other places, and they would not be willing to occupy the Tang Dynasty. But on the other hand, if Byzantium had done something, it was possible that Damascus would have taken the opportunity to take it.

Although the Tang Dynasty launched many attacks, in fact, in the final analysis, Q was in the nature of actual combat training, and it was very stealing. The Persians died the most, followed by the soldiers of the Transocons and Tocharian nations.

"They are very similar to each other, the Wa Kingdom and Silla did not have the support of fanatical religion, but they were tenacious, united, humble, and murderous by nature. I have talked about the dangers of the northern nomads, but as long as the development of technology is maintained, it is possible that in the end, after two or three hundred years, some crude thermal weapons will appear, and then the immediate advantage of the northern nomads will be lost. Unlike the Wa Kingdom, Silla was eager to learn, and as long as they settled down, they could find ways to learn from our country. If you are not afraid that a nation is strong, you are afraid that a nation is strong and united, and you can learn modestly. It would be terrible for any one nation to maintain these three virtues. ”

Di Renjie and Wei Yuanzhong thought about it, and Li Wei's words were very true. There are many countries that are friendly with the Tang Dynasty or submit to them, such as the countries of the South China Sea, they are just arrogant, arrogant and ignorant, and they have never pursued it when they see that the Tang Dynasty is advanced. As for Silla and the Wa Kingdom, the Wa Kingdom actually crossed the ocean and sent students to the Tang Dynasty to learn the excellent culture of the Tang Dynasty.

The three of them have tacitly cooperated for many years, and Li Wei looked at their expressions and knew that they had understood, so he didn't say much.

Wei Yuanzhong thought for a while and said, "But the minister thinks it's better to wait until five years later. In five years, the major water conservancy projects will basically come to an end, and the state finances will breathe a sigh of relief, and after five years, the other two countries will become weaker, which will also be conducive to our attack. Moreover, there are still two military events to be launched at the moment, although they are not large, but they can be fought on many fronts, which will be disadvantageous in the end. ”

"Hmm." Qi Yu is a good admonition, and Li Wei has always been a fluent admonition. He asked again, "Is there any news about that silent sip?" ”

, which has become another big trouble.

Ten years ago, he was allowed to escape, but this kid ran to the Oudjian Mountain and hung up another army of men and horses to conduct guerrilla warfare. It took a lot of effort for Ashina to suppress them, but Mo Si ran away again. After a few years, he suddenly appeared, this time letting him hide in the shadows, taking advantage of a snowstorm on the grassland, some tribes had difficulty surviving, and bewitched many tribes to participate in the rebellion. Because the six towns successively increased the number of five or six hundred thousand people, and formed nearly 80,000 government soldiers, his scale was small, and he did not dare to cross the mountain. But Ashina Dao was really embarrassed.

It wasn't until the year before last that the imperial court couldn't stand it anymore and sent Heiya Changzhi and Wang Fangyi to lead 50,000 troops to eliminate the rebellion again. But this was the perception from the outside, and in fact Li Wei tacitly ignored the erosion of the rebellion and further increased the purity of loyalty among the remnants of the Turks in the steppe.

But this kid can't be allowed to hide in the dark like a poisonous snake and make trouble, and has sent people to search for him many times, but there is no news to this day.

Di Renjie and Wei Yuanzhong shook their heads.

"Forget it, in the next book, whoever kills or captures Mo Si alive will be rewarded with 50,000 bugs, and see if he dares to run around on the grassland." One sobbed silently, and the other talked about Qinling, which gave Li Wei a headache.

I'm about to deal with Non Qinling, and I don't know if I can succeed.

Di Renjie said again: "Your Majesty, the minister and Wei Xianggong are here, and there is one more thing to request. ”

"Why use a request?" These two people don't seem to be favoritists.

"Your Majesty, the minister and the minister of Wei Xianggong have lived in the phase for ten years, so I ask Your Majesty to let the minister and the minister and the minister of Wei Xianggong go out."

Li Wei also said something similar before, the best way to prevent power from being in the hands of one person is to transfer personnel economically, and my mother did a better job of this. The ministers in the court are also constantly making transfers, only Di Wei and the two are left, and the personnel have not changed.

But Li Wei said one more thing. This is what he learned from the electoral system of later generations. A term of office lasts for four or five years, or at most two terms, unless there is absolutely no need to do so, so as to maintain policy continuity and prevent excessive concentration of power. If the exchange is intensive, there will be no continuous policy of 1 1 and 1. The exchange is lazy, and the power is often concentrated in the hands of one person, especially the prime minister. This is how Li Linfu later became authoritarian.

However, the talents of Wei Di and the others have become his most important right-hand man, and they have not moved much.

Li Wei hesitated in the face of the request of the two. Over the years, the people who have made the greatest contribution to the imperial court are not the soldiers of the border passes. And it was Wei Yuan, Zhong and Di Renjie. Some historians have compared them to Fang Du of Zhenguan. It should be said that this analogy is not excessive. Especially Di Renjie's flexibility, over the years, has solved many problems for him.

But according to the system, if the two live for a relatively long time, they will also form a bad example. In the Hereafter, we will be able to find a few ministers like them. That is, how many people can find out, and how many people can have discernment?

At this moment, I was actually embarrassed.

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