"Sit down and talk! Come...... Serve tea! Li Shimin took a small sip, felt the rich fragrance of tea, and said with a smile: "Qin Aiqing, you have given me some treasures!" This tea has a long aftertaste...... I don't have to say! ”

Qin Feng curled his mouth a little proudly, but he responded respectfully: "Your Majesty is wonderful, the ministers are not more important, I like these side doors, there are harms, there are harms...... Hehe......" At the end, he couldn't help but laugh. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

made everyone present roll their eyes and secretly despise: "Virtue! At the same time, it was a little sour, and I realized that if I had an amazing son, it was also something to be proud of.

"That's it!" Li Shimin squinted his eyes and smiled, and said, "Qin Aiqing, I am very interested in the Maritime Silk Road you are talking about, but do you know the difficulties of the Maritime Silk Road?" ”

"Large sea vessels, course!" Qin Feng said.

"Yes!" Wei Zheng nodded and said, "With our current skills, we can't build a large sea ship, and the course is even more unprecedented. ”

"What Lord Wei said is extremely true, however, there must be a forerunner in everything, if there is no Zhang Qian of the Han Dynasty, there will be no Silk Road, can there be no Zhang Qian of the Tang Dynasty in my dynasty?"

"That's a good thing to say." Qin Feng's words went up to Li Shimin's heart.

"Therefore, if you can't do it now, it doesn't mean that you can't do it in the future, and it doesn't mean that it won't work in the future. The Maritime Silk Road can be incorporated into the direction of future development as a vision. However, there is one thing that the minister thinks is imminent. ”

"What?" Li Shimin and the ministers all stared at Qin Feng.

Qin Feng said firmly: "Develop Jiangnan!" ”

"Develop Jiangnan?"

"That's right." Qin Feng saw that everyone looked surprised and incredible, and sighed secretly in his heart: It seems that everyone has not realized the wealth and importance of Jiangnan.

As the old saying goes, "Jiangnan has been rich and prosperous since ancient times", this is both true and wrong, and this does not include the dynasties before the Sui and Tang dynasties.

Since the Song Dynasty, the center of gravity of China's development has been in the north, the Central Plains, and Guanzhong, which is why there are "those who win the north get the world", "those who get the Central Plains get the world", and "those who get Guanzhong get the world", but there is no saying that those who get the south of the Yangtze River get the world.

The real development of Jiangnan is because at the beginning of the Southern Song Dynasty, the Jin State occupied the Central Plains Guanzhong, and the Song Dynasty shrank in the south of the Yangtze River, and Jiangnan was developed in the real sense.

Prior to this, there was no dynasty in Jiangnan that really spent its strength to develop in a meaningful way, so not many people knew the true potential of Jiangnan.

Others don't know, but Qin Feng knows, and knows that once the Jiangnan is developed, it will be better than the Central Plains in Guanzhong economically, but Jiangnan is not barren now, but it is far inferior to the Central Plains in Guanzhong. To develop this area, the manpower and material resources required will be no less than that of the North-South Grand Canal built by Yang Guang back then, and the results are not immediate. With the current situation of the Tang Dynasty, if Jiangnan is fully developed, it will undoubtedly be self-defeating and a waste of financial and material resources.

Therefore, Qin Feng has never put forward this suggestion, in his opinion, the development of Jiangnan requires a process, slowly walking, just like running a marathon. No one can run to the finish line in one sitting, taking their time. Develop some every year, and one year after another, you will be able to discover the benefits of Gangnam's existence. At that time, there will be a fierce medicine, and Jiangnan can present the prosperity of later generations due to the unique conditions of the congenital nature.

It's just that at present, Datang has no intention of rectifying Jiangnan at all, which makes Qin Feng a little depressed, but because he has never stepped into Jiangnan and doesn't know what Jiangnan is like now, it is difficult to speak, so he can only be stuffy in his heart. However, he let Li Shimin throw him into the six departments to study these days, he saw that the population of the Tang Dynasty and the establishment of the dynasty, there was a rapid development, and if it continued like this, there would be an overcrowded situation in the north, if once the image of land annexation appeared, then the world would not be far from chaos. Later, he found out that Jiangnan was a virgin land, so he thought of using the vast land of Jiangnan to relieve the pressure in Guanzhong.

"Is it necessary to develop Jiangnan?" Even a wise man like Fang Xuanling raised the question of making Qin Feng laugh.

Qin Feng sighed secretly, the top team led by Li Shimin still didn't perceive the potential of Jiangnan, thinking about it, the transportation in ancient times was extremely inconvenient, and the Jiangnan in Guanzhongli was thousands of miles away, Li Shimin was afraid that he had never set foot in Jiangnan in his life, and how could he know the potential of Jiangnan. Don't force it at the moment, this fact is better than everything, and when Jiangnan is reorganized, the effect achieved can explain everything, the less everyone pays attention to Jiangnan, the more he has to persuade everyone to pay attention to Jiangnan.

"It's very necessary." Qin Feng said a little weakly.

Li Shimin muttered: "Jiangnan is certainly not as good as Guanzhong and the Central Plains, but after all, it is the territory of my Tang Dynasty, and I didn't pay attention to it in the past, and I didn't pay attention to it, but in order to avoid the lack of people in Jiangnan, I really have to care about Jiangnan. ”

Qin Feng decided to give everyone a fierce medicine, and said solemnly: "Your Majesty, my lords, haven't you discovered a fatal hidden danger in my Datang?" ”

"Oh?" Everyone was shocked, and they all looked at Qin Feng in surprise. Everyone knows Qin Feng's extraordinary, no one dares to be cowardly, seeing him say so solemnly, one or two of them trembled a little, thinking that something had happened again.

Li Shimin took a deep breath and said, "Let's talk about it." ”

"The day before yesterday, when I was reading an official document in the household department, I found that the population of my Datang had increased dramatically. Isn't this a fatal hazard? ”

"Haha, you kid is alarmist. It scared me a lot. My Datang is vast and sparsely populated, and what is lacking is population, and the rapid increase in population is a great joy. ”

"Your Majesty has a point."

"Ladies and gentlemen, the eight hundred miles of Qinchuan in Guanzhong, is quite rich in products, the only flaw is that the population is too small, this is the current situation, in the short term, the population increase is indeed a great joy, but what about the future? Once the population surges, once the population reaches the period of Emperor Wen of Sui, or even exceeds the period of Emperor Wen, how can Qinchuan support so many people in eight hundred miles? When the population soars to a certain extent, then, the eight hundred miles of Qinchuan is like a chopstick barrel, and the people are chopsticks, the so-called eight hundred miles of Qinchuan is distributed to the head of the individual, how many inches of land can a person get? Ladies and gentlemen, almost all of the peasant uprisings in all dynasties were triggered by land and grain! Before the incident happens, we must consider the various problems brought about by the rapid increase in population, and we must also consider how to resettle those people who have no food and no land. If the surge of people is likened to a flood, then the vast soil south of the Yangtze River is undoubtedly a reservoir that swallows the flood, and now is the time for us to build a reservoir so as not to be caught off guard when the flood comes. ”

When everyone heard this, they all gasped, they only saw the benefits of population growth, but they never considered the social problems caused by overpopulation, after Qin Feng mentioned this, everyone also realized the seriousness of this problem.

"Guilty, Your Majesty, the ministers are short-sighted." After a while, Du Ruhui took a deep breath and said, "This is more than a flood!" This is simply a huge wave that destroys the world! ”

"Yes, the ministers are too optimistic about reality. General Qin has a broad field of vision, and he can see three steps in one step, which is much more far-reaching than the ministers. Fang Xuanling also said.

Li Shimin said: "It's not just you, why am I not short-sighted? Good boy, what a lesson for us elders today? However, I don't know much about Jiangnan, but you kid seems to be able to pinch and calculate, and the things you say are incredible, but in retrospect, there are facts everywhere. I'll scoff at it if someone else says it, but when it comes out of your kid's mouth, I really can't help but take it seriously. There are not many people who know about Jiangnan in the Manchu Dynasty, since you are so determined to develop Jiangnan, there must be something worth paying attention to and worth developing, I want to hear it, what is the wonder of this Jiangnan that can make you pay so much attention? ”

Guanzhong, since ancient times, has been a prosperous place, from the original ancestors Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor and Shennong Yan Emperor, has always occupied an extraordinary position in the general trend of the world.

Qin was rich because of Guanzhong, Han was strong because of Guanzhong, and Tang was also prosperous because of Guanzhong.

In the "Historical Records * Liuhou Family", Sima Qian recorded such a sentence "Fuguanzhong left the food letter, right Longshu, fertile field thousands of miles" Guanzhong is known as the golden city of thousands of miles, the country of abundance. The Guanzhong area is not only the earliest place called "Tianfu" in history, but also the first place in history to be called "the land of abundance", and it is also the first imperial capital in China's 5,000-year history.

It can be seen that in the eyes of the world, Guanzhong is a rare feng shui treasure in the world, unique.

It is said that the remote Jiangnan can be compared with Guanzhong, and few people believe it.

Only Qin Feng, a descendant, can say such things, and only Li Shimin, a Ming monarch, can accept Qin Feng's unbelievable thoughts.

Qin Feng was very happy when he heard that Li Shimin had already intended to develop Jiangnan, and he preliminarily sorted out the information in his mind, and said: "The minister has enough understanding of Jiangnan. It is bordered by the sea and the river, and the lakes in the territory are criss-crossed, so that the products are abundant, and it is not an exaggeration to call it the land of fish and rice. ”

"This is not bad at Guanzhong, right" Li Shimin heard this, and asked, in his heart he still favored Guanzhong, after all, Guanzhong is the foundation of Datang, where the foundation lies.

Qin Feng does not deny that Guanzhong is on the verge of Weishui, and Weishui is the source of the Yellow River, and there are eight rivers near the city of Chang'an alone, commonly known as "eight rivers around Chang'an". In terms of the abundance of water resources, the Guanzhong Plain is not much inferior to the south of the Yangtze River, but ......

"But ......," Qin Feng raised his voice and said, "climate and precipitation can never be compared. Your Majesty may not know, but the climate and precipitation of a place are closely related to the growth of local crops. If the temperature is high, it is not suitable for the growth of grain, and if the temperature is low, it is not suitable for the growth of grain; The same is true when there is more water, and the same is true when there is less waterfall. This is also the key reason why when all localities hand over grain, there is more or less. Therefore, generally speaking, whether the grain harvest is good or not depends on God. ”

Li Shimin doesn't know much about this knowledge.

He is also a child of a family, his father is a national prince, and he has lived a life of fine clothes and food since he was a child, but he does not know much about the knowledge of farming. He knew that the grain harvest was related to rain, but he didn't know that more rain would also affect the harvest, and he had never heard of the climate temperature.

However, he was used to listening to some fresh and correct knowledge from Qin Feng's mouth. This time, he didn't doubt the truth of the matter, but just showed an interested look. However, he didn't know, it didn't mean that the left and right servants of Shangshu Province didn't know.

Du Ruhui bowed his head and said: "Your Majesty, General Qin said very accurately, and there is no difference with farming. ”

With Du Ruhui's support, Qin Feng lifted his spirits and said: "The climate in Jiangnan is very unique, the climate is warm and humid, and the four seasons are distinct, which is a very suitable place for the growth of various crops and human survival. This point is far from comparable. There is also a place in the south of the Yangtze River that is in the sub-heat ...... Zone, that is, where there is a lot of rain, but not much heavy rain. Although there are changes in the specific climate, the overall characteristics of the climate are mild and the rainfall is not very different. Compared with the heavy rain that often occurs in July, August and September in our Guanzhong and Central Plains, is it more than a cut over? He originally wanted to say that Jiangnan is in a region with a transition from the tropics to the warm temperate zone, with high temperatures and abundant precipitation, but he felt that the knowledge of later generations in these words was too strong, and they couldn't understand Li Shimin, so he temporarily changed his words and said something simple and easy to understand.

Li Shimin was silent for a moment and said, "What you said seems to be understood or not, and it is also a bit unbelievable. But when you think about it, there seems to be some basis. Datang has been unified in the world for several years, and in these years, I have asked myself to be worthy of the people of the world, and I am also very interested in the people's livelihood and people's livelihood. So I know where there is a flood and where there is a drought. In recent years, some natural disasters have inevitably occurred, and five years ago, there was a big flood that even flooded outside the Xuanwu Gate. However, there are few floods in the south of the Yangtze River, and even if there are, it is also because the embankments along the Yangtze River have collapsed, which has caused disaster to the hinterland. He thought for a while, and then took out a piece of music from the bookshelf where it was clearly written and asked Qin Feng to look through it.

Qin Feng stepped forward to take the chapter, and the payment was the book of the Duzhi book, that is, the book of the household department, and opened the chapter, which recorded the grain taxes in various places, from high to low, and listed the amount of grain invited from all over the Tang Dynasty from more to less. The first place in the ranking is Sichuan, especially Chengdu, followed by Guanzhong, then Xiangfan, then the Central Plains, then Xuzhou, Yangzhou, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and those belonging to Jiangnan are outside the top 15.

The next few pages are the detailed list of grain handed over by various localities last year, the year before last, and the year before last.

The top few have changed, sometimes Guanzhong, sometimes Xichuan, sometimes Central Plains, but Jiangnan has always been outside the fifteenth.

Qin Feng originally wondered why Jiangnan was ranked so behind, but after thinking about it, he suddenly realized that this was the reason why Li Shimin really decided to develop Jiangnan.

The Tang Dynasty had a very enlightened system in terms of grain taxes, and they did not force the peasants to hand over as much grain as they wanted, but distributed how much grain according to a certain proportion according to the harvest. Therefore, the quality of the people's harvest is directly related to the amount of grain handed over.

Guanzhong, Chengdu Plain, Xiangfan, and Central Plains are not only famous grain producing areas, but also famous metropolises and densely populated places. There are many people who cultivate here, and naturally there is a lot of grain handed in.

Jiangnan is remote and sparsely populated, which is naturally inferior to places with large populations. Perhaps it is because of this that people ignore the potential that Jiangnan has already shown.

In fact, as long as you observe carefully, you can still see the clues.

The grain handed over by Jiangnan is not the first, and it is not even possible to enter the top 15, but it falls on average to the head of the people, but the grain handed over by Jiangsu-Zhejiang Province exceeds the constant amount of many regions with 200,000 or 300,000 peasants.

The areas above the Jiangsu-Zhejiang Road are at least towns with 350,000 cultivators. In terms of average value, Jiangnan deserves to be the first in all aspects, and in the past few years, Jiangnan has maintained a certain proportion, and has not grown or pulled down.

It can be seen that as Qin Feng said, the climate in the south of the Yangtze River is stable, so the output is stable. As long as the population increases and the fields increase, this ranking position will naturally increase.