Chapter 242: No one can stop them from having children
Li Shimin returned to the palace or saw the tank for the first time, and then it was the ministers' deliberations, although some movements of the imperial court would generally give him an excerpt, but with the current traffic situation, it is inevitable that there will be a time difference of ten days and a half months, and these ten days and half a month are the concentration period for the envoys of various countries to arrive in Chang'an.
It is said that it is a discussion, but it is actually the nature of the report, especially Yanglin, who recently oversaw the power of commanding the troops in Gyeonggi Province and served as the commander-in-chief of the military parade, and he spoke for two hours alone, which made Li Er basically understand the current situation of Chang'an City.
There are eighteen envoys who entered Chang'an City before the lunar month, and there are still several small countries that have not heard of the name, such as Java, Baiqi, etc., all of which are small countries that have not moved around with the Tang Dynasty before, and they have traveled thousands of miles all the way, and they happened to catch up with the people who came to Chang'an to take a look, and then there is such as Tianzhu Kingdom, and now they do not need to cross the entire Western Plateau to reach the Tang Dynasty, they take the Jiaozhi sea ship and take the waterway, and they can get to Chang'an in more than two months. This is the benefit of Li Shimin's invitation in the land of Nanzhao.
Some surprises are that there is also a Nanyi country in the Taiwan Strait area, under careful inquiry, its national territory is actually in the direction of Taiwan Island, the country's surname is Dou, the name is Dou Yingshan, in just two years to pacify dozens of tribes on Yizhou Island that originally belonged to the Han Dynasty, and then called the king, the envoy he sent claimed to be the minister of Nanyi, named Xu Jiangpu, Yanglin people inquired carefully, only to deduce that this person is probably the Dou clan remnants of the Dou clan who robbed the Huainan naval warship and fled that day, and now he has 100,000 armor and set himself up as the king, although he does not dare to provoke the Tang Dynasty, However, he has a lot of power in the Taiwan Strait region, and even the navies of the Wa State and the Tubo Great Food do not dare to provoke him lightly, let alone the merchant ships on the road.
The big and small in the envoy group are more or less those things, one or two hundred thousand people, although they are all masters, but they are thrown into the huge Chang'an City is a small wave. Yanglin speaks, Li Er listens to it and it is over, as for what kind of political attitude to foreign countries, it is Li Er's business, Yanglin does not need to express his opinion on everything, of course, more troublesome than the envoys are the scholars and literati, as well as the businessmen who frantically poured into Chang'an City and some people who watched the excitement, according to the general statistics of the city guards, since entering the lunar month, the flow of people at the major city gates of Chang'an has increased more than three times compared with the past. The floating population in and out of Chang'an alone is hundreds of thousands every day, and the hotels and inns are all overcrowded.
It is no wonder that the big competition, which was supposed to be held in September, was due to the need for a large number of officials in the new territory, so Li Er temporarily decided to expand the recruitment this year, and the number of officials admitted will be more than three times that of the past. Moreover, the time of Dabi was postponed by two months, so that more scholars could get the news to go to Chang'an to catch the exam, and this year's Dabi relaxed the reference restrictions on merchants and workers' children. That is to say, no matter what you were born in, as long as you are educated, you can come to participate in the scientific expedition. Relying on his ability to take the rank and become an official, this made the entire Datang scholars begin to boil, starting in November. Chang'an City has been divided into categories, the number of people, accepted more than 80,000 scholars to apply for the examination, due to the lack of Gongyuan place, had no choice but to let more than 80,000 scholars divide into three sets of exams, of course, there is a difference in the test questions, it is conceivable that there are more than 80,000 people just for reference, then the sudden influx of outsiders into Chang'an is at least hundreds of thousands, which has caused a huge impact on Chang'an's hotel and inn industry, the price of rooms is three times a day, and even the remote houses outside the city have been rented by poor scholars.
In view of this, the official site selection in Chang'an City, the construction of high-rise buildings, with the Heaven and Earth Hotel as the prototype, the construction of at least ten rooms of more than 500 rooms, can be more than 3,000 people to dine in the large hotel, the city to develop, no large hotel can not be. But such a big project is not a little bit of money, a little bit of people can be completed, all of a sudden to build a hotel that can accommodate tens of thousands of people to eat and stay, what if there are no guests at that time?
"Two million dollars per hotel? Do you really dare to say that ten rooms are 20 million yuan, and it will take a few years for Datang's finance and taxes to squeeze out so much money, do you want the imperial court to use all the surplus wealth in the past few years to build these houses? This is inappropriate. After Li Ercai heard the question of Yanglin pouring bitter water, he heard him put forward such a big plan, and refuted it without thinking about it.
"The top ten factories in the east and west cost tens of millions of yuan, but have you ever asked the court to pay for it? Hasn't he built it, the heavenly and earthly entertainment city, which costs tens of millions, has he ever asked the court to pay for it? It has also been built, there is a good way, the imperial court not only does not need to spend money, but also under the condition of not spending money, it can get the shares of these hotels in vain, and the future income, that is a steady stream of wealth, according to me, ten hotels are still too few, and the hotels in Chang'an City will continue to be built in the next few decades. As long as everyone thinks about where the top ten factories come from, and where the heavenly and earthly buildings come from, they don't have the slightest doubt that the person in front of them can do this, but what they don't understand is who paid to complete such a big project.
"This matter, I'll talk about it later, and tell me why you moved the people of the six squares of Lizheng, Dunhua, cultivation, cultivation, Qinglong, and Quchi to the outside of the city, the land of the six squares is relatively remote, and the people are not very rich, so the effort and wealth are also for the people of Chang'an City?"
Li Er naturally knows how to plan those ways to make money, the royal family basically didn't invest much in it, and he got fifty percent of the dry shares in vain, tens of millions of dividends a year, and the imperial court also got close to 10 million yuan in taxes every year, according to this, the ten big hotels, I'm afraid it is also a very money-making way, Li Er naturally can't let Yanglin say it in front of the ministers, there are good things, or close to the royal first, and these six squares, of course, Li Er can't be completely unaware, such a big move, Naturally, someone in the imperial court gave him an excerpt, and Li Er was afraid that Yang Lin had thought of some plan to make money, and he used the means of changing the topic and deducting his hat to make him say something.
"Weichen naturally knows that it is the most remote square in Chang'an City, so Weichen chose the address of Chang'an Academy there, so as to minimize the losses brought by the development and construction of Chang'an City, and the problems of the people are the least to worry about, the people there are already poor, Erchen used ten times the market price of the land in the center of Chang'an City to buy their shacks, and also used the brick houses outside the city as a gift to settle them, so they are happy to live in a new home with money on their backs, the whole process of relocation, It took less than a month to complete it. Yang Lin said very easily.
"Ten times the market value of the central location? That's a huge amount of money, there are no less than 10,000 households in the land of the six squares, not to mention hundreds of thousands of people, and there are as many as 10,000 brick houses for resettlement, how did you come up with so much money? Besides, there are six schools and two halls in Chang'an City, why build such a huge academy, in other words, you get six squares of land, and build a palace, is it too much to build a academy? Li Er knew that there were no major discrepancies in the accounts of the imperial court recently, so he asked curiously.
Yang Lin smiled bitterly and said, "No way, who told Weichen that he has too much money in his family and can't sleep!" Thirty million guan, I'm afraid it's in the treasury of the palace, and His Majesty will always think about it, so Weichen took it all out and wanted to build a decent academy, as for the six schools and two halls you said, do you think they can now meet the needs of nearly 100,000 students in the Tang Dynasty? Weichen felt that they were too small, 100,000 students only needed one person and one foot, and the threshold of the six schools and two halls would be trampled on, to put it bluntly, that is, the existing things were not enough to meet the rapid development of the Tang Dynasty, including the imperial palace of His Majesty, working in such a locked building complex would affect the work efficiency of the Tang Dynasty. Chang'an City is now also small, because it is inhabited by ten times the population before, the reason why you all don't think he is small, but also think that it is big, is the largest in the world, that is because you are always moving forward, always compared with those ancestors in ancient times, compared with those small countries, in the early days of the Qin Dynasty, the country was only more than 10 million people, the first emperor built a huge Xianyang Palace to govern the world, and now the population of the people of my Tang Dynasty has exceeded 100 million, which is ten times that of the Qin Dynasty and three times that of the Han Dynasty. Shouldn't it be like theirs, expansion is an imminent problem? Since it should be expanded, then we should look backward more, this is the future of the future, how many people will there be in Datang in five years? How many people will read, I believe that the household department can know a rough idea, if it is not big enough now, when our house is built, it may not be enough, then then it will be built again? Yang Lin first pointed to the princes of the imperial court, and then locked his eyes on Sun Wuji, who was also the head of the household department, which naturally meant that he wanted him to come forward and speak.
"Qi Yu Majesty, in terms of population, what the heavens bestow on the horse is reasonable, since the first year of Zhenguan, the population of my Tang Dynasty has increased dramatically, and it has doubled in only five years, and now the number of people registered in the household department has exceeded 130 million, plus the new territory population of the imperial court and this year's newborns, I am afraid that there will be at least 140 million, five years, or ten years later, Weichen dare not imagine, at least it will at least double again."
After the eldest grandson Wuji finished speaking, Li Er was shocked, and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty were also shocked, no one could stop the people of the Tang Dynasty from having children, and the emperor couldn't do it, and looking at the eldest grandson Empress gave birth to a few children to Li Er in a few years, you can roughly see the views of the Tang Dynasty folk on childbirth and childbearing, they don't have zĂ i pregnancy and birth control, although there are more symptoms such as dystocia, but women are still proud of having children, and the people are blessed with many children. The people are busy making people when they are full, it is normal to make three in five years, Li Er himself has made more than a dozen, of course, this situation will slow down after the development to a certain extent, but even if it is slowed down, the base is too large at that time, and the growth figure is also very amazing, a certain leader of later generations said that the strength of many people is great, and the land of China has changed from 40,000 to more than 1 billion in just one or two generations, which shows the strong reproductive ability of people. (To be continued......)