Chapter 576: Heirloom Knife

Not to mention being a school scrivener, Li Chen simply sent people to Qiongzhou to be a school scrivener, there is a serious shortage of people in the local area, and not everyone is willing to go to the border wasteland, and take their own lives to fight for a future future. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 infoA lot of people pick places that are less inhospitable, or rather, not so enlightened.

This led to the fact that even if Li Chen was unwilling to use the frontier as a place of exile, he had to let some people go over to fill the vacancy, otherwise he would really not find anyone. A lot of people would rather mess around - than go to the frontier. In some border areas where it is already difficult, regular officials wear many hats.

Although there are not so many things in the local area, it can't stand the wilderness, and there are few people, so it's hard to just run around. Li Chen had to replenish more manpower.

Li Chen is not a person who is not measured, it's just that this guy is too annoying. Yes, Gu is cheap and hurts farmers, but the problem is that Datang has not yet reached that point.

If you grow too much food, won't you feed it to your livestock? The Europeans made a great geographical discovery, and after the introduction of potatoes, there was a leap forward. There are many potatoes, not to mention that people are full, and they can also be used to feed the livestock, and the animals can't eat them all? Just kidding, how is that possible, raising pigs and cattle, if one can't digest it, just raise two.

Or, if you can't finish it yourself, you can also sell it to nomads, who will definitely not have too much. Now after the autumn harvest in Datang every year, there are many caravans to transport some coarse grains to the grassland, and the herdsmen buy coarse grains to supplement the lack of licorice in winter, and change their taste.

If there are really many livestock, and even the price of meat has been lowered, you can still make wine. Even, Li Chen plans to launch potato chips and fries. Cheap grain hurts farmers? Come on, Datang hasn't reached that point yet. There is only not enough to eat, there is not much in the situation.

Moreover, Li Chen had long expected this situation and had two plans. One is rotation farming, people can not always eat potatoes, eat sweet potatoes, although this crop has high nutritional value and high calories, but can not always eat the same one, rotate different kinds of crops, help restore the soil, reduce the occurrence of pests and diseases, and maintain the price.

Secondly, it is to grow cash crops. Li Chen has been promoting it for a long time, planting some cash crops, and then relying on overseas transportation of grain.

However, the situation was a bit unexpected for Li Chen, because he saw that it was profitable, so many farmers began to switch to cash crops, sugarcane, cotton, and so on. This has led to a significant reduction in food production. In fact, there is no need to publicize it at all, and when farmers see that it is profitable, they will naturally change their crops.

In addition, he also overestimated Datang's shipping capacity. In this era, relying on overseas transportation is still not enough after all. The maritime merchants only waited for some grain to come back by the way, and even if they were professional grain merchants, they could not provide grain in large quantities.

After all, due to the limitations of the times and technology, these eras are not the era of globalization before Li Chen's crossing, which was okay at that time, but not now.

However, it just so happens that high-yielding food crops can make up for this shortfall. Farmers also do not need to pick any good land, only need some corner land, or previously unattractive wasteland, which can be used for planting, which greatly makes up for the shortage of food.

So, can you blame Li Chen for being angry? He also hurt the peasants, he was stupid, he was not observant enough, he just thought about banning planting, it was not enough to go to the book, and he mobilized the whole family to block the road. What is the picture, the name of the invitation? Or is it simply stupid?

To pay off officials, sometimes clean officials are more terrible than corrupt officials. Li Chen even likes to have the ability to get corrupt officials. In his mind, corrupt officials are not capable of being greedy for money, but having the ability to do things well, and taking some by the way is called having the ability to be corrupt officials.

Some corrupt officials will only make money, cut corners, engage in favoritism, and try to deduct harshly. If you have the ability to do things well and make some money, then you have the ability. For example, Zhang Juzheng, he is a corrupt official, and after his death, his family property was confiscated.

The degree of luxury is so jealous that Wanli is jealous, because Zhang Juzheng always tells him to be thrifty. But he lived a very luxurious life.

Is Zhang Ju a corrupt official? By ordinary standards, of course it is. With the salaries of Ming Dynasty officials, it would be good to be able to live. For more information, please see Hai Jui.

But Zhang Juzheng is recited, he is a capable minister, the Ming Dynasty has the foundation he laid, so there was the later Wanli Three Great Marches, and he also washed the Ming Dynasty's harsh atmosphere.

Li Chen is not easy to say, as long as you can do things well, if you are greedy, you can't manage this kind of thing at all, no matter which country or era. In a country where civil servants are honest, there is always some favoritism, and the key is the degree.

Corrupt officials are easy to deal with, and after being caught, they will be fined and will be provided with labor services. If you have the ability to get corrupt officials, you can turn a blind eye, and I will see the results.

Li Chen was so afraid that he was a clean official, why? Because clean officials are right, and corrupt officials are wrong. This is the general public's very simple thinking, Bao Qingtian is doing it right, and He Shen is wrong. Corrupt officials are wrong even if they are right, and clean officials are right even if they are wrong.

Just like this guy, what's the use of having a clear name, completely stubborn. The terrible thing is that he is stubborn, stubborn and stubborn to insist on a wrong thing, he still has a clear name, and he has a layer of clean official aura, which will make people think that he is right. Insisting on a wrong thing and making everyone think that it is right will cause more harm than corrupt officials.

Demoting people to Qiongzhou is just to keep him away from him, saving him all day long, and the follow-up is not over, he still has to deal with the aftermath of this matter. Lest you take the blame for this kind of, you really can't make it.

Li Chen was just worrying about his nerves, and on the eve of his expedition, he dealt with a little thing. He was thinking about whether to set up an official position, to set up a foreign spokesman, and to express some opinions of the imperial court in due course, "Is it time to set up a publishing temple?"

Li Chen jumped from looking for a spokesman for the imperial court to think that Datang's current publishing industry is becoming more and more prosperous, paper prices are decreasing, printing technology has been promoted, newspapers have been active, and Li Chen has promoted literacy, and the book market is becoming more and more active.

Since Li Chen asked Shuntian Daily to set up a publishing company, and the other two major newspapers followed suit, many publishing houses have become. Not to mention the establishment of local newspapers in various places. It seems necessary for Datang to establish a unit to control the press and publications. By the way, the spokesman of the imperial court will be established, for example, to publicize the necessity of this military dispatch?

This time, Li Chen insisted on sending troops to the north, under the pretext that Xi, Khitan and other tribes did not return the last invasion of the Tang Dynasty, plundered the people of the Tang Dynasty, and continued to invade the caravans on the Tang grassland, which was a provocation to the Tang Tianwei.

Datang has the obligation and the need to protect the lives and property of its people. Li Chen is the Son of Heaven, and the people regard the Son of Heaven as their parents, if the children are bullied, their property is plundered, and their lives are threatened, it is necessary for their parents to come forward and seek justice for the people.

This was said in a very high-sounding manner and blocked the mouths of many people. However, although there are enough legitimate reasons, and even if there is no reason, no one dares to oppose Li Chen's idea, but after all, it is none of their business, and not everyone wants to send troops very much.

After all, the foreign enemy of the Tang Dynasty, since the defeat of the Turks in the early Tang Dynasty, the northern grasslands are actually not so threatening. The Tang Dynasty did not have the same sense of threat to the north as the Han Dynasty. Although Li Chen guided his speech, many people know that it is only a superficial reason, and only Li Chen knows the real reason.

Why did he go to the grassland, only he knew in his heart, he wanted to do it once and for all, let the Tang Dynasty, and even the whole of China, solve the threat of the northern grassland.

At present, after the discovery of the New World and the start of immigration, he believes that the Tang Dynasty can definitely exist for a hundred more years, even if his successor is so stupid that he will no longer immigrate to the New World, and the people will not survive anymore, they will go spontaneously.

Even if they don't go to the New World, the people will know that there are ways to live overseas and vast land, and unless they have to move the border and ban the sea like the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the people will go spontaneously, and I believe that there will be much less civil unrest. Many people understand the truth that people move to live and trees to die.

After solving the civil unrest, he is gradually solving the problem of decentralization of power in the imperial court, ensuring a stable system, even if the future emperors are very mediocre, at least there is a virtuous prime minister. He also spoke to several children in great detail about the question of the ruling pen.

The emperor monopolizes power, and he will only exhaust himself to death, in order not to exhaust himself to death, and in order to avoid one day, there will be a faint emperor, and it is very important to maintain a virtuous prime minister. Don't be afraid that the prime minister will abuse power, the system is set, and he has been in office for eight years.

The prime minister has changed people, even if he changes his son, he may not be of the same mind as the former prime minister. As long as there is a good system to ensure the separation of powers, checks and balances, and the prime minister can be continuously cultivated, the political situation of the Tang Dynasty will not be affected.

I'm not afraid to say that even the prime minister is dumbfounded. Generations of talented people have come out, and a generation of new people has replaced the old. Talents are everywhere, the old problem, or the system, the imperial examination is already very good, and those who are admitted are all capable of it, and it will not be like the Wei and Jin dynasties, relying on the family background and family background to see who is the prime minister. As a result, one game and one will talk clearly, but there is no ability at all.

Solve the politics, and then the military, I believe that under his system, there will be a bloody lesson in the chaos of the security envoys, and the problem of rebellion will not appear. The biggest threat left is the northern steppe.

Liao, Jin, and Mongolia will be more and more threatening to China in the future, and the threat from the steppe will become bigger and bigger. Although he believed that with Mini bullets, these nomads could not pose a threat. However, he was not a god, just a traveler.

The future history has long been changed beyond recognition by him, and he doesn't know whether the future Datang, or the inheritance of the Tang Dynasty's regime, will be threatened from the grassland again, so he wants to take advantage of the fact that he is still alive to solve those nomads once and for all, and he has thought of a solution.

"Wukong, I've been waiting for a long time." "I've seen the saint, and soon, the poor road is also a little early." "Half a day is not a moment, and lying will lead to hell." , Li Chen jokingly said, Wukong just smiled, "Poor Dao reciting the manager Buddha, I don't think it's long."

Li Chen threw people off the bridge, and when he arrived at his temporary palace, a bald head was already waiting for him to meet him. He was familiar with greeting visitors.

Everyone still remembers that Wukong was the monk who was with him when Li Chen left the Longevity Temple, and later they met again in Xuzhou and went to Yangzhou together, and finally he stayed in Yangzhou for a while and left by himself. Li Chen has no whereabouts. Who knows, now they meet again, but they are no longer human.

Come to think of it, many people have already guessed what Li Chen plans to do to the grassland. That's right, it is to use Buddhism to weaken the entire grassland. If it is to be said that each dynasty in China has the best control over the grassland, Li Chen has to say, it is the Qing Dynasty. There was a Qing Dynasty, except for a Junggar department, Mongolia was really obedient to the Qing Dynasty. Among them, Tibetan Buddhism helped a lot to control Mongolia.

Li Chen wanted to replicate the situation when the Manchus controlled Mongolia, and used Buddhism to weaken them, so that each of them became a monk and devoted himself to serving the Buddha. Only one male is allowed to inherit the family business. Even, he is a little more vicious, and wants these steppe peoples to maintain monogamy. It is not allowed to marry a concubine, and as for the extra woman, of course, it is married to the Tang people.

In this way, he wants to slowly reduce the population of the grassland and control it within a certain range. In this way, even if the Tang Dynasty dies and the dynasty changes, the grassland peoples will never become a threat to China.

He was also not worried about Buddhism's reluctance to go, which was an opportunity to expand the influence of religion. The spread of Buddhism in Middle-earth was very difficult, as if it had returned to the situation when it was first introduced.

Mainly Li Chen, Taoism has shaped the Li family into a man who manages heaven and earth, whether it is heaven, earth, or the world, it is his Li family who is the son of heaven. As Li Chen vigorously promoted various high-yield crops and was worshiped by the people as the stars, Taoism became more and more accepted.

If it weren't for Li Chen's desire to prevent Taoism from degenerating and let Buddhism supervise, he would now be slightly inclined to Buddhism, and Buddhism would be even more difficult now. So, having this opportunity to expand your influence will not be missed no matter what. As for Taoism, he has to think about it again, and this matter is not in a hurry.

Li Chen was thinking about controlling the grassland here, and the grassland was also arguing to decide his fate, "We must resolutely resist to the end, this is the land that our ancestors' ships gave us, this time it was Tang Gou's unreasonable provocation first, if we retreat, how can we meet our ancestors."

"That's because your heart is weak, if the Tang Dynasty is coming, let them come, anyway, it's just to be soft, and when the Tang people are gone, what should I do?" "That is, we don't want to sacrifice the warriors anymore, fighting against the Tang Army, we can't win at all."

"Coward, the last time we hit the Tang Dynasty, we lost this time but on the grassland, let those Tang dogs know about it, the grassland is our grassland, give those Tang dogs a lesson, otherwise the Tang dogs will take and ask us in the future."

"Yes, give them a little bit of strength, we are not weak people, we grassland warriors are all covered by the sky and the earth as a bed. Where we can't go, we follow the way our ancestors flowed to us, migrate livestock, pollute water sources, and let them die of hunger and thirst on the grassland. Let those Tang dogs obediently go back to nurse the baby.'"

These two tricks have always been the usual tricks of nomads to deal with China, and after many attacks on the grain route were ineffective, they sacrificed this heirloom knife again.