Soon, Shi Bufan actually received the news that Li Shimin allowed Li Lizhen to follow Shi Bufan out of the palace. Shi Bufan couldn't, so he had to take Li Lizhen, a six- or seven-year-old little Lori, out of the palace and let her increase her knowledge. Although Shi Bufan is a scholar, it does not prevent him from knowing that it is better to read 10,000 books than to travel 10,000 miles. Even Shi Bufan's Yangming Mind has also mentioned the unity of knowledge and action, and the unity of knowledge and action does not mean that it is a closed door to study, but also to apply what you have learned, so that you can really see what the people need and really apply it. It's better to learn and not apply, so what's the point of this life? If you can't apply it if you learn it, it is actually equivalent to not learning, so it's better not to learn.

Take Li Lizhi out of the palace to have a look, let her get in touch with the lives of some real people, so that she can go back and tell those royal families, don't let them be ungrounded one by one, and make a policy by patting her head casually. The policy made by an emperor may affect countless people in the world, so once an emperor makes an ungrounded policy, it is often not a few people who are killed in the end! Although Shi Bufan really wanted to drag all Li Shimin's royal daughters to the countryside one by one to experience life, he knew that he couldn't do it. I can only take Li Lizhen to take a look, and I hope she will go back and tell those royal families.

"Wanrou, Wanshun, you come with me! I'm going with Princess Lizi with you this time, don't you mess with me, understand? Shi Bufan said.

Since you go out with Li Li, it is not appropriate to take Li Wanrou and Li Wanshun with you, they are also their own women. Although it is still small, the name has been decided, and as long as you wait for about ten years, you can actually pick it.

However, Li Wanrou and Li Wanshun obviously didn't give Li Li any good looks, because of the contradiction between Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin, they must have a lot of estrangement. No matter how Li Lizhi pleases Li Wanrou and Li Wanshun, it is impossible to get Li Wanrou and Li Wanshun's forgiveness. However, even Shi Bufan can't solve this kind of thing, because he really has no experience in dealing with this kind of power struggle within the family. Moreover, especially this kind of power struggle in the feudal period, it is a lot of bloodshed, and it is naturally more difficult to solve. Therefore, Shi Bufan can only go with the flow, and it is impossible to interfere too much.

"Beautiful, gentle, gentle, gentle, you guys come with me!" Shi Bufan said.

Shi Bufan took the three loli out of the city, but Shi Bufan must know very well that there are definitely some people sent by Li Shimin around here to stare at. Especially if your daughter comes out with someone else, can you not worry as a father? Especially his eldest daughter, it is impossible for Li Shimin not to worry. So it is definitely necessary to send out surveillance and protection, both surveillance and protection, both of which are both. But Shi Bufan is not worried, Shi Bufan has no idea what to do with Li Li, and he is not the one who abducts and sells Lori. What's more, he didn't have any other thoughts about such a small Lori, so he was naturally not afraid of anything.

Shi Bufan came outside with three loli, and then saw Yan Liben directing people to continue building water conservancy facilities. These water conservancy facilities have begun to take shape, and although they are not very complete, they are expected to be completed in less than three months. If the government wanted to build such a water conservancy facility in the past, just recruiting manpower would give them a headache. The people will also resist, and after the water conservancy facilities are built, the people will also destroy the water conservancy facilities because of their selfishness.

This situation is not uncommon, even if many rural village cadres will be biased towards their own farmland when building water conservancy facilities, so don't expect the ancient peasants to have a high consciousness. And this kind of cooperative method is adopted, so that no one dares to mess around, so that water conservancy facilities can be greatly protected.

"Shi Xiao Shulang, do you see the people doing things? Aren't you tired of holding such a big stone? "Shi Xiao Shulang, why are they being asked to work and laughing so much?" ……

Li Lizhen has just come to the folk for the first time, and she is very curious about everything. Especially since she usually comes into contact with some royal families and nobles, as well as some palace maids and guards, those people are all spoiling her, so he looks full of curiosity now.

"Princess Lizhi, wait a minute, don't say you're a princess, understand?" Shi Bufan said.

"Hmm!" Li Lizhi nodded and said.

Li Lizhen followed Shi Bufan to the civil workers, and then they had already started to eat. Shi Bufan didn't prepare any other meals directly, and directly asked for some meals for the workers here. Those workers began to eat in large gulps, and the rice bowl seemed to be a rice bucket in Shi Bufan's eyes.

"Why do you eat so much? I remember my father seemed to eat very little! Li Lizhi said.

Immediately, a worker replied: "Miss, did you say that you are still the sister of Shi County?" Of course we have to eat so much, otherwise how can we work? We do so much work every day, and of course we have to eat a lot! What's more, if you carry stones every day, can you finish it without eating so much? ”

"Then my father also fought in the war on weekdays, and he didn't eat so much back then!" Li Li was strange.

Shi Bufan took the initiative to answer: "Lizhen, when I was in the war back then, although I was also very tired, even Ling Zun had to go to the battlefield to kill the enemy in person, but Ling Zun ate all meat. The strength that a pound of meat can provide is completely different from a pound of rice. Maybe eating meat is just a few taels, but eating rice often costs one or two catties, do you understand the difference? ”

In ancient times, people not only did heavy physical labor, but also had no oil and water, so they naturally had to become a "rice bucket". It is not completely impossible for a person to eat four catties of grain a day, or even more. Perhaps some later generations took it out of context and thought that the per capita food supply during the Tang Dynasty was more than that of later generations, and they took it for granted that the Tang Dynasty people were happier. But we don't look at what later generations eat, even ordinary farmers, maybe they eat more meat in a week than a farmer in ancient times in a year.

So any kind of statistics, taken out of context, will not work. But in later generations, too many people took the words out of context, and they took it for granted.

"The people can't afford to eat meat, so naturally they have to eat a lot of food. And you can afford to eat meat, which the people gave you. Shi Bufan said.

"Aren't the things in the palace all given by the treasury of the imperial court?" Li Lizhi asked simply.

"Where did the grain and wealth in the treasury come from?" Shi Bufan asked again.

"It's a rent from the people!" Li Wanrou took the initiative to answer, obviously during this time, she knew a lot more than Li Liqian.

Shi Bufan continued: "That's right, the rent from the people. Every grain of rice in your house, down to every piece of clothing of our officials, is the result of the hard work of the people. It can be said that the people are our food and clothing, and what would we eat without them? Since the people have provided for us and given us so much abundance, shouldn't we reciprocate? Even if you don't dare to say how grateful you are, at least don't continue to persecute the people. ”

"You see that they are all smiling and smiling now, and they don't have the pain of the former Sui in the past. They take the initiative to work, and this is the stability of the people. Now they have no worries about food and clothing, so they are happy. However, this may not be the case in the future. ”

"Why? Worry-free about food and clothing, isn't it okay? Li Li asked.

Shi Bufan continued: "Of course, it is not enough to have no worries about food and clothing, human beings are insatiable. Maybe today I can be satisfied with food and clothing and survive. But when you can survive, you naturally want more, want to get married, want to have a good house, and even want to study. After reading the book, I want to become an official and become a master. After becoming an official, he wants to be a big official, and after becoming a big official, he wants to be a prime minister. Therefore, the human heart will never be satisfied. ”

Li Lizhi frowned, and then couldn't help but say, "Father has given them so many things, are they still not satisfied?" ”

"Yes, the human heart will never be satisfied. No matter who it is, after having food and clothing to worry about, it is natural to want power! It's not enough to have a throne, you want more. Li Wanrou suddenly sarcastic.

Shi Bufan was speechless, this Li Wanrou is really desperate to satirize Li Shimin, obviously the contradiction is not shallow! However, Shi Bufan didn't pay attention to her thoughts, because Shi Bufan knew that Li Wanrou could no longer pose a threat to Li Shimin, and Li Shimin would not care about a girl's threat. Li Jiancheng's male descendants have all been imprisoned, what can a girl do?

"So, we can't just focus on the people being able to live without worrying about food and clothing. When the people needed more, it was natural for the king to satisfy them as much as possible. If they are not satisfied, they will also have opinions. The real governance of the people does not lie in prosperity, but in the suffering and happiness of the people. If the people think that they are having a hard time, then they will naturally oppose it. But if the people are doing well, then they will naturally feel at ease. Wealth is not the main thing, the key is to make them feel happy. This is the most important thing only if they feel happy, far more important than keeping them fed. ”

Shi Bufan's statement that makes the people feel happy is actually not his original, but a letter from Ma Zhou, the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, to Li Shimin. Ma Zhou proposed that the people must feel happy, this is the fundamental, otherwise even if they have no worries about food and clothing, they will not be able to make the people stable.

Ma Zhou's proposal is still very advanced, and he actually put forward a statement similar to "happiness". Only by making the people happy can we be truly stable, and it is not enough to just eat enough. In fact, in the afterlife, many people will be able to eat enough, but why are they still unhappy? Because people are insatiable, when they are hungry, they just want to be full, but when they are full, they ask for more. Therefore, it is still not possible to measure it simply by whether you can eat enough. Happiness is the most important thing.

Only by making everyone feel "happy" is the core of national stability. It's a pity that this makes all the people happy, this is impossible to do, let alone the Tang Dynasty, even after more than a thousand years, no government has ever been able to do it. At most, it is impossible to guarantee that you will not starve, but that will make everyone happy. However, Ma Zhou's proposal is tantamount to opening up another realm, not just letting people pursue food.

"Shi Xiaoshulang, how do you say to make the people feel happy?" Li Li asked.

Shi Bufan replied; "Lizhi, do you remember when I asked your classmates to pick up rice grains together?"

"Remember!" Li Lizhi replied.

"Then why are they so wasteful and lose so many grains of rice?" Shi Bufan asked.

"Because there is no shortage of food on weekdays, I naturally don't care! If you lose it, you lose it! Li Lizhi replied.

Shi Bufan continued: "Very good, you know it too." You are not short of food, but the people are severely short of food. If you had thrown away enough grain of rice at that time, it would have been enough for the people to eat. You don't care, so that's the difference. But like royalty, officials, scholars, etc., how many of them do I have? ”

"Not much!"

Even Li Lizhen knows that there are not many such people, and there are definitely not too many noble officials and scholars.

"This is the gap between the rich and the poor, why do so many people rebel, don't they all say that they are both rich and poor? In fact, it is because the gap between the rich and the poor is too big, and the people can't get enough to eat, but you just waste food casually, which is the gap. Zhumen's wine and meat stink, and there are frozen bones on the road, can this people not be indignant? In this world, only when the richest and poorest people are in the minority, and the people in the middle are in the majority, is the world truly peaceful. Once a very small number of the richest people in the world, but the vast majority of the people are poor, then the chaos in the world will come. ”

Li Li nodded and said, "I know, I will definitely tell my father and the emperor to let him make the people rich, and don't let the people's wealth be concentrated in the hands of a very small number of people." ”

Although Shi Bufan had a smile in his mouth, he was quite helpless in his heart, this was just a symptom but not a cure. Can Li Shimin really be able to curb those scholars? I'm afraid that in the era of insufficient productivity, it is not so easy to curb the nobles.

The scholars can be said to be a product of the era of insufficient productivity, if the productivity cannot keep up, the scholars will always exist, isn't it just a blow to a group of scholars, and a group of scholars have been replaced again? This kind of thing cannot be done by relying on political skills alone, and it is not enough to treat the symptoms but not the root cause.

What Shi Bufan wants at the moment is to improve productivity, but without the cheating device of sweet potatoes, he can only rely on real skills. Through the efficient use of human resources, it is possible to increase productivity in this way and establish a cycle of rapid productivity improvement. As for sweet potatoes, he didn't know if he would ever see them in his life.

(To be continued.) )