When Zhao Ji was looking forward to going to Beijing, Wang Anshi and others had already set off, taking 560,000 officials, troops and people from Bianjing all the way south along the Bianhe Caoyun waterway.

The feat of moving the capital can no longer be described by a thousand sails on the Bianhe River, and the entire Bianhe waterway has been closed to any boats as early as a month ago, but now the entire Bianhe waterway is full of boats.

The fleet started from Bianjing, went south along the Bianhe River, passed through the seven major cities of Chenliu, Xiangyi, Yingtianfu, Yongcheng, Suzhou, Lingbi and Xuyi, and then entered the Sui-Tang Grand Canal from Xuyi, passed through the four big cities of Huaiyin, Chuzhou, Gaoyou and Yangzhou, and finally entered the Yangtze River from Guazhou, reached the mouth of the Yangtze River in the east, turned into Songjiang, entered the Huangpu River halfway, and arrived in Shangjing.

The role of this waterway has long been to transport money and grain from the southeast to Bianjing, and to maintain Bianjing's false prosperity.

At this time, Wang Anshi, Sima Guang and others were standing at the bow of the ship, looking at the mighty fleet all the way, and at the big cities that had risen because of this waterway along the way.

"Junshi is still worried about the official family opening up side affairs again?" Wang Anshi asked.

"It's not all from the official family, didn't you say that the staff department recently came to the news of a large-scale transfer of the Northern Liao army?" Sima Guang said worriedly.

Seeing that Wang Anshi looked gloomy and stopped talking, Sima Guang shook his head and sighed: "Now that the Great Song Dynasty is seriously short of food, the official family still insists on expanding overseas and setting up Jinzhou, and the rations that need to be supplied to 100,000 people can also be transferred from the stream, so forget it." However, the official family also wanted to go west to India and attack the Chola Kingdom, and said that it would be enough to send only 10,000 sailors to support Srivijaya. However, the official family insisted on transferring 50,000 expeditionary troops and 50,000 armor protection troops to expand Lingya Prefecture, and there were rations for 100,000 people here. If Beiliao takes the opportunity to attack, the consequences will be unimaginable! ”

Sima Guang's worries are not unreasonable, in ancient times, once there was a food shortage, it must be accompanied by a military disaster. The so-called war disaster is to grab food. In all dynasties of China, the cycle of chaos was actually caused by the fragility of agriculture.

Intensive agriculture requires a lot of labor, but agriculture is a very unstable industry that basically depends on the weather. Many dynasties have been almost destroyed by natural disasters, drought and locust floods, and are the killers of agricultural nations.

Drought, locust plague, flood, and earthquake, the four major killers, once they show their fangs, the grain harvest will fail, and the population that has grown under intensive agriculture will face a devastating blow. A large number of people will die of famine! Then came the military disaster that broke out in order to seize the food, and the military disaster was together, ten rooms and nine empty!

During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty created an empire of half a hundred million, and the population of the Han Dynasty reached 50 million. In the early period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the territory of the Han Dynasty did not include the vast southern region. However, until now, the Great Song Dynasty has developed the southern region, and the population of the Great Song Dynasty is only 80 million.

The level of agricultural productivity in the Han Dynasty could not be compared with that of the Song Dynasty at all, so what was the reason for the population explosion that hindered the Great Song Dynasty? Or the fragility of agriculture.

During the Sui Dynasty, China's population reached 70 million. The Sui Dynasty was in turmoil, and the population plummeted, and at the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, there were only 15 million. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the population size reached 60 million, which did not exceed the level of the last years of the Sui Dynasty. However, after five generations of rebellion, when the Song Dynasty set the world, the population plummeted to 30 million, which is still because the population of the south still maintained a certain growth during the five dynasties.

Up to now, after more than 100 years of development, the population of the Great Song Dynasty has risen to 80 million. Population growth is slow, and it only takes one natural disaster to reduce sharply, and only one military disaster is needed. This is the root of China's cycle of chaos.

Many people believe that the root cause of China's cycle of chaos lies in the contradiction between man and land, but this is actually a misunderstanding. For example, the current Great Song Dynasty has the largest population in the southeast and the least per capita land area, but the southeast is the region with the highest grain production, which can not only satisfy itself, but also be able to help Bianjing and produce a large amount of commercial grain. At the same time, it also makes industry and commerce more prosperous.

However, the Huguang area and the southwestern mountainous area are sparsely populated and have the largest per capita land area, but because the population is too small to achieve intensive cultivation, the production mode of extensive planting and thin harvest has led to extremely low grain production.

However, because of the inconvenient transportation in ancient times, the level of productivity was not high. The high cost and the long time to recover the cost, the construction of waterways and the development of migratory populations all require very rich reserves. In order to develop an area, it is necessary to transport grain as the material basis for development, however, the transportation is inconvenient, the consumption of grain transportation is too large, and most of the already small grain reserves are consumed in transportation. Clearing the wasteland is like fighting a war, and it is extremely expensive to spend money and food.

The Great Song Dynasty was originally extremely wealthy and had abundant reserves, but it was almost tossed by Zhao Ji's great migration and development, and even the last bit of potential of the people was squeezed dry.

If Zhao Ji had not crossed over as the emperor and controlled the army, such a large-scale immigration and large-scale development would not have been possible. It can be seen from this that the contradiction between man and land is partial and relative. Fragile agriculture is the root cause, and inaccessibility is the root cause.

"There is no way to do this, after all, the official family is too young, and we can only do our best to fill the loopholes for the official family. In fact, the official family also has his considerations. The vision of the official family is much farther than ours, and it is not good for us to always disobey the official family. The struggle between imperial power and relative power has become more and more fierce since the Tang Dynasty, and the people at the bottom are still suffering from the tilting of the court, and I hope this election is an endpoint. Wang Anshi comforted.

"The secret report of the Ministry Department said that the 100,000 Indian expeditionary force sent by the official family did not ask for a grain from the states of Guangdong Road." Kumamoto, the secretary of the military department, said.

"Oh, it seems that the official family is the same as last time, exchanging armaments for food from Jiaozhi. That's fine. Sima Guang's heart also calmed down a little.

From Zhao Ji's order to exchange grain for the expeditionary force from Jiaozhi, Sima Guang knew that Zhao Ji also recognized the food shortage crisis in the Great Song Dynasty. It's just that Cochin has been fighting with Champa and Zhenla for two years, and there shouldn't be a lot of grain traded. So Sima Guang's heart was just a little calmer.

"Junshi, don't forget, where did Champa rice come from. Most of the wealthy families in the north have hoarded a large amount of grain, and the government at all levels has purchased some from them at a high price, and the people in the south have been equipped with assault rifles and have accumulated some meat for hunting. More and more people are going out to sea to fish in various coastal areas, and some of them have gone to Japan to fish. Boatloads of fish came from Japan's northern sea, which was much more cost-effective than helping Japan open up the land. The Coast Guard trained its troops by fishing, crisscrossing the sea, and it did not know how many big fish they caught, and basically achieved self-sufficiency in military rations. In this way, the East China Sea and the South China Sea are the great granaries of the Great Song Dynasty, and the territory of the Great Song Dynasty is equivalent to doubling. The food problem is not as serious as imagined! As long as there is no large-scale famine in the Great Song Dynasty for three consecutive years, the food crisis can be overcome. "Wang Anshi knows everything about the Great Song Dynasty well.

Both Cochin and Champa are countries that grow Champa rice on a large scale, and because of their geographical location, they are also a big granary. It is not difficult to get 100,000 people of food and grass from Cochin! Later generations of Southeast Asia, China, and India were all major rice growers. Before the introduction of high-yielding crops such as corn and sweet potatoes from the Americas, rice was the most productive agricultural crop in the Old World.

Today, the main crops of the Great Song Dynasty are: rice, wheat, beans, millet, millet five kinds of grain crops, and six kinds of cash crops: cotton, sugarcane, tea tree, rape, ramie, and mulberry. There are also some vegetables introduced from the heavenly world: carrots, spinach, etc., and local vegetables also include radishes, cabbage, etc. There are more than 300 kinds of crops.

These are all recorded in history, and with the arrival of Zhao Ji, various crops were studied and promoted, especially sugar cane and Champa rice. New and advanced agricultural implements were popularized, and steel-bladed agricultural tools, which were not widely used until the twelfth century, were already widely used before the early date. Because of this, Wang Anshi has the confidence to overcome the food crisis within three years and to carry out the plan of ruling the world in ten years.

You know, building a water conservancy road is a very expensive thing. According to the view of historian Sima Guang, he must be resolutely opposed. Taking history as a mirror, the two major dynasties of Qin and Sui in history caused large-scale peasant uprisings because of the construction of Chidao waterways, which consumed too much people's resources.

"Jiefu, the plan of the ten-year rule has been negotiated by us. I don't have to worry about this matter being presided over by you. I'm afraid that the official family will interfere too much in this process, and the official family is ambitious, and when the time comes, I'm afraid that it will be a little meritorious, so I want to be a Han Wu Tang Sect. Sometimes, I do admire the far-sightedness of the official, but the official is not down-to-earth, so I am afraid that the far-sightedness will become too ambitious. Sima Guang explained.

"It is true that the official family is unpredictable at times, but the official family is by no means a bloodthirsty and violent person, and he always seems to be afraid of something, so he becomes unapproachable, but he is not completely incapable of listening to advice. Junshi should know this better than me! Wang Anshi responded.

"When Emperor Taizu founded the Great Song Dynasty, there was a saying that he ruled the world with scholars. The official family seems to have delegated power to the political affairs hall, but many times it is arbitrary, and it is completely impossible to listen to opposing voices. If you listen to it, you will be clear and believe it will be dark, and the temperament of the official family will always make people feel uneasy. The Great Song Dynasty's Jiangshan Sheji could not be pinned on the temperament of the official family. I also appreciate the foresight and restraint of the officials, but after all, not all monarchs can do it. If the temperament of the official family becomes a tradition and is imitated by future generations of mediocre kings, how can we withstand the destruction of the faint monarch no matter how much hard work we put in? Sima Guang argued.

"This gentleman is assured. The officials seem to have a natural trust in me. Didn't the officials agree to this election? After the election, I will leave it to you to improve the system and restrict the use of prestige by officials to control the people and the army. If the Great Song Dynasty wants long-term peace and stability, it is natural to look at the system. After all, there are often faint monarchs, and virtuous monarchs are rare for a hundred years. The ancestral system established by Emperor Taizu has been completely destroyed by the official family, and it is urgent to rebuild a more perfect governing system. Wang Anshi said with a smile on his face.

The reason why Wang Anshi said with a smile was to avoid being thought by Sima Guang that this was showing off, showing off that the official family only believed in him Wang Anshi. The restriction of the monarch's power by the system rather than the ritual law mentioned by Wang Anshi is a prelude to the progress of an agrarian society to a modern industrial society.

Wang Anshi's reform in the Northern Song Dynasty actually contained many contradictions: the contradiction between the surrounding ethnic regimes and the Song Dynasty, the contradiction between the emptiness of the Song Dynasty's treasury and the wealth of the Great Song Dynasty, the contradiction between the southern scholars and the northern scholars, the contradiction between the monarchy and the relative power, the contradiction between the big landlords and the small and medium-sized landlords and merchants, the contradiction between the landlords' land capital and the merchants' monetary capital, the contradiction between the handicraft industry beginning to break away from agricultural self-reliance and the fragile agricultural production capacity, and the contradiction between the centralization of power in the Song Dynasty and the unbalanced economic development of various localities. The contradiction between the emerging commodity economy and the traditional agricultural economy.

The many contradictions reflect the fierce changes and struggles in the transition from an agrarian society to an industrial society under the advance of civilization. If Zhao Ji is added, there is another contradiction, the contradiction between the limitations of historical development and the contradiction that promotes the rapid development of society.

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