"What can be exchanged for population?"

It sounds like buying and selling people, but it is. There is nothing in this world that cannot be bought and sold, it depends on whether you can give the right price.

Of course, the population of the Great Song Dynasty can also be bought and sold, but the key to this is what price Zhao Guangyi needs.

"What is Da Song missing? Or is it what the Great Song Dynasty lacked? That's the key. "Guo seems to be giving a rather difficult question here.

What did the Great Song Dynasty do? Da Song seems to have everything, and he lacks nothing. The Zhao brothers have been working hard for almost 40 years after winning the world.

Compared with the Five Dynasties, the entire national strength of the Great Song Dynasty has been greatly restored and improved. The population has also doubled faster than in the early years of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and the achievements of the Zhao brothers in governing the world are obvious to all.

Although the rule of Taizu Taizong cannot be described as a prosperous era, it is almost inseparable, in such a state, what does the Great Song Dynasty, or the Great Song Dynasty, need what Zhao Weiji can give?

Security? The Northern Liao State has been eyeing the Central Plains for a long time, and with Yanyun in hand, the northern barrier of the Great Song Dynasty is completely gone. This is a big problem for the imperial court, and the problem is that the current Zhao Weiji will definitely not be able to help the imperial court solve it.

"What is the most lacking thing in the imperial court now, of course, is the lack of dark clouds, but can we give it to the imperial court?" After thinking about it, everyone came up with only one answer.

"No, you only see the external troubles, but you do not see the internal troubles. The biggest problem in the Great Song Dynasty now is the lack of money, food, and land. Do you know how many soldiers my Great Song has now? There are more than 600,000 soldiers, all of whom are supported by the imperial court, and in order to support these soldiers, the annual military expenditure and military rations of the imperial court can account for as much as half of the national treasury expenditure. ”

It is no secret that the imperial court spends a lot of military expenditure every year, and the number of troops has increased year by year from the founding of Taizu to the four years of Taizong's Chunhua. Especially the number of forbidden troops, the growth rate is even more terrifying. It seems that today's officials can only sleep peacefully at night if they have a large number of troops in their hands.

Such a huge army naturally needs to consume a large amount of financial and material resources from the state, so the consumption of food and money is of course innumerable.

"Sir, I only talked about the lack of money and food, but what about the lack of land?"

"How is the current territory of the Great Song Dynasty compared to the Tang Dynasty?"

"Naturally, it's not as good." There are no outsiders here, so Ling Huhuang can tell such a truth without hesitation.

"And what about the farmland?" It must be even worse, Ling Huhuang immediately replied.

This is also true, the main grain-producing areas of the Great Song Dynasty today basically rely on the south, and many places in the north that can grow grain do not dare to grow grain, because those places are under the threat of a small number of famous people. For example, the Guanzhong Plain, the North China Plain, and the Hetao Plain.

Without these places, it is a miracle that the Great Song Dynasty was still able to maintain such a large population. This is because it depends on more developed farming techniques and the introduction of Champa rice.

However, this is only enough to maintain the food consumption of the people in the world, and it has not brought a large amount of grain reserves to the imperial court.

"Okay, after talking about what Da Song lacks, then let's talk about what we have. Contrary to the Great Song Dynasty, we have money and land.

If the prince's description is true, is there arable land on the continent across the ocean? ”

Here Zhao Weiji nodded, although the west coast does not have a vast plain like the Central Great Plains, but one along the west coast can already be reclaimed by more than 100,000 people.

"If that's the case, then why can't we produce grain over there and sell it back to the Great Song Dynasty?"

Of course, this is a method that can be considered, because in Zhao Weiji's memory, there are still many high-yield crops in South America that have not yet spread, as long as he has a firm foothold in North America, he will definitely be able to turn North America into a big granary.

What's more, as long as he arrives in North America, in an environment where no one is restrained, he will be able to better open his hanging, make use of the rich mineral resources in North America, and accelerate the progress of scientific and technological civilization.

Although Guo Bailiu's attention is good, Jiang Yu still feels that this is not the key, so he raised his own question: "This is a feasible idea, but I don't think this can impress the officials, after all, as Mr. said, first of all, the court has no money, and secondly, the court will not rest assured that we will take so many people out." ”

"Next is the issue of money, the Great Song Dynasty has no money, but we are very rich, and the most profitable person in the entire Great Song Dynasty is none other than the prince, whether it is tea, cotton, or even porcelain. All of them are cash cows, and what we have to do is to hand over these cash cows to the imperial court. ”

"Since ancient times, officials have not competed with the people for profit, and the imperial court may not dare to ask us for these things." Ling Huhuang, who still knows something about officialdom, expressed his worries.

"Of course, the official does not compete with the people for profit, but the court has to collect taxes. We can pay a lot of taxes, and I don't think the government will refuse this proposal. ”

Officials do not compete with the people for profit, although there are many examples of officials doing business in all dynasties, but the court has basically never done business, so even in order to control the supply of cotton to the imperial court, Zhao Guangyi once invested in Chai Yu's silk village, but it has never been shown in the outside world, and has not given any help to the operation of the silk village.

But as Guo Bailuo said, although the imperial court cannot do business, but it can collect taxes, as long as it is negotiated with Zhao Guangyi, or I will run it here, the imperial court will neither take care of nor take responsibility, but we pay heavy taxes to the imperial court in private, which is actually equivalent to bribing the emperor in exchange for a certain share of immigrants to operate overseas.

"Okay, Mr. Guo, I admit that what you said makes sense, but I still haven't said the most critical one, that is, what can I do to dispel the official's wariness of us, and willingly accept the above conditions to our people, so that we can go to sea?" The key, Guo Bailuo has never talked about the key, Tie Zheng really can't bear it.

"The key? Actually, this is not the key, this is the easiest step. ”

"The easiest?" Except for Zhao Weiji, everyone couldn't figure it out.

"It seems that the prince has figured it out."

"That's right, in fact, as long as you do the previous steps, this step is really simple."

"Ask the prince for advice."

In fact, the most critical reason for this step is the confidence of the officials and the army in the Great Song Dynasty. I think the official family has quite confidence in the Great Song Dynasty under his rule. How many people are there in Da Song? ”

"More than 10 million households." Hasn't this question been said?

"How many households can we take out?"

"Tens of thousands at most."

"Then how many soldiers are there in the Great Song Dynasty?" Again, it's a repetition issue.

"Now there are more than 600,000."

"Then how many relocated households can we arm?"

"Twenty thousand to thirty thousand at most, it's over."

"Now you understand."

In this way, everyone understands. That is, the Great Song Dynasty is too powerful, and no matter how the overseas pioneers develop in a short period of time, it is impossible to catch up with the strength of the Great Song Dynasty, and if you compare the population and the number of troops, the Great Song Dynasty is ten thousand times that of yours. You Zhao Weiji can fight again, what can you do with this little manpower? You are not even as powerful as the peasant army that revolted before.

Moreover, before Zhao Weiji's overseas development forms a perfect society, the main population will come from the supply of the Great Song Dynasty, and the local aborigines are neither too much, nor are they easy to absorb, which is equivalent to saying that the overseas "fiefdom" will be a boundless water temporarily. Da Song can strangle your water source at any time. When the time comes, with his own hematopoietic ability, when will he be able to develop to compete with the Great Song Dynasty, it will be very difficult.

So Zhao Guangyi is not afraid that you will rebel with this group of people at all, compared to the Khitan Liao State, which has a vast land and population, and the Dangxiang clan, which has developed for a hundred years and has a certain scale, Zhao Guangyi does not care about you at all.

Therefore, as long as it can be exchanged for benefits, Zhao Weiji, who may threaten his son's succession, will be driven out of the Central Plains without any turmoil. If you give it to tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, then what's the matter.

Now that you have figured out this truth, the next thing is how to start this negotiation with Zhao Guangyi, whether to take the initiative here, or passively wait for Zhao Guangyi to take action before taking countermeasures.

"Lord Wang, the old man suggested that the Lord had better find a suitable reason to have a showdown directly with the official army. In this way, the implementation of our plan can also be smoother, but the timing of the showdown needs to be well grasped. ”

In fact, Zhao Weiji has already had this reason, and he has already thought of this reason when he met Snow, and now Snow is still in Huating, but if he repairs a book and immediately flies a pigeon to Huating, he can use Zhao Weizheng's entire funeral to rush to Bianjing during the time when the funeral is still going on.

Out of concern for Zhao Weizheng, who had just passed away, Zhao Guangyi would not make trouble during this period. Therefore, Zhao Weiji still has some time to choose a better time.

……

The whole result of the discussion in the Wei Wangfu here took almost a night, and at the same time, Zhao Guangyi also stayed awake all night. How to deal with Zhao Weiji is a tricky matter.

Today's Zhao Weiji is not as easy to suppress as he was at the beginning, and the things he made in the people have already had a certain impact on the imperial court.

If it is not handled well, it will definitely hurt the imperial court, and under the premise that there is still a Khitan tiger in the north, Zhao Guangyi is not too willing to take this risk.

At this time, he needed to ask for the opinion of a person, who was the only person in the court that he could trust and who could have something to do with Zhao Weiji.

He wanted to get the answers he wanted from this person.