"Your Highness, do you know how the five surnames and seven hopes will attack His Highness and industry and commerce?" Cui Yu suddenly stepped forward and asked with a bow.

"Huh! If my guess is correct, it is nothing more than industry and commerce turning peasant households into workers, reducing the number of people who farm the land and declining grain production. Li Su said with a smile, he naturally thought of this for a long time, and he already had some preliminary countermeasures.

"His Royal Highness is really smart, and he will break the key to it with one word, and the five surnames and seven hopes want to use this reason to suppress the momentum of industrial and commercial development." Cui Yu heard Li Su's words, and his heart was also amazed by His Royal Highness the King of Qi, but then he frowned, and said with some concern: "Your Highness, although the five surnames and seven hopes are an excuse to suppress agriculture, but this is also an indisputable fact, with the development of industry and commerce, grain production has been greatly affected, if it is allowed to continue, then no matter how prosperous industry and commerce are, I am afraid it is just a tree without roots, what solution can Your Highness have for this?" ”

"Agriculture is related to the stability of the country, and this king is also very concerned, but for the loss of farmers, although I expected it to happen, I didn't expect it to happen so soon, but the solution is not nothing, I have already made some preparations, even if the other party unites to make trouble, I can't help this king, as for wanting to suppress industry and commerce, it is even more wishful thinking!" Li Su said in the end, his hands were clenched into fists, and he looked full of confidence.

Although the influence of the five surnames and seven hopes is all over the Tang Dynasty, he is not the gentleman prince when he first arrived in the Tang Dynasty, if he simply compares the influence, the interest groups behind him are united. It may not be much weaker than the other party. In addition, he has a killer trick that is useless, and it is not certain who will kill the deer at that time?

Wang Kuang and Cui Yu were very excited when they heard that Li Yu had already prepared. The current prosperity of industry and commerce can be said to have been provoked by His Royal Highness King Qi in front of him, no matter how big the industry is. It is also necessary to look forward to this young man, because His Royal Highness King Qi is a banner of Datang industry and commerce, as long as this banner does not fall, they and other industrial and commercial owners will be fine.

In addition, the two of them were also very interested in how Li Su solved the agricultural problem, but they asked a few times, but Li Su was reluctant to say more, and each time they diverged the topic. This made Cui Yu and Wang Jing both look a little anxious, and after glancing at each other. Wang Kuang, who had just sat down, stood up again and bowed down and said, "Your Highness, someone has asked me to offer you three strategies, although they cannot completely solve the crisis of declining peasant households. But it can temporarily alleviate the problem of underpopulation! ”

Li Su was stunned when he heard this. He thought that Wang Guo and the two of them were just reporting to him, but he didn't expect to help him with advice. It seems that Wu Meiniang guessed that they were here to surrender to themselves, and it was not without some basis. Thinking of this, he asked curiously: "Brother Wang, I don't know what the three strategies are?" Who's offering it? ”

"Your Highness, let's not mention it for the time being, you can listen to these three strategies first, this first policy is called Guang Animal Slave ......" Wang Guo saw that Li Su showed interest, and immediately showed a strange excitement, regardless of whether Li Su was willing to listen to it or not, he immediately began to talk about the three strategies.

Li Su was a little careless at first, after all, in his opinion, the Tang people were limited by their thinking, and the methods they could think of couldn't jump out of the limitations of this era, such as the first strategy that Wang Guo said, just listen to the name, it must be that he wants to capture a large number of slaves to fill the shortage of peasant population, this method Li Su also knows, but the key is where to catch slaves?

For example, when the other party was in the first plan, he accused Li Su of being too conservative and only set the target of slave hunting on the Korean Peninsula and the northern grasslands. In addition, the other party also pointed out that there are still a large number of Kunlun slaves in overseas Java and other places, and these Kunlun slaves are strong and mild-tempered, whether they are used for mining or farming, they are excellent laborers.

Li Su was sweating profusely when he heard this, he thought he was radical enough, but he didn't expect that there were people who were more radical than him, and he also attacked from all sides, taking all the countries around Datang as the object of plunder, completely ignoring the image of Datang, although it was just a paraphrase of the king, but the blood and nakedness in the words could not be concealed.

After listening to the radical first strategy, the second and third strategies are actually connected, and listening to only the two names, Li Su was immediately stunned, because these two strategies are called promoting extensive planting and land replacement, respectively.

The other party pointed out very sharply that from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period in the Central Plains, agriculture has entered a dead end of intensive cultivation, spending a lot of manpower and material resources, trying to increase the yield per mu, the reason for this situation is many, the most important is that the aristocratic family occupies a large amount of land, and the largest number of ordinary peasant households, the per capita land is very small, can only try their best to improve the production of limited land, that is, intensive cultivation.

Intensive cultivation is not bad, but this farming method requires a lot of manpower and material resources, which also causes a person to cultivate a limited amount of land, a large number of people are bound to the land, if it was nothing in the past, but after the development of industry and commerce, and then use intensive cultivation to cultivate, it is no longer suitable, then it is better to use extensive farming.

For example, an adult laborer can only plant five acres of land a year in the way of intensive cultivation, but after changing to extensive cultivation, he can plant ten acres or even twenty acres, although the yield per mu is definitely less than the original, but the total amount of grain harvested is several times more than the original, that is to say, the grain produced by the same person is several times more than the original.

Of course, extensive farming also has its own problems, although each person produces more grain per year, but if the total amount of land remains the same, the yield per mu decreases, and the annual production of food in Datang will definitely decrease, but at this time the third strategy has a place to play.

Land replacement, the meaning is very simple, the Tang Dynasty has just laid down the territory of Liaodong and Goguryeo, where the land is vast and sparsely populated, and large tracts of land are barren, and on the other hand, in the Tang Dynasty, in Guanzhong, Hedong, Hebei, Henan four provinces, the population is very dense, and each person can get not much land, so that a decree can be issued to allow the farmers in these four provinces to exchange their fields for land in Liaodong, and this ratio can be set to one to ten or even higher, one mu to ten acres, It is believed that it will definitely attract many people to cultivate new fields.

In this way, the population of the four provinces of Guanzhong will definitely be further reduced, and then cultivated in the way of intensive cultivation, a large amount of land will definitely be barren, so that extensive cultivation has a basis for the implementation, and the farmers who moved to Liaodong not to mention, each family is allocated too much land, intensive cultivation is definitely not possible, and can only choose extensive farming, and with their arrival, they can also make the newly occupied Liaodong and Goguryeo homeland quickly settle down.

After listening to these three and strategies, Li Su's eyes flashed with wonder, in addition to the bloody and bold plundering strategy of the first one, the remaining two are also one of the plans he is ready to implement, the land replacement aside, only the second method of extensive cultivation is enough to surprise him, because from the perspective of the ancients, this strategy is simply perverse, and the method of intensive cultivation that has been explored with great difficulty for thousands of years has been abandoned, and extensive cultivation with no technical content is used. This is simply a move to deceive teachers and destroy ancestors.

Although Li Zhuo came from later generations, he also knew that even in later generations, intensive cultivation was still the fixed thinking of most people, because at that time, the living space of the Chinese was rigidly pressed in East Asia, unable to expand outward, so they had to find a way to increase the yield of mu on limited land to cope with the growing population, but as everyone knows, this method was forced, if there are more fields, why use this time-consuming and laborious method.

But now it's different, Datang is still the most powerful country in the world, the domestic land is not enough, the expansion is enough, no one dares to accuse Datang of hegemony to his face, the lack of agricultural population, can be made up for with the new increase in land, and even if these two strategies are implemented well, Datang's annual grain output will not only not decline, but will even show a trend of increasing year by year.

Thinking of this, Li Su couldn't help but feel a strong curiosity in his heart, what kind of person could come up with such a deviant, but extremely ingenious strategy?

"Brother Wang, who is this person, I want to see him!" Li Su was almost talking to Wang Guo in a commanding tone, and being able to come up with such a strategy shows that the other party not only has learned from others, dares to think what others dare not think, but also sees the general trend of the world very clearly, it is very likely that Wang Guo and Cui Yu came to find him, and they were instructed by that person. If such talents are not used, it will be too sorry to God.

Wang Guo heard Li Su speak to him in a commanding tone, but he did not show the slightest displeasure, but his face showed a strange look of mixed joy and sorrow, and his emotions became a little excited, and finally he gave a deep salute to Li Su with trembling hands: "Your Highness, the person who offers these three strategies is from the Taiyuan Wang family, but in Taiyuan City, he is a madman known to everyone!" ”