Liu Che was silent, as if he was thinking and looking at it, he didn't nod excitedly like a few years ago, he had his own thoughts.

"The general of the chariot cavalry said that it is wrong, and this does not seem to have anything to do with the migrating people."

"The relationship is very great, the contradiction between population and land, the simple contradiction between supply and demand, when the supply of grain can not meet the needs of the market, the grain on the market is bought short for the first time, and the price of grain will naturally increase, which has little to do with the speculation of profiteers, this is a faithful reflection of the normal contradiction between supply and demand in the market, and we have only two ways to solve the contradiction between supply and demand, the first is open source, and the second is throttling."

Cao Shi put up two fingers, throttling is not of great significance to the market, it is impossible to expect people who buy grain to live frugally and live as simple as peasants, it is normal for rich people to not cherish food and cause luxury and waste, you eat shark fin abalone from the mountains and seas, how can you eat pancake rolls, green onions, nests and gruel.

The distribution of interests is never balanced, a small amount of interests under any system is controlled by a small number of people, unless it evolves to the point where everyone is like a dragon, it will not change for thousands of years, the excellent emperor is to narrow the gap in the distribution of interests as much as possible, maintain basic fairness, really can't maintain the gap and simply divide the grade, those with military merits are the top, those without military merits are the bottom, simple and rude but also the most fair.

"There is nothing to talk about throttling, the focus is on open source, we need a huge amount of land that can be cultivated for food, preferably warm, moist and livable land, there is no better land than the Central Plains, but the Central Plains is too small, with the current level of cultivation The theoretical upper limit population is 100 million people, and His Majesty thinks it will take 100 million people to reach it."

"One hundred years."

"There will be no interference from wars or natural disasters for a maximum of sixty years. That is, the son of His Majesty will see it when he becomes emperor. ”

"How is that possible?"

"The statistics will tell you the correct answer."

The chamberlain brought in a statistical yearbook, which was mixed with a curve trend chart made two years ago. Liu Che couldn't help but lean over and take a closer look, and a zigzag line on the trend chart went up. He frowned and couldn't understand: "What is this?" It's just a picture. ”

Cao Shi held up the curve trend chart and said: "Your Majesty, please look at the markers on both sides, there is a column of markers The population is slowly climbing from 17oo to 36oo00, and the horizontal row of markers is from the first year of the Han Dynasty to 1 year, and the death of Emperor Gaozongjing is 65 years, we only need 65 years The population has increased by more than 19oo million, of which the population has two large fluctuations, the first is the 12th year of Taizu's founding of the country, Taizu crusaded against Jiujiang Wang Yingbu, Yan Wang Lu Xuan, acting king Han Xin and other princes with different surnames, In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, frequent wars led to a very slow recovery of people's livelihood. The second time was the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms of Wu and Chu. The population of the year fell sharply, the population growth completely stagnated the following year, the population growth improved slightly in the third year, and returned to normal in the fourth year.

If you look at the population growth rate each year, there are 35 years when the population has grown by more than 2 percent, and the population of 1ooo has increased by 20,000 people every year. Except for abnormal growth and decline, all of them maintained high growth. And His Majesty is the Emperor of the Ages, and it is inevitable that the Han family will be safe and secure in the next 5o years, and if there is no impact of war and natural disasters, there is no problem for the population to continue to maintain a growth rate of 2%. I heard that the population exceeded 3.78 million this year, and the population will increase by 80,000 per year in the next three years, and will increase by 90,000 in three years. It will increase by 1oo million degrees in the next three years, and it will continue to increase by 1o million every three years. The population has doubled to more than 750,000 in 3o years, and it is easy to break 100 million people in the remaining 2o years. This momentum of growth cannot be contained, unless a large-scale civil war comparable to the Chu-Han War erupts, and the crisis of the collapse of the country can be alleviated, but that is tantamount to digging one's own grave, not the work of a wise man. ”

Liu Che paced slowly in the court, behind him was a huge map four zhang wide and three zhang high, according to the enlarged copy of the prototype of the map in the map room, the main part of the map is the territory of the Han Empire and the islands in the open sea, except for the southeast and southeast directions are the sea, to the west, northwest, north, and northeast are all extraterritorial.

Obviously, Liu Che did not think about the trouble of population, he had the impression that population is a dividend, the more populous the country, the stronger the country, and a lot of the knowledge that Cao Shi once instilled also includes a brief introduction to the demographic dividend, and suddenly one day he told the Son of Heaven that the population would be a time bomb, and it would suddenly explode at some point and blow up the Han Empire.

The Son of Heaven was very puzzled, kept pacing, turned back dozens of times, he didn't understand why the population would become a burden, it should be getting better and better, he couldn't accept such a reality.

"陛xià."

"Wait, let me think again." Liu Che suddenly turned his head: "I still can't understand how this is ......"

"Everything has a distinction between good and evil, sheng rice enmity and rice hatred, opening a warehouse and putting grain can support lazy people, food and clothing are easy to lose their minds, your majesty xià you look at the military merits of the Han Dynasty and the princes and kings, they are an important force in the Han Empire to ensure that the imperial power and the court will not get out of control, so the important force will only take sixty years to decay, let it go on for less than thirty years will be useless, a complete and mature system will die out of itself, it is a huge loss to His Majesty and the court, The benefits and harms of this phenomenon are also common to the population. ”

Liu Che understood.

A large population is a good thing, the population growth rate is related to the life and death of the family and the country, too much population is a bad thing, there is not enough food for the people to eat and clothe, after a long time, the accumulation of resentment and resentment has changed from quantitative change to qualitative change, and an empire will collapse, the whole process is like a rapidly degenerate military meritorious class, the privileged life makes their appetite bigger and bigger, the Han Empire is a big stomach with a good appetite, and if you want to maintain long-term peace and stability, you must continue to eat to maintain, because people will never be satisfied.

"I am the supreme son of heaven, I am rich all over the world, I must be fundamentally responsible for the life of the people of the world, I want to lay a larger territory to solve the contradiction between food and population, this is what you want to explain, right?" The tone of near-affirmation was unmistakable, and Liu Che needed to confirm that his wisdom and understanding were intact and unmistakable.

Facing the questioning gaze of the Son of Heaven, Cao Shi bowed to the situation: "The conclusion reached by the minister after pondering and meditating for several years is that His Majesty will reproduce it completely in only half an hour, and His Majesty's wisdom is superb, and the minister is far from it!" ”

Innocuous sycophants can alleviate the blunt relationship, Liu Che's face was slightly gloomy and smiled: "I think your ideas are very peculiar, every time they are so unbelievable, and every time they can always convince me, sometimes I want to pry your head open and see how many wonderful ideas you have." ”

"By no means, the minister still wants to keep a useful body to make meritorious contributions to the Han family."

The two looked at each other and laughed, as if they had regained the tacit understanding between the monarch and the minister two years ago.

Liu Che was persuaded and allowed Cao Shi to elaborate his point of view, the conquest of South Vietnam was one of the alternative plans that had been prepared very early, Liu Che knew a lot about the layout of the plan, and he was more interested in the political purpose and role behind it.

The Son of Heaven is a Chu person, at least the royal family surnamed Liu has always cultivated their children as Chu people, Liu Che himself is proficient in Chu language, and his eating habits are roughly retained, but he himself is the northern emperor who lives in Guanzhong after all, and he has been to Ruoyang since he was born until now.

The emperor who was cultivated by the purely northern educational environment only had an understanding of the south limited to the knowledge in books, or the words of the teachers revealed that the emperor himself was very unfamiliar with the south, and he did not know the advantages and disadvantages of the customs and environment of South Vietnam, and he did not know whether the politics of South Vietnam were good or bad, and he did not know how much land in South Vietnam was waiting to be opened, and he was not familiar with it all by Cao Shi's introduction.

"The grain of the three crops of rice is not easy to carry, and the water and soil in the north cannot support rice planting, but the effect will be seen soon, and the large-scale promotion of the three crops of rice last year is just the beginning, and it is expected that next year will basically bear fruit, and the South Vietnamese people are still very rusty with farming technology, and they need to be cultivated a little bit to develop good planting habits."

"You sue me and say that South Vietnam has rice harvested in three seasons every year, and the annual yield is more than seven stones of grain per mu, are you sure you are not lying to me?"

"Jun Qian didn't dare to joke, this year's summer harvest has begun, and His Majesty can subscribe to the grain income for three months this spring, and the yield income is the actual grain production per mu after removing the cultivated area."

"Well, I am also very curious when I hear what you said, and I will read the tax report of South Vietnam for the first time."

When he walked out of the Xuanshu Hall of Weiyang Palace, Cao Shi was shocked to find that his clothes were soaked with sweat, Liu Che's suspicion and autonomy were unimaginable, and his personality changed so much that he almost didn't know him, Liu Che became more and more like a stubborn emperor in history, and he would become more powerful in the future.

The demeanor of the first emperor through the ages has been appreciated for a minute or two, and he is still worried when he walks out of the palace gate and steps into the carriage, and it is as simple as saying that the Son of Heaven will be moved in the future.

What worries him the most is that Wei Qihou Dou Ying and Wu'an Hou Tian Wei were promoted, and suddenly jumped to the throne of the three princes, Dou Ying served as the prime minister to replace the sick Bai Zhihou Xuchang, in order to arrange Wu'an Hou to reappoint the vacant Taiwei who had been vacant for more than ten years to Tian Wei.

The emergence of Wang Xin and Tian Sheng, the commander of the Great Nong, further changed the balance of power in the fried sugar, and the foreign relatives and ministers occupied most of the seats of the Three Princes and the Nine Secretaries, and the political status of the meritorious princes declined.

Cao Shi knows Liu Che's character too well, and it is undeniable that the shadow of the Queen Mother is faintly intervening in the high-ranking officials of the Tian Wang's family, but it would be too naïve to think that the emperor is subject to the Queen Mother, the young emperor defeated the Queen Mother Dou Yifang and monopolized the power, this moment is the best time in his life, the young emperor doesn't have to care about anyone's eyes at all, even if it is his mother, the Queen Mother.

The situation in the court is obscure, some people go to hold Dou Ying and Tian Wei, and some people go to burn the cold stove of the liehou, and Cao Shi's sudden return to Chang'an adds a variable.

Looking up at the sky, the dark clouds in the distance flashed a gap, and the light split the dark clouds to shine on the earth, and everyone was shocked by this beautiful scenery.

Cao Shi sighed: "It seems that the situation in Jingshi is not easier than that of Nanyue!" (To be continued!)

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