Port of Shanghai.

Liu Xian lightly said to Zhang Shouyan, who turned back: "Do you really think so? As long as you get past the current level, you'll be fine in the future?"

Zhang Shouyan was stunned when he heard this, and his brows gradually twisted. He knew that since Liu Xian asked like this, it was definitely for a reason, but he couldn't think of 'what the reason was' even after racking his brains.

The only thing Zhang Shouyan can be sure of is that Emperor Liu is not brutal. He is not a 'benevolent monarch' who can't see the people starving to death at all, but he is not worried about the people of the famine in the northland, and he can't eat and sleep. Just as Zhang Zhaodong said, mobilize rice and grain from the Jiangfang to provide relief to the victims of the disaster, so that the people can stutter, and the current hurdle can be passed. Even if some people starve to death during this period, it is not a big deal. When there was a famine in which dynasty, no one starved to death?

Zhang Shouyan is a very traditional Chinese intellectual, although he has been thinking differently under Liu Xian for more than ten years, but some things are deep-rooted. The only way to govern the world and prosper the people in his mind is to recuperate.

"The minister is stupid. I don't know why the emperor is worried? "What do you mean by 'thinking you'll be fine?' Zhang Shouyan couldn't guess Liu Xian's thoughts. In his mind, as long as the war in China stops, there will be a few years, and then it will be restored? !

Liu Xian's expression was gloomy, "I'm not worried about the famine right now. Millions of Qing troops have been swept away, are you afraid of the possible rebellion? Now* wars are fought by guns. What's so terrible about the civil uprising?

I'm worried about what will happen after the world is peaceful in the future!

Now there are 40,000 people in China, and there are already many people and few lands, and the poor people are everywhere. In the future, these people will multiply to 80,000,000, 100,000. Can my Great Qin still survive? How should my children be so troubled? ”

"No...... Not so much, right? Zhang Shouyan's face was also difficult to look at, and he stammered even more when he spoke.

"You've read the history books. Think about the heyday of the Han and Tang Dynasties, how many people were there in the world? And now? Liu Xian sneered. If it weren't for the spread of sweet potatoes and corn to China at the end of the Ming Dynasty, there would still be 40,000 people? Half of it is considered good. ”

"If there are more people and less land, there will be more people without property and no jobs. If there are many people without property and no jobs, the world will be chaotic. If there is not enough food to eat, what will the people do? Wait to starve to death, or will it rise up? And how many poor people were there in the world at that time? "These are the main forces that ruined a dynasty.

"100,000, 200,000, 1 million people, I really don't care. But what if it's 10 million, 10,000, or even more? ”

"Can I finish killing? Will the army be able to kill it? ”

Liu Xian lowered his voice. "And the world will be different from the present. Nowadays, the wisdom of the Chinese people has not been greatly opened, and there are not many people who look at the world with square eyes. But in the future, when the wisdom of the people will be greatly opened, everyone will be literate and hyphenated, and will know the facts of the whole country and the world, will there be the second and third Taiping Heavenly Kingdoms? ”

"Most of the soldiers are the children of civilians, or the children of poor families. They are of the same class as the people at the bottom of society, and the people who are hungry and hungry. When the time comes, will they be able to kill if they want to kill? It's that at the beginning, he will act according to orders, but what about after killing millions of people? Will it still be? ”

Zhang Shouyan was sweating. Although Liu Xian's words were still far away, he was trembling when he heard them.

"The emperor means ......" Zhang Shouyan looked at Liu Xian carefully. He felt that Liu Xian must have paid attention in his heart. But he didn't understand what method to use to solve this seemingly unsolvable problem, so he didn't quite understand what Liu Xian was thinking again. Now Liu Xian's mind is becoming more and more elusive. It's not that I'm moody, but that the thinking on some issues is unbelievable and different. made Zhang Shouyan feel that he couldn't keep up with Liu Xian's train of thought.

Liu Xian snorted. It seems to be exhaling the depression in his chest. "Since the Song and Ming dynasties, the basic territory of our Han people has not changed much, and it is almost the same as now. It is the eighteen provinces of Kannai. In 500 years, the population has increased from tens of millions to 40,000. The land has not increased much, can the people's livelihood in the world not be tired? What's more, there were still so many bannermen in the Manchu Dynasty. The more populous it is. The less land per capita, the more sought-after the land, the higher the rent, the more precious the land, and the more concentrated the natural land. How many of the people of the world have no place to stand? Can the court be able to maintain peace and stability for a long time? ”

"Uncle Fifteen, there is only one way out for us now, which is to follow the example of Western colonization!"

"Nanyang is our best place to keep ourselves, and then there is Central Asia, that is, Kazakhstan. Of course, we need to be strong first. So before that, we must first vigorously develop the northeast and northwest. And make full use of the grain of the South Seas. ”

Liu Xian stopped, looked at the vast sea, and said as if to himself: "The colonization of foreigners is too slow and too impractical. Their domestic population is not very overcrowded, and they are enclosing land all over the world and grabbing territory, more for profit.

Our Chinese colonization is better to expand the territory. What I want is the 'colonization' of the real colonized people. The relocation of the people and the transformation of the barbarians into Han land are the only way that the country can have long-term peace and stability.

All of this requires us to become strong first, and we also need to formulate a policy that benefits the people. Let the common people aspire to colonize. There are many clauses in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's "Heavenly Dynasty Tianmu System" that can be used as a reference. It all depends on where we can go in the future......"

Liu Xian spoke to Zhang Shouyan, his eyes looking at the sea. One ship after another has set sail, and the battle to attack Tianjin has officially begun. Shanghai sent 30,000 troops, Guangzhou 20,000, plus the navy and two battalions of marines, the total strength exceeded 60,000. Coupled with the 15,000 troops of the Fuzhou Xiangfa Department, in order to hoard enough of these sufficient military supplies, the Qin army was busy for three months.

……

Tokyo, the heart of the Restoration government.

It's a lot more prosperous than it was five years ago. The wounds of war have slowly faded in time, and the traces of war have been erased little by little in time.

The Japanese Army has completely enriched the Six Towns Army, expanded the size of the Imperial Guard, and renamed the Guards Army, with more than 6,000 people. The total strength is more than 80,000, equipped with quite a lot of artillery, and the weapons are not weaker than the European armies. What's more, the naval warships they ordered in Britain are also about to return home.

As an island country, without the protection of powerful warships, and with Liu Xian's original beating, the Japanese have not felt safe at all in the past five years.

Now that the little devil army is strong, there are warships, and the port batteries have also been built, although the Japanese government has collapsed its accounts, but the little devil's spirit can't help but rise.

Although the southwest was still a major problem for them, Saigo Takamori had raised at least 30,000 troops, and a considerable number of them were Japanese veterans. Saigo Takamori, who has the support of the new Qin government behind him, and the artillery strength of the brigade-level formation of the Southwest Army Division is not weaker than that of the Japanese government army. It's just that the number of troops is relatively small, so the strength is not abundant in comparison.

At the same time as Japan's strength was rapidly restored, it was a process of complete disenfranchisement of the samurai class. If it weren't for Liu Xian absorbing at least 20,000 Japanese samurai and throwing 5,000 of them into the fight between Lanfang and the local natives, the contradictions between the two sides would be even more acute now!

The lives of the lowest level of the Japanese people are still difficult, and food is always the biggest problem that plagues them. Misao happened from time to time, but in the face of the powerful force of the Japanese government, these riots were ruthlessly suppressed, just like the results of the original time and space history.

The status of the military in Japan has been constantly elevated. The power of the Japanese military began to expand, and its status was much higher than that of the original time and space, but it was still a seedling.

Just when the Qin army swept through China, while Liu Xian was still working hard to unify the country, the hungry wolf in the east was growing rapidly. It's just that there is a time bomb in the stomach of the hungry wolf, and the British, French, and Russians have all tried to resolve this contradiction, but Saigo Takamori is very stubborn, after going through the original war, after seeing the fate of the French, he doesn't think that these tens of thousands of Japanese troops will be the opponent of that behemoth!

Therefore, the future of Japan is still full of twists and uncertainties.

……

North Korea, which is also a strip of water with Japan, has the current king of Korea who is the 26th monarch of the Joseon Dynasty, Yi Hee. The power of the dynasty is in the hands of the harem, and this guy is definitely not a talent, not even a mediocre talent.

Li Xi has a cowardly personality and soft ears. Because of his father's Dayuanjun's storage zài [Li Xi's situation is the same as that of Guangxu and Fu Yi. After the former king was broken, he was a close branch of the clan. Therefore, the succession was originally the regent of his father's Dayuanjun], and his own throne and rights were not too stable, although the current North Korea had a glimpse of the outside world due to the arrival of envoys from Britain, France, Russia and other countries, but fundamentally speaking, it was still a state of seclusion.

However, no matter how closed Korea is, it will also be aware of the changes in the Qing Dynasty. Liu Xian was proclaimed emperor in Nanjing, and North Korea did not receive any news, and the entire Korean government and opposition were terrified.

Therefore, the Joseon court immediately made up its mind and sent an envoy to Nanjing for an audience. The Koreans, who were themselves dissatisfied with the Manchus, immediately decided to abandon the Manchus. Some so-called pro-Qing figures in the Korean dynasty, such as Cho Naung-naung, Min Tae-ho, Kim Yun-sik, Kim Hongji, and others, also immediately became pro-Qin.

The Qin army was dominated by Han Chinese, which was seen as China's orthodoxy in North Korea, and even if some people initially held the view that Liu Xian was rebellious, they all changed their minds as the situation progressed to the present.

Politicians are very good at changing.

But as of the time the Qin army set sail, the Korean envoys had not yet been sent to Shanghai, just because of one reason - the competition for the position of the chief and deputy envoys was too fierce, not only the Min Concubine group and the courtyard monarch were fighting, but also the internal competition between the two!

This battle has been fought until the Qin army attacked! (To be continued......) R1292