There is no reason why you can't drink it?

Nan Jiyun put down the wine cup in front of him, lifted the wine jar directly, looked up to the sky and drank like a whale, and the hiccup after drinking was like thunder.

"True strong man" everyone praised each other.

Ye Chang nodded: "It is indeed a strong man, but Nanba is second in terms of alcohol, and his divine shooting method is a must--a certain person who has always known the way, and among the princes, there are quite a few people who are interested in the frontier." A strong man like Nanba, who is in the Eastern Capital, is a doorkeeper and a housekeeper, which is really overkill. When the princes go to Xinjiang one day, they should be recommended in front of the army, so that their skills will not be buried. ”

When he said this, a few of the poets were thoughtful, and Nan Jiyun turned his head to look at him, his eyes were very strange.

Nan Jiyun is now over thirty years old, but he is still just a small archer, if he hadn't met Ye Chang, he wouldn't have the position of gang leader. He is conceited of his skills, but he is still stumbling in his first year, how can he not be depressed in his heart?

Ye Chang introduced him to these people - although these people were unwilling, but Nan Jiyun asked Dong Jiqiu outside, and knew that these are today's celebrities, as long as one of them can go to the frontier, then he Nan Jiyun will have the opportunity to show his skills

"Why...... Will it be so? ”

Thinking that he had always been cold to Ye Chang, Nan Jiyun felt ashamed: Ye Chang was indeed not the kind of ungrateful character in the legend.

He bowed his hand to Ye Chang, then saluted everyone again, silently retreated, and retreated behind Ye Chang.

"Speaking of the frontier, now there are strong generals on all sides, and there is no smoke, only on the dog Rong side, the emperor is only facing off with the dog Rong, I am afraid that there will be a big war in the coming year.

Ye Chang raised his head and said with a high degree of comfort. Cen Shen, Wang Changling, and Wang Wei have all been interested in side affairs, and the same is true for Li Ji, and in any era, on the men's wine table, beauty and military affairs are eternal topics.

"Since the princess of Jincheng, the dog Rong has been ready to move......"

"Huangfu Weiming is a good general in the world, and the dog Rong Zanpu barbarian is not the opponent of Huangfu Weiming"

Everyone talked about it, some of them were right, and some of them were whitewashed and peaceful, for example, Ye Chang knew that the road was wrong - the border conflict can be said to have never been broken, whether it is with the dog Rong (that is, Tibet) in the mouth of the people, or Xi and Khitan in the northeast.

"I heard that today intends to make Fan Yang Jie Du make Pei Kuan enter the court, and he is choosing someone to replace him, and I don't know who can replace him, and now Li Gongshizhi and Pei Gongkuan have entered the court from Fan Yang one after another, if they choose someone improperly, they will have troubles." After talking about the western frontier for a while, Li Ji turned the topic to the northeast.

Speaking of this, Zhang Xu frowned, and he lowered his voice: "The two departments of Northeast Xi and Khitan have always been princesses, and now the two departments have set up new masters, and there are people in the court who are pushing for the princess and relatives again." ”

"If you can get along, maybe the Northeast can be peaceful for a while......"

"It's impossible," Ye Chang said suddenly.

Previously, when everyone discussed border matters, Ye Chang listened with a smile, looking young and humble, but at this time he opened his mouth to speak, but it was categorical, making everyone realize how resolute his opposition was.

"Ye Shiyilang, why do you say this?"

Ye Chang pondered for a while, and then said: "The princess and her relatives in the Han Dynasty don't know how many, but the one who can retreat from the Huns is the princess, and Wei Qinghuo is sick?" ”

After saying this, everyone shook their heads in unison.

"Eleven Lang is only in the internal affairs of poetry, and I am afraid that I am not familiar with this military matter. If there is no policy of harmony, the Xiongnu will be overwhelmed by the Han every year, how can there be a strong national strength when the Han Dynasty is martial? If there is no strong national strength to support it, how can Wei and Huo Zhizhi display their strengths? Chu Guangxi sat next to Ye Chang, and the two of them had a lot of conversations, so they were already familiar with each other, and he also said directly: "Besides, how can the battlefield battle be as peaceful as the world?" Han Wu attacked the Xiongnu in the north, causing the national strength to be empty, and millions of soldiers shed blood, but in exchange for some Dawan horses and peach, what is the benefit to the country and the people? ”

When Chu Guangxi spoke, the room was quiet, Ye Chang had not yet responded, and Li Ji struck the bowl with a chopstick, and sang generously and sadly: "Climb the mountain to look at the beacon fire during the day, and drink the horse and cross the river at dusk." Pedestrians fight in the wind and sand, and the princess has a lot of grievances. There are no cities in the wild clouds, and the rain and snow are even in the desert. Hu Yan wailed and flew at night, and Hu Er's tears fell. Hearing that the jade gate is still covered, he should chase his life away. Every year, the bones of the war are buried in the wilderness, and the empty peach enters the Han family. ”

When this poem was sung, everyone was stunned, even Ye Chang, and he didn't expect that this famous story through the ages would be so wanton in his own presence.

"Wonderful, wonderful"

Everyone applauded, and Li Junlan over there was already thinking carefully, and after a while, she pulled a few musicians to whisper. After everyone drank and congratulated each other, she smiled and said: "When the slave heard this, his heart was really itching, and he was willing to sing it to help the wine." ”

After saying that, the musicians' silk and bamboo string music changed, like the sadness of the corners of the side plug and the frost of the desert, and then Li Junlan lightly opened her lips and sang with a smile.

After a song, she came to Li Ji and saluted and toasted, Li Ji drank the wine cup in one go, and everyone praised it in unison.

"Chu Gonggao's theory, although it is a heart of compassion for the people, it is a pity that what he sees is not far away." Everyone thought that after Li Ji's poem, Ye Chang must be speechless, but they never thought that Ye Chang raised his glass and got up, and said to everyone: "You only saw that Emperor Wu's Northern Expedition wasted national strength, but when you didn't see Wenjing, the Xiongnu went south, making the borders unbearable?" Have you ever pondered why the barbarians repeatedly invaded the Central Plains? ”

This question, everyone did not think about it, barbarian invasion is a common thing in history, perhaps it is precisely because it is a common thing, so everyone does not think about its deep-seated reasons.

"The border barbarians, those who have not been educated by China, are no different from beasts o barbarians are lazy, and I am diligent in China, and the barbarians are stupid and stubborn, and I am wise in China, and the barbarians govern the country with remnants, and I am the people of China with benevolence. In this way, the barbarians benefit the poor, and China becomes richer and richer. Therefore, the barbarians have repeatedly entered the prison, what do they do, see the intention of making money, all the public know the side affairs, and they should know that a certain word is true. ”

Everyone nodded again and again, and everyone agreed on the nature of the surrounding barbarians and plundering.

"The princess and the relatives, just a woman and a woman, far away in a foreign land, can they be turned into summer? Since you can't, sending the princess to the beast is no different from giving people to the tiger's mouth? Besides, the princess marries far away, and there are few craftsmen and servants to accompany her, and there are few silk, gold and silver to marry, and the craftsmen and servants will pass on the art of making Chinese utensils to other countries, and the silk and gold and silver are the ointment of the people of China to fund the enemy."

"It doesn't end there...... someone exclaimed.

"Isn't that it? Don't mention it from afar, just talk about this dynasty, Princess Wencheng entered Tibet, and there were countless craftsmen with books. Originally, the dog was not able to suffer from ringworm and scabies, but since then, Tibet has become stronger, and the arrogance has become more intense, and there is almost no peace in the west. ”

This is a direct accusation that Taizong Li Shimin sent Princess Wencheng into Tibet is a bad move, everyone looked at each other, although they also disagreed with the relatives, but directly criticized Emperor Taizong, the people here really do not have this kind of courage.

"In the opinion of Eleven Lang, if you don't get along, how should you guard the border?" Someone else asked.

"Guarding the edge? Why should we keep? Ye Chang said: "A certain person once said to others, seeking peace with peace, then peace does not exist, and protecting peace with war will make peace eternal."

"Otherwise, otherwise, Eleven Lang's words are wrong, stop fighting, and the belligerent will die." Zhang Xu is older, although he has a temperament, he can hear Ye Chang's words, and he also feels that something is wrong, so he retorted immediately.

What Zhang Gong said was very true, but he thought that it was okay to say it in reverse. Martial arts, forgetting the war will be dangerous"

The two of them were-for-tat, but they did not hurt the peace, and whether they stopped fighting for martial arts or martial arts, they were all the usual word-splitting tricks used by literati.

And so they all laughed.

"It's enough to defend the border with force, but what you mean by Ye Shiyi is to attack." Chu Guangxi Road.

"Naturally, it is an offense, and offense is the best defense. Every autumn when the horses are fattened, the grass in the barbarian pastures is dry, and they have nothing to do, so they want to enter the Central Plains to plunder. Every year, the Qin and Yan countries have built the Great Wall. Although the Great Wall is solid, there will eventually be something that cannot be prevented, so why not take the initiative to attack? The art of war is cloudy, and the first strike is preemptive. As the saying goes, only a thousand days are thieves, and there are no thieves who have a thousand days."

Everyone knows a little bit about military affairs, and of course understands the importance of gaining the strategic initiative, so on this point, everyone nods in approval. It's just that Li Ji thought about it, got up and said: "Even so, it is inevitable that the army will be reckless, like Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and the people will be affected." ”

"Li Gong's poem is very good, 'Every year the bones of the war are buried in the wilderness, and the empty peach enters the Han family. However, those who entered the Han family were only pity that the ministers of Emperor Wu were shallow and did not know its use. Brewing wine with peach can exempt the folk from making wine with rations. Alfalfa is the best forage grass, which can make up for the lack of horse farms in the Central Plains, and planting alfalfa in raw land can increase land fertility. Dawan horse, the world's famous horse, if you take it as a species, improve my Central Plains war horse, why worry about horsepower is not as good as the lynx? It is not enough for Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to use troops in foreign lands for his own selfish desires, but what if he uses swords for the benefit of the people of the world? ”

"For the benefit of the people of the world?"

"It is for the benefit of the people of the world, since Zhang Qian chiseled the empty area, plugged in the business travel endlessly, if you can choose the key place, to the future Hu businessmen to tax, every extra point of commercial tax, you can be less to the people of the Central Plains to levy a penny. The people are not poor and the treasury is sufficient, and this great good government also measures the world's wealth and supports the people of China, is not it a great good

Ye Chang talked eloquently, and everyone listened to him comment on the actions of the ancients, although it was not a very deep truth, but the angle of looking at the problem was quite unique, and for a while, no one had to refute him.

Wang Wei originally wanted to speak, but when he thought that his relationship with Ye Chang had just eased, he closed his mouth tightly. Qi Wu saw that no one should deal with it, so he got up and said: "Although Shiyi Lang's words are reasonable, but the major affairs of the country must not be cautious, and it is not the blessing of the people of the country to use swords and soldiers in vain." ”

"What Qi Gong said is that war or peace is the blessing of the people of the country, not the personal preference of the king." Ye Chang pursed his lips, and finally decided to say what he thought in his heart: "There is one thing, a certain worry. ”

"What?"

"A certain person read history books, observed the rise and fall of the past dynasties, and gained a little. Taking the Han Dynasty as an example, at the beginning of the Han Dynasty, the population of the world was only 15 million, due to the decline of the war at the end of the Qin Dynasty. However, by the time of Emperor Wu, it had increased to 30 million, and by the time of Emperor Xuan and Emperor Yuan, the population had reached 50 or 60 million. Population breeding was originally a prosperous scene, but it planted the cause of troubled times"

Everyone was moved: "This danger is sensational"

"Please think about it, when the two emperors of Xuan and Yuan were three times as large as in the early Han Dynasty, and the arable land, mountains and forests, and rivers were three times that in the early Han Dynasty? This is more than the early Han Dynasty of 30 or 40 million people, exhausted of the land, no food and clothing, and even confused by traitors, the Western Han Dynasty has green forests, red eyebrows rebellion, and to the Eastern Han Dynasty, and so on, until there is the scourge of the Yellow Turban" Speaking of this, Ye Chang raised his voice and said: "At the beginning of the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the population was 15 million, which was similar to the beginning of the Han Dynasty, Taizong Zhenguan 23 years, 19 million, the first year of Zhongzong Shenlong, the population of more than 37 million, and now in the first year of Tianbao, the number is 45 million - everyone knows, this number, not counting slaves and maids, if you add the number of 30 million slaves and maids, more than 70 million mouths"

Just now, everyone still felt that Ye Chang was alarmist, but this series of figures came out, although they didn't know where Ye Chang knew about it, they couldn't help but feel cold in their hearts.

"The land is limited, and the supply of more than 70 million people is now almost exhausted. The saint toured Luoyang from Chang'an, not for luxury, but because the land in Guanzhong had been exhausted, it was not enough to support the millions of people in Chang'an. Now it can be maintained, but the population can grow, and when there are 10,000,000, how should the country be? When there are 20,000,000, what should the country do? ”

"Horn"

Ye Chang said this, drank all the wine in the cup, and then sat down. All the poets in the audience were stunned, and some people couldn't hold the chopsticks in their hands and let them fall to the ground.

Population is the wealth of the imperial court, but Ye Chang revealed another terrifying fact, that is, when this wealth swells to a certain amount, it will become a burden on the imperial court.

All of you here are smart people, and those who are familiar with history books have also drawn conclusions from Ye Chang's hints: War, only a war that changes the dynasty, can eliminate the excess population.

The thought of that result made everyone shudder.

After a while, Zhang Xu reluctantly smiled and said: "It was just a side matter, how did Ye Shiyi get involved in this matter of population growth and the rise and fall of the former Han Dynasty...... Drink, drink

Everyone raised their glasses as if they could, but everyone found it difficult to swallow.

Wang Changling couldn't bear it, put down the cup and asked: "Eleven Lang will not let go of the arrow, from the frontier matter, to the population - could it be that Eleven Lang wants to limit the population with war?" ”

"No, using war to exterminate one's own population is a strategy of external cruelty and internal cruelty, and it is absolutely impossible to do so." When Ye Chang said this, he shook his head: "Although a certain person is not talented, he will not come up with such a desperate plan." That's it, that's it, don't sweep your interest, or go back to the side - there is also a poem, I would like you to comment on it. ”

When the poet talked about the most difficult thing, he naturally had to go around to the poem, but what Ye Chang said was too amazing, and there were inevitably few people who responded.

Ye Chang already had a bamboo in his chest, looked at everyone, and said slowly: "This poem is a dream ...... seen."

Everyone was dumbfounded.