"In the beginning, Huaxia was only the land of Kyushu, and now, how many counties are there in the world? And how many people are there? Uncle Gao Shilian sighed and said in a deep voice. Kyushu, but the land of several counties in the Central Plains, Qin, divided the world into 36 counties, and later increased to 64 counties, and in the first two years of Emperor Ping of the Western Han Dynasty, there were one hundred and three counties, and 1,587 county-level political districts such as counties, Houguo, Yi, and Dao. Compared with the Qin period, it has increased several times. At the time of the previous dynasty, there were a total of 190 counties, and the territory was wider than that of the two Han Dynasty, and even better than that of the Qin ......."

"As the old saying goes, under the sky, it is not the king's land; On the shore of the land, it is not the king's minister. This is the truth that our Chinese nation has practiced since ancient times. However, the vastness of the world is not something that a generation can do, so after a thousand years, my Chinese sages have worked hard to expand the territory of China, educate the people, so that the people of the world can get the blessings of the Chinese sages...... Therefore, although the Han land is even worse than the Qin, the world is subdued, and the foreign races regard it as the Han people. By the time of the previous dynasty, the territory was even greater, but who did not think that the people within the territory of the former dynasty were proud of their status? Even those aliens are willing to serve my life in Huaxia......"

Uncle's words were spoken very slowly, and every sentence seemed to have to be pondered for a long time, but it made the expressions of everyone in the hall more and more solemn, ashamed, abrupt, and excited.

“…… The old man has read the books of the sages for a long time, but he also knows the truth that things are easy to change over time. After taking a sip of the teacup, my uncle didn't look at everyone present. In ancient times, could there be cotton cloth wrapped in cold to protect against the cold? Can there be a straight path to smooth the bloodline of the empire? In order for the people not to suffer from disasters, the soldiers of the empire did not even care about their own lives, but also wanted to save the lives of the people. These are all changes, but they have all brought great benefits to me. Although the old man is far away in the barbaric land, he can also see clearly. ”

"Could it be that you are not as good as me, an old man with dizzy eyes?" Speaking of this, the uncle sighed deeply, lowered his eyebrows and closed his eyes and said no more.

Kong Yingda took a deep breath, stood up, straightened the sleeves of his shirt, supported the crown on his head, and then saluted his uncle respectfully. "Poems, Zhou Nan, Guan Ju Preface" has a saying: beautify and educate, change customs; "The Book of Rites: Commentary on the Scriptures" says: Therefore, the education of rites is also small, and its evil is not formed...... The meaning of teaching words is to teach them not to know, and to be sympathetic to their shortcomings, and to do what is done and what is effective. Let the people know the old things, and be good and save the lost. It can make the people know the four seasons of cold and summer, make the scholars know the history of the literature, make the merchants know the silk and the wealth and transfer, and make the workers know the buildings and stand the columns...... The work of all teachings. ”

And the words, from the two, like the shape of the two people upside down, one positive and one negative, to show the change. Dagger, change also. Xu Hao said: 'Dagger ancient and modern characters. to know the way of change. In "Yi Ji Ci Biography", Yu Note: In the yang is called change, in the yin is called change, and the four seasons change; Xun note: Spring and summer are changes, autumn and winter are transformations, and Kun is turned into things. There is a note in "Xunzi Zhengming": The name of the transformer changes the old form. "Lü's Spring and Autumn Period: Cha Jin" is also cloudy, and it has changed with time. ”

"The one who transforms can be realized, the mind can be transformed, and the mind can be cured...... In other words, it refers to change, which can change its mind, and can change the strategy of governance...... The combination of the two words is called edification, and we scholars should be rational in reading, but most of them are confined to books that only understand reason and do not know the reason. Therefore, the world has changed, and among them, there are the faults of the scholars who cannot turn the people. ”

"Since the time of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, it is the responsibility of the wise to educate the people, and it is the words of my Confucian sages" Kong Yingda's literary talent is indeed quite good, and he has read a lot of books, so he can be so knowledgeable.

And his words can even pick out these scholars who love classical Chinese. He was also talking about edification, using the ancient sages and kingdoms, and then connecting with the current Chinese empire and subjects, and gave a very admirable speech.

The old man's thinking is not much different from mine, but he is able to extract from the words of the ancient sages what is suitable for the present and present situation, and express his opinions and opinions.

At this point, I, who only like to be practical, is really far from being an opponent. I admire this old man, he is a great Confucian in the world, all the scholars in the world regard him as a teacher, and he is willing to be a great Confucian.

Thinking about the matter of the Royal Academy back then, because of his words, thousands of students came from all over the world to apply for the academy, in order to be this Hongru whose reputation and style are well known in the world.

And now, he is on my side, using his wisdom and knowledge to persuade these civil and military ministers that what he obeys and what he abides by is not the interests of the written world, but the interests of the world, and the righteousness of the nation.

“…… Your Majesty, the minister has a doubt, please solve it. After saying that, seeing the thoughtful looks of those civil and military ministers, Kong Yingda turned around and bowed to me solemnly.

"Although Qing said, if I can solve it, I should understand it for Qing." I nodded.

"Your Majesty, the confusion of the ministers is, how can Your Majesty make the people leave their homes and cross the ocean? I don't know, is it to lure it with profit, or to suppress it with power? Kong Yingda asked with a calm look on my face.

Outside the transparent and clear glass window, the spring rain is becoming more and more beautiful, warm and cold, annoying, but full of poetry and lingering. I looked at the rain outside, the spring rain that shrouded the world in a haze, and I was silent for a long time.

The eyes of all the ministers fell on my face, as if they wanted to see a hint of something strange in their expressions, or to see my thoughts.

I looked at it for a long time, until the corners of my eyes became astringent and my eyes were sour, I blinked, withdrew my gaze, and looked at the clear and transparent tea cup in front of me. "Two choices, the first is to lure the people away from the people they have not left for thousands of years, to travel thousands of miles across the ocean, to a wild land where there is nothing, everything needs their hands to create. The other is such as Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, or the policies of countless previous dynasties, who ordered people to move to it by decree. ”

"The previous strategy takes a long time, and it will not be achieved in thirty or fifty years. And the latter policy, with the power of our court, should be achieved overnight, but this policy will not only make the people and the court separate, but also make my Huaxia inappropriate with what the previous dynasty did......"

The second strategy has been used by many dynasties, such as when Qin Shi Huang built the capital Xianyang, it also became a large number of people into the capital. In the Han Dynasty, in the second year of Yuan Shuo, an edict of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the world-famous hero Guo Xie was forced to die in the world, and the final destination of his escape was Taiyuan, an important town in the north. In order to enrich the Jingshi, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty ordered the wealthy families with more than 3 million state-owned assets in each county to move to Maoling.

In the former Sui Dynasty, when Yang Guang moved the capital to Luoyang, he also drove the wealthy merchants and magnates in Guanzhong to make Luoyang prosperous.

These are all based on orders and the will of the court, and if you want to disobey them, I am afraid that there are few people in the world who have such courage. However, such a will, such a will, will cause dissatisfaction among many people.

And I, Huaxia, naturally can't be like those old feudal forces and stifle the will of the people, so although this trick is very effective, it can't be done.

And if it is the first policy, if you want to let a farmer who has obtained a good job in his hometown by guarding a few acres of thin fields in his hometown leave his hometown and drag his family to thousands of miles away to survive, how much courage does it take for these people to pay? Therefore, it is necessary to persuade and influence, and even mobilize, for a long time, relying on public opinion and word of mouth to attract these people, but such a method is both manpower and material resources, and it is not a lie that it can be achieved in 30 or 50 years.

"So, I'll only use the former strategy." Looking at these eyes with anticipation, or rather longing for answers, I solemnly and slowly gave my answer. "No matter how much time I give, I will not force people to do that uprooting."

"Your Majesty can think like this, it is a blessing for me to live forever in China." Wei Zheng got up and fell to the ground first. Afterwards, more than 20 people in the hall fell to the ground.

"Greetings, please get up, I am doing this, not only for the present, but also for the future." I got up and raised my hand to the many civil and military ministers, and after watching them get up, I continued. "If I do it right, then set it to be customized, and the emperors and courts of future generations should follow it."

"If the world changes and needs to be reformed, it must be approved by the National Assembly before the Cabinet can implement it." I glanced at the important ministers in the hall and said solemnly.

"Your Majesty rest assured, the ministers will definitely record their words in the annals of the classics, so that future generations will be alert, and they must not make the mistakes of their predecessors again." All the ministers obeyed it.

The first policy was easier said than done, but the result of the final deliberation was that it was best to inform the soldiers of the Chinese Empire who remained in south-central Cochin and Luzon that if they were willing to stay there and move their families with them, then each household would receive ten hectares of land, and for five years they would not be taxed, and the state would provide them with houses, farm tools, and daily necessities free of charge.

In addition, the grain they grow, or sugar cane, will be levied by the state at the market price. In addition, after five years, only half of the tax is paid. And if the merchants do business in these places, then, for the first five years, the tax is halved. In the past five years, the tax has only been eighty percent of that of the Central Plains.

Don't look at the reduction of just two percent, if you do a big business, I am afraid that it will be able to save more than 100,000 yuan in tax expenditure.

These strategies, these means, and these ideas were all discussed and formed in everyone's meetings again and again, and were gradually sued and recorded in writing, and this was only the beginning, or rather, this was only the first step for the Chinese Empire to go out of the territory of China, and the first step to take the prototype of the colonial empire.

Moreover, it will lay a solid and good foundation for the expansion of the Chinese Empire in the future.

"Your Majesty...... Do you really want to let Your Highness go down? Wei Zheng's eyebrows were tightly pressed together, and he looked at me in surprise. Even Kong Yingda was stunned.