This is a small head of the household department, Xu Bin, although Li Siye's sudden appearance caught him off guard, but this surprised look quickly disappeared, and he turned around and calmly faced him.

Dai Wang also drilled out of the tunnel entrance, leaning against the wall board with Li Siye left and right, squatting on the ground with his left leg bent on his knees, ready to attack like a spring.

"If you both want to save the saint, if you want to take the great credit, then step on my Xu's corpse, or Xu will light the fire and thunder, and we will bury the saint together."

"Why do you want to bury a saint, isn't it good to live?"

Xu Bin laughed coldly: "Who is the honorable driver, why don't you dare to show your true face?"

Li Longji seemed to understand next to him, pointed at Li Siye and said, "This should be the Big Dipper."

"Hmph," Xu Bin raised his head and chanted a poem: "The lonely moon Canglang River Hanqing, the Beidou is scattered and Chang Gengming!" The auxiliary star Fu is Kaiyang, so Zuodou is successful, and the image of the prime minister is also. Seven political stars, its national prosperity, auxiliary Xingming, then the ministers are strong. What is your Excellency's ability to dare to speak out and be ashamed, claiming to be the Beidou and wanting to defend Ziwei?"

"That's your misunderstanding." Li Siye's voice was hoarse, and he deliberately stuck his throat to speak, sounding very uncomfortable: "Beidou is in the sky, so he comes to show people the way, if he doesn't have the function of guiding the way, he doesn't deserve to be called Beidou."

"Well said!" The Emperor hunched his shoulders and agreed.

Xu Bin squinted his eyes and asked, "Then who are you going to give directions?"

"Who else can Beidou give directions?, of course, for you, and thousands of people in the world. They overcame the thorns and thorns ahead of the difficult road, and looked up at the direction pointed by the handle of the Beidou spoon at night, so that they would not be confused, so that they would not stand still. ”

"Half right and half wrong!" Li Longji added: "Beidou Gongwei Ziwei, Ziwei is the guiding light, located in the North Pole, the most righteous in the world!"

"Wrong, big mistake!"

Xu Bin held the torch in his hand and said loudly: "Beidou shows the way to the people of the world, and also shows the way to Ziwei Xing!" It's a pity that the front of Ziwei Star is chaotic and confused, and he was mistaken by the Glowing Star, Xu is going to be the Beidou of the Universe today, drive away the confusion of Radium, and correct Crape Myrtle. “

"You're wrong again." Li Siye corrected him and said: "Ziwei lives in the middle of the North Pole and is guarded by the stars, what is the use of itself? It can only symbolically hang in the north, it is flashy, it can only flaunt the righteousness of the world! However, when the crape myrtle star is dim, is Beidou useless? Why do you only see this gorgeous star, but not all the living beings in the world?"

"Well said!" The emperor shook his white beard again and spoke.

"Beidou is Beidou, it hangs high in the sky, even if people on the ground don't look up at it, it's there, but as long as there are confused people who need it, it can guide them in the direction. It doesn't need to be dazzling, it doesn't need to bloom, even if it will be obscured by the dark clouds in the sky for a while, but after all, it will still be sunny, and when the sky is as clear as clear, it will still shine through the ages. ”

"That's ......," the emperor stared at the bean-sized fish bubble in his eyes, and said in annoyance: "You still want to shine through the ages, you are too arrogant, who are you?"

Li Siye squatted in the shadow, the white lining of his robe covering his face, and Li Longji couldn't see his face clearly, nor could he see his outline clearly.

Zhang Xiaojing came out of the tunnel and spat out, "Don't talk about any stars." Xu Bin, what are you going to do?"

"Zhang Xiaojing! What are you doing here, get out!"

"Xu Bin, who are you reproaching for! Put down the torch in your hand. ”

"No," Xu Bin gritted his teeth and shook his head: "I want to take the saint to the West Market Fanglou, and let him swear to sweep away the traitors in front of the world!" Give the government and the opposition a Qingming discipline!"

Li Longji shook his head helplessly, turned around and said, "You are a small head of the Bapin Household Department, you can't do such a big thing, why do you have to bear this responsibility for others, as long as you tell him, I can let you live."

Xu Bin's face twitched, anger, sorrow, despair and other emotions converged, and he shouted: "Xu has the world in mind and can be a talent for Zaifu, but you are here to talk about life and death!" Sage, can you see the peril of the Tang Dynasty? Can the treacherous Li Linfu see it! I Xu Bin saw it!"

These words sounded alarmist to Li Longji, and he squinted his eyes and stared at Xu Bin: "Under the prosperous era created by me, although there is a haze and hidden dirt, it is not enough to talk about danger!"

"Wrong! Big mistake!"

Xu Bin's eyes were out, his eyes were bloodshot, and he raised his head and said in a loud voice: "In the twenty-seventh year of the old calendar, there are 8.52 million households in the world, 48.12 million people in the year, 352.8 million hu of grain, and 7 hu of grain per capita."

"That's right!" Li Longji said generously: "The harvest at the age of twenty-seven years is the highest yield in the past, isn't this my merit of ruling the world with Kaiyuan!" Seven grains per capita! Look at it! Who can surpass it from ancient times to the present! Rich today! Longyou business road is endless! The road is not forgotten, the night is not closed, although the thousands of miles are not armed! The world's water and land post stations reach 1,643 stations, and the post road store is far west to Green Ridge, extreme south to Yanzhou, and extreme north to Pingzhou! There are six or seven wealthy businessmen in Chang'an City alone, and Wang Yuanbao, who sells glass! He Mingyuan, who opened the store! Dou Yi! Yang Chongyi! These people, I have watched them go from poor to rich under my feet! Am I not good for the people? Why are you all accusing me one by one! ”

Li Siye squatted not far away and sighed: "This is boasting." ”

"Sage, don't interrupt me!"

Xu Bin was heartbroken: "By the early years of the Yuan Tianbao, the population had reached 51 million and 560,000, but the output of grain had not increased!" On the contrary, it has decreased a little, and the saint may say that it is a matter of weather and rain! But Xu wants to tell the saint! The production of food simply cannot keep up with the increase in population! ”

"Did the sage think that the number of households today is really just over 8 million? The number of household registrations reported to the household department in all states and counties in the world is only 6,000, and there are countless people in the world who do not have household registration! This is not the most terrible, the world's grain is in the hands of the big households! The common people account for less than 30 percent! Juntian has existed in name only! Fleeing from their hometown! The land is barren, the fertile land is in the hands of large households, and the people occupy less than 30% of the world's land! Does the saint know? Li Linfu knows it or not! Even if he knew, he would be willing to speak out to the saints! The saint is not awake yet, far from the traitor and close to the virtuous minister, otherwise in less than twenty years, the world will be in chaos! ”

Li Siye listened attentively and thought deeply about this, and the paradox of food and population mentioned in Xu Bin's words coincided with the modern Malthusian population trap theory.

The emperor looked up at the beams above his head, and still with coldness in his eyes, asked, "Isn't the food of the world enough for the people of the world to eat?" My Datang is thousands of miles long, there are tens of millions of hectares of fertile land, and one more person can cultivate one more acre of land. Xu Gong, I ordered the people of the world to reclaim more wasteland, can it be solved? ”

"Incomprehensible!"

"Why is it incomprehensible?"

"There are more than a few ***** in the world! Zhong Mingding eaters don't know how many! Hereditary eaters don't know how many! According to the field, I don't know how many people are exempted! Did the sage think that the increase in household registration in the world was due to the fact that the poor people had more children and children? Big fallacy! It's these people who don't produce meat and have hundreds of sons and grandchildren! How can the poor people afford to give birth, and they can't afford to raise it! These toiling people who work hard in the fields are the ones who feed these kings and grandsons who are rich and noble! When the world is in turmoil, these poor people are the first to die! ”

Li Longji listened to Xu Bin's words, and was about to nod his head in approval, but suddenly thought of himself, wasn't he at the head of Zhong Mingding's eaters? I had to exhale in embarrassment, raise my nostrils and poke in place.

"Xu Bin asked the sage for the phase, not for himself, but to help the Tang Dynasty and save these poor people who are farming!"

Li Siye took advantage of the fact that Xu Bin and the emperor were raising the bar, approached Dai Wang and whispered: "Look at my eyes later, you and Zhang Xiaojing go to save the saint, and I will save this Xu Bin." ”

Dai Wang opened his red eyes and said, "I also want to save Xu Bin, his words have reached my heart!" ”