Under the persuasion of the internal historian, Liu Feizong was unwilling, but in order to save his life, he could only nod and accept the proposal of the internal historian.

In the dormitory of Weiyang Palace, Liu Fei, the son of heaven, sat opposite his younger brother Liu Heng, and there were bursts of chuckles from time to time during the conversation.

Regarding the eldest brother Liu Fei being 'slaughtered' by his mother Lu Pheasant, Liu Yingzi has no opinion.

Indeed, as Lu Pheasant said: Liu Fei's territory is really too big······

How much territory is there in the Han Dynasty today?

——Under the whole world, counting Bashu, Guanzhong, Guandong, and even the three Lingnan countries such as Nanyue, Minyue, and Donghai, there are only 54 counties!

And among these fifty-four counties, the Qi Kingdom of Qi King Liu Fei alone accounts for a full six counties!

You must know that back then, when Liu Bang, the former emperor after the joint destruction of Qin, was named the king of Han by Xiang Yu, the territory was only more than 40 cities in the three counties of Ba, Shu and Hanzhong!

Compared with this, today's six counties and seventy-three cities in Qidi are indeed a bit outrageous.

It is true that if you look at it from the perspective of area alone, there are many vassal states that can compete with the Qi State in the Han Dynasty today.

For example, it occupies the entire northeast corner of the Han Dynasty territory, and the area is enough to have two large Yan kingdoms of Qi;

Located in the north of the Han Dynasty, and the area is not smaller than that of the Qi State, the Dai and Zhao Kingdoms, and the Changsha Three Kingdoms in the south of the Han Dynasty;

and Wu and Chu, which are only one circle smaller than Qi, or Huainan, which is far more than twice the size of Qi.

But this is the crux of the matter.

——Huainan Kingdom, which has an area twice as large as Qi State, but there are more than 30 cities in the four counties of Jiujiang, Hengshan, Lujiang, and Yuzhang, and the population is only half of that of Qi State!

There is also a Yan country twice the size of the Qi country, although there are seven counties in Liaodong, Liaoxi, Youbeiping, Yuyang, Shanggu, Zhuo, and Bohai, but the population is less than one-third of the Qi country!

The three kingdoms of Dai, Zhao, and Changsha, which are close to the size of Qi State, are not to mention.

The country is bitter cold and the land is evil, and even the straw and hay tax only needs to pay two-thirds, and after excluding the border wall garrison, the population is less than one-tenth of the Qi country!

It is no exaggeration to say that in every ten living people in the territory of the Dai Kingdom, there will only be two peasant people and one traveling merchant; The other seven must all be soldiers.

Although the state of Zhao is slightly better, it is only because it does not directly border the grassland and is adjacent to the state of Qi; And the population of Zhao is less than half of that of Qi.

Changsha has been a 'wet miasma' since ancient times, and six out of ten officials who are transferred to Changsha will die in Changsha.

As for Wu and Chu, the area is not much smaller than that of Qi, but the population is less than half of that of Qi, especially Wu, whose population is even less than a quarter of Qi······

In this way, the reason for saying that Qi is 'too wide' is obvious.

- Liu Fei's Qi State is only one percent of the entire Kanto region, half of the entire Han Dynasty, but it has one-ninth of the county-level and county-level administrative units in the whole world, and more than one-sixth of the population of the Kanto region!

Today, there are nearly 2 million households and more than 10 million people in Kanto, and there are more than 300,000 households and nearly 2 million people in Qi alone!

With such a high population density, the land is still close to the sea, and the territory is full of hills, and the land that can be cultivated cannot support such a large number of people.

Therefore, in order to feed these more than 2 million mouths, Qi State needs to import a large amount of grain from Guanzhong.

So what do the people of Qi do for a living?

The answer is: commerce, transportation, as well as handicrafts and manufacturing.

The world-famous Qi and Qi Yan, as well as the Qi merchants who have footprints all over the world, have supported the GDP of the entire Qi country and fed the more than 2 million people in Qi without much effort.

Coupled with the superior geographical location of Qi, the merchants of Qi have sold their handicrafts to every corner of the world by virtue of the advantages of transportation arteries, so as to obtain huge benefits.

Liu Ying even heard that Liu Fei, the elder brother of the King of Qi, could receive all kinds of taxes worth nearly 3,000 gold every year just from the merchants who entered and left Linzi City!

- Three thousand gold!

You must know that today's Shaofu has gold reserves of only 7,000 gold!

Such a huge and endless wealth naturally made Liu Ying feel extremely red.

Regarding the strange state of Qi State, which almost completely abandoned agriculture and heavy business, Liu Ying, as a later generation, did not have much feeling.

——Some places are suitable for farming, and some places are where he built factories, and naturally, there are areas that rely on geographical location to survive through commerce and trade.

Qi is the Oriental Pearl of the Han Dynasty today.

But even so, it did not affect Liu Ying to put aside his face and dismember the Qi State, and part of the commercial and trade interests of the Qi State were collected by the central government.

As for the reason, it is so righteous that it is impossible to refute: only to be blessed, only to be powerful, only to be a jade food, and the minister has no blessing to be a powerful jade food.

- What do you want to do when you are a prince and king, but you have such a huge wealth in your hands?

This is just the truth that the husband is not guilty and harbors his guilt.

For the reborn Liu Ying, the possibility of 'Liu Fei, the king of Qi', rebelling is naturally equal to zero;

But for the central government of the Han Dynasty, it doesn't matter whether Liu Fei will oppose it or not, whether he wants to oppose it or not; The important thing is that Liu Fei, who now holds the Qi State, does have the strength to raise troops to rebel to a certain extent.

Therefore, in order to ensure that the center of the court maintains an all-round crushing of any vassal state in any aspect, Liu Fei, the king of Qi, has to endure the pain of cutting meat.

Liu Yingzi has a clear understanding of this;

In addition, it was the old lady Lu Pheasant who took the initiative to start, and Liu Yingzi was also happy to stand by and watch, so as not to be infamous as 'treating my brother harshly'.

As for this moment, Liu Heng, the acting king who was sitting in front of Liu Ying and answering from time to time, was in a situation where he fell out with Liu Fei, the king of Qi.

- Liu Fei's problem is that the country is too big, the population is too large, and he is too rich; And Liu Heng's country is too small and too poor.

In addition, the country of Dai is located on the northern border and directly borders the grassland, especially Liu Heng, who is the oldest prince and king among the three northern vassal states of Yan, Dai and Zhao, which makes Liu Heng a person that Liu Ying needs to pay attention to.

There is no way: today's Yan King Liu Chang is only three years old, and even if he becomes a country at the age of six, it will take at least three years;

As for Liu Jian, the king of Zhao, he was the youngest of the sons of the former emperor Liu Bang, and he had just learned to walk!

King Yan is still wearing open crotch pants, King Zhao has not been weaned yet, and last year, the Han family just sent a fake princess to the Huns and relatives, which made Liu Heng the only 'brother and brother' that Liu Ying could rely on.

In order to stabilize the northern defense line, and in order to create a positive image of 'brotherhood and brotherhood', Liu Ying needs to help Liu Heng and improve the situation of Daiguo as soon as possible.

Because letting Daiguo become strong as soon as possible can not only make the northern defense line more stable, but also allow Liu Ying to clear the suspicion of mistreating his brother Liu Fei and younger brother Liu Ruyi a little.

Thinking of this, Liu Ying didn't beat around the bush anymore, poured a sip of decanting soup, and went straight to the point.

"When Emperor Taizu was still alive, the acting king had already been in the country for more than half a year, and he should already know the situation of the country?"

Hearing Liu Ying's question, Liu Heng's otherwise plain face couldn't help but be a little calm, and he said very seriously before he solemnly surrendered his hand to Liu Ying.

"Your Majesty."

"Since the ministers are in the country and the Jin Kingdom, they dare not bear the trust of Emperor Taizu, and accompany the Marquis of Xiangyang Lingmu day and night, with the way of governing the country in the Ming Dynasty."

"Only the ministers are still young, and they respect the teachings of the generations, and there are still many unclear things about the affairs of the country······"

Hearing Liu Heng's words, Liu Ying waved her hand with a big grin, and her face was relaxed.

"You don't have to be so formal, just say it."

"—What is wrong with the present generation, or is it difficult to solve?"

"On behalf of the northern wall, what help do I need to stop the northern barbarian Huns outside the pass?"

Hearing this, Liu Heng's face was slightly stagnant, and he looked at Liu Ying hesitantly for a moment.

After confirming that Liu Ying's words did not mean to be tentative, Liu Heng raised his head cautiously.

"The affairs of the country are decided by the ministers and the country, and there are not many ministers who know about them."

"And His Majesty asked, the minister has heard the words of the prime minister and ······"

Without a trace, he put on the attitude of 'I have never taken care of things', and the hesitation between Liu Heng's eyebrows and Yu only eased slightly.

"Xiangguo once said: On behalf of the land, the land is evil, the water is scarce, and the people are suffering, relying on farming alone, the people cannot be satisfied;"

"In addition, there are very few households and agricultural products are very insufficient, so the tax on behalf of the land is not enough for the soldiers on the north wall."

"Since the ministers are in the country, the prime minister will persuade the widow to use all kinds of frugality in the palace, and must not be extravagant."

"However, even so, in the past few years, there are many people who have not eaten enough to eat the soldiers of the northern wall in all generations······"

After that, Liu Heng, the acting king who was only nine years old, quietly frowned, although he was still the body of a young man, but in his expression, he could not see the immaturity of a child at all.

"The year before last, Xiangguo once said that he had asked Emperor Taizu to move the eldest wife of the soldier on the north wall to be less than the land on behalf of the land, one is the people of the land, and the other is to slow down the life of the soldier on the north wall."

"However, at that time, Emperor Taizu was seriously ill and bedridden, and he died last year, so this matter was not mentioned for Xiangguo again······"

Hearing this, Liu Ying also retracted the relief on her face a little, and nodded angrily.

This is the problem that Daiguo is facing today.

——The geographical location directly bordering the steppe makes it necessary to ensure a garrison of more than 50,000 people on the northern border of the country all year round to ensure the stability of the border wall!

However, the country's severely insufficient population, as well as the lack of agricultural taxes due to the barrenness of the land, made it impossible for the country to support such a large border force.

Therefore, as early as four years ago, when Zhou Lu ordered Marquis Wu and Lu Ze to die in the north of the Dynasty, and Liu Xi, the acting king, was demoted to the Marquis of Heyang, the garrison force on the northern border of the Dai Kingdom was basically directly supported by the Chang'an court.

However, the supply of the armed forces of the vassal states by the central government has brought new problems to the central government.

- Tens of thousands of armed forces, all of which are in charge of logistics and supply by the court, no matter how you think about it, you think it's weird!

Sure enough, just one year after becoming the acting minister of the country and taking full control of the soldiers and horses of the country, the acting minister Chen Xuan rebelled and caused chaos to the generation and Zhao;

The tens of thousands of soldiers and horses that were used to guard the northern wall of the Dynasty and directly supported by the central government of Chang'an also became the backbone of Chen Feng's rebellion.

In this way, the issue of representing the country has become extremely tricky.

- If left unchecked, Daiguo can't afford to raise tens of thousands of horses at all, as long as the Huns go south, Daiguo will inevitably be galloped by Hu Qi!

However, if the central government makes a blood transfusion, these tens of thousands of soldiers and horses are very likely to become the forces of rebellion by those in charge, thus forming a strange situation of 'rushing into Chang'an on behalf of the national soldiers and pulling the emperor off the imperial bed'.

It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter if it is, the problem of representing the country has always made the Chang'an court, including Prime Minister Xiao He, and the former emperor Liu Bang very headache.

In the end, Chang'an Chaotang thought of a compromise.

-- The Chang'an Central Committee is neither completely indifferent nor fully responsible for the armed forces deployed on behalf of the country on the northern border; Instead, they were supplied with military rations on a monthly basis according to their respective halves of equal share.

In this way, the garrison deployed on the north wall of the country could get enough rations from the center to be half full;

As for Daiguo, it is already unable to support such an armed force, and if it goes to the sky, it will add another percent.

In this way, the soldiers of Daibei can eat sixty percent of their food, starve to death, and have no strength to go south to rebel.

In addition, King Zhao's 'command of the soldiers and horses of Yan, Dai, and Zhao' was used as a clamp, and the problem of Dai Guo was finally better solved.

But this time is different from the past, for today's Han family, as well as for the Han-Hungarian strategic pattern in the next few years, it is no longer feasible to continue to let the soldiers of the Daiguo only eat sixty percent full.

Last year, the Xiongnu issued a letter of state, which undoubtedly revealed the malice of the Xiongnu to the Han Dynasty's 'suspicion of the lord and the country';

Although the Han family temporarily exchanged peace for peace with a humble attitude, a fake princess, and thousands of stones and various materials, without a fight, it may be difficult for the Han and Hungarian sides to return to the relative peace of the time of the former emperor Liu Bang, which was unanimously acquiesced by both sides.

In other words: as early as the end of this year, or as late as the beginning of next year, there will be a war between Han and Hungary!

Although this battle is not a large-scale battle at the level of a decisive battle, it is also a vicious battle for the Xiongnu to test the Han family and the new monarch Liu Ying!

In order to cope with this war, and in order to make the border wall more stable in the future, and to be more confident in the face of the Huns, the situation of the country has reached the point where it must be completely resolved.

With the clan relative Liu Heng as the acting king and the 'Lu Party' Fu Kuan as the acting prime minister, the possibility of 'rebelling on behalf of the country' is minimized.

The next step is to strengthen the border defense force of the representative country, and from a long-term perspective, to strengthen the comprehensive strength of the representative country, and to immigrate to the real border.

Liu Ying should have discussed this matter directly with Fu Kuan, the acting prime minister, and the Queen Mother Lu Pheasant made the decision.

But in order to respect his younger brother and the nominal number one of the country, Liu Ying still decided to listen to the opinions of his younger brother Liu Heng.

Of course, Liu Heng's reaction was not at all unexpected by Liu Ying.

- These things, the younger brother can't sit on the master's seat, Your Majesty should go to discuss with Xiangguo, and by the way, please ask the Queen Mother.

After receiving a satisfactory answer, Liu Ying exchanged a few polite words with her younger brother Liu Heng before Liu Heng was sent out of the palace.

But after Liu Heng left, Liu Ying did not fall asleep immediately.

Because in the Xuanshu Palace, the Queen Mother Lu Pheasant was also discussing these things with Liu Heng's mother, Mrs. Bo.

According to the previous agreement, Liu Ying still needs to wait for her mother's call······

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Today's first watch, there is also the second watch, and the third watch to repay debts.

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