The imperial court has to support the elderly over 50 years old every month, who does not have more than three children in this age group?

That is, in the past 20 years, natural and man-made disasters have continued, which has caused the people to be reluctant to produce.

Some just give birth to one, and some don't even give birth to one.

In this case, where can the state afford to support so many old people.

What's more, production requires money, and it is already beyond its means, and it has embezzled part of the funds for ordering black blades from other countries, which is a bit empty.

Li Xingchen was stunned, this is indeed a problem.

When he was the lord of the city, he earned a lot of money from doing business, and it was more than enough to maintain the army.

But as emperor, the industry is still the same as before, but the expenses have increased greatly.

In addition to raising the army, there are also earthquakes when there are problems in various places, in short, they need money here and there, and they can't make ends meet.

Urging children, supporting the elderly, and buying social security cannot be properly implemented, all of which are caused by lack of money.

"Remember the car I invented?" Li Xingchen asked coldly, "I didn't have a chance to use it last time I went to Northeast City." ”

The Prime Minister was amazed, "Your Majesty, do you mean that you want to start a war and test the power of the artillery carriage?" ”

"Your Majesty, you must not go to war, and you will waste money and labor."

Several Shangshu also spoke.

"Your Majesty, by all means, it is not a last resort that you cannot start a war, not to mention that now that there are friendly exchanges between countries, unilaterally starting a war will fall into the hands of others."

"If you don't start a war, then what? As it is now, you can't let the people buy insurance, and you can't give birth, what's the use of you? What can you do without starting a war? ”

The Prime Minister's face darkened.

It's still very unhappy to be said that.

"Great Wei has artillery carts, Luban crossbows, and other weapons that are ahead of other countries, and if they want to start a war, they will win.

As long as I win, I will claim money from the defeated country on the grounds of loss of people and money, and loss of soldiers. ”

Nowadays, most countries still use copper coins, but gold and silver are used for large transactions.

As a traverser, Li Xingchen knows too well how valuable gold is, and it is very rare.

So he intends to promote the circulation of gold and silver in the future.

At first, countries certainly didn't think much of it, but when gold and silver became the international currency, they realized the importance later.

It is important to know that gold has two-way attributes, monetary attributes and commodity attributes.

It is a very good thing to be able to trade money and goods, and to be able to make gold and silver jewelry.

Li Xingchen planned to wage war to obtain the ownership of various gold and silver in other countries, and even gold mines.

"What Your Majesty said is that although the weapons are ahead of other countries, it is true that they are not afraid of war, but the damage caused by war is also immeasurable.

What if you win? The people will be more or less implicated, and the current situation of the Great Wei is not good, and the minister still feels that the population should be developed first, and after the new forces rise, they can do whatever they want. ”

Regarding the Prime Minister's words, the three provinces and six ministries agreed.

No matter which country the Great Wei is targeting, there is no doubt that it will surely win.

But even if it wins, it will have a great negative impact on Dawei.

Li Xingchen sneered.

"How much time have I given you to implement the development of the population?

Did you get it done?

Without money, who wants to listen to you?

Do you provide for the children that are born?

You don't raise it, but you still let the family give birth? Do you think for yourselves that there is such a reason?

If you start a war, you can get money quickly, and the benefits of using it on the people generally outweigh the disadvantages.

It can also achieve stimulation through war and drive the economic development of the Great Wei.

If you think about it, do all the benefits add up to more than the disadvantages? ”

Li Xingchen disagreed, the war would indeed lose some people and make some people displaced.

But throughout history, war has been inevitable and indelible.

If you don't fight someone else today, next time someone else will unite to fight you, just like the combined armies of Persia and other projectile combinations.

In this case, it is better to fight and fear others for the purpose, as long as you don't kill them, you can fight as many cripples as you want.

After that, he collected the money of the defeated country and cut the land of the defeated country.

After allowing the defeated country to recuperate for a period of time, it is repeating the mistakes of the past and constantly oppressing.

On the surface, the defeated state was an independent state, but in fact it was a vassal state of the Great Wei.

For a long time, the Great Wei will become more and more prosperous, and other countries will become weaker and weaker.

It cannot be denied that what Li Xingchen said is right, even the three provinces and six ministries that do not want to start a war cannot refute what he said.

Unless you can directly solve these problems such as social security, population, etc., you can only listen to Li Xingchen, after all, Li Xingchen's starting point is good, everything is for the sake of Dawei.

Sometimes, as an emperor, the so-called benevolence must stand aside first, and everything is based on the country.

"I decided to reform the army first, the farming institute is already under construction, and I have also sent people to convene and make a unified plan.

Therefore, the government soldier system is no longer applicable, let them perform their duties, and they will be soldiers when they become soldiers, and they do not need to go to the farm.

All this was left to the farming institute and the people who did not go into business. ”

Li Xingchen put forward his own ideas.

The main purpose is to carry out army reform first, and to form more branches, such as in addition to the standing army and cavalry, in the formation of a gun car army, and then according to the different types of weapons, it can be more subdivided.

Everyone looked at each other.

"Your Majesty, this matter cannot be discussed with you, General Longhu is still in Wanglong County, and General Yuan Wanshan is still in the Northeast City to cooperate with Situ Zhen to take revenge on the dozen or so projectile countries that invaded Great Wei last time.

And the military attaches do not have this right to make decisions and discussions.

Therefore, Your Majesty will at least have to wait for General Longhu and others to come back. ”

The crowd was embarrassed.

Li Xingchen knew what they were thinking, but in the final analysis, he still didn't want to start a war, so he began to play stupid.

"It's okay, I can write a letter to General Long Hu for his opinion on this matter.

After all, General Long Hu is the head of all military attachés, and his opinion is very important.

But I would like to ask you civil servants for now. Li Xingchen didn't smile.

The civil and military attaches of the Great Wei are not clearly distinguished, some civil officials are involved in part-time civil officials, and some military attaches also extend their tentacles to the side of civil officials.

Therefore, the opinion of the civil servant is in some respects also the opinion of the military attaché.

"This..." The prime minister and the others glanced at each other, bowed down and hugged their fists, and said: "Your Majesty, the ministers have no opinion, and the ministers respect the opinions of the military attachés." ”

In this case, although there is no strict distinction between civil and military officials, the prime minister's person also clearly does not want to interfere and does not want to express his opinion.

I was worried that in the letter sent by Li Xingchen to General Longhu, their views were written together.