"That'...... Let's not talk about the case of Da Song for the time being. Theodora tried to bring Guo Kang back to the point: "Except for this special case of directly transporting resources to the enemy, under normal circumstances, this policy seems to be difficult to continue, can your theory explain this?" ”

"I think the main reason is that people are so poor. Not only the pastoral areas, but also the agricultural areas are too poor. Guo Kang shook his head and said firmly.

"The Central Plains and Jiangnan are already very rich places." Zhu Wenkui asked: "Why does Guo Gongzi feel too poor?" Is it because even then they can't afford to support other places? ”

"Not to mention other places, it's actually very difficult to support yourself." Guo Kang said: "You, like me, should not have much contact with ordinary people in the Central Plains. However, as long as we have the heart, we can still have many other ways to understand the specific situation of the people. ”

"Do you read Du Gongbu's poems?" He looked at the crowd and asked.

This time, even Tuohuan nodded.

In October of the 14th year of Tianbao, Du Fu wrote "Five Hundred Words of Yonghuai from Beijing to Fengxian County". The reason why he sighed for so long was because his son starved to death. Guo Kang said.

"Let's figure it out." He looked at everyone and said, "This year is the end of the prosperous era of Kaiyuan, and a month later, An Lushan openly rebelled. At this time, the contradictions within the Tang Dynasty had accumulated to a certain extent. But in any case, this is also the most valuable era in all generations. ”

"Du Fu's family has always been poor, but he is a member of the Jingzhao Du clan, no matter how down, it is better than the starting point of ordinary people. At this time, he was serving as the right guard to lead the government soldier Cao to join the army, at least an official. ”

That is to say, when the Tang Empire, the most powerful empire in the world at that time, was at its peak, someone starved to death in the family of an imperial official from a family. Because Du Fu's poems are so well written, we only know about this matter. ”

"I really hadn't paid attention to it before......" Tuohuan muttered.

"In this poem, there is a very famous sentence that I still remember, called 'Zhumen wine and meat stink, and there are frozen bones on the road'." Guo Kang turned to him and said, "Knowing this background, you should be able to understand what mood he was in writing these poems at that time." ”

As he spoke, he himself paused: "Look, this is what Du Fu recorded for us, the prosperous side." ”

"We can go on and on." "What if it's other countries? What about other times of less affluence and tranquility? What about ordinary people? ”

"In fact, as long as you don't starve people to death on a large scale, you will already be considered prosperous." Theodora shook his head and said, "This kind of 'accidental' situation is actually nothing, everyone has long been numb. ”

"And what about our side?" Tuhuan asked: "Is there such a population count?" How far can we go? ”

The answer is no. It has been a long time since the management of citizens' household registration collapsed, but it has stabilized over the years and has only been re-established. Theodora rolled her eyes: "Back then, Rome's stable direct territory was once left with a royal castle. There are wars out there every day, and people die every day - what else can be counted on this. ”

"For other stable places, you can look at the information of the church, or the tax collection records of the lord." Guo Kang thought for a while and said, "If this kind of data is also incomplete, then there should be no point in investigating." ”

"You see, that's why." He spread his hands: "Importing resources into the grassland area does have the hope of eradicating the problem of nomadic chaos at the root, but the amount of resources required is very huge. ”

"If everyone has plenty of food and clothing, and there is a lot of surplus supplies like in the legend and the golden age of prehistory, then it is acceptable for them to take some out in exchange for the tranquility of the grassland. But now, people in farming areas are easily on the verge of starvation because of various problems, and it is unrealistic to ask them to do so. ”

"Is there no way?" Zhu Rangna actually sighed rarely.

But soon, she looked at Guo Kang as if she had realized something, and changed her tone to a statement: "You must have already done it this time." ”

"If I have to say it, I have an idea, but it will take a long time." Guo Kang was stared at by her, hesitated, and still said: "It's not a few years or ten years, it's probably going to take many generations." ”

"It's worth this amount of time for a problem of this magnitude." Jeanne said dryly.

"Okay." Guo Kang thought for a while and asked, "Do you remember the model of the steam shrine that I showed you in the Niangniang Temple?" ”

"Yes." Zhu Wenkui nodded: "That's it...... Heavenly brothers and saints who can go around. ”

"Yes." Guo Kang said: "What do you think if we develop that thing to maturity and make it bigger and more powerful? ”

"You mean, let Brother Steam ...... Move it...... And then it's even bigger......" Zhu Wenkui pondered.

"Then let Him pull the plough and plant the land." Zhu Jeanna's eyes widened, and her words were a little excited: "Lord...... I understand that your God has inspired ......"

“？？？” Guo Kang, the maker of the shrine, did not follow her train of thought.

"Uh......" Zhu Wenkui had to explain: "My sister grew up with the French. Aunt Wa and Sister Jeanna all believe in this, so she has also believed in it since she was a child......"

"I told you, and you didn't believe it." Zhu Jeanna turned to her brother and complained: "I have really seen the angel, and he told me that he needs me to save France and save everyone. Later, Our Lady also told me that the Son of God would continue to redeem the world and asked for my help. ”

"Look. Isn't that just a sign of that? She said happily: "If every fertile field in the world is cultivated by the Steam God, how much manpower can we save and how much more harvest can we reap?" Is there a more straightforward salvation than that? ”

After listening to her, Guo Kang looked at her back and forth.

"What kind of character is this?" Considering Jeanne's age, after being identified as the onset of secondary two disease, Guo Kang muttered and pondered.

Theodora, who had been an Orthodox Christianity since childhood, looked at her mother with some embarrassment.

"Maybe the Franks have made up some new heresy." The queen said very calmly.