Chapter Seventy-Two: Who Are You Guarding Against?

The fall of the Sui Dynasty was due to irreconcilable contradictions between the ruling class, scholars and emperors, and eventually fell apart.

In fact, the Ming Dynasty was similar, and it was also the irreconcilable contradiction between the scholar and the emperor, which ultimately came down to the "silver".

The 800 miles of fertile soil in Guanzhong seemed to have a lot of arable land, but with the increase in population, especially the frenzied annexation of land by the clan lords and magnates, the Tang Dynasty eventually lost the credibility of the country and caused the Anshi Rebellion. In the fifth year of the Sui Dynasty, the population of Guanzhong was as much as 3.07 million people (according to the sixteenth issue of "Tang History", edited by Du Wenyu, professor and doctoral supervisor of the history of the Sui and Tang dynasties of Shaanxi Normal University, the same below) However, in the thirteenth year of Zhenguan, the population of Guanzhong was only 1.43 million, but it was this 1.43 million population that needed to transport 200,000 stones of grain from Guannei every year, and the population of Guanzhong increased to 3.21 million in the first year of Tianbao, but the food gap in Guanzhong reached 4 million stones in the third year of Tianbao. New Tang Dynasty Books and Food Journal.

Chen Ying naturally found a very funny problem, the cultivated land in Guanzhong exceeded 400,000 in the Tang Dynasty, one mu in the Tang Dynasty was 581 square meters, and one hundred mu was one tilt, which can be said to be 40 million mu, assuming that the number of people is four million, and each person still has ten acres of arable land.

The most intuitive reason, in fact, is not difficult to guess, a large amount of land has been in the hands of the gate lords, clans, and nobles, they do not have to pay taxes, and the taxes of the imperial court have been reduced, so they have to transfer grain to Beijing. What's even more tragic is that Guanzhong is the foundation of the Tang Dynasty, because the imperial court did not have enough land to settle the government soldiers, the government system established from the Western Wei Dynasty completely collapsed in the Tianbao period.

In later generations, Guanzhong was only 1.51 million hectares, which was only about 260,000 tons, about two-thirds of that of the Tang Dynasty, but the grain output in later generations was 9.32 million tons, feeding more than 20 million people in Guanzhong, but there was no pressure. Chen Ying secretly thought that even if the grain production capacity was only half of that of later generations, it would not be a problem to feed the population of Guanzhong.

If Chen Ying is asked to increase the grain yield to 1,000 catties per mu, Chen Ying is not sure, after all, the efficacy of chemical fertilizers is a well-known thing, if Chen Ying can produce more than five stones per mu of fertile land, with the scale of land in Guanzhong in the Tang Dynasty, it is also possible to feed tens of millions of people.

Li Xiuning looked at Chen Ying and couldn't help but ask, "Chen Lang, Chen Lang, what are you thinking?" ”

Chen Ying shook his head and said, "Nothing! ”

Li Xiuning showed no belief at all, and turned his head away.

Chen Ying had no choice but to smile bitterly: "I'm thinking that the difference in production mode determines the fundamental gap between the population base and the military organization ability that can be fed on the same land. ”

The postmodern words made Li Xiuning listen in a daze, like clouds and mountains. Li Xiuning asked suspiciously: "What is the direct relationship between this and your book cultivation?" ”

Chen Ying secretly sighed that he was really a mediocre person.

The rice should be eaten one bite at a time, and the road should be taken step by step, and the steps should not be too big, in case it is too big, it is easy to pull the eggs. For example, Wang Mang, such as Yang Guang, these two big brothers are because the pace of reform is too big, and they have played themselves in.

Chen Ying smiled bitterly and didn't have time to speak.

Li Xiuning threw the book on the table, got up and said to Cui'er: "It seems that someone is not happy that we are coming...... Let's stop being an eyesore here, pack up our things, and let's go home. As she spoke, Li Xiuning blinked her eyes again.

Cui'er finally didn't waste Li Xiuning's kindness for a long time, and understood what Li Xiuning meant: "Your Royal Highness Princess, the slave maid is going to pack up her things." ”

Saying that, Li Xiuning and Cui'er walked towards the door together.

Although Chen Ying is not a junior brother, he really lacks experience in dealing with women, if he is a master of the love field in later generations, Li Xiuning can play Chen Ying at a glance.

However, Chen Ying didn't see it, he thought that Li Xiuning was really angry, and hurriedly stepped forward to stop Li Xiuning and hurriedly said: "Sanniang, I didn't welcome you to come, you can come to me...... I...... Very happy. ”

Chen Yingyi became nervous, and he couldn't speak anymore.

Li Xiuning looked at Chen Ying, who was stunned on the battlefield, incoherent and uneasy at this time, and felt very comfortable in his heart: "Then what do you mean?" I'm here, and you don't go around with me? Could it be that you are a treasure in the golden house? ”

"Where?" Chen Ying looked at the dark night sky outside, and asked hesitantly, "Right now?" ”

"Now, what's not to do?" Li Xiuning turned to look at Chen Ying and said, "We can learn from the ancients!" ”

"Learn from the ancients?" Chen Ying secretly thought in his heart, what else do you learn from the ancients, you are the ancients.

Seeing that Chen Ying still didn't understand what Chen Ying meant, Li Xiuning covered his mouth and chuckled: "Learn from the ancients...... Candlelight Night Tour. ”

"Alright, let's go now!" As he spoke, Chen Ying shouted outside the door: "Lan'er, bring a few lanterns!" ”

After a while, Lan'er carried a lantern, and the two sisters, Green Bead and Red Sleeve, also carried a lantern. Chen Ying pointed to the three large Mingtang rooms on the left side of the study and said, "This is my bedroom, do you want to go in and have a look?" ”

Li Xiuning didn't speak, and walked directly towards Chen Ying's bedroom.

Lan'er and Red Sleeves walked briskly in front, knocked on the door of Chen Ying's bedroom, and lit the candlesticks in the house one by one.

Although Chen Ying's bedroom has three rooms, in fact there is only one real bedroom, one of which exists as an indoor washroom, and the other is the ear room where Lan'er, the maid of the whole room, lives. There are lion's head copper lamps on both walls of the bedroom, the lamps are shaped like hydrangeas from the lion dances in later generations, and each embroidery bead is equipped with a lamp tray, which contains five lampposts, four twenty lampposts, and three large candles are lit at the same time, illuminating the three bedrooms as bright as day.

Chen Ying's big bed is also completely different from this era.

It's a Simmons bed with a backrest, but on a larger scale. The whole bed is one zhang wide (about two meters three five) and nine feet six inches long.

Li Xiuning looked at Chen Ying's bed, suddenly turned around and said with a smile: "This bed may sleep a lot of people!" ”

Lan'er said quickly and without hesitation: "Sleeping with four people is not crowded at all." ”

When Chen Ying heard this, his face turned green.

Li Xiuning's face slowly changed.

Four people.

Lan'er, Red Sleeves, Green Beads and Chen Ying are not four people?

Li Xiuning looked at Chen Ying fiercely: "Chen Langjun, you really know how to enjoy it, why don't you build a ten-zhang wide bed?" ”

Li Xiuning said to Cui'er with a straight face: "Let's go!" ”

As soon as Chen Ying heard this, he knew that Li Xiuning had misunderstood, and said to Lan'er with a tiger face: "When did four people sleep in this bed?" ”

Lan'er saw that Chen Ying was fierce, and tears were about to come out: "Last month, when Gao Wenjin came over, the four of us slept on it, and it was very comfortable. ”

Li Xiuning blushed, knowing that she had misunderstood.

Chen Ying pointed to Li Xiuning to visit his bathroom.

Fortunately, Li Xiuning was attracted by Chen Ying's strange washroom.

……

Coming out of Chen Ying's bedroom, Chen Ying took Li Xiuning to the corner tower in the front yard.

The corner tower is the place where Chen Ying originally built a simple watchtower, and at this time, a seven-story octagonal tower rose from the ground. Chen Ying and Li Xiuning walked to the seventh floor of the corner tower, Chen Ying pointed to the outline of Chen's Dock Fort in the distance and said, "This will be our future home, although the place is not big...... But it can keep out the wind and rain. ”

Li Xiuning was slightly surprised and said: "Chen's Dock Fort, and it's more than two hundred zhang long, right?" ”

Chen Ying nodded and said, "More than that, it's two hundred and seventy-two zhang, two zhang high, and the city wall is one zhang and two feet thick." ”

And long, that is to say, the meaning of the circumference, 272 zhang, about 6,392 meters, this is already a large city.

Chen Ying continued to explain to Li Xiuning: "The city wall is prepared to be made of green bricks and soil, and a low earth wall is built on the outside of the solid and tall brick wall, on the east, west, and north sides, leaving a narrow space between the earth wall and the wall, as a change road for the changer to pass, and also a patrol road. ”

Li Xiuning said lightly: "Your dock fort is built, I'm afraid it's not just a thief, right?" Who are you trying to protect against? ”