"Why do the northerners keep going south and become more and more prosperous?" Su Shi is actually quite good at raising the bar, and he can't find fault with the method Hong Tao said, so he simply starts from the starting point. As long as the problem cannot be explained, the previous assertion will be self-defeating.

"Ha, it's a long story to talk about, I can't explain it clearly in a sentence or two, and Brother Zizhan may not be able to understand it. But it doesn't matter, the students in the academy have something to understand, and you can go to them another day to explain it in detail. Let me pick the important links first, mainly two aspects, climate and environment. ”

"Let's talk about the climate first, Brother Zizhan has been to Huangzhou, so he must know some of the local climate, but do you know what it will look like a few hundred miles further north? In the winter, people can freeze to death, and when there are strong winds and snowstorms, the whole house will be buried in snow. ”

"Over the years, the cold region has been slowly expanding southward, and the trend is very slow, and it may take decades to come a hundred miles south, which is not easy to feel. However, the nomads living in the area suffered greatly and had no choice but to migrate south. ”

"Speaking of the environment, the north looks endless, in fact, there are not many suitable places to live, and further north is an ice field, and the days without ice and snow are only three months a year, and there is not enough grazing, let alone farming."

"Brother Zizhan might as well count the population of each dynasty and generation, and the general trend is definitely increasing. So do we, so do the northerners. As the population grows, they need more pasture and more food. If you can't go to the north, you can only go south, so this is not a national war, but for survival, and it can't be avoided by reasoning and probation. ”

What is the Xiaoice River Period and when the Xiaoice River Period begins, Hong Tao himself is not very clear, let alone can explain it to Su Shi. But it's always right to fool people with these theories, and it's a little different from reality but not big, and it doesn't sound flawless.

"Jin Qing has been to the north?" Su Shi really didn't expect to hear such an esoteric answer, and the look in Hong Tao's eyes was not quite right.

"I haven't been there, but don't forget, Zizhan has captured a lot of Tangut people and even obstructed divination, and they fell into my hands, and they all rushed to tell the truth, hehehe......"

It is obviously unreasonable to say that he has been there, and it seems too perfunctory to talk about the gods. Su Shi is a very high-spirited person, and if you perfunctory, he thinks that you are disrespectful, and then there is no need to talk. So Hong Tao changed his way of saying it again, which still sounded very reasonable.

"......" Su Shi is most annoyed by this kind of style, obviously he can skip the topic that makes people feel bad, but he has to say it, and he says it so explicitly and complacently.

"With Jin Qing's intentions, after becoming a country, you can solve the suffering of the northerners?" But what kind of living state Su Shi of the northerners can't verify, if you want to say who knows this matter best, the first to recommend King Liang, and he won't refute it at the moment, and the right should be correct.

"It is useless to become a country alone, and conquest by force can only be oral and unconvincing. Brother Zizhan doesn't mention any saint education, just by saying, he can't do it orally. In order to achieve long-term peace and stability, it is necessary to make changes in the development of commerce and industry, to improve the efficiency of agricultural cultivation, and to liberate a part of the people from the land to produce goods of higher added value and to rob foreign countries. Merchants then transported rice from the south to the north, and exchanged livestock products from the north to the south. As long as everyone can take what they need, even if they have surplus food to survive in a disaster year, why should they be invaded south? ”

Seeing that Su Shi rarely did not refute, and followed his words, Hong Tao hurriedly came up with a set of theories, and tried not to use sarcastic words, nor to belittle the imperial court, and to discuss the matter.

"It's possible...... But Lao Yu didn't quite understand, what did this matter have to do with King Qi, why did Jin Qing push King Qi out desperately? ”

Su Shi has heard this set of Hong Tao's theories more than once, and has thought about it for more than a year, and there is Ganliang Road as a model, and it is difficult to refute it completely. Then a poor place can become a rich place, and there is no reason why other states and counties can't change it.

But he couldn't understand that with Wang Xu's shrewdness and the ability to push the king to the throne, why not go to the court and ask for another way or two to continue to implement the new policy, it was easy to achieve the goal, and there was no need to take such a big risk.

Although it seems that King Qi and King Liang have reached a reconciliation with the court and the emperor, no court official in his bones believes that this matter will not be settled after the autumn, and it will be the end of raiding the family and destroying the family.

As soon as this answer comes out, you and I will break up unhappily again...... "No matter how Hong Tao dodges or how careful Su Shi is, there will be unavoidable points of disagreement once the topic is deepened, and it is still deep-rooted and uncompromising.

“…… The old man is no longer an official of the imperial court, and he is not in his position and does not seek his government, but Jin Qing said that it is okay. ”

When I came to Yangtze Town this time, I could obviously feel that Su Shi had changed from before, not that his posture was lowered, but that his views were more objective. Hong Tao is also puzzled on this issue, can the ancients really switch values quickly according to the difference in identity and work?

"To put it simply, the official family can't tolerate this kind of change, and King Qi can. This king once promised the former emperor that he would not be an enemy of the royal family in his life, and that he would assist the new emperor in governing the country. The latter article has been broken, and this first one should not be broken again. Whether it is Zhao Hao or Zhao Maid, they are royal blood, and I will support whoever is beneficial to this country, and I will support him at any cost! ”

Hong Tao has never said this kind of thing to the outside world, and today is an exception. Not to mention that Wang Xiaoya's apprenticeship has always made Hong Tao haunted, with this relationship, he can't help but think of people for the good, and his guard will be reduced.

"Jin Qing is afraid that he has thought about things simply, governing the country is far from being comparable to Huangzhou and Ganliang Road, and the forces of all parties are intertwined, which will entangle you to be constrained, and it is difficult to display your skills. You and King Qi, plus Zhu Bajin, General Wang, and Gao Cuifeng, are covered in iron and can hit a few nails, and they can control the court and the place, so don't you have to rely on these parents and officials at that time? ”

Sure enough, as Su Shi said, no matter how unruly Hong Tao said, even if he called the emperor by his name, he was not angry, but stood on Hong Tao's position and pointed out the shortcomings, which was more like a kind of picking up the missing and filling the gaps. In principle, the topic has already been decided at this point, but neither of them cares.

“…… Brother Zizhan returned to his hometown in Meizhou this time, did he feel any difference? ”

For Su Shi's worries, Hong Tao can completely resolve them, but should I say that we must carefully weigh the gains and losses. This not only involves their own safety, but may also affect the life and death of hundreds of people, and even the success or failure of the entire plan.

"It's a little different, I've been talking to the little girl for a few days, but I haven't been able to get an answer. Since she returned to the house, she has become more and more like someone, talking and talking. It's no wonder that there has been no breakthrough in painting skills, and the heart can't be frank and open, and the next pen will naturally not be clear. ”

This question is to the point, and since entering the Taurus Road, Su Shi has found a lot of changes. The original rugged and steep mountain road has been widened, and even the Jianmen Pass of Dajian Mountain has been rebuilt, which cannot be said to have become a thoroughfare for cars and horses, but the hundreds of miles from Jianzhou to Chengdu are much easier to walk than before.

The Shunfeng Dart Bureau has a car and horse rental office at several passes along the way, and merchants can hire them to load and unload trucks, and drive cars on the road section that can be driven, and change pack horses on the road section where they cannot be driven.

It costs a little more, saves time and increases comfort. For hundreds of years, the difficulties of Shu Dao have not reached the level of going to the blue sky, and the old people in their sixties and seventies are still in and out without hindrance, provided that they have money.

When it comes to money, Su Shi almost doesn't know his hometown. When passing by Chengdu Mansion, I was shocked by the local prosperity, if it wasn't for the local pronunciation not changed, I thought it was to Suzhou and Hangzhou.

But none of these changes in Meishan moved Su Shi, in previous years, the quiet small county town located on the edge of the Minjiang River came to a big change, and you can see the big water wheel standing in the distance, not one, but a row, flickering and turning, and the water splashed down as if it was alive and sweating.

Walking on the stone road, the footsteps of the neighbors are all hurrying by. The most lively place in the county is the north gate, where the carriages and horses are lined up, and the loading and unloading are shoulder to shoulder, shouting and shouting one after another.