"The peak of the population of the Tang Dynasty was the time of Tianbao, and in the late Tang Dynasty, the population was not large, but because of the serious annexation, a drought came, and the people rose up one after another, which eventually led to the real demise of the Tang Dynasty. If the annexation continues to spread and expand, and the population is swelling so severely, it will not be too much, and in 30 years, we will be able to see all kinds of crises in our country. That is, if the princes have a long life, they will be able to see it. ”

Everyone gasped.

In fact, this household statistics were handed over to the household department, which also frightened the household officials.

Wang Ju didn't remind, at most he said that it was densely populated, but Wang Ju reminded again and again how not to realize the crisis.

In fact, some prescient ministers, such as Bao Zheng, mentioned this problem as early as the time of Song Renzong, saying that the dense population is unimaginable, and it will bring all kinds of crises to the Song Dynasty in the future.

But how many households were there at that time?

Now including the three southern roads, nearly 20 million households, since ancient times, there have been records of 20 million households?

Although it also shows that the internal governance of the Song Dynasty is indeed very good, if it is not excellent, the population growth rate is not so fast, but what if it continues to increase?

Li Qingchen asked: "Taibao, even if there is no annexation, if this continues, there will be all kinds of problems in our dynasty." ”

"If there is no annexation, it will be easy to solve, in fact, as long as the annexation does not spread, there is a way to alleviate it, for example, I handed over the mountains, tidal flats, lakes and rivers to individuals or several people to contract and operate, and the special person manages it, which not only benefits other people, but also gets more products, and at the same time it is also preventing the spread of annexation in disguise."

"The new machine technology is developing, and there are already some owners who have a lot of land to buy it and use it for irrigation and drainage, but now it is still very expensive, and once the technology is further improved, the price will fall. The same can be popularized, and the yield per mu can be increased. ”

"The replenishment of high-yielding coarse grains, and they are mostly drought-tolerant crops, can increase the total grain production of the country."

"The imperial court allocated funds for water conservancy and road construction, which will not only prosper the economy. It will also increase the area of arable land. ”

"The other side is constantly improving the ship technology, as the sea ships become larger, the transportation cost will fall, because the other side of the land is vast and sparsely populated, often only more than 100 yuan for a stone of rice, and the development of Jiaozhi Road, then you can use sea ships, south to north."

"Don't disdain them just because it's a bunch of businessmen on the other side. Besides, their patriotism is no less than ours, and they should not be rejected because of the migration of the people on the other side, not to mention that the other side is gradually turning the cities into states and handing them over to our dynasty for management, even if they can't manage it, across thousands of miles of the sea, can they threaten our dynasty? On the contrary, the same species and the same root. It will only help each other and strengthen each other. Then the migration on the other side. It can also ease the pressure of a part of the population growing violently. ”

"In addition, other measures can be introduced, such as encouraging people to marry later and have children later, and rewarding some people who improve crop seeds and increase yields......"

"Late marriage and late childbearing?" Zhao Ji asked strangely.

"Marry and have children as late as possible. If these can be done, the Great Song Dynasty can indeed be worry-free for two hundred years, and the princes may ask what to do in two hundred years? That's too far away. But if you really want to think about two hundred years from now, there is only one way, improve technology, not only new machines, but also fertilizers. improvements to seeds, and more. Otherwise, it is not too much, I may be exaggerating when I say thirty years, and in fifty years my dynasty will be in danger because of this. ”

Wang Ju said it a little exaggerated.

First of all, the proportion of population growth is not right, it is not how many hidden households have been looted, or how many states have been recovered in the south, and there are not many people in those states.

This surge is mainly due to the farmland water conservancy law initiated by Wang Anshi, including the development of Jiangdong Wei, as well as Wang Ju's auxiliary measures of beating the side drum before, and now it has begun to collect dividends, bringing the first wave of population surge.

If the imperial court does not change Wang Ju's policies in the future, then more than ten years later, the Song Dynasty will usher in a second wave of population surge.

But after more than a decade, the rate of surge will inevitably slow down.

Secondly, Wang Ju is indeed exaggerating.

As long as there are no characters like Song Huizong in the Song Dynasty, coupled with the opening up of a few roads, and the emergence of new machinery, I dare not say that it is as popular as the water pump in later generations, at least it will play some role, and the early appearance of these miscellaneous grains and pay attention to it, then the number of people that the Song Dynasty can accommodate is 250 million.

Why do you say 250 million, not more than 400 million like the Qing Dynasty?

Let's look at the territory of the Qing Dynasty, maybe the west is not suitable for many people to live, but there is also a Great Northern Wilderness.

The second is the yield of crops, poor Jiangdongwei such fertile silt fields, one acre of land can harvest five stones of rice, that is considered a high yield, as for other areas, the yield of one acre of rice is only about three stones! Think about the yield of 1,000 kilograms per mu in later generations.

And then to the wheat, the yield per mu is even lower, and there are not even two stones.

The Qing Dynasty did not have such a high output, but by the end of the Qing Dynasty, technology was already improving, and the output at least far exceeded that of the Song Dynasty.

Therefore, Wang Ju pondered that once the population of the Song Dynasty swelled to 35 million households, all kinds of crises could occur. But after these two waves of policy dividends, when you want to swell to this amount, it will be at least more than 100 years later.

However, if the merger deteriorates, the tax becomes irrational again, and it is difficult to say anything.

However, if it is properly regulated, it may really last for two or three hundred years. It's just that the fact is not to move towards the latter, but to the former......

The reason why Wang Ju said it was not only to correct the name of the migrating people, but also because he was worried that in the future, once Zhao Ji died, Gao Tao might change these policies, and his efforts would be ruined.

And Gao Tao is definitely not as wise and virtuous as Jin Dashen wrote, this is a very unconscious lord.

"Your Majesty, my lords, when I returned from the other side, I was once ambitious, and wanted to use the banking department to abolish the Qingmiao Law, improve the law of exempting soldiers and protecting horses from military service, and further expand the road and water conservancy, and these seem to have been done. However, for the merger, the ministers did not dare to touch it. At the same time, the minister also wanted to gradually ban the excesses and miscellaneous taxes of transfer, conversion, and consumption (in addition to these three miscellaneous taxes, there are also pre-purchases, household salt money, consumption of foot bucket noodles, silkworm salt money, and cowhide money. There are nearly twenty kinds of miscellaneous taxes such as farm tool money, shoe money, and quyin money, but many miscellaneous taxes are not often implemented, and the most common and main miscellaneous taxes are these three), but considering all aspects of the economy. The minister did not dare to propose a ban. Your Majesty, whenever you think of this section, you are ashamed in your heart. ”

This is Wang Ju's humble statement.

If you have to find faults, no matter how perfect the country is, you can find many faults.

In fact, after this period of governance, the Song Dynasty was almost able to reach the peak of the reign of Xianping.

Although it is not like the holy minister Li Xin, who quietly changed the Song Dynasty for the better, but considering the difference in time and space between the two, Li Xin is obviously facing much less pressure than Wang Ju.

The main thing is that the time is too tight.

If it weren't for Zhao Ji's body. And everyone will have doubts, give Wang Ju another two years, Wang Ju can even make the Song Dynasty surpass the height of Xianping's rule.

Wang Ju arched his arch and said: "The harsh government is fiercer than the tiger, and these miscellaneous taxes have also harmed many people, but I have no time to deal with them." There is also the Yellow River, and the Han Dynasty can forcibly divert the Yellow River to control the river and use the financial resources of our dynasty. Why not? The teacher is so moving, and His Majesty is so trusting. But the river is constantly troubled, but I turn a blind eye, so the more I think about it, the more ashamed I become. In the future, the pacification of Western Xia, the imperial court's finances will inevitably be further relaxed, and I hope that the princes will work hard. ”

As Wang Ju slowly retreated.

Cai Bian sighed at the bottom and said: "Taibao is advancing and retreating, and Sima Gong's words are wrong. ”

Look at Wang Ju. Not only did he govern martial arts in office, but he also arranged the talent reserve after leaving the Song Dynasty, and now pointed out various shortcomings and precautions in the future. Is this the practice of an overseas king?

But this overseas king really has a market.

There is even a very difficult saying circulating in the market that Wang Ju came back this time as a prime minister, mainly to deceive a large number of people from the Song Dynasty to go overseas.

There are even more ugly claims. In order to accumulate wealth, the emperor became interested in the gold and silver on the other side, so he sold more than a million people overseas in disguise.

Wang Ju also heard about it, but he didn't care too much, if it was a little bit of change, the people couldn't feel it, but it has changed too much in the past few years, and the people really don't have a shot in their hearts, and he will come up with two ruthless hands next year......

Either you'll find a way to discredit me, or I'll trample you into a dung pit completely!

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"Taibao, I heard that there will be a crisis in our dynasty soon due to population?" Han Yun asked.

"Brother Han, who did you listen to?"

"I listened to what Zhang Gong said."

Wang Ju understood, and it was about Zhang Dian who wrote a letter to Zhang Qi, and the letter talked about this matter.

He smiled and said: "Actually, it is not that serious, as long as the imperial court does not repeal the various decrees I implemented in the future, at least there will be no crisis in the next few decades." ”

And the Jurchens.

However, Wang Ju on the Jurchen side also made a move, and after destroying the Western Xia, the Song Dynasty stationed its troops in the north, and then placed artillery on the forts.

Anyway, when Wang Ju dies, he will not see the Northern Song Dynasty perish, unless Zhao Ji is still on the throne, and it can be ruined more than in history and disintegrate from the inside, but that has little to do with the population limit.

"Even in the future, we have to see, if the technology on the other side is further developed and a new fertilizer is developed, there will be a few generous Ming Jun in the future of the Great Song Dynasty, seeing that the population is too dense, and making a ruthless heart, let the other side migrate millions, or even tens of millions of people, to relieve the pressure of the population, several large migrations, then the Great Song Dynasty can still stand for two or three hundred years, three or four hundred years. However, there is no population pressure, as long as it is an imperial system, respect, official standard, and hereditary system of grace, the Great Song Dynasty will have to perish sooner or later. ”

"So the system I set up on the other side is a constitutional monarchy, which is actually a system of one king and two cabinets, with the president equivalent to the Zhongshu of our dynasty, the prime minister and the six ministries equivalent to Shangshu, but slightly greater than the power of Shangshu Province, the trial court is equivalent to a miniature version of Menxia Province, and the procuratorate and inspection team are equivalent to the strengthened version of the imperial historical platform. But what has changed is that the imperial system and the hereditary grace and shadow have been banned, as well as the idea of official status. For example, if the six books and the two houses of the central government cannot ascend to the post of president and prime minister, after two terms, they will automatically abdicate and will not be allowed to touch politics again. But even if he ascended to the positions of president and prime minister, he also abdicated after two terms, and he must not touch politics again. ”

"As for this king, I don't have to touch it in my life, but in the hands of my descendants, there must be a name, and the name is not right, but in addition to some appointment and dismissal rights for the president and prime minister, the rest of the rights are also taken away. Even you and my children and grandchildren share in the benefits of the previous inheritance. But none of them should touch politics, and even if they want to enter politics, they must start as the village head. ”

Han Yun heard this and said: "This is great wisdom, willing, willing, giving and taking." Only by giving up the right can it last for a long time. ”

"Yes, this is exactly the reason, and the vast space on the other side, for a long time in the future, there will be no land pressure, coupled with this kind of willingness, there will be no careerists who want to usurp the throne, even if there is. If it succeeds, it will be quickly overthrown by everyone, and the other side will be divided into three places in the future, and if one changes, the other two will also send troops to support. ”

"Or subvert from the outside, but looking at this world, the only one who has the ability to subvert from the outside is Da Song. But on the other side, the Great Song Dynasty has no hostility, so why should the Great Song Dynasty subvert it. And it's not necessarily so easy to subvert. ”

There is also a group of people, once this group of people rises, because the human race is not, it will inevitably be subverted, but when they rise, the other side does not know how far to leap to.

So the other side will exist for a long time. Moreover, Wang Ju went to the other side in the future, and he had to further improve various systems.

"In fact, it is to prevent the monopoly of rights, in fact, Taizu and Taizong also saw the disadvantages of monopoly of rights, so there is such a strange official system in our dynasty, but their approach is very unsuccessful. On the contrary, a bad situation has been formed, such as redundant officials and redundant administration. All kinds of truths on the other side will be revealed sooner or later, but just see the positive side of it, how many people can give up the current system? Or when the new dynasty stands, it is the time when this land is reborn, maybe at that time the technology is developed, the sea will no longer be a barrier, then all the Chinese will be reunified, it is a real unification. ”

But whether this great goal is not achieved, or there are other changes, Wang Ju will definitely not see it.

But he will continue to lay this foundation, and if his descendants are not angry, he will have no choice but to do so. But it's good to be scared, with this alarm bell hanging overhead, at least the future Song Dynasty monarchs and ministers will not be so mediocre, then they will be careful in doing things, and they will not do anything wrong.

But this is too long-term, let's do it for now, he changed the topic and asked, "How is Helan Shi?" ”

I didn't ask about the battle situation at the front, but it was clearly written in the war report.

mentioned Helan Stone, Han Yun looked admiring: "Taibao, it's amazing." ”

Zhang Qi asked the Western Xia to exchange Helan Stone for prisoners of war, and acquiesced to the high price of the Western Xia.

This move finally became a fatal fuse.

Since then, the price of Helan stone has become more and more outrageous.

Not only did some people in the Western Xia lose their minds and hoard, but even the Song Dynasty began to hoard. And some people also take excellent names according to different Helan stones, such as Moxing, Zixia, Tianjiqing, Meixiang, Songyun......

And Han Yun almost recovered most of the previous cost by changing hands to Helan Stone.

This hype of Helan Stone means that the official has also entered, and even finally became a situation where the official is the main and Han Yun is the auxiliary, and Wang Ju did not hide it, so Han Yun generously handed over all these revenues to Zhang Qi as military expenses.

Wang Ju breathed a sigh of relief.

When he arranged this more than ten years ago, he thought of not only Dutch tulips, but also Junzi Orchid and Pu'er tea of the Celestial Empire.

And at that time, there were some possible signs, such as the Xia State Sword and the Western Xia Crossbow, which were of high quality and could be sold for thousands of dollars in the Song Dynasty, even if they were good, they could not be said to be worth thousands of dollars. Similarly, there are Waguo fans, even if Hangzhou began to imitate various folding fans, and even the process surpassed the Waguo fan, but it was always not as high as the price of Waguo fans. And then there is the Goryeo secret color porcelain, is it true that the Goryeo porcelain is better than the high-quality porcelain of the Song Dynasty?

It's not that the Song Dynasty is still the center of civilization, except for the Song Dynasty, the rest are barbarians, Fan people, Hu people, Yi people, mainly imported products, everyone is novel.

Helan stone is also a foreign product for the time being, which provides room for speculation.

A Junzi Orchid and Pu'er Tea can't collapse the economy of the Celestial Empire, the volume is too large, but if Helan Stone is turned into Junzi Orchid and Pu'er Tea, it will be fatal for the weak Western Xia economy.

"That's good, anyway, Zhang Zhifu won Xiao Pass, and the front line is not very peaceful, you can stay for a New Year's Day."

"Okay."

"After the New Year's Day, you see what relatives you still have who need to migrate to the other side, and secretly tell them to go to the other side with the ship next autumn."

"So early?"

"When I go to Shaanxi next year, I will leave as soon as I go."

In fact, it was really fast, at least Wang Ju's stay in the capital was not even half a year.

Han Yun came back quietly.

Wang Ju began to make the following arrangements, that is, the point general.

First is Hebei Road.

Hebei Road turned out to be a whole, but in the Qingli War, the Liao State came to extort. In order to guard against the Khitan, the Song Dynasty also placed four roads in Hebei to pacify the Division, Damingfu Road, Gaoyangguan Road, but the capital of Gaoyangguan Road was in Hejian Mansion, which was the original Yingzhou. Zhendingfu Road, Dingzhou Road.

This is the origin of the Hebei Fourth Road, although this arrangement is placed, but there is no permanent pacification envoy.

So in the sixth year of Xining, Hebei Road was divided into two, one was Hebei East Road, the capital was Daimyo's Mansion, the other was Hebei West Road, and the capital was Zhending Mansion.

But now Wang Ju has returned to the compilation of the Qingli calendar. The Hebei Road was unified, and the four pacification divisions were restored.

The Daimyo's Mansion is in the rear, so forget it, mainly the three pacification divisions in front, the veteran Liu Shunqing has known Xiongzhou for six years, and is quite prestigious in the Liao State, so Liu Shunqing knows the Hejian Mansion and Gaoyang Guan Road to pacify the envoy. Dingzhou Road is the top priority, so Yanda is put in Hebei. Zhidingzhou and Dingzhou Road pacification envoy. Zhending Mansion is in charge of the safety of both roads, which is an important second line of defense. Therefore, Zhao Yu was transferred to Hebei, but in order to appease Zhao Yu, in addition to making him serve as the Yin of Zhizhending Mansion, he also served as the envoy of Zhending Mansion Road to pacify him.

Then he transferred the generals such as Chonggu, Chongdiao, and Di Yong to the Zhuzhou Army on the Hebei Front to serve as their governors or commanders.

That is to say, in addition to Zhao Yu, the governors of the prefectures north of the Hutuo River have become all military generals.

Don't ask Wang Ju if he has gone too far, and look at whether the Zhizhou Zhijun of the border states during the time of Song Taizong was a military general or a civil minister.

And even Zhao Yu can't be underestimated. Xining invaded the summer, and Huanqing Road suffered the heaviest losses, so after the defeat of Yongle City, the Western Xia negotiated peace, and the Song Dynasty agreed to negotiate peace. But resolutely did not give the year, so the Liang family was angry and launched many invasions of the Song Dynasty, but the main ones were Lanzhou and Huanqing Road, but each time they invaded Huanqing Road, they were calmly repelled by Zhao Yu mobilized soldiers one by one, and even killed the Western Xia horses and captured tens of thousands of cattle and sheep.

And in addition to these transfers, now Hebei Road is slightly better than the historical Hebei Road, that is, from the Xining period, the Song Dynasty has successively trained a large number of border troops on the front line of Hebei Road and Hedong Road.

This arrangement is actually very simple, that is, to prevent Wang Ju from attacking Xia, and the Liao State suddenly marched south in order to rescue Western Xia.

With these generals, the forbidden army, the border army, and the fortresses, although the defense became very difficult because the Yellow River flowed northward and lost a large number of lakes and swamps, it could at least be blocked for a while.

Then go to Hedong Road.

Wang Ju divided Hedong Road into three roads, Taiyuan Road, Daizhou Road, and Lanzhou Road.

Qu Zhen wanted to learn how to plant, and was a little unique, although Wang Ju brought it up, Wang Ju also didn't like it, and transferred Qu Zhen to Daizhou as the governor of Daizhou and the pacification envoy of Daizhou.

It should be promoted, but Vaxia has nothing to do with Qu Zhen, but now Daizhou is really embarrassed, especially Wang Anshi ceded the north of Huangwei Mountain to Liao, which led to a big gap in Daizhou's defense line.

Therefore, Wang Ju transferred Lu Zhen to Xinzhou as the governor, and Mi Yun to the Ninghua Army as the governor. These two generals are not very famous, but they are also very powerful, last year the Western Xia sent Ye Bima and Baa to attack Anyuan Village, these two Xia generals are one of the culprits of the defeat of Yongle City, especially Ye Bima is still Wang Ju's old opponent, very brave, but under the joint efforts of Lu Mi and the two, these two generals will be killed!

'The second is Lanzhou Road, needless to say, Zhizhou and pacification envoy became Yao Lin, he has been presiding over the training of the new army in Lanshi Erzhou, and Wang Shilong knows the Lanlan army Zhijun, Peng Sun Zhibao German Army, Sun Zhaozhi Volcano Army, Hedong General Xue Yi Zhixianzhou, these four people are also unstoppable brave generals.

Later, Cai Tingqing was transferred to Dali, and the seed master was brought back to Zhiqingzhou.

Not only did the front-line Xu Zhijun Zhizhou be replaced by military generals, but also a large number of tiger artillery, fierce fire oil, and thunderbolt bombs were transferred, mainly defensive.

In case the Liao army goes south, it is enough to drag them down and prevent the army from going south.

This is the first point general, and next year, there will be a second point general, including Linfu Road on Hedong Road, and several roads on the edge of Shaanxi, which will also carry out a large-scale change of guard.

The ministers were speechless.

It can't be said that Wang Ju did something wrong, even if this may not be the real ancestral family law, but Wang Ju wants to cut down Xia, and Liao really has to guard against it.

The New Year's Day is gradually coming, and the envoys of the Liao State are also about to enter the capital, and suddenly there is a news from Western Xia that the Liang family is dead...... (To be continued.) )