Sun Gu said dissatisfiedly: "Wang Zi'an, can it be the same?" ”

"Sun Gong, why is it different? Sun Gong, the reason why he ran Dali, Wuman Copper Mine was an unexpected joy, and the main thing I thought at that time was Tengchong Ma. ”

Not exactly, the real main thing is Wang Ju's unification thought, as well as the ambition of the Gao Yang family in Dali, the dictatorship of the Gao family and the weakness of Dali itself, which also gave Wang Ju a good opportunity, so he used troops in Dali.

However, we have to analyze it from the perspective of the imperial court, and we have to let the imperial court see the benefits.

War horses are the biggest benefit.

Not only did the Song Dynasty lack war horses, but it was impossible to buy horses with money. Both the Western Xia and the Liao State implemented a policy of war horse control against the Song Dynasty.

Therefore, the Tengchong horse, which is relatively taller than the Sichuan horse, is very important.

Although the journey was long, and there were many casualties and many expenses when transported to the north, the price was far less than the price of Liao and Western Xia. In the case of similar cost, there are Tengchong horses and no Tengchong horses, and the nature is different.

"However, whether it is operating the Wuman Copper Mine or Tengchong Ma, it is necessary to use troops on a small scale one after another. But why did I hear that Xifu had issued several orders to stop using troops on Yunnan Road? Even the rebellion was not suppressed by the officers and soldiers of Yunnan Road? Sun Gong, can you explain? ”

"Wang Zi'an, how many soldiers and civilians have been killed and injured in the south in the past few years?"

Wang Juju laughed.

He didn't even want to dissect this question.

Is it reasonable that the rebellion is not suppressed?

Feng Jing saw that the situation was not good, and said, "Zi'an, this is the business of Xifu." ”

"Not bad. It is the right of Xifu. But doesn't Dongfu even have the right to ask? If so. Why did Fu Gong propose that the prime minister of the western province also have the right to take the post of the eastern government, and the governor of the eastern mansion also had the right to take the post of the western mansion? ”

In the Song Dynasty, the eastern government was in charge of government affairs, the western government was in charge of military affairs, and the three divisions were in charge of finance.

But can these three really be cut?

Not to mention waste, just because the eastern and western governments did not ask each other, during the Qingli War, various government decrees clashed from time to time, so that the officials of the states and counties below and the generals of the battalions did not know what to do. So Fu Bi proposed that the eastern and western prefectures should take each other's duties, so that the eastern and western governors could learn about some military situations, and the western governors could also learn about some government affairs.

The move was later cancelled, but both governments began to have the right to inquire about each other's situation.

For example, the prime minister of Xifu can also express his opinion on government affairs, or write to the emperor.

In fact, Wang Ju really didn't ask about military affairs, this is what Zhang Ji felt a headache and wrote to Wang Ju, and Wang Ju knew.

After Wang Ju finished laughing. He said, "Your Majesty, the minister proposes to take over the City Yi Division. Reset the Southern 12th Route Shipping Division, but this is the proposal, and it has nothing to do with other changes. If you want to cancel any changes, or if you don't want to cancel any changes, don't go along with what I'm talking about. Sun Gong, if it's the same, it's vexatious. If it's different, I can only give a four-word evaluation, ill-intentioned! ”

Wang Ju's so-called case must be a fictitious one.

But in addition to many people who were bewitched, the rest of the people were really ill-intentioned.

For a while, the entire court hall was silent.

Walking back to the Chinese book, Cai Jing said: "The prince still has great wisdom." ”

This Cai Jing ......

It's disgusting to think about what he did with the second genius of the future Great Song Dynasty.

However, Wang Ju also had to admit that this Cai traitor really had some skills.

"Prince, the household register is finished."

"Show it to me."

The prefectures and counties reported the number of households in various places to the household department of the imperial court, and the household department was handed over to the Zhongshu household room after preliminary sorting, and Wang Ju asked Cai Jing to divide it into two parts to sort out. Part of it is the number of households in the territory of the Song Dynasty in the past, and some of the households are the number of households in Yunnan Road and Jiaozhi Road, that is, the number of households in these two newly developed roads is compiled separately.

The number of households in the latter two roads is more than 900,000, and this Wang Ju doesn't care, he looks at the former.

The total number of households in the former is more than 1,226 main households, and more than 4.9 million customers.

Customers make up only a quarter of the total, and for two reasons.

The first reason is that Wang Ju pushed many destitute people to migrate, and most of the small amount of arable land or houses and property they left behind were embezzled or bought by local tyrants, and a few were circulated to the remaining poor households or poor relatives of immigrants. There is also Wang Ju fighting local tyrants in the south, which has also created some main households and reduced some customers. However, these two points will not have much impact, and will not exceed one million households.

The second reason is that the main household is not the landlord but the main household, even if the fifth-class poor households with only a few acres of cultivated land in their hands are also considered to be the main households, as for the customers, there is no arable land in their hands, and even the urban households do not even have their own houses, and they all rely on renting houses to make a living, this is the customer. That is to say, only a small number of fifth-class households and extremely poor households below the sixth class are considered customers.

If the imperial court can relax, Wang Ju overseas will also have enough income to transfer all these more than 4 million customers, it can be said that the Song Dynasty will not break out in a serious crisis within ten years.

But this is not possible.

Wang Juxin calculated the total number of households except for the two roads in Jiaozhi, Yunnan, and the total reached nearly 17.2 million!

"Yuan Chief, according to the growth rate of the number of households in the three years of Zhiping and the current number of households, how many households can I reach in fifty or one hundred years? However, the two roads of Yunnan Jiaozhi continue to except. ”

"Prince, this is a short-term increase in the number of households, it is impossible that our dynasty will continue to maintain this population growth rate in fifty or one hundred years."

"Yuan Chang, from the third year of Zhiping to the tenth year of Xining, how many households have increased in our dynasty? However, hundreds of thousands of households, why has it increased so much in the past three or four years? In fact, it is very simple, there were several large-scale droughts in those years, the new law had just been implemented, and the northwest had used troops several times, so the population growth was slow. But the actual population is increasing, especially the farmland water conservancy law, and the people of the overpopulated states and counties in the south have moved to Guangnan Cochin further south, and these policies have fed more people. In recent years, although the imperial court is still using soldiers, it is only the south that is using troops, and only the soldiers and civilians of Liangguang are mobilized to help, and the sacrifices are not great, and the Ding Zhuang who has increased over the years has grown up respectively. Split up and start a business. So in just three or four years. The population has increased by more than 2 million households. ”

"Yes, I just received the household register from the household department, I did the math, and I still don't understand, I see."

"As for this growth rate, in fact, it was not too high in our dynasty, and the highest was when Song Zhenzong was at that time, but the population base was small at that time. Although the growth rate was high, the number of households did not increase as much as it does now. However, in the future, the south will be developed, especially Yunnan Road and Jiaozhi Road, which are vast and sparsely populated, but suitable for planting. Although the future growth rate is not as high as the growth rate of Yuanfeng in the past few years, it will not be lower than the total growth rate of His Majesty in the past ten years. Unless there are more catastrophic disasters in the future, or the future monarchs and ministers are mediocre, or the powerful northern neighbors invade the inner belly of our court. Moreover, with the popularization of cotton, more people will not freeze to death. There is also overseas reclamation. When the disaster came, there was another large food base. Helping people through difficult times. You say, will the growth rate come down? ”

It's really hard to say.

When the actual population increases to a certain point, then the common people themselves will practice more cruel self-family planning – that is, more regions will cruelly drown their second and third children in swaddling clothes.

There are also some far-sighted people who will flee to other places, such as Jiaozhi in Guangnan and even Yunnan Road. At the same time, some people will spontaneously flee overseas. In fact, this autumn, some people also fled to Quanzhou, and when they could not find a way to make a living, they begged the owners of various sea ships to take them in and let them migrate overseas.

In addition, a post office was set up, so that even if they were overseas, they could send money to their relatives and relatives in their original hometown, which also opened a bright window for many people and gave them the courage to move outward.

Moreover, Wang Ju's governance in Guangnan included how many barbarian households, and these barbarian households were not on the household register in the first place. Of course, it is not easy for officials to make a fuss about this, although Wang Ju has found a large number of barbarians, but he has also migrated a large number of people overseas. On the surface, the two sides are equal, why is it superficial, because these migrants are almost all destitute people, and their migration will undoubtedly leave more living space for the local people.

Therefore, in the future, the imperial court will continue to not support overseas migration, and the growth rate will not be higher than that of the past fourteen years.

However, if Wang Ju didn't say it, who would have thought of it?

So why did Wang Ju say it, and will it be convincing?

But this is terrifying, in the fourteenth year of the Song Dynasty, the original number of households increased by three million!

And even without Wang Ju's promotion, if there was no rule of Zhao Ji in history, and the Jin people went south, then fifty years later, the total number of households in the Song Dynasty would easily exceed 25 million, and even reach 26 million or 27 million!

Cai Jing went down with two household books.

After a long while, he came back with a shocked face: "Prince, can it be counted like this? ”

"Why can't it be calculated like that?"

"That's a staggering number."

Because Cai Jing and the officials have been thinking for a long time, they found that based on the growth rate of the number of households in Zhao Ji in the past 14 years, then in 50 years, the number of households will increase to 1.9 times to 2 times, and if Yunnan Road and Jiaozhi Road are included, then it will easily exceed two times.

The total number of households in the country will reach 36 million!

As for a hundred years from now, it is even more unimaginable.

That's 3.8 to 4 times, more than 70 million households! There is no need for more than 70 million households, as long as it reaches 36 million households, even if there are Yunnan Road and Jiaozhi Road, some areas will have to eat people.

The king raised his forehead and said, "Send it to the palace at once." ”

After only a while, Zhao Ji issued an edict to let the main officials of important departments such as the two governments, three divisions, and two systems go to Yanhe Hall to discuss matters together.

Zhao Ji also went crazy when he saw Cai Jing's calculation.

Lu Gongzhu hesitated and said, "Your Majesty, these households also include a part of Kunlun slaves. ”

With the unruly rebellion of the natives and Jiaozhi people who migrated from many areas, the people of the Song Dynasty began to reject them, and some of the lords could not bear it, scolding Wang Ju on the one hand, and at the same time scolding the ministers of the court for many things, and on the other hand, they endured losses and sold them to various pit mines as mining slaves.

We can't afford you.

However, there are still a lot of people who have stayed in their own hands and gradually merged. But overall, this part of the population will definitely grow negatively.

However, Lu Gongzhu's voice is very weak, even so, compared to the hundreds of millions of people in the Song Dynasty, how much can they occupy?

Cai did say: "Your Majesty, this is also a kind of proof. ”

Many people say that the law change is not good, but if it is really not good, why is the population increasing so fast?

But it's really hard to say, the increase is so fast, not related to the whole change, the most important thing is the farmland water conservancy law, especially the emergence of Hebei water conservancy and Jiangdong Wei, the progress of agricultural technology, and Wang Ju's promotion. Don't look at Wang Ju's removal of many people, but under his various promotions, the number of people who have increased is definitely much greater than the number of people who have taken away.

Just like Liangguang, if you include the barbarian households that have been checked, the number of households has nearly doubled!

Zhao Ji didn't pay attention to the intrigue between the two, but asked: "Will it really increase like this in the future?" ”

Let's not mention a hundred years later, let's just say that in the past fifty years, if Zhao Ji and most of the young and middle-aged scholars live longer, they will be able to see it.

Wang Ju said: "The minister asked Cai Jing to check the household house, and Cai Jing was also very surprised, saying that it was impossible. The minister said that there are several circumstances that can prevent the population from continuing to expand. ”

"Wang Qing, what are those situations?"

"One is a continuous catastrophe, but this situation has little impact, the scale of the drought in Xining for seven years can already be ranked as one of the top ten disasters in history, and now the imperial court has begun to increase the two large granaries in Jiaozhi, Guangnan, really no, but also from overseas to mobilize food for emergency. The second is that the future monarch and ministers are mediocre, then it will not be a demographic crisis, but a crisis for the entire country. Third, the northern nomads invaded the core area of our dynasty, resulting in endless war and chaos in half of the Great Song Dynasty. Fourth, the peasants could not survive because of the annexation and tyranny, and they rioted on a large scale. If these four possibilities are excluded, then in 50 years, even if there are no 36 million households, if you include Jiaozhi Yunnan Road, it will reach 3 million households. As for 100 years from now, there will not be more than 70 million households, but it will be close to 5 million. Fifty years later, maybe the Great Song Dynasty can still support so many people, but a hundred years later, with the cultivated area of the Great Song Dynasty, it will definitely not be able to support five million households. Unless there is a special unexpected ......"

"What special accident?"

"If we find several kinds of grain crops that are more productive and easy to grow than Champa rice, and in addition, if the entire grain crop production technology is improved, then with the cultivated land area of our dynasty, maybe it can accommodate 560 million households."

"It's unlikely."

Wang Juyi spread his hands.

Lee Seung-zhi muttered: "...... overseas"

"It is unlikely that it will go overseas, but now on average a year, the number of households will increase by 220,000, with the ability and financial resources of those overseas maritime merchants, can 22 households and more than 1 million people survive every year? Envoy Li did not believe that next year, the representatives of those seafarers would come to Beijing to meet His Majesty and ask if they would agree. ”

There's no way to even go overseas, what else can be done?

However, there was a lot of joy in the capital.

There were many trade routes in the Song Dynasty, but there was one main one, that is, goods from the south were transported from the Grand Canal to the capital, and then transferred from the capital to the north and northwest.

Therefore, the area where the most small and medium-sized merchants are harmed by the Shiyi Law is the small and medium-sized merchants in the capital.

The edict was issued in the front, and countless small merchants and vendors in the back set off firecrackers to celebrate.

This, in turn, has given many old parties a reason.

However, all these books made Zhao Ju stay in the middle and did not send them, and Wang Ju quieted down, and what he did was only fine-tuning. Including the rectification of the department and the minister's money, although there is controversy, the final change of the law has nothing to do with it, and it is also a fine-tuning.

New Year's Day is gradually coming, and then there is a fun thing.

PS: The actual number of households in the third year of Zhiping in the Song Dynasty (1066) was 14181486, the number of households in the third year of Yuanfeng (1080) was 16730504, the number of households in the first year of Yuanyou (1086) was 17957092, and the number of households in the second year of Xuanhe (1120) was 22,000,000...... The golden man is coming! (To be continued.) )