Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Chapter 370 Who are you defending against?
Chapter 72 Who are you defending against?

The demise of the Sui Dynasty belonged to the irreconcilable conflicts between the ruling class scholar-bureaucrats and the emperor, which eventually fell apart.

In fact, the Ming Dynasty was similar, too. The scholar-bureaucrats and the emperor had conflicts that were difficult to reconcile, and finally it was attributed to "silver". Chen Ying twisted the pages of the manuscript and lost his mind under the lamp thoughtfully.

The 7 miles of fertile soil in Guanzhong seems to be a lot of cultivated land. However, with the increase of population, especially the frenzied annexation of land by the aristocratic families and dignitaries, the Tang Dynasty eventually lost the country's credibility and led to the Anshi Rebellion.In the fifth year of the Sui Dynasty, the population of Guanzhong was as high as 16 million (according to "Tang History Lun Cong" No.13, edited by Du Wenyu, a doctoral supervisor of the history of the Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties of Shaanxi Normal University, the same data below) However, in the 1403th year of Zhenguan, the population of Guanzhong was only 1403 million. However, with this 20 million population, 3201 shi of grain was needed to be transported from the pass every year. "New Tang Shu Shi Huo Zhi" was collected by Tianbao for three years and 400 million stones.

Chen Ying naturally discovered a very funny problem. The cultivated land in Guanzhong exceeded 40 acres in the Tang Dynasty. In the Tang Dynasty, one mu was 580 square meters, and one hundred acres was one square. The number of people is assumed to be 4000 million, and each person still has 400 mu of arable land. With the yield per mu at this time, it is not a problem to maintain normal food consumption. However, in the Tang Dynasty, it became a big famine in Guanzhong, and Shandong provided relief.

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

In the later generations, it was only 150 million hectares in Guanzhong, which was only about 26 hectares, about two-thirds of the Tang Dynasty. However, the grain output of later generations was 930 million tons, feeding more than [-] million people in Guanzhong. But no pressure.Chen Ying secretly thought that even if the food production capacity is only half of that of later generations, it will not be a problem to feed the population in Guanzhong.

If Chen Ying is asked to increase the grain yield to [-] catties per mu, Chen Ying has no confidence. After all, the efficacy of chemical fertilizers is well known. A population of [-] is also possible.

Li Xiuning looked at Chen Ying distractedly and couldn't help asking: "Chen Lang, what are you thinking, Chen Lang?"

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

Li Xiuning looked like she didn't believe it at all, and turned her head away.

Chen Ying could only smile bitterly and said, "I was thinking that the difference in production models determines the fundamental difference in the population base that can be supported on the same piece of land and the military organization capabilities."

The post-modern words made Li Xiuning feel confused, like clouds and fog.Li Xiuning asked suspiciously: "What is the direct relationship between this and your writing?"

Chen Ying secretly sighed that he was really mediocre.

Meals should be eaten one bite at a time, and the road should be taken step by step, and the steps should not be too large, if they are too big, it is easy to pull the egg.For example, Wang Mang and Yang Guang, these two big brothers played themselves into it because the pace of reform was too big.

Chen Ying smiled wryly 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 about our coming... Let's not be an eyesore here, pack up our things, let's go home." Li Xiuning was confused again Tweety blinked.

After a long time, Cui'er finally didn't waste Li Xiuning's good intentions, and understood Li Xiuning's meaning: "Your Highness, this servant is going to pack up."

Speaking of which, Li Xiuning and Cui'er walked towards the door hand in hand.

Although Chen Ying is no longer the first brother, he really lacks experience in dealing with women. If he is a master of love in later generations, he can tell Li Xiuning is playing with Chen Ying at a glance.

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

As soon as Chen Ying became nervous, he couldn't speak fluently.

Li Xiuning looked at Chen Ying, who was stunned on the battlefield. He was incoherent, embarrassed, and felt very comfortable: "Then what do you mean? I have come here, and you don't accompany me around? Could it be you ?”

"Where is it?" Chen Ying looked at the dark night sky outside, and asked hesitantly, "Just now?"

"Now, is there anything we can't do?" Li Xiuning turned to look at Chen Ying and said, "We can learn from the ancients!"

"Learn from the ancients?" Chen Ying thought to himself, why do you want to learn from the ancients? You are the ancients.

Seeing that Chen Ying still didn't understand what Chen Ying meant, Li Xiuning covered her mouth with a light smile and said, "Learn from the ancients...go out at night holding candles."

"Okay, let's go now!" After saying that, Chen Ying shouted outside the door: "Lan'er, bring some lanterns over here!"

After a while, Lan'er was carrying a lantern, and the two sisters, Lvzhu and Hongxiu, were also carrying a lantern.Chen Ying pointed to the three bright halls 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 to Chen Ying's bedroom.

Lan'er and Hongxiu walked ahead quickly, knocked on the door of Chen Ying's bedroom, and lit the candlesticks in the room one by one.

Although Chen Ying's bedroom has three rooms, in fact there is only one real bedroom, one is used as an indoor washroom, and the other is the annexe where Lan Er, the housemaid, lives.There are copper lamps with lion heads on both walls of the bedroom. The lamps are shaped like hydrangea balls raised by lion dancers in later generations. There is a lamp panel in each embroidered bead, which contains five lamp posts, four lamp posts with twenty lamp posts, and three lamp posts are lit at the same time. Big candles illuminate the three bedrooms as brightly as day.

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

It's a Simmons bed with a backrest, but it's bigger.The entire bed was a full foot wide (about [-] meters) and nine feet six inches long.

Li Xiuning looked at Chen Ying's bed, and suddenly turned around with a smile on her face and said, "There may be many people sleeping in this bed!"

Lan'er spoke quickly and said without hesitation: "It's not crowded at all to sleep four people."

When Chen Ying heard this, his face turned green.

Li Xiuning's face slowly changed.

four people.

Isn't Lan'er, Hongxiu, Lvzhu and Chen Ying four people?
Li Xiuning looked at Chen Ying fiercely: "Mr. Chen, you really know how to enjoy yourself. Why don't you build a ten-foot-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 stern face: "When did four people sleep in this bed?"

Lan'er saw Chen Ying's fierceness, tears were about to come out: "It was last month, when Gao Wenjin came over, the four of us slept on it, 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 weird bathroom.

……

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

The turret is the place where Chen Ying first built a simple watchtower. At this time, a seven-storey octagonal building rose from the ground.Chen Ying and Li Xiuning walked to the seventh floor of the turret. Chen Ying pointed to the outline of Chen's Fort in the distance and said, "This will be our future home. Although the place is not big...but it can shelter from the wind and rain."

Li Xiuning was slightly surprised and said, "Chen's Wubao is more than two hundred feet long, right?"

Chen Ying nodded and said, "Not only that, it's 210 two feet high, two feet high, and the city wall is one foot two feet thick."

And length, that is to say the meaning of circumference, 210 feet, about 980 meters, this is already a big city.

Chen Ying continued to explain to Li Xiuning: "The city wall is going to be rammed with blue bricks and soil, and a low earth wall is built on the outside of the solid and tall masonry wall, east, west, and north. A narrow gap is left between the earth wall and the wall. Space, as a watchman to pass through, is also a patrol road."

Li Xiuning said indifferently: "I'm afraid the construction of your Wubao is not just to guard against thieves, is it? Who do you want to guard against?"

(End of this chapter)