Cultivation of chastity

Chapter 123 Population carrying limit
Although the polo game has undergone repeated publicity, the ticket price of five cents has blocked the enthusiasm of many people.

However, the location of Gaoling is the transportation hub of the entire Guanzhong, and the local people rarely visit it, but a large number of people from other places who want to learn more will come here for fun.

So the number of people who came to watch was enough to keep the polo match going.

Even the supporting facilities around Li Tai can get some light, so that they won't go bankrupt, which is enough for Li Tai.

Compared with the polo game itself, Li Tai was more curious about the talent of the war department, so he sent someone to record the talents of the war department displayed in this stadium one by one. With the idea of ​​transferring military use to civilian use, Li Tai wanted to transfer the talent of the war department into civilian use.

But Li Tai's headache is how to get Li Shimin to agree.

After all, such things as the talent of the war department, even ordinary soldiers may not be able to master it, and the troops who can master the talent of the war department are all elites.

If he ran over to Li Shimin carelessly and told him that he wanted to train civilian husbands to be talented in the war department, would he be suppressed by Li Shimin as an unfilial son in the next second!
Doing it secretly by yourself is even more courting death. The reform that was originally intended to simply increase productivity may be treated as a rebellion.

Thinking of this, Li Tai couldn't help feeling a bit of a headache.

Fortunately, with the arrival of the first month, Ma Zhou brought the investigation team to report to Li Tai the progress of the exploration in the Zhengbaiqu area, so that Li Tai finally found someone who could discuss it.

"I just left for a few months, why did King Yue start doing such a dangerous thing!"

Hearing Li Tai's question, Ma Zhou got Li Shimin to agree to use the talent of the Legion to farm, but he felt a bit of urge to leave with his head in his arms.

Ma Zhou looked at Li Tai, who was one year older this year, and wondered in his heart, aren't you really going to rebel, my lord?
But isn't this age too early? Even if I believe that you are obsessed with production, will others believe it!

"Simply put, this is military use converted to civilian use!" Li Taidao, "After all, the productivity of the army is much stronger than that of ordinary people!"

"This matter is as simple as it is simple, and as complicated as it is." Ma Zhou pressed his temples with both hands.

Regardless of whether Li Tai wants to rebel or not, he must be involved, and he doesn't want to be liquidated!
Ma Zhou said: "Your Majesty, you should confess directly to the sage, and ask the sage, the clan, and the Ministry of War to send supervision.

You can plan this force, but you cannot have the right to direct dispatch, and the right is best in the hands of the three parties.

Only in this way can the plan be carried out.

Because it is impossible for anyone to allow such an out-of-control force to be placed near Chang'an. "

To be honest, Ma Zhou doesn't think there is any problem with the current productivity, but Li Tai dislikes it, so let's dislike it.

Thinking of this, Ma Zhou continued: "King Yue, you have worked hard all these years.

So this matter, you directly confess to the saint, even if the saint disagrees, he just thinks that you take the credit and pride.

At that time, I will reprimand you a little bit, and it will be over after a while of arrogance.

But if you carry it out in private, then this matter may not be good! "

Li Tai's face changed when he heard Ma Zhou's words, but he also nodded to show that he understood.

Isn't it just telling the truth to Li Shimin, I am familiar with this.

Li Tai thought for a while, but he didn't rush to report to Li Shimin immediately, but patiently waited for the talent he needed to work in the war department to appear.

After all, neither Cheng Zhijie's non-starting charge nor Duan Zhixuan's divine weapon are suitable for work.

So Li Tai said, wait until the talents of all the teams in the polo match are fully displayed, and then do these things.

Seeing that Li Tai had to wait for all the talents to appear before deciding to choose the talents of the war department, Ma Zhou was relieved.

The king of Yue is still the king of Yue after all, and he has always done things safely, so he doesn't need to worry about it.

Thinking of this, Ma Zhou bid farewell first, and planned to let the guys in Zheng Baiqu's transshipment team work quickly.

I'd better go back to Li Tai quickly and fill in the gaps for Li Tai, otherwise Li Tai will often come up with many dangerous ideas!

Li Tai watched Ma Zhou come back in a hurry and leave in a hurry. He hadn't lived a safe life for several years, but he also lamented Ma Zhou's diligence.

However, the court has been quite lively in recent days.

Li Tai's development of Zheng Baiqu has come to an end, and now he is waiting for Li Tai to go to construction.

After all, there are funds and manpower, it just depends on how Li Tai uses them.

But now, the court is arguing about another matter, because at the end of November, Li Shimin issued an edict to determine the ranks of the royal family, clan, and honorable ministers, so that they will be unified and passed on from generation to generation. Unless they commit a serious crime, they will be hereditary. It means opening the seal again.

That's right, although Li Shimin has always been a wise monarch, as a nobleman in Longxi, Li Shimin has always been more inclined to implement a system similar to enfeoffment, and he has this idea more than once.

If it wasn't for the discord within the aristocratic family, Wei Zheng, Fang Xuanling, Changsun Wuji and other important officials would all oppose it.

Then the Tang Dynasty might enter the stage of the melee of Jiedu envoys a hundred years in advance.

From the current point of view, in the case of great unification, the county system is naturally better than the feudal system, but for the Tang Dynasty, what they saw was that the feudal system allowed the Zhou Dynasty to have a history of 800 years. However, the Han Dynasty with the county system was only 400 years old.

What's more important is that with the rise of the power of the gentry, some of the gentry hope to return to the era of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods when the gentry was a prince. Therefore, it is not accidental that Li Shimin proposed this idea, and there are also some political demands behind it.

It's just that the ministers in the court hoped that Li Shimin could get rid of this idea.

This matter has also become the most mainstream matter in the court recently. It has been more than a month since they have been arguing back and forth, and it is already the beginning of January, and there is still no result.

As usual, Li Tai went to the palace to greet him in the middle of the month, happily eating the silver dragon soup made by Empress Changsun.

At this moment, Li Shimin went back to Empress Changsun's room angrily to ask for comfort. Seeing that Li Tai's head was buried in the silver dragon soup, he decisively ordered Li Tai's silver dragon soup to be removed, and he made a portion and ate it. He looked at Li Tai with a smile.

"Aye~" Li Tai looked at Li Shimin, scratched his head, and said, "Qing Que has been very good lately, so he didn't cause trouble!"

"The order to build Zheng Baiqu was issued last year, why is there no progress until now!" Li Shimin said with a sip.

"Isn't this surveying the entire Zhengbaiqu area! When Ma Zhou and the others draw up the blueprints, the work will naturally begin!"

Li Tai immediately said: "Two years, at most two years, I will definitely build Zheng Baiqu!"

Hearing Li Tai's assurance, Li Shimin took a bite slowly, then nodded, and said, "It tastes good!"

Li Tai pouted, of course you taste good, but you took away half of mine!
However, Li Shimin's eyes fell on Li Tai again, and he said, "What do you think of the recent debate in court?"

"I'm in Gaoling, what are you arguing about?" Li Tai pretended not to know what Li Shimin said.

"Your silver dragon soup is gone!" Seeing that Li Tai was pretending to be confused, Li Shimin said indifferently.

"Ahem, is it a hereditary matter?" Li Tai said decisively, "I definitely agree with it personally!"

"Huh?" Li Shimin squinted at Li Tai when he heard Li Tai's words, and said, "Do you want to argue with the ministers?"

"But I don't agree with hereditary enfeoffment in the Central Plains, Shu, Jiangnan and Western Regions!" Li Tai said decisively.

"It's really slippery!" Li Shimin said disappointedly when he heard Li Tai's words, "You don't agree with me either!"

"Also?" Li Tai heard Li Shimin's words, chewed for a while, and asked Li Shimin, "Doesn't Brother Chengqian agree?"

"When I asked him a few days ago, he also agreed with what Wei Zheng said.

Seriously, let him study books with that farmer, and he was so stupid! "Li Shimin was very dissatisfied that Li Chengqian was not of one mind with him.

Look at the guy in front of him again, well, these guys don't have one heart with his own father.

"Aye, I think the hereditary enfeoffment should be entrusted farther away. If the place is too close, the story of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States will definitely reappear in the future!" Li Tai looked at Li Shimin's disappointed look, and quickly said, "I am really In favor of hereditary enfeoffment!"

"Huh?" Li Shimin looked up at Li Tai and smiled, "I know you are filial, but I don't need you to comfort me!"

"No!" Li Tai scratched his head and said, "Because I feel that the Great Tang is limited in raising people.

To a certain extent, if the method of enfeoffment is not used to solve part of the population, there will definitely be problems when the population is full! "

"My Tang Dynasty has a vast territory, as long as the government is clear, can't it support the people of the world!" Li Shimin couldn't help laughing.

"Our current arable land in Datang is less than 1000 million square meters.

With the recovery of national strength, new water conservancy projects, new land reclamation, etc., may reach 400 million hectares.

One hectare is equal to 14 mu, so it should be [-] billion mu of land, and each household has [-] mu of Yongye farmland and Koufen farmland.

Then it can be calculated that my Datang can have a maximum of 400 million households, and each household is counted as five people. In theory, my Datang can support a maximum of 7000 million people. "

Li Tai described his theory with mathematics as concise as possible.

At first, Li Shimin thought it was funny when he heard Li Tai's words, but now listening to him, Li Shimin's expression became serious.

Li Tai's arithmetic is right or wrong, but Li Shimin didn't expect it in this way.

And Li Tai continued: "Of course, because of land annexation, because of taxation, because of natural disasters and man-made disasters.

I think this data climbed to 6000 million population should be the limit that our Datang can rule. "

"There is a problem with this algorithm!" Li Shimin couldn't help but become serious when he heard Li Tai's words, and said, "During this process, the common people don't all rely on the farmland to survive, and some people serve the rich and can also earn money." Rations."

Li Tai said to Li Shimin: "But the rations they need still come from the fields!

What finally determines the population of the Tang Dynasty is to see how much food is produced from the land.

The total amount of food should determine the upper limit of the population of our Tang Dynasty, and this process may have such changes.

But in the final analysis, as long as there is not enough food, the refugees we saw a few years ago should appear.

Therefore, in Qingque's view, when the population of Datang rises to a certain level, it is necessary to let some of the population move out of Datang and let them find the world outside of Datang.

Otherwise, as the population continues to increase, once it exceeds 6000 million people, Datang will actually become very dangerous.

Because at that time, Datang's entire grain would not be enough to eat!

Moreover, this state of insufficient food will further increase hidden dangers as the population of the people increases.

So Qingque is in favor of hereditary enfeoffment! "

Listening to Li Tai's words, Li Shimin's expression changed involuntarily.

To be honest, although Li Shimin had always hoped to like enfeoffment, after hundreds of years of implementing the system of prefectures and counties, under the situation of the unified dynasty, the system of prefectures and counties has become an inevitable alternative to enfeoffment.

Therefore, Li Shimin never found the theoretical basis for the enfeoffment system. After all, the county system maintains the dynasty's rule of the world.

But now, in Li Tai's words, Li Shimin did not expect that he could obtain a basic theory of enfeoffment system from Li Tai, which was indeed somewhat unexpected by Li Shimin.

"You are in favor of enfeoffment because part of the population is also enfeoffed!" Li Shimin asked seriously.

"That's right! Isn't that good?" Li Tai said after hearing Li Shimin's words, "Is there any other way?"

Li Shimin said again, "But if we adopt enfeoffment, what should we do if those princes grow bigger and reproduce the scene of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States?"

"That's because the entrustment is too close, and the entrustment should be farther away!" Li Tai said calmly,

"For example, after defeating the Western Turks, enfeoffment to the west of the Western Regions, such as enfeoffment to the southwest of Tubo after breaking through Tubo, for example, enfeoffment to the south of the South China Sea.

As long as they don't get too close to each other, they should be able to be stable for hundreds of years.

Their very existence also has a great influence on areas such as Western Turkistan and Tubo, and can also produce good checks and balances.

In short, don't get too close to Datang, I think enfeoffment should be regarded as a pretty good method. "

Li Shimin listened to Li Tai's words, as if he knew Li Tai for the first time, and said, "Who told you this!"

"Is it necessary?" Li Tai scratched his head and said, "Isn't it possible to calculate it with a pen?

After all, human words can deceive people, but mathematics cannot, follow the data of mathematics, no matter how wrong you can be, how can you go wrong! "

Li Shimin was silent for a while when he heard Li Tai's words, and said:

"Don't go back to the Yue Palace today, go to the Tai Chi Hall and wait for me after eating, I will summon you if I have something to do!"

"Ah?" Li Tai was slightly taken aback, but Li Shimin didn't answer Li Tai, but turned and left.

Li Tai brought back the Yinlong Geng, and said after eating a few mouthfuls.

Today, I revealed the concept of population carrying limit to Li Shimin, naturally to show my position.

I can have any bad thoughts, but I just do my best for my Li family dynasty.

After all, if he didn't say it himself, the Li family dynasty would not be finished 300 years later for one reason or another.

And knowing it doesn't mean it can be solved, after all, if you want to solve it, you still have to go around yourself!
(End of this chapter)