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Fortunately, Wu Xuan has basically figured out the temperament of this pragmatic crown prince, knowing that he slaps his head and thinks about problems and rarely considers feelings, especially other people's feelings, and only real interests are what he really pays attention to.If the people in the Confucian Mansion knew about this, it would inevitably become evidence of the Zhu family's "small family spirit".

"Your Highness, are you afraid that no one will farm the land?" Wu Zhen asked back.

Zhu Cihong nodded.

"Your Highness, you really don't need to worry about this." Wu Tong changed his perspective and solved the problem of farming population first: "The fields in the north are originally poorer than those in the south, so planting mulberry trees and tobacco in the south of the Yangtze River can support a family with one mu of land; In the fertile land of Huguang, even two mu of land can support a person.

"But in the north, four acres of land may not be able to support a person. Most of the refugees resettled in Shandong today are given a few points of land for each person. Each family is only one or two acres, and they have to rely on government relief to survive. Wait. After the north is settled, the imperial court can relocate refugees from Shandong to return to their hometowns, and each person will be given five acres of land, plus the love of their homeland is still there, those people will definitely not be reluctant to leave."

After Wu Tong finished speaking, he quietly looked at Zhu Cihong, waiting for the crown prince to speak.

"Shandong is also a place with barren land. After these refugees return to Qin, Jin and Beizhi, they can give up a lot of land." Zhu Cihong nodded, vaguely remembering that after the Manchu Qing ruled the Central Plains in his previous life, he also immigrated 200 million people from Shandong to Henan and Beizhi. Straight, it can be seen that the population of Shandong should still be abundant.

"But sir..." Zhu Cilang paused for a moment, "Even if it wasn't for labor force considerations, wouldn't the people in Jifu just ignore it?"

"Your Highness is truly benevolent and generous," Wu Yan said insincerely, "It's just that this humble minister is thinking about the restoration of Liaodong in the future."

"Oh?"

"Marching and fighting is indeed beyond the ability of a humble minister." Wu Sheng first explained, "But a humble minister can 'observe the situation'."

Zhu Cihong quietly waited for Wu Tong to continue.

"The teacher of Lu Zhonglian, a child prodigy in the Warring States Period, whose surname is Xu and whose name is Jie, is good at the study of power and numbers. I have no talent, and I have tried to figure it out." Wu Sheng first introduced the origin of this unique skill, which can be regarded as looking for "orthodoxy". habit.

"At that time, the adversity was raging, and the general situation was not mine. Therefore, Your Highness avoids the enemy's edge and preserves strength. This is the best strategy. But now the general situation is mine, not Donglu, so if Donglu has some brains, he must withdraw. In the place outside the pass, lessons will be gathered."

"When our army regains Beijing and sticks to the three sides, then the power between me and Donglu will not be that we will outnumber the enemy, but that the two will be equal." Wu Zhen paused, and found that the crown prince had no doubts. .Fangcai continued: "When our army left the customs and resumed the Liao Dynasty, the general situation turned to the side of the Eastern captives again, and finally turned into the captive rebellion since Wanli again."

"How does the master plan to reverse this general trend?"

"People!" Wu Xuan said, "Our army's success undoubtedly depends on the people. Just like Tang Taizong's metaphor of 'carrying a boat and overturning a boat', these people are now the water that carries a boat in our court."

"Then why..." Zhu Cihong hadn't turned the corner for a moment.

"Your Highness, there is no water in Liaodong to carry my big ship. It is better to let the water go." Wu Yan said without any ambiguity: "Let the Donglu take these people captive, it seems that they are taking advantage of it, but in fact they are doing it for themselves. Digging graves. With these refugees in Liaodong, once our army returns to Liaodong, it will be convenient for us to pass news and explore the terrain."

Zhu Cihong's heart skipped a beat: It's hard to look directly at such a sinister and vicious thinking that even his own people are calculated into it!

"Moreover, in the future when the imperial army recovers Liaodong, how will they treat the Manchurian Shens? There are many people in our court who are boastful. If we kill them, we will definitely leave the name of a tyrant. If we can't wipe out the Tartars, we will end up with blood feuds instead, like the story of Mengtar , will become a problem for my Ming Dynasty." Wu Sheng said: "If my dynasty has hundreds of thousands of people in Liaodong? Where are the Tartars? This is a strategy to turn barbarians into Xia."

Zhu Cihong's eyelids twitched when he heard this, and he suddenly remembered the strategy that Wu Tong had told him in the prison to rely on the south of the Yangtze River and establish a foothold in Shandong.

"Changing barbarians into Xia and returning Liao to Central China is simply based on the population of the people." Zhu Cihong nodded and said, "If you only come to the real border with the army, you may not be able to accumulate enough population in a hundred years."

Hearing Zhu Cihong's words, Wu Tong was delighted and said: "I think there are 300 million Han people in Liaodong, so it can be seen that the land is enough to nourish such a large number of people. At that time, we only need to resettle the people who were captured by the Eastern captives. A few acres, set up a county and set up a government, so that men can have a share and women can return, so why worry about not consolidating this place?"

Since the establishment of the Qin Dynasty, China has never stopped domestic immigration.However, every emigration is a road of blood and tears, because no one wants to leave their hometown and go to a place so strange that they have hardly heard of it.At the beginning of the establishment of the kingdom, Emperor Taizu Gao emigrated several times, which also became a stain on this grassroots emperor.Even his policies of loving and caring for the people cannot cover up these stains.

According to Wu Sheng, now it is time for Donglu to take the blame, and wait for Wang Shi to go north to restore the Liao Dynasty and relieve the people from the upside down, which can be said to be both fame and fortune.

It's so tempting!

Zhu Cihong can even see that after Beijing is recovered in the future, there must be many civil servants who want to recuperate and stop the wheels of war.If there were such a group of captive people in Liaodong, then no one could object to Wang Shi leaving the pass and returning to Liaodong—anyone who objected would trample on "benevolence".

However, those are hundreds of thousands of innocent lives... If the two guards do their best, at least half of them can be saved from this disaster.

"I used to think that it was the benevolence of a woman for the emperor's father to refuse to kill and surrender in the carriage gorge." Zhu Cihong took a long breath: "Now I know his difficulties."

Politicians only think about their own reputation, so they are unwilling to take the threat of being criticized by others to do something that benefits their children and grandchildren.Politicians, of course, can see the general trend of the next few decades, or even a century. When they want to make some decisions, they have to face the biggest enemy-the choice of values.

Wu Yan's face sank like water: "Your Highness is different from today, otherwise this humble minister would never have made such remarks and proposed such a strategy."

"If I sacrifice hundreds of thousands, maybe even millions of people, in exchange for long-term peace and stability in Liaodong, and a solid land forever...is it worth it?"

"Your Highness," Wu Tong said, "these common people can always leave tens of thousands of people behind."

In the 11th year of Chongzhen's entry into the East, 25 people were captured, and the number of people who suffered in Beizhi, Shanxi, and Shandong also reached millions.If this ratio is used to estimate, at least 25 people were robbed by the Manchu Qing this time.Considering that the Manchu Qing lost a lot of people in the pass this time, and there is a lot of vacant land, it will also make the people have a higher chance of surviving outside the pass.

At least a population foundation of the order of [-] has been laid.

Although the Northeast is cold, as one of the three major black soil belts in the world, it is not difficult to feed tens of millions of people.In the original historical time and space, before the founding of New China, the three northeastern provinces had a population of 4000 million.After the founding of New China, the Great Northern Wilderness was changed into the Northern Dacang, and a large number of people migrated. The population of the three eastern provinces doubled in the ten years after the founding of the People's Republic of China.

Judging from the bumper harvests in Shandong and other places, the impact of natural disasters on the three northeastern provinces will subside in the next few years. Even if the current productivity is not as good as that of the Republic of China, it should be more than enough to feed a population of 500 million in the Northeast.

If the Northeast can be built into the second world granary, Daming will no longer have the problem of land shortage in the next hundred years.

If Liaodong can have a population of tens of millions, the polar bear empire that will rise in the future will not be able to just snatch 140 million square kilometers of land in the northeast.The population of tens of millions is not unbearable for Liaodong. The geographical environment of Shandong can accommodate a population of 800 million, not to mention the black soil plain that is among the top three in the world.

"Those who don't plan for eternity can't plan for a while. I think Mr.'s policy can be made into a national policy." Zhu Cihong made up his mind, and suddenly remembered that he would rather lead the people of Qin to destruction than leave it to Li Chuang.It can be said that this is a moment and that is a moment.Now I can't figure it out anyway, how could I go to the edge of such madness at that time.

——After the country has set the tripod, it is still necessary to erect a monument for Feng Shikong.And the magistrate of Chang'an, what's his name?

No matter how good Zhu Cihong's memory was, he was already somewhat vague about this past.

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