Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 760 Difficult to Govern

After the spring plowing, there will be a big war. After the big war, the prisoners of war will be exchanged with Datang for food and equipment.

After Xia Geng fought again, he still used prisoners of war to exchange food and equipment with Datang.

This has become a normal state of Byzantium. In this normal state, they gradually regain lost ground, earn benefits, and enjoy it.

And Sun Xiangfu's normal state is to give lectures to the common people, in the fields, to teach everyone to cultivate the land. After the end of spring plowing, the content of his lectures is no longer purely about farming. Some views that can impact the thoughts of the local people, He is often mentioned in his teaching.

Moreover, the scope of his lectures is no longer limited to the vicinity of Constantinople, but extends all the way to Northern Europe, allowing those areas with a more backward civilization to feel the glory of Han culture.

Advanced civilizations always have an irresistible influence on backward civilizations. As long as they are individuals, they are willing to live a comfortable life with enough food and clothing. Adding this characteristic to Han culture makes it impossible for people to resist it.

For more than a year, more than 2000 members of the art troupe, divided into dozens of groups, performed continuously in the major cities of the Byzantine Empire, and gained countless fans. Many Byzantine people with high comprehension and sensitivity to voice can use it Roaring a few ballads from the Tang Dynasty in Chinese is a kind of progress.

As for a place like a hospital, after it was established, it quickly became one of the most sacred places in the area. A few years ago, merchants on the side of the Byzantine Empire, as long as they could get Chinese medicine pills from Shanyang Pharmaceutical Factory , you can definitely make a lot of money.

However, when they brought these Chinese patent medicines back to China, they sold them as commodities, because they did not have the method of diagnosing patients in traditional Chinese medicine, and they did not know how to prescribe medicines according to the symptoms and specific conditions of patients.

Therefore, pills for headaches and colds are sold to almost everyone who does not have diarrhea or trauma.

The antidote pills are used for all those who are suspected of being poisoned or have stomach pains.

Many times, the disease is made worse by improper medication. People who buy pills may spend a lot of money, but they have to buy them, because these pills, as long as they are taken correctly, can indeed cure the patient. , If you don't take medicine, many people may be directly dragged to death by a minor illness.

The existence of the hospital has completely subverted the local people's cognition of taking medicine to treat diseases. It turns out that there are so many reasons for people's illness. As long as you take the right medicine, you can heal most of the common diseases in just a few days. Diseases, traumas that can be seen deep in the bones, and serious illnesses such as broken bones can be cured quickly by the hospital, which makes them feel miraculous.

Then the hospital became an important place to spread Han culture.

Because, if the common people want to learn the medical skills of the Tang Dynasty, they must first learn Chinese and Chinese characters. Ivan has equipped almost every hospital with a staff of hundreds of people, called assistance. The medical officials of the Tang Dynasty learned some medical skills of the Tang Dynasty, while the Chinese medicine of this era is supported by a whole set of mysterious Han philosophy theories.

Others, such as commerce, factories, etc., are also affecting the Byzantines quickly and on a large scale. The units of measurement and weight are quickly unified by them. The same is true for astronomy and calendar calculations. In the future, there will be less and less obstacles for them to integrate into the Han culture.

Of course, at the end of the 18th year of Zhenguan, Sun Xiangfu had to raise the issue of the return trip.

In Heraclius' view, the visit of the Datang Mission this round is positive and crucial to them. Without the support of Datang, it is impossible for them to quickly recover after suffering a big defeat. Recovering the lost land and increasing domestic productivity, he led all the Byzantine Empire's workers and people to retain Sun Xiangfu.

Under the circumstances of their kindness, Sun Xiangfu finally decided to stay for half a year longer. In the summer of Zhenguan's 19th year, he got up and returned to Suiye City in the Tang Dynasty.

Here, it is no longer the border town area of ​​the Tang Dynasty. The land thousands of miles to the west is the territory under the rule of the Tang Dynasty. Since Li Shimin has been working here for a long time, the infrastructure construction of this city has not stopped. Now, it is already a large metropolis comparable to Chang'an or Jiangling a few years ago.

Among the crowd waiting outside the city gate, Sun Xiangfu saw Yu Xiu'er at a glance. Singing really can delay people's aging. Yu Xiu'er is in her thirties and looks like a girl in her twenties. Of course, In this era, only Sun Xiangfu treats women over 20 as little girls.

Sun Jing has come of age this year, and he is bigger than Sun Xiangfu. The 16-year-old Sun Feng, like an adult, stood behind Chuntao. Sun Xiangfu didn't know why his eldest daughter Sun Wanting saw her eyes Some dodged, but she still reached out and pinched her little face. It is said that the female college has changed eighteen years, but the second daughter, Sun Wanyu, has not changed much. Her cheeks still look a bit like Sun Xiangfu. Seeing her, Sun Xiangfu's mood is very different It will be much better.

"Husband, Your Majesty is waiting at the gate of the city. If you want to reminisce about the old days, you can talk about it after you go home. You are not allowed to have a banquet in the palace today. The family banquet is prepared at home." Yu Xiuer saw that Sun Xiangfu wanted to get close to every child With a look, he opened his mouth to remind.

Not to mention, after being reminded by Yu Xiuer, Sun Xiangfu realized that he had so many children, and it took about a quarter of an hour to say hello and talk to each of them, so he waved at many concubines and children. He waved his hand and said, "Go back first! I'll be back later."

Then, Sun Xiangfu broke his promise.

How could Li Shimin simply let him go back? Regarding the situation of Byzantium and the follow-up plan of Dashi, the chat at the beginning was not a few words, and it could be finished.

"I originally thought that life would be easier after I laid down more territory and no foreign troubles, but I didn't expect that the more I got to the last step, the pressure would increase. Zhengming can relieve the worries in my heart The method?" Li Shimin asked after finishing talking about the business.

Sun Xiangfu replied, "The difficulty of governance will increase with the increase of the territory and the increase of the population under the rule. Therefore, we will be in a political system for a long time to come. In the state of upgrading, it is necessary to respect the customs of various ethnic groups and formulate different related systems according to different regions.

From the current point of view, the original state road system is no longer applicable. As the country enters a stable period, the population will continue to grow. The pot is so big, but the number of people eating in this pot is increasing. Too much, without fine-grained management, problems will arise after a long time.

We should change the national management from shallow and rough farming to intensive farming like farming, divide the administrative area smaller, manage it more comprehensively, and link the degree of regional development with the speed of population growth. Land reserves, mineral reserves, and forest resources are all clarified. When the per capita land, income, imbalance, and local resources do not have sustainable development, timely adjustments may be made. This may be better. "

"Administrative divisions are smaller, and management is more detailed." Li Shimin accurately captured the central idea of ​​Sun Xiangfu's words, and after repeating the words, he found it very reasonable.

As for how to clear up the things in one's home, figure out the relationship between consumption, output, and subsequent reserves, so that various industries can last for a long time, this is also a university question. When the statistics of various aspects are really counted, When the supply layer of the entire country does not break, then the development of the entire country will be stable.

These are all management sciences of later generations. In this period, few people can consider this aspect. In ancient society, because there was no such plan, land mergers would become more and more serious in the middle and late stages of a dynasty, and the population would multiply. Expansion has caused the common people to not have enough arable land to feed themselves, and there will be some famines. When everyone has no food to eat, it would be strange not to rebel to the death.

"Does Zhengming have any specific ideas?" Although it was getting late, Li Shimin, who felt that he still had a lot to gain from the conversation with Sun Xiangfu, continued to ask.

Sun Xiangfu hardly thought about it, and replied, "It would be more appropriate to divide the states and roads into provinces according to certain regional customs and population numbers, and let the Zhengshitang manage the affairs of each province in detail.

As far as the state roads we have set up at present, most of them can be divided into three to four provinces. On average, five or six states can be divided into one province. If the whole country is counted, it can be divided into nearly a hundred provinces. Once it is drawn up, it can give the people below many channels to ascend.

In addition, the Political Affairs Hall and the Ten Departments will also need to be expanded to manage such a large area of ​​the country. It will take ten days and a half a month just to go through all the data. Do you think this way? Can it be efficient? "

When Sun Xiangfu mentioned this, Li Shimin nodded again and again. Li Chengqian has complained to him more than once. The country is too big and the government affairs are too busy. There are more than 1000 million, and it will take more than half an hour just to read you the list of state governors in more than 800 states.

It often takes more than a year for the officials of the Ministry of Officials to hand over the performance evaluation reports of the magistrates of more than 5000 counties. Other departments such as the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of Finance, etc. It can be said that the problem of difficult governance has been exposed in various aspects.

It is absolutely unfeasible to adopt the original official system.

"Zhengming thinks, how should we reform?" Li Shimin asked cautiously regarding the major reform of the entire imperial court system, which was no small matter.

Sun Xiangfu thought for a while and said, "Actually, it's not difficult. For the ordinary affairs of the Zhengshitang, we can definitely get thirty or fifty for him, and there is no need to expressly limit the number of people.

Don’t just have two servants on the left and right of the ten ministries. According to the actual needs, if five people can meet the needs, then appoint five, and if ten people can meet the needs, then appoint ten, or even more.

In this way, it is much better to give all people more upward channels, and to maintain a teamwork style in major matters, than to stick to a fixed system and let all people compete for one position. "

"Fifty peace?" Li Shimin was startled by a number that Sun Xiangfu said casually, but after thinking about it carefully, he felt that it was quite reasonable.

The reason why Sun Xiangfu dared to think so much was because he lived in such an era in later generations.

After the unification of the Eurasian continent, the Tang Dynasty will be several times larger than the territory of the later generations of our country. It is normal for the population to reach 200 billion within [-] years. Don’t open your mind and make drastic reforms. When problems are exposed If you want to change it, it may be too late.

(End of this chapter)