April is coming, and the barley is fragrant.

Di Renjie and Wei Yuanzhong came to the palace, handed the clan in their hands to Li Wei, and said happily: "Your Majesty, look."

Li Wei opened the file and looked it up.

After ten years of governance, the population has grown rapidly, and finally the total population of the country has exceeded 60 million.

This number not only symbolizes the prosperity of the country, but also has a meaning. Why did Li Shimin always respect Emperor Wen of Sui and have made achievements in civil and military affairs? Another reason is that in Li Shimin's hands, the population has increased a lot, but it has never reached two-thirds of the power of the Sui Dynasty.

Until today, the total number of people in the country has barely exceeded that of the Sui Dynasty.

The actual situation is even more important. This population is only the number of people in the real jurisdiction, not including most of the Western Regions, Khorasan, Tochar, Sindh, Sestan, Balochistan, Sindh and Markland Ridge. It also does not include most of Liaodong and the nomadic peoples in the north of Yinshan.

Of course, the population of the Sui Dynasty did not include the population in the custodial areas. The total population of the Tang Dynasty must have exceeded the most powerful time of the Sui Dynasty, but it is hard to say that the real jurisdiction area was within the Sui Dynasty. There were still a large number of fugitives and hidden households. After ten years of the throne, almost half of the fugitives and hidden households were exposed by various methods and means. In fact, in the past ten years, the population has only increased by more than 10 million. However, because of the stability of life, the number of children has increased. In another ten years, it will be the second peak period for population growth.

This point is very similar to the Tianbao Weishi in history. The foundation laid by Kaiyuan is the peak of real people's growth during the Tianbao period. But unlike Tianbao, after ten years of constant stalemate... many wealthy families have been forced overseas to develop. There are a large number of new arable land, and the land crisis is far less serious than when Kaiyuan was found. Some seamen even focused on Oceania and opened up some arable land and pastures. Li Wei was not very concerned about this.

Overseas management is not effective under current conditions. The future direction is also unclear. What is concerned about is the establishment of bases one by one, so it is no longer a dream to ship to North and South America. With miscellaneous grains, with the current large-scale development... and vast territory, it is enough to accommodate 230 million people.

What is the concept of this population once it appears in this world?

"Okay." A smile appeared on Li Wei's face.

"Your Majesty, this is what I dreamed about more than 20 years ago."

"Di Qing, work hard and the future will be better." refers to the development of technology... After years of hard work, the original blast furnace and converter steelmaking appeared. Steel technology is leaping. If it continues like this, the steam engine will no longer be a dream in twenty or thirty years.

Li Wei knew the most about what changes would be brought about once this machine appeared.

Wei Yuanzhong said: "Your Majesty...Song Jing's advice should be cautious."

The population of the Tang Dynasty increased, and taxes and income also increased. Part of it was moved out of the corps and tenants, making new civilians... becoming the resident of the tax. But not the main ones, the fastest increase were commercial taxes, tariffs, and some of the imperial court's industries.

Taxation and various incomes, grain, silk, money or other "combined" slowly approached 50 million in partial money. This is also a very amazing number. But there are too many places to use money. The country's water conservancy and road construction have invested 140 million in total, rather than the tens of millions of partial money calculated at the beginning. The project will take at least four or five years to end. If it is completely finished, it will take at least twenty years to complete.

Therefore, the country's income doubled and did not dare to reduce the taxes of the common people.

There are still benefits to investing such an unimaginable huge amount of money. Large areas of fertile arable land have appeared all over the country. There are even pioneers who have entered Lingnan.

However, as we have money, more people burn incense and worship Buddha. The temples in various places are established, and even such a great governance will not make every citizen have no worries about food and clothing. Some people are under pressure to invest in Buddhism or Taoism. The population is increasing, and the number of people living in temples is also increasing. Moreover, these temples have successively taken advantage of their religious advantages to annex the fields.

Song Jing wrote a letter for this.

Forcibly demolish illegal temples, or stipulate the number of fields and population that temples can occupy, and tax the excess fields and the people.

Li Wei also agreed.

Wei Yuanzhong didn't think so. The country has been developing over the past ten years, which is obvious. However, in order to prevent annexation and expansion, many means have been used to ease the contradiction between preventing the expansion of annexation and occupying water conservancy. However, the area where it is placed is too far away, so it is better to be at your own door.

Some people even have this idea: one day, one emperor and one minister, now the monarch is better. What if it is the next generation? The resources are better. So in the past ten years, the emperor and the monarch and minister have fought against the powerful landlords of various households and families many times. They have used soft methods and hard methods.

In some aspects, some grudges have also arisen. Although many people make a fortune, they are always unsatisfied.

At this time, some conflicts with the religious community are not very beneficial. I said my thoughts and said, "Anyway, your Majesty is getting stronger and stronger. This move will definitely be implemented, otherwise it will be one of the major drawbacks of the country. It cannot be implemented at this time, and it will be at least ten years. Just like when the waist bag is in a small knife, it will be painful, and there is no need for this. Once you grow up, you will cut it with a small knife, not only will it not hurt, but it will be removed by root."

That is to say, if there are loud voices of opposition, there will be more people who do not understand it. Let it develop and develop to a certain extent, its badness and impact on the country have been seen, and there will be another storm measure. If there is nothing, there will be nothing to say.

Li Wei pondered for a moment and said, "Accurate."

Then he said, "Di Qing, Wei Qing, since you are here, I will tell you something. I want to use military force against Silla and the Japanese."

These two countries have been fighting for more than ten years, and the people have lived in poverty and accumulated huge conflicts. Li Wei felt that it seemed that it was time to take action. Besides, in recent years, the court has trained more than 10,000 regular navys. Most of them are used to inspect the islands, or to clear some pirates, and sometimes they also help seamen... annihilate hostile forces on some islands. They have experience in cross-sea combat.

Di Renjie frowned and said, "Your Majesty, why do you always want to annihilate these two countries?"

In his opinion, there is no need for this.

One has been fighting overseas for so many years and has also gained a recognition that it is not an indigenous person on the South China Sea islands. It is very fierce and it is very difficult to seize it. The other is equally strong and does not need to prove that the place where they live is very cold in the past decade. Both countries have been destroyed into such a large area, which does not have to pose a big threat to the Tang Dynasty. Strategically, there is no need to eat these two countries.

"Di Qing, you know the history of Dashi. It was only a big territory. Its place was less water and the desert Gobi area was only expanded for decades, and how much territory it occupied? The country's civil strife was divided into two caliphates and fought each other. But that's it. How many battles did it go through? How many soldiers did we sacrifice to make a compromise with Markland and the land of faith?"

But it cannot be said that. Justinian II, the new lord of the cavalry, was incompetent, which led to the Byzantine's ineffective attack and increased the burden on the Tang Dynasty. If the Holy See had not been seduced by Li Wei and had been under some pressure, the great cannibals would not be willing to occupy the Tang Dynasty. But on the other hand, if Byzantine had done anything, it would be possible that Damascus would be taken the opportunity to capture it.

Although the Tang Dynasty launched many attacks, in fact, Q was actually a practical training and was very frightening. The most sacrifices were Persians, followed by soldiers from Hezhong and Tochar countries.

"They are very similar. Japan and Silla do not have the support of fanatical religions. However, they are tenacious, united, humble and cruel by nature. I have talked about the harm of the northern nomads, but as long as the technology is maintained, some rough thermal weapons may eventually appear in two or three hundred years, and the advantages of the northern nomads will be lost immediately. Silla is different from Japan. They are eager to learn, and as long as they settle down, they can find ways to learn knowledge from our country. They are not afraid of a nation being strong, but they are afraid of a nation being strong and united, and can learn humbly. No matter which nation maintains these three advantages, it will be terrible."

Di Renjie and Wei Yuanzhong thought about it. Li Wei's words were true. There were many countries that were close friends with the Tang Dynasty or surrendered to it, such as the South China Sea countries. They were just arrogant and arrogant and ignorant. Seeing that the Tang Dynasty was advanced, they had never pursued it. Silla and Japan actually crossed the ocean and sent students to the Tang Dynasty to learn the excellent culture of the Tang Dynasty.

The three of them had been working together for many years. When Li Wei saw their expressions, he knew that they had realized it and did not say much.

Wei Yuanzhong thought for a while and said, "But I think it's better to wait until five years later. Five years later, the major water conservancy project has basically come to an end, and the national finances have a breath of bad breath. After five years, the two countries on the other side will become weaker, which is also conducive to our attack. And there are two military events to be launched at present. Although it is not big, it can be fought on multiple fronts, which will be unfavorable."

"Well." Qi Yuhao's advice, Li Wei always accepted advice. He asked again: "Would there be any news about Mochuo?"

Grandma's, it has become another big problem.

He was asked to escape ten years ago, but the boy ran to Wudejian Mountain and hung up another group of troops to carry out guerrilla warfare. Ashina did a lot of effort to suppress them, but Mochu ran away again. After a few years, he suddenly appeared. This time he hid in the dark and took advantage of a snow disaster on the grassland. Some tribes had difficulty in survival, bewitching many tribes and participating in the rebellion. Because the six towns successively increased by 500,000 people, and nearly 80,000 government soldiers were formed. He was small in scale and did not dare to cross the anti-mountain. But he really beat Ashina to a mess.

It was not until the previous year that the court could not bear it and sent Heichi Changzhi and Wang Fangyi to lead 50,000 troops to eliminate the rebellion again. But this was the view from outside. In fact, Li Weimo regarded the rebellion as a corruption and further improved the loyalty and purity of the remaining Turkic tribes on the grassland.

But this boy cannot hide in the secret like a poisonous snake and send people to search for it many times, but there is no news until today.

Di Renjie and Wei Yuanzhong shook their heads.

"Forget it, the next slander, anyone who kills Mochu or captures alive will be rewarded with 50,000 bugs. I will see if he dares to run around the grassland." One Mochu and the other Lun Qinling gave Li Wei a headache.

I will deal with Lunqinling soon, I don’t know if I can succeed.

Di Renjie said again: "Your Majesty, I am here with Gong Wei, and I have another thing to ask for."

"Why do you need to use a request?" These two people don't look like favoritism.

"Your Majesty, I have been in the position of Prime Minister Wei for ten years, so I ask Your Majesty to let me release you from the Prime Minister Wei."

Li Wei said similar things before: The best way to prevent power from being exclusively in one person is to mobilize personnel and economics, which is better for mothers. The ministers in the court are also constantly mobilizing, leaving only Di and Wei, and personnel and affairs have not changed.

But Li Wei once said another sentence. This is his experience of understanding from the electoral system in later generations. A term lasted for four or five years. If there were no unsuccessful situations, at most two terms would be held. This would not only maintain the continuity of policies and prevent the over-concentration of rights. If the exchange was intensive, there would be no continuous policy of 1 or 1. If the exchange was lazy, the rights were often concentrated in one person, especially the prime minister. Later Li Linfu was so authoritative.

However, the talents of Wei and Di became his most important right-hand man and he never moved his house.

Li Wei hesitated when facing the request of the two. Over the years, the people who made the greatest contribution to the court were not the soldiers of the border. But it was Wei Yuan, Zhong and Di Renjie. Historians all compared them to Fang Du in Zhenguan. It should be said that this metaphor is not too much. Especially Di Renjie's adaptation, he solved many problems for him over the years.

But according to the system, two people will form a bad example if they live for a long time. In later generations, how many ministers like them can be found. That is, how many people can have a keen eye to know each other?
Chapter completed!