Du Shaoqing looked around at everyone present, and boldly said his thoughts, in fact, it was very simple, only ten words: grazing for grazing, farming for farming!
After hearing his answer, everyone was confused, and Li Er reprimanded with a dark face: "After going around for a long time, this is your countermeasure?"
Leave it as it is?
So what else do I want from you kid?
It's just adding to the chaos!
”Seeing that Du Shaoqing didn't seem to be joking at all, but was a little confident, Fang Xuanling pondered for a moment and asked tentatively: "Doesn't Shaoqing want to implement a limited arable land policy in the northeast and keep some people grazing for a living?"
Well, this method is worth scrutinizing, as long as it can fix half of the population, the danger of rebellion for the rest of the people is much smaller. ”Du Shaoqing stroked his palms and laughed: "Yes, that's basically what it means, and I also know a situation, maybe it will be of great help to Uncle Fang to build a city." ”"Oh?
Virtuous nephew, please speak, isn't there anything special about the Northeast?
”Fang Xuanling urged.Du Shaoqing walked to the map and drew a circle in the northeast direction with the command pole, "Here, it is a fairly vast fertile soil plain, which is very suitable for planting and reclamation, and if it is used properly, it can add tens of thousands of acres of fertile land to Datang."
Originally, my Datang was only a part of the eastern Liaodong area, and now all of them are included in the territory of Datang, if it can be matched with our Datang cultivation technology, even if it only produces one season a year, it is difficult to get rich here. ”Seriously???
Everyone looked at Du Shaoqing in horror, and then turned their heads to look at the invisible circle, and the eyes of the ministers became hot.Datang is still in the Ming era of farming, the output of land and grain almost represents the national strength, and now it can increase such a large piece of fertile and fertile land, if it is used properly, Datang will no longer be short of grain, and the future will be prosperous.After staring at the map for a long time, Fang Xuanling said angrily: "Your Majesty, these small countries are not sincere, and such important geographical information is actually hidden from us, and their hearts should be punished!"
”"Wrong, wrong Uncle Fang, it's not that they deliberately conceal it, it's that they don't know at all, or they don't care, these northern Hu people, who only know how to graze and plunder in the south for a living, although some individuals will also consider learning to farm, but after all, they can't draw tigers, so they have been ignoring farming.In our eyes, it is a fertile plain suitable for farming, but in their eyes, it is just an ordinary grazing area.If they had known about this a long time ago, I am afraid that the national strength would not be so vulnerable. ”Du Shaoqing helped explain."
Yes, fortunately they are ignorant, otherwise, if there are three more Goguryeo-like powers in the north, the situation will be worrying."
Gao Shilian nodded."
But didn't you just say that if you over-cultivate, it will cause land shortage, that desertification."
Wei Zheng questioned.Du Shaoqing laughed, "In the circle I painted, it can be changed to the same farming mode as my Central Plains, as long as the population is properly controlled, I am not afraid of the quality of the land being destroyed."
To the north of this area, there are real grazing grasslands, and because of the climate, there is limited annual precipitation, so if we destroy the vegetation, it will be difficult to make up for the consequences. ”From the beginning to the end, Du Shaoqing has been answering the questions of these ministers one by one, this is not to be difficult, but to help check and fill in the gaps, the factors that can be taken into account by these people must be the people's livelihood plan, and there can be no omissions.In response to Du Shaoqing's proposal, everyone chatted and chatted for two hours, until the time of the lamp, almost everyone was a little unbearable, especially the elderly, Li Er ordered to pass the dinner, and then go home after dinner.During the banquet, there was no particular arrangement, and a standard dinner was served to everyone in this hall, and everyone was talking and laughing while eating and chatting.Li Er sighed with emotion: "It's finally a bit eyebrow-raising, otherwise, if so many Hu people in the north are allowed to continue to nomadic self-government, and a new leader will emerge again in the future, and the ancestral style will be restored, it will once again become a big trouble in my north, and I must prevent it!"
”I don't know who complained, "There are still too many Hu people in the north, if there are fewer people, the population can be controlled, and we won't have to start a war in the north every once in a while, and the people and money will be lost, and both sides will not benefit."
It is trouble for the country, and suffering for the people. ”Yes, but how can this population be so easy to control?
Since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, even though fertility has been encouraged many times, the population has reproduced slowly.It's different in the Hu tribe, the Tang Dynasty imported people to enhance the national strength and prosper all industries, but the Hu people are different, they add Ding to import to increase the new force of the battle, and when they go south to plunder and start the war in the future, they can harvest more.Therefore, if the Hu people have a little more population, the threat on the battlefield can be expanded tenfold, but the Hu people are scattered, which is very difficult to control.Du Shaoqing remained silent, waiting for everyone to eat almost dinner, and then he took the initiative to speak: "I have an idea to reduce the number of Hu people in the north by ninety." ”Poof, this news not only did not make people excited, but made many ministers almost choke on food.Li Er scolded angrily: "Bastard!
Since you have entered the land of my Tang Dynasty, and you will be my people of the Tang Dynasty in the future, how can you say such vicious words as slaughtering the people?
”"Who, who said they were going to kill someone?"
Du Shaoqing wondered.The chamberlain Lao Gao reminded: "Master Ma, what you just said, there is a way to reduce the Hu people by ninety percent" "I'm talking about immigrants, let them all move to the Central Plains and naturalize, I didn't say that I want to kill people!"
”Du Shaoqing said wrongly.Immigrant?
Why did a new idea come up with it?
It can't be nonsense, right?
The eldest grandson Wuji said: "Your Majesty, you might as well let Du Juma explain in detail, he is not a person with no purpose, he must have specific ideas." ”Unexpectedly, the first to stand up for himself was the old rival Changsun Fatman, Du Shaoqing was quite surprised.Li Er was happy to see his eldest brother and son-in-law reconcile, turned his anger into joy, squinted his eyes and nodded for Du Shaoqing to elaborate.The ministers who were going to say goodbye and go home to sleep were left behind because of Du Shaoqing's thoughts.In fact, this is also Du Shaoqing's plan two months ago, there has been a great migration of people in history, and the most famous in the Northeast should be to break through the Guandong, in this case, why can't the people in the north move to the south?
Some people may question that in this way, there is no point in building a city if there is no one in the north, and if the migration is not clean, some people will be left to multiply, and a hundred years later, it will be a large tribe, or in vain.Or some people say that it is too difficult for people to migrate, after all, the people are relocated to the land, and the problem of the Hu people in the north may not be their homeland, but survival, people have been grazing for a living since they were born, and nothing else, you let the family move to the south to farm, who is to starve to death?
Needless to say, no one wants to take that risk.But Du Shaoqing's method is very hopeful, although the trick is a little lost, but it is effective and once and for all, and everyone lit the lights and talked at night that night, and this strategy was set in one fell swoop.After knowing that the scalpers deliberately raised the price of grain, Du Shaoqing pushed the boat down the river and came up with a plan that would allow the Hu people in the north to take the initiative to relocate to the interior of the Central Plains.That is to inform them that there is no food, and they can't buy it if they have money, because there is too much loss on the road, and eighty or ninety percent of the food must be lost on the road, and Datang can't afford to drag this consumption.But there is no food, the labor force of the Hu people in the north before grazing has been hired to fight, plus the cattle and sheep that were bought by the Tang Dynasty as military food during the war, and most of the existing livestock in the people's homes are reserved for seed, which is not enough to survive and be practical.In this way, the people's food source has to rely on Datang exports, and now Datang says that there is no grain to export, how can they live?
There is a way, homeopathic release of a message, there is no grain at the border, but the Central Plains granary is still there, the imperial court has launched an immigration policy, as long as the immigrants pass, give food, shelter, settle down, etc., in a word: to stay is to sit and wait for death, and to immigrate to the Central Plains is to make a fortune.Putting aside for the time being how many of these people can accept the flickering of immigrants, even if this thing is done, the northeast region and the grasslands are empty, and it still can't work.Therefore, Du Shaoqing also launched a joint plan to encourage the people of the Central Plains to go to the northeast to develop, where a large area of fertile land was given to settle down, and all policies were very generous, as long as they could stay there to help build the city, the imperial court would give rewards.In this way, as long as the interests of the two ends are well arranged, it can promote a replacement-like migration of people.The Hu people in the north moved to the interior and were sinicized, while the people of the Central Plains moved to the north to belong to territorial expansion, which did not affect the rule and development, and could even accelerate the development of the local area.After listening to Du Shaoqing's introduction, some people praised and some frowned.A young middle-aged official asked: "Du Juma, you are a bit of a reversal of yin and yang, let the herdsmen go to the Central Plains to farm, and let the farmers go to the north to graze?"
It's not exactly what you said at the beginning, and it's likely that after immigration, you'll have trouble on both ends. ”This person is a young minister who has been promoted quickly in the past two years, and he is also famous, named Ma Zhou, and being able to allow him to participate in such a discussion shows Li Er's importance.Du Shaoqing explained: "The people of the Central Plains who moved to the north will be placed on the Northeast Plain to cultivate and farm, and of course a group of people who don't know how to graze will take over the grassland.Let's work hard to build the city and build the place of governance, and from then on, Datang will add a few more solid state roads.As for the Hu people who moved into the Central Plains, it may be a little difficult for them to learn farming, so my idea is not to let them produce farming, but only use their labor.In which state road in the Central Plains was short of people, we moved in a part of the Hu people, and these people went to take over various labor projects, such as the project of opening the mountain and repairing the Shu Road by Li Yu, the king of Shu.There are also rivers in the south of the Yangtze River, bridges, cars and boats, etc.", "There are millions of people in the north, which place can afford it?"
It's not like disaster relief, three or five months, a year and a half, it's like this every year," Wei Zheng denied.Du Shaoqing hesitated, lowered his business and said: "Actually, there has never been a shortage of grain, the Lingnan Navy has laid down the entire land of Annam, which is now the largest granary in Datang, with abundant grain production every year, and it is not a problem to feed millions of people with three seasons of rice a year." ”The people couldn't help but take a breath, first, they were amazed at the fertility of the land of Annan and the great achievements of Lingnan, and secondly, they secretly scolded Du Shaoqing for being cunning, and he didn't transport any grain to the people in the north, but forced people to leave their hometowns.Du Shaochao joked to everyone: "Hey, don't look at me like that, as if I am some kind of traitor, I use this method to drive the people to relocate independently, and from then on to survive in the Central Plains, it is better than their original displacement from the grass."
Even if I deliberately lied and had other intentions, it was almost a white lie!
”Fang Xuanling smiled and said: "Everyone, we can't misunderstand Shaoqing because of this, seeking the country and not hiding private interests, it is beneficial to the country and the people, it is the right way!"
If you don't use this method, just rely on the persuasion or persecution of the imperial edict, I'm afraid that this kind of large-scale migration of people will not be possible at all, and there is a way to save time and effort, why not use it?
It's me, and I'll use it too. ”Everyone laughed, and everyone knew that if it was about conspiracy and trickery, the people present must be the most proficient group of people in Datang.There may be not many people like Du Shaoqing who use yang to solve problems.Li Ji opened his mouth and said: "We can't let the grassland north of the northeast plain be vacated, I suggest arranging a powerful force to specialize in grazing and breeding livestock, cattle, sheep and horses, so as to control the northern grassland, and greatly reduce the cost of purchasing livestock in our Central Plains, killing two birds with one stone!"
”"Good!
Mao Gong's plan is very clever, and he is worthy of being Xu Junshi. ”Li Er stroked his palms and praised.Li Ji said modestly: "The minister is just an afterthought, presumably this is what Du Juma said at the beginning, grazing for grazing, and farming for farming."
In fact, it means that the herding and farming in the north are replaced by our people, so that the north is all its own people, how can there be any trouble for the Hu people to commit crimes?
”"Uncle Li, don't exalt me, I don't have such a clever idea, I'm afraid that what I want is to let those people who insist on not moving grazing, after all, they are familiar, uncle, you directly let others take over, even more foolproof, admire!"
Du Shaoqing waved his hand.Is that really the case?
Li Ji didn't believe it, he didn't believe that Du Shaoqing couldn't think of this, but he didn't argue more, what he discussed was political affairs, and he couldn't always joke between individuals, so he had to be serious.A parliament that laid the fate of the Northeast region was finally finalized in the middle of the night, and everyone dragged their bodies home with exhaustion, but one by one's thoughts and eyes were so uncalm, obviously this day's discussion made everyone feel a lot of emotion.Du Shaoqing rode home alone, and as soon as he walked to the door, the door of Du's house was wide open, and a person inside said excitedly: "You are back from the shopkeeper, it's really good to wait!"
”I'll go, what's this?
Which one are you?
Du Shaoqing was so frightened that he fell directly from his horse.It turned out that the person who rushed out was not a bystander, it was a scalper who was beaten during the day, at this time the nose was blue and the face was swollen, it was difficult to identify, running out in this night, can it not be scary?