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    ( .) "Your Highness, does he know how the Five Surnames and Qiwang will attack His Highness and the industry and commerce?" Cui Yu suddenly took a step forward and bowed to the ground and asked.  ()

    "Haha! If my guess is correct, it is nothing more than industry and commerce turning farmers into workers, which has reduced the number of people working on the land and reduced food production. The five surnames and seven seven-year-old families must have grasped the fact that agriculture is the foundation of a country.  , the wanton attack on industry and commerce has shaken the country, and then unite the officials of the tribe to write a letter to force the court to suppress industry and commerce." Li Min smiled, he had naturally thought of this for a long time, and had already made some preliminary responses.  Policy.

    "His Highness is really smart, and he revealed the key point with just one sentence. Wu Xing Qi Wang wanted to use this reason to suppress the momentum of industrial and commercial development." Cui Yu heard Li Min's words, and felt the same for His Highness King Qi.  He was filled with admiration, but then he frowned and said with some worry: "Your Highness, although the Five Surnames and Seven Hopes are using agriculture as an excuse to suppress it, it is also an indisputable fact. With the development of industry and commerce, food production has increased.  It has been greatly affected. If we let it go, no matter how prosperous the industry and commerce are, it will probably be just a rootless tree. Is there any solution for this, Your Highness?"

    "Agriculture is related to the stability of the country, and I am also paying close attention to it. However, although I expected that the loss of farmers would definitely happen, I did not expect it to happen so quickly. However, there is no solution. I have already asked people to  After making some preparations, even if the other parties unite to attack, they can't do anything to me. As for suppressing industry and commerce, it is even more wishful thinking!" Li Min clenched his fists at the end.  He looked confident.

    Although the influence of Wu Xing Qi Wang spread throughout the Tang Dynasty, he was not the dandy prince he was when he first arrived in the Tang Dynasty. If we simply compare his influence, the interest groups behind him may not be much weaker than the other party when they unite. In addition, he is also  One of the trump cards is useless, and it¡¯s not certain who will win by then?

    Wang Kuang and Cui Yu heard that Li Min was already prepared.  They are all very excited. The current prosperity of industry and commerce can be said to have been initiated by His Highness King Qi in front of him.  No matter how big the business is, the industrial and commercial owners must follow this young man's lead, because His Highness King Qi is the banner of the Tang Dynasty's industry and commerce.  As long as this flag does not fall, they and other industrial and commercial owners will be fine.

    In addition, the two of them were also very interested in how Li Min solved agricultural problems. However, they asked several times, but Li Min was unwilling to say more and changed the topic every time.  This made both Cui Yu and Wang Kuang look a little anxious. After looking at each other, Wang Kuang, who had just sat down, stood up and bowed and said: "Your Highness, I have been asked to offer you three strategies. Although they cannot completely solve the problem of the reduction of farmers,  Crisis. But it can temporarily alleviate the problem of underpopulation!¡±

    Li Min was stunned after hearing this. He originally thought that Wang Kuang and the others were just informing him, but unexpectedly they actually helped him make suggestions. It seems that Wu Meiniang's guess that they came to surrender to her was not without some basis.  Think of this.  He then asked with a curious look on his face: "Brother Wang, I wonder which three strategies are they? And who proposed them?"

    "Your Highness, let's not mention who offered it for now. How about you listen to these three strategies first? The first strategy is called Guangwu Slave" Wang Kuang saw Li Min's interest and immediately showed a strange expression.  of excitement.  Regardless of whether Li Min wanted to listen or not, he immediately started talking about the three strategies.

    Li Min was a little careless at first. After all, in his opinion, the people of the Tang Dynasty were limited by their thinking, and the solutions they could think of could not escape the limitations of this era. For example, the first strategy mentioned by Wang Kuang, you can tell by the name, it must be a lot of thinking  Li Min also knew this method of capturing slaves to fill the population shortage of farmers, but the key was where to capture slaves?

    But as Wang Kuang explained, Li Min became more and more surprised, and even felt a sense of shock. For example, in the first strategy, the other party accused Li Min of being too conservative and only targeted the Korean Peninsula and the North for slave hunting.  On the grasslands, don't you know that there are large populations in the Western Regions and Tubo in the south. With Li Min's influence, he should have mobilized people to capture slaves there long ago.  In addition, the other party also pointed out that there are still a large number of Kunlun slaves in places such as Java overseas. These Kunlun slaves are strong and have a gentle temperament. They are excellent laborers whether they are used for mining or farming.

    These words made Li Min sweat profusely. He thought he was already radical enough, but he didn't expect that there was someone more radical than him. He also attacked from all sides, treating all countries around the Tang Dynasty as targets of plunder.  Regardless of the image of the Tang Dynasty, although it was just Wang Kuang's narration, the blood and blood in his words could not be concealed at all.

    After hearing the radical first strategy, the second and third strategies were actually connected together, and after hearing only two names, Li Min was immediately stunned, because these two strategies were called promoting extensive planting and  Land swap.

    The other party pointed out sharply that the land of the Central Plains?During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, agriculture entered a dead end of intensive farming, spending a lot of manpower and material resources to try every means to increase the yield per mu. The reasons for this situation are many, the most important of which is that aristocratic families occupy a large amount of land.  However, the largest number of ordinary farmers have very little land per capita, so they can only try their best to increase the output of the limited land, that is, intensive farming.

    Intensive farming is not bad, but this farming method requires a lot of manpower and material resources, which results in a limited amount of land that one person can farm, and a large number of people are tied to the land. It would have been nothing in the past, but  After the development of industry and commerce, it is no longer appropriate to use intensive farming, so it is better to switch to extensive farming.

    For example, an adult laborer could only cultivate five acres of land a year through intensive farming, but after switching to extensive farming, he can cultivate ten or even twenty acres. Although the yield per mu is definitely lower than  It turned out to be less, but the total amount of grain harvested was more than several times that of the original. In other words, the same person produced several times more grain than before.

    Of course, extensive farming also has its own problems. Although each person produces more food every year, if the total amount of land remains unchanged and the output per mu decreases, the food produced by Datang every year will definitely also decrease. But at this time  This third strategy comes into play.

    The meaning of land replacement is very simple. The Tang Dynasty had just conquered the territories of Liaodong and Goguryeo, which were vast and sparsely populated, and large tracts of land were barren. On the other hand, in the Tang Dynasty, in Guanzhong, Hedong, Hebei, and Henan, the population was  It is very dense, and there is not much land for each person. In this way, a decree can be issued to allow farmers in these four roads to exchange their own fields for land in Liaodong, and this ratio can be set to one  Than ten or even higher, one acre becomes ten acres, I believe it will definitely attract many people to cultivate new fields.

    As a result, the population of Guanzhong Fourth Road will definitely be further reduced, and intensive farming will definitely make a lot of land barren. In this way, there will be a basis for extensive farming, and farmers who move to Liaodong will not have to  It is said that each family is assigned too much land, and intensive farming is definitely not possible, and they can only choose extensive farming. Moreover, with their arrival, the newly occupied Liaodong and Goguryeo homelands can be quickly settled.

    After listening to these three strategies, Li Min's eyes flashed with wonder. Apart from the bloody and bold plundering strategy in the first one, the remaining two were also one of the plans he was planning to implement. Let's not forget about the land replacement for the time being.  He said that the second method of promoting extensive farming was enough to surprise him, because from the perspective of the ancients, this strategy was simply retrograde. The method of intensive farming that had been worked out over thousands of years was abandoned.  , instead using extensive farming with little technical content, which is simply an act of deceiving the teacher and destroying the ancestors.

    Although Li Min came from later generations, he also knew that even in later generations, intensive farming was still the fixed mindset of most people, because at that time, the living space of the Chinese people was firmly suppressed in East Asia, and they could not expand outwards, so they had to  On the limited land, we are trying our best to increase the yield per mu to cope with the growing population, but as everyone knows, this method is forced out. If there are more fields, why bother to use this time-consuming and labor-intensive method.

    But things are different now. The Tang Dynasty is still the most powerful country in the world. There is not enough land in the country, so it just needs to expand outward. No one dares to accuse the Tang Dynasty of being overbearing. The lack of agricultural population can be completely replaced by the newly increased population.  Land is needed to make up for it. Even if these two strategies are implemented well, Datang's annual grain output will not only not decline, but will even show a trend of increasing year by year.

    Thinking of this, Li Min couldn't help but feel a strong curiosity in his heart. What kind of person could he come up with such a deviant yet extremely clever strategy?

    "Brother Wang, who is this person? I want to meet him!" Li Min was talking to Wang Kuang in an almost commanding tone. Being able to come up with such a strategy shows that the other party is not only talented but also dares to think what others think.  I dare not think about it, and I have a very clear view of the general trend of the world. It is very likely that Wang Kuang and Cui Yu came to me because of that person's guidance.  It would be a shame to God if such talents are not put back into use.

    Wang Kuang heard Li Min speaking to him in a commanding tone, but he did not show the slightest displeasure. Instead, his face showed a strange look of sadness and joy, and his mood became a little excited. Finally, he gave Li Min a deep blow with trembling hands.  He said with a salute: "Your Highness, the person who presented these three strategies is from my Taiyuan Wang family, but in Taiyuan City, he is a madman known to everyone!" (You are welcome to come. Your support is my greatest motivation.  )

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