"The peak of the population of the Tang Dynasty was the time of Tianbao. In the late Tang Dynasty, the population was not large. However, due to the serious annexation, a drought came, and the people rose up one after another, which eventually led to the real demise of the Tang Dynasty. If the annexation continues to spread and expand, the population will be so strong. In fact, there is no need to be many. Thirty years later, we can see the various crises of our dynasty. That is, if the dukes live a long life, they can see it."

Everyone was gasping.

In fact, the number of households being handed over to the Ministry of Revenue also shocked the officials of the Ministry of Revenue.

Wang Ju didn't remind him, at most he said it was densely populated, but Wang Ju repeatedly reminded him how to not realize the crisis.

In fact, there were some prescient ministers, such as Bao Zheng, who mentioned this issue as early as the reign of Emperor Renzong of Song, saying that the dense population was unimaginable and that the future would bring various crises to the Song Dynasty.

But how many households were there at that time?

Now, including the Southern Third Road, there are nearly 20 million households. Since ancient times, there have been records of 20 million households?

Although it also shows that the Song Dynasty did well in internal governance. If not, the population growth rate did not increase so quickly, but will it continue to increase?

Li Qingchen asked: "Taibao, even if there is no merger, if this continues, our dynasty will have various problems."

"It will be easy to solve without mergers. In fact, as long as the merger does not spread, there is a way to alleviate it. For example, I handed over the Shanming, Tidal Flats, Lakes and Lakes to individuals or several people to manage them, and specialized people. This will not only benefit other people, but also get more products, but it is also preventing the merger from spreading in disguise."

"New machine technology is being exhibited. Some main households with a lot of fields have purchased it and used it to irrigate and drainage. However, it is still very expensive now. Once the technology is further improved and the price falls, it can also be popularized, and the yield per mu can be increased."

"The supplement of high-yield grains, and they are mostly drought-tolerant crops, can increase the total national grain output."

"The imperial court allocates funds for farmland water conservancy and road construction, which will not only prosper the economy, but also increase the arable land area."

"The other side is constantly improving ship technology, and as sea ships grow larger, transportation costs will decrease, because the other side is vast and sparsely populated, and often only costs more than 100 cents per stone of rice. In addition, the Jiaozhi Road is opened. Then you can use sea ships to transfer south and north to the north."

"Don't discriminate because the other side is a group of merchants. Besides, their patriotism is no less than ours, nor do they reject it because the people migrate on the other side. Not to mention that the other side is gradually turning cities into states and handing them over to our dynasty for management, but they cannot manage it. Can they threaten our dynasty through the sea? On the contrary, the same species and roots will only help each other and be strong with each other. Then the migration of the other side can also relieve the pressure of a part of the population's sharp increase."

"Also, other measures can be introduced, such as encouraging people to marry late and have children late, rewarding some improved crop seeds, and increasing yields of people."

"Late marriage and late childbirth?" Zhao Xu asked strangely.

"Try to get married and have children as late as possible. If you can do this, the Song Dynasty will be able to be worry-free for two hundred years. You may ask what to do in two hundred years? That's too far away, but if you really want to go two hundred years later, there is only one. Improve technology, not only new machines, but also fertilizers, seed improvements, etc. Otherwise, there is no need to be too much. I said that thirty years may be exaggerated, but my dynasty will be in danger in fifty years."

Wang Ju's words were a bit exaggerated.

First of all, the proportion of population growth is wrong. It is not that there are many hidden households being searched, or that there are several states in the south, but those states actually do not have many people.

This surge was mainly due to Wang Anshi's farmland water conservancy law, including the opening of Jiangdongwei. Wang Ju's previous auxiliary measures to beat the edge drums, but now he has begun to collect dividends, which has brought about the first wave of population surge.

If the court does not change Wang Ju's policies in the future, the Song Dynasty will usher in a second wave of population surge in more than ten years.

But after more than ten years, the surge will inevitably slowly decline.

Secondly, Wang Ju’s statement is indeed a bit exaggerated.??Look?

As long as the Song Dynasty did not appear like Song Huizong, and the expansion of several roads and the emergence of new machinery, I dare not say that it is as popular as the water pumps in later generations. At least it will play a role, and the emergence of these miscellaneous grains in advance and pay attention to it, the number of people that the Song Dynasty could accommodate was 250 million.

Why do you say 250 million, instead of the more than 400 million people like the Qing Dynasty?

Let’s look at the territory of the Qing Dynasty. Perhaps the ones in the west are not suitable for many people to survive, but there is still a Great Northern Wilderness.

The second is the yield of crops. Poor fertile silt fields like Jiangdongwei, if one acre of land can harvest five stones of rice, it will be considered high. As for other areas, the yield per acre of rice is only about three stones! Think about the yield per acre of later generations, the yield per acre of rice is 1,000 kilograms.

Then to wheat, the yield per mu is even lower, not even two stones.

The Qing Dynasty did not have that high output, but technology was already increasing by the late Qing Dynasty, and the output was at least far away from the Song Dynasty.

Therefore, Wang Ju thought that once the population of the Song Dynasty expanded to 35 million households, all kinds of crises could arise. But after these two waves of policy dividends and trying to expand to this amount, it would take at least more than a hundred years later.

However, if the merger deteriorates, the taxation will become unreasonable again and there is nothing to say.

However, if the regulation is done properly, it may be able to last for two or three hundred years. It’s just that the fact is not to the latter, but to the former

The reason why Wang Ju said it was not only to migrate the people to make their names clear, but mainly because he was worried that Gao Taotao might change these policies in the future once Zhao Xu died, so his efforts would be ruined.

And Gao Taotao is definitely not as wise and wise as the one written by God Jin, he is a very uneasy person.

"Your Majesty, I returned from the other side at that time. At that time, I was ambitious and wanted to use the Banking Department to ban the Qingshou Law, improve the Baojia Baoma Law, and further expand the road water conservancy. These steps seemed to have been done. However, I dare not touch the merger. At the same time, I wanted to gradually ban the transfer, change, and add these harsh and miscellaneous taxes (in addition to these three miscellaneous taxes, there are nearly twenty miscellaneous taxes such as pre-buying, household registration, salt money, silkworm salt money, cowhide money, agricultural tools money, shoe money, and quilt money, but many miscellaneous taxes are not implemented frequently. The most common and most important miscellaneous taxes are these three), but considering the economy in all aspects, I dare not propose to ban it. Your Majesty, I feel very ashamed whenever I think of this festival."

This is what Wang Juqian said.

If you have to pick on it, no matter how perfect the country is, you can find many problems.

In fact, after this period of governance, the Song Dynasty was almost able to reach the peak of the Xianping rule.

Although it was not like the saint Li Wen, who quietly improved the Song Dynasty. But considering the difference in the time and space situations between the two, the pressure Li Wen faced was obviously much smaller than that of Wang Ju.

The most important thing is that time is too tight.

If it weren't for Zhao Xu's body, and everyone would have doubts, and if Wang Ju was given another two years, Wang Ju could even make the Song Dynasty pass the height of the Xianping rule.

Wang Jugong said, "The harsh government is more powerful than the tiger. These miscellaneous taxes have also hurt many people, but I have no time to deal with it. There is also the Yellow River, the Han Dynasty, and the Han Dynasty, who could force the Yellow River to change its course to control river troubles and use our dynasty's financial resources. Why not? This is how mobilized the troops, and Your Majesty has such trust, but the river troubles are endless, I turn a blind eye to it, so the more I think about it, the more I feel ashamed. In the future, the imperial court's finances will inevitably be further relaxed. I hope all the officials will work hard."

With Wang Ju slowly retreated.

Cai Bian sighed and said, "Taibao is also worried about retreating, but Sima Gong's words have made mistakes."

Look at Wang Ju, not only did he manage his civil and military achievements in office, but he also arranged his talent reserves after leaving the Song Dynasty. Now he pointed out various shortcomings and precautions in the future. Is this the practice of an overseas king?

But this overseas king really has a market.

There is even a very ugly saying that Wang Ju came to serve as a prime minister this time mainly to deceive a large number of people from the Song Dynasty and go overseas.

There is also a more unpleasant saying that in order to make money, the emperor was interested in the gold and silver on the other side, so he sold more than one million people overseas in disguise.

Wang Ju also heard about it, but he didn't care too much. If there were any changes little by little, the people would not feel it, but the changes have been too great in recent years. The people are seriously not saying anything, and he will take out two more ruthless hands next year

Either you try to discredit my reputation, or I will completely step you into the cesspool!

"Taibao, I heard that our dynasty will experience a crisis due to population soon?" Han Yun asked.

"Brother Han, who did you hear?"

"I heard what Mr. Zhang said."

Wang Ju understood, probably Zhang Dun wrote a letter to Zhang Ju, and the letter talked about this.

He smiled and said, "The reality is not that serious. As long as the court does not abolish the various laws I have implemented in the future, there will be no crisis in these decades."

There are also Jurchens.

However, Wang Ju from the Jurchen side also made a move, and after destroying the Western Xia, the Song Dynasty stationed troops in the north and then placed artillery on various forts. Even if Wanyan Aguda rose again, it would not be possible to go straight into the sky like another time and space.

Anyway, when Wang Ju died, he would not have seen the Northern Song Dynasty demise, unless Zhao Ji was still on the throne and could be ruined more than in history and collapsed from the inside, but that would have nothing to do with the population limit.

"We must also see in the future. If the technology on the other side is further developed and a new fertilizer is developed, several generous wise kings will appear in the future of the Song Dynasty. Seeing that the population is too dense, one will make the other side migrate millions, or even tens of millions of people, and use this to relieve the pressure of the population. After several major migrations, the Song Dynasty can stand for two or three hundred years, three or four hundred years. However, there is no population pressure. As long as it is an imperial system, honor, official position, and hereditary system, the Song Dynasty will sooner or later die."

"So the system I established on the other side is a constitutional monarchy, which is actually a system of one king and two cabinets. The president is equivalent to the middle of our dynasty, the prime minister and the six ministries are equivalent to Shang, but the power is slightly greater than Shang Province. The court of trial is equivalent to a reduced version of the ministry, and the procuratorate and the inspection team are equivalent to an enhanced version of the censorate. But the change is the banning of the imperial system and the hereditary hereditary, as well as the official-oriented idea. For example, if the six ministries and the chief minister of the two courts cannot ascend to the post of president and prime minister, they will automatically abdicate after two terms and will not be able to touch politics again. But if they ascend to the post of president and prime minister, they will also abdicate after two terms and will not be able to touch politics again."

"As for this king, I don't have to touch it in my life, but when I get to my descendants, I must have a reputation and a bad reputation. However, in addition to having some appointment and removal powers for the President and Prime Minister, the remaining rights are also removed. Even if you and my descendants share the benefits brought by the previous industries, they must not touch politics. Even if you and the descendants want to work in politics, they must start with the village chief."

Han Yun heard this and said, "This is great wisdom. Give up. Give up, have both giving up and gain. Only when you give up and give up the right can you last forever."

"That's right. It's true that the vast space on the other side will not have land pressure for a long time in the future, and with this kind of willingness, there will be no ambitious people who want to usurp the throne. Even if there is one, it will be successful and will be overthrown by everyone. Moreover, the other side will be divided into three places in the future, one will change, and the other two will also send troops to support it."

"Or subvert from the outside, but looking at this world, the only one who has the ability to subvert from the outside is the Song Dynasty. But the Song Dynasty on the other side is not hostile, so why should the Song Dynasty subvert it? Besides, it may not be so easy to subvert it."

There is another group of people. Once these groups of people rise, they will inevitably be subverted because of the race, but when they rise, they will not know how far the other side will leap to.

Therefore, the other side will exist for a long time. Moreover, when Wang Ju goes to the other side, he needs to further improve various systems.

"In fact, it is to prevent the monopoly of rights. In fact, Taizu and Taizong also saw the disadvantages of monopoly of rights, so there were such strange official systems in our dynasty. However, their approach was very unsuccessful. On the contrary, they formed bad situations such as redundant officials and redundant governments. All the truths on the other side. Sooner or later, they will be revealed, but how many people can give up the current system when they see its positive side? Or when the new dynasty stands, the land will be reborn. Maybe at that time, the technology will be advanced and the sea will no longer become a barrier. Then all Chinese people will be reunified, which is a real unification."

But no matter whether this great goal is achieved or other changes are caused, Wang Ju will definitely not be able to see it.

But he laid this foundation, and if his descendants were not successful, he would be helpless. But it would be better to be scared. With this alarm bell hanging above his head, at least in the future, the monarch and ministers of the Song Dynasty would not be so stupid, so they would be careful in their work and would not do anything wrong.

But this is too long, so it's better to be the moment. He changed the subject and asked: "How is Helanshi?"

I haven't asked about the situation on the front line, but I have already written it in the battle report.

When talking about Helanshi, Han Yun looked admiring: "Taibao, it's so amazing."

Zhang Yue asked Xixia to exchange Helan stone for prisoners of war, and also agreed to the high price of Xixia.

This move finally became the fatal fuse.

Since then, the price of Helan stone has become increasingly outrageous.

Not only did some people in the Western Xia dynasty hoard the stock, but some people began to hoard the stock in the Song Dynasty. Some people also took very good names based on different Helan stones, such as Mo Xing, Zixia, Tianjiqing, Plum Fragrance, and Songyun.

And Han Yun almost collected most of the previous costs by replacing Helan Stone.

This time, the hype of Helan Stone was equivalent to the official entry, and even finally became the official and the situation was mainly the official and supplemented by Han Yun, and Wang Ju did not hide it. Therefore, Han Yun generously handed over all of this income to Zhang Yu as military expenses.

Wang Ju breathed a sigh of relief.

After arranging this more than ten years ago, he thought of not only Dutch tulips, but also Clivia and Pu'er tea from the Celestial Empire. It is impossible to hype it into Dutch tulips, but it can be fryed into Clivia and Pu'er tea.

And at that time there were some possible signs, such as the Xia Kingdom sword and the Xixia crossbow. Those with high quality can be sold for a thousand guan in the Song Dynasty. Even if they are good, they cannot be said to be worth a thousand guan. Similarly, there are Japanese fans. Even though Hangzhou began to imitate various folding fans, and even had Japanese fans, they were still not as expensive as Japanese fans. In addition, Korean secret color porcelain, is it really better for Korean porcelain than Song Dynasty high-quality porcelain?

It’s not that they admire foreign countries and fawn on foreign countries. Now the Song Dynasty is still the center of civilization. Except for the Song Dynasty, the rest are barbarians, foreigners, Hu people, and barbarians, mainly imported products, and everyone is new.

Helan stone is also an imported product for the time being, which provides room for hype.

A Clivia and Pu'er tea cannot destroy the Celestial Empire, and its size is too large. However, if Helan stone is turned into Clivia and Pu'er tea, it will be fatal to the weak Xixia economy.

"That's good. Anyway, Zhang Zhifu took Xiaoguan and the front line is not peaceful again. You can stay for a New Year's Day."

"OK."

"After New Year's Day, you see if you have any relatives you need to migrate to the other side. I secretly told them that they will go to the other side with the boat next autumn."
To be continued...