Chapter 1012 The older the world, the less courageous you are

In late spring, the grass grows in the south of the Yangtze River. Mixed peanut trees and groups of orioles fly around.

When Liu Bei returned from the South China Sea and arrived in Yangzhou, he happened to encounter late spring, and this was the situation.

The weather is very good, neither lukewarm nor hot. For Liu Bei, who has been crossing Jiangdong in the future, he has just experienced the heat of the South China Sea. In contrast, he has returned to the paradise fairyland.

The first stop port to the Yangzhou dock is not a prosperous place, but Quanxian (Quanzhou), which has only been established for less than fifteen years.

I remember twenty years ago, when Li Su was just named Duke of Kuaiji County, there was only one county in central Fujian, that is, Dongye (Fuzhou). The others were only in Shanyue Autonomous Region, and there was no court tax management system at all.

In the entire central Fujian region, the taxpayer population under the jurisdiction of the imperial court was only more than 20,000 households at that time, and just over 100,000 people. This was a place equivalent to a province in later generations, and it was not a remote and barren area in the northwest.

There are only 100,000 people, which shows how poor the Han Dynasty originally developed Fujian. It can be said that it is a place where military strategists are not fighting for.

Fourteen years ago, the second year after Cao Cao's death, Li Su was given a long holiday by Liu Bei and left the newly restored area of ​​Guandong, and the capital was in Yangzhou. At that time, Li Sucai asked for an order to immigrate to the mountainous poor in Qing and Yan to divide the land, expanding Fujian to three counties.

Quanxian and Zhangxian were only found at that time.

At that time, 30,000 households were moved, plus 20,000 local households, a total of 50,000 households were nearly 300,000.

In just fourteen years, the local area has grown to 80,000 households and more than 600,000. It can be said that it has developed very rapidly.

In fact, it is impossible to increase so much by relying on the natural birth of Han people alone. Among the 300,000 people who have been extra, 200,000 were reproduced by Han people, and 100,000 were the mountains in the mountains and gradually envy the rich lifestyle of Han people and gradually became completely naturalized.

In history, the infiltration and assimilation of Shanyue in Fujian was a long process. In the late Eastern Han Dynasty, the Hekou County town, which was actually controlled by the court, was only a few big rivers, and along the inland coast of the Minjiang River. In history, it was only gradually solved after Sun Quan became emperor.

As for the pure mountainous areas leaving the Minjiang River Valley Plain, even Sun Quan could not handle it in history. Until Yongjia crossed south, a large number of Han people from the north flocked to the south. There was not enough mature fields, so it was not until the mountainous areas were completely gradually Chineseized. The entire process originally lasted for nearly two hundred years.

Now, Liu Bei's advance unification, the strength of the central dynasty, and Li Su's iron-fisted immigration are equivalent to the development level of the Shanyue region in advance to the level of 100 or 20 years after Yongjia's southern transition in history, which is considered to be a hundred years ahead of schedule.

The number of local households has increased by only 60%, but the population growth has doubled directly. It can also be seen that most of the Han people who immigrated have not yet divided the households, but the number of births is too large, and the number of people in each household has expanded sharply.

On the contrary, the Shanyue people in Xinjiao still maintain a relatively small family size. Who makes them lag behind in productivity? Even if there are so many untapped areas, they still can't support too many children.

Liu Bei stayed in Quan County for two or three days, and was quite pleased to see the harbor flourishing, and the upstream of the JIN River were still competing and the people everywhere were abundant.

"I remember when I was young, I heard from people that Yangzhou was said that from the south of Shanyin, it was full of barbarian lands where mountains and rivers live together. I was really deceived by those unknown guys for many years! If I had known that the climate in Jiangdong was so pleasant, and there was no humidity, heat and cold, I would have visited the south a few more times!"

While he was moved, he also chatted with Li Su like this.

Li Su heard this and explained with a smile: "Your Majesty has encountered the best solar term. March is neither lukewarm nor hot, and in more than a month, it will be hot here. Fortunately, according to the itinerary arranged before, the fleet has passed Juzhang or Wuxian by then and is about to go to Sanhan."

Liu Bei smiled and said, "Is the itinerary so urgent? It's nothing if you linger in each place for ten or eight days. You'll be back in Luoyang by the end of the year. I'm not that afraid of heat, and I've been able to bear it even in the South China Sea. The warmth of Fujian is already very good."

Li Su advised kindly: "Your Majesty, there are so many beautiful places in the future. Your Majesty has never seen any of the places in Yangzhou. Moreover, the itinerary I have set before is to cross the East China Sea five months ago and completely avoid the strong winds in late summer and early autumn.

This matter must not be ignored. The monsoon is the most critical above the sea. If the wind direction is right, it will be twice the result with half the effort. It would rather have more time to travel in the northern border and inspect and linger for more days."

In the East China Sea, it is not a joke to encounter a typhoon. Liu Bei's fleet may not be afraid of anything else, but must respect nature. A two thousand-ton ship has no resistance in front of the typhoon.

Liu Bei then agreed.

In the following days, he was inevitably asked about the specific local conditions and livelihood of the local people, just like other places, and even curiously experienced it.

The main reason was that he discovered that although the absolute number of people in central Fujian was not large and the terrain of the mountainous areas was so complex, the lives of the people were really good. Every household had surplus food and could even afford meat during the New Year holiday. This was not like the "Taishan bandits and Qingzhou soldiers" who were extremely poor before immigration.

In fact, not only Liu Bei was surprised, but Li Su, who had not returned to Yangzhou for ten years, was a little surprised.

Because he saw that the counties in Fujian are now extremely vigorously reclaiming land, and they occupy a lot of land per capita. Although the fields on the plains have a limit on the distribution of land, they are not allowed to occupy the unlimited land. However, the hillsides are ignored by the court and they are occupied casually.

Many people in Fujian have far exceeded the scale of 100 Chinese acres of plain fields per capita. Some of them have two or three hundred Chinese acres, and they can also fallow and rotate, and everyone can occupy hundreds of acres of mountain fields.

The best irrigation on the plains is the field that is neither flooded nor drought, and all the medium and upper secondary rice are longer in the growth period than in Wu and Yue, and the yield is more guaranteed.

The low-lying wetlands that are too close to the banks of the JIN River in Minjiang River are digging silt to accumulate polder fields, plant taro in polder fields, and plant water chestnut and lotus roots at deep digging.

The irrigation of almost leveled dry fields was all planted with sugarcane, and the higher the height was a little rugged, and it was full of tea. Every family thought that the labor force was insufficient, but it was too scary to have children.

Li Su knew in his previous life that the tea industry developed even more terrifyingly than Liangzhe. After all, Wuyishan Oolong Tea is a foreign trade flagship product that has dominated the list for hundreds of years.

Today, the tea-growing skills of these people in Fujian were the same as when Li Su was in Yangzhou when he was in charge of Yangzhou, the government came forward to organize people from Yizhou and Wuyue to persuade farmers to teach these immigrants from the north to master the skills.

So Li Su can understand that the tea industry in central Fujian is prosperous. He just didn't expect that even sugarcane and sugar production are so prosperous. In history, it seems that I haven't heard that Fujian is an important production area for sugar?

For this reason, he also had a deep understanding, and finally realized that in history, after the development of marine trade in Fujian, only the tea industry flourished, mainly because tea trees only occupy the hillside! You can plant it with a little rectification of terraces.

Although sugarcane also adapts to the southern climate and was previously planted in humid and warm areas of Yizhou, there are still requirements for the flatness of the plot.

Sugar can also be grown in terraced fields, but it cannot be planted in rows and heights like terraced fields that grow tea. If it is wider, the required engineering volume will be larger.

In later generations, sugarcane in Fujian was underdeveloped, mainly because it had a large population and was too scarce. When the sea trade was developed, the population in Fujian was over 10 million, and plain arable land accounted for 10% of the province's area, and the entire population was not enough to feed the entire population. The remaining 90% were mountainous areas. How could we waste the planting of sugarcane on the plain?

It’s different now. There are only 600,000 people, but productivity and production technology have been improved. There is no way to eat a variety of grains. It is not cost-effective to sell grains overseas. After all, shipping also costs money, and the value density of grain is too low.

Therefore, all the dry fields that are vacant on both sides of the Minjiang River will be planted with sugarcane!

In Quan County and Dongye, there are poor immigrants from all over the world who came more than ten years ago. After spontaneous accumulation, they opened sugar-pressing workshops or tea-frying workshops. The government also manages them according to the law and collects taxes according to regulations.

It is amazing to be a closed paradise with no external tax burden. As long as the sea trade deducts taxes with valuables and assumes obligations to the court, it can eventually develop into such a small and beautiful state with few people.

It is productive but the population is far from saturated. Such days are really hard to come by for ordinary people.

After the inspection, when Liu Bei boarded the ship and left, he couldn't help but call Li Su into the cabin where he was resting, and left and right to joke with Li Su:

"My brother, I haven't made enough contributions a few years ago and have won all the 22 counties of Kuaiji County. Do you regret it now?

I remember that your fiefdom was the only place in central Fujian at that time? Now that it is developing so well, two more counties have been split out, and there are still so many people.

If you develop and develop in the future, let alone three counties, it is necessary to demolish them into five or six counties. If you make a clever name and add a title to you, it will be difficult to seal them all - how? Should I find an excuse to seal them all while it has not been demolished yet?

It is said that it is 'Working with the old Taifu to compile history and naturalize the barbarians to make contributions'. After all, the "Historical Records Suoyin" compiled by the Taifu more than ten years ago has become more and more obvious in recent years. It can be regarded as a legacy of the country."

Li Su was not greedy either. Since it was a private occasion, he said earnestly: "Why do you have to do this? I am the most powerful minister and I am so rich and noble, so why bother to seek the whole life? Leave a few counties and give kindness to the prince in the future.

This is also my heartfelt words. Although I am a martial artist and have a strong body, I still have to control my women’s beauty. Although I am weak, I have only one wife and five concubines after all, and women’s beauty is the most harmful to the body.”

Li Su didn't even call him "Your Majesty", but it was rare to change his words to be brothers. This is really saying something to Liu Bei that cannot be said in an outsider's situation. After all, who dares to talk about the emperor's life expectancy? Li Su is also for the sake of the other party's good.

Liu Bei smiled and waved his hand: "It's good, but women cannot be jealous. The world is so peaceful, and I have no other extravagance. The palace maids and concubines have been included in the harem for a long time, and they have not been exhausted in the past few years and have no more choices.

I can't bear to let them lose their grudges for a long time. Since I got older, many of the palace maids I had never met have been released, but those who have been involved in it are not easy to release them, nor are they easy to let them stay widowed."

Liu Bei said it with confidence, and it sounded a bit like "the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility. Since he has caused such a big mess, he should enjoy it in time and be equal."

Li Su couldn't help but feel funny. There are men in this world who can say lust so well, as if they were "if you get offended, you have to be responsible for working hard to the end."

He didn't say anything about this anymore.

However, Liu Bei was hooked up and his opinion on his afterlife. He was also an open-minded person. He did not hide the topics and asked in private:

"The inheritance of the world is orderly, I am not worried. But Yong'er doesn't look healthy. Alas, his mother was still young when she gave birth to him and she didn't have a complete growth. At that time, she ran all the way from Chengdu, Hanzhong, and Chang'an, and had a little fetal aura. She was not very smooth when she was born, and she was always sick.

Sometimes I also wonder if I was older, not only would I be too old to Emperor Gaozu, Guangwu, or even higher than Emperor Wu, and become the longest-lived emperor from ancient times to the present, could Yong'er survive until then?

I often read historical materials about the ancient longevity monarch's throne. Few princes can take over the throne safely. Although Fusu and Prince Li died in conspiracy. When I was old and stupid, I wonder if I would do something wrong."

Li Su was a little nervous after hearing Liu Bei's self-analysis: "Why did Your Majesty say this? Your Majesty's health is a blessing for the world. The prince is kind and filial, so he can take it naturally and be able to rule it."

Liu Bei waved his hand: "You and my brother, why are you talking about these things? I have only said no one around to my brother. I want to listen to my brother's opinions: What if Yong'er left earlier than me?"

Li Su took a deep breath: "Your Majesty's family affairs are not something that outsiders should say. On that day, Your Majesty firmly left a clear edict, and I will follow the order of the emperor. However, since ancient times, there is no special reason. It is best to follow the law and follow the order of the eldest sons and sons according to the order of the eldest sons."

Liu Bei looked at Li Su's eyes carefully and returned to relief: "Okay, I actually don't really want to choose a son who is innovative or deliberately, or simply regarding the eldest son.

I have thought about it too. If the emperor lives a long life, the heir may not ask for a long-term king. It is a blessing to have a long-term king in the country, but he is in his forties and cannot be done for many years. If he changes frequently, he will be unstable.

Nowadays, every time I read the "Dian Xing You Fu" written by my brother that year, except for King Zhou Fu Cheng Shunli, the rest of Taikang, Taijia, and Fusu were not allowed to succeed. Although Emperor Hui was a king for a short time, he died young and had no descendants. Emperor Guangwu's eldest son, Liu Jiang, the king of Donghai, was deposed because of his mother's descendants, and the legitimate illegitimate illegitimate place was relocated to Emperor Ming.

Although this dynasty does not have these entanglements, I hope that I will be more worried and the older I get, the more I will be afraid. If Yong'er really can't stand me, let the queen's second son Li'er inherit the throne. This time on a tour, I will let Yong'er stay in the prison and take the rest of his sons to see the world outside. I also have this idea of ​​investigation.

However, I will not learn from Qin Shihuang, and I will only bring Hu Hai when I go on a tour. All my sons are there, and even if there is a little mistake, they will not give anyone an opportunity to take advantage of. My virtuous brother is far away from Li Si, and I am close to him, and there is no Zhao Gao's subordinate."

Before saying this, Liu Bei was actually quite worried that when Li Su was not here, he would simply talk about his elders and younger, and push Zhen Jiang's son up. Fortunately, that was not very reasonable, so Li Su would never be favored.

Because Zhen Jiang's eldest son was not only a concubine, but also a third-ranked senior and young. Liu Bei's second son was also a concubine, and was born to the imperial concubine Song Du.

Songdu was Liu Xie's concubine in history, but did not Liu Xie give up Chang'an and escape in this life? Therefore, many beauties in Chang'an Palace were rescued and incorporated by Liu Bei in advance before they could grow up and were brought up by Liu Xie.

As for the queen Wu Xian, she gave birth to three sons in total, but her second son, the third son, was ranked sixth and eighth in terms of age.

Li Su was a little afraid to listen and quickly interrupted: "Your Majesty, stop talking about this. If you really feel a little uncomfortable in your body, then give up the follow-up itinerary and go back to Luoyang directly, you can't be negligent.

If you just feel that it is a bit scared to learn from history, then there is no need to do so. History will not be simply repeated. Later generations will learn from lessons and will always avoid completely repetitive mistakes."

Liu Bei also realized that he had said too much, so he waved his hand to stop the topic: "Forget it, you and my brother, are so frank, saying this will scare you like this, it's better not to say it. Or if you want to say it next time, Yun Changyide is here, so you don't have to avoid suspicion."

Some words, when two people say, are easily considered temptation. Although Liu Bei is sincere, he has this emotional intelligence. He still has the opportunity to pull Guan Yu and Zhang Fei together, so he can let go, because Liu Bei will never be able to test three people at the same time.

Li Su also took the opportunity to stop and couldn't help but help in his heart. estimating: The emperor was too long, the prince was not old, or the position was unstable, which was common in ancient and modern times... Well, no matter what the future holds, you can be ashamed of your heart and follow the court's etiquette and law system.

Anyway, no son of Liu Bei has married his family, so Li Su is absolutely unable to make a fuss about the sisterly relationship between Zhen Jiang and Zhen Mi.

Li Su's six daughters, the oldest, is 23 years old, born by Cai Yan, and married the Gu Yong family. The second daughter is born by Zhen Mi. She is now 17 years old and is already married at that time, so she married Zhuge Zhan last year.

The remaining four daughters are all younger than 14 years old and have not been engaged yet. Li Su's family management style and screening of children's marriage can be regarded as a tough person without desire.

...

The hook caused Liu Bei to consider his funeral after all, and after all, it was because of the rewards in central Fujian. Li Su's words, "Leave some opportunity to reward and give kindness to the prince."

Li Su was indeed out of kindness and foresight. Who made the emperors of the Han Dynasty generally have enough orthodox in history? He never thought about these tricks of being frugal?

The Han emperors' honors for the regent ministers were mostly given at one time before, but there were many problems left behind. For example, Huo Guang's family and Shangguan Jie who fought with Huo Guang.

Li Su also needs to make some extra efforts to interrupt the chain of suspicion. This is good for everyone. His descendants are rich in the long run, and the descendants' emperors will be less afraid of the same situation.

After the truth was made clear, Li Su also knew that he should deal with it coldly for a period of time and let Liu Bei think it through. So in the last few days of his inspection in central Fujian, he basically did not have any in-depth discussions with the emperor, and quickly ended the inspection work in Fujian like a flash.

Then he immediately continued northward and arrived in Juzhang County, Kuaiji County in early April, which was outside the estuary of the Yangtze River. Li Su also hoped that after leaving Fujian, Liu Bei could empty his brain and temporarily forget the awkward chatting before.

Fortunately, his expectation was easy to achieve, because when the fleet arrived outside the Yangtze River estuary, even if Liu Bei was the emperor, he was immediately shocked by the wonder lighthouse on the Yongdong Islands of Juzhang County, and he was not in the mood to think about anything else.
Chapter completed!