"What can be exchanged for population?"

It sounds like you want to buy and sell people, but it is true. There is nothing that cannot be bought or sold in this world, it depends on whether you can give a suitable price.

Of course, the population of the Song Dynasty can be bought and sold, but the key is what price Zhao Guangyi needs.

"What is the Song Dynasty lacking? Or what is the Song Dynasty court lacking? This is the key." Guo Bailuo seems to have given a rather difficult question here.

What did the Song Dynasty arrive? It seems that the Song Dynasty is deprived of everything, but there is nothing. After the Zhao brothers conquered the world, they have been working hard for almost forty years.

Compared with the Five Dynasties, the entire national strength of the Song Dynasty has been greatly restored and improved. The population has also increased faster than in the early years of the founding of the People's Republic of China. The achievements of the Zhao brothers in governing the world are obvious to all.

Although the rule of Taizu Taizong cannot be described as a prosperous era, it is still the same. In this state, what exactly does the Song Dynasty, or the Song Dynasty court need to be given by Zhao Weiji?

A sense of security? The Liao Kingdom in the north has been watching the Central Plains for a long time, and with the Yanyun in his hand, the barriers in the northern Song Dynasty were gone. This is a major concern of the court. The problem is that Zhao Weiji is definitely unable to help the court solve it now.

"What the court lacks the most now is of course the lack of Youyun, but can we give it to the court?" After thinking about it, everyone could only come up with such an answer.

"No, you just saw external troubles, but not internal troubles. The biggest problem in the Song Dynasty is that it is short of money, food, and land. Do you know how many soldiers I have in the Song Dynasty now? More than 600,000 are all supported by the court. In order to support these soldiers, the court's annual military expenditure and military rations account for half of the national treasury expenses."

It is not a secret that the imperial court spent a lot of military expenditure every year. From the founding of Taizu to the fourth year of Chunhua of Taizong, the number of troops has increased year by year. Especially the number of imperial guards, the growth rate is even more scary. It seems that only by holding a large number of troops in his hands, he can fall asleep peacefully at night.

Such a huge army naturally requires a large amount of financial and material resources from the country, so of course there are countless food and money consumption.

"Sir, I only talk about lack of money and food here, so what about lack of land?"

"How is the territory of the Song Dynasty today compared to the Tang Dynasty?"

"Of course it's worse." There are no outsiders here, so Linghu Huang can tell such a truth without any hesitation.

"What about the farmland?" It must be even worse, Linghu Huang immediately continued to answer.

This is also the truth. Nowadays, the main grain-producing areas of the Song Dynasty basically rely on the south. Many places in the north who can grow grain dare not grow grain because those places are under the threat of minority ethnic groups. For example, the Guanzhong Plain, the North China Plain, and the Hetao Plain.

Without these places, it is a miracle that the Song Dynasty was able to maintain such a large population. Because it depends on more developed farming techniques and the introduction of Chameng rice.

However, this is only enough to maintain the food consumption of the people in the world, and does not bring a large amount of grain reserves to the court. Now, the grain reserves in Hanjia Gang, the first granary of the Song Dynasty, can only be described as dimly compared with the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

"Okay, after talking about what the Song Dynasty lacks, let's talk about what we have. In the opposite way to the Song Dynasty, we have money and land.

If the prince’s description is true, does the continent opposite the ocean have arable land, right?”

Zhao Weiji nodded here. Although the west coast does not have a vast plain like the central plain, one along the west coast can be reclaimed for more than 100,000 people.

"Since that's the case, why can't we produce grain there and sell it back to the Song Dynasty court?"

Of course, this is a way to consider, because in Zhao Weiji's memory, there are still many high-yield crops in South America that have not been spread yet. As long as he gains a foothold in North America and then goes to South America to find these crops, he will definitely turn North America into a huge granary.

What's more, as long as he arrives in North America, in an environment without anyone to restrain himself, he will be able to better cheat, use North America's rich mineral resources, and accelerate the progress of scientific and technological civilization.

Although Guo Bailuo's attention was good, Jiang Yu still felt that this was not the key, so he raised his own question: "This is a feasible idea, but I don't think this will impress the official family. After all, just as the gentleman said, first of all, the court has no money, and secondly, the court will not be relieved to bring so many people out."

"Then we will talk about money. The Song Dynasty court has no money, but we are very rich. The prince who makes the most money in the Song Dynasty is the prince, whether it is tea, cotton, or even porcelain. They are all money trees. What we have to do is hand over these money trees to the court."

"Since ancient times, officials did not compete with the people for profit, and the court probably wouldn't dare to ask for these things of us." Linghu Huang, who still had some understanding of the officialdom, expressed his concerns.

"Of course, officials do not compete with the people for profit, but the court has to collect taxes. We can pay a lot of taxes, and I think the government will not reject this proposal."

Officials do not compete with the people for profit. Although there are many examples of officials doing business in all dynasties, the court has basically never done business. Therefore, even in order to control the supply of cotton to the court, Zhao Guangyi once invested in Chai Yu's silk shop, but he never revealed it to the outside world and did not provide any help in the operation of the silk shop.

But as Guo Bailuo said, although the court cannot do business, it can collect taxes. As long as we negotiate with Zhao Guangyi, we will still operate here. The court will neither take care of it nor bear responsibility. However, when we pay heavy taxes to the court in private, it is actually equivalent to bribing the emperor in exchange for a certain share of immigration to operate overseas.

"Okay, Mr. Guo, I admit that what you said makes sense, but I still haven't mentioned the most critical one, that is, any one can eliminate the vigilance of the officials for us, willingly accept the above conditions for us to go to sea?" The key point was that Guo Bailuo never mentioned the key point, and Tie Zheng couldn't bear it anymore.

"The key? Actually, this is not the key, this is the easiest step."

"The easiest?" No one except Zhao Weiji could understand these.

"It seems that the prince has figured it out."

"Yes, actually, as long as you follow the previous steps, this step is really simple."

"Please give me advice."

"In fact, the most critical reason for this step is the confidence of the government army in the Song Dynasty. I think the government has quite a confidence in the Song Dynasty under his rule. How many people are there in the Song Dynasty?"

"More than 10 million households." Didn't this question be mentioned?

"How many households can we take out?"

"At most tens of thousands of households."

"So how many soldiers are there in the Song Dynasty?" It's another repetitive question.

“Now there are more than 600,000.”

"Then how many migrant households can we arm ourselves?"

"At most, 20,000 to 30,000, it's over."

"Now everyone understands it."

After saying this, everyone understands it. That is, the Song Dynasty is too powerful. No matter how well the overseas pioneers develop, they will never be able to catch up with the power of the Song Dynasty. If the population and number of troops are compared, the Song Dynasty is ten thousand times that of yours. If you, Zhao Weiji, can fight, what is this kind of manpower? You are even less powerful than the peasant army that revolt before.

Moreover, before Zhao Weiji developed a perfect society overseas, the main population will come from the supply of the Song Dynasty. There are neither too many local natives, nor are they easy to absorb. This means that the overseas "fixion" will be temporarily named as the boundless water. The Song Dynasty can strangle your water source at any time. At that time, it will be difficult and difficult to develop to compete with the Song Dynasty with its own hematopoietic ability.

Therefore, Zhao Guangyi is not afraid of you bringing this group of people to rebel. Compared with the Khitan Liao Kingdom, which has a vast land and population, and the Dangxiang tribe that has developed for a hundred years and has a certain scale, Zhao Guangyi doesn't take it seriously at all.

So as long as you can get the benefits and drive Zhao Weiji, a person who may threaten his son's succession, out of the Central Plains without any turmoil. What's wrong with giving you tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people?

Since we have figured out this truth, the next thing is how to conduct this negotiation with Zhao Guangyi. Should we take the initiative or passively wait for Zhao Guangyi to take countermeasures before taking action?

"Prince, I suggest that the prince should find a suitable reason to show off to the official army directly. In this way, our plan can be implemented smoothly, but the timing of the showdown needs to be grasped."

In fact, Zhao Weiji had already had this reason. When he met Snow, he had already thought of this reason. Snow is still in Huating, but if he writes a letter to Huating immediately, he can use Zhao Weizheng's entire funeral to arrive in Bianjing during the period when it is still going on.

Out of concerns about Zhao Weizheng who had just passed away, Zhao Guangyi would not attack during this period. Therefore, Zhao Weiji still has some time to choose a better opportunity.

...

The Wei Palace discussed the entire result almost overnight, and at the same time, Zhao Guangyi also stayed up all night. How to deal with Zhao Weiji is a difficult thing.

Today, Zhao Weiji is not as easy to suppress as before. He has made those things among the people that have had a certain impact on the court.

If it is not handled well, it will definitely cause some harm to the court. Zhao Guangyi is not willing to take this risk under the premise that there is still a Khitan tiger in the north.

At this time, he needed to seek advice from someone, who was the only person in the court who could trust him and had some connection with Zhao Weiji.

He hopes to get the answer he wants from this person.
Chapter completed!