Chapter 517 Volume 5 Fang Xuanling’s worry, Li Ke’s shock

Author: Going to Drunk People

Chapter 517 Volume 5 Fang Xuanling’s worry, Li Ke’s shock

"The foreign minister doesn't dare." Wang Dequan said with a smile, "But the foreign minister does know very little about the details of this sand table."

Today's Wang Dequan is no longer the businessman that the county magistrate could make obedient.

Li Er smiled, but did not continue to embarrass Wang Dequan on this issue. Instead, he laughed and said: "I am very satisfied with the birthday gift Gao Ming sent me!

Come, all your lords, come and feel how vast our Tang Dynasty is."

Judging from this sand table, the territory of the Tang Dynasty is definitely the most vast among the surrounding countries, and the neighboring countries are not even as large as the states and prefectures of the Tang Dynasty.

"So the three kingdoms of Baekje, Silla, and Goguryeo are so small?" Li Er said, and everyone immediately rushed up and started pointing around the sand table.

"Hey, the land of Tianzhu is not vast, but the cultivated land is quite large." Finally, someone discovered this strange problem.

In the eyes of the ancients, almost all flat land can be regarded as cultivated land.

"It's not just small." Someone else compared it carefully and said, "Isn't this comparable to the Tang Dynasty?"

"Hmph." Hearing this, Li Er snorted coldly and said, "Isn't it enough to make more concessions? Although I don't want to admit it, but if you look at it this way, the cultivated land area of ​​Tianzhu is slightly larger than that of the Tang Dynasty.

of."

I really can’t help but admit this.

Even in later generations, India is the country with the largest arable land in Asia. Even though their territory is less than one-third of our country, more than half of its land is suitable for farming.

This is unmatched by most countries.

This is also the reason why they can rely on that small amount of land to feed a population of 1.3 billion despite the huge gap between rich and poor!

Of course, there are naturally some thoughts of Li Chengqian in this. At least on the sand table built by Li Chengqian, the reason why it can be seen so conspicuously is because he did it intentionally.

Strictly speaking, the sand table built under the supervision of Li Chengqian is too fake, and it is indeed inaccurate in some places.

After all, in this era, if you want to make an accurate sand table strictly according to the scale, it is not impossible, but it is too time-consuming.

Besides, the purpose of Li Chengqian giving this thing to Li Er was very simple.

"God will not bless us, the Tang Dynasty..." Li Er said with emotion, "Although our country, the Tang Dynasty, has a vast territory, it does not have much arable land. This is why our country's ability to withstand natural and man-made disasters has always been insufficient. If our country, the Tang Dynasty,

If we can have land like Tianzhu to grow food, why worry about the Tang Dynasty failing to flourish?"

"Come again?" Fang Xuanling muttered helplessly in her heart after hearing this.

He could tell from just now that Li Er was interested in these lands.

As an emperor, Li Er was always thinking about opening up territory for the Tang Dynasty.

Of course, this is also extremely normal.

Regardless of the fact that Fang Xuanling and many ministers would strongly oppose Li Er when he had such thoughts, they would be quite disappointed if Li Er did not have such thoughts.

In ancient times, land represented food, and food represented life!

This is the most simple truth of this era.

"Your Majesty, what you said is inappropriate." When everyone was silent, Wei Zheng raised his hands and said, "In the past few years, the Tang Dynasty has been prosperous, and the country is peaceful and the people are peaceful.

No hidden worries inside and no dangers outside?

The entire Tang Dynasty is prosperous and prosperous, so how can God not bless the Tang Dynasty?"

As the censor Zhongcheng, Wei Zheng's job is to speak out and criticize.

Whenever Li Er made a mistake, Wei Zheng would stand up unceremoniously.

Li Er had nothing to do about this, after all, he personally appointed the censor Zhongcheng.

Of course, this is also a manifestation of Li Er's grandeur.

Wang Dequan watched all this quietly, and found it interesting. He originally wanted to say a few more words, but the look everyone looked at him just now made him a little panicked, so he stopped talking.

"Come on, come on, keep on drinking!" Li Erduo, a heroic man, continued to greet everyone to continue drinking and having fun after reading this article.

Immediately, Li Er ordered someone to carry the sand table out.

Li Er's banquet was naturally indispensable with singing and dancing. After the gift-giving part was hastily concluded, the singing and dancing began.

While everyone was enjoying the singing and dancing, they were all whispering to each other.

In the past, they were all talking about which singer had a plump figure and her handsome appearance. But today, the topic most people are talking about is Li Chengqian's sand table.

As the final birthday gift, it should not have ended so hastily, but many people were aware of Li Chengqian's purpose, and this was the scene where Li Er directly ordered people to take the sand table away.

"Not to mention, this sand table is really a rare thing!" Among the generals, Hou Junji started chatting with Li Xiaogong, Li Daozong and Li Ji who were standing by.

Li Xiaogong laughed when he heard this and said, "What, Chen Guogong has an idea?"

"Don't the princes have any ideas?" Hou Junji also laughed and said, "When generals like us see such a vast land, shouldn't we have some ideas?"

"What Mr. Chen Guogong said makes sense." Li Ji also smiled and said, "My generation of military generals was born to open up territories and expand the territory. This vast land should belong to me, the Tang Dynasty."

They are all smart people. From Li Er's words just now, they could hear Li Er's thoughts.

This is not a bad thing for them.

Military generals, as Li Ji said, were born to open up new territories.

Li Xiaogong smiled and said nothing, but he was also filled with emotion in his heart.

Li Chengqian just used a sand table and caused ripples in the hearts of countless famous generals. It was really a good method.

Although they had maps before, they were far more realistic and intuitive than the sand table.

The visual stimulation is far from enough.

On the other side, the officials of the scholar family were also whispering among themselves.

"Your Highness is doing this with bad intentions!" Someone said, "Isn't this irritating His Majesty and all the generals?"

"Indeed." When Zheng Yushi heard this, he looked at Hou Junji and the others, shook his head, and said, "Look at those generals, every one of them is probably eager to raise their troops and mount their horses right now..."

"Fang Fushe, what do you think of this matter?" Wen Yanbo said.

Although Wen Yanbo was not well-known in later generations, he was a role that could not be ignored in the court in the early years of Zhenguan.

As Zhongshu Ling, he is naturally qualified to attend today's banquet.

Fang Xuanling shook his head and said: "If you look at this issue from His Highness's point of view, I can only say one good word!"

"How do you explain this?" Wen Yanbo asked curiously.

Fang Xuanling pointed at Wang Dequan and said: "Look at Wang Dequan, although his performance today was slightly flawed, he achieved his goal.

After the Tang Dynasty captured Tuyuhun, there were actually not many external threats. At most, there was only one Goguryeo still eyeing it, but Goguryeo no longer posed any threat to the Tang Dynasty.

Its destruction is just a matter of time.

Moreover, with the black powder developed by our General of the Tang Dynasty, we will definitely make achievements in foreign wars in the future.

At this time, the most we, the Tang Dynasty, can do is send troops to Goguryeo, and then what will we do?"

Wen Yanbo was shocked when he heard this and whispered: "Beware of the northwest?"

The so-called guarding against the northwest is nothing more than guarding against Li Chengqian. After all, Li Chengqian now has strong soldiers and horses. Both they and Li Er have to guard against Li Chengqian doing things he knows he cannot do.

This is also an important reason why Changsun Wuji visited Taohe County.

It is reported that Yuchi Jingde has now begun to take office in Taohe County.

All these are actually to guard against the northwest.

Fang Xuanling nodded and said: "Your Highness must have guessed it, so he sent a sand table at this time.

To be honest, I had some thoughts at that time.

When I looked at the map before, I didn't think anything was wrong, but when the general trend of the world was clearly visible on the sand table, I thought, if all the cultivated land in Zhenla and Nanzhao belongs to the Tang Dynasty, I will not be afraid of it.

When faced with natural disasters, is Tang more capable of dealing with them?

You all must still remember that in the early years of Zhenguan, there were natural disasters almost every year, and countless people died from famine every year.

But if we have one more acre of land, can we have one more acre of food and save even one more person in times of famine?"

"What the Prime Minister said makes sense." Dai Zhou also nodded and said, "I am the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs and know this very well."

"But this is the power of His Highness." Fang Xuanling shook his head, "Your Highness knows that our Tang Dynasty has suffered from famine for many years, and everyone in the court is prepared for danger in times of peace, so he sent the sand table in front of us, allowing us to start from it.

From the sand table, we can intuitively feel the lack of cultivated land in Datang.

This was not enough, he even told us about the situation in the surrounding countries.

Let's just talk about Zhenla. As far as I know, their national power is not as strong as the Ming Dynasty, which was only established by Your Highness for only two years, but the cultivated land they own is several times that of the Ming Dynasty.

It is a crime for an ordinary man to carry a jade without any guilt!

Your Highness did nothing, just used a sand table to arouse our greed."

After saying that, Fang Xuanling sighed helplessly.
To be continued...