"Prime Minister, what Shi Caiqing said is only a general strategy. I think a few key details should be done in order to better enhance the national strength of our great Han Dynasty."

Yang Qing feels that the strategy just proposed is still a bit broad, and some important details have not been touched upon. In fact, history is like this, and often an accidental change will lead to a very different direction. Yang Qing does not know what impact his arrival will have on the subsequent history.

He just hopes that he can help Zhuge Liang as much as possible to avoid the mistakes that happened in the original history. Maybe when these mistakes no longer happen, the subsequent Northern Expedition may be very different. Of course, he, this little butterfly, will

How the history of this life is messed up is beyond his control. He just tries his best to make it happen.

Seeing that Yang Qing still had ideas, Zhuge Liang became hopeful again and said happily: "Oh? Mingzhi still has some good ideas, please tell me soon."

Yang Qingdao: "Prime Minister Qing believes that if you want to make a difference, you must first practice internal skills, that is, cultivate political affairs internally, and govern the Shu region to accumulate national strength."

"In addition, the wars launched in recent years have greatly depleted the people's strength and the people's burden is extremely heavy. They are in urgent need of recuperation and restoration. Therefore, the Qing Dynasty strongly agrees with the Prime Minister's strategy of seclusion, seclusion, farming and grain cultivation, and temporarily ignoring the rebellion in South China."

Yang Qing sighed.

Zhuge Liang also sighed: "Yes, the people of Shu have sacrificed too much for the Han Dynasty in recent years, and now they really can't afford to use weapons."

"Therefore, the Qing Dynasty believed that during this period, the court should adopt the strategy of focusing on agriculture to consolidate the foundation and develop business to enrich the country." Yang Qing said: "Farming is the foundation of the country. As long as there is a large amount of grain in hand, no matter whether it is internal governance,

The use of troops abroad is inseparable from the premise of sufficient grain."

"How to develop agriculture?" Zhuge Liang asked seriously.

"The first step is to build water conservancy projects. With Du'an Weir as the core, we will build large and small water conservancy projects in various places. The Chengdu Plain is a fertile land thousands of miles away. As long as the water supply is constant, farming will be worry-free." Yang Qing said with a smile: "Secondly, the Chengdu Plain is a fertile land thousands of miles away.

It is necessary to improve the farming methods and tools for intensive farming to increase food production."

When Zhuge Liang heard this, his eyes brightened, and he said anxiously: "Is there any way to improve it?" Yang Qing nodded and said, there are many ways to improve the current generation. He will turn over the cart, the curved shaft plow and other new agricultural tools as well as suitable for dry land.

Zhuge Liang briefly explained the plowing technology and paddy field plowing technology. Zhuge Liang was extremely intelligent and proficient in farming, so he quickly understood that Yang Qing’s method was extremely feasible. He was very happy and expressed his gratitude to Yang Qing.

We are looking forward to Qing’s next strategy.

"The last step is to accumulate people. Everything depends on people, and farming and cultivating valleys requires a large number of people. However, Yizhou has experienced successive years of turmoil and wars since Emperor Ling. Many people fled into the mountains and forests, and there were also powerful tyrants who plundered the people.

As a guest, they hid their household registration, so the number of people registered with the government dropped from five to six million to more than one million, and the population resources directly controlled by the state declined seriously. The Qing Dynasty speculated that the actual number of people in Shu today is about three million, so as long as the imperial court

If you can restrain the tyrants and issue policies such as granting land to the people, lending cattle, seeds, light corvee and small taxes, etc., you can attract the people to establish households, and the country's taxation, military strength, etc. will be greatly enhanced."

Yang Qing knew that the so-called national power was more directly controlled by the country, while powerful families, including the royal family, generally controlled other resources indirectly. In the feudal dynasty, the two were connected and supplementary, but in fact they were more antagonistic. After all,

Clan, nobles, and powerful families control resources as private individuals mainly for their own arrogant and luxurious aristocratic life. In a sense, these people are poaching the court at all times and sucking the blood of the country. Therefore,

A progressive court can always control their blood-sucking ability by collecting taxes from these people, but once the court's ability declines, it is not far from decline and destruction.

For example, at the end of the Ming Dynasty in later generations, as a country with a population of hundreds of millions, the wealth it created was so huge. It stands to reason that to deal with the Manchus outside the customs, you can say that you need money, people and food, which means using national power to pile up the capital.

It could kill the Qing Dynasty. But the court just had no money. A large amount of wealth was seized by the noble clans, powerful gentry, eunuchs and giant businessmen. They used their expanding privileges for more than two hundred years to escape and transfer taxes, which accounted for most of the cost of the court's rule.

The burden fell on farmers and handicraftsmen, and these people were already in poverty. Therefore, the more the Ming court increased taxes, the heavier the burden on the people was, and the more people rebelled. In order to suppress the uprising, the court had to increase taxes, and the people could not bear it.

They want to rebel again. How can such a vicious cycle not be defeated by the Manchu Qing Dynasty who are watching covetously outside the customs?

Therefore, the more real idea in Yang Qing's heart is not to suppress the powerful but to attack the powerful. It is just that it is inconvenient to say so deeply when meeting Zhuge Liang for the first time. Of course, in the feudal dynasty, if a powerful family attacks too hard, the foundation of rule will be shaken.

After all, this is still the era of the Three Kingdoms competing for hegemony. If they are forced to surrender to Wei and Wu, it will be counterproductive.

Therefore, there are generally two ways to solve this problem. One is to make the cake bigger and let the powerful families stop focusing on the people of Shu. As long as they win the battle with Wei and Wu, they will make a profit.

Then the wealthy families will do their best to support the Han Dynasty, and the second is to divide the cake well. This is mainly to follow the practices of the ancestors of the Han Dynasty, constantly protect and strengthen the peasants, and strictly prohibit the wealthy families from infringing on the interests of the common people. Only the leaders have superb government affairs.

Only ability and an efficient government can effectively control it, and the Shu Han court during Zhuge Liang's period was just like this. Therefore, Yang Qing decided to slowly discuss this major matter with Zhuge Liang, who admired the rule of the early Han Dynasty.

Seeing Zhuge Liang nod his head in approval, he continued: "Commercial goods and culture can exchange goods all over the world, and it is actually the way to enrich the country and benefit the people. In the past, Guan Zhong practiced the art of goods and culture, and Qi became strong and hegemonic. Therefore, if we want to strengthen our country, we, a great Han, must do something

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This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Zhuge Liang has learned a lot. In addition to the normal Confucian classics, he is also particularly proficient in the studies of Lao Zhuang and Guan Han. He once personally copied "Shen Zi" and "Shen Zi" for the emperor Liu Chan.

"Han Feizi", "Guan Zi", "Six Tao" and other books, he also compared himself to Guan Zhong and Le Yi. It can be seen that Zhuge Liang highly respected Guan Zhong, so Zhuge Liang also attached great importance to the role of commerce and had his own ideas on the cultivation of goods. He met Yang

The Qing Dynasty also understood the benefits of a large-scale commodity farming to enrich the country and benefit the people, and now they were even more looking forward to Yang Qing's brilliant plan.

"Does Mingzhi have any clever ideas for promoting business?"

Yang Qing smiled and replied: "The prime minister is an expert in this field, and Qing is just doing his own thing. Regardless of internal or external business wars, if the court wants to win, the key is to have more of the goods necessary for others, so that others can ask for help.

If I have more, I ask others who have less, so that I can be invincible. And this lifeline, salt and iron, needless to say, the early Han Dynasty made the country rich by specializing in it, and there are still a lot of commodities in Yizhou, which are the products of Wei and Wu

What other places need, such as silk brocade from Shu. As long as it is produced in large quantities, it will be sold as far as Wei and Wu and even more remote places, so Yizhou will be rich."

Yang Qing stopped to take a sip of tea, and then said: "By the way, Prime Minister, there is another thing that can attract people to buy it, especially Hu people."

"What?" Zhuge Liang asked puzzled.

"That's it." Yang Qing pointed to the tea cup on the desk.

"Tea?"

"Exactly." Yang Qingdao: "Of course it is not the boiled tea soup now, but tea made through special techniques such as steaming and frying. This kind of tea only needs to be brewed with water and does not require other ingredients.

Add, leaving only the fragrant flavor."

"I remembered." Zhuge Liang said suddenly: "Yesterday, when my wife came back, she told me about the method of making tea you mentioned. She was very complimentary. It was just because she was not at home yesterday that she had no time to make it."

"After the Qing Dynasty returns, I will make more tea leaves to taste with the Prime Minister."

Zhuge Liang nodded and asked: "I can foresee that this tea will be highly praised by the world, especially the wealthy, but how can the barbarians need it on a large scale?"

Yang Qingdao: "Hu people eat meat all the year round, and their stomachs are naturally greasy and unbearable, and they even get sick from it. However, as Qing said, tea can detoxify and eliminate diseases, relieve greasiness, and remove fat. Once the Hu people get it, they will never be able to do without it."

With this thing, the imperial court can make tea for the barbarians in exchange for war horses from the barbarians and make huge profits."

"Wonderful." Zhuge Liang praised, and then he thought further. He would definitely deal with the Qiang and Hu during the Northern Expedition. Once he was lured with tea and controlled, he could subdue the Qiang and Hu for his own use.

Zhuge Liang was pleasantly surprised by the strategies proposed by Yang Qing today. The two of them talked about farming and business, and then from business to military matters. One was extremely wise and talented, and the other was knowledgeable and had fantastic ideas.

The two chatted more and more happily. Unknowingly, more than two hours had passed. During this period, many officials from the Prime Minister's Mansion came to see them, but they were blocked by the soldiers guarding outside the door. Until it was dark, Chang Shi Wanglian came in to speak.
Chapter completed!