Li Shimin saw this map and various data parameters, and finally knew that if the country had a long destiny, he had to continuously explore the land before the country could be maintained. Jing Wen saw a green light burst out from Li Shimin's eyes, and Jing Wen immediately knew that his idea had succeeded. Jing Wen hoped that Li Shimin could burst out this kind of courage and ambition to expand territory for the sake of land. The Chinese people have never had any ambition to expand territory since ancient times, and the civil servants in power all resisted to expand territory because they believed that expanding territory would make warriors rise, and then they were going to power.

But now the cruel facts are placed before Li Shimin. If he does not live more useful land, the Tang Dynasty will probably be destroyed sooner or later. Unless it can continuously expand its territory, the country will have continuous prosperity and development. Only by allowing the people to have more land to plant, so that the people will not rebel when hunger and cold. Therefore, Li Shimin understood that the territory of the Tang Dynasty must be expanded as soon as possible, and after it is expanded, the national destiny of the Tang Dynasty can be extended as much as possible, otherwise he can only watch the demise of the Tang Dynasty.

Li Shimin left the Political Affairs Hall and took Jing Wen back to the Ganlu Hall. Then he asked Jing Wen: "Jing Wen, you said that the population pressure in the Tang Dynasty is not too high, but how long will it take to reach the north of the Tang Dynasty? "

Jing Wen immediately replied: "Your Majesty, it will take at least fifty years to make my Tang Dynasty unable to hold on."

"Fifty years? It's not long, but it's not short." Li Shimin muttered.

Fifty years. For a person, especially the ancients, it is almost a lifelong thing. But for a country and a nation, it is just a blink of an eye. Li Shimin is in the identity of emperor, so he feels that it is not long or short. Li Shimin's identity as a "person" is a bit long. But as the ruler of a country, he feels that it is a bit short. So Li Shimin is able to face this pressure fifty years later. He knows that he may not be able to do it, so Li Shimin feels that he is a bit suspicious of his descendants.

"You said, what should I do next?" Li Shimin asked.

Jing Wen opened the map and pointed to the Jiangnan area first and said, "First of all, we want to develop Jiangnan!"

Li Shimin looked at Jiangnan and was also surprised. He did not expect that Jing Wen would actually develop Jiangnan. Jiangnan was not an economically developed place in the early Tang Dynasty. If Jiangnan wanted to develop, according to the original history, he had to wait until the end of the Tang Dynasty. During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the people in the north escaped war and then went to Jiangnan. As for the Song Dynasty, they would truly develop. If they really wanted to reach the peak and surpass the north, they would have to wait until the Southern Song Dynasty. Therefore, Jiangnan is now deserted, and in the eyes of many people, they are a land of smoke and chaos.

Many people will swear when they enter this kind of smoky place, that is, they will be troubled by malaria. So once they are sent to Jiangnan, most people will think they have been exiled. Once they are sent to Jiangnan, they think they have no future, so who will count on one day? They just want to spend their days and get paid. At that time, wasn’t Dugu Kaiyuan just sent to Guangzhou to be a position without real power? So, now they are actually going to develop Jiangnan?

"Your Majesty, do you know? Although Jiangnan is now deserted, there are many fertile fields in Jiangnan. Jiangnan is a hometown of fish and rice, and there are many places where grain can be harvested twice a year or even three times a year. So these grains are enough for us to eat for many years." Jing Wen said.

Li Shimin asked again: "What if there is not enough food in Jiangnan?"

"Then you will occupy the Nanyang in the world map drawn by me! In this way, we can maintain the national destiny of our Tang Dynasty for thousands of years." Jing Wen said.

Li Shimin's face was a little complicated. This was a large-scale expansion of territory, and this was a tightrope! The large-scale development of Jiangnan and even the development of land far away in the sky required a lot of finance, so Li Shimin had to be cautious.

When Jing Wen looked at Li Shimin, he knew that Li Shimin was moved. This was to expand territory and maintain the stability of the Tang Dynasty in the future. If the emperors in the past expanded territory for glory, but now they must have expanded territory for the survival of the country. Jing Wen couldn't help but be glad that he did not carry any sweet potato seeds to travel through.

When Jing Wen saw some people traveling with sweet potato seeds in his previous life, he felt speechless. Once there were sweet potatoes in the Central Plains, the majority of people would definitely not starve to death. However, the side effects of doing so were also great. The Chinese people have been too kind since ancient times. Once they cannot starve to death, they will not think about pioneering. There are only a few people who are truly ambitious and greedy. Once the people cannot starve to death, although they can also create a prosperous era, they are not under much pressure in their lives, so they will not think about reclaiming wastelands, and they will only think about how to eat enough to grow sweet potatoes themselves.

If this happens, the ruling class of the entire country will be paralyzed. You should know that China's internal defense since ancient times is stronger than external defense. Once the domestic people can be sure that they will not rebel, the ruling class will probably rest assured and have no sense of crisis at all. As the same goes for the same sentence, born from distress and died from happiness. Once the ruling class has no sense of crisis, the domestic people will certainly not rebel, and foreign enemies may also develop. Why do foreign enemies develop? It is not because it is not because

Hunger, poor? Without the oppression of hunger and poverty, they would not have the motivation to develop at all. But if there were sweet potatoes in the Central Plains at that time and the people were full, it would stop the entire society from developing. In an agricultural society, once all the people were full, the country would fall into a state of inability to develop. If the industrial society was slow to come, the country would be completely abandoned. Therefore, before the industrial society, letting all the people be full is a dangerous signal.
Chapter completed!