Du Shaoqing looked around and said his thoughts boldly. In fact, it was very simple, with only ten words: grazing, farming!

After hearing his answer, everyone was confused. Li Er scolded with a dark face: "After wandering around for a long time, this is your countermeasure? Stay still?

Then what else do I want you to do? It’s just to cause trouble!”

Seeing that Du Shaoqing was not a joke at all, but was a little confident. Fang Xuanling pondered for a moment and asked tentatively: "Did Shaoqing want to implement a limited arable land policy in the Northeast and keep some people grazing for a living?

Well... this method is worth pondering. As long as it can fix half of the people, the remaining danger of life chaos will be much smaller."

Du Shaoqing smiled and said, "Yes, that's what it means, and I also know a situation that may be of great help to Uncle Fang to build a city."

"Oh? Please tell me, is there anything special about the Northeast?" Fang Xuanling urged.

Du Shaoqing walked to the map and used his command pole to draw a circle in the northeast direction, "This place is a very vast fertile plain, very suitable for planting and reclamation. If used properly, it can add millions of acres of fertile land to the Tang Dynasty.

Originally, our Tang Dynasty only occupied a part of the Liaodong area, but now it has been all included in the Tang Dynasty territory. If we can match our Tang Dynasty's farming technology, even if we only produce one season a year, it would be difficult for us to not be rich here."

really???

Everyone looked at Du Shaoqing in horror, then turned to look at the invisible circle, and the eyes of the ministers became hot.

The Tang Dynasty was still in the era of agricultural civilization, and the output of land and grain almost represented national strength. Now, such a large piece of fertile fertile land can be increased. If used properly, the Tang Dynasty will no longer be short of food from now on, and the future prosperity will be expected.

After staring at the map for a long time, Fang Xuanling said angrily: "Your Majesty, these small countries are not sincere. Such important geographical information is hidden from us, so they should be punished!"

"Wrong, I'm wrong, Uncle Fang, it's not that they deliberately concealed it, it's that they didn't know it at all, or they didn't care. These northern Hu people only knew how to grazle and go south to plunder for a living. Although some of them also considered learning to farm, they were ultimately unable to draw a tiger, so they have always ignored farming.

In our eyes, it is a fertile plain suitable for cultivation, but in their eyes, it is just an ordinary grazing area.

If they had known this for a long time, the national strength would probably not be so vulnerable." Du Shaoqing explained for help.

"Yes, fortunately they are ignorant. Otherwise, if three more powerful countries like Goguryeo will be added to the north, the situation will be worrying." Gao Shilian nodded.

"But you didn't say just now that if excessive cultivation is carried out, it will cause land waste and that desertification." Wei Zheng questioned.

Du Shaoqing laughed, "The circle I draw can be changed to a land with the same farming model as my Central Plains. As long as the population is controlled properly, you will not be afraid of the land quality being destroyed.

To the north of this place is a real grazing grassland. Due to climate, these places have limited annual precipitation, so if we destroy vegetation, the consequences will be difficult to make up for."

From the beginning to the end, Du Shaoqing has been answering questions from these ministers. This is not to be made difficult, but to help check for omissions. Factors that can be considered by these people must be a major plan for people's livelihood and there must be no omissions.

In response to Du Shaoqing's proposal, everyone chatted for another two hours. Until the lights were in hand, almost everyone could not bear it anymore, especially the older ones, Li Er ordered dinner and went home after dinner.

There was no need to pay attention to the arrangement of noodles during the meal, so we served everyone a standard dinner in this hall, and everyone was talking and laughing while eating and chatting.

Li Er sighed: "I finally got a little surprised. Otherwise, letting so many Hu people in the north continue to be nomadic autonomy, and new leaders emerge again in the future and restore their ancestors' style will become a major problem in our north again. We must be wary of it!"

I don’t know who complained, “It’s because there are too many Hu people in the north. If there are fewer people and the population can be controlled, we won’t start wars in the north every once in a while, which will cost the people and cause money, and both sides will not be able to afford it.

It is trouble for the country, but for the people, it is suffering."

Yes, but is this population so easy to control? Since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, even though the birth of children has been encouraged many times, the population has reproduction slow.

It is different if it is placed in the Hu tribe. The import of the Tang Dynasty's new people was to enhance national strength and prosper all industries, but the Hu people were different. They added children to import them to increase the new force of the battle. In the future, when the war was robbed south, they could gain more.

Therefore, the Hu people have a little more population, and the threat they use on the battlefield can be expanded ten times, but the Hu people are scattered and difficult to control.

Du Shaoqing kept silent, waiting for everyone to have almost finished dinner before he took the initiative to speak: "I have an idea to reduce the number of people in the north by 90%.

Puff... This news not only did not make people excited and happy, but also made many ministers almost choke on food.

Li Er angrily scolded: "Bastard! Since I have entered my Tang Dynasty territory, I will be my Tang Dynasty people in the future. How can you say such vicious words as slaughtering the people?"

"Who said he was going to kill someone?" Du Shaoqing wondered.

The eunuch Gao reminded: "Mr. Prince Consort, what you just said is that there is a way to reduce the number of people in the Hu people by 90%...."

"I'm talking about immigration, letting them all move to the Central Plains and naturalize. I never said I'd like to kill someone!" Du Shaoqing said unjustly.

Immigration? Why did a new idea come up? Isn’t it just a nonsense?

Changsun Wuji spoke, "Your Majesty, why not let Du Fu talk in detail. He is not a targetless person, he must have a specific idea."

Unexpectedly, the first person to stand up to support me was his old rival, Fatty Changsun. Du Shaoqing was quite surprised.

Li Er was happy to see his brother-in-law reconcile with his son-in-law, and turned anger into joy. He squinted his eyes and nodded and asked Du Shaoqing to explain in detail.

The ministers who were originally going to say goodbye to go home to sleep were left behind because of Du Shaoqing's idea.

In fact, this was also planned by Du Shaoqing two months ago. There has been a large population migration in history. The most famous person in the Northeast should be to enter Guandong. If that is the case, why can't the people from the north move to the south?

Some people may question that if there is no one in the north, the construction of a city will be meaningless. At the same time, if the migration is not clean, some people will be left to reproduce and survive. A hundred years later will be another large tribe, which will be futile.

Or maybe some people say that population migration is too difficult, after all, the people are relocated to the land. The problem of the Hu people in the north may not be their hometown, but survival. People have been grazing for a living since they were born. Nothing else can be said. If you let them move to the south to farm, who will starve to death?

No need to think about it, no one is willing to take this risk.

But Du Shaoqing's method was very promising. Although the tricks were a little damaged, they were effective and worked once and for all. Moreover, everyone lighted the lights and talked at night that night and decided on this strategy in one fell swoop.

When Du Shaoqing learned that scalpers were deliberately raising grain prices, he followed the situation and came up with a plan that would allow the Hu people from the north to voluntarily move to the mainland of the Central Plains.

That is to tell them that they have no food and they can’t buy it even if they have money, because there is too much loss on the way, and 80% of the food will be lost on the way, and the Tang Dynasty cannot afford this consumption.

But it is not possible to have no food. The labor force that the Hu people in the north used to grazed were hired to fight. In addition, the cattle and sheep bought by the Tang Dynasty to serve as military rations during the war. Most of the livestock in the people's homes are kept for breeding, which is not practical enough to survive.

In this way, the people's food sources will depend on the export of the Tang Dynasty. Now the Tang Dynasty says that there is no export of food, how can we survive?

There is a way to send out a message that there is no food transported on the border, but the granary of the Central Plains is still there. The court has introduced an immigration policy, as long as the immigrants pass, food, accommodation and family, etc. In short, staying is to sit and wait for death, immigrating to the Central Plains is to make a fortune.

Let’s not talk about how many of these people can accept the tricks of immigrants. Even if this matter is done, the grasslands in the Northeast will be empty, but it will still not work.

Therefore, Du Shaoqing also launched a joint plan to encourage the people of Central Plains to develop in the Northeast, where they can make a large area of ​​fertile fields. All policies are very generous. As long as they can stay there to help build a city, the court will reward them.

In this way, as long as the interests of both ends are arranged well, it can lead to a relocation of people like a replacement.

The northern Hu people were moved to the mainland and were sinicized, while the Central Plains people moved to the north were territorial expansion, which did not affect rule and development, and could even accelerate local development.

After listening to Du Shaoqing's introduction, some people praised him and some frowned.

A young middle-aged official asked: "Mr. Du, you are a bit of a reversal of yin and yang. Let the grazers go to the Central Plains to farm, and let the grazers go to the north to grazing?

It doesn’t match what you said at the beginning, and it’s very likely that both ends will be troubled after immigration.”

This person is a young civil official who has been promoted very quickly in the past two years. He is also famous, named Ma Zhou. The ability to allow him to participate in such a discussion shows Li Er's reputation.

Du Shaoqing explained: "If people in the Central Plains removed from the north will be placed on the Northeast plain to cultivate farming. Of course, a group of people who do not know how to grazed can't just take over the grassland.

We worked hard to build cities and build a political place, and from then on, the Tang Dynasty added several wealthy state roads.

As for the Hu people who moved to the Central Plains, it may be a bit difficult for them to learn farming, so my idea is to let them produce farming, but to only use their labor force.

If there is a shortage of people in the Central Plains, we moved some of the Hu people. These people took on various labor projects, such as the project of Li Yan, the King of Shu, who opened the mountain and built the Shu road. The people worked hard and the officials were in charge of the salary and paid money.

There are also rivers in the south of the Yangtze River, bridges, cars and ships, etc...."

"There are millions of people in the north, where can I afford it? This is not like disaster relief for three to five months, one and a half years, but it is like this every year..." Wei Zheng denied.

Du Shaoqing hesitated for a moment, lowered his business and said, "In fact, there is never a shortage of food. The Lingnan Navy has captured the entire Annan land. It is now the largest granary in the Tang Dynasty. It produces abundant grain every year and rice three seasons...

It’s not a problem to feed millions of people.”

hiss……

Everyone couldn't help but take a breath. On the one hand, they were amazed at the fertility of Annan and the great achievements of Lingnan. On the other hand, they secretly scolded Du Shaoqing for being cunning and not giving food to the people in the north, but instead forced them to leave their hometowns.

Du Shaoqing joked at everyone: "Hey, don't look at me like this, as if I am a traitor. I will use this method to drive the people to relocate independently. From now on, it will be better to survive in the Central Plains region safely than they were originally wandering around.

Even if I lie deliberately and have other intentions, it would be almost a lie of kindness!"

Fang Xuanling smiled and smoothed out the situation: "Everyone, we cannot misunderstand the truth about Shaoqing, and planning the country without hiding private interests. It is beneficial to the country and the people. This is the right way!

If this method is not used, and the imperial edicts alone are persuading or forcing people, it is probably impossible to migrate such people at all. There is a way to save time and effort, so why not?

If it’s me, I will use it.”

Everyone laughed, and everyone knew that if we were talking about conspiracy, the people present must be the most proficient group of people in the Tang Dynasty.

Perhaps there are really not many people who use open conspiracy to solve problems like Du Shaoqing.

Li Ji said: "We cannot let the grassland north of the plain in the northeast. I suggest that a capable force be arranged to specifically grazle and breed livestock, cattle, sheep, and horses. This will not only control the northern grassland, but also greatly reduce the cost of buying livestock in our Central Plains, killing two birds with one stone!"

"Okay! Mao Gong's plan is very good, he is worthy of being the Military Advisor Xu." Li Er praised.

Li Jiqian said: "I am just hindsight. I guess this is what Du Fuma said at the beginning, "grazing for grazing and farming for farming."

In fact, it means that those who grazed and farmed in the north will be replaced by our people. In this way, the north will be full of their own people, so how can there be any future troubles of the Hu people attacking the border?"

"Uncle Li, don't be so clever. I don't have such a clever idea. What I am afraid of is to let those who insist on not relocating to graze. After all, they are familiar with them. Uncle, you can just let your own people take over, which is even more foolproof. I admire you!" Du Shaoqing waved his hand.

Is this really the case? Li Ji didn't believe it. He didn't believe that Du Shaoqing couldn't think of this, but he didn't argue any more. He was discussing political affairs and couldn't always joke between individuals. He had to be serious.

A parliament that laid the fate of the Northeast region finally decided late at night. Everyone returned home with exhaustion, but their thoughts and eyes were so uneasy. Obviously, the discussion on this day made everyone feel a lot of emotion.

Du Shaoqing rode a horse and returned home alone. As soon as he reached the door, the door of the Du family opened wide. A person came out excitedly and said, "You are back, you are so lucky to wait!"

I'll go, what's this thing? Which one of you?

Du Shaoqing was so scared that he fell down from his horse.
Chapter completed!