Chapter 701: Restoring the two capitals and returning to the old capital

After finally finalizing the collection rules for the industrial and commercial tax with Liu Ba and clarifying the current tax base status, Li Su and his party quickly embarked on the road from Chang'an to Luoyang.

In addition to Li Su's family, Zhuge Liang's family also had to go to Luoyang to take office. Li Su not only brought his wives and concubines, but also brought his son who was three years old. The young children could not bear the hardships of boats, so everyone walked slowly.

When Li Su was the governor of the outside world, he left his son with Zhen Jiang and played with the prince and Zhen Jiang's daughter for more than a year, which was considered a disguised hostage.

Now that Li Su has returned, he has returned the military power of Yizhou, Dianzhou and Jiaozhou. In the future, only the governor Sili and Jingzhou are close to the center, so there is no risk of separatism.

Liu Bei was of course relieved to Li Su. He kept hostages before mainly to set an example for future generations and to let the future emperor leave a ancestral law. Anyone who temporarily released the military and civilian governments of several states would leave his legitimate son in the capital.

Now that Li Su has made this good start, there is no need for Liu Bei to keep it. Liu Bei has raised a son himself. He knows that when the child was just two or three years old, he has not seen his parents for too long, so it is easy to recognize his child, so it is difficult to keep him in the hands of his aunt. So Li Su's son is over three years old, so let him go.

It was the end of November on the road. Li Su and his party spent two days rushing to Huayin, and then lingered for several days to let the children and women rest.

Zhuge Liang's family visited his old place of Mount Hua Observatory, which had been dusty for a long time, and picked up his personal interests and hobbies to take a break. Li Su also went to Miaozhen Palace to experience the quietness of practice and meditation, and then traveled east again.

When he left Mount Hua, Zhuge Liang couldn't help but imitate and recite several poems left by his mentor back then.

"The peaks are like gathering, the waves are like anger, the mountains and rivers are like the roads on Tongguan... The people are suffering, and the people are suffering. Alas, every time you walk to Huayin, you must remember the little song you wrote in a nonsense.

Fortunately, the reunification is not far from now on, and His Majesty knows to increase the tax source, relevance of industry and commerce, and to calm down the wealth and poverty. When the Han Dynasty was in its three rises, the people would not suffer."

This "Reminiscence of the Ancients of Tongguan" is of course very different from the works of the same name in history. After all, the Han Dynasty did not "dead". Li Su made it up after changing a lot of words and words.

Initially, it was actually derived from the eight words he sighed when he just made friends with Liu Bei more than ten years ago, "promoting the people's suffering, and losing the people's suffering." The rest were gathered behind him, because the literati and acquaintances around him sometimes felt that Mr. Li was too incisive and every word was gem, and hoped that he would complete the context of those famous sayings and aphorisms.

After a few days of refreshing and pleasant cultivation of the Huashan Scenic Scenic Spot, Li Su also returned to a very good mental state. Facing Zhuge Liang's question, he also felt that things changed.

It seems that he was back three or four years ago, when Yuan Shu had not killed the lord, Zhuge Liang had not yet made a complete start, and was still studying humbly. At that time, Zhuge Liang often asked questions with all kinds of ideas.

Li Suting missed this life state where Confucius accumulated Analects materials. After thinking about it for a moment, he taught calmly:

"The so-called "promoting the people's suffering" and "declining the people's suffering" is of course there is a cycle of cycles of governance and chaos. The suffering of chaotic times lies in killing and attacking, and the suffering of governing the world lies in the reproduction of the population and insufficient fields. The rich are in the fields and the poor are in the fields.

After the chaos, the rich were taken away from the land, and the poor were killed and killed less. They may have eighty years of peace or one hundred and sixty years of peace, and the people will not have no land to plant. During this period, the people will not suffer.

I dare not say that there are many people who have revived this dynasty. There will definitely be some people who have been prosperous for eighty years, even if I don’t do anything. But it will take 160 years, the country, the people who have been prosperous for even two hundred and forty years.

It depends on how to develop barbarians, or guide the population from agriculture to industry and commerce, or discover new high-yield grains such as Linyi rice, or reclaim southern mountains and more mature land. Every time one or two items are made, it may be able to extend the people of the world's peace and prosperity for 80 years."

Zhuge Liang felt a little compassionate and sighed: "Emperor Gao first developed the Han Dynasty, and the world was peaceful for 220 years. Even when the Yuan Dynasty and the Cheng Dynasty were established, the world had reached a place where the poor had no place to stand, which was just the dilemma of the last forty years of the ancestors.

The revival of Guangwu was more than 120 years before Huan Ling. Since Huan Ling, it has been another forty years since the chaotic times, and it has been more than 160 years. But why did Your Majesty revival the Han Dynasty three times? Do you think the time when the people live and work in peace and contentment are so pessimistic?"

If Li Su hadn't only been his own family and Zhuge Liang's family today, it would have been impossible for Li Su to say such calm and objective words. If there is an outsider, he would have to be more polite and praise the peaceful and prosperous times.

However, for your own people, you can tell me what he really thinks: "That's because this troubled times are short, and Your Majesty is kind to the people and loves things, and cannot bear to suffer more. Today, I estimate that there are still 37 million people, and there are at least 35 million after destroying Yuan Shao.

In the future, we will have to deal with Cao Cao. Cao Cao may be good at farming, forcibly expanding his army with military garrisons, plundering the people, and using the people heavier than Yuan Shao. But I believe that when the world is completely reunified, there will be at least 30 million people.

When Qin destroyed the six kingdoms, the household registration in the world was only 20 million. At the end of Qin, millions were killed and killed. When Emperor Gaozu established the Han Dynasty, the population in the world was less than 15 million.

Although Guangwu was repeatedly war-torn, Guangwu destroyed Xinmang and killed only the same as Gaozu's late Qin Dynasty. However, when Xinmang replaced the Han Dynasty, the killings were not as many as when Qin destroyed the six kingdoms. Therefore, there were more than 20 million people in the world in the early years of Guangwu.

Before Linyi rice and the south were fully developed, the land of China would feed at most more than 50 million people. After this number of people, even if it was rich and poor, and flat fields, it would still be difficult to support everyone.

When the poor have no place to stand, they still cannot find the land of a strong man. Isn’t it because there are too many poor people who compete for the right to rent a tenant? Therefore, the powerful can see who pays the highest price.

Those with backbone can only pay 40% of the rent, and then the powerful will rent it to those who are not so backbone who are willing to pay 50% of the rent. If you become more serious, you will rent it 60% of the rent..."

The demographic dividend will make the labor cheaper, which is a truth that modern people understand. Li Su popularly exposes this point, and Zhuge Liang's IQ is also quite easy to understand.

Zhuge Liang had been a little bit arrogant in the past two years. The main reason was that after he was transferred from Lingtai Order to a local official and military officer, he started to make a solid decision. His political achievements were not bad. Seeing the rise of the Han Dynasty, he felt that his future was bright.

Only after Li Su's urgency did he realize that there were many things he could do later. It was even more difficult to start a business and it was even more difficult to keep the world.

I still have a lot to learn, so how can I be proud and complacent? Everything I have learned is just how to strengthen the mobilization of wartime and end the troubled times. Do I really understand the administrative logic after the troubled times? Have you practiced it?

Not to mention Zhuge Liang at the moment, even Zhuge Liang, who was ultimately completely in history, may not completely think about "how to use Confucianism and Law after the unification of the world."

After all, in history, Zhuge Liang's internal affairs were strict rule of law, and everything was based on fairness and justice, and mobilization efficiency was the first. In fact, it was a bit similar to the Qin law. He never had the luxury of considering the matter after peace in his life, which was also Zhuge Liang's helplessness, and he had no chance.

However, after learning from Li Su in this life, Zhuge Liang obviously had to think about these long-term problems, which he could use in his entire life.

Zhuge Liang thought about it and asked: "When he read the "Five Worms", Han Fei said, "In ancient times, when a husband did not farm, the grass and trees were sufficient to eat; when a woman did not weave, the skin and clothes of animals were enough to wear. If he did not work hard, he would raise enough, the people would have little money, so the people would not fight."

I dare not believe it all, at least I don’t believe that the ancients did not argue because "there are few people but the wealth is more than enough." Mr. Li’s words today were inconsistent with Han Fei, which made me suddenly understand. It turns out that in the chaotic world of the Dharma-Ending Age, there are many people and fierce competition, so I can see through these things.

"Today, people have five sons but not many, and they have five sons. The eldest father had twenty-five grandsons before he died. Therefore, the people were full of money and money, and the work was hard but the supply was poor, so the people fought for it."

Han Feizi saw through so early that everyone wanted to have five sons, and his grandfather had twenty-five grandsons before he died. To use the mathematics that Master Li taught me, this is called "the population growth in geometric numbers". No wonder no one can escape the trap of chaos.

But if we do not have war and persevere, should we still oppose the people's 'It's not too much for people to have five sons'? Confucius and Mencius said that being unfilial and having three no descendants is the greatest."

Li Su: "These are both right. It's okay to have no descendants. 'If you have five sons, it's not too many.' You should be alert. Besides, the court should not use severe punishments to control this matter. Just guide and control the speed a little.

It is certain that there are too many people. Don’t be too fast. You should expand outward in moderation, cultivate the south, conquer the barbarians, and develop shipping. Each item can increase the population carrying of China.

It is indeed a lot of people with five sons, but it is still okay to have two sons, not a daughter. People are encouraged to have two sons and then restrain themselves. The engraved medical books generally teach people who cannot afford to raise two sons to learn some medical principles, know when women are safe, and those who don’t want to have children can try to avoid dangerous days.

In the future, not only should men be taught to learn to read, but women can also read slightly. Although women are not as good as men's farming skills, they can develop fine industry and commerce, allowing women to find more things to do, find industrial and commercial positions suitable for women to play their strengths, and improve their status. Naturally, they will not only think that mothers are more valuable to their sons.

Doing this will allow the population to grow slowly and in an orderly manner. People with wives have two sons and several daughters on average. The growth rate of the population that will inevitably double in 60 to 80 years can be slowed down and progress step by step. Let’s wait until the world is peaceful before studying these things carefully.”

The ancients had two sons and an unknown number of daughters, and at least the population would not explode, because the mortality rate was high in ancient times. If the Arabs encouraged "the first male heir should be restrained" just like the Arabs, then the people would also be worried that their only son would be extinct after an accident.

Having two sons is enough, but the government does not force it, it just encourages it.

In this regard, ancient Arab civilizations looked at it for a long time and understood sustainable development better than Europe and East Asia. The main reason was that the Arabs lived in desert oasis civilizations. They had a very thorough understanding of the natural resources of each oasis city-state, especially how many people could be supported by water.

Historically, before the establishment of the two dynasties of Umayyad and Abbas, the Arab world has been in a very short cycle of massacre and chaos.

An oasis city-state can't take two generations to fight with the surrounding city-states to massacre a group of cities, and reduce the population. Either slaughter the neighbors' oasis, placing their own extra population, or slaughtering them by their neighbors.

Therefore, after the Arab world was unified, it could no longer rely on the slaughtered neighbors to control the population, and immediately summarized the dogma of "I hope to control sexual intercourse after having only one son."

Zhuge Liang had been asking for advice diligently along the way, and slowly passed by Hongnong and Hangu within a few days. When he arrived in Luoyang in early December, he had already popularized Li Su's long-term dragon-slaying skills and gained a lot.

"I finally arrived in Luoyang City. I have never lived in Luoyang since the Dong Zhuo Rebellion. When Emperor Xian was rescued by Dong Cheng, I just came to serve as an envoy for two or three days.

A Liang, you are more familiar with this place. When I was with Dong Cheng and Zhu Jun, did there be any changes?" Li Su stood at the sunset pavilion west of the city and looked at Luoyang City and asked Zhuge Liang.

Zhuge Liang: "It's similar to General Zhu's rule of Luoyang. General Zhu and Ju Gong restored Luoyang and opened the city without blood. It's a merit."
Chapter completed!