There is more gold and silver than money, and more money than materials. Yuan Shu is facing this embarrassing situation now.

Through the selfless dedication of the Japanese people in Yingzhou, they continued to mine gold and silver mines. Yuan Shu had no shortage of gold, silver and money. But no matter how much money he had, it was useless if the materials were scarce. In today's era, there is no technology and no industry.

Similarly, the income from foreign trade is very little, and productivity is basically linked to population. Yuan Shu is now crazy about encouraging births to expand the population, so that productivity is far from meeting the needs of the country.

There are only so many manpower and material resources, but it is useless to have more money in hand. It will only make prices soar, fail to meet the country's needs, and will shift the pressure to the people. Today's Dachu has already experienced a shortage of manpower.

The infrastructure work assigned to various places requires a large number of people, and the shortage of slaves is huge, and this gap will become larger and larger in the future.

Water trucks, oxen, Champa rice, fish farming in rice fields, fertilizers, promotion of improved varieties, two or even three seasons planting, etc. In order to increase grain production, Yuan Shu used all the methods he could think of, and even specially organized some farmers' children to go

He studied rice, wheat, millet and other crops and optimized this black technology. Unable to promote industrial cultivation, Yuan Shu could only make improvements in these aspects, continuously refine the farming methods of the Han Dynasty, and continue to open up wasteland and expand

cultivated land area and improve soil fertility.

In other areas such as farming, fishing, steel smelting, textiles, etc., Yuan Shu also put forward his own suggestions and asked people from hundreds of schools to experiment and implement them.

It has to be said that the hundreds of schools of thought are really a huge treasure house, which brought many surprises to Yuan Shu. Various talents gathered in various schools due to their interests and ambitions. There are actually thousands of schools of thought, among which

There are only dozens of well-known schools. Various schools of thought interacted and competed with each other, and finally formed legalists, Taoists, Mohists, Confucians, Yin-Yangists, famous scholars, miscellaneous scholars, farmers, novelists, strategists, etc.

The twelve families of soldiers and doctors are the core structure.

Sometimes Yuan Shu couldn't help but wonder how glorious that era was when a hundred schools of thought contended. That era of great changes was full of all kinds of contradictions, with the interests of individuals and the country interacting with each other.

Common people can talk about the general trend of the world at will, and countless mathematical schools have appeared one after another, each promoting their own ideas. Countless crystallizations of wisdom collide with each other, and various schools of thought compete with each other and promote each other, giving birth to countless amazing works.

But unfortunately, that chaotic and glorious era can no longer be replicated, and most of those crystallizations of wisdom have been lost. This has been the shortcoming of China since ancient times. When it was glorious, it was unimaginable, but this kind of glory can rarely be passed down.

It will be cut off and even extinct due to various reasons, leaving only some mainstream ideas.

...

"That's just the way it is."

After Guo Jia received the gifts, he decisively entered the palace, placed the gift list in front of Yuan Shu, and reported to Yuan Shu the contents of the previous conversation in detail.

Yuan Shu picked up the gift list, glanced at it, and said with a smile: "It seems that your identity as a sycophant has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. This gift from Guishang is not light!"

"If it weren't for your Majesty, I wouldn't be willing to do this job. You know, Yuan Hao has never stopped participating in my memorials. I am afraid that my reputation now has become infamous, and I am afraid that I am not the same as the ten regular attendants at the time of Emperor Ling.

Pretty much. If we encounter a few slanderous scholars writing history in the future, I guess Jia will be the great traitor of that country and will be infamy for thousands of years." Guo Jia couldn't help shaking his head.

"Yuan Haoshen, it's because you have a bad style. You just eat, drink and have fun every day. You don't know how to restrain yourself when going to court. I can almost smell the smell of alcohol and powder on your body. Don't worry, no one in our house cares about your situation.

You know, it means temporarily deceiving those small countries so that we can control them, and I will reverse the case for you in the future." Yuan Shu said with a smile.

Yuan Shu knows why emperors sometimes keep some sycophants. It is indeed more convenient for sycophants to do some things. Just like the Guishang incident this time, Yuan Shu, as the leader of a country and the representative of Guangweizheng, sticks to his word.

He would never discuss with the other party like a businessman, but Guo Jia can. Relying on his status as a sycophant, it is not too easy and natural to do such a thing, and he can easily solve many apparent problems.

The problem to be solved. Today's Guo Jia is somewhat similar to the one in history. Both took the blame for the emperor, but Yuan Shu will definitely not give Guo Jia that ending.

"Your Majesty, you make it easy for me. It's not like you don't know the writings of those scholars and scholars. As long as it's not beneficial to their class, they can call white things black. Let alone praise them. I'm afraid you won't be able to do it in the future.

It is not necessary to be smeared. After all, you are not much better than Jia. You ignore government affairs, are lazy by nature, and are content with pleasure. In the future, Jia will be a sycophant, and your Majesty, you may also be a coward and tyrant." Guo Jia raised his eyebrows.

Apart from Yuan Shu, there were only two people present, Jia Xu and Xun You, so he spoke without any scruples.

"That's pretty good. With a foolish emperor and a sycophantic minister, we are really well matched." Yuan Shu said happily. He is not an emperor like Li Shimin who likes to pursue false fame. He used Wei Zheng to gain wisdom and waited until his death not only to scold others but also to push them down.

Tombstone. As an emperor with certain modern ideas, Yuan Shu didn't care what future generations would think of him.

What's more, he is the winner after all, and he has done so many things that benefit the country and the people, and he will expand his territory in the future. No matter how dark-hearted those who hold pens in future generations are, they will still have to give him the same evaluation as Qin Shihuang. Certainly not

Like Yang Guang, he held an imperial examination and was directly hacked to death by the powerful, and finally let Li Tangbai take advantage. Li Shimin basically played what was left over from Yang Jian and Yang Guang's father and son, but in the end he became more famous than the two of them.

Much more.

"Your Majesty, Kushan's attitude is very low, which is somewhat beyond our expectations. Although we have learned about Kushan's attitude from some records of the Han Dynasty, it is still difficult to imagine that a dignified empire would face us like this.

I'm so groveling." Xun You saw that the disconnected monarch and his ministers were talking more and more nonsense, so he quickly brought the topic back.

"Yes! Although Ban Chao easily beat them to the ground and created a certain psychological shadow for them, as the overlord of the Western Region, they will not be so humble to us. After all, they have a population of millions, and they are armed with armor.

An empire of hundreds of thousands has no such courage." Yuan Shu also said in confusion.

"Your Majesty, it is actually normal for the Kushans to be like this. First of all, their predecessor, the Yueshi, was a weak country like grass on the wall. They were used to groveling to us Han people and the Huns. They were severely punished by us once they gained power.

After a pause, naturally we didn’t dare to jump again. Secondly, the internal composition of the Kushan Empire was very complicated, and it was founded on business. Its military power was dispersed, and the internal struggle was fierce. It was not as strong as we imagined. Thirdly, now the Kushan Empire

Your Majesty is also aware of Shuang's situation. Not to mention the countries that have split off from the northwest, Shendu's invasion is enough to give them a headache. In addition, to the west is the feuding Parthian Empire, and to the north is the threat of the lingering Northern Huns. If they

If we anger our great Chu again, we might really be surrounded by enemies on all sides, so they don't dare to be disrespectful to us." Jia Xu said calmly.

"Indeed, the Kushan Empire seems to be powerful now, but in fact there are serious internal divisions and struggles, and it is surrounded by several powerful enemies from the outside. It can be said that it is walking on thin ice. As long as Anxi or the Northern Huns intervene a little bit, it will overthrow in an instant.

Time." Guo Jia hit the nail on the head and pointed out the essence of Guishuang's current situation of being strong on the outside and weak on the inside.
Chapter completed!