Although Duan Peng and the others have the support of the senior officials of the Daqian and their strength has improved a lot in recent years, due to the desolation of the Western Region, most of the areas are no-man's land. Duan Peng and the others quickly absorbed the entire population of the Western Region, so No matter how they develop, it will be difficult for them to grow. They have worked hard for several years, but their countries are still small countries with a population of hundreds of thousands, and many people even come to the mainland of Daqian through them.
The total population of these small countries is less than one-tenth of the population of Kushan. Instead, they are worried that this will cause a fire. After all, the Western Region is too far away from the core power of Daqian, so far that it is difficult for the power of Daqian to radiate here.
Moreover, the top leaders of Daqian have never underestimated the potential of Tianzhu. Tianzhu is so big that the south can communicate with Daqian Jiaozhou, and the north can connect with the Western Region of Daqian. It has a population of tens of millions, and its cultural inheritance is not inferior to that of Daqian. In this way Who dares to underestimate civilization?
Just like now, Da Qian did not make any preparations in Tianzhu. In the south, he sent Yan Liang to occupy the islands in the south of Tianzhu to supervise Liu Bei's actions. In the north, he arranged a lot of meritorious deeds to supervise the Kushan Empire. Unfortunately, Tianzhu is too vast. , so that the forces from the north and south of Daqian could not gather together to deal with the changes in Tianzhu. At the same time, Tianzhu was too far away from Daqian. Even if they were concerned about Tianzhu's situation, they could only get the news from Tianzhu half a year ago.
Of course, if Da Qian really wants to solve the Kushan Empire, it’s not that he doesn’t have the strength to do so. Even solving it with Liu Bei won’t be a problem, it’s just not cost-effective.
Now Da Gan is facing uncivilized savages. As long as he sends a small number of troops, he can occupy the South China Sea and the New World, and he can immediately earn more than a billion dollars in profit, and it will get higher and higher in the future.
On one side is a powerful enemy that may cost tens of billions and cost hundreds of thousands of casualties to conquer. It doesn't take much thinking to figure out where to put our power.
Li Gang thought for a while and said: "In power, I think we are all overthinking it now. Both Liu Bei and the Kushan Empire are powerful countries with a population of tens of millions. How can such a war between big countries be ended in a short time? Think about it, the war we fought to destroy the Han Dynasty did not last for more than ten years, but we still had overwhelming power."
Wang Ge laughed when he heard this and said: "Yes, we can sit back and watch the success or failure of the government. If Liu Bei fails, we will let Duan Peng and others contain the power of the Kushan Empire in the Western Regions. If the Kushan Empire fails, we will Just find a way to sell some retired equipment to them, in short, don’t let any party get bigger!”
"And Liu Bei's age is almost the same as ours. I'm afraid he won't live long if he's still fighting in the north and south. And I haven't heard of any outstanding successors to Liu Bei. After he dies, will Liu Bei's son be able to hold on to his current position?" The land is a lucky thing."
After everyone discussed for a while, they found that sitting back and watching the success or failure and doing business with both parties was actually their best choice!
After Wang Lei and the others left, Wang Guojun regretfully said to Xu Wei: "In power, if I were not worried about Liu Bei becoming big in Tianzhu, I really hope Liu Bei captures the entire Tianzhu!"
Xu Wei smiled and said: "You can't bear to leave Liu Bei, a big buyer!"
Wang Guojun said helplessly: "The cheap grain is hurting the farmers! This year Liu Bei is going to fight hard. I'm afraid he won't be interested in farming anymore. Maybe Tianzhu can buy our 20 million shi of grain this year. This will solve our big trouble! Okay. Save us a billion dollars and build more railways!"
For the current Daqian Dynasty, it is not cost-effective to purchase grain, but a large amount of fiscal revenue is spent every year to purchase grain, and these grains have to be stored, and old grains are sold to various places in Daqian at extremely low prices. Among the farmers, the loss of more than one billion each time they entered and left the court. But if these grains were not purchased and the people were allowed to sell grains according to the market price, the price of grains would have fallen below 30 qian per stone.
The Daqian court used a grain purchase price of 100 yuan to stabilize the price of grain in Daqian, and at the same time stabilized the income of most farmers in Daqian.
Otherwise, they might be like other people in prosperous times. The rise and fall of the world has nothing to do with him. After all, the price of food is low, but the small amount of money and their respective miscellaneous taxes will not be reduced. In this way, farmers will still be paupers after working hard for a year. .
Wang Guojun had no idea that the first problem he, the prime minister, would encounter was the price of food, and this problem had been bothering him for more than ten years. It can be said that since the unification of the world, the food problem has become an annual headache for the court. The problem!
Xu Wei understood that Wang Guojun did not want to tell the truth, so he asked: "Have you ever thought about what would happen if the imperial court did not purchase the people's food?"
Wang Guojun thought for a while and said: "The price of grain fell below 30 yuan. Although the people's income is small, at least the people will not go hungry. The court can also save more than one billion yuan, which can be used to build railways. The government must know that the current situation among the people There is a saying that once the railway is built, there will be thousands of gold coins.”
Xu Wei shook his head and said: "Have you ever thought about it, if the people don't have money, to whom will we sell the cloth produced by our textile factory? Who will we sell the livestock in the desert? Who will sell the farm tools and iron tools produced by the steel factory?"
When Wang Guojun heard this and thought about it deeply, he suddenly broke into a cold sweat!
The textile industry has always been the pillar industry of Daqian. If there is a problem in this industry, it will be a huge problem. The breeding industry of Daqian is also the core industry of Daqian to stabilize the desert. If the herdsmen of Daqian cannot make money through breeding, they will start from scratch. Use the saber to make money. And the steel plant is the foundation industry of the industrialization of the country. If there is a problem, all industries in the country will be affected!
There is no world market in this era. Most of the products that survive in Daqian are purchased by the people of Daqian. Without these people buying industrial products, the new industry in Daqian will completely collapse, because it is impossible to have any products in this era. Any market can provide a market for the production of 70 million people. From this aspect, the emergence of industrialization in small countries is almost a historical inevitable choice.
The two industrial sprouts in the Ming and Song dynasties were unable to bear fruit for this reason, because the world at that time could not afford to support such a huge flower. Xu Wei was deeply aware of this, so he would try his best to improve the common people. income!
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At this time, Wang Guojun discovered the importance of farmers in these villages to Daqian. Without them purchasing various goods produced by Daqian, the foundation of Daqian's rule may be shaken!