For Chen Xi, the war between the Han Dynasty and the Kushans can only be said to be a certain link. The conquest of the Kushans and the inclusion of the Ganges River as a grain-producing area are not the ultimate goal at all. Really speaking, it can only be said to be the realization of the goal.
A necessary link before the ultimate goal.
After all, in this rubbish state at the beginning of the third century, if you want to create something powerful to open the eyes of others, you must also consider real productivity. In ancient times, if the problem of food was not solved, it was basically nonsense. But as of now,
The Ganges River is the most effective place to solve the problem of eating.
In other places, either intensive farming takes too much time, or the upper limit of the output is too low. Only the Ganges can withstand the construction and can produce enough food. In the current situation, the only solution is to solve the problem of food production efficiency.
Only if you have problems can you be qualified to talk about the next stage, otherwise it will be nonsense. After all, this is not the future, and there are a bunch of tools that can replace it.
These days, everything has to be done by people. Even some efficient tools require manpower to develop and assemble them at the beginning, so the situation is terrible.
At least Chen Xi has figured it out. In the Central Plains, where crops are harvested once a year and farming is rotated, if he wants to increase the post-employment population, he is really at his current level. He may be able to increase it further in the future, but it is really difficult.
It's too high.
On the other hand, on the Ganges side, relying on cheating methods, even at the expense of some production, they can save a few points of post-employment population. And with the current size of the Han Dynasty, the number of points of post-employment population is larger than that of most small countries.
The overall population of China is increasing, which means there is a lot of hope for development.
Therefore, Chen Xi's attitude at this stage is very clear, which is to kill Guishang safely, then immerse himself in farming, save for a few years, and amaze the whole world.
Anyway, as far as the current Han Dynasty is concerned, even if it has not reached the limit, it is equivalent to developing upwards against the ceiling. If nothing else, it is too tiring.
"If we recycle the retired population, our military strength will decline to a certain extent. Will it really have no impact then?" Liu Bei asked with a frown.
"More or less, after all, there will inevitably be some border frictions, but at that time we won't need to attack from multiple directions. Even if we face Rome, based on the situation of both of us, there are actually only two or three places where we can start a war."
Chen Xi said calmly.
Once you get to that point, you can only play in a few positions.
Compared with the current war of annihilation between the Han Dynasty and the Kushan Dynasty, the situation of wars everywhere is much better. When the troops are concentrated and used, even if there are less, there will not be the feeling of being stretched. And with Rome,
After all, the war is not a war to destroy the country, and the pressure will not be too great.
"Besides, the purpose of recovering the unemployed population is to have a higher proportion of unemployed people in the future. It is not a deliberate restriction." Chen Xi said with a smile, and then said with some regret, "Actually, we are very short of people now."
The current state of the Han Dynasty has considerable constraints on Chen Xi. It's not that Chen Xi doesn't have better ideas, but the upper limit of what the current environment can bear is so high, and people have to eat.
No matter how many people are doing other things, they can't break through the fact that 90% of people need to be tied to the land. Even if Chen Xi keeps thinking of ways to increase food productivity, he can't confront the fact that people need to eat.
fact.
Therefore, for Chen Xi, there is nothing fancy about Gan Guishang. It is just to allow fewer people to farm and more people to invest in other industries.
"Actually, those babies from earlier are now almost ready to do things like cutting grass and feeding cows." Liu Bei said helplessly.
"Well, the first wave of baby boomers are almost ready to be used." Chen Xi said with a somewhat aggrieved tone.
The biggest difference between reality and games is this. People eat by the day. Education takes several years. Technology development requires a group of people to work together for several years. In the end, the most important thing is that the baby grows up to be able to use it.
It takes twelve or thirteen years.
These links all cost money. The issue of food is always the biggest problem these days. The last three are of great benefit to the people of the country in the long run. However, in the Han Dynasty, the output was extremely low.
There are really not many people who dare to invest time in unproductive things.
In fact, even in later generations, after realizing the total amount of resources required to feed a child, humans will feel that it is better to give up.
In addition to the improvement in life, the decline in the birth rate in the industrial era is also due to the fact that people have enough knowledge to determine inputs and outputs.
As long as any matter enters the stage of consideration, there is bound to be a possibility of failure.
"And after a certain amount of education, I can engage in what you call higher-level production." Liu Bei said with a smile.
When he heard this, Chen Xi almost cried. After more than ten years of investment, it was time to reap the rewards. Looking back on what he had done for so many years, Chen Xi felt that it was really not easy. To put it bluntly, it was simply not.
things people do.
"It will be better in the future. This is really the darkness before dawn." Chen Xi said with an extremely complicated expression. He has survived until now. As long as he survives this step, many things that he could not solve before can be regarded as reached.
It's time to solve it.
"It's really not easy. I didn't realize it when I promised to learn something from childhood, but when I actually realized it, I realized that this might be the most difficult." Liu Bei said with some emotion. Compared with others,
There are several, but this one is the most difficult.
"However, education is the foundation of other industries." Chen Xi is very open to this.
If society wants to move forward, the biggest problem it faces is the issue of talent. The two links in acquiring talent are population quantity and population quality, so there is nothing to say. The former is the birth rate, and the latter is the educated population.
.
Almost all problems inevitably fall on these two things, and these two things are particularly outrageous and require continuous investment. What's even worse is that these two things don't feed money, but money.
Real resources and simply running a money printing machine cannot solve the problems encountered by these two gadgets.
"Don't you feel very happy to finally see the money back?" Liu Bei said with a smile.
"Yes, I finally got the money back." Chen Xi said with some emotion, "With this money back, we can gradually start to replace it. To be honest, I can't stand some of the conventions of this era.
Damn it, it’s so annoying.”
"The remnants of the times are unavoidable. After all, there was no such sophisticated means as you to adjust them before." Liu Bei said with a smile, "To be honest, with the ability you have shown now, if you didn't directly carry out the means of destruction back then, it's really...
Incredible.”
"..." Chen Xi glanced sideways at Liu Bei.
"Perhaps other people may think that you are saintly or something like that, but you and I have known each other for so many years. I think, rather than saying that you are saintly, it is better to be more direct. I think the reason why you did not carry out the means of great destruction is more because you have destroyed people.
If it's gone, you don't know who to work with?" Liu Bei said to Chen Xi with a somewhat speculative tone.
"Yes, this is the biggest problem. In the previous situation, who would do the work if all the major families were killed?" Chen Xi said angrily, "To be honest, I have read more or less the classics of each family.
To be honest, there is not much difference between the content and the books on the market. The real difference lies in the way each family explains these classics."
Chen Xi had a somewhat complicated mentality when he said this. These are the things that the major families really keep secret.
These days, except for military books, all other historical materials and classics are basically in line with the morality of the times, and as a prominent scholar of Confucianism, what is written on paper is basically benevolence, righteousness and morality.
To put it simply, it means that these books teach benevolence, righteousness and morality, but do not teach the way to be an official.
How to be an official, how to see through the game behind these benevolence, righteousness and morality, how to use it, these are things that each family keeps secret. The major families control a lot of things, but this requires the previous generation to check the reality and refer to it.
The things that were explained in detail in the past are the core stuff, and the classics are just superficial.
When Xunzi criticized Confucianism, he made three specific curses: "My younger brother Tuo has his crown, and Kui has his words. Yu went as he did, and Shun followed. This is Zhang's despicable Confucianism. He corrects his clothes and hats, and harmonizes his colors, but he is speechless."
He who refuses to speak all day long is a despicable Confucian of the Zixia family. He who steals from Confucianism is worried about his work, and eats and drinks with no shame. It must be said that a gentleman has no strength. This is a despised Confucian of the Ziyou family."
These three things are called base Confucianism. The base Confucianism that finally spread in the Ming and Qing Dynasties is actually the base Confucianism of the Ziyou family. The so-called "gentlemen do not work hard". To put it bluntly, these people have basically lost their ability to manage and administer.
With his ability, it is natural that he will be finished in the end.
It's not that Chen Xi doesn't want to work in major aristocratic families, but after listening to Xun Shuang's lecture, Chen Xi realized that bureaucrats at all levels can still do things these days, instead of completely losing their ability to govern and letting subordinate officials do the work. It's really a waste
Because of this inheritance.
If this group of people were to be eliminated directly, without this inheritance, Chen Xi would not even be able to use them. As for letting major aristocratic families hand over such secret things to others, Chen Xi would somewhat understand the meaning of disciples.
Most people are unworthy in the eyes of major aristocratic families.
As for why Chen Xi went to listen to Xun Shuang's lectures, and Xun Shuang even showed his true ability to open Chen Xi's eyes, that's meaningless. Chen Xi had already arrived in Yecheng at that time, and the situation in the world was clear. Come and listen to Xun Shuang's lectures.
Jing, if you don’t show some real skills, what will happen?
But it was really effective that time. After talking about it, Chen Xi's thoughts of forcibly cleaning up the major aristocratic families were mostly extinguished - if these aristocratic families were destroyed and a group of despicable scholars of the You family came up, it would be better to just continue like this.
After all, in the current situation, the major aristocratic families can still operate, even if they are a little bad, they are not completely bad.
It’s really all smashed to pieces. There are many people who want to be officials. The question is, do those people have the ability to operate like the group of people who were smashed to pieces before?
If not, and the victims are all ordinary people, and they are from south to north, and from east to west, wouldn't that force the world into chaos?
If this matter caused chaos in the world, Chen Xi thought, it would be better to just leave it at that, so after ten years, it was considered to be the next stage.
"The situation will be better in the future. We have passed the most difficult stage." Chen Xi spread his arms as if embracing the future. At this moment, large snowflakes were scattered in the sky, and a new wave of snowflakes appeared.
The new year is about to begin.
"Wait a minute, is this the most difficult time?" Liu Bei retorted.
"After defeating Guishuang, is it considered a transcendent ancestor?" Chen Xi did not answer Liu Bei's question. Instead, he folded his arms back into his sleeves and looked sideways at Liu Bei.
"Of course it counts. After defeating Guishuang, I can go to the Ancestral Temple to tell my ancestors that I did it." Liu Bei said with a red light on his face. It can be seen that he was very excited. After all, he made a wish to all the people back then.
At that time, Liu Bei made a big promise more or less on a whim, but he actually didn't think carefully about how to complete it step by step.
Even when he looked back and thought about it carefully, Liu Bei himself felt that he was somewhat unsure.
However, he didn't expect that sixteen years had passed, and the promise he made back then was almost fulfilled. Even if it was not fully realized, it was still on the right track. As long as he defeated Kushan, Liu Bei could go to the Ancestral Temple to express his great victory.
"But as far as I'm concerned, finishing the Kushan campaign is just a new starting point." Chen Xi said with a smile, and Liu Bei was embarrassed.
"Forget it, forget it, let's change the topic. I've already said this, and you're right, but don't say it anymore." Liu Bei waved his hand, indicating that he didn't want to talk about this issue.
"Then let's talk about the banquet. Sun Bofu has prepared the materials for the banquet, and I happen to have time, so why not hold a private banquet at my house." Chen Xi didn't care that Liu Bei was hit.
After that, he looked a little depressed and said with a smile.
"Is there something you want to talk about?" Liu Bei asked after thinking for a while.
"Let's appease the Jingchu family, and give Zhou Gongjin a step forward." Chen Xi nodded and said, "There are some things that are difficult to discuss in a formal setting, so let's talk about it at a private banquet."
"Cao Sikong and the Zhen family?" Liu Bei nodded clearly.
"More or less." Chen Xi sighed, "To be honest, if I hadn't known, I would have been out for a year. With all the messy things that happened this year, I really wanted to beat people up, all kinds of things, and the Zhen family
Is there something wrong with your brain?"
The Zhen family has been voting for so many years, but no result has come out. Chen Xi also accepted it. After all, the Zhen family has a backing. From now on, they can at least live in the Midea condominium, which is just a bit ugly. In addition, Zhen Yan said that he is a bastard.
Succession is shameless, then it's nothing.
The problem is, if you are so shameless, why are you getting together with Cao Cao? Have you forgotten who your backstage is?
Look at your backstage. Your backstage is Liu Bei and Chen Xi. Are you messing with Cao Cao?
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