This was Xu Bin, a small chief executive of the Household Department. Although Li Siye's sudden appearance caught him off guard, his surprise quickly faded and he turned around to face him calmly.
Dai Wang also emerged from the tunnel entrance, leaning against the wall with Li Siye on the left and right, squatting on the ground with his left leg bent, like a spring, ready to go.
"Both of you want to save the saint. If you want to take the great credit, then step over my corpse, Xu, or Xu will light a fierce fire thunder, and we will bury the saint together."
"Why should we be buried with a saint? Isn't it bad to be alive?"
Xu Bin laughed coldly: "Who is your honor? Why don't you dare to show your true face?"
Li Longji seemed to understand from the side and pointed at Li Siye and said: "This should be the Great Hero of the Big Dipper."
"Humph," Xu Bin raised his head and recited a poem: "The lonely moon Canglang River River Hanqing, Beidou scattered Chang Gengming! The auxiliary star Fuhu Kaiyang, so the auxiliary fight is successful, the sign of the prime minister. The seven political stars are bright, and the country is prosperous.
If the auxiliary star is bright, the minister will be strong. What ability do you have, how dare you speak so loudly, and claim that Beidou wants to defend Ziwei?"
"That's your misunderstanding." Li Siye's voice was hoarse, and he deliberately choked his voice when speaking, making it sound uncomfortable: "The Beidou stretches across the sky, and it's here to guide people. If he doesn't have the function of guiding people, he doesn't deserve to be called one."
For Beidou."
"Well said!" The emperor agreed with his shoulders hunched.
Xu Bin squinted his eyes and asked, "Who are you going to show the way to?"
"Who else can Beidou show the way to? Of course it is to you, but also to millions of people in the world. They are overcoming obstacles and the road ahead is difficult and dangerous. Only when they look up at the direction pointed by the handle of Beidou at night will they not be confused.
You won’t stand still and never move forward.”
"Half right and half wrong!" Li Longji added: "Beidou protects Ziwei, and Ziwei is the guiding light. It is located at the North Pole and is the most righteous in the world!"
"Wrong, big mistake!"
Xu Bin held the torch in his hand and said loudly: "Beidou shows the way to the world, and it also shows the way to Ziwei Star! Unfortunately, there is chaos and confusion in front of Ziwei Star, and it is misunderstood by Yinghuo Star. Today, Xu will do the Big Dipper to rectify the world and drive away
Yinghuo, righting Ziwei."
"You are wrong again." Li Siye corrected him: "The crape myrtle lives in the middle of the North Pole and is protected by the stars. What is its use? It can only hang symbolically in the north. It is flashy and unrealistic. It can only advertise the righteousness of the world!
But when the Ziwei star is dark, is the Big Dipper useless? Why can you only see this flashy star but not all the living beings in the world?"
"Well said!" The emperor said, trembling his white beard again.
"Beidou is Beidou. It hangs high in the sky. Even if people on the ground don't look up at it, it is still there. But as long as there are confused people who need it, it can guide them. It does not need to be dazzling or dazzling.
The light blooms, even if it is temporarily blocked by the dark clouds in the sky, but there will still be many sunny days after all, and when the sky is clear and pure, it will still shine for eternity."
"That's right..." The emperor stared at his big fish eyes and said angrily: "You still want to shine for eternity. You are too arrogant. Who are you?"
Li Siye squatted in the darkness, his face obscured by the white lining of his robe. Li Longji couldn't see his face or his outline clearly.
Zhang Xiaojing emerged from the tunnel and spat: "Stop talking about the stars. Xu Bin, what are you going to do?"
"Zhang Xiaojing! What are you doing here? Get out of here!"
"Xu Bin, who are you taking the blame for? Put down the torch in your hand."
"No," Xu Bin gritted his teeth and shook his head: "I want to take the saint Xishi Fanglou with me, and make him swear in front of the world to eliminate traitors and traitors! And give the government and the public a clear code of conduct!"
Li Longji shook his head helplessly, and turned around to Xu Bin and said: "You are a small eighth-grade head of the household department. You can't do such a big thing. Why should you bear the responsibility for others? As long as you tell him, I can let him go."
You live."
Xu Bin's face twitched, anger, sadness, despair and other emotions merged together, and he shouted loudly: "Xu has a heart for the world and can be a prime minister and assistant, but you are here talking about life and death! Saint, you can see the big picture
Is the Tang Dynasty in danger? Can the traitor Li Linfu see it! I, Xu Bin, have seen it!"
These words sounded alarmist to Li Longji. He narrowed his eyes and stared at Xu Bin: "In the prosperous age I created, although there are haze and filth, we can't talk about danger!"
"Wrong! Big mistake!"
Xu Bin's eyes were filled with bloodshot eyes. He held his head high and said loudly: "In the twenty-seventh year of the lunar calendar, there were 8.52 million households in the world and 48.12 million people per year.
The combined grain supply is 352.8 million hu of dendrobium, and the average grain combined is 7 hu of dendrobium."
"That's right!" Li Longji said loudly and generously: "Twenty-seven years old, we had a bumper harvest, the highest output in history. Isn't this my contribution to governing the world with Kaiyuan! The average person has seven dendrobiums of grain! Take a look! Since ancient times,
Who can surpass it so far! The world is so rich today! The Longyou business road is constantly coming and going! We don’t pick up things on the road, we don’t close our doors at night, and we don’t hold any troops even though we travel thousands of miles! There are 1,643 post stations in the world, and the post roads are as far west as Didian.
Ridge, from Yanzhou in the extreme south to Pingzhou in the extreme north! In Chang'an City alone, there are six or seven wealthy businessmen with a fortune of over 100 million, including Wang Yuanbao, who sells colored glaze! He Mingyuan, who owns the Di shop! Dou Yi! Yang Chongyi! These people, I
I watched them grow from poverty to riches at my feet! Am I not treating the people well? Why are you all criticizing me one by one!"
Li Siye squatted not far away and shouted: "This is just bragging."
"Sage, don't interrupt me!"
Xu Bin was heartbroken: "In the early years of Gaiyuan Tianbao, the population had reached 51 million and 560 thousand, but the output of food did not increase! On the contrary, it decreased a bit. The sage might say that it was due to the weather and rain! But
But Xu wants to tell the sage! The production of food cannot keep up with the increase in population!"
"Does the sage think that there are really only more than eight million households in the world today? The number of household registrations reported to the Ministry of Household Registration by all states and counties in the world is only 6,000, and there are countless people without household registrations in the world! This is not even the most terrifying thing.
All the food in the world is in the hands of the big families! The common people occupy less than 30% of the world's land! The equal land is in name only! Fleeing households are displaced from their place of origin! The land is barren, fertile farmland is in the hands of the big families, and the common people occupy less than 30% of the world's land! Does the sage know? Li Linfu
Do you know? Even if he knows, he is willing to speak out and tell the saint! The saint has not awakened himself, and he is far away from treacherous sycophants and close to virtuous ministers. Otherwise, within twenty years, the world will be in chaos!"
Li Siye listened attentively and was convinced of this. Moreover, the paradox between food and population mentioned in Xu Bin's words coincided with the modern Malthusian population trap theory.
The emperor looked up at the beams above his head, and asked with still coldness in his eyes: "Isn't there enough food in the world for everyone in the world? Our Tang Dynasty spans thousands of miles, and there are tens of millions of hectares of fertile land. If one more person is born, more can be cultivated.
One acre of land. Mr. Xu, I order people in the world to cultivate more wasteland. Can this be solved?"
"Incomprehensible!"
"Why is it incomprehensible?"
"There are more than just ordinary people in the world! Those who eat bells and cauldrons don't know how many ordinary people are there! Those who live in hereditary towns don't know how many ordinary people are there! Those who live in fields and avoid paying taxes don't know how many ordinary people there are! Does the sage think that the increase in household registration in the world is because the poor people have more children?
Absurd! These people who do nothing to produce meat have hundreds of children and grandchildren! How can the poor people afford to give birth to them, and they can't even raise them! These hardworking people who work hard in the fields are the ones who feed these rich and powerful kings and grandchildren!
In times of great chaos, these poor people are the first to die!"
After hearing Xu Bin's words, Li Longji was about to nod his head in approval, but then suddenly thought that he was not at the top of the Bell Ringing Cauldron Eaters? He could only raise his nostrils and poke at the spot in embarrassment.
"Xu Bin asked the saint for his position, not for himself, but to help the Tang Dynasty and save the poor farming people!"
Li Siye took advantage of the quarrel between Xu Bin and the emperor, approached Dai Wang and whispered: "Look at my eyes later. You and Zhang Xiaojing will save the saint, and I will save this Xu Bin."
Dai Wang opened his red eyes and said, "I also want to save Xu Bin. His words touched my heart!"