Wang Pu thought for a moment, nodded blankly, and said, "A lot."

"That's to say!" Li Mu leaned closer and whispered: "And I want to tell you one more thing. The Ministry of Industry wants to set up a department specializing in production, called the 'factory'. Now, under the leadership of Yu Wengui, the doctor of the Ministry of Industry, we have started trial work, specializing in manufacturing Zhenguan Plows. You have also seen Zhenguan Plows. You can pull them with no livestock. With this weapon, think about how much farmland you will have to reclaim next spring?"

"How much more food will you have to be released next fall?"

Without mentioning Li Mu, Wang Pu hadn't thought of this yet. After hearing what he said, Wang Pu suddenly became a little scared!

In fact, since the Qin and Han Dynasties to the Tang Dynasty, there has been no shortage of land in Jiuzhou because there are not many people!

Later historians have specially counted that when Qin Shihuang Ying Zheng unified the six kingdoms, the registered population was counted, and there were about 30 million people in the country. Peasant war broke out at the end of the Qin Dynasty, causing a large number of deaths, and the population was suddenly reduced to 4 million. Then the Western Han Dynasty was established. After the rest and recuperation of the Wenjing rule, by the end of the Western Han Dynasty, the national population suddenly surged to 60 million. However, with the restructuring of Wang Mang, the world was in chaos, until Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Liu Xiu unified the regime, and the population remained at 35 million. Until the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the population returned to the level of 60 million.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Three Kingdoms had constant disputes and wars. At this time, the population fell to 23 million. Then after the East and West Jin, the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the north and the south were constantly split, and the population dropped sharply. The population continued to maintain such a trend. The population increased during peacetime and the population decreased during wartime. When Emperor Yang of Sui ascended the throne, the population recovered to about 60 million. Then, the chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty, and heroes fought. When Li Yuan established the country, there were only about 20 million left.

Now that Li Shimin ascended the throne and became the emperor, the population is only 23 million.

Such a population is only the population of a municipality directly under the central government in later generations. Compared with the vast land, even if the land that could not be cultivated due to the conditions of the Tang Dynasty was divided equally, it was hundreds of times that of later generations.

Some people may find it strange that since there was no shortage of land in ancient times, why did people starve to death even in prosperous times?

This question is actually something else to think about from another perspective.

In 2018 AD, when Li Mu traveled through time, were there no people starving to death in this world? Although the proportion is much smaller, there are also some?

From this we can see that starving people to death is not a problem of land. It is a problem of whom the land is in the hands of. Take the Tang Dynasty today as an example. If all the grains in the granary are opened and shared, no one will starve to death. But will the aristocratic families be willing to do this? Even in the years of famine, they are still what they think is useful. The elderly, weak, sick and disabled among the refugees are reluctant to leave that bowl of porridge.

Let’s talk about this land.

Land is called "field". How to cultivate it? This involves animal power and human power. Before the appearance of Zhenguan Plow, the comparison between human power and animal power was too different. The appearance of Zhenguan Plow greatly narrowed the distance. With Zhenguan Plow, it is conceivable how many new fields will be reclaimed next year. Even if the output of new fields is slightly lower, there must be a yield!

Since Li Shimin ascended the throne, all policies on people's livelihood have been carried out around the four words "rest and recuperate". When it comes to land reclamation, the court not only did not suppress it, but instead held an encouragement attitude, as long as it was paid taxes.

Although the people are not like the gentry, they can do mathematics after studying. However, the people are not fools. The land they reclaimed by themselves only needs to pay taxes from the court. Renting land from aristocratic families not only requires paying taxes from the court, but also has to pay rent to the aristocratic families. If the Zhenguan plow is implemented, most of the people who can pull the plowshare will reclaim the land by themselves, and fewer and fewer people will be tenants!

Even if it will not affect the cultivation of the fields in the hands of aristocratic families, the food will inevitably increase under the premise of the increase in the total amount of fields. After the increase in grain, the price of food will definitely drop!

What should I do if the grain in the grain stockpile?!

Li Mu smiled sinisterly and said, "Brother Wang, think about the grain in a year, the grain is full of grain, and the people are rich in the world... Are the food stored in the Wang family in Taiyuan? Hey? I thought of another good way, which can be used to raise chickens, sheep or cattle, either! At that time, I will reserve three hundred first and kill one a day, and there is no need to bother to find the cow with broken legs!"

After Li Mu's guidance, Wang Pu felt that he had been connected and the points he didn't understand were connected into lines. The grain hoarded by the aristocratic families could not be sold, and it was not worth the money. The food would rot. A year later, due to the Zhenguan plow, the price of grain would be lost. And with new grain, who would buy old grain? Then, they could only feed chickens!

But if you follow the "Minglu" pointed out by Li Mu, it will be different. Now take out the food that can only be kept for feeding chickens in a year, so as to attract refugees who can work, and you can build roads without paying money. After building roads, you can collect tolls for more than five years. In these five years, everyone has to pay for driving and horses, and it will flow slowly. This is equivalent to changing the food that feeds chickens in a year for a steady stream of inputs for five years... Only Zhuluhou's head can think of such a genius' idea!

Wang Pu was so excited that he slapped the table, which scared Li Mu. He thought to himself, could he have seen through my tricks and was angry and angry to attack me?

Just as Li Mu was hesitating whether to call someone, Wang Pu suddenly knelt in front of Li Mu, holding his 'Diao'er' sleeve tightly and not letting go, and shouted: "Thank you for your advice, I have benefited a lot from you. Please beg Wang Pu--"

"Oh, what is this doing!"

Li Mu didn't let Wang Pu bow down and pulled him up. He was also a conscientious person who fooled him and received great gifts from him. He felt really sorry.

Li Mu sat down with the excited Wang Pu, sighed, and said, "I have never told anyone about this. Do you know why?"

Wang Pu was stunned and hurriedly said, "I guess the Marquis has a good relationship with me-?"

"There is a relationship in this regard, but the most important reason is not this." Li Mu sighed again and said, "The reason why I didn't make a big splash is because of Your Majesty."

Hearing that it was related to Li Shimin, Wang Pu couldn't help but feel excited and said, "What does the Marquis mean?"

"You think, the road conditions are bad, not a day or two. In the previous Sui Dynasty, the road conditions were like this. Are you anxious when you saw Emperor Yang of Sui? Don't be anxious? Are you anxious when you saw the Supreme Emperor? Don't be anxious? Why? Because the world belongs to them, what is the road? How many trips can they take? If the road is built, the world is the same. If the road is not built, the world is not the same? There is money to build roads, and there is still complaints. Why do you have to pay for the burden?"

Wang Pu nodded, and Li Mu said the truth.

"To put it bluntly, the emperor is unwilling to do things that are unprofitable." After pausing, Li Mu said again: "But after I had the idea, things were different. Did anyone think of a way to use grain to build roads and set up checkpoints to collect money?"

Wang Pu shook his head, at least he had never heard of it.

"It's my original creation, Brother Wang." Li Mu said heartbrokenly, with a look of regret: "I really regret saying to Your Majesty. If I don't say to Your Majesty, just like this company, I will take the lead, and we will get the matter done by collecting money and grain. We are the ones who set up the card to collect money and collect money. But after I told Your Majesty, Your Majesty was moved! Your Majesty knew that in a year, the court would have surplus grain, and the court could do this. So he told me not to reveal the news, wait for a year, and a year later, the Ministry of Works will take the lead, and the Ministry of Civil Affairs will cooperate, collect labor service and recruit refugees, and get the matter done at one time. At that time, the court will set up the card to collect money and continue to enter the treasury!"

Wang Pu panicked and said, "This...what should I do! Marquis, let alone who makes this money... we can't wait for a year in our coal stone business!"

Li Mu spread his hands and said, "You know it's our coal stone business. You won't give Your Majesty any money to earn. Your Majesty cares if you can wait?"

"What should I do?" Wang Pu lost his mind, grabbed Li Mu's arm tightly and said, "Mr. Marquis, think of a solution!"

Li Mu looked like an old god: "If I can't do anything, I won't tell you."

"Harewell, tell me!"

"You are like this..." Li Mu was about to say, but seeing Wei Yingluo standing beside him, he glanced at her and waved his hand. Wei Yingluo saluted and retreated to the corner of the wall.

Li Mu then muttered a few words to Wang Pu. Wang Pu nodded while listening, his eyes getting brighter and brighter. After Li Mu finished speaking, he praised repeatedly: "The Marquis's brilliant plan! In this way, even if His Majesty is reluctant, he has to agree!"

"Hey! Brother Wang." Li Mu looked unhappy and said, "Why are you talking like this, isn't you telling me to plot against Your Majesty? If you say this, I have to ask you to leave my mansion. I, Li Mu, are loyal to Your Majesty, and the world can be seen!"

Wang Pu hurriedly smiled: "Hao Ye is right, but he is wrong. Everyone does things for His Majesty's country."

"Incompleteness, there is also the welfare of the people."

"Yes, yes..." Wang Pu agreed repeatedly, as if he had more legs, he would have more legs. Although Wei Yingluo couldn't hear what the two said, when she saw the two of them, she felt that it would not be a good thing and must be plotting against whom. She is Wei Zheng's daughter, and her personality is somewhat inherited. She can't stand it, so she is very disgusted with it. More importantly, she is worried that the person who the two of them would be her father.

Wei Yingluo felt very sad when she thought of her father's salary being fined for half a year. She knew very well what was going on at home. If she had a salary of one month and saved money, she would probably be able to hold on. If she had a salary of three months, her mother and the nanny would have knitted more cloth, which might be able to maintain. But if she had a salary of half a year, she would definitely not be able to survive, but what should I do?

Suddenly, Wei Yingluo suddenly remembered. Yesterday, she chatted with her maid Xiaozhu. It is said that the servants in the mansion all had monthly salary. I don’t know when the monthly salary was paid and how much money was. Now in this mansion, there is no need to worry about food and clothing, and there is no place to spend money. If you also have monthly salary, you can give your mother a subsidy for your family...

"What are you thinking?"

"ah!"

Wei Yingluo was startled and covered her chest tightly. When she looked closely, she realized that Li Mu had moved his wheelchair to the front of her, and Wang Pu was gone.

Li Mu was sitting in a wheelchair. The height of his face was just a little below Wei Yingluo's chest. He had already carefully observed it when Wei Yingluo was in a daze. Miss Wei Yingluo's cup can be considered A at most, but it can't even reach B. It's really flat.

There was really nothing to see, so he woke Wei Yingluo up. Unexpectedly, the girl's first reaction was to cover her chest. Please, just your chest, like putting two small Wangzai buns on the table, is there any need to cover it?

Li Mu retracted his gaze in a daze and said, "Don't be dazed, push me back to the back house. Both Mrs. and Zhien went to Jingdongji. It just so happened that I have time now, so I will train you."

When Wei Yingluo heard the word "training" and suddenly stiffened.

These two words are really confusing.

Wei Yingluo is a woman who has read books, and she is a woman who has read many books. Whether it is saints' classics or idle books and unofficial history, she will read them as long as there are some books. Although most of the books are dignified books, there are also one or two of them, involving some secrets of the spring exam, young men and maids, etc., which make people blush and heartbeat.

She clearly remembered that there was a miscellaneous story in an anonymous book during the Wei and Jin Dynasties. Famous scholars in the Wei and Jin Dynasties often gave each other concubines. According to legend, there was a famous scholar who liked this very much. Every time he found a beautiful concubine, he felt very comfortable and wanted to share it with his friends. He would "train" some concubines that made him feel uncomfortable and then share it with his friends.

Wei Yingluo thought this matter was very ridiculous when she first saw it. However, because of this incident, she remembered the word "training". Now in her eyes, Li Mu was a ridiculous person. He also said that training and deliberately pointed out that his wife was not at home - her intention was about to come out!

what to do?

Wei Yingluo, are you going to lose your virginity today and then be sent to someone by him?

Thinking of this, Wei Yingluo couldn't help but shed tears and started to cry, crying so hard.

Li Mu waited for a long time, but before Wei Yingluo could push the wheelchair, he was just feeling strange, and suddenly heard the crying sound. He couldn't help but look back and saw that Wei Yingluo had somehow cried like a tearful person, and he was a little confused. Why did this girl cry? I didn't say anything, could she be homesick?

"Hey, why are you crying? If you ask you to push me to the back house, don't you have to be so sad, right?"

Wei Yingluo heard Li Mu's voice, and plopped, knelt in front of Li Mu, hugging his legs tightly.

This kneeling made Li Mu panic: "What are you doing? If you don't push, why are you crying?"

"Mr. Marquis, I will train you. Can you not give me away..."

"Ah?" Before Li Mu could answer, Zhenzhu heard the cry and looked for it. She came in through the side door. Because of the angle, she saw her lady burying her head between the marquis' legs...
Chapter completed!