The Loop must be protected, and Guanzhong must also be protected

After Liu Yizhen finished a simple meal in the thatched cottage, he took his nephew back to the palace.

Now that Qingchu is in place, the restoration of the Loop can finally begin.

In addition to summoning Wang Xiu, Wang Maide and Gao Yun, Xu Zhanzhi was also left in Liangyi Palace by Liu Yizhen.

The three of them were a little surprised when they saw such a young man as Xu Zhanzhi.

Especially Wang Xiu.

He had served Liu Song for a long time and knew that Xu Zhanzhi was more than just Liu Xingdi's son.

Liu Xingdi's husband, Xu Zhanzhi's biological father, Xu Kuizhi, was also the nephew of Xu Xianzhi, the then situ.

With this relationship, coupled with the recent canonization of the Duke, Wang Xiu began to wonder if Liu Yi was up to something else.

Seeing the suspicion in Wang Xiu's eyes, Liu Yi defended himself tiredly: "This boy really has a hole in his chest. That's why I brought him here to listen to politics."

Now that the potential political crisis has been resolved, the court is still dominated by the efforts of the emperor, the military, and the aristocratic families.

Among them, as the emperor's side gradually gained the support of the poor family and the government soldiers, it would only make the other two sides more and more weak. Liu Yizhen really did not need to focus on political wrestling in the future.

"This guy is very interested in managing the Loop, which coincides with this topic, so I called him to come and observe."

Afterwards, Liu Yizhen reminded Wang Xiudao: "Now, the rudder is in our hands."

"Where this ship goes from now on will be decided by us!"

Wang Xiu's eyes flashed with dancing light.

This veteran, who had been taking care of Liu Yizhen's rear, was a little unbelievable when he heard Liu Yizhen's deafening declaration.

He originally thought that time had diluted the traces of the past, and time had taken away the greenery of the past.

From the time Liu Yizhen returned to Jiankang, to the various unexpected changes that followed, Wang Xiu and Liu Yizhen were already very far apart.

Even so, Wang Xiu was still willing to provide Liu Yizhen with backing.

He originally thought that Duke Guiyang, with whom he could talk all night long, had disappeared.

But now it seems that is not necessarily the case...

"It does take a long time, but fortunately there is still time."

Liu Yizhen has grown from a handsome boy to an imposing emperor today. Wang Xiu's eyebrows have become a bit grayer, and Wang Maide's face has lost its previous ruddy complexion and turned a little sallow: Gao Yun...

Well, Gao Yun is almost the same guy as he was a few years ago.

After going around in circles, the four monarchs and ministers sat together again, but this time, the enemy they faced was no longer Helian Bobo, no longer a noble family, but this era!

Liu Yizhen spread out the map of the Loop.

"I have said before about the importance of the Hetao to the entire north."

"Now that Fu Hongzhi is stationed in the west of the Hetao, I can hand over the entire Longyou area and Helan Mountain to him and let him use it as a pasture to raise horses, but the method must be my way!"

"There is also the direction of Yunzhong, which is the essence of the entire Hetao and is also the place where it is easiest to control the river."

After discussion, the four people unanimously decided that the population of the entire Hetao could be kept at 100,000 households.

The cultivated land used by 100,000 households is exactly half of the current cultivated land in the Hetao. As long as this half of the cultivated land is returned to forests and the plateau is further improved, the risk of the river running wild in the future will undoubtedly be greatly reduced.

"Nowadays, the people in Hetao are all Xiongnu, Xianbei and even Qiang people. Letting them farm may actually arouse their rebellious psychology. It is most suitable to send them to plant trees and produce green crops."

In later generations, there was a very wrong but widely spread saying - "If you don't study hard, you will go farming."

But in fact, farming is a technical job in the eyes of nomads.

Today's farming has long ceased to involve slash-and-burn farming.

From land reclamation, to seedling cultivation, to irrigation...

Let the nomadic people who are accustomed to hunting, believe in "you have meat now, you will be full tomorrow" and have no sense of worry to farm, they will starve to death no matter how much land is given to them.

Therefore, the work of farming still had to be moved to the Han people in Guanzhong.

In this way, it will not only solve the problem of the Loop, but also appropriately alleviate the population pressure in Guanzhong.

Here I have to mention Liu Yizhen's succession, especially the explosive growth of Guanzhong's population since the capital was moved.

After Liu Yugang conquered Guanzhong, Wang Xiu was responsible for organizing the household registration in Guanzhong. At that time, the population of Guanzhong was only two million.

Later, due to the trade with Hu Xia, the people of Guanzhong became more prosperous. Coupled with Wang Xiu's benevolent government, Guanzhong's population experienced its first explosive growth. In the second year of Yongchu alone, 100,000 babies were born.

Landed.

By the time Liu Yizhen moved the capital to Chang'an, the number of people in Guanzhong had almost reached 2.5 million.

After that, there was a second wave of explosive growth in population, but unlike the first baby boom, most of the people who grew this time came from outside the country.

Today, according to calculations by the Ministry of Household Affairs, the population of Guanzhong is probably close to four million!

This data is only official statistics. If you include some illegal households, it is probably more than 4 million.

Four million people!

Even at the end of the Western Han Dynasty, when Guanzhong's population peaked, it was only 3.5 million!

But what was Guanzhong like during the Western Han Dynasty? There was the entire Shanglin Garden for Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to visit, and even ligers and ferocious beasts were very common in Guanzhong. The land carrying capacity during the Western Han Dynasty was much stronger than it is now.

If the population of Guanzhong continues to increase like this, it would be better for Liu Yizhen to save Guanzhong first rather than saving the Loop.

"You can move some of the people in Guanzhong to Hetao and Longyou. In addition..."

Liu Yizhen swallowed the words as soon as they reached his lips.

At this time, it is better to concentrate on erecting the Loop first.

"Besides these, I must ask someone with enough prestige to go to Hetao to help me gather those small tribes together."

The most important purpose of the strenuous efforts to establish Qingzhu is to control these lonely ghosts on the grassland.

Only by gathering them together and beating them hard with the big stick of civilization can they be tamed and a certain king will not rise again on the grassland.

Wang Maide worked for Hu Xia, and he expressed his opinion regarding Liu Yizhen's idea: "If your Majesty doesn't want Helian Huang...Liu Huang to go to the Hetao?"

"Liu Huang, I still understand him. Although this person is incompetent and narrow-minded, he is a cruel and ruthless guy. If you put him in the river, there is no guarantee that anything will happen."

"rest assured."

Liu Yizhen dispelled Wang Maide's concerns.

"If we go to the Loop here, if he is really alone, he will be lonely, right?"

When he said this, a long-lost evil smile appeared on Liu Yizhen's lips.

Liu Xu...

Wang Maide prayed for him silently and then entered the discussion of the next topic.
Chapter completed!