Even sweet potatoes and potatoes brought a lot of new food.
However, population growth will not stop easily.
A happy life will bring about the expectation of happiness, the people will be carefree, and their desire to have children must be very strong.
Such a prosperous age is certainly beautiful, but then...
It is inevitable that the population will continue to explode.
However, the total amount of cultivated land remains unchanged.
In this case, even though it seems intuitively... there are too many people, so what should I do? I can get by just by squeezing in.
At worst, everyone will be poorer, at worst, His Majesty will take the lead and lead all officials to practice frugality - isn't that okay?
But if this kind of thinking is in the rising period, it is a good thing.
Only by practicing frugality can we have enough food to eat in the coming year and have the strength to cultivate more fields.
But by then, even if the emperor took the lead in saving food, it would still be impossible to eat it.
Even if the tight budget is enough to satisfy the world's food needs.
The number of people is exploding, there is no famine in the world, it looks very beautiful, and it is a prosperous time.
But this kind of prosperous age is undoubtedly extremely fragile, because if there is any natural or man-made disaster, the imperial treasury will have no room for change.
By then, refugees will appear everywhere, bandits will breed, and even yellow scarves will be everywhere. What will we do at this time?
It is precisely because of this purpose that Wei Zheng and others value potatoes, sweet potatoes, and new overseas territories so much that they must crush the Turkic bandits and take over the northwest for proper development.
And if the steam engine is shrunk, for example, it becomes about the same size as a cattle, or even smaller, it can also be used...
Then couldn’t all the pastures in the country be transformed into fertile farmland?
This is equivalent to directly adding countless states and counties to the Tang Dynasty!
How could Wei Zheng and others not be excited about such a good thing?
After understanding this, I realized what Li Er was excited about.
Mud, who wouldn’t be excited about this change?
"God……"
"If this is really possible, it will expand the power of the entire Tang Dynasty..."
Wei Zheng was extremely excited.
Li Er couldn't help but smile when he heard this.
"That's why I bother you all late at night."
"This matter is almost as important as building ships and going to sea to open up the Southeast Bank overseas."
"If Datang could really be able to create a lot more farmland out of thin air... no, even if it is just the potential of farmland, or reserve farmland, this is... this is also..."
Speaking of this, Li Er was extremely excited.
Firstly, this idea is very attractive in itself.
Secondly, since Li Er met Li Sheng, he has been a pure bastard emperor for more than a year. Today...
Hehe, I finally found my place as a father in the matter of governance.
The child is too awesome, the father doesn’t want to lose face!
But just then...
When Wei Zheng heard that Li Shifen was happy, he also said with an excited smile,
"Talk about this vision. When I was watching the ship in Hangzhou that day, His Highness also mentioned that this steam engine also has great potential on earth."
"I never thought that I would forget about this once I returned to Chang'an. It's really... hahahaha!"
Wei Zheng sighed unintentionally...
On the other side, Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui even covered their faces and nodded.
When the army was raised in the troubled times at the end of the Sui Dynasty, it was said that it was to realize its ambitions, but it was not true that the world was unjust and they chose the strong and entrusted their fate...
Who would have thought that Tang Dynasty could prosper to this extent now.
Your Highness...
Your Highness...
The fact that the Tang Dynasty is in such a situation cannot be said to be a blessing from heaven, after all...
Isn’t all this brought by His Highness?
By this time, Wei Zheng and others no longer even discussed whether Li Sheng would leave his name in history.
Is this a problem? This is not a problem at all...
I'm afraid that even if people with five surnames and seven hopes come to compile history books, His Highness the First Prince's achievements will definitely be rare in history.
But to put it another way...
His Highness's appearance, isn't this in itself evidence of God's blessing on the Tang Dynasty, or God has a way for the Tang Dynasty... Hehehehehe!
But while Wei Zheng and others were happy...
The smile on Li Er's face suddenly froze.
Well, this matter has actually been thought of by Sheng Er a long time ago?...
OK, OK.
This kid...
Li Er scolded Li Sheng ten thousand times at this moment.
Damn it, when I was forced to stage a coup, I made up my mind to become a famous king through the ages.
Now that this naughty kid has appeared, how can he become a famous king through the ages?
Hundreds of years later, when a child reads history books, he will remember that there was another Li Erfeng...
Isn't this a lie? This kid.
It can be said to be a great filial piety!
The more Li Er thought about it, the angrier he became, but no... When the time comes and he reveals his identity, this brat will have to be taken care of by his family.
If you continue to look for him to do this without leaving any stone unturned, then as for yourself, let alone being a wise king, you may be regarded as a coward...
It’s so outrageous, it’s so outrageous in the world!
However, excitement and excitement return to excitement and excitement, and mixed feelings return to mixed feelings.
Li Er is also an emperor after all, and he has not forgotten that this matter cannot be accomplished just by being excited and excited.
To succeed, you need to plan carefully.
For example, first of all...
"Okay, everyone. Since we are determined to do this now... then we have to figure it out."
"If this matter fails, then we will have spent a lot of money in vain. This is still a small matter, the key is..."
"If it succeeds, how can this thing be spread throughout the world?"
"After all, this steam engine, even if it is a smaller one, is obviously extremely expensive. Ordinary people cannot afford to buy a cattle, and they are even less likely to have the conditions to buy a steam cattle."
"What should we do then? Do you have any ideas?"
Speaking of this issue, the more Li Er thought about it, the more he felt...
Although the state-owned goods are good and happy, the resulting problems are not small.
To achieve the result that everyone thought when they were moved just now, I'm afraid there are still a lot of difficulties and obstacles to overcome.
When Li Er said this, Wei Zheng and others immediately stopped smiling.
The problem Li Er mentioned is really a big one.
A thing, no matter how good it is.
If it's too expensive...
That's useless!
Good things and bad things, good and bad, everything is determined based on price.
Even for cattle, if the cost of raising a cow is only ten cents a month, it is not necessarily worse than the imagined "steam cattle", and may even be much better.
But the problem is that for an investment of ten cents a month, does it have to starve the cattle into bones? It's just an egg.
The same goes for steam cattle farming. Even if it works, the cost will be...
Thinking about it, it can't be too low.
What can be done to make it have the expected effect?
At first, this question was just lingering in the depths of everyone's consciousness. Now that it was raised, everyone immediately frowned. This is undoubtedly not a small problem.