Millions of captives are busy building the Tang Empire in the Eastern Continent, and tens of millions of people in the Western Continent have begun to prepare for the coronation ceremony of their Emperor.
No one could suppress this feeling. They really did it, unified the world, and turned the whole world into one country.
The dragon flag of the Tang Empire is flying everywhere. From now on, all people and races will have only one country. There will no longer be the threat of war or the limitations of borders.
What a great thing this will be!
Many places are decorated with lights and festivals, and many places are preparing for celebrations. However, there are still many people busy working for this unified world... What they have to face is a future that has never appeared before.
For many people, unification is a great good thing, but for some people, unification is not so comfortable.
Humans, or humanoid races, have been facing a problem since their birth, the problem of population growth. In the past, this problem was solved through several methods such as "food shortage", "disease", and "war".
Land conflict, this seemingly simple issue, actually has complex social roots. When land resources cannot support the expanding population, social stability will be broken and chaos will break out.
This chaos is like a ruthless storm, swallowing up those who cannot find living space on the land, while the rest find stability in the ruins and continue their lives. In ancient times, those glorious dynasties were often unable to solve the problem.
Because of this fundamental problem, it can only experience rise and fall again and again, heading towards destruction over and over again.
The population gradually turned from a bonus into a disaster, eventually engulfing a prosperous dynasty, and then re-establishing the next empire on the ruins.
The problem of disease is equally easy to understand. Due to the backwardness of medical technology, civilization has always been passive in preventing diseases, and the effect is minimal.
A large-scale infectious disease is enough to reduce the population to a relatively safe level. In history, plague diseases that killed millions of people were common. These diseases seemed to be a way of sterilization in nature, destroying
It has intelligent organisms that live on it, just like bacteria.
As for war, the reasons are even more obvious. When the population increases to a certain extent, in order to resolve the contradiction between man and land, it is necessary to expand the living space. Occupying other people's land and killing other people's populations is undoubtedly the most cost-effective way.
Of course, if the war fails, it will not be a big deal, because a large number of redundant people have been lost in the war, and the remaining people will naturally not have the problem of land shortage. This is also a situation that everyone is happy with.
However, in modern society, the Tang Empire, the empire that unified the world, has blocked all the ways to resolve conflicts between man and earth since ancient times. The Tang Empire has achieved global unification, so in a short period of time
Internally, it no longer has the possibility of waging war externally and expanding its territory.
This means that the old method of reducing population through war is no longer applicable. In this unified world, people must find new ways to resolve the contradiction between man and land to avoid the recurrence of historical tragedies.
At the same time, Datang Group has successfully launched a series of advanced drugs through its unremitting efforts and innovative research and development, which have significantly improved the level of people's medical care.
Today, the average age of the population of the Tang Empire has significantly increased by seven or eight years, and this number will undoubtedly continue to rise in the future. With the continuous advancement of medical technology, the average life span of civilians is expected to further increase, reaching seventy or eighty years, or even
Eighty or ninety years old.
However, what will follow will be the population pressure faced by the Tang Empire. This pressure will become huge and unimaginable.
At the same time, the surge in population has also brought about another problem. Since the area of cultivated land is limited, as the population continues to increase, the pressure on cultivated land will increase.
If grain production cannot meet the needs of the growing population, internal unrest in the Tang Empire may completely break out.
Fortunately, Tang Mo still has time to deal with this challenge, because the global population is not yet so large that hidden dangers have emerged. At present, the Tang Empire is still vast and sparsely populated, and there is still a lot of arable land that can continue to be developed. Agriculture
There is still a lot of room for development, which provides huge potential for future food production.
Historically, there is a fundamental difference between the Datang Empire and previous empires. This difference is that the Datang Empire is not only a powerful industrial empire, but in the future, it may also become a powerful information empire, or even
It is possible to start a new cosmic era.
The development of industry and science and technology requires the support of a large population, which provides countless jobs for the country. Therefore, the land pressure of the Tang Empire is not as huge as people imagine.
As long as the output of grain products is enough to meet consumption needs, the huge population is not a real problem for the Tang Empire. Because under Tang Mo's governance, the population has been divided into two categories: non-agricultural population and agricultural population.
In fact, in an industrial country, the number of people who are not engaged in agricultural-related work can be three times or more than the agricultural population. Therefore, even if the population of the Tang Empire is one billion more, it may not feel too big
population pressure.
However, the problem of war consumption is a thorny problem. The Tang Empire has not found a truly effective solution. Tang Mo can't launch a civil war for no reason to consume the population without actual needs, right? Like this
This approach is obviously irrational.
Therefore, after Tang Mo raised these questions, the smiles on the faces of Chu Muzhou, the current deputy prime minister of the empire, and Nangong Hong, who was about to take over as deputy prime minister of the empire, no longer looked so natural.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Even though they are both the best among people and extremely smart leaders, they still lack enough knowledge when facing the Tang Empire that unified the world.
experience.
This is similar to the situation faced by Qin Shihuang back then: The empire has defeated all powerful opponents, so what exactly will it do in the future? He himself doesn’t know, and neither do his officials. Everyone can only go
Take it one step at a time.
Was the fall of the Qin State due to tyranny? If you simply understand Qin Shihuang as a violent and crazy pervert, it is obviously one-sided. He is certainly not a fool who sits in his position and thinks about how to destroy his people every day and enjoy the mountains of corpses and seas of blood.
...If he was, then what kind of character did the heroes of the six countries he killed have?
Part of the reason for the demise of the Qin State was that it had no experience. There was no centralized unified dynasty before it. Therefore, after the Qin State annexed the six countries, it showed obvious symptoms of maladaptation.
Even Qin Shihuang himself could not solve the problem due to lack of experience, so he and his ministers could only adopt the least risky method: follow the rules.
This is why the Qin State followed its own laws and experience, directly linking the economy and organizational structure of the Qin State during wartime to the Qin Empire that was supposed to thrive after unification.
As a result, the conquered civilians of the six countries certainly felt that they had been abused by the tyranny: a lot of rules that had not existed in the past were imposed on their heads, and there were a few threats such as death for those who overstayed their deadlines, plus the six countries
The gentry class was dissatisfied with Qin's polishing of pens and knives... and the image of Qin was passed down like this.
It was finally unified. In order to maintain the wartime economy, they rejected the deserts in the north, conquered the mountains and forests in the south, built wonders and built a majestic city... This is not a simple grand achievement, but a kind of militarism that cannot be stopped because of the system and economy.
Can Qin Shihuang stop? There are so many officials and titles waiting to be promoted, and so many favors waiting to be distributed, who dares to stop?
Who explains to those arrogant generals who are already crazy and like to cut off their ears to count their achievements, "The country has no land for you, so why don't your military achievements be forgotten? Go home and live a peaceful life..."
It is easy to let the people who built the Great Wall go home, but is it so easy to let the officials who supervised the people building the Great Wall and wait for them to make great achievements go home?
This thing has been played since the time of Shang Yang. Qin Shihuang did not have the courage or ability to change, and Li Si and others did not have the courage or ability to change. Everyone is waiting to die with this outdated thing. Then
Isn't the final outcome just a dead end?
Don't think it's easy to deny your past successful experiences. In fact, similar mistakes have been made countless times in human history, but very few people have stood up to the entire interest group to correct their mistakes.
The generals of the Japanese Navy during World War II were not fools. The big ships and big guns they believed in were an invincible and successful experience until the second they failed. Who dares to question them?
By the same token, in the real world, Western countries have made their societies what they are today. Who can stand up and question whether "ancestral family laws" are immutable?
The Tang Empire is now facing similar problems: Tang Mo and his men are facing an unknown era of great unification. How to solve the "class problem", how to solve the "population pressure", and how to solve the "wealth distribution"
All need to be rethought.
Things that could be accomplished through violence and barbarism in the past can now only be advanced in a silent manner, which in itself is a test for those in power.
Before the annexation of the Eastern Continent, these problems were not problems, but after the Dragon Flag of the Tang Empire was planted all over the world, Tang Mo had to consider some things that even he had never thought about.