Seeing his father's expression changing and Li Zhao looking aggrieved, Fusu couldn't stand it anymore, so he saluted Ying Zheng and said, "Father, Li Zhao rarely touches the state affairs, so I think it's better not to embarrass him." .”
"Don't embarrass him?" With an intriguing smile in his eyes, Ying Zheng stood up from his high position, walked slowly to Li Zhao's side, and actually looked at Li Zhao with interest.
Li Zhao was shocked and secretly asked Qin Shihuang what was he going to do? Did he say something wrong? No! He said it very seriously! There was absolutely no intention to offend Zu Long.
However, Ying Zheng just looked at it for a while, then turned away, smiled slightly, and said to himself: You didn't say anything wrong, and you were right, but you shouldn't lie to me!
Don’t you understand nothing? How can you analyze it so thoroughly?
"That's right! It seems like I'm embarrassing him."
"The baby is scared to death." After hearing Ying Zheng's words, Li Zhao relaxed and felt so dangerous! Qin Shihuang's weird smile is so scary.
Ying Zheng suppressed his smile, stared at Fusu closely, and his attitude softened a lot.
This is always his son, who will inherit the throne in the future, and blindly rejecting it is not conducive to his growth.
Since he raised this issue, he must have considered countermeasures!
With this thought in mind, Ying Zheng asked Fusu: "Since you have proposed banning and suppressing business, do you have any good strategies?"
Fusu was delighted when he heard this and said quickly: "My ministers have already thought of countermeasures. We in Da Qin suppress merchants just to protect the people who work day and night, so that they will not have enough to eat, lack of warmth, and be homeless..."
Huh!
Ying Zheng nodded slightly. It seemed that his Fu Su was not pedantic as imagined, but still had some ideas. I wonder what the next countermeasures would be?
“If we could make food abundant, wouldn’t this problem be solved?”
Yes, Ying Zheng nodded, and Li Zhao also nodded.
Suddenly Li Zhao had an idea. This eldest son was not as Confucian as recorded in the history books, and he still had a clear understanding of some issues.
"How to make food abundant?" Ying Zheng asked the main question.
Fusu shrugged, seemingly confident.
"Father, my son and I have investigated and found that the food in Da Qin is mainly millet, wheat, rice, etc. The Guanzhong area grows millet and wheat, which is harvested every six months, which is considered acceptable, but why can't the people be fed? The reason is that we in Da Qin If we don’t have enough land, we can open up more wasteland, and won’t the food supply increase?”
Ying Zheng didn't answer or react much, and fell into deep thought.
Li Zhao curled his lips and disagreed, thinking: This is the truth, but what is the difference between it and superfluous? There are only 20 million people in the Qin Dynasty. Because of the emphasis on agriculture, almost the people are farming. No matter how much land is opened, there will be no It doesn’t help if people cultivate the land!
The problem now is that the population is small and it is not suitable to open up more wasteland. Of course, if we can work hard on the yield per mu, that may be a solution.
Huh!
When Ying Zheng heard Li Zhao's thoughts, he couldn't help but nod.
Yes, the population of Daqin is limited, and land reclamation cannot solve the problem. This is also a problem he has been thinking about. The right way is to increase the yield per mu, but increasing the yield per mu is not easy!
It's not that Daqin doesn't have a department that specializes in studying grain production, but since its unification, it has been unable to solve this problem, even to increase production a little bit.
Fusu didn't know what his father was thinking. He was overjoyed when he saw his father nodding. His father agreed with him.
You know, he has put forward many opinions, but they were all reprimanded and not adopted. Today, he made an exception.
Of course, his idea was based on many investigations and combined with the opinions of many great scholars. It was a foolproof plan, and it was reasonable for his father to agree.
So, he continued: "This is one. Second, I heard that Nanhai County has a hot climate and mainly grows rice, which can be harvested twice a year."
"Really?" Ying Zheng's eyes lit up after hearing this, and he asked quickly. Since reunification, he has been busy with national affairs and paid little attention to regional issues.
"certainly!"
Fusu looked very proud, "As long as we vigorously open up wasteland in Nanhai County, food production will definitely increase."
"By then, won't everyone be able to have enough food and clothing, and everyone will love our Great Qin, and won't our Great Qin's rule last for eternity?"
"Okay, that's a good idea." Ying Zheng frowned, feeling as if he could see the moonlight from the sky, and immediately snapped the case, "Fusu, I'll leave this matter to you..."
But just as he was about to tell Fu Su to do it, he suddenly heard Li Zhao's voice again.
"It's true that Nanhai County has two crops a year." Almost all modern people know this geographical knowledge, "But the problem is a problem of quantity. Fusu only thinks about the planting quantity, but does not take into account the yield per mu. This is different from that in the Guanzhong area. What's the difference."
Huh! Ying Zheng frowned when he heard this. It seemed that he was the same. Nanhai County only had so many manpower. To open up wasteland, someone would have to work on it! It's still treating the symptoms rather than the root cause. I was too happy just now to think about this.
We still have to solve the problem of yield per mu!
Ying Zheng sighed.
Seeing that his father was about to agree, he paused the next moment. Fusu was very puzzled and asked cautiously: "Father, what do you mean?"
Ying Zheng straightened up and asked: "Your suggestion is good, but have you ever thought about who will plant it? You don't want to let the common people plant it! They are also farming themselves. With the same workload, what do you think the yield per mu is? Can you lift it up?"
Um!
Fusu narrowed his eyes and felt panicked. Yes! Why didn't he think of this problem? If the manpower remains unchanged, the yield per mu cannot be increased at all. Even if Nanhai County is developed, it will be in vain.
This issue still leads to a dead end.
"Haha! In fact, this problem is not difficult to solve. Doesn't Daqin have an army of two million? Just station 500,000 troops across the country, and let the soldiers farm and fight. Wouldn't that be enough?"
Li Zhao thought.
Historically, the Qin Dynasty did have the theory of farming and war, but Li Zhao couldn't understand why Ying Zheng and Fu Su had to struggle with this issue for so long.
But I quickly figured out that maybe the farming war hadn’t started yet!
Um! Farming war?
When Ying Zheng heard Li Zhao's thoughts, he raised his eyebrows and suddenly slapped his chest. He secretly thought, yes, farming and fighting, let the soldiers farm and fight at the same time.
In other words, when the war breaks out, we go to fight, and when it stops, we farm. It’s the best of both worlds!
This method is wonderful.
For a moment, Ying Zheng looked at Li Zhao twice, and saw that he was still confused and didn't know what to do, and he felt angry.
It was obviously a prime minister-like suggestion, but he pretended not to know anything, and even pretended to look like it.
There is no one in the world!
This boy, hey! Ying Zheng was angry and laughed at the same time.
"Of course, this is not the most ideal strategy. It would be better if the quality of the seeds could be improved."
Um! Not ideal yet?
Ying Zheng seemed to have heard the most incredible voice. He could predict that the farming war would definitely solve the problem of food shortage and even make the national highway prosperous.
He actually said it was not the most ideal solution?
Could it be?
