Many people in later generations commented that the founding ceremony of the majestic empire was so simple, which simply undermined the majesty of the empire.
But it is undeniable that the empire was born in such an environment. It's just like his humble founding ceremony. After the birth of the empire, no activities were held to express the empire's power. Instead, a movement to resume production was quickly started. At the same time, as the emperor, Liu Xu issued his first order after boarding the plane. Imperial Edict No. 1, which was also hailed as the foundation of the empire by later generations, was the "Production Order"
Liu Xu announced in this imperial edict that the first priority for the next development of the empire is the word production, and at the same time, the word production has two meanings.
The first level means to produce various resources and materials. It will promote agricultural and industrial technologies nationwide, reclaim a large amount of farmland and corporate factories, and turn the vast land that has never been developed in the world into vast tracts of land. Farmland and factories have allowed the empire's agricultural and industrial production, which was originally almost zero, to increase by 100 million times in 20 years, allowing the entire population to switch from eating all meat to a food source of mixed grain and meat, allowing the population that humans can feed to increase from 3 , 0 million people increased to about 300 million people.
The second level of meaning is still production, that is, giving birth to children. Because the entire White Elephant world is almost still in the late stage of slave society, and there are no women's rights or fairies in this world at all, so Liu Xu does not need to think hard about how to encourage women to have children. After all, the biggest job of all women in this world is to give birth. child.
As long as women of the right age can almost give birth at a rate of one child per year, they can give birth to almost 5 million children a year.
Logically speaking, the population of this world should explode rapidly. However, because of the huge dangers in this world, the barbaric caste system, the sole reliance on food from exotic animals, and the almost zero level of medical science, the population is reproducing at a very low rate. Very slowly, it took 300 years to slowly increase the population to 30 million people.
This is also the reason why Liu Xu requires the promotion of agricultural and industrial technology production. The purpose is to stably feed the millions of people born every year.
At the same time, various medical projects must be vigorously promoted to ensure that all children can be adequately raised after birth and to ensure rapid population growth.
This was the first imperial edict after Liu Xu ascended the throne, and the next few years were developed around the production of this imperial edict.
But it is easy to promulgate an imperial edict, but it is very difficult to implement it.
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"My good Majesty! You can't talk nonsense. It's easy for you to issue an imperial edict, but it's hard for us clever women to make a meal without rice!" In the court hall of the newly established empire, which was the previous palace of the Zhou Kingdom, Liu Bang He complained bitterly to Liu Xu.
After successfully ending his undercover career, Liu Bang successfully took back his own political group. At the same time, he was named the "King of Han" by Liu Xu and became one of the five major vassal kings in the empire, with three provinces of land under his rule.
The other four princes and kings are Cao Cao, King of Wei, Sun Quan, King of Wu, Yuan Shao, King of Zhao, and Liu Bei, the Benevolent King.
Logically speaking, Liu Bei's title should be King of Shu, but in fact, in the official history, or for Liu Bei himself, he is very resistant to the title of King of Shu. After all, this means that Liu Bei can only stay there for the rest of his life. In the Sichuan area, what he really wanted to do was to recreate the Han Dynasty, so his dynasty has always been the Han Dynasty.
But the problem is that the title of King of Han now belongs to Liu Bang. Liu Bei has no shame in taking the title of king from his ancestor. So after much thought, Liu Bei decided to title him the King of Benevolence. After all, he has regarded the two words of benevolence and righteousness as his foundation throughout his life, so He finally decided to use the word benevolence as his title, which can be regarded as a beginning and an end.
It's just that because Liu Bei's forces have always been responsible for guarding Luoyang Palace, in the process of conquering the twelve provinces, Liu Bei's troops did not occupy any territory. After several years of development, each force has given up their territory to With firm control, it will be difficult for Liu Bei to occupy these territories unless another war develops.
But Liu Bei did work hard and achieved great results. If he hadn't defended Luoyang Palace, Liu Xu would not have been able to develop so steadily in the White Elephant World.
So Liu Xu handed over all the areas directly under Zhoudu to Liu Bei, even his own capital, which was also handed over to Liu Bei. The only thing Liu Xu owned was this palace. After leaving the palace, he was directly under Liu Bei. Territory.
Liu Bei was naturally very frightened about this at first. He would not dare to take over such a territory anyway, let alone the side of the couch, how could he allow others to sleep soundly... This was no longer the side of the couch, but the entire bed belonged to others.
But Liu Xu only asked, "Do you think you have the ability to kill me?"
Liu Bei immediately misfired.
Indeed, as Liu Xu's reflection, it is impossible for anyone to betray Liu Xu, and it is absolutely impossible for anyone to rebel. After all, those who rebel against Liu Xu are those who rebel against themselves.
Besides, the Yingying character would never be able to kill his own master, so Liu Bei's caution was meaningless.
"My Xuande, I am the emperor just to build a complete administrative system. If I am not the emperor, no one is qualified to give orders to all of you, so you can only do your own thing. They can never be twisted together."
"So I can only reluctantly be the emperor and be responsible for twisting you into a rope. But if you ask me to really govern a country, it is absolutely impossible. I don't have the ability, let alone the diligence. I am now writing I have a headache, how can I still have time to govern the world?"
"I will be responsible for living a good life of wine and meat in the palace. All other territories will be governed by you. As long as no one under your rule starves to death!" Liu Xu said to Liu Bei, It was also said to all the princes and kings who were in the palace at that time.
As a result, on the third day, Liu Bang, the king of Han, came to complain, saying that he could not fulfill Liu Xu's will, and at the same time, people under his rule were about to starve to death.
There is no way, Liu Bang's Han State is indeed the slowest in development among all countries, because Liu Bang, the King of Han, has been an undercover agent for a long time, and the actual governance of the land of Han State is in the hands of Han Xin.
Although there are still talents like Xiao He and Zhang Liang, there are always all kinds of quarrels between them and Han Xin, and there is no eldest brother Liu Bang to coordinate and command, which leads to the development of Han State being quite slow. Other countries have successively built Some infrastructure is basically zero in Han.
So when Liu Xu proposed to vigorously develop agriculture and industry, the Han Dynasty, which did not even have a decent road, had no choice but to cry to Liu Xu in person and pray for various supplies and support.
(End of chapter)
