The portable magic tower of the Three Kingdoms

However, Liu Tao directly took out the chart and marked these places, right here on the map, everyone shut up.I was even a little excited. I don't know if there are immortals in the overseas fairy mountains.No way, where is the elixir of life?

Not to mention the age of ignorance, even in modern times, who is not interested in immortality?

So Liu Tao is not interested, after all, unless he becomes a fairy, all poisons will not invade.

Otherwise, you will live forever, that is, you will not age and die naturally, and you may die from poisoning and illness.In particular, the occurrence rate of cancer in later generations is increasing year by year. Immortality is the same as Zhu Yuanzhang's gold medal for avoiding death "except treason".

"Xuande..." Liu Tao thought for a while, "Have you thought about continuing to join the army?"

"I haven't had any contact with the military for a while, and I'm afraid I won't be able to handle it." Liu Bei shook his head, also worried whether Liu Tao was testing himself.

"Are you satisfied with your job as a minister under the door?" Liu Tao asked, "There is no need to worry about it. With your resume, the minister under the door is a bit inferior."

"I am very satisfied. If Your Majesty needs me to do something, I will do it according to my orders." Liu Bei thought for a while and replied.

"You are still so dishonest." Liu Tao scolded with a smile, "You are very experienced in winning people's hearts. The Western Regions have been gradually annexed, and the people there still don't have a sense of belonging to the big man. I hope you can go to the Protectorate of the Western Regions for a few years, Then come back and directly serve as the sixth minister."

To put it bluntly, Menxia Province is just a secretary. Although he is a close minister of the emperor, his power is definitely not as great as Zhongshu Sheng and Shangshu Sheng.

In fact, it is not only the Western Regions, Cao Cao is going to be General Zhenxi next year, and Liu Chong is basically going to be transferred to General Zhendong.Senior officials in Gansu Province also need to be reappointed.There is already a candidate, Zhong Yao who defected with Xun You back then.

"I don't know how to win people's hearts, I just work hard and serve the people wholeheartedly." Liu Bei will not admit that he is good at winning people's hearts. After all, this word has a synonym called demagoguery.

"You are too careful..." Liu Tao shook his head, "Forget it, since you have no objection, then go to the Western Regions to suffer for a few years. The living conditions are not very good, but the Western Regions are the key to the Silk Road, I hope can be taken seriously.”

"Of course I understand." Liu Bei solemnly promised.Through the work of Menxia Province, he has seen that Liu Tao really cares about the Western Regions.Not only must the culture be Sinicized, but even people's livelihood is also very important.

Stormwater cisterns, drip irrigation, landscaping, rail and road repairs are all planned.Not only from the Western Regions, there are similar plans in Liangzhou where desertification is relatively serious.

To use Liu Tao's comment: It is very difficult to control desertification, but if it is not controlled, the area of ​​desertification will continue to expand.You can't stop governance just because you only have investment but no income.

The existence of the country is not only to meet the various needs of the royal family, but more importantly, to make the lives of the people better, not only now, but also in the future.

"The world is unified, but there are still huge areas that need to be developed and constructed." Liu Tao complained, "The population is not enough!"

The census has already started, but even if millions of hidden households are found, it still feels far from enough...

Chapter 663 Food is not a problem

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, it is said that China had a population of 5000 million. Of course, households and hermits were not counted.If we really want to count them together, it is estimated that there may be 7000 million.

For example, Mi Zhu was a rich local family before he became an official. Later, he married Liu Bei and gave him two thousand servants.Does his family itself have two thousand servants in name?Or will there be another [-] servants to be recruited in the future?

Mi Zhu is like this, how many servants, thousands, tens of thousands are there in those old aristocratic families?If you really want to rebel, arm the young and strong among these servants, recruit three to five thousand elite soldiers, and they are the kind who are not afraid of death.

Based on them, it is easy to pull out an army of 2 to [-], just like the former Fifth School of the Northern Army.If there is no war, the establishment will be [-]. When there is a war, people from one or two schools will be sent there, and the number will immediately expand to [-] to [-].

Since the Yellow Turban Rebellion, not to mention many, millions of people have disappeared, and tens of millions of people must have been affected.The only thing worthy of praise is that millions of people could not escape to Jingzhou, Jiaozhou and Yangzhou, which can be regarded as supplementing the population there.

Even so, it is still seriously insufficient to fill up China, let alone fill up the prairie and the Western Regions.Liu Tao really wished that he could be a child of the Immortal family and be able to practice the method of having two children a year.Oh, it's triplets or multiples, don't get me wrong.

"Why do you need to worry, Your Majesty?" Liu Bei didn't understand why there was anything to worry about the population issue. "In the current peaceful and prosperous age, let alone those big families, the people below will desperately give birth. How can there be five children in a family of two?" children.

Nowadays, the level of medical care is constantly improving, and the safety of mother and child can basically be achieved.In addition, there are more ways to keep out the cold, and the death rate of children in winter has also been greatly reduced.Even if only [-]% survived in the end, within ten years, the population of the entire Han population would double. "

Considering the factor of holding two in three years, it is indeed possible that the population base will double in three years, and if it is safe, it will definitely double in five years.It has doubled in ten years, and the problem is still not big.

The problem is that these children are still young, and they have to wait until they are ten years old to start helping, that is, at least ten to 20 years before a group of strong men can grow up. For 20 years, God knows where the Han army has gone...

"Let's talk about our thirteen prefectures in the Han Dynasty. Of course, they may be called provinces in the future, and there will be more than thirteen. Let's talk about the number of people that these provinces can accommodate, not to mention one billion or 14 billion. Three to five billion will definitely not be a problem.

The grasslands to the north of Yinshan Mountain are spacious enough, and if they are well developed, two to three hundred million people are not a big problem; Buyeo, Goguryeo, and even Sanhan, a population of two hundred million is not a problem.

Leaving aside the Great Plains in the north, it is too cold to live there for the time being.One hundred million people in the Wa Kingdom is not a big problem, and there is not a big problem in the Western Regions with a few million people..." Liu Tao simply calculated step by step.

Liu Bei smashed his mouth, wanted to say something, but couldn't say it in the end, why did he think of this step?It really makes sense to think about it carefully. The problem is a theoretical thing. How do you know if you don’t actually try it?

"Your Majesty, the population has increased so much, what about the food?" Liu Bei rarely asked.

"That's right... what about the food..." Liu Tao was taken aback when he heard the words, and then he remembered that with the increase in population, the consumption of food and various dishes will increase accordingly.

The actual situation is not clear, but it can be seen from the management games played before time travel.When the population increases, the problem of food must be solved.There is a very troublesome part in the late stage of this type of game, that is, the population is increasing. Let alone how to arrange the idle population, the food has also begun to decline rapidly.

Generally speaking, you can only increase the cultivated area and import to obtain food.The people who are at ease with their problems definitely need more than just food.They also need vegetables and meat, as well as a variety of non-staple and processed foods.

If we talk about daily necessities, we can hand them over to the market to fill them up.The problem of food production is a problem that the country needs to solve.

No sweet potatoes, no pumpkins, no taro, no corn and no potatoes.Farming technology, because of trying to obtain results in the cloud, has gradually become popular, and the production has increased by about [-]% to [-]% compared to before.

Champa rice, which is cropped three times a year, is probably still a weed these days. Even if it is still cropped three times a year, the output is not up to the standard...

"Xuande, I'm going to take you to the ditch!" Liu Tao suddenly realized something, and laughed and scolded directly, "You are so busy talking about food with me, have you forgotten how much arable land we have?"

As far as China's current arable land and occupied territories are concerned, a population of 5000 to [-] million can be fully supported.What is the population of Huaxia now, [-] million is probably not enough, so there is no need to worry so fast?

"No, no, no, I dare not." Liu Bei quickly explained, "It's just that I think it's better to take precautions before they happen. After all, the population continues to increase, and we will face this problem in 40 to 100 years at most."

The north is too cold, and the cost of farming is high; the west is desert, and there is not much area suitable for farming; the south is full of virgin forests, which need to be developed and started to be cultivated, which will take time, and there are also terrains that are not suitable for farming.

"But Xuande, have you forgotten that I opened an agricultural college. You don't really think that it teaches students how to farm, right?" Liu Tao asked back.

This agricultural college is equipped with a huge botanical garden, which collects plants from all over the world.For spices, for food, or for wood.

The purpose is also very simple, which is to study, how to improve, how to make the fruit taste better, produce more, and be more delicious.

There is also a grain plantation area, which specializes in the study of hybrids and improved varieties of various grains.At the same time, study how to improve the technology of improving varieties.Record this process and gradually form a systematic teaching material, which Liu Tao calls biology.

Not just plants, but livestock and poultry of all varieties.There are more than 300 researchers in the entire Agricultural College, not to mention students.This is not only a school, but also an experimental base.

"This, I really don't know..." Liu Bei hastily apologized, and Liu Tao was right. When many people faced this agricultural college, they really thought that it was here to teach people how to farm.

Later, I found out that there are still chickens and cows raised, and I immediately thought it was funny. Most of the big families didn't let their children in.The students here are basically the children of the original farmers.

"Don't you know that the Agricultural College is a yamen under the Ministry of Industry, and the researchers there will, to a certain extent, work in the Ministry of Industry..." Liu Tao reminded.

In the Ministry of Industry there are those who are responsible for agriculture, but in fact, they can continue to work independently in the future.After all, Shangshu Province's Shangshu Province was called six departments only because it was originally divided into six departments.But it does not mean that Shangshu Province can only have six.

I don’t know if the later dynasties were out of their minds, and they inherited one by one, all of which belonged to these six departments.

It was not until the establishment of the Republic of China and New China that improvements were made on this basis, but this is probably also the result of the influence of Western political systems.At that time, many people still thought that they would destroy the old society and build a new society.

In fact, I didn't know it at all, I was just improving on the system established by my ancestors 1000 years ago.

Chapter 664 198 AD

From 196 AD to 198 AD, more than a year passed like this, but Liu Tao did not feel that time was stolen this time.

It's just that if possible, he would rather do that, after all, this year has been a bit boring.You can't say that you have nothing to do, you can only say things that can make people excited.