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Chapter 546: Selling Land and Selling a Future

The weather is good, are you going out for a walk?" Uncle Li grunted and came up with a reason to ask questions, so we nodded together. "Yes, yes, the son-in-law saw that the weather is good today, so he specially asked General Li to inspect the river bank to prevent the Goguryeo Army from quietly crossing the Yalu River and attacking our army's camp." I replied seriously. Behind me, Su Dingfang and others were already shocked to leave most of the drunkenness, and quickly put on a look of loyalty to the country at any time to show that they were going out for business.

"It's so good. I'm also worried about this, so I've been busy outside for a whole day." Uncle Li was also very shameless. Well, everyone was almost the same. They pretended to die from each other. No one pointed out that the other party violated military discipline and went out to eat and drink. Although Uncle Li was the emperor, he was also a soldier and liked to be a role model in front of others. Fortunately, he met my beloved son-in-law, and when he met others, he was afraid that Uncle Li would silence him.

Uncle Li also saw what we did, because Xue Rengui is a bucket of food, but he doesn't have much alcohol tolerance, and his face turned purple. If it weren't for my personal soldiers' support, I'd probably have gotten under my stomach.

However, since everyone has done the same thing, no one will say anything. After fooling around, please ask Uncle Li to go first. Let's follow up. With this old gangster in the lead, the safety factor that will not be discovered when returning to the camp is much higher.

"It's so dangerous, mom, I was so scared that Old Su was covered in cold sweat. Most of the wine was awake." Su Dingfang wiped the sweat from his forehead and breathed a sigh of relief. Everyone looked like they were in a state of judging. They followed Uncle Li's army in shame. They took advantage of the dusk and crawled back to the camp with Uncle Li, and then they breathed a sigh of relief.

In order to prevent someone from discovering abnormalities, several drunkards squatted in a camp tent and rolled all night. The next day, they finally recovered from their shape, and showed off their general's majesty in high spirits, and rushed to the central army's tent Yingmao.

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Uncle Li, who was sitting in the main seat, looked a little haggard. He seemed to have drunk too much yesterday and didn't sleep well at night. Poor old man, don't drink so much if he doesn't have that appetite. It's not like our young people who got drunk the day before, but still lively the next day.

Before he could answer, an excited shout came from outside: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, great news." Changsun Wuji rushed into the tent with a memorial in his hand.

"Oh? What good news, let me come and have a look." Uncle Li happily reached out to take the report and checked it. Changsun Wuji announced to everyone during the inquiry of the generals: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has sent a good news from Chang'an. In the past two months, I have sold the capital of Liao land in the Tang Dynasty and made a profit of 5.8 million yuan."

Hiss... it was full of breathing sounds, one and two were all standing in the corners of their eyes, 5.8 million guan, and the annual taxes of the Tang Dynasty were only more than three million guan. Everyone's eyes were red. Damn, it was too sluggish. I was also shocked by this number.

"Your Majesty, because of the frequent reports of our army, many wealthy merchants who were originally waiting and watching had received this news, their confidence in our Tang Dynasty could pacify Liaodong. The threshold for land buyers was almost squeezed out by those who bought land in Liaodong. Because the land price in Liaodong is relatively suitable and free trading is allowed, Chang'an, Luoyang, Jinyang, Yangzhou and other major cities all reported to the government to obtain land and farm in Liaodong. Now, there are more than 600,000 households who buy land..."

This is simply the Tang Dynasty version of the land enclosure movement. Liaodong is already sparsely populated, and many plump lands, not to mention that no one cultivates it, it is often no one to farm. Now it has sold more than 11 million mu of acres. Although it is sold well, the problem is that I know very clearly that in later texts, it has mentioned that Heilongjiang, Jilin and Liaoning provinces in the northeastern region of my country have about 300 million mu of arable land. It accounts for 16% of the total arable land in the country, not including the large plains north of Heilongjiang. I am afraid that all the population of the Tang Dynasty has been moved over, and the arable land is still more than enough.

Master Yan Lide, Minister of Works, stood up and said, "I personally went to several prefectures occupied by our army to check. The land in Liaodong is fertile, which makes me surprised. I am afraid that the fertile land in Guanzhong is worse than that in Guanzhong..."

Uncle Li left the report in his hand, took a few steps, turned to Yan Lide and said: "How much farmland can there be in Liaodong? Check it out! Check it out quickly!"

"Your Majesty, don't be anxious. Your Majesty had already told me when I was in the capital. I sent officials from the Ministry of Works to various prefectures occupied by our Tang Dynasty to investigate the households and fields left by the former Goguryeo. On the other hand, I had already colluded with Lord Fang last year. I think there should be some news about Lord Fang."



My dear, you are doing a good job, Fang Jun, do you have any details?" Uncle Li turned to me. Looking for me? It's simple, because the measurements in later generations are more accurate than now, and the knowledge I got from books is absolutely correct.

"Your Majesty, I will borrow the map for use." I stood up, pulled the map handed over by the people next to me and spread it on the ground, and pointed to the map drawn by colleagues from Jinzouyuan for exhausting their efforts and said, "Since the time when I received the prompt from His Majesty, I wanted to encourage my Tang people to move to the border by selling the land of Liaodong, I ordered all the intelligence personnel in Liaodong to conduct detailed surveys and statistics on the arable land here. After more than a year of rough estimates, according to the map

On, the land we currently occupy is about three million arable land..." I was burying my head and suddenly felt that the silence around me was too much. I looked up and saw that the expressions of these people were shocked. Uncle Li stared at me with his eyes straight, and Yan Lide covered his chest, looking like he was about to suffer a heart attack. What have you done? Could it be that I said too much that scared them? Even the old generals all looked shocked.

What are you doing? There are only a few places. Compared to those who fool people in fantasy novels, this is much less. I have no time to pay attention to them. Taking advantage of no one's doubts, I continued to point to the map and said loudly: "In addition, there are about one million hectares of arable land east of Yalu River. However, to the north of Jianjiang River, there are only a few intelligence personnel from the Tang Dynasty who have been there. They have not been there for a long time, they are not familiar with the geography, and have not had much contact with the locals. They have not yet conducted too much investigation. However, according to the information they sent back, there are also a large number of plains there, which are suitable for farming, and they are probably as big as the land in Liaodong."

"Son-in-law, I heard it right? Are you saying that we currently occupy nearly three million hectares of cultivated land?" Uncle Li almost pinched my neck and asked a question. Yan Lide next to him was like a first-year elementary school student, constantly placing his fingers on the floor, muttering: "Thirty thousand hectares, that is 300 million acres. Mom, we only sold more than one million acres, but only one-thirty or three hundred million acres, that's how many cents?"

"What the son-in-law said is the truth, and there is no false statement. If Your Majesty doesn't believe it, you can re-exploration of Liaodong, which is definitely more than the son-in-law said." As soon as I finished speaking, Uncle Li let go and squatted in front of the map. "Son-in-law, do you know how many acres of land there are currently in the Tang Dynasty?" Uncle Li stroked the map, as if he was stroking the tender skin of a beautiful lady, his movements and expression were disgusting.

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I couldn't help but shudder and quickly replied, "I don't know." "Our dynasty now has only more than four million hectares of land, of which only five or six paddy fields are in Liaodong. At present, we have already built three million hectares of land, which is almost equivalent to the fact that I have built another Central Plains." Uncle Li murmured blankly.

"Ah?" I was really shocked. To be honest, I never expected that the farmland in the Tang Dynasty is so small now, but Uncle Li would never lie about such a thing.

Tong, Changsun Wuji knelt down in tears: "Your Majesty! Your Majesty's martial arts are the best for all ages!" Flatter, the old boy's performance ability is so powerful. All the veterans and ministers who accompanied him all bowed to the ground, prostrating to the largest landlord of the Tang Dynasty, the great Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, and sang the achievements of this great man in unison... Inside and outside the military camp, countless soldiers of the Tang Dynasty seemed to have some senses, and gradually shouted with the generals in the central army's tent: "Long live Your Majesty, long live, long live, long live, long live, long live, long live, long live! "

I seemed to have seen the crazy scenes of developing the Great Northern Wilderness in the 1950s and 1960s. I think it only takes three to five years to the number of people in the Tang Dynasty in Liaodong would far exceed the sum of the ethnic minorities here. Ten years later, this place will be firmly written in the hands of the Tang Dynasty. The ethnic minorities here will gradually be assimilated by agricultural civilization, forget their language and culture, and carry out a great fusion movement of the Tang Dynasty.
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