"Han Qi is crazy."

Zhe Kexing was walking around Shen An with a wine pot, while opposite him, Wen Xiaozhong was moving his body.

"What's his crazy?"

Wen Xiaochong's physical recovery ability made everyone envious. He looked dying at the time, but now he can play a set of boxing skills.

Zhe Kexing pondered this set of boxing techniques, then nodded slightly to express his appreciation, and said, "He was kicked and trained all the imperial guards in Beijing, and he said that he would not live for a few years. Even if he had the title of a rebel minister, he had to train the army well."

"He is the Prime Minister. It is not a good thing that the Prime Minister has too close contact with the army, but this can also show Han Qi's urgency."

Chen An smiled and said, "This is a good thing, but the army is not just practicing... I just practice without taking the heart, and in the end I will do it with strength on the outside but the middle."

"I hope to hear it carefully!"

Zhao Zhongzhen sneaked out. Seeing that Xiaozhong's boxing was fierce, he wanted to compete. But before that, he wanted to listen to Chen An's analysis.

Chen An remembered the strong troops in the future, and felt that the current army was tangible and unsatisfactory: "The army must first think, and let the soldiers know why they fight. For example, why the soldiers of the Song Dynasty fight, you have to say it out and make the soldiers convinced. When they hear it, they scream and wish they could fight immediately."

"No soul!"

Chen An shook his head and said, "The Liao army is used to being the boss, and has its own advantages. The Xixia people are located in the northwest, barren and exhausted, surrounded by enemies, and they have to wear long swords to sleep at night. These are the reasons for why they fight, and are engraved in the hearts of every soldier. They have a reason, what is the reason for the Song Dynasty?"

Zhao Zhongzhen said without hesitation: "The foreign enemies of the Song Dynasty are powerful."

Chen An nodded: "The Liao people, Xixia, and Jiaozhi. The enemies of the Song Dynasty are very powerful, but why do the soldiers fight for the country? Why?"

Zhe Kexing sighed: "The status of a warrior is low. He regards himself as a livestock, so where does the soul come from?"

Zhao Zhongzhen said thoughtfully: "The army must have soul..."

"That's right."

Chen An instilled this idea in him, hoping that he would support military reform after he ascended the throne: "An army must have soul, that is, faith. For example, for the sake of the Song Dynasty, our land is not enough to cultivate, and we have to use a long knife to seize arable land for the Song Dynasty, rivers and mountains and rivers..."

Zhao Zhongzhen lowered his eyes slightly and murmured: "The land in the Song Dynasty is not enough to cultivate, and no one has proposed a solution for it. Use a long knife to seize it..."

He forgot to find Wen Xiaozhong to work together, hurried back to the palace and found his father.

Zhao Zong really reads books.

After he entered the palace, Zhao Zhen asked people to send a lot of books. Most of these books were secrets in the palace, with some secrets and emperors' ways.

This is an educational method of imperial inheritance.

Hearing the rapid sound of footsteps, Zhao Zongshi put down the book, picked up the teacup and took a sip. He felt more tired from his eyebrows: "I came back just after leaving the palace, but is there something wrong?"

Zhao Zhongzhen saluted and said, "Dad, the land in the Song Dynasty during the late emperor was enough. Farmers had land to plant, but now the population is growing, and the fields in the world remain unchanged. More and more farmers are going bankrupt... In the long run, the children think it is not a good thing."

"Is that a good thing?"

Zhao Zongshi said lightly: "Farmers must have land planting, and the Song Dynasty did not suppress annexation. Many of the landless farmers entered the city, and most of them worked, which was suitable."

This is a disguised drive of farmers into the city.

Zhao Zhongzhen said in confusion: "Dad, if there is not enough land, there will be insufficient food... Then the above will increase taxes and collect more grain... The life of those farmers will become more and more difficult."

This is a vicious cycle!

"If farmers can't survive, they will borrow money. Ultimate loans will roll, and most of them will go bankrupt, and then the fields will be taken away by the gentry... Many gentry never pay taxes, so the grain collected every year will become less and less... Just continue like this, Dad, how many years can the world of the Song Dynasty endure?"

In history, when Huizong was in the reign of Emperor Hui, the business of the Song Dynasty was highly developed, but due to taxation, agriculture was in dire straits. As a result, wars broke out everywhere, and the scale of rebellion became larger and larger...

The collapse of any empire must begin from the inside, and the Song Dynasty is no exception.

There were more and more internal problems, but Huizong was content and was eventually taken to the north by the rising Jin people and became slaves.

Zhao Zongshi frowned and said, "I worry too much!"

Don’t think they are stupid. In this era, living according to inertia is the king.

From the Han and Tang Dynasties to the present, emperors have occasionally had ambitions, but most of them just passed by.

The narrow vision makes them feel that these problems cannot be solved and they can only pass by.

But Zhao Zhongzhen and Shen An have been together for many years and have been influenced by day and night, they feel that this kind of thinking is really unsatisfactory.

"Dad, the population of Song Dynasty will only increase. What should I do if I can't support so many people at that time?"

Zhao Zongshi picked up the book again and said lightly: "Didn't Chen An get that golden fat pill? The official is also paying attention."

Zhao Zhen seemed careless, but food security issues have always been a big problem in his mind.

"That won't take many years!"

Unless there is a major disaster, such as an epidemic, the population will only increase. The increase in grain production is limited, and it will eventually return to that vicious cycle.

Zhao Zongshi put down the book again, looked at his eldest son, and smiled and said, "What do you think you should do?"

In his opinion, the young man was anxious, but he lacked long-term planning and short-sighted vision.

"You need to go outside."

"You want to go outside?"

Zhao Zongshi frowned and said, "Where do you want it? Why do you want it?"

The palace maids and eunuchs in the hall were looking at Zhao Zhongzhen, feeling that the young man's body suddenly stood tall, as if he was going to destroy something.

"Dad, my child often reads history. When he saw those barbarians having a hard time, he thought about what they should do."

This is to read history, or even substitute it.

This son is good and has made great progress.

Zhao Zongshi smiled slightly, and the feeling of having someone to succeed him made him a little proud.

"The kids found that their choices were almost plundering..."

Well……

The smile on Zhao Zongshi's face dissipated.

He looked at his energetic son and thought to himself why there was a little murderous intent in his words?

No one has ever counted these things, and no one has ever raised this question, so once Zhao Zhongzhen asked about it, Zhao Zongshi was stunned.

Outside the hall, Zhao Zhen and Empress Cao stood on the side. Zhao Zhen waved his hand and signaled not to report.

"They can't survive anymore. The first thing they think about is to go outside to find food instead of fighting inside. They killed their own people almost, and the remaining fields were just enough to plant them, so they slowly recovered their vitality and the population slowly recovered..."

Zhao Zhongzhen clenched his fists and said with bright eyes: "But in a few decades, these problems will appear again. Dad, where did the Yellow Turban Rebellion in the former Han Dynasty originate? The child thought it was because the population was increasing day by day, but there was only so much land. In the end, the people who had no land to plant could only rise up and find a way out for themselves with swords and guns..."

Is this my son?

Zhao Zongshi was stunned and he threw the book on the table.

Queen Cao outside was shocked and looked at Zhao Zhen.

This is an allusion to the situation in the Song Dynasty today.

Will the official be angry?

She could only see Zhao Zhen's side face.

This side face is very indifferent.

"Why was the system of the government in the former Tang Dynasty corrupt? It was also because the land was not enough... Those government soldiers should have given merit fields, but the land was occupied, so where could there be rewards for them? So the government soldiers naturally could not maintain it, and later the recruitment system was used. It was good to recruit soldiers, but they made those generals become vassal states and become powerful people, and their ambitions naturally increased."

Zhao Zhongzhen's face turned red. He felt that he was shouting at the world on the Xuande Gate city tower.

"Yuyang turtle is here, and the robe of the colorful clothes is broken. What is the root cause? The incompetence of the emperor, the incompetence of the ministers, the greed of the powerful and the gentry, the vicious and vicious... The people in the world are poisoned, but the root cause is that the land is not enough!"

"The powerful and powerful gentry took advantage of the land, but these lands had to be cultivated. Therefore, when the annexation was the most intense, it was often the most populous. At this time, the people would obey obediently as long as they could have a bite of food..."

"But when there is no place to eat this food, Dad, do you know what will happen?"

Zhao Zhongzhen sighed: "Rebellion, from the beginning of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang's revival in Daze Township, there have been many rebellions in the Central Plains. The former Han and Han were in rebellion, and the former Tang Dynasty was also like this... After a large-scale rebellion, both Han and Tang Dynasty declined, and then they survived, but they were just laughing."

This is my son!

Zhao Zongshi smiled with relief,

Regardless of whether Zhao Zhongzhen's words were right or wrong, just because he could say these words, Zhao Zongshi felt that no one in the next generation in the royal family could match.

If your children have a promising future, the happiest thing is your parents.

The eunuchs and palace maids in the hall were also happy. For them, the more stable the status of Zhao Zongshi and his son, the better their future life would be.

The atmosphere in the hall gradually became relaxed. Zhao Zongshi stood up and was about to speak when he glanced at Zhao Zhen outside.

"Dad."

Zhao Zhen nodded slightly, but looked at Zhao Zhongzhen.

He slowly stepped in, waved his hand and refused Zhao Zongshi's giving up his seat, stared at Zhao Zhongzhen and asked, "Who taught you these?"

His eyes were cold and there was an unknown meaning.

It is a taboo that emperors cannot be controlled by others!

He himself is a tragedy, so he feels painful for it. He hopes that the next generation can break out of this vicious circle.

Zhao Zongshi felt nervous, but he did not dare to hint his son to be careful.

Zhao Zhongzhen seemed to have no idea what the meaning of this sentence was, and said very purely: "These words were figured out by me."

"That's figured out?"

Zhao Zhen didn't want to care about Zhao Zhongzhen's failure to call himself a grandson, but he wanted to know what was behind the matter.

"yes."

Zhao Zhongzhen said: "Miscellaneous studies do not require joking, they need data, and everything needs to be spoken of with data... Data is... For example, from the year when the founding of the Song Dynasty to the current year of the year, as long as these year-ends are listed, you can know whether the development of the Song Dynasty is upward or stagnant..."

This is good!

Zhao Zhen nodded.

"In the past, I mainly read history to look at the rise and fall, and focus on the monarch and ministers, but I ignored the search for reasons. Later, I learned miscellaneous studies and gradually fell in love with the roots and questions. But what is the reason for the rise and fall of the country? I couldn't help but want to explore it."

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Chapter completed!