After drinking and eating, the atmosphere became much more harmonious when he entered the hall. Especially Li Tong, the more he looked at Lou Shide, the thick-eyed and big-eyed old man, the more he liked him. He was capable and could barbecue. He had good IQ and EQ. This was the style and quality he imagined that good ministers should have.

"The court still has a lot of chaos, and all the parties have made the contribution of protecting the emperor's heir. This is really ridiculous. The emperor's heirs are in the Holy Emperor and his close relatives. The kings of the Wu family may take advantage of the evil luck to make things difficult for the emperor's heirs. However, the emperor's heirs have lived in the palace and the guards are sophisticated. How could he have the danger of killing the people to compete for merit? The court officials have already entered the evil path for this argument!"

Lou Shide was not only a talented person, but also served in the Political Affairs Hall to preside over government affairs. To be honest, he is the biggest person who has won over by Li Tong so far. His talent, ability and merits are all worthy of.

So when Li Tong talked to him, the topic was even broader, and he did not hide his disgust for the current situation in the Shendu City.

After hearing this, Lou Shide nodded in agreement and replied: "Your Highness's words are indeed the foundation. When I stayed in Chang'an, some envoys of the court knocked on the door to see each other. The court sentiments were strange in the court. The holy emperor Lu Ji, and the people in the country made an appeal to advance, and the imperial heir was among the masses.

Now that the Holy Emperor has returned to power, the court officials should not pursue him relentlessly, and should be motivated by Ling Yue. Your Highness is the first to dominate the country, and does not regard the old things as a beauty. He is glad to the west, and his ambition is high above the border, and his character is revealed. Fortunately, the Tang family has his highness. Although this minister is of little talent, he still bravely makes a contribution. The Tang family has established a career as a magnificent, and those with ambition should not stick to the internal story and cannot extricate themselves."

"This evil and indiscriminate matters is not enough to discuss. The Holy Emperor has no more kindness. A small love may be slightly offensive, and a major event will never lose its integrity! Now we are temporarily retreating and spreading power to the edge, but if the love in the court is unstable for a long time, we will not be afraid to ask about the affairs of the country!"

The prime ministers used by his grandmother, such as Li Zhaode and Di Renjie, each had a stable position or even faction. They and Li Tong may be able to temporarily unite due to temporary interest demands, but it is far from enough to change their fundamental position.

Lou Shide was born in Border Merit, and was promoted by Wu Zetian to enter the court. He had almost no influence in the court. The Wangchengyi incident was severely stabbed by the Guanlong nobles, and his merits were directly destroyed and he became a white man.

What’s even more unfortunate is that the prime minister in power in the Shendu Zhengshi Hall is not very interested in Lou Shide. Li Zhaode is arrogant because of his talent, and still simply looks down on Lou Shide.

As for Di Renjie, he was politically conservative, and naturally hated people like Lou Shide, who had a background in the border affairs, and was worried that such a person would increase the consumption of the court in border affairs. Due to different political views, Lou Shide was further suppressed by political means.

Therefore, Lou Shide's heartfelt recognition of King Yong's withdrawal from the court and his emphasis on border affairs and his dislike of the disputes within the court were also deeply touched by his own situation.

After each of them expressed their opinions, they stopped going on. Li Tong then said: "Lou Gong returned to the border this time, and he must have seen some of the situation in Longbian. If he had a plan, he might as well say it bluntly."

When Lou Shide heard this, he said seriously: "Your Highness's plan to govern the border has been unavailable to his predecessors. It is not only power, but also accompanies the rural and commercial enterprises and carries the wonderful things. It is really thought-provoking. I first got this plan and was still experiencing its essence. The accumulated thoughts on the way were lost in one-sidedness, so I dare not make any rash suggestions."

Li Tong smiled after hearing this. To be honest, his strategy was indeed good and worthy of Shi Liu's praise.

Since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, military and political parties still pursued the system of government and military forces and equal land. There is no need to mention the advantages and disadvantages and significance of these two systems. But now, both systems have collapsed. In terms of military terms, since Emperor Gaozong, he began to recruit athletes, and the proportion of recruiting troops has increased year by year.

However, in terms of the land system, it was not easy to create. In the later period of Emperor Gaozong, he simply stopped fighting and stopped expeditions and allowed the people to recuperate. However, the accumulated problems were not deeply affected enough, and even the ancestral property and land annexation in Guanzhong became increasingly serious.

By the Wu Zetian period, the efforts to expand the land and register households were increased, and the population of Guanzhong was moved to Heluo. During the Shenlong period, the number of households held by the imperial court increased to 6.15 million, which was undoubtedly a significant increase compared with the 3.8 million households during the Yonghui period of Emperor Gaozong.

Therefore, Wu Zetian's political establishment has the most intuitive data as support. If it is just that this old lady is not a human, kills people indefinitely, and has moral corruption, this is not the right attitude to discuss history.

However, compared with the increase in the number of households, the court's exploration in tax collection seemed very lagging. Although the population has grown, the manpower and material resources have not been effectively dispatched. The previous rent and mediocre system is no longer suitable for managing such a huge empire.

Of course, the court also realized this issue, so among the famous officials in the Kaitian period, there were many financial experts, including the treacherous minister Li Linfu. These people used various explorations, either to increase revenue or reduce expenditure to maintain the operation of the huge empire.

However, various attempts have not achieved much effect. The most intuitive proof is that the power of the border army governors during the Kaitian period has grown.

In short, the income of the court could no longer match the king's ambition to expand territory, so he could only choose a lower cost model. The Jiedushi gradually took over the power and eventually broke out, becoming a cancer that entangled the Tang Dynasty.

So did the Tang Dynasty have enough national strength to maintain that level of development and huge scale?

The answer is yes. The famous ministers Liu Yan and Yang Yan of the Middle Tang Dynasty carried out profound reforms in terms of financial resources, with significant results, and they have achieved great success in the Tang Dynasty's country. Yang Yan's two tax laws opened up a new idea of ​​integrating national strength and was the beginning of the reform of tax laws in later generations. There is no need to say much about this.

Li Tong admires Liu Yan's financial management strategy the most. One of the core of Liu Yan's financial management methods is logistics. Even in later generations, various modes of transportation have been extremely developed, logistics is still one of the most important elements of social production and commercial behavior.

As for a vast empire like the Tang Dynasty, the significance of logistics is even more decisive.

If the logistics conditions are not met, personnel and materials cannot be effectively circulated and complemented, even if the territory is vast, the potential of the entire empire cannot be stimulated. This is similar to a person's acral enlargement, which is very strong when he looks at it alone, but it is very ugly to get together, and it is also a disease. Once the disease occurs, it will be fatal.

Wealth is like flowing water, and it is better to be diluted than blockage. Although the country's strength was strong during the Tianbao period, manpower and material resources were highly concentrated in the hands of local towns. The Chang'an government was like a group of children sleeping in a group of strong men. Once one of them couldn't help but punch you, it would make you spit out a few mouthfuls of old blood.

The strategy implemented by Li Tong in Longyou is essentially to strengthen the connection between several sectors that were originally irrelevant or very weak, and to circulate manpower and material resources between them, thereby obtaining considerable returns. This is a flexible and flexible approach to Liu Yan's financial management strategy.

When Li Tong asked Lou Shide this question, of course, it was not just to listen to Rainbow flattery, because his strategy wanted to last for a long time and continue to grow. There was another fatal disadvantage, that is, Longyou's potential is limited.

"The Hu Hu was sent by me to fight against disrespect and plunder his human resources. The Guanzhong merchants were sent back to the people of the country. At the same time, the merchants bought the valley in Longyou to help the military. In this way, they not only save the consumption of the material process of the government, but also make the goods in Longbian rise. The Hu Hu killed them endlessly, even if there was no Longyou, there was still some in the Western Regions. But there was another point in it, that is, how much storage was in Longyou? Now the treasury has only more than 400,000 hu of grain, and the price of grain in the border has soared to a hundred coins. If the people's livelihood is famine, this matter is still unsustainable."

Speaking of this, Li Tong also felt a little sad.

After hearing this, Lou Shide was still pondering. Song Bazi stood up and bowed, saying, "About this section, the low-level jobs have also been explored in the market. The prices of Longyou Valley soared. One reason is that the households in Longbian still hoarded the market, and the other is that all parties are greedy for profit and seize business opportunities. One party blocks the warehouse and is reluctant to sell, and the other party is eager to search for it, so the prices rise and are almost uncontrollable."

What Song Bazi said was indeed a reason. After hearing this, Lou Shide also spoke: "Longyou is no better than the pass, with fertile land being barren and small households being difficult to cultivate. If you want to make more profits to your Highness's plan, it is imperative to build up and cultivate!"

This is the reason why Li Tong valued Lou Shide so much. His so-called strengthening of logistics is mainly to break through the personnel obstacles of material circulation, not to say that he can directly cross Guanshan and strengthen the scale of Longyou's settlement without regard to the restrictions of transportation conditions. It is also a very important thing.

Although Lou Shide originated from his border achievements, he was not called a military achievement. He was the prime minister who became a farmer. In this era, when he looked at the flow of time, Li Tong could not find a better candidate than Lou Shide.

"Since Mr. Lou has entered the palace, I plan to ask Mr. Lou to be the ambassador of Longyou Yingtian, to take charge of all military and civilian camps. Previously, the shogunate had issued an order, and because of the merits of reclamation, ten hectares per turn, this style should be carried out for a long journey, not only for a time and place. Whether it is a vegetarian or a peddler, he can buy land as a business, and gather in the barn, he will be a great scholar of the Tang Dynasty."

While speaking, Li Tong asked someone to hang a map of Longbian in the hall, raised his hand and circled some plains of river valleys, and said, "Next, I will use the Xihexing Society to gradually remove the inner Hu in these areas and build a large number of civilian towns. At that time, a large number of dead households in the pass will come, and they all need to be responsible for the coordinated resettlement of the Lou Gong."

"I will fulfill my mission!"

After hearing this, Lou Shide also stood up and bowed his hands to express his opinion. Farming farms is his old job, and he has accumulated a lot of experience. King Yong used him to use this, so he was naturally full of confidence.

Hearing Lou Shide's statement, Li Tong nodded with satisfaction. After leaving Shendu, he divided Shaanxi and ruled Guanxi, and felt the situation in his heart in various places west of Tongguan. The reason why he entered Long after the situation in Chang'an was initially determined, one was that he was worried about the enemy of Tubo, and the other was that he was looking for ways to solve the core problems indirectly.

If he continues to stay in Chang'an and wants to carry out more profound reforms, he will only fight against the local tyrants and divide the land. However, the Guanlong nobles have been intricate for hundreds of years and are difficult to easily eliminate them. Moreover, whether in the middle school or the surrounding situation, he will not be allowed to make such a big move.

Counterattack on Tubo and developing Longyou can not only strive for a relatively safe external environment, but also alleviate the pressure on people and land in Guanzhong.

If you only grasp one issue in Guanzhong and fight to the death, not to mention the effectiveness, once the situation in Shendu returns to stability, he will most likely be surrounded by the Luoyang court with the advantage of controlling most of the empires and be exhausted directly in Guanzhong, and there is no need to ask about the affairs of Guozhong.

After discussing with Lou Shide, an army envoy entered the city in Huangyuan Camp, and he reported excitedly: "Last night, Heyuan Youyi launched an offensive to Wuling Hengbao and conquered Hengbao by noon today. The Chiling military road was opened, and the army could pass without any obstacles!"
Chapter completed!