Datang: Li Shimin begged me to rebel

The ministers didn't care about this. From their point of view, the conditions on the train were limited, and it was normal not to prepare food, not to mention the taste of the food was not too bad.

"In the future, there will be a dining car on this train. You can eat in the dining car. Of course, you can also bring your own dry food. For ordinary people, the food on this train must be relatively expensive, and they may not be willing to eat it."

"You just have to know it in your heart. If you think that the circulation of these people and materials is more important than profit, then you can do it like this."

"However, there will also be a problem exposed in this way, that is, will a large number of population movements cause the land of the local people to be unable to complete cultivation? This choice is a bit difficult. If a large number of promotion and construction are required, the manpower and material resources required must be extremely high. High."

"It is true that people can earn more money through such promotion, but didn't you also say that? Datang's arable land red line and food red line cannot be shaken, which also requires a large number of people to invest in farming."

"I'm afraid we can't balance the two, at least with Datang's current population." Li Shimin looked at Li Ke and asked.

Li Ke scratched his head, and had to say that the problem Li Shimin raised would actually happen. Li Ke has never worried about the population because he is used to the huge population resources of the motherland of later generations.

But the current Datang has not yet reached that level.

Thanks to Datang’s current land policy and household registration policy, people’s enthusiasm for registering their children’s household registration continues to increase, because as long as the household registration is registered, some subsidies and land distribution will be prioritized.

Therefore, almost all the people have children to register for household registration.

This allowed Datang to complete a population census last year. The current population growth rate of Datang is about 2.3%.

This growth rate is not low at all. Datang’s population growth last year was about 60. According to the population growth rate of 2.3%, plus the integration of Xue Yantuo and Shi Wei into Datang, the total population of Datang also reached Over 3000 million people.

"I don't want to stop this pace. Although maintaining the grain red line and arable land is a problem, we can solve it through other methods." Li Ke thought for a while, and then said seriously.

"Other methods? What method?" Li Shimin and others were a little confused.

"Let a family of people plant hundreds of acres, even thousands of acres, or tens of thousands of acres of land." Li Ke said seriously.

"How could this be possible?" Everyone was stunned. It must be known that Datang's current [-] mu of land would be quite difficult to grow all of it. Some of the cultivated land needs to be planted with other cash crops, such as Hemp, mulberry, etc.

The previous court of the Tang Dynasty had regulations on this aspect.

In places like the Guanzhong Plain and the current Henan Province, if the wheat is not harvested within a few days after it matures, the wheat will even germinate directly on the ears of the wheat, and the wheat will be destroyed.

Although it is not unpalatable, it is nothing more than unpalatable, but this is not a problem for the common people. After all, they didn't even have to eat unpalatable before, but it is impossible to save seeds.

A thousand acres, ten thousand acres?Even if you think about it, it's impossible.

"Nothing is impossible. This steam engine can drive such a huge railway. What will happen if you install tires under it and drive a plowshare behind it?" Li Ke asked a question.

Everyone was stunned.

It's a path they never envisioned.

"In the vast plain areas such as the Guanzhong Plain, Henan Province, and the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, if such a machine is produced, it is possible to cultivate tens of acres or even hundreds of acres of land a day. And if it is harvested, can it also be invented? The machine used, directly replace the manpower by the machine?" Li Ke asked with a smile.

Duan Lun next to him took out a pen and paper from his pocket without saying a word and began to record. As the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, he will definitely be responsible for these things in the future, and of course he has to record them.

This is a path they never imagined, but it is the direction that Datang will move forward in the future, and this possibility is extremely high.

After all, this huge steam engine can even drive such a terrifying train. If it is made smaller, it is impossible to install wheels to drive the plowshare, right?

"Our manpower shortage will take at least ten years, or even decades, to appear, but after more than ten years, decades of development, we may not be able to develop such farming machinery, so we will Just adjust it again." Li Ke said with a smile.

Li Shimin's words reminded Li Ke that the current Tang Dynasty may also embark on the road of big farms in later generations. China in later generations will not have such a road to take, because a large number of people need self-cultivation farmers and land.

It is impossible for the land to be concentrated in the hands of a small number of people, but in fact, on the eve of Li Ke's crossing, a large number of people were concentrated in the cities, and almost all the rural areas had only people over the age of 40.

After this group of people died, the next batch of collective cultivation of a large amount of land must be a trend.

At least before Li Ke crossed over, several of his elementary school classmates had formed a collective cooperative in their own village, and began to rent all the land in the entire village and began to go back to mechanized farming.

But now the Tang Dynasty does not lack arable land.

In the future, there will be more and more arable land in the Tang Dynasty. With the increase in the population of the Tang Dynasty, even if it reaches the population of later generations, it will not know how much land it occupies.

It is not impossible to develop mechanized farming.

The experience is different, and the path taken in the end does not necessarily have to be exactly the same.

Otherwise, Li Ke is thinking about it, and then trick a family to spend huge sums of money to buy an agricultural machine, let them try a large-scale mechanized farm first?After all, it will be these aristocratic families who will be able to buy and rent a large amount of farm land at that time.

Li Ke believes that there must be some aristocratic families who have a special liking for the land, so let them try it.Earned, proved that this road is feasible, and laid a lot of experience for subsequent development.

It's a loss, anyway, it's not the imperial court that loses, but the aristocratic family, isn't that good?In fact, it is estimated that you can’t lose money. At most, you can earn less and earn slowly, but it is also stable.

"Good job. Just have an idea." Li Shimin nodded in satisfaction, very good, if you continue like this, who will take over the throne in the future?Let's not talk about prestige, who can take over these things?

Time passed quickly while the ministers were chatting, and when they boarded the train for more than three hours, Chen Cang——arrived!

"Now everyone is about to arrive at Chencang Station! That is to say, we have arrived at Chencang Station from Chang'an, and we can take a one-day tour of Chencang Station." When Li Ke's smiling words sounded, Li Shimin and the others were all in a daze...just In less than two hours, they covered a distance of more than 300 miles!