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    In the following years, Lu Bu's imperial power and the civil rights cooperated more and more closely. With the support of the army and the people, they effectively curbed the counterattack of the aristocratic families, the development of the aristocratic families, and the expansion of the bureaucratic group.

    Lu Bu abolished the slavery system in the form of law and stipulated that no one could keep citizens of the Chinese Empire as slaves. There was only an employer-employee relationship between any landlord, shopkeeper, farmer, and clerk, and there was no subordinate relationship.  The form stipulates that only the state is allowed to organize armed forces and try prisoners in reform-through-labor camps. No private person has the right to organize armed forces, or arrest, trial or imprison others. Any private person can only hire guards provided by the state.

    After many of Lu Bu's old subordinates retired, they opened self-financing armed guard companies. These guard companies must be managed by the local garrison. However, because each armed guard company is self-financing, there is a certain degree of competition, forcing them to continuously improve their service levels.  , many rich people gradually felt that the guards they hired were no worse than the ones they had raised. Of course, they did not dare to raise armed forces.

    When such a law came out and was implemented under the supervision of the Council and the people, it completely destroyed the foundation of the great families. Lu Bu then formulated a family separation system, so that each expanded aristocratic family gradually divided into many middle-level families.  family.

    With the continuous strengthening of education for all, the political wisdom of all people is constantly improving. They have all accepted Lu Bu's concept. Only with the supervision of the emperor above and the people below can the bureaucracy be stable and clean.  Effectively serve the people effectively. Without the emperor above, the bureaucracy would be like a kettle without a lid. The hot water would boil and splash out, scalding everyone. They gradually realized that the bureaucracy would suffer due to unchecked power.  What kind of monster he became.  The people's support for Lu Bu became more and more unanimous. When Lu Bu confirmed that he could control all situations, he launched the policy of universal imperial examination and amended it into the constitution. After several years of universal imperial examination, he gradually introduced the system of universal election.

    Lu Bu¡¯s process of gaining the world is similar to that of Cao Cao and Sima Yi in that life.  Therefore, he has been learning from the failures of the Cao Cao and Sima Yi families in history to avoid the demise of the Chinese Empire II that he finally created.

    Cao Cao, his son, and the Sima family all used "deception" to win the country. In order to overcome the ideological obstacles of usurping the throne, they consciously promoted the values ????of only asking about the results and not the process in the upper class society. This made the values ????advocated by Dong Zhongshu and other great Confucian scholars in the Han Dynasty and recognized by the emperor.  His "loyalty and filial piety" quickly collapsed.  However, Wei and Jin also dug their own graves and eventually lost their country to "deceit."  After the Sima family conquered the world, there was no stable and progressive core cultural values ??to maintain their own orthodoxy. The emperor could only use violent threats and profit temptations to obtain the recognition and support of the royal family, aristocratic families, and scholarly elites.  But this political structure similar to the "spoils-sharing system" is very fragile.  Not long after the establishment of the Jin Dynasty, there was the "Eight Kings Rebellion". Until the Eastern Jin Dynasty crossed south, the rebellions of wealthy families and big warlords never stopped.

    Under the guidance of the extremely utilitarian values ??of "win the king and lose the bandits", orthodoxy no longer exists, and the elite world of society has collectively declined. Carpe diem and muddle along has almost become a common choice for emperors, important ministers and scholarly elites, because tomorrow  It is full of variables and extremely risky.  Today's luxury is a kind of anesthesia, and they can no longer find a more noble pursuit in their lives.  He Zeng, who was worshiped as Taiwei, "had curtains, carriages, and clothes. They were extremely beautiful, and the food tasted better than that of a king." His son, He Shao, became an official and became a Situ. "He was arrogant and simple, and he also had the style of his father. He wore fur clothes and played with them. New stories.  Huge accumulation." The story of Shi Chong's fight for wealth with his noble relatives Wang Kai and Yang Xiu is even more well-known to later generations.  When Shi Chong was finally killed, he lamented that wealth brought trouble, and someone took a fancy to their family's wealth.  Hundreds of years later, Du Mu, a poet of the late Tang Dynasty, sighed at the ruins of Jingu Garden where Shi Chong indulged in drinking and enjoyment: "The prosperous things scatter the fragrance and dust, the flowing water is ruthless and the grass comes from spring. At dusk, the east wind complains about the birds. Falling flowers are like people who have fallen from a building."

    From the Jin Dynasty to the Song, Qi, Liang, and Chen Dynasties in the Southern Dynasties, the monarchs lost their country, and extravagance was not the most fundamental reason, because the dynasty changes at this stage were almost always usurping the throne by powerful officials, and the powerful officials who usurped the throne were also socially extravagant.

    Lu Bu continued to advocate Confucian principles such as loyalty and filial piety, but he redefined loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness. Loyalty means unconditional loyalty to the country and the emperor who represents the country, but limited loyalty to the boss. If the boss is also loyal to the country, loyal to the emperor, diligent in his work, loves the people, and is incorruptible,  Then he is worthy of loyalty, but if the boss himself is not loyal to the country, not loyal to the emperor, not diligent and honest, he is not worthy of loyalty, and this is true for filial piety, benevolence, and righteousness.  Lu Bu established the divine right of kings in the "Greater China Charter" and established that the emperor is the person who represents the interests of the overwhelming majority of the people. He is a symbol of the country and a symbol of all the people. Loyalty to the emperor means loyalty to the country and loyalty to the people.

    Lu Bu instilled a new value into the entire country of China, a value that promoted the maturity of the Chinese nation and opened the eyes of the 50 million people of the Chinese nation.Looking at the world, seeing that the world is so vast, there is no need to fight to the death for the current land and interests. You can fully develop vitality in a wider territory, stop internal friction, expand externally, expand externally, and compete for hegemony in the entire world. In Lu Bu's next few decades  In the years of rule, it will surely become the strongest voice of the Greater China Empire, penetrating into the blood of every Han people.

    The development of the Great Chinese Empire no longer relies on the exploitation of the working people, the exploitation of local resources, but on the continuous expansion of territories and the development of foreign territories. Because of Lu Bu's almost godlike existence, all people in the Chinese Empire know that there is more than just one treasure in the world: China.  There is gold in the Goryeo Peninsula, coal and oil in Mobei Xueyuan, oil in the Western Regions, silver in Japan, and rubber in the southeastern peninsula. All places that originally looked like barbaric lands with no grass growing, were described by Lu Bu as treasure lands full of gold.  Lu Bu did not lie to them. The people who followed Lu Bu's orders and discovered the resources there became rich instantly. Of course, the latecomers could only get the leftovers. However, there were few people in the hinterland of the Central Plains.  The resources on everyone's head are very limited. Once the Han people go to the sparsely populated barbarian lands around them, not to mention the underground resources, just the land, is enough to make many Han people overjoyed.

    When Lu Bu was in Jizhou before, he recalled that the land he ruled at that time was 60 million acres in Shanxi, 90 million acres in Hebei, and 10 million acres in Tianjin.  If 20% of each country is used as pasture and forest to maintain greening, there are still 130 million acres. Each family cultivates 40 acres, which can support 3.5 million households and 13 million people.

    That was the statistics from ten years ago, and during these ten years.  Lu Bu increased his investment in agricultural technology research and development. Agriculturists such as Han Hao, Chang Lin, Shi Tao, Zao Zhi, and Ren Jun, and inventors such as Zheng Hun, Ma Jun, Liu Ye, and Zhuge Liang were all working to increase grain yield per acre.  From seeds, farming methods, water conservancy and irrigation, etc., continuous improvements were made. Even Zhang Rang, a dead eunuch, improved the water wheel he invented. Lu Bu only had a superficial understanding of the advanced agricultural production technology of later generations, but this superficial knowledge brought Han  Hao, Chang Lin and others, together with researchers and students from the Department of Agricultural Sciences of the Central University Institute of Technology.  After years of research, the yields of various food crops have been greatly increased, and the limited land can accommodate several times the original population.

    They introduced the original species of Champa rice. At this time, Champa rice had not yet been cultivated by the local indigenous people. They continued to cultivate it based on Lu Bu's inspiration, and finally succeeded in cultivating it. Champa rice is harvested three times a year in the south.  The yield per mu reaches 700 kilograms, compared with ordinary rice seeds that have two crops per year in the central region and one crop per year in the north.  Champa rice grown in Jiaozhou, Yangzhou and other places gradually became the main food for southerners.

    After ten years of cultivation of wheat in the north, the yield per mu of wheat once matured per year reaches 400 kilograms.

    Lu Bu sent Qin Yi to go through all kinds of hardships to introduce corn from South America, which can be harvested once a year in the north and twice a year in the central and southern parts, with a yield of 800 kilograms per mu.

    After the introduction of sweet potatoes, Shi Tao conducted many experiments and successfully solved the key problem of introducing sweet potatoes from South China to the Yangtze River Basin.  This enables sweet potatoes to be promoted in the Yangtze River Basin and areas north of it.  In addition to hiding seeds, Shi Tao also summarized new seedling and cutting methods for vegetative propagation of sweet potatoes. As long as a few seeds are left, they can be planted in a large area, which is easier to promote in large areas than potatoes.  The yield of sweet potatoes cultivated in this way can reach 3,000 kilograms per mu, and it does not compete with wheat for land.  You can march to mountains, mountains, hills, and riverbanks, and the land will be fully utilized to support human reproduction.

    Chang Lin also improved potatoes, allowing them to gradually adapt to the cold regions of the north and mountainous areas of the southwest. The yield of potatoes per mu can now reach 1,000 kilograms.  With the continuous expansion of potato interplanting, autumn and winter cropping, and multiple cropping areas, the potato industry has become an increasingly important crop for the Chinese Empire as food, vegetables, feed, and processing raw materials.

    The storability of corn, potato, and sweet potato starch allows corn and starch in good harvest years to be stored to supplement food in poor harvest years.  These crops can also be harvested twice a year with other crops (such as wheat, etc.), thus improving land utilization.

    Although the current grain output is not half of that of later generations, Lu Bu is already satisfied, because he knows that later generations' grain output will mainly depend on chemical fertilizers. Lu Bu is not planning to use chemical fertilizers or pesticides for the time being. He is worried that  Chemical fertilizers and pesticides have huge side effects on the land and crops. He also encouraged agronomists and agricultural workers to use green and environmentally friendly methods to increase yields per mu.

    When the grain output per mu reaches half of that of later generations, two acres of land will be enough for one person to survive. The 50 million people in the Chinese Empire only need 100 million acres of land to live. Originally, there was no need to open up more territory. When Lu Bu did not  Satisfied that there are only 50 million Han people, he wants to restore the Han people to 1.4 billion at their peak. His radical birth policy has been included in the "Greater China Charter" and has become the basic plan of the Greater China Empire.According to the policy, women are working hard to give birth in the rear, and men are working hard in the front to open up the living space of the Han nation. This is what Lu Bu wants to see.

    Lu Bu has calculated that in later generations China will have 1.8 billion acres of farmland, India will have 2.4 billion acres, Vietnam will have 60 million acres, Taiwan will have 14 million acres, the United States will have 3 billion acres of cultivated land, and Canada will have  There are 690 million acres of cultivated land, Japan¡¯s cultivated land area is 500 million acres, Russia¡¯s cultivated land area is about 1.9 billion acres, Australia¡¯s 700 million acres, and Thailand¡¯s 700 million acres.

    Lu Bu is still confident of victory against the Roman Empire, let alone against these barbarian lands without decent armed forces. He thought that if one million people immigrated to North America, one million people immigrated to Japan, and one million people immigrated to Australia, what would happen later?  What would happen to the Chinese Empire? He thought so and prepared to do this.  (To be continued)
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