Lord Moyu was forced to open

The entire court was filled with opposing voices, and all sorts of reasons were given in order to stop Zhao Jun's sudden idea.

However, Zhao Zheng would never agree to this. He was always determined to do what he decided to do.

He immediately told all the officials: "It is urgent to build a railway inside the Great Wall.

As the territory of our Great Song Dynasty grows, our control over various places is declining year by year.

There are only railways, only railways.

As long as we build this railway to that level, those guys with ulterior motives in the Song Dynasty will immediately calm down and dare not cause any more trouble. "

"Your Majesty, have you ever thought about the manpower that will be consumed? Where should we find this manpower?"

In response to this question, Zhao Jun nodded and said:
"I will naturally not use my own people to build railways.

Aren’t there still so many Japanese?
If it really doesn't work, the people of Sindhu can be used.

As long as the railway can be built, I don't care how many lives of foreigners are lost, and I don't care how many souls of foreigners are buried under this railway."

As soon as he said these words, everyone in the room was shocked and the officials fell silent in an instant.

It seems that even though the person has already belonged to us all, you still haven't let him go.

If Zhao Jun's idea were really followed, the railway could indeed be built, but the number of personnel and materials required would be huge and incalculable.

"Your Majesty, if we act this way, won't these foreign races cause trouble?"

An official said worriedly.

Zhao Jun sneered and said arrogantly: "Making trouble?
If they really dare to cause trouble, then I will admire them and then send troops to clean them up.

As the saying goes, those who are not of my race must have different minds.

Although they are now under the control of the Great Song Dynasty, who knows whether they are truly on the same side as the Great Song Dynasty?

In my opinion, it will take at least three generations to truly integrate these people into our Great Song Dynasty.

Before that, to me, these people were just consumables."

"hiss!"

A group of officials couldn't help but gasp when they heard Zhao Jun's cold words.

Your Majesty does not treat those foreigners as human beings at all.

What’s the difference between this and treating those alien races as human-shaped cattle and horses?
Even cattle and horses would be taken care of by the people. They would not use them without restraint, for fear that they would get sick and die.

But Your Majesty clearly treats it as a consumable to be thrown away after use!

At this time, someone stood up and saluted and said, "Your Majesty, the manpower problem has been solved, but what about the iron needed to build a railway of more than 6000 miles?

Your Majesty, with the current development of our Song Dynasty, iron is needed in all aspects.

The iron production of our Great Song Dynasty is basically just enough.

If we start building such a railway that consumes a huge amount of iron at this time, the current iron production of our Song Dynasty will not be enough.

There are abundant iron resources outside the Great Wall, but the journey is long. If iron is transported from Yunzhou County outside the Great Wall into the Great Wall, the cost on the road will probably be more expensive than the iron itself.

This is totally not worth it!"

Faced with this question, Zhao Jun just smiled slightly and said, "Just transport the iron from Yunzhou County!"

All the officials were stunned. I just told you that this luck was not worth it, but you actually said that you wanted to transport iron from Yunzhou County.

Did you hear it wrong or did we?

Zhao Jun looked at their expressions and said with a smile: "You heard me right, I was talking about transporting iron from Yunzhou County.

Although in your opinion the consumption of military iron from Yunzhou is even more expensive than the iron itself, it is totally not worth it.

But have you ever thought about it?
We are not just a simple merchant, we are also the imperial court. If we use iron from Yunzhou County, we will employ a large number of people accordingly.

In this way, although the court will suffer great expenditure in the end, at least hundreds of thousands of people will benefit from the process.

This allows the local people to earn a lot of income.

Only when the people's income increases will they give birth to as many children as possible, and the population of our Song Dynasty can grow."

After listening to Zhao Jun's explanation, all the officials fell silent. As officials, they had never thought about this before and simply analyzed the problem from the pros and cons.

However, he never thought that he was the imperial court rather than a merchant, and could not simply analyze the problem from the perspective of pros and cons. Although he suffered a loss on the surface in some things, it was a profit for the imperial court.

It is difficult to tell the losses and profits at the court level.

Sometimes, although Super Body suffers a loss, compared with the benefits obtained, this loss is well worth it.

Sometimes, although the court made a profit early, the losses it suffered were another kind of big loss for the court.

Many things cannot be judged by appearance alone.

After a long while, all the officials figured out the cause and effect relationship and bowed their hands in unison, saying:

"Your Majesty is wise!"

Zhao Jun's realm was indeed beyond their expectations.

Although it was a loss to transport the iron from Yunzhou County, it was only the court that suffered the loss and the people under it.

After all, the money of the imperial court comes from taxes paid by the people.

Although doing so would cause the court to lose money, the end result was that the court's affairs were done and the people under it had additional income, which was a change from a broad perspective.

So this is a good thing for the court.

Your Majesty did the right thing.

However, officials did not believe that building a railway was simply a matter of strengthening control over various places.

He immediately asked Zhao Jun, and Zhao Jun smiled and explained: "Of course it's not just because of the control, but more because I want to consume the number of foreign races in the country."

The officials were shocked and asked why.

Zhao Jun said:

"Now the population of our Great Song is just over 10 million, but the number of foreigners has reached over 50 million, which is close to half of the population of our Great Song. With such a high ratio of Song people to foreigners, how can I feel at ease?

Although now these alien races have been subdued and behaved by us.

But who can guarantee that they won’t cause trouble again?

So many people, and there are still so many people in our hinterland today.

What should we do if they cause trouble?
Spend a lot of effort to deal with it again?

In this case, it is better to control their numbers from the beginning and not let them become too numerous.

Let the people of the Song Dynasty completely crush them in terms of numbers and turn them into a minority. "

An official immediately asked: "Your Majesty, according to you, what percentage do you think is a safe range?"

Zhao Jun smiled slightly: "I think one percent is about right."

The officials were silent again.

One percent!

You are so cruel!
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(End of this chapter)