The big man has a living father

Chapter 222 (Long Chapter) The Collapse of Utopia

Above the court hall, there was silence.

Everyone's perception was completely changed by this incident.

It turns out that war is not just about fighting with swords and guns.

It turns out that loopholes in the economic system can actually lead to the destruction of a country!
Bu Shi quickly grasped the key: "We are unlikely to repeat this many times."

Everyone looked at Bu Shi.

Bu Shi was the court official who knew the most about economics. If it weren't for him, large-scale breeding on the entire grassland would have been a pipe dream.

Current veterinary medicine alone cannot suppress the spread of diseases among cattle and sheep, especially sheep, on the grasslands.

The Bu regime used strict regulations on the movement of people to limit the spread of the disease.

There have been three outbreaks of all the sheep in a single pen dying on the grassland this year, but the entire grassland was not affected and the market was stable. It can be said that Bu Shi played an absolute role in this.

Now Bu Shi’s prestige in the court is already very high.

After he said this, other people who didn't know much about economics didn't question it, but wanted to know why.

Sang Hongyang: "Why? If all this can be replicated, then we can conquer the world without any effort."

At present, the Han people have a general understanding of America.

And the division between the northern and southern hemispheres has been determined.

After Ge San's team discovered America in the middle of last year, they headed south while collecting crops.

Finally, in a very hot area, we encountered a relatively mature place that was about the size of a country, but did not have a national system.

Huo Hai looked at the map and found out that this place was Mexico.

And to the south of Mexico, a civilized and powerful civilization was born. Many people in this civilization could read the stars!

For the Han people, this definitely means that they look up to them. Their level is higher than that of other tribes around the Han people. Of course, the various abilities of this newly discovered place are far inferior to those of the tribes around the Han people.

Huo Hai speculated that this place should be the Mayan civilization.

Here, I finally got three kinds of potatoes.

Ge San's fleet continued to move south and finally obtained rubber, and also finally reached the southern hemisphere.

Ge San was surprised to find that the days, which should have been getting colder, were actually getting warmer.

Therefore, starting from America, Ge San believes that there are five forces in total.

They are the Snow Forest Feathered People Clan, the Clay Pot Feathered People Clan, the Sand Plains Kingdom, the Snake Feather Kingdom, and the Jungle Feathered People Clan.

Of course, Ge San has not actually explored the eastern part of America yet. This is on the western coast, so he has not explored the other branches of this large ethnic group.

But this understanding is already very complete.

In other words, the Han Dynasty has almost conquered the limit of the territory under the human geographical environment.

On land, outwards, there are the Xiongnu of Daxia, the Yuezhi of Daxia, Parthia, Egypt, and Rome. Towards the New World, there are five feathered nations.

This is the division of countries with a population of at least one million. If the unit is ten thousand, there are at least three hundred countries that have been discovered on the map.

It would obviously be easier if these places could be opened up in an economical way.

If we use the military to break through, it will obviously be more difficult.

However, Bu Shi directly rejected this possibility.

Everyone present looked at Bu Shi.

Bu Shi: "It's a very simple truth. Your Majesty has already said that we want to realize the aspirations of the Central Kingdom within the geographical environment within the reach of the Han people, and outside of it is the land of conquest of the Han people."

"The reason why Marquis Huo Wu was able to use economic means to conquer the Nanyue Kingdom in just a few years was that he actually promised the people of Nanyue a lot of conditions."

"And we will have to fulfill these conditions later. For example, His Majesty has approved the establishment of rice production bases, rubber production bases, and canned fruit and fish production bases in Nanyue. On the one hand, they will supply the consumption of maritime trade, and on the other hand, they will provide a better material life for the people in the northern border of the Han Dynasty."

"But don't forget that these factories and production bases here will benefit a large number of people in Nanyue. Whether it is the living standard, population quality or population size, they will explode in the next few decades."

"But we can't make promises to Daxia, we can't make promises to Parthia, and we can't make promises to Rome."

A man is supposed to conquer the world, not be a fool and do charity for the whole world.

Sang Hongyang: "Why not?"

A few years ago, Sang Hongyang and Bu Shi went to Huo Hai's first paper shop together.

At the beginning, the two of them felt the "economic smell" and "smell of money" in each other.

But at that time, Bu Shi keenly felt that Sang Hongyang was a vicious dog.

But today, Sang Hongyang was probably asking the question even though he knew the answer.

In other words, Sang Hongyang didn't feel the problem at all and subconsciously thought that this could be done.

Bu Shi: "We wanted to conquer Bactria, Parthia and Rome through economic means, so we had to make promises to the people of Bactria, Parthia and Rome. But in the end, after we annexed them, we couldn't keep our promises and had to break our promises."

Sang Hongyang spread his hands and said, "Why not? People with brains can enjoy it. People without brains deserve this fate."

Bu Shi: "Don't forget, our current policy is to cultivate morality in all people. If we say that we want the people to be moral, but we ourselves do immoral things, will the people really have morality?"

Sang Hongyang: "Using military methods means it is moral?"

In fact, it is the survival of the fittest. There must be a reason for the Han army to march forward in the future. But from the perspective of purpose, isn’t the reason itself an excuse?
But it’s different. Morally speaking, there is a bottom line.

Different from no bottom line.

Sang Hongyang had no bottom line and he did not realize the problem.

Many people present reacted after hearing Bu Shi's words.

Sima Xiangru: "It is indeed not possible."

Zhang Tang nodded: "Indeed."

Liu Che: "Economic means can save trouble, but we must do what we say. Not only the Nanyue Kingdom, but also our promises to the Dian Kingdom and the promises we made to the Yelang Kingdom before that should all be implemented."

"Now most of the southern territories have been settled. Shu, Ba, Qianwei, and Kunming are all governed by the Yizhou Provincial Governorate, which is located in Luo County (Guanghan). Jiao, Yue, Xiang, Jiu and other newly-incorporated Nanyue counties have set up the Nanhai Provincial Governorate, governed by... the river mouth."

The so-called estuary is the estuary of the Red River.

Because the next plan is to turn all the areas along the Red River into large-scale agricultural production, someone must be in charge.

The Yizhou governor did not choose Chengdu in order to prevent the Yizhou governor from delaying the current development of Shu County.

The Nanhai Provincial Administration was set up at the mouth of the river in order to elevate the status of the river mouth and let the local people feel that the status of the river mouth has been improved and that it is no longer the era when Panyu is king.

Because Panyu is about to develop greatly, its economy will improve and its presence will be even greater. If the former officials of the Nanyue Kingdom in Panyu are allowed to gain too many benefits, it will instead become unstable.

Therefore, lowering Panyu's political status would also suppress its economic development.

After people within the Han Dynasty slowly go to the Nanyue Kingdom and buy up all the land in their hands, they will move the seat of government back to Guangdong Province.

The same goes for Chengdu. Once Chengdu's development has reached a super stable track and all the trade routes to the south have been paved and connected to Tianzhu, the seat of government will be moved from Luo County back to Chengdu.

After making the superficial arrangements, Liu Che still needs to discuss the details with officials in several key positions, but not now.

"In that case, let's adjourn the court and prepare for this month's parliament."

The parliamentary system has stabilized, and after the morning meeting, the parliament will begin.

After the court meeting had discussed the issue of the Nanhai Provincial Administration, the parliament would discuss how to develop the Heyue region.

After everyone left, Zhang Tang did not leave.

Liu Che was a little surprised: "Zhang Aiqing, you are not going to handle government affairs?"

Zhang Tang bowed and said, "Your Majesty, there is something that has been worrying me recently. After much thought, I think I should report it to Your Majesty."

Liu Che raised his eyebrows: "If there is something, you should report it. What are you worried about?"

Zhang Tang: "In fact...someone proposed a view on population development, which sounds correct at first glance, but...this person is Liu De."

Liu De...

Liu Che immediately thought of bad memories.

It turned out to be him.

No wonder Zhang Tang didn't dare to report it directly.

The cause of the incident started with Liu De’s father Liu Piqiang.

Liu Piqiang was a member of the royal family who was very knowledgeable but did not want to be famous. Emperor Liu Che liked Liu Piqiang very much, so he kept Liu Piqiang in the court with a nominal position and often let him participate in the court's discussions.

In fact, Liu Piqiang and his son Liu De successively took over the position of Zongzheng of the Han Dynasty during the reign of Emperor Xuan.

The position of Zong Zheng is extraordinary, and there is no need to say how much they are loved.

At the beginning, Emperor Liu Che directly called Liu De "Liu's Thousand-mile Horse", which is the origin of the allusion "Thousand-mile Horse".

Moreover, Liu De is a kind and generous person, and very likable.

So Liu Che wanted to promote Liu De at the beginning, and after King Huainan Liu An committed a crime, he sent Liu De to investigate Liu An.

Herein lies the problem.

If history had not changed, Liu De would have found a strange book from Liu An, the King of Huainan, who was good at scientific research. The book contained the method of making gold.

It's not about refining gold, it's about making gold.

alchemy.

Liu De and his son Liu Piqiang would not touch the book. When Liu De's son Liu Xiang discovered the book, he proposed to make gold.

You should know that the royal funerals of the Han Dynasty used a huge amount of gold. For example, in the tomb of Marquis Haihun, more than ten kilograms of gold were dug out from his tomb.

Let’s not even mention how many there are in the tombs of those emperors.

With such a large gold gap, some people say that gold can be made, which is certainly worth a try.

That was in the later period when Emperor Wu of Han caused the people's livelihood to collapse, and Emperor Xuan of Han gave Liu Xiang a huge sum of 20 million yuan.

As a result, gold was produced, but it was fake gold.

How can it be fake? This gold is the same color as real gold, but it cannot be stretched like gold, so it must be fake.

If the wheel of history had not changed, Liu De would have been hit by a flying knife decades later.

At that time, Liu Piqiang was about to die, and Liu De was already in his sixties.

Because he was the oldest among the Han clan, he used his old face to gain the emperor's forgiveness.

But now, Liu Piqiang is in his prime and Liu De is still a young man.

Who asked Huo Hai to learn something new?

Liu De was a man who loved reading. His grandfather was called Liu Fu, who was a very wealthy man.

Liu Piqiang has also been doing business in recent years, and the family has more money than can be spent.

In history, Liu De's family assets were several million, which was very amazing. Now Liu De's family assets are several billion, and he can't lose it all.

How to do?
So Liu De also began to study new knowledge and established his own laboratory.

Strong Science Laboratory.

As a result, Liu De took out the book "Alchemy" by King Huainan Liu An and went to practice alchemy.

You definitely can't keep this to yourself. How dare you take this?
So Liu De went to find Liu Che.

Liu Che had always liked Liu De very much, and when he heard that Liu De wanted money, he approved it directly.

How much was approved? One billion.

Liu Che didn't dare tell anyone about it, for fear that it would be recorded in history and he would be laughed at for thousands of years.

Because "Alchemy" is still the same alchemy, even if you practice it at a different time, the gold you produce is still fake.

After this incident broke out, Liu Che was a little angry.

It’s not that I can’t afford the compensation. A mere 1 billion yuan is nothing compared to losing Liu Che.

What's more, after the 1 billion yuan is spent, it enters the internal circulation of the market and stimulates the economy. Regardless of whether it succeeds or not, it is a positive stimulus to the economy.

But he really couldn't afford to lose face with this person. After all, Liu Che and Huo Hai had worked together on projects worth over 100 million yuan. Even if they didn't work together, they were similar projects and he had basically never lost money.

After suffering a huge loss this time, Emperor Liu Che no longer liked Liu De.

Therefore, Liu Deyou had no way of reporting his findings to Liu Che, but had to ask Zhang Tang to relay them.

And this research finding was not from this year, but from a year and a half ago!
At that time, Liu De had just failed in his gold-making experiment, and Liu Che was very angry. How could he read his new research?
More than a year had passed, and Liu Che's mentality had calmed down: "You say."

Zhang Tang opened a book, which recorded the population and per-acre yield calculations of various countries since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

Then there is the big man's.

Liu Che was very familiar with this thing and could recite it by heart.

Zhang Tang: "Your Majesty, since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the world's farming technology has been improving, so the yield per mu has been increasing, and the population has also been growing."

"But the world has been in chaos, so the population has not had a stable growth period and has not grown as expected."

Liu Che was suspicious: "What do you mean by anticipation?"

Zhang Tang: "Your Majesty, let me give you an example. Currently, the average family in our Han Dynasty has five people. After there is no shortage of food, the younger generation of a family should have three children every ten years. Even if the average life expectancy is 40 years, from the age of 15 to 30 when the childbearing age is suitable, there should be four to five children."

"So a family like this should have five more people after one generation of inheritance."

Liu Che nodded.

Zhang Tang continued: "That is to say, if there is sufficient food, excluding those over 30 who are not suitable for having children and those under 15 who are not suitable for having children, the current population of the Han Dynasty should double in 15 years."

"To be precise, our current registered and unregistered population totals 70 million. In fifteen years, it should be 105 million. That's a 50 percent increase in population."

"And in the next fifteen years, the population will increase by another fifty percent. A total of 157.5 million people."

"That means the population will more than double in 30 years."

Liu Che was suspicious: "What's wrong?"

Zhang Tang continued to calculate: "Your Majesty, look, our current per-acre yield is so high. Because we have innovated farming technology, the 70 million people now have enough food to eat. They all need food, and no country within sight has the ability to attack our Han Dynasty, so the population has entered a growth cycle that perfectly meets expectations."

"In thirty years the population will be 157.5 million."

Liu Che was a little excited.

Will the population be this high in thirty years?!
Zhang Tang continued: "As the population increases, our grain production will increase. Because of intensive farming, grain production will increase by another 20 percent."

"That is to say, in 30 years, we will have twice the population and 1.2 times the food we have now."

Liu Che: "Sure!"

This is a great thing!

The Han Dynasty only needs one-fifth of its current annual grain production to feed 40 million people.

In other words, there is actually enough food to feed 200 million people.

Because of the improvement in transportation, there is no huge transportation loss, so even if there is some transportation loss, it can still feed 190 million people.

The territorial expansion of the Han Dynasty, coupled with the full integration of the barbarians within the country and the surrounding vassal states, liberated the workers, put them to work and provided them with food.

It consumed the food supply of 70 million people.

At the same time, the entire North, all economically developed regions, are eating meat. When the food consumption of livestock reaches a level similar to that of humans, the per capita meat consumption should increase.

In other words, the Han Dynasty now feeds 70 million people with the food needed for 114 million people.

Thirty years later, the Han Dynasty had a population of 150 million, and all it needed was about 300 million tons of food.

Currently, the food supply is enough to feed 200 million people. If it is increased by 20% due to intensive farming, it will be enough to feed 240 million people.

What should we do with this gap?
Then they can only be the people who do hard labor in the remote areas.

Let them eat only grains and not so much meat.

If we just keep the people in Chang'an and other northern cities and Chengdu area to continue to eat meat, then the food for 210 million people can actually feed 150 million people. There is still food for 30 million more people.

Liu Che was very good at math and figured it out immediately.

Zhang Tang: "Thirty years from now, people will have no shortage of food and will be able to have children."

At this point, a string in Liu Che's heart broke, and there was a bang!
Zhang Tang: "Forty-five years from now, the Han Dynasty will have 220 million people, but there will only be enough food to feed 180 million people."

"In fact, those who have more children are the meat-eaters in the north. Their living standards are unlikely to decline because they are the richest."

"So in reality, the Han Dynasty's food supply should only be able to feed 150 million people."

"Seventy million people will starve to death."

Liu Che's heart skipped a beat.

Zhang Tang: "Liu De proposed this conjecture and called it the 'population trap' theory."

"He believes that in a carefree environment, everyone will have children like crazy, and then suddenly one day, there will not be enough food to eat. However, no one realizes this and continues to have children."

"You have to know that there is a surplus of grain every year these years, so before the surplus is eaten up, no one except the imperial court will notice that there is not enough food."

"And when the surplus grain is eaten up, that's when tens of millions of people will starve to death across the country!"

After hearing this, Liu Che suddenly understood why Zhang Tang did not dare to report it.

This sounds reasonable, but also a little strange because nothing like this has ever happened in history.

Well, the first time in history that a food crisis was likely to occur was during the reign of Emperor Wu.

After all, in order to ensure that we will not be attacked from outside, domestic grain production has just skyrocketed.

This will bring about the inertia of violent population growth.

After Liu Che's plundering, the people, who had originally had no worries about food and clothing, began to worry and stopped having so many children, thus perfectly avoiding the population trap.

But that’s not the case now.

With the current economic development, who can attack the Han Dynasty when the cannon is fired? There are no internal or external troubles, but can agricultural technology break through? If not, won't there be a population trap in 30 years?
If agricultural technology breaks through, can it continue to break through?

Liu Che was confused.

What should I do?
Does that mean all people are not allowed to have more than five children, and can only have four?

Why can people understand this policy?
Will you be criticized in the future?
Not to mention that the people today are all illiterate. Even if they were all educated, they would not understand that this population plan is to save the Han Dynasty and avoid falling into a population trap, right?

Liu Che looked at Zhang Tang: "What do you think? Do you think this is possible?"

Zhang Tang: "I have done experiments."

Liu Che was suspicious and shocked at the same time.

How to do this experiment?
Zhang Tang: "The good news is that Liu De's population trap explanation is false."

"The bad news is, the truth is much scarier than this."

Liu Che: "..."

Zhang Tang: "In fact, it is impossible to reach the population limit, and it will collapse."

Liu Che: “???!!!”

Zhang Tang: "Your Majesty, do you know about the time when I was a child and tried a mouse? After I got Liu De's theory a year and a half ago, I couldn't report it, so I did an experiment."

"Didn't they propose at the time that death row prisoners should no longer be executed, and that they should be converted into labor camp prisoners to work inside the prison?"

"This way the prison will be empty."

"I have converted the prison into an iron box, made it into a rat cage, and raised rats in it."

"Sixty-four rat cages in total."

Liu Che: "How is it?"

Zhang Tang bowed his head and said, "I put ten mice from the research institute in each box. Given the reproductive capacity of mice, after just one year, each box had more than three thousand mice."

"And I have allocated to each box enough space for seven thousand mice, and enough food and water for ten thousand mice."

"As of today... all the rats in the sixty-one boxes have died. There are still three boxes with rats, a total of three hundred..."

Liu Che was stunned.

how come?
Each box had space for seven thousand mice, with food and water for ten thousand mice.

Even if it is going to be destroyed, it should be that the number of mice suddenly exceeds 10,000, and doubles in a short period of time to 20,000, and then collapses because there are not enough physical objects!

How come the price of each box just exceeded 3,000 and then started to go downhill?
Liu Che must figure out this experiment.

This is about the future!
Zhang Tang smiled bitterly: "At that time, Huo Wuhou proposed the Utopian hypothesis, and I named this experiment the Rat Utopia. I didn't expect it to turn into a Hell."

Liu Che stood up and said, "Let's go to the Heavenly Prison."

When he arrived at Tianlao, Liu Che found that it was completely different from before.

Because Huo Hai proposed a strategy for prisoners to make money, the laws of the Han Dynasty are now being revised frantically.

The year before last, 0.63 percent of the Han population was sentenced to death, and 3 percent was sentenced to exile.

Last year, only 0.4% of the population of Dahan was sentenced to death, 15% was sentenced to exile, and 0.5% was sentenced to labor reform, most of which were within two years.

But this number is still too high, which means that 35,000 people were sentenced to death in the Han Dynasty last year.

Of course, this includes those who cause trouble in various border areas and must be killed, and once they die, their household registration book will be shattered.

Liu Che's goal was to reduce this number to less than one thousand per year.

At the same time, the industry of Dahan Prison was increased to more than 200 billion yuan a year.

Therefore, Liu Che had not been to Tianlao for a long time, and this place had been completely abolished.

But now, this place seems to have become a laboratory.

There are many people in white coats here.

Many people wore masks.

The walls of the sky prison were still very thick, but it seemed that there was a door at the top that could be opened to allow entry, rather than from the bottom.

There is a circle of steel stairs and corridors on the top, so we can observe each person one by one, deliver food and provide water.

It appears that the interiors of these cells were re-welded and riveted with steel, and then decorated to prevent rats from escaping.

Liu Che felt terrified when he thought that every room was once full of rats, and then all of them died.

However, Liu Che wanted to know why.

"Where is the lab report or journal?"

Zhang Tang asked the person next to him to get it.

Zhang Tang said, "This is the Tingwei Experimental Institute. We have currently recruited 300 new students, including 20 outstanding university graduates who have studied Legalism, and 100 new college graduates in various trades such as medicine, carpentry, and blacksmithing. Our research strength is relatively poor in Chang'an City, but we have few experiments, so the manpower and material resources invested in each experiment are top-notch in Chang'an."

Liu Che nodded.

Soon, a large amount of experimental logs were brought over.

Liu Che looked at it.

After reading the entire first book, Liu Che was confused.

The ten mice thrown into the room started producing as soon as they entered.

They were divided into five pairs.

Subsequently, the first wave of mice born had no worries about food and clothing, and after only three months, they matured and started giving birth.

How many rats there were during this period can only be speculated.

There were about six or seven mice in a litter, and thirty new mice were born in the first month.

There were also thirty in the second month, and in the third month as well.

But in the third month, the mice born in the first month began to give birth.

Based on the amount of food eaten, it is estimated that by the fourth month, there was food consumption for about three hundred mature mice.

Because some of the mice were not yet adults, the number of mice at that time should have exceeded 500.

Starting from the fifth month, the number of rats began to soar.

This is not critical.

The point is that the mice began to compete as family units.

Among them, the residences high up inside the cells became the most popular, and all the rats fought for them here.

When a family wins, they start to reproduce at a high speed because this place is close to the feeding port.

Next, the family continued to grow and the number of mice increased.

By the ninth month, half of the rats in the cell were members of their family.

This 50-50 membership split continued into the twelfth month.

At this time, the number of rats in the cell was not three thousand, but five thousand.

Almost all the mice began to scramble and fight.

Soon, everyone became blood-thirsty.

The mice’s daily routine changed from eating and having babies to eating and fighting.

Suddenly, no new mice were born.

Inexplicably, in the first year and three months, as the last few rats bled to death from being killed madly, all the rats in cage number one were dead.

To be precise, according to the records in the log, after everyone discovered that all the rats here were dead, they went in to check and found that there were actually a few rats alive in places that were not visible. It seemed that these rats had intellectual problems and could not recognize that the high-quality food they were fed was food, and they had been eating rat jerky.

Liu Che opened the second book and went straight to the end without reading the previous parts.

The result was confusing.

There was also a family feud in this cell.

After the final fight, the adult mice stopped raising their offspring. The male mice were killing each other like crazy, and the female mice began to take over the male mice's early family fights for food.

However, a large number of baby mice clearly had parents but became orphans and were abandoned outside.

Liu Che looked at cage number three.

It’s different!
In the sixth month of this cage, one family won the entire victory! The other families were killed!

The number of this family exceeded three thousand only in the thirteenth month.

However, the number of deformed mice in this family is huge in the later stage.

Liu Che: "Inbreeding."

Liu Che immediately thought of the crux of the problem.

This cage eliminated the genes of the eight original mice, and only the genes of two mice were passed down, so every mouse is related to each other.

Crazy interbreeding has caused the probability of genetic diseases to soar. In the end, it is no longer as simple as one in millions becoming one in tens of thousands, but rather a half-and-half occurrence of dominant genetic diseases.

Those who have not developed the disease actually have inherent genetic diseases that cannot be observed.

It took six months to unify, thirteen months to break through three thousand, and fifteen months, which was three months ago, all died.

They all died of genetic defects.

As for the original two mice, they were probably eaten by their descendants, so they did not survive even though they had no genetic problems.

Liu Che opened another book.

Liu Che's eyes widened after reading this book.

Starting from the seventh month, the male mice in this cage started to become gay and stopped mating with the female mice. No new mice were born in the ninth month, and they all died after one year and two months.

The cause of death was that the female mouse fought with the male mouse for another male mouse.

The seventh experimental log.

The eighth and ninth books.

Read each book one by one.

Strange and strange.

Death is different.

According to the theory of food deficiency and population expansion, problems should only arise when the number of rats exceeds 10,000 and instantly soars to 20,000.

As a result, problems started to arise in each room when the space capacity was close to half, and when it exceeded 60%, the room was almost dying rapidly.

Death is faster than life.

Rats die faster than they are born. It's unimaginable.

Watch all the way down.

Liu Che understood a truth.

There is some kind of natural trap, and it is not just natural, but also related to society.

Liu Che thought about it and roughly understood why Zhang Tang told him about this experiment, or told him about this experiment in this way.

Zhang Tang had objections to the nobles and did not want the Han Dynasty to form a large family.

Liu Che knew that this must be related to Zhang Tang’s political views.

But Liu Che had no intention of satisfying Zhang Tang.

After reading it, Liu Che said: "Humans give birth to one baby, and the pregnancy lasts for ten months. Mice give birth to seven or eight babies, and they give birth after ten days of pregnancy, so they give birth six or seven times a year."

"In other words, even if this trap does exist, it may erupt in 10,000 to hundreds of thousands of years."

"It's not a big deal."

Zhang Tang said nothing.

Liu Che: "But the various problems revealed by this experiment are bizarre and indeed too strange. But one thing is that this experiment is too inhumane. Let's ban it."

Zhang Tang didn't dare to say more and just lowered his head to accept the order.

Afterwards, Liu Che wrote down the imperial edict regarding the arrangements for Nanyue, together with this matter, and sent it to Huo Hai.

Panyu.

Princess Wei Chang is about to give birth.

At this time, representatives from Minyue and Donghai came to Panyu to meet Huo Hai.

They all wanted to join the Han Dynasty and no longer be marginal vassal states but truly join it.

The names of the people who came were very interesting, Chiyoe, Aragaki Nobuyuki, Kitano Kaito. People who didn't know them would definitely not believe that these were Chinese surnames, let alone that they were so good at picking these surnames as their own.

Most of these Minyue Donghaiyue people did not have surnames until the last ten years, so these surnames were chosen by them.

Maybe the local speaking habits and pronunciation syllables are not friendly to single surnames, so most people choose double surnames.

Moreover, it is possible that these surnames have similar pronunciations and certain meanings in the Baiyue language, otherwise they would not have chosen these Han surnames that are rare in the Han area for their own use.

However, Huo Hai was not in a hurry to entertain them, but instead wrote a reply to Liu Che.

[Your Majesty, don't worry. The reason why the mouse utopia was destroyed is because they don't have to spend money on food, water, and housing. Most people in the Han Dynasty have to work hard to earn money to buy a house when they are young and middle-aged.

As long as we don’t have a utopia, there will be no collapse of utopia. 】

After replying to the letter, Huo Hai said: "Who will speak first? Why are you looking for me? Shouldn't you go to Kuaiji County to look for the officials of the imperial court?"

(End of this chapter)