Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1762, Immigration Issues in Black Soil Province

The office of the cabinet in the capital.

Both Liu Jin and Zhong Zhong were busy. As for Li Dongyang, he fell ill unexpectedly and couldn't work anymore. He even didn't come to court for a while.

This is a sad thing.

In fact, Li Dongyang is still very young, only in his sixties. Given that many ministers in the court are in their seventies, he can be regarded as a young man.

If his physical condition is good, he can actually continue to shine, and he can easily take the position of chief assistant of the cabinet.

Then the words of later generations are good, the body is the capital of the revolution, only a good body can have everything, once the body is crossed, nothing will be left.

Li Dongyang's health is getting worse and worse, but in fact he is still a very sad person.

He is talented, full of knowledge, and a capable minister in governing the country. His talent is much stronger than Liu Jianlai, but perhaps God is jealous of his talent and smooth career, so he has encountered other hardships in other aspects.

He gave birth to several sons, but all of them died young, not even a single grandson was left behind, so that he was considered extinct after his death. In this era of emphasizing the inheritance of incense, he had to adopt Li Zhaofan from his brother to be the step son.

But a stepson is a stepson, not his own son after all.

This may be a huge and heavy blow to Li Dongyang.

It made him look even more bleak in his later years, and he was not interested in state affairs.

On this point, Emperor Hongzhi and the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty can all see it, especially now that the Ming Dynasty is prosperous and prosperous, the country is rich and the people are strong, and there are ministers such as Liu Jin, Wang Shouren, Qi Zhong, Han Wen, and Yang Yiqing in the court. The presence.

This made Li Dongyang completely relieved.

"Build Houzhao City?"

Liu Jin looked at the latest telegram sent back from Europe. Zhu Houzhao had won the battle and was not in a hurry to come back. Even though winter had begun and it was bitterly cold there, Zhu Houzhao was not in a hurry to come back.

It's hard to go out for a trip, and he won't come back until he has had enough fun.

"It is indeed necessary to build a city on the coast of the Baltic Sea, and this location is also very good."

After studying the map carefully, Liu Jin also expressed his appreciation for Zhu Houzhao's vision. The location he chose was very good. This place itself will be a big city in later generations, with a superior geographical location and great potential for development.

"Such a huge land, if only a million people immigrated to it, I'm afraid it will be difficult to manage this land effectively."

"Even if the number of Slavs in the local area has gone through such a war, there are probably at least tens of millions. Such a huge disparity in the number will definitely be an unstable factor in the future."

"Perhaps we can consider moving some Caucasians and Georgians from Nanyun Province. They now have a very high sense of identity with our Ming Empire. If they help us guard Black Earth Province, the situation will be much better."

Liu Yuan thought carefully.

Heitu Province is too far away from the mainland of Ming Dynasty. If the railway had not been built to reach Xiji Port on the east side of the Black Sea in Nanyun Province, it would be a dream to immigrate millions to Heitu Province.

It is actually difficult for millions of immigrants. The people of Daming live a very good life, and there are no people who are willing to immigrate to a place as far away as Heitu Province.

The imperial court also had to increase the immigration rewards, rewarding a large area of ​​land, rewarding a large number of cattle, sheep, horses, and a large amount of settlement expenses.

In this way, it finally attracted many poor people from all over the world willing to go to the Black Earth Province.

But this is still far from enough, because the area of ​​the Black Earth Province is too large, and a large number of areas are barren lands. At the same time, there are still many local Slavs. For the stable rule of Ming Dynasty, more people must be relocated to these places to go.

Liu Jin also took a fancy to the native tribes in Nanyun Province.

Ever since Nanyun Province was brought under the rule of the Ming Empire, it has been very stable. The local Caucasians and Georgians have gradually abandoned their original tribal ideology, calling themselves as Ming people and being proud of it.

Here in Nanyun Province came the concubine of His Highness the Crown Prince of Ming Dynasty. Although she was not a Crown Princess, she was also officially canonized and gave birth to a prince for His Highness the Crown Prince.

In addition, there is also a genius Li Bai from Nanyun Province. He was ranked first in the scientific examination, wrote a good poem, and has a great literary talent. He is now a high-ranking official in the court.

There are also a large number of local girls in Nanyun Province married to the Ming army stationed in Nanyun Province as wives and concubines, and the integration of the ethnic groups is very good.

Of course, the most important thing is that after the people merged into the Ming Empire, the people here no longer have to live in fear, and no longer have to bear high taxes. Their lives are stable and rich. This is the root cause of their recognition of the Ming Empire.

These have also led to a surge in the population of Nanyun Province. In just a dozen years, the population of Nanyun Province has almost doubled.

That's why Liu Jin thought about migrating some people from Nanyun Province to Black Earth Province, and also gave generous immigration rewards to encourage them to go to Black Earth Province.

With these locals in Nanyun Province who have a high degree of identification with Ming Dynasty, and then find a way to migrate some of the grassland herdsmen from the grasslands and the Western Regions, combined with the original Sinicization policy of the Ming Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty system, it is believed that the Black Earth Province will go through dozens, After hundreds of years of governance, it should be firmly under the control of the Ming Empire.

"There is a shortage of people everywhere, and there is a labor shortage in Beijing and Tianjin."

"There is also a shortage of people in Nanjing and Songhu in the south of the Yangtze River, especially in Nanjing, which lacks too many people."

Thinking about people, Liu Jin couldn't help but have a headache.

Later generations say that there are many people, people are everywhere, and they talk about cheap labor and the like.

Now Daming is seriously short of people. Although the population of Daming people has exceeded 2 million, they are distributed on such a vast land, and there are still a large number of people migrating to overseas colonies and vassal states. This is a further step. This exacerbated the shortage of Ming's population.

Some people are already proposing to develop slaves and allow slaves to enter the mainland of Ming Dynasty.

This matter has also been suppressed by Liu Jin.

A slave is a double-edged sword. It is very cool to use, but it will definitely hurt yourself when it bounces back.

In contrast, what Liu Jin wants to use is the power of technology. Using technology to increase productivity and reduce the dependence and demand on manpower is the kingly way of development.

Just like farming, if a person does the farming, no matter how hardworking a person is, after a year, you can reach the top of the sky by farming more than ten acres of land.

With such a vast land in Ming Dynasty, if we rely on the primitive farming methods, we don't know how many people we need. Even hundreds of millions of slaves may not be enough.

However, using agricultural machinery such as cultivators, seeders, harvesters, etc., the efficiency can be greatly improved. One person can easily cultivate thousands of acres, or even tens of thousands of acres of huge land.

Using slaves will form a kind of dependence on slaves, because slaves are very cheap and intelligent. If you get used to them, you will not think about researching technology and machinery to improve productivity, and even hinder the progress and progress of technology and machinery. develop.

Therefore, Liu Jin would not allow slaves to appear in the land of Ming Dynasty. The reason is that countless people cannot refute it. The land of Ming Dynasty is the Chinese state, the cradle of the descendants of Yan and Huang. The reason why slaves are not allowed is to protect this pure land.

This made many people think that Liu Jin was not opposed to the use of slaves, but purely for the purity of the land of China. This point still won the support of many people.

Because Daming's current mechanical technology and power technology have been greatly developed, and the emergence of internal combustion engines has allowed Daming's productivity to achieve a leap forward again.

Cars, trucks, buses, and other new vehicles driven by internal combustion engines are rapidly becoming popular. At the same time, various machines are replaced with internal combustion engines with more powerful power and better control, so that the efficiency becomes higher. .

All these made the Ming people feel that sometimes it is better to use machines than slaves, because slaves still need to rest, while machines often do not need to rest.

The slave may still resist, but the machine will not resist and will always work obediently.

The emergence of slaves was not allowed in the Ming Dynasty, but in the overseas areas of the Ming Dynasty, especially in the vassal states and colonies, the slave system existed commonly, and the scale of slaves became larger and larger, and a large number of slaves were used for colonization and reclamation. There has been a great dependence on slaves.

There is no way around this, because overseas is even more sparsely populated, and the population that is expected to emigrate from Daming cannot meet the needs of the colony at all, and slaves are naturally a good choice.

"Liu Gong, Liu Gong~"

"It's not good, it's not good~"

"British public Zhang Mao is dying~"

Just as Liu Jin was thinking, someone came to look for Liu Jin in a hurry.

"what?"

"Zhang Mao is dead?"

When Liu Jin heard this, his eyes widened slightly, and he said, "Prepare the car and go to the British government!"

(End of this chapter)