Bury the Qing Dynasty

Chapter 206 Daming's biggest hidden danger
Facing the strange gazes of Zeng Cheng and other bigwigs, Liu Huaiwen also recalled it, but Liu Huaiwen didn't intend to admit it: "Anyway, the Governor's Mansion of the Right Army wants to convict the people and punish crimes, so recruiting some laborers to come back is just a piggybacking about the hands?"

"Think about it for yourself. With labor, can the railway be built? With the railway, can the people move there? If the people move over, will the businessmen follow?"

Zeng Cheng couldn't find anything wrong with Liu Huaiwen's remarks, but he always felt something was wrong.

Is there still such an operation?
Zhu Jinsong laughed, and directly pointed out the biggest loophole in Liu Huaiwen's words: "That's right, the problem is people? Our Daming is only a little over [-] million now, how many people can you transfer? "

"Besides, if you put less gold and silver in your treasury and make room for two catties of grain, the mice won't starve to death!"

When Zhu Jinsong said this, Liu Huaiwen, who was still plausible just now, suddenly lost his temper.

That's right, there are only about [-] million people in the entire Ming Dynasty, what are they enough for?

If the Nurgandu Division is counted as a chief envoy, the grassland is also counted as a chief envoy, plus the newly established Wusizang and Duogansi chief envoys, Jiaozhi, Burma, Xianglin, Counting the chief envoys of Linyi and North Korea, including the original eighteen provinces in Han and the Great Liuqiu, there were a total of 28 chief envoys in Ming Dynasty.

Thirty million people, an average of more than 1000 million people for each chief minister, and an average of 10 million people for each prefecture and state. If the average is for each county, it may be only ten or so million people.

Not to mention that Nurgan Dusi, Grassland and Wusi Tibet are still very large areas with few people.

After Liu Huaiwen lost his temper, Zhu Jinsong sighed again: "The land is vast and sparsely populated, and there are too few people."

According to the calculation methods of later generations, the total land area of ​​the Ming Dynasty is close to 700 million square kilometers. Compared with such a huge land area, the population density of 18.75 million people is only about [-], which is probably similar to that of Da Mao. sparsely populated class.

To achieve a normal population density, the number of Dingkou in Daming must reach at least [-] million, which is almost half.

In other words, Daming himself was still severely underpopulated, let alone opening up new battlefield sites, even the existing ones could not be filled.

Of course, this method of planning is just an average.

In fact, the distribution of the [-] million people in Ming Dynasty is extremely uneven. There are really few places with a small population, and there are really many places with a large population. Among the [-] million people, [-] million are concentrated in the eighteen provinces of Han. .

This situation is very abnormal.

If you want to relocate people to the newly recovered chief envoys, the best choice is of course the [-] provinces of Han with relatively high population density, especially the provinces with relatively higher density.

However, the uneven distribution of population often means that the development of various chief ministers is also uneven. The areas like Jiangsu and Zhejiang are richer, while the conditions in Gansu and Shaanxi are worse. Si Zang's conditions are even worse.

Under normal circumstances, the better the economy and living conditions, the less willing people are to migrate.

Especially with the advancement of the industrialization process in the Ming Dynasty, the living conditions of the people have been improved to another level. Even if they do not rely on farming, they can live well. In this case, the desire of the people to migrate is naturally even smaller.

Therefore, the biggest problem of Daming at present is that the territory is too large, the people are too few, and the relative population density is very high.

This is a great hidden danger, and it is also a hidden danger that all dynasties have to face together.

As we all know, the most troublesome problem of those dynasties in history is land annexation. Almost every two or three hundred years, there will be a dynasty change to solve the problem of excessive population pressure.

But think about it from another angle, the population density of those dynasties was really high?
No.

Historically, the average population density of Tangkou in the Central Plains was not large, but the relative population density was relatively large.

The problem is that the relative population density is low and the traffic conditions are too poor, which leads to insufficient motivation for outward expansion, while the relative population density is too high, which leads to the shortage of production materials, followed by endless land mergers, and then the next time cycle.

Looking at it from another perspective, it would be a good thing if the average population density was too high—as long as the territory was expanded and the territory expanded.

Do you really think that civil servants and military generals who can leave their names in history books don't know the benefits of expanding the territory?

Don't be stupid, expanding the territory and confining wolves to live in Xu, this kind of thing with a long history is almost the ultimate dream of any emperor, civil servant and military general.

To put it bluntly, it's not that they don't know or don't want to, but because the average population density is not enough, and no one will live in the occupied land. A few generations, maybe the next Annan or Myanmar will appear.

This is the root of the problem, and it is also an endless loop that can hardly be untied.

The only way to completely break the situation is to solve the traffic problem.

Only by solving the traffic problem and adding a sufficient number of Dingkou can the imperial court carry out rapid and large-scale immigration, thereby avoiding the phenomenon of indigenousization of immigrants.

Only by solving the traffic problem can the imperial court implement a truly effective direct rule over the newly occupied areas, and the people will not feel alienated because they cannot return to their hometowns.

This is why Zhu Jinsong and the Ming court have been frantically building roads, bridges, railways and other transportation infrastructure, and at the same time frantically advancing the process of industrialization.

The purpose is to mobilize the people of the entire Ming Dynasty, so as to solve the problems of the average population density being too small and the relative population density being too high.

Yes, it is to promote the process of industrialization rather than the industrial revolution, because the essence of the industrial revolution is that after the emergence of certain advanced technologies, a large amount of labor force will be released, so that small workshops and small industrialists who originally relied on certain handicrafts for a living will lose their maintenance. Due to the conditions of life, the original social state cannot continue to maintain stability, so the changes triggered.

When the population is seriously insufficient, the industrial revolution is a fart.

What's more, in addition to the advanced technology that can release a large amount of labor force, another condition that supports the industrial revolution is talent.

Regardless of whether it is the 21st century or when, the most expensive thing is always talent.

The current Daming definitely has talents, but Zhu Jinsong has basically scooped them up.

Especially those big bulls and young bulls in the Royal Academy, who dares to say that they are not talents?

But what about further down?

Thanks to the efforts of the four generations of emperors and emperors from Shunzhi to Qian Deaf for more than 150 years in the Qing Dynasty, the literacy rate in Zhongyuan Tangkou has been appallingly low, and the illiteracy rate has even exceeded 90.00%.

To put it bluntly, a large number of people don't even know their own names, let alone write something as high as being able to write their own names.

Even if Zhu Jinsong has been working hard to promote literacy, social studies, and county studies, it will not be completed in a short while.

The Industrial Revolution?

Fuck it, call it promoting the process of industrialization, that's putting gold on the faces of Zhu Jinsong and the Ming court.

Thinking of these messy questions, Zhu Jinsong immediately frowned even tighter. Although Zeng Cheng and other bigwigs didn't know the difference between the industrial revolution and the process of industrialization, when they thought of the big Ming Dynasty, there was no one there. Going to live, Zeng Cheng and others also feel troubled.

We still have to think of a way to see how we can get the people to have more children.

After a while, Zeng Cheng thought about it and said: "We still have to speed up the construction of railways and roads. Everything else must give way to the construction of railways and roads."

"After the railways and highways have begun to take shape, some of the large workshops in Shandong will be moved out first, and at the same time, we will also increase the preparations for the construction of large workshops in other places."

"We have to let other places get richer too. Only when people's living conditions improve can there be more children."

Song Yucheng, Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, nodded and said, "Then I'll think of a way."

Liu Huaiwen continued to have a headache.

What's going on here?
The Governor's Mansion of the Right Army sent troops to beat the small wild boar skins, and then had to buy oil from the Europa barbarians, and at the same time, the Ministry of Industry also increased the construction of roads and railways.

Co-authoring means that the treasury has to pay out?

A group of prodigal sons who are not in charge of the family and don't know how expensive they are!

Pooh!
……

Just as Liu Huaiwen was paying respects to Zhu Jinsong and other prodigal sons, Luo Fangbo also brought Jiang Wubo and others to Guangdong Customs.

Like Pierre and others, Luo Fangbo and Jiang Wubo, who saw Daming Customs for the first time, did not know what words to use to describe their thoughts.

After leaving home for just over ten years, there is a feeling of "young and old leave home, and the elders come back, and the local accent remains unchanged. When children meet each other, they ask customers where they come from with a smile."

Obviously it is the land where he was born and raised, and he has only been away from home for more than ten years, but why is all this so strange?

Back then, there were only Europa merchant ships moored outside the port of Guangzhou flying the flags of European countries. Compared with those tall and sturdy Europa merchant ships, the few small broken ships of the Daqingshui Division not only had no deterrent force at all, but even had a few Very funny.

It's just that only the European barbarians can really laugh out loud at such a ridiculous scene, but the people of the Qing Dynasty have to accompany the smiling faces to fight for the leftovers thrown by the European barbarians, and pick up the Europeans to drink. Take the discarded tea back and soak in water to drink.

This is not right, we are obviously the masters of this land, those Europa barbarians are from outside, how come they live better than us?Why do we have to keep them smiling?
Luo Fangbo was very upset, but he couldn't change the situation.

how to change?

The imperial court of the Qing Dynasty didn't want to change, so what about the muddleheaded people who are not even slaves?
Unable to hold back his breath, and also because life was too difficult, Luo Fangbo simply left Borneo in a fit of anger, step by step to where he is today.

In order to keep the people of the Qing Dynasty in Borneo alive, Luo Fangbo had no choice but to pinch his nose, resist the urge to vomit, and send people to pay tribute to the Qing Dynasty, in order to seek the status of a foreign vassal. It's a matter of personnel, but at least it can deter those Dutch barbarians, right?
Fortunately, it's cool!

"The mountains and rivers are in the land of China, and the sun and the moon will reopen tomorrow." Although there are no Ming warships patrolling outside the customs of Guangzhou, the Europa merchant ships flying various flags are honest and honest, and they are not as high as before. An angry look.

The common people who were busy going back and forth at the port lost that disgusting pig tail at the back of their heads, their originally bent backs straightened up again, and their cautious flattery smiles became confident.

Looking at everything in front of him, Luo Fangbo felt that he couldn't get enough of it, and he hesitated even stepping onto the deck.

God, open your eyes, the Emperor of Ming Dynasty actually directly asked Lan Fang to be attached to the country?Is he really willing to accept those of us "abandoned overseas Chinese who betrayed our ancestors"?
(End of this chapter)