Da Ming Tai Shi

Chapter 440 Territory and Population

A few days after the meeting of the three judicial departments, those criminals who insulted the heroes of the country were escorted to Nanjing.

It is also a coincidence that the coffins of fifteen heroes arrived in Nanjing the day after the Dali Temple reviewed the case and issued a death sentence for several people.

This is probably, it is God's will in the dark.

This matter came to an end very quickly. After all, this is Nanjing, and various new things emerge one after another every day. Gradually, the civilians and the military basically forgot about it.

It's ironic and realistic, no matter how exciting an event is, once that period of time has passed, it will be forgotten by the world.

Of course, the premise is that the court gives an explanation.

Lan Yu and the others are still in Mobei and have not come back. They are not so fast. Although this time Mobei was victorious, they eliminated the Tatar tribe in one go, and disabled the Wara tribe, and drove Mahamu to Irtysh The place to the west of the river, but Ye Sudieer is still there, and the Meng Qiwei who betrayed the country has not been resolved, so Lan Yu probably has to lead the army to stay in Mobei for a year and a half.

It is estimated that it will take at least two years to wait for the class teacher.

Too far.

It takes nearly two months to travel from beggars and fast horses to Dongsheng, and another one and a half months from Dongsheng to Nanjing. Counting the rest time in the middle and the time for repairing the wind and snow, the one-way journey takes five or six months. Come and go for nearly a year.

If you think about it that way, it will take seven days and six nights for future generations to travel from Beijing to Moscow by train, so you can roughly know how long it will take from Qierji to Beijing in this period.

After pacifying Mobei, the current territory of Ming Dynasty can barely be regarded as about half of that of Great Mongolia.

That is, about 2000 million square kilometers.

Of course, this number is a bit large.

Mongolia was also big at that time.

After all, Uzang (Tibet) and Outer Liaodong (outer Xing'an Mountains and the Sea of ​​Okhotsk to the north) are 500 million square kilometers, and there are no people. If you say it is the Ming Dynasty, it belongs to the Ming Dynasty.

Just like during the Great Mongol period, Lingbei province reached the Arctic Ocean, and then went east across the Bering Strait to reach Alaska. When Kublai Khan said that he ruled the earth, no one opposed him, so no one opposed him at all, and no one said anything when he stomped his feet in the mortuary. There is a reason.

Who can't draw a map.

The territory where the Yuan Dynasty really exercised the power of the central bank was generally less than 200 million more than that of later China.

What we are talking about here is the power of the central bank, not counting the places that the power of the central bank can reach, it is so big that there is no limit.

There are tens of millions in the four major Khanates alone, and the Lingbei Province's desperate map drawing is counted.

The total territory of Great Mongolia is larger than that of the whole of Asia.

The current situation in Daming is almost the same. After eliminating Liaozhou, which has been established independently, and eliminating Yilibali (Xinjiang), which has not yet been recovered, and Uszang (Tibet), which has not dispatched central officials, Daming The area where the power of the central bank is actually exercised is about 510 million square kilometers.

Looking at it this way, it feels a bit too small.

Not small!

These 510 million are places where the central government can fully exercise state administrative power, financial power, and military mobilization capabilities. If these 510 million can be fully utilized and developed, it is enough to rule the world!
Blindly pursuing the size of the country is a meaningless behavior in this era. If Chen Yunfu is an aborigine, then he must care about it, because in this case, the history of later generations will praise Chen Yunfu to a height far surpassing that of Emperor Qin, Han and Wu.

You see, Da Ming has a territory of tens of millions in Chen Yunfu's hands, what a great man he is.

The Mobei prairie is too big, if it is too big to draw a Mengzhou, it will be useless if the central government asks for it.

Some people say that once Chen Yunfu dies, Mengzhou will be separated from the control of the central government. There is nothing wrong with this.

But even if Mengzhou is not set aside, once Chen Yunfu dies, will Mobei under the leadership of the central government turn against it?
The sky is high and the emperor is far away. Guizhou is only a thousand miles away from Nanjing. Before Chen Yunfu got the chieftain of Guizhou, it was not just a rebellion in three to five years, not to mention that Mobei is more than eight thousand miles away from Nanjing.

You ran to beggars and exercised central bank power?
Even if Daming has researched the aircraft and high-speed rail now, the place will set up an autonomous region if it is sky-high!
When will Dongfeng Express be developed and then talk about the central bank regime.

"When Mengzhou is established, Sapphire and his Lan family will spend at least 30 years on calming the interior and opening up territories. The same goes for other states that have been enfeoffed. Their energy will be dragged down by the local indigenous people. There is no time to care about others, when they digest their internal affairs and start to have wolfish ambitions that are disrespectful to the central government, the times have already changed."

"This is the simple truth of exchanging space for time."

"Once upon a time, a small country that was not as big as Zhili Province could rule foreign territories that were two hundred times larger than its own territory."

Chen Yunfu sees it very clearly. What he really wants is that he has enough time to develop the 510 million people in Zhongzhou that the central government can directly lead to.

The massive resources at the time of plundering are constantly flowing, one ship after another is transported into the port of Daming, more and more children are pouring into schools, and domestic prices are falling day by day.

The era in which the level of productivity is measured by agricultural grain production will be out of the stage of history for at most 50 years.

"Time will prove the greatness of Gu!"

There is no time to pay attention to the gossip, the time has entered Kyushu for three years, and Chen Yunfu is going to lead the second census of Ming Dynasty.

Just ten years have passed since the first time.

The last time was the first year of Yongle.

At that time, the total number of populations in the country was 400 million, and the number of acres of fields was 5000 million mu. Ten years later, it was time to re-count.

The Ministry of Household Affairs began to dispatch research teams to all parts of the country in an orderly manner. Before the action, the Ministry of Household Affairs asked Chen Yunfu if he wanted to go to Liaozhou as well?
"We don't care about Liaozhou. We can send people to Liaoyang to talk to Chang Mao and Yu Yifeng. If they want to do a self-examination, they can do it themselves. If they don't want to, that's their business."

How many people in Liaozhou have anything to do with Zhongzhou?
One less visit to Liaozhou, it is still very easy to count in Zhongzhou.

After all, the provinces have updated their household registers every year for the past ten years. Newborns and deaths from diseases have been recorded. This population is linked to the distribution of land, and the land is linked to taxation. The common people are still actively reporting to the government.

Therefore, when the research team of the Ministry of Household Affairs arrives in the local area, it only needs to take the household registers of the local prefectures and counties to calculate the statistics quickly, without having to go door-to-door to nod people.

Although this is a bit rough, there will inevitably be missing black households. A county has a difference of 80 to [-] people, and the whole country has a difference of [-] to [-]. This is an unavoidable thing in the fifteenth century.

Don't have to compare every penny.

Three months before and after, the research teams sent by the Ministry of Household Affairs to various provinces returned to Beijing one after another.

It brought back a very exciting number to Chen Yunfu and the Central Committee.

240 households.

Seven thousand five hundred and sixty nineteen thousand four hundred and twenty-eight people.

Compared with ten years ago, Daming Dingkou has increased by 100 million people, which is the result of eliminating more than 500 million people in Liaodong.

The average annual growth rate has exceeded [-]%.

A veritable prosperous age of splendor!
Xia Yuanji kept muttering: "According to the current growth rate, with good weather, good government and harmonious people, in the next ten years, my Ming Dynasty will approach [-] million."

Chen Yunfu patted him on the shoulder confidently.

"Believe Gu, after ten years, it will definitely break [-] million."

"Let's add a policy. For families with more than two children, each newborn, regardless of gender, can receive two stones of rice and one tael of silver from the imperial court every year. In other words, the imperial court will take care of the children. Ten years later, this policy Rescinded as appropriate."

Xia Yuanji was dumbfounded and looked at Chen Yunfu in disbelief.

"In this case, how can the imperial court's finances keep up?"

"Follow up."

Chen Yunfu, however, was very confident, he left behind these words and turned around.

Yang Shiqi followed along the way, asking questions in disbelief on the way.

"Why is your majesty so confident? You know, even if the court's money can keep up, it won't produce more food out of thin air."

Chen Yunfu glanced at him.

"Pu Shun sent a letter, Mumbai Port, expansion is complete!"

(End of this chapter)