Not to mention that the officials of the household department were stunned, even Shuangxi was stunned.

He has been following the emperor all the year round, how many mouths Zhu Yunwen's family has, he is not clearer than anyone else, and every time he goes out on patrol, he follows and guards, to say that Zhu Yunwen moved his heart, when he went out on patrol, he was fortunate to have a woman who even left the dragon species, and the imperial secretary had already come to the palace.

Zhu Yunwen is not afraid of guilt.

Of course, Zhu Yunwen cannot have any historical mistakes.

"Don't think about it, sit down first."

After motioning for the two of them to sit down, Zhu Yunwen slowly spoke.

"Continue to remember, the chief eunuch of the Imperial Division of the Ming Dynasty, Sun Shuangxi."

It was this short sentence that Shuangxi's whole person was stunned as if he had been struck by lightning, and then tears burst down the embankment, and he knelt down with a poof.

"Slaves don't dare."

Since ancient times, emperors are emperors, servants are servants, even eunuchs who have been in power in previous dynasties are still eunuchs, and no one will regard eunuchs as emperors' relatives.

"Although you are deficient, you are also a citizen of our Ming Dynasty."

Zhu Yunwen took out a handkerchief and handed it to Shuangxi: "Look at your little breath, the tears and snot of crying have come down, get up and roll and wipe it clean." ”

After sending away Double Happiness, Zhu Yunwen turned his head to look at the household officials, and found that the latter two were stunned and did not move, and frowned immediately.

"Huh?"

This nasal voice suddenly frightened the two of them into white faces, and they hurriedly picked up a pen and copied it.

"Go on, Daming Lijiang Marquis, Imperial Front Division, Maritime Chief Eunuch Zheng He."

The two wrote again, and then found that Zhu Yunwen stood up.

"All the eunuchs and palace ladies in the palace, the two of you have registered with the Imperial Front Division, there are no slaves in my palace, and they are all the people of our Ming Dynasty."

Zhu Yunwen walked away, and saw the double happiness that followed behind him, and smiled gently.

"Shut your mouth for me, don't talk any nonsense, this palace is my home, and it's also your home."

On the thin white snow, the footprints of the two of them went straight to the harem.

With the emperor's leadership, the census was much easier.

The cabinet took the lead in responding, followed by Beijing officials and various dignitaries in Beijing, and the common people were also enthusiastically involved in this activity.

In the past, every family still liked to conceal their children, after all, there were all kinds of taxes such as Ding Kou tax and Ding Zi back then, but now Da Ming has nothing, and there is really no need to conceal it.

Nanjing City completed the registration of the whole city in less than 10 days.

The estimated population was 1,467,354.

This is Nanjing, the world's largest metropolis in the 15th century.

You know, even 400 years later, John Bull started the vigorous industrial revolution, and the population of the capital London was only 50,000.

With the increase in the degree of modernization, everyone knows that only productive forces and scientific and technological strength are qualified to represent national strength, and they have never heard of the truth that a country with a large population is a world power.

But in the early stages of technology, population is the most valuable resource.

After all, quantitative change leads to qualitative change.

Nanjing's more than 1.4 million people are not terrible, but what is terrible is that among the more than 1.4 million people, the education coverage rate has reached a staggering 35 percent.

Preschool, children's school, young school, youth school, university.

Adult technical schools, professional staff colleges.

These schools and the students in them are the most powerful force in Daming.

In a primitive agrarian society, how could a city have more than half a million inhabitants with the opportunity to learn knowledge?

How can we support so many family productivity to move out of production and into school?

To quote the East India Company.

'Instead of land and books, children in London have desks and the corpses and flesh of Indians. ’

Without the 'Continental Balance of Power' policy and the maritime colonization policy, John Bull, with a population of only a few million, would have achieved universal higher education, let alone the technological leap that could only be achieved based on higher education.

These children, who are constantly growing up and acquiring knowledge in the education system, are going through the exams until adulthood, and then entering the various productive fields of the country.

Their knowledge will be turned into advanced productivity at that moment.

The investment in compulsory education in Daming will pay off.

Because of the existence of the Minglian system and the crazy bloodsucking behavior of the Ming Dynasty on the allies in this system, Zhu Yunwen has the ability to implement comprehensive compulsory education.

From kindergarten to university, there is no tuition fee.

As long as the child can be admitted, there is no need to worry about whether he can come up with the money for the child to go to college.

Because there is no place for you to spend your money, there are scholarships to receive if your child is fighting in school.

In addition to Nanjing, the populations of the entire Nanzhili provinces were also quickly summed up.

More than 15.54 million.

If we add Dingkou in Nanjing, the entire Nanzhili is nearly 16 million people.

That's a huge amount.

"In the twenty-eighth year of Hongwu, Nanzhili was only 11 million."

The head of the household administration department himself has a numb scalp.

In just over 20 years, the population has risen by 5 million?

In this way, the compound growth rate has reached 2%.

Of course, this can't all be the credit of the Nanzhili aborigines, because the rapid prosperity of Nanzhili will naturally attract a large number of people from other provinces to relocate, and there is no policy of settlement restrictions in Nanjing, as long as foreign businessmen or people can afford to buy a house in Nanjing, have a house to live in, then they will become Nanjing people.

After Nanzhili finished the statistics, it was soon radiated to several neighboring provinces, and the household department was more optimistic about the data that was about to be released.

"In the thirty-second year of the Emperor's Ming Dynasty, we had 73.14 million people in the Ming Dynasty, even if it was calculated according to the growth rate of 1 percent, it would take time to break 80 million in nine years."

"More than 8,000 bars, these ten years are a stage of our rapid development and rapid prosperity in the Ming Dynasty, besides, at the end of the first five-year plan, there was no large-scale return to farmland to production, and the people mostly lived in the suburbs, and now the urbanization process has begun, and a large number of people have come out of the mountains, and Dingkou should be more than 73 million."

"Don't forget, but there are still hidden households, the servants of the landlord's family, and the servants of the Qinglou have not been counted."

"Over the years, we have added two new prefectures in North Korea, the entire province of Anxi, which is a large number."

"Not only that, the Siberia mentioned by His Majesty the Three Desert Courts is rare, but it has also accommodated hundreds of tribes one after another, so this must also be taken into account."

However, no matter how different the officials of the household department were, and no matter how many claws were in the hearts of the cabinet members, no one knew until the final number of provinces was summed up.

The cabinet is waiting, and Zhu Yunwen is waiting.