"I'll start with a question about population."

"In the years to come, there will always be one theme that will run through the rest of your lives, and that is colonization."

Xia Xianze, who was standing on the stage, had blazing eyes, and glanced left and right at the crowd below, everyone seemed to be listening carefully, and the fool who dared not to give face to Lord Zhongtang had not yet found out.

"The plains of North America, the rainforests of South America, the pastures of Australia, the salmon of Alaska, the gold mines of South Africa, these vast lands and riches, all need to be conquered and occupied by our subjects of the empire."

"In this case, population becomes the most important colonial resource, and there is no one. Why? Because we are pressed for time, we can only trade high consumption for the results we planned. ”

"Look at the casinos on the North American Indian Reservation, look at the N Parade of the Native Americans, and the extinct North American passenger pigeon, the Chinese rhinoceros has made too many mistakes in the centuries-long colonization process, and these are exactly what we want to avoid."

"Therefore, if you don't leave the problems to future generations, you can't realize which problems will eventually become social tumors. Yes, our generation must draw the borders of the country and clean up the new country so that it can be left to future generations. ”

When Xia Xianze said this, his face sank: "This is our fate, and it is also where our children and grandchildren can enjoy the blessings of the country." ”

After waiting for a while, feeling that everyone in the audience had understood what he meant, Xia Xianze continued: "In this situation, population has become the most valuable resource, and if you want to use thirty or forty years to complete the path of others for hundreds of years, depletion of population is the only way. ”

"So where does the population come from? There is only one answer: Da Ming. ”

"Later generations have proved that the population at the end of the year was tens of millions, and others said that it was 100 million, 200 million, 300 million, but these are all nonsense in my opinion, because there is no data to count the number of people hidden by the landlord class. Even now, the population of the Ming villages we have come into contact with is extremely uneven. ”

"Now we're going to put it on an average of 100 million people."

Xia Xianze said this, turned around and took a document from the table, and then bowed his head and said: "The natural disasters during the Xiaoice River period, the invasion of the northern barbarians, and the high government taxes caused by the above reasons, in addition to the competitive demise of the population after it exceeds the carrying capacity of the land. For the above reasons, the population at the end of the Ming Dynasty decreased by about 2 million people per year on average. ”

"This trend has already begun, starting with the Hangzhou homeless people we met when we first crossed."

Xia Xianze raised his head when he said this: "So two years have passed, and today, how many subjects are there in the empire?" 400,000. In other words, only 1 in 10 of the 4 million people who should have died in the past two years have had their fate changed. ”

"This makes it clear: if we take in less than 2 million displaced people a year in the future, it will be a loss. Where is the loss? It's a big new world! ”

Pointing to the world map on the side wall and drawing a circle, Xia Xianze said loudly: "Even if we pull out 100 million people from the Ming Kingdom to fill in the new world in the future, it will be far from enough!" What's more, our current containment capacity is still at the level of weak chickens, and it needs to be developed, developed, and developed again! ”

"So we are now in a race, with the butcher knife of the Manchu Qing and the natural disaster of the Xiaoice River. In the Ming Kingdom, countless people are dying every moment, and these people will become cannon fodder to open up a new world, and even if they want to die, they should die in the battle of malaria and the extermination of the natives! ”

"Ladies and gentlemen, people are not leeks, they can grow quickly after cutting off a stubble. It takes at least 1 year for a child to grow to a useful age. ”

When Xia Xianze said this, his passionate tone just now became softer: "The population at the end of the Ming Dynasty seems to have exploded, but it was accumulated hundreds of years ago. If we miss this stubble and wait until 10 years from now to think about transporting people in large numbers, I'm sorry, tens of millions of people have died by then, and the population is not so easy to collect. ”

"Having said that, the core idea I want to convey is that for at least the next 10 years, all the development plans of our emerging country should be formulated around the core issue of population."

At this time, Xia Xianze finally threw out his proposition: "Headless and brainless chaotic development is not possible, there must be priorities." For example, the battleships proposed by the navy can wait for a while, and the resources can be freed up to build inland gunboats, so that they can go back to the mainland of the Ming Dynasty to introduce population. ”

"There are people who have everything, no people, can the cannons of giant ships kill the natives of the Madagascar rainforest?"

"As for why to go to the Yangtze River Delta to open a yarn factory, this is even more brain-dead!" When Xia Xianze said this, he knocked on the table with his knuckles, and his face became cold: "Not to mention what kind of backlash will be caused by moving the cheese of the Songjiang gentry, that is, the factory itself, is this kind of capitalist action used to drastically change society in line with our current interests?" ”

"There are already large numbers of people who are on the verge of starvation because of our lack of containment capacity. Now it's good that you will run to open a yarn mill, a paper mill, a quilt factory, and break through all the ancient social systems that could barely be maintained before, causing a large number of weavers and rural handicraftsmen to go bankrupt and die."

"I'm not ready to take over the ability, but I went to Mingguo to play some bullshit industrial tycoon, this is because the Ming people haven't died enough, right? Doubling every year, is 4 million enough? ”

When Xia Xianze said this, he angrily banged his fist on the table: "This is governing the country, not playing tickets!" What kind of bullshit opens a porcelain kiln, do you see too much on a single wear? ”

"There is never a good or bad policy, only whether it is suitable or not."

Xia Xianze finally concluded: "In the next ten years, in short, before the Ming court completely collapses, our policy should be to help the Ming state maintain the current mess." ”

"We should not touch all the traditional industries of the Ming Kingdom, such as weaving and papermaking, on the contrary, the empire will also issue orders to these industries in order to invigorate the economy of the Ming Kingdom, so that the workshop owners can have the money to hire two more people."

"As for going to Mingguo to engage in industry, please use your shrinking brain to choose a suitable business!"

Xia Xianze glanced at a small group in the crowd angrily: "A matchbox factory that can house displaced people will not suffer from the counterattack of vested interests, and can let these people survive until the day when we have the ability to transport them away, isn't this much better than a cotton yarn factory?" ”

"In short, some primary processing enterprises that do not touch the original system and are labor-intensive are the focus of our future layout in Mingguo."

"Gentlemen, across the Channel is a society that is slowly collapsing. How to help this society live in the situation and let more people survive before we have enough appetite is a very skillful job, which is related to the colonial cause of the empire! ”

In the end, Xia Xianze said earnestly: "Since you sit in this position, then please take out the vision and courage of the superiors, and consider the problem and put the country first, I remind you again, you are all hardcore crops and a party with the country, the richer and stronger the country, the fewer internal constraints, and the future generations will be able to hold this system for some years, so that they can do it themselves." ”

The effect of Xia Xianze's speech was quickly reflected in the parliamentary vote that afternoon, after all, he is both the head of government and the leader of the party, and on the premise that there is no major conflict of ideas, the whole Conservative Party and a part of the soy sauce crowd will definitely support him.

So a group of light industrialists were the first to fall into bad luck.

The proposal of this group of people was basically wiped out, and there was collateral damage: the light industrial products that had been in the kiln area before, except for their own use, all other products that conflicted with the land of the Ming Dynasty were only allowed to be exported to Europeans and notebooks in the future, and were not allowed to be sold to the other side.

The next to lay down the gun was the army.

Taking advantage of this trend of "suppressing short-sightedness," the military was thrown over by major departments to say that "the army must be patient."

Then the Navy's battleship program was compressed into the "Verification Ship" program, and the Army's three new battalions were reduced to one

I want to cry without tears.

Later in the day, the voting results for all the proposals were in. As expected, the agricultural system, headed by Liang Letian, still received the largest proportion of imported materials in 1629: 30.

All other divisions shared the remaining 70.

After the big data is decided, the next details should be controlled by the cabinet.

In the coming year, each department will submit a detailed plan according to the quota allotted, and after the cabinet receives the plan, it will coordinate and coordinate the distribution of resources according to the proportion of resources set by the congress, and then issue a shipping order to the emperor, and his old man will "carry" the resources he needs.

So an important meeting that decided whether everyone would eat meat or drink soup next year was over.

The Great Golden Dragon Empire, a small force in a remote corner, once again took advantage of the opportunity of the parliament to integrate internal resources, unify thinking, adjust the country's future strategic direction, and prepare to deal with peripheral forces.

The traversal is lying on the horse and ignoring it, what I don't know now is that the surrounding forces have done a good job of coping?

"Big shopkeeper, Song Asheng is back!"

"Oh, so fast? Call him in. ”

In a moment, a dark, thin, old-looking, fisherman-like, rusty-faced man gasped and walked into the house.

"I've seen the big bosses."

"That's it, that's it, sit down and talk."

Liu Xiang waved his hand and summoned someone to pour Song Asheng a cup of good narcissus tea. 11