The successful completion of the first 10-year development plan and the doubling of state revenue were the reasons for Li Mingyuan's decision to implement five-year free compulsory education.

Education is fundamental to the country's strong development, and on the basis of the first ten-year development plan, education remains the top priority in the second ten-year development plan.

Improve the system of raising and educating orphans, and fully include the orphans born of their parents who have died or lost their parents in the wave of East Asian immigrants going to sea to earn a living, and the central government will pay for all the expenses and education expenses of orphans during primary and secondary schools.

In the next 10 years, the total tuition fees for intermediate schools and institutions of higher learning will be reduced by 30 per cent and 25 per cent respectively.

Gradually achieve the ultimate goal of universal and free education.

In terms of agriculture, we will continue to promote the standard family family model of seven people (two adult parents and five or more children) and 200 acres of cultivated land. (Scholars in the field of local agriculture believe that a family model of seven or nine people, with 200 acres of arable land or 1,000 acres of pasture, is the most suitable for the stability of the local society in South America.) ）

Integrate and monopolize South America's foreign grain trade channels, and the state-owned grain export trading companies under the jurisdiction of the government should uniformly set the prices for grain and livestock purchases and exports, and formulate a system for protecting grain, so as to avoid the phenomenon of cheap grain hurting peasants and expensive grain hurting the people.

In terms of population growth, we will unswervingly adhere to the system of encouraging childbirth, gradually improve the system of employing workers, ease the pressure of industrial development on workers' families, and give corresponding reduction and exemption policies to some people whose family conditions are difficult, so as to reduce their social expenditures in education, housing, and childcare.

In the field of heavy industry, we will continue to increase the construction of railways, highways, bridges, canals and other infrastructure, and strive to achieve the goal of exceeding 1.5 million tons of crude steel output and entering the world's top six in terms of total iron and steel output by 1899. …………

With the technical foundation laid by the first ten-year development plan, Li Mingyuan is even more handy when formulating the second ten-year development plan again.

"Population is the foundation of the country, and without enough population, no matter how advanced the machinery and equipment are, it will not be able to operate, so the introduction of immigrants and the encouragement of childbirth will be implemented forever as a national policy, and there is no need for some officials to worry about problems such as overpopulation and intensification of social contradictions."

After the first discussion of the topic of the second 10-year development plan at the court, Li Mingyuan opened his mouth to explain several concerns of officials.

"There are two reasons for this, one is that the country's industrialization is accelerating, the number of workers working in the cities is increasing rapidly, and with a large number of farmers and educated young people entering the cities and transforming into urban populations, the working hours of workers will increase, the pace of life will accelerate, and the cost of raising young children will be higher than that of rural families.

This phenomenon is not only seen in France and Germany (in 1871, when the population of Germany was 50 million, and although the population of Germany increased by 9 million during this period, the birth rate of babies showed a downward trend, but the population grew faster than before because the mortality rate was greatly reduced. In the local area, according to the data of the newborn population survey in the past three years, the average number of babies born to a couple of working age in urban families such as Chang'an and Songjiang is 4.9, which is 0.2 percentage points lower than the average of 5.1 babies per couple in rural areas.

As the country's industrialization accelerates, the country's fertility willingness is likely to decline even further, so it is difficult for the local population to maintain the current high growth model.

Second, even if the population continues to grow at a high rate and the local area is more populated than the optimal range, the central government can take appropriate measures to solve the problem of overpopulation by transferring some of the surplus population to overseas colonies. ”

"The land is vast and sparsely populated, with the British Empire outside and opposing the expansion of territory to Brazil and Chile, and the American States and the Republic of Brazil hostile to the Americas, always looking for opportunities to dismember the empire.

In this unfavourable situation, it is too early to discuss the issue of rapid population growth in the future. ”

From the perspective of the country's highest-level official, Liu Pu's views are more consistent with Li Mingyuan's.

"In the future, if the Congo colony cannot accommodate more people, with the advantage of population, the imperial army can also use the guns in its hands to obtain enough living space for the native Chinese in Southeast Asia and Africa!" ………

Government officials and military generals have expressed their views, although they have different footholds, but their views are very consistent.

"Last year, some officials had some different ideas because of the conflict between the old and new immigrants, and in the first half of the year after the year, the Americans fanned the flames, on the grounds that the local population was growing too fast, played up the population threat theory of the Han country in South America, and encouraged Brazil, Chile and other countries to join hands to curb local development.

Li Mingyuan's tone became cold, and he reiterated again: "The Malthusian theory is nothing more than a fallacy full of loopholes and endless wounds.

The Propaganda Department of the Ministry of Rites should do a good job in external and internal propaganda work, refute the slanderous propaganda of the Americans, expose the sinister intentions of the United States and some Western countries to the local people, prohibit the spread of Malthusian ideas in the local population, and continue to intensify the introduction of immigrants and encourage the implementation of the birth policy! ”

The Han State, which actually controls an area of 3.6 million square kilometers and a population of more than 1,700,000, has become the second country in the Americas in terms of comprehensive national strength, second only to the United States.

With an annual net population growth of more than 1 million, excluding the number of immigrants imported from overseas, the number of births of a newborn born to an average of 5.02 babies in a couple of working age would be able to double in less than 16 years.

Even compared with the Malthusian theory, the population has doubled in 25 years, and the population growth rate of Han is very rare among all countries in the world.

Even if the Han state, which ranks first in South America in terms of industry, military and population, even if it is low-key, it will attract the attention of the United States and some countries that are hostile to the mainland.

In the struggle for dominance in South America and even in the entire Americas, when the Americans were competing head-on with Britain, they did not forget to use various means to curb the development of the Han mainland.

First, he used the "Chinese Exclusion Act" to plunder the property of the Chinese and cut off the power of the Chinese to expand and develop in the United States, and then used the explosive population growth as an excuse to exaggerate the theory of the threat of the Han Kingdom.

The contradictions and disputes between the United States and the United Kingdom and China have attracted the attention of many European countries.

There were quite a few radicals in Tsarist Russia, Italy, and France who applauded the Americans' move, but at the national level, Britain, France, Germany, Russia, and Italy were either indifferent or, like Russia, expressed something, but lacked the strength to exert influence in South America.

Officials who can get into the country's leadership level cannot do things that are not beneficial to the country because of American propaganda, after all, everyone knows that the United States ranks first in terms of the number of immigrants and population growth.

In addition to the United States, South American countries, Canada, Mexico and other countries are also absorbing immigrants, but because of the small number of Chinese in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China and the harsh international environment around it, the Han State continued to adhere to the immigration introduction policy, which made the population growth rate more conspicuous.

Enriching the newly occupied areas with immigrants is what all European countries are doing, and Britain and Russia, as colonial powers, are also the countries that are most active in evacuating native immigrants to the newly occupied areas.

Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa were the main immigration destinations and colonies of the British, while the vast regions of Siberia and Central Asia became the first choice for Tsarist Russia to settle the poor.

Large countries such as Britain and Russia, with populations of tens of millions, and small countries with populations of millions such as the Netherlands and Portugal, are sending people overseas and to colonies, but the difference is that the Americans use this as an excuse to attack the Han Kingdom.

Based on this understanding, although the Western countries are curious about the population growth rate of the Han country in South America, they consider the huge financial expenditure brought about by the emulating Han government and the huge financial expenditure brought about by the state to organize the migration transportation and resettlement actions, the vast majority of countries have wisely chosen to give up, while a small number of people with strong comprehensive strength like the United Kingdom and Germany have learned from the experience of the Han country and the United States in South America. adopted a more enlightened policy than in history,

Led by the national government and some non-governmental colonial institutions, the local low-income people were encouraged to migrate to live in overseas colonies. …………

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