At this time, the Americas had been discovered by the Europeans and established colonies, North America was better, but South America had basically become the world of the Spaniards and Portuguese, and even North America, the vast Mexican region had become a Spanish colony.

But in the south of the Australian continent, it has not yet been discovered, it is the last blank virgin land on the earth, and the key point is that there are not many local aborigines, less than a million, and they are nomads and have no fixed place of residence.

This was a very advantageous factor in establishing a colony and then completely incorporating the continent into the mainland.

Therefore, this continent has long been designated as the territory of the Tang Dynasty by Li Xuannei.

In order to avoid causing competition among Europeans, Li Xuan planned to do it quietly, especially before the strength of the Tang Navy was still a little weak and could not carry out large-scale colonization, he needed to keep Australia secret, and now he was just exploring safe and secret routes, and then establishing a colony and starting to immigrate, and then announcing it after he had a certain strength.

Therefore, he passed down a secret decree to let the Military Intelligence Department go south to find Australia, explore safe shipping routes, and establish a preliminary colony, and in the future, the Tang Dynasty will continue to send ships to carry a large number of landless peasants and various criminals sentenced to exile to Australia to colonize Australia, turning Australia into the real territory of the Tang Dynasty.

Li Xuan's positioning of Australia is not a colony, but a local!

Australia will be the ultimate solution used by the Tang Dynasty to solve the land contradictions caused by excessive population and too little land, and the scope of this ultimate solution is not only Australia, but also South China, North America, South America and other regions.

What if there are more people and less land? Naturally, I want to find a way to grab more land!

Yes, Li Xuan has never put the hope of solving the land annexation on the internal reform, because no matter how much reform, there is still so much land, and the population will increase more and more in peacetime, and when the population reaches a certain level, no matter how you reform, the land problem will be exposed, and it is still unsolvable.

Unless the population is greatly reduced in a short period of time, and it returns to a situation where there are fewer people and more land!

This is also a dead cycle of thousands of years in China, in the early days of the dynasty, after the war, the population is not much, the land is more, so it is a situation of less people and more land, and then with the passage of time, the population gradually increases, the number of people and the number of land reach a more balanced point, people can eat well, the economy is better, this is the so-called various prosperous times.

After the prosperous era, the population continues to increase, the land is still that land, and then all kinds of problems come, wars often break out, if the dynasty survives, the population will be smoothly reduced, and then continue to recover, it is all kinds of zhongxing!

A few years after Zhongxing, the population increased again, the land problem broke out again, accompanied by war, and this was the end of the dynasty!

When the dynasty can't hold on, with a bang, the dynasty falls, and a new dynasty will be formed, and then a new cycle will be carried out!

After thousands of years of Chinese history, you basically can't escape this dead loop!

And this endless cycle, in fact, in essence, is that limited land cannot support too many people!

Therefore, the ultimate solution to the land problem prepared by Li Xuan for the Tang Dynasty is one word: rob!

If you don't have enough land, then grab it!

Production resources are not enough, grab ah 1

The market is not enough, grab it!

After grabbing the land, large-scale immigration was carried out, and after immigration, following the example of the United States in later generations, various eastward expansion, westward expansion, and land enclosure movements were implemented, and the ultimate goal was to make the local Chinese population account for more than 90% of the total local population!

If there are 10,000 Chinese people in the local area, then there are only 1,000 local natives left!

If there are only a thousand Chinese people in the local area, then there must not be more than a hundred local natives!

Wang Shanxi of the Military Intelligence Department is shouldering the important task of going south to find Australia, and after finding Australia, initially opening up a colonial base, for the sake of secrecy, the Military Intelligence Department does not even plan to involve Datang Western Company.

Just when the fleet of Datang Western Company went south and west, Jinling City and Li Xuan also started a new round of reform!

And this time the wave of reform is not business, nor industry, but agriculture!

Although no matter how the land issue is reformed internally, it will not be solved in the end, but what Li Xuan wants to do now is to temporarily alleviate the outbreak of the land issue.

You must know that in the process of the rise of the Tang Dynasty, in fact, the population has not decreased on a large scale, and when many dynasties were newly established, the population was very small and the land was too much, and the rise of the Tang Dynasty was not back and forth, the Tang Dynasty was steady and steady, and through a series of decisive battles to defeat the Ming Dynasty, and after occupying a certain area, the Tang Dynasty's dominance was very strong, and it did not lead to various post-war turmoil.

Therefore, although innocent people were killed and injured in the war, on the whole, the population did not decrease, and this made the Tang Dynasty face the same problem as the Ming Dynasty: less and less!

In this regard, the initial method of the Tang Dynasty was to unify the agricultural tax to curb large-scale land annexation, and at the same time distribute a large number of confiscated clan land and gentry land in the Ming Dynasty to a large number of landless peasants in the form of rent and purchase, and vigorously support and encourage land reclamation!

Through these methods, to a certain extent, it can be regarded as alleviating part of the land problem, but this is still not enough!

The situation of more people and less land, the situation of the vast majority of peasants' living in hardship has not been fundamentally changed, and Li Xuan intends to continue to deepen the reform!

And this reform, he intends to carry out large-scale immigration, of course, not to overseas, the Tang Dynasty does not have this strength at present, and the destination of immigration is other areas in the country that have not yet been fully developed.

Even if the current Tang Dynasty has adopted the model of renting and purchasing, a large number of landless farmers have become homesteaders, but there are still many landless farmers, and to be honest, the land that should be confiscated is basically confiscated, Li Xuan can not say that he has directly copied many large landlords, you know, the landlords of the Tang Dynasty have basically been copied before, and the rest are either those who support the Tang Dynasty, or they are not opposed, and they are honest landlords.

Although it is said that in the Tang Dynasty, where the imperial power is highly concentrated, Li Xuan only needs to say a word to kill all the big landlords in the world, and a group of officials below will rush to do it, but this is not necessary, in this case, it will cause turmoil in the world 100%.

How did the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom end in later generations, because he killed the landlords and gentry too ruthlessly, not to use the strategy of suppressing part of the land and winning over part of it, but to kill all of them regardless of three, seven and twenty-one, so that those gentry and landlords who wanted to welcome the king did not dare to welcome the king.

If you don't want to die, then you will naturally resist desperately!

Therefore, the gentry and landlord class at that time almost paid for and fought desperately, defeated again and again, defeated again and again, and finally consumed the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom alive, so that the Manchu Tartars picked up a big bargain!

If the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's policy towards landlords had been slightly relaxed, even if only ninety percent had been killed and one percent had been left, then the outcome might have been changed, at least, the Manchu Dynasty would have been completely wiped out.

Therefore, since the Huangzhushan era, Li Xuan has basically determined the policy of treating the gentry and landlord class, that is, 'dividing', killing some of them, and winning over some of them.

At present, this policy is still quite successful, in the early days, almost all the gentry landlord class was shouting and shouting to kill the Tang Dynasty, a pseudo-Tang, a Li thief, but now, after the differentiation policy of the Tang Dynasty, many of the gentry and landlord class in the ruling area have already put the title of my Tang Dynasty, the dynasty, the imperial court, the holy monarch, the holy son of heaven and the like.

One of the most obvious features is that more and more scholars came to participate in the imperial examinations of the Tang Dynasty.

The Ministry of Rites predicts that in this year's autumn examinations in various provinces, the number of reference scholars is very likely to double, especially in the four provinces of Zhili, and the number of scholars participating in the imperial examination is very likely to exceed the total number of other provinces.

And by the time of next year's entrance examination, the number of students participating in the examination will also double!

With so many realities, it is impossible for Li Xuan to kill all the landlords who confiscated their land, even if he occupies 10,000 acres of land, but as long as he pays taxes honestly and does not resist the rule of the Tang Dynasty, Li Xuan is not ready to move them.

But what to do in some areas where there are many people and little land, before the era of large-scale overseas colonization, all Li Xuan could do was to immigrate at home.

Nowadays, the population of many provinces is actually very small, such as the Liangguang region, which adds up to about 10 million people, and the population of Huguang area is not much, and the above-mentioned areas have a large number of areas for development, such as several small plains in Guangxi, even in later generations, they are granary-level areas, and the Pearl River Delta region of Guangdong is also an important agricultural area.

Not to mention Huguang, in later generations, there is a reputation for being familiar with Huguang and the world's feet, and now, the population of Huguang is still not large, and there is still a lot of wasteland that can be reclaimed into fertile land!

And in the future, when the eastern Liaodong region is taken, it will be an undeveloped area that can accommodate at least tens of millions of people!

What Li Xuan has to do now is to organize a large number of landless peasants to go to the less populated land from areas with fewer people and less land!

Just after the Mid-Autumn Festival in August, not long after returning to Jinling City, Li Xuan convened a cabinet meeting to formally discuss organizing landless peasants from Shandong, Henan, Jiangbei, and northern Anhui to go to Hunan, Guangxi, and Guangdong for reclamation.

After the meeting began, without waiting for the ministers of the cabinet to have a formal discussion, Li Xuan set a tone: in the next three years, the empire will invest at least five million taels of silver in domestic immigration affairs, and within five years, the cumulative investment will reach ten million taels of silver!

And these ministers in the cabinet want to discuss how to use this money to organize as many immigrants as possible and develop more wasteland!

Although everyone knows that organizing immigrants is something that costs a lot of money, no one thought that their Eternal Sage Monarch would be 10 million taels of silver with one mouth!

After Li Xuan finished speaking, the scene was silent for a while, and after more than ten seconds, I saw Wang Wenhua come out of the column and knelt down, and then his hands were facing forward, and he directly bowed and bowed. ”