"You two and Junki, how much of a storm do you plan to make here?"

Facing Zhu Laosi's somewhat inexplicable questioning, Yang Shaofeng was a little confused for a while.

What do you mean by how much of a storm the two of us are going to make?

This broken place of Jiaozhi is ripe three times a year, and if you don't completely hold this place in Daming's own hands, what should I do if Xiaoice River comes?

This time to repair the imperial city, this son deliberately turned the coal mountain into a big artificial lake, and there is no old locust tree with a crooked neck, and there is no more Jiaozhi, where do you let your unlucky child of great-great-grandchildren hang?

In addition to Cochin, the copper ore production in Myanmar is not small, and even if copper is not used to cast copper plates, it can be used to cast artillery or other things.

There is also Champa, where it is also three crops a year, and Siam seems to be too, so if you count it, Ailao and Myanmar seem to be able to grow three times a year, as long as you cultivate it well, the soil is even so fertile that you don't need to fallow, can you do it if you don't hold it in your hands?

Even if you take 10,000 steps back, even if these lands are not valuable, then the sea outlet is always valuable, right? If you get all these messy places in Champa and Myanmar into your own hands, and then completely connect with the old port, the throat of the entire sea will be in the hands of the Ming Dynasty, even if it is a tariff collection at sea, it can make future generations eat tens of thousands of years of dividends, right?

As for the jadeite in Myanmar, that thing is just a match, okay?

Zhu Laosi obviously didn't know what Yang Shaofeng was thinking.

Although Zhu Laosi has seen the importance of the two places of Champa and the Old Port to the sea, but he has been a father to the Ming Dynasty for more than 20 years, and Zhu Laosi obviously does not think that anyone can pose even the slightest threat to the Ming Dynasty at sea.

Not to mention that Daming still has the Western Fleet and the Far East Fleet that is being formed - Yang Shaofeng and Xu Jingchang and others were thinking about getting a Far East Fleet out, relying on the force and carrying capacity of the treasure ship to go to Europa to pit the barbarians, but Zhu Laosi inserted a bar in the middle, and the good Far East Fleet became the Far East Fleet, no matter from the size of the fleet or from the perspective of firepower and personnel allocation, the entire Far East Fleet is completely a copy of the Western Fleet.

With such two fleets in hand, Zhu Laosi certainly has the confidence to see that everyone is a scumbag.

It is precisely because of this that Zhu Laosi feels that Yang Shaofeng and Zhu Zhanji have made a bit of a big move here in Jiaozhi.

Of course, this movement is not a big reference to the two of them building a Beijing temple in Jiaozhi, nor is it Liu Sheng's crazy labor trafficking activities again, but the idea that the two people are now deliberately pulling Siam into the water.

Because if you want to completely digest Cochin and Burma, plus those places in Champa and Yungui, it will take at least ten years, and if you go to Shangailao and Siam, this time will roll up, and more than 20 years may not be enough.

In addition, there is still a large area of the Great Wilderness that needs to be relocated, so instead of putting energy into Siam now, it is better to spend some effort to solve the problem of lack of people in the Great Wilderness.

In other words, the biggest problem facing the entire Ming Dynasty now is not the problem of money, nor the problem of materials, nor the problem of force, but the problem of insufficient population: "How many people do you say this Ming needs?" I used to think that there were a lot of Ding Kou in this Ming Dynasty, but now why do I feel more and more insufficient? ”

As soon as he heard Zhu Laosi say this, Yang Shaofeng completely understood what was going on-

Even if there has been a large-scale population growth since the fourteenth year of Yongle, until the twenty-third winter of Yongle now, the number of Dingkou in the Ming Dynasty has only changed from more than 50 million to about 80 million, which is still far from the 100 million mark.

Without enough Dingkou, the idea of developing places such as Jiaozhi, Burma, Yunnan-Guizhou, Dahuang, Liaodong, Nuergandusi, and Jiugang can only be a dream, and if you want to implement it on paper, you don't know how many years it will take to completely realize it.

Zhu Laosi continued: "Before I came, Xia Aiqing of the household department also had a headache.

The Great Wilderness is indeed a good place, with countless copper productions, which can be called a treasure land given by God to the Ming Dynasty, but the Great Wilderness is too big, and if you want to fill the entire Great Wilderness, the conclusion given by the Ministry of Household and the Ministry of Industry is that 50 million or even 10,000 Dingkou is needed.

That is to say, even if all the people of the entire Ming Dynasty are relocated to the Great Wilderness, they will not be able to occupy the entire Great Wilderness for a while.

If you add Burma and Yungui, and you pull Siam, Champa, Ailao and other places into the water, how much dingkou do you need? Where did I conjure up so many people for you? ”

was asked by Zhu Laosi like this, Yang Shaofeng suddenly became worried, and said tentatively: "Otherwise, encourage the people to have more lives?" ”

Zhu Laosi suddenly sighed and said, "Do you think you are the only smart person in the whole world?"

Since your grandfather's generation, Daming has been encouraging the people to have more children, if anyone gives birth to three babies at a time, even if it is a female baby, the government has to report to the capital, and the family can be rewarded.

But the problem now is that the people are willing to give birth and can give birth, but the growth of this Ding Kou is not able to keep up with the needs of Ding Kou, do you say that it is a headache? ”

"Headache."

Yang Shaofeng said: "This is indeed enough of a headache. However, this is not bad, it is much better for the people to be willing to give birth than not to be willing to give birth, right? ”

While he was talking, Zhu Gaochi and Zhu Zhanji, father and son, who were sent by Zhu Laosi to inspect military affairs, also returned.

After bowing to Zhu Laosi, Zhu Gaochi found a chair and sat down, hugged a teapot with a smile and asked, "What is willing to give birth or not?" What's the headache? ”

Seeing that Zhu Laosi was unwilling to deal with Zhu Gaochi, Yang Shaofeng bowed to Zhu Gaochi and said: "Back to my father-in-law, just now the imperial grandfather said that this Ming Dingkou is a little insufficient, and no matter how many people give birth, they can't catch up with the Ming Dynasty's demand for Dingkou." ”

Zhu Gaochi was suddenly happy, and said to Zhu Laosi with a smile: "It's not that I said you, your old man is also anxious, this dingkou is not a leek, you can grow another stubble if you cut a stubble, you have to give the babies born over the years a time to grow up, right?" ”

Zhu Laosi said angrily: "Then who will give me time?" I'm sixty-five years old this year, and I don't know if I'll live to be seventy years old, who will give me time? You're all so angry, I don't have to worry about you? ”

"No, look at what you said, why am I not angry? And the second and third, which of us has embarrassed your old man or what? ”

Zhu Gaochi was suddenly dissatisfied: "I am like a coolie to help your old man deal with the government, the second is in the Western Regions, the third is overseas, not to mention the head breaking and bleeding because of the position under your old man's buttocks, and they all want to share the worries of your old man and expand the territory for your old man, there are few royal families in all dynasties like our family, what else are you dissatisfied with?" ”

was choked by Zhu Gaochi like this, even if what Zhu Gaochi said was the truth, Zhu Laosi's face was still a little unbearable, and he pointed to the door of the lobby angrily and scolded: "Get out!" I'm annoyed when I see you! ”

"I'll just get out."

Zhu Gaochi simply got up from the chair and walked towards the outside of the lobby, while humming and saying, "It's annoying that you look at me, I don't want you to be trained like that here!" ”

With a "snap", the teapot in Zhu Laosi's hand appeared at Zhu Gaochi's heels, startling Zhu Gaochi, who was quietly pressing, but ran away quickly.

Zhu Laosi laughed inexplicably.

Well, these sons are annoyed to look at, but when they don't look at it, it's good to think about it carefully?

The boss can handle government affairs in an orderly manner, the second brother is expanding his territory in the Western Regions, and the third brother directly came back from a big wilderness, and the three brothers are not fighting or grabbing, not at all like the brothers of the Li family who broke their heads because of an emperor's beating, what else do they have to be dissatisfied with?

Thinking so in his heart, Zhu Laosi's face did not show the slightest satisfaction, but said to Zhu Zhanji and Yang Shaofeng with a gloomy face: "There are also you two bastard things!" ”

Zhu Zhanji and Yang Shaofeng glanced at each other and found that the other party had a bewildered expression - why did it involve the two of us? Shouldn't it be the father of the two of us at this time, and then praise the two of us?

Zhu Laosi glared at Zhu Zhanji and Yang Shaofeng hatefully and said, "You two are also not angry!" Junji is better, and now he has two children, but you! ”

Stretching out his hand and pointing at Yang Shaofeng, Zhu Laosi continued to scold: "Bastard thing! Why don't you see the movement of the second one after giving birth to one? ”

Yang Shaofeng suddenly replied with some tears and laughter: "Can you blame me for this?" The grandson is now in Jiaozhi, even if he wants to give birth, then he has to wait to return to Shuntianfu, right? ”

"Then hurry up, figure out Jiaozhi here, and then go back to Shuntianfu as soon as possible!"

Zhu Laosi waved his hand, and then reprimanded: "Give birth to a few more, while I can still show you the baby now, give birth to a few more, I just don't think there are many children!" ”

seems to be afraid that it is useless to rely on hard alone, Zhu Laosi also deliberately moved out of the set of temptation: "Don't you want the champion Hou who has been crying and shouting?" Five...... No, ten! As long as you give birth to ten babies, I will give you the champion! ”

Yang Shaofeng couldn't cry or laugh even more now: "No, no matter how powerful the grandson is, this baby doesn't mean that it can be born immediately, right?"

Besides, if the grandson won the champion Hou because of the birth of many babies, then what happened to the champion Hou? The champion who gave birth to a baby? ”

Zhu Laosi also found that he was a little unscrupulous.

But if you say it, the water that will be spilled, not to mention that you are an emperor, it will be even more difficult to regret what you say: "In this way, you can give birth to a child, every time you give birth to an additional child, when you are knighted, I will give you an extra hundred miles of fiefdom in the Great Wilderness or the Old Port, how about it?" ”

Yang Shaofeng was unhappy again: "Don't want the great wilderness, don't want the old port, my grandson wants the fief on the new continent in the east and the one in the west." ”

didn't know that Yang Shaofeng had already made the idea of Jinshan in the west, so Zhu Laosi nodded and clapped: "Okay!" ”

With a roll of his eyes, Zhu Laosi continued: "It seems that I have found a way to let the people of Daming have more babies?" ”

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