Azig pouted and stopped talking, but the discussion about the United States of New Continent had just begun.

"There is always a way to think of a way to deal with the matter of silver, but who wants to sail across the ocean to New World?"

Now the question is raised by the imperial concubine Zheng Chagu, who has heard and witnessed it since she was a child, and has heard a lot about the hardships of overseas and the dangers of going abroad. It is already difficult to go to the South Seas, and the shipwreck and epidemic can make the people who go to sea to make a living lose as much as half of them in a few years!

If you don't want to get rich, you want to go crazy, or you are so poor that you can't help it, no one wants to go to sea!

Zhu Cihong glanced at Aunt Tea, sighed softly, and said, "Aunt Tea, who do you think I spent these 30 million taels of silver for?" ”

Zheng Chagu is a smart person, as soon as she heard this, she immediately understood, and frowned slightly, "Your Majesty is for the local tyrant?" ”

Zhu Hehao is Zhu Cihong's eldest son, he is now more than ten years old, and he is a student bully in Laoshan Middle School - he is a typical "other person's child", excellent in character and learning, is among the best in every exam, and has a good personality and is very good at making friends. It's a pity that he is only the eldest son of the emperor and not the eldest son of the emperor, and he has no chance to inherit the throne...... Unless Zhu Hexing dies young, and Wu Sanmei can't have another son.

But the problem is that most of Zhu Cihong's children are strong, and very few die young (it is impossible to have none, after all, it is the 17th century). And Zhu Hexing, who is small and frail, has grown older, and Wu Sanmei often takes him to exercise, and his health is getting better and better, and he has not been sick for several months.

If Zhu Hexing finally grows up and is canonized as the crown prince, then Zhu Hehao's life may not be easy...... After all, he is the eldest son of the emperor, and he is so good, and Zhu Cihong will not raise the clan as a pig. In the future, Zhu Hehao will have some careers, will it really become a thorn in Zhu Hexing's side?

In the emperor's house, father and son can turn against each other, let alone half-brothers?

But let Zhu Hehao drift across the sea to Xinzhou...... Zheng Chagu, who is a mother, feels reluctant to think about it, thinking of this, her eyes are sour, and tears are about to fall.

Zhu Cihong looked at the appearance of the concubine shedding tears, and her heart was not happy, but there were some things that had to be done.

He sighed: "It's not all for the sake of the local tyrants...... Children like local tyrants are not only unique to my family, all royal houses, all noble families, most of them have a few local tyrants! Where can we accommodate all the officialdom and the army? You can't make the top grade have no cold door, and the lower grade has no family, right? And there are a lot of people in the country who can't survive! ”

Zhu Cihong doesn't need to pay a private visit, and he also knows that the country he rules is not a comfortable nest - a country with a population of more than 100 million, in the initial stage of capitalism, and there is no chosen land to make the people happy!

The capitalist road is so easy to follow, what else do we need socialism?

Now the social environment in the Ming Dynasty is relatively stable, the main reasons are two, one is the increase in grain - more than 10 million stone rice is imported from Southeast Asia every year, after the Huanghuai Yun Dagong, Huainan and Huaibei have changed from the disaster area of drought to the grain production area with bumper yields year after year, compared with the past, the average annual output can also increase by 20 or 30 million stones. In addition, the emergence of capitalist farms in the four rivers and two lakes, Fujian and Guangdong, as well as in the newly recovered Henan, Hebei, Shanxi, Shandong (west) and other places, also promoted the increase in grain production. Therefore, in the tenth year of Hongxing, except for Sichuan and Yunnan, the grain supply of the Han provinces of the Ming Dynasty was at least 100 million more than that of the sixteenth and seventeenth years of Chongzhen!

Therefore, the poor people of the Ming Dynasty in the tenth year of Hongxing were obviously easier to make ends meet than in the sixteenth or seventeenth year of Chongzhen.

And the other reason for the stability is a bit politically incorrect - the ability of the new nobles and the new army to suppress the peasant uprising after the baptism of the battle of overcoming difficulties and Zhongxing has increased significantly, and the uprising has no chance to become bigger, so it is suppressed by the murderous new army and nouveau riche......

But both of these factors that make the country stable are time-sensitive!

Because Zhu Cihong realized ZTE after taking over the country, he interrupted the process of overthrowing and starting over, which caused two serious consequences.

First, the Han population was not massively depleted in the process of overthrowing and restarting - in the early years of the Qing Dynasty, the population of the whole country was only tens of millions. And today's Ming Dynasty, excluding Sichuan and Yunnan, has a population of about 150 million, if you count Sichuan and Yunnan, it is almost three times that of the early Qing Dynasty!

Although the amount of arable land is also a little more than in the early Qing Dynasty in history, it is definitely not three times. Therefore, the contradiction between man and land is still relatively acute!

And because the society has generally settled down, the birth rate of Daming has been at a high level, and I am afraid it will not take many years to exceed 200 million.

At that time, the contradiction between man and land will be even more prominent!

The second is the expansion of aristocratic forces in the process of overcoming difficulties!

The nobles of the Ming Dynasty have been declining since the Tumubao Change, and the social wealth they possess has of course gradually decreased - the power of the nobles has declined, and the wealth they possess has of course declined. And the imperial examination doctors took advantage of the situation and occupied a lot of wealth and resources.

This process is actually the process of downward flow of power and wealth, from the top to the middle, which is still good for social stability - the number of people who have benefited from the rule of the Ming Dynasty has increased, and the ruling base of the Ming Dynasty has been expanded......

In the battle of overcoming difficulties, Zhu Cihong drastically cut off the privileges of scholars, and at the same time expanded the size and power of the military aristocratic group, and a large number of heroes joined the originally lifeless noble team, injecting vitality into this dying group.

In fact, the current Daming Xungui group is almost a brand-new founding group, otherwise it would be impossible to defeat the Manchu Qing and suppress Dashun!

Moreover, Zhu Cihong also vigorously carried out new-style education and training for young officers, which injected greater vitality into the second generation of overcoming difficulties.

Although a large number of energetic and advanced knowledge and skills can effectively defend the Ming Dynasty, they will also grab a lot of wealth for themselves and monopolize the upward channel. Moreover, the energetic Kenan Honorable family also has a stronger reproductive ability, so the Victorious Honorable Group, which has a large number of people, is now expanding rapidly!

Zhu Cihong sighed, and said: "It's been more than ten years since the Fu Army came, and I see that the children of the heroes who have overcome difficulties are about to grow up. Now the primary schools in Laoshan and Nanjing Dongcheng are all full, and several middle schools are even more crowded when recruiting people...... If this trend continues, in another ten years, every household (referring to the family of the powerful) will have to have a headache for their children's way out.

And we can't occupy all the good seats, and we have to leave a way out for the talented people, right?

In addition, there are more and more people living in extreme poverty at the bottom!

Now that the world is stable, the food is sufficient, the industry and commerce are relatively prosperous, and I have abolished the Dingkou tax, so the people are willing to have more children. But the population of the world is already 10,000,000,000,000, and it is a matter of time before there are 20,000,000 or even 30,000. Will there be enough food then? Is there enough land?

Therefore, when I think about it, I can only expand the soil outward and earn a little land for future generations to survive and develop. I wanted to make America a joint-stock united nation, and let the rich and powerful nobles and wealthy people invest. And when they have invested the money, they will have their share in the nation, and the heirs of each of their families who have no land to arrange for them will be sent to the kingdom of the united nations as nobles. They are rich and powerful, and they can't go abroad empty-handed! You have to bring a group of people, right? The destitute people in the country can follow them, and there is a way out.

Moreover, the land in North America is wasteful and vast, suitable for farming. If 100,000 people can cross the ocean a year in the future, the returning passenger ship can also carry millions or even tens of millions of stones of grain. When people go out and food comes in, our country can be stable for a long time! ”