"Don't you see what's going on there?"

This rhetorical question made Qian Lei, Zhu Daxian and others dumbfounded, they knew what the situation was there.

The situation there is completely different from that in the Central Plains.

Seeing that they didn't answer themselves, Zhu Mingzhong looked in the direction of Shaanxi, and then couldn't help but shake his head and sigh. At that time, he wanted to visit the people's micro-service, and wanted to observe the people's situation and inspect the people's situation in Shaanxi, but he only saw a piece of poverty. Once again, the scene of seeing those villages in Shaanxi came to mind. If you want to describe the countryside of Shaanxi, then one word is enough - it is the word "poor"!

It's so poor!

Even unimaginably poor!

What did the people eat there?

But it's just a bowl of millet porridge, and I don't know what kind of dish is cooked in the pot, anyway, every ordinary person I see there is a skinny and malnourished appearance, most of the people's faces are just numb, and the clothes on their bodies are also patches and patches, and their clothes have long been rotten to the point of not being like words. Some people are even so poor that a few people wear a pair of pants.

Compared with Shaanxi, the poor in Henan, Beizhili, and Shanxi seem to be living in paradise, and the reason why they are poor is because the output of land is limited. Of course, it is also because of the oppression of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but in Zhu Mingzhong's view, the most fundamental reason is still out of the land.

"Shaanxi land is barren, one acre is not enough to fight grain, in order to fight as much food as possible, they can only reclaim more land, but wherever they can be planted, they have planted grain, and now there are few people in the place where there are still so, let alone in the future? I'm afraid that something will really go wrong in the long run......

Zhu Mingzhong, who was walking slowly by the river, looked at the Yellow River thoughtfully.

"On the one hand, there is continuous reclamation, which has led to the continuous deterioration of Shaanxi's environment, and on the other hand, what about it? The people are living in poverty day by day, so ah...... The people there had to move out, and there was nothing else to do! ”

"Your Majesty, now that the governor of Shaanxi Province has begun to organize immigration, many people who are destitute and have scarce land will move out as soon as possible."

"Not enough!"

Shaking his head, Zhu Mingzhong sighed, his expression full of trouble.

"Your Majesty, are you worried about the immigration from Shaanxi?"

Zhu Daxian asked tentatively.

Staring in the direction of Shaanxi, Zhu Mingzhong said in a low tone.

"I'm not worried about a Shaanxi, there are sixty or seventy million people in the Ming Dynasty now, and Shaanxi is just a place, even if it ...... seriously."

What is there if tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people really starve to death? Even they can't stir up the people's uprising, not because they can still eat now, but because Zhu Mingzhong is not afraid at all.

"If there is a civil uprising, I don't need to worry...... The Manchu army can be defeated, which shows that this is a rebellion by a group of people, and it cannot be suppressed at any time......"

I don't worry about the people's uprising, because of the absolute superiority in force, relative to the people, the official army has an absolute superiority in force, and unlike the old Ming army, the current Ming army is in the heyday of momentum, but what about the future?

"What I am worried about is the future, it will be decades, hundreds of years later, now there are 60 or 70 million people in the Ming Dynasty, and in a few decades, the population will definitely multiply, reaching as many as 10,000, and at that time, it will inevitably show the dilemma of having more people and less land, and now Shaanxi is full of poor people because the land output is not enough, but in the future, when the world is full of people, it will inevitably be hungry again. After these tens of thousands of people have a hundred years of peace and prosperity, they will multiply into 30,000,000 or 40,000. When the time comes, my descendants and your descendants will be tormented. ”

People have no long-term worries, but they must have near-term worries!

Zhu Mingzhong, who has insight beyond this era, clearly knows that in another time and space, one hundred and thirty years later, the population of this country will exceed 40,000. At that time, it was really full of astonishing poverty!

"Not so much."

Zhu Daxian's chest color also became unnatural.

"Isn't Your Majesty's division of overseas vassals just to take away the superfluous people? His Majesty now has nine sons, and now His Majesty is the Spring and Autumn Period, he will definitely have as many sons as Emperor Gao, and there are dozens of sons overseas, according to more than 10,000 Wang Wei per son, even if there are only more than 30 sons like Emperor Gao, he can take away 500,000 young people plus their wives and daughters, and he can take away as many as a million people. ”

"What Zhu Gefu said is very true, Your Majesty's division of the feudal domains is to let my Han people spread out in the South Seas and under the whole world, so the population of this country is bound to be not as large as Your Majesty said......

Qian Lei hurriedly echoed on the side.

"You don't understand!"

Shaking his head, Zhu Mingzhong looked at the Yellow River and said slowly.

"Not to mention anything else, the cowpox test has been extremely successful in the past few years, and it will be popularized throughout the world in the future, and the improvement of medical technology such as midwifery in recent years will also further increase the population, and the number of people at the bottom of the world will only be more and more ......."

The improvement of medical level, especially those seemingly inconspicuous medical technologies brought into this era by Zhu Mingzhong, is self-evident in promoting medicine, a cowpox does not know how many people have been saved, and the invention of forceps has further promoted the increase in population.

"In terms of the land in Kannai, feeding 10,000 people can make these people live a life of worry-free food and clothing, and quite affluent, 150 million is already the limit, if you want more, ......

Shaking his head, recalling the astonishing poverty of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in another time and space, Zhu Mingzhong continued.

"Maybe they won't starve to death, but they are just barely making ends meet, just like the people in Shaanxi now, when the carrying capacity of the land reaches its limit, the output will be less and less, because the fertility of the land is constantly declining, just like Shaanxi, so although the people there work harder than the people everywhere, they are hard, but after a hard year, they still can't eat, they will be poor, and they will continue to be poor in the future! Even getting poorer! ”

Unless we wait until the Industrial Revolution develops, until the advent of chemical fertilizers, deep wells and other equipment, we will be able to change all this. But that change is limited.

Staring into the distance, Zhu Mingzhong was silent for a moment, and then said.

"Now that Da Ming is here, there is naturally nothing to worry about. But what about the future? If I am gone, I am worried that when the time comes, there will be a second Li Zicheng! ”

A hundred years? Two hundred years?

Even if Hong Xiuquan is not born, when the time comes, if there is another Li Xiuquan, it will even ...... Who knows? What the world will look like in one or two hundred years, Zhu Mingzhong can't see it now, after all, the world has changed now, and now the industrial revolution has begun in the Ming Dynasty.

However, this revolution could not change the reality that there were fewer people in the Ming Dynasty.

"Death Penalty ......"

At this time, in addition to bowing their heads to express the capital crime, whether it was Qian Lei or Zhu Daxian, they could only look at His Majesty in confusion, and they really didn't understand what His Majesty was thinking in their hearts.

Worried about what will happen in 200 years?

Perhaps, every emperor hopes that his country will last for generations, but who would have thought that hundreds of years later?

Your Majesty's mind is becoming more and more elusive.

In fact, no one has ever been able to guess His Majesty's thoughts.

No one will ever know that Zhu Mingzhong is from the future, maybe others will see the world in two hundred years, but he can not only see it, but he can even see the world in three hundred and fifty years! That's why he has so many worries, and whenever he faces those problems, he can't deal with everything with the sentence "the boat goes straight to the bridge" like they do.

As the Ming Dynasty, it should be said that he was the founder of the Xinming Empire, and Zhu Mingzhong hoped that what he could build was a thousand-year empire, not an empire with a three-hundred-year cycle, or rather, another Manchu Qing dynasty, which would be replaced by another dynasty after two or three hundred years.

Everyone has their own wishes, Zhu Mingzhong's wish is very simple, he not only hopes to establish a thousand-year-old empire that belongs to him, but also hopes that the Chinese civilization can continue for generations, and even for him, the latter is far more important than the former, when formulating some policies, he will even compromise with the latter, even if the price is to sacrifice the Zhu family!

Even if the price of continuing Chinese civilization is the country he has built single-handedly, he will not hesitate to do it. After all, he came to this era from another time and space, and he deeply felt what kind of disasters were brought to this country and this nation after the destruction of civilization.

In the world of one family and one surname, there is always one family and one surname.

No matter how selfish he is, he must first consider the continuation of civilization!

Zhu Mingzhong, who exhaled and seemed to want to spit out the depressed breath in his chest, suddenly felt that he seemed to be a little too great.

However, there are some issues that he must consider!

Despite such self-deprecation, Zhu Mingzhong still had some sadness in his eyes.

"Some people say that it is too cruel for me to use the primogeniture system, and it is really against humanity to separate my brothers all over the world and prevent my parents from being with their children and grandchildren. But they don't know that since the Qin and Han dynasties, our Han people are a three-hundred-year cycle, great governance, chaos, troubled times, prosperous times, in this cycle, civilization was destroyed, hundreds of millions of people died in military disasters, the implementation of the separation of production system, brothers divided the family business, it seems to take care of everyone, but the rich is not three generations, even if it is a rich family, after the family business is divided into three generations, it has become a well-off family, and the well-off family's ability to resist risks is almost zero. Land annexation will happen naturally, and if it is not for the sake of survival, who wants to sell their family business? What is the division of the property of the brothers? In the end, it seems that people are thriving, but they are just a group of poor people, every time there is a famine, in order to survive, they have pawned their ancestral industry to the rich, and they rent their own land to make a living, so the land is becoming more and more concentrated, and with more and more population, in the end, half of the people in the world are without a cone, and the world naturally can not be stable for a long time? Then the people rose in turmoil, the people continued to revolt, and then hundreds of millions of people died in the change of dynasty, what is the crime of the people in the world, although every two or three hundred years, they suffer from this catastrophe? ”

Such a rhetorical question made Qian Lei and Zhu Daxian's foreheads sweat, and Zhu Zhangpei, who has been clearly opposing the "primogeniture inheritance system" in the past few years, looked at His Majesty with wide eyes in horror, and his eyes were full of disbelief, and even his lips trembled slightly, he couldn't believe that the root of the so-called "land annexation" was actually in this place.

But then, he thought of the rise and fall of the family he had witnessed in the countryside in the past few decades, and how many prominent families had become well-off families after a few generations of separation. Ordinary people do not have the ability to resist risks, and only those rich families have the corresponding ability to survive the famine, but if the rich families have two more generations, then I am afraid that they will not even be well-off.

Looking at His Majesty, Zhu Zhangpei seemed to understand, and understood why His Majesty would stubbornly force the implementation of the "primogeniture inheritance law" in order to let the people voluntarily emigrate to Kanto and Nanyang? This is only one aspect, and more importantly, it is more important to let the people of the world no longer fall into the cycle of chaos and rule as in the past.

It's just that how many people in this world can understand His Majesty's painstaking efforts?

"This primogeniture may solve some problems, but ...... Only time will tell. ”

In his contemplation, Zhu Mingzhong thought of Europe, where primogeniture was also practiced, and the urban poor roamed the streets, often becoming the source of riots, and in the end, it was the Industrial Revolution that changed everything—the factories absorbed the surplus labor.

I hope that the industrial development of the Ming Dynasty can also absorb enough surplus labor!

Thinking so in his heart, Zhu Mingzhong looked towards Shaanxi.

"Now, Shaanxi, to some extent, is the continuous deterioration of the environment has led to all this, after all, from the Qin Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, Shaanxi is the richest place in the world, but the excessive reclamation brought by less land and more people has destroyed the local natural environment, so that the current people are becoming more and more impoverished, and there is only one way to change all this!"

Immigrant!

Only immigrants can solve this problem.

"Your Majesty, the ministers will urge Shaanxi to speed up the pace of immigration and move all the people who have no land and little land to other places,"

"Not enough!"

As soon as Zhu Daxian's words fell, Zhu Mingzhong shook his head and said.

"It's not enough just these people, the problem in Shaanxi is thalassemia now, even if hundreds of thousands of people are migrated, it will not help the overall situation, excessive reclamation will only lead to the continuous deterioration of its environment, so if you want to fundamentally change all this, you must move the local people out as much as possible!"

Looking at Zhu Daxian, Zhu Mingzhong said in a deep voice.

"My idea is to move as much as possible, move more than 70% of the local population, especially north of the Wei River, and move to the Northeast and Sichuan as much as possible! Otherwise, we can't change the local environment and the lives of the local people! ”