The nomadic tribes in Liaodong, such as the Xibe Eight Tribes, plus Korea, Ryukyu, and Tumut, are definitely not a few, and all of them are added together, and it is estimated that it is not too much of a problem to make a few thousand.

But so many people, if they don't dilute it, or let them stay as they are, what's the difference between that and the original?

Who's to blame for the mess when the time comes? Do you want to send a large army to quell the rebellion again?

Instead of doing this, it is better to disperse these people little by little, and move out to guard the border according to dozens of Ming people plus one or two naturalized people.

Just like the four great irons of later generations, these relocated naturalized people guarded the border with the original Ming people, how can it be regarded as a friendship that has carried a gun together, coupled with the marriage integration of generations, these people will completely become the people of the Ming Dynasty It is just around the corner.

The biggest problem here is proportionality.

One milliliter of Heding Red mixed with ten kilograms of water is estimated to make people have a slight stomachache.

What if ten kilograms of water were mixed with 100 milliliters of Heding Red? Will it be fatal?

No one dares to play this package ticket, so it is necessary to ensure that enough Ming people are mixed with enough naturalized people, which is the solution to the problem.

As for what is said to be divided according to the nationality, what nationality should each person be written on the household register?

I'm sorry, don't you treat us as the people of the Ming Dynasty? In this case, it seems understandable that we don't have the same heart as Daming?

Therefore, when Zhu Yujian proposed to Emperor Chongzhen to relocate some more people, Emperor Chongzhen put his mind on this-let's come little by little first.

Zhu Yujian felt very indifferent.

What do you want? It is people, a large number of people, only when there are more people, the speed of Daming's development of Xinming Island can be accelerated, and so many good things on Xinming Island can be brought back and become Daming's things.

Of course, the more benefits Daming gets, the more benefits he, the vassal king, gets, and Zhu Yujian can handle the relationship of both prosperity and prosperity.

After thinking about it for a while, Zhu Yujian bowed down and said: "Your Majesty, if you move the Liaodong tribes and the people of Korea and the Ryukyus, the ministers think that it is not appropriate to do too much, otherwise it will be easy to cause trouble?" ”

Emperor Chongzhen said with a smile: "This is natural, my plan is to match the proportion of twenty Ming people with one Korean, Ryukyu and other people, and there are benefits for them." ”

Zhu Yujian felt that he might be mentally abnormal—every time he heard Emperor Chongzhen say that we are a family or that I have something good to give to others, my heart trembles a little.

Why?

Zhu Yujian, who couldn't figure it out, simply stopped thinking about it, and went out of the palace honestly after having a meal with Zhu Zhuohong and Zhu Cunji, who had no sense of existence.

Emperor Chongzhen once again set his sights on the huge map.

The biggest problem of the Ming Dynasty now is definitely not a natural disaster, let alone a man-made disaster, nor a foreign enemy, but the lack of population and the lack of vassal kings.

No matter how terrible the natural disaster is, this kind of unavoidable thing can also be made up for by manpower, but in fact, the problem is really not that big.

For example, food, the food of the Ming Dynasty is not enough to eat, Emperor Chongzhen can buy it, you can grab it, in short, there are many ways.

For example, if there is a man-made disaster, the people of the Ming Dynasty can eat, even if they can maintain the food and clothing of the family, no one will think of rebellion.

The rest of the guys who rebelled for their personal goals didn't need to care at all - really when the millions of guards of the Ming Dynasty were put on a good look?

As for foreign enemies, the Tatars and Jiannu, as well as the Spaniards and the Dutch, will tell you with tears what is the fate of being an enemy of the Ming Dynasty.

So, at this point, the biggest problem is that there are not enough people.

After waiting for several days, Emperor Chongzhen waited for Guo Yunhou, who hurriedly entered the palace.

After the ceremony, Guo Yunhou bowed directly and said: "Your Majesty, the yellow book of the capital has been made, and other regions are also being made one after another. ”

Emperor Chongzhen hummed and said, "What is the result?" ”

In fact, Guo Yunhou didn't say it, Emperor Chongzhen also knew what the result was - it was really a very good result, Guo Yunhou would not rush to the palace at this time and not see himself.

Sure enough, as Emperor Chongzhen expected, Guo Yunhou said with a tangled face: "Your Majesty, there are 1.95 million mouths in the capital, 750,000 more than during the Apocalypse, and 500,000 more than when the last count was made. ”

Emperor Chongzhen laughed twice, but he didn't care.

The census during the Apocalypse recorded the number of people with household registration in the capital, 1.2 million.

But in fact, the population of the entire Ming Dynasty in the capital is far more than 1.2 million, because this number does not include those people who are not registered in the capital, let alone hidden households, runaways, and lowly people!

Just 500,000 more hidden households is a big deal, which was originally expected!

It's just that Emperor Chongzhen didn't expect that the speed of population statistics between the household department and Shuntian Mansion would be so fast, and the population of the entire Shuntian Mansion had been counted in less than half a month.

However, Emperor Chongzhen still underestimated the number of hidden households and fugitive households, or overestimated the efficiency of the Ming court.

Guo Yunhou saw Emperor Chongzhen's disapproving look, so he simply gritted his teeth and said: "Your Majesty, these 1.9 million five mouths, only the Dingkou in the capital, not counting the number of Dingkou in the surrounding counties and townships. ”

Emperor Chongzhen is really hurting at this moment - there are so many people in the capital alone, what about the rest of the places?

Not to mention the statistics of the entire Ming Dynasty, just counting the hidden households and fugitives in Beizhili, it is estimated that Xinming Island can be filled?

The problem of not having enough people will become the problem of too many people?

Also, these guys are really thinking about taking advantage of me!

Before there was no good policy of immigrants to give land, these guys were all small and two, and they were called little two when they gave birth to ten or eight, and now there is a good policy of sending land, and even the old ten and eleven have come out!

Shaking his head, Emperor Chongzhen threw this seemingly ridiculous idea out of his mind.

There will indeed be a lot more people, and even after the census is completed this time, it is not surprising that the population of Daming will suddenly find that the population of Daming has developed towards 300 million.

If there are more people, they will go to war and occupy more territory, won't they be able to feed themselves?

Anyway, the census is not the census, the population is like that, but some of them have been added with hidden attributes, and they can't see it themselves - but these people actually exist!

After pondering for a long time, Emperor Chongzhen continued: "Continue to make a book, not more than the Ming Dynasty, how many dingkou, continue to make a book, and do not allow it to be revealed." ”

Guo Yunhou wiped the cold sweat on his forehead and said: "Your Majesty, there are so many more dingkou in a while, if you have to move to the real side, I am afraid that my Ming may not have a lot of land?" ”

Emperor Chongzhen smiled: "If you don't have it, go and grab it!" What does Daming do with millions of soldiers? I can't use their swords to get more land for the people of the Ming Dynasty, so what do I want them to do? ”

Your old man is right, it's good if you're happy, you can't afford to mess with it, say goodbye!

Guo Yunhou chose to honestly follow Emperor Chongzhen's instructions - he is old, there is no need to toss around, it is only right to honestly listen to the emperor's orders.

As for His Majesty the Emperor's statement about sending troops to grab land or something, Guo Yunhou said that he had not heard anything.

Guo Yunhou left the palace, but Emperor Chongzhen once again set his sights on the map.

I have a sentence I want to talk about!

Just one capital is inexplicably more than 500,000 people, presumably Nanjing City is also a bird, and so on, in the end, as long as each city has more than 100,000 people, Daming can have tens of millions more people!

Then, if you carefully count the townships and counties, will you be surprised to find that there are hundreds of millions of more people?

According to the calculation of one person's allocation of 100 acres of land, these extra people need 10 billion acres of land?

No, the math teacher died too early, and I can't figure out how many square kilometers it is......

Emperor Chongzhen, who originally thought that he had a lot of territory, but the vassal king and the people were not enough, suddenly felt that his territory was not enough.

Since it's not enough, and I've just bragged about grabbing it, why don't you take a good look at the map and figure out which piece of territory to grab?

After pondering for a long time, Emperor Chongzhen simply ordered someone to pass Zhu Chunchen, who had just returned to the capital, and Zhang Zhiji, who returned to Beijing with him to rest, into the palace.

After Zhu Chunchen and the others entered the palace to salute, Emperor Chongzhen stretched out his finger and pointed to the map and said to Zhu Chunchen: "Tell Amin and Mang Gurtai that Ji Ji Si, Yi Li Jiangli and Tulu Pan must be in their hands before the thirteenth year of Chongzhen." ”

Zhu Chunchen asked with some puzzlement: "Your Majesty?" At the moment, the Tatars have not been completely pacified, and it was not planned to take a temporary recuperation for two years before launching an offensive? ”

Emperor Chongzhen waved his hand and said: "Don't wait, the northern army will be transferred to the north when the northern army rests, so that they can also see blood, in short, time waits for no one." ”

Zhu Chunchen asked cautiously, "Your Majesty, but what's wrong?" ”

Emperor Chongzhen sat down in front of the chair before he spoke: "The capital is making a yellow book recently, does Chengguo know about it?" ”

Zhu Chunchen bowed down and said: "The minister does know that the family has also been registered, but this matter is related to attacking Turpan in advance?" ”

Emperor Chongzhen said: "In the capital alone, in the city, the Dingkou of Chongzhen's twelfth year has reached 1.95 million, 750,000 more than in the year of the Apocalypse, and 500,000 more than the last time the Yellow Book was made. ”

Zhu Chunchen and the others almost instantly figured out what Emperor Chongzhen meant—there were too many people, and the emperor was worried that the land would not be enough!

After pondering for a long time, Zhu Chunchen felt that in fact, the problem was not too big.

After all, it's just to speed up the speed of killing those barbarians, and these guards in the north who have been fighting for years can rest and recuperate, but just call the guards in the south to go north, and it shouldn't be a big problem.

As for whether the southern army can adapt to the environment in the north, or whether it can resist the rare climate in the south in the past winter, Zhu Chunchen is not too worried.

The foundation of the Ming Dynasty was to use the southern army to drive the Mengyuan into the Shuo desert in the north, what is the big deal if you come again?

Even if the guards in the south are more erosive than those in the north, even if the guards in the south can't adapt to the cold in the north, what can they do?

At the very least, the Southern Imperial Forest Army and the guards around Nanzhili have already proven that they can still fight in Luzon and Java!

What's more, in winter, when you are issued with thick cotton clothes, will you not be able to adapt to it?

After thinking back and forth in his heart, Zhu Chunchen bowed down and said: "Your Majesty, if you transfer the southern army to the north, you can mobilize the guards in Zhejiang, Fujian, Liangguang, Sichuan and other places.

First, these places are now extremely peaceful, and there are no combat missions in peacetime, and second, it can also allow the southern soldiers to adapt more to the terrain and environment of the north, so as to prepare for the future to fight in more northern places. ”

Chongzhen nodded and said, "Where to transfer the guards and soldiers, the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies has the final say, and I don't plan to meddle in it." But I have one request. ”

Zhu Chunchen bowed down and said, "Please give instructions to Your Majesty." ”

Emperor Chongzhen said: "Young army, according to the Tatar example of this northern expedition, anyone over the age of sixteen joins the army, so that they can also follow the long experience." Let them go into battle if necessary. ”

It has been some years since the formation of the young army, and it is time to let these children see what the real battlefield is like, and only in this way can these children slowly change the military system of the Ming Dynasty in the future.

Because the military system of the Ming Dynasty is far from perfect!

Zhu Chunchen bowed down and responded: "The minister obeys the order." ”

Anyway, the eldest son and the second son of the emperor are still many years away from the age of sixteen, and they don't need to go into battle, and the rest of the young army will be relatively indifferent - if the eldest son and the second son of the emperor also go out with the army, Zhu Chunchen asked himself if he had the courage to let them go into battle in person.

Zhang Zhiji said: "Your Majesty, please lead the army to Turpan!" ”

Emperor Chongzhen shook his head and said, "No, the Beijing camp, the new army, as well as Liu Aiqing and Xia Aiqing's troops, as well as Battle's subordinates, must stay in the capital to rest."

Three months later, Liu Aiqing and Xia Aiqing led their troops back to Nuergandusi, and Zhang Aiqing and Batel led their troops to the Leshi Grassland to listen to orders. ”

Zhang Zhi asked puzzledly: "Your Majesty, the Tatar tribes have been wiped out, as long as the people are steadily moved to the Leshi grassland, it will be naturally pacified after three or five years, why send a large army again?" ”

Emperor Chongzhen shook his head and said, "Mosbatur Khan led more than 1,000 horsemen to flee away, but I suffered nearly 40,000 casualties among 100,000 elite horsemen!"

This loss is big! My request is very simple, Zhang Aiqing and Batel will lead their troops to find Moth Batur Khan on the Leshi grassland, find him, and kill him! Give me the rest of the more than 1,000 horsemen to build a Jingguan! ”

After Zhang Zhiji and the others bowed down to answer, Emperor Chongzhen sneered: "I have a grudge, and I have never liked overnight!" ”