Penglai Continent is the American continent in later generations, because Emperor Chongzhen is lazy, South America and North America are called Penglai Continent, and they are not named separately. With {dream} small ◢ say шщЩ.

The most terrible thing is that when all the Europeans on Penglai Island were cleaned up, the court of the Ming Dynasty found that there was not enough population to immigrate to Penglai, and finally had to leave Penglai there to grow grass.

The reason is very simple, less immigration is useless and easy to have problems, more immigrants will be the local population will be significantly reduced, and the Ming Dynasty, which has realized the demographic dividend, naturally wants to see this happen.

The problem is that the saying that the heavens do not fulfill people's wishes is too reasonable.

In the past, when the Ming Dynasty did not have so much territory and could not feed such a large population, the court wished that there would be fewer and fewer people.

Now that there is more territory, I want more people to follow, and the population is not like food, so you can wait for the autumn harvest if you plant it in the spring, and it will take more than ten or twenty years for a generation to grow.

Especially after the marriage order was changed.

Before the Ming people, men were fourteen and women thirteen had already reached the age of marriage, especially once a woman was over eighteen years old, she could be called an old girl.

It's good now, Da Ming Law has directly postponed this time for several years - if it weren't for the fact that the survival rate of newborns has been improved in a certain aspect with the backward of age, I am afraid that the court would have already started to make trouble.

For this situation, Emperor Chongzhen was also very painful.

I am not a god, I can conjure up the people with a breath, don't you have to rely on the livelihood of the people, and then cut the leeks by yourself?

Besides, there are more prizes for birth, and the unheard-of policies of not being able to support the state have all been come out, and the population growth rate is still the same bird, and I have a way to have a hammer?

Besides, the current population growth rate is already okay, compared with the apocalypse years, it has increased a lot, and if you want to increase it, you can only turn the people of the whole country into grass, and then pull out the seedlings to help it......

Zhang Zhiji pondered for a long time before he spoke: "Your Majesty, otherwise, encourage the people to take concubines?" ”

Glancing at Zhang Zhiji, Emperor Chongzhen sneered: "I decreed, are you nobles taking the lead?" Was it reprimanded by your wife yesterday? ”

Zhang Zhiji suddenly sneered and said: "Your Majesty misunderstood, the joy of the boudoir, the joy of the boudoir." ”

Emperor Chongzhen said that I smiled and didn't say anything - God knows what happened to these noble generals in the Ming Dynasty, when it comes to being afraid of his wife, he is really a top heart, and now he knows how to save the country!

The problem is, it's not a big problem for me to make this will, but what about my harem, don't those little girls have to start making a fuss about accepting a few concubines for me?

This is not good, the harem that has finally stopped, must not add more people because of this bad idea, after all, if there are too many concubines, it should be a headache......

However, what Emperor Chongzhen never expected was that Lu Xiangsheng, a guy with thick eyebrows and big eyes, also betrayed the revolution: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that what the British public says is feasible. ”

Lu Xiangsheng said slowly while considering the words: "Now many foreign women are trying their best to marry my Ming man, and those who have merit and fame and can take concubines look down on foreign women, and ordinary people who can reluctantly accept those foreign women are not qualified to take concubines, so?" ”

Zhu Yujian jumped out to object: "Lu Butang and the British Duke still think too simply!" There are also some barbarian women on Xinming Island now, but the people of Daming who immigrated to the past are obviously not interested in these foreign women. ”

Lu Xiangsheng bowed and said, "What if you accept a foreign woman as a concubine and reward five taels of silver?" ”

Now it's Wu Gan's turn to blow up: "Lu Ge Lao is going to hollow out the treasury of the Ming Dynasty!" ”

Lu Xiangsheng suddenly turned his gaze to Emperor Chongzhen again: "Your Majesty, the so-called good ...... is good."

Emperor Chongzhen immediately sneered.

If something is good at the top, it will be followed by the bottom, or the king of Chu has a thin waist, and he starves to death in the palace - the surname Lu is nothing more than wanting me to take the lead in getting a foreign woman into the palace as a concubine.

As long as they take the lead, these nobles, as well as the ministers of civil and military affairs, will naturally follow their own footsteps and start a large-scale concubine action, just like when Yan Yuzhuo entered the palace, these bastards each made the women on the grassland as concubines.

The problem is that although Yan Yuzhuo is from the Xibe Ministry, the entire Xibe Ministry's household registration book now has Han written on it, and it has nothing to do with the foreign clan discussed now.

Especially those European women with red hair and blue eyes and tall horses, it is okay if they don't understand the language after they enter the palace - it is very embarrassing for a toothpick to stir up a vat......

Emperor Chongzhen, who pondered in his heart that he couldn't be ashamed, decided to launch the skill of throwing the pot: "I see that the proposal of the British public is very good, the nobles and ministers take the lead, and the officials below will soon follow, and the common people like to follow the trend the most."

As for the rule that ordinary people are not allowed to take concubines, let's implement them as always - barbarian women are slaves and not concubines, so naturally there is no need to revise the Daming law, and it also saves Meng Aiqing from always complaining to me. ”

Lu Xiangsheng suddenly felt that he was really lying down and was shot.

The so-called nobles and ministers, the nobles naturally refer to Zhang Zhiji's group of princes, as for the ministers, they don't have to think about it, they definitely didn't run away.

The problem is that the damn Zhang Zhi is extremely afraid of his wife, so he is not afraid?

Seeing that Lu Xiangsheng wanted to say something more, Emperor Chongzhen simply waved his hand and said, "That's it." Wang Chengen, go back and order someone to pass a message to the families of the nobles, and the vassal kings will have Uncle Wang to pass a message for me, and all the Aiqing in the court will have Lao Lu Aiqing. ”

Zhu Yujian didn't feel much, and he didn't even feel like lying down.

The vassal king, you don't have to worry about the government, you don't have to go into battle to fight, the biggest responsibility is to eat, drink and have fun and create the next generation by the way, and it seems that there is no problem with the barbarian woman to create the next generation......

After chatting about how to create a large number of the next generation, Emperor Chongzhen naturally turned the topic to the bad things of the Ministry of Railways and the Ministry of Communications.

The Ministry of Railways, the Ministry of Communications, and the Ministry of Industry looked at each other unpleasantly, and they were almost destined from the day the Ministry of Railways and the Ministry of Communications were born, because a large number of functions and powers of the Ministry of Railways and the Ministry of Communications were separated from the Ministry of Industry.

Originally, a giant was split into three parts, and the Ministry of Railways and the Ministry of Communications snatched a large share of labor from the Ministry of Industry, and the Ministry of Industry, which retained the main structure, was naturally unhappy.

The reason for the conflict between the three ministries this time is exactly the same as before, and it is all due to the distribution of labor.

Unlike previous conflicts, this time the Ministry of Communications sided with the Ministry of Industry.

The same requires a large number of laborers, the Ministry of Railways can eat more and occupy more, the Ming Dynasty has almost half of the workers who have been brought back in the past two years by the Ministry of Railways, Shaofu has taken away one percent, and the remaining forty percent is divided equally between the Ministry of Communications and the Ministry of Industry.

The Ministry of Communications and the Ministry of Industry, who are angry, don't have the courage to vent their anger at Emperor Chongzhen, but there is no problem with targeting the Ministry of Railways and the Ministry of Communications.

Emperor Chongzhen's main purpose today is to extinguish the fire: "The first few times the Ministry of Railways got the lion's share, this time after the workers arrived on the shore, the railway part was divided into two, the Shaofu was divided into one, and the remaining seventy percent was divided equally by the Ministry of Communications and the Ministry of Industry." ”

Chang Kaisheng, the secretary of the Ministry of Communications, was suddenly reluctant: "Your Majesty, even if the Ministry of Railways is only divided into two percent, the average seventy percent of the Ministry of Communications and the Ministry of Industry is only three and a half percent, and the number of workers needed by the Ministry of Communications at the moment far exceeds that of the Ministry of Railways and the Ministry of Industry!" ”

It seems that he didn't see the anger in the eyes of Hong Chengchou, the secretary of the Ministry of Railways, and Zhang Yingxuan, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, Chang Kaisheng folded his hands and said: "It is true that the river bridges of the Ministry of Industry need a large number of laborers, but the Ministry of Industry, which has not stopped the progress since Chongzhen three years, now has very few places that need labor.

The Ministry of Railways still needs a large number of laborers, but it is not as urgent as the Ministry of Communications, after all, those places where the railways cannot pass through each other are all supported by the straight roads built by the Ministry of Communications.

So far, the construction progress of the Ministry of Transportation has been far behind the original plan, and the main problem is the lack of labor, so that the construction of the straight road in many places has not yet started.

After the workers arrived this time, the Ministry of Transportation scored 50% anyway, so that the Ministry of Transportation could put the planned straight roads on paper as soon as possible.

Didn't Your Majesty once say that if you want to get rich, you must first build roads, and now that the roads have begun to be overhauled, but they are constrained by laborers, isn't this contrary to Your Majesty's original intention? ”

Zhang Yingxuan, the secretary of the Ministry of Works, who was originally with the Ministry of Communications, suddenly turned back: "If it is according to what Chang Butang said, then wouldn't my Ministry of Industry be idle every day and waste money and food in vain?"

If this is the case, then the Ministry of Railways and the cross-river bridge that your Ministry of Communications will use, you should repair it yourself, and don't come to the Ministry of Industry to complain! ”

Hong Chengchou nodded and said: "Now there are only two railways from the Beishan Department of the Nuergan Division to Liaodong and Mongolia, and the transportation capacity is greatly insufficient. ”

Seeing that these three bigwigs were arguing fiercely, Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help but speak: "Aren't there a large number of Romans in Daming now?" It's good to hire them directly, the kind that pays them. ”

Zhang Yingxuan bowed and said: "Your Majesty, it's not that the ministers are unwilling, but that they can't do it."

Most of the places that need to use labor are jobs such as digging holes in the mountains, and many places where it is difficult to reach are filled with human lives, which is why the ministers did not requisition too many Ming people.

Although there are many Romans who now make a living in our Ming Dynasty, according to the Treaty of Amity and Commerce of Minro, those Romans cannot be used as laborers. ”

Emperor Chongzhen nodded and said: "Sign a contract with them, if you die, you will be compensated a certain amount of silver taels, whatever the problem that silver can solve, is it still a problem?" ”

Wu Ganlai's face darkened, and he coughed lightly before he spoke: "Your Majesty, the problem that money can solve is not a problem, the problem is that there is not so much silver in the treasury, and Weichen does not dare to open this opening!" ”

Seeing Emperor Chongzhen looking at him curiously, Wu Ganlai finally patiently explained: "In the twenty-five years and one year of Chongzhen, the number of labor deaths under the Ministry of Industry is about 60,000, the Ministry of Communications is about 80,000, and the Ministry of Railways is ......."

After sneering, Wu Ganlai continued: "The number of dead laborers on the side of the Ministry of Railways alone is about 200,000, which is almost three times that of the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Communications.

Moreover, since these Romans could not be used directly as laborers, they had to be paid, and no one wanted to do it if there was less, and if there was more, it would be a large expense.

According to the calculation of two yuan per person per month, 300,000 laborers are 600,000 yuan, plus the compensation required for death, I am afraid that this amount will be several times higher.

Based on the calculation of 20 yuan for the death of a worker, 300,000 workers who die in a year will need to pay 6 million yuan. Although six million is not much,"

Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help but nodded.

Six million guan is not good, just catch a few corrupt officials and sprinkle them to get several six million guan......

"However, there is so much money in the Ming treasury, in addition to the regular budget expenditure every year, there are also emergencies from time to time that need to be spent, if you add another six million yuan of expenditure out of thin air, I am afraid that the treasury will be difficult to support."

Wu Ganlai's meaning is very simple, it is not a big deal to increase the expenditure of 6 million guan, and if there is this money in the treasury, even 60 million guan is no problem, this is all small money.

The real big deal lies in the natural disasters that occur from time to time.

Regardless of whether the natural disaster is a punishment from God in order to remind his stupid son where there are officials who are corrupt and harm the people, anyway, the household department has to come up with real money to relieve the disaster, and in the second year, it is necessary to replenish the emergency supplies consumed by the local government, and to ensure that there is no chaos in the lives of the people in the second year.

There are also those things that Emperor Chongzhen made himself.

From Wu Ganlai's point of view, the things that Emperor Chongzhen did were obviously more disgusting than those natural disasters.

Natural disasters are temporary, and the past is over, and there is always a count of money spent.

And the things that Emperor Chongzhen did were different.

Although a large amount of arms was sold, and an additional tax revenue was added to the treasury, the immigrants, soldiers' rewards, and pensions needed after the war were far from being covered by those taxes.

If it weren't for the fact that the foreign wars in the past few years have been victorious, and the invisible benefits have been innumerable, I am afraid that the household department would have jumped out against Emperor Chongzhen Hu Lai.

He knows his own family affairs, and of course Emperor Chongzhen also knows that Wu Lao is beating around the bush and saying that he is messing around.

But as the saying goes, if there is a mistake, you have to admit it, and you must not change it, and Emperor Chongzhen has no intention of correcting his mistakes immediately.

It's impossible not to do things, it's impossible in this life, and in this life, I'm either doing things or on the way to doing things.

ps: Today's sacrifice "Return to the Ming Dynasty to be a powerful minister"