Chapter 772: The Slave Trade

Zhang Qiang banged on the table, the third prince's actions made him feel insulted, it's not that his own people are disobedient after all, but now Zhang Qiang doesn't want to start a war with the third prince, Japan has not yet solved it, and a huge Japanese nation cannot be solved in a while.

There is another thing that cannot be solved is the population of Japan, the population of Southeast Asia, although naturalization can solve a lot of problems, but after all, it can't solve the permanent problem, that is, sinicization, the population from the sinicization still has a certain instability after all, and it will bring endless trouble to their descendants in the future, and their descendants can fight by themselves, after all, the meat is rotten in the pot, but if the power is controlled by those remnants, then it is invaded, ruled by others, and the regime of China is ruled by foreign races, This is the shame of the Chinese nation, there have been several times, the Turks, Xianbei people, Hu people, and the Mongols in the back, and the Jurchen Jin people of the Qing Dynasty in modern times.

Now there are 130 million people in the base core area of the Huaxia Kingdom, and the population is increasing by 30 million per year.

Nowadays, although the Chinese Kingdom is developing at a high speed, the foundation is still an agricultural country, light industry has just developed, hand-woven bamboo baskets, bamboo baskets, brooms, manufacturing some small businessmen to see the sedan chairs, rickshaws, blacksmiths are keen to build agricultural tools, to create some needles, pots and pans, and a small number of carpenters for artificial doors and windows, for the militia self-defense forces to make some spears, for the old men to create some luxury sedan chairs, carriages, etc., and more light industry, so that the Chinese Kingdom is extremely prosperous, and the small people are living more and more nourishing.

If it weren't for the Huaxia Kingdom's restriction on the resale of land, the Huaxia Kingdom would soon become another prosperous Ming Dynasty, with more and more merchants, more and more million households, and tens of millions of households have appeared, but the employment of these people still can't offset a large number of people, and there are about 10 million people who need to work every year.

The Kingdom of China can't give them so many jobs, soldiers only recruit 100,000 people every year, and at the same time 100,000 people are discharged from the army, only 10,000 people can get jobs, and everyone else can only be unemployed, although Zhang Qiang continues to immigrate to Southeast Asia, but not everyone wants to go, forced immigrants can only have hundreds of thousands of people go to Southeast Asia, become landed peasants where.

The population of Southeast Asia is also quite a lot, originally only 8 million people, and then there were more than 10 million indigenous people, that is, more than 20 million people, they are also giving birth to children, constantly immigrating into the core area, constantly immigrating to Qiongdao, Baodao Prefecture and Yunnan Guizhou bordering Sishan Prefecture, can not solve the problem, because they are all hundreds of thousands of millions of speeds, and the number of births has reached two or three million.

So Zhang Qiang could only find a way to sell the Japanese, but because of the speed problem, it took only a few months to go back and forth, and it was only tens of thousands of people, and Zhang Qiang had a headache.

Now they can only emigrate to Sishan Prefecture, where three million people have migrated in a few months, and have reoccupied the land that has vacancied a lot.

Zhang Qiang means to develop heavy industry to absorb so many people, to expand cities, to solve the problem of increasing population.

The cabinet has decided to vigorously build Zhejiang, Anhui, and Shandong prefectures, and the government will build houses and the people will live in them, and then it will take more than 20 years to repay the government, and each important city has developed to a population of 300,000, and Yangzhou has returned to its former prosperity, with a population of 600,000, most of whom are light industrial population.

The population of heavy industry is still concentrated in Xianju County, Jinhua Province, where there are nearly 5 million people, even the smallest town has a population of 10,000, and the smallest village has a population of 2,000.

With a fleet of 4,000 warships and a population of nearly 300,000, and 2,000 fishing boats to feed a population of 130,000, the Cabinet meant to sell all the ships of less than 60 tons of sailors, about 300 ships, so that 30,000 people could become fishermen and sailors, and this would solve the employment problem of many people.

The number of ships of the Huaxia Army's naval division was reduced by 300, from more than 3,700 to more than 3,300, thus solving the problem of the huge number of naval divisions.

At the same time, some fishermen were borrowed, and the craftsmen asked them to build small shipyards, build some fishing boats, and let them transfer the surplus population to the seashore and become fishermen.

Successive fishing boats can consume more unemployed sailors and young adults.

Zhang Qiang thought about it and proposed to transfer a part of the population to Zheng Chenggong and become the Han people of Zheng Chenggong, Zheng Chenggong and they are Han people after all.

So this time, Zhang Qiang approved the sale of 50,000 Han Chinese to Zheng Keshuang, and at the same time sold more and more Japanese prisoners to Zheng Keshuang along with the Japanese people.

This time, when Zheng Keshuang arrives, there will be more than 3,000 sailors and young men who will sail for him, carrying hundreds of thousands of people to Australia.

So Zheng Keshuang, who returned to Hangzhou after half a month and five months, didn't have time to take a breath, so he started to be busy again, and spent half a month coordinating, with a population of 580,000, including 500,000 Japanese, 30,000 indigenous people in Southeast Asia, and 50,000 Han people, with 12 600-ton warships brought by himself, leading the Huaxia Army to go to sea again with more than 500 ships sold to him last time.

Left 10,000 tons of iron ore, 3,000 tons of guano, and repaid part of the arrears of the Huaxia army, of course, a very small part, 10,000 tons of iron ore, according to the price negotiated at the beginning, is only a few million Huaxia yuan, but the total population and ships he took away are worth 30 million.

The twenty Chinese warships that followed them did not return, and they were stranded in Australia.

Where to train sailors for Zheng Chenggong and use the warships of the Huaxia Army.

This time, Zhang Qiang sent 200 merchant ships and 36 escort warships to sail again to escort them to Australia, but this time he had to bring back the men and horses from the last time.

Those were not sold to Zheng Chenggong.

Just when Zhang Qiang was waiting for his new warship to return, Gu Yuesheng came to him.

"Your Majesty, I just got the news that the army of the third prince landed in Songjiang County, the island of China, and wiped out the Japanese army of 100,000 in one fell swoop, and captured 300,000 Japanese people, and now these people have been transported back to Jeju Island, but the third prince is not ready to hand over these Japanese to us according to the custom, they left 100,000 people, and the other 200,000 people are ready to be transported back to the island, and Xue Hong's news says that he is ready to sell to the Portuguese."

"Sold to the Portuguese?" Zhang Qiang was stunned.

Gu Yuesheng said: "Yes, the Portuguese have disappeared in recent years, but this time the Ryukyu Kingdom has reopened its sea trade, and the Spaniards and Portuguese who got the news have come to trade with them, and we have issued a trade permit to the Ryukyu Kingdom at their request, so that others can directly come to the Ryukyu Kingdom to trade through the Treasure Island Strait." ”

What is the third prince going to do?

(End of chapter)