Chapter 785: Population Strategy

As the train continued to speed forward, when he crossed this small highland, the steel base was no longer visible, and Zhao Xin's worries began to let go, he was really afraid that Han Qi would desperately want to go to the steel base, then he was sorry, he could only miss it, although Han Qi said that it was important, it was really not a little worse than Concubine Miao.

Next, in the journey of about an hour, there was no more lively chat, the three of them had their own thoughts, occasionally saw some interesting scenes, there was a ride or not a word, and then there was silence, the people around did not dare to come forward, and even in the carriage, the voice was much quieter.

The train roared past a small town, Zhao Xin was at the station, saw the name of this town, and said to Han Qi with a smile: "Welcome, Shenyang has arrived!" ”

"Has Shenyang arrived? Not so fast! Before Han Qi could speak, Fu Bi raised his head, looked around, and when he saw the name of the town, he turned to Han Qi and explained: "It's really to Shenyang, but it's to Nansan City, a satellite city of Shenyang, which is a city centered on the textile industry!" ”

Nansan City is about 50 kilometers away from Shenyang, but after crossing the Nansan City, it has already entered the periphery of Shenyang after the first hour, it has entered the circle of Shenyang, here, is a small city with textile as the main body, with a total of more than 700,000 people, of which, more than one-third, is textile, as well as textile-related industrial workers.

In the middle of heavy industry, there is a lot of knowledge that he does not understand, Fu Bi feels that he is a little incomprehensible, light industry, especially the industry with textiles and garments as the core, because of its simplicity and high profits, directly attracted Fu Bi's attention.

Male ploughing and female weaving, this is the normal state of wisdom in history, using industrial methods, using machines to improve efficiency, how to improve, this point, Fu Bi does not know much, but compared to other things, he sees a little more clearly, and, asked, this machine is not particularly expensive.

In the product catalog of the Dinghai Navy, it is divided into several grades, for example, the technical content is very high, and the manufacturing difficulty is huge, generally speaking, even if it will be sold to the Northern Song Dynasty, it will take into account various aspects, reduce the quantity, and increase the price at the same time.

On the contrary, there are some that have no technical content, and the production of the navy is relatively convenient, and the price is relatively low.

The textile industry is one of the more important ones, the profit is very high, but relatively simple, the whole machine is an iron-wood structure, relatively simple, once exported to the Northern Song Dynasty, may not be long, can be imitated, the same, this textile industry, may be more profitable, but the number of female workers is more, not quite in line with the foundation of the navy, control the textile industry of the navy itself, and then take the Northern Song Dynasty, can not create too much profit, but will bring a bad impact.

Even in the 21st century, the textile industry is an indisputable labor-intensive industry, the vast majority of the workers used in this industry are women, women are ingenious, they have a natural foundation in the textile industry, and they are much more efficient than men.

However, the basic national policy of the navy at present is to reduce the number of female workers, keep the total number relatively low, and let the vast majority of women return to the family as a guarantee in the family.

At present, the industrial scale of the Dinghai Navy, as well as the degree of use of machinery, the Dinghai Navy is not short of labor force at all, and even the current huge industrial level of the Dinghai Navy, among the more than 37 million people, the vast majority of them are no longer working, and only a fraction of the young and middle-aged people work to support a few families.

In the early days of the establishment of the Dinghai Navy, the population of the Dinghai Navy was collected from the surrounding areas, and there were some disaster victims, they had all kinds of things, in order to ensure a sufficient number of workers, at the beginning, there was no deliberate pursuit. When the navy was most lacking, it was a little bit of female labor.

There was no choice, and among those who fled the famine, and those who were attracted by wages, were young and middle-aged, with a few children and the elderly, who did not need to be cared for and did not need families.

But soon, with the development of the Dinghai Navy, the industrial system began to be born, the production efficiency of the entire Dinghai Navy became higher and higher, and at the same time, the influence expanded, affecting most of the Central Plains from the two Huai, more and more people arrived at the Dingjun, and the solution of the human problem, the Dinghai Navy did not need so much labor, and soon reduced the female population.

This is considered a return to the family, and it also compounds the general law, for women, it does not mean that she is not allowed to work. However, in the whole spectrum, in the field of industry, there are very few jobs for women workers, but in the tertiary sector, and in the family, there are many jobs for them.

This, not abrupt, if it is really feminism and the emancipation of women, that is the rule that the Northern Song Dynasty people are not used to, and later generations are completely defeated in China and spread from abroad.

The Northern Song Dynasty has developed to the present, the founders of Zhu Cheng Lixue have not yet come out, the earliest Zhou Dunyi, Zhang Zai, Shao Yong, they are still young, only in their twenties, or even teenagers, they are still in the time of studying and emerging from the ground, the real foundation and maturity is more than ten years later, after they all became a great Confucian.

However, the development of history has a context, and Cheng Zhu cannot create a doctrine out of thin air, they are based on Confucianism, and they are widely raised, so this kind of theory of women husbands and children, and even imprisonment and oppression, has not yet formed a theory, but it has also had a preliminary foundation, and the constraints on women are also increasing.

Let's not talk about whether this is right or not, but if you emancipate your mind and let women enter society, it seems that it will increase the number of employed people, but in fact, women's contribution to social production is not very high, it should be lower than that of men, not to mention that the efficiency is not high, and when women work, it will cause the problem of population reproduction.

Like the Northern Song Dynasty, it is impossible for the average school-age woman to reproduce in two or three years, and even a series of problems caused by this will affect the social balance.

Feminism formed abroad appeared after the industrial revolution and labor became the focus of competition for owners, and gradually developed.

In order to obtain labor, they promoted sheep to eat people, used arable land to graze sheep, developed industry, produced goods, drove farmers out of the land and into factories to create value.

Under the premise that the basic labor force is insufficient, women and children have become the lowest level in the factory.

This is a corner of historical development, but it is not inevitable, there is a natural basis, that is, the core of the industrial revolution in Europe, they do not have a complete medical system, the strength of Western medicine, is after the 20th century, before the 19th century, more Western medicine is a liar, relying on bloodletting, neuropathy therapy, and even deceptive means.

Without a complete health care system, it is natural that the fertility rate has always been low, and after the industrial revolution skyrocketed production capacity, population deprivation became the end, and in order to obtain enough labor, this goal was placed on women and children.

But is this right, no, Britain, the country with the strongest development of the industrial revolution, first suffered such a bad effect, when a large number of women entered the factory, for decades, the infant mortality rate in Britain continued to rise, and then reached an appalling level.

Therefore, later, with the population growth, reaching a critical value, coupled with the high degree of industrialization and the soundness of the security system, some women left their jobs and returned to their families, but decades, hundreds of years of history, the formation of feminism, has also become a kind of social cognition.

Unlike Europe, China has a natural advantage in the industrial revolution, its own productivity has always been relatively developed, the number of population and growth rate have always been relatively high, not to mention the more than 100 million people in the Northern Song Dynasty, this number is enough for the labor needed by the Industrial Revolution 3.0, it is said that the navy, directly from the Northern Song Dynasty and the surrounding areas, has also obtained more than 37 million people.

Not to mention high-end industry 2.0 and 3.0, just to say industry 1.0, there is no shortage of labor at all, and on the premise of not lacking, it is necessary to use more efficient labor.

For Dingjun, in addition to using higher productivity, there is also a point that contains Zhao Xin's ambition.

At present, the rapid development of the Dinghai Navy, population, has become the most subjective amount of the Dinghai Navy, 37 million population, is enough, to maintain a natural growth rate, maybe 30 years or 50 years, the population doubled is absolutely no problem.

But Zhao Xin doesn't want to wait so long, he prefers to double in 10 years, the slowest can't exceed 15 years, which is almost three times higher than the natural growth rate, and the average annual population growth rate is about 7%.

Why is this so, it is not to occupy the land, at present, the whole world is in a barren country, similar to the development of the city-state, the ability of the navy to go to the sea, this is not bad at all, and even said, with the basis of colonization, then the whole world, how many people are needed to fill it, if there is not enough people, even if it is like Mongolia, the entire Eurasian island is laid, what can it be?

Under the premise of occupying the whole world, Mongolia can only lead temporarily, this is the sorrow of the ethnic minorities, once their strength declines on a large scale, their only result is that they are quickly overthrown and lose control.

However, the Dinghai Navy is different, when the population continues to expand and turn over in 10 years, in addition to the population from the Northern Song Dynasty and the surrounding areas, in the face of the huge population base, when the basic population of the Dinghai Navy reaches 80 million, it will integrate 10 million and 20 million from the periphery, and there is no problem with this.

With this as a basis, it can reach 200 million people in 10 years, 400 million in 20 years, and no more than 30 years at the latest.

In other words, in 30 years, the population will increase to 400 million, which is a huge number.

Zhao Xin is a student of history, for world history, there is a very clear example, in the Northern Song Dynasty, the population of 120 million, has accounted for one-third of the world, the whole world, there are historical records, about 320 million.

Of course, there was no census at that time, and many things were made based on historical records, and even those of the Northern Song Dynasty were not too accurate, let alone the whole world.

But 300 million to 400 million people, should be a relatively certain number, because any more, can not be fed, except for civilized and developed countries, can be farmed, to increase the total population, other countries, such as backward feudal countries, slave countries, and even primitive tribes, they simply can't support such a huge population, relying on the sky for food, or even hunting, their population will not grow very fast.

The Northern Song Dynasty already accounts for one-third of the world's population, and if another wave of growth breaks out on the basis of the Northern Song Dynasty, the population of 4 to 500 million will directly account for more than 7 percent of the world's population. The most important thing is that with the support of huge funds and land, this amplification will not decrease, even if it doubles in 15 years, it will reach 400 million in 30 years, 800 million in 45 years, and 1.6 billion in 60 years.

Population growth will be inert and will gradually decrease, but as long as China's population exceeds 1 billion, the population itself is a terrifying force to the extreme, not to mention this kind of force, which has received scientific education and has sufficient support.

Not to mention 60 years, 100 years, let's just say that after 30 years, with Zhao Xin's physical condition, it is not a problem to live to that age at all, and 30 years of rapid development, 30 years of accumulated support, when a large number of new Chinese who have received professional technical training, after 12 years, or even more educational background, what kind of combat effectiveness do they have.

Under the premise of terrible science and technology, with ironclad ships, artillery, muskets, and a world map, the whole world, and there are still places that can resist, let alone the countries of the world in this era, even the countries of the world in the 17th and 18th centuries, when facing a country with average productivity, stronger than Britain at its peak, and a population 10 times or even dozens of times more than Britain, who can fight.

The leadership of the yellow race is not just talking, not only to science and technology, industrial base, leading the trend of the whole world, at the same time, the population is the same, why in later generations, the mainstream of the world is the white race, because the world power, territory, and science and technology and many other aspects, are led by the white race, China and the yellow race, are suppressed in East Asia.

Now, the whole of China, with unique conditions, has enough population, the outbreak of industry 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, as long as the population continues to grow, education and scientific research continue, the changes brought by industry will be faster and faster.

At the same time, it also has the necessary force and means of transportation, and the current military strength of the navy is basically equivalent to the level of the world's great powers in the middle of the 19th century, and the population is even more so many than several powerful countries combined.