Yang Qing is not alarmist, he is really facing a crisis of population explosion.

The natural population growth rate is approaching five or three years.

Moreover, his current population of 120 million does not include the areas controlled by other forces, that is to say, excluding the 8 million areas originally controlled by the Qing army, and the 6 million areas controlled by Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong has increased to nearly 10 million......

The natural growth rate of the population of this old bandit was second only to that of the imperial court-controlled area.

There are no statistics from King Gui.

However, his natural population growth rate was only slightly higher than that of the Qing army-controlled areas, which shows that the ability of those sweatshops to devour lives is almost catching up with the wave of exodus from the Qing-controlled areas. But he and King Jingjiang, the total should not be less than 10 million, so in the end, the total population of the Ming Dynasty, which has formally completed unification, should be 1440 million. Next, the north also ushered in a period of population explosion, and the growth rate of 22 per 1,000 will increase, the natural population growth rate of six or three years is 33, then ten years later, the population of the Ming Dynasty will approach or even exceed 200 million.

It's scary.

Yang Qing avoided the bloody purge of the land, and then he had to face the root problems that had been perpetuated by it.

There are too many people!

If we don't kill them all, then he will have to face the problems that our Ming Dynasty has not solved.

The contradiction between the reduction of the actual arable land area and the continuous growth of the population caused by the Xiaoice period was solved by the alien race with a butcher's knife, and he not only blocked the fall of the butcher's knife, but also amplified this contradiction with the increase in the natural growth rate of the population, and now it is his turn to face this problem.

But......

"What does this have to do with the Public Land Law?"

The Empress said suspiciously.

"Isn't it possible for people to get into factories if they don't have enough land to accommodate them? Nowadays, in the factories on the other side of Songjiang, the income of the workers exceeds that of Huangzhuang. The factory owners are complaining that workers are hard to find nowadays, and that no one wants to enter the factory if they don't pay more than the Huangzhuang earners. ”

She continued.

"Thirty million workers?"

Yang Qing said with an exaggerated expression.

"Industry needs raw materials, needs the market, the core of our current industry is textiles, whether silk or cotton, the same is from the land, 30 million workers' factories, you plant cotton on the land of the whole country, you may not be able to use. In the same way, industry needs a market, and 30 million workers weave cloth on the current looms, which may not be worn by people in all countries. In fact, 3 million textile workers is already a terrible number, why did those factory owners not say that the wages of workers were high a few years ago, but now they think that their wages are high? How much was a cotton cloth five years ago? How much is a piece of cotton cloth now? Industry is not infinitely expanding, and industries beyond what the market can accommodate can become a disaster, and you will see one day the factory owner fill cotton cloth under the stove and set it on fire. ”

He said.

He's not exaggerating.

When Britain needed to use war to sell cotton cloth, there were less than 300,000 textile workers in the country, and the current Ming Dynasty really had 3 million textile workers, so it was really necessary to use the whole earth as a market.

"And what about going out and opening up a colony?"

The Empress said.

She is more enthusiastic about this issue than Yang Qing, mainly because of overseas development, which can bring her all kinds of favorite things, such as new delicacies, such as rare birds and animals, such as her favorite chocolate. She also knew how vast the world was, waiting for her fleet to conquer, and the map of the world she had seen was a complete version.

"Time!"

Yang Qing sat on the table in front of her and said, "It takes time to open up colonization, and we can't even move 30 million people to the north in ten years, let alone to those wild places?" After so many years of development in Taiwan, the number of immigrants in Taiwan has only increased to less than 300,000, and the mortality rate of Taiwanese immigrants has not fallen below 20 per 1,000. It's so close at hand, it's all good land, there's never a shortage of food, and our army is always ready to provide support, but even then the mortality rate is still high, and even more than 100 people die every year from poisonous snake bites. Another word for overseas colonization is to overcome obstacles, unless forced to go, no one wants to go, and it is a life and death to go. The British began to colonize the Americas in the 35th year of Wanli, and then by the fourth year of the Apocalypse, a total of 14,000 people had gone, and in the fourth year of the Apocalypse, there were only 1,100 British people left in the Americas.

You see, nine deaths is really not an exaggerated adjective.

The colonies were right to dilute the population.

However, it will take a long time, and our population growth rate will not give us so much time, in fact, there is not enough wasteland in Huangzhuang in Jiangsu and Zhejiang to give those young couples who have a family, and they must be allowed to move to Huangzhuang in the Huguang area to obtain reclaimable wasteland. ”

Yang Qing said.

He is also true of what he says.

The new population of Huangzhuang will theoretically get a piece of land, but the original land of Huangzhuang is those, and the only way is to open up wasteland, but there is no wasteland to be cultivated in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, but the planting of new crops allows some mountains and thin land that can not be cultivated to be cultivated. In addition, the polders in the water network area of Huangzhuang were highly organized to deal with this problem in the past few years, but now as the population continues to grow, these are useless. Newly married families can only be subsidized to move to other imperial villages, or even to imperial villages in other provinces. Although it caused some relatives to be separated, fortunately, those Huangzhuang militia also knew that the reality was like this, and they were subsidized when they went to other Huangzhuang, and they would not be seriously ostracized internally like in the past clan era......

This is a common phenomenon.

The reason why the ancients were reluctant to migrate to other places is largely that the clans in other places will be rejected, and they are not allowed to use wells, or they will be beaten out, but Huangzhuang is not a clan system, at most, it is a rejection of human relations, but it is impossible not to live.

In fact, according to the orders of the superiors, the Huangzhuang will build all the houses for them in advance.

Of course, it was the court that spent money.

But at this time, there is no place to accommodate the Huangzhuang in Huainan and Huaixi, and only Huguang and Sichuan can be accommodated, according to the current rate, these places are also saturated in less than five years, and then they have to go to Henan. However, if this decade survives, on the contrary, the problem will be greatly alleviated, because after ten years, large-scale colonization has become a reality, and Yang Qing can move the population to the colony. Now you can't use the colonies, just because the early days of colonization are the most difficult, and it is much better to get through this difficult period, for example, in the late seventeenth century, the British in the American colonies have grown to the millions. The first ten years were really nine deaths, but it was limited to this initial development stage, and Yang Qing didn't necessarily have to go all out to explore the Americas, and it was also very good to immigrate to the Northeast after solving Da Yuer's sister.

Potatoes can be grown there.

His Pioneer Fleet of the Americas also had to visit places like Chile and Peru to bring back more varieties of potatoes and then breed them.

Although Yang Qing doesn't know which germline modern potatoes come from, this problem is not difficult to solve, don't promote one germline, all germlines that can be promoted, the cold climate of eastern Liaodong will minimize the virus degradation of potatoes. As long as this thing is solved, then both the northeast and the northwest will become fertile, so his crisis is only the next ten years, but with sweet potatoes as a guarantee, it will not be too dangerous. He was just being alarmist, fooling his wife into agreeing to his public field law, which was sure to cause an earthquake......

"Then the Gongtian Law can solve these problems?"

Her Majesty asked rhetorically.

"I can't."

Yang Qing said.

"The public land law cannot solve the problem of large numbers of people and small land, nor can it solve natural disasters, but the public land law can remove those parasites that inhabit the land and maximize the use of land.

Nanzhili has 80 million acres of land.

But Nanzhili currently has a population of 30 million, and each person can feed two acres, which means that the current population has not reached the limit, so why does Nanzhili need to buy a large amount of grain from Huguangjiang and Jiangxi this year? Because the farmland is in the hands of the landlords, they will only grow what is most beneficial to them, that is, mulberry cotton and the like, they will not grow grain, and the grain is not valuable. This situation will be even worse in the future, because the number of silk and cotton mills is still increasing, but we need these lands to grow food to feed the population! And they don't know how to grow food, as long as those factories are still getting silver from overseas, they won't change that, this is the silkworm cannibalism in Guangdong. Now that it has actually begun, many tenants have had to switch to cotton and mulberry because the landlords are not allowed to grow grain, but they are in trouble because the income is not enough to exchange for enough rice.

But we still have the Imperial Village.

Those who really can't hold on, you can go to Huangzhuang, and sweet potatoes, corn, these grains are cheaper than rice and can be eaten.

But now the Huangzhuang is overwhelmed!

Even some Huangzhuang heads have been artificially creating obstacles to prevent other people's investment, if this situation is not changed, the growth of population will collapse our Huangzhuang, after all, not everyone is willing to leave their homeland.

The only solution is the public land law.

The landlords were squeezed out by the public land method, so that those farmlands could be replanted with grain, and the landlords could rush to Henan, Hebei, and even Hanzhong to open up the wasteland to continue to grow mulberry cotton. As for the increase in costs caused by this, it is a big deal to raise the price of the product, and Europeans will be more expensive when they buy silk. Besides, the main cost of what they buy is in shipping, and it is not that we sell it expensive, and the cost of shipping is already declining with the increase in the number of merchant ships, so we just let the decline slow down. And it's not a big deal for ordinary people to buy clothes that are a little more expensive, but if they don't have food, they will definitely rebel. ”

Yang Qing said.