The meaning of land and population has always been directly proportional, people in the 21st century probably can't understand the yield per mu in the 19th century, once Li Mu noticed that the yield per mu in the 21st century can reach 1,000 kilograms, or even 1,500 kilograms, but what is the yield per mu in the 19th century? One hundred, or one hundred and fifty, even one hundred and fifty, is already the result of careful service, and under normal circumstances, without the help of good seeds and fertilizers, a hundred kilograms is the normal yield.

At this glance, it is understandable, how many people can the Qing Kingdom support?

Li Mu didn't know the specific figures, but Li Mu knew that even in the 21 st century, the Republic would have to guarantee the red line of 1.8 billion mu of cultivated land, and considering the cultivation efficiency in these years, it would need at least 4 billion mu of cultivated land to feed the 450 million people of the Qing Dynasty.

Did the Qing state have so much land?

No!

So, to solve the problem, on the one hand, to increase income, on the other hand, to reduce the population, this is when the Pacific company played a huge role.

Why the Qing government knew that the Pacific Company was a subsidiary of the Junma Group, but did not do anything, is worth investigating.

"Leo, pay attention to people, pay attention to people themselves, the poor class needs land, the landlord class needs new profit growth points, as for those eunuchs, they are good targets, you have to use those eunuchs to win everyone's support, it is not easy, there is a degree, you need to grasp it well." Li Mu can't say too much to Yan Shun, some things can't be said too thoroughly, Yan Shun is very good, but it has not yet reached the level of "excellence", to clarify the problem of the Qing Kingdom, Yan Shun needs to accept some setbacks.

If it is possible, Li Mu also hopes that Yan Shun's career will be smooth sailing, but this is obviously impossible, the problem of the Qing Kingdom is a hundred times more complicated than the United States, and a thousand times more complicated than South America and Luzon, Li Mu can warn Yan Shun and let Yan Shun not take any detours, but this does not really help Yan Shun, there are some things that Yan Shun still needs to explore by himself, and Li Mu can't help.

The rise of a country is not so simple, countless traps, countless temptations, if you don't pay attention to it, you will fall into the trap of the enemy, not even "enemies", sometimes it may come from your own comrades-in-arms, Li Mu understood this truth a long time ago, the resources in this world are constant, a country gets more, then other countries get it will be reduced accordingly, Li Mu hopes that the rise of the Chinese nation, but this rise cannot be smooth sailing, No country wants a strong centralized state in the Far East, and neither does the United States.

Li Mu still has more work to do.

"I know Reem, I will be people-oriented, respect the needs of each individual, but Reem, I am now more and more aware that things may not happen as we expected, most of the Chinese in the Qing Kingdom have not received modern education, we can't let them understand the concepts of 'freedom, self-esteem, democracy' and so on, my assumption is that we can first take power, and then make changes little by little." Yan Shun has his own ideas, which may not be realized, but it is also possible to get twice the result with half the effort, after all, in the history of another time and space, Li Mu has not heard of anyone who would be so patient.

Then do it, Li Mu doesn't object to Yan Shun making some attempts that Li Mu didn't understand, is it meaningful to live a step-by-step life?

Not necessarily, the current Li Mu also wants to see something different from what he remembers.

After communicating with Yan Shun, Li Mu's focus immediately shifted to Vladivostok, is the revolution of the Qing Kingdom important? It is very important, but Li Mu cannot participate in the whole process, just like Arthur said, Li Mu is now an American, and it is impossible to be too closely connected with the Qing Empire.

After a long talk with Yan Shun, Li Mu also took a warship of the Pacific Fleet to Vladivostok.

During this period, there was also an episode, Li Mu's warship was going to pass through the waters of the Qing State to Vladivostok, and the Beiyang Fleet of the Qing State obeyed the orders of the Qing State and intercepted the warship that Li Mu was riding.

However, it is a pity that after the consultation between Li Mu and the top management of the Beiyang Fleet, the Beiyang Fleet did not make it difficult for Li Mu, and so easily let Li Mu's warship go to Vladivostok through the waters of the Qing Dynasty.

This caused a certain degree of heated discussion in the Qing Kingdom, but Li Mu didn't care, after arriving in Vladivostok, Li Mu put his heart to Chen Guofang: "It doesn't matter Francis, the Qing government can't take coercive measures against me now, of course they can protest and be angry, but so what?" Not a single warship dared to fire at me, and the Qing government could not afford to do so, so I arrived safely in Vladivostok, and that's it. ”

Li Mu is not worried that the Qing government will dare to defy the condemnation of the world, an obvious fact, even if Li Mu is now engaged in some activities against the Qing government, but this activity is not at the official level, so Li Mu can do whatever he wants.

But at the same time, the Qing government was tied, did the Qing government dare to take any measures against Li Mu?

Don't be funny, if the Qing government really does this, then it will no longer be the corporate behavior of the Junma Group that troubles the Qing government, but the behavior of the state like the United States, which is a consequence that the Qing government cannot bear at all.

"Well, you're always right, look at our new Vladivostok, which is the city of all Vladivostoks and at the same time your city." Compared with when he was in Washington before, Chen Guofang is now full of self-confidence and does not take the Qing government seriously at all.

When Chen Guofang was in Hawaii, he was just a wealthy businessman in Hawaii, and Chen Guofang basically had no influence except for the Chinese range.

Now Chen Guofang is different, with the experience of being a member of Congress, now as the governor of a state, Chen Guofang is no longer afraid of anyone, let alone the Qing government, when facing Li Mu, Chen Guofang can make jokes, which is a great progress.

"Good, good, better than I expected." Li Mu was indeed surprised, the current Vladivostok is a world of difference compared to Vladivostok under Russian rule.

Vladivostok, under Russian rule, was basically a military city.

What is the concept of a "military city"?

There is no economy, there is no people's livelihood, everything is for the military, and everywhere you look, there are cold fortresses and hideous batteries, no matter how you look at it, it is not pleasant.

Now Vladivostok is different, led by the Horse Group, Standard Oil, Morgan Bank, DuPont Military, and even Carnegie-Rim Steel have made a lot of investments in Vladivostok, these investments are of course also focused, and the commitments of some enterprises may not be fulfilled, but the basic investment made by the Vladivostok government is treated equally, regardless of whether the promises of those large enterprises will be fulfilled or not, the Vladivostok government has spared no effort in investing in cities and ports, what Li Mu sees now, This is what the Vladivostok government has seen after its efforts to expand.

It was indeed an effort to expand, and before the Russians handed over control of Vladivostok to the Americans, the port of Vladivostok had only four terminals, and at most 10,000 tons of ships could be berthed.

Now there has been a big improvement, through the efforts of the Vladivostok government, the port of Vladivostok has been expanded to 11 terminals, the largest terminal can dock 100,000-ton cruise ships, this data sounds a bit exaggerated, because the largest cruise ship in the United States is not 100,000 tons, but so what? The Vladivostok government built the port without spending a penny on the Vladivostok government, all the investments were advanced by the Junma Group, and the workers were unpaid labor hired from Japan, so does the Vladivostok government have any reason to refuse such a project?

No!

Not at all, so Chen Guofang is really at ease.

Around the port, the warehouse area of the wharf has been built, which is the investment of the Zanda Group, and the Vladivostok government is happy to see it, and in the future, as long as the tax is collected, there is no need for the Vladivostok government to work hard for this, in addition to the Junma Group, Standard Oil, and the offices built by Morgan Bank in the wharf, they are all concentrated in one street, which causes the land near the wharf to rise again and again, and the Vladivostok government is happy to see this situation, with the tax levied near the wharf, it can basically support half of Vladivostok's urban infrastructure.

"Ray came to Vladivostok a few years ago, and gave the design of a super-large-scale modern city, with sewers, subways, ground transportation, and pedestrian streets, if all are completed, Vladivostok will be the most suitable city for human habitation than New York, I only have one question now, whether to publish the plan of Vladivostok, it is possible that we will be a blockbuster, or it may make a big splash, I am pushing the parliament to pass a bill that absolutely no one, under any circumstances, denigrate the construction of Vladivostok." Chen Guofang's ambition is big, which is clearly to build Vladivostok into a Chinese kingdom.

"Good idea, if you are sure, then work hard to do it, now in Vladivostok, we must not only attract Chinese immigrants from the Qing Dynasty, but also attract white immigrants from the United States-" Speaking of this, Li Mu noticed that Chen Guofang was about to interject, so Li Mu raised his hand and did not give Chen Guofang a chance: "The first thing to emphasize is that whether it is white or Chinese, as long as they are willing to immigrate to Vladivostok, as long as they are willing to join American citizenship, then they are all part of the United States." ”

If he could, Li Mu was also willing to build a Vladivostok with only Chinese, but this idea could not exist in recent years, just when Li Mu incorporated Vladivostok into the United States and sought protection from the United States, Vladivostok was destined to be impossible to achieve independent status in a number of years, of course, Li Mu hoped that white Americans would not be interested in Vladivostok, but this is difficult to guarantee, it is not far from Europe to the United States, so is it far from the United States to Vladivostok?

Not necessarily!

"I know, I know, politically correct, at this point, I can't make mistakes-" Chen Guofang is also very smart, very measured in doing things, and understands Li Mu's intentions deeply enough: "Now every month, there are about 100,000 Qing people, and 10,000 Americans ask to settle in Vladivostok, our conditions are the same for everyone, the land should be allocated, the land should be allocated, the taxes should be paid, in Vladivostok, the white people will not pay a big son more than the Chinese, now the most important thing is the army, I think, At the very least, there should be two divisions, all of which have us Chinese as the foundation, but the War Department does not think so, and the War Department requires that all troops be formed by the United States, which should be regarded as discrimination against us in Vladivostok. ”

Chen Guofang's question is very sharp, Li Mu can't give a standard answer, although Li Mu has a very good relationship with Arthur and Sherman, but it is all on the premise of not endangering the interests of the United States, a big conflict between each other's starting points, Li Mu does not know what Arthur and Sherman will do.

In fact, it is the hemp straw that beats the wolf and is afraid of both ends.

"Don't worry about this kind of thing now, your most important task is to work for the welfare of the inhabitants of Vladivostok, not to let the inhabitants of Vladivostok have any complaints, to treat Chinese and whites equally, and not to focus on the last few years, ten years, twenty years, or even a century, and then talk about our ideals." Li Mu has time, and a century later, Li Mu is only eighty years old, is he very old? No, Li Mu still has a lot of time at that time.

In the evening, Chen Guofang held a welcome dinner for Li Mu in the Vladivostok Prefecture.

In fact, Chen Guofang came to Vladivostok and faced more difficulties than Li Mu imagined, and on the day Li Mu came to Vladivostok, he probably understood that Chen Guofang's situation was much more severe than Li Mu imagined.

"Francis is a Republican, this is indisputable, but the Democratic Party has not given up Vladivostok, the next presidential election, Vladivostok will have its own electoral votes, although the number of votes is not much, but if the election is stalemate, Vladivostok's electoral votes will play a decisive role, at present, the Democratic Party's spokesman in Vladivostok is Thomas Chamberlain, this person's ability is not very good, but he has a good relationship with the Qing government, and he will participate in the Vladivostok gubernatorial race in three years, Now it seems that his chances of winning are not high, but this is a hidden danger after all. After Yan Shun left Li Mu's side, Li Jiefu became Li Mu's personal secretary, which did not meet the regulations of the Junma Group, but Li Jiefu was Li Mu's hand-picked candidate, so Li Jiefu became the closest person to Li Mu.

"Thomas Chamberlain, how is this man? Will it hinder us? "Li Mu now sees people as not only limited to political parties, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party are the same, not all Republicans are single-minded with Li Mu, and not all Democrats will dismantle Li Mu's platform.

"No, Cleveland said first, Mr. Chamberlain can be trusted." Jeff Li's work is decent, but it is still not mature enough, strictly speaking, Jeff Li should not say this sentence.