Fu Ning was very disappointed by the harvest of the Western Expeditionary Army of the East China Sea, the harvest of cattle, sheep and horses was extremely rich, but only more than 200,000 young men of different races were plundered, and more than 500,000 young women were young and strong, but as a mine laborer, it was far inferior to that of young men, and the harvest of gold and silver could not enter Fu Ning's "magic eye", so the harvest of this western expedition was not ideal. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The Western Expedition consumed a large amount of military supplies, and almost cleared the alien population between the Great Khing'an Mountains and Altai; There is basically an equity between consumption and harvest, and the extra can only be the 800,000 young and strong captives of different races, but another invisible harvest is that it has contributed to a large military production and consumption process, and this harvest is the biggest harvest of the Western Expedition.

Modong, Mobei and Moxi were almost completely swept away, and a year's work was developing in the direction of the wild steppe, and the "demon legend" of the "Eagle Claw Red Flag" swept the desert and spread further west, and even the Arabs were saying that "a new demon appeared in the desert in the east!" ”。

The imperial court is the only force that dares to enter Mobei now, but in the face of the empty and desolate Kulun and Uriya Sutai, they can only be silent! Now how can the imperial court persuade the Mongols in Monan that the Mongols in Monan are not willing to move to the fertile grasslands of Mobei, on the contrary, they even have plans to move west to Central Asia through Xinjiang, because the legendary "Eagle Claw Red Flag" is too frightening!

Alba Khulu, who had been moving to Altai from outside the Guanwai, once again moved westward, and he once again escaped from the hands of the Western Expeditionary Army of the East China Sea, and it is said that now he took 20,000 men to the Caspian Sea, and the "demonic legend" of the "Eagle Claw Red Flag" was passed on to the Arabs by him.

The construction of the Kanto Prefecture required a lot of foreign labor, and it is a pity that the Western Expedition did not bring back enough foreign captives, and it is said that many of the foreign young men encountered during the Western Expedition would rather commit suicide than be captured, and it seems that they already know the fact that it is better to be captured than to commit suicide!

The indigenous labor transported from the South Seas is still as good as the foreign young women in the north, so the Department of Industry and the Department of Transportation prefer to accept the foreign young women captured in the north for mining and road construction, the only difference is that the two divisions no longer consume foreign miners as wantonly as before; The treatment of the alien miners is much better, they no longer eat just mixed boiled seafood, they can also occasionally eat some food, and the most critical alien miners have a much better schedule of work and rest, and the fatigue is reduced, so the mortality rate is greatly reduced.

The number of captives brought back by the Western Expedition to the Desert of the East China Sea was limited, so Fu Ning ordered the two divisions of industry and transportation to improve the treatment of foreign miners, which contributed to the decline in the mortality rate of foreign miners; However, the number of alien miners was still lacking, so the new plan was to plunder the alien young and strong labor through the War Department to Sakhalin Island and other places in Siberia, so the conflict between the East China Sea and the Rakshasa began to appear in large numbers.

Nebuchu had hundreds of Rakshasas and other alien races, but he was soon taken prisoner by the War Department of the East China Sea, and then the old and weak were cleared, and then several cavalry divisions continued to plunder in the north, northeast, and northwest directions; According to Fu Ning's order to Tian Yanwu of the War Department, no alien race is allowed to exist freely west of Lake Baikal.

In the past two years, the wave of more than 10,000 immigrants caused by the "loss of Luyu and Kanto" once brought great population pressure to the East China Sea, and the top leaders of the East China Sea once thought that the immigrant population was too much, but they did not want to feel that the population of the East China Sea was insufficient after only two or three years. The vast and fertile land of the Kanto region can support countless people, but now there are only 10 million Han people in the Kanto Prefecture, so now the reports of the General Staff Department and the Military Affairs Department to Fu Ning ask for instructions to plunder the population in the north of the imperial court; However, the application reports of both divisions were quickly rejected by Fu Ning. Relatively speaking, the East China Sea has few people and the country is strong, and the British Dynasty has many people and the country is weak, so in the opinion of the Military Affairs Department, encroaching on and plundering the British Dynasty is an excellent strategy, but Fu Ning does not see it that way, because Fu Ning's focus is on the entire Han nation, and even the entire Yanhuang nation!

It is beneficial to the East China Sea State to launch a war to encroach on and plunder the northern part of the imperial court, but it is foreseeable that it will inevitably lead to the weakening of the central power of the imperial court, followed by the confusion of the princes, and the de facto division and division of military and political divisions; Fu Ning didn't want that to happen in the land of the imperial court, because that would swallow up the endless Han people's population; The only choice Fu Ning can have is to wait for the time to be ripe to swallow all the land under the jurisdiction of the British Dynasty and quickly complete stability, but the current East China Sea Kingdom does not have that strength at all, which is also something that Fu Ning has been struggling with!

Because of the containment of the East China Sea, the imperial court did not have the strength to conquer Xinjiang westward, and the "king of Dzungaria" was able to lick his wounds for a long time; He now understands that there is no possibility for him to covet the "one acre and three points of land" in the Central Plains, and if he doesn't give up, he will inevitably hit his head and bleed! He was unusually unwilling, but he no longer dared to develop to the Central Plains; To the west is the Kazakh Han state and the weakened Persia, if six or seven years ago he still had the strength to conquer the west, but now he has no strength to covet the eastern part of Persia, although now Persia is very weak; So now he can only nest in Xinjiang and lick his wounds, unless he defects to Persia or the Kazakh Han State, but that is what he is most unwilling to do!

The information and rumors about the population and taxes of the imperial court that Yanshantang collected at great cost couldn't match! For many years, the official and folk accounts of the imperial court have said that there were 30,000 people in the British Dynasty, but the information collected by Yanshantang shows that there were only 180,000 people in the British Dynasty, why is there such a big difference? No one can tell.

The confused Fu Ning remembered Wu Sizhao, and after asking Chen Dong, Fu Ning learned that Wu Sizhao was now teaching in Jinzhou Middle School, so Wu Sizhao was quickly slipped over by Chen Dongti.

"Do you want to understand?" , this was the first thing Fu Ning asked after seeing Wu Sizhao again.

“――？ What do you want to figure out? Wu Sizhao was very puzzled.

"Looks like you still haven't figured it out! -- I'm looking for you for something, the British court has always said that it has a population of 30,000, but the information I have collected shows that the court has only 180,000 people, what is going on? ”。

“――？ Oh, the 30,000 people said that it was put forward by the Baoling Hou Shigong during the auspicious period, and it was recorded in the "Xianghe Yearbook". At that time, Zhang Tai'an, the imperial envoy of Shaanxi, once played a fold, saying that the population of Shaanxi had doubled in 30 years, and according to his calculation, there would be 30,000 people in the British Dynasty in another 30 years, so Shangshutai Baoling Hou Shi Gong claimed that the British Dynasty had 30,000 people on the table of Zhuyi's great tribute; After the rumor spread, not many people remember the reason. ”。

"So that means that the population of the auspicious years was about 15,000,000?" , Fu Ning asked Wu Sizhao.

"Yes! It was recorded in the "Xianghe Yearbook" that in the eighteenth year of Xianghe, there were 15,000 people in the country. ”。

"Twenty years of peace, fourteen years of Taifeng, and twenty-three years of Qianping,......,", Fu Ning calculated carefully, "So that means that more than forty years ago, there were 15,000,000 people in the British Dynasty?" ――How many people are there in the imperial court now? ”。

Fu Ning was still puzzled, so he squinted at Wu Sizhao.

"After Emperor Shunhe ascended the throne, he did not clarify the Ding Fu, so he still used the number of 20 years of Qianping, and the Ding Fu at that time was 180 million mouths!".

Wu Sizhao said very clearly, but Fu Ning still had to dig deeper, "That is to say, nine years ago, the Dingkou Fu of the British Dynasty was 180,000,000, counting the population under 16 and over 60 who are not included in the Dingkou tax, how many people do you estimate the British Dynasty has now?" ”。

"Is it okay for those under the age of sixteen and over the age of sixty? - Yes, there is no Dingkou Fu in the East China Sea to count the population; ――If you count the Dingkou, I estimate that there should be 20,000 people in the imperial court, right?! ”。

"Not as it should be! ――Can you give us a more detailed estimate? ”，

"It doesn't count! -- The gentry have many who conceal their mouths, and the old and weak population of the provinces has never been checked, so it is difficult to say! Wu Sizhao frowned, "Sichuan Province has the largest population, followed by Henan and Shaanxi, and Guizhou and Fujian provinces have fewer populations; By the way, Jinling Province is also a province with a large population, but there are many gentry and more secretions! ”。

"I know that; -- The Huaiyangtang survey estimated that the figure for Jinling Province was 1.32 percent, not counting 1.96 percent of Ding Fu's old and weak, and the total figure was 2.6 percent of Ding Fu; However, Yanshantang's cost-effective data for Zhili Province is two points one and two percent, and the difference between the two provinces is too great! In addition, the northern frontier of the imperial court has been in war for several years, and the population of Luyu and Guandong has decreased by about 16 million, so the final estimate of the intelligence department is that the population of the imperial court is about 230 million; But no one knows whether Xinjiang and the desert and the southwestern divisions are in the Ding Fu numbers of the imperial court, do you know? Fu Ning looked at Wu Sizhao.

"The desert, Xinjiang, and Kangzang have not been included in the imperial court Ding Fu, not in the 180 million number, but the Tusi of Yunnan, Guizhou and Guizhou have not been included in the 1800000 million number."

In other words, the figure of 180 million does not include desert Xinjiang and Kangzang, but includes the population of Tusi in the southwest? And what about Uszangdus? ”。

"Yes! Uszangdusi is also not counted! ”。

The problem was finally clarified, and Fu Ning basically determined how many people the British Dynasty really had.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were more than 60 million people in the world of Red Mansions, that is to say, the population was about 80 million, and now it is not counting the more than 20 million Han people in the East China Sea and the population of about 230 million in the British Dynasty; In Lingnan folklore, sweet potatoes first appeared in the late Ming Dynasty during the Apocalypse, that is, sweet potatoes have appeared in East Asia for nearly two hundred years, and at least contributed 100 million people to the Han nation.

After being silent for a while, Fu Ning looked at Wu Sizhao, "Have you learned to simplify the characters?" ”

"Got it!" ，

"Then you go to the State University to teach, -- the State University has a strategy science, you can be a student and a teacher at the same time," Fu Ning wrote a note and handed it to Wu Sizhao, so Wu Sizhao looked at Fu Ning strangely, but he didn't speak for a long time, turned around and went out silently, and suddenly turned around and looked at Fu Ning suspiciously when he arrived at the door, "What do you mean by asking me just now, 'Do you understand'?" ”。

"Huh? - Oh! Do you understand why I was bent on killing you? ”

"Isn't it because I'm the emperor of the imperial court?"

Fu Ning looked at Wu Sizhao strangely, "You understand it like that?" ――Looks like you still haven't figured it out! ”

Wu Sizhao still looked at Fu Ning suspiciously, "It turns out that you want to kill me more than public and private, is there any other reason?" ……”

"If I am looking for an enemy, I should also find Wang Ziteng, Taicai ordered Wang Zongran to kill the direct person who took the merit, you are at most indirect; Yu Gong, politicians have no personal enmity, since you want to throw yourself here, I will open up to you; ――The reason I wanted to kill you was that you sold the stolen technology of the East China Sea Kingdom to the English, which is a sin against the entire Han nation! This sin can be compared to Qin Hui and Shi Jingjiao! - You figured it out! ”。

Wu Sizhao was stunned for a long time after hearing this, nodded and walked out of the door silently.