Chapter 64 Five Provinces and One City

After nearly two years of immigration, the population of Daming has exceeded the million mark, reaching 1.32 million. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info and rising!

This made it increasingly difficult for the previous administrative system to support the rule of the Ming Dynasty. In all aspects, it has affected the development of Daming.

Therefore, after the discussion of the Presidential Palace, finally on February 14, 1792, the Ming Dynasty decided to change the previous colonial point and the model of the Unification faction, and divided the Australian mainland into five provinces and one city.

This is the first major adjustment of the administrative system since the founding of the Ming Dynasty.

Among them, the capital of the Republic, Hope City, has been upgraded to a municipality with the same level as the province. However, the name has been changed to Meikyo City. After all, in this era, the name of the capital city must be in line with the characteristics of this era.

Coupled with those Chinese immigrants, it is customary to call Hope City Mingjing. Therefore, the leadership of the Ming Dynasty followed the will of the people and renamed the capital Mingjing. The area is equivalent to Beijing and Tianjin in later generations.

This is also to reserve urban land and prevent the embarrassment of land shortage in future generations.

Ming Jing Ming Jing, the capital of the Ming Kingdom. It's familiar to you.

And the name Hope City is not invalid, but it has been changed to Hope District. After all, the name Hope City contains too many meanings. The leadership of the Ming Dynasty cannot ignore the feelings and feelings of those who founded the early Ming Dynasty.

The next five provinces are:

Northern Province: The capital city of Zhengtu, the scope is similar to that of modern northern Australia, but in the details, there are slight adjustments. At present, except for the areas around Zhengtu City and Fortune City, which have developed somewhat, other places are still in a primitive state.

Linhai Province: The capital city of Linhai City, located in modern Western Australia, is only bounded by the Tropic of Capricorn, and the north is divided into a province, and the area is only half of the original. In addition to Linhai City, there is only Xihai City. However, compared with the Northern Province, Linhai Province has caught up with the former in terms of development due to the advantage of a longer coastline.

Nanhai Province: The capital city of Nanhai City, which is the Tropic of Cancer region of Western Australia. Because it is too far away from Mingjing City, the degree of development is slightly backward.

Southern Province: The capital city of Haihe, which included the later states of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, and Tasmania. The precinct is the largest and the climatic conditions are good, so it is developing rapidly. But overall, it is still inferior to the Northern Province and Linhai Province.

Xinhua Province: Wanghua City, the capital city, is similar to Queensland in later generations. Due to the influence of climate, location and topography, the degree of development is the lowest among the five provinces.

And then there's the population distribution!

There is no doubt that the city of Myeongjing has the largest population, reaching 310,000 people. Among them, the proportion of Chinese is 47 percent, which is the highest in the entire Ming Dynasty. Then there are the Australian Aborigines, who make up 18 percent. The rest is immigrants from all over the world.

It is followed by Linhai Province with more than 270,000 people. The proportion of Chinese is 26 percent, and the Australian aborigines account for 33 percent. In terms of population, it ranks second.

Then there is the Northern Province, with a population of nearly 240,000, of which 25 percent are Chinese and 46 percent are native.

As for the other three provinces, the combined proportion of Chinese is less than 10 percent of the total number of Chinese, and the population is very small.

But Da Ming is not defenseless. In these three provinces, the proportion of indigenous Australians exceeds 60 percent, in order to prevent the immigration forces of various countries from increasing.

This is also the established national policy of the Ming Dynasty. Before the arrival of large-scale Chinese immigration, we actively united the Australian Aborigines, supported the Australian Aborigines, and made them the main force restricting immigrants from all over the world.

After all, the Australian aborigines were civilized very late, their minds are relatively simple, and their ghost minds are not as many as immigrants from other countries. Coupled with the brainwashing of the civilized school, as well as the various visible benefits that Daming brought to them, they are also the most loyal to Daming.

Such an ethnic group, Da Ming can also use it with confidence.

When the Daming Central Radio announced the decision, Liu Duofu was standing in the field.

Although he is Chinese, he is not a Nanyang immigrant, but from a small fishing village in Fujian. There are many locals and few places, and the people in the village are living tightly, not to mention food and clothing, it is best not to starve to death.

And at home, he is the sixth, with two older brothers and three older sisters. There are only a few acres of thin fields in a large family, and they are still very barren, and the harvest is not enough to eat.

There was no way, so their family had to farm for the landlord's family. But when the harvest is good, it can only barely make ends meet.

Therefore, many people ignored the imperial court's sea ban and secretly went to the sea.

So he also followed the villagers, taking advantage of the moonlight, and often went to the sea to fish. It's also a begging for food.

But the year before last, when he went to sea, he suddenly met the imperial court sailors, and as a result, the people who went out of the boat together were caught, caught, died, and fled.

Although he was lucky not to be caught by the sailor's people, after landing on the shore, he didn't dare to stay in the village longer.

Therefore, the family scraped together some money and food for him to flee.

After that, he came to the city of Fuzhou. There, a private boat smuggled into the South Seas was found. After paying almost all the ransom, he crossed the ocean without danger and arrived at Pontianak in Lanfang Kingdom.

It's just that Pontianak was occupied by the Ming Dynasty at that time, and the whole city immigrated.

Although he no longer had any extra silver to buy a ticket, the Ming took this into account and allowed those immigrants who did not have the silver to borrow money in advance and pay it back slowly after they arrived in the Ming Dynasty.

So he didn't hesitate to borrow money and go to Daming. Because in his mind, Daming is full of gold, so he will be able to pay off the arrears soon.

However, after arriving in the Ming Dynasty, he did not become the imaginary gold digger, but became a farmer. Started his old job and farmed.

But unlike the pitiful lack of land in the Qing Kingdom, in Daming, as long as you are willing to farm, each person will get at least 20 acres! It's all good, high-quality.

This is several times the original size of their family.

Although the fields are not in fact their own, what they grow must also be guided by the Department of Agriculture, and they cannot be planted indiscriminately. I still have to pay 30% of the rent, and the rest will be sold to Daming.

But this harvest still made him overjoyed.

After the first harvest, he not only paid off his arrears, but also left money to spare.

Such a day made him feel like he was living in a dream. I am afraid that when I wake up, I will return to a small fishing village full of poverty.

He's not alone. Many immigrants from the Qing Kingdom are grateful to the benevolent president in the portrait.

In their minds, this president is the reincarnation of Bodhisattva, who saved the suffering and gave them such a good life.

Although the president is not alone in doing these things, and the president does not have the authority of the emperor. But people like them, who live under the imperial power, have unconsciously equated the president with the emperor.