"There are many ways to solve the contradiction of more people and less land, and the general direction is to move from narrow townships to wide villages, urbanization to absorb labor, agricultural revolution to promote the rise of yields, transfer labor to plant labor-intensive cash crops, and so on. The purpose of our vigorous immigration is not to make money, but to increase our own manpower and influence. Otherwise, wouldn't it be more profitable to develop a few gold mines at random? Therefore, the immigration cost of 5 million yuan is only 1.5 billion yuan at 300 yuan each, and our total assets at the end of the year can reach 1.8 billion. Next year's assets can reach 5 billion. Equivalent to 1 billion kan of purchasing power. The financial revenue of the Great Song Empire will also reach 150 million guan under our influence. This money can also be paid in installments and partially underwritten by the government. In this way, we can see that the cost is very low and the benefit is very high. In the future, mastering all the resources of Dongyi Island can at least recover the equivalent of 10,000 times the cost and income, and tens of thousands of stones, sugar, and thousands of stones of dyes every year alone can earn hundreds of millions of yuan. Liu Xin calculated.

"How can the account be calculated in this way, in addition to the resettlement fee, there are also transportation, detention, infrastructure, security and other expenses and costs, just to deal with the natives of Dongyi Island will cost a lot of money. It will cost more than 1 billion to deal with the many big mouths of immigrants from the source of immigration. Are there almost innumerable expenses for health care, education, pensions, and countless amounts of information concealment that are not included in the budget? Treasurer Chen Guanxian immediately became excited.

"Lao Chen, don't get excited. I didn't say that there is no budget, but it is not good to include the budget in advance when it is allocated to each year. Who can say exactly how much the budget for the next few years will be. Maybe the income of Dongyi Island Development Company will be enough to support the subsequent expenses, and there is no need for our headquarters to subsidize it. Land is an artifact that attracts population. Before the Industrial Age, no member of an agrarian nation could resist the temptation to hear of cheap land. Maybe many landlords have heard that there is cheap land and they will immigrate to us! Two days ago, didn't a big landlord from Suzhou, south of the Yangtze River, come to our immigration office in Ningbo Port to inquire if it is possible to invest in the land of Dongyi Island and jointly develop it? Although we kept the future secret and rejected this old partner, we also helped solve the employment and placement problems of several of his distant relatives. Sun Chang explained.

"If this immigration plan is stabbed by those groups who are hostile to us, will it arouse the suspicion of the Empress Dowager?" Wang Neng frowned worriedly.

"No, it is impossible for those palace attendants who have eaten their filial piety, high-ranking officials who have received huge consulting fees, and those who have the ability to speak up to high-level decision-making. I'm afraid that if someone crooks his mouth and links this plan to gather people to rebel and buy the hearts of the people. "Wang Xinyu is confident that he can deal with the opposition, but he is still afraid of a pig-like teammate." Returning to the topic, we are not in any danger, and even if we do, we can easily defuse it, as long as we don't touch the high-voltage lines such as the army and the royal magnates, at least we can develop enough to threaten the rule of the Great Song Empire.

"You are all slippery heads, how many people can be dug just by digging the foot of the wall, we can't be so passive, waiting is not my style. We need to take the initiative to create the displaced people we need in order to meet future development plans. For example, man-made disasters are an important means for us to regulate food and land prices. By controlling the prices of cash crops, we have stimulated the landlords to take the initiative to plant cash crops or grow grain, and to reduce or expand the area under grain cultivation, so that by indirectly controlling the price of grain, we can artificially create a shortage and surplus of grain, thus causing famine and grain cheapness and hurting the peasants, and so on, which will accelerate the bankruptcy of homesteaders and lead tenant farmers to a dead end. This can greatly speed up the efficiency of our recruitment of immigrants. Anyway, Wang Anshi's reform was abolished, and the government's function of stabilizing prices was cut off. There will be absolutely no resistance or a disturbance of conscience. Those bankrupt immigrants will definitely thank us for doing so, and if it weren't for us, they would have to continue to live in poverty. "Lee Ki proposes a plan to send the traversers into a chill. Wang Neng and others are accustomed to Li Ji's perfectionist style, but they still can't accept his increasingly undisciplined innovation.

"As for how to arrange the population to divide the land, we still have to think carefully. Dongyi Island can accommodate a maximum of 23 million people in the future era, and can only accommodate a maximum of 3 million people before entering the industrial revolution, and the total population of the local 100,000 natives plus immigrants cannot exceed 4 million. Even if we can master this rich island, we can't just fish for it. The extra population can be transferred to the more mobile overseas colonies. For example, Guam, the Ryukyu Islands, Japan's Hokkaido Island, Nansha Islands, and many uninhabited desert islands in Southeast Asia. These island colonies are all plans for the later stage, at least until Dongyi Island is full.

Our most important thing is to give priority to the development of the ocean shipping industry in logistics. In particular, there is an urgent need to train officers who can sail long distances. The reason why the newly built Chenji Navigation College in Quanzhou is not able to recruit students is that there are not enough teachers. The heads of our logistics and trade areas are Li Fei and Wang Neng, but their students are mainly in charge of land commerce. There are too few people in charge of ocean commerce, and it takes more time to train a captain than a jinshi. We can't afford to wait, so we're going to spend money on hiring an old captain to help us. In this way, the manpower is lined up first, and the three shifts of transporting people to Dongyi Island should be able to make perfect with practice.

Now Lao Li is going to Quanzhou to preside over the work of the newly built Chenji Navigation College. This is your stake and credit, and in three years, our center will be transferred to Hangzhou. The headquarters will also be relocated to Hangzhou, and the Chenji Academy in Gongxian County will be reduced to a branch. Lao Li's Quanzhou will also be upgraded to a branch. ”