When Takako Kusumoto's call arrived at the Forbidden City, Zhu Guoxiong was holding a pre-imperial meeting. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info about the British Revolution, he and the cabinet already knew. But he now had more to think about than just the British Empire.

Since the beginning of the World War, on the side of the Great Chinese Empire, the most exhausted people are probably the Emperor Xuanwu of the Ming Dynasty and Pan Zuyin, the left prime minister of the Ming Dynasty. One of them is the supreme leader of the entire empire, and the other is responsible for the rise and fall of the country and the nation; The other is the leader of the Cabinet of Responsibilities, the Grand Steward of the entire Empire". The two must keep one eye on the front line and the world, and the other eye must be firmly on the country.

Military, diplomatic, political, people's livelihood, and the affairs of the Great Chinese Empire, there are problems everywhere. The country is as big as the current Ming Dynasty and the Great Chinese Empire, and there are naturally too many problems to count.

As the responsible prime minister, Pan Zuyin's shoulders are heavier and heavier. After two years of fighting, most of the beard and hair of this Ming Shoufu have turned white, and his face is even more tired.

Now the war is nearing its end, and it has been won by a great margin. But the burden on the shoulders of Pan Zuyin and the Great Tomorrow on the throne has not been lightened in the slightest. The expansion of the empire's territory is a huge wealth that can be passed on to future generations, but it is not easy for a ruler to manage such a large country.

The four provinces of Shanxi, Shandong, Henan, and Beizhili in the Ming Dynasty have not had a few drops of rain since the beginning of this year, and large areas of land have dried up and become barren, and they are about to lose their harvest. Tens of millions of people in the four provinces have been affected! And after the great drought, most of them will take off locusts. I don't know how much land and people will be affected.

And revolutions broke out in the United States and Britain one after another! This is for the Ming Dynasty, who has already won the war. It's not really good news. The revolution meant that the two countries defeated by the Ming Dynasty were "liquidated and reorganized". And the revolution that is taking place now is not a purely republican revolution. Rather, it is a social revolution unleashed by socialists, anarchists!

Pan Zuyin, who graduated from Jishi University and is well versed in Western politics, economics, and law, certainly knows how much change and shock this kind of social revolution will bring to the social and political forms of the United States and Britain, and knows even more how much chaos this kind of revolution will bring to the entire white world and how much threat it will bring to the Great Chinese Empire......

And. He was also deeply concerned about when this trend of social revolution would spread to the Greater Chinese Empire......

"Pan Qing."

"The minister is here."

It's just that at the imperial meeting, Pan Zuyin hid his worries deeply, and what he revealed was still the appearance of a cabinet chief assistant who was not shocked and was full of knowledge.

The Great Tomorrow on the throne also had the same expression, and it seemed that he had never taken the red tide that was sweeping Europe and the United States to heart, "The four provinces of Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong, and Henan have been in drought for several months, and the autumn harvest is hopeless. Today, there are more than a dozen chapters in the four provinces asking for disaster relief from the imperial court, I wonder if Pan Qing has read it? ”

Zhu Guoxiong first mentioned the drought in the four provinces. The scale of this drought was very large, almost the largest in 2o years, and the great drought in history lasted until 1879, leaving "a thousand miles of red land" in the recital of Zeng Guoquan, the governor of Shanxi in the Manchu Qing Dynasty. The mountains and rivers are exhausted, and the trees are dead and the soil is scorched" and "summer and autumn are not harvested." The wheat is not planted, the bark and grass roots are eaten up, the father and son cannibalize each other, and the ** of the ten deaths of people" and other records.

However, for the current Ming court, such a catastrophe is not a problem at all, and it is even a good thing.

Pan Zuyin said: "Since the revival, the method of resettlement has been used for disaster relief. The rich peasants of the four provinces, every household has several years of accumulated millet, no need for the imperial court relief, only need to be exempted from the first year of Xuanwu, and the small poor peasant family, guarding more than ten acres of thin land, is difficult to maintain, and now it is just subsidizing Sichuan capital to help them immigrate. ”

After more than 20 years of uninterrupted policies to encourage immigration and urbanization, the population distribution of Daming has changed dramatically. Although the total population is close to 600 million, the population of the 18 provinces of Han is less than 410 million, of which more than 130 million live in cities or towns. The urbanization rate of Han is close to 32%.

The other 190 million Ming citizens moved to six northeastern provinces, four Lanfang provinces, two Jiaozhou provinces, five western regions provinces (northern Xinjiang, southern Xinjiang, Qihe, Qinghai, Tibet), six northern and southern Mongolian provinces, Siberian provinces, strait provinces, Hawaii provinces and other places, and some lived in China countries outside the Ming Dynasty.

Among them, the six northeastern provinces have the largest population, as of the 29th year of liberation, it has exceeded 9ooo, followed by the six provinces of Lanfang and Jiaozhou, with a population of more than 350,000. The combined population of the six provinces of northern and southern Mongolia is about 180,000, the combined population of the five provinces of the Western Regions is more than 170,000, and the combined population of Siberia, Straits Province and Hawaii is more than 50,000.

In addition, there are nearly 250,000 Ming citizens living in Greater China countries outside the Ming Dynasty. Citizens of the countries of Greater China have always had the right to move freely, and their nationality can be changed if certain conditions are met. However, changing nationality involves rights and obligations, such as land distribution and military service. As a result, many Ming citizens who were engaged in industry and commerce or worked as teachers lived in the Great China countries as expatriates, and not everyone was willing to undertake military service for free land and housing, and not every Great China country had so much rich land to allocate. In addition, the millions of Ming citizens currently living in Australia and the former Nanyang Islands have not changed their nationality.

Under the dual effects of continuous population migration and urbanization, the per capita cultivated land area of farmers in the Ming and Han dynasties has also increased a lot compared with 3o years ago, reaching about 4.3 mu per capita. As a result, the standards of the poor and middle peasants have been raised correspondingly. In the four provinces of Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong, and Henan, where the population density is relatively low, five peasant households with no more than 15 acres of land are considered poor peasants. Those who own land between 15 and 5o acres are considered middle peasants. Only those who own 5o acres to 1oo acres of land are considered rich peasants. Those who have more than 100 acres of land are farmers. The traditional landlords who made a profit by renting out their land and the tenant farmers who rented small plots of land to make a living were almost extinct.

However, more arable land per capita does not mean that the Ming farmers have lived a happy life since then. Due to the large-scale development of agriculture and animal husbandry in the Northeast, the Western Regions, Mongolia, Jiaozhou, Siam, Borneo, and even Donghua and Xihua, and the rise of the "100-acre farm" in the Han Dynasty, the grain prices in the Ming and Han regions have been at a low level, and natural disasters have occurred from time to time. For small farmers with small business scale, poor ability to resist risks, and high costs, bankruptcy and loss of land are only a matter of time before they lose their land, and to some extent, it is a bad result of Zhu Jishi's aggressive and expansionist policy!

The emergence of the Great Chinese Empire caused the small-scale peasant economies of Han China, Korea, and Japan to face fierce competition from the New World, Indochina Peninsula, Northeast Ming Dynasty, Mongolia, Central Asia, and Siberia. Moreover, the governments of the Ming Dynasty, Japan, and Korea did not adopt any policy of supporting small farmers, but encouraged the centralized management of land. This exacerbates the difficulties of smallholder farmers. Behind every natural disaster, there are the tears of countless small farmers, and this drought in the four provinces is no exception. The policy adopted by the Ming court is still to "help them emigrate".

"Pan Qing, now the population of the Northeast, Western Regions, Lanfang, Jiaozhou and other places is becoming more and more dense, and it is no longer comparable to 3o years ago." Emperor Zhu Guoxiong of the Ming Dynasty frowned again as he spoke, "Is there still fertile land to settle immigrants?" If they are allowed to cross the ocean, they are afraid of ...... Will it be unadaptable, right? ”

There is a cure for water and soil discomfort, and the Wanwei solution with the addition of h heroin is a special treatment for water and soil discomfort. However, the population of Donghua, Beihua, and Nanhua has increased significantly, but there is no cure! Now the war in North America has basically subsided, and the territory of the Donghua Kingdom has been basically determined. Various data on Donghua's land and resources were also sent to Zhu Guoxiong's desk...... The area of arable land alone is not less than the sum of the Ming and Han lands and the Northeast! And more arable land means more people to feed! Although Zhu Guoxiong did not have the idea of eliminating Donghua and taking over the territory of North America, it did not mean that he did not want to restrict the development of Donghua.

"It can help the disaster victims of the four provinces to migrate to the countries of Nanhua, Beihua and Nanyang, so as not to stay in the country and change." Of course, Pan Zuyin knew Zhu Guoxiong's thoughts, and immediately said. "The number of Chinese in the countries of Nanhua, Beihua, and Nanyang is too small to suppress the barbarians, and immigration must be accelerated in order to make it the land of China forever. In the future, all disaster victims and poor households in China can be encouraged to immigrate to South China, North China, and Nanyang countries, and prisoners can also be exiled to South China and North China. ”

"So...... Also available. Zhu Guoxiong thought for a while, but nodded. What needs to be contained now is Donghua, and the rest of the Great China countries will not pose a threat to the Ming Dynasty.

Pan Zuyin then said: "Your Majesty, there is news from Europe that there is a revolution in London, and King Edward VII and the royal family and cabinet officials have left London and taken refuge at sea. ”

"Oh, got it." Zhu Guoxiong's eyebrows still did not spread, "First the United States, now the United Kingdom, I don't know who is next?" ”

"Probably Russia!" "The results of the Russian Duma elections have been announced, and the Russian Socialist Party and the Russian Socialist-Revolutionary Party have won a great victory...... These two parties and the popular people are really one! And they all shouted the slogan of confiscation of landlords' land, implementation of state ownership of land, and free use of communes at the time of the Duma elections! ”

"Confiscation of land...... Russia may be in great trouble this time! Zhu Guoxiong shook his head, "The United States and Britain will probably adopt the same national policy, right?" The United States, Britain, and Russia are now in the same spirit, and these socialist revolutionary parties are stressing an internationalism, and I am afraid that it will affect the Great Chinese Empire in the future, and our China needs to be cautious. (To be continued......)