Yan Yingyuan didn't expect that the Metropolitan Governor would hand over such a big stall in the Northeast to himself, which made him feel a lot of pressure.

Fortunately, now that the telegraph has been installed in Shenyang, it is extremely convenient to contact Nanjing if there is anything.

In the past, it was called Shengjing, but the governor said that it was better to use the name of "Shenyang" before, so it was changed back to the name of Shenyang.

At the beginning, after Yan Yingyuan led the main force of the Marine Corps to kill Duoduo in Shanhaiguan, he immediately returned to Shenyang, and when he arrived outside Shenyang, Li Hu had already taken Shenyang with more than 1,000 people.

For a period of time after that, Yan Yingyuan and the Marines almost set foot in the northeast of the large and small towns, after all, it was the "land of dragon prosperity" of the Manchus, although it was said that "the trees fell and the trees were scattered", but many Manchus were still unwilling to be defeated like this, and many of them went into the forest, which brought great trouble to Yan Yingyuan's clean-up operation.

Fortunately, there is also Zhao Quan's cavalry brigade to cooperate, otherwise it would be a bit too much to take care of with only 8,000 marines.

Yan Yingyuan, who has read a lot of books, knows that this place in the Northeast used to be the territory of the Ming Dynasty, but after the rise of the Manchus, the Ming court retreated one after another, until the entire Northeast fell into the hands of the Manchus.

Six years ago, the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs almost as a whole ethnic group moved inward, which caused a sharp decline in the population of the Northeast.

Although there were not many Manchus left in the Northeast after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, after the Wehrmacht army arrived in Beijing, a large number of Manchus ran back to the Guanwai, which added a lot of trouble to Yan Yingyuan in solving the Northeast problem.

Yan Yingyuan led the Marines to clean up for more than a month, but the Manchurians didn't catch a few. But the troops were so tired that they couldn't do it. Yan Yingyuan felt as if he had done something wrong.

Yan Yingyuan knew that the Metropolitan Governor was not a cold-blooded and murderous person. Letting yourself go to the Northeast is definitely not to let yourself kill all the Manchurians, so what you have to do is to settle down this land.

Just when Yan Yingyuan began to think, Zhao Quan, who had entered the customs, brought eight words to himself, "politics first, military secondary".

What is politics, Yan Yingyuan is not unfamiliar, the Metropolitan Governor once mentioned this word when he gave a lecture to the artillery, which is nothing more than the meaning of uniting the majority of people.

Figured it out. Yan Yingyuan, slowing down the pace of military operations, sent people to Beijing to find the surrendered Manchu regent Zilharang, and asked him to write a letter to the Manchus who remained in the northeast, advising them to obey the Nanjing government and stop confronting the Wehrmacht.

After obtaining the letter from Zilharang, Yan Yingyuan sent people to post the letter written in Manchu and Chinese characters in all the towns and cities in the northeast, and at the same time posted a notice in the name of the Northeast Provisional Working Committee, saying that no matter whether it was a Manchu or other ethnic group, as long as the government of the audience was under management, everything in the past would not be blamed.

The effect of the letters and proclamations was somewhat beyond Yan Yingyuan's expectations. Many Manchus and Han people who did not know the truth had come out of the deep mountains and old forests, at least the surrounding areas of Shenyang had now been calmed down.

But the little Manchu emperor, who fled from Beijing to Mongolia, was always thinking about returning to his hometown in Liaodong. Yan Yingyuan had already learned from the intelligence that they were now in the area of Haochen Chahar (now Erlianhot), and they might have to march from the Taining line to Liaodong, so Yan Yingyuan sent Zhao Quan's cavalry brigade and half of the marines to intercept them.

However, soon Zhao Quan sent people back to say that the Manchu court did not seem to have any intention of going east, and that there might be some internal problems.

For Yan Yingyuan, the eastward expansion of the Manchu court is not the most difficult problem to deal with, the most difficult thing is that the population of the Northeast is very small now, he has made preliminary statistics, although the Han people account for the majority, but the entire Northeast region may only have a population of more than one million now, in such a large place, what can such a small population do?

Fortunately, the telegram had already been communicated, and Yan Yingyuan sent a telegram to Nanjing about the problem he could not solve.

Yan Yingyuan didn't expect that one of his telegrams would become the most difficult problem for Nanjing's heads.

Luo Jian knew that the Northeast was now vast and sparsely populated, but the population of the entire Northeast was only more than one million, which he didn't expect.

At the cabinet meeting, after Luo Jian reported on his investigation to everyone, everyone talked about this issue invariably, and the population of the entire Northeast is so small, which is also unexpected by everyone.

It is not a day's work to solve this problem, but the real problem is in front of us, that is, at the beginning, Luo Jian asked Yan Yingyuan's troops to expand into an army, and now it seems that it is impossible to recruit all the numbers from the northeast.

In the end, Shi Kefa made a decision, recruited from Fujian and Liangguang, recruited all of them for training in Nanjing, and transported them to the Northeast by sea after preliminary training.

The problem of expanding the army in the northeast has been solved, but the question of how to develop the northeast is still a big problem, and the key is the population.

Luo Jian checked a lot of historical materials on the population situation of the country, but it seems that there are many versions, and even Shi Kefa and others don't count how much the population of the country is now.

Luo Jian wanted to conduct a thorough census, but he knew that it would not be possible with the current administrative capacity of the Nanjing government.

In desperation, after Luo Jian discussed with Shi Kefa, he could only take an expedient measure, that is, to let all localities report the number of people, of course, Luo Jian and Shi Kefa both knew that the statistical data of this method could only be used as a simple reference, and it was impossible to talk about accuracy at all.

Fortunately, the provincial city telegraph has been connected, and there is no need to send people from Nanjing to inform everywhere.

A month later, the Nanjing government finally counted the data, and Luo Jian knew that the current population of the whole country is about 80 million to 90 million, and if the habit of concealing the population in the Ming Dynasty is included, the population should be about 100 million.

Seeing this data, Luo Jian thought to himself that he had averaged all kinds of data found from historical materials, and it was probably this number.

However, the current population distribution is extremely uneven, with the population of the southern provinces roughly at more than 40 million, while the other provinces have more than 40 million people.

After receiving data from all over the country, a special meeting on population issues was reconvened.

"Xinghua, look at us now, we are sparsely populated everywhere. You're also going around taking up territory. Shi Kefa smiled and teased Luo Jian.

"Overseer. You can't look at it that way. As long as the situation in the whole country stabilizes, our grain output is increasing year by year, and the rapid population growth is predictable, I think Xinghua is doing nothing wrong. Lu Zhenfei said to Shi Kefa seriously.

"Haoyue (Lu Zhenfei), I'm joking with Xinghua, can I not know this?" Shi Kefa glared at Lu Zhenfei and said.

Of course, Luo Jian, who Lu Zhenfei said, also knew that in another time and space history, during the reign of Kangxi and Qianlong. There has been a rapid increase in population, and some people call these years the prosperous era of Kangqian, but Luo Jian believes that the situation is basically stable on the one hand, mainly due to the improvement of the climate and the introduction of a large number of new crops.

The situation is certainly much better now than it was then, and the rapid growth of the population is predictable, but Luo Jian does not want the country's population to grow explosively, which is not a good thing.

In that time and space, when I arrived in a city, especially a big city, I am afraid that the first feeling I had was "many people". Too much population and less average resources are one aspect. Pressures on various areas, such as employment and social security, will also follow.

Luo Jian felt that in this era, with the current land area, it is probably the most reasonable to control the total population between three and five or six billion, but how to control the population more accurately within this range is not something that can be considered now.

Solving the population problem is not a top priority, but the development of the northeast is imminent, and this can not be delayed.

"Xinghua, didn't you say last time that many peasants in many places in the south are still renting land for farming, and the landlord's rent is still extremely high, I think that these tenant farmers can be mobilized from the southern provinces to go to Guanwai, but if these people go to Guanwai, our government must solve the problem of settling down for them in the first place." Yuan Jixian suggested.

"Brother Ji Tong (Yuan Jixian), this method is feasible, but if too many people are transferred, I am afraid that the grain output of the southern provinces will decline, and we must also take this into account." Ren Minyu said beside him.

"I don't see that although grain production has increased dramatically over the years, these tenant farmers have not benefited much, and the government has not increased their income from it, and the benefits have been taken by the landlords." Lu Zhenfei said indignantly.

Luo Jian thought of the famous "Huguang filling Sichuan" at this moment, another time and space in the Manchu Qing Dynasty in the process of occupying Sichuan was strongly resisted by the Sichuan people, which led to the Manchu massacre of the Sichuan people, although the Manchu Qing later put the responsibility for the sharp reduction of the population of Sichuan to about 600,000 people on Zhang Xianzhong's head, but Chongqing was not occupied by the Manchus until 1659, if Zhang Xianzhong killed so many people when he was in Sichuan, then who was resisting?

Although the Manchu Qing Dynasty had been shifting the blame for Sichuan's population decline, many of its policies of "filling Sichuan with Huguang" could be used for reference.

For example, the Manchu Qing Dynasty adopted a series of policies to encourage immigrants from southern provinces to Sichuan, mainly to encourage immigrants from other provinces to reclaim famine. If it is stipulated that those who are willing to enter the Sichuan will be given acres of land as a permanent industry. Poor people in various provinces who bring their wives to Shu will be allowed to become naturalized. The preferential policies for recruiting people into Sichuan are closely linked to the promotion of officials at all levels, rewards, reclamation and recruitment; Additional incentives are introduced in the tax policy.

Kangxi once issued an edict on the reclamation of acres of wasteland for immigrants, stipulating that taxes would be levied only after five years. and never add to the breeding population. It also stipulates that the authorities of the places of origin of immigrants and the authorities of the places where they have settled in Sichuan are required to cooperate with the verification of the transfer, arrange for the registration of the household, and arrange for them to be registered and assigned to the Baojia. These policies have created a favorable environment and conditions for immigrants.

Now the total population reported by Sichuan is three or four million, far from another time and space to the Kangxi period of only 600,000 people, of course, there is no need to "fill Sichuan" now, so why not come to a "Huguang to fill the Northeast"?

As for Ren Minyu's question, Luo Jian believes that even if there is a slight decline in grain production, it is within the acceptable range of the government, not to mention that with the further promotion and use of chemical fertilizers, grain output will continue to increase.

Luo Jian still has a "trump card" that has not yet been said, that is, pesticides have been basically developed, and they are waiting for large-scale production, although the effect of pesticides on increasing grain production is not as good as that of chemical fertilizers, but the role they can play cannot be underestimated. (To be continued.) )