When Zhao Weiji formulated and promulgated the laws that belonged to Xinhuacheng, it finally seemed to be a society in the real sense.

But there is a way that the house leak happened to rain overnight, and the gourd was pressed to float up. Trouble keeps coming to your door. Zhao Weiji, who had easily solved the legal problem, just wanted to take a break, and something new came again.

"Lord Wang, our iron factory is not manpowered."

"Lord Wang, our paper mill is not enough manpower."

"Lord Wang, there are not enough teachers in our new school."

"Lord Wang, our mine is not manpowered."

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Well, in short, there is not enough manpower, even if a large number of steam engines are put into every place where they can be invested, but there are still not enough manpower.

Now every day, people from different places come to the city hall to complain to Zhao Weiji, feeling that there are not enough people, and hoping to immigrate some more people from the Central Plains.

It has been a year since Xinhua City was built, and three groups of immigrants before and after, totaling more than 20,000 people, have basically gotten all the people that Zhao Weiji was able to fool in the early stage.

But it's still not enough, too many people are needed here, with the advent of the steam engine, Zhao Weiji began to build a primary workshop, coupled with the reclamation of wasteland, the rise of animal husbandry has been a great development of mining, and there are too many people needed.

Didn't he have an agreement with Zhao Guangyi to ask him to provide immigrants to Xinhua City?

There is such an agreement, but at the beginning, Zhao Guangyi said, people can give it to you, but there is a limit every year, and the limit in the first year has actually been used up, and because he opened a little fiercely, he moved towards the industrial revolution in one step, so the construction was a little fast, and there were not enough people.

Just when Zhao Weiji was having a headache, Jiang Yu came in, and the first thing he said when he came in was: "Lord Wang, let's ......." ”

Zhao Weiji's head was big when he heard this now, and he immediately interrupted Jiang Yu: "Stop, stop, stop, I know, there are not enough people, right?" Where is it this time? ”

"This time it's a woman."

"Women?"

"Yes, it's women, there are already a lot of single male compatriots who have reacted, they also have some money now, it's time to marry a wife, but we have few women in Xinhuacheng now, and these few poor women still have masters, so they hope that the prince can immigrate a large number of women to come in, or let them go back with the next boat back to the Central Plains, marry a wife and bring it back."

Well, it is true that the ratio of men and women in Xinhua City is not coordinated to the extreme, because they came to open up the wasteland, so the role of women is not very large, and many of these people who came were exiled by the imperial court, so there are mostly bachelors.

Now that these bachelors have money, they naturally want to marry a wife.

"Women, where am I going to change for you, my wife is still in the Central Plains, I've been masturbating for almost two years, didn't I say anything, why don't you make some soap to relieve it?" Of course, this is just Zhao Weiji's inner monologue, he doesn't want all men to become, he still expects this group of people to take root here.

"Okay, I know, don't expect me to solve everything, I'm not a god, let's brainstorm together, bring everyone here, let's have a meeting."

Of course, all the people referred to here are the people who are usually in charge of administration in Xinhua City, as long as they are Zhao Weiji, Jiang Yu, Feng Yun, Wang Dayuan, and Tie Zheng and Ling Huhuang who have just arrived, plus a few highly respected people selected from the peasants, workers and other classes who formulated the law last time, they are called Yuan Geng, the word Longping, Dongfang Li, the word Weiming, Yang Hua, and the word Zhongding.

After about an hour, the men were all at a large round table in the town hall.

"I asked you for a meeting today, and I think everyone knows very well why it is. It is to solve the biggest problem in our current Xinhua City, that is, the population is not enough, I don't know if you have any good suggestions or opinions on this problem? ”

After Zhao Weiji finished speaking, he looked at these people on the table, and these people also began to make trouble after hearing Zhao Weiji's question, staring at each other with big eyes.

"Or? Let's go grab it, shall we? Go to several islands in the Great Song Dynasty, such as Qiongzhou, and beg. These islands have a large population, but there are not many officers and soldiers, so it should be easy to grab them. "The person who made this suggestion was Yang Hua.

"Zhongding? What did you do before you were exiled? Zhao Weiji was very curious, how could someone come up and make such a suggestion.

Yang Hua's face flushed when he heard Zhao Weiji's inquiry, "Back to the prince, I used to be a pirate, and I often operated in the South China Sea. ”

After hearing Yang Hua's words, everyone's eyes changed a little when they looked at him.

Seeing such a live reaction, Yang Hua immediately explained: "Don't be like this, I have changed my mind now, who was born to be a robber, if you can't live, who wants to float on the sea every day and make a living by robbery, after coming to Xinhua, no one oppresses, you can get rich with your own hands, who will do evil." ”

This is also, the reason why Yang Hua can be elected as a representative is because of the results of his usual active good deeds, Yang Hua can be said to be the first batch of people to get rich, and after he became rich, he not only did not be benevolent to the rich, but also actively did good, now there is a big inn in Xinhua City that he opened, this inn is not like the Central Plains to charge some money, this inn is specially provided to the new immigrants who have just come to Xinhua City, and it is free.

"Okay, don't stare at him, it's not that everyone doesn't know what Zhongding is like in Xinhua City." Although Zhao Weiji himself was reprimanding everyone, but because Yang Hua's appearance was really a bit civil, and he usually smiled, the contrast with the image of a pirate was a bit big, so Zhao Weiji actually laughed out loud after reprimanding.

And Zhao Weiji's smile, everyone couldn't hold it back.

"Ha, ha, ha, ha, lord...... I don't think he's afraid that he will do anything harmful, but that Zhongding's usual image is too far from that of a pirate, so I'm really curious. Feng Yun, who had tears of laughter, explained.

And Ling Huhuang, who was laughing on the side and was about to slide under the table, also kept echoing Feng Yun, "Yes, just like Hua Teng said, the contrast is too great, ha, ha, ha, ha." ”

The others also laughed wildly and kept nodding their heads in agreement.

After laughing for about two minutes, Zhao Weiji finally held back, "Okay, don't laugh, let's talk about Zhongding's idea." ”

Tie Zheng, who restrained his smile, replied: "I don't think it's realistic, don't forget that what we lack now is manpower, where are the surplus people in Xinhua City now who can organize an army to go to Qiongzhou and beg to rob people, even if there are not many officers and soldiers, can you guarantee that those people will follow us obediently?" ”

"I agree with Zhongtang's opinion, it's really unrealistic to rob people." The person who spoke was none other than Dongfang Li.

"If you don't agree with my method, then you can tell me what is the best way." Hearing that his method was denied, Yang Hua was a little unhappy.

Although Dongfang Li didn't agree with Yang Hua's method, he couldn't think of a good way to deal with it for a while.

At this time, Wang Dayuan spoke: "Actually, we don't need to rob people, we have a lot of gold, and it's over if we go and buy people." ”

"Buying people? Where to buy from? Dongfang Li asked curiously.

"In addition to the Central Plains, there are many surrounding countries with a large number of Han people living there, most of them because of the early years of war and trouble, many people can never return to the Great Song Dynasty after going out, these people in the surrounding countries such as Siam are not too high, because they are always regarded as outsiders.

We can go to these countries and ask their kings to give money to take these people away, I think their kings should not be too embarrassed for the sake of gold, after all, the identity of the prince is here, and these small countries are not too afraid to offend the Great Song Dynasty. Moreover, those Han Chinese often cause conflicts in these countries, and it is estimated that their king also hopes to have the opportunity to send the Han people away. ”

After finishing speaking, Wang Dayuan looked at everyone.

I have to say that Wang Dayuan's proposal is very good, these overseas remnants can indeed become an important source of population in Xinhua City, not to mention that because they are all Han Chinese, there will not be too many problems in cultural exchanges.

"The question is, are the local Han people willing to follow us to Xinhua City?" Ling Huhuang asked with some concern.

"I don't think it's a big problem." At this time, Zhao Weiji explained for Wang Dayuan, "Remind you of Huanzhang, or I would have forgotten these Han compatriots overseas." In fact, our overseas Han compatriots are not very good in the local life, because they are easily excluded and discriminated against by the local aborigines. In addition, it was not their hometown in the first place, so it was naturally not easy to become an obstacle to relocate to the land, and it should be relatively easy for me to persuade them to move to Xinhua City. ”

"In that case, what are we waiting for? Hurry up and do it. Yang Hua roared excitedly at the moment. Because among the people here, he or the workshop represented by him is the most lacking in manpower.

At this time, a disappointing voice came out: "Lord Wang, this can solve part of the population problem, but how to solve another part?" ”

"What else?" Wang Dayuan asked puzzled?

"And what should a woman do? I don't think even if immigrants are summoned from Siam and other countries, there won't be too many unmarried daughters, right? The person who said this was Yuan Geng, who had never spoken.

"Well...... this." At this time, Wang Dayuan had no moves.

"You don't have to worry about this, I already have a countermeasure, you can go and solve the problem of collecting overseas remnants first." Just when everyone was stuck again, Zhao Weiji spoke.

The reason why Zhao Weiji had a solution at this time was because Wang Dayuan's words reminded him that no one can buy it, since men can buy it, women can also buy it.

At this time, Zhao Weiji set his sights on a place, where a large number of female immigrants should be available.