PS: Second update.

Such a policy of affordable grain is reviewed once a year. Groups whose household income has been lifted out of poverty will no longer be entitled to the quota of affordable food. Because of the reform of household registration, the distribution of affordable grain is more accurate. Therefore, the price of parity grain has been reduced again, and in the past, the price of parity grain per stone was 1 tael of silver, which was equivalent to 1.2 yuan. Now the price has dropped to 1 yuan. The normal grain price is 1.8 yuan.

It is equivalent to a low-income group enjoying the affordable grain policy, a family of six can save 0.8 yuan per month if they consume one stone of grain per month. The 0.8 yuan saved, whether it is used to rent a house or buy clothes, is a relatively large purchasing power for ordinary families, and a normal life is guaranteed.

Grain is obviously the biggest expenditure item of ordinary people at present, and affordable grain can obviously make the lives of the people at the bottom much better.

In addition to the policy of affordable grain, there is also a policy of subsistence households, which has also begun to be implemented in Beizhili. The disabled, the elderly, orphans and other groups that are unable to work, Zhu Youxiao has also successively put forward relevant security policies.

This series of policies is basically to ensure that no one dies of hunger first, and no one will go to a dead end because of the problem of eating.

But to make a fortune, it is obviously far from it. Even the wages offered by Royal Capital to regular workers are very low, with a salary of three yuan per month, which is more than before. In fact, this income is still very low, and the demographic dividend is obviously very amazing. How much is a house worth by the various companies under Royal Capital despite their housing benefits?

In these years, the imperial court did not collect high land taxes, and so much land in the suburbs could be built casually. A family of seven or eight people, as long as they are diligent and work hard for a few years, it is not a big problem to build a courtyard house with a brick wall structure. This kind of one-story building, unlike the rich and noble, has to carve galleries and paint buildings, how high can the cost be?

Therefore, housing benefits are not a high expense, and the cost of medical care is not high, and the cost of traditional Chinese medicine is mainly consultation. The cost of medicine depends on how to prescribe, there are expensive medicinal materials, there are also cheap medicinal materials, and there is generally not much difference in efficacy. Chinese medicine in this year. It is impossible to be like the traditional Chinese medicine in the hospital in later generations, just one of them is on fire, and more than a dozen kinds of medicinal materials for cooling and reducing fire can be prescribed, no matter how expensive it is.

With such a large population in the Ming Dynasty, where does the huge demographic dividend usually go?

Obviously, there are not so many people needed for agricultural production. In addition to producing all kinds of goods, the most common construction activities of the working class in society are actually building houses, gardens, and furniture for the rich.

Anyway, the elite class, how comfortable and how to come, there are not a few people who are poor and luxurious.

A large amount of labor is used for construction activities for personal enjoyment, and the demographic dividend is squeezed by the elite class and turned into a tool for their enjoyment.

Money is not used for social development, let alone for ordinary people. So that those who have money are getting richer and richer, and those who don't have money are getting richer and less rich. Now Beizhili has been scraped by Zhu Youxiao. and various developmental construction activities, the situation is improving.

Because the quota system began to be adopted for affordable grain, after the announcement of the decree, black households in various cities and towns in Beizhili went to the Civil Affairs Bureau to register their household registration.

The entire Beizhili, the busiest yamen in various places, belongs to the newly established Civil Affairs Bureau.

After some statistics, a jaw-dropping population figure was obtained, and Beizhili alone had a population of 1.5 million.

With such a count, Zhu Youxiao suddenly took a breath of cold air. 15 million! So many people in one Hebei. Then the provinces of the country are counted. How many people will there be?

If there are many people, there will be insufficient resources, and if there are not enough resources, there will be turmoil.

In times of peace and prosperity, the population will double in about 30 years, if it is an area where early marriage is popular. Twenty years can be doubled, the history of the Ming Dynasty more than 270 years, during which there have been many prosperous times, such as the past 'Wanli rule', is also an extremely prosperous prosperous era.

Westerners have a 'population trap' theory, which means that once the population has grown to a certain extent. If it is beyond the tolerance range, there will be turmoil.

During the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of the Qing Dynasty, Wang Shiduo, a literati who had witnessed the occupation of Nanjing, directly attributed the outbreak of the Taiping Revolution to China's "large number of people", and proposed a series of measures to reduce the population beyond what was reasonably acceptable to the people at that time. His central thesis is: "The cause of the chaos of the world: the number of people (many women, so many people)." If there are many people, they will be poor (there is not enough land to feed). The main basis for his judgment of "large number of people" was that "the number of people in the world has doubled in 30 years", and the people in his hometown of Huizhou have the bad habit of "marrying many people early, and marrying every fifteen or sixteen", "so it will be doubled in 20 years". "Insufficient land" is an absolute surplus of population. Wang Shiduo described this as follows: "The harm of too many people, the top of the mountain has been cultivated, the river has been farmed, the river has been cultivated, the river has been opened up old forests, the seedling cave has been opened into a deep essence, it is still not enough to raise, and the power of heaven and earth is poor." The method of planting is fine, the chaff core is also stingy, the vegetables and fruits are used to help eat, the grass and trees are almost not left, and they are still not enough to raise, and the power of personnel is lost. drive people back to farming, and there is no land to cultivate; Drive people back to work, no skills need people. There are many people who say that there are many people, and Anneng gains? Build an acre but a farmer, a store is only a few people, now want to govern an acre with 100 farmers, 1,000 people to govern a store, how can it? ”

He also believes that because "there are many women in the world, and the cause of the chaos in the world is also", in addition to the massacre policy of "chaotic people", the measures he proposed to reduce the population are more aimed at women, such as promoting the law of drowning women, administering cold medicine for the birth of the baby, strictly remarrying the law, establishing virginity homes, and so on.

Wang Shiduo's understanding is correct in Zhu Youxiao's view, but the solution is wrong.

After all, the vision is different, and the population of the earth before Zhu Youxiao crossed over has exceeded seven billion, and he can still feed him. Women know more, and it is right to say that it is right, and it is wrong to say wrong. At least in Zhu Youxiao's view, women are a scarce social resource. If it is lacking, it is inevitable that many men will fight singles, although it is more effective in controlling the population, but the social problems are more strict.

Zhu Youxiao naturally can't be like Wang Shiduo in the Qing Dynasty, what kind of massacre policy and the method of drowning women are too inhumane.

The problem of Daming today is that after the rule of Wanli, the population has grown massively, and the north has reduced grain production due to the climate problems of the Xiaoice period, so that it cannot feed so many people.

"The population of Daming is at least more than 300 million." Zhu Youxiao came to a terrifying conclusion, although there were no sweet potatoes in the Ming Dynasty, but the agricultural productivity was definitely higher than that of the Qing Dynasty, and it was inferred from the statistics of the Northern Zhili that the population of other provinces was definitely not a few, especially the area south of the Yangtze River.

Zhu Youxiao now understands why there was no peasant uprising in the Song Dynasty. Because the Song Dynasty had a family planning policy! The population was generally controlled, coupled with the prosperity of maritime trade, the export of goods, and the exchange of large resources from overseas, how could the people of the Song Dynasty not be rich? If you can eat enough, who will rebel!

Why don't Westerners have any peasant uprisings?

Because Westerners can't do medical care! Many people died from the plague. Coupled with the fact that Westerners often call back and forth, population growth is naturally limited.

China's ancient medical treatment is the best in the world, authentic Chinese medicine, and the means are indeed too clever. So that the mortality rate is lower than that of Westerners, and the concept of inheritance is too heavy. Moreover, it adopts the mode of intensive farming, and the productivity is higher than that of the extensive agriculture of Westerners, but the population growth is even more terrifying.

Zhu Youxiao suddenly grasped the essential problem of this era, what is the gap between the rich and the poor is too big, as long as they are not starved to death, the common people can endure it, but if they are going to be starved to death, they always ask to live, right?

Taoism has luck: all things are born, and there is no reason not to kill.

There is a way of life and death, this is the law, all birth, old age, sickness and death. But the more you give birth, the more fierce you kill.

"It seems that we have to expand the territory, expand the total amount of resources, and repair the water conservancy, maintain the current scale of agricultural production, and find ways to increase crop yields. Fortunately, sweet potatoes are a sharp weapon, and they can also raise the upper limit. Zhu Youxiao thought for a moment and then thought of a solution.

It's a traverser anyway, and his vision is much higher.

The development of productive forces can raise the upper limit of the population. Of course, technology is not omnipotent, for example, in the future of the earth, the population has grown to more than 7 billion, and if the population continues to grow, there will always be chaos in the world. The development of science and technology is just drinking water to quench thirst, and when it breaks out, it will be fierce to an unprecedented level.

Family planning is the fundamental solution to the problem.

There are two ways to solve the current problems of the Ming Dynasty, one is that no matter whether the people live or die, as long as the rule can be maintained, the more people die, the better. One is to find ways to expand the territory and increase productivity.

Zhu Youxiao naturally chose the latter, although he also drank to quench his thirst, but once science and technology develop, it will take at least a few hundred years for the population problem to break out. Moreover, family planning can be carried out during this period, and the problem will be solved.

There is another one, that is, the resources of the late Ming Dynasty were occupied by the powerful in large quantities, and scraping a part of the resources from the powerful to distribute them to the ordinary people can also temporarily solve the problem. But it will not solve the fundamental problem, because the population will inevitably continue to grow.

In general, the Ming Dynasty had to be stable in order to implement these policies.

When Zhu Youzheng was sitting in the Yangxin Hall and looking at the statistics of the Civil Affairs Bureau in a daze, Qian Guoxing walked in and reported to Zhu Youxiao: "Your Majesty, the Cao boat organized by Yuan Keli has come from the sea. A total of 1 million stone of grain was transported, and the second batch was already on the way. ”

"Can you ever shun lì?" Zhu Youxiao's spirit was shocked, and the grain finally arrived. With food, you can stabilize dìng, food is the key!

"Eleven people drowned in the water." Qian Guoxing replied. Zhu Youxiao sighed, it was expected! After all, Yuan Keli's grain transportation this time was mainly in small boats, and small boats were naturally prone to shipwrecks when they went to sea. It is still necessary to develop the shipbuilding industry as much as possible, and it is only reliable to change to large ships to transport grain.

However, after learning about the population of Beizhili, Zhu Youxiao's attitude towards the transfer of grain from the south began to become cautious, and the people in the south now seem to be starving, but if there is more grain from the south, it is estimated that there will also be a famine. (To be continued.) )