It's the end of the year, and Zhu Youxiao is busy again. Although the harem life made him linger a little, he either went to the queen or the concubine at night.

Sometimes when the interest comes, the queen and the concubine are called to the East Warm Pavilion to sleep. In order to achieve this goal, Zhu Youxiao soaked for a long time before the queen and Concubine Liang agreed.

Everything is going well in Taiwan, and the Royal Bank has invested a lot of money in Taiwan for development, and it is still easy to return to the capital, after all, the resources are there.

Negotiations with the Dutch broke down, and Zhu Youxiao was not in a hurry. It's not that the Ming Dynasty is begging to trade with the Dutch, there will always be a time when the Dutch will give in. As long as the fleet of the Royal Navy was formed, the Dutch naturally could not jump. The captives of the Dutch were useful. Raelson, the captains of the Dutch fleet, had been sent to the navy to teach them the tactics of naval warfare in the Royal Navy.

And those gunners and sailors, who are also experienced in sea navigation and skilled in the operation of soft sailing vessels! At this time, the Ming needed them to teach the Royal Navy experience.

Don't teach?

Then go to the mine and mine!

As long as you are willing to teach, there is also a good amount of money as a reward.

There are two ways for these robbers to choose, and these gang members of the bandit gang who only seek wealth naturally compete to show off their skills one by one.

Anyway, even if someone can't think about it, there are always people who can.

Therefore, these Dutchmen are not in a hurry to put it back, and it is a very good use to teach the navy experience in navigation and naval warfare. As for the individual who don't know each other, they have already been sent to mine.

"Your Majesty, Lin Wence played. The Portuguese have accepted our Ming terms of trade. Willing to assist our Ming to build a fleet, it will only take about half a year, and the Portuguese will send a thousand shipbuilders from their country to come to the Ming Dynasty. Help us build gunboats. At the same time, the Portuguese also sent three gunnery instructors to assist our Royal Navy in training. "Sun Chuanting came in with a recital on this day.

"Yes, the Portuguese know each other." Zhu Youxiao nodded with satisfaction. The Ming expelled the Spaniards, and without trading with the Dutch, there was only one Portuguese left.

The Portuguese naturally felt like pie had fallen from the sky, and it hit them on the head with a bang, and they didn't react to what was going on for a long time. The envoy of the Ming Dynasty came and discussed with the Portuguese the new policy of the Ming Dynasty's foreign trade.

The request of the Ming Dynasty was very simple, let the Portuguese produce a group of shipbuilders. At the same time, changing the way trade is conducted. All the goods needed by the Portuguese in the future were supplied by the Royal Trading Company.

After some negotiations, the Portuguese agreed.

Not trading with the Spaniards and the Dutch obviously didn't hurt the Ming, after all, the transportation was in the hands of others. It is far less affordable than Daming to transport goods to Europe. Whoever you do business with is doing. However, as long as the imperial court monopolized foreign trade. In the future, the prices of those goods will naturally be raised as much as they want.

The first step at this stage is to let the Royal Trading Company intervene first and grasp the business in hand. The next step is to crack down on the private smuggling of merchant ships in the Ming Dynasty.

At the end of the year, what surprised Zhu Youxiao was the population growth of Beizhili. Due to the good employment situation in Beizhili and the fact that there are many basic guarantees and benefits, the population of Beizhili skyrocketed in the second year of the Apocalypse, which made the officials below miserable.

Today, the population of Beizhili has grown to 22 million. The poor people of the surrounding provinces came to Beizhili almost in droves. Now it has brought a lot of pressure to the public security of Beizhili. And a large number of immigrants, once it exceeds our demand for workers. It's going to cause a lot of problems. The minister thought that it would be better to cancel the current household registration policy first and prohibit people from other provinces from continuing to migrate to Beizhili. Shen Yu suggested to Zhu Youxiao.

"How can the population grow so fast? Doesn't it mean that the population of Beizhili has increased by 5 million! Zhu Youxiao was a little surprised, he didn't expect that this year, the population of Beizhili would be able to grow so rapidly.

"The main reason is that the people's livelihood in other provinces is a little worse, and the poor people in Henan, Shandong, and even Shaanxi have migrated to Beizhili in large numbers." Shen Yan said.

"Five million, not bad, not bad." After Zhu Youxiao was surprised, he felt very relieved that after the development of Beizhili, he would be able to feed five million people in other provinces, which was a very good situation for stabilizing the people's security policy in the north.

However, considering that the population has indeed grown a little more, and if it continues to grow, it will be difficult for the economy of Beizhili to develop.

Although there is a demand for labor in Beizhili, it is not necessarily an unlimited demand. Once there is a surplus of labor, it will lead to competition in labor prices, and the wages received by workers will continue to fall.

"Since this is the case, then restrict the people of other provinces from settling in Beizhili. As for the law and order issue, I will take care of it. Zhu You instructed Shen Yun.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Shen Yun, the head of the cabinet, is still relatively comfortable, and the emperor can be as good as a stream, which is naturally worry-free.

If you run into some self-righteous emperors, it's called bad.

Zhu Youxiao thought for a while and continued: "For the time being, Beizhili has not yet developed to the extent that it can mobilize many resources to support other provinces, so it is still necessary to give the people in other provinces who can't survive a way out. As long as the people can't survive, they can go to Taiwan to make a living. ”

To put it bluntly, it is immigration, and the dead are moved by trees.

Ordinary people may have no way out, so asking them to move places is also uncertain. It would be different if the imperial court could give them a specific destination and organize them to emigrate.

"Your Majesty, this year we have promoted sweet potatoes in all provinces across the country, and it has been quite effective. After the autumn harvest, the people in various places heard that the sweet potato production was very large, and they already had the intention of planting sweet potatoes, and the grain output should increase a lot in the coming year. In addition, the imperial court now stipulates the duration and distance of conscription, and the burden on the people has been greatly reduced. That is, when there is a natural disaster, the imperial court can provide timely relief, and the situation can be stabilized. Shen Yu is still optimistic about the current situation, after all, this year the promotion of sweet potatoes, but also reduced taxes in the affected areas, and carried out relief, and more than 5 million people came to Beizhili to make a living, how to say that the livelihood of the northern provinces is much better.

Moreover, at this time, the people of the northern provinces still had some savings. It was not frantically scraped by the government like during the Chongzhen period, so the people's livelihood situation is not too bad.

Of course, what Shen Wei did not expect was that the scale of natural disasters would continue to expand. Especially for the northern provinces, the tillage line will continue to move south because of the drop in temperatures.

Throughout history, China during periods of low temperature has often been the darkest stage. Because of the climate of the Xiaoice River, it is a great blow to agricultural civilization.

"Next year, we will continue to increase the promotion of sweet potatoes." Zhu Youxiao instructed, first stabilize the situation, and then starve people to death.

The most important work at the end of the year is, of course, the financial summary and next year's budget, which is also the time for Zhu Youxiao to take stock of the results of the year. After some counting, it was found that there was still a lot of silver in the money. (To be continued......)