With the return of Zhang Cai, the time also reached the beginning of 1646, and since coming to this world, Zhang Hongbin has spent twenty years in this way.

The former young man is already in the prime of life, and he is a middle-aged old man deep down. Watching a country start from scratch and build up in his own hands, watching China no longer need to go through three hundred years of dim times, no longer need to look at the faces of foreigners to do things, sometimes when he is alone, Zhang Hongbin will have an unparalleled sense of pride when he thinks about it.

Zhang Hongwu, who was far away in the Americas, would return in three months, just because the Indians who were currently in North America had realized that this group of outsiders who looked similar to themselves had caused a great danger to their survival. Therefore, under the organization of the well-intentioned people, most of the Indians abandoned the gap between the ethnic groups and began to unite.

At present, the Republic only occupies some territory on the west coast of North America, and has not yet incorporated the whole of North America into its territory, so when the Indians deliberately fight guerrilla warfare, they can only defend cautiously and then look for opportunities to counterattack. In the end, there are still fewer people who go to North America to open up.

Not only in North America, whether it is Yuewang Island, or the South Seas, or even the Indochina Peninsula and India, there are very few immigrants from China. This gave the local natives some chance to survive, carefully hiding in the wilderness, waiting for revenge.

But even so, the republic has no way to continue immigration, even if he occupies the territory of Dashun, Zhang Hongbin has to face a very serious problem, that is: the population of the republic is insufficient!

After more than ten years of war, not every force cherishes the people as much as the republic. In particular, Dashun and Daxi, who were born in Liukou, often passed millions of people in order to be able to win, and used them as cannon fodder. After a battle, tens of thousands of dollars were filled in, which greatly damaged the vitality of Huaxia.

In this way, according to the latest statistics, the local population of China is only about 50 million, and excluding the newly-born children, there are only about 20 million young and middle-aged laborers. The worst thing is that in the original territory of Dashun, there was even negative population growth, and for a long time only the dead were not born.

Population, this is a very serious problem, and we have to pay attention to it!

Huaxia had a population of 200 million during the Apocalypse, and if you dig deeper, you can only dig out 400 million people. However, even the war has caused a sharp decline in the population, and in the case of an accurate census, there are only 50 million survivors of the war.

As mentioned above, among the 50 million, there are only 20 million real young people, and the bad thing is that the geographical distribution is not very even, which makes a large number of widow villages appear in some places, but in some places there is not a single adult woman within a radius of hundreds of miles. In the long run, the man cannot marry a wife, and the widow can only continue to be widowed, and in the last forty or fifty years, it is a huge waste to grow old and die.

It can be said that Zhang Hongbin can hear such a report almost every day in the past few days, and he really feels helpless when he hears it.

How to increase the population? Of course, this is not the point, the point is that even if fertility is encouraged, there can't be more than two births per child, right? Moreover, even if it is born, it must be more than ten years later before it can be regarded as a useful labor force...... Remember, it's just a matter of being useful, and according to the Education Act, it's just a junior high school graduate......

Even if conditions permit, a woman of appropriate age holds two in three years, and it is a long wait. How to rapidly increase the population is not only a difficult problem for Congress, but also a headache for Zhang Hongbin.

"At this stage, we are encouraging people to migrate, mainly in areas where there are more women and men and those who have more women and men, so that they can have more choices. At the same time, it is necessary to strengthen propaganda so that widows can marry soon, and of course it cannot be enforced...... Freedom to marry! At the same time, an order was issued that if a family with more than three children does not want to raise a third child, the government will raise the child at the expense...... I believe that this investment is very cost-effective, after all, the children who grow up under our philosophy must be the most loyal to our country. Zhang Hongbin can only give a palliative solution.

"Seconded!" There were no surprises in these mentions, and they were all passed.

At most, the Minister of Finance raised his hand with a slightly ugly expression, after all, it was obviously a big expense, even if it was really good.

Back at home, Zhang Hongbin locked himself in the study after enjoying the joy of his family.

Without him, just when the meeting was held just now, the shopping guide suddenly said in his mind: "If you need to solve the problem, please enter the supermarket!" ”

Seriously, hearing this, Zhang Hongbin is still looking forward to it, but he is really worried, don't be some weird things like clones or gene people, right?

"Welcome to the supermarket!" Entering the supermarket, the shopping guide still greeted him cordially.

"I wonder what supermarkets can do to solve the population problem? Wait, don't tell me what kind of clone I'm a clone! Zhang Hongbin said very anxiously.

"Of course not, even in the future, cloning and genetic humans will always be a research that is absolutely not allowed by humanism...... It is not denied that some people will study this thing, but the relevant technologies are all state-level confidential materials, and we are the copycat industry consortium...... It's a pity that there is no way to get such a technology.

However, in the future, there are many families who want to give birth to all the children they are planning in one go. After all, you see, it's too troublesome to get pregnant one by one, but I want to only have one child, so why not just conceive three or five children in one go when I have the first child, and now I only need to have a big belly once, and I don't need to continue to get pregnant in the future, right?

Therefore, there is this special medicine of 'women's pregnancy joy', which has been useful since drinking it before pregnancy, and can increase the fetus in the womb by one per ten milliliters, and the maximum can be pregnant with quintuplets. Not only that, although it was not allowed on the surface, but in private, the private scientific research institutions in Huaxia still researched the gender potion. The potion is male and female, of course, there are also dragon and phoenix fetuses, taking the potion can ensure that the fetus in the womb is 100% male or female, of course, it is not undesirable to have a dragon and phoenix fetus. The shopping guide first took Zhang Hongbin to the top floor, and then pointed to the goods on a container to introduce him.

Very good, very powerful potion, worthy of being produced by my Great Huaxia! Very, very, in line with the basic needs of Chinese people!

"But if you conceive quintuplets in one go, won't the survival rate of the fetus decline after birth?" Zhang Hongbin also voiced his worries.

"Please rest assured, the size of the child who takes the potion is indeed affected and becomes smaller, and the original eight-pound weight is likely to become only about one pound. But it can be guaranteed that all of them have matured, just like the saying goes, 'although the sparrow is small, it has all five organs', as a complete mature individual, although the body size is a little smaller, it can definitely ensure normal development and normal survival. Of course, if it's deliberately trying to kill you, then I don't have anything to say. The shopping guide explained seriously.

Zhang Hongbin understands that if this medicine is popularized in Huaxia and couples who want children this year can directly give birth to quintuplets, 20 million people can have 5 million newborns even if they plan to have children with a million couples this year. It's just one child, and it's only a year, to reach this point.

When the time comes, the test will be the follow-up medical care and social care system. But it is certain that this kind of medicine can allow Huaxia to burst out a large number of people in the shortest possible time, and there is no need to wait for dozens or hundreds of years, only about 20 years, and it is no longer a dream for the population base to return to the peak state at the end of the Ming Dynasty!

So, he was tempted!

At the beginning of this year, the land of China was destined to become a period of population growth, until Zhang Hongbin no longer supplied ......