The next day, Liu Shidu wrote a special letter on the many problems that the population surge would bring about the hidden danger of surplus, and submitted it to Lin Bin's case.

Lin Mengde, Gao Zongting and others all have different opinions on this:

Not to mention the demand for labor in the new industry, the war is not over, and no one knows how many lives will be filled in the brutal war.

Jingxiang, Henan and other places are almost uninhabited for thousands of miles; In the future, the population of Yanji, Guanzhong, Jinzhong, Liangchuan and other places to be recovered has declined greatly due to the continuous war; In order to completely suppress Yanhu and no longer become a border trouble, the Liangliao region must become a central county government, and a large number of Han people need to be moved to make up for it.

Guangnan, Yizhou, Qiongzhou and large areas of land in southwest China are relatively backward in terms of development; If you want to further develop and strengthen your rule, the most important resource is population.

The Jeju Governor's Office covers an area of no more than two counties, and 150,000 people have moved in one after another, which is particularly insufficient; The Nanyang Colonists have just begun, Sun Si Chung has just set up the Luga Governorate on Luga Island, and he has just established a permanent settlement in the Putan Peninsula in Johor. At least another 100,000 or 200,000 people need to be relocated to fill these three places.

With the two points of Luga and Pudan, it will need more people to penetrate into the peripheral Nanyang countries.

What's more, the Nanyang route will continue to extend to the west and south, and it is now unpredictable whether there will be a large-scale war with the Qiduo Dynasty in the process of colonization of the Nanyang in the future......

The attitude of Lin Mengde, Gao Zongting and others, now they are afraid of the shortage of manpower, where will they worry about overpopulation?

In addition, the high proportion of net increase in the number of people in Huaidong is the prelude to the new policy to open the rule of the prosperous era; Liu Shidu mentioned the hidden worry of overpopulation at this time, which was naturally too sorrisome.

After all, Gao Zongting belonged to the military, and it was inconvenient to meddle in the affairs of the Privy Council too deeply.

In front of Lin Bin, Lin Mengde argued with Liu Shidu.

Wu Qi, Ge Cunxin, Yang Shi, Luo Yicheng and others couldn't intervene in this kind of thing, they could only watch the two of them fight in front of the hall, and no one could convince anyone.

Lin Jian could imagine that after returning from watching the performance the day before yesterday, Liu Shidu should have argued with Lin Mengde and Gao Zongting on this issue, but he didn't accept his opinion, so he bypassed Lin Mengde and Gao Zongting and came directly to him.

"Okay," Lin Tie held his hands on the long case, interrupting the dispute between Lin Mengde and Liu Shidu, and said, "Your words are reasonable, and there is no contradiction in reality." It's just that you can't calm down and listen to each other's good talk, and this is where political disagreements and political disputes arise. However, in governing the country, it is necessary to consider both the good and the bad, and in this way I grant to all you the ministers of government and military affairs a privilege: even if your statements do not agree with me, you have the right to submit them to the Council of the Ministers for full discussion, and this case may be referred to the matter of the succession. However, you are all ministers at the level of auxiliary ministers, so don't let the slightest disagreement arise from your heart......"

Lin Lian's words pointed directly at the party struggle, and he was very fierce; Lin Mengde hurriedly explained: "Shidu is also worried about the public, I know it in my heart. ”

"Yes, Dingkou has a big deficiency at the moment, and it is a good thing that there is a net increase in Dingkou in Huaidong," Lin Jian said, "but governing the country should be a matter of a hundred years." In 30 or 50 years, we need a high proportion of net increase, but after 350 years, is it still appropriate to have such a high proportion of net increase? You all have to think about it. "If you cook a small fresh meal in a big country, you can't have a headache at this time, and then you will have a headache after thirty or fifty years," Lin Jian handed Liu Shidu's special letter to Lin Mengde and said, "You write down my words on Liu Gong's special letter, and bring them back to Jiangning to be read by the councilors of the public council; Around the New Year's Festival, I will go back to Jiangning, and then let Liu Gong go to Jiangning to discuss this matter......"

Lin Mengde and Gao Zongting glanced at each other: Lin Jian is sure that there is a great demand for Dingkou at the moment, but at the same time, he wants them to think about the country for a hundred years, which is equivalent to affirming Liu Shidu's opinion at the same time......

Lin Mengde really didn't think about what would happen in forty or fifty or even a hundred years, so he stopped arguing at the moment and said: "What I am worried about is indeed insufficient, and I will carefully read the special letter of the teacher." ”

"Okay," Lin Jian waved his hand and said, "You and Liu Gong are leaving Haizhou today, so let's stay for the banquet." Make an exception at noon, open two jars of good wine, don't get drunk, just ......"

said that he wanted to put down political affairs and drink a good wine, but the government ruled the country to unveil the prelude to a new empire.

When it comes to grain reserves, Liu Shidu and Lin Mengde have different opinions.

Whether it is Zhao Chen of the previous dynasty or Yuan Yue, in order to ensure the food safety of the Beijing division, the Beijing camp army and the border army, a large-scale official warehouse system will be established. At this time, Huang Jinnian, who served as the governor of Eastern Fujian, was previously the right attendant of the household department and the chief envoy of the Gyeonggi Warehouse, and was the head of the Yanjing official warehouse system.

The perennial grain reserves of the Gyeonggi Warehouse Yard were as high as 35 million stones, but during the Chongguan period, the central financial collapse and the grain storage of the Gyeonggi Warehouse Yard decreased year by year, so that it could not withstand a series of natural disasters and wars after the nine years of Chongguan.

Although Jiangning is located in the land of fish and rice, and the peripheral grain sources are sufficient, the official warehouse system must also be established, otherwise an occasional basin-wide flood on the Yangtze River can destroy the entire empire.

After Jiangning called the luxury family to capture, although the Huaidong Army recovered Jiangning, the official warehouse in Jiangning, which was originally not strong, was destroyed by the luxury family, and in the later period, it was always the military warehouse of the Huaidong Army that temporarily replaced the official warehouse for emergency needs.

At present, Lin Jian separates the military and government of the Huaidong system, and the military warehouse is only a military grain reserve, and the scale cannot be expanded indefinitely.

Jiangning Guancang only began to absorb grain in the summer and autumn season this year, and only then did it store one million stone of rice grain. In a single severe drought in western Zhejiang, two million stone of rice grain had to be transferred from the outer prefectures and counties, and the grain storage capacity of one million stone in the official warehouse was obviously far from enough.

Lin Mengde wanted to increase the amount of rice grain requisitioned in Jianghuai, Zhejiang, Fujian, and other places next year, and increase the total grain storage capacity of the official and military warehouses to 8 million stones. Only with such grain reserves can cope with the following Northern Expedition and the unpredictable drought and flood.

Liu Shidu served as the Jianghuai Xuanfu envoy at this time, and he was very clear about the situation in Jianghuai.

Over the years, Lin Jian has transferred a large amount of grain and grass from the Jianghuai region to support the peripheral Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, and the two lakes, which has actually made the private grain stocks in the Jianghuai region always be at an extremely low level.

Liu Shidu also had lingering fears about the severe drought in western Zhejiang, fearing that if a major drought or flood broke out in the Jianghuai region, involving more than 10 million people, the central relief might not be timely and effective. It is also necessary to ensure that the people have a certain amount of grain reserves, and Liu Shidu hopes that the central government will slow down the requisition of rice grain in the Jianghuai region and reduce the grain storage capacity of 8 million stone by two levels.

"It's a good thing to have controversy because of business, the more thoroughly discussed, the less likely it is that there will be problems in the future," the entire rice storage plan involves complex estimates, and Lin Jian suddenly didn't know which of Liu Shidu and Lin Mengde had a more correct opinion, but he encouraged as much discussion as possible at the beginning of the matter, and said, "In the past, there was no way to transfer rice and grain from Jianghuai, Jiangning, Jiangxi, western Zhejiang, Lianghu and other places will starve to death, and I can't calmly consider the buffer capacity of the Jianghuai region against drought and flood disasters." It is also fortunate that JAC has not had any major problems in the past two or three years, and now it is relaxed, this problem should be considered as a whole......"

Speaking of this, Lin Jian said to Lin Mengde again: "You pick a place for me in Jiangning, I will set up a museum in Haizhou, and after a while, in Jiangning, Chongzhou and other places, I will also set up a few more places." Ge Siyu, Jiang Yue, Song Shixian and Zhao Shuhan exchanged letters and discussed for many months, and decided that it was necessary to establish naturalism as a basic branch of Xinxue, and I would like to help them build this museum......"

"I will remember," Lin Mengde said, "I left Jiangning, and Song Jiang and the others made a special trip to me about this matter. If the inner government can allocate a silver dollar, the pressure on the branch division will be less......"

Lin Jian shook his head and smiled.

Lin Jian proposed a new interpretation of Confucianism in order to alleviate the conflict between the new school and the old school, and the establishment of the new school system was also repeatedly discussed by Jiang Yue, Song Shixian, Ge Siyu, and Zhao Shuhan in Jeju.

At present, the preliminary opinion is to divide the new credits into five categories: physical science, naturalism, arithmetic and metrology, geography and astronomy, and medicine.

The new interpretation of Confucianism, the new study of Confucianism in the eight eyes of "Gewu, Zhizhi" and interpretation, the interpretation of "Gewu" as "the study of reason", Gewu is actually the prototype of physics and chemistry in later generations, including the current machinery, engineering, alchemy and other traditional miscellaneous sciences. Arithmetic and metrology, geography, astronomy, and medicine are actually continuing the tradition and integrating overseas miscellaneous studies.

The fact that naturalism is listed separately is that with the continuous extension of the Haidong and Nanyang routes to the north, south and west, more and more new things and new species are presented in front of people, and it has become an increasingly urgent need to recognize and learn the characteristics of new things, and this itself contains huge benefits.

The discovery of fire oil in Borneo directly changed the situation that the combustion oil of the Central Plains was almost completely dependent on edible oil in the past. Since the first barrel of Borneo oil arrived in Jeju five years ago for use in the lighthouse, 80,000 barrels of Borneo oil have been imported through Chongju, Quanzhou and Myeongju this year.

Due to the limited production of hot oil in Borneo, most of it is now absorbed by Huaidong, and the use of hot oil in Borneo has also increased greatly.

Borneo ash, a fertile field and construction slurry used by the local Aborigines.

After these characteristics of Borneo ash were discovered, it was quickly imported into the Central Plains by sea and used as a fertile field, and also mixed with white ash to build walls, which are all easy to use.

Borneo ash is, in fact, volcanic ash.

Zhao Zui, who has been studying building slurry for half his life, heard about this characteristic of Borneo ash, and two years ago asked someone to bring local volcanic stone to Jiangning, intending to build a kiln to calcinate the same stone and seek a way to artificially produce volcanic ash.

At first, Lin Jian didn't think about what Borneo ash was, after all, there are many kinds of natural building mortars; At that time, the world had long mastered the technology of calcining lime. It was only when he heard that Zhao Zui'er intended to build a cellar to calcinate volcanic stone to make volcanic ash, and Lin Jian realized that Borneo ash was natural cement.

As long as the cage of ideological imprisonment is opened, the continuous discovery and cognition of new things and characteristics will also directly promote the development of new learning and new industries.

In the past, Lin Jian knew that reinforced concrete was easy to use, but he couldn't remember how to fire cement.

On the contrary, Zhao Zuiguier, who was immersed in traditional architectural craftsmanship at the time, was inspired by the characteristics of new things and began to try to develop a method of cement calcination, but Zhao Zuiguier named the imitation volcanic ash as stone slurry.

Zhao drunken ghost often made mistakes because of alcoholism, and later made achievements, and exposed the problem of greed, and his temper was also strange, except for a few people Lin Jian and Ge Funeng, no one could cure him, so that other Chongxue Hall scholars did not treat him very well.

Although Zhao Drunken Ghost has a deep attainment in the construction skills of the world, when the Chongxue Pavilion was first established, Lin Jian did not list Zhao Drunken Ghost as a bachelor of the Chongxue Pavilion. However, he pioneered the method of calcining stone slurry, and Lin Jian could only pinch his nose, regardless of the opposition of others, and included him in the list of scholars in the Chongxue Pavilion, allowing him to open a school in order to continue to develop and carry forward his construction skills and new learning of calcination.

Of course, the method of calcining stone slurry can be created, and it is inseparable from the background of the development of the entire new university.

At this time, the stone slurry made by the kiln calcining, the performance has been similar to that of Borneo ash, but the kiln temperature requirements are extremely high, almost to the same firepower as the glazed kiln, and the high-quality Shannan coal imported by Goryeo needs to be used to reduce the cost of calcination, which is better than transporting Borneo ash by sea.

Otherwise, even if the calcination method of new slurry is discovered, there is no practical possibility at all; Just like in the past, the glazed ware was just a plaything of the rich and noble, and there was no chance to enter the homes of ordinary people.

In addition to Borneo oil, Borneo ash, and local gold, silver, copper, and tin were shipped back to the Central Plains, Jianghuai and other places also had a particularly large demand for another specialty of the South Seas, that is, abaca produced in Johor.

The history of making clothes, nets and ropes with hemp in the Central Plains has been thousands of years, but the hemp crops produced in the Central Plains are not resistant to corrosion and are easy to rot. "Three days of fishing, two days of drying nets" does not mean that fishermen are lazy, and hemp nets do not dry in time after being soaked in water, and they decay very quickly.

In the case of offshore waterlogging and navigation, the rot problem of hemp fishing nets and hemp rope is more acute and prominent.

Lin Jian originally thought that this kind of problem would be solved until nylon was produced. However, I have to wait for the nylon to be produced, and I don't know if it will be until the donkey month in the Year of the Monkey.

The cost of wire rope is extremely high, and whether it is a military or commercial vessel, it is currently only used in critical places. The hemp rope is perishable, and it is a big deal to change it quickly, after all, it is supported by the generous profits of the sea trade, and it is not enough to be replaced.

The discovery of abaca in Johor solved this big problem at once.

Abaca is produced from the banana tree commonly cultivated in Johor, and the locals use abaca to make clothes, ropes, nets, and mats, and they do not know that it has a history of hundreds or thousands of years. Abaca is lightweight, tough, and non-perishable, especially when soaked in seawater for a long time, and is almost the best quality raw material for woven fishing nets and marine ropes that can be found today.

At first, the fleet that went south to the South Seas mainly purchased ready-made fishing nets and hemp ropes from Johor; After the characteristics of ababa were further confirmed, the fleet that went south to the South Seas this year began to purchase abaca raw materials from the local area on a large scale to supply them to the rope and net making workshops in Jianghuai.

Due to the high-quality properties of abaca, the military department also included it in the list of military supplies with a strict outflow.

At present, the strong growth of new industries in Huaidong can be said to have laid the foundation for new learning, but the direct stimulation effect of the large-scale use of many new species with high-quality characteristics is also becoming more and more obvious.

The inclusion of naturalism in the new school is also intended to encourage the discovery and application of new species. After all, it may take hundreds or hundreds of years for the development of Ge Phyology to the stage where new species can be synthesized on a large scale, and nature itself contains countless treasures. As long as we are good at discovering and utilizing, we can continuously inject new vitality into the development of new learning and new industries.

In addition to encouraging the development of naturalism, it is also necessary to show the achievements of the development of new studies to the world, and also to let the world have more opportunities to open their eyes to the world when they enter the museum.

The construction of a museum is not simply to build a building, but also to collect as many species as possible, and to classify them and identify their characteristics, which is also the main thing to do in the current naturalists. At present, we are only putting the framework in place, and the work of collecting and sorting species needs to be done slowly.

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Lin Mengde and Liu Shidu left Haizhou in the afternoon and returned to the south, and Haizhou City returned to its former peace.

But in the afternoon, it snowed again, Lin Jian had nothing to do and practiced a knife in the snow courtyard, his forehead was slightly sweaty, and he watched Song Jia and Liu Miaozhen, who was holding a big belly, walk in, put away the white cloth trowel, put on his clothes, and walked to the porch.

Song Jia sighed: "The two annoying guys are finally gone......"

Lin Jian laughed, and said with pity: "It's a pity that Liu Gong is old!" ”

"Oh!" Song Jia looked at Lin Jian in surprise, knowing that he would not be untargeted, and said this kind of emotion.

Lin Jian sat down with Liu Miaozhen in his arms, and he sat on the railing with snow particles, and he didn't feel cold.

He had been looking for a person who could actually preside over the Privy Council on his behalf, and who would be a minister of the new empire.

As the head of the Lin clan, Lin Xuwen is not suitable for appearance, and Lin Jian plans to let him replace Lin Tingli to preside over the public council in the future, rather than asking the Privy Council to preside over it to him.

Lin Mengde has a wealth of experience in dealing with practical affairs, but he also has serious flaws, he is one of the future ministers, but it is not appropriate to ask him to fully preside over the Privy Council.

As a minister of the new empire, you must not only be able to accept the new study and new policy, but also have the ability to take the initiative to guide the development of the new study and new policy. Although Liu Shidu seems to be a little conservative, although he is a figure born out of the old officials, he has served in Hailing, Huai'an and other places for a long time, and has led the salt and iron division, presided over the implementation of the new salt and iron tax policy, and has rich experience in governance; Or is it that he can spontaneously generate new thinking from the New Deal and New Learning?

In Lin Bin's view, the most rare thing about Liu Shidu is the overall situation that Lin Mengde and others can't reach.

Before the war, the population of the entire Central Plains was between 120 million and 140 million, with the Qinling Mountains and Huaishui as the line, and the population of the south (excluding the two rivers) was about 70 million.

Affected by the war, the population loss in western Zhejiang, eastern Fujian, eastern Jiangxi, Huaixi, Jingxiang and other places was the most dramatic, with the population figures falling by 2 to 70 percent respectively, and the 20 million people lost by the war in the south were mainly concentrated in these areas.

However, far from being greatly affected by the war, Huaidong, Ninghu and areas south of Hongzepu have risen sharply due to the influx of displaced people, especially in Chongzhou, Hailing, Pingjiang and Huai'an.

The number of Dingkou in the five counties of Chongzhou has surged from 5.6 million before the war to 1.2 million at this time, and in addition to Chongzhou County, the number of Dingkou in Hailing Prefecture has also surged from 1.1 million to 1.6 million.

The surplus population has provided sufficient labor for the reclamation of coastal wasteland in Chongzhou and Hailing, as well as for new industries and the increasingly prosperous maritime trade industry, which has stimulated the strong growth of new industries and maritime trade.

However, some problems have gradually been exposed, and after the completion of the seawall, the coastal wasteland has been developed on a large scale, resulting in as many as 3 million mu of new grain fields in Chongzhou and Hailing in the past decade. However, against the backdrop of the newly reclaimed large amount of wasteland, the per capita cultivated land owned by peasant households in Chongzhou and Hailing prefectures has dropped by about 8 percent in the past 10 years.

It's just that the problems exposed in these details, Lin Mengde, Li Shuyi, Wu Meijiu and others didn't notice it.

Over the past 200 years, Vietnam's population has nearly doubled, with a natural growth rate of less than 2 per 1,000. In the tradition of the world's habit of having more children, such a low rate of natural growth was forcibly suppressed by additional factors such as high mortality rates, epidemics, famines, and bloody large-scale internal wars.

The implementation of the new policy by Lin Jian is to start to solve the high mortality rate, solve the large-scale uncontrollable epidemic, solve the famine and solve the internal war problems, if you still want to let it go, let the natural annual growth rate of Dingkou maintain at about 3 percent, it will be an extremely terrifying data.

Many people do not realize how terrifying the natural growth rate of "3 percent" is, but to maintain such a high natural growth rate, based on the population of 5,000 in the south, it will increase to 100 million in 23 years and 200 million in 46 years. Within 100 years, the population of the south will increase to 800 million, but within 100 years, can the total grain output of the southern region south of the Qinling Mountains and Huaishui increase by 16 times?

The new empire is about to be unveiled, and the country should be considered for a hundred years, and the national policy should be considered for a hundred years, rather than just five or ten years.

Lin Jian hopes that there will be a large increase in the population, but this is moderate, and it should not be unlimited.

It is estimated that after recovering the north, the two Liao, northwest, southwest and other places will be brought under the central rule, and the population of the country will be about 90 million.

A fourfold increase in population in 100 years, including overseas immigration, to between 300 million and 400 million is tolerable and may be beneficial.

In a hundred years, the development of new policies, new industries, and new technologies will be completely rooted, people's living standards will be greatly improved, and the habit of having more children will be overcome, and at that time it may even be necessary to encourage fertility and breeding.

But a sixteen-fold increase in population in 100 years is not a good thing.

Lin Jian did not explicitly raise these issues, but he had already laid the introduction of the "surplus tax"; In the new military service system, Yu Ding also had to be recruited into the battalion before Duding; In the New Deal, Lin Jian also deliberately maintained the tradition of the eldest son inheriting the homestead, and deliberately weakened Yu Ding's economic, family and social status, which was all an introduction planted in advance.

Lin Jian has a deep impression of the population and explosive growth of later generations after entering the modern industrial society.

Lin Jian wants to use these means to control the explosive, uncontrolled growth of Dingkou at the macro level, but he does not want to immediately beat the high growth rate of Dingkou in a short period of time.

When formulating national policies, weighing the overall situation in a hundred years is a quality that minister-level figures must have. At present, Lin Jian has only seen a little shadow on Liu Shidu, which can be regarded as the biggest surprise of his trip to Haizhou.

But it's a pity that Liu Shidu is already over the age of six, and he has just served as the Jianghuai Xuanfu envoy this year; It will take two or three years for him to be transferred to the center, and then for a period of observation, and by the time it is certain that he can be used to make appearances, Liu Shidu is afraid that he will be almost seventy years old.

Lin Jian really had no interest in appointing a seventy-year-old man as the prime minister of the new empire; Therefore, Song Fu, who is already sixty-three years old, is not among the candidates for Lin Tie's ministers at all.

Thinking of this problem, Lin Jian had a headache, there was no suitable candidate for the minister, and after the war was over, he couldn't be lazy.

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