After bathing and massaging, Li Fushou was fully revived, and returned to Lingxiao Pavilion to continue working energetically.

The fighting has ceased for more than half a year

Thanks to the expansion of the occupied territories and the growing confidence of the people, the Red River Valley economy has been booming rapidly, thanks to the continuous import of a large number of workers.

In particular, the most important immigration work achieved fruitful results in 1882, and the annual immigration population exceeded one million, achieving a historic leap.

Until March 1883

Australia's total population exceeded 5.176 million, of which 3.229 million were Chinese, an increase of 896,000 over the previous year, 1.813 million whites, a slight increase of less than 40,000 over the previous year, and 134,000 indigenous people in the South Pacific, a significant decrease of nearly 30,000 over the previous year.

The population of Shangri-La continues to grow rapidly, from 232,000 to 381,000, mainly driven by the development of Qixing Town and Longmen Town in the Qingshui River Basin, which is expected to exceed the 400,000 population mark by the end of April.

The statistics do not include 31,000 indigenous prisoners, and the Borneo Theater continues to transport indigenous prisoners of war to the Koi copper-gold mine at a rate of 2~3 ships per month, which greatly promotes the construction of the Longjin Highway, the construction of the Crescent Lake Power Station and the construction of the mining area.

The indigenous prisoners of war were mainly from the Mazen Kingdom of South Kalimantan, a low-productivity indigenous kingdom of Borneo with a total population of less than 170,000 people, and the large number of able-bodied men sent to the mines for hard labor has long since disappeared without leaving much trace.

With the support of abundant workforce, the Koi copper-gold mining area has been officially launched, and the ore mining is based on the existing conditions.

The Borneo Immigration Program has been accelerated, and since June 1882, more than 252,000 Chinese immigrants have been imported into East Kalimantan and South Kalimantan, with an average of more than 28,000 per month.

After March 1883, the rate of immigration increased further, and the number of immigrants arriving by that month was expected to exceed the 30,000 mark.

The influx of a large number of working people has strongly promoted the economic development of Queensland, especially the two industrial star towns of Songjiang Town and Suzaku Town, with an urban population of more than 300,000, surpassing Sydney to become the fourth and fifth largest cities in Australia, squeezing Sydney City to the sixth place.

Since the steam industrial revolution, the world economy has shown a trend of accelerated development.

According to statistics;

In 1870, global trade totalled £2,214 million, and by 1882 it had grown to £4,078 million, almost doubling in 12 years.

World steel production, the main economic indicator, soared from 520,000 tons in 1870 to 16.6 million tons in 1882, an increase of 32 times.

Oil production soared from 800,000 tons in 1870 to 13.2 million tons in 1882, an increase of 16.5 times.

The total length of the world's railways tripled from 210,000 kilometers in 1870 to 650,000 kilometers in 1882.

It is against this historical backdrop

Queensland was the most industrialised in South Asia and the South Pacific, with a huge increase in per capita economic income, and a new bourgeoisie emerging from industry and commerce.

This further boosted the demand for culture and entertainment, with large and small dance halls and nightclubs popping up everywhere, theaters and teahouses popping up like mushrooms, towns and cities setting off a wave of new temples and Taoist temples, and wealthy merchants with money in their pockets willing to give generously in search of spiritual sustenance.

Various newspapers, periodicals, and bookstores appeared one after another, and the Qinlou Chu Pavilion was even more prosperous, and women from Europe, Belarus, Fusang and other places were full of dusty women, and the business was booming.

Only the Chinese women are almost nowhere to be seen, and they have become the target of the first to get rich and single, and the young women brought back from the mainland by media companies have been married back home almost as soon as they get off the immigration ship, and there is no way to live in society.

This has further boosted the growth of media companies, large and small, and society is using its own power to correct the demographic imbalance, which has achieved remarkable results.

According to statistics;

In 1882, 282,000 couples were married in Queensland, of which half of the brides were contributed by large and small media companies, and the remaining half were women of school-age age who were immigrants from the mainland.

The news of the sought-after Australian bride spread all over the coastal cities of the mainland, and legend has it that as long as the family has a daughter of school age, it will not be a problem for the family to repay all the immigration loans, and they can live a prosperous life.

This has led to a rapid increase in the number of young women in the immigrant population, which has reached nearly 30 percent, which means that nearly 300,000 young women of working age immigrated to Australia in 1883, and the introduction of media companies is expected to solve the problem of gender imbalance in the next 10 years.

It is expected that from the second half of this year, Queensland will usher in the first large-scale baby boom, with more than 330,000 births in the whole year, achieving explosive growth in births.

In 1883 there would be an influx of more than 400,000 young women, who would unsurprisingly melt into society like the melting of the ice, and most of them would marry and have children within a year.

The baby boom in Queensland will continue to be hot, and it is expected that the number of baby boomers born in 1884 will skyrocket to more than 500,000, and the society will enter a more harmonious and orderly stage of development.

In order to cope with this situation

Queensland has vigorously simplified the marriage registration process and introduced the Marriage Law to protect the rights and interests of men and women, which is based on the Marriage Law of the British Empire and takes into account the actual situation of immigrants in the Manchu Empire.

Mainly during the duration of the marriage, the man can marry a partial house with the written consent of the main wife, and the rights and interests of the wife of the partial house are protected by law, and they must not be abused, bullied, beaten and scolded.

The age of marriage is 18 years for the man and 16 years for the woman.

The Marriage Law stipulates that there are relevant provisions such as notarization of property before marriage, division of property after marriage, and the responsibility of the man to raise his children during the marriage to reach the age of 18, etc., which can ensure the relevant rights and interests of divorced women, which is a great progress in this era.

In response to the arrival of the baby boom, the Queensland Government has taken strong measures to further ensure that the newborn boom is smoothly passed.

In August 1882, both the University of the Red Valley and the University of Brisbane announced that they would expand their medical school enrollment from 1 September, more than quadrupling their enrolment.

On 1 September 1882, 16 new primary schools were opened across Queensland, dozens of kindergartens were enrolled, public and private schools were built, and the state legislature introduced a bill to give tax and land relief to schools at all levels for a period of 30 years.

On February 6, 1883, Songjiang Medical College was officially established.

On March 2, 1883, the Brisbane School of Nursing was officially established.

The new milk powder workshop of Songjiang Dairy Products Factory was put into production, and Songjiang Textile Products Deep Processing Base specially developed baby series products, such as soft wool blankets, wool quilts, wool bibs, baby clothes, plush toys and so on.

A new baby economy is taking shape in society, and around this emerging industry, the society will solve a large number of employment problems and further promote the comprehensive and balanced development of the economy.

Li Fushou has successively approved several relevant documents, all of which are reports on population and baby boom, government departments to increase specialized manpower, build related facilities, build commercial streets, build hospitals, and train teachers.

At this time, Fan Zhongzhai, the head of the secretariat, came in with a few documents, Li Fushou raised his head and greeted him, dropped the pen and documents in his hand, and lay down on the chair behind him; "Brother Zhongzhai, I have been surrounded by baby boomers these days, looking at the current gratifying situation, the immigration policy we implemented a few years ago may have deviated!"

"Lord Yuanding, I think the immigration policy in the past few years is not wrong at all, it is very correct."

"Oh, tell me your reasoning."

"That's right, we created a situation in Queensland a few years ago, and what the army and factories urgently need is young and strong laborers who can be recruited, who can form combat effectiveness when they come, and can form productive forces when they come, and a lot of babies are a burden, and we can't afford it."

"There is some truth in that, but it is biased." Li Fushou sighed lightly, stood up and moved around the room, walked to the wine cabinet and opened the red wine bottle......

He saw Fan Zhongzhai hurriedly walking over and preparing to take the wine bottle, waved his hand casually, and poured a glass for himself and Fan Zhongzhai.

Picking up the wine glass, Li Fushou saluted Fan Zhongzhai, raised his glass and took a sip of red wine, feeling the unique mellow taste of French red wine lingering between his tongue and mouth, and said;

"Being in a high place is often detached from the people, not feeling the urgent needs of ordinary people, and Queensland has developed into a deformed society, and I have unknowingly created a crater, and we are squatting on the crater and not realizing it, which is really dangerous.

From the sharp increase in vicious cases such as rape and gang rape in recent years, we can see how dangerous it is for a man to dominate a social group, full of violence and aggression, and cannot be curbed by repeated severe crackdowns.

If there is no yin, it will not be born, and if it is lonely, it will not be long, so heaven and earth are matched with yin and yang.

The triangle is the most stable structure, for the society, and the same is true for the family.

Brother Zhongsai...... Whenever I think about it, I secretly rejoice. ”

After listening to this, Fan Zhongzhai quietly took a sip of red wine, thought about it and said; "Lord Yuanding, I still can't agree with your point of view, you are too harsh on yourself, people are not sages, who can be wrong?"

"Well, you don't need to comfort me, now Queensland has a population of more than 3 million people, accounting for three-fifths of the entire Australian population, and there will be more and more in the future, this is like a heavy weight, one day it will overwhelm the balance of Australia, have you considered this problem?"

"The only battle!"

"It's easy to say, how do you get through this level of the British?"

Fan Zhongzhai shook his head decisively, he had thought about it more than once, but there was really nothing there was to be done about this mountain in front of him.

It's easy to win in the southern states, but it's very difficult to get past the British, and the British are 100% going to intervene, and that's where the difficulty lies.

Li Fushou smiled, raised his wine glass and touched Fan Zhongzhai and said; "Don't talk about these annoying questions, I haven't congratulated you on your happy son and baby daughter, it's a double happiness!"

Fan Zhongzhai has a wife and two concubines, and it just so happens that his wife gave birth to a son-in-law in March, and his second aunt gave birth to a daughter.

"Rejoicing and rejoicing, Mrs. Fiona is going to give birth next month, Zhong Zhai is here to congratulate Lord Yuan Ding in advance on having another son, the children and grandchildren are full, and the Li family is prosperous."

"Hahaha...... You and my brother don't have to flatter each other. Li Fushou said with a smile.

The luscious French red wine is perfect for the mood of the moment, the sun shines through the tall window lattice, and the two talk happily, chatting for a while, and from time to time bursting into hearty laughter.