There was a fire during the court discussion, Li Fushou calmed down a little after driving away the courtiers, and looked around with a cold face, Fan Zhongzhai, the secretary general of the royal family, Li Sixian, and Li Sizhong, all lowered their heads and were silent, and they didn't dare to come out.

Since the king succeeded to the throne, his majesty has become increasingly heavy, and he seems to have an invisible aura on his body to suppress the Quartet, maybe this is the domineering king's spirit!

After leaving the splendid Jinluan Hall and returning to the Xianju Palace, Li Fushou changed out of the Tang version of the golden dragon embroidered cotton king dress on his body, took off the crown, and changed into a light and casual light-colored loose robe.

At this time, Secretary-General Fan Zhongzhai walked in lightly and said with caution; "Your Majesty, don't be angry because of these courtiers."

Li Fushou sat down and said with a sigh; "Brother Zhongzhai, I'm already not angry, these cabinet ministers are habitual inertia.

When encountering problems, I don't think about raising money from all sides, opening up sources and reducing expenditure, and brainstorming to solve them, but when I run out of money, I think that Your Majesty has money, and when I have difficulties, I will look for Your Majesty, and after a long time, I will cultivate this kind of stinky virtue.

Later, a royal edict will be drawn up to summon the kingdom;

All middle- and high-ranking officials who bear heavy responsibilities should be held accountable as a whole, and they must not delay, prevaricate, prevaricate, be afraid of difficulties, or be afraid of the serious, and must handle the affairs within the scope of their authority to the end.

The time requirements for the establishment of relevant matters, whether it is three days or five days, must have a clear result.

In the middle of the process, there is no follow-up, and those who are ineffective are recorded in the official files, and all officials are subject to a 5-star review, and those below three stars are regarded as black spots of ability and conduct, and they are either mediocre officials and corrupt officials or stupid people.

Such officials shall not be promoted, transferred, or re-elected, and shall be reprimanded and talked to in the lightest cases, and shall be transferred, and in principle shall not hold the position of chief official; in the most serious cases, they shall be removed from their posts, removed from their posts, or even confiscated from their homes, and shall be investigated and punished for criminal responsibility.

Neglect of government is a major evil, and we must attach great importance to it.

Ordered all the courtiers of the cabinet to write a letter of guilt, and deeply reflect on what they have done in their daily lives, whether they have lived too comfortably, have drunk and sang, and fallen into a luxurious drunken dream of death.

It's only been a few years?

He ordered Minister of Justice Tian Shan to start this year's official evaluation, evaluation, and reporting work ahead of schedule, and to crack down on and investigate any violations of law and discipline, not seeking political affairs in his position, abusing power for personal gain, and perverting the law for bribes, and not relax the standards of strict control, so as to give me a good look at the officialdom.

The secretariat is closely connected, strengthens the audit and supervision work and post-event statistical reporting, and whenever there are unqualified officials in the areas, the above bigwigs are not clean, find a few for me to come out to kill a batch, arrest a batch, and deter Xiaoxiao.

In addition, the Independent Commission Against Corruption, which is being set up on the basis of the examination and supervision department of the Secretariat, will dispatch capable personnel to work independently as soon as possible, and the rectification of the administration of officials is a long-term and continuous task. ”

Li Fushou said so much in one breath, Fan Zhongzhai recorded it like a flying pen, and then asked carefully; "Your Majesty, do you have any other will?"

"That's all for the time being, I didn't expect Xin Changjun to learn to be with the light now, in the end, when he is older, he will find a stable position to retire, by the way, he is in his sixties?"

"Back to Your Majesty's words, sixty-three."

"Well, this government expires in April next year, and he will be 64, so let's go to the House of Lords to be a speaker, anyway, he is very familiar with the work of legislation, and continue to exert his residual heat."

Li Fushou said a few words to himself, Fan Zhongzhai wisely didn't dare to take over, is it something he can talk about if the prime minister of a country goes or stays?

In order not to be cold, after a pause, Fan Zhongzhai said softly; "Your Majesty, I have a few good things to report here, and you will be much happier to hear it."

"The first thing is that the negotiations on the sphere of influence of the African Expeditionary Force on the island of Madagascar have ended, and our side has obtained more than one-third of the area in the south of the island, accounting for 37.2% of the island's area, and the text of the agreement between China and France has been noted to the participating countries of the Berlin Agreement and has become a final conclusion."

"Well, Lieutenant General Liu Shan did this beautifully, and he didn't bother me from beginning to end, and he should be commended, and the army staff headquarters drafted an order for promotion to the rank of general, and submitted it to the emperor for issuance, as a sign of encouragement."

Hearing the news, Li Fushou was really in a much better mood.

In this incident, Lieutenant General Liu Shan's courage, courage and determination were vividly displayed, winning the greatest interests for the Ocean Kingdom, and he would never skimp on the rank of general.

You must know that under the so-called African Expeditionary Corps, in addition to the second-line garrison forces such as the Somali garrison area, the Mozambican state garrison area, and several marine police districts, the field force that can be used is actually only a mobile division of more than 8,000 people, and the strength is not sufficient.

In the face of the large-scale landing of 24,000 troops of the French Expeditionary Force on the island of Madagascar, Lieutenant General Liu Shan, relying on the two resettlement settlements that had been operating on the island for many years, sent two reinforced regiments to attack horizontally, and cut off the southern part of the island of Madagascar in only 17 days, realizing the attempt to divide the north and the south.

At this time, the French expeditionary force was still fighting with the local warlords of the indigenous kingdom at the landing ground on the north side of the island.

When they heard the special report from the African Expeditionary Force of the Ocean Kingdom, the French knew that they had stolen peaches, and the sour feeling was really mixed!

In the whole operation, only 76 officers and soldiers were killed and wounded, of which only 17 officers and soldiers were killed, 8 of whom died due to accidents such as falling into the water, falling off cliffs, bitten by poisonous snakes, and falling into swamps, and only 9 officers and soldiers were killed by the organized counterattack of the indigenous mountain people.

Of course, this was only the beginning of a successful military operation.

In the follow-up anti-bandit and chaos operations in the southern region, the resistance of the indigenous mountain people still caused certain casualties to the mobile division, as for where there were so many bandits and chaos, this is not enough for outsiders.

The mobile division's military operations were swift and swift, and even before the local indigenous mountain people could react, they had already completed the combat mission of cutting off the island of Madagascar, occupying key mountain passes, key passes, and major plain towns and villages.

All these successes come from the tireless infiltration of forces, the control of terrain and tribal forces, the perfect operational plan, and the resolute and efficient implementation of the forces over the past ten years, which have jointly created great military successes.

Relying on the powerful overseas states of Mozambique, even the French, who have always been arrogant, did not dare to make a mistake, so they could only sign an alliance with the African Expeditionary Force to eat the fat of the island of Madagascar.

Moreover, the population policy implemented by Lieutenant General Liu Shan is very much in line with Li Fushou's wishes, and this African operation can be described as a very complete one.

"The second thing, according to the figures of the immigration department followed up by our secretariat, as of the first half of 1895, the population of the native and overseas states of the Ocean Kingdom exceeded 33 million, and the inaccurate statistics were between 3305~33.08 million, achieving a historic explosive growth."

"Oh...... So many? Li Fushou was really surprised, and then joy welled up on his eyebrows.

"Yes, Your Majesty, please sit in peace, and listen to the ministers one by one." Fan Zhongzhai gave a salute, and then spoke;

"Since the end of the Civil War

Implementing your policy of "dividing the land and dividing the borders, and supporting the army and the people", a total of 417,700 soldiers have been resettled in southern Victoria and New South Wales, all of whom are small and medium-sized landowners, ranchers and yeoman farmers who have experienced the baptism of war and are strong-willed to maintain the unity and stability of the kingdom.

In the following three years, there was a huge enthusiasm for immigrants in the southern states, and in order to build pastures, retired officers and soldiers successively called friends from their hometowns in mainland China to build their homes through different ways.

With the advent of first-generation babies, the Chinese immigrant population in the southern states has exploded, reaching 3.17 million in just three years, and the total population of the region has exceeded 4.1 million.

Both in terms of population size, minerals, cattle and sheep, and the output of agricultural products, they exceeded the pre-war level.

In particular, the population recovery prospects of large cities are gratifying, with the population of Melbourne City exceeding 436,000, Sydney 261,000, Snow Mountain Town 39,000, Panshi Town 60,000, Wollongong 77,000, Newcastle 126,500, Canberra 39,200, and Ballarat, the main gold producing area, has reached 281,000.

At the end of 1894

For the first time, the total population of the Ocean Kingdom and overseas states exceeded the 30 million mark, reaching 30.61 million, which is a historic achievement.

After detailed data analysis by the Secretariat, the population growth of the Ocean Kingdom has changed from immigration-based to endogenous population growth and immigration, of which endogenous population growth is increasingly becoming the main force.

In 1894, the population increased by 3,212,000, of which 1,979,000 were immigrants from the mainland, mainly due to the "family immigration" factor in the southern states, which increased by nearly 460,000 Chinese immigrants.

Considering that the "family immigration" in the southern states has been breaking out for three consecutive years, reaching a peak of 1.1 million in 1892, as the situation in the south has stabilized, industrial and agricultural production has entered a state of steady growth, which is now at an end and will gradually disappear in the next two years.

With 1,233,000 newborns born in the kingdom a year, this growth trend is steady and strong and climbs in a steep curve, and the outlook is very encouraging.

This shows that newlyweds have a strong desire to have children, and the traditional concept of "having more children and more blessings" for couples who have been married for many years is deeply rooted, which will become the main driving force for domestic population growth in the future.

Totally to be expected

With the "family migrant" population in the southern states settling down, and with more than 200,000 newlyweds (Malagasy women) in Mozambique, the number of new births is set to grow in a step-up next year.

According to estimates, the number of newborns will reach the level of 1.65 million ~ 1.7 million, setting a new record again.

If the current average annual population size of 1.5 million immigrants is maintained, the Kingdom's population will grow at a compound annual growth rate of between 3.1 million and 3.2 million.

Since the beginning of this year, the kingdom's main grain exports have been stopped, and only a small amount has been supplied to the Liangguang region and the Ryukyu Kingdom, and the demand for the mainland of Australia and overseas states has been fully satisfied.

Based on the existing food production capacity of the Qingshui River basin and Borneo, the kingdom can meet the needs of 40 million people, and if the food production capacity is not further expanded, there will be food shortages in the next five years.

Supplying food for one meat-based population is enough to feed seven food-based people, and if the Fuso country is calculated at a low level, it can feed ten people.

Therefore, the food supply situation faced by the Ocean Kingdom is not optimistic, and the price of domestic mutton has skyrocketed year after year, from the original penny is not worth more than ten times, and now a pound of mutton is worth 2 jiao and 5 cents, which is almost equivalent to sixpence.

With the income of an ordinary urban worker, the monthly income can buy about 55~60 pounds of mutton, which is the appearance of two pounds of mutton per day.

This price level is unimaginable compared to before, and it is also a heavy burden for ordinary urban workers, after all, it is impossible to spend all the money on mutton, so eating meat every other day has become the norm.

You must know that 15 years ago, Australia ate mutton for nothing, and even used a scale, one penny took a bunch of meat, two pennies took a lot of meat, and one shilling carried the whole sheep away.

Mutton is only the head of the wool industry, those who are old and frail after screening, sheep with poor wool quality, small rams slaughtered only enough for manual money, it is too troublesome to sell, many white ranchers completely discard the sheep as waste.

At that time, some new Chinese immigrants who had just come to Australia, in order to save living expenses, went to the freshly slaughtered mutton stall to ask for something that others didn't want to come back and cook and eat.

What sheep's head, sheep's backbone, sheep's hooves, sheep's eyes, sheep's eggs, sheep's fat, as long as you can take it, because the local whites don't eat these things, and the early immigrants from Guangzhou, Fujian, Zhejiang and Jiangsu rarely have the habit of eating mutton.

The late immigrants came to the northwest region, and the Chinese in the southwest region were simply happy and cried when they saw this situation, which is all a good thing to dream of, I didn't say it...... That is to let go of the belly dry.

Now that is no longer the case with such a good thing, mutton has become another lucrative income for ranchers, and the profits are quite considerable.

Sheep backbones can also be sold for money, ten pounds for a triangle dollar, ten pounds for a sheep's head for a dime, and sheep eggs for a dime a pound, anyway, these bits and pieces can be sold for money, and the sales are quite good.

It is basically impossible for Chinese immigrants who are accustomed to eating meat to go back and eat mainly food if they let them go back to eat food, which is nature.

Therefore, the food problem restricts the number of immigrants, and it is impossible to let go of the large-scale immigration, which will inevitably cause a huge food shortage, and then lead to serious social contradictions.

Think about it!

The Qing Dynasty suffered disasters every year, often affecting hundreds of millions of people, only a few provinces on the southeast coast, but it is not a problem for Jin'er to easily emigrate five or six million a year, the question is what do you use to feed these people?

Although Mozambique is rich in food, considering the distance of sea transportation, the low value of grain transportation and the high cost of freight, it is not able to feed back to the Australian mainland.

At the end of 1894 to the first half of 1895

The rapid spread of the First Sino-Japanese War on the mainland, which caused panic among a large number of wealthy families and urban dwellers in the region, led to spontaneous migration waves.

According to the statistics at the end of July;

The number of spontaneous immigrants has reached nearly one million, covering the three northeastern provinces, Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei and Jiaodong Peninsula, and radiating as far as Lianghuai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and there are more than 100,000 people in Beijing and Tianjin alone, many of whom are quite wealthy literati and scholars, wealthy merchants, pedantic scholars, craftsmen and Qinglou celebrities, as well as many well-known Confucian scholars, the overall level of immigration is higher, enough to meet the mainstream cultural, medical and educational needs of the current social development, so the immigration department has adopted an attitude of being happy to see it, A large number of migrant boats were deployed to pick up people in the north.

Combine the above factors

By the end of June in the first half of 1895, the population of the Kingdom of the Great Ocean and its overseas states had exceeded 33 million.

Congratulations to Your Majesty, congratulations to Your Majesty, the strength of the Ocean Kingdom has reached a higher level. ”

"Hahahaha, good, great, rejoicing!" Li Fushou couldn't help but look up to the sky and laugh.

Can he not be happy?

In particular, the high-level immigrants from Beijing and Tianjin are talents that he has been longing for for many years, and now he has really fulfilled his wish, and it is strange to say that he is not happy.

You must know that the subjects under the rule of the Manchu Dynasty have always regarded themselves as the superior kingdom of the Celestial Empire, and they are extremely disdainful of the surrounding barbarians, believing that China is a rich land, rich in natural treasures, and prosperous in culture and education, occupying the commanding heights of natural etiquette and morality, and looking down at the direction of land outside China.

Even though immigration to Australia has formed a golden word of mouth, and countless immigrants who have returned from wealth have passed it on by word of mouth, gilding Australia's "new gold mountain" with a layer of glorious and bright foot red gold, it is only in the middle and lower classes of society.

Compared with the backwater, the stubborn and conservative upper social groups have not been touched much, and the immigration situation has not been opened, and only a very small number of people have tested the waters.

I don't know whether it's pitiful or pathetic!

Unexpectedly, under the influence of the First Sino-Japanese War, the illusion of these middle- and upper-class people was shattered at once, and they fell straight into the mortal world from the nine clouds.

This time, he also took advantage of Gu Zhixue's position as the governor of Beizhili and transferred 20,000 new troops from Liangguang to the north to guard the gate of Tianjin, and took advantage of his authority to open the door of convenience and allow migrant ships to stop directly in Tanggu Port, which greatly facilitated the immigration from Beijing and Tianjin.

Due to fate, opportunities are hard to come by.

The imperial court, which was in a panic as the Japanese army approached step by step, had no time to ask, and the wealthy people in these two metropolises were really panicked, and the tickets for the large shops worth more than 40 gold per person were sold out as soon as they went on sale.

This is only the price of the third-class shop of the immigration ship, the highest price of the single room needs 1100 gold ocean, but it is the most sought-after, because there are only a dozen rooms on an immigration boat, each can only live two people, where is there enough for those rich businessmen?

Gu Zhixue, the governor of Beizhili, was not idle, and arranged for his subordinates to shout hard in the streets and alleys to promote the prosperity and stability of the Liangguang region, which also attracted hundreds of thousands of wealthy officials and eunuchs to the south, further enriching the strength of the Liangguang region.

In the end, it was his brother-in-law, and he didn't forget to pull good things from his own fields on the day of the national disaster.

What can Li Fushou say about this?

You can only say with a thumbs up; Strong, very much of my shameless demeanor.

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