The words were deafening and hit Zhu Zaikun's heart, making him suddenly seem to have matured his mind by three points.

As the prince of the greatest king in the history of the Ming Dynasty, and even in history, it is not easy to live an easy life.

The inheritance of the Zhu family, the mission of the society and the burden of the nation suddenly pressed on Zhu Zaikun's immature shoulders, making a child who was only thirteen years old feel the unbearable weight of life.

But there is no way, who made him the son of Zhu Houwei, and who made him the prince of the Ming Dynasty?

"Erchen understands!" Zhu Zaikun nodded vigorously.

Zhu Houwei beckoned, and the eunuch who accompanied him immediately presented the scroll he had just taken, and when he opened the scroll, it was a map.

It is not a world map or a map of the Ming Dynasty, but if you compare it with a world map, you can clearly see that the map drawn on this scroll is nine out of nine similar to the Americas.

"This is the ...... of the Americas," Zhu Houwei sighed lightly: "If you set off from Tianjin Wei to the Americas and arrive at the west coast of the Americas, the straight-line distance is more than 20,000 li, and this vast land is equivalent to thirteen, fourteen, two capitals and thirteen provinces.

If we count Tibet, Xinjiang, the three southeastern provinces and Mongolia provinces, there are almost three major ......

In this vast land, there are countless mineral resources, a variety of rare species and high-yield crops, the potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, rubber trees and tobacco brought back by the valley are all from the American continent.

However, it is this land, for thousands of years, there has been no decent civilization, what Aztec civilization, Inca civilization, Mayan civilization, Indian civilization are full of ignorance and backwardness, it is not worth mentioning at all, in the eyes of the emperor, the aborigines here are a group of vulnerable indigenous ......"

Zhu Zaikun nodded again and again, his big eyes were full of desire to learn, for Yan University, he knew what civilization was and what culture was, and he knew the difference between the two, but for this world, he still had too many unknowns, so he wanted to ask for knowledge and want to explore!

The professor of Yan University once said that the current emperor is the greatest monarch in history, and the vitality of the Ming Dynasty in the Jiajing Dynasty is simply unbelievable, and the national strength of the Jiajing Dynasty has already been far away from the Han and Tang Dynasties!

And Emperor Jiajing, who created all this, seems to be an omniscient and omnipotent god, and his eyes are looking at the real world, the future in hundreds or even thousands of years!

The professor also said that his father had so many incredible things, such as the steel ships that could float on the sea, the trains that could roar across the land, and why the emperor knew that there were high-yield crops in the Americas, and why he knew that there were so many kingdoms and behemoths in distant Western Europe......

In the past, Zhu Zaikun was ignorant about this, but now he seems to understand a little in his father's unhurried words, his father knows too much about this world, so much that it is unbelievable.

"My father divided this American continent into fifteen pieces according to the trend of the river, and the emperor can choose any one of them as the territory of his dynasty!"

Zhu Zaikun opened his mouth slightly, and after digesting the information in his father's words, he asked: "What my father means is that the sons and daughters receive one piece, and the rest of the brothers receive the others, but the sons don't have so many brothers......

The sorrow of the stallion......

"Not now, not in the future, right?" Zhu Houwei smiled and said, "Even if it's really not a big deal, your brothers will receive two or even three pieces each."

"Erchen understood." Zhu Zaikun nodded and said, "Father, if the son goes, can he still see his father and mother again?"

"Yes!"

Zhu Zaikun breathed a sigh of relief.

In fact, once the princes are gone, whether there will be a chance to see each other again in this life, even Zhu Houwei himself can't say, after all, in the era when there are no planes, it takes too long to go back and forth from the Americas to Daming, and it is unbearable.

What's more, when the dynasty is newly established, everything is complicated, such as the resettlement of immigrants, the construction of cities, the establishment of order, and so on.

Dividing America into fifteen pieces is not much to see on this map, but Zhu Houwei knows that if he wants to complete absolute rule over his territory, it may take two or three generations of unremitting efforts!

"My father will give the emperor three or four million immigrants, as well as 100,000 troops, which is the foundation of the town!"

"Three or four million?" Obviously, Zhu Zaikun felt that there were a few people, after all, his father also said earlier, there are more than a dozen large two capitals and thirteen provinces in the Americas, and the three or four million people are thrown into such a large area, isn't it pitiful......

"My father has never rectified the hidden households, and the land annexation is for the sake of immigration." Zhu Houwei sighed: "If some things are done, I am afraid that there will not be so many people willing to immigrate, but for my father, I know in my heart, the population of Daming plus hidden households will almost exceed 150 million, and if you want to maintain the vigorous vitality of Daming itself, then the population cannot be less than 50 million."

The new dynasty built by the emperor actually did not need a large population at the beginning, otherwise if it could not support these immigrants at the beginning, there would be a popular uprising, making them impoverished, and they would lose their sense of belonging to the new dynasty, and what they did would outweigh the losses.

The essence of population reproduction lies in abundant food and clothing, as long as the people can feed their children, they are willing to give birth, as long as the burden is not heavy, it is not a problem to have ten or eight at all, what does it mean to have a small population?

There is a lot of land, the Chinese nation is a hard-working nation, they will not be afraid of more land, no matter how much land, 50 acres of land will be opened this year, 100 acres will be opened next year, and no matter how much land there is, there will be a time when the land will be reclaimed.

At this time, medical science can greatly reduce the mortality rate of newborns, and then usher in a population explosion!

In a generation of more than ten years, the population base of three or four million may be thirty or forty million in a hundred years!

At that time, the emperor was still worried that his children and grandchildren would have no people to herd? ”

"Can the emperor copy the reform system of the Ming Dynasty?"

Zhu Houwei laughed and said: "In the new dynasty, the emperor is the emperor, and the new dynasty is a blank piece of paper, and the only one who is qualified to draw on this blank paper is the emperor.

My father has long said that there is no unchanging law in this world, and everything in any era depends on whether it can adapt to the current era, so my father never looked at the ancestral system in his eyes, because my father knew that the so-called ancestral system is undoubtedly synonymous with stupidity one hundred and fifty years later! ”

Zhu Zaikun's comprehension was very strong, and he immediately said: "Actually, Erchen thinks that Emperor Taizu is stupid to let the names of the descendants of the Zhu family be named after the five elements......

Zhu Houwei is very relieved!

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