In the face of Wang Ze's inquiry, Yang Ku was not Zhuge Kongming, where were there so many clever tricks, and he really didn't have any good ideas for a while, and he didn't react until he broke more than a dozen of his beards and felt pain.

Seeing Yang Ku's painful grin after he pulled off his beard, Wang Ze was amused at once, and he laughed and said: "Mr. Yang, don't think about it there, why don't you and I go around Jeju Island in the past few days, I don't know what you think?" ”

Of course, he would not refuse Wang Ze's invitation, and he probably knew a little about the current situation of Jeju Island when he was there in Qinjin, but because of the large-scale construction in Qinjin and the gradual occupation of Changzhou in the past six months, Yangku spent most of his time in Qinjin and Changzhou, and he did not come to Jeju Island very often.

Ten days later

"No wonder Fan Junshou is coming to complain to me!" Wang Ze said to Yang Ku beside him, Yang Ku glanced at Fan Wenzhong and nodded with deep feelings: "It's not easy for Fan Jun Shou to persist until now!" ”。

After more than 10 days of inspection, Wang Ze, Yang Ku, Fan Wenzhong and others visited all the colleges and universities, vocational and technical colleges, and various workshops on Jeju Island.

After seeing these colleges and universities and factories in Jeju New Town, Wang Ze took a low-key turn around the towns and pastures around the twenty settlements on Jeju Island, and after having a comprehensive understanding of the situation on Jeju Island, Wang Ze finally understood why Fan Wenzhong was so troubled.

In terms of higher education institutions on Jeju Island, there are now 16,700 students in the Faculty of Science, the College of Civil Engineering, the Faculty of Mechanics, the College of Metallurgy, the College of Agriculture, and the College of Medicine, as well as 2,000 to 3,000 students in the various vocational and technical colleges established on the basis of various large factories.

According to the average daily living expenses of each student is 10 yuan, then all students need 40,000 yuan a day, which is nearly 15 million yuan a year.

In addition, after the establishment of a comprehensive education system on Jeju Island, all children must go to school, so that there are tens of thousands of school-age students in dozens of primary and secondary schools in 20 towns alone, and there are thousands of students in primary and secondary schools in Jeju New City.

The most terrible thing is that since the enactment of the Fertility Law, there has been a wave of babies on Jeju Island, and now this fertility peak that has lasted for more than three years is still rising, and the number of children under the age of three on the island is now several times as many as children between the ages of four and six.

In another three years, when this group of baby "boom" children grow up and enter school, Jeju Island will need several times the amount of money and food it needs.

Even now, just the government gives subsidies to the families of these children every month is enough for Fan Wenzhong to be annoyed, and what makes Fan Wenzhong even more desperate is that the baby 'tide' released by Wang Ze can't see the downward trend at all, but everyone is getting more and more addicted, anyway, there is an official government to raise it.

Nowadays, on Jeju Island, whether it is on the farms and farms in the countryside, in the factories and shops in the towns, and even on the streets of Jeju New Town, the eyes are full of pregnant women with large and small bellies. And with the return of Wang Ze this time, a large number of Jeju Island soldiers who returned to Qizhou will return, and the number of pregnant 'women' will increase.

Since ancient times, the Chinese have paid attention to having more children and more blessings, and men also hope that their children and grandchildren will be prosperous, while the 'women' in charge of the family have been brainwashed by their parents since childhood, and of course they also hope to have more children for the family.

Even the new 'women' of different races who have joined the big family of the Chinese nation also hope to give birth to a baby boy for their husband's family as soon as possible, and when the time comes, the mother will be more expensive than the child, although they do not have the luxury of seeking the position of a wife, but they also hope to take the opportunity of giving birth to a baby boy to ensure that they are not abused at home or live a better life.

In the words of Wang Ze, the current Jeju Island must be cautious when walking, for fear of accidentally encountering a pregnant woman, and the "difficult to walk" written by Li Bai is really a true portrayal of the present!

Wang Ze can't help this situation, and then again, although it is more troublesome to have more children now, but in the ancient society where there was a lack of population, population was wealth, and so many babies were not like their newly established regime in the East China Sea! As long as these children grow up to become 'adult', the demographic dividend will be very lucrative.

In fact, Wang Ze couldn't have imagined that everyone would give themselves face like this, didn't they just issue a law to encourage childbirth three years ago! I didn't expect that there were so many babies now.

Although the life of the people on the island is getting better and better, because of the small arable land area of Jeju Island and the limited grain production, the price of food on the island is relatively high compared to the land of Samqi, and there is no problem for these people's families to support two children, but if there are more children, the pressure on these families is also obvious.

"Mr. Yang, we've been visiting Jeju Island all over the past few days, do you have any good ideas now?" Thinking of the upcoming baby 'tide', Wang Ze's head is very big, and he must persevere!

This time, Yang Wei no longer pulled his beard, he 'straightened' up and replied to Wang Ze: "Little Marquis, I see that the life of the people on the island is still very rich, although the price of grain on the island is fifty percent higher than that of Sanqi, but because the people on the island now eat a large number of pigs, sheep, 'meat', eggs, and a large number of sea fish and other seafood, the consumption of food is actually nearly thirty percent lower than that of Sanqi, so can we reduce the government's subsidies for babies?" ”

"No, we must issue subsidies according to the current standard, 30 catties of grain and 10 catties of 'meat' per month, especially the grain cannot be reduced!" Wang Ze did not hesitate to reject Yang Ku's suggestion.

Today, the price of grain on Jeju Island is only 50% higher than that of Sanqi, which is rich in grain, which is actually very cheap, and this relatively stable price is based on Wang Ze's monthly baby food subsidies to various families.

Once Wang Ze really cancels the monthly grain subsidy for each family, then the price of grain on the island will immediately have to skyrocket a lot, and it is even possible to increase it by one or two times, after all, more than one-third of the grain needed by the more than 100,000 people on the island needs to be transported from outside, and Qinjin and Changzhou have just been developed, and even more than half of their own grain needs to be bought from the Central Plains.

As long as Wang Ze relaxes the grain problem a little, I am afraid that there will immediately be unscrupulous businessmen from other countries hoarding and 'manipulating' grain prices to slaughter the wealth of the people under Wang Ze's rule.

Seeing that Wang Ze denied his opinion, Yang Ku lowered his head and continued to think about it, then looked up at Wang Ze and said: "If the little marquis is unwilling to reduce the grain subsidy, then you can find a way to subsidize the 'meat'!" Anyway, the 'spending' of grain does not account for a large proportion of these subsidies! ”

Although there is a shortage of food in Jeju Island, Jinjin, and Changju, it is easier to rely on the friendly relations between Samqi and Namjin. Especially now that Lingnan in the Southern Dynasty is undergoing large-scale development, Feng Fu also wrote to Wang Ze many times to describe the scene of Lingnan's large-scale development, and in the first half of the year, Feng Fu will have hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile land, and it is a big deal to buy grain in large quantities from the Southern Dynasty.

Seeing that Yang Ku said that he could solve the problem in terms of 'meat' food, Wang Ze asked suspiciously: "I don't know how to find a way to eat 'meat'?" Let me start by saying that the 'meat' that children need every month must be guaranteed! This can't be cut in the slightest! ”

Fan Wenzhong, who had been listening attentively, listened to Yang Ku's speech with bated breath at this time, in fact, the grain subsidy alone did not put much pressure on the Jeju Island government, but the pressure brought by having to give each child ten catties of 'meat' food subsidy every month was a bit great.

Seeing that Wang Ze and Fan Wenzhong were both listening attentively, Yang Ku smiled faintly and said, "Little Hou Ye, don't worry, the children's 'meat' food subsidy will definitely not be reduced!" And the government can also save a lot of money and food, otherwise in a few years, the pig 'meat' on the island will not be enough for the children to eat! ”

"Oops! Mr. Sheep! Don't sell it, tell me what's going on! "Sheep withering can't get rid of the 'hair' disease of the literati at this time, and they like to sell guanzi!

Yang Ku originally wanted to take care of it, but seeing that Wang Ze was a little anxious, he stopped procrastinating, and said straightforwardly: "Although there are many pigs, sheep, cattle and horses on Jeju Island now, because of the limited land on the island, it is just enough to ensure the living needs of the people now, and most of the people also raise poultry such as 'chickens', ducks and geese, but after all, it is just a supplementary food supplement for the family!" These are all things that need to be fed with the people's "energy" and fodder! ”

Speaking of this, Yang Ku pretended to be mysterious and said to Wang Ze: "Little Marquis, do you know what the cheapest and delicious 'meat' food on the island is today?" ”

"Is Mr. Sheep going to replace the 'meat' subsidy with fish 'meat'?" Fan Wenzhong asked with a look of surprise, but then he said a little discouraged, "But although the sea is wide, the fish in it are limited, and now there are not as many fish in the sea around Jeju Island as there were at the beginning!" ”

Because Jeju Island was short of food when it was first occupied, most of the families of the soldiers at that time relied on eating fish, and some families even ate more fish than they consumed. After several years of large-scale fishing, the number of fish in the sea around Jeju Island has been affected somewhat, and even if the fish in the waters around Jeju Island are still abundant, it is impossible to support such a large number of baby 'tides' in the future.

"Haha, Fan Junshou, the four seas are so vast, how can you keep looking at the sea area of Jeju Island! We still have so many places in Qinjin, Changzhou, Ryukyu, and Yizhou, and there are still many sea fish in these places! In the past, everyone was reluctant to go far because the fish caught would rot before they could be processed, but now there are so many new salt farms in the land of Sanqi, so that fishermen can marinate the fish caught farther away! Yang Ku replied laughing.

Fan Wenzhong was finally pleasantly surprised this time, right! Now that there is a large amount of sea salt, fishermen can go far to catch fish, and the caught sea fish can also be pickled and preserved, and the original ten catties of 'meat' can be replaced with five catties of 'meat' and five catties of fish when subsidies are issued in the future, so that a lot of money can be saved in the future.

"Mr. Sheep is really a brilliant plan! The money for buying one pound of 'meat' can buy ten pounds of fish, and now I can save half of the money for selling 'meat' in the future! "Fan Wenzhong is much more relieved this time, although there are still five catties of ten catties of 'meat' to 'spend' money, but the pressure has been reduced a lot!

Immediately, Fan Wenzhong hesitated again: "It's just that there is a shortage of manpower on the island now, where is there any surplus manpower to organize fishing?" And there are not enough fishing boats, and now the major shipyards are busy building ships for Sanqi, so there is not so much spare 'fine' power to build fishing boats for the time being! ”

Now the battle in Qizhou began to enter a stalemate after the initial crazy battle, although Hu Lawyers Association is a rare famous general, but Wang Yong, Yuan Jia and others have made rapid progress after so many battles, although it is difficult to resist, they can still defend.

Listening to Fan Wenzhong's complaint, Wang Ze, who had been thinking about it just now, laughed: "Fan Junshou, you don't have to save only half of the money in the future, didn't Ling Cheng go north to Ezo Island a few months ago!" Do you still remember what Ling Cheng said at that time? ”

"Its place is two thousand miles in circumference, less populated, more forests, grasslands, lakes and rivers, cold in winter and hot in summer, covered with ice and snow almost May, the heavy snow in winter is deeper and deeper, and the people live in the trees in summer and the 'hole' in the winter······" Fan Wenzhong immediately memorized all of Ling Cheng's reports that day.

Wang Ze looked at Fan Wenzhong a little speechless as if he was a good student memorizing the text, and hurriedly interrupted when he saw that Fan Wenzhong still had the intention of continuing to memorize: "Fan Junshou still remembers what Ling Cheng saw around Ezo Island?" ”

Fan Wenzhong thought for a while and said to Wang Ze in surprise: "Ling Cheng once said at that time that there are a large number of fishing grounds on the east and north sides of Ezo, and the fish schools are ten times more than a hundred times more than those around Jeju Island, and there are also Kunpeng big fish infested in the meantime!" Could it be that the little marquis just wants to hunt that kind of big fish? ”

"Papapa" Wang Ze appreciatively clapped his hands and encouraged, "Yes, there are Kunpeng big fish in the East China Sea, this kind of fish is also called whales, as long as there are tens of thousands of catties of good 'meat', I am ready to send a navy to hunt whales there, so as to ensure that the children can eat 'meat' and save a lot of money!" ”

"Haha, the little marquis can also take this opportunity to set up a stronghold in Ezo, isn't there a large grassland there, and we can also graze a large number of horses there!" As soon as Yang Ku heard Wang Ze's words, he knew what he was planning, "It's just that who is the little marquis going to send?" Now that Baekje Silla has the intention of joining forces against us, the ships of the navy can no longer be dispersed! ”

"Ask Ling Cheng if he would like to go, if he goes, he will appoint him as a naval captain, as for the ship·······" Wang Ze said, his eyes wandered, and he remembered again, didn't he capture many of Xiao Yu's warships this time?

Haha, anyway, these sailors under Qu Liulang now have a new type of warship built in the shipyard, and they can't even look down on the warships that they exchanged from Chen Baxian, let alone these broken ships captured from Xiao Yu.

It is better to send these warships captured from Xiao Yu to the North Sea for whaling, so that while hunting, you can also train the newly recruited sailors, and by the way, you can also occupy a few strongholds on Ezo Island.

Although Wang Ze also knows that it is important to protect the environment, there are still more whales in the world, at least more than two million, and there are not many students under Wang Ze's rule now, Wang Ze only needs to kill one or two whales a month to ensure the needs of these students.

The dying of whales in the world in the later generations was mainly caused by the frenzied killing of whales by Europeans in the fifteenth and twentieth centuries in order to obtain whale fat, baleen and whale skin.

And after those European losers hunted whales, the whale 'meat' was basically all wasted, Wang Ze is not ready to be as crazy as the Europeans, as long as the planned killing is carried out from now on, the whales will not perish.