Li Xiao was pleased to find that Daming is getting richer and richer now.

This is something that Li Xiao did not expect at all, because in his impression, the war is a huge drain on national strength, and the people in the country who can't even eat can't eat.

Now that the Ming Empire has no emperor, the people are already in confusion.

If the domestic economy is in a mess, and the people can't even eat, the final result can only be that although the European battlefield is fighting well, it will collapse behind it.

This is what all the Ming people don't want to see, so Li Xiao's army expansion will be so restrained.

But I didn't expect that now the domestic taxes in Daming are increasing year after year. Moreover, not only Shandong, Hebei, Gyeonggi and Liaodong in the north are constantly developing.

Now Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Henan have also developed.

These places first have the coal that the Ming Dynasty urgently needs, and this thing is the food of the industry.

Without coal, many factories in Daming would have to shut down.

In order to meet the needs of the war, the Ming Dynasty spent huge manpower and material resources to build two railways.

One is the railway from Xi'an to Tianjinwei, which is a double-track railway with a very strong transportation capacity.

After the military equipment of the Ming Dynasty arrived in Xi'an, it would be transferred to the Western Regions, and finally merged into the Central Asian Railway to Moscow.

The other line is the railway from Baotou to Lushun.

This railway was originally built to supply the Mongols who attacked the Western Regions.

Unexpectedly, a huge coal mine was discovered near Baotou.

As a result, the railway has now become almost exclusively a coal transportation channel. Every day, more than 100 wagons of coal are transported to Liaodong from Baotou, Shenmu and Yulin.

Liaodong, the earliest industrialization, is simply a coal swallowing beast that devours coal all the time.

In addition, the coal of this line will also be used by the branch railway to support Gyeonggi and Tianjinwei.

However, there is very little heavy industry in Gyeonggi and Tianjinwei, and only those places in Tanggu have a few steel mills. But the scale is far from being comparable to Anshan in Liaodong!

Coal has enriched Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces, and Henan has always been a poor province in the past.

There is no way, the Yellow River has nine songs, but it is the most noisy in Henan.

Especially in those parts of Lankao, there are major floods every few years.

Even, there are some time periods that are evil. Floods happen every year!

This catastrophic disaster has made the people of Henan miserable. Not to mention a small place like Lankao, even a big city like Kaifeng is often affected by floods.

It takes a lot of money to repair the embankment, and the same big work is to dredge the river.

The little money of the imperial court is simply a drop in the bucket.

As a result, Henan has become a major province of immigration.

In the early years, the imperial court had been calling for Henan to be sent north.

Jilin to the north of Liaodong, as well as the Heilongjiang River Basin, has a large area of land. Although due to the weather, only one crop can be cultivated in a year.

However, because the land is fertile, the annual harvest is very impressive.

And because there is too much land, there is not enough manpower. The government and the land are all distributed to the wide!

In Henan, having more than ten or twenty acres of land at home is already a good family.

But when it comes to Heilongjiang, Jilin, families with a large population are not a problem with more than ten or twenty acres of land.

In the early years, during the great flood in Lankao. The imperial court has almost emptied the people of Lankao!

Henan and Shandong, the total number of immigrants to Jilin and Heilongjiang is as high as 4 million.

Jilin and Heilongjiang, which were originally inaccessible, are now also full of villages, and the arable land on both sides of the railway is even more endless.

Ever since the imperial court took over the Western Regions, it has been encouraging people to go to the Western Regions to develop.

To go to Liaodong, you need to pay for it yourself. When you arrive at the place, the imperial court will allocate land to you according to your household registration.

can go to the Western Regions, the imperial court not only pays the travel expenses, but also has a settlement fee when you arrive at the place. You don't have to pay a lot of money to build a house!

There are even singles, and the official family has come forward to help you say a daughter-in-law. Although there are fewer women in the Han family, there are not so many men who have been singles all their lives.

For a time, the old singles in Henan broke into the Western Regions one after another.

In the past two years, the wind direction has changed somewhat, that is, the rise to go overseas.

Especially Australia!

The Ming Dynasty established a mine in Australia, and it took a lot of people to watch the prisoners of war work.

At the same time, in order to produce steel nearby, it is preparing to establish a steel mill in Australia. In the future, it will no longer be iron ore from Australia, but proper steel.

The imperial court recruited a large number of workers, and divided many of the population of Henan.

Now the landlords in Henan are a little dumbfounded, because their families have a lot of land, and most of them need some tenants to help cultivate it.

Can...... But now there is no one, and there are no tenants at all.

There was no way, and those landlords could only give up their land and embark on a distant road.

Henan is definitely a large exporting province, according to Henan's official statistics. In just the past 20 years, Henan has actually exported a population of 13 million people!

By the same time, hundreds of thousands of people are decreasing every year.

Henan people are running out, and the once prosperous Kaifeng Mansion is now only a few hundred thousand people left.

A county town in the north has more people than Kaifeng City.

Many of the people who stayed in Kaifeng City were surnamed Zhu!

There is no way to do it, there is a king of Zhou in Kaifeng. To say that the king of Zhou was a vassal king when the Ming Dynasty was founded, and now his children and grandchildren are multiplying.

More than 200 years have passed, and it has long since become a big family with tens of thousands of people!

In the past, these people were raised by the imperial court. Life is quite passable!

But now it's different!

The court is no longer supporting them, and they also need to do something to support themselves. However, although the court did not give them money, there was one thing that seemed to restrain them.

That is, the descendants of the feudal princes are not allowed to leave the fiefdom without permission!

It's going to be fatal!

People move living trees to die, but the descendants of the Zhu family can't move the nest.

The imperial court even lost the emperor, and the Zongren Mansion, which was transferred to the imperial family, disappeared without a trace after several court reforms.

These nobles of the Ming royal family, even if they want to react to the imperial court, they don't know which temple to worship.

And for some reason that can't be seen or touched, the affairs of the descendants of these feudal princes seem to be unattended.

The whole of Henan is depopulated, and only they are holding on. Maybe one day, Henan will become the world of the Zhu family again.

The situation in Anhui is similar to that in Henan, also because of the large population. Encouraged by the policies of the imperial court, a large number of people went out.

However, more Anhui people go to Liaodong, and fewer go to the Western Regions.

This time I went to Australia, but many Anhui people were very positive. So much so that half of a ship loaded with thousands of people went to Australia, and half of them were from Anhui.

Unlike the people of Anhui, the people of northern Jiangsu seem to have gone a little further.

Some went to the Middle East, and others settled in Cyprus.

Some people even went to Sicily and Corsica to settle down!