After Zheng Chenggong conquered Luzon, the Ming Dynasty's military conquest of Nanyang for several years finally came to an end.

The large sums of gold and silver stolen from Manila made up for the military expenses incurred in successive years. However, the consumption of food and ammunition still needs to take time to re-produce, after all, gold and silver cannot be directly turned into material wealth, at most they can only be used to invest in expanding reproduction.

Therefore, it is absolutely necessary to recuperate for a long time and to farm and climb science and technology.

Fortunately, with the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty, there is no long-sighted neighbor who has to look for death.

On the one hand, the Ming Dynasty continued to deepen and popularize the "abolition of the division of household registration" internally, and all the northern provinces were also divided into workers and peasants, and the poll tax of peasants and the land tax of workers were abolished.

Although Cao Bianjiao and Huang Degong have died of old age in the past few years, and their descendants have inherited the title, they can no longer inherit the local planning power that is equivalent to the feudal town, but this does not affect the inertia of the development of the Northeast to continue to push forward.

The work of land reform and reintegration in the southern tropics is still steadily advancing with the ability to naturalize one or two Tusi tribes every year, and Li Dingguo has conscientiously maintained order and subdued him. Li Dingguo, who is nearly fifty years old, is still in good health, and he lives a lot longer than parallel time and space, and can continue to guard southern Xinjiang for the Ming Dynasty and be his good Duke of Yueguo.

Daming's internal science and education undertakings, as well as the talent selection and training mechanism, also continued to run in steadily, with occasional improvements, and the day by day.

Nanjing University has finally begun to send batches of graduates to the society. Seeing that there are surplus science and engineering talents that can be used for basic science and engineering education in local provinces, Zhu Shuren is also gearing up to make more big moves.

The development of science and technology was initially delayed by a large number of elite backbones from Nanjing University, but with the re-abundance of talents, it once again entered the fast lane of scientific research.

Every aspect seems to be so prosperous, and more than six years of peaceful development have passed in a flash.

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The wheel of history has come to the fifteenth year of Xiaokang, that is, in 1677.

After six years of peaceful development, in Zhu Shuren's original plan, by this year, the second seven-year plan of the Ming Dynasty should have been completed, and it should also be done to the Dzungar Department in Northwest Galdan.

However, because of the delay of the additional wars in the Nanyang region before, coupled with the digestion and absorption of the new territory of Nanyang, the reintroduction of the land, and the continuous purge and eradication of the Han natives in Luzon, it took up a considerable amount of energy and time of the imperial court.

Therefore, the rhythm of the second seven-year plan for the use of troops in northern Xinjiang has also been delayed, and it is still not ready to start.

But this is also very normal, and the plan can't keep up with the changes.

Fortunately, with the time of entering the well-off for fifteen years, Zhu Shuren, who has been stable for many years, finally feels that it is a good time for Daming to show his muscles.

The development of the past six years or so has already brought Daming's national strength to a new level, which is by no means predictable by the former opponents.

Poverty and backwardness limited the imagination of the enemies of the Ming Dynasty.

Twenty-five years ago, that is, in the eighth year of the first emperor Zhu Changshu's Longwu, when the Ming and Qing wars had just ended, and the Central Plains was restored, because of the continuous wars, the population of the country fell to a historical position, and there were only 60 million people left, and after the hidden households were found out, there were still only 60 million people.

In contrast, the peak population of the Ming Dynasty during the Wanli period was close to 140 million, and it was close to 120 million in the early years of Chongzhen. Therefore, 60 million people are already half of the household registration compared to the peak of the Ming Dynasty, but compared with the most tragic time and space of the Ming and Qing dynasties, there are about 20 million more.

(Note: In history, in the early Qing Dynasty, the Nanming region was repeatedly conquered and slaughtered, and the minimum national population fell to more than 40 million.) The butterfly effect of the Zhu Shuren prevented the south from falling, and the Qing people's butcher's knife killed more than 20 million less. ）

In peacetime, when the fierce war has just ended, if fertility is encouraged, it is normal for the population to double in more than 20 years, and then the contradiction in cultivated land gradually becomes fierce, and the population cannot be fed, and the growth will gradually slow down.

However, in the past 25 years after the Ming Dynasty destroyed the Qing Dynasty, it was not always peaceful, after all, every five or six years of peaceful farming, Zhu Shuren had to use a round of troops abroad. In the past 25 years, there have been three rounds of troops in between, namely Northeast China, Fuso, and Southeast Asia.

In addition, Zhu Shuren paid attention to the living environment of the people, insisted on not letting the poor peasants divide the fields too finely, and at least let the landed people maintain more than 10 acres of cultivated land per household, so the quality of life of the people was actually far beyond that of other dynasties, and there were basically no poor peasants on the line of starvation and death because of the lack of land.

The combination of intermittent warfare and the suppression of over-subdivision of land and the settlement of migrants made the recovery of the population appear more orderly. In the end, in the last 25 years, the population of the 18 provinces in Guannai Han increased by about 50%, that is, from 60 million to 90 million.

However, considering the reclamation of the area outside the Northeast Guan, the entire Northeast, including Liaodong, also has a population of more than 8 million.

The island of Kyushu in Fuso still has more than 3 million people, plus Ezo and Witherleaf Island, as well as Tsushima and Ryukyu, the total population of these five areas is close to 4 million (the population has only increased slightly by 200,000 in the ten years after the conquest of Kyushu, but the proportion of the population has changed greatly. The male population of Fusang has decreased sharply, and women have been conquered by Han immigrants and taken concubines, so the number of Fuso has decreased by more than 800,000, and the number of Han people has increased by millions)

The valley plain of the Nu River-Irrawaddy River in Myanmar, which was conquered by the Ming Dynasty, has a total population of more than 4 million, and nearly one million people in the Kyaukshan and Sanxuan Liuwei mountain areas. After Vietnam was conquered by the Ming Dynasty, the Red River Basin Plain, which is the hometown of the Han and Tang Dynasties, plus Hue and other places that divide the north and south of Vietnam, add up to more than 3 million people.

The reason why the local population has not continued to grow in recent years is also related to the Ming Dynasty's elimination of ill-intentioned rebellion against dissidents. The rebels should be purged slowly, and then the Han people in the south, especially those in Guangxi and Yunnan, should be gradually moved over.

Finally, after six years of peaceful farming in the Philippines, there were originally more than 200,000 Han Chinese from Fujian and Chaoshan, and after purging the aborigines of the Spanish colonizers who hated the Han Chinese, a large number of indigenous women who were barely yellow were arrested to be concubines of the Han people, and the Han population recovered very quickly.

In order to suppress the local people's tendency to not return to the king, Zheng Chenggong also organized more than 300,000 landless peasants in Fujian to move to Luzon Island in the past six years from the depths of the Wuyi Mountains in Fujian, which is not on the coast.

As a result, the proportion of pure-blooded new Han people who have just moved from Fujian has also surpassed that of the old Fujian and Chaoshan people who have been in Nanyang for several generations, ensuring that their identification with the Ming Dynasty has further increased.

However, Fujian is originally mountainous and has little farmland, and since ancient times, it is easy to have the problem of insufficient farmland after the growth of rural population in mountainous areas. Otherwise, the Fujian people of all dynasties would not have been so easy to go to Nanyang or immigrate to the world.

Zheng Chenggong wanted to organize people to go to Luzon, and there was no need for coercion at all, and the whole process was very benevolent. Moreover, Zheng Chenggong also paid out of his own pocket to bear the freight of the immigrants, and did not charge them a ticket to cross the sea, which made the poor farmers in Fujian grateful to Dade and felt that they had taken an opportunity to go out into the world in vain.

After all the surrounding territories were stabilized, there were 8 million in Northeast China, 4 million in Fuso, and 8 million in Southeast Asia (400 in Myanmar, 300 in Vietnam, 100 in Luzon), and together there were 20 million people in the newly occupied land outside the Guanwai, half of which were Han Chinese, and the remaining half were also Sinicized people, or women and children of different races who were conquered and occupied by the Han people.

In this way, with the addition of 90 million in the eighteen provinces of the traditional Han region in Guannai, the total population of the Ming territory has also recovered to 110 million.

This number is about the population figure of Chongzhen in the seventh year. At that time, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong failed in the first wave of rebellion, and they surrendered one after another, and the slaughter of the world's population and the death of the famine had not yet reached the most tragic time.

Zhu Shuren went around and around, and in the seventh year of Chongzhen, forty years later, they finally returned to the level of that time, but now the Ming Dynasty has popularized corn and potatoes, and has also developed the fertile black soil in the northeast and the Red River and the Irrawaddy River valley plains in Southeast Asia.

Water conservancy facilities across the country have also been greatly improved, and the worst and most intensive years of disasters have passed, so the quality of life of the same 110 million people is simply worlds apart.

While the population is growing, the people are still living and working in peace and contentment, and the support of the people of the world for the Ming Dynasty has also reached a new peak. Such a popular desire is the fundamental guarantee for the mobilization and stability of the Ming Dynasty in the future.

This is by no means a celebration of merit, but there is solid evidence. Because in the seventh year of Chongzhen, the statistics of the world's fields totaled more than 700 million mu, and in fact, because of the continuous famine in the northwest, a lot of land has been degraded, but it exists in the Yellow Book, and it is actually impossible to plant, and the land in Liaodong has been left on the books of the Ming Dynasty at that time, and it has actually fallen into the hands of the enemy.

Therefore, in the seventh year of Chongzhen, the total cultivated land area of the eighteen provinces in the Guannai controlled by the Ming Dynasty was actually only more than 600 million, less than 700 million mu.

Originally, in history, the two cultivated land censuses of the Qing Dynasty in the Yong and Qianqian periods only had more than 800 million mu of cultivated land. However, considering that the Qing Dynasty actually controlled some more northwest regions than the Ming Dynasty, as well as some of the newly generated fields in the northeast of the Guandong, the scale of reclamation in the Guannai was actually similar to that of the Ming Dynasty (the reclamation of the Guannai was basically over to the Ming Dynasty, and only the new terraced fields in the southwest were regarded as the increments of the Qing Dynasty)

The so-called prosperous era of Qianlong in later generations relied on barely 800 million mu of cultivated land, intensive cultivation to raise 400 million people, and only two mu of land per capita.

Today, although the Ming Dynasty has a population of only 110 million, the scale of land reclamation has far exceeded that of the Qianlong period in parallel time and space.

The cultivated land in the provinces of Guannei is still maintained at about 800 million mu, and the southwest Yunnan and Guizhou have been reclaimed for decades, and more than 24 million mu of land has been increased.

Vietnam's Red River basin has 9 million acres of arable land, plus other scattered coastal farmland north of Hue, bringing the total area of Vietnam occupied by the Ming Dynasty to 13 million acres.

Myanmar's Nu River and Irrawaddy River valleys occupy more than 20 million acres of land. In Kyushu and other places in Fuso, the registered fields in the shogunate period were "more than 3 million koku of stone high", which was actually converted to 4 million mu.

After the development and construction of Dayuan Island by the Zheng family, the agricultural conditions are actually better than those of Kyushu Island, and the area of the two islands is about the same. It's just that Dayuan Island has only been built for a short time, and so far only the coastal plain facing Fujian has been developed, but nearly 3 million acres of farmland have been reclaimed.

The development of the largest increase in the potential of Daming's national strength obviously comes from the Northeast. That accounted for one-third of the cultivated land area of China in later generations, and the full development could be at least equal to half of the total of the eighteen provinces in Guannai.

(Note: The algorithm here includes the northeastern part of Inner Mongolia.) In later generations, if only the three eastern provinces are counted and Inner Mongolia is not counted, it will only account for about 23% of the country's cultivated land, but there are still 170 million mu of cultivated land in the northeastern part of Inner Mongolia)

Although the development of the Northeast today is far from being comparable with later generations, it has been a little small after more than 20 years.

The development of the main stream of the Heilongjiang River is only more than one percent of that of later generations. But despite this, it has also surpassed the level of the Qianlong period in history - the so-called Guandong of the Qing Dynasty in later generations actually went to the Songnen Plain, and did not go to the main stream of Heilongjiang for large-scale development.

So much so that by the end of the Qing Dynasty, there were more than 60 tuns on the north bank of the Heilongjiang River. It can be seen that the south bank is not several times larger, and the entire main stream of the Heilongjiang River did not exceed 300 villages by the end of the Qing Dynasty.

Now, along the main stream of the Heilongjiang River, the Ming Dynasty has a population of hundreds of thousands and more than 10 million acres of cultivated land, which is at least distributed in seven or eight cities, hundreds of towns and towns, and more than 1,000 villages, which is at least five times higher than the development degree of the late Qing Dynasty in parallel time and space.

Each person can cultivate twenty acres of black soil, and this person is counted even the elderly, children, and women. In fact, strong laborers generally have to plant thirty or forty acres of land, which is very hard, but it is also enough to have enough food and clothing.

The abundant savings even allowed farmers to complete the primitive accumulation, and gradually realized that every family had their own ploughing cattle, and even more than one cow in general, and further relied on modern technology to upgrade ploughs and other labor-saving agricultural tools.

The Songnen Plain, which has been developed more thoroughly, has now surpassed 30 percent of the land reclamation of later generations, and the cultivated land reclaimed has also exceeded 100 million mu, and the more than 5 million people on the Songnen Plain can also have more than 20 acres of fertile black soil cultivated land per capita.

Coupled with the follow-up development of the Liaohe Plain, the entire Northeast has now provided 160 million mu of cultivated land for the Ming Dynasty, reaching more than 20% of the total cultivated land of the 18 traditional Han provinces in Guannei.

In the fifteenth year of the well-off, the world recounted the cultivated land, conducted in-depth and thorough investigations, and finally calculated that the cultivated land in the country was 150 million mu, which has exceeded the peak of the Qing Dynasty in parallel time and space.

Nationwide, there are still more than nine acres of cultivated land per capita.

In addition, the Ming Dynasty far surpassed the industry of the same period in history, and in the 15 years since the implementation of the reform of abolishing the division of household registration, it has accumulated more than 14 million workers and soldiers/military personnel, and the actual agricultural population is only 97 million.

In this way, the per capita cultivated land of the peasant population has reached an astonishing nearly 11 mu. Even if there are still some problems left over from the land annexation of the wealthy families in the south, the poor peasants can basically ensure that each strong laborer can cultivate at least 10 acres of self-cultivated land.

The strength of the Ming Dynasty is already the most in Chinese history.

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PS: The need to quickly cross the timeline, so the flow of accounts to take stock of a chapter of farming results.

Soon we will come to the last copy of the book, Dzungar and Rakshasa, and nothing else will be written in detail later, but a rough chronology will be skipped. I'm almost finished.

(End of chapter)