End of October.

Temperatures have dropped dramatically, and snowflakes have fallen in many places.

Daming, Jiangnan region.

After nearly half a year of hard work and hard work.

In the fourth wave of Xujiazhuang's expansion action, half of the 1,100 new collective estates have been completed at the moment, or have reached the level of allowing relocation and occupancy, and the remaining ones with slower construction progress will definitely be able to realize their desire to live in new houses within this year.

It also means that this year's round of large-scale expansion has been basically completed, forming a pattern that tends to be stable for a long time - at least in the territory of Daming.

So according to last year's practice.

Xujiazhuang's economic data this year (Chongzhen ten years) was released on the last day of October, which can be described as extremely eye-catching:

The total population has increased from 24 million to just over 50 million.

The gross domestic product (GDP) reached 8.1 billion silver dollars, an increase of 47.2% over the previous year.

The consumption of coal energy reached 251 million tons.

Cement production reached 98 million tons.

Steel production exceeded 3.8 million tons.

Fertilizer production reached 9.36 million tons.

The output of white sugar reached 1.99 million tons.

The total production of biodiesel reached 1.102 million tons.

The total grain storage was 85.5 million tons.

The total stock weight of pigs, cattle, sheep, chickens, ducks, geese, rabbits and other livestock is about 11.8 billion catties, and about 3 billion catties of various meats are obtained.

In addition, the total catch of river fish and seafood also exceeded 30 million stones.

Therefore, the per capita amount of fish and meat is also more than 100 catties this year, and there is no shortage of meat because of the exponential increase in population.

There are also data such as life expectancy, per capita education level, crime rate, neonatal mortality rate, and maternal dystocia rate, although it is also because of the large increase in population, it has not become very eye-catching, in the territory of Daming, it is still the strongest existence, and it is undoubtedly the first on this planet, and if other places want to catch up, it will take at least thirty or fifty years or even hundreds of years.

The per capita income has been lowered to 160 silver dollars, exceeding the well-off standard, but it has not reached the Dakang (per capita annual income must reach 200 silver dollars), and it will take a while to return to a rich life with a per capita annual income of more than 300 silver dollars.

However, based on the development potential and development speed of Xujiazhuang, with an annual economic growth rate of 30%, collective prosperity can be achieved in three years, which is a conservative figure with an annual economic growth rate of 20%, and collective prosperity can be achieved in just four years.

And the above data, through the "Oriental Times", after the initiative to publish.

Immediately in the territory of Daming, it caused a lot of discussion and repercussions, and there were countless voices of envy, dissatisfaction and anger.

"The development of Xujiazhuang is really good."

"My family is fortunate to have a year's income, even a hundred silver dollars is difficult to reach, Xujiazhuang's population has more than doubled, but there is still 160 silver dollars per capita, if it is really good, the better, the worse the bad."

"Xujiazhuang is so rich, after achieving prosperity, can you help us and bring us with you? We also want to live a good life."

"Why didn't Xu Jiazhuang drive us? So many bridge and road construction projects, so many factories and mines, all of which have been pulled up by Xujiazhuang, and the per capita income of the people of Daming this year has reached 30 silver dollars, and it may reach 50 or 100 silver dollars in the future, and the growth rate is not slow."

"Thirty silver dollars per person? I don't feel it at all, many people in my village go to the mine to mine, saying that they can get a high salary, but at the end of the year, it is good to be able to bring home 30 silver dollars, many people can only save four or five silver dollars, and there are disabled and dead, and there is no compensation, and it is useless to go to the government to sue them.

"Yes, except for the people in Xujiazhuang in this world, people in other places are living in misery and hell, and they don't see any hope at all, even if they barely live to be forty or fifty years old, the days of happiness add up

More than 100 days."

"Please continue to expand and merge us all, only in this way can we live like individuals and see hope!"

"That's right, what crime have we committed, Xu Jiazhuang obviously has the ability to bring 50 million people to prosperity, but he is unwilling to merge all of the Ming Dynasty into it, it is just to increase the population by five times, with Xu Jiazhuang's ability, it is just a few more years of development, why don't you save us when you see death?"

"It's so unfair! Xujiazhuang can't favor one over the other, and can't exclude us poor people, we are all Chinese people."

"I heard that on the Korean side, there is a king's manor, which houses millions of Korean people, these foreign people, can be taken care of by Xujiazhuang, are we not even as good as foreigners? Xu Jiazhuang, please don't do this, this is really very bad."

"If Xu Jiazhuang doesn't want to save me, it is equivalent to fire and water, I will light a fire on myself and burn it in front of Xu Jiazhuang!"

"Xu Jiazhuang, don't just care about the one acre and three points of land in the south of the Yangtze River, take a look at the whole world! Xu Yuan was originally a savior of the mortal world, and he was supposed to create a new dynasty with an 800-year-old kingdom, but now he doesn't care whether we live or die, and he is unwilling to complete his mission, which will definitely be eaten by karma." A certain wand shouted.

「……」

And so on.

As for those who successfully joined Xujiazhuang, they were very happy, and they also took the initiative to speak out and refute those ridiculous remarks.

"The Buddha Shakyamuni fed the eagle with meat, and the meat of the whole body could only feed a hundred eagles, how could the owner of the village have so great power to save more than 200 million Ming people?"

"If there is a change of dynasty, at least hundreds of millions of people will die in the war, creating an unprecedented apocalyptic catastrophe, the owner of the village does not want to create such a big killing, so he uses the gentlest and most merciful method, but some stupid people only see their own interests, never care about those terrible tragedies, and only engage in moral kidnapping."

"The capacity of Xujiazhuang is limited, and now it has reached the upper limit of 50 million people, and it is impossible to recruit any more people, so we can only wait for us to develop, by creating a large amount of demand, forming a strong pull effect, in order to bring everyone to develop together, and the consequence of all merging into Xujiazhuang is common poverty, in order to help the hungry people have to consume countless resources, there is no way to continue to develop rapidly, this is the next policy."

"Yes, the quota is full, there are no more people, let's use our own hands and work hard, there is definitely a chance to change your fate, and it is not small, don't complain about this and that, this will only make you complain and pass by countless opportunities."

"Compared with people outside the Ming Dynasty, the people of the Ming Dynasty today have lived a very good life, and have become the envy of many surrounding countries, don't be in the blessing and do not know the blessing, the trouble you will encounter in the future may be a large number of foreigners pouring into the Ming Dynasty, such as the Mongolians outside the Guan, don't they run a lot to the Ming Dynasty, and would rather do hard mining work than return to the grassland, it can be seen that the hell you describe is the paradise that many foreigners yearn for."

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The other side.

Xujiazhuang's various economic and livelihood data were released not long after.

It is seen by the top leaders of various business groups, the rulers of many small countries in Nanyang, and the upper class of Japan, Korea and other countries.

Other figures can be ignored, and the staggering figure of 8.1 billion silver dollars in the annual GDP alone makes these elites collectively feel astonished and shocked.

"8.1 billion silver dollars, what a terrible number?"

"I don't know if there is 50 million silver dollars in the GDP of our country?"

"In my country of the rising sun, although there are fifteen or six million people, but I am afraid that there are not even ten silver dollars per capita, and the total wealth created every year is only a few tenths of Xujiazhuang, no wonder we can defeat our army of more than 100,000 so easily."

"We must be friendly with Xujiazhuang and establish more cooperation, otherwise we don't want to develop and become rich, and the gap will only widen."

"We have a king's manor in North Korea, and we are also a member of Xujiazhuang, or else

It will be a long time before we can catch up with Xujiazhuang quickly."

"At this rate of development, next year's GDP of Xujiazhuang may break 10 billion silver dollars, our Guanning Army has worked hard to mine, killing and injuring 20,000 miners every year, and it is very difficult for the GDP to break 100 million silver dollars, some of us in the Guanning Army, or don't do that one day, our financial resources and strength may reach one-tenth of Xujiazhuang's dream, it is good to maintain 1% and not continue to fall, and we have to continue to show goodwill to Xujiazhuang and deepen the relationship between the two sides."

"You have to do a better job in your relationship with Xu Jiazhuang, otherwise once you are snubbed or abandoned by Xu Jiazhuang, there is only a dead end!" Later, the Great Khan of Jin did good deeds.

And so it didn't take long.

A wave of forces from all sides has scrambled to tie up with Xujiazhuang.

All parties have sent valuable gifts to congratulate Xujiazhuang, which is developing day by day.

For example, the king of Vietnam sent people to send 100 large pearls of the South China Sea, 10 precious stones, and 5 colorful coral trees.

The Mongolian tribe of the Chahar tribe sent people to send a thirteen-pound piece of dog's head gold, eighty-eight pieces of natural gemstones, three open-pit iron mines, and two open-pit coal mines, and invited Xujiazhuang to develop.

The high-ranking officials of the Guanning Army sent people to send 300 kilograms of gold, 100,000 taels of silver, and some jade.

Japan is poor in resources, but it also sent 30 beauties from 1 in 10,000 miles, 100 paper fans, 100 catties of ambergris, and other specialties, which are enough to load a boat.

The Zheng family in Fujian Province sent people to send ten purchase orders, three boxes of pearls, jade and agate, 100 overseas agarwood, 50 catties of the best Tieguanyin tea, and a number of wild animals such as elephants, rhinoceros, and macaques.

But the biggest gift is actually the Houjin of Liaodong, which directly sent 100 wild ginseng plants that are more than 50 years old, 20 tiger skins, 10 white bear skins, 50 white fox skins, 50,000 taels of gold and 100 beauties.

The most shabby gift is the Kingdom of Korea, which sent a lot of kimchi and 30 Korean ginseng, and then it was gone, after all, North Korea is in the period of reconstruction and recovery, and it is very good to be able to take out these, and it should not be blamed.

And to curry favor with these forces, and the gifts they sent, Xu Yuan gave special instructions, accepted them all, evaluated the value of the gifts, and then returned their brand-new banknotes according to the equivalent value, which is equivalent to buying them at the market price, not taking advantage of them in vain.

This makes the gift-giving representatives of these forces very happy, paper money, Xu Jiazhuang actually gave back the extremely popular paper money? This is really good, this gift is not only a good deal, but they also earn, as long as these banknotes, brought back to their respective territories, they can become the most popular and popular, harder than hard currency, not afraid of not being able to spend at all, but also promote the liquidity of their respective internal markets, so that the economy is more active.

It's decided!

Even if they can only get paper money according to the value of the gift at 1:1, they have to come over once a year to make offerings, and they need to prepare more expensive gifts.

After receiving so many gifts and treasures from so many forces, Xu Yuan only picked a few of the most valuable ones and collected them himself, and the rest was built in the harbor city, and most of the gifts were put into this exhibition hall, which was open to the public for free, and anyone could go in to open their eyes and even touch some treasures with their own hands.

Such a pro-people move, the "Oriental Times" soon published an article, touting it, what to cultivate Zhuang Min's aesthetic ability and treasure appreciation ability, increase humanistic sentiment and literacy, but also to reflect such a spirit: treasures are not important, no matter how valuable they are described, in the gift exhibition hall, you can see and touch it for free, nothing unusual, the most valuable treasures, after all, are human beings themselves, Yunyun......

Soon.

The capital, in the Forbidden City.

Emperor Zhu Youzhen saw this issue of the "Oriental Times" and saw this article about the gift exhibition hall.

Zhu Youzhen immediately became anxious.

Angry and anxious!

Because so many forces, including dozens of small countries around the Ming Dynasty, are vying to curry favor with Xujiazhuang, they have sent gift-giving missions to Harbour City, which reminds Zhu Youzhen of a word-

All nations are coming!

Xujiazhuang is a force that is immoral, unrighteous and mercenary, just because he is rich, he has attracted the scene of all countries coming to the court, it can be seen that values are not important, interests are real, and the realistic performance of these forces makes Zhu Youzhen feel cold and cold.

Then, is the royal family to send someone to give gifts? What is a good gift? Who should I send to give a gift?

That's right, considering that in the end, Zhu Youzhen began to think about the choice of the representative of the gift, after all, it is not possible not to give gifts, all the forces have given it, but the royal family has not moved, what does this mean, does it look down on Xu Jiazhuang? This is the attitude towards allies? Therefore, in any case, the gift must be given, and Xu Jiazhuang will give back the banknotes, and the royal family will not suffer, but it is a necessary move to show a friendly attitude.

And the candidate for the gift representative, Zhu Youzhen also quickly thought about it.

So he sent his sister-in-law to him.

As for whether to go to Harbour City, Zhang Yan has been thinking about it for more than a month, and has not yet made a decision, hesitating, pushing, and worrying, and the patience of him and Queen Zhou is almost exhausted.

On this day, Zhu Youzhen found the imperial sister-in-law Zhang Yan and said directly: "Imperial sister-in-law, tomorrow you will set off and go to Harbour City as a representative of the royal family, this matter is very important...... Anyway, you have to go to the imperial sister-in-law, don't shirk it anymore."

"This ......"

"There's nothing good about this, the queen will go with you, there's nothing to worry about, this matter is settled!" Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but say, then turned around and left.

「……」

Zhang Yan opened her mouth, still a little resistant, but the emperor's order was not disobedient, so she had to be forced to accept it.

The next day, November 20th.

Zhang Yan got into a VIP car and embarked on a journey to Harbour City with the royal gift team, but she didn't know that in the eyes of the imperial uncle Zhu Youzhen, she had become the most valuable gift among all the gifts, and she was about to give it to Xu Yuan......