"Peng Peng Peng—"

At the end of May, as ships sailed into the port of Jingmen, the salute at the port began to fire in welcome.

This was the nineteenth month of the Western Fleet's round the world tour, and after nineteen months of sailing, they had finally arrived at the last country they needed to visit.

This country is also the Qi country that has caused discussion among the Ming Dynasty and the opposition at present.

When the fleet sailed into Jingmen Port, what came into view was the cargo ships moored in Jingmen Port.

The number of ships is huge, and the reason is that today the country of Qi has welcomed a third fleet of immigrants.

Beginning in March, migrants from the Ming Dynasty to Qi arrived one after another.

Migrants did not set off together, but in twenty ships and 10,000 people.

Now it is the third group of immigrants accepted by the Qi State, and the place where they live is the Jingzhaofu Basin, where the Xijing City is located.

Counting from the twelfth year of the Apocalypse, the Qi Kingdom has been developed for seven years.

In the past seven years, although the development of Qi is not faster than that of the Ming Dynasty, if you want to talk about per capita, it can be said that it is far stronger than the Ming Dynasty.

30,000 immigrants, according to the rules before immigration, should be 100 acres per household, 20 acres per person.

However, when they came here, Kim Hyun did not arrange it so much, but gave each of them 20 acres of national cooked land and 80 acres of raw land at the same time.

The reason he did this was because Zhu Youzhen asked Kim Hyun to develop Chengsanfu, so all but the necessary tractors were transferred to the edge plains of Chengsanfu in April.

Qi State currently has more than 45,000 tractors, except for the necessary 5,000 tractors, the rest of the tractors have been sent to Chengshan Mansion, not only that, but the labor reform workers who were originally responsible for reclaiming the Jingzhaofu Basin were also sent to the local area.

Therefore, at present, after the more than 2 million mu of cultivated land in the Jingzhaofu Basin is sown in the spring, only the local 80,000 local people are responsible for taking care of it.

The treatment of the natives of Qi was five acres of cooked land and ninety-five acres of raw land per person, and most of them had received seven years of universal language education.

At present, although they are not fluent in Mandarin, they can at least speak and understand and write Chinese characters.

This is true of the natives of Jingzhao Prefecture, as well as of the Anling Prefecture and the Pingling Mansion in the north.

There are only more than 2.6 million acres of cooked land in Qi State, but there are countless raw lands, and they are inexhaustible.

Giving the people and natives a place can positively stimulate them to reclaim the land, and there are unexpected benefits to the country.

"Wow......"

When the ship docked, the soldiers of the Ming Navy also disembarked one after another, but here, they almost felt that they had returned to the Ming Dynasty.

The familiar concrete port, the familiar large Ming buildings, the familiar Han faces, and the familiar official dialect......

The lively scene almost made everyone think that they had come to a small harbor south of the Daming River.

The reason why the word 'small' is given is because there are too few Han people here compared to the Ming Dynasty.

But even so, Qi is also the country with the largest number of Han people since the many vassal states and foreign countries they have passed through along the way.

However, with a little effort, the current Han population of Qi State has reached more than 40,000 people, including the garrison.

There are more than 36,000 Han Chinese living here in Xijing alone, and Kim Hyun has prepared houses in the style of his hometown in Jiangbei for them, and all the immigrants do not have the feeling of adapting to the soil and going abroad.

Large swathes of forest were cut down, leaving the western capital of Qi with a large area of building materials.

He forbade the felling of trees in the mountains, and reserved the trees in the basins.

More than 100,000 Yingzhou labor reformers have actually emptied the trees for dozens of miles north and south of Xijing City, leaving only a few woods along the river.

Less than a third of these areas have been cleared for arable land, while the remaining third have been cleared of stumps and roots.

What the people of Qi have to do is to burn them at the same time, clear the stones from the ground, and then use the tractors that will arrive in Qi this year and later to reclaim them for fields.

After reclaiming the area where the wood had been cut down into arable land, the cultivated land area of Qi State could reach more than 6 million mu.

However, this cultivated land area is not worth mentioning compared to the 70 million mu basin plain that can be developed in the Jingzhaofu Basin.

The current Qi country only needs time and population.

"Xiaguan Qi Governor Shi Jinxuan, see the two Shangguan ......"

When Huang Fei and Xu Xiake lamented the development of Qi State, Jin Xuan also brought people to greet them.

"Is this the capital of Qi Kingdom, Xijing?" Huang Fei couldn't help but ask, after all, this place is also developing too well.

It's just that Jin Xuan smiled and said: "No, this is just Jingmen County, a port county, and Xijing City is still in the river, please follow me on the ship." ”

As soon as Kim Hyun raised his hand, everyone looked in the direction of his finger, only to find that there were steamships docked not far away.

It has been almost four years since the steamship was launched in batches, and everyone has naturally seen it and ridden it.

They followed Kim Hyun on a steamer, and soon after they heard the whistle of the steamer, and then the steamer sailed to Seogyeongsu, all the way upstream, heading east.

There weren't too many stops, and the boat went upstream, and it looked like it would have to go for a long time.

"Jin Changshi, what is the current situation in the Qi Kingdom?"

"yes, how can there be so many immigrants here? Has His Highness opened up Qi immigrants? ”

Huang Fei and Xu Xiake asked Jin Xuan, ordered someone to bring a chair, and Jin Xuan, who was sitting on the deck with everyone, also explained with a smile:

"At the beginning of the year, His Highness began to order people to recruit immigrants, and now 30,000 immigrants have arrived, and I am afraid that more than 100,000 immigrants will arrive one after another."

"As the two adults saw, there are not too many Han people in Linzi County and Zibo County in the south, only garrisons and local people, labor reformers."

Jin Xuan's explanation made everyone suddenly enlightened, but when they heard that there were still more than 100,000 immigrants from the Ming Dynasty to the Qi State, they were a little stunned.

You must know that the vassal country with the largest number of immigrants is the Zhou State, and the immigrants of the Zhou State are only 120,000.

Looking at the posture of Qi State, maybe Zhou Guo's efforts in seven or eight years are not as good as Qi State's one year.

This is only the population, to be analyzed from the perspective of architecture and culture alone, the Qi State can be said to be a small Ming, while the Zhou State has some signs of Hu.

Such a phenomenon existed not only in the Zhou Kingdom, but also in the various feudal states of the Lesser Western Domains.

After all, although there is a gap between the aesthetics of the native women in India and the people of the Ming Dynasty, it is not very big.

For this reason, the feudal lords have been moving their populations to their own feudal kingdoms.

Compared with the smaller Western vassals, the Qi State can be said to be unique.

Not only are there not much difference between the local natives and the East Asian races, but even the population does not catch up with the Ming Dynasty.

Based on the local situation, as long as the Qi State insists on immigration, it may be able to assimilate the natives in less than a hundred years.

Thinking so, Xu Xiake also saw the embankments and canals on both sides of the Xijing River, and the people who were already skilled in using tractors in the fields.

The concrete canal is enough to show how far the development of the Qi country has been, at least except for the Ming Dynasty, no country can use concrete to build the canal on such a large scale, and each vassal country directly digs a canal, plugs it and then digs it through.

Xu Xiake and many officials of the Ming Dynasty had not yet recovered from the shock, and after a quarter of an hour, they gradually saw buildings appear on the distant horizon.

The first to emerge were some of the towers that Kim Hyun presided over, and they were far higher than the surrounding buildings, which made Xu Xiake inevitably ask: "How tall are these three towers?" ”

"About twenty-six feet." Kim Hyun explained with a smile, apparently satisfied with his work as well.

"Twenty-six zhang ......" Hearing the height of the tower, everyone gasped, and at the same time, the ship also sailed into the port of Xijing City.

The Qi State did not have the ability to build bridges across the river, especially since the width of the Xijing water in this era was close to three hundred steps.

As a result, the ship soon anchored in the port of Xijingcheng.

When they disembarked, open-air carriages led them on the concrete road towards the distant city of Xijing.

Large tracts of farmland along the way are filled with people using tractors.

They work in groups of three, one squatting next to the machine on the ridge, controlling the speed and strength of the machine to shrink the rope, and two people holding the plough to plow.

When they reached the edge of the ridge with the plow, they had to drag the plough to the opposite side and then gesture for the person squatting next to the machine to turn on the machine again.

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They continued to plough from afar to break the ground, and although they were cumbersome and not as dexterous as the tractors of later generations, they were more powerful and fast than the ploughing oxen, and they were cheaper.

"The state of Qi implements public ownership, and the land and machinery belong to the state, not to the king of Qi or the commoners."

"Civilians have the right to cultivate, the right to cultivate, the right to use the machine, and the right to free maintenance of the machine."

Jin Xuan said, and also said to everyone: "In this way, there will be no land annexation in a short period of time, because farmers can reclaim land in various parts of Qi at any time, and they only need to report it after reclamation." ”

"Their grain is purchased by the Qi State Agricultural Society, and the currency used is the Apocalypse Tongbao of the Ming Dynasty."

"Daming has an imperial store, and Qi also has a national store, and its role is the same, mainly because the state is responsible for the circulation and sale of goods."

"If the people don't want to be farmers, they can keep their livelihood rights and then go to state-owned jobs and self-employed jobs."

As he spoke, Kim Hyun explained to them what it meant to be an individual worker.

There are two kinds of jobs in the state of Qi, one is to join the national factory as an individual, which is called a state-owned job.

As for self-employment, it is to run some small business by yourself, which is the work of personal behavior and is called self-employment.

To put it bluntly, Qi is a country with strong public ownership, whether it is farming or participating in work, land and jobs are provided by the state, and only individuals open shops, start businesses or go to individual stores to work, which belong to individual jobs.

It sounds like almost all walks of life in Qi are monopolized by the state, but this is not the case.

In addition to raw materials, resources, and state stores as department stores and supermarkets, other ready-to-wear stores, flower shops, vegetables, and other services and life industries are all industries that do not have Qi Guo involved.

This situation may continue to change and relax after Zhu Youzhen takes office, but in terms of the current population of Qi State, pure state-run and efficient execution can make the country's development better.

In seven years, the country of Qi has changed from a poor country to a country with more than 200 factories, more than 8,000 jobs, 18,000 troops, and more than 2.6 million acres of arable land.

With such strength, Europe can become a regional power.

After all, the Qi State can feed 18,000 troops with only a population of 100,000, and the people and the army are not burdened at all, even if there is no firing gun, it can conquer many countries with flintlock pistols alone.

"It has developed like this in seven years, and in another ten years, I am afraid that Qi State will really be able to catch up with Jiangnan ......"

Looking at the Xijing City gradually appearing in the distance, Huang Fei, who was sitting in the carriage, was already surging in his heart.

He went to the West not only with the task given by Zhu Youzhen, but also with the task given by Huang Long.

Huang Long knew that he couldn't stay in Daming for too long, so he asked Huang Fei to see for himself how the situation in the Qi Kingdom was.

If it is very bad, then he will definitely pretend to be aggrieved in front of Zhu Youzhen and sprinkle it.

If the development is good, then Huanglong can naturally come to the Qi country.

This task was given to Huang Fei by Huang Long, and judging from the current situation, the development of Qi is much better than that of Liaodong......

Before Huang Fei's departure, Liaodong had a population of more than 6 million, only more than 35 million mu of arable land, and the winter was very cold every year.

Although the people can eat meat and eat, they still have to think twice about building houses.

It can be placed on the side of Qi State, and more than 2.6 million acres of cultivated land will be distributed to less than 200,000 local people and citizens on average.

In addition, there are various gold and silver mines and coal mines in the territory of Qi State, and the construction of railways has also begun.

It is not difficult to imagine that in the future, the national strength of Qi may not be as good as that of the Ming Dynasty, but the people of the Qi State are definitely happier than the people of the Ming Dynasty.

Unless the people of the Ming Dynasty migrated tens of millions of people to the Qi State, it would be difficult to defeat the Qi State in the lives of the people with the current amount of arable land and population of the Ming Dynasty.

When he thought so, the carriage they were riding in also entered Xijing City.

It's good that you don't enter, but as soon as you enter Xijing City, even Huang Fei, Xu Xiake and others can't help but be shocked.

In addition to the sparse flow of people on the street, it is worth criticizing, whether it is from the city's buildings, streets, sanitation and other conditions, Xijing City is not inferior to Nanjing, Beijing, Suzhou, Yang, Hangzhou, Yiguang and other big cities.

"After five years of construction, Xijing City can now live more than 300,000 people, as long as they move here, they will have a small courtyard that covers at least a quarter of the area to live."

Kim Hyun opened his mouth to introduce, which shocked many officials who went to the West.

Compared to the Ming Dynasty, Qi is naturally nothing.

But the problem is that the state of Qi has only been in development for seven years......

Seven years can be like this, if it is seventeen years, seventy years...... So what has Qi developed into?

For a while, everyone dared not imagine.

At this point, they know why King Qi is not rare on the throne.

Perhaps for him, there is only one point where the Ming Dynasty is stronger than the Qi State, and that is that the population is large enough.

But if the Qi State can continue to move the population from the Ming Dynasty, then this shortcoming will be smoothed out, and the Qi State can slowly develop to catch up with the Ming Dynasty step by step.

Zhu Youzhen let the Ming Dynasty prosper, and created a country that was not inferior to the Ming Dynasty, such an achievement was that even the Qin Emperor and Han Wu had to stand on his left and right.

It's just that such a conjecture makes Xu Xiake feel that they are wrong, after all, where does Zhu Youzhen get the confidence that he thinks that the development of Qi is stronger than that of Daming?

However, after a while, they dispelled this idea, because the reason why the current Ming Dynasty is strong is also because of Zhu Youzhen's "King Qi's New Deal".

He can make Daming rich and strong, why can't he make Qi rich and strong?

Moreover, with Zhu Youzhen's influence, as long as he lives, whether it is Zhu Youxiao or Zhu Ciran, they will at most restrict the immigration issue of Qi State, and dare not cut it off.

Zhu Youzhen is only thirty years old at the moment, even if he can only stop at sixty years, there are still thirty years to develop.

In the past thirty years, judging from the information that Jin Xuan got from his mouth just now, if more than 100,000 immigrants will come to the Qi country every year, then in more than 30 years, the number of people in the Qi country will probably not be less than 10 million, after all, the migrated people will also take root and reproduce.

Xu Xiake: They have traveled all over the world, and there are only seven countries with a population of more than 10 million today.

Even if this number increases to ten ten years later, the Qi State will inevitably occupy a place.

Judging from the situation in North and South Asia, as long as the navy is developed, Qi is almost invincible.

Thinking of this, Xu Xiake and the others understood why Zhu Youzhen chose this place as the domain of Qi State.

Far enough away from Da Ming and independent enough to be suitable for a person like him who threatens the throne.

After sighing, Xu Xiake and the others, accompanied by Jin Xuan, hastily visited the Qi country.

From factories to markets, from fields to palaces, they have seen all kinds of situations in Qi Kingdom, but the more they look at it, the more silent they become.

Perhaps Qi is not as strong as the Ming Dynasty, but Qi is a country that is really close to the four words "the world is the same".

For people like Xu Xiake, who are not good at politics, this is the best place to retire.

For ambitious people like Huang Fei, this is the best haven and retreat.

In short, after seeing the Qi Kingdom, they did not get together to discuss the shortcomings and potential of the vassal kingdom as usual, but went back to the small courtyard arranged for them by Jin Xuan to rest.

It's just that after they go back, it's not clear whether they will rest or what they do.

On the fifth day of the sixth month, after supplying the water and food and vegetables for the fleet to return, Xu Xiake and the others embarked on the road back to Daming, but even after leaving for a long time, some of them kept looking back in the direction of Xijing City.

Some are soldiers with civilian backgrounds, some are officials with gentry backgrounds, but in general, there are still soldiers with civilian backgrounds.

Maybe in the future, when the Ming Dynasty is weakened, when they reach the age of discharge, they will also choose to migrate to the Qi country.

"Bang bang bang-"

"Good!"

Just as Xu Xiake and the others were on their way home, with three gunshots coming from the Qi Palace, Zhu Youzhen, who was sitting on the chair, also clapped his hands and looked at the children in front of him with a smile.

In front of him, the guns were shot at Yongwang Zhu Cijiong, Dingwang Zhu Cijiong, and Zhu Youzhen's own eldest son Zhu Cihong.

The three of them were armed with guns to shoot, but the guns they used were not Apocalypse XI rifles, but a new type of firearm.

This firearm is very similar to the later Sharps Pepperbox pistol, except that it has only two barrels and can only fire two rounds at the same time.

The pistol weighs less than a kilogram, and the entire barrel is mounted on a brass base that slides back and forth, sliding forward to reveal the rear reloader, loading each barrel with one bullet, then pulling the barrel back to lock and trigger a hammer strike to fire both bullets at the same time.

As a pistol, its range is not too long, and it can only kill enemy soldiers within a radius of forty paces, making it suitable for street fighting.

At present, because it is still in the improvement period, it is not equipped with the army, but as Zhu Youzhen's personal toy for children to practice marksmanship.

Especially for Zhu Cihong, who is only seven years old, this small pistol is very popular with him.

"Okay, it's time to eat fruit."

At the critical moment, Yuan Xifei's words interrupted everyone's play, and she brought the palace maid with fruit.

Seeing the fruit, the three immediately put down their guns.

Zhu Cihong happily went to eat the fruit, but Zhu Cijian and Zhu Cijiong stepped forward and said:

"Uncle Qi, we have to go back to the palace to help my brother deal with it, I'm afraid we won't be able to stay for a long time."

Since it was already July and Beijing was on holiday, Zhu Ciyan and Zhu Cijiong were undoubtedly arrested by Zhu Ciran.

They came here because Zhu Youzhen summoned them, and the reason why Zhu Youzhen summoned them was also very simple.

"Let's go, bring the three pistols, and the three brothers will use them for self-defense."

Zhu Youzhen smiled and motioned for the two to bring guns and bullets, and the two of them who heard the words were also happy, and immediately smiled and returned the salute with a smile, and took the three pistols away as gifts.

After they saluted and said goodbye to Concubine Yuan Xi, everyone pinched Zhu Cihong's face before leaving, and then reluctantly left.

Looking at their actions, Zhu Youzhen also looked at Zhu Cihong.

He may be even better looking in the history books in the future, although he is seven years old, but the thick eyebrows and big eyes, slender fingers, and fair skin will not grow crippled no matter how you look at it.

Because of her good looks, she naturally won the love of the concubines inside and outside the palace, and when Yuan Xi's concubine entered the palace and Zhang Yan to catch up, Zhu Cihong often went with him as the accompanying county king.

However, this is not to say that Zhu Cizhi and others are not good-looking, but compared to Zhu Cihong, they look somewhat "ordinary".

"Your Highness......"

Zhu Youzhen looked at Zhu Cihong, and suddenly felt two hands on his shoulders, and looked up to see that Yuan Xifei was kneading his shoulders to relieve his fatigue.

"You're pregnant, so let's take a good rest, and leave these things to them in the future."

Zhu Youzhen comforted Yuan Xifei and also revealed Yuan Xifei's pregnancy.

After seven years, Yuan Xifei was pregnant again, and she was naturally extremely happy about this.

Zhu Youzhen can't talk about being happy and unhappy, because in his opinion, the position of the prince is elected as a virtuous, not as a senior.

Of course, this is the reason why he didn't think about it carefully, if he thought about it carefully, it didn't matter who the prince chosen, anyway, King Qi's power would not be very great in the future.

"Your Highness, the Imperial Physician is here!"

When Yang Ruyi's voice sounded at the gate of the palace garden, Zhu Youzhen looked back and saw that Yang Ruyi, who looked a little delicate and cute, was standing at the gate of the courtyard, and then walked into the garden with Wang Kentang, who had white hair and beard.

"Your Highness, the old man came to check His Highness's pulse today......"

After that, Wang Kentang sat on the chair brought by Yang Ru and stroked his beard while checking Zhu You's pulse:

"Well, Your Highness's pulse is much stronger than last year......"

"Is it okay to have Imperial Doctor Wang?" Zhu Cihong's unscrupulous inquiry caused everyone to laugh.

"This ...... The old man is seventy out of eighty, and I am afraid that he is already half of the person who has been cut into the ground, and His Royal Highness's pulse is naturally better than that of the old man. ”

Wang Kentang couldn't cry or laugh, but Zhu Youzhen next to him was speechless after listening to his words.

He heard Wang Kentang say that he was half cut into the ground when he was ten years old, and now this old man is still walking like a fly at the age of eighty-seven.

Zhu Youzhen doubted that he would be a grandfather, and this old man was still alive......