"Forget it, eighty-seven tribes have surrendered."

At the end of February, in the Yamen of Xijing City, when Xia Yunyi returned to Jin Xuan with the military reports of various armies in his hand, Jin Xuan, who heard the words, also took a look.

"According to this situation, there should be no less than 500,000 natives in the country, and I estimate that the soldiers and horses of the three provinces on the east bank east of Qishui (Mississippi River) should not be able to accept this number."

"There are not as many people in North Asia as His Highness estimates, and it seems that there are less than one and a half million at the moment."

"According to this situation, the number of natives in the southern region of Merica and the central part of the two states should be discounted by six percent in the judgment of His Highness."

"The number of natives in the south is estimated to be between 20 million and 30 million."

Kim Hyun judged the number of natives living in Central and South America based on the data he obtained, but he was not worried, but said to Xia Yunyi:

"The local people are thin, and they have not yet had a mature culture, so they are very easy to be absorbed by the imperial court."

"There may be 30 million natives, but I estimate that it only takes 10 million immigrants to assimilate them."

The assimilation of 10 million people into 30 million people sounds incredible, but for Kim Hyun it is extremely likely.

In his opinion, the future 30 million natives of Qi do not have their own national outlook and values, and science and technology are still only at the stage of tribes and stone tools and bronze tools.

It is difficult to evaluate such a culture with the history of the Central Plains.

In the history of the Central Plains, there were Shaomin Sinicization, and there were also Han Minmin, and the reason for this is because the forces and nationalities close to the Central Plains Dynasty will have their own culture in the learning process.

In this way, once the Han immigrants of the Central Plains Dynasty could not form an overwhelming number, the local Han people would be assimilated by a large number of minority people.

But the problem is that many tribes in the territory of Qi have almost no culture of their own tribes, and their culture is simply very different from that of Qi.

What's more, Kim Hyun found that the local natives had a very serious culture of infighting, so even if they were ruled by the Qi State, they were still likely to clash with other tribes.

For example, after the Qi army crossed the border, it was clear that they had basically conquered these eighty-seven tribes, but they still had three battles in less than a month, and the men of the defeated tribes were beheaded one after another, which made Jin Xuan and them particularly surprised.

In their concept, it seems that becoming a village of Qi is dependent on the big tribe of Qi, so they feel full of courage and challenge other tribes to conquer them to obtain the hunting grounds assigned by Qi to other tribes.

When the officials of Qi went to question them, they didn't feel that there was anything wrong.

Because in their concepts, they simply can't understand the methods that the Central Plains Dynasty has been playing for more than 1,800 years, such as villages, market towns, county seats, prefecture cities, provincial capitals, and capitals.

In their opinion, the Qi State ruled them as a large tribe, and all the Qi needed was for them to send people to help at certain times, and at other times they still had their own autonomy.

Their conflicts with other small tribes will not be taken care of by a large tribe like Qi State.

This concept gave Kim Hyun a headache at first, but in the end, he didn't bother to care anymore, and simply let the natives consume themselves.

The people of North Asia were like this, and the people of the south were no better.

Therefore, Jin Xuan felt that if the Qi State unified the North and South Asia and Melica, not only would it not increase the population of the native people, but would lead to the slaughter of other tribes by the tribes that first obtained the iron tools of the Qi State.

This is the reason why Kim Hyun thinks that there may only be 20 million left of these 30 million people in the end, and it is also the reason why he doesn't want to care.

Because at the moment, he has more business to do.

"The Xijing Railway has now passed from Anling County, Anling Prefecture, through Xijing City, Jingzhao Prefecture, to Zibo County, Pingling Prefecture in the south."

"Next is the most difficult Anling County to Jinshan County, Jinshan Prefecture, where 3,800 kilometers of 5,000 kilometers are mountainous areas."

Kim Hyun opened his mouth with a slight headache, and the railway he was talking about was a Pacific Railroad from Alaska in the north to Los Angeles in the south.

The whole railway has a total of 7,000 miles, and now after six years of construction, 2,000 miles, the most densely populated Anling Mansion to Pingling Mansion have been opened to traffic, and the next thing to go to is Jinshan Mansion in the north.

At present, the railway is being built by 800,000 Yingzhou labor workers, and it is expected that it will take another 20 years to complete.

However, since Qi now has steamships that can help transport supplies to the north, Kim Hyun does not want to build this railway at this moment.

"I plan to stop the construction of the railway when it arrives in Gaomi Province in a year's time, and the supplies in Jinshan Province are still more economical by sea."

"The steelworks only produce 30,000 tons a year and only 2 million tons of iron, so the rails have to be used where they are worth using."

"I am going to go up to Your Highness and build a railway from the western capital city through North Asia to the city of Tokyo in Gyeonggi Province in the east."

"Compared to the permafrost in the north, this railway is more important to the country."

"I already had people go and explore it last year, and this railway is at least 7,500 miles."

"But with 800,000 people under construction, and most of the place is plain, as long as the steel can keep up, we can open to traffic in eight years!"

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"As long as this railway is opened, the distance between the east and west will be shortened to nine days, and commerce will be more developed."

Jin Xuan's words were fascinating, and Xia Yunyi nodded without doubt:

"Eight years...... It would be better to build this railway. ”

Xia Yunyi did not doubt the infrastructure capacity of Qi State, and the reason why each railway in Daming could only be advanced for more than 400 miles a year was that Daming was under construction of multiple railways.

For example, at present, the construction of nine railways in Daming has begun, and the railway mileage has increased by nearly 4,000 miles every year.

Qi does not have so much steel production, but the advance speed of eight or nine hundred miles per year is still there.

"Although this railway is very important, nearly 300,000 of the 1.2 million labor campers in China are about to end their service."

"You have to take this into account so as not to miss the deadline." Xia Yunyi reminded Kim Hyun, and Kim Hyun also smiled:

"I've thought about it, even the youngest of the Yingzhou labor campers is almost thirty-two or thirteen years old."

"During the ten years of their labor reform, although they saved more than 20 taels of silver, it was not enough to rent a tractor to cultivate the 100 acres of raw land issued to them by the imperial court."

"They have to work for at least ten years to save enough money to reclaim raw land into cooked land, and we can also use this to use them as logistics workers, and their wages can be increased from 5 to 10 wen a day."

Since Qi workers cannot enjoy the tractor policy, even if Qi gives them the quota of 100 acres of raw land, they can only rent tractors if they want to reclaim this 100 acres of raw land into cooked land.

Tractor rental is 20 yuan a day, and one person cannot control it, if you hire someone, each person is 10 yuan a day's wages.

If you want to reclaim 100 acres of raw land as cooked land, you need to rent at least five tractors and fifteen workers to reclaim it for a year before you can reclaim raw land into cooked land.

This cost is 91 taels of silver, and ordinary labor reformers simply do not have so much capital to reclaim this 100 acres of cooked land.

Perhaps some labor reform unions ignore the desire for freedom and first cultivate more than a dozen acres to live and work in peace and contentment, but even if 30,000 of the 300,000 or so labor reform workers are willing to stay, the Qi country will also make money.

"I will ask His Royal Highness the King of Qi, and His Highness should agree."

Jin Xuan finally explained, and then motioned for Xia Yunyi to continue talking about other things.

In this regard, Xia Yunyi also took out another book from the pile of books he brought:

"Last year, the summary of the Qi State has come out, the gold and silver have increased a lot, coupled with the arrival of immigrants, commerce has been established, and the three divisions of salt, wine and tea of the imperial court have also begun to operate to obtain commercial taxes."

"The total amount of cultivated land is 4,326,431 mu, and the grain is more than 586,000 stones."

"The mining division of gold and silver is 126,431.26 cents of gold, and the value of silver and copper is more than 1,764,000 taels, totaling about 3.03 million taels."

"Together with the taxes of the other three divisions and state stores, the total is more than 3,496,000 taels."

"According to the rules of His Highness, the gold is left, and the silver and copper ingots except for the expenses will be shipped to Daming to exchange for tractors and other machines and return to China."

"This year, we spent more than 823,000 taels of silver, so we can transport more than 1.4 million taels of silver to Daming."

The "gold standard" formulated by Zhu Youzhen had already been known to Xia Yunyi and Kim Xuan, so they were not surprised that they were about transporting silver and gold.

The Qi country is actually ready to start using paper money, but under the same clan system, the paper money used by the Qi country is naturally also a Ming Tongbao, but the denomination of the paper money is only one hundred Wen for the time being.

The reason why we are not going to issue one-, five-, ten-, twenty-, and fifty-dollar banknotes is because the common people have not yet accepted the habit of such banknotes.

For the time being, the state of Qi still needs to use the size of copper coins to make the transition, but this transition time will not be very long.

Starting next year, Qi officials and soldiers will use paper money to distribute them.

The officials, soldiers, and people who are willing to come to Qi will undoubtedly come because they have confidence in Qi State.

The "Qi State Weekly" also explains the composition of paper money and the difference between it and treasure money.

For the issuance of banknotes in Qi country, Jin Xuan is still relatively confident.

As long as the officials and soldiers accept it, then the common people will accept it for a few years, and then they will be able to use smaller units of paper money.

The denomination of one hundred wen, which is already the largest denomination that the people can use in their daily life, such as the ten taels and one tael denomination banknotes issued by the Ming Dynasty, are mainly used to harvest the gentry.

After all, for the people of the Ming Dynasty whose annual family income is only a dozen taels or twenty taels, they basically can't use ten taels of silver.

Compared with the people of the Ming Dynasty, the annual family income of the people of Qi is only twelve or thirty taels.

Qi is low prices and low wages, while Daming is due to drought, which belongs to medium wages and high school prices.

When the drought passes, Daming will maintain the level of medium wages and medium and low prices.

The average daily wage of 10 wen is a low wage, 20 wen is considered a medium wage, and 30 wen is considered a high wage.

The advantage of Qi is that it is less dependent on grains, because there are tens of millions of bison and billions of passenger pigeons on the North American continent.

The "Emperor Ming Qi State Law" stipulates that bison and passenger pigeons can only be surrounded and suppressed by the official officials of the Qi State, the Soldiers and Horses, and the army, although individuals can hunt, but they cannot sell meat.

In other words, the bison herd and passenger pigeons are under the control of the Qi State, and their numbers are basically under the supervision of the Qi State.

In the past, when Qi only had hundreds of thousands of labor reformers and 20,000 troops, the number of hunting of bison and passenger pigeons in Qi was not very frequent, basically three or four hundred per day.

However, with the arrival of immigrants and the increase of natives, the hunting of bison herds in Qi has reached a scale of 1,000 heads, killing at least 300,000 bison and hunting more than 500,000 passenger pigeons every year.

This number is not small, and Zhu Youzhen stipulated that the annual bison hunting should not exceed 500,000 heads, and the passenger pigeon should not exceed 5 million.

In this way, the Qi country can rely on the bison herd and passenger pigeons to survive the early stage, and support the country's animal husbandry in the later stage.

In short, the overall national policy of Qi was formulated based on the "Five-Year Plan" issued by Zhu Youzhen to Jin Xuan, and it was also carried out in accordance with the "Five-Year Plan" without any deletion or modification.

However, some of these side details still need to be perfected by Jin Xuan and Xia Yunyi, for example, Xia Yunyi has picked up a book and said:

"The six ministries are separated from each other, and additional manpower and officials need to be dispatched to prevent the resettlement of migrants this year."

"The Soldiers and Horses Division needs to recruit one battalion of soldiers and horses, the government needs to recruit two battalions of officials, and the officials need to add 6,300 officers."

"The Governor's Mansion did not propose a plan to expand the army, but felt that the 40,000 troops of North and South Asia were enough."

"Judging from this situation, after this year, the number of civil and military officials and government officials will reach 70,000, and the imperial court expenditure will increase from the original 800,000 taels to 1.1 million taels."

"You also have to talk to Your Highness about this matter, but it shouldn't affect the finances, after all, new immigrants will also bring new taxes."

Xia Yunyi explained the changes that needed to be changed in Qi Kingdom, and Jin Xuan also bowed his head when he heard the words and said that he knew.

However, after Xia Yunyi finished speaking, Jin Xuan also took out a military report from the Governor's Mansion and said:

"General Yang sent back the news, and the Franji people in the south sent another 3,000 people to Europa, and now they only have 8,000 garrisons and more than 200,000 inhabitants left."

"I think it's a good chance to regain lost ground, what do you think?"

"No...... Xia Yunyi shook his head: "At present, we are still exploring the central and northern parts of North Asia Melica, and the materials are basically used to appease some local villages." ”

"At least this year, the imperial court will not be able to supply the army to fight against the Franc in the south, even if it is supplied from the sea."

Xia Yunyi paused, and then said from other aspects:

"At present, the annual grain production in the country is only about 6 million stones, and the number of people, natives, and labor reformers has reached more than 2.4 million."

"Combined with the four or five million migrants who are likely to migrate this year, food is already a little stretched."

"Unless the immigrant population is reduced to 300,000 per Chinese New Year's Eve, and the arable land increases by more than 1 million mu every year, it will not be possible to support the army to recover the lost land."

The resources of Qi are limited, and at present, they are immigrants and they are developing the central and northern regions, so it can be said that the whole country has been mobilized.

If it weren't for the sufficient supply of meat and oil, so that everyone only needs to eat two stone of rice a year, Qi State would not be able to supply these more than 2 million people, natives and labor reformers.

Originally, there were more than 100,000 or 200,000 immigrants from Qi every year, but the Daming Jiangnan suffered a disaster, and a large number of Jiangnan people poured into the ranks of immigrants to Qi, so Qi almost collapsed last year.

If it weren't for fishing with their backs to the ocean and hunting inland, the Qi State would not have been able to catch last year's immigration wave at all, and could only give up the immigration to other vassal states and provinces.

This year, the situation in Daming came again, the drought in the north has decreased slightly, but the drought in the south has worsened.

Before the arrival of summer, no one knows whether the drought in Daming will continue to worsen this year.

If it continues to deteriorate, then Qi will usher in a new wave of immigration.

Seizing this opportunity, Qi's national strength can be doubled again.

Compared with the growth of national strength and population, land is not too tempting for the current Qi State, otherwise the King of Qi would have ordered the recovery of the lost land a long time ago.

"Good ......" Hearing Xia Yunyi, who was the head of the Qi country's household department, say this, Jin Xuan also nodded cooperatively.

It's not that he doesn't understand these truths, it's just that Qi Guo's plate is getting bigger and bigger, and it's hard for him to look at it.

If he had been staying in the household department of the Qi country, then he could also make an understanding of the affairs of the household department and the national strength of the Qi country, but what he needed to do was not this, but to coordinate the overall situation of the Qi country.

Thinking of this, he pinched his eyebrows, and Xia Yunyi knew that there was nothing wrong with this, so he withdrew from the Changshi Mansion.

Also at the moment when he walked out of the Changshi Mansion, Zhu Youzhen also withdrew his hand from the Changshi Mansion of the "Emperor Ming Qi Guo Xijing Fan Map".

"How? Qi didn't disappoint you, did he? ”

Zhu Youzhen turned around, but the person looking at the picture was no longer Man Gui and Sun Yingyuan, but Zhu Youzhen's cousin Liu Wenbing.

Liu Wenbing, who is already 25 years old, is good-looking, and after he graduated, he chose to become a local official.

At present, he is the prefect of Guangzhou Prefecture, and he is here today because this is the year he returns to Beijing to report on his work.

Three years ago, Zhu Youzhen's uncle Liu Xiaozu died, and Liu Wenbing became the backbone of the 45 people in Liu's house.

After Liu Xiaozu died, Liu Wenbing's mother Du Shi often said to Liu Wenbing, "Our family has no merit, only because of His Royal Highness, he received this great favor, you should be loyal to His Highness, do not form a party for personal gain." ”

Taught by his father and mother, Liu Wenbing was more cautious and kind after Liu Xiaozu's death, did not make friends casually, and never embezzled or accepted bribes.

Even as Liu Wenyao and Liu Wenzhao grew up and entered the official career, Liu Wenbing did not come to Zhu Youzhen, but let them rely on their own skills to become officials.

Therefore, at present, Liu Wenyao and the others are only two officials from the eighth grade in Wanping County, Beizhili, and they earn eighty taels a year.

What the Liu family did, Zhu Youzhen saw it in his eyes, he didn't posthumously give his uncle Liu Xiaozu any title, because he felt that it was unnecessary.

The Liu family is too deeply involved with him, and they will definitely move to Qi in the future, and posthumously giving the title will only involve their family in the internal contradictions of the Qi Palace.

This time, Liu Wenbing came to the Qi Palace, and it was Zhu Youzhen who asked him to come, so he came.

Zhu Youzhen's purpose in calling him here was naturally to let the Liu family move to Qi as soon as possible.

He briefed Liu Wenbing on the current situation of Qi Guo before he said:

"I'm going to change the "Daming Huidian" and "Emperor Ming Zuxun", so that the vassal has the right to seal the earl and the scattered rank, and then find an earl for you."

"Big brother, don't be like this......" Hearing Zhu Youzhen's words, Liu Wenbing hurriedly bowed and refused:

"The reason why the Liu family can still make progress at the moment is because of life."

"There are forty-five people in the family, and nearly 1,800 taels of money from my three brothers is enough to support the family."

"In the future, in order to support the family, the children and grandchildren will also be motivated, and they will not do evil and waste their lives because the family has surplus wealth."

"If the eldest brother gives me the title, not to mention whether the second brother and the third brother will be lost because of this, I am afraid that my vein alone will become domineering because of the title in the future."

Liu Wenyao's reason for refusing the title surprised Zhu Youzhen, he didn't expect his cousin to be able to see so far.

"In that case, let's go up two loose ranks for Wen Yao and Wen Zhao."

Zhu Youzhen doesn't have much affection for the Liu family, but after all, there is a blood relationship, the old lady of the Liu Mansion is still alive, and she is also Zhu Youzhen's maternal grandmother, so Zhu Youzhen naturally can't be taken lightly.

Liu Wenbing received a loose rank of a five-rank cavalry lieutenant that year, so he had 800 taels a year.

Now that he is not knighted, Zhu Youzhen wants to give two loose ranks to Liu Wenyao and Liu Wenzhao.

The scattered rank cannot be hereditary, which is also acceptable to the Liu family.

"Let's give the two of them the cloud knight captain of the sixth grade." Zhu Youzhen gave the grade of the scattered order.

The loose rank of the sixth rank of the cloud cavalry captain means that Liu Wenyao and the two can each receive five hundred taels of Yulu every year, compared to their relationship with Zhu Youzhen, this is actually not much.

"I will ask the officials to count the three of you among the officials of Qi next year, it seems that the drought will not subside this year, there are still many immigrants, and your immigrants are not very good at this time."

"Take a year off, and then go to Qi next year, and starting next year, your Yulu will also be distributed by Qi State."

Zhu Youzhen told Liu Wenbing what he meant, Liu Wenbing was not dissatisfied when he heard this, he knew very early that his family could not stay in the Ming Dynasty for a long time, unless Zhu Youzhen became the emperor.

Therefore, in the face of Zhu Youzhen's arrangement, he behaved very calmly.

"Brother Xie takes care of the ......" Liu Wenbing respectfully returned the salute to express his gratitude, and Zhu Youzhen also bowed slightly when he saw this:

"When I go back to the offspring, I say hello to my grandmother."

"Yes...... The lower official retired. Liu Wenbing also withdrew from the carrier hall when he heard this, and Zhu Youzhen looked at his departing back, and turned to look at the "Emperor Ming Qi State Xijing Fan Painting".

"Let Huang Long also prepare to move next year as soon as possible, and tell that bastard that he can't go to Qi after me, right?"

Zhu Youzhen turned his back to Wang Chengen and the others and spoke, and there was a bit of ridicule in his words.

When Wang Chengen and the others heard this, they also laughed one after another, it is true that Huang Long's cheekiness has been a little long.

Holding back a smile, Wang Chengen respectfully returned the salute:

"Slave and maid receive ......"