"From the Zhengdan Festival to May 30, the Armaments Institute distributed a total of 237,400 tractors."

"The distribution targets are Anxi, Beiting, Hexi, Shanyu, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Liaodong, Henan and other northern provinces of Beijing and thirteen provinces."

"Among them, especially in the three provinces of Shanxi, Shaanxi and Henan, the reason is that the drought in the north has subsided, and the land required for recultivation in the three provinces is difficult to be reclaimed by manpower."

"As of the first day of March, about 40 million mu of land had been reclaimed in the three provinces, and about 90 million mu had been reclaimed in 13 provinces in the north."

"This year's agricultural tax in the north can be roughly increased by more than 5 million taels, but this year, the world will be exempted, and the agricultural tax will not be collected for ......the time being."

On June 14, with the respectful return of Li Yongzhen, the eunuch of the East Palace, he was also anxiously waiting for the response of the two people who could decide his life and death.

"My brother's son was eaten by me."

Zhu Youxiao picked up a white chess piece with a smile, but Zhu Youzhen didn't care, although his eyes were still on the chessboard, but his heart had already flown to the vast northwest.

"How much arable land has been reclaimed in the north and south this year? Total geometry. ”

Zhu Youzhen quietly ate a few chess pieces of Zhu Youxiao, and at the same time absentmindedly asked Li Yongzhen, who was sent by Zhu Ciran to the south to report on the performance.

"Long live, Your Highness, after the spring plowing in each province this year, the time for cultivating the fields varies before and after, so the number is also unequal."

"Generally speaking, spring ploughing in the south ended early, so as of 30 May, according to the report of the Ministry of Households, about 6.25 million mu of cultivated land was newly cultivated in 13 provinces in the south, and it is estimated that it will not be less than 15 million mu for the whole year."

"As for the north, after adding the three provinces of Hezhong, Yingzhou, and Lingbei, the number is only 3.46 million mu, and it is estimated that it will not exceed 12 million mu for the whole year."

Li Yongzhen reported on the amount of newly cultivated land in the north and south, and at the same time, it also showed the potential of the Ming Dynasty after entering semi-industrialization.

Since the dust settled in the fifth batch of industrial zones, the industrial power of the Ming Dynasty has grown significantly, and the whole society has issued a large number of industrial machinery with the imperial court as the main body, allowing the people to reclaim acre after acre of arable land.

In just one year, Daming's newly cultivated land reached 27 million mu.

Although this power is not comparable to that of later generations, the amount of land newly reclaimed by the Ming Dynasty every year is almost the total amount of arable land in Britain.

Even if the grain yield per mu of newly cultivated land is less than five buckets, through three years of continuous composting, their yield will only increase year by year.

Especially after the fourth year of reclamation, even in the north, under the condition of using various chemical fertilizers, the yield per mu can reach about two stones.

Two stones of rice can produce about one stone and four buckets of rice, that is, the yield per mu of normal cultivated land in the Ming Dynasty is about 220 catties, which is converted into 132kg of kilograms in later generations.

Such a yield per mu may be ridiculous for the output of six or seven hundred kilograms in later generations......

However, it should be known that from the Three Emperors and Five Emperors to the 70s of the 20th century, in the land of China, although there are cases and regions with a yield of three or four stones per mu, the overall yield per mu has hardly exceeded the number of 100kg of finished grain.

Daming was able to achieve a positive population growth in the case of a decline in mu yield and a decline in the population of various countries during the Xiaoice River period, not only to achieve a mu grain yield to surpass the warmer Han and Tang Dynasties, but also to achieve positive population growth.

The credit for all this is naturally not only chemical fertilizers, but also a large number of water conservancy projects built in various places.

The Department of Agriculture even came up with a note to prove the increase in yield per mu, which showed that in the increase in land yield, the role of water conservancy projects has reached about 30% of the role, while the role of chemical fertilizer has reached 50%, and the remaining 20% is the role of scientific planting.

Although the people of the Ming Dynasty did not understand what scientific cultivation was, when the picture book written by the King of Qi and illustrated by the Ministry of Industry was placed in front of them, they had to follow suit.

If this is not done, then the exemption of the year will be abolished, and the family will have to pay agricultural taxes.

Such a means naturally could not have been ordered by Zhu Youzhen, but by his eldest nephew, who was sitting in the position of prisoner.

This is harsh and brutal, but it is very effective.

Since the nineteenth year of the Apocalypse, the Ming farmers have been accustomed to farming according to the manual.

After that, the results made everyone very satisfied, and the increase in yield of more than 30 kilograms per mu was almost enough to feed an adult man for ten days and half a month.

It's just one acre of land, that's nothing, but in fact, this kind of increase in yield is almost all the fields in the Ming Dynasty, regardless of the north and south, have increased the output by three to four percent.

With this increased grain production, there is no problem at all in feeding 40 to 50 million people.

In today's era, arable land and grain yield per acre, the total amount of grain basically represents the population of a place, because more grain means that more people can be fed.

"How many babies have been born in the country this year......

Zhu Youzhen took a sip of tea and asked casually, and the reason why he was sure to count the approximate number of babies was mainly because Huimin Pharmacy had absorbed a large number of folk women and trained them professionally.

Therefore, in the case that there are few stable women on the market and the technology is not high, Huimin Pharmacy's free stable women have become the first choice for most people to deliver babies.

As for Wen Po, they took the six to ten taels of silver per year from Huimin Pharmacy, and their footprints from the county seat to the market town could basically record the newborns of more than sixty percent of the population of the Ming Dynasty.

In addition, since babies cannot attend government schools without registering, the private sector will also take the child to register after giving birth.

Therefore, the basic gap between the annual statistics and the real number of newborns in Daming is about two or three percent.

This is a statistic with a large error in later generations, but it is very rare in this era.

"In the past five months this year, the statistics of Huimin Pharmacy and the household department have played more than 2.2 million."

"According to this situation, the number of newborns this year is about 6 million, which will probably increase by more than 800,000 compared with last year."

Li Yongzhen reported the population of Daming, about six million, and this number of newborns is particularly difficult.

The new more than 800,000 newborns, Zhu Youzhen didn't have to think much to guess that it was the rebound of the northern population.

Since the drought in the north began to subside last year, the people's lives have begun to be nourished.

The improved environment can be seen with the naked eye, so that the people can be bold and bold.

If nothing else, starting next year, Daming's population growth will return to normal.

In the case of the development of science and technology and the existing resources, the peak population of the 28 provinces of Daming and Beijing is estimated to be about 800 million.

If the technological level of the second industrial revolution can be reached, the peak population can be further increased to 1.2 billion.

Not to mention 1.2 billion, that is, the population peak of 800 million, I am afraid that it will take hundreds of years for the people of the Ming Dynasty to reach it without moderation.

The national glory of the Ming Dynasty is very likely to be filled with massive resources, and it will easily go through four hundred years.

"The population has to be encouraged, and the dynasty has to bring back so much gold and silver from overseas every year, and these have to be digested."

"If this continues, the population does not grow, and the market does not expand, then the country will always fall into a situation of inflation."

"You can write down these things, and go back and talk to Brother Ran."

As Zhu Youzhen spoke, he exhausted Zhu Youxiao's advantage on the chessboard.

"Yes......" Li Yongzhen responded cautiously, and also glanced at Zhu Youxiao, who was the emperor, in the middle.

However, at this time, Zhu Youxiao's attention was on the chessboard and he had no time to take care of him.

"Immigrants and the population of the provinces have to pay attention, the provinces with fewer people and more people will move, and the Han people will move in, and the few people will move out."

"In addition, for the three provinces of Anxi, Beiting and Hezhong, the population must be relocated according to the local situation, and it is best that each province does not exceed the local land carrying capacity."

Zhu Youzhen said while Li Yongzhen and the eunuch behind him were recording, and it was not until Zhu Youzhen finished speaking that Li Yongzhen breathed a sigh of relief.

"Stand down."

Zhu Youzhen lost a son, which also means that he maintained his 234-game winning streak against Zhu Youxiao.

"Come again!" Seeing that he had lost again, Zhu Youxiao shouted like a gambler to come back.

Li Yongzhen retreated, and the eunuch who was waiting next to him stepped forward to sweep down the chessboard and take out two boxes of chess pieces again.

Zhu Youzhen and Zhu Youxiao started playing chess again, but while playing chess, Zhu Youzhen also looked at the eunuchs on both sides:

"The number of eunuchs in the inner court has decreased in recent years, and in the future, it will still be dominated by palace maids."

"Well......" Zhu Youxiao pondered the chessboard and subconsciously responded:

"After all, it is difficult to find people in the heavens, tens of thousands of people come up every year, and there are less than hundreds of people who have passed the assessment, most of them are just self-doubt, but the result is just illness."

"After being treated by the imperial doctor in the palace, this group of people hurriedly fled, for fear that they would be dragged into the palace for castration after being judged to be a heavenly eunuch."

Speaking of this, Zhu Youxiao fell behind and couldn't help laughing:

"The folk say that if a man doesn't lift it, he can play the heavenly eunuch, and then let the imperial doctor help treat it, and he can see a doctor thoroughly without spending money."

Zhu Youxiao smiled bitterly and shook his head, Zhu Youzhen didn't expect the people to do this.

If this continues, the 24 yamen will soon become the first men's hospital in the Ming Dynasty.

But......

"Hehe, it's a big door."

Zhu Youzhen couldn't help laughing, and Zhu Youxiao was also very helpless:

"Actually, there are not so many people in the palace, the main thing is to take care of the imperial grandfather and the concubines left by the imperial examination."

"At present, there are 626 concubines, ladies, and talented people in the inner court, of which more than 540 are left by the emperor's grandfather and the imperial examination."

"It takes more than 8,000 palace female eunuchs to take care of them, and the inner court is only 24,000 palace female eunuchs."

"When they are all gone, the palace maids and eunuchs should keep fifteen thousand enough."

Zhu Youxiao said his idea, but Zhu Youzhen didn't say anything when he heard it, after all, the inner court was his brother's family affair, and he couldn't say anything.

"Has my brother selected enough palace maids and eunuchs in the Qi Palace in Xijing City?"

Zhu Youzhen suddenly became a little curious about Zhu Youzhen's Qi Palace, but Zhu Youzhen said when he heard this:

"That palace room is too big for Jin Xuan and Xia Yunyi, I originally wanted to dismiss the nine hundred palace maids and three hundred scribes in the Qi Palace, and then go to the Qi Kingdom to recruit a few hundred people at will."

"But looking at the size of the palace, I'm afraid that even if you stuff a thousand people, you can't find it, so you probably need to hire about 3,000 people."

Speaking of this, Zhu Youzhen had a headache, after all, the population of the Han family in Qi was only more than four million, and he chose three thousand palace maids to enter the palace at once, which would probably delay many people.

Fortunately, the palace maids of the Qi Kingdom only need women between the ages of fourteen and twenty, so they will not be delayed.

However, when they enter the palace and stay until they are twenty years old, they can accumulate a lot of money, which can be regarded as solving the problem of partial employment.

Zhu Youzhen only hopes that his children and grandchildren will not have that kind of unscrupulous person, otherwise he may have to be poked in the back.

While Zhu Youzhen was praying, a familiar footstep came, the person who came was Lu Wenzhao, and Zhu Youzhen could hear it from the footsteps.

His arrival made Zhu Youxiao nervous, and Lu Wenzhao also said when he entered the Qianqing Palace:

"Your Highness, the princess and all the maidens, the six county lords and the five county kings have all boarded the ship and headed for the Qi country."

Lu Wenzhao reported on his work, which is also the reason why Zhu Youxiao was nervous.

Among his younger brother's seven concubines and eight sons and six daughters, except for the relatively large Zhu Cihong and the others, they have all gone to the Qi Kingdom.

This move undoubtedly shows Zhu Youzhen's determination to become a vassal, and this move also represents that he is not far from being a vassal.

The winter solstice is only less than five months away, Zhu Youxiao doesn't know why his younger brother chose a day like the winter solstice, he actually wants to spend another New Year with his younger brother.

"Just send it over, let Huang Fei send a boat to escort it."

Zhu Youzhen opened his mouth to answer, not looking very concerned about this matter, but Zhu Youxiao opened his mouth and asked:

"What is going on in Qi State now, is Xijing City prosperous? If not, it is okay to delay it for another year. ”

"Uh...... This ......" Lu Wenzhao didn't know how to speak, so he could only glance at Zhu Youzhen.

Zhu Youzhen knew his brother's indecisive character, so he said decisively:

"There are more than 400,000 people in Xijing City at the moment, and there are also millions of people in Jingzhao Mansion, in terms of prosperity, it is not inferior to Su and Yang, my brother doesn't have to worry about me."

Zhu Youzhen was making a decision for Zhu Youxiao, Zhu Youxiao was silent when he heard this, and the two brothers could only bow their heads and play chess silently......

While the two were silent, the news that Princess Qi had moved to Qi with many concubines and county kings also spread quickly.

Whether it's a person with a heart or a person without a heart, everyone is contributing to the trouble.

After the news of this kind spread, many uneasy people accelerated the pace of moving to the Qi State, and many officials and generals had mixed feelings.

When the news reached the capital, Zhu Ciran was discussing with the cabinet, and Zhu Ciran, who learned the news, was stunned with a complicated expression.

In addition to him, many ministers in the Chunhe Palace also had different expressions.

Li Changgeng, Sun Chuanting, Jin Xuan, Shen Tingyang, and Yan Yinshao frowned, Wen Tiren and Zhou Yanru looked at each other, and Hong Chengchou was expressionless.

Everyone had different expressions and moods, they all knew that the news of King Qi's imminent entry into the domain would cause an uproar, and at the same time, it would also make many people and forces celebrate, so they focused on Zhu Ciran, ready to see what this Ming prisoner was going to do.

It's just that Zhu Ciran returned to normal after a short period of stunned, and he faced everyone's attention and said indifferently:

"Let's continue to report on the affairs of Nanzhou......"

"Yes......" Seeing Zhu Ciran so calm, Zhou Yanru and Wen Tiren were a little uncomfortable.

finally sent away a Zhu Youzhen, but ushered in another Zhu Ciran.

Fortunately, Zhu Ciran is much worse than Zhu Youzhen, and they still have room to operate.

Merely......

The two glanced at Hong Chengchou vaguely, then at Sun Chuanting, and finally remained silent, listening to the Nanzhou affairs that Li Changgeng began to report.

"By May 30, there were 397,725 households in Nanzhou, with a population of 1,862,753 and 14,265,500 ...... cultivated land."

Li Changgeng reported on the situation of Nanzhou, and as a single continent, Nanzhou is very rich in resources, and there are countless places to be developed.

At present, the Ming Dynasty has only set up 72 county seats, more than 500 market towns and more than 2,000 villages along the coast of Nanzhou.

As for the interior, due to the drought and the fact that the coastal areas have not yet been fully built, the local yamen has not yet built market towns in depth.

"Have all the local natives been appeased?"

Zhu Ciran asked Li Changgeng, to which he replied:

"The development of the coastal areas by the Nanzhou Political Envoy is not complete, and many local natives often attack the people."

"When the minister talked about Nanzhou today, it was mainly about Wu Sangui, the chief soldier of Nanzhou."

"Wu Sangui, the general soldier of Nanzhou, hopes to increase the strength of Nanzhou to five battalions."

"At present, there are only three battalions of soldiers and horses in Nanzhou, one of which is stationed in Dongzhou (New Zealand), and the remaining two battalions of soldiers and horses still need to be stationed in one outpost on Yenan Island, so the strength on Nanzhou is only one battalion and four outposts, less than 5,500 people."

"It seems that there is nothing wrong with two additional battalions of 6,000 soldiers and horses, and besides, there is no war in the Southern Military Governor's Mansion at the moment, so it should be okay to send two additional battalions of soldiers and horses."

Li Changgeng told about the affairs of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, because the Governor's Office of the Five Armies is still in the process of being separated from the cabinet, and the post of Governor of the Five Armies is concurrently led by Zhu Youzhen, so the Cabinet can only temporarily handle the affairs of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies.

"I remember that there were fifty battalions of soldiers and horses in the Southern Military Governor's Mansion, right? Where are they stationed now? ”

Zhu Ciran did not directly agree to Li Changgeng, but asked about the garrison of soldiers and horses in the Southern Military Governor's Mansion.

In this regard, Li Changgeng replied:

"After the third adjustment of jurisdiction in March this year, the Southern Military Governor's Office is now controlling eight regions, including Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Jiaozhi, Jiugang, Nanzhou, South Kunlun, and Xiaoxiyang."

"For the three provinces of Guangxi, Guangdong, and Nanzhou, the Southern Army mainly stationed nine battalions, with three battalions in each province."

"Eight battalions are stationed in Yunnan and Jiaozhi provinces, and four battalions are stationed in each province."

"For the old port, the Southern Army is stationed in seven battalions."

"For Xiao Xiyang, the Southern Army is stationed in 20 battalions, and the Western Army is stationed in 10 battalions."

"For South Kunlun, the Southern Army is stationed in six battalions, a total of fifty battalions."

"If it needs to be deployed, only one battalion can be dispatched from Yunnan and Jiaozhi."

Li Changgeng proposed, and his proposal seemed to be good.

After all, Yunnan and Jiaozhi still have tens of thousands of soldiers and horses and officials in the local area, and now Yunnan and Jiaozhi are the majority of the Han family, so they can quickly recruit troops in wartime without maintaining the strength of four battalions.

"Since this is the case, let's do it this way, remember to remind Wu Sangui that if the rebels do not accept Wang Hua, they will be expelled."

Zhu Ciran approved Li Changgeng's suggestion, and Li Changgeng also returned the salute when he saw this, saying that he knew what to do.

He stopped talking, but Sun Chuanting saw that after he finished speaking, he immediately opened his mouth and said:

"In April, news came from the Thousand Households of the Northern Town of Fusi Europa that King Louis XIII of Français (France) had died and was succeeded by his youngest son, who was not yet five years old, called Louis XIV."

"Now that Francza's prime minister, Richelieu, and King Louis XIII, França's aristocracy has been reactivated, and his own prince, Condé, has formed a partisanship."

"Since Louis XIV was not yet five years old, he was regent by Anne of Austria, but the real power was held by Richelieu's loyal successor, Mazarin."

"Mazarin was not only the prime minister of Louis XIV, but also his godfather, and his position was so powerful that the ministers expected that there would be a party dispute within Français."

"In addition, a civil war broke out in Dark Elia [Britain] and could not afford to participate in the situation in Europe."

"Therefore, once a partisan dispute breaks out in Francisco, and Francois gets the help of the country, I am afraid that the situation in Europe will be reversed in an instant, and Franc and other alliances will gain an overwhelming advantage."

"Your Highness, therefore, may I ask your Highness whether you will still participate in the war in Europe, and then let the war continue."

Since the territory of the Ming Dynasty has become larger, and a number of military ministers such as Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting have entered the cabinet, the political problems of the Ming Dynasty have changed from geopolitics to world politics at the beginning.

The Ming Dynasty, which could only influence East Asia at the beginning, is now influencing the whole world.

Therefore, whether to continue the European battlefield is an issue raised by Sun Chuanting.

"Mazaran is not alone, and Franza's partisan struggle will not be too serious, so there is only a possibility of defeat on the battlefield, and defeat is unlikely."

Hong Chengchou spoke, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he firmly said that Franc would not easily withdraw from the battlefield, and then said:

"At the moment, King Rodoli (Sweden) is in full swing in Central Europe, and Franco's allies are losing one after another."

"The minister judged that King Gustav II of Rhodori would try to create an opportunity to attract more Francois troops and inflict heavy losses on Franco."

"Looking at Europe, since the death of Louis XIII, there is no other king and general who can be with this man for a long time, and with the elite soldiers and horses of his country, Francois will inevitably suffer a great loss at the hands of this man."

Hung Seung-chou was politically and militarily superior, and he judged politically that France would not fall into civil strife that would affect the battlefield, because Louis XIII and Richelieu had created a good situation that no Frenchman could give up.

In addition, he analyzed the battlefield in Europe from a military point of view.

It can be said that the personal ability of the current Gustav II, the quality of the Swedish army under his command, and the large number of flintlock muskets and artillery equipped by the Ming Dynasty, the Swedish army almost dominated the world, so that the Holy Roman Empire and the Spanish army were defeated in the face of them.

In this case, as long as France holds the bottom line, the Protestant alliance can still occupy the battlefield advantage.

Therefore, Hong Chengchou's attitude towards the European battlefield is not to worry, this war is far from over.

After Hong Chengchou's words came out, he won Sun Chuanting's nod of approval, and Zhu Ciran saw Sun Chuanting nodding, and he was no longer worried about the situation in Europe, but symbolically explained to Sun Kewang beside him:

"For European affairs, you send someone to inquire about Uncle Qi's attitude."

"Yes!" Sun Kewang's military is not very good, after all, he has never even had the opportunity to go to the battlefield in his life, and he has no chance to temper, but it makes him not so addicted to war.

This is also a good thing for Daming......

(End of chapter)