At the end of the twentieth year of the Grand Duke, Zhu Jingyuan received a report from the Ministry of Households.

The first household register report collected and collated by computer.

The total population of the world has reached 2.4 billion.

Due to the use of computer collation, it provides a very rich composition division and a lot of classification statistics.

Now the demographic composition of the Ming Dynasty is very complex, and it should be said that it is unprecedentedly complex.

It is already necessary to count the population of the whole world, and it is necessary to consider the reform of the household registration system that Zhu Jingyuan has continued to implement for 30 years.

Looking at the data through different statistical calibers can be very different.

A computer database presents it.

At present, the most commonly used statistical caliber of the Ming household department is the population of the "Ming family".

That is, the number of people in the family headed by the Ming people, and at present, an exaggerated figure of 1.5 billion can be obtained.

Among the 1.5 billion people, they are divided into three major parts.

In the first part, all parents are pure Ming people, and the total number has exceeded one billion today.

There is nothing to say about the pure Ming people, the previous ancestral home is all in the Ming Dynasty, and it is the largest ethnic group in the world.

In the second part, only the mixed-race Ming people whose paternal line is the Ming people, the total number is still 400 million.

The composition of the mixed-race Ming people is complicated, first of all, there is a first-generation mixed race between pure Ming people and pure indigenous people.

There is also a first-generation mixed race with a first-generation mixed race, which is called a second-generation mixed.

Then the pure Ming people and the first generation of mixed back, pure Ming people and the second generation of mixed backmix.

There are also first-generation mixed boys, second-generation mixed boys, and foreign girls mixed again.

This caliber can be infinitely subdivided, and the household registration can count the three generations of the Ming side, and there may actually be more generations.

After Zhu Jingyuan's reform of the household registration system, these contents were only retained in the household department's own files.

These items are no longer visible on the person's generic identity document issued to the person.

According to the current system, as long as the paternal line goes up and each generation is a Ming person, then they are all Ming people in law.

Because except for the freshest generation of hybrids, all other types of hybrids are fully understood.

Before the age of 16, they can get their ID cards if they pass the general education test.

Their descendants have had the same identity card since childhood

However, in the social life of the people, the power of tradition is still very strong.

The vast majority of the Ming people in the people, as long as they have the ability, will find a way to marry a Ming girl as a wife.

Then if there is still room left, it may take another foreign concubine.

Finally, these parents will also pay more attention to the children born to their main wives and treat them as heirs.

Only when there is no way will he marry a foreign wife directly.

Even the Ming royal family will continue to do so now and in the future.

With the computer system in place, the Ministry of Civil Affairs has built a database to check old archives when necessary.

The first is to choose a concubine room for the children of the Ming royal family.

Parents and grandparents must be Ming people, and they must also be from the old two capitals and thirteen provinces.

Then there is some academic research in the household and ritual departments, including the observation of the attitudes and political leanings of mixed-race naturalized people, and so on.

As well as some special and sensitive positions, the old household registration file will be checked before appointment.

The third part of the Ming family is the people who belong to the members of the Ming family, but whose identity is still not the Ming people, they are the wives and concubines of pure foreign blood.

The total number of them now exceeds 100 million.

In fact, this number has always existed, since Emperor Shizu reformed the slave and maid system, it has been a tradition for the Ming people to accept foreign concubines.

However, the amount of data in the foreign concubine room used to be relatively stable.

However, after the end of the Tessie War, this number continued to grow rapidly for more than ten years.

A large number of Taixi women joined the Ming families who settled in the local area.

In terms of statistical caliber, the second largest group below the population of the Ming family is the Taixi people.

These include pure Tessie and mixed race children of other ethnic groups in the Tessie paternal line.

The total number is more than 450 million.

This number is hundreds of millions less than the total population of Tessie before the Great War of Tessie.

Thirty-five years ago, at the end of the World War, Tessie's total population was in the early 400 million.

The equivalent of the current Tessy people has returned to the total population of thirty-five years ago.

Because in the course of the Taixi War, a large number of young and middle-aged soldiers died on the battlefield, and a large number of civilians were affected by the war.

In the process of social transformation after the war, some nobles and officials, who were very angry, as well as nobles and military officers who resisted, were executed.

During the great migration after the war, some of the old, weak, sick and disabled could not stand the bumps and fatigue, and died early or were abandoned by their families.

There is also a large number of young women who have joined the Ming family.

The combination of these factors led to a very significant downward trend in the total number of the Tessy more than a decade ago.

It was not until the end of the migration that stability gradually returned.

But there was also no retaliatory growth typical of the aftermath of the war.

Because after the end of the war, the Ming court began to require the vassal states to control the population.

The theoretical basis was proposed by Malthus the Tessian.

At present, the vast majority of the Taixi people live in vassal states, and most of them have a relatively high degree of independence, rather than provinces directly under the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty.

The resources of a single vassal state are limited.

If their population grows too much, it will inevitably lead to a shortage of resources in their vassal states.

This in turn led to internal turmoil and even war in the vassal state.

Under the circumstance that this situation was to be expected, the Ming court could not allow this to happen.

This is for their own good, and it is also to save expenses for the Ming court.

The central court of the Ming Dynasty was not obliged to provide infrastructure and assistance for an unreasonably excessive population.

The actual proof is what they have done over the past few decades.

It seems completely irrational.

Crazy to destroy what can be destroyed, greedy to consume resources that can be consumed.

One side ignored the warnings and reminders of the Ming Dynasty, willfully annexed the countries of the same race, and went on a killing spree against their kind.

On the one hand, he had no self-knowledge at all, and he ignored the kindness and invitation of Da Ming before he died.

The number of such people must be controlled.

Therefore, after the end of the Taixi War, the central court of the Ming Dynasty began to implement the "Malthusian Plan" in all vassal states.

A couple outside the Ming family can only have a maximum of two children.

After the Taisi, the third largest group in terms of statistics is the Hu people, with a total number of about 350 million people.

The Hu people are a very complex collective name for a large number of small and medium-sized ethnic groups.

Including the Tatars, Kazakhs, Persians, Great Cannibals, Tianzhu people, Nanyang people, Yin people and other ethnic groups that were already very chaotic.

In fact, now all the people who do not belong to the Ming people, nor the Taixi people, nor the Mo people have been grouped into the scope of the Hu people.

Among the Hu people, the largest number is the Tianzhu people.

That is, the indigenous people who originally came from the Tianzhu region, and now the total number is 130 million.

Among them, the population of Tianzhu in the colony of the Ming Dynasty in Tianzhu was about 70 million.

The Indians who moved to Mozhou, Yinzhou, and Britain proper, together with their descendants, totaled about 60 million.

The last relatively large statistical caliber is the Mo people and the mixed race population of the Mo people and other ethnic groups.

The total number has finally reached 100 million.

Before the industrial age, the population of the inland of Mozhou was not large, not as large as the Tianzhu area.

A total of 2.4 billion people.

The Ming family accounts for nearly two-thirds.

The growth rate of the Ming people has not slowed down, and it has basically maintained a rate of increasing by 100 million in five years.

Even during the Tessie War, there was no significant decline.

Because before the Ming Dynasty entered the war, the war did not threaten the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming people did not think that the Ming Dynasty would lose if they participated in the war.

The Tessie War even boosted fertility rates again to some extent.

Because most of the Ming people feel that the Ming will win, and feel that the real unprecedented prosperity is coming.

After the end of the war, the entire Taixi continent fell into the hands of the Ming Dynasty.

This is a very large asset.

For Da Ming at that time, it was also a level that could eat a little full.

Even ordinary people in the private sector have the opportunity to shine in this matter, and they can get more wealth relatively easily.

Ordinary people have the mentality of grabbing more resources for the family when they have children at this time.

This once again boosted the mental state of the whole society.

All other ethnic groups have begun to control the population, and the proportion of the Ming people will continue to increase in the future.

When Zhu Jingyuan saw the world's population situation, he thought of his own family's situation.

Zhu Jingyuan once thought that he would have the opportunity to learn from some cattle in ancient times and give birth to more than 100 sons.

But Zhu Jingyuan didn't do that.

In ancient times, as long as men had normal physiological functions and had enough wives and concubines and social resources, the number of children was not a problem at all.

If you work hard for the sake of your heirs, and calculate the fertility period of your wives and concubines, it is not difficult to create a hundred sons.

It's just that the vast majority of powerful men don't work hard purely for the sake of their children.

In the classical era, the primogeniture system was the system, and the male owner with normal physiological functions could give birth to children soon after marriage.

The second, third, and fourth sons, which are the top children, can also play a role as a backup for a certain heir.

The rest doesn't make much sense anymore.

Usually after the man has two or three children, he doesn't care how many children there will be.

They are basically interested in finding women in the future.

On the contrary, people who are likely to have physical problems need to struggle for half their lives to give birth to an heir, but they often do not have many children.

Under this logic, in ancient times, only men who were particularly in demand would have a very large number of children.

But when it comes to Zhu Jingyuan, it is different, and it is necessary to select the desirable ones from among the multiple children to succeed to the throne.

Then you have to have as many children as possible, otherwise there will be no good choice.

Therefore, the current emperor of the Ming Dynasty needs to fight for more heirs.

The Ming Emperor usually succeeded to the throne around the age of thirty and retired at the age of sixty.

The sons born in the years before and after the succession had the opportunity to succeed to the throne when their father retired.

The prince, who obviously has no chance of succeeding to the throne, has a concept of fertility similar to that of ordinary nobles.

But if the prince knew that he had a chance to compete for the throne, he would have to start working hard when he became the secretary of the ministry.

Therefore, the years before and after the succession were the peak of the Ming Emperor's fertility.

Before Zhu Jingyuan ascended the throne, he accepted two princely concubines every two years until the year he ascended the throne.

And except for the first few, the age was calculated later, and he turned twenty years old a few years before and after his accession to the throne.

Within two years of ascending the throne, he accepted eight more concubines in one go.

Zhu Jingyuan is really working hard, because he really has a throne that needs to be inherited by his children.

From the age of 16 to the present, Zhu Jingyuan has had 142 children, 81 boys and 62 girls.

In the eight years before and after his accession to the throne, a total of sixty-four children, thirty-six boys, and twenty-eight girls were born.

Three-sevenths were born in those eight years.

After those years, especially after the Taixi War, Zhu Jingyuan slackened.

For Zhu Jingyuan, it was really work.

I have to work hard during the day and at night, and I have to work according to the ordinary calculation of the concubine's reproductive period, and there is not much freedom at all.

After a long time, you will definitely get tired of it.

At the same time, it is also because after the sixth year of the Grand Duke, it is likely that no more children will have a chance to compete for the throne.

When he was sixty years old, they were not yet twenty-five.

Even if the reserve education is completed at the age of 15, the follow-up governance training will take at least ten years, and it is too late in time.

So there's no need to work harder.

His ultimate heir is basically chosen among the children of the eight years before and after he ascended the throne.

Among the thirty-six sons, four were born to concubines of foreign tribes such as Fei Ya, and they had no chance to participate in the competition for storage positions.

In fact, there were only thirty-two candidates.

The twentieth year of the Grand Duke was also a very important year for these children.

If they do not finish their studies this year, there will not be enough time for them to complete the practical training in governance.

However, this is only theoretical, and in terms of education and training, they will not be sentenced out in advance, because they have the opportunity to become princes after completing the governance training.

Only those who have passed the age of twenty and have not yet completed their studies will be directly out.

So far, there have been three.

Zhu Jingyuan's own talent may not be top-notch, but it is at least above the middle grade, after all, both parents are elites.

His own concubines are also elites.

The probability of giving birth to a really stupid person by himself and the alliance is not high, so the probability of being eliminated directly beyond age is not high.

On the contrary, the probability of brushing out geniuses is much higher than that of ordinary families.

Two have completed their studies at the age of 15, and five have completed their studies at the age of 16, most of which can be completed before the age of 18.

There are also a few very smart girls among them.

Now there are only a few of the boys left who have not yet exceeded their age.

At the end of the twentieth year of the Grand Duke, Zhu Zhaoye, the king of Zhou, who was in charge of the education of the clan, came to visit Zhu Jingyuan again.

The imperial family is theoretically under the control of the emperor, but the affairs of the heir are the emperor's business, and theoretically the emperor cannot interfere.

So in recent years, King Zhou has often come to report on the education of the prince.

Zhu Zhaoye handed over the paper report file, attached the handbook (USB disk) where the original data was stored, and briefly explained the overall examination situation:

"Your Majesty, in the final examination at the end of the twentieth year, a total of six princes have passed or above.

"The youngest of them is Di Lan, the sixty-fourth son of the emperor, who is not yet fifteen years old."

Zhu Jingyuan had just hung up his handbook on the computer, and when he was about to open the file, he heard these two reports, and the movements in his hand obviously paused.

Zhu Jingyuan has an impression of the child Zhu Dilan, because he was born in a more unexpected accident.

Zhu Dilan's mother is Wang Ya, the actual housekeeper of Zhu Jingyuan's harem, and the actual queen without the identity of the queen.

Zhu Jingyuan really likes Wang Ya's reliability and ability, and after not wanting to work hard for the heir, he often goes to Wang Ya's palace to rest.

The two already have the mentality of an old husband and wife, and many times rest is pure rest.

Occasionally, what happens is already an accident.

Especially when Wang Ya was pregnant with Judy Lanthanum, she was thirty-five years old.

Zhu Jingyuan didn't dare to let her have a child.

But after being an emperor for a long time, especially when he has just broken away from the mentality of working hard to create an heir, there are not so many worries in his heart.

In addition, Daming's caesarean section operation has matured, and Zhu Jingyuan is not too worried about the concubine's difficult birth.

So Judy Lanthanum is really an accident within an accident.

As a result, this child has been extremely smart since he was a child, and he is obviously smart, not the natural old age that Zhu Jingyuan was when he was a child.

Looking at the results now, it can be seen that he has completed his storage education before he is 15 years old.

Earlier than Zhu Jingyuan at the beginning.

Although there have been two fifteen-year-old graduates in the past, Zhu Dilan, who is less than fifteen years old, still makes Zhu Jingyuan a little surprised.

This is another record-breaker.

After Zhu Jingyuan gave birth to more children, he felt that giving birth to a child was a bit like opening a blind box, and Zhu Di Lanthanum belonged to the golden light.

However, the emperor chooses an heir, not just smart.

It is also necessary to have a relatively calm character and mentality, and the ability to understand the complexity of people and society.

The most important thing is to look at the overall situation and the concept of governance.

As for a person himself, he does not need to be a real genius, but at least he is relatively intelligent, and at the same time he is stable and calm enough.

But according to Zhu Jingyuan's experience over the years, most of the smart children are not stable enough.

Most of the children who are stable are not smart enough.

As a reborn, he has been more mature than his peers since childhood.

This may also be an important reason why he was able to attract his grandfather's attention in the first place.

Then Zhu Jingyuan felt that Judy Lanthanum should have the idea of competing for the prince by completing the final exam before the end of the year.

If he really retires at the age of 60, if he really graduates a year later, he will probably really miss the last train.

It's normal to have such thoughts, after all, it is the pinnacle of power in this world.

However, in order to catch up with the last year, and let all the results just barely pass, then Zhu Jingyuan will not give him a chance.

Zhu Jingyuan will even think the other way around.

If he is really the most suitable heir, then Zhu Jingyuan can stay on the throne for a few more years and wait for him.

Just like his grandfather at the beginning, the past few years of staying on the throne are just the right time to hone the mentality of a potential heir.

Let's see if the heir, who is usually in good condition, will have problems in the continuous inner torment like his ninth uncle back then.

Zhu Jingyuan actually knew that many princes in ancient times couldn't stand it because of their father.

For example, Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, and Liu Che, the crown prince of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

The more powerful the emperor's father is, the more uncomfortable they are when they are princes.

They usually have to show their abilities, but they can't be too capable and make their father suspicious.

Zhu Yuanzhang may really not be jealous of his good son, but Zhu Biao will definitely not think that he can wave casually.

Even if Zhu Yuanzhang said it himself, Zhu Biao would not really believe it, and would even be even more frightened.

After Zhu Yuanzhang abolished the prime minister, Zhu Biao was the de facto prime minister and the executive vice emperor.

As the founding emperor of Zhu Yuanzhang, his own mentality is of course excellent.

His strong spirit can support him to continue to burst his liver with high intensity, and he is willing and capable of handling all the things he wants to deal with personally.

But he pressed the same thing to his son Zhu Biao, and Zhu Biao was going to burst his liver in fear.

Zhu Jingyuan always felt that Zhu Biao was forced to death by Zhu Yuanzhang in his previous life.

But now that he is the emperor, he is still equivalent to the emperor who was ordered to win the world, but he has the mentality of wanting to force his son.

Zhu Jingyuan has already had his sons who deliberately retired a few years late to get through it.

So Zhu Jingyuan opened Zhu Dilan's file and first looked at the final evaluations of all the subjects given to him by all his teachers.

Most of the subject assessments were only 'pass', with only a third being 'moderate', and only two subjects, internet and computing, being 'good'.

There is no such thing as an "excellent" ......

Zhu Jingyuan frowned slightly, although not all of them were just qualified, but there was not much difference.

These medium and good are probably his talents or interests, so he can do better than other subjects with the same amount of energy.

And this kid is already extremely talented, even if he is not particularly attentive, he should be able to do well.

Only those subjects that pass are mostly improvised.

With this kind of scrutinizing mentality, Zhu Jingyuan continued to look through the comments of Zhu Dilan's teachers.

"The talent is extremely high, and the learning is not particularly active, maybe the content of the standard course is too shallow."

"He is very intelligent, and he is not very interested in most of the teaching course content, and he is most interested in the application of computer fantasy simulation."

"Sharp-witted, athletic, fond of exploring unknown areas and affairs......"

Zhu Jingyuan read it in general, and felt that what these teachers said was very tactful.

These words of theirs, translated into the words of their parents and teachers in their previous lives, should be like this:

"This child doesn't like to study", "He likes to play computer games", "Naughty and mischievous, bullying classmates, often getting into trouble......"

Zhu Jingyuan felt in his heart that this child's willingness to graduate in a hurry may not be to compete for the throne.

It may be true that it was just to get out of school as soon as possible.

After graduation, I went to the local training and spent more time playing than in school.

Zhu Jingyuan sighed softly.

Although he is ready to be an emperor for a few more years like his grandfather, by the way, he will get through the mentality of an heir.

But for Judy Lan, his current time point is still very tight, if he is just greedy for fun in the past few years, he may really have no chance to become an heir.

Although Zhu Jingyuan is watching Zhu Dilan's situation with a critical attitude, he really has relatively high expectations for this child in his heart.

Although you don't need to be extremely smart to be an emperor, but you are also qualified in other aspects, so you are also an excellent candidate.

Zhu Jingyuan thought about it for a few seconds and instructed King Zhou to call over the children who graduated this year.

Talk to him personally and see if he can be saved

During the time he waited for the children, Zhu Jingyuan continued to read the detailed reports of these children to understand their more specific situation.

(End of chapter)