The climate of the Xiaoice River continues to ravage the land of China, especially in the north, where food production has been hit hard.

Last year, the temperature in eastern Liaoning hit a new low, not to mention wheat, and even the yield of potatoes and sweet potatoes was greatly reduced.

Fortunately, Huguang's grain production has been restored.

With a well-developed water system and a strong transportation capacity of the imperial court, there was no major famine in the country.

After nearly a year of land and population inventory, the cultivated land and population data of Huaxia in the first year of Qianlong Xi were finally released.

The population of China as a whole is 138 million, which is more than double the previous population figure.

Of course, this includes the populations of Korea, Taiwan, the Ryukyus, and Monan and Nuergandusi.

Among them, the population of North Korea is 6.8 million, a decrease of more than 40% from the peak of more than 11 million people in the Wanli period.

There are 380,000 people in Ryukyu, 1.08 million in Taiwan, and only 730,000 people in the entire Monan region.

The population of Nurgandus, including the Yeh and the left and right guards, is only 232,000.

The total population of these newly conquered areas did not exceed 10 million, which means that the original Ming Dynasty had a population of nearly 130 million.

Among them, after a large number of immigrants from Li Xianzhong for more than 10 years, the population of Liaodong soared to 8.26 million, almost three times that of the early years of Wanli.

However, Henan, Shaanxi, Huguang, and Sichuan, the most populous provinces, still have a noticeable decrease due to the wanton destruction by Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng.

However, there was no such situation as in later generations.

Although Sichuan experienced Zhang Xianzhong's poisoning and Li Dingguo's subsequent wanton extermination of the Tusi population, there are still 4.23 million people.

Among them, Nanzhili ranks first in the country with 21.17 million people.

The Huaxia Imperial Court completely abolished the poll tax, and a large number of hidden people in Nanzhili were also released.

The population of Yunnan-Guizhou may not be so accurate, but this figure is still basically reliable.

The cultivated land data of the Ming Dynasty has always been more problematic, the cultivated land counted in the early years of Hongwu was 366 million mu, and in the 28th year of Hongwu, it suddenly soared to 850 million mu, and in the second year of Jianwen, it became 420 million mu.

This 850 million mu of cultivated land is definitely unreliable, and the less than 500 million mu that has been maintained since then suddenly became 820 million mu in the Chenghua period, and then dropped to 470 million mu in the Hongzhi period.

Relatively speaking, the reference value is relatively large is the measurement organized by Zhang Juzheng during the Wanli period, first of all, Zhang Juzheng unified the problem of large and small acres.

Then that land survey lasted three or four years.

In addition to the cultivated land of the subordinates of the political envoys, the cultivated land of the border towns was also measured.

Nearly 30 million mu of land has been added to the towns in the nine borders, increasing the cultivated land in Daming to 780 million mu.

The total cultivated land in China is 800 million mu.

Among them, there are 12.8 million mu of cultivated land in North Korea, 4 million mu of cultivated land in Taiwan, 320,000 mu of cultivated land in the Ryukyus, and 880,000 mu of cultivated land in Monan.

Excluding nearly 20 million mu of cultivated land in these areas, the actual cultivated land area of Daming is 7.8 trillion mu.

Although the total number is basically the same as that of the Wanli period, the data between provinces varies greatly.

First of all, the cultivated land in Liaodong increased to 10 million mu, an increase of three times compared with the Wanli period.

Secondly, Shandong's cultivated land has decreased by more than 20 million mu, which shows that Shandong's acres of land were significantly overreported last time.

The number of acres of land in Henan and Huguang has also decreased compared with that in the Wanli period.

In addition to the fact that Yunnan and Guizhou did not conduct a thorough inventory and continued to use the previous data, the 800 million mu of cultivated land in China is basically reliable.

If it weren't for the Xiaoice River weather that caused a massive reduction in grain production in the north, it would have been no problem for these arable lands to feed an additional 200 million people.

After all, high-yield crops such as sweet potatoes, potatoes and corn have been fully promoted.

With the large pastures of Monan, mutton and dairy products in the north are also put on the market in large quantities.

In the south, poultry and pigs are encouraged.

At present, the number of cultivated cattle in the country is generally insufficient, so a large number of grassland cattle in the north are being domesticated into cultivated cattle.

After one or two generations of reproduction, the prairie cattle will gradually adapt to become cultivated cattle.

This also greatly improves the efficiency of cultivation and land reclamation.

In addition, Xu Guangqi's "Complete Book of Agricultural Administration" was also vigorously promoted to the whole country through the Ministry of Industry, increasing the use of fertilizers and beginning to increase grain production.

Although there are not many minerals in this area, the Red River Plain is a rare grain production area.

Although the output value of grain is not high, without food, the Chinese empire will inevitably stop expanding.

Although the whole of Annam was a pot of porridge, a lot of fertile land was reclaimed north of the Red River thanks to the efforts of a large number of Chinese immigrants.

This kind of high-yielding arable land with three crops a year is naturally the better.

The harvest of these lands must be completely in the hands of the Chinese court, otherwise the local natives will multiply in large numbers, which in turn will affect the rule of China.

Considering that Annan still needed the puppet government of the Li Dynasty to transition for a while, Sun Chuanting proposed to Li Xianzhong a plan to restore China's "three propaganda and six comforts" in the Indochina Peninsula.

After Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, in order to maintain the rule of the Ming Dynasty in the southwest region, he set up two Xuanfu Divisions in Nandian and Ganya, and seven Xuanfu Divisions in Luchuan, Liuwei, Burma, Mubang, Babai Dadian, Mengyang, and Laos.

During Zhu Di's reign, three consolation envoys were added, including Diwu Thorn, Dagu Thorn, and Dimasa, so that a total of two Xuanfu envoys and ten Xuanfu envoys were added.

Later, because the three consolations of the Diwu Thorn, the Great Ancient Thorn, and the Bottom Horse Withdrawal were too far away from the Ming Dynasty to be managed, they were revoked.

During the Xuande period, the Luchuan Xuanfu Envoy Division was relegated by the Ming Army because of the rebellion, and was later changed to the Longchuan Xuanfu Division.

At this point, the three propaganda and six comforts of the Ming Dynasty were completely formed.

The three Xuanfu in the three Xuanfu refers to the Nandian Xuanfu Division, the Ganya Xuanfu Division, and the Longchuan Xuanfu Division, and the six Xuanfu refers to the Cheli Xuanfu Division, the Myanmar Xuanfu Division, the Mubang Xuanfu Division, the Eight Hundred Dadian Xuanfu Division, the Mengyang Xuanfu Division, and the Laos Xuanfu Division, except for a part of the three Xuanfu Division, most of which are located in today's Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and other places.

In fact, the Ming Dynasty implemented the Tusi restraint rule in the Indochina Peninsula, whether it is the Xuanfu Envoy or the Xuanfu Envoy is a local administrative body dedicated to the governance of ethnic minorities, the Xuanfu Envoy and the Xuanfu Envoy are generally subordinate to the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Households, the Xuanfu Envoy is from the third product, and the Xuanfu Envoy is from the fourth product.

Of course, compared with the normal Chengxuan political envoys, both the Xuanfu envoy and the Xuanfu envoy are equivalent to the soil emperor in their fiefdoms, with all the rights of military, administrative, judicial, financial, etc., and they kill and take away the people under their rule, just like the princes of the Zhou Dynasty.

The imperial court issued a golden red card to the Xuanfu envoy and the Xuanfu envoy of the three Xuan and six comforts, as a token of the imperial court, whenever the new emperor ascended the throne and the Tusi was replaced, the central government of the Ming Dynasty would re-issue a new golden red card, so as to strengthen the control of the three Xuan and six comforts, and establish an effective subordinate relationship.

However, with the abandonment of Annam, the Ming Dynasty's deterrence in the Indochina Peninsula began to decline, and by the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, the three Xuanwei and the six comforts had not obeyed the orders of the central government of the Ming Dynasty, and they began to annex each other.

Although the Ming Dynasty also sent troops to intervene, for example, Liu Wei and Deng Zilong entered Myanmar during the Wanli period and broke the Burmese army.

However, the financial situation of the Ming Dynasty was no longer able to support the long-term expedition, and in the end he had to sit back and watch Myanmar continue to grow.

In the Jiajing period, the three Xuan and six consolations of the Ming Dynasty only left the "Three Xuan" and the Cheli Xuanwei Division; The remaining "five comforts", the Lao Xuanwei Division became independent, the 800 Dadian Xuanwei Division was annexed by Siam, and the Mubang Xuanwei Division and the Mengyang Xuanwei Division were occupied by the Burmese Xuanwei Division.

With the rise of the Taungoo dynasty in Burma, the Ming dynasty had effectively lost control of Burma.

Sun Chuanting's idea can be said to coincide with Li Xianzhong.

Rather than being killed in vain, these mobs in Annam should use them to conquer neighboring Laos.

Whichever one died, it would be beneficial to the rule of Huaxia.

However, Southeast Asia is too poor, and the Philippines has gold mines, so if you attack it on a large scale, it will definitely be a money-losing business.

Although the gold of Manila and the grain of Annan can provide some support for the next expansion.

But how to fool those investors in Huaxia to throw money will take some thought.

In the future, the investment will have to "tell the story", Li Xianzhong thought about it, Myanmar still has a lot of special products, such as rubies.

By the way, there are jadeites in Myanmar!

Chinese people have a soft spot for jade.

The Netherlands can be crazy about tulips, why can't they make a jade fever in China.

He remembered that when he ascended the throne before, Mu Tianbo, the Duke of Qianguo, sent someone to send him a batch of fine yang green jade.

I didn't pay much attention to it at the time, but now it's just right to promote a wave.

The popularity of this era is from top to bottom, as long as there is a wave of publicity in the circle of ladies in the upper class, soon jade bracelets will become popular.

Moreover, Chinese people have had the habit of wearing jade pendants since ancient times, and those jade cards can also be made.

People in this era look at jadeite "heavy color not heavy planting", only value jade green not green, and the requirements for planting water are not very high.

In this way, you can buy a large number of high-quality parallel goods at relatively cheap prices.

Especially those high-quality purple fei, it is almost "cabbage price".

Then I preach the value of planting water and fry it, which is another lot of income.

Now that Yunnan and Myanmar are not under their direct control, the price of jadeite must be expensive.

When the time comes, these people see the value of jadeite, and are they afraid that they will not pay for the silver?

Soon Li Xianzhong found Zhu Chunchen, who held several gold mine shares in Manila and bought a large number of estates, which can be said to have eaten the first wave of benefits of overseas colonization.

Hearing that Li Xianzhong had a new way to make money, he was naturally overjoyed.

Today's Zhu Chunchen is not simple, he is followed by a large number of nobles from Beijing and wealthy merchants in the north.

It was a huge investment team, and its influence was comparable to that of Li Xianzhong back then, and it has become a pivotal figure in the Chinese business community.

The Jubao Zhai in his hand is the most famous jewelry store in Beijing, which became popular with Li Xianzhong to give him Dongzhu, and now it has already opened all over the country.

Li Xianzhong first gave a batch of jade to his concubine and some heroes in a high-profile manner.

These crystal clear jadeites quickly caught everyone's attention.

Whether it is a women's bracelet or those finely carved jade and jade plates, they all make those who are rewarded love and continue to wear and show!

Under the operation of Zhu Chunchen, jadeite gradually became popular, and the price also went all the way up.

Someone in the heaven and earth of Jingshi actually spent 20,000 taels of silver to shoot an imperial green bracelet, just to smile at Bo Hongyan!

Bracelets suddenly became popular.

The ladies of Jingshi were proud to get a good jade bracelet, and for a time the jade bracelet became the standard configuration for women to marry.

And the scholars also began to wear good jade and jade plates and wrenches, as well as some jade Buddha statues and small accessories for the children at home.

After all, there are many levels of jadeite quality.

In addition to the traditional imperial green, yang green, apple green, clear water green, purple fei, yellow fei, red fei these are also gradually accepted by people.

And people are paying attention to the color as well as the water.

In addition to the finest glass jade, there are also ice seeds, glutinous ice, bean seeds, oil green and so on.

In just a few months, a jade fever began to blow in Huaxia.

From a bean seed of a few tens of cents to tens of thousands of taels of imperial green, it can be said to cover all classes.

But here's the problem, the jadeite hoarded in Yunnan and the hands of the merchant Tusi earlier has already been purchased; Buying goods from Myanmar is not only a long way, but also a dangerous journey.

With the shortage of supply, the price of jadeite has risen all the way, and even other jade products have also risen.

And the Tusi of Yunnan no longer fought for land, and began to compete for jade mines.

However, jadeite mines in Yunnan are not only scarce, but also of poor quality.

So Mu Tianbo, the prince of Qianguo, entangled a group of Tusi in Yunnan and began to invade Burma.

It is indeed not accurate to say that the invasion is not accurate, after all, Myanmar was originally the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and now although it is said to be the Ming Dynasty of China, this should naturally be the homeland of China.

In fact, Mu Tianbo, the prince of Qianguo, does not have a very strong control over Yunnan Tusi, and many Tusi do not listen to him!

But in the past few months, businessmen from the mainland have flocked to Yunnan like crazy.

The jadeite items they had in their hands that could only be used for decoration were exchanged for almost everything they needed (except for weapons).

So these toasts quickly realized the importance of jadeite!

Burma's Taungoo Dynasty was actually very powerful, and they had been invading Yunnan for years.

On weekdays, even if they borrowed a few of their courage, they did not dare to attack the idea of Burma.

But now for the sake of jadeite, they are all out of the way.

The main Tusi in Yunnan are concentrated in Kunming, and they are only doing one thing, that is, supporting Mu Tianbo, the Duke of Qianguo, and conquering Burma.

The 50,000 Yunnan Tusi coalition troops outside Kunming and the 20,000 Huaxia troops under the Yunnan Command Embassy controlled by Mu Tianbo are ready to go.

Mu Tianbo asked Yang Sichang on the side and said, "Yang Benbing, can we really take Myanmar in one fell swoop this time?" ”

Yang Sichang has been incognito since he escaped with Chongzhen's crown prince Zhu Cihong in Bagong Mountain.

He knew very well that without Chongzhen himself, even if he took the prince to Nanjing, it would be impossible to do it.

Things turned out to be as he expected, Li Xianzhong only took a little more than a year to get the south, and soon replaced Da Ming.

Now Yunnan is his last hope, the reason why he provoked Mu Tianbo to send troops to Myanmar has his own considerations, he wants to use the southwest as a base to revive the Ming Dynasty in the future!

Yang Sichang said: "Rest assured, this expedition to Burma will be a complete victory!" ”

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