Penglaizhou is the American continent in later generations. Because Emperor Chongzhen was lazy, South America and North America were called Penglaizhou together, and were not named separately.

The most terrible thing was that after all the Europeans on Penglai Island were cleaned up, the Ming Dynasty found that there was not enough population to immigrate to Penglai, and eventually they had to leave Penglai idle there to grow grass.

The reason is very simple. There is no use if there are fewer immigrants and it is easy to have problems. If there are more immigrants, the local population will be significantly reduced. The Ming Dynasty, which has already realized the demographic dividend, naturally wants to see this situation happen.

The problem is that the saying goes as far as possible is concerned is too reasonable.

In the past, when the Ming Dynasty did not have so many territory and could not support so many people, the court wished that the people would be less and less.

Now that there are too many territories, people should be more. The population is not like food. If you plant it in spring, you can just wait for the autumn harvest. It will take more than ten or twenty years for a generation to grow.

Especially after the marriage order was changed.

In the past, the people of the Ming Dynasty, the fourteenth man and the threeth woman had reached the age of marriage, especially once a woman was over 18 years old, she could call her an old girl.

Now, the Ming Lu directly delayed this time by several years. If it weren't for pushing backwards with age, the survival rate of newborns would have been improved in one aspect, I'm afraid the court would have started to make trouble.

Emperor Chongzhen was also very upset about this situation.

I am not a god, and I can turn into a commoner by blowing my breath. Isn’t it necessary to rely on the people to grow one after another and then cut leeks one after another?

Besides, if you have too many births, you will be rewarded and you can’t afford to support the country’s unheard of policies. The population growth rate is always the same as the bird. Is there a way to do it?

Besides, the current population growth rate is already good, and it has increased significantly compared with the Tianqi period. If you want to increase it, you can only turn the people of the country into grass, and then pull out the seedlings to encourage growth...

Zhang Zhiji thought for a long time before speaking: "Your Majesty, otherwise, encourage the people to take it as a concubine?"

After glanced at Zhang Zhiji, Emperor Chongzhen sneered: "I issued an order, are you nobles taking the lead? Did you be scolded by your wife again yesterday?"

Zhang Zhiji immediately smiled awkwardly and said, "Your Majesty misunderstood, it's just the joy of the boudoir."

Emperor Chongzhen said that I just smiled and said nothing, God knew what happened to these noble and military generals of the Ming Dynasty. When it comes to fearing their wives, they were really in love. Now they all know how to save the country in a curve!

The problem is, it is not a big problem for me to issue this order, but what should I do in my harem? Do those little girls start to make trouble and take a few concubines for me again?

This is not possible. The harem that finally stopped was not easy. We must not add people because of this bad idea. After all, if there are too many concubines, we should have a headache...

However, what Emperor Chongzhen never expected was that Lu Xiangsheng, a guy with thick eyebrows and big eyes, also betrayed the revolution: "I call your Majesty, I think what the British Duke said is feasible."

Lu Xiangsheng thought about the words and said slowly: "Now many foreign women are trying to marry me, Ming men, but those people who have fame and fortune can take concubines look down on foreign women. They can barely accept those foreign women and are not qualified to take concubines, so?"

Zhu Youjian jumped out to object: "Lu Butang and the British Duke are still thinking too simple! There are also some barbarian women on Xinming Island now, but the Ming people who immigrated to the past obviously have no interest in these foreign women."

Lu Xiangsheng bowed and said, "What if a foreign woman would give her a reward of five taels of silver for her concubine?"

Now it was Wu Gan's turn to come and get angry: "Ge Lao Lu is going to hollow out the treasury of the Ming Dynasty!"

Lu Xiangsheng immediately turned his gaze to Emperor Chongzhen: "Your Majesty, as the saying goes, you have something to do..."

Emperor Chongzhen immediately sneered.

If the superiors have something to do, the subordinates will follow it. Or if the King of Chu is so thin, the most people who starve to death in the palace are just trying to let me take the lead in getting a foreign woman into the palace to be a concubine.

As long as they take the lead, these nobles and civil and military ministers will naturally follow their steps and start a large-scale concubine acquisition campaign, just like when Wanyan Yuzhuo entered the palace, these bastards each made women on the grassland as concubines.

The problem is that although Wanyan Yuzhuo was born in the Xibe tribe, the entire Xibe tribe's household registration booklet now has Han written on it, and it has nothing to do with the foreign tribes discussed now.

Especially those European women with red hair, blue eyes and tall and big horses, it’s a shame to get the toothpick into the big tank after getting into the palace...

Emperor Chongzhen, who thought that he could not embarrass him, decided to use the buck-shifting skill: "I see that the British Duke's proposal just now is very good. The nobles and ministers will take the lead. The officials below will soon follow, and the people of the people are most fond of following the trend.

As for the provisions that ordinary people in the country are not allowed to take concubines, it is better to implement them as usual. The barbarians are slaves and concubines, so naturally they don’t need to modify the Ming Dynasty law, so that Meng Aiqing will always complain to me.”

Lu Xiangsheng suddenly felt that he was shot while lying down.

The so-called nobles and ministers naturally refer to Zhang Zhiji's group of princes and lords. As for the ministers, there is no need to think that his current chief minister must have not left.

The problem is that the damn Zhang Zhiji is afraid of his wife, so he is not afraid of him?

Seeing that Lu Xiangsheng wanted to say something else, Emperor Chongzhen simply waved his hand and said, "That's it. Wang Cheng'en turned around and ordered people to pass on a message to the families of the nobles. Uncle Wang passed on a message to me for the vassal kings. The dear ministers in the court will have the dear ministers Lu."

Zhu Youjian didn't feel much, and he didn't even feel like he was caught in a shot.

As a vassal king, there is no need to worry about the government and war. The biggest responsibility is to create the next generation by eating, drinking, having fun and creating the next generation. It seems that there is no problem with barbarian women...

After talking about how to create a large number of topics for the next generation, Emperor Chongzhen naturally turned the topic to the destruction between the Ministry of Railways and the Ministry of Transport.

The Ministry of Railways, the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Industry are disliked by each other, and it was almost destined from the day the Ministry of Railways and the Ministry of Transport was born, because a large number of powers of the Ministry of Railways and the Ministry of Transport were separated from the industrial part.

Originally, a giant was dismantled into three parts, and the Ministry of Railways and the Ministry of Transport snatched a large share of labor from the Ministry of Industry, so the Ministry of Industry, which retained its main structure, was naturally unhappy.

The reason for the three ministries' conflict this time is exactly the same as before, all lies in the allocation of labor numbers.

Unlike the previous conflicts, this time the Ministry of Transport stood on the side of the Ministry of Works.

They also require a large number of laborers, but the Ministry of Railways can eat more. The laborers brought back in the Ming Dynasty in the past two years were almost half taken away by the Ministry of Railways, and 10% of them were taken away by the Shaofu, and the remaining 40% were divided equally between the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Works.

The Ministry of Transportation and the Ministry of Works, who were full of anger, had no courage to point the anger at Emperor Chongzhen to vent, but there was no problem with the Ministry of Railways and the Ministry of Transport. Anyway, the emperor was most likely to like it.

Emperor Chongzhen’s main purpose today is to put out the fire: “The Ministry of Railways got the big head in the first few times. After the laborers arrived on the shore, 20% of the railway part, 10% of the Shaofu, and 70% of the remaining ones are divided equally by the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Works.”

The Minister of Transportation Chang Kaisheng immediately refused: "I am telling Your Majesty that even if the Ministry of Railways only divides 20%, the Ministry of Transportation and the Ministry of Works on average are only 35% 30%. At present, the number of labor required by the Ministry of Transportation far exceeds that of the Ministry of Railways and the Ministry of Works!"

It seems that he did not see the anger in the eyes of the Minister of Railways Hong Chengchou and the Minister of Works Zhang Yingxuan. Chang Kaisheng counted with his fingers: "The river bridges of the Ministry of Works require a large number of laborers, but the Ministry of Works, which has not stopped progress since the three years of Chongzhen, now there are very few places that require laborers.

The Ministry of Railways still needs a large number of labor, but it is not as urgent as the Ministry of Transport. After all, where railways cannot pass through each other, all the straight roads built by the Ministry of Transport are supported by the straight roads.

So far, the construction progress of the Ministry of Transport has been far behind the original plan. The main problem is that there is insufficient labor, so that the straight roads in many places have not started yet.

After the laborers arrived on the shore, the Ministry of Transport scored 50% in any case, so that the Ministry of Transport can implement the planned straight roads on paper as soon as possible.

Didn’t Your Majesty say that if you want to be rich, you should first build the road. Now the road has begun to be overhauled, but it is restricted by labor. Isn’t this going against Your Majesty’s original intention?”

Zhang Yingxuan, the Minister of Works, who was originally with the Ministry of Transport, immediately turned aside: "If we follow what Changbutang said, then wouldn't our Ministry of Works do nothing every day and waste money and food in vain?

If this is true, then the Ministry of Railways and the cross-river bridge you want to use, you can repair it yourself, and come to the Ministry of Works to complain less!”

Hong Chengchou nodded and said, "Nuergandusi Beishan tribe to Liaodong and Mongolia, and the transportation capacity is greatly insufficient. If the plan for the Northern Expedition is delayed, who will bear this responsibility?"

Seeing that these three bigwigs were arguing, Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help but speak, "Are you not a large number of Romans in the Ming Dynasty now? Just hire them directly, the kind of people who give them wages."

Zhang Yingxuan bowed and said, "Your Majesty, it's not that the ministers don't want to do it, but that they can't do it."

Most of the places where labor is needed are work such as digging and digging, and many places that are difficult to reach by manpower must be filled with human lives. This is also the reason why the ministers and others did not requisition too many people in the Ming Dynasty.

Although many Romans are making a living in our Ming Dynasty, according to the "Ming Luo Friendship and Trade Treaty", those Romans cannot be used as laborers."

Emperor Chongzhen nodded and said, "Sign up a contract with them. If you die, you will be compensated with certain amount of silver. Any problem that can be solved by silver or a problem?"

Wu Ganlai's face turned dark. He coughed gently before speaking: "Your Majesty, the problems that money can solve are not a problem. The problem is that there is not so much money in the treasury, and the empress dare not make such a hole!"

Seeing Emperor Chongzhen looking at him curiously, Wu Ganlai finally explained patiently: "In just 25 years and a year, the number of labor deaths under the Ministry of Works was about 60,000, while the Ministry of Transport was about 80,000, and the Ministry of Railways..."

After a sneer, Wu Ganlai continued: "There are about 200,000 workers who died in the Ministry of Railways alone, which is almost three times that of the Ministry of Works and the Ministry of Transport.

Moreover, since these Romans could not be used directly as laborers, they had to pay them a salary. If they were less, no one was willing to do it, and if they were too much, it would be a big expense.

According to the monthly two jin of money for each person, a 300,000 laborer is 600,000 jin. Together with the compensation required for death, I am afraid that this amount will be several times higher.

Based on the compensation for one worker's death, 300,000 workers a year will need to spend 6 million guan. Although six million guan is not much,"

Emperor Chongzhen still couldn't help but nod.

Six million steadily is not a good idea. Just arresting a few corrupt officials can produce several six million steadily...

"However, there is only so much money in the Ming Dynasty's treasury. In addition to the regular budget expenditure every year, there are also emergencies that require expenditure from time to time. If a six million treasury is added out of thin air, I am afraid that the treasury will be difficult to support it."

Wu Gan's meaning is very simple. It is not a big deal to increase the expenditure of 6 million guan. If there is this money in the treasury, it is no problem even if it is 60 million guan. It is all small money.

The real big thing lies in natural disasters that occur from time to time.

Regardless of whether the natural disaster is a punishment, God will give away any punishment to remind his stupid son, where are officials corrupting the people, anyway, the Ministry of Revenue has to use real money to help the disaster. The next year, it will also supplement the emergency supplies consumed by the local government, and ensure that there will be no chaos in the people's lives in the second year.

There are also the broken things that Emperor Chongzhen himself did.

From Wu Gan's perspective, what Emperor Chongzhen did was obviously more disgusting than those natural disasters.

Natural disasters are at least temporary, and they will pass, and the money spent is always counted.

But the things that Emperor Chongzhen had done were different.

Although the large amount of arms sold out, the amount of tax revenue increased in the treasury, the immigrants and soldiers needed after the war were far from being able to fill the amount of tax revenue.

If it weren't for the fact that foreign wars have been victorious in recent years and have received countless invisible benefits, I'm afraid that the Ministry of Revenue would have long since jumped out to oppose Emperor Chongzhen's recklessness.

He knew his own affairs, and of course Emperor Chongzhen also knew that Wu Laozi was saying that he was messing around the bush.

But as the saying goes, you have to admit it if you have any mistakes, and you must never change them. Emperor Chongzhen has no intention of correcting his mistakes immediately.

It is impossible not to cause trouble, it is impossible in this life. In this life, I am either doing trouble or on the road to trouble.
Chapter completed!