"I've been staying in Luzon for a long time and I feel that everything is good. It's just that the strong winds are blowing at every turn," Wei Chang, who was in his 80s, became more and more red after arriving in Luzon.

After a typhoon passed, the rivers were full, and floods inevitably occurred. Fortunately, everyone got used to it. Typhoons also had signs of signs. Luzon had institutions that specifically predicted the weather, and specially invited students from the Observatory College of the Luoyang Taishi Bureau. Luzon has special funds for research and teaching on weather forecasting every year, which attracted many old men who went to sea. These people still had a good time in the South China Sea meteorology.

After spending a lot of money, the result is that the weather forecast of Luzon's Meteorological Bureau is still good, and ordinary sunny and heavy typhoons can be predicted in advance.

Whenever a typhoon comes, Luzon will notify the local area in advance to make everyone prepare. Even the Luzon Knights Academy has issued an emergency prevention and relief plan for typhoon flood epidemics, and will regularly preach prevention and self-rescue guidelines, disaster prevention and emergency material reserve list, etc. every year.

Although hundreds of people are killed or injured after each typhoon, sometimes more are found and the economic losses are huge, they will not cause any greater disasters.

Beware of precautions and avoid them in time. Even after the disaster, rescue will be initiated as planned and production will be resumed as soon as possible.

The Luzon Plain between San Francisco and New Kingsco and the Luzon Plain between the two cities is still good because there are mountains on both sides as barriers, which can greatly reduce the harm caused by typhoons. Luzon has been continuously expanded over the years, and it has also taken into account typhoons and flood disasters, so the city's flood control and flood prevention are very good.

"Hundreds and thousands of people will die in a typhoon alone, which is really annoying." Qin Lang was also helpless. Although he was able to prevent typhoons and floods every year, he could achieve the productivity of this era and the knowledge of ordinary people, casualties were always inevitable.

It’s okay to have a big port like New San Francisco. After all, there are many officials, and there are also military students Baoding, etc., with strong organizational capabilities and many materials. They are in good order in dealing with natural disasters. They can also provide timely rescue afterwards, distribute food and food supplies, and do a good job in post-disaster epidemic prevention.

But there is no such strong power in other places.

As soon as the typhoon came, workshops were shut down and schools were suspended. Even merchant ships and fishing boats on the sea went into the harbor to shelter the wind, and everything was stagnant.

Huge losses.

After Lao Wei came to Luzon, because of his good health, he started his career and served as Qin Lang's intelligence consultant. He was skilled in this regard and did a very good job.

Hand over a piece of information.

"The three Koreans are making trouble again. Baekje monk Daochen and former general Fu Shin welcomed a man from Japan who claimed to be the prince of Baekje Fuyufeng. He made him the king in Baekje and launched a rebellion. Liu Rengui was ordered to go to Korea to encircle and kill many people."

Qin Lang didn't care about it after hearing this. The Sanhan Peninsula was making trouble every year, just like Xiaoqiang who could not be beaten to death. However, it was just a few days after the autumn grasshoppers, but it was worse than the year anyway.

After all, the Tang Dynasty had been conquering the Three Hans for a long time, and the plan to change the immigration was very ruthless. It moved to the mainland every year, and the number of people in the Three Hans was getting fewer and fewer. Of course, this was becoming less and less effective.

If this momentum continues, in another twenty or thirty years, even if there are fish that miss the net, they will never be able to make waves.

"The court has just joined forces with the Dashi Alliance to negotiate peace, and has drawn a boundary in the river and fought a lot. Now the court has issued a ban edict to recruit immigrants in large quantities, and has generously enfeoffed and granted fiefdoms to the heroes and soldiers." Wei Chang smiled, "The court is expanding a little fast now, but no one can move to the border areas in the Central Plains. The three Koreans have been pacified for more than ten years, but now there is no 100,000 immigrants every year. There are fewer and fewer new immigrants in Liaodong. Now the court is going to go to Piyue again, and there are still Western Regions in southern Tibet, which is indeed difficult."

"Why are you talking to me about this?" Qin Lang asked.

It is difficult for Luzon to get immigrants now. Even if he finds ways to take advantage of the loopholes in the court's policies, takes advantage of the current good relationship with the court, and has started a plan for the bride in mainland China, but he also gives the dowry, buys clothes for girls' parents and family, and has to give the local government some money, which is not easy to do now.

All knowledgeable people in the court know that if you immigrate directly or even change your species in the new conquered land, it will definitely be a once-for-all and will never be affected. But the problem is that the limit of immigration in the court has reached now and no one can move it.

I thought that during the Zhenguan Dynasty, there were still a large number of poor and proletarian people in the Central Plains. With the order of the court, it could easily recruit a large number of poor people to move to Jiangxi, Lingnan, Sebei, Liaoxi, Longyou, Hetao and other places, and then to Annan, Qianzhong, Yunnan, and western Sichuan. It would be no longer easy.

Although the population of the Tang Dynasty was large, there were still many people. However, in the past thirty or forty years, the population growth did not have that fast.

What's more, the development of industrial and commercial trade is also competing for population labor. If the imperial court had not been able to expand abroad smoothly over the years, captured a large number of prisoners and became slaves, flowed into industrial and commercial manufacturing and even supplemented the manor planting, the population of the Tang Dynasty would have long been unable to hold on to this increasingly larger and larger stall.

Just talking about Luzon, it turns out that the indigenous people together may not be able to have one million. Now, it’s almost seven million. Where does it come from? More than one million Han people have been moved from the Central Plains, and then there are slaves brought from all over the country.

The slaves in Luzon were from all kinds of sources, mostly prisoners of the Tang Dynasty's foreign wars, and some were bought through maritime trade, such as Kunlun slaves in the Nanyang Peninsula, Bodhisattva barbarians in the Indochina Peninsula, Indian slaves, Haidong slaves, and black slaves in Taisie, Persia and Romans, and even barbarian Franks, Germans, Slavs, and Bulgarians.

People have become the most precious resource.

The imperial court has more and more restrictions on the immigration of the Central Plains to Luzon. The Qin family most needed high-quality immigration was Han people. However, there were too many restrictions on immigration to Luzon. Now the only small gap is mainland brides, who can only go to those mountainous areas to look for, and sometimes they can only find some familiar barbarians. At least they are semi-Sinic barbarians. At least they look closer to everyone, and they are always stronger than those black, white and brown.

Previously, Qin Lang had planned to name Australia as Nanshanbu Prefecture, and then planned to use it as a place for exile of criminals in Luzon.

But this idea is not possible at all because Luzon is too short of people, and even criminals are reluctant to throw them away so far. They are all exiled to islands outside Luzon's main island.

Even now Qin Lang has to find ways to find connections and then try to make Luzon a place for exile for the imperial court. Whether it is officials who failed the political struggle or all kinds of scum, Luzon is willing to take it over and make it change it. It is still good, at least it can still reproduce the population.

For this reason, Qin Lang had to agree with the legal age of marriage again and again. You should know that at the beginning, Qin Lang opposed early marriage and set the age of marriage to the twenty-year-old man and the eighteen woman. Then he continued to be high and low. Now he was the sixteenth man, the fifteenth man, and the fourteenth man.

It is to be able to get married early and have children early. Luzon's annual fiscal budget will increase the experience fee for childbirth subsidies. You can get subsidies when giving birth. The more you give birth, the more rewards you will receive. Even from birth to admission to school at the age of six, Luzon will always provide subsidies to help raise children at this early stage.

There are also special legislation to strictly prohibit urinating and abandoning infants. If you really don’t want to, you can send them to the official welfare home, and the government will pay for it, or the government will pay for it to be raised in foster families.

If you don’t do this, you won’t be able to increase the population.

Luzon's development was too fast, and its population became the biggest shortcoming, especially the number of Han people in the main ethnic group could not keep up. Otherwise, with the strength of the Qin family, it would not be a problem to Australia, New Zealand, and New Guinea.

But the problem is that there is no population, and it is useless for you to build ten thousand islands.

Since the imperial court recovered Liaodong and conquered the Three Koreans, it has been recruiting immigrants. Qin Lang is not unaware of it, but he himself cannot fill the Luzon, so he can't care about other places.

To develop colonies, they also follow maritime trade routes, and establish some strongholds and commercial halls in the coastal areas. This is to cooperate with Luzon's maritime trade. The colonies on those routes can be used as supply points for maritime trade navigation, as well as sales points for Luzon's commercial goods, as well as collection points for some cheap raw materials.

The Qin family had many colonial strongholds, but they had never invested much. They operated a stronghold port and rarely went deep into the mainland. The key is that because of the small number of people, Qin Lang refused to divert his precious population to those places, and gave priority to the Luzon Island.

Wei Chang said, "The three Koreans are getting worse every year. The Korean Peninsula is recovering year by year. There are even some places in Liaodong that are very lively. I feel that there is great potential there. We have also made arrangements in Haidong, and in Tangjin Port in Japan, it is also very lively. Now the imperial court has relaxed some restrictions. Why don't we also make arrangements in Liaodong and North Korea? The land there is basically the same as free."

Qin Lang still shook his head.

"Now, let alone picking up fields for free, there is a mine, and no one is going to develop them, and we lack people."

Those newly conquered areas are now full of empty land, but there is a shortage of people and the land is not worth anything at all. Anyone who wants it can distribute it to you. But the problem is that if you take the land of the court, you cannot abandon it and have to plant it. But how can you plant it without anyone? The court will not joke with you at that time, and there will be severe punishments.

It is absolutely impossible to farm land but not plant it.

"We are building a slave manor. This time Sanhan made a big fuss. Liu Rengui is also a ruthless person. There will definitely be many prisoners of war. We used to get land for free, then buy prisoners to build a planting manor, and we can also go to mine. We have money now, but there is no one. Sanlang, you don't want the number of Luzon slaves, but if you are overseas, it doesn't matter. At that time, overseas plantations and mines can provide low-cost raw materials for our Luzon sugar factories, textile factories, smelters, manufacturing factories, etc., isn't that good?"

"At that time, some tamed high-quality slaves can be brought back to Luzon."

The so-called high-quality slaves naturally refer to young, strong and even have a skill. The most important thing is that they have learned to speak Chinese, and even said that they were the second generation of slaves who received Chinese education. These people were naturally high-quality slaves when they were sent back to Luzon.

Wei Chang was very treacherous and even offered a suggestion to Qin Lang.

The Qin family can directly recruit Han people in Liaodong, North Korea and other places to train them as managers of manors and mines. Anyway, as long as the Qin family does not move these people to Luzon, they will hire them locally, and will not violate the imperial system and will not be blocked.

Therefore, what the Qin family needs to invest in Liaodong, North Korea and other places is some funds, as well as some senior executives, other management, technical workers, etc., which can recruit Han people to train locally. Grassroots farmers and workers can directly purchase the rebels of the Three Koreans who encircle and suppress the prisoners from the army.

Taking advantage of the special situation there, we have almost free land acquisition, mining, obtain high-quality resources, and even cultivate high-quality new immigrants in Luzon.

Resources and profits are transferred to Luzon, and other troubles are left locally. Isn’t that good?

"The Western Regions are similar to the southwest. Now the imperial court encourages the nobles and nobles to go there, and even send them to the territory for free to collect fiefs. I think this wool should be used for nothing. Although they are all remote and backward places, as long as they are well-managed, they will never lose money. After all, they are all unsubstantiated businesses."

"We used to buy the local natives captured from the garrison as slaves to plant, grazing or mining. As for other long-term futures, we don't have to worry about it. Anyway, it's not our Luzon. Just care about its long-term future, it's profitable."

Qin Lang couldn't help but nodded. It seemed like this was the case. If I thought about it this way, there would be no burden.

After all, Qin Lang operates Luzon, and he has to think about the long-term future of Luzon. If you are one million Han people in Luzon, you will get ten million barbarian slaves or even more. You will have to worry that in the future, the natives will subdue Han people, and the Han people may eventually be assimilated by the natives.

But if the Qin family just went to the newly developed places of the imperial court to make money, free land, or even free mines, invested a start-up capital, sent some managers to go there, and then bought the prisoners from the local Tang army to plant, mine, etc., and didn't have to worry about anything else.

There is no need to say that you have to invest in infrastructure, no need to consider local management, and no need to even worry about the riots of natives and slaves, and there is the Tang Dynasty garrison to maintain it, and there is the governor's office or county government office in the Tang Dynasty border areas.

What the Qin family needs is to pay start-up funds, then send someone to manage it, and pay taxes according to the rules. Even this newly conquered place is often exempted from taxes.

"We have also taken the land, mines, and money, and finally responded to the call of the court to develop borders and contribute taxes to the court. Isn't this a good thing for everyone to be happy and to benefit each other? Isn't it worth a try?"

Qin Lang couldn't help but admire Wei Chang very much. He became more and more treacherous as he got older. He had nothing to say when he was so open to pull the wool from the court, and even so righteous.

"Well, you can study it carefully!"
Chapter completed!