Faced with the strange looks from Zeng Cheng and other big bosses, Liu Huaiwen also came to his senses, but Liu Huaiwen did not intend to give in: "Anyway, the Right Army Governor's Office wants to punish the people, so recruiting some workers is just a piggybacking.

What about the hand?"

"Think about it for yourselves, if we have laborers, can we build the railway? With the railway, can we allow the people to move there? After the people have moved, will the businessmen follow?"

Zeng Cheng couldn't find anything wrong with Liu Huaiwen's remarks, but he just felt that something was wrong in his heart.

Is this kind of operation still possible?

Zhu Jinsong laughed loudly and directly pointed out the biggest flaw in Liu Huaiwen's words: "That's right, but the problem is the people? Our Ming Dynasty only has a little over 30 million people now, how many people can you relocate?

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"Besides, if you put less gold and silver in your treasury and make room for two kilograms of grain, the mice won't starve to death!"

When Zhu Jinsong said this, Liu Huaiwen, who had been so eloquent just now, suddenly became silent.

Yes, there are only about 30 million people in the entire Ming Dynasty. What are they enough to do?

If Nurgan Dusi is counted as a chief minister, grassland is also counted as a chief minister, plus the newly established Usizang and Duogansi chief ministers, Jiaozhi, Myanmar, and Xianglin,

Linyi, North Korea's chief envoys, including the original eighteen provinces of Han and Liuqiu, then the Ming Dynasty had a total of twenty-eight chief envoys.

Thirty million people, averaged to more than 10 million people per chief envoy, and then averaged to each prefecture and state, there are one million people. If averaged to each county, it may only be 10 million people.

Thousands of people came.

Not to mention Nurgandusi, grassland and Wusi Zang are still areas with few people but very large areas.

After Liu Huaiwen lost his temper, Zhu Jinsong sighed again: "The land is vast and sparsely populated, and there are too few small towns."

According to the calculation methods of later generations, the total land area of ​​the Ming Dynasty is close to 17 million square kilometers. Compared with such a huge land area, the population density of 30 million people is only about 10%, which is probably similar to the Mao Dynasty.

A sparsely populated level.

In order to achieve normal population density, the number of Dingkou in the Ming Dynasty had to reach at least 60 million, which was almost half the difference.

In other words, the Ming Dynasty itself is still in a state of serious underpopulation. Not to mention opening up any new battlefields, even the existing ones cannot be filled.

Of course, this planning method is just an average.

In fact, the distribution of the 30 million Ding population in the Ming Dynasty was extremely uneven. In places with a small population, there were really few people, but in places with a large population, there were really many people. Twenty million of the 30 million people were concentrated in the eighteen provinces of Han Dynasty.

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This situation is very abnormal.

If you want to relocate people to the newly recovered chief envoys, the best choice is of course the eighteen provinces of Han Dynasty with relatively high population density, especially the relatively denser provinces.

However, the uneven distribution of population often means that the development of various chief ministers is also uneven. For example, Jiangsu and Zhejiang are relatively wealthy, while conditions in Gansu and Shaanxi are worse. Like Duogesi, Wu

The conditions for Si Zang are even worse.

Under normal circumstances, the better the economic and living conditions are, the less willing people are to migrate.

Especially with the advancement of the Ming Dynasty's industrialization process, the living conditions of the people have improved to a higher level, and they can live well even without relying on farming. In this case, the people's desire to migrate will naturally be even smaller.

Therefore, the biggest problem of the Ming Dynasty is that the territory is too large, the people are too few, and the relative population density is very high.

This is a huge hidden danger, and it is also a hidden danger that all dynasties have to face together.

As we all know, the most troublesome problem for dynasties in history was land annexation. A dynasty change occurred almost every two to three hundred years to solve the problem of excessive population pressure.

But think about it from another perspective, the population density of those dynasties was really very high?

Not really.

Historically, the average population density of Tangkou in the Central Plains was not large, but the relative population density was large.

The problem is that the relative population density is low and the transportation conditions are too poor, which leads to insufficient motivation for outward expansion. The relative population density is too high, which leads to a shortage of production materials. What follows is endless land annexation, and then starts the next one.

cycle.

From another perspective, it would be a good thing if the average population density is too high - as long as the territory is expanded and the territory is expanded.

Do you really think that those civil servants and military generals who can leave their names in the history books do not know the benefits of opening up new territories and expanding their territory?

Don't be stupid, opening up new territories and enlarging the territory, sealing a wolf as a lord, leaving a name in history is almost the ultimate dream of every emperor, civil servants and generals.

To put it bluntly, it's not that they don't know or don't want to, but because the average population density is not enough, no one will live in the occupied land, and sooner or later they will be unable to defend it. Forcibly relocating people to the border will easily cause trouble, and Han and Han people will mix together.

In a few generations, maybe there will be another Annan or Myanmar.

This is the root of the problem, and it is an endless cycle that is almost impossible to break.

The only way to completely break the situation is to solve the traffic problem.

Only by solving the transportation problem and adding a sufficient number of Dingkou can the imperial court carry out rapid and large-scale immigration, thereby avoiding the phenomenon of indigenization of immigrants.

Only by solving the transportation problem can the imperial court implement truly effective direct rule over the newly occupied areas, and the people will not feel alienated because they cannot return to their hometown.

This is why Zhu Jinsong and the Ming Dynasty have been frantically building transportation infrastructure such as roads, bridges, and railways, while also frantically promoting the industrialization process.

The purpose is to allow the people of the entire Ming Dynasty to move around, thereby solving the problems of too small an average population density and too large a relative population density.

Yes, it is to promote the industrialization process rather than the industrial revolution, because the essence of the industrial revolution is that the emergence of certain advanced technologies will release a large amount of labor, causing small workshops and small industrialists who originally relied on certain handicrafts to make a living.

Due to the conditions under which the society was born, the original social state could no longer remain stable, resulting in changes.

When the population is seriously insufficient, the Industrial Revolution is nonsense.

What's more, in addition to advanced technology that can release a large amount of labor, another condition that supports the industrial revolution is talent.

Regardless of whether it is the 21st century or not, the most expensive thing is always talent.

Today's Ming Dynasty definitely has talents, but they have basically been snared by Zhu Jinsong.

Especially those talented people and young people in the Royal Academy, who dares to say that they are not talents?

But what about further down?

Thanks to the efforts of the Qing Dynasty for more than 150 years and the four generations of Mingjuns and Saints from Shunzhi to Qian De, the literacy rate in the Central Plains has reached an alarming level, with the illiteracy rate even exceeding 100%.

ninety.

To put it bluntly, a large number of people don't even know their own names, let alone write such a lofty thing as being able to write their own names.

Even if Zhu Jinsong has been working hard to promote literacy, social studies, and county schools, it cannot be completed in a short time.

Industrial Revolution?

Damn it, calling it promoting the industrialization process is just putting gold in the faces of Zhu Jinsong and the Ming court.

Zhu Jinsong frowned even more when he thought of these messy problems. Although Zeng Cheng and other big guys didn't know the difference between the industrial revolution and the industrialization process, when they thought about the vast territory of Ming Dynasty, no one

Zeng Cheng and others also felt worried when they went to live there.

We still have to think of ways to see how we can get people to have more children.

After a long while, Zeng Cheng considered it and said: "We still have to speed up the construction of railways and highways. Everything else must make way for the construction of railways and highways."

"After the railways and highways began to take shape, some of the large workshops in Shandong were first relocated, and at the same time, preparations for the construction of large workshops in other places were intensified."

"We have to let other places get rich as well. Only when people's living conditions improve, can we have more children."

Song Yucheng, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, nodded and responded: "Then I will think of a way."

Liu Huaiwen continued to have a headache.

What will happen at this meeting?

The Right Army Governor's Office sent troops to capture small wild boar skins. When they turned back, they had to purchase oil from the European barbarians. At the same time, the Ministry of Industry also wanted to increase the construction of roads and railways.

Co-authoring means that the treasury has to spend money from outside?

A bunch of prodigal sons who don’t know how valuable firewood and rice are!

Pooh!

…

Just as Liu Huaiwen was paying respect to Zhu Jinsong and other prodigal sons, Luo Fangbo also brought Jiang Wubo and others to Guangdong Customs.

Like Pierre and others, Luo Fangbo and Jiang Wubo, who saw the Ming Dynasty Customs for the first time, did not know what words to use to describe their inner thoughts.

I have been away from home for just over ten years, but I still have the feeling of "when a young boy leaves home and his elder comes back, his local pronunciation has not changed and his hair on his temples has faded. When children see each other but don't recognize each other, they laugh and ask where the guests are from."

It's obviously the land where I was born and raised, and I've only been away from home for about ten years, but why is all this so strange?

I think back then, all the Europa merchant ships moored outside Guangzhou Port were flying the flags of Europa countries. A few small broken ships of the Qing Dynasty Navy, compared with those tall and sturdy Europa merchant ships, not only did they not have any deterrent effect at all, but there were even a few

Quite ridiculously funny.

However, only the Europa barbarians can really laugh at this ridiculous scene, while the people of the Qing Dynasty have to accompany their smiling faces to fight for the leftovers thrown by the Europa barbarians, and pick up the Europa barbarians to drink.

After throwing away the tea leaves, take them back and soak them in water to drink.

This is wrong. We are obviously the masters of this land. Those European barbarians are foreigners. How come they live better than us? Why do we have to keep smiling faces for them?

Luo Fangbo was very unhappy, but he couldn't change the situation.

how to change?

The Qing court didn't want to change, so what could those Nikans who were not even slaves do?
To be continued...