Back to the Ming Dynasty to be a tyrant

The demographic dividend brought by the early years of the Chongzhen reign was already very powerful in one respect, for example, various advanced technologies began to blow out.

But when it is really needed, the population is still too small. Xinming Island alone can immigrate millions to tens of millions, and England can immigrate tens of millions.

Not to mention the Penglai mainland, which is simply idle and grassy now.

However, the situation in Penglai Continent is completely different from that in Tsarist Russia...

PS: Sacrifice "History Must Be Cool" today

Chapter 834 How to Massively Create the Next Generation

Penglaizhou is also the American continent in later generations. Because of the laziness of Emperor Chongzhen, South America and North America were called Penglaizhou together, but they were not named separately.

The most terrible thing is that after all the Europeans on Penglai Island were cleaned up, the court of Ming Dynasty found that there were not enough people to immigrate to Penglai, and finally had to leave Penglai to grow grass.

The reason is very simple. Less immigration is useless and prone to problems. More immigrants will significantly reduce the local population. The Ming Dynasty, which has realized the demographic dividend, naturally wants to see this happen.

The problem is that the saying that heaven fails to fulfill people's wishes is too reasonable.

In the past, when Daming did not have so many lands and could not support such a large population, the court wished that there would be fewer civilians.

Now that there is more land, I want to increase the number of people. Population is not like food. If you plant it in spring, you can wait for the harvest in autumn. It takes more than ten or twenty years for a generation to grow.

Especially after the marriage order was changed.

In the Ming Dynasty before, men at fourteen and women at thirteen had already reached the age of marriage, especially once women passed the age, they could be called old maids.

Now it's good, Daming Law has directly postponed this time for several years - if it hadn't been pushed back with age to improve the survival rate of newborns in a certain way, I am afraid that the court would have started to make noise.

Regarding this situation, Emperor Chongzhen was also very distressed.

I'm not a god, I can transform people into ordinary people with just a breath, don't I have to rely on the folks to grow crops, and then cut the leeks myself?

Besides, if you have more children, you will be rewarded, and if you can’t support the state’s support, these unheard of policies have all been made by the mother. The population growth rate is still the same as that of a bird. I have a hammer?

Besides, the current population growth rate is already good, and it has been greatly improved compared to the Tianqi years. If you want to improve it, you can only turn the people of the whole country into grass, and then backfire...

Zhang Zhiji deliberated for a long time before he said: "Your Majesty, how about encouraging the people to accept them as concubines?"

Taking a sideways look at Zhang Zhiji, Emperor Chongzhen sneered and said, "I decree, you nobles take the lead, don't you? Did you get scolded by your wife again yesterday?"

Zhang Zhiji suddenly laughed and said: "Your Majesty misunderstood, the pleasure of the boudoir is just the pleasure of the boudoir."

Emperor Chongzhen said that I just laughed and said nothing-God knows what happened to these noble generals in the Ming Dynasty. When it comes to being afraid of their wives, they are really the most conscientious, and now they all know the curve to save the country!

The problem is, it's not a big problem for me to make this decree, but what should I do in my harem, don't those little mothers have to start arguing about getting some concubines for me?

This won't work, the harem that has finally calmed down must not add more people because of this bad idea. After all, if there are too many concubines, you should have a headache...

However, what Emperor Chongzhen never expected was that Lu Xiangsheng, a thick-eyed guy, also betrayed the revolution: "Your Majesty Qi Zuo, I think what the British Duke said is feasible."

Lu Xiangsheng said slowly while deliberating his words: "Nowadays, many foreign women are trying to find ways to marry my Ming men, and those folks who have fame and fame who can take concubines look down on foreign women, and can reluctantly accept those ordinary women. People are not qualified to take concubines, so?"

Zhu Yujian jumped out to object: "Lu Butang and Ying Gong still think too simple! There are also some barbarian women on Xinming Island, but the Ming people who immigrated there obviously have no interest in these foreign women."

Lu Xiangsheng bowed and said, "What if you accept a foreign woman as a concubine and give me five liang of silver?"

Now it was Wu Gan's turn to blow up his hair: "Mr. Lu Ge is going to empty out Daming's treasury!"

Lu Xiangsheng immediately turned his attention to Emperor Chongzhen again: "Your Majesty, as the saying goes, there is something good..."

Emperor Chongzhen immediately let out a sneer.

What is good at the top must be followed by the bottom, or the king of Chu is so thin, and the palace is so starved to death—the surname Lu is nothing more than wanting me to take the lead in getting a foreign woman to enter the palace as a concubine.

As long as I take the lead, these nobles and civil and military ministers will naturally follow in my footsteps and start a large-scale concubine operation, just like when Yan Yuzhuo entered the palace, these bastards It's like making a woman on the prairie their concubine.

The problem is that although Wanyan Yuzhuo is from the Xibo tribe, the household registration books of the entire Xibo tribe are now written in Han, which has nothing to do with the foreign races being discussed now.

Especially those European women with red hair, blue eyes, tall and burly, it's fine if they can't speak the language after they get into the palace - it would be embarrassing for a toothpick to mess with a big vat...

Emperor Chongzhen, who was thinking that he could not be ashamed, decided to use the skill of dumping the pot: "I think the proposal of the British government just now is very good. The nobles and the ministers will take the lead. The officials below will follow soon. The common people are the best. I like to follow suit.

As for the rule that ordinary people are not allowed to take concubines, let's implement it as before - if a barbarian woman is a slave but not a concubine, naturally there is no need to amend the Ming law, and it will save Meng Aiqing from complaining to me all the time. "

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

The so-called Xungui and ministers, Xungui naturally refers to Zhang Zhiji's group of princes. As for the ministers, don't even think about it, I, the chief minister of the dynasty, must not have run away.

The problem is that damn Zhang Zhi is extremely afraid of his wife, but he himself is not afraid?

Seeing that Lu Xiangsheng wanted to say something more, Emperor Chongzhen simply waved his hand and said: "That's it. Wang Chengen, I will order someone to pass a message to the families of the nobles. On the other side, Uncle Wang will pass the message for me. Among the lovers in the court, there is Laolu Aiqing."

Zhu Yujian didn't feel much, not even the feeling of lying on the gun.

As a vassal king, you don’t have to worry about the government, you don’t have to go to war, your biggest responsibility is to eat, drink, have fun and create the next generation. It seems that there is no problem in creating the next generation with barbarian women...

After talking about how to create a large number of the next generation, Emperor Chongzhen naturally turned the topic to the messy affairs of the Ministry of Railways and the Ministry of Communications.

The Ministry of Railways, the Ministry of Communications, and the Ministry of Industry do not like each other. It is almost doomed from the day the Ministry of Railways and the Ministry of Communications were born, because a large number of powers of the Ministry of Railways and the Ministry of Communications are separated from the Ministry of Industry. of.

Originally a giant was dismantled into three parts, and the Ministry of Railways and the Ministry of Communications snatched a large number of labor shares from the Ministry of Industry. The Ministry of Industry, which retained the main structure, was naturally unhappy.

The reason for the conflict between the three ministries this time is exactly the same as before, and it is all due to the distribution of labor numbers.

Unlike previous conflicts, this time the Ministry of Communications sided with the Ministry of Industry.

It also requires a lot of labor, and the Ministry of Railways can eat more and take more. The Ministry of Railways took away almost half of the labor that Daming brought back in the past two years, and the Shaofu took [-]%, and the remaining [-]% The Ministry of Communications and the Ministry of Industry share equally.

The angry Ministry of Communications and the Ministry of Industry did not have the guts to vent their anger on Emperor Chongzhen, but there was no problem targeting the Ministry of Railways and the Ministry of Communications. Anyway, the big bosses of the various ministries were at odds, and the emperor probably liked it.

The main purpose of Emperor Chongzhen today is to put out the fire: "The Ministry of Railways got the bulk of the work in the past few times. This time, after the laborers arrive on the shore, [-]% of the railway part, [-]% of the Shaofu, and the remaining [-]% will be provided by the Ministry of Communications and the Ministry of Industry. split equally."

Chang Kaisheng, minister of the Ministry of Communications, suddenly became unwilling: "Your Majesty Qizuo, even if the Ministry of Railways is divided into [-]%, the average of [-]% between the Ministry of Communications and the Ministry of Industry is only [-]%, and the number of laborers needed by the Ministry of Communications far exceeds that of the Ministry of Railways. Ministry of Industry and Commerce!"

Seemingly not seeing the anger in the eyes of Hong Chengchou, minister of the Ministry of Railways, and Zhang Yingxuan, minister of the Ministry of Industry, Chang Kaisheng pointed with his fingers: "It is true that the river bridges of the Ministry of Industry require a lot of labor, but they have not stopped since the third year of Chongzhen. The progress of the Ministry of Industry, there are very few places that need labor nowadays.

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

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

This time, after the arrival of the laborers, the Ministry of Communications will get [-]% of the points anyway, so that the Ministry of Communications can implement the planned straight roads on paper as soon as possible.

Didn't His Majesty once say that if you want to get rich, you must first build roads. Now that the roads have been overhauled, but they are restricted by labor, isn't this contrary to His Majesty's original intention? "

Zhang Yingxuan, Minister of the Ministry of Industry who was originally with the Ministry of Communications, immediately turned his back: "If it is according to what Chang Butang said, then the Ministry of Industry is not doing nothing every day, wasting money and food for nothing?

If this is the case, then the Ministry of Railways still has the bridge across the river that your Ministry of Communications needs to use. You can repair it yourself, and don't come to the Ministry of Industry to complain! "