Ajige pouted his lips and stopped talking in aggrieved manner, but the discussion about the United States of New Zealand had just begun.

"There can always be a solution for the silver issue, but who is willing to cross the ocean to Xinzhou?"

The person raising the question now is Zheng Chagu, the imperial concubine. She has heard and heard about it since she was a child. She has often heard about the hardships and dangers of going overseas. Going to Nanyang is already full of difficulties and dangers. Shipwrecks and epidemics can make people who go to sea to make a living in trouble.

Half of it was lost within a few years!

No one would want to go to sea unless they were crazy about wanting to get rich or were too poor to do anything about it!

Zhu Cixiang glanced at Tea Girl, sighed softly, and said: "Tea Girl, who do you think I spent these 30 million taels of silver for?"

Zheng Chagu is a smart person. She understood immediately when she heard this. She frowned slightly and said, "Your Majesty, is it for the wealthy children?"

Zhu Hehao is the eldest son of Zhu Cixiang. He is now over ten years old and is working as a top student at Laoshan Middle School - he is a typical "other people's child". He is excellent in both character and study. He is among the best in every exam, and

He has a good personality and is good at making friends. Unfortunately, he is only the eldest son of the emperor, not the emperor's eldest son, so he has no chance to inherit the throne...unless Zhu He is lucky enough to die in infancy, and Wu Sanmei cannot have another son.

But the problem is that most of Zhu Cixiang's children are strong and healthy, and very few of them die in infancy (it's impossible, this is the 17th century after all). As Zhu Hexing was frail since he was a child, he grew older, and Wu Sanmei often took him with him.

I exercise and my health is getting better and better, and I haven't had any illness for several months.

If Zhu Hexing finally grows up and is canonized as the crown prince, then Zhu Hehao's life may not be easy... After all, he is the eldest son of the emperor, and he is so outstanding, and Zhu Cixiang will not treat the clan as a pig.

Raise. If Zhu Hehao starts a career in the future, won’t he really become a thorn in Zhu Hexing’s side?

In an imperial family, father and son can turn against each other, let alone half-brothers?

But letting Zhu Hehao cross the ocean to Xinzhou... Zheng Chagu, a mother-in-law, felt reluctant to part with it. Thinking of this, her eye circles were sore and she was about to shed tears.

Seeing his beloved concubine shed tears, Zhu Cixi felt uncomfortable in his heart, but some things had to be done.

He sighed: "It's not all for the rich children... Children like the rich children are not unique to my family. Most of the princes and noble families have several rich children!

If you crowd into the officialdom and crowd into the army, how can there be room for it? You can’t make it so that the top class has no poor family and the bottom class has no aristocratic family, right? And there are many people in the country who can’t survive!”

Zhu Cixiang knew that the country he ruled was not a comfortable place without having to visit incognito. It was wrong for a country with a population of more than 100 million, in the primary stage of capitalism, and without a land of natural choice to allow its people to be happy!

The capitalist road is so easy to follow, why do we need socialism?

Now the social environment in the Ming Dynasty is relatively stable. There are two main reasons. One is the increase in food. More than 10 million kilo of rice are imported from Southeast Asia every year. After the Huanghuai Transport Project, Huainan and Huaibei have changed from an area affected by floods and droughts to a year-round bumper crop.

Compared with the past, the grain-producing areas can produce an average of 20 to 30 million more dan per year. In addition, capitalist farms have appeared in large numbers in the four rivers, two lakes, Fujian and Guangdong, as well as in the newly recovered Henan, Hebei, Shanxi, Shandong (western) and other places.

, also promoted the increase in grain production. Therefore, in the 10th year of Hongxing, except for Sichuan and Yunnan, the grain supply of the Han provinces in the Ming Dynasty was at least 100 million dan more than in the 16th and 17th years of Chongzhen!

Therefore, it was obviously easier for poor people in the Ming Dynasty to make ends meet in the 10th year of Hongxing than in the 16th or 17th year of Chongzhen.

Another reason for stability is a bit politically incorrect - the ability of the new aristocrats and the new army to suppress peasant uprisings has greatly increased after the Battle of Overcoming Disaster and ZTE. The uprisings had no chance to become bigger, and were brutally suppressed.

The upstarts of the new army suppressed it...

But these two factors that make the country stable are time-limited!

Because Zhu Cihong achieved ZTE after taking over the country and interrupted the process of tearing down and starting over, which resulted in two serious consequences.

First, the Han population was not greatly consumed in the process of overthrowing and rebuilding - in the early years of the Qing Dynasty in history, the country had only a few tens of millions of people. But today's Ming Dynasty, excluding Sichuan and Yunnan, has a population of about 150 million.

, if Sichuan and Yunnan are included, it is almost three times that of the early Qing Dynasty!

Although the amount of cultivated land is slightly more than that in the early Qing Dynasty in history, it is definitely not three times higher. Therefore, the contradiction between man and land is still quite acute!

And since society has generally stabilized, the birth rate of the Ming Dynasty has been at a high level, and it may not take many years to exceed 200 million.

By then, the contradiction between man and land will become even more prominent!

The second is the expansion of aristocratic power in the process of overcoming difficulties and reviving it!

The honors of the Ming Dynasty have been in decline since the Tumubao Incident. Of course, the social wealth they possess has also gradually decreased. As the power of the honors has declined, the wealth they possess has naturally declined. The civil servants in the imperial examinations have taken advantage of the situation and taken possession of the wealth.

A lot of wealth and resources.

This process is actually a process of downward flow of power and wealth, from the top to the middle, which is good for social stability - the number of people benefiting from Ming's rule has increased, and Ming's rule base has also been expanded. If

If these new members of the ruling group were not capable of killing people, the world would not be in chaos...

In the Battle of Overcoming Disaster and ZTE, Zhu Cixi drastically cut off the privileges of the scholar-bureaucrats and at the same time expanded the size and power of the military aristocratic group. A large number of heroes who overcame the difficulty joined the originally lifeless noble team, giving this dying group

Infused with vitality.

In fact, the current Daming Xungui Group is almost a brand-new founding group. Otherwise, it would be impossible to defeat the Manchu Qing and suppress Dashun!

In addition, Zhu Cixiang launched new education and young officer development education, injecting greater vitality into the second generation of overcoming difficulties.

Although a large number of the second-generation Kenan who are full of energy and have mastered advanced knowledge and skills can effectively defend the Ming Dynasty, they will also seize a large amount of wealth for themselves and monopolize the upward path. And the energetic Kenanxun

Your family also has a stronger reproductive capacity, so the Kenan Xungui group, which was originally large in number, is now expanding rapidly!

Zhu Cihong sighed and said: "It has been more than ten years since our army came to conquer the difficulties. The children of the heroes who overcame the difficulties are about to grow up. Now all the primary schools in Laoshan and Nanjing Dongcheng are full, and several middle schools

When it comes to recruiting people, it's like they're trying to squeeze everyone out... If this trend continues, in another ten years, every household (referring to the rich and powerful) will have to worry about the future of their children.

And we can’t take up all the good seats, we have to leave a way out for talented people from poor families, right?

In addition, there are more and more people living in extreme poverty at the bottom!

Now the world is stable, food is sufficient, industry and commerce are relatively prosperous, and I have abolished the Dingkou tax, so the people are willing to have more children. However, the world's population has reached ten million, tens of millions, twenty million or even thirty million.

Counting is also a matter of time. Will the food be enough by then? Will the land be enough?

So after much thought, I can only expand the territory abroad and earn some living and development space for future generations. I want to make America into a joint-stock country, where the rich and powerful nobles and rich people can

Come and invest. If they invest money, they will have a share of this country. Each of their families will be able to send their heirs to the country of the United States as nobles. If they are rich and powerful, they cannot go abroad empty-handed.

Ah! You have to bring a group of people, right? The extremely poor people in the country can follow them, and there is a way out.

Moreover, the land in North America is vast and vast, which is suitable for farming. If one hundred thousand people can cross the ocean in the future, the returning passenger ships will also be able to carry millions or even tens of millions of tons of food. When people go out, food comes in, and our country
Chapter completed!