There are fewer people in Kaifeng Prefecture, but there are more people in Tianjin.

It should be a good thing to have too many people. Tianjin is not located in the Central Plains, where land is barren and transportation is not convenient, and can only rely on the increasingly destructive water transportation system to adjust grain from other places, so it is difficult to maintain an excessive population. It has to use "high housing prices" and other means to restrict it.

Tianjin is located in the Bohai Bay, a boundary river passes through the city and leads directly to the sea. Through sea transportation, Tianjin can obtain sufficient and cheap Liao grain, so there is no problem with food supply.

Moreover, there is enough land around Tianjin. Not to mention a metropolis with millions of people, it is not a problem to have ten times more.

Therefore, since the era of Jiehe Commercial City, Tianjin City did not have to worry about population expansion.

However, in the spring of the 11th year of the Republic, Wu Yijiu, the head of the Great Zhou Republic, was a little worried about the crowd.

It is not that the entire Tianjin city has too much population, but that outside his head of state, there are too many people in Republic Square... There are tens of thousands of people who have gathered there since the first month of the year, reluctant to leave, and have set up tents and slept on the streets. Some people are begging for passing Tianjin citizens there. What's more, the crime rate in Tianjin has also suddenly increased due to their arrival.

Oh, these people are not here to beg for food in Tianjin. If that is the case, Wu Yijiu will not have a headache.

Although the government of the Great Zhou Republic did not care much about local disaster relief, there are now Yellow River, Huaihe River and Canal major works. There are still some things like labor-for-relief.

Moreover, the municipal offices and chambers of commerce in Tianjin organize activities to help the poor, such as donating clothes, porridge, nursing homes, orphanage homes, etc. It is not easy to starve to death in Tianjin.

In addition, there are many employment opportunities in Tianjin, which are so numerous that all job seekers can always find jobs!

Of course, what everyone can find is not a satisfactory job. It is a job like sailors of maritime merchants, thugs of franchise trade chambers, etc.

In addition, the opportunity to be a farmer in Java and Nanyang Province always exists, it depends on whether you really can't survive in the Great Zhou Dynasty.

So Wu Yijiu wanted to give the next order to ask the Marine Corps to send people to capture all the people in the Republic Square and throw them on Java Island.

But he couldn't do this, because the people in the square were all the scholars and officials who lost their land in Hebei and Jingdong prefectures to protest the petition in Tianjin... protesting the petition, but the power of civilians in the Great Zhou Republic, even the head of Wuhan University himself cannot be deprived.

Besides, Wu Yijiu just took advantage of the victory of the Song and Zhou war and was elected as the head of state for the second time. This was his first term of office. Now that the term of office has just begun, we can't do anything to destroy the Republican Constitution, right?

"Dad, are we too polite to these civilians?"

Standing in front of the open glass window of the Head of State Palace and looking at the messy scenes in the square outside, Wu Yijiu asked his father Wu Haogu with some doubts.

"What?" Wu Haogu smiled, "Do you want to revise the "Constitution"?"

The power of petitioning for civilians comes from the "Constitution". If you want to trace it back, it is the power granted to the subjects by the Song Dynasty. The common people of the Song Dynasty could also write to express their affairs, petition the government, and beating the drum to petition the emperor.

The elders who formulated the "Republic Constitution" believed that the Great Zhou Republic was a more advanced country than the Great Song Dynasty. Of course, they could not deprive civilians of the power to petition and write petitions while granting citizens.

But this time the civilian petition was obviously a bit unreasonable...

Wu Yijiu shook his head and said, "It is inappropriate to amend the "Constitution"... After all, our citizens can surrender. If the civilians are deprived of their power now, many citizens will be dissatisfied. If a citizen petition occurs, the trouble will be even greater."

Citizens... include military citizens!

The Great Zhou Republic has loose management of weapons, so many military citizens have military weapons!

"But when will their petition last?" Wu Yijiu frowned. "It's almost two months, and there is no sign of dissipation."

Wu Haogu shook his head, "It's hard to say, after all, we have taken other people's land, so we are not allowed to protest the petition? Maybe it will continue to make trouble until we complete the land allocation, right?

In this way, they have no hope and should disperse themselves. And by then, the river workers will also have a great rise, there will be more job opportunities, and farmers will make money, so the gentry will have no choice."

Concessions are impossible... If you give in, what should you do if you hundreds of thousands of military citizens waiting for land?

After giving in, where does the funding for building the Yellow River come from?

Wu Haogu was talking and put a paper for the imperial examination on Wu Yijiu's table. He was watching the exam paper for the Ministry of Rites today.

The Great Zhou Republic's government is basically trustworthy.

If you agree to "not suppress mergers and implement imperial examinations", you will implement them seriously.

However, the Republic's government only made promises to Hedong and used these two promises to exchange for the support of Hedong landlords and literati, laying the mass foundation for the rapid advancement of the Hedong Legion.

But there is no reason why Hebei, Jingdong, Northwest and Jingjin are in the glory of Hedong.

So now the Ministry of Rites of the Great Zhou Republic will hold a separate examination for the Hedong students!

The imperial examination was awarded the Jinshi of the Great Zhou Republic, and will be awarded the appointment of the government affairs officer of the Hedong Autonomous Province later.

By the way, after the victory of this "Central Plains War", the Great Zhou Republic will comprehensively adjust its administrative divisions and establish a three-level administrative system at the province, prefecture, county and city.

The provinces will include Northern Zhili (formerly Yandi, Tianjin Prefecture), Hebei (Hebei two roads), Hedong, Henan (including part of the land of Jingji, Northwest Jing, East and West Jing and other roads), Shandong (mainly Jingdong East), Southern Zhili (Xuzhou, Haizhou and other places), Western Liao, Liaodong, Liaobei (Huanglongfu area), Goryeo, Haidong (east of Liaodong to the sea), Andong (including Taiwan, Zhongshan, Danluo Island, Busan and other places), Annan, Nanyang, Sebei and other thirteen provinces (South and North Zhili count the two capitals).

Provinces are also divided into two categories: direct jurisdiction and autonomous regions. Autonomous provinces include seven including Hedong, Goryeo, Nanyang, Annan, Andong, Saibei, and Liaobei. The rest are directly under the jurisdiction.

The governor and the main members of the governor's office in the provinces directly under the jurisdiction of the governor's office are directly appointed by the government, but they need to be approved by the provincial parliament, and the provincial parliament also has the right to impeach.

As for the ways in which the governors of the autonomous province are produced, there are different ways. Some are elected by parliament, and some are appointed by the government... There may not even be parliament.

Hedong Autonomous Province is an autonomous province that retains the old system of the Song Dynasty. It has no parliament and the main officials are appointed by the government. However, they cannot be appointed at will. They can only appoint civil servants from Jinshi, and they must consider their qualifications and seniority, just like the promotion and removal of civil servants in the Song Dynasty...

"That will take at least several months..." Wu Yijiu shook his head, looking helpless.

Where can the land distribution in Hebei, Henan, Shandong and Southern Zhili provinces be completed so quickly? Moreover, after the allocation is completed, parliaments at all levels must be elected, governments at all levels must be established, public agencies must be formed, and affairs officials can be recruited before large-scale river engineering can be carried out.

In addition, you have to study and plan carefully and scientifically when you want to come. Not to mention a few months, it is possible to do it in one or two years.

The construction after the planning is completed (the construction will actually be fully launched before the planning is completed, because there will be a lot of preparations) is more likely to last for several years... This is a huge systematic project to control the Huaihe River, the Yellow River, and the canal!

And it was in the Middle Ages...

It can be said that for this extremely large project, the Great Zhou Republic will not be able to launch a large-scale war in the next ten years.

Du Chong's flood is indeed a exhausting plan.

"Dad," Wu Yijiu changed another topic at this time, "I received a report from the Dujun Mailing Department yesterday, saying that my elder brother is coming to Tianjin soon and will bring Wanyan Zongbi. Look..."

"Well," Wu Haogu nodded, "Let them go west, there is only one way to go west... If they don't go, they will go west."

In fact, going west is more promising! But Xiao Sesse is unwilling to stay away from Wu Haogu's protection, so he is preparing to build his own royal city in Kedun City and Hedong City. The former is called Xijing, and the latter is called Tokyo.

Since Xiao Sesse is unwilling to leave, it is also good to let the Jurchens go west and mess with the Europeans.

Someone must act as God's whip?

As far as Wu Haogu knows, the West has now had a whip of Allah! It is Yelu Dashi. His Western Liao had defeated the Seljuk Empire and replaced it as the master of Persia. The capital was moved to Taoli Temple City (Tabriz), and once invaded Baghdad, forcing the Caliph to pay tribute to Taoli Temple City.

Of course, the big stone is not as cruel as the Mongols. It did not destroy the city of Baghdad, nor did it destroy the caliphs of the Abbasid Dynasty.

Maybe this caliphate system will continue to be passed down...

"But they left, Hetao and Yinshan land returned to the Western Song Dynasty. Will the Western Song Dynasty be too strong?"

Wu Yijiu expressed his concerns.

"Too strong?" Wu Haogu smiled, "How can a military country with a population of 30 million not be strong?

But we are not weak either! We have gotten five people in Hebei, Hedong, Henan, Shandong, and Nanzhi, with a population of more than 20 million, right? Now our Zhou Dynasty has a population of 40 million!

Do 40 million people need to be afraid of 30 million people? Besides, we can’t fight with the Western Song Dynasty for the sake of the Jin people, right?

And what if the Western Song Dynasty takes down some edges of the grassland? In our northern province, the bleak Beixi Kingdom can control most of the grassland!”

"Dad said that," Wu Yijiu nodded, "but we have not succeeded in peace with the Western Song Dynasty. There are also signs of separation from the Western Song Dynasty in Jingchu. How should we make arrangements? Should we push it?"

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