Chapter 173: The population of Ming Dynasty is not enough?

After Zhu Jingyuan read the news ahead, he turned to the map around the Great Qin Sea on the other side.

Looking at places like Crete, Tripoli, and Tunisia, they will gradually be cleared out in the future.

The Ming Dynasty had to arrange for immigrants to come in before they could truly occupy these lands.

Zhu Jingyuan didn't think much about it at all, so he asked the palace official to write a telegram asking the imperial household department to immigrate.

As a result, the Ministry of Accounts responded quickly:

"There are too many places that need to be immigrated now. I would like to ask His Royal Highness Prince Dashi to introduce in detail the advantages of the area where you want to immigrate, and what preferential conditions the local area can provide to immigrants, so that the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Rites can help His Royal Highness do publicity."

Zhu Jingyuan looked at this reply and fell into deep thought.

He and most of the generals of the Ming Dynasty were accustomed to claiming that the Ming Dynasty had no shortage of people and looked down upon the population of other ethnic groups.

As a result, it is now discovered that the population of the Ming Dynasty may not be enough!

There are currently about 350 million people in the Ming Dynasty, and the total population of all ethnic groups in all vassal states should be more than 700 million.

The land that the Ming Dynasty now occupies is almost two-thirds of the entire earth's land area.

These populations, especially the local population of 350 million, have no advantage over the Qing Dynasty, which was an agricultural society at the same time.

Mainly because in the past 100 years or so, Ming Dynasty has continued to emigrate.

After the completion of industrialization, the population growth momentum that should have continued for a long time was curbed by the world war that lasted for more than ten years.

So the existing population is a bit insufficient.

But now the war is finally over.

According to Zhu Jingyuan's historical experience in his previous life, there will be a baby boom after the end of the world war, especially in the victorious countries.

Now the Ming Dynasty is carrying out construction in most of the world, and workers and immigrants must provide sufficient conditions to find them.

Not only shipbuilding-related industries, but factories across the country are actually very busy right now.

The entire Ming Dynasty stood on the cusp of the three powerful forces coming together: the end of the great war, large-scale colonial expansion, and the second industrial revolution.

The market's strong demand for workers has enabled all ordinary people to earn enough money, and their living standards have also risen sharply.

This will definitely make the baby boom even more intense.

Zhu Jingyuan estimated that the population of the Ming Dynasty would at least double in the next twenty years.

As for the food supply needed for a booming population...

It doesn't seem to be a problem either.

Since the Renwu Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty has never been short of food.

The Ming Dynasty was an agricultural civilization and had experienced a very painful lesson. Now it has enough fertile land and will not allow any problems with food supply.

There are about 350 million people in the Ming Dynasty. The local food production can basically meet all needs, and it can be balanced without imports.

At the same time, the Ming Dynasty controlled the grain-producing areas of Indochina, which could serve as a direct external guarantee for local grain supply.

There is also Xintianfu Imperial Village. If the local grain production is liberalized, it will be enough to supply the entire Ming Dynasty.

All grain-producing areas are large-scale farms, and the model of small-scale intensive farming no longer exists.

The actual total grain output of the entire Ming Dynasty exceeded the actual demand for grain rations by more than four times.

Three-quarters of the grain is used in breeding, brewing, chemical industry and other industries.

No businessman dares to tamper with grain, because the volume within this industry is too large.

The key is that the emperor controls the Xintianfu Imperial Village, a world-class huge granary.

If Xintianfu Imperial Village stops brewing wine, the remaining grain will make the hoarders jump off the building.

Under such circumstances, the exploration of the North Yinzhou Plain is about to begin.

More large farms will be built.

As for more grain production, it is basically impossible to participate in the supply of rations, and most of it will directly go into animal husbandry.

Further increase the supply of meat and eggs and continue to improve overall living standards.

The time when ordinary people can eat meat every day is not too far away.

Now ordinary workers have money, food will continue to be plentiful, and the world is finally at peace.

In this exciting era, giving birth to a child will be equally exciting.

Zhu Jingyuan felt that the Ming Dynasty would not be short of people until this generation of baby boomers grew up.

But what should I do now?

Is it like advertising to attract people like selling a house?

But even if I advertise, I may not be able to attract many people.

In Zhu Jingyuan's previous life, if a place like Crete recruited immigrants, there would be no difficulty at all.

Europe, the Mediterranean, Greece, and the Aegean Sea, these words are piled up, and if you want to immigrate unconditionally, there will definitely be as many as you want.

But now, people in the Ming Dynasty have little interest in Taixi. The general impression is that it is the hometown of Xiyi and the place with the largest number of Xiyi people.

Except for a small number of people who are interested in studying Western barbarians, ordinary people would not think of immigrating to Western Europe.

At present, the Ming Dynasty's first immigration target is Xintianfu, and this perception is basically impossible to be reversed in the future.

Because no matter when compared from all aspects, compared with the Taixi Continent, Daqinhai is completely defeated by Xintianfu.

Even if we do not take into account the mature cultural environment of the Ming Dynasty and simply consider the climate environment, Qinhai and Taixi are also completely defeated.

The people of the Ming Dynasty are an agricultural people, and immigrants first look at whether they are suitable for farming. In this regard, the West is completely defeated.

Even if we only consider whether it is livable, Daqinhai and Taixi are also not good.

Among the knowledge Zhu Jingyuan learned in school in his previous life, the description of the climate of the Great Qinhai Sea and the temperate maritime climate of northwestern Thailand gave people a feeling that they were particularly suitable for human habitation.

That is actually influenced by the filter of the superiority of Thai and Western culture, as well as the more obvious influence of the filter of developed countries.

In fact, the climate around the Western Continent and the Great Qin Sea is not good enough compared to Xintianfu.

The Nanyinzhou continent is relatively small, only one-fifth of the entire old continent of Shenoumo.

The intensity of land-sea convection in Nanyinzhou is much lower than that of the Old Continent, and the same type of climate in the Old Continent will become "smooth" here.

The core area of ​​Xintianfu, that is, the plain area in the southeast of Nanyinzhou, has the same climate type as the Daming Jiangnan area in theory, which is a humid subtropical monsoon climate.

Therefore, the temperature and precipitation changes here are basically the same as those in the Jiangnan region of the Ming Dynasty, but overall they have become more relaxed.

It's not that hot in summer and it's not that cold in winter.

For example, New Tianfu City is Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina in Zhu Jingyuan's previous life.

The daily temperature in winter is between 7 and 14 degrees, and in summer it is between 20 and 30 degrees.

Sanqing City is opposite New Tianfu. When the city was named, Sanqing was chosen between New Chongqing and Sanqing, which was the former capital of Uruguay, Montevideo.

The winter temperature here is between 8 and 16 degrees, and the summer temperature is between 18 and 28 degrees.

Even the extremely low temperature caused by a sudden cold wave is only in the range of minus three to five degrees, which is almost the normal low temperature in North China.

From the perspective of Ming people, the climate in the southeastern coastal area of ​​Xintianfu seems to shift back and forth between mid-spring and early summer throughout the year, with rain and heat occurring in the same period.

Summers around the Daqin Sea are dry and hot with different periods of rain and heat.

The heat-deficient northwestern part of Thailand has formed a strange custom of collective sunbathing due to long periods of cold and humid weather.

In addition to this mild hardship, there are also unique "mild deserts" and "mild rainforests" in other areas of Nanyinzhou.

Lima, the capital of Peru, is in the desert, but the temperature in winter is 14 to 18 degrees, and in summer the temperature is 19 to 26 degrees.

Bogota, the capital of Colombia, is located in the mountains. The temperature is between 8 and 20 degrees every day all year round, and it is spring all year round.

Medellin, the second largest city, has temperatures between 17 and 28 degrees every day throughout the year, and it is early summer all year round.

Brasilia, the capital of Brazil, is located on a low plateau inland. The winter temperature ranges from 13 to 25 degrees Celsius, and the summer temperature ranges from 18 to 27 degrees Celsius.

In fact, the Australian continent, which is half the size of Nanyinzhou, will have further "smoothing" of all climate types.

However, the terrain of Australia is the worst in the world, which is exactly the opposite of Nanyinzhou. Most of the areas are deserts and arid areas.

The proportion of habitable areas in Australia is too small. The key is that there are not many places suitable for farming, and the land is not fertile.

Therefore, the new Tianfu of the Ming Dynasty was Nanyinzhou, not the closer Australian mainland.

If mainland Australia were reversed, it might become a strong contender for the new Tianfu.

But the problem is, what I am now in charge of is the area around the Great Qinhai, not Xintianfu. How should I attract people here?

You can't ask the imperial court to force immigrants. The Ming Dynasty hasn't done that for a long time, and the actual effect is not good.

This is an overseas country, not a homeland. Immigration here is to protect the land, not to serve as a source of tax revenue...

Zhu Jingyuan thought about coming and going, and found that the biggest advantage of the Qinhai side was that there was already a population of Western Yi here.

People from the Ming Dynasty should be able to directly become the middle and upper class.
To be continued...