"Your Majesty, my colleagues, this year the new population is 2 million, of which the new population is 500,000, and the total population of the country has now reached 7 million."

At the end of the eleventh year of the Tianqi revelation, Xun Yu reported at the end of the year: "There are three million people in the three counties in the Linhai Basin, and four million people south of the Tianqian Mountains."

In addition to the two counties of Linhai County and Siling County, there is also a newly built county called "Xigui County".

Xigui County is the county where super large iron ore was discovered. There are three towns below: Liangshan Town, Xigui Town, and Ningshan Town.

Ningshan Town is a town with iron ore as its main business. Liangshan Town is located in the westernmost part of the Linhai Basin and is located in the mountainous area at the intersection of the two mountains. A large group of city guards are stationed here.

The reason why a 300-man city guard was stationed in Liangshan Town was that in recent years, some indigenous people who came out of the deep mountains were discovered.

After these indigenous people were discovered, the young and strong were put into labor, and the rest of the old and weak were cleared out. In order to prevent other indigenous people from being in the mountains, two or three towns also serve as sentinels.

Xigui Town is the original bow hunting castle. It cleaned up the original building and Xigui Town was rebuilt here.

"It is expected to add three million next year." Xun Yu continued to report: "The railway between Industrial Town and Tianqi City is operating well, with two passenger trains and four freight trains per day."

The train for trial operation is classified as the Xiayi Office of the Administration Department and has received great attention from Yang Song. After all, the success of trial operation means that Xia Guo can expand the railway on a large scale.

If the steel production hadn't been able to keep up, Yang Song really wanted to build the railway to every important place in Xia Kingdom.

"This year, the country's steel production has reached 110,000 tons, of which 90,000 tons are produced in industrial towns and 30,000 tons are produced in Ningshan Town. The steel production plan is 300,000 tons in industrial towns and 700,000 tons in Ningshan Town."

The ten-year planned production of million tons of steel is based on the principle of proximity. Wherever there is iron ore, there will be iron smelting plants, but coke as energy needs to be transported.

"...This year, the country has added an affiliated island country to the Northern Territory, which is the most outstanding diplomatic achievement in recent years..."

Xun Yu reported in detail the work done by the Executive Director of Xia State in the 11th year of the Apocalypse.

At the end of the report, Xun Yu raised a problem: "Although the country has added a new county, the mining of Ningshan iron ore and the newly added iron smelting plants have consumed a lot of manpower. If a new railway is to be built, there will be insufficient manpower."

Yang Song did not ask Xun Yu why he didn't recruit people because he was short of people, because he knew that the recruitment of the people was not just a problem of food, but a complete system. It was impossible to recruit the people and let them sleep on the streets.

In the past two years, Yang Song has focused on developing people's livelihood. In order to recruit a large number of people, at the suggestion of Xun Yu, Yang Song ordered that every county, town and village be expanded.

The nationwide expansion has given Xia State a lot of surplus in the residential houses, which is why two million new populations have been added every year in the past two years.

However, every place has its development limit and it is impossible to expand infinitely, so while expanding, new counties and towns are also being built. In the current Linhai Mountains, there is a new county under construction.

"Well. I know this problem, I will continue to report it next." Yang Song combined all the problems and discussed and resolved them together.

"The country's fiscal revenue this year is 9.3 million taels of summer coins, and fiscal expenditure is 9.3 million taels." Zhang Juzheng continued to report.

"There are 800,000 taels of foreign trade in Guihua City, 3.3 million taels of commercial income, 5 million taels of agricultural income, and 200,000 taels of other income."

Zhang Juzheng did not say the details of fiscal expenditure, because the actual expenditure of Xia State was far more than 9.3 million taels, which had long exceeded 10 million taels. All the extras were paid by Yang Song, so it is difficult to explain this problem directly.

"The country's army continues to remain unchanged. The navy has built three new destroyers and assigned them to the exploration fleet." As the deputy director of the Military Department, Li Jing's military report was done on his behalf.

"The Exploration Fleet currently has three destroyers and three supply ships. The defense Fleet currently has six frigates." The military report is as simple and vague as ever, without any more details.

In fact, the Navy is also under construction with one fast battleship and two cruise ships, both built for the exploration fleet. After all the battleships of the exploration fleet are built, it is time to defend the fleet.

Next, the education, science and technology, law and other departments all reported. After the end, Yang Song asked the question just now: "What suggestions do you have for the manpower required to build the railway?"

Hearing Yang Song's inquiry, the government office suddenly became quiet, and all the ministers frowned and thought about how to solve this problem.

"Your Majesty, I suggest using indigenous labor to build railways." After waiting for a while, Liu Ji took the lead in suggesting: "I know that building railways requires enough labor, and these indigenous people are capable of being competent."

"Mr. Liu Junshi, now there are only more than 80,000 indigenous labor service left, which is already unbearable. If a large amount of labor service is transferred to build a railway, where will this gap come from?" This was Xun Yu's doubt, otherwise he would have transferred these indigenous labor to build a railway.

Yang Song nodded in agreement with Xun Yu's question. He also looked at Liu Ji with confusion, waiting for the other party's commentary.

"Your Majesty, Director Xun." Liu Ji bowed to the two of them in various ways and said, "The labor service in China is not enough, but there are it abroad."

"What do you mean?" Yang Song's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he looked at Liu Ji, waiting for his next sentence.

"Your Majesty!" Liu Ji said seriously: "I have two suggestions for obtaining labor from abroad."

"Tell me." Yang Song couldn't wait to wave his hand and asked Liu Ji to continue talking.

"Yes, lord." Liu Ji bowed: "One is to use money. There are many slave traders abroad. The country can use money to buy a large number of strong slaves. The disadvantage is that it requires a lot of money."

"The second one is to rob." Liu Ji said this, and saw that many of the ministers in the hall changed their faces. After hesitating for a moment, he continued: "Send troops out of the customs and plunder directly. The disadvantage is that they consume military power and materials, and will make their country's reputation even worse."

"I will discuss the second suggestion of Liu Junshi." As soon as Liu Ji finished speaking, Li Jing immediately agreed with Liu Ji's suggestion of leaving the country and plundering.

"I object!" Xun Yu immediately opposed: "Your Majesty, I have not fought with the countries outside the pass for so many years. It is unwise to make my country famous for some labor."
Chapter completed!