In the spring of the 16th year of the Apocalypse, Yang Song was accompanying his family to watch flowers and enjoy the scenery on a small island in the East China Sea.

The island has distinct layers and colorful flowers blooming in a row, making the people in it feel particularly romantic.

This small island is not far from the East China Sea. There were already many flowers. When Yang Song heard the report, he had an idea and asked Yang Zhong to sort it out. Now, in early spring, Yang Song tried to take some time every year to take his family here for vacation.

Although it was a vacation, it was impossible for Yang Song to relax. Even if it was in the sea of ​​flowers, he was still thinking about the matter of Xia Kingdom.

"The five vassal states outside Shanhaiguan have been fighting with the Welcoming Met State for many years, which can be regarded as completing the plan to reduce the population outside the pass."

"In the summary at the end of last year, there were 21 million people in the country. It is expected that the goal of 30 million will be achieved in two years. At that time, we can stop summoning the people from private camps. The problem of hundreds of thousands of indigenous labor should also be considered how to solve it."

"There is also the construction of railways. If so many useful labor is suddenly missing, many ministers will probably oppose it, and this is also a problem."

"By the way, the enclave far away in the Northern Region has not sent anyone again for so many years. I don't know what the situation is. I guess it has been taken back by someone else."

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Yang Song sat in the pavilion and watched his family play and laugh among the flowers, but he didn't have a moment of leisure in his heart. After all, so many years have passed, he has become used to it.

Xiaojuan saw Yang Song sitting in the pavilion in a daze, hurriedly ran closer, waved her hand at Yang Song, and said with a smile: "King, King, come and have fun! Look how beautiful this place is!"

"Well, okay, okay, you guys play first, I'll come now." Yang Song returned to his eyes from these thoughts, and couldn't help but feel funny about his own busy life. He was not even idle.

Yang Song only stayed on this small island for five days. After returning to Tianqi City, he looked at the memorials piled up in the study and shook his head again, sighed and immediately began to deal with his backlog of government affairs.

These government affairs that can be overcrowded are usually ordinary matters. If they really encounter something that needs him to make a decision immediately, someone will send it to him.

As he was dealing with it, Yang Song saw a proposal submitted by Liu Ji. After reading it, he said "huh" and said to himself: "I didn't expect that Liu Ji would recommend stop recruiting refugees now. I'll ask him what he thinks later."

After saying that, he put the memorial aside and then looked at the next memorial. But after seeing this, the whole day passed, and I don’t know when the room was illuminated by candlelight.

The original "waiting for a while" to summon Liu Ji to question him now seems impossible. At this moment, Yang Song is not a person who does not care about his subjects, and he will not even call people to discuss something that is not too urgent at night.

The next day was a grand dynasty meeting once a month, which means that the time has reached the last day of March of the 16th year of the Apocalypse.

After the government affairs in January were processed, Yang Song took out the memorial written by Liu Ji to stop the recruitment of refugees. After Liu Ji read it himself, he asked the ministers to face the ministers: "What do you think?"

"Report to the king, I will discuss this." Xun Yu, who had just finished speaking, immediately stepped out and bowed in agreement: "Now, all the newly recruited people need to go through a short period of training to adapt to their own lives. With the increase in recruiting people, the training of materials and personnel is consumed hugely."

"That's true." Liu Ji turned around and bowed: "King, Xia Kingdom now has a population of more than 20 million, and it is more than three years before the ten-year period. It has a policy of encouraging childbirth. After calculations by Executive Xun and his ministers, just based on birth, the next three years will be enough to reach 30 million. But..."

Speaking of this, Liu Ji glanced at Xun Yu and the many ministers present, hesitated for a moment, and then continued to say: "It's just that in the next ten years, a large part of the country's population will be children, and he is not willing to contribute to the country."

As soon as Liu Ji finished speaking, Wei Dong, the Department of Household Affairs under the Administration Department, immediately stepped out and said: "Report to the king, as the military advisor said, I suggest that it will not be too late to stop recruiting refugees when the country's labor is sufficient."

Wei Dong was the chief officer who was directly in charge of this area, so Yang Song also wanted to listen to his opinions: "Oh? Tell me carefully."

"Yes, the king." Wei Dong bowed and replied: "King, although the recruitment of refugees is like a military advisor and Xun Administration, our country needs a lot of labor. If we stop recruiting the people, there will be a huge gap in our country's labor in the next ten years. I hope the king will think twice."

Liu Ji knew this, otherwise he wouldn't have hesitated for a moment just now, but compared to this disadvantage, he still chose to make plans in the long run, so he replied immediately.

"King, the labor gap can be filled by indigenous young men in a short period of time. It will be fine after these few years. However, if the refugees are recruited in this way, it will be detrimental to the stability of the country's society. If this lasts for a long time, it will prevent the development momentum of the country."

After thinking about Liu Ji's starting point, Yang Song knew what the other party was talking about. After all, in recent years, the crime rate in Xia Kingdom has increased year by year. After statistics, it was found that most of it was caused by the recruitment of people and the inability to adapt to the life of this era.

Just now, Zhou Ze, the security department responsible for public security, immediately stepped out and bowed: "Report to the king, I believe that what Liu Junshi said is that in recent years, there have been many murderers in their country, and there are many people who kill and set fire. There are also Hang Seng, a large and small gang, which greatly disrupted the public security of their country."

After Zhou Ze said these heartfelt words, he remembered the years when the king was not the king and Xia Kingdom was not the king. At that time, the public security at that time was described as "not closing the door at night or not picking up the leaves". Like now, his position, which was originally "unimportant", has become extremely busy.

Yang Song had long been mentally prepared for social security. After all, the population of Xia Kingdom is now as high as more than 20 million, which is no longer the 3,000 people he used to be. The number of people is too large, so it is natural that the crime rate will rise.

However, this is not the reason why Yang Song had to give up recruiting refugees, but Xun Yu's next words made him make the final decision.

"King, I have a word." Xun Yu and other two parties had almost fought for the argument, so they stepped forward and bowed: "King, the labor gap is only temporary, and criminals can be arrested, but the future of Xia State is expected to make a decision."

"What does Wen Ruo mean?" When Yang Song heard this, he frowned and asked the other party, what is the future of Xia Kingdom? Why did he have to make a decision? This question came too suddenly!

Xun Yu bowed deeply to Yang Song again, stood up and said slowly: "In the future, will the Xia Kingdom conquer the world or be close to the country and develop with one mind; will it be a million slaves or a harmonious world; will it be a country that lasts for a lifetime or just for the current day?"

When Yang Song first heard Xun Yu's words, he disagreed. Isn't this nonsense? Do you still need to choose? But Yang Song then gave a closer look and discovered Xun Yu's good intentions.

Yes, these seemingly no choice questions, but they accumulate in small things and become unrealized. Just like when they decided to give up using indigenous slaves, they have not only not abandoned them, but are becoming more and more.

What's going on? Is there really no one available in Xia Kingdom? Obviously not! Then the problem is worth Yang Song's deep thought!

Let’s talk about the problem of indigenous slaves. If this continues, the hard work of Xia State will not be willing to be done by the people of Xia State. In the future, the people will even take the initiative to start wars for slaves. This is a mentally unhealthy state, let alone develop.

The same is true for recruiting refugees. The population growth has a process, and the sudden surge in population has a huge impact on society. Especially if the new population is not suitable for the times, it will definitely become a considerable time bomb in the Xia Kingdom.
Chapter completed!