The Resurrection of the South Seas of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 277 Development Status of Luzon ([-])

Lying next to his pillow is Li Lingxiu.

With a faint smile on Li Lingxiu's face, she was already asleep.

Zhu Hongyu didn't disturb Li Lingxiu, got up and came to the table, where there was a bowl of cold seafood porridge.

There are oysters, scallops, seaweed, small fish and shrimp cooked in the porridge, which looks very appetizing.

Zhu Hongyu picked up the spoon and took a sip, a delicious taste bloomed on the tip of his tongue.

At this moment, Li Lingxiu was awakened by the movement here, rubbed her sleepy eyes, smiled at Zhu Hongyu, and said.

"Your Highness, you are awake!"

Then he spoke again.

"Your Highness, the porridge is already cold, ask someone to warm it up before serving it!"

Zhu Hongyu said.

"No need!"

"It's too hot in Luzon, so it's just right to be cool like this!"

"Lingxiu, you haven't had dinner yet, have you? Come and have some."

The two sat opposite each other at the same table, Zhu Hongyu ate seafood porridge in small bites, and listened to Li Lingxiu talk about how she missed her.

With a slight smile on Zhu Hongyu's face, listening to Li Lingxiu's ramblings, he just felt heartwarming.

After eating, put down the dishes!
Zhu Hongyu came behind Li Lingxiu, picked her up, and said very gently beside her.

"Lingxiu, I miss you too!"

"Let's have a baby together!"

Li Lingxiu blushed when she heard this, and slipped into Zhu Hongyu's arms.

Xiao Biesheng was newly married, and the two tossed and tossed for most of the night, until the second half of the night, both of them were exhausted before falling into a deep sleep.

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The next day, Zhu Hongyu withdrew from the gentle village and began to get busy with government affairs.

In the office, Chen Wenbin held a stack of documents in his hand, handed all the documents to Zhu Hongyu, and then spoke.

"His Royal Highness Jian Guo, this is the recent population statistics from the military government!"

"Under the current military government, Luzon alone has a population of 50."

Zhu Hongyu nodded slightly, and then began to look through the detailed population data report.

Since the past year, the population growth rate of Luzon has been very impressive.

From the early 10 people Zhu Hongyu started the Northern Expedition at the beginning of the year to the current 50 people, this growth rate is not an exaggeration.

Among them, most of them are the Chinese scattered in Nanyang who spontaneously migrated to Luzon, and the population of the Restoration Army who migrated back from Qiongzhou and Guangzhou.

These two parts account for 90.00% of the population growth!
There are also newborn babies and naturalized aborigines!

There are still a large number of indigenous people on Luzon Island. Due to the lack of labor force, the military government adopts an attitude of welcoming and supporting the naturalization of the indigenous people.

It's just that after the aborigines are naturalized, they will be scattered and resettled!
In pursuit of quickly assimilating the naturalized aborigines into Han people!

For example, the crocodile tribe Kaya was born in. At this time, the crocodile tribe has already become a symbol that exists in name only.

The settlement of the Crocodile Tribe was renamed Crocodile Town, and more than half of the tribe's population was relocated to different places.

Then some of the Han people were moved into Crocodile Town to assimilate the natives of the Crocodile tribe who had not been removed.

Now Sanchez still bears the name of the leader of the crocodile tribe, but to put it bluntly, he is now the mayor of the town.

At most, the scale of this town is a little bigger!

In order to attract more natives to naturalize, Zhu Hongyu can't do things like killing donkeys and treating the crocodile tribe badly.

Zhu Hongyu nodded slightly, then asked.

"How are the people who migrated to Luzon settled?"

Chen Wenbin said.

"The military government held another official recruitment examination, and recruited a large number of grassroots officials to fill the vacancies at the grassroots level."

"The people who migrated to Luzon have been resettled!"

"Distribute the reclaimable fields to the people, and then distribute the seeds, farm tools, and temporary rations."

"During this process, the military government lowered the regime down to the township level!"

"And set up town mayors, township courts, patrol bureaus, tax bureaus... and other departments in the townships to take charge of local government affairs."

After a period of time when the regime went to the countryside, the military government keenly discovered that the fact that the regime entered the village is a bit ridiculous.

The required official vacancies are too large, and the cost of maintaining officials is too high. Under the current productivity conditions, it is not feasible for the government to go to the countryside.

After the high-level military government held a meeting to discuss, Zhu Hongyu decided that there was no need to delegate power to the village.

It is actually better to use townships as grassroots units!

At the village level, the people themselves nominate well-known people to take the lead in forming a peasant association, so let’s do self-government!

The military government only needs to set up officials at the town level to ensure the smooth flow of government orders!
Zhu Hongyu nodded in satisfaction.

"How much arable land is there in Luzon now? How many people can the food produced each year feed?"

Zhu Hongyu asked.

"At present, Luzon has more than 230 million mu of arable land, most of which are wasteland reclaimed in the past two years."

"Although it can be cultivated, it will take two or three years to cultivate the land before the yield per mu of the field can reach its peak!"

"In terms of grain production, the fields in Luzon can do three crops a year. According to the new weights and measures, the average annual output per mu of land is about [-] to [-] kilograms!"

"The annual grain production in Luzon is about 100 million tons!"

"The current grain output in Luzon can feed 100 million people. It is not a problem at all. If the standard is lowered, it is also possible to feed 200 million people."

"Also, the number of acres in Luzon is still increasing rapidly!"

After Chen Wenbin finished speaking, he stood aside.

Zhu Hongyu stroked his chin and began to think.

According to the current data, Luzon's per capita food possession is quite rich.

The food is rich, and the food is not worrying about eating. The next thing is to engage in education!

"How is the literacy work going? The military government runs night schools in various villages. How effective is the ideological education work while literacy is being eliminated?"

Zhu Hongyu asked.

Whenever the problem of eating is solved, education always comes first.

If a country or a nation wants to rise, education is the foundation!

Why was ancient China able to be the kingdom of heaven and occupy the number one position in the world for a long time, and the opponents changed several rounds, but we have always been there?
The root cause is education!

The literacy rate of ancient China was always the highest in the world!

Even in troubled times like the end of Ming Dynasty, the literacy rate can be maintained at around [-]%, which can be said to be the best in the world.

If more people are educated, won't the national strength be developed? !

Zhu Hongyu must strictly control education.

Anyway, there is no shortage of food under the current military government, so it is not a problem for the common people to spare some time to read and write.

With the current national strength of the military government, it is certainly impossible to implement comprehensive free compulsory education for all.

One-sided Yiwu education can only be carried out, and the group receiving compulsory education is limited to the children of soldiers who died in battle or are disabled.

On the one hand, it is to control the cost of compulsory education, so as not to drag down the national power!
On the other hand, Zhu Hongyu is also using this method to provide benefits to the soldiers, improve the social status of the soldiers, and win the hearts of the soldiers.

(End of this chapter)