Daming Jingtai: I am the eternal benevolent king

Chapter 426: Fenglin Province, Canghai Province, Juku Province, Luzon Province: Population Red Line
Zhu Houying came out of Bengal Province and took a sea ship to Borneo.

Borneo is the third largest island in the world, followed by Greenland and New Guinea. The former is frozen all year round, and the latter is the country of Song.

Regarding Borneo, the imperial court was most worried about the split of the big island.

There are 6 million people living on the entire island.

As the region with the second most tropical rainforests in the world, the first is the Amazon rainforest, and the second is the Borneo tropical rainforest.

By the 66th year of Jingtai, the tropical rainforest was basically destroyed.

They were all turned into rubber plantations and pepper plantations. Most of the spices produced in the Ming Dynasty were produced in Borneo.

The wetlands in the middle of the island have all been turned into rice planting areas.

The Ming Dynasty has never wasted land. It planted everything it could and found ways to plant what it couldn't.

Over-cultivation has also caused serious environmental problems.

First of all, there is the large-scale extinction of wild animals, because the disorderly felling of tropical rainforests has destroyed the living environment of animals, leading to the extinction of a large number of precious wild animals.

Starting from the 40th year of Jingtai, the imperial court established the Wildlife Protection Association, but the effect was not significant and not many wild animals were rescued. The main reason was that hunting was not prohibited in the Ming Dynasty.

The Ming Dynasty had no way to ban hunting. Once hunting was banned, there were often cases of wild animals injuring people in areas such as Borneo, Baiyue, Luzon, and Northeast China. Take the wolves in Mobei. The court spent money to buy wolf skins every year. Still not clean.

Not to mention Borneo, there is no year where people are not killed by wild animals. It is common to be killed by crocodiles.

The Ming Dynasty only banned hunting in a few provinces in the mainland, such as Guizhou, Yunnan, Guangxi, and Baiyue. Hunting is allowed in the three provinces of Borneo, Luzon, the two northeastern provinces, Lena, Yenisey, and Yuerhai.

Second, excessive cultivation of cultivated land has led to land desertification and rapid degradation of land fertility.

Third, natural disasters occur frequently. This was not the case a few years ago. In the past two years, sandstorms have occurred every year. I have never heard of sandstorms on the equator, but there are real disasters in Borneo, such as typhoons and hurricanes. more and more.

Last year there was a drought and a locust plague. Even in the mainland, there was no locust plague. Because of pesticides, there was a locust plague in Borneo.

Due to over-exploitation, Borneo’s population red line is around 2 million, but today there are million people living there.

In fact, the Ming Dynasty has already entered the demographic red line.

It's just that economic expansion requires population, so the court has been encouraging childbirth.

Moreover, the imperial court also had an ambition to be self-sufficient in food.

The Ming Dynasty was a country with many people but little land. It was simply unrealistic to be self-sufficient in food with the existing land. We could only develop technological food. No matter what kind of food, it required cultivated land.

Given the current environmental conditions in Borneo, returning farmland to forests or returning farmland to lakes cannot solve the problem. It is necessary to prohibit farming and protect the land for more than three years to alleviate this problem.

Plants such as rubber and palm, in particular, are fertilizer-absorbing machines, even more powerful than corn. The land will be sucked for several years, and nothing will grow on other plants, basically turning it into a wasteland.

You have to use chemical fertilizers.

However, the long-term use of chemical fertilizers will make the land worse. Forget about fertility. It is good that the land is not completely desertified.

The current situation of the imperial court is that the population is increasing year after year, and the world's population is increasing year after year. It is impossible to ban farming for three years.

We have to eat, animals have to be fed, people have to eat and eat meat.

Unless four billion people start to enter a vegetarian society from today and no longer eat meat, only then can land protection be realized on a large scale and food can be eaten.

It's completely impossible. Ming Dynasty was a carnivorous country, and it was also omnivorous, eating everything.

In the past few years, the imperial court has continued to invest funds in the Academy of Agricultural Sciences to conduct research on how to protect water and soil while planting.

The problem of land degradation in Borneo has become a worldwide issue, because many vassal states are facing the same problem.

No matter how fertile the land is, it cannot support the imperial court's desperate planting. The traditional way of maintaining the land is useless. If it were useful, there would not be so much wasteland before the Jingtai Dynasty. The sand and dust spread, which is how so many deserts were formed.

The world's population is already very large, but it has not reached its peak yet. It will reach a peak of 150 billion in the future, and then gradually decline. After about 60 years of decline, the population will only be billion.

This is calculated by demographic experts.

The imperial court also changed the names of the three provinces of Borneo.

Zhu Houyong landed in Borneo in Pontianak on the west coast. When the Ming Dynasty newly occupied it, it was called Yanzhou, but in the 65th year of Jingtai, it was renamed Fenglin Province, taken from the Records of Ten Continents.

Because the longest river in Borneo was named Fenglin River.

Therefore, when the name was changed, Fenglin Province was used, or Feng for short.

Fenglin River is in the shape of a zigzag line, and it is also the territory of the entire Fenglin Province. It has the mouth of Ketamuliya in the East China Sea and the mouth of Machen in the South China Sea.

The entire island of Borneo has never been developed at all.

The Bo Ni and Brunei people above are just a bunch of outright indigenous people who don't understand anything. The history here was all brought by Western colonists.

In Chinese history, the descriptions of these countries are also uncivilized.

The Central Plains dynasty has never ruled here. There are many reasons. The key point is that China has been a continental country since ancient times and has no interest in nearby islands. For example, Ningbo and the Ming Dynasty did not want it, let alone Borneo, which is so far away.

Secondly, the Central Plains dynasty with limited transportation capacity and underdeveloped shipbuilding industry would only come here as envoys and could not transport troops to occupy this place.

Also, the cost of governance is too high, and the people here are not yet civilized.

The Jingtai Dynasty's ability to rule here is closely related to the Industrial Revolution. Without the Industrial Revolution, even if it was occupied, it would be lost now.

Another factor is that the old emperor was rich and used American silver to conquer this place.

Let alone ancient times, later generations, whether developed or not, are still very unfamiliar with Borneo and the country of Indonesia. The low sense of presence is one reason, and being too far away is also another reason.

The Ming Dynasty was able to rule Borneo, and luck factored in more.

The old emperor was most worried about the coup in Borneo, so he set up three naval governors' offices to threaten each other. They had a total force of millions and maintained hundreds of large ships.

The annual military expenditure is several hundred million!
Is this army useful? It is of no use, but if there is no large army here, once the Borneo incident occurs, the court will definitely not be able to deal with it in time. When the war breaks out in Borneo, how will it quell the rebellion?

Not only the navy, the army is also the largest in Borneo.

Among the guards in the world, Borneo has the largest number of people.

Because the old emperor was worried about Borneo.

Just say that in the past two years, the imperial court has purged the officialdom. Borneo has the smallest area at risk and the least amount of arrests. Is there no corrupt officials in Borneo?
No, because Zhu Jianji was also afraid of a sudden rebellion in Borneo.

With a population of 600 million, they are too far away from the Ming Dynasty, especially from the capital. Once they rebel, they will be in trouble.

Even Zhu Jianji is cautious about Borneo.

After the invention of the telephone, the three provinces of Borneo immediately established telephone lines. To establish telephone lines across the sea, telephone lines were pulled from Fuzhou-Baozhou-Luzon-Borneo.

The imperial court spent more than 2 billion to build telephone lines across the sea, allowing Borneo to communicate directly with Beijing.

Although the quality is very poor, at least the sound can be heard.

I couldn't see or model it before, but at least I heard it this time.

Also connected was telegraph technology.

If the call quality is not good, just send a telegram.

The old emperor was eager to carry out the electrical revolution, which meant using electricity, changing the world, and most importantly, connecting the entire Ming Dynasty.

Borneo officials could hear the court's voice, which was also a shock.

When electricity becomes more mature, the imperial court will no longer worry about this big island leaving the Ming Dynasty.

In order to better control Borneo, the imperial court built islands in the Yanhai Sea and used artificial islands to shorten the distance from Borneo.

Borneo is 2000 kilometers away from the mainland. This continent, talking about Guangzhou, is 2000 kilometers away. It is equivalent to Beijing to Fujian, which is really too far.

There is a little-known island in Guangdong Province called Natuna.

Here, it is 1900 kilometers away from Guangzhou, but only 225 kilometers away from Borneo.

Natuna, as the sealing island of Yanhai, with this island, Yanhai perfectly seals the edges and forms an inner island chain.

It’s not a small island, it’s a big island with an area of ​​2000 square kilometers.

But this island was taken away.

The island of Ming Dynasty is not open to the outside world. No one knows that there are 20 navy stationed on it. Once Borneo rebels, the naval governor of Natuna Island will receive an order to lead the army to Borneo to quell the rebellion.

Let alone Borneo, no one except the Military Aircraft Department, the Cabinet, and the Ministry of War knew about the garrison in Natuna.

The imperial court wants to build a group of artificial islands in Yanhai, and even wait until conditions permit in the future to build several islands with an area similar to Qiongzhou Prefecture.

In this way, Guangdong is not far from Borneo.

The entire Fenglin Province has a population of 2 million, and the permanent population is about 2.1 million. It has a superior geographical environment, close to the Strait of Malacca, and across the sea from Jiaozhi, Linyi, and Queguo.

The provincial government is located in Fangzhang City, close to Malacca, and is named after the three fairy islands. (I can’t even find the city on the map, Indonesia is too backward)

Fangzhang City is a delta formed by the Fenglin River. Its geographical location is similar to Bangkok, but Fenglin River flows east-west, so the city gate of Fangzhang City opens towards the west.

The entire city has a population of approximately 1700 million, making it the most populous city in Fenglin Province.

Even though Fenglin Province has a large population, it is actually dominated by agricultural people. Fenglin Province is an important agricultural province in the country. Its industry began to develop in the 55th year of Jingtai. It is only relatively developed in coastal cities, and other areas are still lacking. developed.

There are three big cities in Fenglin Province, Fangzhang, Buju, and Xiemu, all of which are located in coastal cities. Buju mainly deals with business in Que and Yu, while Xiemu mainly deals in Xiguo and Oceania. Business.

The population of the three cities is more than 1500 million, but they cannot exceed million and enter the ranks of super cities.

It is not that it is underdeveloped, but that the court is unwilling to invest resources on a large scale.

If Borneo is too rich, it will not be conducive to governance.

The imperial court hoped to use developed provinces to attract Borneo people to work in the interior. Otherwise, given the potential of Borneo, it would become one of the most developed provinces in the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Houying felt very separated in Borneo.

Coastal cities look like big cities, but small cities in the interior look like underdeveloped cities. Apart from complete road and railway infrastructure, there is nothing else, and the houses have no characteristics, are the same, and are relatively old.

Cities in the mainland are only sustained by mineral resources.

Borneo is extremely rich in oil resources. The roads in Baiyue Land are all oil mined from Borneo.

It is also rich in gold mines, aluminum mines, coal mines, etc.

The most interesting thing is that the imperial court does not support large-scale development and the establishment of large factories for scientific development. Instead, it supports small-scale development, which is enough for local self-sufficiency. It leaves the local people starving and unable to get rich, and encourages them to come out to work.

Houses have been prepared for them. In the three cities of Fangzhang, Buju, and Xiemu, enough houses have been built for 200 million people.

But people in these small cities are frightened by the high housing prices, so they might as well go back to their hometowns and live quietly.

There are 110 billion people in the country, but there are billion houses.

It’s definitely a miracle of the century that house prices haven’t collapsed yet.

Because someone is taking over.

There are 8 billion people in the world and 4 billion people in the vassal state. If one billion people come back to buy houses, we can ensure that housing prices do not collapse.

This is a game of drumming and passing flowers. As long as someone continues to drum from behind, it will not collapse. Unless the drummer is gone, it would be terrible if no one plays the game.

As long as the house is given financial attributes, the drumming and spreading of flowers will not stop, the bubble will get bigger and bigger, and finally it will completely collapse.

But don’t worry, as long as you keep the housing prices in super cities, because everyone has made enough money, and these are all leeks, who cares what leeks think?

Housing prices in super cities have been preserved, and at least the fundamentals will not be lost. That is enough.

Therefore, with the rapid development of Ming Dynasty in recent years, real estate as a reservoir has long lost its role as a reservoir and has completely become a tool for capital to make money.

Otherwise, the three cities would not have built 200 million houses.

Isn't this just a scam? Once the house is built, people are tricked into buying it, and whoever takes over will be unlucky.

Because the three big cities in Borneo cannot accommodate a population of 60 million, and they don’t even have job opportunities. What can you do here? No place to make money.

Moreover, the imperial court's resources are not tilted toward Borneo at all, with a population of 1500 million. Because of its large population base, only megacities have a large population, and that's it.

However, the imperial court did not restrict the construction of houses in the three cities.

why?
Because people from small cities come to big cities to buy houses, they will empty their wallets. What will they do when they find that there are no job opportunities in the three cities, high prices and high housing prices, which are not livable at all, and they still have mortgage loans?
Come out and work.

It's definitely not possible to go back to my hometown. If I go back to my hometown and I can't make money, the only way left is to work in the mainland.

As long as the imperial court issues two more favorable policies, they will obediently enter Guangzhou and Shanghai to work.

As time goes by, will they return to Borneo?

Not anymore.

After decades of hard work, the immigrants worked hard to bring them back. This is not because the court is stupid, but because the mission given by the times has changed.

In the past, it was occupied by Borneo, but now it is owned by Borneo forever.

The population will flow back, the two places will deepen their ties and marry each other, which will make Borneo inseparable from the motherland. Besides, Borneo has too many people.

Not only Borneo, Baiyue also had too many people, so much so that the imperial court complained. The population of these places exceeded 1.5 billion, and some places had much more people than the inland provinces.

If they don't return, the court is really worried about splitting.

After hovering in Fenglin Province for more than ten days, Zhu Houzhen took a train to Canghai Province east of Fenglin River.

Canghai Province, referred to as Cang, the provincial government is located in Balikpapan, called Penglai. The names of the three provincial governments correspond to the names of Sanxian Island.

Juku Province is bounded by the Iban Mountains to the north. The highest peak is Mount Kinabalu, with an altitude of 4102 meters.

The population is also 200 million.

The development of the three provinces is relatively even, because the policies of the imperial court are the same.

When Zhu Houyong inspected Borneo, he was also inspecting the location to build the capital. The imperial court wanted to build the capital in the middle of the three provinces.

However, the three provinces are divided by the Iban Mountains, and the rolling mountains are not suitable for building large cities.

The new capital city to be built will siphon the population of the three provinces and become the future political and economic center of Borneo, and a large amount of resources from the imperial court will be invested in it.

And if it is located in a coastal area, it will certainly not be able to border three provinces at the same time.

Zhu Hooyong wanted to conduct an on-the-spot investigation on the location of the new capital city.

The Ming Dynasty expected to determine the site within five years, and then start building the capital. It is expected to be completed within thirty years. The population will be more than 30 million, and it will be the largest city in Borneo in the future.

However, it is difficult to build a capital among the mountains, and the resources are relatively poor, so it is not the best location.

After Zhu Houzhen hovered in Canghai Province for a few days, he went north to Juku Province, referred to as Yingzhou, which governed Yingzhou with a population of 2 million.

The three provinces of Borneo are highly consistent.

From the urban style to the population composition and the ratio of workers and farmers, everything is highly consistent, and even the aesthetics are similar.

Borneo likes their true colors, and women also like to go out for sports. They are tanned by the sun, but they have no inferiority complex at all and feel that their true colors are the most beautiful.

Borneo has the least mixed race, everyone is tanned and feels very healthy.

It stands to reason that people should be very lazy when the weather here is so hot. Actually, this is not the case. The natives are lazy. However, the people of Borneo are all Ming people who migrated from the south to the north. They are basically the second child of the common people.

The second child in the family is relatively unlucky. When the eldest child is born, the parents can still love him for a few years. But after the second child comes, the parents no longer have time to love the child. Instead, they seize the time to make money and wait until they have the energy to love the child. The youngest.

Therefore, the second child is very embarrassed. He has not been loved by his parents since he was a child. All the work in the family is shouldered by the second child. When he was a child, he would take care of his younger siblings at home for his parents. When he grew up, he would go to work in the fields and wait for his parents to retire and take over. At that time, it was never the second child's turn. In a rural family's land allocation, the second child would definitely get the least.

Everyone in the country has moved to Borneo.

They injected their hardworking genes into this land.

The second and third generations are more diligent and are also major sports provinces. The provinces that hold the most marathons every year, the provinces with the most sports talents, the regions with the most soldiers, and the provinces with the most amateur competitions.

Precisely because they like sports, they don't care about getting tanned, so they prefer their true colors and pursue health.

The three provinces of Borneo are located above the equator, so it stands to reason that people should be very short.

In fact, this is not the case. In the three provinces of Borneo, the average height of men is around 173cm and the average height of women is around 158cm.

This average height exceeds that of all provinces at the same latitude, and even all countries.

Reasonable exercise can help you grow taller.

Similarly, there are many local problems. In the Iban Mountains, there are many places where cannabis is grown secretly, and bans are repeated.

There are rumors among the people that the raw materials for drugs on the Pamirs come from Borneo.

When building the capital this time, all drug dens must be destroyed.

In the 65th year of Jingtai's reign, the central government issued an order to eliminate all drugs in Borneo.

After Zhu Houzhen stayed in Yingzhou for a few more days, he went directly east to Luzon Province.

Luzon Province, referred to as Song for short, has a population of only 1.2 million. Because Luzon is incomplete, even after exchanging land with the opposite Shen State, the territory is not enough to support a province.

The entire Luzon Province is as big as three Baozhou Prefectures. Unless Baozhou Prefecture is assigned to Luzon, Luzon will begin to take shape.

However, after the court rowed for a while, it came back again.

However, the NSQD and Zhongsha Islands in the Yanhai were assigned to Luzon.

In the future plan of the Ming Dynasty, NSQD and Zhongsha Islands will build two large islands, especially NSQD, which will build an island with an area similar to Luzon Province.

Of course, the plan for the artificial island will not be realized until a hundred years later.

Current technology is not yet able to build islands on a large scale.

At least we have created a big pie for Luzon Province.

In fact, the location of Luzon is not good. It is in the seismic zone. Japan, Ryukyu, Luzon, Xiguo and Queguo are all in the earthquake zone. Earthquakes and tsunamis happen frequently.

It is also the province with more disasters during the Ming Dynasty.

The imperial court was not worried about rebellion in Luzon Province, because Luzon was not like Borneo and was too far away from the mainland. Baozhou Prefecture was very close to him and there were troops stationed on Baozhou Prefecture.

Secondly, Luzon does not have the natural environment for rebellion.

This place is surrounded by dotted islands. If the Ming Dynasty controls only a few, it will be unable to rebel.

Therefore, the imperial court was more politically inclined toward Luzon. The imperial court was relatively supportive of the immigration of the three provinces of Borneo to Luzon.

The provincial government is Manila, and its name is Xuanzhou in the Ming Dynasty.

The name Manila has no historical origins. The history of Luzon, except for the injection from the Central Plains Dynasty, is basically a legacy of the colonial period.

The old emperor hated the indigenous people on Luzon Island very much and once issued a massacre order.

Therefore, throughout Luzon and all nearby islands, there are almost no remaining indigenous people, because the court does not allow indigenous people, including women.

To be honest, when the Ming Dynasty occupied Luzon, the soldiers couldn't stand this kind of indigenous women because they didn't take baths.

The people who immigrated to Luzon were also the second child in their families.

But Luzon Province, as the gateway province for Ming Dynasty's trade with the United States and the Pacific, they do not pursue healthy skin color, but like white to the extreme.

The sun here is very strong, so it is normal to get tanned, and people's skin color is also relatively dark.

Even if the Han people immigrate here, they cannot get rid of the water, soil and sun, and people will naturally transform in the direction of the Southeast Asian race.

Thin, small, dark and earthy, this is the template of Southeast Asian race.

It stands to reason that there should be no Southeast Asians in the Jingtai Dynasty. They were all Ming people. But after the Ming people moved here, they actually developed in the direction of Southeast Asians.

Fortunately, except for Vientiane Province, heights have not plummeted in other provinces.

It must have turned black.

The weather is hot and you will definitely become thinner, but Jingtai Chao has begun to regard thinness as beauty. Handsome men and beauties all regard thinness as beauty.

This was not the case before the Jingtai Dynasty, where fatness was considered beautiful.

A fat man walking on the street means that he is well-fed and must be rich. Unmarried girls are willing to marry such a man.

If you look at the pictures of generals in ancient times, they all have general bellies and they are all fat, which shows that the aesthetics of the ancients regarded strength as beauty.

The same goes for beauties, neither fat nor thin are the essence. However, those who are on the fat side are more marketable because they are lucky, because they can have a son, and because there will be no danger after giving birth to a son.

But now the mainstream aesthetic is thinness, and the thinner you wear, the better you look.

Because people's living conditions are better now, it is the poor who eat to the fullest, while the rich control their diet and exercise more, and everyone is thin and stylish.

After medical science is developed, there is no need to worry about dying in childbirth. If you are thin, you will look taller. If you are born with clothes, you will look good in clothes.

The aesthetic developed naturally.

The most important thing is that the actors in stage plays, in order to look good, work hard to lose weight, and they are as thin as a stick. People gradually regard thinness as beauty.

Therefore, thin people from Luzon Province have an advantage in this regard.

But the skin color can't be helped.

People of yellow race are prone to tanning.

In fact, white people can get tan even if they get a tan.

However, people in Luzon pursue the ultimate in whiteness, and they are desperate to integrate. Men are crazy about marrying white women, and there are also women who are crazy about finding white people to have children, but such children will be looked down upon.

Akito can play with white girls as he pleases, but if Akira plays with white boys, he will be scorned.

Even though the world is already very open-minded.

If a bright girl marries a white boy, she will be extremely discriminated against.

The white men of the Ming Dynasty, those with official positions and legitimate professions, had to spend a lot of money to marry Ming women, and their social status was relatively good.

And those white men at the bottom of society have black women as their wives.

The second generation, mixed-race men with middle-class social status and more attractive looks will not be discriminated against in the dating market, but are very popular with girls;
Those who look more white will be discriminated against, but they can marry a bright girl with a high wedding gift, or they can marry a white girl without spending any money.

As for those of mixed race, their parents have low social status, and the second generation basically marry each other, and they form their own small circle.

The third generation, understand that the third generation mixed race is more popular in the blind date market than the male or female, because the advantages of the three generation mixed race are concentrated, and the advantages and disadvantages will be particularly prominent. Some are very good-looking and some are ugly.

The third generation of mulattoes is no longer so discriminated against.

Because the first generation of black people were really too dark, the second generation was lighter in color, and the third generation became brown, possessing the brains of white people and the incredible physical fitness of black people.

This kind of people are extremely popular in the middle-aged and elderly market. The happiness of rich women has made them successful.

The fourth generation, the most popular in the blind date market, is a mixed race of three generations, black, white and yellow, and has become the most popular among all Ming people.

However, for a region like Luzon that pursues white skin to the extreme, they don't like the mixed blood of three generations of black, white and yellow. They like to mix with white skin.

People from Luzon Province have more European looks.

Zhu Jianji discovered this problem when he passed through Luzon. In the 65th year of Jingtai, he asked Luzon Province to establish correct values. People's skin color does not determine everything. White skin does not mean good-looking.

The court even suspected that Luzon had the ambition to split off the Ming Dynasty.

This time, Luzon was the second most ruthless place.

Almost from top to bottom, they were all caught.

If people look different, how can we say they are from the same country?

The court was extremely sensitive in this regard.

Those mixed-race children, after several generations of mixed-race, tend to look like people from the Ming Dynasty. But in Luzon Province, the more they mix, the whiter they become. The race has changed. Isn't this a big deal?

The imperial court also rectified the blind date market in Luzon. Many people who were running dating agencies were killed, and several large factories in Luzon Province were moved to the mainland, so that people from Luzon could move inland so that they could interact with people from the mainland. Mixed race, appearance changed back.

In addition, several major factories that were expected to decide to invest in Luzon have also canceled their plans.

This incident really touched the sensitive nerves of the court.

Zhu Houzhen also discovered a problem. People in Luzon Province always immigrated to Shen State. After further research, he found that they were all wealthy households.

When these people realized that the situation was not good, they ran to Shen State in large numbers.

Does Shen Guo dare to accept it?

The Ming Dynasty forcibly took several islands from the Shen State, which meant that the Ming Dynasty owed the Shen State. Moreover, the Shen State had no ambitions for hegemony. As the closest neighbor to the Ming Dynasty, it is also the country most susceptible to annexation. This time, it dared to dance on the tightrope. It was really impressive. .

After Zhu Houying stayed in Xuanzhou for a few days, he visited several big cities in Luzon.

Luzon, like Borneo, does not have a super city. In the past few years, Xuanzhou was a super city. However, as the imperial court moved factories inland, the population fell below 20 million, and it will continue to fall below 20 million in the future.

Head north from Luzon and enter Baozhou Prefecture.

Baozhou Prefecture is Xiaoliuqiu.

Da Ryukyu is the Kingdom of Ryukyu.

Forty years after the Ming Dynasty developed Baozhou Prefecture, Baozhou Prefecture had a population of 4000 million people. It was just one prefecture. No wonder Luzon and Fujian were competing for it.

Fujian is a famous poor province in the Ming Dynasty.

On the side of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, but without the fate of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, there is nothing to do except covet.

As the province closest to the most developed areas of the Ming Dynasty, it is very, very embarrassing. Fujian people can only talk about their history with a wry smile, and how glorious Quanzhou once was.

Before the Ming Dynasty, Quanzhou was one of the most prosperous ports in the world.

The reason for its decline is directly related to the Ming Sea Ban.

It is also directly related to relocation.

During the Southern Song Dynasty, the capital was in Hangzhou, and Quanzhou, the closest city, must have benefited from the distance.

By the Yuan Dynasty, there was sea transportation in the Yuan Dynasty, and Quanzhou did not decline.

After entering the Ming Dynasty, the maritime ban caused the decline of Quanzhou. Another main reason was that the capital was moved to Beijing, which led to the rise of the canal. Quanzhou was too far from the capital. Coupled with the rise of Guangzhou, Guangzhou replaced Quanzhou in all aspects.

Because the Ming Dynasty's trade with the Japanese countries was zero, and even canceled its trade with the Japanese countries due to the Japanese pirates and the war with the Japanese countries.

Trade is mainly with Europe, West Asia, Central Asia, and South Asia.

Guangzhou's location has advantages, it is closer and more superior than Quanzhou.

Therefore, Guangzhou rose and Quanzhou declined.

After the Jingtai Dynasty opened the sea, the old emperor invested hundreds of millions in Quanzhou and wanted to build Quanzhou into the second largest port in the East.

But in the forty-fourth year of Jingtai's reign, it was definitely a failure.

In the past, the Ming Dynasty was a land country with few ports. Now the Ming Dynasty is a maritime country with many ports. Quanzhou is very remote geographically, and it is far away no matter where you go.

In particular, the rise of the three provinces of Luzon, Borneo, and Malacca is even more advantageous than Quanzhou. Even with policy support, Quanzhou cannot compete with others.

As for trade with the United States and the Pacific, wouldn’t it be good to start from Japan, North Korea, Ryukyu, and Luzon?

If we start from Baozhou Prefecture, why develop Quanzhou?

Therefore, Quanzhou did not develop.

As a result, the economic center of Fujian Province was also placed on Baozhou Prefecture, and Quanzhou also gave up.

Zhu Houying landed on the island and felt the ultimate prosperity.

The imperial court was not stingy with Baozhou Prefecture. Fujian's development center was also here and it was developing very well.

The total population of Fujian is only 1.2 million, and Baozhou Prefecture alone has million.

Zhu Houying picked a few big cities for a walk.

Back to the center.

Just after the New Year, it was the sixty-seventh year of Jingtai.

Zhu Qiyu fell ill.

He fell ill in the first month of the year, and it's been a month and he still hasn't recovered.

Zhu Jianji personally served the decoction.

"Fourth, have you thought clearly about the reform?" Zhu Qiyu is older than last year. He is eighty-nine years old and is the longest-lived emperor among all the emperors in the past.

However, with the development of the medical revolution, it is not normal to live longer than 120 years old.

Especially the rapid development of modern medicine.

As long as you have money, you can live a miserable life.

Zhu Qiyu can live to be nearly ninety with his own willpower, and with the help of technology, he can live to be 130 years old, no problem.

However, how dare these technologies be used by the emperor?

"Dad, don't worry about the previous dynasty." Zhu Jianjian sighed, deepening reforms is really difficult.

Almost everyone in the civil and military dynasties opposed it.

It is possible to purge, but not to deepen reforms.

It’s okay to shout slogans, but it’s not okay to really change things.

This kind of purge is just a matter of changing a wave of people, changing the soup without changing the medicine. After a few years, it will return to the original state. It will not be so smooth next time.

He actually doesn't want to leave a mess to future generations, but reform is really difficult.

"I can't help but worry. If something happens to you, how will the country continue?"

Zhu Qiyu opened his eyelids and said: "Your father, I won't be able to survive for too long. The only one I'm worried about is you. I taught you wrongly and I shouldn't have let you use the knife."

"Dad, my son knows it well." Zhu Jianzhen didn't want to irritate him.

After the old emperor went to sleep peacefully.

He just left the Yangxin Hall and returned to the East Palace to deal with government affairs. As the old emperor fell ill, he was in a bad mood, as if his pillar had collapsed.

The old emperor is indeed useless, but he is the spiritual support in everyone's hearts, including him, Zhu Jianji.

It seemed as if the old man was here and he had confidence.

Now that the pillar was shaky, he felt uncomfortable.

The imperial doctor said that the old emperor was exhausted and might not be able to survive this year.

My condition has been getting worse and worse recently. I can no longer walk very well. My legs hurt badly when someone supports me for a few steps. I feel pain in many places on my body and I have to take analgesics.

It's just that my mind is still clear and my thinking is not muddled.

Zhu Jianjian exhaled a breath: "Go and bring Li Dongyang."

When Li Dongyang heard that the prince announced the edict alone, he trembled. Do you want to reform again?
Entering the East Palace hesitantly.

"The chief envoy of Jiaozhi went up again to divide Jiaozhi."

"It is imperative that we do it alone. Stop procrastinating and split Jiaozhi directly into Jiaozhi Province and Linyi Province."

"Also, the capital of Borneo has been chosen."

"In the area where the two rivers intersect, the terrain here is not very good. It is not bordered by Canghai Province to the east, but it doesn't matter. It is about 200 kilometers away from Canghai Province in a straight line. Either a few counties will be included and it will be bordering, or Just take a special train and the money will be spent.”

Zhu Jianjian said: "I have already thought of a name, and it is Yanjing."

"The descendants of Yanhai, Yanjing, and Yanhuang." Li Dongyang breathed a sigh of relief and only wanted to talk about political affairs.

"Let the Ministry of Industry plan as soon as possible, then stock up on wood and start building the city."

“Lumber was cheaper in previous years.”

"In the past few years, all the timber has been cut down around the world, and timber prices have skyrocketed. Don't disturb the trees planted in Borneo. See if there is any forest that can be released. If there is none, go abroad to buy some."

Although the Ming Dynasty was cutting down forests, it was also planting trees.

For planted trees, a felling license must be issued.

Normally, it takes fifty years for a license to be issued.

However, a batch was issued last year, and many trees were cut down. At the beginning of spring this year, there was a sandstorm in Beijing, and there were sandstorms throughout the north.

In recent years, because the water and soil protection in the mainland has been very good, sandstorms have become rare.

The Ming Dynasty planted trees all over the Mongolian Plateau, and artificially raised the Mongolian Plateau to prevent the cold current from the Arctic Ocean from entering the interior.

Last year, due to deforestation, newly planted small trees could not block the hurricane, and sandstorms occurred.

The cabinet has not issued logging licenses this year.

This has caused wood prices to rise again, and international wood prices are skyrocketing.

"We can import a batch of timber from Northern Europe. Northern Europe is short of money and will definitely be willing to sell it."

Li Dongyang said: "The bricks and stones will be made from local materials, and a few more gates will be built. After all, the capital is built here. If we don't build the gates, how can we defend it?"

Zhu Jianjian looked at the map and frowned slightly: "In modern warfare, do we still need to defend the city?"

"Your Highness, war in any era requires defense, and defense requires closing the city." Li Dongyang was very stubborn.

Zhu Jianjian was not stubborn about this matter: "Are you going to let go of the officialdom in Borneo just like this?"

"Your Highness, I do not pity them, but I am worried that Borneo will break away from the Ming Dynasty."

Li Dongyang said: "The relationship between local officials and local people is complicated. Every place is its own world."

"The Ming Dynasty also relied on these people to rule the place."

"Unlike other places, the army marches over, kills those who deserve to be killed, and exiles those who deserve to be exiled, and that solves the problem."

"Borneo is too far from the mainland, but it is very close to Cochin. But Cochin has only been around for a long time, and the court is still worried about Cochin breaking away from the Ming Dynasty."

"The Ming Dynasty had the largest number of troops stationed near Borneo."

"I'm just worried about the rebellion in Borneo."

Zhu Jianjian was a little angry, but there was nothing he could do.

"Today I did some calculations. It should have cost 11 billion to build an undersea telephone line, but the actual cost was 23 billion. There is no need to ask about this money, huh."

"Gu asked Dongchang to check it out, and with a quick check, he found Juku Province."

"With so much money, you are just greedy, and you are still rushing to take advantage of this trend. Are you provoking the orphans? What about provoking the central government? What are they going to do!"

"Bin Zhi, I can't hold it any longer. Seeing the corrupt criminal so close in front of me, but I can't catch him, I feel so uncomfortable!"

Zhu Jianjian's eyes were sharp: "I want to go my own way for once, what do you think?"

Li Dongyang knew that Zhu Jianji would definitely do whatever he decided to do, and no one could stop him.

(End of this chapter)