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  Chapter 818 815【One country, two genus】

  Last year, land administration was rectified, and acres of land were cleared across the country. In ancient times, land clearing was always accompanied by population checks.

  Now, the Ministry of Household Affairs has handed over a summary, and the population in the south is increasing too fast!

  The last census was conducted five years ago. There were 86.77 million people (over 12 years old) in the whole country, and now it has soared to 99.15 million people (including newly occupied areas such as Vietnam, excluding overseas territories such as Luzon).

  The average annual population growth rate has been above 2.5%.

  Jiangsu has the fastest population growth rate, which has remained above 2.9% for a long time. The population of the province has exceeded 9 million. The surrounding area of ​​Nanjing is Jinling Prefecture, which is directly under the central government and is not under the jurisdiction of Jiangsu. However, Shanghai and its surrounding areas are under the jurisdiction of Jiangsu Province.

  According to the urban population without land, the per capita arable land of Jiangsu farmers is about 8 mu.

  It seems that there is a lot of arable land per capita, but it contains a lot of coastal saline land. Moreover, there are many rich families in Jiangsu. As long as they honestly hand over their land property, each person can keep 20 acres of good land. This 20 acres of good land per capita can be converted into more bad land. Therefore, the per capita arable land of ordinary farmers must be less than 8 mu.

  Furthermore, since children do not register until they are 12 years old, farmers have a lot of children in their families. If children are included, the per capita arable land of ordinary farmers in Jiangsu is very likely to be less than 5 mu.

  Jiangxi is even more terrifying. Since Zhao Han ruled the earliest and escaped the great famine in the late Ming Dynasty, the population did not drop as sharply as in Jiangxi. Although they continued to migrate to the north, the current population has exceeded 10 million. On paper, the per capita arable land area of ​​farmers is less than 6 mu (excluding children under the age of 12), which also includes a large amount of mountainous land.

  In addition, there are many nobles in Jiangxi, such as Fei Ruhe and Zhang Tieniu, the land granted by military merit has exceeded the limit of 100 mu per capita, and a large number of soldiers have also been granted land due to meritorious service. In some families with many children in Jiangxi, after the children are 12 years old and registered, the per capita arable land in the family is less than 3 mu.

  Jiangxi has many mountains and little land, how much food can be grown in a few acres of mountain land?

  The people in those mountainous areas still eat sweet potatoes and corn as their staple food, and they can't afford rice at all. The more children you have, the more difficult life is for a farmer.

  More and more farmers in Jiangxi, because of their limited land property, are scrambling to farm the land of nobles and rich families. In recent years, the nobles who have given more land and the rich families who have reserved more land no longer need to buy foreign slaves to farm the land. There are also many young farmers who came out of the mountains, handed over the land to their father and brother for cultivation, and went to work in the county town by themselves.

  Fujian is even worse, because there is less arable land, but the population is constantly increasing.

  In the case of only a few acres of land per capita, and most of them are mountainous, more and more farmers in the coastal areas of Fujian go to sea to run boats. But they are unwilling to immigrate, even the nearest Taiwan, they do not want to emigrate there, and always keep their household registration on the mainland.

  Taiwan Prefecture is currently under the jurisdiction of Fujian. In addition to Taiwan Island, Ryukyu County and Fangzhang County established in Ryukyu are also under the jurisdiction of Taiwan Prefecture.

Zhao Han said to Guo Shunyu, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs: "Last time, the immigration to the north was suspended, but the south still cannot stop. There are too few Han people in Taiwan, especially in Liuqiu and Fangzhang counties. The total number of Han people in the two counties is only more than 30,000. Fujian and Guangdong provinces will immigrate 50,000 people to Taiwan within three years."

   "Follow the order!" Guo Shunyu cupped his hands.

   Zhao Han thought for a while, and continued: "Jiangxi has too many people, and 10,000 people immigrate to Hebei every year."

  Zhao Han still takes good care of the people in Jiangxi. After all, it is the land of Longxing, and he can't bear to immigrate to the remote and bitter Liaoning.

  Hebei is an excellent place to immigrate. The current population of the province is only 1.8 million (excluding Beiping Prefecture). Although it is relatively cold, the fields can be divided when you go there, and they are all divided into good fields, which is much more cost-effective than farming mountainous land in Jiangxi.

  Continuing at this growth rate, in another five years, the national population will approach 120 million. In another twenty years, the per capita arable land area in several southern provinces with large populations will fall below 4 mu. Fifty years from now, the conflict between man and earth will become very tense.

  But for overseas expansion and industrial development, it is a good thing.

  The more tense the conflict between man and land, the more people are willing to go out to sea, and the more people are willing to leave the land and work in factories.

  But if there are too many of them, they will definitely explode.

  In the history of the Qing Dynasty, the population was counted in the eighth year of Shunzhi, that is, the first two years. At that time, the population of Dingkou was 10 million, and it can be speculated that the population was about 30 million to 40 million. After only fifty years, the population of the Qing Dynasty had risen to 80 million. Fifty years later, the population of the Qing Dynasty soared to 180 million. Twenty years later, the population exceeded 200 million.

  A population of 200 million is estimated to be the limit of the sweet potato prosperity, and uprisings of various scales will continue to emerge next.

  Of course, the population can continue to increase, and the population reached more than 400 million at the end of the Qing Dynasty. There are crowds of beggars, refugees are everywhere, people are generally malnourished, and there will be famine everywhere in case of natural disasters. The average life expectancy of the people is only more than 30 years old.

  Under Zhao Han's rule, there are now nearly 100 million people, which is probably the level of the early years of Yongzheng. Because the fields have been widely divided, the common people can live a decent life, even if the remote mountain people eat corn and sweet potato porridge, they can still eat three meals a day. However, because of frugality, only during the busy farming season are they willing to eat three meals.

   Except for family accidents, such as illness, farmers in the New Dynasty of Datong almost had surplus grain storage.

  Every family has surplus food, in the eyes of traditional scholar-bureaucrats, it is already a manifestation of peace and prosperity.

So Song Yingxing said: "Your Majesty, why should you worry about the population? There has never been a dynasty like ours. In the twelve years since the founding of the country, the population has billions of trillions, and the people have enough food and clothing. In terms of this alone, it has surpassed the heyday of the Han and Tang Dynasties. When the population is prosperous, people can do everything. Xing. In the case of Jiangnan, the population has not recovered to that of the pre-Ming Dynasty. The population of Hebei is even less than 2 million, and there is plenty of land for the common people to cultivate.”

   "That's true," Zhao Han looked past the officials and looked further south, "The land in Nanyang is fertile. Wait for the Han people to reclaim it. Only when the population prospers will there be room for it."

   "Your Majesty, I have military information to report!"

  Military reports from various places, in addition to being sent to the cabinet, the Ministry of War, and the Governor's Mansion, must be sent to the emperor as soon as possible.

   It was not an urgent military situation. After reading it, Zhao Han said to the cabinet ministers: "The news from Nanyang is that the Netherlands has expanded aggressively and taken away three Portuguese ports in one go. Ceylon (Sri Lanka) has already been completely owned by the Netherlands."

   I heard that it was news from Ceylon, but the officials didn't take it seriously.

  Although Zhao Han vigorously popularized the concept of globalization, officials all knew where Ceylon was. But in such a far place, who the **** pays attention to it? It is already next to India, and they might still care about Nanyang.

  Zhao Han said with emotion: "Portugal is really declining too much. The Netherlands has been greatly damaged by our army, and it can still take away three Portuguese ports within half a year."

  However, it was precisely because of being beaten up by China that the Netherlands wanted to find compensation elsewhere.

  The Netherlands seized Portugal's Sri Lanka colony three years earlier than in history. The Netherlands has lost too much interest in Nanyang, even Malacca, and must find new profit growth points.

  China is not easy to provoke, so go bully Portugal!

  Sri Lanka is rich in spices and gemstones, and it can make up for the loss if it is taken there.

  …

   Batavia.

  The governor of the Netherlands, Karl Rainiers, is already satisfied at the moment.

  The previous governor lost cities and territories, but he was able to capture three ports.

  Now on the entire east coast of India, only Naga Patam Port is still in the hands of Portugal, and the rest of the colonial ports belong to the Netherlands. It's a pity that there are more than 300 Portuguese defenders in Nagapatam Port, and the castle is extremely strong. It will take at least a year to siege the city to conquer it, and it is not yet capable of defeating it.

  Win a big victory in Sri Lanka, Carl Rainiers more and more displeased. A small city-state, sent 300 troops to fight last year, but the great Dutch East India Company actually lost.

  Although more than 200 of the 300 troops were Javanese servants, it was still an ugly loss.

Carl Rainiers held a meeting and said to the MPs: "The Sultanate of Manpawa (Nambawa) must be defeated. One is to deter the sultans of Kalimantan, and the other is to boost our failure last time. Morale, the third is to seize the gold mines there. I heard that the gold mines there are rich ore, and they can be turned into gold without much refining."

It is estimated that it was the confidence brought about by the victory of the war. A congressman agreed: "I support Your Excellency the Governor. After the Manpawa Sultanate is occupied, we should also attack the Sukadana Sultanate. Mataram is our vassal state. Kadana is also a vassal state of Matalan, so it is tantamount to our vassal state. But this Sukadana, taking advantage of the civil strife in Matalan, declared independence and no longer listens to us!"

  The Sukardana Sultanate is located in the southwest corner of Kalimantan Island, 280 miles south of Pontianak. Later generations only left a name of "Sukardana Bay".

  The Dutch East India Company is really poor and crazy. Facing China, they not only failed militarily, but also lost a lot of business. It is not enough to make amends in Portugal, even the Nanbawa gold mine is not let go, and now it is eyeing the Sukardana Sultanate.

  When Zhao Han received the military information, the Dutch warships and troops had already returned from Sri Lanka.

   After a little modification, the army was dispatched, and the front of the soldiers pointed directly at Nanbawa.

  A full 1,200 infantry were dispatched, of which 400 were the Dutch Army, and the remaining 800 were all Javanese native servants.

   And China's diplomatic note has not yet been sent.

  The gold seal of King Nanbawa engraved by the Ministry of Rites has just been brought to Guangzhou by the envoy. However, the letter of credence of Sultan Nanbawa has been presented, and he has essentially become a vassal state of China.

  The Dutch army came outside the city of Nanbawa.

  The sultan of the country was shocked, and quickly sent people out of the city to shout: "Nangbawa has surrendered to China. We are China's vassals. Attacking us is a war with China!"

  The Dutch general who returned from the victory in Sri Lanka didn't care about so many, and immediately ordered: "Either surrender to the Netherlands, hand over the gold mines, and allow the Netherlands to preach here. Or accept the bombardment!"

   After bombardment for several days in a row, Sudan couldn't bear it anymore, and actually went out of the city to surrender.

  The Chinese envoys also took the king's golden seal and came to the nearby waters by boat.

  Dutch warships approached, and the two sides communicated with each other. The Chinese envoy was a little speechless: the king he was ordered to canonize actually surrendered to the Netherlands.

  One daughter does not marry two husbands, one country cannot have two belongings.

   How should this be calculated?

  (end of this chapter)