Along the stone path, Xiao Ming and Fiji arrived at the harem. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

This is where he and his concubines live, and on the right side of the harem is the Internal Affairs Office, where the eunuchs handle the affairs of the palace.

Fiji followed behind Xiao Ming, with a hint of worry in his eyes, "It's just that the old minister is worried that in this way, the people will stop farming, after all, this agriculture is the foundation of the country." “

Xiao Ming laughed lightly when he heard this, and he said to Fiji: "Fei Ge is worried that it is redundant, the grain of Dayu will not decrease, these people who go to Qingzhou are people who don't like farming, otherwise how could they leave their land and go to Qingzhou?" As for the people who are rooted in the land, they will not leave. ”

After a moment's thought, he continued; "And now the Great Chongqing Kingdom has three territories overseas, which are the two cities of Ryukyu, the Three Mountains Kingdom, and Goryeo, and now these three places can provide a lot of food for the Great Chongqing Kingdom every year, the only problem is how to make them produce more food with a small amount of manpower."

"What the emperor said is that the Three Mountains Kingdom just transported 500,000 stone grain not long ago, and Ryukyu transported 200,000 stone grain, which has alleviated the current food shortage, according to Li Kaiyuan, he is also ready to take industrial products to Goryeo to exchange for grain, if so, this grain is endless." Fiji suddenly became happy as she spoke.

The two of them walked along the stone road to the Imperial Garden, stopped in front of a pavilion, Xiao Ming said: "My purpose is to exchange the industrial products of the Great Chongqing Kingdom for food and other raw materials, otherwise what is the point of the development of the Great Chongqing Kingdom, but I also understand that the Great Chongqing Country has a large population and needs a lot of food, and the food in exchange for this is always not enough, so I am ready to promote the plantations in Qingzhou." ”

Fiji naturally understands what this plantation is, and he says: "The plantation needs a lot of slaves, where do these slaves come from?" “

"Nature comes from war."

Xiao Ming's expression was serious, and now a contradiction in the development of industry and commerce is how to transform the country from an agricultural society to an industrial society.

In England, the land enclosure movement caused the peasants to lose their land and had to move into the cities to become workers.

However, this method can be used in the United Kingdom, but it cannot be used in the Great Chongqing Kingdom, because the land plot of the people of the Great Chongqing Country is too heavy, and if it is chaotic, it will inevitably cause chaos.

Moreover, unlike the British, which is densely populated and has scarce land, it is easy to succeed in enclosing land, on the contrary, because the merchants have too many wasteland to choose from, they will not encircle the land of the common people, but will choose cheap wasteland.

Therefore, in his opinion, Dayu needs a set of routes suitable for its own development, rather than following the example of the United Kingdom.

Because of this, there was a policy of free movement of the people, and he was going to use the salaries in the workshops to attract the people from the land to the workshops.

In order to compensate for the loss of farming caused by the entry of the people into the workshops, he would encourage the common people to lease or even buy the abandoned land of others for planting, so that a large amount of idle land could become a small slave plantation.

"No wonder the emperor wants to attack the Golden Horde, if you want to talk about slaves, there is no country where slaves can compare with the Golden Horde." Fiji said.

The Golden Horde received a large number of slaves from the conquered kingdoms during the years of war, and these slaves continued to multiply in the Golden Horde, providing the Golden Horde with a steady stream of slaves.

Some officials even joked that the Heavenly Khan of the Golden Horde was the largest slave owner.

"The Golden Horde is just one of them, and both Goryeo and Wa will be able to provide slaves for the Great Yu Kingdom in the future, but only if I can make them submit to the feet of the Great Chongqing State." Xiao Ming said lightly.

Fiji looked at Xiao Ming, and in Xiao Ming's eyes, he saw ambition, and in the history of the Great Yu Kingdom, no emperor had ever thought of conquering the Wa Kingdom in the past.

Even Gaozu Xiao Yuanzhi once positioned the Wa State as a country that would not be conquered, not because Xiao Yuanzhi was afraid of the Wa State, but because he really looked down on the barren land of the Wa State, and felt that there was really no benefit in fighting such a country.

After casually chatting with Fiji about the government affairs that the Great Chongqing Kingdom needs to implement in the future, he got up and continued to walk around the palace for a while.

Behind the Imperial Garden is the residence of the concubines, different from the magnificent atmosphere in front, here is exquisite and quiet, ponds, rockeries, plants and trees and so on constitute a beautiful garden.

After a general view of his palace, he went out of the palace with Fiji.

There was still much to do today, and this tour of the palace was only a temporary pleasure, and the fundamental thing was what he had said to Fiji.

In addition, on the way, he negotiated with Fiji a decree to encourage childbearing.

In fact, after a long period of civil strife, the population of Dayu is probably less than 100 million, after all, this figure is the official data of the heyday of Dayu.

After experiencing a series of events such as the loss of the sixteen states of Yanyun, the rebellion of the vassal kings, the drought in Jizhou, and the massacre in Bashu, he believed that the population of Dayu could be around 80 million, and these populations were mainly concentrated in the south of the Yangtze River.

In this age of lack of machinery, the population is the labor force, and the population can do great things, and the most important one is that he needs the population to immigrate to the colonies.

Only in this way can he really control the colony, otherwise the colony with no immigrants and only the army will sooner or later become independent because of the national revival movement, after all, this is how history has passed.

Fiji has always smiled bitterly when it comes to these long-term strategies, and now he is becoming more and more unpredictable about Xiao Ming's strange ideas.

The time to inspect the palace did not delay this morning, and Xiao Ming and Fiji arrived in the council hall before the scheduled time.

Sitting down on the dragon chair, Xiao Ming directly told the ministers what he talked about with Fiji.

"Tax-free for extra children?" Pang Yukun was also surprised.

Fiji has been persuaded by Xiao Ming in the carriage, and said at this time: "The emperor is far-sighted, and it is a century-old plan for the people to have more children, and there is great power in many people." ”

Pang Yukun looked at Fiji suspiciously, if it was before, it would have been Fiji who was the first to oppose it, but now he is fully supportive.

Thinking of this, he didn't rush to object, but waited for Xiao Ming's statement.

"Pang Shoufu can rest assured that this tax exemption is not a full exemption, but a partial exemption, in order to encourage childbirth." Xiao Ming said with a smile.

Then he elaborated his thoughts to the ministers, and the ministers listened and gradually understood in their hearts.

To put it simply, there are fewer people and more land in the world now, and it is too sorry for his experience in later generations to take advantage of this time not to occupy more land.

It was precisely because of the expansion of Europe in the Age of Maritime Navigation that there were so many white countries in modern times, and he did not want history to repeat itself.