"According to statistics, after the end of the Civil War, the population of the empire grew steadily, with about 20 million new additions."

When it comes to the welfare system, Pang Yukun thinks of the population growth of the empire, after all, this is the most intuitive reaction.

"20 million in ten years, an increase of about 2 million people per year, ten years ago the population base of the empire was 80 million, and the annual growth rate is about 2.5 percent, which is a bit small." Xiao Ming said.

"In the first few years, growth was slow, but since the emperor promulgated the welfare policy, the population growth of the empire has accelerated, according to statistics, the growth rate is 5 percent," Pang said. ”

Xiao Ming nodded, population growth is a long process, and it is impossible to make the population of the empire grow from 100 million to more than 1 billion without a hundred years.

The only thing he can do now is to encourage childbearing and speed up the process, for the simple reason that the huge territories occupied by the empire need to be occupied, otherwise sooner or later these lands will be occupied by other countries with explosive populations.

After all, in addition to the war of blood and fire, mankind really has to face the war of reproduction, when the population of a nation is decreasing, he will not be able to control the land to be occupied by other populous races, and his former glory is just making a wedding dress for others.

Because of this, he fights increasing the population of the empire as if it were a war.

Because he comes from modern times, he knows very well that the more developed the society and the richer the material, the country's population growth rate will continue to decrease, or even negative.

In the future, the empire will also face this problem, so he should not take it lightly and take advantage of the initial stage of the country's development to have more children.

So he said: "In this way, during this time, you can improve the empire's maternity welfare policy, all families who raise more than three children and less than five children will enjoy education and medical care for life, and all families who have more than five children will also receive the imperial court's birth allowance and free transportation benefits in addition to the above benefits." “

After a pause, he continued: "The people are reluctant to have children because of the pressure of life, so the most important thing for the empire to pay attention to is that the education of the empire is completely free except for universities, and the free part of medical care is not the ultimate goal of the empire, and it will be completed only if all medical care is free in the future, and the empire will build welfare housing throughout the country next, and families with more than three children can get it for free." “

Pang Yukun did not object to Xiao Ming's idea, and now that the empire's finances are becoming more and more abundant, it is completely affordable to implement such benefits.

He said: "When the old minister returns, he will send these policies to the states, and I am afraid that the people will cheer and cheer for such a cheap thing." ”

"This is exactly what I want, no matter how much territory the empire has conquered, it will be wasted if no one cultivates it." Xiao Ming frowned, Fiji is old, Pang Yukun is old, and he is getting old.

Time waits for no one, and now he wants to do something big for the benefit of future generations.

Skipping the matter of maternity benefits, he continued: "After the application of the internal combustion engine, oil will be the lifeblood of the empire for a long time to come, and for this reason, it is necessary to prepare for a rainy day. ”

Pang Yukun said: "Xiaguan has ordered the empire to establish reserve oil depots in various states, and take advantage of the fact that Persia has not repented and will make every effort to store oil. ”

Xiao Ming nodded, "In addition, there are ores brought back from various colonies, and after satisfying the domestic needs of the empire, the rest will be used to reclaim land and leave it for future generations." “

Pang Yukun made a note of the incident.

The two said that the convoy had arrived at the palace, and when they got out of the car, Pang Yukun returned to his official office, and Xiao Ming went directly back to the palace.

……

Moscow.

While the empire rejoiced at the success of the plane's test flight, Ekalina was frowning, and the news from the border kept coming, which made her fall into a panic.

"In a month's time, the Imperial troops occupied Yerets, Karavel, Mondomusen, Your Majesty, and now Moscow is completely undefended against the Imperial Army." Ivanov worried.

"No one thought that the Empire would suddenly attack us at this time, and it is clear that the Empire is corresponding to Henry of France. “

Igor said: "Your Majesty, the most important thing for us now is to protect ourselves compared to France, the defeated soldiers are talking about the terrible weapons of the Empire, it is these weapons that easily destroy the fortresses on the borders of the Empire, many say that these weapons cannot be stopped. “

He was the commander in chief of the Tsarist Russian army, and his greatest concern was naturally war.

Ekarina pinched her eyebrows, she did not expect that the empire would have such a strong courage to directly attack Tsarist Russia, after all, they had been in a stalemate in Central Asia for several years, and she thought it would continue.

"In order to deal with a possible attack by the Empire, we must bring back the troops that are ready to go to France." After hesitating for a long time, Ekarina made a very difficult decision.

Now no one can predict what the Empire will do next, whether it will continue to roam the frontier or whether it will invade in its entirety.

As the empress of Tsarist Russia, she must think about her country, and as for Europe, she can only let it go.

Neither Igor nor Ivanov had any objections, now it was not the British who were in danger, but their Tsarist Russia, and now Ekarina suddenly regretted getting involved with the British.

It is clear that now the empire is becoming more and more difficult to provoke.

The order to withdraw to France soon came out of the Kremlin, and the news was received by Vidomia at the same time.

As the months passed, Vidomia lost a lot of weight, and when she learned of the news, she suddenly lost her spirits.

"Three fortresses on the Tsarist border were destroyed in a row for several days, and Ekarina was probably scared this time." Vidomia said.

"Indeed," said Brooke, "after all, hundreds of thousands of Ottoman troops never crossed these three forts, and the Eastern Empire only had five days, but it is said that this is all because of a strange weapon, like a combination of machine guns and cannons, but it is said to be extremely hard and faster than a horse." “

With Vidomia's knowledge, she couldn't imagine what kind of weapon it was, but even if it frightened Tsarist Russia so much, it must be a weapon that changed the balance of the battlefield.

She sighed and said: "We can't take a gamble, it seems that the time has come to talk to the Empire, we can't stay in Tsarist Russia forever, and Ekarina is not trustworthy, if necessary, she will even hand me over to the Eastern Empire in exchange for benefits." ”

Brooke was equally worried, the situation in Britain was so dire that they could not afford to wait any longer.