Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 611 Population Plan
The three provinces on the east coast have a population of 800 million, about 1100% of whom are Chinese, and the rest are permitted immigrants from Europe and naturalized aborigines; the population of the two provinces on the west coast is slightly larger, and there are more than 200 million Chinese immigrants alone. There are hundreds of thousands of aborigines, less than a fraction of the Chinese, so the provinces of British Columbia and Jialuo are basically similar to the mainland.Especially in Wansui City, the earliest colony of the Ming Dynasty, a town group with a population of [-] million people has formed around it, with Wansai City as the center and radiating to the surrounding area.The Luoxie and Sanfan prefectures in Jialuo Province have also formed relatively concentrated industrial clusters with dense population.

The entire North American overseas community could go from having no people to a population of nearly 20 million 2000 years later. The Ming Dynasty's immigration intensity was very large. In fact, Bai Mingxiu also cheated, because he successively sent a large number of systematic garrisons to North American overseas communities. Legion.In addition, the fertility rate in overseas communities in North America is very high. It is not uncommon for a family to have six or eight children. Therefore, a large number of teenagers have been born and raised in this strange land in the past 20 years.The population age structure of the entire North American overseas territory is surprisingly young, with more than 50% of the population under the age of 20.

Therefore, the North American Overseas Territory has faced very serious educational problems since its establishment, so the Ministry of Culture and Education of the Ming Dynasty has continuously recruited young teachers to go to North America for teaching activities, and many of them have stayed here.

Bai Mingxiu looked at the land where no one was seen for hundreds of kilometers, and said to Chen Jing with a smile, "This is the future living space for my descendants of Ming Dynasty. I can only see it happily."

Chen Jingcai breathed a sigh of relief.

Bai Mingxiu felt that it is not bad for a huge country to have some relatively empty and primitive areas.Some areas are inherently ecologically fragile and unsuitable for large populations.Like his time, discrimination in many countries and regions was already on the verge of danger.For example, Egypt looks like a large area, but a large area of ​​land is desert, and the population is concentrated on both sides of the Nile River and in the delta.The average flow of the Nile River is only 2000 cubic meters per second, which is not much different from that of the Yellow River in China.However, the Nile River has to supply the needs of 1 million people in Egypt, and even the combined needs of more than [-] million people in Sudan and Ethiopia. It can be said to be very difficult.

The improvement of technology and productivity will definitely increase the carrying capacity of the land for the population. The earth is also a very strong existence, and the only ones that are vulnerable are the bugs that depend on the ecological environment—human beings.There is nothing wrong with the fact that a large number of people is power, but relative conditions must be paid attention to. Daming now has very sophisticated and academic demography research to plan the growth and maintenance of the population of Ming Dynasty.

Of course, the Ming Dynasty has unparalleled conditions. The Ming Dynasty now controls 9000 million square kilometers of land, spanning Xiazhou, Europe, Africa, North and South America, and Oceania. The Chinese population is only 2.35 million, and the population of other ethnic groups is 1.2 million (mainly Indians). , a total of 3.55 million, which is still an affordable amount even if it increases tenfold.However, during this period, Ming Dynasty was already planning a population plan.For example, national eugenics and postnatal care, such as population planning in densely populated, economically backward, and ecologically fragile areas such as India.

Bai Mingxiu didn't want the excessive population growth to dilute the achievements of Ming Dynasty's economic development and the income of the people of all ethnic groups, so less developed areas had fewer and better births to reduce the burden on families.In areas with relatively large land and few people, such as North and South America, Eastern Xia, Australia and other places, people are encouraged to give birth.

Of course, Ming Dynasty’s overall population planning policy was not arbitrary and reckless. For example, Wu Min’s “poverty reduction and eugenics” policy in India allowed each family to have two children, and then necessitated sterilization.Families with a unified poverty reduction and eugenics policy can receive a one-time cash subsidy, free schooling and family doctor visits for their children, and tax assistance.In the same way, if you are unwilling to join the poverty reduction and eugenics policy, you can theoretically have children as you like, but you have to donate social welfare funds to the society every year. The more children you have, the more you pay. 10-15% higher than ordinary families.

This policy is obviously beneficial to wealthy families. Of course, the accumulation of various conditions is actually very scary. You have to be very rich to have four or five children without feeling bad.However, the policy was originally set up to alleviate poverty, and it also gave people substantial and visible benefits, especially false choices. Therefore, when Bai Mingxiu saw this policy, he couldn't help feeling that the policy makers really The best is cow beer.

However, this kind of policy restricts the Chinese who do not live in India because their household registration is often in the local area or other people who do not have this policy.

Ming’s investment in colonies such as India and North America is not false. Unlike many colonial countries, Ming actually threw money into the colonies, and even made continuous financial transfers.North America was still receiving financial transfers from the mainland provinces of Ming Dynasty until five years ago, and every large-scale public project received funding from the Council of Governors.The Indian Joint Propaganda and Consolation Council was just established last year, and it also received a large amount of budget from the Council of Parliament, and it is expected that within five years, it will continue to accept local financial transfers.

However, financial transfers are not simply a matter of simply taking money from the taxation of one place to subsidize another region. In the end, the Ming Dynasty will allow the regions to be developed to have better infrastructure and more social wealth. In fact, colonies such as North America have always The Ministry of Finance of the Daming Lizhengyuan pays taxes.

What Bai Mingxiu and the Daming Lizhengyuan care about is a healthy and developing economy, not a string of zeros on the ledger.

On the contrary, the colonial governors who are generally somewhat moral these days, whether they are governors or envoys, feel that it is a shame to take financial transfers from the central government for a long time.A colony that develops well, generates a lot of income, and has a high standard of living for its residents is their political achievement and pursuit.After receiving money from the state, they can't fall into their own pockets after all, and it's embarrassing for them to spend money without any effect.

Propaganda departments such as Luzon, Java, and Lunan have also received financial transfers for many years, but in recent years they have become exporters of financial transfers.Because their economy is developing well, their population is not large, their construction is good, and their finances are easy to balance, they have funds to support other places.

However, the Xuanfu Division is another matter. The Xuanfu Division has a nominal monarch, such as North Korea, Dongying, and Ryukyu. If there are no special circumstances, their financial independence is relatively high.Dongying Xuanfu Division has maintained its own financial situation for more than ten years, but Dongying's industrialization is also doing well, and its finances are also abundant.With the extra money, they immediately supported the expansion of their feudal army.In the end, the fan army was helpful to Daming's defense, so it was once again spent on the central government.

(End of this chapter)