Iron Dynasty

Along the stone path, Xiao Ming and Fiji arrived at the harem.

This was where he and his concubines lived, and on the right side of the harem was the House of Internal Affairs, where the eunuchs dealt with 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 if this happens, the people will stop farming. After all, farming is the foundation of the country.

Xiao Ming laughed lightly when he heard the words, and he said to Fiji: Old Fiji is worried that it is too much, and the food supply in the Great Yu Kingdom will not decrease. These people who go to Qingzhou are all people who don't like farming, otherwise they will leave the land. How about going to Qingzhou? As for the people who are rooted in the land, they will not leave.

After thinking about it for a while, he continued; And now the Great Yu Kingdom has three territories overseas, these are the Ryukyu, the Sanshan Kingdom, and the two cities of Goryeo. Now these three places can provide the Great Yu Kingdom every year. A lot of food, the only question is how to make them produce more food with less manpower.”

What the emperor said is that the Three Mountains Kingdom just shipped 500,000 shi of grain not long ago, and Ryukyu sent 200,000 shi of grain, which relieves the current food shortage. According to Li Kaiyuan, he is also preparing to take industrial products. Go to Korea to exchange food, if so, the food will continue to flow. Fiji said and suddenly became happy.

The two walked along the stone road to the Imperial Garden, and stopped in front of a pavilion. Xiao Ming said: My purpose is to exchange the industrial products of the Great Yu for grain and other raw materials, otherwise the development of the industry of the Great Yu will have another chance. What is the significance, but I also understand that the large population of the Great Yu Kingdom requires a lot of food, and the food in exchange is always insufficient, so I plan to promote the plantations in Qingzhou.

Fiji naturally understands what this plantation is. He said: The plantation requires a large number of slaves. Where do these slaves come from?

Naturally from the war.

Xiao Ming looked serious. One of the contradictions in the development of industry and commerce now is how to transform the Great Yu Kingdom from an agricultural society to an industrial society.

Back then, in Britain, farmers lost their land through the enclosure movement and had to move into cities to become workers.

However, this method can be used in Britain, but not in the Great Yu Kingdom, because the land plot of the people of the Great Yu Kingdom is too serious, and chaos will inevitably lead to chaos.

Moreover, unlike Great Britain, which is densely populated and sparsely landed, it is easy to successfully enclose land. On the contrary, because businessmen have too many wasteland options, they will not encircle the land of the common people and will only choose cheap wasteland.

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

Because of this, there is a policy of free circulation of the people. He is going to use the salaries in the workshop to attract the people from the land to the workshop.

In order to make up for the farming losses caused by the people entering the workshop, he would encourage the common people to lease, or even buy other people's abandoned land for planting, so that a large amount of idle land could form a small slave plantation.

No wonder the emperor wants to attack the Golden Horde. Speaking of slaves, there is no country's slaves that can compare with the Golden Horde. Fiji said.

During the perennial wars, the Golden Horde got a large number of slaves from the conquered countries. These slaves continued to multiply in the Golden Horde and provided the Golden Horde with a steady stream of slaves.

Some officials even jokingly called the Heavenly Khan of the Golden Horde the biggest slave owner.

The Golden Horde is only one of them. Goryeo and Japanese can provide slaves for the Great Yu Kingdom in the future, but only if I can make them surrender to the Great Yu Kingdom's feet. Xiao Ming said lightly.

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

Even the great ancestor Xiao Yuanzhi once positioned the Japanese country as a country that cannot be conquered. This is not because Xiao Yuanzhi is afraid of the Japanese country, but he really despises the barren land of the Japanese country, and feels that there is no benefit in fighting such a country.

He casually chatted with Fiji about the government affairs that Da Yu country needs to implement in the future, he got up and continued to stroll around the palace for a while.

Behind the imperial garden is the residence of the concubines, which is different from the grand atmosphere in the front. It is exquisite and quiet here. Ponds, rockeries, vegetation, etc. constitute beautiful gardens.

After a general observation of his own palace, he and Fiji left the palace together.

There are still many things to do today. This tour of the palace is just a temporary interest. The fundamental thing is what he said to Fiji.

In addition, he also negotiated with Fiji on the decree to encourage fertility on the way.

In fact, after a long period of civil strife, the population of the Great Yu Kingdom is probably less than 100 million. After all, this number is the official data of the heyday of the Great Yu Kingdom.

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

In this age of lack of machinery, the population is the labor force, and a large 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 truly control the colonies, otherwise the colonies without immigrants and only the army will become independent sooner or later because of the national revival movement. After all, this is how history comes.

Talking about these long-term strategies, Fiji has always smiled bitterly, and now he is more and more unpredictable about Xiao Ming's strange thoughts.

The time to visit the palace was not delayed this morning, Xiao Ming and Fiji arrived at the government hall before the scheduled time.

Taking a seat on the dragon chair, Xiao Ming directly told the ministers what he had discussed with Fiji.

More children are exempt from tax? Pang Yukun was also surprised.

Fiji had been persuaded by Xiao Ming in the carriage. At this time, he said: The emperor is far-sighted. It is a century-old plan to let the people have more children. The more people, the greater the power.

Pang Yukun looked at Fiji suspiciously. If it had been before, it would have been the first objection from Fiji, but now he fully supports it.

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

Pang Shoufu is at ease, this tax exemption is not a full exemption, but a partial exemption, just to encourage fertility. Xiao Ming said with a smile.

Then he explained his thoughts to the ministers in detail. The minister listened and gradually understood.

To put it simply, in today's world there are fewer people and more land, and taking advantage of this time to occupy too much land is really sorry for his later experience.

It is precisely because of the expansion of Europe in the age of seafaring that there are so many white countries in modern times, and he does not want history to repeat itself.

PS: There is one more chapter.