The disaster-stricken refugees were planned to move south, and the refugees were stranded between the Yangtze and Huaihe Rivers, unable to make a living. Eventually, others took advantage of them and turned into civil unrest. The Huaisi civil unrest was followed by the unrest with the bandits from the two lakes and the people building embankments on the Yellow River.

Taking advantage of each other, they swept through the Central Plains in just a few years, turning Jingxiang and Henan into ruins. The two lakes, two rivers, and the Jianghuai region were also greatly affected. The combination of these factors left Yanjing unable to do anything.

To calm down the Yanhu and She family bandits, so when Emperor Chongguan was entangled, he made a hasty plan and fell into Yanhu's trap..."

Lin Fushen thought that the development of new craftsmanship would naturally lead to the formation of a strict system of new learning. He did not expect that it was Liu Shidu who first formed new thinking based on many new policies and new craftsmanship. Lin Fu did not remember the overpopulation in later generations.

What is the specific content of the theory, but Liu Shidu's new theory on the relationship between population and war, and population and cultivated land obviously transcends the old era.

"What Mr. Liu said is quite new. There are many reasons and countermeasures. I asked Mr. Liu to write a special letter and send it to him. He can also call the government meeting and the Privy Council to discuss it." Lin Fu said.

Seeing Lin Fu's statement, there was no anger on his face. Liu Shidu felt relieved and said goodbye. Lin Fu asked Song Jia to bring the booklet "Speculation Technique" translated by Song Shixian himself from the study room and asked Liu Shidu to take it back.

After Liu Shidu left, Song Jia sat down according to the table. Lin Fu said with a smile: "This old man Liu clearly wrote a special letter, but he didn't take it out. He just asked him to make another trip tomorrow..."

"Generally speaking, Liu Gong's new comments are not likable. If you don't understand his heart, most people will think that he is using the matter to criticize the new policy," Song Jia said. "Liu Gong may be afraid that if he submits a special letter, there will be no possibility of change..."

Lin Fu smiled calmly. He knew that Liu Shidu was capable and his knowledge was first-class in the world, but he had been immersed in officialdom for a long time and it was difficult for him to have a cautious temperament.

When it comes to the problem of overpopulation, Lin Fu has not thought about it.

In the fourth year of Yongxing, taxes were reduced in Jianghuai prefectures and counties. Each household was only reduced by one ding tax, and the rest were levied. This time, the ding tax was divided into acres, and the remaining ding tax actually still existed as an additional tax. On the surface, it was not wanted all at once.

The annual revenue of the central government was reduced too much. In fact, Lin Fu had no intention of canceling the remaining tax from the beginning to the end.

The new tax policy will levy up to double the basic land tax on households with more than a certain number of acres of land. The purpose is to inhibit the gentry from annexing land for rent. The "residual tax" will be retained and will not be fully apportioned.

When a Ding enters a mu, a situation arises where households with multiple children have to bear an additional Ding tax. The actual purpose is to curb the current situation of people having too many children.

Although there are many pedantic and stubborn people in this world, the vision and knowledge of the great men and women who stand at the top of the current can actually transcend the limitations of history.

Lin Fu said to Song Jia: "Go and get my pamphlet with 'Chongmi' on the cover and Dingtian materials from the five counties of Chongzhou..."

"Ah!" Song Jia stared at Lin Fu for a moment and asked doubtfully, "Have you long realized that there are hidden worries behind such a large increase in the number of people?"

Lin Fu did not let Song Jia read some information, but many of Lin Fu's fantastic ideas could often be found in those thread-bound books. Song Jia once asked him why he kept it secret, and Lin Fu once joked about it

This is a heavenly book taught by an expert,

Lin Fu nodded.

These pamphlets were actually used by him to record his thoughts and thoughts, so it was no big deal. He did not ask Song Jia and others to read them because some of his views were too ahead of the times. If Song Jia and others were to read them, it would only increase their confusion.

As for the joke that it was a heavenly book, she was worried that Song Jia couldn't resist her curiosity and secretly read it, just to have an excuse.

"You have been aware of this hidden worry for a long time, but why didn't you mention it for a long time? Could it be that if Mr. Liu doesn't open this layer of paper, you will give up." Song Jia asked strangely.

Lin Fu smiled and asked Song Jia to bring a few notebooks from the wooden box and the information on Ding Tian from the five counties of Chongzhou.

After Liu Shidu left, Lin Fu asked her to bring the Chongzhou Dingtian materials and the "Heavenly Book" that Lin Fu always carried with him. He guessed that there was a specific reason.

"For the new empire, population will be the most important resource," Lin Fu sighed lightly, opened the note book and looked at the data he had recorded earlier, and said while reading, "However, too much population,

It will also make the land produce insufficient rice and grain, and mergers and acquisitions will be rampant. The rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer. Without a balance, natural disasters and disasters can cause disasters that will destroy the country. We must pay close attention to Chongzhou.

The number of Dingkou increased naturally, reaching 20,000 in the 11th year of Chongguan, and 40,000 in the first year of Yongxing. If it were not for the high death rate of soldiers who joined the army from Chongzhou in the later years, Yongxing Yuan

The number of Dingkou in Chongzhou will naturally increase after 2010, and it is likely that it will continue to rise. At this time, there are 1.2 million people in the five counties of Chongzhou, of which 280,000 are the additional increase after the 11th year of Chongguan.

That is to say, excluding factors such as migration, the natural population increase rate in the five counties of Chongzhou in recent years has been 30%..."

Song Jia looked through the information on Dingtian in Chongzhou and found that there was no detailed increase in the number of Dingkou before the first year of Yongxing as mentioned by Lin Fu. She knew for sure that Lin Fu had long been aware of the hidden worries about the sudden increase in population, but he did not announce it to others, nor did he.

I know that his booklet contains many secrets that others don't know.

When he woke up on the Weiyang ship, Lin Fu was confused for a while. Although he had many fleeting impressions and memories of later generations, they were not profound and could not be organized into a system.

For example, Lin Fu knew that smallpox was an extremely virulent contagious virus and that to prevent smallpox, he needed to "vaccination", but in fact he only knew the term "vaccination" and what exactly "vaccination" meant.

There is no impression at all - just like most ordinary people know that gunpowder is one of the four great inventions of ancient times, but among ten ordinary people, not more than half may know "monosulfide, dinitrate, and charcoal".

Before he woke up on the ship, Lin Fu was just an ordinary person, with a fleeting glimpse of later generations, lodged in the body of a scholar from a strange era.

In the long years that followed, Lin Fu adapted to this era, while organizing the fleeting memories of later generations and striving to form a system. At the same time, he also studied the miscellaneous craftsmanship of the day very carefully, hoping that the two could have a better harmony.

, can be beneficial to the leapfrog development of this era.

To say that Prison Island is just Lin Fu's experimental site, Chongzhou is the first city that Lin Fu has worked hard to manage. The various changes in Chongzhou have affected Chongzhou's land, population, customs, breeding, epidemics and other aspects.

The research is actually carried out over the past few years of Lin Fu's career.

Don't forget that Lin Fu successively appointed Wu Meijiu, Li Shuyi, Chen Lei and others to govern Chongzhou, but his familiarity and profound understanding of Chongzhou, including Wu Meijiu, Li Shuyi, Chen Lei and others, were far inferior to Lin Fu.

Lin Fu has been studying the population and life expectancy of Chongzhou for a long time. In the early days, he was also shocked by the high mortality rate of infants, young children and teenagers before Chongzhou.

Before Lin Fu officially implemented the New Deal, excluding the factors of war and large-scale severe epidemics, the infant mortality rate in Chongzhou exceeded 20% in a normal year, and men usually only had a 50% chance of surviving to the age of crowning; it was also the case for infants

, the high mortality rate of young children and teenagers makes the average life span of Chongzhou people only 35 years old. On the contrary, many people survive into adulthood and survive into their 60s or 70s.

There are many factors leading to the high mortality rate in today's world. Malnutrition, poor sanitation conditions, poor living habits, weak immunity and poor medical conditions, as well as the large number of children in the world and insufficient care for young children, are all important factors for the high mortality rate.

In the tenth year of Chongguan, the Donghai bandits attacked Chongzhou City and massacred all the gentry and civilian households in the city. As a result, Lin Fu was able to completely control Chongzhou and took the lead in implementing various new policies in Chongzhou without resistance.

Lin Fu implemented the New Deal, including the construction of Chongzhou New City. Even if there were no conditions to realize a modern urban system, the planning and design were basically based on modern industrial and commercial cities. Once the New Deal was implemented, it did not even deliberately pay attention to the high mortality rate.

As if a miracle had happened, the rate of takaya breakage dropped immediately.

Due to the huge number of immigrants in the early days, the Dingtian data of Chongzhou County Government was not as detailed as Lin Fu's private transcription and analysis. It was almost the third year of Yongxing, when Li Shuyi, Lin Mengde and other talents paid attention to the increase of Dingkou.

It is listed separately in the Dingtian Fish Scale Register of the five counties of Chongzhou - these data were not even accessible to Liu Shidu five years ago in Yongxing - but Lin Mengde and others regarded it as a powerful effect of the New Deal.

Even Song Jia, who prides himself on being talented and thoughtful, failed to see the hidden worries of overpopulation behind the high net population growth. In fact, the rapid increase in population in Chongzhou in recent years would be called Chongzhou's emerging weaving and dyeing, shipbuilding, and ironmaking industries.

And HNA and other industries can accommodate it. In fact, even if Chongzhou can be developed and reclaimed millions of acres of wasteland, it will be completely consumed by the extra population in the blink of an eye...

If the new empire wants to finally lay its foundation, it cannot do without the advantage of population. At the same time, a dense population can ensure that emerging industries obtain enough surplus labor and a large enough sales market——

There is a good thing about having a large population, but once the population is overpopulated and resources are consumed too much, the disadvantages of intensifying the cycle of domestic conflicts will be increasingly exposed.

Of course, in Lin Fu's view, as long as the Nanyang route continues to extend westward and finds a new continent with extremely sparse population density, the excess population can be alleviated through large-scale immigration——

As for the present, Lin Fu is not afraid of excessive population growth. His policy of penetrating colonial merchants in Haidong and Southeast Asia also requires the export of a large amount of surplus population.

Lin Fu also suppressed the hidden worries of overpopulation out of various complicated and even contradictory considerations and trade-offs.

Now that this layer of window paper has been pierced by Liu Shidu, Lin Fu will naturally not suppress it by force, but will do some work to pave the way for future population control.

Song Jia looked through Ding Tian's information, stared at Lin Fu, and asked doubtfully: "The data you know should be recorded in the fish scale book. Even if there are occasional mistakes, it should also be included in other official documents - except for military information."

You have no other eyes and ears besides the Department of Internal Health and the Department of Prefecture, County and Township. How did you calculate the increase in population in Chongzhou before the second year of Yongxing?"

"It is said that the secrets cannot be leaked," Lin Fu proudly raised the note book in his hand, and explained to Song Jia with a smile, "Of course you can't tell the secrets just by looking at the Dingtian fish scale book. The junior high school in Chongzhou

The public school took shape as early as the 11th year of Chongguan. However, there was a tradition of abandoning dead babies in the wild in Chongzhou. I also set up a children's grave in the 11th year of Chongguan to forcefully collect the remains of minors. This kind of data has been collected several times.

By comparison, it is not difficult to conclude that the number of people in Chongzhou increased before the second year of Yongxing, and there was no need to rely on the people below for everything. It seems that I have no thoughts..."

"Being an errand under you is really hard life. I can't fool you even if I want to." Song Jia said with emotion.

"Chongzhou is my foundation, why don't I pay extra attention to it?" Lin Fu said, "As for other prefectures and counties, do I even have so much energy to take care of them?"

It is said that Chongzhou is the foundation place, not because Lin Fu laid the foundation of Huaidong there.

It is because the high mortality rate in Chongzhou has dropped sharply since the tenth year of Chongguan. Almost 150,000 children in Chongzhou were able to survive because of this factor. At the same time, Chongzhou’s public school system was the earliest to develop.

There are 367 elementary public schools, almost reaching the density of one elementary public school in every 35 villages; and there are 56 higher public schools, which are equivalent to junior and senior high schools in later generations, including medicine, administration, agriculture, etc.

There are a total of eleven new schools of government, shipping, and other new schools.

The entire public school system in Chongzhou has a total of nearly 190,000 students, with adults reaching the age of 30 and teenagers as young as six or seven years old. Seventy percent of them are children from Chongzhou. The enrollment rate of children from Chongzhou has also suddenly increased in recent years.

Increased to 40%.

In comparison, the development of public schools in Jiangning and Mingzhou is much slower. There is not much resource investment at the moment, and there is no rush.

In the Chongzhou public school system, there are more than 20,000 young children from Chongzhou, especially those who have been fully educated by the New School for six or seven years and have been deeply affected by the New Deal. This group of people has either already been, or will gradually be able to do so in the next two or three years.

They were arranged to work in emerging industries, military camps, Haidong and Nanyang, or in prefectures, counties, townships, and government agencies.

Led by Chen Enze, Hu Qiaozhong, Hu Qiaoguan, Luo Yicheng, Tang Xitai and other Chongzhou boys, the earliest group of Chongzhou children who followed Lin Fu numbered more than a thousand, and most of them have become the backbone of young people in the military, political, commercial and industrial fields; now with

In many matters involved in the New Deal, children from Chongzhou can be seen anytime and anywhere. As a larger number of children from Chongzhou are trained from the earliest and perfect Chongzhou Public School system, the current development of the New Deal will be alleviated to the greatest extent.

The problem of insufficient human resources at the time.

Obviously, the children from Chongzhou, including a large number of general children who were naturalized in Chongzhou, were loyal and supportive to Lin Fu in a way that children from other places could not match. They filled a large number of manpower vacancies in the New Deal, like a network woven throughout the southern governments.

Counties and various businesses ensure that there will be no major unexpected factors during the period from public administration to the actual creation of the new empire.

Lin Fu is now asking Chongzhou children to work in a place and be mentally prepared to take root here. In Haizhou City, the frequency of use of Chongzhou dialect is even higher than that of Jiangning Mandarin, while Haizhou dialect
Chapter completed!