The Great Industrial Ming Dynasty Started from Beiping

Chapter 499 Zhu Di's Ambition

"The population of Beipingxing Province is 410 million. The natural population growth rate in Hongwu in 31 was 11%, which means an increase of more than [-] people."

The natural population growth rate refers to the growth rate calculated after subtracting the death population from the birth population.

In other words, in the 31st year of Hongwu, there were not more than 11 newborns born in Beipingxing Province, but an increase of more than 11 people after subtracting the number of deaths.

Zhu Gaochi couldn't help but frown.

The northern parallel provinces have a high degree of industrialization, so the difficulty of population statistics is relatively low, while the southern provinces have high statistics costs and are more difficult.

As for the population growth in Liaodong, it is no longer a natural growth rate, but the product of specific means under specific circumstances.

A growth rate of [-]% is terrifying.

In fact, during the Yongle period, the population of the Ming Dynasty had already begun to increase dramatically, and there were signs of the loosening of the guard system.

By the time of Zhu Zhanji, the population of Ming Dynasty had caught up with the load of the land, and it was not until the development of Huguangda that the country stabilized again.

In fact, the reason is very simple. If you turn a blind eye to it, it will feel very profound.

One family can become three or five families in 20 years.In modern Western societies, a family with five or six children is considered proud by their scholars.

But in ancient China, as long as there was a stable and unified environment, was it unusual for a family to have several children?
The modern industrial development of the West has indeed advanced by leaps and bounds, surpassing that of Chinese civilization, but agriculture has not. It can only be said to be equal.

So the West makes a fuss and takes pride in having a family of five, six, seven or eight children, but the Chinese people have long been used to it.

But there are two sides to things.

As studied by later generations of scholars, China's unified environment and advanced agricultural technology caused the population to explode too quickly.

What is a historical cycle?
Starting from the five grains, just after entering the prosperous age, within two generations, problems will appear in the prosperous age. The problem is not that complicated, but the population grows too fast and exceeds the land.

Just like the first industrial revolution in the UK, there is no profound reason. It was because of the natural environment of the UK that there was a market demand for the first generation of steam engines for pumping water.

As for the first generation of steam engines for water pumping, there was no demand in the French market, and there was also no demand in the Chinese market.

Therefore, while the first generation of steam engines for pumping water was widely used, the UK had second and third generation steam engines, which opened the curtain of the energy revolution.

But China happened to be in the Qing Dynasty, a period when science and technology was banned.

in other words.

The emergence of the third generation steam engine made the benefits of using machines as power higher than that of manpower. The textile industry in the Jianghuai region discovered steam engines and naturally used them.

Same thing as France.

The initial steam engines were not used in France. It was not until the latest generation of steam engines that they were used on a large scale in France. The introduction of the first industrial revolution was successful.

So did the Ming Dynasty resist advanced knowledge and technology?Did ancient Chinese civilization ever resist advanced knowledge and technology?

In fact, the bumper harvest in Hongwu 31 years had already given Zhu Gaochi a vague premonition.

Zhu Di's political crisis in history slowed down this speed.

However, after the Yongle era, the population explosion was inevitable.

Nowadays, there is no Jingnan, and Peking guided the industrial revolution in the north, complementing the economy of the south, and China's advanced agricultural technology. We are still in an agricultural society, and there is no need for contraceptive measures.

I'm afraid that the population explosion will not only be ahead of schedule, but will also be much higher than in history.

It won’t take more than ten years.

The population of Ming Dynasty will exceed Zhu Gaochi's expectation.

in other words.

The large-area well system implemented today, with military households occupying hundreds of acres, is essentially a manor model. It only takes one generation to go bankrupt.

At the age of 15, you can get married.

The managers of the Military Household Economic Cooperative, the Workers' and Civilian Union Department and other organizations looked serious, and Yu Xin, the Minister of Household Affairs, was a little incomprehensible.

He didn't quite understand what everyone was worried about.

"According to the inferences of the worker-peasant population distribution project team and the social population distribution estimated digital model calculation team, the plan to reclaim land needs to be started in advance."

Yu Xin was stunned.

Why did he not understand at all what these two awkward groups were for?

Zhu Gaochi frowned.

Society is developing, and as long as it is developing, it will never remain unchanged. Zhu Gaochi never thought that the current policy could last 100 years.

But he didn't expect it to be so soon.

He plans to reclaim the abandoned fields in 20 years.

"Is that the only way?"

Wei Yi, a military household economic cooperative, heard the emperor's grandson's inquiry and stepped forward to explain: "According to the derivation, there are the following situations."

"If it remains unchanged, the large-scale well system will begin to decline after ten years, returning to a traditional agricultural society with fifteen or even twenty acres of land per capita, and the large-scale well system will inevitably go bankrupt."

"At this time, as per capita agricultural resources are dwindling, people's incomes are decreasing, leading to a sharp drop in market demand, which will lead to the bankruptcy of the social resource allocation model."

No need for Wei Yi to explain the consequences, Zhu Gaochi knew how serious they would be.

Today's market is not natural.

It is precisely that today's industrial level has not truly reached the depth of the first industrial revolution.

The first industrial revolution was the replacement of manpower by machines.

Promoted from all walks of life.

In short, machines are made by people.

When machines have replaced manpower, the market has become more in-depth and there is a new level of demand, forcing the need for more machines.

The traditional human-powered knocking machines could no longer keep up with the needs of the situation, so machine-made machines began to be developed.

That is the second industrial revolution.

Today during the Ming Dynasty, many traditional industries still use human power, animal power, and even wind power.Today's booming market was created by Zhu Gaochi through the social resource allocation model.

If I have to give a clear description, it can be said that it is the principle of adding leverage.

Then the source of support is the accumulation of several aspects.

One is food stamps, and the other is food points. This is the core.

The market aspect is the distribution of social resources, which is actually the stable income and relaxed working environment of workers, followed by the large-scale well system.

In short, a large number of middle-income earners have been created from the two aspects of industry and agriculture, which has promoted the prosperity of the market.

Although it is a Chinese model, it is actually a different approach based on different environments.

In the harsh environment of competition and suppression, future generations will need to strive to catch up, so they can only reduce costs.

But now in Ming Dynasty, Zhu Gaochi does not have the harsh external competition and suppression environment, and needs to maintain "high costs".

Both the cost should be high and the price should be low.

Then low food prices, low energy prices, convenient transportation, etc. are the key.

Low food prices will also result in the income of farmers with ten acres of land being far lower than the income of ordinary workers.

Then, with the development of agricultural machinery, the well system model was used to give each household [-] acres of farmland, ensuring their status and income.

In short.

This is a later Chinese model, an improved version in the Ming Dynasty.

Same problem today.

Zhu Gaochi just didn't expect that he would meet him so soon.

Yu Xing, the Minister of Household Affairs, had just been promoted by Zhu Di. He always felt that his talents were good, but he suddenly felt worried.

He didn't know what the emperor's grandson was worried about.

"It seems that I want to know more about Peiping later." Yu Xin secretly thought that he did not want to be dismissed so soon.

Zhu Gaochi was actually not very distressed.

He is just a little confused.

I didn't expect it to be so curly.

At first, he was busy in Peiping to deal with Jing Nan. Now that Jing Nan is gone, he still wants to live in peace and quiet for a few years.

Ming Dynasty is so powerful, why is he still working so hard?

But the population growth in Peiping brought about all the social problems behind it, so he had to find a way to get involved.

"Why do I always feel like there is an invisible whip behind my back, urging me." Zhu Gaochi couldn't help but think this way.

It was like this in the previous life, and it is still like this in the second life.

Is it the genes of Lao Zhu's family, or is it just Chinese civilization that makes people unable to be lazy?

that's true.

Don’t they all say that Lao Zhu is the traditional farmer’s thought? In fact, isn’t it the core of Chinese civilization and tireless struggle?

Peiping's population has increased by more than 11, and including this year, it will be 30 million.

The entire north, as well as the south, which has a large population base even though it has only started to promote industrialization in the past two years.

Zhu Gaochi's mind suddenly flashed.

Zhu Yuanzhang said that he would organize 50 people to accompany Zhu Di on the Western Expedition. Was he just talking nonsense, or did he actually have this idea?

You must know that there is one thing that Lao Zhu has been doing throughout his life.

There is a steady stream of immigrants from densely populated areas to sparsely populated areas.

However, Lao Zhu did not act randomly. The places where immigrants were immigrated were all under control, and they did not have to be filled with the lives of ordinary people.

Not only immigrating to the north, but also immigrating to Yunnan and Guizhou.

For example, it is recorded in history that 10,000 military households were immigrated to Lijiang at one time, and [-]+ people went to the local area.

Even so, by the late Yongle Dynasty, the population of Ming Dynasty still showed signs of rapid growth, which shows the rapid growth of population.

After thinking about it, Zhu Gaochi could only ask someone to tell Zhu Di that he would go a thousand miles further and control the entire Yili.

……

"A thousand miles."

Zhu Di received his son's letter and sighed with emotion after reading it. His son has such a big appetite and he is indeed his son.

One Hami is not enough.

It's not even enough.

My son should be able to understand his own mood.

Zhu Di did not dare to ignore his son's opinions. The main reason was that logistics required supplies from the mainland and had to be discussed.

Now that he had obtained the consent, Zhu Di waved his hand, and tens of thousands of troops marched westward from Beishebali to Yilibaili City.

Zhu Di wrote to Hei's son Huo Zhe that he wanted to continue to be his neighbor. A thousand miles was too far to reminisce about the past.

Hei Erhuo was furious after receiving Zhu Di's letter.

"It's too compelling."

"He wants to swallow a handful of Yili without fear of bursting his stomach."

The black ones can still retreat.

Then he retreated to the Atami area a thousand miles away, but he wanted to reason with Zhu Di, and he was not such a bully.

(End of this chapter)