After Zhu Jingyuan read the news ahead, he turned to the map around the Great Qin Sea on the other side.
Looking at places like Crete, Tripoli, and Tunisia, they will gradually be cleared out in the future.
The Ming Dynasty had to arrange for immigrants to come in before they could truly occupy these lands.
Zhu Jingyuan didn't think much about it, so he asked the palace official to write a telegram asking the imperial household department to immigrate.
As a result, the Ministry of Accounts quickly responded:
"There are too many places that need to be immigrated now. Please give His Highness Prince Dashi a detailed introduction to the advantages of the area where you want to immigrate, and what preferential conditions the local area can provide to immigrants, so that the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Rites can help His Highness do publicity."
Zhu Jingyuan looked at this reply and fell into deep thought.
He and most of the generals of the Ming Dynasty were accustomed to claiming that the Ming Dynasty had no shortage of people and looked down upon the population of other ethnic groups.
As a result, it is now discovered that the population of the Ming Dynasty may not be enough!
There are now about 350 million people in the Ming Dynasty, and the total population of all ethnic groups in all vassal states should be more than 700 million.
The land that the Ming Dynasty now occupies is almost two-thirds of the entire earth's land area.
These populations, especially the local population of 350 million, have no advantages compared to the Qing Dynasty, which was an agricultural society at the same time.
Mainly because in the past 100 years or so, Ming Dynasty has continued to emigrate.
After the completion of industrialization, the population growth momentum that should have continued for a long time was curbed by the world war that lasted for more than ten years.
So the existing population is a bit insufficient.
But now the war is finally over.
According to Zhu Jingyuan's historical experience in his previous life, a baby boom will break out after a world war, especially in victorious countries.
Now the Ming Dynasty is carrying out construction in most of the world, and workers and immigrants have to come up with sufficient conditions to find them.
Not only shipbuilding-related industries, but factories across the country are actually crazy busy right now.
The entire Ming Dynasty stood on the cusp of the three powerful forces that merged into one: the end of the great war, large-scale colonial expansion, and the second industrial revolution.
The market's strong demand for workers has enabled all ordinary people to earn enough money, and their living standards have also skyrocketed.
This will definitely make the baby boom even more intense.
Zhu Jingyuan estimated that the population of Ming Dynasty would at least double in the next twenty years.
As for the food supply needed for a booming population...
Doesn't seem to be a problem either.
Since the Renwu Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty has never been short of food.
The Ming Dynasty was an agricultural civilization and had experienced a very painful lesson. Now it had enough fertile land and would not allow any problems with food supply.
There are about 350 million people in the Ming Dynasty. The local food production can basically meet all needs, and it can be balanced without imports.
At the same time, the Ming Dynasty controlled the grain-producing areas of Indochina, which could serve as a direct external guarantee for local grain supply.
There is also Xintianfu Imperial Village. If the local grain production is relaxed, it will be enough to supply the entire Ming Dynasty.
All grain-producing areas are large-scale farms, and the small-scale intensive farming model no longer exists.
The actual total grain output of the entire Ming Dynasty exceeded the actual demand for grain rations by more than four times.
Three-quarters of the grain is used in other industries such as breeding, brewing, and chemicals.
No businessman dares to mess with food, because the volume within this industry is too large.
The key is that the emperor controls the Xintianfu Imperial Village, a huge world-class granary.
If Xintianfu Imperial Village stops brewing wine, the remaining grain will make the hoarders jump off the building.
Under such circumstances, the exploration of the North Yinzhou Plain is about to begin.
More large farms will be built.
As for more grain production, it is basically impossible to participate in the supply of rations, and most of it will directly go into animal husbandry.
Further increase the supply of meat and eggs and continue to improve overall living standards.
The time when ordinary people can eat meat every day is not too far away.
Now ordinary workers have money, food continues to be plentiful, and the world is finally at peace.
In this exciting era, giving birth to a child will be equally exciting.
Zhu Jingyuan feels that the Ming Dynasty will barely be short of people until this generation of baby boomers grow up.
But what should I do now?
Is it like advertising to attract people like selling a house?
But even if I advertise, I may not be able to attract many people.
In Zhu Jingyuan's previous life, if a place like Crete recruited immigrants, there would be no difficulty at all.
Europe, the Mediterranean, Greece, and the Aegean Sea, these words are piled up, and if you want to immigrate unconditionally, there will definitely be as many as you want.
But now, people in the Ming Dynasty have little interest in Taixi. The general impression is that it is the hometown of Xiyi and the place with the largest number of Xiyi people.
Except for a small number of people who are interested in studying Western Yi, ordinary people would not think of immigrating to Western Europe.
At present, the Ming Dynasty's first immigration target is Xintianfu, and this perception is basically impossible to be reversed in the future.
Because no matter from all aspects of comparison, compared with the Taixi Continent, Daqinhai is completely defeated by Xintianfu.
Even if we do not take into account the mature cultural environment of the Ming Dynasty and simply consider the climate environment, Qinhai and Taixi will also be completely defeated.
The people of the Ming Dynasty are an agricultural people, and immigrants first look at whether they are suitable for farming. In this regard, the West is completely defeated.
Even if we only consider whether it is livable, Daqinhai and Taixi are also not good.
Among the knowledge Zhu Jingyuan learned in school in his previous life, the description of the climate of the Great Qinhai Sea and the temperate maritime climate of northwestern Thailand gives people a feeling that they are particularly suitable for human habitation.
That is actually influenced by the filter of the superiority of Thai and Western culture, as well as the more obvious influence of the filter of developed countries.
In fact, the climate around the Western Taipei Continent and the Great Qin Sea is not good enough compared to Xintianfu.
The Nanyinzhou continent is relatively small, only one-fifth of the entire old continent of Shenoumo.
The intensity of land-sea convection in Nanyinzhou is much lower than that in the Old World, and the same type of climate in the Old World will become "smooth" here.
The core area of Xintianfu, that is, the plain area in the southeast of Nanyinzhou, has the same climate type as the Ming Dynasty Jiangnan area, which is a humid subtropical monsoon climate.
Therefore, the temperature and precipitation changes here are basically the same as those in the Jiangnan region of the Ming Dynasty, but overall they have become more relaxed.
The summer is not so hot and the winter is not so cold.
For example, New Tianfu City is Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina in Zhu Jingyuan's previous life.
Daily temperatures in winter range from 7 to 14 degrees, and in summer from 20 to 30 degrees.
Sanqing City is opposite New Tianfu. When the city was named, Sanqing was chosen between New Chongqing and Sanqing, which was the former capital of Uruguay, Montevideo.
Winter temperatures here range from eight to sixteen degrees, and summer temperatures range from eighteen to twenty-eight degrees.
Even the extremely low temperature caused by a sudden cold wave is only in the range of minus three to five degrees, which is almost the normal low temperature in North China.
From the perspective of Ming people, the climate in the southeastern coastal areas of Xintianfu seems to shift back and forth between mid-spring and early summer throughout the year, with rain and heat occurring at the same time.
Summers around the Daqin Sea are dry and hot with varying periods of rain and heat.
The heat-deficient northwestern part of Thailand has formed a strange custom of collective sunbathing due to long periods of coldness and humidity.
In addition to this mild hardship, there are also unique "mild deserts" and "mild rainforests" in other areas of Nanyinzhou.
Lima, the capital of Peru, is in the desert, but the temperature in winter is 14 to 18 degrees, and in summer the temperature is 19 to 26 degrees.
Bogotá, the capital of Colombia, is located in the mountains. The temperature is between 8 and 20 degrees every day all year round, and it is spring all year round.
Medellin, the second largest city, has temperatures between 17 and 28 degrees every day throughout the year, and it is early summer all year round.
Brasilia, the capital of Brazil, is located on a low plateau inland. The winter temperature ranges from 13 to 25 degrees Celsius, and the summer temperature ranges from 18 to 27 degrees Celsius.
In fact, the Australian continent, which is half the size of Nanyinzhou, will have further "smoothing" of all climate types.
However, the terrain of Australia is the worst in the world, which is exactly the opposite of Nanyinzhou. Most of the areas are deserts and arid areas.
The proportion of habitable areas in Australia is too small. The key is that there are not many places suitable for farming, and the land is not fertile.
Therefore, the new Tianfu of the Ming Dynasty was Nanyinzhou, not the closer Australian continent.
If mainland Australia were reversed, it might become a strong contender for the new Tianfu.
But the problem is that now I am in charge of the area around the Great Qinhai, not Xintianfu. How should I attract people here?
You can't ask the imperial court to force immigrants. The Ming Dynasty hasn't done that for a long time, and the actual effect is not good.
This is an overseas country, not a homeland. Immigration here is to protect the land, not to serve as a source of tax revenue...
Zhu Jingyuan considered coming and going, and found that the biggest advantage of Daqinhai was that there was already a Xiyi population here.
People from the Ming Dynasty should be able to directly become the middle and upper class.
But he gave these people to the Ottomans in exchange for ownership of Crete.
After the locals were sent away, the only advantage here was that there had been people there before, so there were ready-made houses to live in.
Even if houses are given away in other areas, they usually provide materials for immigrants to build themselves, but here we can really give them directly.
And then continue to boast that all seasons are like spring? Warm in winter and cool in summer? Anyway, most immigrants have never been to Xintianfu, so it is difficult to make actual comparisons.
Compared with the northern areas of the Ming Dynasty, this place can barely be considered warm in winter and cool in summer.
In addition to the free house and ready-made exotic customs that can be experienced, Daqinhai still has some advantages.
Then there is a new question: after these immigrants are brought here, how should their subsequent life and work be arranged?
If this area is not suitable for farming, there will be no need for a large number of farmers, and it should be dominated by industry, commerce, and service industries.
In the future, oil refining, petrochemicals, shipbuilding, trade, tourism, and even automobile and machinery manufacturing may be developed here...
But the first thing to start is the construction of railways, roads and oil pipelines.
Therefore, just like the big food country, we will start with engineering construction immigration.
Where workers want to immigrate depends on their wages. Giving them houses and offering slightly higher wages should be able to attract people.
Zhu Jingyuan outlined a general direction and ideas, and asked Chang Shi, Dian Bo, and staff to prepare a development plan for propaganda purposes.
The publicity plan is not a formal development plan, so the content can be relatively simple, with certain gimmicks and exaggerations.
After sorting it out, let Dianbo write documents based on these plans and reply to the Ministry of Household Affairs to apply for immigration.
Zhu Jingyuan himself wrote another telegram directly to his father and grandfather.
Ask his father to confirm the administrative divisions of Tripoli, Tunisia, Algeria, and Crete as soon as possible.
It is recommended that all of them should still be assigned to the Dashi Kingdom, but at the same time, the Chief Envoy Department should be established.
In any case, the vassal state will be withdrawn in the future, and there is no point in establishing a new vassal state alone. The Great Food Country does not mind having more control over some areas in name.
The key is to prepare officials for these places as soon as possible. At the same time, the big food countries also need more officials.
Nowadays, there are more and more things happening in the Dashi Kingdom, and Liu Zhixin and his honest ministers are overwhelmed with their work.
It is necessary to arrange for yourself a sufficiently shrewd and capable right chief historian, and a right judge to share the work of Liu Zhixin and Xu Minghui.
After finishing writing, Zhu Jingyuan suddenly realized that the place where officials were needed was definitely not just the Dashi Kingdom.
The Ming Dynasty may not only have insufficient population, but also may not have enough officials.
Now I am afraid that as long as I graduate from college, I can directly go to work as an official overseas.
