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Last year, land administration was rectified and acres were cleared across the country. In ancient times, land clearing was always accompanied by population censuses.

Now, the Ministry of Household Affairs has submitted a summary showing that the population in the south is increasing too fast!

The last census was conducted five years ago, and there were 86.77 million people (over 12 years old) in the country. Now it has soared to 99.15 million (including newly occupied areas such as Vietnam, excluding overseas territories such as Luzon).

The average annual population growth rate has been above 2.5%.

Jiangsu's population has grown the fastest, staying above 2.9% for a long time. The province's population has exceeded 9 million. Nanjing is surrounded by Jinling Prefecture, which is directly under the central government and does not fall under the jurisdiction of Jiangsu. However, Shanghai and its surrounding areas are under the jurisdiction of Jiangsu Province.

Taking into account the landless urban population, Jiangsu farmers have about 8 acres of cultivated land per capita.

It seems that there is a lot of cultivated land per capita, but it also contains a lot of coastal saline-alkali land. Moreover, there are many wealthy families in Jiangsu. As long as they hand over their land honestly, each person can keep 20 acres of good land. This 20 acres of good land per person can be converted into more poor land. Therefore, the per capita cultivated land of ordinary farmers is definitely less than 8 acres.

Furthermore, since children are not registered until they are 12 years old, farmers have a lot of children at home. If children are included, the per capita cultivated land of ordinary farmers in Jiangsu is most likely less than 5 acres.

The Jiangxi side is even more terrifying. Since Zhao Han ruled the earliest and escaped the great famine in the late Ming Dynasty, the population is not as sharp as the Jiangnan side. Although immigrants continue to migrate to the north, the current population has exceeded 10 million. On paper, the per capita cultivated land area of ​​farmers is less than 6 acres (excluding children under 12 years old), which also includes a large amount of mountainous land.

In addition, there are many nobles in Jiangxi, such as Fei Ruhe and Zhang Tieniu. The land granted by military service has exceeded the per capita limit of 100 acres. There are also a large number of soldiers who have been given land due to their service. Some families in Jiangxi that have many children have less than 3 acres of cultivated land per person after their children reach the age of 12 and register.

Jiangxi has many mountains but little land. How much food can be grown in a few acres of mountainous land?

People in those mountainous areas still rely on sweet potatoes and corn as their staple foods and cannot afford rice at all. The more children they have, the more difficult life becomes for farmers.

More and more farmers in Jiangxi, because of their limited land, are scrambling to farm the land of nobles and wealthy families. In recent years, nobles who have been granted more land and wealthy families who have reserved more land no longer need to buy foreign slaves to farm their land. There are also many young farmers who come out of the mountains, leave the land to their fathers and brothers for farming, and then go to work in the county.

Fujian is even worse because there is less cultivated land but a growing population.

With only a few acres of farmland per capita, mostly in mountainous areas, more and more farmers in the coastal areas of Fujian are going out to sea to run boats. But they don't want to immigrate, even to the nearest Taiwan, they don't want to move there, and they always keep their household registration on the mainland.

Taiwan Prefecture is also under the jurisdiction of Fujian. In addition to Taiwan Island, Ryukyu County and Fangzhang County established in Ryukyu are also under the jurisdiction of Taiwan Prefecture.

Zhao Han told Guo Shunyu, Secretary of the Ministry of Household Affairs: "Immigration to the north was suspended last time, but the south still cannot stop. There are too few Han people in Taiwan Prefecture, especially in Ryukyu and Fangzhang counties. The total number of Han people in the two counties is only more than 30,000. Fujian and Guangdong provinces will immigrate 50,000 people to Taiwan within three years."

"I obey the order!" Guo Shunyu raised his hand.

Zhao Han thought for a while and continued: "Jiangxi also has too many people. Ten thousand people immigrate to Hebei every year."

Zhao Han still takes good care of the people of Jiangxi. After all, it is the land of Longxing, and he cannot bear to immigrate to the remote and cold Liaoning.

Hebei is an excellent place for immigrants. The current population of the province is only 1.8 million (excluding Beiping Prefecture). Although it is relatively cold, you can divide the fields when you go there, and they are all divided into good fields, which is much more cost-effective than farming in the mountains in Jiangxi.

If this growth rate continues, in five years the country's population will be close to 120 million. In another twenty years, the per capita cultivated land area in several large southern provinces will fall to less than 4 acres. In another fifty years, the contradiction between man and land will become very tense.

But for overseas expansion and industrial development, it is a good thing.

The more tense the conflict between man and land becomes, the more people are willing to venture overseas, and the more people are willing to leave the land and work in factories.

But if there are too many, they will definitely explode.

In the history of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties, the population was counted in the eighth year of Shunzhi, which was the first two years. At that time, there were 10 million Dingkou, and it can be estimated that the population was about 30 million to 40 million. Only fifty years later, the population of the Qing Dynasty had increased to 80 million. Another fifty years later, the population of the Qing Dynasty surged to 180 million. Another twenty years later, the population exceeded 200 million.

A population of 200 million is estimated to be the limit of the sweet potato era, and uprisings of various sizes will continue to emerge.

Of course, the population could continue to increase, reaching more than 400 million by the end of the Qing Dynasty. There are many beggars, refugees everywhere, people are generally malnourished, famine occurs everywhere when natural disasters occur, and the average life expectancy of the people is only more than 30 years old.

Under Zhao Han's rule, the population is now close to 100 million, which is about the level of the early Yongzheng years. Because farmland has been widely divided, ordinary people are living a decent life. Even if they eat corn and sweet potato porridge, people in remote mountain areas can still eat three meals a day. However, due to frugality, I was only willing to eat three meals during the busy farming season.

Except for those who suffered family changes, such as illness, almost every farmer in the New Dynasty of Datong had surplus grain storage.

In the eyes of traditional scholar-bureaucrats, every family has a surplus of food, which is already a sign of peace and prosperity.

Therefore, Song Yingxing said: "Why should your Majesty worry about the population? There has never been anything like this in our dynasty. In the twelve years since the founding of the country, the population has reached hundreds of millions, and the people have enough food and clothing. Just talking about this, it has surpassed the prosperous times of the Han and Tang Dynasties. Only when the population is prosperous can all industries be prosperous. Xing. As for Jiangnan, the population has not yet recovered to the pre-Ming Dynasty. The population of Hebei is less than 2 million, and there is plenty of land for the people to cultivate."

"It's true." Zhao Han looked past the officials and looked further south. "The land in Nanyang is fertile and is waiting for the Han people to cultivate it. Only when the population becomes more prosperous will there be enough left."

"Your Majesty, we have military information to report!"

In addition to sending military intelligence reports to the cabinet, the Ministry of War, and the governor's office, military intelligence reports from various places must also be sent to the emperor as soon as possible.

It was not an urgent military situation. After reading it, Zhao Han said to the cabinet ministers: "The news from Nanyang is that the Netherlands is expanding aggressively and has taken away three Portuguese ports in one go. Ceylon (Sri Lanka) has been completely owned by the Netherlands."

When they heard that it was Ceylon, the officials didn't take it seriously.

Although Zhao Han vigorously popularized the concept of globalization, officials all knew where Ceylon was. But who cares about such a far away place? It’s already close to India. If it were Nanyang, they might still care.

Zhao Han lamented: "Portugal has really declined too much. The Netherlands was severely damaged by our army, but it was still able to take away three Portuguese ports in half a year."

However, it is precisely because of being beaten by China that the Netherlands wants to find compensation elsewhere.

The Dutch seized the Portuguese colony of Sri Lanka three years earlier than in history. The Netherlands has lost too many interests in Nanyang, even Malacca, and must find new profit growth points.

China is not easy to mess with, so go bully Portugal!

Sri Lanka is rich in spices and top-quality gems, and taking it there will make up for the losses.

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Batavia.

The Dutch governor, Karl Rainiers, was already very satisfied at this moment.

The previous governor lost cities and territory, but he was able to capture three ports.

Today, on the entire east coast of India, only Nagapatam Port is still in Portuguese hands, and all other colonial ports belong to the Netherlands. It's a pity that Nagapatam Port has more than 300 Portuguese defenders, and the castle is extremely strong. It will take at least a year of siege to conquer it, and there is no ability to defeat it yet.

After a big victory in Sri Lanka, Carl Rainiers became increasingly displeased with Namba. A small city-state sent 300 troops to fight last year, but the great Dutch East India Company actually lost.

Although more than 200 of the 300 troops were Javanese servants, the defeat was still ugly.

Carl Rainiers held a meeting and told the parliamentarians: "The Sultanate of Mampawa must be defeated. One is to shock the sultans of Kalimantan, and the other is to boost the country that we failed last time. Morale, and the third is to seize the gold mine there. I heard that the gold mine there is rich and can be turned into gold without any refining."

Possibly because of the confidence brought by the victory in the war, a congressman agreed: "I support your Excellency the Governor. After occupying the Mampawa Sultanate, we should also attack the Sukadana Sultanate. Matalan is our vassal state, and Suqadana Kadana is a vassal state of Matalan, so it is equivalent to being a tributary state of ours. But this Sukardana actually took advantage of the civil strife in Matalan to declare independence and no longer obey us!"

The Sultanate of Sukadana is located in the southwest corner of Kalimantan Island, 280 miles south of Pontianak. Later generations only left the name "Sukadana Bay".

The Dutch East India Company was really poor and crazy. Facing China, they not only failed militarily, but also had a lot of business taken away. Looking for help from Portugal is not enough. They have not let go of the Nambawa gold mine, and now they are eyeing the Sukkadana Sultanate.

When Zhao Han received the military intelligence, Dutch warships and troops had already returned from Sri Lanka.

After a little repair, the army was dispatched, with the front pointed directly at Nambawa.

A total of 1,200 infantry were dispatched, 400 of which were Dutch Army troops, and the remaining 800 were all Javanese indigenous servants.

However, China’s diplomatic note has not yet been sent.

The golden seal of King Nambawa engraved by the Ministry of Rites has just been brought to Guangzhou by an envoy. However, Sultan Nambawa's credentials have been presented, and he has essentially become a vassal state of China.

The Dutch army arrived outside Nambawa City.

The Sultan of the country was horrified and quickly sent people out of the city to shout: "Nambawa has surrendered to China. We are a vassal of China. Attacking us is going to war with China!"

The Dutch generals who returned from Sri Lanka with a great victory did not care about so many, and immediately ordered: "Either surrender to the Netherlands, hand over the gold mines, and allow the Netherlands to preach here. Or accept the bombardment!"

After several days of continuous bombardment, the Sultan could no longer bear it and actually surrendered out of the city.

The Chinese envoy also took the king's golden seal and took a boat to the nearby waters.

The Dutch warships arrived, and the two sides communicated. The Chinese envoy was speechless: the king he was ordered to canonize actually surrendered to the Netherlands again.

If a woman does not marry two husbands, a country cannot belong to two families.

How to calculate this?