In Ming Dynasty, this is not just a slogan, but an action that must be practiced.
"Every Ming Dynasty family had six children!"
Having six children is the minimum.
If possible, what's the harm in having a football team?
As early as the Nanhua period, Emperor Zhu Da tried every means to encourage immigrants to have children. Not only did they provide various preferential treatment on housing, but in order to ensure the fertility rate, the second hospital built in Nanhua was the Maternal and Child Hospital. Subsequently, every new city had to build a hospital.
There are two hospitals, one is the First Hospital and the other is the Maternity and Children's Hospital. In the latter, women are admitted free of charge to give birth.
Even in the "housing system" established by the government and the company, only married men can apply for rental housing, otherwise they can only purchase commercial housing. Even as early as the Nanhua Company period, a special wage system-childcare allowance was established
, employees can receive an additional 0.5 yuan in childcare allowance for each child they give birth to until the child reaches the age of fourteen.
You must know that in the Ming Dynasty, one dollar is basically a month's living expenses for many people. The childcare allowance of 0.5 yuan is almost equivalent to the Ming Dynasty helping its people raise their children.
But even so, Emperor Zhu didn't feel that the government was losing money. After all, through this kind of encouragement, the daimyo got the most valuable manpower!
This is the most important.
In order to solve the problem of insufficient women, indentured maids and indentured female workers were of course implemented as the "labor introduction system" until now.
Why are you racking your brains to increase the marriage and childbearing rate?
In the final analysis, it is still because of insufficient population.
The Ming Dynasty was too big and its population was too small.
Especially in the early days of Nanhua, facing the danger of being invaded at any time, Emperor Zhu Da would wake up every morning and think about how many babies from Nanhua were born into the world overnight.
Later, after annexing Chile and Argentina, Emperor Zhu Da would wake up every morning and think about how many more babies were born yesterday.
Of course, those are Hispanic and biracial babies.
Babies are productivity and fighting power. This is definitely not a question of trade-off, but a question of survival.
Fertility rate is the foundation for Ming Dynasty to gain a foothold on this land. If Ming Dynasty wants to rule this land forever, it must have a sufficient population.
What is the current population of Ming Dynasty?
Twenty-three million!
Yes, at the end of 1874, the Ming Dynasty's population exceeded the 20 million mark for the first time, reaching an astonishing 23.62 million people.
Two years ago, the population of Ming Dynasty was only 13 million, of which 3 million were Spanish, mixed-race Indians and Indians.
What caused the Ming Dynasty’s population explosion?
Of course it's the fertility rate.
In 1872, the number of newborns to the Chinese population in the Ming Dynasty was 2.13 million.
In 1873, the number of newborns to the Chinese population in the Ming Dynasty was 3.01 million.
In 1874, the number of newborns to the Chinese population in the Ming Dynasty was 3.8 million.
At the same time, the number of Chinese families in Ming Dynasty is about to exceed the 4 million mark. In October this year, the number of immigrants exceeded the 1 million mark, including 610,000 adult men, 320,000 women, and 70,000 children...
"In the Ming Dynasty, there are still 1 million bachelors!"
Looking at the increasing number of bachelors, Emperor Zhu Da was also very melancholy!
How can I not feel melancholy?
Is millions of bachelors a potential social security problem? But every year of delay means that the Ming Dynasty will have one million fewer people!
"My dear, what's there to worry about?"
Looking at Zhu Xianhai, whose brows were furrowed, Charlotte, the empress of the empire, walked up to him with her bulging belly. This was her fifth pregnancy.
Emperor Zhu Da has always taken responsibility for himself. In the past few years, in addition to having four children with the queen, Yin Lisabai gave birth to five for him, Marlena gave birth to three for him, and Moni gave birth to three children for him.
Ka bore him six, Maria bore two, and even some of the court ladies or ladies' maids bore seven children.
As a father of twenty-seven children, no, he is about to have thirty children, Monica is pregnant again, and there is Song Bing, Yin, Lisa Bai's Chinese teacher.
In short, he is an emperor who fulfills his duties and is not someone who just shouts slogans.
"What a worry!"
Emperor Zhu Da rubbed his brow and said.
It's a sad person.
"We are worried about insufficient population!"
Looking at Charlotte's bulging belly, Emperor Zhu said while caressing it.
"Now the Four-Nation Alliance has been established, but among the Four-Nation Alliance, we are the weakest link. I don't mean industry, but population. France's population is only 37 million, and Austria-Hungary's is 34 million.
, the most populous is the Russian Empire, they have a population of nearly 90 million, and their population... means their combat power!"
Once again, Emperor Zhu Da was a little jealous of Russia. There was nothing he could do, he had so many families!
Why, Germany will replace France as the largest power in Europe. Population is their biggest advantage. With the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War, Germany's population has soared to 41 million, while France has only 36 million left. Since then, the population gap has continued to widen.
Historically, by the eve of the outbreak of World War I in 1914, France's birth rate had dropped to a terrifying 18%, while Germany's had remained at around 50% for a long time. Therefore, William II's empire had a population of 66.9 million, and it was difficult to fight against it.
The Third Republic had only 40 million.
The population gap caused France to be destined to fall into the ranks of a second-class power, and its population of nearly 70 million was the reason why the Second German Empire dared to challenge Britain. At that time, Britain only had a population of 45 million.
In the competition between major powers, industry and technology are important, but population in the industrial era is also a "non-renewable" precious resource.
"And what about us? We only have a population of 20 million!"
In Emperor Zhu Da’s population arithmetic problem, non-Chinese will never be included. In fact, the reason why the Ming Dynasty has not established a parliament until now is ultimately to prevent non-Chinese from occupying parliamentary seats due to an excessive proportion of the population.
Well, that's right.
The Ming Dynasty was a monarchical empire, the kind with a special authority. It needed a damn parliament.
"With such a small population, we really can't do anything. Any country in the alliance can crush us. I mean the population."
Charlotte, the empress of the Ming Empire, rolled her eyes when she saw her husband's dull expression when he mentioned the population.
"Forget it. A few months ago, I remember Zuo Zongtang happily saying that the population structure of the Ming Dynasty was good, and that the adults were far better than those of other European countries. Didn't you still agree deeply at that time?" "Uh...
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His wife's words made Emperor Zhu Da mute.
Indeed, to a certain extent, the demographic structure of Ming Dynasty is indeed very good. After all, in the past 14 years, those who immigrated to Ming Dynasty were basically young adults. There are almost no immigrants over 45 years old. Even until now, the Chinese population
None of them meet the retirement standards, and those who are over 50 years old can only be counted.
How many adults over 16 and under 50 are there in Ming Dynasty now... 9.2 million!
And 90% of them are young men and women under the age of forty. If you calculate this, the population situation of Ming Dynasty is indeed not that serious.
"That's different. After all, our Ming Dynasty is really vast and sparsely populated! South America has 3.4 million square kilometers of land, and North America has more than 3.8 million square kilometers. In total, it's a big country with 7 million square kilometers of land, and a population of 20 million.
It’s not enough!”
The insufficient population of the Ming Dynasty must be directly related to the vast territory and the scarcity of people. Emperor Zhu Da selectively ignored the reality that most of the land in Alaska, the northwest region, and the Beihai region was uncultivable.
"Who said that four million families give birth to four million children in one year, and in five years there will be a population of 20 million. In five years, 6 million people will immigrate, form 2.5 million families, and give birth to 2 million children. Twenty
Within this year, the population will exceed 100 million..."
Charlotte said with a smile as she looked at the imperial emperor in front of her who was worried about population.
"My dear, as the emperor, you should now consider the education of millions or even tens of millions of newborns every year in the next few years. After all, the Ming Empire implements compulsory education!"