With the arrival of the hot summer, Zhu Youxiao did not go to escape the summer heat, but studied the continued expansion in the capital.&1t;/p>

The internal situation in the Ming Dynasty has been getting better this year, and the north has basically stabilized completely. In the next few years, as long as there is no big accident, there will be basically no problem in the reform of the south.&1t;/p>

The Ming Dynasty has also occupied the South Ocean and Australia. To the north, it has occupied the outer northeast and the Mongolian grasslands, and to the west, it has advanced to the Balkhash Lake area of ​​Central Asia.&1t;/p>

The Indochina Peninsula is now becoming more and more like the back garden of the Ming Dynasty.&1t;/p>

However, there are still many problems. The first is that the Nanyang area is not thorough, and many islands have not been included in the scope of opening. Jinzhou Province (Sumatra), which has just been established for a few years, has only opened a part of it. The indigenous people on the island have not been completely solved.&1t;/p>

Some islands do not have much prospects for opening up, while the natives above are basically ignored.&1t;/p>

Currently, the largest openings in Southeast Asia are Luzon, Jawa Island, and Malacca. At the same time, Borneo also has some areas, but the soil above is not so fertile.&1t;/p>

In addition, there are many island resources that are relatively rich, but they have not yet been included in the scope of opening.&1t;/p>

"In the Nanyang area, we must continue to educate the indigenous people." Zhu Youxiao instructed the ministers during the morning court, "Let those indigenous people embrace civilization as soon as possible."&1t;/p>

"What Your Majesty said is reasonable." Shen Qing agreed.&1t;/p>

However, the Ming Dynasty's education of these indigenous people was based on conquering first and then education. To be completely just, it is obviously not very good.&1t;/p>

But the emperor was determined to occupy those valuable islands in the South China Sea. If the indigenous people on it were not dealt with, it would be difficult for the people to go there to open it.&1t;/p>

"In addition, how is the immigration situation in Northeast China?" Zhu Youxiao asked.&1t;/p>

"From the beginning of the year to now, more than 1.3 million people have been immigrated, and the population to immigrate to Northeast China this year is expected to reach about 3 million." An official from the Ministry of Civil Affairs replied.&1t;/p>

"Where is the railway? How is it built in the Northeast?" Zhu Youxiao asked.&1t;/p>

"The main railway line is almost built outside the northeast, and the railway branch line in the northeast has also begun to be constructed in various places. Basically, a rough railway branch line can be formed within three years." The General Railway Administration replied.&1t;/p>

"What about the Ministry of Agriculture?"&1t;/p>

"With the cooperation of the Civil Affairs Bureau and the State Administration of Railways, a rough opening can be completed within five years in terms of commercial grain and arable land resources in Northeast China."&1t;/p>

"Your Majesty, there is no need to worry about commercial grain. Nowadays, there are Northeast commodity grain production areas, as well as the four major commercial grain production areas of Hexi Corridor, Guanzhong Plain, and North China Plain. Commodity grain in the north is completely self-sufficient. In the south, there are Huguang commodity grain production areas and the import of commercial grain from various countries on the Indochina Peninsula, which are enough to maintain internal stability. The problem today is that the output of commercial grain production areas is gradually increasing, how to coordinate the issue of increasing market demand." Jiang Dejing said out of the list:&1t;/p>

"So I think that continuing to expand the scale of railway construction and releasing more agricultural population from the land. Increased urban population will allow these growing commercial grain production capacity to be digested. As for coordination, grain reserves are used for buffering. When reserves are long, urbanization of rural population will be accelerated. When grain reserves decline, the slowdown will be slowed down."&1t;/p>

"This method is feasible, you have drawn up a specific plan." Zhu Youxiao nodded.&1t;/p>

The biggest problem of the Ming Dynasty at present is to coordinate the market well. If the market is not coordinated well, the economy will fall into chaos. After all, after the Ming Dynasty's reforms, the commodity economy has occupied the mainstream of the market. Especially agricultural commodification, it is definitely the highest degree in Northeast China.&1t;/p>

Since I began to immigrate to the Northeast, I have never considered building a rural natural economy. Northeast agriculture is almost all commodity economy type.&1t;/p>

Grain output must be able to be exported after it is produced, and if it is not available, it will not be maintained. At this time, the scale of commercial grain production is still expanding, and the production efficiency is very high. Therefore, it is necessary to increase the urban population and continuously release the agricultural population with low production efficiency from the land and invest in construction, so as to increase the demand for commercial grain.&1t;/p>

To put it bluntly, it means continuing to carry out the enclosure movement to release the population from the land. And establishing a commodity agricultural model on the enclosed land.&1t;/p>

The larger the scale of commercial grain production, the more people can be drawn out and invested in construction. I completely disagree with the past model. If the population was drawn on such a large scale in the past, the world would have been in chaos.&1t;/p>

Nowadays, workers participating in the construction can get wages, wages can buy food and various commodities, and the people can live and maintain their lives. Moreover, the wages are not low, and their living standards have been improved.&1t;/p>

Zhu Youjiao attaches so much importance to the opening of commercial grain-producing areas, mainly to ensure grain and obtain more population investment in construction. Agriculture is the foundation of industry. If people want to engage in industry, they must at least eat enough first, right?&1t;/p>

"How many people have Australia immigrated this year?" Zhu Youxiao continued to ask.&1t;/p>

"In half a year, 150,000 people have been immigrated to Australia, mainly the agricultural and animal husbandry population. Now the Australian population has reached nearly 500,000. I think Australia's immigration can temporarily slow down. After our Ming Dynasty's maritime capacity has increased significantly, we will immigrate to Australia on a large scale." Jiang Dejing said, "At the same time, the immigration has reached 50,000 in the Americas, but the connection with the Ming Dynasty's commodity economy is slightly out of touch, and immigration should also be temporarily suspended."&1t;/p>

Zhu Youxiao thought for a moment and felt that overseas immigrants were indeed a little disconnected at this time. After all, the current overseas population is mainly engaged in agricultural and animal husbandry production.&1t;/p>

The mining industry has not had much trouble because of insufficient ship capacity. And there is no business, and not every place has such sufficient resources.&1t;/p>

If you want to immigrate overseas on a large scale, the only way is to improve maritime transportation capabilities, so that some activities can become commercially valuable, so that you can develop mining and other industries overseas.&1t;/p>

After discussion, Zhu Youxiao had to decide to suspend the overseas immigration process and reduce the number of overseas immigration. However, at the same time, it also increased the construction of overseas strongholds.&1t;/p>

It is planned to establish more strongholds on the west coast of North America to prepare for large-scale immigration in the future. At the same time, in Australia, the scale of prospecting will be increased and the road construction plan will be planned first. When the conditions are ripe, a large number of immigrants or workers can be transported over and construction can be started.&1t;/p>

"Report to Your Majesty, the gold force has already found gold mines in South Africa, but the specific reserves are still unclear." The mining supervisor of the Ministry of Industry reported.&1t;/p>

Originally, I thought it was a very ordinary report, but it made Zhu Youxiao Longyan happy.&1t;/p>

South Africa's cash mine!&1t;/p>

This is definitely a great news!&1t;/p>

This means that the Ming Dynasty could mine a large amount of gold. Zhu Youxiao immediately decided to increase troops to South Africa, and the troops sent by him could be used as miners first.&1t;/p>

On the one hand, it strengthens control over South Africa, and on the other hand, it gives the Ming Dynasty enough manpower to mine gold mines in South Africa.&1t;/p>

There are not so many black people in South Africa at this time. After all, black people are not highly productive, and most parts of South Africa do not have black people.&1t;/p>

Regarding the black people in South Africa, Zhu Youxiao quickly thought of the Boers' apartheid policy. It was equivalent to concentrating black people in one place and allowing them to form a country to manage them in general.&1t;/p>

Such a policy is good! Especially in this era, there are no human rights issues at all. Moreover, the Ming Dynasty gathered those black people together to help them improve their civilized level and productivity and improve their living standards, which is also a good thing!&1t;/p>

Concentrating black people in one province is also classified as imperial people for management, but only restricting their household registration migration. As long as there is no problem in administratively avoiding excessive taxes.&1t;/p>

So a set of administrative models developed in response to the situation in South Africa came out.&1t;/p>

Although the emperor did not understand the decision of the emperor to open up a South African province, the civil and military officials of the court did not understand it very well, it was not difficult to open a province in South Africa where there were few people.&1t;/p>

So in July of the 14th year of the Apocalypse, the Ming Dynasty sent a huge fleet to South Africa, and the fleet transported a large number of soldiers over.&1t;/p>

After continuous exploration, the South African gold troops finally discovered gold mines. And the number of gold mines in the future is increasing, and the gold mines here are now large and easy to mine.&1t;/p>

So the subsequent situation was reported, but two months later the local fleet arrived in South Africa.&1t;/p>

At this time, the Dutch had not yet been involved in South Africa. Of course, even if he had been involved in South Africa, the Ming Dynasty would kick the Dutch out of here.&1t;/p>

After all, South Africa's gold reserves account for 60% of the world's total, and the output of mines is very large, so the cost of opening up is relatively low.&1t;/p>

These gold will bring huge wealth to the Ming Dynasty, but gold is essentially just a commodity, and it can be used as hard currency worldwide. However, the Ming Dynasty does not need to import too many commodities from other countries, so gold is not so useful to the Ming Dynasty for the time being.&1t;/p>

But if these gold fall into the hands of other countries, there will be problems. Other countries can use a large amount of these gold commodities.&1t;/p>

However, these golds fall into the hands of the Ming Dynasty. If the Ming Dynasty weakens one day, there will be enough capital to recover soon.&1t;/p>

At the same time, once the Ming Dynasty controlled most of the world's gold production, it could use the gold standard and no longer use the silver standard mode.&1t;/p>

After all, the origin of silver is at this time in the hands of the duck. The duck can be exchanged for the Ming Dynasty by mining silver, but the Ming Dynasty is working for the ducks.&1t;/p>

So at this time, the Central Bank of Daming was planning the gold standard.&1t;/p>

Over the years, the gold reserves of the Central Bank of Daming have continued to rise to thousands of tons. However, the Ming Dynasty itself has a trade surplus, exports are more than imports, and precious metals will not flow out. At the same time, the precious metals are not exchanged for the circulation of paper money.&1t;/p>

As long as capital does not flow out, it is impossible to cause a run.&1t;/p>

Once gold in South Africa is mined, the Ming Dynasty can create a gold standard. (To be continued.)&1t;/p>
Chapter completed!