"Your Majesty is wise. Those natives don't know how high the sky is. After seeing the power of our Great Qin, they dare to provoke us!"

Wang Ben cupped his hands and spoke first.

"Yes! All those civilized countries were destroyed by our Great Qin, and a few small indigenous tribes still want to resist. It's really overestimating their own capabilities!"

"After all the natives in Yizhou are cleaned up, the people on the island will feel at ease!"

Meng Yi and Meng Tian followed closely behind and spoke one after another.

"Zhang Aiqing, how many people are there in Da Qin?"

Speaking of Yizhou and the indigenous people, Ying Zheng immediately thought of immigration.

Although Yizhou was conquered, if the people do not immigrate, it cannot truly be regarded as the territory of Great Qin!

When will it become as prosperous as Nanyang, and only the people of the Qin Dynasty will come and go, then it can truly be regarded as the land of the Qin Dynasty!

"Your Majesty, the current population of our country, Great Qin, is over 40 million!"

After his name was called, Zhang Han immediately stepped out of the queue and presented his report.

"How many?"

Ying Zheng seemed not to hear clearly and leaned forward with a shocked face.

The eyes of other ministers also immediately turned over.

In the past, the Qin Dynasty fought for many years, and even if it unified the six kingdoms, its population would only be over 20 million.

Since His Highness the Crown Prince came to Xianyang, he has invented many advanced weapons and achieved great successes one after another. Even in wars, the population consumed is very small!

At the same time, we developed internal affairs to allow the people to live a stable life, and tried every means to encourage births and develop the population.

But they remember that according to the last statistics, the population seemed to be less than 30 million!

How come it has grown so much in just one or two years?

"Your Majesty, this is the total number obtained by adding up the population numbers reported by various government offices during the census conducted years ago!"

In this era, there are almost no censuses, and household registration is also a simple household registration, so the data is not very accurate.

And these are the numbers reported by local governments. We don’t know how much water is in them!

In the past, taxes were heavy, so officials would naturally underpay if they could.

Otherwise, we would not be able to pay that much tax and would not be able to explain it to the superiors.

But now, ordinary people's taxes have been reduced a lot, and it's just a symbolic amount.

For the sake of their own political achievements, the Baobuqi government lied about the population to make their political achievements look better!

"Forty million people?"

Even after getting Zhang Han's affirmative answer, Ying Zheng still had an incredible expression.

"That's right!"

Zhang Han nodded firmly again.

"I really didn't expect that our country, Daqin, now has a population of 40 million?"

This is almost twice as much as before.

Ying Zheng was immediately excited.

This also proves that under his governance, Great Qin is heading towards prosperity.

"Congratulations to Your Majesty, under your wise leadership, our country, Great Qin, has become more prosperous!"

All the officials immediately raised their hands and congratulated in unison.

The most important indicator of whether a country is prosperous is its population.

With a prosperous population, the national power will naturally not be too weak!

On the contrary, if the population dwindles, the country will certainly not be too strong.

Even if you have money, you will be annexed by other big countries sooner or later!

Just like Loulan, it occupies a very advantageous position in the Western Region. However, the population is too small, and the surrounding powerful countries want to take a bite.

Fortunately, Queen Loulan was smart and embraced Da Qin.

When he was besieged by the other two countries, he was rescued by Da Qin!

"The people are living a stable life, living a prosperous life, and have enough food for their families. Coupled with the various encouraging policies in the past two years, the people's motivation to have children has also increased. The population increase is inevitable!"

Zhang Han also seized the opportunity and quickly praised him.

But this is also a fact. If you want people to have more children and increase the population, the first thing you have to do is to feed and clothe the people!

If you don't even have enough food for these few people in your family, how can you possibly have more children?

If you are born, you will just starve with them!

"Hahaha, it seems that Feiyu's idea is still useful!"

Ying Feiyu smiled knowingly, and at the same time, his eyes fell on Ying Feiyu.

"Father, this is what a son should do!"

Ying Feiyu was not polite and directly cupped his hand and accepted the compliment.

In fact, he didn't expect the effect to be so good.

"People are rewarded for having children. The more children they have, the greater the rewards. Plus maternity leave and subsidies, people are still highly motivated!"

"The population continues to increase, and the imperial court can proceed with immigration with confidence!"

"Yes, now that Umbrella Prefecture has been conquered, what the imperial court needs to do is to immigrate...!"

The ministers spoke out one after another.

"Zhang Aiqing, what is the population of Yizhou that has signed up to immigrate?"

The previous news made Ying Zheng feel happy, and now he was smiling.

"Um... Your Majesty, Yizhou is too far away from the Qin Dynasty. In addition, the incident of the locals in Yizhou hurting people has been spread among the people, and...!"

"Okay, where's all this nonsense? I'm just asking how many people signed up?"

Seeing Zhang Han talking about him, Ying Zheng suddenly became impatient, and the smile on his lips disappeared a lot.

"Not optimistic!"

Zhang Han lowered his head, as if it was difficult to speak.

"If we are not optimistic, we have to have a quantity, right?"

Ying Zheng asked with his eyebrows raised.

"Three...three people!"

Zhang Han hesitated and spit out a number.

"How many?"

This time, Ying Zheng acted even more shocked than before.

Qin has a population of 40 million, but only three people have signed up to immigrate?

Are you kidding me?

"Isn't this impossible? There were quite a lot of people who signed up before, right?"

“The Ministry of Household Affairs is in charge of immigration, so it can’t be wrong!”

"Yeah, it's probably because of the previous incident in which the natives of the state hurt people, so the people canceled their registration, right?"

"Well, it should be...!"

Even though Zhang Han's voice was very low, the ministers heard him clearly and started discussing.

"Our great Qin Dynasty has a population of 40 million. After such a long period of registration, there are only three people?"

This is something Ying Zheng never dreamed of.

"Back to Your Majesty, there were probably a few hundred people there before, but when word spread about the Yizhou natives hurting people, the people immediately went to the government and canceled their registrations. In the end...only these three were left!"

Zhang Han reported without any confidence.

But he has no choice. People are unwilling to come to Yizhou, so he can't force immigration just for the sake of good data, right?

Now the news spreads so fast, as long as he dares to do this, he will be put in the newspaper!

"Well, if you want to immigrate, it seems you can only wait for good news from Yizhou!"

In fact, Ying Zheng also guessed this was the reason.

When he received a telegram saying that the natives of Yizhou were harming the people of Qin, he was worried that it would affect the immigrants, so he immediately decided to send troops to properly resolve the matter.
Chapter completed!