With the arrival of the hot summer, Zhu Youxiao did not go to escape the summer heat, but instead studied the continued expansion in the capital.

The internal situation of 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.

The Ming Dynasty has now 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.

The Indochina Peninsula is now becoming more and more like the back garden of the Ming Dynasty.

However, there are still many problems. The first is that the development of the Nanyang region is not thorough, and many islands have not been included in the development scope. Jinzhou Province (Sumatra), which has just been established for a few years, has only developed a part of it, and the indigenous people on the island have not been completely solved.

Some islands do not have much development prospects, while the indigenous people above them are basically ignored.

Currently, the most developed areas in Southeast Asia are Luzon, Jawa Island, and Malacca. At the same time, some areas have been developed in Borneo, but the soil above is not so fertile.

In addition, there are many island resources that are relatively rich, but they have not been included in the development scope.

"In the Nanyang area, we must continue to educate the indigenous people." Zhu Youxiao instructed the ministers during the morning court, "We must let those indigenous people embrace civilization as soon as possible."

"What Your Majesty said is reasonable." Shen Qing agreed.

However, the Ming Dynasty's education of these indigenous people was based on conquering first and then education. To be honest, it is obviously not very good to say.

However, 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 over and develop them.

"In addition, how are the immigration situation in Northeast China?" Zhu Youxiao asked.

"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.

"Where is the railway? How was it built in the Northeast?" Zhu Youxiao asked.

"The main railway line is almost built to the northeast, and the railway branch lines in the northeast have also begun to be built one after another in various places. Basically, a rough railway branch line can be formed within three years." The General Railway Administration answered out of the list.

"What about the Ministry of Agriculture?"

"With the cooperation of the Civil Affairs Bureau and the State Administration of Railways, a rough development can be completed within five years in terms of the development of commercial grain arable land resources in Northeast China."

"Your Majesty, there is no need to worry about the supply of commercial grain. Nowadays, there are Northeast commodity grain production areas, as well as the four major commercial grain production areas, namely the Hexi Corridor, Guanzhong Plain, and North China Plain. The supply of commercial 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:

"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, the urbanization of rural population will be accelerated. When grain reserves decline, the speed will be slowed down."

"This method is feasible, you have drawn up a specific plan." Zhu Youxiao nodded.

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 already occupied the mainstream of the market. Especially agricultural commodification, it is definitely the highest degree in the Northeast.

Since we began to immigrate to the Northeast, we have never considered building a rural natural economy. Northeast agriculture is almost all commodity economy type.

Grain production must be able to be sold after it is produced, and if it cannot be sold, it cannot 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.

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.

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.

Nowadays, workers participating in the construction can get wages, and wages can buy food and various commodities, so that people can live and maintain their lives. Moreover, their wages are not low and their living standards have been improved.

Zhu Youxiao attaches so much importance to the development of commercial grain-producing areas, mainly to ensure the supply of 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 have to eat enough first, right?

"How many people have Australian immigrated this year?" Zhu Youxiao continued to ask.

"In half a year, 150,000 people have been immigrated to Australia, mainly agricultural and animal husbandry population. Now the Australian population has reached nearly 500,000. I think the speed of immigration in Australia can temporarily slow down. After the sea transportation capacity of our Ming Dynasty 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 be temporarily suspended."

Zhu Youxiao thought for a moment and felt that overseas immigrants were indeed a little out of touch at this time. After all, the overseas population is mainly engaged in agricultural and animal husbandry production.

The mining industry has not had much trouble because of insufficient ship capacity. And there is no manufacturing industry, and not every place has such sufficient resources for other raw materials mining and development.

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 overseas and develop more other industries.

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.

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.

"Report to Your Majesty, the gold army has discovered gold mines in South Africa, but the specific reserves are still unclear." The head of the Ministry of Industry Mining Industry reported.

Originally, I thought it was a very ordinary report, but it made Zhu Youxiao Longyan happy.

Gold mines have been discovered in South Africa!

This is definitely a great news!

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

On the one hand, strengthened control over South Africa, and on the other hand, the Ming Dynasty had enough manpower to mine gold mines in South Africa.

In South Africa, there were not so many black people at this time. After all, black people are not highly productive, and most parts of South Africa do not have black people.

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.

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 civilization level and productivity and improve their living standards, which is also a good thing!

The concentration of black people in one province is also classified as imperial people for management, but the migration of their household registration is restricted. As long as there is no problem in administratively, it is not necessary to impose excessive taxes.

So a set of administrative models developed in response to the situation in South Africa came out.

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 up a province in South Africa where there were few people.

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.

After continuous exploration, the South African gold troops finally discovered gold mines. Moreover, there were more and more gold mines discovered next, and it was found that the gold mines here were large and easier to mine.

So the subsequent situation was reported, but two months later the local fleet arrived in South Africa.

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.

After all, South Africa's gold reserves account for 60% of the world's total, and the ore deposit output is very large, so the cost of opening up is relatively low.

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.

But if these gold fall into the hands of other countries, there will be problems. Other countries can use these gold to buy a large number of goods.

However, these golds fell into the hands of the Ming Dynasty. If the Ming Dynasty weakened one day, there would be enough capital to recover quickly.

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.

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, and the Ming Dynasty is working for the ducks.

So at this time, the Central Bank of the Ming Dynasty was planning the gold standard.

Over the years, the gold reserves of the Central Bank of the Ming Dynasty 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.

As long as capital does not flow out, it is impossible to trigger a run.
Chapter completed!