Li Xiao was delighted to discover that Ming Dynasty was getting richer and richer.

This was something Li Xiao had never thought of. In his impression, war was a huge drain on national power, and the people in the country would not even be able to eat if they failed to do so.

Now that the Ming Empire has no emperor, the people are in confusion.

If the domestic economy is in ruins and the people cannot even afford to eat, the final result can only be that although the European battlefield is going well, it will collapse behind it.

This is what no one in the Ming Dynasty wanted to see, so Li Xiao was so restrained in his military expansion.

Unexpectedly, the domestic taxes in the Ming Dynasty have increased year after year. Moreover, not only Shandong, Hebei, Gyeonggi, and Liaodong in the north have continued to develop.

Now Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Henan have also developed.

These places first have the coal that the Ming Dynasty urgently needs, which is the food for industry.

Without coal, many factories in Ming Dynasty would have to shut down.

In order to meet the needs of the war, Ming Dynasty spent huge manpower and material resources to build two railways.

One is the railway from Xi'an to Tianjin Wei. This is a double-track railway with very strong transportation capacity.

After Ming Dynasty's military equipment arrives in Xi'an, it will be transferred to the Western Regions, and eventually merged into the Central Asia Railway to Moscow.

The other line is the railway from Baotou to Lushun.

This railway was originally built to supply the Mongols who were attacking Jungar in the Western Regions.

Unexpectedly, a huge coal mine was discovered near Baotou.

Therefore, this railway has now almost become a dedicated coal transportation channel. Every day, more than a hundred wagons of coal are transported to Liaodong from places such as Baotou, Shenmu, and Yulin.

Liaodong, the earliest industrialized city, is simply a coal-eating beast that devours coal all the time.

Moreover, the coal from this line will also support Gyeonggi and Tianjin Wei through branch railways.

However, there are very few heavy industries in Gyeonggi and Tianjin. Only places like Tanggu have some steel mills. But the scale is far from comparable to Anshan in Liaodong!

Coal has enriched the two provinces of Shanxi and Shaanxi. Henan has always been a poor province in the past.

There is no way, the Yellow River has nine twists and turns, but it is the most noisy in Henan.

Especially in places like Lankao, major floods occur every few years.

There are even some strange time periods where floods occur every year!

This catastrophic disaster has caused misery to the people of Henan. Not to mention small places like Lankao, even big cities like Kaifeng are often disturbed by floods.

Building river embankments requires a lot of money, as does dredging rivers.

The little money the court received was simply a drop in the bucket.

As a result, Henan became a province of immigrants.

In the early years, the imperial court had been calling for Henan to be moved northward.

There is a large area of ​​land from Jilin in the east of Liaoning to the north, and in the Heilongjiang River Basin. Although due to weather conditions, it can only be cultivated once a year.

But because the land is fertile, the annual harvest is considerable.

And because there is too much land, there is not enough manpower. The government allocates land to the Kuan area!

In Henan, a family with more than ten or twenty acres of land is considered a good family.

But in Jilin and Heilongjiang, a family with a large population can easily afford more than ten or twenty hectares of land.

In the early years, when Lankao was flooded, the imperial court almost emptied the people of Lankao!

People from Henan and Shandong are from Henan, and the total number of immigrants to Jilin and Heilongjiang is as many as four million.

Jilin and Heilongjiang, which were originally inaccessible places, are now full of villages, and the cultivated land on both sides of the railway is endless as far as the eye can see.

Since the imperial court took over the Western Regions, it has been encouraging people to develop in the Western Regions.

To go to Liaodong, you need to pay your own expenses. When you get there, the court will allocate land to you according to your household registration.

But when you go to the Western Regions, the imperial court not only pays for the travel expenses, but also provides settlement expenses when you get there. You don’t have to pay a fortune to build a house!

There are even bachelors, and officials will come forward to help you find a wife. Although there are fewer women in the Han family, men who have been bachelors all their lives are not so particular.

For a time, old bachelors from Henan rushed to the Western Regions one after another.

There has been some change in the trend in the past two years, that is, there is a rise in going overseas.

Especially Australia!

Ming Dynasty established a mine in Australia, which required a lot of manpower to watch the prisoners of war work.

At the same time, in order to produce steel nearby, we are preparing to build a steel plant in Australia. From now on, what comes from Australia will no longer be iron ore, but proper steel.

The imperial court recruited a large number of workers and dispersed many of Henan's population.

Nowadays, the landowners in Henan are a little dumbfounded. Because they have a lot of land, most of them need some tenants to help cultivate it.

But...but now there is no one, there are no tenants at all.

There was no other way, so those landowners had no choice but to abandon their land and embark on a long journey.

Henan is definitely a province that exports a large number of people. According to Henan official statistics, in the past twenty years alone, Henan has exported 13 million people!

Pretty much, hundreds of thousands fewer people every year.

The people of Henan are almost gone. The once prosperous city of Kaifeng now only has a few hundred thousand people left.

Most counties in the north have more people than Kaifeng.

Many people who stayed in Kaifeng city were named Zhu!

There was no way around it, but there was a King of Zhou in Kaifeng. The King of Zhou was a vassal king when the Ming Dynasty was founded, and now his descendants are multiplying.

More than two hundred years have passed and it has become a large family with tens of thousands of people!

In the past, these people were supported by the imperial court, and their lives were pretty good!

But it’s different now!

The court no longer supports them, so they also need to do something to support themselves. However, although the court no longer pays them, there is one thing that still seems to restrict them.

That is, the princes and grandsons of the feudal lord are not allowed to leave the fiefdom without permission!

This is going to kill you!

People can move living trees and move dead trees, but the descendants of the Zhu family cannot move their nests.

The imperial court did not even have an emperor, and the Zongren Mansion, which was in charge of the royal family, also disappeared without a trace after several imperial reorganizations.

These nobles of the Ming Dynasty royal family, even if they wanted to respond to the court, they didn't know which temple to worship.

And for some intangible reason, no one seems to care about the affairs of these feudal princes and grandchildren.

The whole of Henan is depopulated, and they are the only ones holding on. Maybe one day, Henan will become the world of the Zhu family again.

The situation in Anhui is similar to that in Henan. It is also because there are too many people. Encouraged by the government's policies, a large number of people emigrated.

However, more Anhui people go to Liaodong than to the Western Regions.

This time I went to Australia, but many Anhui people were very active. So much so that when a ship carrying thousands of people went to Australia, half of them were actually Anhui people.

Unlike people from Anhui, people from northern Jiangsu seem to have traveled a little further.

Some went to the Middle East, and others settled in Cyprus.

Some even went to Sicily and Corsica to settle down!
Chapter completed!