Chapter 277: Current Development Status of Luzon (1)
Lying beside his pillow was Li Lingxiu.
Li Lingxiu had a slight smile on her face and was already asleep.
Zhu Hongyu did not disturb Li Lingxiu. He stood up and came to the table. On the table was a bowl of cold seafood porridge.
There are oysters, scallops, seaweed, small fish and shrimp cooked in the porridge, which makes it very appetizing.
Zhu Hongyu picked up the spoon and took a sip, and a delicious taste bloomed on the tip of his tongue.
At this moment, Li Lingxiu was awakened by the movement here, rubbed her sleepy eyes, smiled at Zhu Hongyu, and said.
"Your Highness, wake up!"
Then he continued to speak.
"Your Highness, the porridge is already cold. Please heat it up before serving it!"
Zhu Hongyu said.
"No need!"
“The weather in Luzon is too hot, so it’s just the right amount of coolness!”
"Lingxiu, you haven't had dinner either? Come and have some."
The two sat across from each other at a table, Zhu Hongyu sipping seafood porridge and listening to Li Lingxiu talk about how much she missed him.
Zhu Hongyu had a slight smile on his face, listening to Li Lingxiu's chatter, which only made him feel warm.
After you finish eating, put down your bowl quickly!
Zhu Hongyu came behind Li Lingxiu, picked her up, and spoke in a very gentle tone next to her.
"Lingxiu, I miss you too!"
"Let's have a baby together!"
When Li Lingxiu heard this, her pretty face turned red with embarrassment, and she got into Zhu Hongyu's arms.
A breakup was better than a wedding, and the two of them spent most of the night tossing it up. It wasn't until late in the night that both of them fell asleep after being exhausted.
Faced with Zhu Hongyu's abnormal endurance and resilience, Li Lingxiu was already unilaterally begging for mercy at the end of the battle.
Zhu Hongyu won a great victory and defended his man's dignity!
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The next day, Zhu Hongyu took a break from the gentle countryside and began to be busy with government affairs.
In the office, Chen Wenbin held a stack of documents in his hands, handed them all to Zhu Hongyu, and then spoke.
"Your Highness Jian Guo, these are the recent population statistics compiled by the military government!"
"Under the current military government, Luzon alone has a population of 500,000."
Zhu Hongyu nodded slightly, and then began to look through the detailed population data report.
Since this year, Luzon's population has grown at a very impressive rate.
From the early 100,000 people when Zhu Hongyu started his Northern Expedition at the beginning of the year to the current 500,000 people, this growth rate is not an exaggeration.
Among them, most of them are the spontaneous migration and gathering of Chinese people living in Southeast Asia to Luzon, and the people who migrated back from Qiongzhou and Guangzhou by the Liberation Army.
These two parts account for 90% of population growth!
There are also some newborn babies and naturalized indigenous people!
There is still a large indigenous population on Luzon Island. Due to the lack of labor force, the military government has adopted a welcoming and supportive attitude towards the naturalization of indigenous people.
It’s just that after the indigenous people are naturalized, they will be dispersed and resettled!
In order to pursue the rapid assimilation of naturalized indigenous people into Han Chinese!
For example, the crocodile tribe that Kaya was born into has already become a symbol in name only.
The settlement of the Crocodile Tribe was renamed Crocodile Town, and more than half of the tribe's population was relocated to different places.
Then some Han people moved to Crocodile Town to assimilate the natives of the Crocodile tribe who had not been relocated.
Sanchez still carries the title of leader of the Crocodile Tribe, but to put it bluntly, he is now the mayor of the town.
At most, this town is a bit bigger!
In order to attract more indigenous people to naturalize, Zhu Hongyu could not do anything but kill donkeys and mistreat the crocodile tribe.
Zhu Hongyu nodded slightly and then asked.
"How are the resettlement of the people who moved to Luzon going?"
Chen Wenbin said.
"The military government held another official recruitment examination and recruited a large number of grassroots officials to fill the vacancies at the grassroots level."
"The people who moved to Luzon have been settled well!"
"Distribute cultivable fields to the people, and then distribute seeds and agricultural tools, as well as temporary rations, etc."
“In this process, the military government lowered its power to the township level!”
"And different departments such as town mayors, township courts, patrol bureaus, tax bureaus, etc. are established in villages and towns to take charge of local government affairs."
After a period of bringing political power to the countryside, the military government keenly discovered that the idea of bringing political power to the villages was a bit ridiculous.
The required official vacancies are too large and the cost of raising officials is too high. Under the current productivity conditions, it is not feasible to send political power to the countryside.
After discussions among senior military officials, Zhu Hongyu made the decision that there was no need to decentralize power to the villages.
It is actually better to use towns and villages as grassroots units!
At the village level, the people themselves should nominate famous people and take the lead in forming a peasant association to exercise self-government!
The military government only needs to establish officials at the town level to ensure the smooth flow of government orders!
Zhu Hongyu nodded with satisfaction.
"How much arable land is there in Luzon now? How many people can the food produced every year feed?"
Zhu Hongyu asked.
"Currently, Luzon has more than 2.3 million acres of cultivated land, most of which is wasteland reclaimed in the past two years."
"Although it is ready for farming, it will take two or three years to cultivate the land before the yield per mu of the field reaches its peak!"
"In terms of grain production, the fields in Luzon can produce three crops a year. According to the new weights and measures, the average annual output per mu of land is about 400 to 500 kilograms!"
"The annual grain production in Luzon is about one million tons!"
"With the current grain output in Luzon, it is no problem to feed one million people. If the standards are lowered, it will be possible to feed two million people."
"Moreover, the number of acres in Luzon is still increasing rapidly!"
After Chen Wenbin said this, he stood aside.
Zhu Hongyu touched his chin and began to think deeply.
According to current data, Luzon’s per capita grain ownership is quite wealthy.
Once the food is abundant and we no longer have to worry about eating, the next thing to do is to engage in education!
"How is the literacy work done? The military government has set up night schools in various villages. How effective is the ideological education work while eliminating illiteracy?"
Zhu Hongyu asked.
Whenever the problem of food is solved, education always comes first.
If a country or a nation wants to rise, education is the foundation!
Why did China in ancient times become a great country and occupy the number one position in the world for a long time? Even though its opponents changed several times, we were always there?
The fundamental reason is education!
The literacy rate in ancient China has always been the first in the world!
Even in troubled times like the late Ming Dynasty, the literacy rate could be maintained at around 10%, which can be said to be arrogant in the world.
When more people are educated, won't national strength develop?
Zhu Hongyu must be strict about education.
Anyway, there is no shortage of food under the current military government, so it is not a problem for the people to spare some time to study and become literate.
With the current national strength of the military government, it is certainly impossible to implement comprehensive free compulsory education for all.
We can only implement a one-sided Yiwu education and limit the groups receiving compulsory education to the children of soldiers who died in battle or were disabled.
On the one hand, it is to control the cost of compulsory education to avoid dragging down the national strength!
On the other hand, Zhu Hongyu is also using this method to provide benefits to soldiers, improve their social status, and win over military morale.