The first thousand six hundred and eighty-nine chapters are doing things that others can't even thin
The places where people migrated to in the Tang Dynasty generally gave priority to places with fertile land and suitable for the development of agriculture. After all, food was the first priority for the people.
As long as this is cultivated, there will be no need to worry about food, and there will even be a large amount of surplus food.
These remaining grains can become rations for subsequent arriving immigrants.
If there are really many, they can also be transported to nearby areas for sale, or simply brewed to make a profit.
Colonies are all places suitable for agricultural development, which means that as long as each colony survives the first two years, it will basically have no worries about food in the future.
This is actually much better than at home.
Although the mainland is large enough and has a lot of fertile land, it still has too many people.
Even though the empire has been unswervingly immigrating overseas, to border areas and other areas in the past twenty years, it has successively immigrated millions of people overseas, and has mobilized millions of people to migrate to the northeast, northwest, southwest and other regions.
Enrich the frontier.
But the local food supply is still relatively tight.
This is mainly due to the rapid growth of population.
The Tang Dynasty originally had a large population base, and the people had a tradition of having many children and good fortune. Since the unification of the Tang Dynasty, the world has become peaceful and has entered a prosperous age in the traditional sense.
There were no wars in peacetime, industry and commerce developed, and land annexation was controlled. At the same time, because agriculture, industry and commerce developed rapidly, after entering the industrial revolution, materials were more abundant than before, and the average life expectancy has increased from about thirty years in the past to forty.
About years old.
All of these have caused the population to start growing rapidly!
Although large-scale immigration has begun overseas, and provinces such as the northeast, northwest, and southwest are actively developed, and other provinces are also actively cultivating more fields, the pressure from the population is still considerable.
This is also the reason why more and more people in the Tang Empire have chosen to immigrate overseas in recent years.
There is no other reason. It is too difficult to get along in the local area, and it is difficult to have enough to eat.
But if you go to an overseas territory, as long as you work hard and take a small risk, you will have enough to eat, and even the free land can be passed on to your descendants.
How many people who were impoverished back home gritted their teeth and chose to immigrate, and then lived a life with land, houses and wives in overseas territories.
From having nothing to becoming a homesteader with a well-off family.
When this change spreads back to the homeland, more people choose to immigrate.
Although it is said that Chinese people have rural sentiments, these sentiments are nothing when they have a full meal.
Moreover, the Chinese people's rural sentiments are actually the business of literati, officials and gentry, and have nothing to do with ordinary people.
As long as they have enough to eat, many poor people don't mind going to America or Africa.
Of course, they are timid and are afraid of running away to a place they are unfamiliar with or being deceived.
At this time, the role of the Immigration and Reclamation Department came into play, organizing transportation and resettlement in a unified manner.
With the government here, there is nothing to worry about.
Otherwise, millions of people would not have immigrated overseas in these years, and millions of people would have migrated from places with more people and less land to undeveloped frontier areas with less people and more land.
Added together, the number of people migrating has reached almost 15 million.
The combination of many policies led to a rapid increase in the empire's overseas immigrant population, which in turn enhanced the empire's ability to control its overseas territories.
Relying on these immigrants, we have food and militia.
With these two things, you can basically expand the actual control area of overseas territories and then use it to accept more immigrants.
Basically, the development model of the empire's overseas territories is similar, except that the development in North America is faster.
In just a few years, the population has reached 700,000, and the local agricultural economy is developing well. Even the tax department is very optimistic about the estimate. The tax revenue contributed by the Americas in one year is already equivalent to that of an inland region in the mainland.
What about the superior mansion?
After all, a local government, even a high-class government, has a population of only a few hundred thousand, or no more than a million.
Although domestic state capitals can still develop industry and commerce and collect relatively large industrial and commercial taxes.
But although the Americas cannot develop modern industry, they still have traditional industry and commerce, such as handicrafts, service industries, and overseas trade.
The east coast of America has exported a lot of supplies to Europe in recent years, such as wine, and the profits are not small.
Today, North America has entered a state of rapid virtuous cycle development. Even if the empire does not introduce targeted support policies, North America will continue to attract immigrants based on its own excellent conditions.
All of this made Li E, the King of Jin who was vassal in North America, quite pleased.
Li Bo was the fifth son of the Holy Emperor Li Xuan. He was born in the twelfth year of Xuanping. His biological mother was Zhuang Fei An. He was also the fourth prince of the Tang Empire to become a vassal.
After their eldest son, Li Hao, was crowned the crown prince, their other princes were basically crowned kings early and would become vassals immediately when they reached the age of sixteen.
Li Yi was granted the title of Prince of Jin at the age of eight, Prince of Jin at the age of twelve, and he was granted the title of vassal of Jinshan Prefecture at the age of sixteen.
After graduating from the Imperial Academy, when he was ordered to leave the capital and go to a fiefdom to become a vassal, Li Xuan also granted him two other states on the west coast of North America.
In this way, it was actually equivalent to giving him the entire western coast of North America as a fief.
In addition, the eastern coast of North America, a more important place, also had princes as vassals.
Wuhu Prefecture and Central Prefecture were granted to the sixth son of the emperor, Li Yu
The sixth son of the emperor, Li Tong, was born in the 13th year of Xuanping. He and the third son of the emperor, Li Fang, who had conquered Wandan, had the same biological mother. They were both children of Concubine Kang of the Song family. Concubine Kang was also the daughter of Li Xuan's many concubines. Only one of them gave birth to two children.
A concubine of a prince. Not only the prince, Concubine Kang also gave birth to a daughter for Li Xuan.
This kind of situation is relatively rare in the harem of the Tang Dynasty, because everyone knows that the Holy Emperor Li Xuan likes the new and dislikes the old. He often favors one concubine for a while, but after a while he will favor another concubine, and rarely does it again.
Turn back.
Of course, a few people can still get such favor, and Kang Fei is one of them.
The sixth son of the emperor, Li Zheng, was granted the title of King Zheng at the age of twelve. When he became a vassal at the age of sixteen, he did not go directly to North America. Instead, he was granted the title of Malacca State. However, soon the Malacca State was directly administered by the empire, and because of the Strait of Malacca
Due to the importance of the empire, the empire began to move the nobles, including princes, who were originally enshrined in side areas to other places.
As a result, the sixth son of the emperor, Li Yu, later changed his title to Wuhu State, a central state in North America.
But Sanhezhou was not his fief, but the fiefdom belonging to the seventh son of the emperor Li Shan. Li Shan was born in the 16th year of Xuanping, and he is only twenty years old this year. The first time he was granted a title was Sanhezhou.
Although the fiefdom only had one state, the Sanhezhou of the Tang Dynasty was actually very large, and basically included most of the Gulf of Mexico area in later generations.
According to Li Xuan's habit, when he was canonizing a prince, he usually changed the title for the second time or increased the land allocation. This was the case for the previous vassal kings. Li Shan's fiefdom may be even larger in the future.
So far, among the seven adult princes of the Holy Emperor Li Xuan, except for the crown prince Li Hao, the other six are already outside the vassal state.
As for the remaining sons, they are still under adulthood.
The ninth son of the emperor is only thirteen years old now, so it’s early.
At the same time, it can be seen that Li Xuan attaches great importance to North America from the fact that Li Xuan allowed his three sons to become feudal lords in North America.
It’s impossible not to pay enough attention to it. It’s such a large area, and it’s a place with such huge potential. We can’t pay too much attention to it.
Moreover, the place is large and has great potential. If it develops in the future, it would be too wasteful to just use it as a prince's fiefdom, and it would easily nourish the feudal king's rebellious spirit, so he split it into three.
Triangular structures are the most stable.
In areas such as Africa and India, Li Xuan has not yet asked the prince to join the vassal, but there are quite a few canonized nobles. The main reason is that there are not enough immigrants in the area, the indigenous people are complex, and the climate is not good.
I first planned to wait a few years and then give the other sons as fiefdoms.
Li Xuan now has thirteen sons, and he estimates that the next few can be sent to India, Africa, and West Asia, and he will see if Europe can also have a few in the future.
The sons are always given away to prevent them from wandering around in the country.
After all, China's traditions are too weird. Whenever the princes have a chance, they will want to rebel and seize the throne. Therefore, Li Hao is not easy to be the prince and the pressure is too great.
If Li Xuan hadn't supported him, he would have been tortured to death by his brothers.
Although Li Hao's skills were good, he could not defeat the four-handed man with two fists. All the brothers were staring at him, wishing for his death, and wanted to repeat the deeds of the former Ming Yan King who seized the throne.
Even if Li Hao now has a son, even if he dies, Li Xuan can directly make the emperor's eldest grandson the crown prince. But Zhu Yunwen of the former Ming Dynasty succeeded to the throne with the emperor's eldest grandson, and was unlucky in the end.
Therefore, even though Li Xuan supported him, in fact, his life was still not very stable.
Li Xuan had no choice about this. Chinese tradition was such that it was too difficult to change people's minds.
On the surface, those sons were respectful to him and swore that they had no intention of getting involved in the throne. But in fact, Li Xuan knew with his toes that each of these sons was staring at the spot under his buttocks.
But the palms and backs of the hands were all flesh, so it was impossible for Li Xuan to give them the throne. If he did, it would be big trouble.
Therefore, we can only implement the overseas enfeoffment system and let his sons go overseas to become vassal kings. Moreover, Li Xuan also gave them a certain amount of military power. Each vassal king has a royal guard under his command, although the number of troops is a bit small, only a few thousand. People, but they are also an army.
After Li Xuan dies, they will be more capable, and they will probably be able to control a certain amount of real power in the fiefdom. As for whether they are independent or not, Li Xuan estimates that they will also have it, but he is too lazy to care about it. He will do the unification of the world by himself. That’s enough, future generations should not foolishly follow suit.
Unifying the world is his career, Li Xuan!
This enterprise is a bit middle-of-the-road, a bit idealistic, and even for the empire itself, the gains outweigh the losses. The cost of colonizing overseas territories is much lower than the localization, and the benefits are much greater!
But Li Xuan doesn't care so much, he just wants to unify the world and play global localization!
What he pursues is a planet, an empire, and a nation, and he does things that countless time-travelling predecessors couldn't do, or even dare to think about.
For this reason, he doesn’t care at all whether it’s profit or not!
But the question is, after Li Xuan's death, will anyone in the Tang Empire still play like this?