I Build an Aircraft Carrier in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 237 Population moving south

After Dorgon vented in the back room alone, he returned to the council hall and listened to everyone's opinions.

In the end, Dorgon decided to adopt their tactic, first to paralyze Wu Changqing with the peace talks of 'planning the river and governing', and then going to the south to instigate a rebellion against Daming.

At the same time, develop secretly, accumulate strength, and wait for the moment of decisive battle.

To make such a decision, Dorgon was very uncomfortable.

This is equivalent to him giving in to a hairy boy, which is very aggrieved.

In exchange for his previous temper, he would definitely fight without hesitation.

However, after mastering the fate of a country, he has to think carefully about what he does. That kind of impulsive thing, he can't do it anymore.

For the fate of the Qing Dynasty, he was willing to sacrifice himself and aggrieved himself to ask Wu Changqing for peace.

This is an external decree. Internally, Dorgon has also promulgated a new system of auxiliary officials.

To put it simply, every place managed by Han officials will arrange for a Manchu to assist in government affairs. In fact, it is to supervise to prevent them from flirting with the Ming army in the south.

In the past, the Qing Dynasty was strong and did not need to do this at all. They did not worry about the mutiny of the officials under their hands. Smart people will follow the trend, but only a few will go against the trend.

But now, the continuous defeats of the Qing Dynasty, it is easy for some grassroots to make a stronger judgment in the south, and thus tend to collude with the southern forces, leaving a way out for themselves.

Although he distrusted those Han officials very much, Dorgon had no way to replace them directly.

After all, he couldn't find so many talents to replace those officials to govern the place.

At this time, Dorgon could only trust the Manchu and Mongolian ethnic groups, and the population of these two ethnic groups was far inferior to that of the Han ethnic group. Most of them had practiced riding and archery since childhood.

Soldiers who can fight are easy to find, but it is very difficult to find literate people who know how to govern a place.

Governing a place is not something anyone can do casually.

Therefore, Dorgon had to rely on the surrendered ministers of the Han nationality.

Sending people to supervise these Han surrendered ministers will naturally make these surrendered ministers dissatisfied, and thus alienated from virtue.

But Dorgon can't take care of that much anymore. His first task now is to ensure the stability of his territory, and then speed up the expansion of his army to prepare for war.

As long as Wu Changqing in the south is defeated, these civil servants will be easy to deal with in the future.

When the news reached the Forbidden City, Da Yuer learned that Luck Dehun was defeated, and was a little worried in her heart, worried that Wu Changqing would fight all the way to Beijing.

Life in Beijing is much better than outside Guanwai, and she doesn't want to go back to Guanwai again.

Moreover, this world is still her son's world, and she also wants to keep this inheritance for her son.

However, after thinking about it, she, as a woman, cannot participate in the decision-making of those major events.

For example, Dorgon didn't even need to ask her, and he directly formulated countermeasures without telling her.

If she had the right to speak, she would prefer to reach a real plan with Wu Changqing, and would send someone to negotiate with sincerity, instead of treating this negotiation as a tactic to delay time.

She even more disagreed with Dorgon sending people to monitor Han officials.

In her opinion, this will undoubtedly lose her heart.

As Da Yuer had expected, when officials from all over the north received the news, their hearts were as disgusting as a dog.

As an official, no one wants to have someone staring at them all the time.

Even those who didn't think about defecting didn't like it, because it's easy to ask them not to defect, but it's absolutely impossible to ask them not to embezzle.

Being an official is not about greed for money to live a better life, so what is the meaning of ten years of cold windows?

Now there are people who are staring at themselves all the time, and if they want to embezzle, they must consider the consequences.

This kind of official, really don't do it.

After getting the news, a small number of officials packed their families and moved to the south before anyone from the imperial court sent them over.

Not only officials, but more people, especially those in Yangzhou, fled to the south.

The ten days of the Qing army in Yangzhou brought great fear to the people around Yangzhou. They had no choice before, so they could only live under the iron cavalry of the Qing Dynasty.

Now the situation in the south is getting better and better, and some people have begun to migrate to the south to avoid disasters.

Although the Qing army will no longer kill people at will in the north, who can say such a thing, if one day the Qing army suddenly sends out a beastly massacre.

In short, for the sake of safety, all those who have the ability to leave choose to migrate to the area of ​​Zhenjiang, Nanjing.

The main thing is to go to Nanjing. Zhenjiang does not have much industry, and there is not much work for those outsiders to do. And the land around Zhenjiang is all owned.

Therefore, in order to survive, most people came to Nanjing to find work.

After all, Nanjing is now recruiting a large number of workers, both men and women.

Men can go to any factory, while women mainly enter textile factories and work separately from male employees.

Allowing women to enter the factory is a decree made by Wu Changqing himself, the reason is to give those poor people a way to live. But in fact, he wanted to take the opportunity to liberate women's productivity.

The benefits of emancipating women are known to all posterity. Today's people's ideas are still relatively pedantic, and Wu Changqing can only take it step by step, first to change those poor women.

Of course

Then slowly, change those rich ladies.

When women in the country are completely liberated, the productivity of their society can at least double. In some jobs, women do better than men.

A large number of people poured into the three places of Nanjing, Suzhou and Songjiang.

The Ministry of Household under Wu Changqing has not conducted statistics yet, but the Ministry of Household estimates that after Wu Changqing entered Nanjing, the population has increased from 1.1 million before to about 1.5 million now.

This population size is very terrifying in this era. Like those so-called big cities in Europe, the population is only hundreds of thousands, and there are almost no cities with hundreds of thousands, and cities with more than one million don’t even think about it.

It is only in China that a city of this size can appear.

The influx of people are almost all landless people. Those who have money can start a small business, and those who have no money can only work and enter factories.

It is also a loss that Wu Changqing created so many factories, otherwise Nanjing City would not be able to support so many people.

Now, a single steel plant can accommodate nearly 5,000 workers, and the income of one worker can almost save the cost of a family of three.

Coupled with a wide variety of other factories and workshops, this allows those people to have jobs and not beg on the streets.

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