Steel Dynasty - Chapter 1167

[Chapter 1154 Population]

“According to statistics, after the end of the Civil War, the empire’s population grew steadily, with an increase of about 20 million.”

When it came to the welfare system, Pang Yukun thought of the empire’s population growth. After all, this is the most intuitive reaction.

“Twenty million in ten years, an increase of about two million people every year. Ten years ago, the empire’s population base was 80 million. This annual growth rate is about 2.5%, which is a bit small.” Xiao Ming said.

Pang Yukun said: “In the first few years, the growth was slow, but since the emperor promulgated the welfare policy, the empire’s population growth has accelerated. According to statistics, the growth rate is five percent.”

Xiao Ming nodded, population growth It is a long process, and it cannot take hundreds of years to grow the empire’s population from 100 million to more than one billion.

The only thing he can do now is to encourage births and speed up the process. The reason is simple. The huge land occupied by the empire needs to be occupied, otherwise sooner or later these lands will be occupied by other countries with a population explosion.

After all, in addition to the war of blood and fire, what humans really have to face is the war of reproduction. When the population of a nation is decreasing day by day, it will not be able to control the territory being occupied by other races with large populations, and its former glory is just for the sake of peace. Others are just making wedding clothes.

Because of this, he fought increasing the empire’s population as a war.

Since he comes from modern times, he is very aware of the fact that the more developed a society is and the richer its material resources are, the more the country’s population will grow at a slower or even negative rate.

In the future, the empire will also face this problem, so he must not take it lightly and take advantage of the initial stage of national development to have more children.

So he said: “In this way, during this period, you can improve the empire’s maternity welfare policy. All families who raise three or more children but less than five will enjoy completely free education and medical care for life. All families who have more than five children will enjoy it.” In addition to the above benefits, you will also receive maternity subsidies and free transportation benefits from the court. “

After a pause, he continued: “People are not willing to have children mostly because of high pressure in life, so the empire must pay most attention to areas involving people’s livelihood. At present, education in the empire is completely free except for universities. Partially free medical care is not the ultimate goal of the empire. In the future, all medical care will be free. In addition, the empire will next build welfare housing across the country to give birth to more than three children. Families can get it for free. “

Pang Yukun has no objection to Xiao Ming’s idea. Now that the empire’s finances are becoming increasingly abundant, it is completely affordable to implement such benefits.

He said: “The old minister will pass these policies to the states when he returns. I’m afraid the people will cheer for such a cheap thing.”

“This is exactly what I want. No matter how much territory the empire conquers without anyone to cultivate it, it will be wasted. “Xiao Ming frowned. Fiji is old, Pang Yukun is old, and he is getting older.

Time waits for no one, and now he will try his best to do some great things that will benefit future generations.

Ignoring the matter of childbirth welfare, he continued: “After the application of the internal combustion engine, oil will be the lifeblood of the empire for a long time in the future. For this reason, we should prepare for a rainy day.”

Pang Yukun said: “The lower official has ordered the empire to Establish an oil reserve and store oil while Persia does not regret it.”

Xiao Ming nodded, “In addition, there are also ores shipped back from various colonies. After meeting the empire’s domestic needs, the rest will be used to reclaim the sea. , left to posterity. “

Pang Yukun recorded this incident.

As the two of them talked, the motorcade had arrived at the palace. After getting off the car, Pang Yukun returned to his official office, while Xiao Ming went directly back to the palace.

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Moscow.

While the empire was rejoicing over the successful test flight of the aircraft, Ekarina was frowning. News from the border kept coming, which plunged her into panic.

“In one month, the imperial army successively occupied Yelets, Karavel, Mondomussen, Your Majesty, and now Moscow is completely defenseless against the imperial army.” Ivanov worried.

Yekarina said: “No one thought that the empire would suddenly launch an attack on us at this time. Obviously, the empire was responding to Henry of France.”

Igor said: “Your Majesty, compared to France, we are the most vulnerable now.” The important thing is to protect yourself. The routed soldiers are talking about the terrible weapons of the empire. It is these weapons that easily destroy the fortresses on the border of the empire. Many people say that these weapons are unstoppable. “

He is the commander-in-chief of the Russian army and the most concerned .

Of course it’s war.

Yekarina pinched her eyebrows. She did not expect that the empire would have such strong courage to directly attack Tsarist Russia. After all, they had been in a stalemate in Central Asia for several years, and she thought it would continue.

“In order to deal with the possible attack by the empire, we must bring back the troops preparing to go to France.” After hesitating for a long time, Yekarina made a very difficult decision.

Now no one can predict what the empire will do next. Will it continue to wander on the border, or will it invade completely?

As the empress of Tsarist Russia, she had to think about her own country, and she could only let Europe go.

Neither Igor nor Ivanov had any objections. The danger now was not Britain, but Russia. Now Yekarina suddenly regretted getting involved with the British.

It’s clear that the Empire is becoming more and more difficult to mess with now.

The order to withdraw the trip to France soon spread from the Kremlin, and the news was received by Vidomia at the same time.

A few months passed, and Victoria lost a lot of weight. When she learned the news, her spirits suddenly dropped a lot.

“Three fortresses on the border of Tsarist Russia were destroyed in a few days. Yekarina was probably very frightened this time.” Vidomia said.

Brook said: “Indeed, after all, the hundreds of thousands of Ottoman troops never crossed these three fortresses, and the Eastern Empire only had five days, but it is said that this was all because of a weird weapon, such as a machine gun and a cannon But it is said to be extremely strong and can run faster than a horse. “

With Victoria’s knowledge, she could not imagine what kind of weapon this was, but even if it frightened Tsarist Russia so much, it must be a weapon that would change the balance of the battlefield.

She sighed and said: “We can’t go all out. It seems it’s time to talk to the Empire. We can’t stay in Tsarist Russia forever, and Yekarina is not trustworthy. If necessary, she will even hand me over to the Eastern Empire.” In exchange for benefits.”

Brooke was also worried. The situation in Britain is very serious now, and they really can’t wait any longer.

(End of chapter)