New Ming Empire mixed in America

Li Mingqi has no idea about Stanford's incompetence and rage, and he also doesn't care.

By this time he had left the San Jose front and returned to San Francisco.

To this day, the Chinese transported from Peru to San Francisco have doubled the population of the New Ming Empire.

By this time, transporting Chinese had become an alternative trade, because California's population exodus and Li Mingqi's various measures had made San Francisco's shipping business unprecedentedly prosperous.

Merchant ships traveling between San Francisco, Mexico, and South America restored San Francisco to its glory days during the gold rush.

These cargo ships came to San Francisco carrying various supplies, and then transported various 'luxury goods' from San Francisco.

Merchant ships from Peru brought a large number of Chinese to San Francisco, and then took away the crown coins they deserved from the Royal Bank.

Recently, due to the "best-selling" of crown coins, Li Mingqi has put aside the exchange of aluminum crown coins.

Instead, he purchased stainless steel game coins in large quantities to pay those merchants. This move made his cost... almost no cost compared to the profit.

The increasing number of people in the empire is also one of the reasons why Li Mingqi is eager to expand.

Because there is not enough land!

Therefore, the vast plain where San Jose is located became Li Mingqi's goal.

If there is no land, then take back part of the inherent territory. There is no way that the subsequent people of the empire will not be able to get the land.

As for letting the people of the empire work?

It was impossible to work part-time, so each person could only make a living by being assigned a large piece of land and becoming a farmer.

Of course, the 'white workers' employed on the farm need to be registered, and the Xinming Empire does not allow slave trade.

Because Li Mingqi knew very well that as long as there were slaves, there would be trouble if he wanted to control the number of white people in the empire.

Li Mingqi took a breath of cold air when he looked at the statistical table of the empire's citizens sent over by Liu Youcai.

There are nearly 50,000 people in the empire, but less than a quarter are married!

How can this be done?

Even if the family members of a quarter of the people of the empire were brought over from the Puppet Qing Dynasty, the number of bachelors in the empire would still be too many.

"Long live my lord, if this continues, the country will be ruined!"

Liu Youcai let out a cry from the bottom of his heart.

From ancient times to the present, we have never heard of a bizarre incident in which a country was destroyed because of a bachelor. Could it be that our New Ming Empire will set a precedent?

"No, these unscrupulous people are not strong enough to implement the policy of 'taking white women as concubines and raising offspring for the empire' that I personally proposed!"

Li Mingqi walked around the room holding the form, searching his poor knowledge in his mind, preparing to pick out a policy that would be useful now.

Those unscrupulous people were really a little too much. After dividing the land and distributing seeds, they all stayed in their own farms and immersed themselves in farming!

I really don’t understand His Majesty the Emperor’s painstaking efforts!

I originally thought that now that we had land and built a house, it was time for these unscrupulous people to think about their daughter-in-law.

Li Mingqi even deliberately relaxed the difficulty for white women to enter the country. Of course, good-looking ones will be given priority. As for the rest...ugly ones will be rejected!

But even so, when those unscrupulous people were selecting workers in the labor market, they all went to those white men who were muscular and capable of working.

The reason is that if these people are invited back, they can help with farm work!

Now Li Mingqi has specially expanded Foxconn's workshop for producing agricultural machinery for farming purposes.

Horse-drawn harvesters and various practical agricultural machinery are priced as low as cost.

With all these machines, is it necessary to hire white men to do the work?

Wouldn’t it be nice to invite four or five white women each?

After taking a few steps, Li Mingqi didn't think of a better way. He could only solve the problem from the root, so he asked:

"Do you know why those Diao...those empire subjects are unwilling to take concubines?"

Liu Youcai glanced at Li Mingqi resentfully and thought:

Isn't it because you are a bachelor yourself, Long Live Lord, so those unruly people can be learned?

But we can't say this now, because if the long-lived man adopts a white witch and gives birth to a dragon son, his blood will be impure.

The prince must be of my orthodox Chinese bloodline, which is the best, but it is difficult to find a woman who fits the status of the Long Live Lord.

According to the information that little Wilson brought back last time, the women from the Han official families in the Puppet Qing Dynasty were on tight guard, and they had no chance to make a move.

It seems that finding a queen from a scholarly family for Long Live Lord will have to be delayed.

"The old minister also asked people to inquire about this matter, but the people of the empire said...that the white woman had a strange appearance and that her breasts were exposed and her breasts were unruly."

"He also said... He also said that anyone who takes a white woman as a concubine will be laughed at by others..."

Li Mingqi's veins jumped when he heard this. Now that the empire is at risk, can't you contribute to the country?

No, it would be better to use more energy and have more concubines.

But the point of view mentioned by Liu Youcai is really a difficult problem.

The current Pseudo-Qing Dynasty is not the universal cash machine after Lafayette came to power, so its knees are still hard when facing foreigners.

The feelings of the pseudo-Qing Chinese towards foreigners were very complicated. They went through several stages such as contempt, slander, rejection, passive cooperation, and active cooperation.

The people of the Xinming Empire are now wandering in the second stage, so there is still a long way to go before the people of the empire can take concubines.

"How about encouraging concubinage?" Li Mingqi patted his head and came up with an idea of ​​​​lubbing them for profit.

"Long Live Lord, please don't set a precedent like this. It would be terrible if the people of the empire all think about taking concubines instead of marrying wives in the future."

Liu Youcai quickly admonished him. He had a deep understanding of this kind of thing that was too much and not enough.

Encouraging concubinage and giving money now will make it difficult for the people of the empire to get used to taking white women as concubines in the future.

The Xinming Empire can't live without women forever, right? At that time, how should I, a Chinese woman, deal with myself?

Besides, those white women looked immodest and dressed in such attire that he, an old man, blushed.

After studying for a while, Li Mingqi didn't have the slightest clue.

If this kind of good deed were left to future generations, he, Li Mingqi, would have to be sacrificed by his male compatriots.

But in this era, he was hit hard, and Li Mingqi still hasn't recovered yet.

It seems that the matter of having a concubine needs to be slowed down for a while. Changing the minds of those unscrupulous people will not bring results in a short time.

This can be seen from the fact that some people still have long hair.

Don't think that Li Mingqi is stupid and can't see it. Although those old gangsters have cut their braids, their hair is still very long. Once it is tied up, it will look like a small braid.

But the battle of wits and courage with these unscrupulous people must continue. There is a long way to go.

After sighing, Li Mingqi discussed matters in Southern California with Liu Youcai.

Because Li Mingqi had to go through Southern California to build the railway, and those Southern Californians had never participated in the battle between Li Mingqi and California.

They even took advantage of Li Mingqi's hold on California to become independent and established some sort of Southern California Republic.

But their location was very strange, right between Yingtian Mansion and San Francisco, which put Liu Youcai in a bit of a dilemma.

If we don't occupy that place, Yingtian Mansion will become an enclave. And if we send out troops in the future, we won't have great righteousness at hand.

Liu Youcai felt very thorny about how to deal with the problem in Southern California, so he came specifically to ask Li Mingqi's opinion this time.