After taking a shower and massage, Li Fushou was resurrected with full blood and returned to Lingxiao Pavilion in high spirits to continue working.

The war has been on hold for more than half a year

Thanks to the expansion of occupied areas and the strengthening of people's confidence, and the continuous import of a large number of working people, the Red River Valley economy has developed rapidly.

In particular, the most important immigration work achieved fruitful results in 1882, with an annual immigration population exceeding one million, achieving a historic leap.

As of March 1883

The total population of Australia exceeded 5.176 million, of which 3.229 million Chinese population, a sharp increase of 896,000 over the previous year and 1.813 million whites, a slight increase of less than 40,000 over the previous year. The indigenous population of the South Pacific is 134,000, a significant decrease of nearly 30,000 over the previous year.

The population of Shangri-La area continues to grow rapidly, from 232,000 to 381,000. The main growth driver comes from the development of Qixing Town and Longmen Town in the Qingshui River Basin, which is expected to exceed the 400,000 population mark by the end of April.

The statistics do not include 31,000 indigenous prisoners. The Borneo War Zone continues to transport indigenous prisoners of war to the Koi copper and gold mine at a rate of 2 to 3 ships per month, greatly promoting the construction of Longjin Highway, the construction of the Crescent Lake Power Station and the construction of the mining area.

Indigenous prisoners of war mainly came from the Machen Kingdom of Southern Kalimantan Province, a Borneo indigenous kingdom with low productivity and a total population of less than 170,000. As a large number of strong men were sent to the mining area to serve hard labor, this indigenous kingdom that once existed in history had long disappeared without leaving much trace.

With the support of abundant labor, the Koi copper and gold mining area has been officially launched to mine ore based on existing conditions.

The Borneo immigration plan has been accelerated. Since June 1882, the number of Chinese immigrants imported from Eastern Kalimantan and Southern Kalimantan provinces has exceeded 252,000, with an average of more than 28,000 people per month.

After March 1883, immigration has further increased, and the number of immigrants arriving that month is expected to exceed the 30,000 mark.

The influx of a large number of working people has vigorously promoted the economic development of Queensland, especially the two industrial star towns, Songjiang Town and Zhuque Town. The urban population has exceeded 300,000, surpassing Sydney to become the fourth and fifth largest city in Australia, and squeezing Sydney to sixth place.

Since the Steam Industrial Revolution, the world economy has shown an accelerated development trend.

According to statistics;

In 1870, the total global trade volume was 2.214 billion pounds, and by 1882 it grew rapidly to 4.078 billion pounds, almost doubled in 12 years.

The world steel output, the main economic indicator, soared from 520,000 tons in 1870 to 16.6 million tons in 1882, an increase of 32 times.

Oil production soared from 800,000 tons in 1870 to 13.2 million tons in 1882, an increase of 16.5 times.

The total length of the world's railways soared from 210,000 kilometers in 1870 to 650,000 kilometers in 1882, a triple.

It is under such a historical background

Queensland has emerged as a new force, with its industrialization level among the entire South Asia and the South Pacific region. Its per capita economic income has also increased significantly, and a large number of emerging bourgeoisie have emerged that have become rich in industry and commercial trade.

This further promoted the demand for culture and entertainment. Nightclubs of all sizes are blooming everywhere, theaters and teahouses are springing up like mushrooms after a rain. A wave of new temples and Taoist temples has been set off in various towns. Rich businessmen with money in their pockets are willing to generously donate money to find spiritual sustenance.

Various newspapers and bookstores appeared one after another, and Qinlou and Chu Pavilion became more prosperous. Women from Europe, Belarus, Fusang and other places were filled with them, and their business was all booming.

Only Chinese women are almost gone, and they have become the target of the wealthy bachelors who are flocking to it. The young woman brought back from the mainland by the media company was almost married home just after getting off the immigration ship, and it was impossible for her to fall into society.

This further promoted the development of media companies of all sizes. Society is using its own strength to correct population imbalances, and this measure has achieved remarkable results.

According to statistics;

In 1882, 282,000 newlyweds got married in Queensland. Among them, media companies of all sizes contributed half of the brides, and the remaining half were female-age populations from the mainland's families. As long as girls' families were crossed, the threshold was broken.

News about the Australian bride's popularity spread throughout the coastal cities of the mainland. It is said that as long as the family has a daughter of appropriate age, it is not a problem to repay all the immigration loans of the whole family, and they can still live a prosperous life.

This directly led to a rapid increase in young women in the immigrant population, which has reached nearly 300,000 young women of appropriate age immigrated to Australia in 1883. In addition, the vigorous introduction of media companies is expected to solve the imbalance between men and women in the next 10 years.

It is expected that Queensland will usher in the first large-scale baby boom from the second half of this year, with more than 330,000 births throughout the year, achieving explosive growth in the population.

More than 400,000 young women will pour in throughout 1883. As expected, they will merge into society like the melting of ice and snow. Most of them will marry into women and have children within a year.

The Queensland baby boom will continue to be popular. It is expected that the baby boom born in 1884 will surge to more than 500,000, and the society will enter a more harmonious and orderly development stage.

To deal with this situation

Queensland has vigorously simplified the marriage registration procedures and issued the Marriage Law to protect the rights and interests of men and women. This law is based on the Marriage Law of the British Empire and takes into account the actual immigration of the Qing Empire, and has made flexible judicial interpretations, similar to the relevant legal interpretations in Hong Kong.

Mainly during the marriage, the man can marry a side wife if he obtains written consent from his wife. The rights and interests of a side wife are protected by law and cannot be abused, bullied, beaten or scolded.

Marriage age: The man is over 18 years old and the woman is over 16 years old.

The Marriage Law stipulates that there are related clauses such as notarization of pre-marital property, division of post-marital property, and other related clauses. The man is responsible for raising his or her children at the age of 18, etc. This can guarantee the relevant rights and interests of divorced women, which is a huge progress in this era.

In order to cope with the arrival of large-scale baby booms, the Queensland government has taken various powerful measures to further ensure a smooth survival of the birth climax of the newborn population.

In August 1882, Red River Valley University and Brisbane University announced that they would expand their enrollment in medical schools from September 1, with the enrollment scale more than quadrupled than before.

On September 1, 1882, 16 newly built primary schools spread all over Queensland began to recruit students, dozens of kindergartens began to recruit students, and various public and private schools were built like mushrooms after a rain. The State Council issued relevant bills to provide tax and land reductions for schools at all levels for a period of 30 years.

On February 6, 1883, Songjiang Medical College was officially established.

On March 2, 1883, Brisbane Nursing School was officially established.

The new milk powder workshop of Songjiang Dairy Products Factory has been put into production. Songjiang Textile Deep Processing Base has specially developed a series of baby products, including soft wool blankets, wool quilts, wool bibs, baby clothing, plush toys, etc.

A new baby economy is taking shape in society. Around this emerging industry, society will solve a large number of employment problems and further promote the comprehensive and balanced economic development.

Li Fushou has approved several relevant documents in succession, all of which are reports on population and baby booms. Government departments have added special staff, built relevant facilities, commercial street construction, hospital construction and faculty training, etc.

At this time, the Secretary-General Fan Zhongzhai came in with a few documents. Li Fushou raised his head and greeted him, threw down the pen and documents in his hand, and lay down on the chair behind and said, "Brother Zhongzhai, I have been surrounded by baby booms these days. Looking at the current gratifying situation, the immigration policies we implemented in the past few years may be deviated!"

"Lord Yuanding, I think the immigration policy in the past few years is correct at all, very correct."

"Oh, tell me what you are doing."

"It's like that. We have created a situation in Queensland a few years ago. What the army and factories urgently need is the young and strong labor that can be used. When it comes, it can form combat power and when it comes comes, it can form productivity. A large number of babies are a burden and we can't afford it."

"What I said makes sense, but it's a bit biased." Li Fushou sighed lightly, stood up and moved around the room, walked to the wine cabinet and opened the red wine bottle...

He saw Fan Zhongzhai walking over quickly to take the bottle, and waved his hand casually, pouring a glass for himself and Fan Zhongzhai.

Picking up the wine glass, Li Fushou toasted Fan Zhongzhaiyao, raised his glass and took a sip of red wine, feeling the unique mellow taste of French red wine lingering in his mouth and said;

"When you are at a high place, you will often be separated from the people and cannot feel the urgent needs of ordinary people. Queensland has developed into a deformed society. I have unknowingly built a crater. We squatted on the crater and were still confused. It is really dangerous.

From the sharp increase in vicious cases such as gang rape in recent years, we can see how dangerous it is for a man to occupy the dominance of social groups. It is full of violence and aggressiveness, and repeated severe crackdowns cannot be curbed.

Without yin, there will be no birth, and lonely yang will not grow. Therefore, the heaven and earth are combined with yin and yang.

Triangles are the most stable structure, which is true for society and family. Fortunately, our Chinese compatriots have a strong tolerance, which allows us to escape.

Brother Zhongzhai… Whenever I think about this, I will secretly be grateful.”

After hearing this, Fan Zhongzhai quietly took a sip of red wine, thought about it and said, "Mr. Yuanding, I still can't agree with your point of view. You have too harsh requirements on yourself. People are not sages, so who can do nothing wrong?"

"Okay, you don't need to comfort me. Queensland's population is now over 3 million, accounting for three-fifths of the entire Australian population. It will increase in the future. This is like a heavy weight. One day it will overwhelm Australia's balance. Have you considered this issue?"

"The only battle!"

"It's easy to say, how can the British pass this level?"

Fan Zhongzhai shook his head decisively. He had thought about it more than once, but the mountain standing in front of him was really helpless.

It is easy to win the Southern State, but it is very difficult to pass the British, and the British will 100% intervene. This is the current difficulty.

Li Fushou smiled, raised his wine glass and clinked Fan Zhongzhai for a while and said, "If you don't talk about these troublesome issues, you haven't congratulated you on your dear son and your precious daughter. It's a double happiness!"

Fan Zhongzhai had one wife and two concubines. In March, his wife gave birth to a legitimate son, and his second concubine gave birth to a daughter. These days he was so happy that he couldn't stop talking, and he looked so arrogant when walking.

"Mrs. Fiona is about to give birth next month. Zhongzhai is here to congratulate Lord Yuanding on his new son, with a lot of descendants and a prosperous Li family."

"Hahaha... there is no need for you and my brothers to flatter each other." Li Fushou said with a smile.

The sweet French red wine is very suitable for the current mood. The sun shines in through the tall window lattices. The two have a great time talking. After chatting around the world for a while, cheerful laughter burst out from time to time.
Chapter completed!