Chapter 518 Population Trading

The military affairs of Liaodong were generally a strategic offensive situation. Governor Zhang Bingwen would never move when he arrived in Chenyang. In this year, Liaodong was a really bitter and cold place, and no one wanted to stay there. The Guanning Army had no choice but to stay in Shanhaiguan, for fear that the emperor would settle the accounts, so he ran north, built a city in Tongliao, cut off the connection between the Jurchens and the east and west, and then did some wool business. In this year, as long as there was money, he would not be afraid of not being able to buy things. Even in Tongliao, the Guanning Army lived quite well.

The remaining Qing army retreated all the way north and is currently active in the Heilongjiang River Basin. Dengzhou Camp temporarily stopped its attack, not because it was not that it was not that it was not that it was powerless. Liaodong was still too big, and the army of tens of thousands of people was spread out without any bubbles. So we could only go step by step, push forward a little, settle the immigrants, stabilize the more stable, and continue to go north. In recent years, more than 5 million immigrated from northern Zhili, Henan, Shandong, Jiangbei and other provinces to Liaodong. This number seems to be a lot, and you can see that it is really pitiful. Is the Ming Dynasty short of population? To be honest, it is a shortage. The civil war in the Central Plains caused by natural disasters, but it is actually.

Whether it is natural disasters or not, it is not important to Chen Xie. It is important to move the population out of several provinces that have suffered severe disasters. This work was done by Dengzhou Camp before, but now it is done by government officials in various places. When did the government become so diligent? It is wrong to think so. What really promotes officials is the interests. The current situation is that as long as merchants from all over the country send people to Liaodong, they can get silver. A person, regardless of men, women, old and weak, can get a return of fifty silver dollars as long as he has a breath left in Liaodong. After deducting the expenses along the way, this transaction is still very profitable.

Driven by interests and seduced by the land, on the one hand, the government and businessmen are very enthusiastic, and on the other hand, a large number of people from North Korea fled to Liaodong. There is also a population source that is actually Japan, which is also a country with a large number of people and a small number of land. A large number of ordinary people who cannot even eat enough food were tricked by unscrupulous businessmen on board the boat in the name of going to Liaodong to work. The young man and woman gave five silver dollars a deposit alone. Then the young man and woman selected boarded the boat happily and took it to Liaodong. Because they were foreign tribes, the recipients from Liaodong refused to give the full amount, but were only willing to give it to him. Twenty silver dollars. In this way, many merchants were happy to continue doing this business. In principle, Japanese people in Liaodong could not be distributed to land, and they were centrally managed by the government and worked in farms. The food was full and the wages had to be handed over to the government. After ten years of work, they could get the status of a citizen of the Ming Dynasty. Women were treated better. Some people in Liaodong were bachelors, and many people bought one from the government to be their wife. The good looks were even higher, and the highest price could be sold for one hundred silver dollars. Rich people bought it back as concubines.

To be honest, Japanese women in this year are just like that, their short legs are so fatal. Fortunately, there are many bachelors in Liaodong. Just have a wife, and no one cares about this. Because the population is booming, the Japanese people in Liaodong are now close to 100,000.

Some merchants were even more bastards, and they directly hooked up with the Dutch, selling natives from the South China Sea to Liaodong. These merchants were basically miserable. The monkeys in the South China Sea were too lazy. The Liaodong government refused to accept them at all. Women could accept some. The men were all able to get back tickets, and no one wanted to stay as slaves. After a while, only women from Nanyang were shipped to Liaodong. When they arrived in Liaodong, they unloaded the women and put them on the specialties of the Ming Dynasty. They could make a lot of money by traveling this trip. So many merchants are doing this business now, and the sea merchants in Fujian are doing it. Before the end of last year, a Spanish ship arrived in Lushun, putting down more than 500 women under the age of 18, which kicked off the Europeans' trafficking in Liaodong.

Chen Xie's plan is to immigrate 10 million to Liaodong, which is the least. No matter how much land is, it is useless. Liaodong is operating into a large granary. This plan will not change. Compared with the land in the Central Plains, Liaodong is called fertile soil that can be ripped off. The population north of the Yangtze River immigrates to Liaodong, the population south of the Yangtze River immigrates to high-ranking officials or to the South China Sea in the future. As for the landlords in the Central Plains, Chen Xie does not care at all whether they can find tenants in the future. He takes advantage of the greed of merchants and local governments and constantly immigrate from Shaanxi, Shanxi, Ningxia, Beizhili and other provinces.

The court also knew about these things, but they were happy to see them happen. These people were not eaten at all in the local area. The drought is very serious now, and the local government is eager to get rid of the people. As for the interests of the landlords, who can take care of them now? I have been scared by bandits over the years, and the government has no room for negotiation at all. If you can get rid of them, you can try to get rid of them. If you have any objections, you can take out the food to help the people. Everything is easy to discuss, otherwise you don’t mention this topic.

As for the losses that occur during the immigration process, who can take care of? At most, the officials on business trips are heartbroken, and they will be cursed or just cursed. After a busy trip, they will go back and run. The prosperity of population transactions directly leads to a lot of chaos. But who is full and has to take care of this? Even if the government looks at the hungry people, they want to send them away as soon as possible.

So now it is a one-stop population transaction. The government is responsible for collecting the population, and the merchants are responsible for transporting it to the local area, so that everyone can make a fortune together. Because of this, Chen Xie, the governor of the three provinces, has an unexpected reputation in several northern provinces.

As for immigration expenses, it actually seems a lot. In fact, the wool comes from the sheep. If an immigrant reaches the Northeast, he can get tools and residences, and then you can go to open up the land. Half of the land you open is self-employed, and you don’t have to pay taxes within three years. The other half has to be farmed obediently, which is equivalent to renting the land from the government and paying half of the output of the rent every year. Fifty percent of the rent is also considered a conscientious price. Therefore, the immigration is not very resistant. There is a rigid rule that the land opened must not be wasted. If it is not for majeure, the wasteland will be taken back and dealt with by the government.

The construction of administrative institutions in Liaodong is roughly the same as that in the mainland. One hundred households are built in one village and built forts. Ten villages are one village, which are mutually in charge of each other and establish an early warning mechanism. Once there is a crisis, the beacon tower will be immediately lit, and the people from each village will come to help. Relying on this mechanism, under the premise of garrison and the people protecting themselves, the Qing army has been harassing small stocks in the past two years and rarely takes advantage.

The situation in Liaodong is becoming increasingly stable, while the situation in Mongolia is relatively vague. This is not a question of whether war can be fought, but is determined by the natural conditions on the grassland. After Duoduo mastered the Chahar tribe, he kept trying to advance eastward. After being blocked by Wang Ben's troops and the Korqin grassland, he slowly gave up this plan. Duoduo calmed down, and after the Dengzhou Camp stabilized its position, he went back and forth to advance westward. Because of the prosperity of wool trading, many small Mongolian tribes continued to escape from the Korqin east of Chahar.

Wang Ben's tactics were very steady and he was step by step. With the cooperation of He Xian's cavalry, he approached west little by little. Seeing the huge interests of the Korqin tribes, he also cooperated with the operations of the Dengzhou camp. In the past two years, the living space of the Chahar tribes has been continuously compressed, and Duoduo could only continue to retreat northward. Many battles did not gain any advantage, and the reason for the escape of a large number of small tribes directly led to this consequence. It is estimated that in two years, Duoduo would have to cross the vast sea and go further north.

Because of the effective combat of Dengzhou Camp, the so-called Nine Borders of the Ming Dynasty rarely have the opportunity to play a role now. Instead, the merchants showed their skills, flew back and forth various supplies, and made a fortune. This is also a major reason why the three-sided governor Sun Chuanting was unemployed. Now he went to Sichuan and continued to hunt down Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai. When these two goods fled to Myanmar, the entire Ming Dynasty should also calm down.

Chen Xie and Liu Qing talked about the rest in the middle of the night, and Zhu Youjian sent someone to the palace early the next morning. Zhu Youjian has been staying in the palace recently. Chen Xie had to obey the meaning of Empress Zhou. After entering the palace, Chen Xie did not see Zhu Youjian and went directly to see Zhu Youjian. Comrade the emperor was very kind to see Chen Xie. In fact, the two were about the same age.

The two sat opposite each other and Zhu Youjian couldn't wait to speak, "Sihua, you talked about the cultivation of the crown prince yesterday. I was deeply touched by it. I grew up in the deep palace and didn't know the current situation of the Ming Dynasty. Everything was heard by the people around me. This status quo must be changed." When it comes to this, Chen Xie felt so distressed. The last emperors of the Ming Dynasty were more strange than the other. When it comes to this issue, it was really a weasel who gave birth to a clan, and a nest was worse than a nest. Let's put it this way, none of the last emperors of the Ming Dynasty were mentally normal. Speaking of this phenomenon, civil servants had to bear a lot of responsibility. The emperor who liked the most was the kind of emperor who ignored everything and gave everything to civil servants. But this was obviously unrealistic. Once the emperor felt uncomfortable in front of the emperor, which emperor would not make a difference in ways?

The phenomenon of the Ming Dynasty cannot continue. So Chen Xie mentioned the issue of cultivating the crown prince. Of course, he said a few words before leaving, but he didn't mention it again. Unexpectedly, Zhu Youjian was very concerned and kept thinking about this problem all night and didn't sleep well. As the internal stability of the Ming Dynasty gradually stabilized, Zhu Youjian also began to reflect on this problem.

Zhu Youjian hopes to find a good way from Chen Xie, instead of sheep-herding like before. When talking about this, Chen Xie was also quite confused and thought about it: "I just think I need to change it, but how to change it? This is a matter of the heavenly family, and I can say nothing. I also ask Your Majesty to take it back and let me go." (To be continued, please search for astronomy, the novel is better and faster!

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