Li Shanchang thought he could not see this memorial, but now, when he heard Zhu Yuanzhang say this, he immediately extended his hand respectfully and soon received the memorial handed by Eunuch Li.

Turning around, Li Shanchang glanced at it, the expression on his face was very strange, and then he started reading.

"Assing my power to heaven, I am the gentle minister Chen Feng fulfilled his mission and came to Datong. Now, I have collected more than 10,000 laborers, first to go to Hebei, Henan and Shandong, rest and prepare for a large number of immigrants. Now, if the people are forced to move, I am afraid of civil strife, so I rack my brains to make the people voluntarily move. For the first batch of migrants, I will pay 100 taels of silver to each person, exempting five years of taxes, and promise that the wasteland they have reclaimed will be all for them, and I hope the emperor will be grateful!"

When Li Shanchang read a hundred taels of silver, he obviously paused and his tone became strange.

The ministers below felt a different feeling.

Is this more than one person in the Ming Dynasty? They were the most important figures in the entire Ming Dynasty. Their salary, even if they were the largest official position of the first rank, was only more than one hundred stones per month, and converted into silver. In theory, one stone of rice was equivalent to one tael of silver, but in fact, they were only one or two coins of silver.

In other words, the first-rank officials had a monthly salary of only a dozen taels of silver. Of course, they could not see the appearance of silver at all. The court never paid the salary, but they all gave rice or money. Last month, they gave pepper.

Now, a commoner can only give 100 taels of silver, which is simply unimaginable for them. Prince Chen is really generous! At this time, they even felt that they were not in this court, so they followed them to open up the land.

"Only by letting the first batch of people go there, can we have plans to let the subsequent people take the initiative to open up the land. The ministers were deeply honored by the original officials of Datong to donate the silver. They felt deeply ashamed of doing things under the Tatars before and felt that our emperor's kindness was so great that in order to move the people, even if they donated all their belongings, they could not express their loyalty. Most of the officials donated ten thousand taels of silver..."

Prince Chen’s memorial is like speaking plainly. It can be seen that Prince Chen has not received a good education since he was a child, but this time he said it, he feels more intimate.

Although Prince Chen said that these Tartar officials took the initiative to donate, there is no doubt that Prince Chen must have blackmailed it. If the silver is put into Prince Chen's pocket, then Prince Chen's charge of corruption will definitely be confirmed.

But now, it is completely different. Prince Chen is not corruption, he is doing business for the court. The court does not give Prince Chen any money. Prince Chen himself asked Tartar officials for it. Although the process was a bit disgraceful, it was completely open and honest.

The emperor has made his statement, who dares to keep this matter unwilling to let go? Prince Chen has no mistakes.

"Prince Chen is dedicated to the country. If the people can be moved by this time, if the people can take the initiative to pass, this is also a good opportunity to promote our power. Prince Chen has made good efforts." Liu Ji said.

"I feel very relieved to have an imperial brother doing things for me." Zhu Yuanzhang also said: "I agree with his approach to the imperial brother. Moving the people is a big deal. In order to raise funds, the original officials of the Tartars can donate."

Even Zhu Yuanzhang agreed, but Li Shanchang naturally had nothing to say. He lowered his head and said, "The emperor is wise!" Even if it was gone.

Although I felt a little unhappy, Li Shanchang knew that he could not mention this matter anymore. In fact, the emperor said it very clearly just now. Even if there is any such thing in the future, he would not be able to raise it in the court. It would be best to report it to the emperor in private.

Li Shanchang is very boring.

If Li Shanchang was allowed to do such a thing as a migrating population from Shanxi, it would definitely be escorted by soldiers. He did not expect that Prince Chen had so much thought. The emperor meant that he would not let himself cause trouble for Prince Chen before he could migrate the population.

At this time, Chen Feng did not know that his memorial had played such a great role. At the critical moment, he would have saved Zhu Yuanzhang the siege. Otherwise, Zhu Yuanzhang would have to send Liu Ji to investigate his actions.

A gentleman loves money and takes it well. Although he has squeezed out so much silver, for Chen Feng, these money and goods are just numbers.

I'm afraid I don't even know how much money I have now. At that time, Chen Feng originally planned to pay for it, but now, with the donations from these officials, Chen Feng has saved this procedure.

Corruption by yourself? What a joke?

After receiving Ying Tian’s report, Chen Feng just laughed it off.

Chen Feng has his own considerations.

The key to maintaining the status quo is balance. For the king, the important thing is checks and balances.

Although Li Shanchang is very unfriendly to Chen Feng and has repeatedly done bad things to Chen Feng. However, as long as Chen Feng has sufficient strength, even the emperor will not be able to do anything to him. Therefore, Chen Feng is not worried about his safety.

At the same time, Chen Feng did not intend to deal with Li Shanchang. Now, with Li Shanchang around Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Yuanzhang would use him as a tool to monitor himself. Moreover, Li Shanchang was surrendered to Zhu Yuanzhang shortly after he started his career. In any case, he is now a confidant.

Let it go first, and wait until the right opportunity in the future, it will not be too late for Chen Feng to take action.

Hu Weiyong at the beginning touched Chen Feng's bottom line, but Li Shanchang has not yet reached this level.

What Chen Feng is concerned about now is still about immigration.

In the past two days, due to Chen Feng's publicity at that time, the number of people who signed up gradually increased.

Five days passed quickly.

"Prince, we have confirmed that in the past few days, there are 3,600 people who have registered. Each of these people has distributed them 100 taels of silver, totaling 360,000 taels. In addition to some of the cash silver, the remaining ones are replaced by silver notes, banknotes and copper coins." Shi Yanduan said.

At the beginning, the use of cash silver was the most attractive. However, in the early Ming Dynasty, there were not many cash silvers. It was the first time that these corrupt officials could have so much cash silver in their families.

The rest are all currencies equivalent to silver.

Chen Feng nodded. If Chang Yuchun hadn't been able to do so in the past few days, I'm afraid he would really not be able to afford it.

"After another half a month, after the autumn harvest is over, they will be able to emigrate. However, these more than 3,000 people are far from the number required by the court. If we keep encouraging this way, the money we need to consume is not something we can afford." Shi Yanduan said.

"Yes, we only pay the money to the early people." Chen Feng said: "There is no need to be too many of these people. These more than 3,000 people are already good. It is said that even people from the southwest of Shanxi have come?"

What Chen Feng likes the most is that in these five days, not only around Datong, but also from the south, people came to hear the news, which is what he needs the most.

"Yes, Prince, most of these people fled to Shanxi. They were not natives in Shanxi and had no land. Even tenants had to pay more rent, so they were very supportive of us." Shi Yanduan said.

The surrounding areas have been fighting for years and are constantly famined, and the people are displaced. Many people flock directly to Shanxi. They are still quite supportive of Chen Feng's government orders.

"What we have to do next is to wait for a while." Chen Feng said.

Hearing the prince say this, Shi Yanduan couldn't help it and said, "Prince, we only have these few thousand people, which is far from enough. How should we do the subsequent migration?"

Looking at Shi Yanduan's anxious look, Chen Feng smiled in his heart. Even three days ago, Chen Feng was actually anxious. It was far from enough to encourage thousands of people. If he kept paying money, Chen Feng would be poor.

Suddenly, in a flash, Chen Feng thought of a wonderful and good solution. Although this method is a bit despicable and vulgar, it is a good solution for the people to move on their own initiative.

"Mr. Shi, if the people move on their own initiative, they must have enough benefits." Chen Feng said.

Interests are interests again! Shi Yanduan sighed and said, "This group of people seems to be unable to feed them, and we don't have more silver at all."

"What I am talking about is not just the benefits we give them. We can use one trick to fill our hunger and let them run away on their own initiative." Chen Feng said.

Drawing a cake to satisfy your hunger? The prince’s meaning is that he doesn’t have to give them benefits, but to fake them. Shi Yanduan knew that the prince had always had a clever plan, and immediately became energetic.

"Come here, I'll tell you." Chen Feng said.

This is a huge secret. If the people of Shanxi knew about it, Chen Feng was teasing them. I am afraid that the angry people would rush in and tear Chen Feng into pieces now.

After Chen Feng finished speaking, Shi Yanduan was so shocked that he opened his mouth and couldn't close it.

"Prince, is this appropriate?" Shi Yanduan asked.

Seeing that even Shi Yanduan was questioning, Chen Feng said: "Then do you think we have a better way? Otherwise, we can only send troops to escort the people, which is a good way to let them go."

Finally, after being surprised, Shi Yanduan nodded: "The prince is wise, since that's the case, then do as the prince wants."

"Well, this matter must be kept confidential and an absolute confidant must be sent to do it." Chen Feng said. Chen Feng just wanted to make a plan, and the implementation of the plan depends on his subordinates. For example, now, this matter has been stopped by Chen Feng, and the rest can be left to Shi Yanduan. Chen Feng lay on the chair of the Grand Master, closed his eyes to rest. His life in Datong was really dull, and it was time to go around for fun.
Chapter completed!