Chapter 280: Northeast Development(1/2)
The war against Mongolia, with the end of the "Jiazi Treaty", Lin Danhan suffered a heavy blow in this war and his prestige was also hit.&1t;/p>
When the cold winter passed, Lin Danhan had to consolidate his regime. At this time, many Mongolian tribes no longer obeyed Lin Danhan's orders, especially Mongolian, who had just been defeated by Lin Danhan's government, saw that Lin Danhan could not do anything, so they simply put Lin Danhan away and continued to play with their own things.&1t;/p>
And some Mongolian tribes, even if they could not defeat Lin Danhan, simply surrendered to the Ming Dynasty.&1t;/p>
With the arrival of spring, another year has passed.&1t;/p>
In the fourth year of the revelation, Zhu Youxiao found that he had temporarily eliminated the external threats, and Jiannu had basically been completely eliminated.&1t;/p>
Now Jiannu has only a little remnant. According to the information found from Mongolia, Huang Taiji may have taken Jiannu's remnant to the Central Asian grassland.&1t;/p>
Jiannu, Zhu Youxiao's great trouble, was finally eliminated. This process was not difficult. Jiannu itself was just a bandit group that could not be put on the table. He was able to enter the Central Plains only those bureaucrats in the late Ming Dynasty. The capitalist class chose to cooperate with foreign races and then followed behind to grab the people's money, land, and women.&1t;/p>
It is not surprising that Jiannu was easily eliminated. ↓ding↓small talk, .2v3.≠o&1t;/p>
With the defeat of Mongolia in the fourth year of the Apocalypse, it was impossible for Jiannu to rekindle. After the Mongolians were taught a lesson, they should have become honest within a few years.&1t;/p>
In addition, in the fourth year of the Tianqi period, import and export tariffs were established, and the territory of Jilin, Heilongjiang, Inner Mongolia and Zhendong provinces was opened.&1t;/p>
"In the fifth year of the Tianqi revelation, the imperial court should not continue to expand in the northern region. We have occupied too much land to be a little undiluted." Shen Qing suggested to Zhu Youxiao in the New Year plan at the end of the year. Zhu Youxiao nodded and said: "The next year's plan is to focus on immigration to the Northeast region. Expansion can be temporarily stopped."&1t;/p>
In addition to the two islands in Zhendong Province, there are more than 400 million mu of arable land in the northeast region, and most of the land has not yet been opened. After the spring, there are still 700 million mu of pastures to be distributed.&1t;/p>
This cannot be done in one or two years, but requires long-term digestion.&1t;/p>
Opening these lands requires land reclamation and road construction. In addition, mining industry must be developed, etc. At least the supply of coal must be guaranteed! Otherwise, it will be inconvenient to keep heating in winter. For example, pastoral areas must ensure that cattle and sheep are not frozen to death in winter. In fact, it is enough to take insulation measures. If the herdsmen can repair the insulation shed and have coal supply, the problem of being too cold in winter can basically be solved.&1t;/p>
At that time, every winter, that is, when it snows, the sheep pen will not be crushed by snow.&1t;/p>
Of course, herders have no money to build solid insulation sheep pens. After all, they were all nomadic in the past. What's the use of so solid? Sheep pens, etc., basically ensure that there is no air leakage in winter. Therefore, it is very normal for the Mongolians to be frozen to death by a large number of cattle and sheep.&1t;/p>
So, the Ming Dynasty needs to introduce some subsidy measures to help the Mongolian herdsmen build solid sheep pens so that they can afford and buy coal. It is used for insulation of winter sheep pens.&1t;/p>
As long as Mongolian herders do not freeze to death in winter, they can live a peaceful life and will not cause trouble. This is very important for the Ming Dynasty to maintain its rule over the grassland.&1t;/p>
In the fifth year of the Tianqi period, the main energy of the Ming Dynasty was to digest the Northeast region.&1t;/p>
"Accelerating the opening of the customs outside the customs will help us build a more fairer and more tax collection system. In the future, the Northeast region will also become an important part of maintaining the stability of our Ming Dynasty. The Northeast region will not only provide us with a large amount of food, but also provide us with more tax revenue. Therefore, this year, we will continue to adopt a policy of maintaining stability within the country, and we will not have to directly touch the interests of the old interest groups. We only need to continue to provide disaster relief, immigration, governing officials and suppressing riots." Zhu Youxiao formulated a five-year exhibition strategy, and all the ministers of the Han Emperor Party present agreed with this line.&1t;/p>
This is undoubtedly the safest development route.&1t;/p>
Continue to maintain stability internally, and through policies such as disaster relief, immigration, and tax exemption, so that good people who cannot live can survive and will not be forced to rebel. At the same time, they will increase their efforts to suppress the mob.&1t;/p>
First stabilize the interior, and at the same time, focus the center of opening on the Northeast region.&1t;/p>
First improve the economy, build a commercial grain base, and then provide the court with a stable source of fiscal revenue.&1t;/p>
By then, Zhu Youxiao will be able to completely let go of his hands and exercise surgery on traditional interest groups.&1t;/p>
The royal family who is waiting to die?&1t;/p>
After more than three generations of the past, all the jobs and work were transferred, the court no longer supported them.&1t;/p>
Tax-free aristocrats?&1t;/p>
From then on, there is no such good thing. We will pay taxes obediently, whether it is agricultural or commercial tax.&1t;/p>
But now I just think about it. If those gentry really rebel in groups, it would be fine to use Zhu Youxiao's current strength to suppress it, but the people would be in trouble. It would be enough for the Ming Dynasty to have a drink.&1t;/p>
After deciding the overall strategy, the fiscal budget for the new year was also determined.&1t;/p>
The fiscal budget for the fifth year of the Tianqi reached 100 million yuan. After the reform of the tax system of Beizhili and the development of the Beizhili industry, the total tax revenue of various taxes in Beizhili in the fourth year of the Tianqi has exceeded 300000 yuan for the first time. The tax revenue of the fifth year of the Tianqi has been estimated to be less than 40000 yuan, because the investment in Beizhili is still very huge at this time, and the industrial exhibition is also very promising.&1t;/p>
Especially after the imposition of import and export tariffs, some of the commodities in Beizhili have an advantage in foreign trade. Therefore, the tax revenue of Beizhili exceeded 40,000 yuan in the fifth year of Tianqi.&1t;/p>
With the income from seigniorage, salt tax, agricultural tax, etc., as well as customs income, the fiscal budget of 100 million yuan is still relatively conservative.&1t;/p>
It’s just that because the customs tax revenue is not known, the budget has not been set too high.&1t;/p>
It does seem that there are a lot of money, but there are also many places where money is spent. Zhu Youxiao has not invested much money since he ascended the throne.&1t;/p>
For example, education, in theory, a country's fiscal expenditure on education should account for a large proportion. However, Zhu Youxiao has no choice but to invest too much finance in education.&1t;/p>
Of course, education has also begun to develop. However, the official scale of education investment is not very large. In the fifth year of the Tianqi period, there is only 50,000 yuan in education funds. Basically, it is to spread the education aspect a little first.&1t;/p>
The main finances are still investing in the Northeast region. The budget invested in this regard has reached nearly 500,000 yuan, mainly used to build roads, water conservancy and towns, as well as immigration expenses.&1t;/p>
The military expenditure budget is 350,000 yuan, while other funds are used to maintain administrative expenses and other aspects.&1t;/p>
As for the opening of the Northeast region, the court began to work hard as soon as the first lunar month arrives.&1t;/p>
First, we should speed up the construction of the production corps and directly overturn the previously decided plan. We decided to invest twenty production corps in the Northeast region in the fifth year of the Apocalypse.&1t;/p>
Each production corps has 20,000 consuls. The number of consuls recruited in the fifth year of the Apocalypse has increased to about 50,000.&1t;/p>
These twenty production corps will be established within half a year, and then they will be put into the Northeast to launch military camps and reclaim land in the Northeast.&1t;/p>
Among them, the main concentration is the Songnen Plain and the Sanjiang Plain. Twenty production corpses will serve as the pioneers in reclaiming these areas.&1t;/p>
While increasing the production corps, Zhu Youxiao ordered the allocation of grasslands.&1t;/p>
After some statistics, there were 110,000 Mongolians who defected to the Ming Dynasty, and each household allocated 500 million acres of grassland, which was allocated more than 500 million acres of grassland.&1t;/p>
The remaining 200 million mu of grassland, of which 50,000 mu were established by the Royal Agricultural Company, and 150 million mu were contracted and operated by merchants of the Royal Consortium. Zhu Youxiao held a shareholding and also established a military horse farm.&1t;/p>
These 200 million mu of grassland are mainly used to cultivate and produce military horses, and then purchased by the court.&1t;/p>
Zhu Youxiao wanted a better military horse, but the Mongolians obviously couldn't provide it. How to raise a Mongolian horse is ultimately a Mongolian horse.&1t;/p>
Mongolians naturally understand what hybrid cultivation techniques are, but they do not have the ability and conditions for long-term cultivation.&1t;/p>
The Mongolians mainly raised cattle and sheep, providing wool, leather, and beef and mutton for the Ming Dynasty. In terms of military and horses, the Ming Dynasty would not rely too much on them in the future, but the post horses used by the Mongolians were still needed in large quantities by the Ming Dynasty.&1t;/p>
These military horse farms will also hire Mongolian herders to raise horses, but some technical work is done by the Han people, such as cultivating new varieties of war horses, preventing and treating diseases, managing grasslands, etc.&1t;/p>
On the grasslands ruled by the Ming Dynasty, some central towns will be built in the fifth year of the Tianqi period. The role of these central towns is very obvious. First, they can be used to trade with the Mongolians, and second, they can allow the Ming Dynasty to occupy these grasslands for a long time.&1t;/p>
Once a town is built, as long as a cannon is put on the city wall and some troops are sent to garrison, the Mongols can only sigh under the city and occupy the surrounding areas for a long time.&1t;/p>
It is almost impossible for Mongolia to counterattack.&1t;/p>
In the policies formulated by Zhu Youxiao, the Mongolians were autonomous on the surface, but in fact they were not worthy of their name. They just did not directly manage Mongolian herders, but they were still strictly controlled in terms of land, law, taxation, etc. Although Mongolian nobles could tax Mongolian herders, they could not tax commercial activities.&1t;/p>
There is no need to be too anxious to build these towns. Anyway, one step by step is to build several buildings every year, and it will take less than a few years to include all the currently occupied grassland areas in the scope of long-term occupation.&1t;/p>
With the development of the times and the continuous improvement of the productivity of the Han people, the threat of nomadic people like Mongolia to the Han people is actually getting smaller and smaller.&1t;/p>
The Ming Dynasty learned from the lessons of the destruction of the nomadic peoples in the Song Dynasty and adopted the method of building high walls to deal with the nomadic peoples. In fact, it was very effective. In the late Ming Dynasty, Jiannu entered the pass several times to rob, not because he did not have the intention to occupy Beijing, but because the walls of Beijing were too high and too thick.&1t;/p>
However, such a national policy prevents the outside but cannot prevent the inside. No matter how strong the fortress is, it will collapse from the inside.&1t;/p>
Therefore, these towns do not actually need to build the city walls too perverted. After all, the Mongolians have poor ability to attack, and after putting on the cannon base, it is even more difficult for the Mongolians to get close. Just build the city walls almost the same. If they are too high and too thick, it is a waste of manpower and material resources.&1t;/p>
At the same time, the imperial court began to encourage people to immigrate to Liaodong. As long as they are willing to immigrate to Liaodong, the government will provide transportation of vehicles and food along the way.&1t;/p>
You can still arrange work when you arrive in Liaodong.&1t;/p>
At this time, the best foundation in the Northeast region was naturally Liaodong. After about a year of restoration, the Liaodong region has become a large construction site. There are construction sites everywhere.&1t;/p>
In the fifth year of Apocalypse, that would be even more amazing.&1t;/p>
First, the court issued a budget of 50,000 yuan. In addition, the local government sold assets and invested in infrastructure. In addition, the royal consortium was also working hard to open Liaodong. Private capital also invested heavily in Liaodong.&1t;/p>
Bank loans are basically open, and as long as you invest in Liaodong, you can basically apply for a mortgage loan. Merchants go to Liaodong in large quantities to purchase land, minerals, and forest land. They engage in agricultural production, mining and logging in Liaodong, as well as opening factories, workshops, shops, etc.&1t;/p>
Few businessmen are fools, so naturally they can see that Liaodong has a large number of unopened resources.&1t;/p>
The royal consortium is opening, and private businessmen are also opening. Zhu Youxiao eats meat, and merchants drink soup. A large amount of funds flows to Liaodong in a crazily manner, causing a huge demand for labor in Liaodong.&1t;/p>
Therefore, if you immigrate to Liaodong, you don’t have to worry about any work problems. You can make money as long as you have the strength. The government will also give free land to these immigrants to build houses, and the money you can get from the bank to build a loan.&1t;/p>
Officials do not exploit housing land. It is easy for these immigrants to build large tiled houses in Liaodong, and they only need to work for a few years.&1t;/p>
With a house and a job, the people will be safe. Safeguarding the people in troubled times is the best, so Zhu Youxiao will naturally not rush to raise housing prices in a crazy way.&1t;/p>
Nowadays, when the poor have no place to stand, they cannot do that. Moreover, the land is not too much. The population of the Ming Dynasty is still too small in the eyes of time travelers like Zhu Youxiao.&1t;/p>
If the Ming Dynasty had a population of 500 million or 600 million, it would be almost the same. If the growth was too fast, you could also use family planning to limit it. However, family planning should not only be allowed to have one like in the future. If the Ming Dynasty wanted to carry out family planning, it could limit the birth of children to not be able to pass three. As long as you avoid the phenomenon of giving birth to five or six or seven or eight in large numbers, the population will basically not be able to experience explosive growth.&1t;/p>
Many poor people in the pass were attracted by policies, and a large number of immigrants soon appeared.&1t;/p>
In addition to the travel expenses to immigrate to Liaodong, there is also a centralized delivery from the government, so there is no need to worry about encountering any thieves on the way. After arriving, you can not only choose different cities according to their own wishes to allocate a foundation to build a house, but also the Northeast region is completely exempt from corvee service.&1t;/p>
The Northeast region has no basis for recruiting corvee labor. Now, many major projects in the imperial court have begun to pay wages when recruiting corvee labor, while the Northeast region has paid wages in full. However, the government does not interfere in organizing activities, and they contract the projects to infrastructure companies, and only bear supervision and acceptance.&1t;/p>
Immigration basically first immigrates to Liaodong, while Jilin, Heilongjiang, and Inner Mongolia, which have no foundation, use the production corps and recruitment of workers to start, and then immigrate after having a foundation. Because immigrants will bring many elderly, weak women and children, they must have a certain foundation.&1t;/p>
The opening is not slow at all. The government conducts infrastructure bidding, and then the enterprise undertakes construction and recruits workers from the customs to go to construction.&1t;/p>
With facilities such as roads, companies that have purchased assets will recruit workers to open them.&1t;/p>
In this way, towns will naturally be formed. Farms, pastures, mines, forest farms, factories and so on will naturally appear.&1t;/p>
After these things appear, they will naturally attract a large number of immigrants.&1t;/p>
Of course, the Ming Dynasty is still unable to get rid of the problem of insufficient agricultural productivity, and agricultural production still requires a large population.&1t;/p>
However, the fishery industry began to work hard in the fifth year of the Tianqi period. Due to the improvement of fishing boats, various coastal fishing grounds have caught a large number of fishery products.&1t;/p>
Among them, the pickled fish in Zhendong Province also began to be transported in large quantities to the Northeast.&1t;/p>
With the arrival of the fishing flood, the fishermen in Zhendong Province were busy. Basically, they could just scatter the net and catch a large net.&1t;/p>
This is Hokkaido fishing ground, with extremely rich fishery resources.&1t;/p>
To be continued...