Chapter 178 Big Immigration

On November 2, 21st year of Wanli.

Previous issues such as the reform of silver rewards and the attitude investigation of soldiers have been fully understood. About 90% of the soldiers are willing to implement a new beheading and reward system to behead one level in exchange for 400 acres of fertile land in Hetao.

Everyone also agreed to the silver and provident fund system established by Huang Laifu, which was to reward 40 taels of silver for beheading, and each time he gave 5 taels of silver, deposited in the provident fund, and paid together after the soldiers retired for five years. After all, the amount of silver rewards for each beheading is too large, and it is difficult to pay. Everyone understands the difficulties of Huang Junmen. In addition, Huang Laifu has always been a trustworthy person, and the soldiers believe in Huang Laifu very much.

Therefore, on this day, Huang Laifu ordered the reward for the beheading and reward of the Wuzhaibao army to kill the enemy in the Battle of Korea. He gave the money first, and the land was recorded in the military merit book. After the soldiers retired, they could go outside the frontier to divide the land.

The soldiers who were rewarded this time were in Wuzhai Fort and in Ningwu Pass. During the Korean War, the Wuzhai Fort army beheaded more than 3,000 levels, and 90% of them were willing to accept land, which required nearly one million acres of land.

This batch of land is not a small amount. Fortunately, there are many fertile land in Hetao, with a large amount of tens of millions of acres, which is enough for Huang Laifu to reward. Even if there is insufficient land in Hetao in the future, Huang Laifu can continue to develop north and west, right? There is a lot of land in this world, and Huang Laifu is not worried at all.

In Huang Laifu's original plan, if the people of the Ming Dynasty were out of the way, adult men could receive 200 acres of land, and adult women could receive 100 acres of land, slightly higher than the one-day land granted by Yi Ding in the early Tang Dynasty.

Among these lands, you only need to pay a land fee of one cent per mu and you can own it for life. The 200 mu of land is only 20 taels of silver, and it can be tax-free in the first three years. This is so attractive. You should know that in the current mainland of Ming Dynasty, even a mu of land will have to be sold at least a few taels of silver.

This is the ordinary Ming people. Huang Laifu was also exempted from the land rewarded by their army by one cent per mu of land, and he originally planned to exempt the land and grain tax of soldiers in the future.

But later he thought that if he did this, the harm would be too great in the future, so Huang Laifu planned to save them only five years of money and food, and to pay the food with the people in the future.

The reason for doing this is because Huang Laifu knew that in the agricultural society of ancient China, both land was not scary. What was scary was the existence of the privileged class who did not have to pay taxes. Often, in the end, the country collapsed like this.

Especially in the Ming Dynasty, it was an obvious example. Since the Ming gentry were all tax-free, after the middle of the Ming Dynasty, self-cultivated farmers from all over the country devoted themselves to slavery to exempt them from the fixed head taxes, corvee, etc. (you can tell if you look at Fan Jin's examination). Many people would rather hide under the wings of the wealthy family and become serfs than be the so-called self-cultivated farmers.

According to Huang Laifu's relevant knowledge, by the late Ming Dynasty, at least half of the farmers hid like this, resulting in the registered population in the Ministry of Revenue Huang Book and Fish Scale Book not as good as the population in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China. The result is that due to the concealment of land and population, the rich paid less and the poor paid more and the large number of self-cultivated farmers disappeared. In the end, the country had no income and had to squeeze out fewer and fewer self-cultivated farmers, which eventually led to the bankruptcy of most self-cultivated farmers, becoming refugees, and the world was in chaos and the dynasty was destroyed.

In case of precautions, Huang Laifu would keep it as his territory in the future and for his descendants. In view of this, Huang Laifu absolutely does not allow any class in the place that does not pay taxes. In the future, in all places outside the world, no matter who is a military, civilian, or literati, they will have to pay taxes, and they will also collect taxes according to the value of the land, rather than the tax method of counting taxes.

After obtaining the reward silver and land certificate, everyone was happy with the soldiers of Wuzhai Fort, and everyone was envious of the soldiers from Ningwu Pass in the local area when they saw this situation.

Today, the news that Huang Laifu openly wanted to operate outside the border has been circulating in Ningwu Pass. Whether it is ordinary people or wealthy families, they are talking about this matter.

On the afternoon of the second day of the lunar month, Huang Laifu met hundreds of merchants willing to operate outside the border at the General Office of Ningwuguan to discuss the matter of settlement.

As early as the 20th year of Wanli, merchants from all over the world, with Huang Laifu's secret support, went to the outside world, but they were still relatively low-key. Now, Huang Laifu decided to combine the military, political, commercial and civilian forces in Shanxi Town to reclaim the outside world with great fanfare.

At present, the target of reclamation outside the Great Wall is the area around Qingshui River and Junggar Banner outside the wall. Qingshui River has 600,000 mu of arable land and more than one million mu of natural pastures. Junggar Banner has 1.78 million mu of arable land and 8 million mu of forests and grass areas. After the business of merchants in the past two years, some of the farmlands have been reclaimed here, and some pastures have been opened as livestock farms.

At present, the merchants' operations in both places are very smooth. Even if some small Mongolian tribes come to harass them, they are easily repelled by the merchant guards. However, due to the lack of local manpower, there are still a large number of land and pastures in the second place that have not been operated and are empty.

Merchants all hope that Huang Junmen will help them solve the manpower problem, and Huang Laifu certainly also attaches great importance to this problem. In the agricultural society, land annexation is an unabated fatal point and will never be cured. In the current Ming Dynasty, the land problem has been saved, and refugees everywhere can solve this problem only by expanding externally and transferring the population.

The third day of the junior high school.

Huang Laifu published the "Reclamation Matters" and invited local Ningwu merchants to print countless lists. Then, they were brought to various places through various merchants, or posted to Zhongzhou counties in various military forts, sent to various teahouses and restaurants, or handed them to children to post them in various streets and alleys to promote Huang Laifu's reclamation matters outside the border.

After the news reached various places, the entire Shanxi town immediately caused a sensation and even spread to other towns and provinces from afar.

Shanxi has a large population, a small land, and most of them are barren. In addition, the year is not good, and disasters, large or small, occur almost every year, and refugees are everywhere. There are many refugees and poor people in various military forts and counties. They have always had the habit of immigrating and are not very attached to their hometown.

In addition, Huang Laifu's publicity is so tempting. As long as it is a 1-die ounce, you can collect 200 mu of land outside the border. The cost is only one qian per mu of land, and it can be tax-free in the first three years. You should know that now, in Taiyuan and other places, even if you go to the fields, you will have several taels of silver per mu of land.

For those who can't even afford a few taels of silver, they can first work in various farms run by foreign merchants in the West. Along the way, the merchants are responsible for their travel expenses, food and accommodation, so they will definitely not be frozen and hungry. After arriving at the destination, they will also have wages every month. After accumulating money in the future, they can also buy land outside the West, right?

In the past, people's impressions were all barren land outside the frontier, and fierce Tartars were rampant. However, after listening to the leaflets sent by the Huang Jun sect, they suddenly realized that it was such a paradise outside the frontier. As for safety issues, what would happen if the Huang Jun sect guaranteed it?

Now, not to mention the refugees and poor people in various places, even many normal families have become interested. Many families with large families have their own families, and the general property can only be inherited by the eldest son, while the rest of the sons can only make a living. Now, many people are taking money and thinking about creating their own foundation outside the border. Those rich families have sent their families out of the border, especially Governor Yang and others from Ningwu Pass.

From the sixth day of the lunar month, as Huang Laifu’s “Reclamation Matters” leaflets were successively transmitted to various places, the military forts and counties in Shanxi Town were in a lively situation, and the teahouses and restaurants were full of people talking about the matter. On each street, merchants recruited refugees and asked them to work in their farms. The children of wealthy families were packing their luggage and preparing to set off.

From November 15, 21st year of Wanli, a rolling crowd formed on the way from Taiyuan to Ningwu, from Taiyuan to Kelanzhou, from Wuzhai Fort to Laoying Fort, many reclamation personnel were dragging their families. They pushed carts, drove mules, and carried their children with hope to the outside world.

In the arrangement of Huang Laifu and others, those who worked in the farms of foreign merchants in the Frontier were led by merchants, and the safety was their responsibility. Those who were preparing to buy land outside the Frontier were simply organized by the local army after passing through Wuzhai Fort.

These ten households were divided into one a. The ten a.m. They all had armored lengths and limbs, and had certain armed personnel. Huang Laifu sold them some waist knives and spears. As the scale expanded, he also decided to sell muskets. After all, outside the Great Wall was someone else's territory, and danger existed. Reclamation personnel must have certain armed protection capabilities.

During the immigration wave, according to statistics from Huang Laifu and others, in just a few months, tens of thousands of people went to the West, providing a steady stream of labor for merchants in various farms. The huge crowd also provided a large number of business opportunities for various places along the way. Along the migration road, various hostels and inns continued to appear, and provided employment opportunities for many people.

Unlike the enthusiasm of the people in Shanxi, the cabinet officialdom of the Ming Dynasty collectively lost voices about Huang Laifu's big moves. Everyone was stunned and looked at all, not knowing what to say.

Of course they knew that the settlement outside the border was good for the Ming Dynasty, but this would not provoke the border? It was just that this was Huang Laifu's business, so he was not afraid. Besides, the Wanli Emperor agreed to it, what else did they say?

Busy of immigration, busy with Ningwu Pass, busy with military affairs, among all kinds of busy things, time flies quickly, and soon, time comes December 30, 21st year of Wanli, February 19, 1594. The New Year Festival is here again.

This day was the New Year's Eve of the Ming Dynasty. Long before, Huang Laifu recruited his concubines Liu Yumei, Qu Xiuhe and others in Wuzhaibao, as well as his own children to Ningwu Pass. Although Huang Sihao, Yang and others were not around, everyone had New Year's Eve dinner, changed door gods, pasted Spring Festival couplets, hung New Year pictures, hung tags, posted window flowers, and ate dumplings. It was lively and had a happy New Year together.

Without exception, Ma Jiuying's father-in-law also celebrated the New Year with Huang Laifu, and Huang Laifu's many brother-in-law and sisters also celebrated the New Year. We played until after the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month, and then returned to normal work.

The new year has begun!
Chapter completed!