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Chapter 330: Immigrating to the Western Regions

Not only is the agriculture in the Hexi Corridor supported by the high mountain snow water of the Qilian Mountains, but the agriculture in the Western Regions also guaranteed by the high mountain snow water of the Tianshan Mountains.&1t;/p>

These high mountains and snow waters will not be so affected by small ice rivers. The Ming Dynasty opened the Western Regions and the agricultural disaster here will not be so severe.&1t;/p>

The key point is how to irrigate snow. In the Western Regions, there are actually related water conservancy projects. These water conservancy projects are technologies left by the Han people when they were engaged in agriculture in the Western Regions. After some exhibitions, they have become more mature.&1t;/p>

The water conservancy facilities in the Western Regions are mainly Kaner Well, which was developed by the Han people in the northwest during the Western Han Dynasty.&1t;/p>

One of the main achievements of the Han Dynasty, especially Emperor Wu of Han, was to open a vast northwest region. At that time, immigration to the border and repairing canals and farming were used as part of fighting against the invasion of the Huns. At this time, the northwest region became the second only to Guanzhong’s key water conservancy area, and water conservancy engineering technology was greatly improved.&1t;/p>

Today, there are still many kaneri in the Turpan Basin. The reason why the Yarkand Khanate has agriculture and handicrafts was first because it was irrigation facilities left by the Han people, thus having agriculture. With the support of agriculture, handicrafts naturally emerged.&1t;/p>

Kanerjing is a very old-fashioned horizontal water collection building that uses groundwater. It is suitable for foothills and alluvial fan edges. It is mainly used to intercept underground diving for farmland irrigation and residential water.&1t;/p>

The structure of the Kanerjing is generally composed of four parts: vertical shaft, underground channel, ground channel and "water dam" (small reservoir). The Bogda Mountain in the northern Turpan Basin and the Karau Mountain in the western part of the river. In spring and summer, a large amount of snow and rain flow down the valley and penetrated into the Gobi Desert. People use the slope of the mountain to skillfully create Kanerjing. Induce underground submerged flow to irrigate farmland. The Kanerjing does not cause a large amount of water to evaporate due to the heat and strong winds, so the flow is stable, ensuring self-flow irrigation.&1t;/p>

In later generations, the total number of kaner wells in Turpan reached more than 11oo, with a total length of about 5oo kilometers. However, there were not so many kaner wells in the Turpan area in the Ming Dynasty, and a large area of ​​land was not opened. Therefore, the next agricultural development in the Turpan Basin was to build a large number of kaner wells, bring the mountain snow water into the ground, and then transport it to various agricultural areas for irrigation. Thus, large areas of cotton fields were opened.&1t;/p>

The cotton yield in the region is the highest in the country. The climate here is very suitable for cotton growth. As long as irrigation and management are guaranteed, it is completely easy to break through 1oo kg. The cotton yield per mu in the provinces in the pass is generally around 1oo, mainly depends on irrigation and management. The Western Region has unique advantages in natural climate. Under the same management level and irrigation conditions, the cotton yield in the Western Region is a little higher, and the cotton quality is also the best.&1t;/p>

It is not a problem to open up a cotton field of more than 250,000 mu in the Western Regions. A cotton farmer needs 50,000 cotton farmers to calculate that it takes 50,000 cotton farmers.&1t;/p>

Zhu Youxiao calculated in the Forbidden City. After 50,000 cotton farmers, the Junggar tribe now accounts for a fixed quota of 50,000 households. There are still 450,000 households.&1t;/p>

As for these lands, they are just used to resettle the border troops that were abolished. Now there are three towns of border troops that have not been abolished, so they can be arranged to the Western Regions.&1t;/p>

"After statistics on military households in Ningxia, Guyuan and Gansu, they actually have 10,000 military households. All of these border troops immigrated to the Western Regions. Each household allocated 50 mu of arable land, and 1.150 million mu of land was needed. There was still a gap of 110,000 mu of cotton planting industry." Zhu Youxiao calculated that it still needed a large number of immigrants to open the Western Regions.&1t;/p>

After all, the Western Regions are not just cotton planting. In such a large place, if you repair water conservancy facilities, you can at least open more than 50 million mu of arable land.&1t;/p>

In addition, the cotton planting industry requires workers. A cotton farmer manages 50 acres of cotton fields a year. When picking cotton in autumn, a family will definitely be too busy. After all, there are no machines to pick these days.&1t;/p>

Not only farmers, but also workers.&1t;/p>

Immigration is definitely needed, but where can I find agricultural workers with relatively low labor remuneration? Zhu Youxiao quickly set his sights on the alien races in the Yarkand Khanate.&1t;/p>

Just start a land enclosure movement to deprive the land of foreigners who believe in extreme religions.&1t;/p>

The land is rewarded to the officers and soldiers who have established military merits. It does not matter whether these officers and soldiers immigrate. An agricultural company can be established to produce and turn those aliens into agricultural workers for management.&1t;/p>

Then use the Production Corps to reclaim some arable land, and the agricultural resources in the entire Western Regions can be developed.&1t;/p>

Workers needed for mining and road construction were recruited from the pass. These ordinary Han people had no military merits and were not overseas areas without foundation, so they were not distributed to land.&1t;/p>

Workers can be rich, and the state cannot make it rich to ensure that they can obtain the income they need to survive through labor. Everything is yin and yang rotation. Thirty years in Hedong and thirty years in Hexi, workers suffer a little hardship is actually not a bad thing. As long as the state guarantees their right to survive and does not allow their basic rights to be infringed, there will naturally be rewards.&1t;/p>

It is completely impossible to make every Han people rich, that is idealism. Everyone’s blessings are obtained by their own efforts. Poor people must have something hateful, and there is no poverty without reason.&1t;/p>

Zhu Youxiao's current thinking is relatively pragmatic and will not follow the wrong path of idealism. Capitalism and socialism in later generations are actually idealism. The idealization of capitalism lies in fair competition, but people have bad roots, so how can they compete freely? Will a rich man's son compete fairly with a poor man's son? Therefore, the capitalist country in later generations, which is packaged in the United States, does make people feel very beautiful. In fact, their market is highly monopoly, and a real capitalist country does not have monopoly.&1t;/p>

Socialism is also idealized and advocates fair distribution. However, the bad roots of human nature have made it impossible for distribution links to be fair, and the strength put into production links cannot be fair. The reason why Datong society in ancient China was able to last for a long time was mainly because the Chinese tribe was a civilization of cultivation at that time, and the monarch not only managed the people, but also the boss of the world of cultivation. The people of the entire tribe are simple and natural, without selfishness.&1t;/p>

After that, some people in the Chinese tribe were unwilling to practice, and developed selfishness and began to think about how to enjoy and be lazy. The bad roots of human nature gradually emerged. In the end, Datong society could only collapse, and the Taoist practice world and the secular world were separated. After the elites in the practice world left, the secular world wasted a lot of waste due to insufficient productivity. They quickly fell into a slave society.&1t;/p>

Although the Soviet elder brother in later generations was relatively bad, he taught China a vivid lesson at a critical moment. He played and disintegrated and died miserably. He went from a country with half of the output value of the United States to a third-rate country. This made the Chinese leaders realize that idealized socialism could not continue, and idealized capitalism would die even worse. Therefore, they embarked on a more pragmatic new socialist path and began to face reality and respect reality. After that, it took only 30 years to catch up with Europe and the United States. It proved that this path was not wrong. Of course, rapid development did indeed lead to many problems. But in the historical issues of the rise and rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, later generations did it.&1t;/p>

As a time traveler, Zhu Youxiao has too many things to learn from. He will not go to idealized capitalism and socialism. Instead, he will draw heavily on the model of later generations to show the Ming Dynasty. It is still the same idea - face up to reality and respect reality.&1t;/p>

What Zhu Youxiao can guarantee is that the people at the bottom can work more peacefully, and after they accumulate enough blessings, they have a smooth room for improvement. As for those people at the bottom who do not know how to work and make efforts, they can only guarantee that they will not be starved to death.&1t;/p>

There is a saying that if you don’t help the poor, you can treat him to dinner if you don’t have food, but if you want to buy something, you can’t borrow the money.&1t;/p>

The same is true for managing a country, and the emergency is not the poor. The people are so poor that they have no food to eat, and the court can provide them with conditions for hard work to get rich. If the environmental problems in the area where the people live cause poverty, they can immigrate. For example, the people on the Loess Plateau have too poor resources, which cannot be changed by hard work. At this time, they need to immigrate to places with relatively rich resources and do a good job in resettlement.&1t;/p>

At the same time, what the court needs to do is to protect the rights and interests of those hard-working and wealthy people, prevent them from being bullied or extorted by the powerful and wealthy people, and prevent them from being stolen by profiteers through manipulating finance and markets.&1t;/p>

In general, it is to build a relatively stable environment through the means of state intervention. Let hundreds of millions of people in the world compete for the upstream. Under the intervention of state, they can achieve a certain degree of fair distribution and a certain degree of fair competition in the market.&1t;/p>

This is the pragmatic national policy of semi-capitalization and semi-socialism.&1t;/p>

The small peasant economic system established by Zhu Yuanzhang actually contained a lot of idealized private goods. The original intention was very good and was very considerate for the lower class people, but idealization itself was the biggest problem. This led to the rise of capitalists in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, which caused a huge impact on the country. The court was naturally confused and didn't know what to do. It was precisely because Zhang Juzheng saw these problems that proposed reforms. As a result, as soon as Zhang Juzheng died, the government immediately died.&1t;/p>

Next, once the Ming Dynasty enters the era of industrial revolution, the gap between the rich and the poor will further expand. People move live trees and die. A good way out for the poor is to immigrate overseas.&1t;/p>

As long as a person works hard and is not crushed by the state machinery and the world, there will always be some rewards. Hedong will inevitably last for 30 years and Hexi will not be unchanged forever. Therefore, in a stable environment, it is to ensure that his personal destiny is not crushed as much as possible.&1t;/p>

The purpose of the industrial revolution is to develop productivity, so as to better resist the natural disasters of nature and build a more stable environment. Natural disasters are droughts, floods, earthquakes, etc., and external wars, internal exploitation, etc.&1t;/p>

In the case of productivity development, famine can be avoided. The country's comprehensive strength can also be improved and external invasions can also resist external invasions. In addition to these, there must be more fair means of wealth distribution and protection of the rights and interests of ordinary people. These are not something that can be achieved by an ideal society, because in this world there are not only good people, but also bad people.&1t;/p>

Every country has bad people, and these bad people are messing around. Internal systems and laws must be able to sanction these bad people in order to avoid internal **.&1t;/p>

Therefore, when Zhu Youxiao immigrated, he did not need to allocate much land to ordinary immigrants or give them direct money, but instead gave them an opportunity to work hard. If he didn't even have the opportunity to work hard, he would naturally be poor for the rest of his life.&1t;/p>

The biggest benefit of immigration is that it gives the poor people a small world to fight.&1t;/p>

As for allocating land to border troops, it is naturally necessary. After all, military households are also state-owned organizations. Now that the court wants to get rid of this organization, it naturally needs to provide some compensation.&1t;/p>

Compensating these military households is not just a direct amount of money, but allows them to directly obtain a platform to fight. As for whether they can gain a foothold on this platform, the court just does everything they should do. When encountering natural disasters, they will provide assistance. If they don’t have money to buy plantings, oxen, etc., the court will also give them a loan. But with such support, it is their own problem. The court finally guarantees that they can’t starve to death.&1t;/p>

After Zhu Youxiao made plans in the Forbidden City, he took out the agricultural resource allocation plan for the Western Regions.&1t;/p>

The policy of immigration to the Western Regions was immediately introduced. People who were struggling to make life in each province can immigrate to the Western Regions, and the imperial court provided all the travel expenses. After that, as the opening went on, there will naturally be many jobs. There are no need to worry about unemployment when it is over. As long as you are willing to work hard, your living standards will be improved immediately.&1t;/p>

Under the instructions of Zhu Youxiao, the Supreme Command, the Ministry of War, and the Ministry of Revenue quickly came up with a plan for the abolition of the border troops in Ningxia, Gansu and Guyuan.&1t;/p>

In the last three towns, the border troops also entered the stage of abolition, and the immigration is expected to be completed within two years. In two years, the Jiubian Army Town will officially become history.&1t;/p>

The garrisons in the northern provinces have also entered the final stage of abolition, and the abolition can be completed within the year. The garrison brigades of each province have also been formed, and some provinces have arranged two garrison brigades to be ready to suppress the rebellion and suppress the bandits at any time to maintain local stability.&1t;/p>

In the Western Regions, after Lu Xiangsheng pacified the Junggar, he asked the entire army to repair it for half a month. During this period, he would basically deal with the border defense of the Bukhara Khanate and the resettlement of the Junggar tribe, and then switched his troops and attacked the Yarkand Khanate again. (To be continued.)&1t;/p>
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