At the Immigration Office of Shangyun Town in Heitu Province, Deng Shan, who graduated from the seventh rank, was admitted to the Juren Examination last year because the court is currently short of officials, especially in Heitu Province, which was newly incorporated into the Ming Dynasty and needed a large number of officials.
The current chief minister of the cabinet, Liu Jin and Liu Gong, has issued a policy that as long as he is willing to serve as an official in Black Earth Province, as long as he does not commit corruption, does not work as a vegetarian, and makes a difference, he will be promoted first.
To put it simply, if you come here to be an official, as long as you work hard for a few years, it will not be a problem to get promoted to a higher level in three years, and it will not be a problem to move up to a higher level in five years.
Moreover, serving as an official here in Heitu Province is not subject to some traditional restrictions of the Ming Dynasty, such as the tradition that non-Jinshi will not be admitted to the Hanlin, and non-Hanlin will not be admitted to the cabinet.
In other words, even if you are a Juren person, as long as you work here for a few years, you can be promoted to a seventh-level county magistrate. After a few more years of work, you have a chance to become a state-level official.
If you are an official at the state level, you can be directly promoted to the Hanlin Academy for further studies. As for where the Hanlin Academy is, everyone knows very well that it is the reserve pool for senior officials of the Ming Dynasty.
The current cabinet ministers of the Ming Dynasty, the ministers of the six ministers, and the officials of the major frontiers, etc., all came from the Hanlin Academy. Even if they didn't, they would have to go to the Hanlin Academy to study for two or three years.
Such preferential policies also attracted a large number of officials at once. In response to the imperial policy, they traveled thousands of miles to come to Black Earth Province to serve as officials.
Deng Shan is one of them. Although he is still a seventh-rank official and is the director of the immigration office of this small Shangyun Town, after working here for a few years, he will automatically be promoted to a full seventh-rank county magistrate, and then
After working for a few years, you can become a state-level official.
This speed is quite acceptable.
Such a policy is somewhat similar to the directional policy of later generations, a policy specifically established to support the development of the western region and other regions, with the purpose of motivating more young people and officials to support border areas.
This policy has been implemented for many years. It is not new to Black Soil Province. It has been implemented in Nanyun Province, Ha Trung Province, Central Asia Province and Northwest Province, Huanghuangzhou, Australia, Nanyang and other places.
It also achieved very good results.
In the Nanyang provinces, because the imperial court insisted on using floating officials to govern these places, it severely dealt a blow to some local indigenous powerful people in Nanyang Province. For example, Jiaozhi Province was the territory of the Houli Dynasty in the past. Where there was a large population, people who refused to obey the king
The local powerful families are very powerful.
Even during the Hou Li Dynasty, the rulers of the Hou Li Dynasty had to provide comfort and a large number of titles and official positions to the powerful families in these places.
However, the Ming Dynasty was not used to them. When Liu Jin led his army south to sweep Nanyang, he focused on these powerful families and carried out wanton attacks and killings, which dealt a heavy blow to these local powerful families.
Then there was a large number of immigration replacements, moving a large number of immigrants to these places, and at the same time encouraging the local dignitaries of the Ming Dynasty to go to these places to develop the plantation economy.
Combined with the policy of comprehensive Ming Dynasty and Sinicization, as well as the five-level household registration policy, appointing exiled officials to manage these places, dispatching garrison troops to guard them, etc.
Just over ten years have passed by, and these places have long forgotten everything they once were, and have become the most loyal subjects of the Emperor of Heaven. Local powerful families have also gradually disappeared.
In addition to the Nanyang provinces, very good results have also been achieved in Nanyun Province.
Nanyun Province originally had nothing to do with the Ming Dynasty. It was a land ceded by the Ming Dynasty from the Ottoman Empire. The indigenous people here are Georgians and Caucasians.
However, after a series of Ming Dynasty's ruling policies that combined both hardness and softness, this place has become one of the places with the fastest development and the strongest rule in the Ming Dynasty.
The indigenous people here are even more loyal than the Han people in the Ming Dynasty. They are even more proud of being Ming people than the Han people.
Because they have been bullied for thousands of years, only now do they realize the dignity and wealth of citizens of a powerful empire. Under the notice of the Ming Empire, they no longer have to worry about being robbed and bullied, nor do they need to worry about going hungry.
Or whatever, live a peaceful and prosperous life.
In the provinces of Transoxiana and Central Asia, officials of the Immigration Department are the most important officials, responsible for the resettlement, arrangement and resettlement of immigrants.
This has been done very well, allowing a large number of immigrants to settle down quickly after arriving in these two places, and quickly adapt to the local area and find a suitable path to development and prosperity.
Of course, the imperial court has also fulfilled its promise. Officials in these places are promoted much faster than in other places. Even if performance is driven out, the promotion will be even faster.
"Master Deng, these are some seeds newly transported by the imperial court. We need to guide the immigrants to plant them on time according to the season."
Deng Shan was very busy. As an official of the Immigration Department, the first two years when immigrants first arrived here were the busiest time.
Before immigrants arrive, they are responsible for supervising the construction of immigrant towns, immigrant houses, preparing immigrants' food, utensils, daily necessities, etc., and even preparing quilts, clothing, firewood, etc. for immigrants for the winter.
The imperial court has always attached great importance to immigration.
In the past, the person in charge of immigration affairs was Li Dongyang and Li Gong. Later, when Li Dong was not well, Liu Jin was in charge. Liu Gong always worked quickly and put the people first. If there were immigrants who had no food or shelter, and died of starvation or freezing,
Then the official responsible would be finished.
Now the immigration affairs are under the responsibility of Prince Wang Shouren. Wang Shouren is even more meticulous in his work than Liu Jinna. The imperial court directly set up the Immigration Bureau in Black Earth Province and dispatched officials to coordinate the immigration affairs in Black Earth Province and supervise all parties.
Officials at the senior level are responsible for handling immigration matters.
For the current Black Earth Province, the most important thing is to settle the immigrants who have traveled thousands of miles here so that they can have food and housing here, and at the same time, they can gradually resume production and farming, and gradually adapt to the life and climate here.
Although the most important wheat sowing season has passed now, other crops can also be sown. The land here is fertile, the water resources are abundant, the land is open and flat, and there are many crops that can be planted.
The Immigration Bureau also cooperates with the Ministry of Agriculture to jointly formulate and guide immigrants on farming here, when to plant what crops, and how to plant them. These are all detailed instructions.
For example, the large-scale pasture economy here in Central Asia Province is an agricultural and animal husbandry economy suitable for the Han people that was explored by Central Asia provincial officials. It is a fixed pasture economy, planting forage plus the use of machinery, the use of green storage fodder, etc.
, allowed Central Asia Province to develop a unique agricultural and animal husbandry economy, and quickly became one of the most important meat warehouses in the Ming Dynasty.
This time, the Black Earth Provincial Immigration Bureau also promoted and appointed a large number of officials from Central Asia Province. They have extremely rich experience in this area and know how to formulate corresponding agricultural and animal husbandry policies according to the time and place to quickly stabilize immigration.
Develop the economy of the resettlement area.
Here in Black Earth Province, the land is open, flat, and very fertile. The most suitable area for development is agriculture, which is similar to that in Hetong Province. It is suitable for the development of an agricultural economy with mechanized farming.
Correspondingly, it is also necessary to select suitable crops based on the climatic conditions and natural conditions here, and at the same time work out the appropriate farming time, and provide guidance to the immigrants, telling them how to plant these crops uniformly or use agricultural machinery.
This is the main job of the Black Earth Provincial Immigration Bureau. The power in their hands is now even greater than that of the Chief Envoy of Black Earth Province. Only when the immigrants gradually stabilize and the Ming people gain a firm foothold in these places,
Only then will the Immigration Bureau be gradually abolished and power gradually transferred to the Chief Envoy and state and county officials.
Of course, it is precisely because of the establishment of the Immigration Bureau to better serve immigrants and ensure the lives and production of immigrants that the immigration policy that Ming Dynasty has always adhered to can continue to be adhered to.
A large number of immigrants successfully moved to the new land under the organization of the government, and they quickly took root here and became rich quickly.
This also attracted more people to immigrate outside the customs and overseas, allowing the imperial court's immigration policy to proceed smoothly. The strength and sentiment of resistance became weaker and weaker, and even a large number of spontaneous emigrations occurred.
It can be said that the Immigration Agency and the current local officials have done more and better than the officials and the Ministry of Agriculture in later generations. In terms of agricultural production in later generations, there is no guidance at all, and it can even be said that
It is seriously divorced from farmers and agriculture, and many agricultural-related policies do not fully consider farmers.
But today's Ming Dynasty is different. It attaches great importance to immigration and agriculture.
It not only vigorously develops agricultural machinery and develops agricultural and animal husbandry production, but also continuously selects and cultivates excellent varieties, explores new farming methods, etc.
This greatly stimulated the development of Ming's agriculture, enabled the implementation of Ming's immigration policy, and made a qualitative leap in Ming's agriculture.
Otherwise, it would be impossible for the Ming Dynasty to have its current prosperous age. The grain output of the Ming Dynasty was enough to feed the people of the Ming Dynasty for ten years, and the output of cattle, sheep, horses, pigs, chickens, ducks, goose, fish and other meat products in the Ming Dynasty also increased year after year.
The output is getting bigger and bigger, and people eat more and more meat and milk.
These can be said to be the work of the Ming Immigration Bureau and the Ministry of Agriculture. This is what Liu Jin has been focusing on to ensure the stability of agriculture. The grain output of the Ming Dynasty is high enough, and the people of the Ming Dynasty have enough to eat and drink, so everything else is
