There are three keys to completing "Jiangxi's filling of Huguang": people, land and money.
As long as there are people, there should be enough immigrants from Jiangxi.
He has almost completed this point, of which Zhengdao accounted for almost half. The remaining half was almost completed during the household registration process in Qingtian.
After all, the people in Jiangxi are not too resistant to going to Huguang. First of all, most of them are immigrants or descendants of immigrants from other places, and they have no complex about relocating to their homeland.
Secondly, Huguang is not a wild land. Jingxiang was already well developed during the Three Kingdoms period. In terms of natural conditions, it is not comparable to Jiangxi. It is just because of the war that the population is temporarily missing.
To put it bluntly, it was easy to make money by immigrating here at this time, not to mention that the court not only exchanged one acre for two acres, but also gave them tax exemption for many years.
Therefore, except for those big households, the people's resistance is not serious. There are even some who actively sign up to go to Huguang to seek livelihood.
Therefore, the human level is settled.
Then there is the land. Huguang must allocate enough land to accept immigrants from Jiangxi. This issue is also very complicated and mainly involves the distribution between various governments.
Good places like Wuchang, Hanyang, and Changsha accept immigrants as much as they can. Huguang is short of people, but there is no shortage of people in these prosperous places. No one wants to let people from other provinces come to compete for food.
Backwaters like Yongzhou, Chenzhou, and Yunyang, which have complicated folk customs, would like to call in more people to increase the strength of the local Han people. But if they really send immigrants in large numbers, they will not be able to resettle them.
Therefore, if you don't want it, you have to force him to accept more; if you want it, you have to give him as little as possible. This all has to be combined with the actual local situation, and cannot be decided at a glance.
But no matter what, the ground is a problem that can be solved, it's just a little more troublesome.
Finally, there is money, which is also the most troublesome one.
The imperial court of the Ming Dynasty was poor, and the local officials were even poorer. It was simply a fantasy to expect the province to come up with the 20 million yuan of immigration funds.
Neither the Huguang Chief Envoy nor the Jiangxi Chief Envoy has this ability.
That's why the old thief has never dared to open this copy of "Jiangxi Filling Huguang". Now he is recommending it to Lao Liu, and he really admires him.
This means that a son is not born in vain, and a prince is not given in vain.
Lao Liu had no choice but to use his ability to make cards out of thin air and force Master Zhang to transfer all the 160,000 hectares of hidden fields in Zhengda to the imperial court.
In addition, during the process of land clearing, the confiscated hidden fields were discovered one after another, totaling about 140,000 hectares, totaling a total of 300,000 hectares.
This is really a huge asset. Although the price of land is extremely low in this era, one acre of land in Jiangxi is only one or two thousand dollars. But there is so much land in his hands, 300,000 hectares of land, how can it be worth three to five thousand hectares?
Wan Guan.
Zhu Di was very happy when he heard this and shouted: "These lands are worth so much money, so if we sell them, won't we have money to immigrate?"
"Fourth brother, that's not how the accounts are calculated." Lao Liu smiled helplessly. A ruler is short but an inch is long. Fourth brother's level of financial idiocy is as astonishing as his carpentry skills.
"How is that calculated?" The fourth child also knew his own shortcomings and humbly asked for advice.
"Not to mention whether so much land flowing into the market at the same time will trigger a collapse in land prices." Zhu Zhen explained seriously:
"Even if we force transactions and let those big households and businessmen buy these lands at a fixed price, although it can solve the current urgent need, it will only make the land flow from one group of people to another group of people. It will even make the annexers
The situation is even more serious, this is asking for death!"
"Is it so serious?" Zhu Di exclaimed.
"It's so serious." Zhu Zhen said lightly: "The secret of dynasty change, to put it bluntly, is the word 'land annexation'. When the land is highly concentrated in the hands of a small group of people, and the majority of the people have no place to stand, they can only stand up.
If you rebel, the dynasty will enter the end of the world.
"When the vast white land is really clean and everyone, rich and poor, is dead, a new dynasty can be established. At this time, the land is vast and sparsely populated, and everyone has farmland, and the dynasty enters the so-called rule of the world. Until the new dignitaries come back again
Once large-scale mergers begin, the dynasty will go downhill. As for the length of its life, it is inversely proportional to the speed of mergers."
"Hiss..." Zhu Di thought that this was really the case, otherwise his father would not have carried out any large-scale immigration. "That is to say, the faster the annexation, the shorter the life of the dynasty. The slower the annexation, the longer the life, right?
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"That's right." Zhu Zhen nodded. "So the mission of the imperial court is to suppress mergers. Do you understand what I mean now?"
"I understand." Zhu Di nodded heavily in admiration and said with sincere envy: "The wisest thing my father has done in these years is to let you worship Liu Bowen as your teacher."
"The father-in-law I found for my fourth brother is also very wise." Zhu Zhen said with a backhand.
"I will also be my father-in-law in the future." Zhu Di laughed and said.
"Hahaha." The two brothers looked at each other and laughed.
"In short, we will keep these 300,000 hectares of land with the government and make it official land forever." Then Lao Liu said seriously: "The reason why Suzhou can bear one-eighth of the country's taxes with one government is that
It’s because it has a lot of official land.”
"That's it." Zhu Di nodded and said, "This is a long-term plan that benefits the country and the people, but the problem is that water from afar cannot quench the thirst of the people nearby."
"So we have to find a way to make it generate money in advance." Zhu Zhen said with a smile: "We have to rely on friends from Suzhou."
"I knew..." Zhu Di couldn't help but laugh: "You will definitely fall on them in the end."
He saw it last year. He had no money to feed the people, so he turned to Suzhou's big family; he had no money to build ships, so he turned to Suzhou's big family; he couldn't afford the ransom, so he turned to Suzhou's big family...
But at that time, those big families were imprisoned by Lao Liu, so they were naturally at his mercy. But now that they have regained their freedom, can they still let him take whatever he wants? Lao Si couldn't help but worry about Lao Liu.
"I can't help it. Whoever makes the world rich is theirs?" Zhu Zhen smiled sheepishly and said, "You don't think that I, like Shen Wansan, have a cornucopia of wealth that can make my own money, do you?"
"No, you are much better than Shen Wansan." Zhu Di said half-jokingly.
"Haha, there's no comparison. What's my identity and what's his? There's a huge difference in difficulty." Zhu Zhen was very self-aware and stood up with a smile and said:
"It's almost time for them to arrive in Nanchang now. I'm going to meet them at Tengwang Pavilion."
"You really gave them face." Zhu Di curled his lips and said.
"That's our God of Wealth. You can't just beat it. You still have to offer what you have to offer." Zhu Zhen didn't take it seriously. He never hesitated to give such free favors.
Besides, he really likes to hold banquets...
After walking a few steps, Zhu Di also followed.
"I'll accompany you."
"Fourth brother doesn't need to condescend to me," Zhu Zhen said with a smile, "I alone am enough to flatter them. I'm afraid they won't be able to bear the burden of two princes working together to take care of them."
"It's three." Zhu Di laughed and said, "Actually, I mainly want to learn and see how you do it with them?"
"Haha, today I only talk about the wind and not talk about business." Zhu Zhen said with a smile.
"Then I will just accompany you." Zhu Di walked out of the cabin with him.
