After solving the immigration of Kyushu and Hokkien and the construction program, it will be much easier to build the remaining hinterland and Sakhalin Island. Because there are no indigenous people, just plan directly on the map and according to geographical needs.

There is nothing to say about the local military farming and further optimizing breeding of cold-resistant varieties, and it can be done by the local area.

Although Cao Bianjiao and Huang Degong are now in their twilight years, both of them are around fifty-five years old, and they are two or three years apart.

However, these powerful generals have very strong control and execution over the "building and reclamation army" under their command. No matter how difficult the border land expansion task can be implemented, it can be implemented without any ban.

The money and grain needed to expand the border can basically be solved by local self-sufficiency. It is nothing more than the court ensuring that the local tax will not be imposed within the next ten years, allowing local fiscal revenue to be intercepted and used for self-use as funds for development and construction—

This is also the tone set when Huang Degong was granted and Cao transformed into a Duke of the Kingdom. The court promised them that as long as the two of them were alive and they would always handle special tasks in the border areas, they could intercept taxes. But behind them, they would naturally have to take over the power of the court to avoid separatist vassal states.

In this way, the only thing that requires the efforts of the court is to send some researchers from the Ming Academy of Sciences in Nanjing to help with engineering planning, design, geographical surveys, and further optimize breeding and improvements of Hokkaido rice and rye varieties.

To put it bluntly, money, grain, and people are all raised by the settlement army in the Northeast, and the court only provides technical guidance.

However, don’t underestimate this technical guidance. If used well, it will definitely make the construction of border areas more effective. Take the improvement of Hokkaido rice varieties as an example. When the Qing Dynasty was not destroyed ten years ago, the Hokkaido rice that was first brought from Essayo was actually just a good cold resistance property, which can ensure that it will not freeze to death after planting in Northeast China.

But apart from that, the other characteristics of the initial Hokkaido rice seeds were really rotten. Needless to say, just one yield is so pitiful that the yield per mu can only ensure about one hundred kilograms.

You should know that by the turn of the Ming and Qing dynasties, the yield of double-season rice in the south was almost 150 kilograms. If you plant two seasons a year, even if one of them is slightly lower, it is 100 kilograms, then the total is 500 kilograms of rice.

The rice planted in the northeast is single-season rice, with a long growth period. In theory, the yield in one season should be close to that in the south. No matter how much it is, the yield per mu should be about 400 kilograms. However, the Hokkaido rice seeds that have just moved here have actually reached about half the level.

During the two or three years of the Qing Dynasty's rule, the barbarians had no culture and could not optimize the good varieties, but they were just random. In the eight years after the Ming Dynasty established its rule in the Northeast, it was slightly broken and tossed, and it also increased the yield per mu by dozens of kilograms.

In conjunction with the Han people, they were good at deep cultivation and found that after deep cultivation of black soil, the nutrient layer below was turned up, which was very effective. With the support of excellent fertility conditions, the yield per mu was finally increased to 300 kilograms.

Now, Zhu Shuren has repeatedly discussed and approved the goals with professionals in agricultural breeding at the Ming Academy of Sciences.

Finally, the staff of the Academy of Sciences felt that if the investment was large enough and the control group observation experiments were conducted enough and fine enough, they could strive to increase the yield per mu of seeds by another 100 kilograms to about 400 kilograms.

Because when you first start to invest in breeding, there is always a lot of room for improvement and the rise is faster. The genes of natural primitive species are of varying quality, so it is easy to concentrate dominant traits.

However, it will be more difficult to improve the subsequent results. It will take another fifteen years to increase the output per mu.

Zhu Shuren also knew that we should respect science and not place satellites randomly, so he gave scientific researchers full autonomy. He could increase the yield of Hokkaido rice seeds by 100 kilograms within seven years, even if it was just a test field. If it could not be done, give them more time to relax. It would be fine when the second seven-year plan ended. Zhu Shuren would not be under pressure.

...

After planning the grain issue, the last thing left was to require technical support from the court, which was the construction of water conservancy and shipping in the Northeast.

There is nothing to say about water conservancy. Just lay out some water conservancy professionals who are good at dredging and remediating polder fields. They pile up the swamps in several newly established concentrated settlement areas in the Songnen Plain in the northeast, and dig deep into natural lakes that can be used to regulate water and drought, so as to facilitate irrigation. These are all basic operations.

The main purpose of shipping rectification is to further explore the depth of inland shipping channel and hydrological water conditions of Songhua River, Nenjiang River, Tumen River and other water bodies in Northeast China. These data were originally blank, and a geological survey team was sent to sort it out, which would facilitate the future material transportation and allocation between Northeast China and reduce logistics costs.

The most difficult and most important thing in shipping rectification work is to survey the estuary channel of Heilongjiang and the Tatar Strait channel between Heilongjiang's estuary and the Kuye Island. The shallowness of the silt situation and the annual frozen season.

Because so far, the Ming Dynasty wanted to explore and develop the northeast, and the northernmost part was mainly located in the Songnen Plain and was unable to further north to the main stream of Heilongjiang.

So far, there are still more than 100,000 remaining fishing and hunting peoples on both sides of the main stream of Heilongjiang, similar to Manchus fleeing north, as well as some Kulun people, E Mouke/Kuchun people.

After the Ming Dynasty had Hokkaido rice seeds and rye from the dead leaf island, it was actually possible to grow grain on the south bank of Heilongjiang.

Even on the north bank of Heilongjiang, if it is only late spring to early autumn, planting a season of soybeans can be used, and it is unlikely to plant rice because it is too cold.

The biggest problem that has not yet been explored is that there is a lack of direct water network transportation communication between the main stream basin of Heilongjiang and the Songnen Plain. Heilongjiang was eventually injected from the Tatar Strait opposite the northern section of Kuye Island into the junction of the Sea of ​​Japan and the Okhotsk Sea. The navigators of the Ming Dynasty had visited the place before, but had not explored the channel.

If this road is thoroughly explored and even a port town is established at the estuary of Heilongjiang, then the Ming Dynasty's control over the Heilongjiang River Basin will be completely stable in the future.

Otherwise, if a series of troubles arise in Jakarsa and Nibchu will be encountered twenty years later, they will have to face the dilemma of "difficulty in the military supply to the Heilongjiang River Basin".

Zhu Shuren had even thought about the name of the town at the mouth of the Heilongjiang River. He didn't have to make trouble. He just used the name "Miaojie" that was used after the Qing Dynasty in history (the place name "Miaojie" was used in history in 1858, and a few years later, because of a series of treaties, it was changed to Nikolayevsk)

Take up other key points along the route, and you can talk about the rest slowly.

It is even possible to build local towns into places where people can live in only half a year to eight months, and they need to go back to the south in the early spring and the first month of the first month of winter. Or it is a "trackhouse" that can keep concentrated heating in the northeast, and can burn the kang with connected flue.

Anyway, the Ming Dynasty's current purpose is to take a pit first, and not ask these harsh environments to provide the court with any taxes, money and food value. It is enough to support itself and you don't have to pay anything.

Even the Songnen Plain in the hinterland of the northeast requires that "after Huang Degong dies, he will have to pay taxes for the court normally." In the Heilongjiang main river basin, Zhu Shuren can even allow another generation to be extended.

After Huang Degong, he sent a trusted general and governor to the governor and grant him permission to not pay taxes to the court for his whole life, so that he could eventually delay another thirty years. He believed that time and development could ultimately bridge all technical difficulties.

...

The Jiangning Conference, which involved the new policy after the new king ascended the throne, lasted for more than two months, and it was not until July of the first year of the well-off society that it completely came to an end.

After this grand meeting that set the tone for the next twenty years/three seven-year plans of the Ming Dynasty, the important officials in the court and the main border generals who were suppressed had a lot of peace of mind. At least they knew what they should do, and they didn't have to worry about the court's orders changing every night.

Time flies very quickly. With the arrival of July, the spirit and instructions of the meeting have been distributed to all places. The Ministry of Revenue has also discussed the preliminary implementation draft of the "destroying the decentralized family" reform ordered by His Highness the Regent, and will start pilot implementation this year within the scope of Yingtian Mansion.

The specific reform content of the new policy was posted at the Shenming Pavilion in Nanjing City on the first day of July and in various counties, towns and towns outside the city. It gave the people a month to learn about the relevant changes. It also gave the people a buffer time to register for the division of labor and peasants in households.

When the month expires and the first day of August, when the court begins to collect summer grain taxes, the new law will be officially implemented. The public announcement period in the middle of this month is to recreate and establish registration for the people in various counties.

If it is placed in a remote place, it is impossible to re-mark all the household registrations of the people within one month, and verify and allocate the number of land corresponding to the agricultural registrations.

However, Yingtian Prefecture, where Nanjing is located, is the best district after all, with all counties in the territory convenient transportation and a town of fish and rice.

The proportion of people who read and write is also very high, and they have a quick understanding of policies, and there is no need for clerks to go to the countryside to explain them. All this work is done faster.

In just over half a month, the preparation and registration work in various places has been carried out.

...

Zhu Shuren is busy with everything he wants and has no time to worry about too many details. However, he personally advocated the new method, and he would occasionally ask a few questions.

So on July 15th, on the day of the 15th day of the Central Yuan Festival, he took advantage of his leisure time to attract people from Yingtian Mansion and asked them to report the latest statistical work progress reported by the household stewards.

Of course, Yingtian Mansion should pay attention to the matters that the Regent is concerned about, so the Yingtian Mansion Sun Jiaji personally went to the Prince E Mansion to report on his work - this is also an opportunity to show his face in front of the great leader. Who would give up for it for nothing if anyone who is interested in a career?

Just like in the workplace in the future, even if the specific work is not done by the department manager, when you go to the boss to report the PPT, the department manager will definitely be energetic.

Sun Jiaji is not young anymore, he is over fifty years old this year. He is a Jinshi in Chongzhen for ten years, one year earlier than Zhu Shuren, a senior student in Chongzhen for the 13th year.

In history, this person has no reputation for talent and reputation, but his integrity is not bad. When the Qing army fought to Jiangnan, he originally followed the Lu King's regime to fight the Qing Dynasty, but finally died of defeat, injuries, illness, and anger. Now it is also considered that it is because of the butterfly effect that he has lived for more than ten years and gradually climbed to his current position.

Although Yingtian Prefecture is just a prefectural official, he is a local official in the capital after all, and even if he is placed outside, he may not be able to change it if he is given a governor.

After Zhu Shuren summoned him, he briefly asked Sun Jiaji about the registration status of "workers and peasants' division of household registration".

Sun Jiaji came after doing his homework and immediately answered with knowledge:

"Each county actively responded to the prince's good governance, and the people were very active in registering and separating their household registration. Within just half a month, 50% and 60% of the people had already been admitted to the household registration department to clarify their selection. Among them, the best performance was Liyang County, which had been registered with nearly 80%.

Zhu Shuren was a little surprised: "So many people have taken the initiative to register and divide their household registration? Is there any move to force the people? If they fail to register for the household registration at the expiration date, what will be done?"

Sun Jiaji cheered up and said: "The counties have not forced levies because they have repeatedly preached the benefits of the new policy to the people. If they have not thought about it, they will also go to the households and write on the yellow book, promising that they have no industrial and commercial industry.

In this case, it will be automatically tentatively designated as a farmer, and will not use the opportunity for each person to change the book once in a lifetime. If you want to change it after several years, you can change it once. Only those who have obviously a workshop or a business name but are unwilling to register will be investigated and evaded in the future.

Moreover, after the Ministry of Revenue agreed that this year, it is a pilot project, and only two months from issuance to implementation, it is probably too late to change the lower limit of taxable land area for farmers. Therefore, there is no lower limit on land area this year, and taxes can be paid in comparison to last year.

This is a pure benefit for the farmers this year, which means that the land tax has not increased at all, but the tax on duty is exempted, and only the working people pay the tax on duty. The only increase in the agricultural property is just the service of grain, but this new policy is highly supported by the people. Perhaps only a very small number of gentry think that it is indecent to pay food together... but they are all under control."

Sun Jiaji roughly described the situation. The "no lower limit on land tax area this year" he mentioned is also a temporary measure.

Because at the beginning, Zhu Shuren did not say at the Jiangning meeting that in the future, "if the average arable land area in households is less than ten acres of paddy fields, the grain must be paid according to the lower limit of ten acres of paddy fields." Now it is equivalent to not having time to recalculate it, so we will continue to use the tax area of ​​last year. In fact, there are a few acres of land in the yellow book, and we will pay according to the tax amount last year.

Each household owns less than ten acres of land, which is equivalent to pure profit this year. This is also a transitional measure to boil frogs in warm water, so as to push things down first.

Of course, the grain of service on behalf of others must be paid extra, and this must be paid, because this is a replacement for labor service for farmers, and the people are also very happy to pay more of this grain for convenience.

Especially Yingtianfu is a wealthy place. The money the locals earn for one and a half months of private work is definitely more valuable than the servitude grain given to the court. It would be better to go out for a month and a half and then take a part of the wages to exempt them from servitude.

In fact, this point is a bit backward to the old path of the Tang Dynasty's renting and mediocre law. If you give money or grain, you can not perform corvee labor. The government will spend money to hire people to work.

Zhu Shuren had no objection to these statements. The only thing he was interested in after hearing this was two small points: "You said that in Yingtian Prefecture, there were gentry at the foot of the emperor who felt that paying the food for servitude was indecent?"

Sun Jiaji did not dare to hide it: "Please understand that our dynasty has been given hundreds of years of preferential treatment for "fame and fame, duty-free service" and although there is no need to let scholars serve, after all, they have to pay food instead, and there are still many people who have resentment. But the humble position will definitely try to suppress the lawless people as much as possible and strictly correct the lawless people."

When Zhu Shuren heard this, he had no intention of blaming him. Instead, he said: "After all, it's a pilot project, so there's no need to be too tempted. As a supplement, I remember you were a Jinshi in Chongzhen for ten years, one year earlier than the orphan. As he got older, some offensive things can be left to the people below to do."

When Sun Jiaji heard this, he shuddered slightly. He suddenly realized that the Regent was planning to take action, but he didn't want to attract the hatred of the people. Could it be that he wanted to promote Chao Cuo and others to take the blame and throw it away after using it?

Fortunately, Zhu Shuren saw that he was pondering and did not dare to respond, and did not ask him to wait too much. Zhu Shuren quickly raised the next question:

"I have another question - you mentioned just now that Liyang County has the fastest registration, and 80% have been completed. What are the skills and are there any outstanding talents of officials?

Do you have a specialty in your profession? As the prefect of Yingtian Prefecture, you should coordinate the overall affairs of Yingtian Prefecture and focus on the specific implementation personally? The so-called gentleman is not a weapon, but a gentleman is clear about the official, but he does not understand the music. Those who are careful of the sound are afraid that they will be deaf in the official."

Sun Jiaji had already understood the implicit meaning and knew that the Regent asked him not to rush to win the credit. This was a hot potato, so he asked him to select talents and give him good officials to raise the good family officials, and give more power to attract hatred.

So he directly replied: "During the pilot project, there are indeed those who have performed outstandingly by prefectures and counties. The humble positions must be listed in detail and do not dare to be greedy for the merits and be promoted by Your Highness.

As for Liyang County, it is indeed the best performer under Yingtianfu, and can complete 80% of the registered registration of workers and peasants because of the meticulous work of local households.

When I went to inspect and investigate, I saw that local households set up service points in every township to facilitate the people to handle them nearby. There were not enough civil servants who preached the new policy.

They made some templates for the people to copy the format for the people to do business. They also provided pictures and explanations on the format text, so that the people could complete the registration as soon as possible, and eliminated the concerns of the people of farmers about the increased tax burden.

After returning from the inspection of Liyang, Beizhi thought this method was good, so he just wrote to the other counties of Tianfu to promote it, and the registration progress was also comprehensively improved."

Zhu Shuren nodded: "One hand in a day is also a kind of progress. Even if you just want the people to go to work less and ask fewer questions, it is a kind of good governance. Such people should be promoted. Go back and prepare in detail the resumes of those who have made contributions. If you are really ambitious and not afraid of offending others, you will naturally give them a chance."

Sun Jiaji sighed in his heart, thinking to himself that the prince really wants to use his kindness and power to promote a few "ruthless officials" to help promote reforms?
Chapter completed!