Chapter 785 783 [I don't know where the wolf is located]
Chapter 785 783 [I wonder where Lang Juxu is]
Except for Hebei, Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Liaoning, all other provinces have started large-scale land clearing operations due to their vast territory and sparse population.
If a dynasty reaches the middle stage, it will become extremely difficult to clear the land.
But in the early days of the dynasty, it was actually relatively easy to survey the land and clean up the population. As long as the relevant policies were reasonable, the grassroots were willing to cooperate, and officials and gentry did not dare to challenge the emperor's authority.
From the time Zhu Yuanzhang founded the Ming Dynasty to the tenth year of Yongle, the Ming Dynasty's land and population were surveyed every ten years (there was a census every year, but a large-scale census was conducted every ten years).
According to the statistics of "Records of the Ming Dynasty", it can be seen that the population of the Ming Dynasty increased year by year. In the first year of Yongle and the tenth year of Yongle, it reached 66 million and 65 million respectively. After that, it continued to decline, always hovering around 50 million. Zhu Di
It is estimated that he was busy with the Northern Expedition of the grasslands, and his control over the local area was obviously reduced. Every time he did a population census, officials were fooling him.
It was not until the Chenghua period that the foolish emperor Zhu Jianshen, who favored Wan Guifei, ascended the throne. Faced with the mess of millions of refugees, the population of the Ming Dynasty soared to 60 million. By the 15th year of Chenghua, the population of the Ming Dynasty had climbed to its peak of 71 million.
Then, Emperor Hongzhi of Ming Dynasty, the master of ZTE and the Ming Dynasty, succeeded to the throne, and the population plummeted to 50 million in an instant.
It is also very interesting to compare it with the number of acres.
In the twenty-fourth year of Hongwu, there were more than 370 million acres of cultivated land in the country. In the twenty-fifth year of Hongwu, the inventory of cultivated land in the country was completed, and the cultivated land in the country soared to 880 million acres. This was not the beginning, but the growth of the entire Ming Dynasty.
peak.
By the time of Emperor Hongzhi, the amount of cultivated land in the country was directly reduced by half compared to Zhu Yuanzhang's time.
As the founding emperor of the country, Zhu Yuanzhang really did whatever he wanted. Just by counting the acres of land and creating a yellow book, the amount of cultivated land in the country doubled in one year, from 370 million acres to 880 million acres.
Zhao Han was also the founding emperor, and he also did whatever he wanted.
After an imperial edict, officials across the country became busy. The province sent commissioners to the government to supervise, and the government sent commissioners to prefectures and counties to supervise. Often the county government offices were short of manpower, so officials, village and town cadres and farmers had to be seconded from other departments.
The meetings are all up and running.
A large number of violent or covert cases of land occupation were exposed during the process of clearing land.
With the emperor's backing, local officials dared to hide things, so there were always farmers who came to report anonymously. Farmers at the bottom, every household had children studying, and many anonymous reporting letters were written by primary school students. Occasionally, there were new words that they couldn't write, and they even used pinyin instead.
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More and more officials were dismissed, and more and more powerful gentry were arrested, waiting to be collectively moved to the jurisdiction of the Heilongjiang capital.
Heilongjiang Dusi is too remote and regular immigrants are reluctant to go there. Aren't there enough immigrants now?
Guo Shunyu, the Secretary of the Ministry of Household Affairs, summarized the situation in the two provinces surrounding the capital and reported to the emperor: "Your Majesty, most of the land invasions in Anhui and Jiangsu provinces took advantage of the immigration loopholes. The imperial court organizes immigrants every year, and their original land
Redistribution. Immigrant people can designate an acre of land and give it to their relatives who stayed in their place of origin. The remaining land will be distributed by the government to the newly grown people nearby. This kind of distribution is done by local officials and gentry! The land of the people is occupied.
The largest number of people are not officials or wealthy businessmen, but county officials and prominent rural families."
"What do you want to say?" Zhao Han asked.
Guo Shunyu said: "The four provinces of Shaanxi, Shanxi, Hebei, and Liaoning have continued to immigrate nearly one million people. The imperial court's immigration plan does not need to be implemented anymore. It is better to wait for these provinces to reproduce naturally. The more immigrants move to the north, the more land affairs in the south will
The situation became more chaotic, and the court wasted countless money and food. Since the recapture of the north, the court had not fought many major wars, but there was not much money and food left in the treasury, and all of it was thrown into the immigrants. Transportation along the way, resettlement of the refugees, and gifts
Cattle, seeds, clothing, subsidies...everywhere requires money, and everywhere requires food."
Zhao Han smiled and said: "The treasury is now the general manager of the Ministry of Finance and has nothing to do with your household department. Why are you worried about the emptiness of the treasury?"
Guo Shunyu said with a mournful face: "But immigration is managed by the Ministry of Household Affairs. From the central household department to the household department of the county government, all the officials are exhausted, and one person is used as a job for several people. The money and food needed for immigration need to be contacted with each government office. From then on,
From application to review to approval, the whole day is very busy. The household registration department is responsible for the immigration from the place of origin to the new registration. If there is a slight mistake, you will be blamed at every turn. There is also finance above, and the bank yamen is watching, and from time to time,
We have to deal with the food review and cooperate with the supervision of the Supervisory Office."
This is here to complain. The officials in charge of immigration are really tired. Moreover, immigration money and food are supervised at all levels. If you are greedy for a small amount, there will be no problem. If you are greedy for a little bit, it will be easily exposed. It may sound like a lot of money, but it is actually very risky.
Zhao Han said: "Immigration should be postponed."
Guo Shunyu subconsciously wanted to continue to remonstrate, but suddenly realized something was wrong. Why did the emperor agree so easily?
Zhao Han said: "We are going to fight a big war, and we can't spare the money and food to immigrate."
The finances in recent years have been very strange. The treasury's revenue has been increasing, but it can't save much food.
The first is the increase in official salaries, the second is the continuous increase in education expenditures, the third is the increase in the proportion of local retained taxes, and the fourth is the continued surge in immigration costs.
In the past, people were highly motivated to immigrate to Shandong and Henan. Many people signed up enthusiastically, and the cost of immigration was not very high. But after the destination was changed to the north, the people were not so enthusiastic. The more remote and cold the land, the more
The more we need to improve the treatment of immigrants, the cost of each immigrant will keep rising.
Zhao Han continued: "After this war, there will be no more large-scale immigration. But small-scale immigration will not stop. Many places in the Mongolian territory north of Hebei and Liaoning are suitable for farming. A group of Han people must be migrated every year
In the past, only in this way could the border be consolidated."
"Your Majesty, Holy Ming!"
Guo Shunyu quickly flattered him, as long as there would be no more large-scale immigration.
Officials complained, but they all knew that resettlement work was necessary. Just like in the early Ming Dynasty, many places were destroyed, and Zhu Yuanzhang also carried out resettlement that lasted for many years.
For example, Hongdong County in Shanxi Province was the northern immigration transfer station in the early Ming Dynasty.
At that time, immigrants from all over the country were sent to Hongdong to register under the big locust tree, and their final resettlement location was determined before being transferred. Hundreds of years later in modern society, it has become a holy place for hundreds of millions of people to find their roots. They all say that their ancestral home is in Hongdong.
Big locust tree in the cave.
Ask me where my ancestors are? The big locust tree in Hongdong, Shanxi Province. What is the name of my ancestor’s former residence? The old bird’s nest under the big locust tree.
The large locust tree immigration in the Ming Dynasty lasted for fifty years, and it continued even after Zhu Yuanzhang died! Because the finances in the early Ming Dynasty were limited and busy with wars, large-scale immigration could not be carried out in a short period of time. It could only continue for decades.
Do it on a small scale.
In this time and space, another collective memory will probably appear.
Immigrants heading to the north, except for Liaoning who take sea ships, will all be gathered and dispersed in Xuzhou. Xuzhou will become the dream hometown of countless people.
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"drive!"
Eastern suburbs of Nanjing, Royal Racecourse.
This period is an open day, and many people come to visit. Even if you don't have money to rent horses for riding, you can still buy tickets to watch the games, and there is even gambling.
Whether it's horse racing or polo, some people set up bets in private.
Of course, the gambling game was not large-scale and could only be carried out quietly. After all, the imperial court had always banned gambling.
"come on! Come on!"
"Crack the whip quickly!"
More than 2,000 spectators shouted wildly, and more than a dozen horses were running wildly on the track.
Regarding the origin of "come on", some say it comes from Liu Bowen, some say it comes from Liu Yong, some say it comes from Zhang Zhidong's father, and some say it comes from the slogan of the oil press. But in this time and space, the Nanjing people shouting "come on" must come from the Forbidden City.
That Emperor Zhao.
Zhao Han was watching polo one day and shouted "come on" when he got up, and the word gradually spread.
At this moment, Fei Ruhe was taking the prince to watch the horse racing.
After this guy returned to Beijing, he traveled around and had fun, and finally felt that the racecourse was what he wanted. Not only did he come there himself, but he also took the prince out for an outing. Zhao Han didn't stop him. It was a good thing that the prince became familiar with his uncle.
"well!"
Zhao Kuanghuan watched the first horse cross the line and sat down in depression. The horse he fostered here only finished third.
Fei Ruhe said: "Prince, I have a horse, which is quite impressive. I keep it over there in Datong. When the grassland is pacified, I will bring it back to the prince."
Zhao Kuanghuan said: "My uncle is going to war on the battlefield, so he needs a magic horse. I just ride a horse and play, and a few good horses are enough."
"You are young and mature. It's up to you... to follow His Majesty." Fei Ruhe said with a smile.
After hanging out for several times in a row, Zhao Kuanghuan and Fei Ruhe became familiar with each other and asked, "Uncle, are the Mongolian Tatars really that cruel?"
Fei Ruhe complained: "You are so cruel, you have suffocated me to death in the past few years. The Monan Mongolian Tatars have had their bones broken by the Manchu Tatars a long time ago. They can sweep through all the ministries with just tens of thousands of people. But His Majesty did not give the order."
Quan went north without authorization, saying that he would use the money and food for immigration, and after the northern provinces had enough population and food, they would then collect food from the north to fight the war."
"Isn't this wrong?" Zhao Kuanghuan asked.
"Yes, it's definitely true, but it's too time-consuming," Fei Ruhe said. "I understand your Majesty's thinking. If the north is in decline, we have to transport grain from the south to conquer the grassland. It's easy to conquer it, but we have to immigrate and station troops in the grassland and supply lines.
The longer the delay, the more food and fodder will be consumed, and at most we can reach Jining (Ulanqab). After Your Majesty immigrated to the north, the food and fodder will be abundant, and the supply line will become shorter. Not only can we reach Jining, but also
You can mobilize a large army to fight in Mobei."
Zhao Kuanghuan asked again: "What is Mobei like? Has my uncle been there?"
Fei Ruhe explained: "I have never been to Mobei, but I have done detailed research in the caravan and found out a lot of news about Mobei. After crossing the Yinshan Mountains, there is the Gobi Desert everywhere to the north. Without a guide, you will get lost in the desert.
After passing through the Gobi desert, we can reach the grassland of Mongolia in Mobei. To conquer Mobei, we cannot lack military rations. Such a long journey is full of deserts. If we are not careful, we will run out of food and starve to death."
"Will uncle be granted the title of Xu Xu in the future?" Zhao Kuanghuan asked excitedly.
"I will definitely seal Langjuxu. This is the agreement I made with Your Majesty." Fei Ruhe said and became depressed. "It's a pity that I don't know where Langjuxu Mountain is. I asked the Mongolians, and even
No Mongolian has ever heard of Lang Juxu.”
Zhao Kuanghuan was immediately speechless. He wanted to seal Langjuxu's general, but he didn't know the specific address.
Fei Ruhe added: "I have already found out clearly that Yanran Mountain is located in the territory of Khalkha Mongolia! So, regardless of Lang Juxu, it is not bad to Leshi Yanran."