"Chen Bangyan, the governor of Sichuan, submitted a report to fill in the Sichuan affairs for the people who moved to Huguang and Jiangxi:
Your Majesty does not regard his ministers as despicable, he promotes the common people, and appoints ministers to patrol Sichuan. However, since the Han and Tang Dynasties, the population of Shu has been quite large, with fireworks facing each other. Even the Mongolian people massacred Sichuan, and it has become a white land. After our dynasty was restored, Dingkou was
Halfway through the Song Dynasty, the bandits were sacrificed, and the soldiers of the Qing Dynasty were as rare as the stars in the morning. I inspected Dingkou all over Sichuan and compiled fish scales, but the number was only 400,000 ears.
In the past, there was no way to increase taxes in Tianfu, and it was difficult to collect taxes. The emperor's favor was great, and the ministers were sent by His Majesty, but they only knew how to serve the country with loyalty and loyalty. After hearing this, they felt embarrassed and uneasy, and did not sleep or eat. I secretly thought that Sichuan was the most powerful province in the world, and it could be seen in the north.
To conquer Gansu and Shaanxi, we can capture Qinghai and Tibet in the west, which is a must-win territory for our government. Today, northern Sichuan is occupied by the captives, and the prefectures of Chengdu and Tongchuan are in ruins. If we want to capture the whole of Sichuan and gain a glimpse of Gansu, Shaanxi, and Tibet, we can only recruit immigrants and reclaim the land.
, there seems to be no other way to rebuild our homes.
I boldly suggested that we move to Huguang, and the people of Jiangxi will fill up Sichuan, grant unused fields, and encourage farming. In a few years, this will be the basis for our northern expedition and our western expedition. This is a despicable and crude idea, but it is your majesty's decree."
"What? There are only 400,000 left in Dingkou, Sichuan?"
Zhu Hengjia was shocked after reading the book. In ancient times, adult men over the age of 16 were called Ding, and women and minors were called Kou. In the early days of Chongzhen, there were four million Ding populations in Sichuan. Today's small Ding population, even if the Qing-occupied areas are included,
The 200,000 Dingkou were only 600,000 Dingkou, which was less than two-tenths of the number in the early Chongzhen Dynasty.
He felt that what Chen Bangyan said made sense. Sichuan's military status was indeed important. It was the base for conquering Gansu, Shaanxi, Qinghai, and Tibet. It would be impossible to fight a war without the manpower to provide logistics. The population was insufficient and it could not support a large-scale war.
With a stroke of his pen, local officials from Huguang and Jiangxi were ordered to organize immigrants to fill in Sichuan, and the number of immigrants was listed as the evaluation standard for officials in the two provinces.
Unexpectedly, Du Yinxi, the governor of Huguang, and Chen Fang, the governor of Jiangxi, both spoke to Zhu Hengjia and opposed the inclusion of the number of immigrants in the two provinces for assessment. They believed that this would easily lead to the officials of the two provinces forcing people to relocate, resulting in the tragedy of people being forced to abandon their homes and businesses.<
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Zhu Hengjia felt that what Du Yinxi and Chen Fang said made sense. As a history enthusiast before time travel, he knew that later Emperor Kangxi issued an edict to massively immigrate to Sichuan from Hunan, Hubei, Guangdong and other places. Many officials forced people to migrate for political achievements.
In order to prevent the people from escaping, they sent people to tie them up and escort them to Sichuan.
Nowadays, when people walk or stay, they always like to clasp their hands behind their backs. It is said that this is the habit formed when our ancestors were escorted into Sichuan with their hands cut behind their backs, and passed on to future generations. In some places, going to the toilet is called "relieving one's hands", which is also because when entering Sichuan,
With my hands tied and I needed to relieve myself on the way, I asked the escorting officers and soldiers to relieve myself. Over time, going to the toilet was referred to as "relieving myself" in some places.
Therefore, the order was not to use the number of immigrants as a criterion for evaluating officials in Huguang and Jiangxi provinces. It was not limited to these two provinces. Instead, a series of preferential immigration policies were formulated and ordered to be widely publicized by governments across the country. People from all over the country were allowed to voluntarily enter Sichuan.
Relocation must not be forced.
This series of immigration policies are very favorable, and there are five specific ones:
First, those who are willing to enter Sichuan will be given permanent land. This has attracted many landless farmers. For farmers, land is the lifeblood of generations;
Secondly, all those who enter Sichuan are allowed to become naturalized citizens, so there is no need to worry about identity and household registration issues;
Third, after arriving in Sichuan, people who voluntarily enter Sichuan can reimburse the local government for their travel expenses and receive living expenses for the year;
Fourth, taxes will not be levied until five years after the newly reclaimed wasteland is reclaimed by immigrants. In other words, all income from the newly reclaimed wasteland by immigrants belongs to themselves within five years;
Fifth, encourage childbirth. Within ten years, as long as the registered population in Sichuan gives birth to a child, regardless of male or female, each household will be rewarded with one tael of silver.
This series of preferential policies has indeed attracted many people to spontaneously migrate to Sichuan. However, it will still take a long time to restore Sichuan's population.
Unforeseen circumstances occurred. Not long after Zhu Hengjia received the memorial from Du Yinxi, Du Yinxi died of illness. This bachelor of the Wenhua Palace and the governor of Huguang died of exhaustion. He became ill from overwork, often vomited blood, and was still sick.
Office. On the day before his death, he was still dealing with government affairs when he suddenly vomited blood and died. This memorial against including the number of immigrants as part of the official assessment turned out to be obsolete.
When the news reached Nanjing, Zhu Hengjia screamed to the sky, cried bitterly, and said that the Ming Dynasty had lost a loyal minister, and I had lost a leg! He decreed that Yinxi should be pursued and sealed as the Duke of Xun, and his posthumous title was Wenzhong.
Good fortune never comes in pairs, and misfortune never comes alone. News came again that Fan Yiheng, the governor of Sichuan, had died of illness. Zhu Hengjia cried again and decreed that he would be named the Duke of the auxiliary state.
After losing two important ministers, we had to redeploy officials. Chen Bangyan, the governor of Sichuan, was promoted to the governor of Sichuan, Qian Bangqi, the governor of Sichuan, was promoted to the governor of Sichuan, Zhang Bin, the director of the Ministry of War, was promoted to the governor of Sichuan, Gao Doushu, the governor of Huguang, was promoted to the governor of Huguang, and Wang, the right minister of the Ministry of Personnel, was appointed as the governor of Sichuan.
Jiao is the governor of Huguang, and Lin Bi, the head of the Ministry of Punishment, is the governor of Huguang.
Zhang Bin was worthy of being a member of the Ministry of War. As soon as he arrived in Sichuan, he proposed to establish settlements at more than 30 transportation hubs along the Luoshui, Fujiang, and Jialing River waterways to store grain and grass in order to capture Baoning, Chengdu, and Longshan controlled by the Qing army.
An, the Songpan mansions are making preparations.
Zhu Hengjia saw Zhang Bin's memorial and clapped his hands. The problem is to establish settlements and supply depots. Where will the population come from? Most of these places have few households and abandoned fields. "There are more tiger tracks and wolf hooves than human tracks. They cover a thousand miles, and most of them are yellow."
"Mao Baiwei".
Although a series of preferential policies have been formulated to attract immigrants, it is difficult to leave their homeland, so they can only slowly attract people from all over the country to Sichuan. Suddenly there are not so many immigrants.
Zhu Hengjia was worried, he couldn't just tie the people up to build residential settlements and supply stations in important transportation areas in Sichuan, right? Yes, tie him up! You can't tie up the people, you can tie up criminals.
An order was immediately issued to send all criminal prisoners from all over the country, except those on death row, to Sichuan. All prisoners of the Eight Banners captured in the battle were also sent to Sichuan. The population was still insufficient, so Emperor Guangwu became anxious and ordered Yousi to speed up the trial.
Due to the speed of the minister's crimes, once he is classified as a second minister, except for those whose crimes are so heinous that they must be executed, all other personnel, together with their family members, will be taken to Sichuan to farm.
On the way to Sichuan, these criminals, prisoners of war, and subordinates had their hands tied behind their backs, so the word "hands-off" eventually came into being. History has its own laws.
In order to increase the population and restore the economy in war-torn areas including Sichuan, Emperor Guangwu discussed with his ministers and promulgated the "Order of Reclamation", which clearly stipulates that whoever reclaims wasteland will own the land.
Order", and also promulgated the "Regulations on Encouragement and Punishment for Reclamation", which clearly stipulates rewards for those who have made contributions to reclamation, and uses the amount of reclamation and the increase or decrease in household registration as the basis for the assessment of local officials.
In short, in the first two years after Emperor Guangwu ascended the throne, although he did not fight any major wars, he had been making war preparations and preparing for the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains.
After two years of recuperation, the granaries were full and there was money in the treasury, and they were preparing for the Northern Expedition. Unexpectedly, the hero in the west, Gushi Khan, a generation of genius, threw out the "two countries theory".