Chapter 368 - Cash-for-Work (Second Update, Asking for Subscription)
Although the plan was to use Daishan to infiltrate Jiannu into a sieve, Zhu Guoqiang did not waste too much time on him, and he didn't even see him, but directly handed over the matter to Shi Lei...... It's just a captive, and he doesn't deserve it.
Although the "Zhengfang Mountain City Victory" was an unprecedented victory, in Zhu Guoqiang's view, it was not worth mentioning at all, after all, this so-called "sweep" was mixed with too much water - the so-called Dongyu was just tens of thousands of North Korean soldiers who had just "raised their flags".
When putting the good news aside, Zhu Guoqiang saw Li Xin holding a stack of official letters, and after the salute, he put the official letters on the table.
"Lord Shizi,"
Li Xin was the first to report,
"Shandong Governor Song Xuezhu sent an urgent letter saying that the northern Zhili, Shanxi, Henan, Shaanxi and southern Zhili Jiangbei prefectures have not rained for several months, and the north of the Yangtze River is thousands of miles of red land, and the crops have not been harvested, and the same is true in Shandong. The towns around Shandong learned that there was an official government in Shandong, and the people had food to eat, and they fled to Shandong, and there have been no less than a million displaced people flowing into Shandong, although the government can still barely maintain it, but it is expected that tens of thousands of displaced people will flow in every day in the future, far exceeding the government's relief capacity, and the Governor of Song sent a letter asking how to deal with it? ”
"We have to give money! Every time we give relief to a homeless person, not only does one less person starve to death, but one less person also becomes a homeless person, and this is the struggle for ...... Fight for people with the rogues, and the more people who come to our side, the fewer people who come to their side. ”
Zhu Guoqiang said without hesitation.
"The food provided by the government is insufficient, and the general's mansion is trying to find a way, well, there is still a million stone of military food in Jinan, and give these grains to Song Xuezhu, in addition, notify the sailors to organize a fleet as soon as possible to transport the displaced people to Taiwan for reclamation, and implement the "grant land by people", each person will be given 15 acres of land, 2 acres of vegetable land, and every third household will be given a cow. After granting the land, rent-free for three years......"
In fact, these are the methods of the ancestors, at the beginning of Zhu Yuanzhang's founding of the country, in order to enrich the north and the border land, forced immigration to all parties, usually to give each person 15 acres of land, 2 acres of vegetable land as the standard. Exempt from tax for three years, and then pay tax per mu. In fact, at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the status of military households was high, and in fact, more land was also the key.
Later, the status of military households became lower and lower, to put it bluntly, it was still a matter of operation, a simplest problem, in order to enrich the military household after Yongle, everyone was put into it, and what was the exile of prisoners as military households, and there was also the casual use of prisoners as military households, this is not infinitely lowering the status of military households, and they themselves are glorious small landlords of military merit, and as a result, they have become a place where filth and filth are tolerated. Later, even the small landlords were gone, and they wanted honor but no honor, and they wanted land without land, and all the military households fled?
Thinking of this, Zhu Guoqiang naturally thought of the tens of thousands of Korean soldiers who had been captured, and used these prisoners as soldiers? Doesn't it infinitely lower the status of military households?
Or just take the captives as slaves!
The status of the military household is high, how can it tolerate being pulled down, and it is still 50,000 prisoners! How many soldiers and horses are there in his own army.
"This should also increase the enthusiasm of the soldiers, and reward the slaves for military merit...... Well, if you count it, this is also the restoration of the pre-Qin system! ”
Of course, Li Xin didn't know what the prince was thinking in his heart, so he just continued to report.
"Shiziye, Governor Song reported in the letter, considering that there will be too many displaced people in the future, and it is difficult to send the displaced people to Taiwan for reclamation with the current transportation capacity, so can you consider granting land to the displaced people, after all, Jiannu entered the Kou twice, and the two sides of the canal in Shandong are cut off from people for hundreds of miles, so ......"
Without waiting for Li Xin to finish speaking, Zhu Guoqiang directly vetoed.
"No! Those lands will be granted to military households in the future, and they must not be granted to displaced people, and now that the land is given to displaced people, what will I give to military households in the future? Is it possible that only meritorious soldiers can be awarded to the border? ”
In fact, to a certain extent, the reason why Zhu Guoqiang can use land to win the hearts of the soldiers is because of the massacre in the north when Jiannu entered the Kou - the towns and villages on his offensive route were swept away, and the population was reduced by eighty or ninety percent, so that the saying "thousands of miles of no one lived" was left! The sudden decrease in population gave Zhu Guoqiang enough land to reward the officers and soldiers of Pingyu, who now only had 130,000 people, even according to the standard of 100 mu or even 200 mu per person, but only more than 20 million mu of land was needed.
Through the granting of land and the promise of granting land, these military households were no longer the military households of the Ming Dynasty equivalent to slaves, but a privileged class whose interests were tightly tied to his own. Although the so-called "privileges" are actually only the promise of "options", through the reward of a small number of retired military households, all the officers and soldiers can see a bright future for them, and they can obtain the land, land and other treatment they deserve through military rank and military merit, and not only that, they and their families will no longer be burdened with taxes and forced labor.
This privileged class of interests is a necessary measure to ensure Zhu Guoqiang's safety, and of course it is also his capital to seize the world.
It is precisely by relying on those "land options" that the Pingyu Army in Zhu Guoqiang's hands is not a Pingjun Army at all, but a powerful meritorious interest class, and any usurpation of power by the outside world against him will be fiercely counterattacked by this interest group.
"Land options" are the foundation of this interest group, and those ownerless lands are the key to cashing in on "land options"! It is precisely because of this that as early as last year, Zhu Guoqiang turned all those borderless lands into the "farmland" of the palace, which is 40 or 50 million mu!
As a privileged class in this era, not only is it powerful and powerful, but also has the cooperation of the government, and these borderless lands are naturally "occupied" by him. As a direct participant in all this, Song Xuezhu certainly knew about it, which is why he thought of using these farms to settle the displaced people.
But Song Xuezhu didn't know that these lands were the foundation of the world, and there was room for others to make ideas on these lands.
"Lord Shizi, Governor Song's concerns are not unreasonable, if there are tens of thousands, or even tens of thousands of displaced people pouring in every day, they will not produce, and sooner or later there will be incidents, so I hope that through the way of granting land, let them support themselves......"
Li Xin thought for a moment, and then said.
"If the land is not granted, the displaced people can be used as tenant farmers to cultivate the land for the military households, so that the people can get a subsistence livelihood, and in the future, after the military households divide the land, it will not be wasteland."
"After planting the land for a long time, it will become someone else's, and it is easy to give it to them now, but it is not so easy to collect it in the future."
Shaking his head, Zhu Guoqiang just rejected his suggestion, but he thought about it again.
"Let's work for cash!"
In ancient times, cash-for-work was also the most common way to help the victims, so that they could not do production, but instead take food to relieve them, and let them participate in some projects.
"Cash-for-work? What are the right jobs now? ”
"Just build the road! Rebuild the official road in Shandong. ”
Zhu Guoqiang said bluntly that marching and fighting are always inseparable from roads, and using displaced people to build roads can not only help the displaced people, but also improve Shandong's transportation. It can be said that it kills two birds with one stone.
"And to spread this great victory to Jinan and Nanjing respectively, Qian Qianyi knows what to do."
The right people in the right positions can indeed play an unexpected role.
In fact, he was indeed very conscientious, and only gave him 5,000 taels of silver and a newspaper concept at the beginning, but Qian Qianyi still ran the "Daming Daily", and it was very good.
Now he and his newspaper are his own public opinion propaganda tools in the mainland, and of course, for the outside world, that newspaper has nothing to do with him.
This is not "just".