Chapter 914: God Emperor Li Xuan
Wang Wenhua took the lead in the ranks, and after slapping a sycophant, everyone else also reflected, talking about His Majesty's benevolence and the blessing of the people one by one.
It's no wonder they would say that, you must know that when Li Xuan said five million in three years and ten million in five years, it was actually far more than their estimates.
Organizing domestic immigration, all dynasties have basically done it, Zhu Yuanzhang of the former Ming Dynasty did it, and the scale is not small, now many people in Huguang, Guangxi and other places, in fact, are from Jiangxi, Zhili Sidao and other regions in the early Republic of China.
But there are many dynasties that have done this, but there are few who have really come up with the money to do it!
Not to mention investing tens of millions of taels!
The vast majority of the immigrants in the past dynasties were forcibly relocated people, and a few would give a small amount of subsidies, of course, many would give free wasteland, and certain tax incentives would be given after reclamation, but directly took out a lot of money to subsidize, or five years of 10 million taels, which has never been there since ancient times!
In the hearts of these courtiers, this kind of thing can definitely be regarded as the benevolence of the Son of Heaven, and they don't even have to go against their hearts when they say these flattering words, but sincerely.
But they don't know that Li Xuan is actually not simply for doing good deeds, first of all, the first point, that is, the tax policy of the Tang Dynasty and the previous dynasties is completely different, although the Tang Dynasty spent a lot of money, the tax revenue was more at that time, although 10 million taels of silver was more, but if it is divided into five years, it is actually two million silver a year, and if two million taels of silver, in today's Tang Dynasty, it is enough to support more than 20,000 professional troops.
The official budget revenue of the Tang Dynasty in the sixth year of Xuanping, excluding all kinds of confiscation, war booty and other floating wealth, is about 46 million taels of silver.
Take two million taels out, in fact, it is only twenty-three, the proportion is not large, and you can basically squeeze it out if you save some in other aspects.
At the same time, Li Xuan also considered that this year is next year, and there may be a large-scale war, but after Zhang Yue is also killed, in fact, the large-scale war will end, and a large amount of military spending can be saved at that time, so that a large amount of money can be released to restore people's livelihood and develop the industrial and commercial economy.
The 10 million people who organized immigrants are actually just a starting point, and Li Xuan still has a package of spending money plans later!
Besides, taxes are such a thing, to be honest, it is actually taken from the people and for the people, otherwise the Tang Dynasty collected so many taxes, why don't you spend them, Li Xuan can't learn from those faint monarchs in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China to repair the palace and enjoy it!
And although Li Xuan also likes to enjoy, he is really not interested in all kinds of huge palaces and the like like many faint monarchs in history, and eats, drinks and has fun, to be honest, it doesn't cost a lot of money.
However, these are Li Xuan's own thoughts, but in the eyes of the courtiers of this era, this practice is already an unprecedented benevolent and virtuous government.
After Li Xuan accepted the praise of the courtiers with peace of mind, he handed over the meeting to them, as in many meetings as usual, after he set the basic tone, he did not participate in the detailed content discussion, and the dozens of Shangshu and squires below would naturally actively participate, and then put forward various problems and solutions.
After waiting for two hours, the basic general direction was determined, but the details still needed to be considered, and it was impossible to say that there would be a one-day meeting and the whole world would be announced on the same day.
The next day, Li Xuan issued a decree to formally establish the Department of Resettlement and Reclamation, which is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Agriculture, and the follow-up organization of resettlement and reclamation matters will be responsible for this department.
Three days later, after many discussions by the cabinet, the resettlement plan was finally determined and officially announced to the world!
The day after it was announced to the world, the new issue of the Tang Dynasty newspaper published this holy decree in its entirety, and it was still the old-fashioned Fengtian carrying the emperor at the beginning.
And the content makes almost everyone who sees it can't help but admire!
In fact, there is not much content above, the core has the following articles, first of all, it is naturally the most important, the imperial court will invest five million taels in three years, and ten million taels of silver in five years for subsidies for resettlement and reclamation, and various local policies will give local financial subsidies according to the situation, and the total amount of the initial five years will add up to about eight million taels of silver.
Landless peasants can sign up for an application, and then be relocated to the cantonment area by the official arrangement, and upon arrival, they can get a certain amount of wasteland, well, freehold, which can be passed on to future generations.
After the peasants reclaim their own land, they can get three years of tax exemption, five and a half years of tax, a total of eight years of tax incentives, this preferential policy has actually been implemented for several years, it is the established preferential policy on the reclamation order, but all the reclamation of wasteland, can enjoy.
In addition, it is also very important that after the immigrants arrive at the destination, the official will provide various subsidies, including the unified arrangement of free housing, although the house is not good, it cannot be a brick house, just an ordinary thatched house, bamboo house and other simple housing, but finally go to a place to stay.
Subsidies for agricultural tools, which generally directly subsidize all kinds of iron farm tools, now the steel production of the Tang Dynasty has increased greatly, especially after the mass production of several large iron and steel enterprises of the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises, the number of official steel has increased significantly, and at present, in fact, the national defense-related industries have been unable to consume so much steel, so these extra production has begun to invest in the civilian market.
And then there's the seed subsidy, which is the direct distribution of seeds.
Cattle farming subsidies, this is not a direct distribution of cattle farming, cattle farming is not cheap, the Tang Dynasty even if it is wealthy, can not do this, so cattle farming subsidies, in fact, according to a certain number of households, and then give an official cow the right to use for free.
The core goal of these policies is only one, that is, to relocate a large number of landless peasants to places with few people and more land, especially in Hunan and Guangzhou.
Li Xuan is waiting for Hu Guang to be familiar with the world!
But although there is a lot of grain production in Huguang today, it is still far from Huguang ripe in the world, and now Jiangnan is the granary of the world!
In order to completely develop Huguang, it is necessary to reclaim wasteland, and reclaiming wasteland requires labor, and Huguang cannot be developed without a sufficient population.
Therefore, the early immigration settlement, the focus was on Huguang, well, to be precise, it should be Hunan.
Several small plains in Guangxi and Guangdong, as well as the Pearl River Delta region, are also key development areas!
If these three areas are fully developed, even if there is no hybrid rice and no chemical fertilizer, it will still be enough to feed more than 50 million people.
At present, the total population of the above three places, Datang does not have an accurate official figure, only an estimated figure, Hunan is only more than 6 million people, Guangdong is about 5 million, and Guangxi is less, only more than 3 million, the total is about 15 million.
What does this mean, and what does this mean that these three places can feed another 35 million people!
In the short term, it can greatly alleviate the current dilemma of more people and less land.
In a few years, after Hubei and Sichuan and Liaodong are also taken, these three places are good places with a large amount of undeveloped land, and the development is enough to accommodate another 100 million people!
These areas that can be developed on a large scale, plus there are some areas in other regions that have not been developed, and these are to be developed, in short, as long as there is an inch of land that can be farmed, then it cannot be let go, and if the arable land is used nationwide, Li Xuan estimates that before the national population exceeds 400 million people, the land problem should not be too serious, and it will be in a controllable range.
As for what happens when the population exceeds 400 million?
Expand to the outside world!
Who said that the steppes of the north cannot feed people?
Who said that Central Asia cannot support people?
Who said that Southeast Asia can't support people?
Even if the number of people that can accommodate is a little smaller, mosquito legs are still meat!
In addition to the expansion of the nearby area, the more important thing is Australia, which is a large piece of ownerless land, although it is not very rich, but the place is big, no matter how much it can accommodate a lot of people!
And then there is North America, which is a rich place, and there is no problem at all to accommodate another two or three hundred million Chinese people!
As for what will happen to the natives of North America, Southeast Asia and other regions in the future, you can generally refer to the colonization process of the original time and space, what the Europeans did, what the Tang Dynasty would do, and this kind of thing actually does not need to be officially organized or anything, as long as the immigrants have passed, the immigrants will always have conflicts with the local natives in order to survive, and when the time comes, either you die or I die!
The final outcome of the indigenous people is not something that Li Xuan should consider, it is better to leave it to the future generations of virgin to hurt the eggs, now, he only needs to care about the life and death of the Chinese nation, and others can't care about it and don't care about it!
The immigration policy, whether it is the current domestic immigration or the overseas immigration that Li Xuan intends to do in the future, will be the basic national policy for the next few decades or even hundreds of years!
Because if Li Xuan doesn't want to insist on family planning for a hundred years, then he can only insist on expanding immigration for a hundred years!
If you don't choose either of the above two, the Tang Dynasty will definitely be finished in the end!
If you can't feed more and more people, no matter what, it's useless!
After the domestic immigration policy was officially announced to the whole world through the Tang Dynasty newspaper, it immediately set off a hurricane of public opinion!
And all of them are touting Li Xuan, what kind of words about the Ancient Sage Monarch is already old-fashioned, and now the courtiers' praise has begun to talk at length, because just one or two adjectives can no longer describe Li Xuan's greatness!
Now people are touting Li Xuan, which is no longer limited to comparing the three emperors and five emperors, but has begun to put Li Xuan and the five gods on the same page!
Some people blatantly say that Li Xuan is the God Emperor, and he is the supreme existence side by side with the White Emperor, the Blue Emperor, the Yan Emperor, the Yellow Emperor, the Black Emperor and other five gods!
After these words reached Li Xuan's ears, he was quite speechless, Nima, you have seen too much fantasy!