Chapter 115: Disagree
"Although the imperial court has once again quelled the rebellion, it has once again lost a lot of money and grain, if you don't want to find a way to resettle the displaced people, just tinkering, such things will still happen, and the imperial court needs a solution once and for all."
After Zhu Houzhao finished saying this, his eyes swept over everyone's faces, and his face became more and more determined, this time he was going to wrestle with these civil officials.
In fact, did the Ming Dynasty solve this problem? In Zhu Houzhao's view, the advantage of this solution is one, that is, the rebellion has been eliminated, and it is true that no one has rebelled, but the matter has not been solved at all, but it has just been serious.
The so-called land of Jingxiang refers to the combination of Huguang, Henan and Sichuan provinces, about the east end of Nanshan in the west, Tongbai Mountain and Dabie Mountain in the southeast, Funiu Mountain in the northeast, and Jingshan Mountain in the south.
The answer to why the people gathered here is very simple, because the mountains here are high and the forests are dense, and there are many hiding, and the government cannot find us.
Another problem arises, as it has become a gathering place for fugitives and all sorts of chaotic people, and it is not surprising that it is a place outside the law. Many of these places are not very well known to future generations, but Dabie Mountain is believed to be known to many people, Dabie Mountain looks west to Wuhan, east to Nanjing, the unique geographical location makes it the capital of the Republic of China Nanjing and the central city of Wuhan has important military value.
This is also the geographical premise of Liu Deng's army advancing into the Dabie Mountains, which is one of the famous old revolutionary areas in China, and the central area of the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Revolutionary Base Area, the second largest revolutionary base area in the country during the Agrarian Revolutionary War.
Why did Liu Deng's army choose Dabie Mountain back then, and the reason why the displaced people choose Dabie Mountain is the same as the reason why the displaced people choose Dabie Mountain now, of course, the displaced people go to Dabie Mountain because they can't survive anymore, and Liu Deng's army goes to Dabie Mountain for the revolution.
Due to the sparse population of the area during this period, land reclamation was readily available. At the same time, the climate here is between the north and the south, relatively mild, with moderate rainfall, and can be planted in paddy fields or dry land. Such a natural environment is easy for people from the north and south to adapt to in life and work, so the displaced people regard this place as an ideal destination.
But there is a big problem here, there are millions of people gathered here, and it can't bear it, and if it rebels in the event of a natural disaster, it is a huge unstable factor here.
In addition, although these people are gathered here to live, most of the people here do not pay taxes, they are all homeless, and as time goes by, there are more and more homeless people here.
After the two massive and thrilling rebellions were brutally suppressed by the imperial court, the problem of the Jingxiang displaced people was not fundamentally resolved. In the twelfth year of Chenghua, Henan had a poor harvest, and the hungry people poured into the Jingxiang area like a tide. Fearing that it would provoke a strong revolt, the imperial court was forced to seek strategies and measures other than military repression to deal with the problem of the exiles.
In May of the twelfth year of Chenghua, the imperial court appointed the left deputy capital Yu Shi Yuanjie to go to Xiangyang in the name of Fuzhi Jingxiang and other places to deal with the problem of the displaced people and to deal with the homeless people. After Yuan Jie took office, he believed that Huairou's policy of caring for people in the area should be adopted to deal with the problem of displaced people in the area. He advocated the removal of the ban, allowing the displaced people to attach their nationality to the people in the mountainous areas, reclaiming wasteland, making it their own business forever, setting up a special government, including the displaced people in the copyright register, and collecting taxes
Subsequently, it was proposed: because Yun County, which was under the jurisdiction of the former Xiangyang Prefecture, was connected to the river and Shaanxi, and the roads were connected to water and land, and it was located in Zhushan, Fangxian, Shangjin, and Shangluo counties, and was an important place extending in all directions.
So in December of that year, the imperial court decided to divide Yunxian County from the capital of Xiangyang Prefecture, promoted it to a prefecture, and named it "Yunyang". Yunyang Mansion was officially opened. Yindian in Huguang cut Zhushan County, Wuyang in Zhuyun County, and Jinyang in Shangjin County in Yunxi County. Yunyang Prefecture commands the six counties of Yun, Fang, Zhushan, Zhuxi, Yunxi and Shangjin.
As a result, the displaced people have been able to be resettled and resettled to a certain extent. Since then, there have been no large-scale rebellions or rebellions by displaced people in this area.
This is a very good solution in terms of both the result and the process, and the displaced people have been settled into the people, but in recent years, the number of displaced people has increased.
You must know that this time He Jian went to check, it was not settled, but a new homeless people, and more than 700,000 people appeared, although after the establishment of Yunyang Mansion, the area of Fuzhi continued to expand, and at the most magnificent time, the southwest to Kuizhou Mansion, west to Xi'an Mansion, north to Nanyang Mansion, east to Anlu Mansion, south to Jingzhou Mansion. There are 5 provinces, 8 prefectures and 65 counties, and their area is much larger than that of later provinces.
However, you must know that the people of later generations did not support themselves with the land, but in this era, the influx of displaced people did develop the economy, especially after the establishment of Yunyang Prefecture.
However, in Zhu Houzhao's view, if the problem of displaced people is not solved at the root, then the problem of displaced people will always be the most serious, and it will break out in the end. Although the Jingxiang refugees seem to be in Anhui and Jiangxi, there are many in the northwest, after all, the west has reached Zhongnan Mountain, and Zhongnan Mountain Shaanxi is the middle section of the Qinling Mountains in Shaanxi.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there was a severe drought in Shaanxi, and the displaced people rose everywhere, and it was these displaced people who rebelled, so it is needless to say that the peasant uprising in Shaanxi was not mentioned, right? The Ming Dynasty could not spare a hurdle.
There is no trouble on the side of Dabie Mountain, that is because the environment is relatively good, and the transportation is convenient, the people can still live, and there is no major disaster.
But at the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were many disasters and difficulties, and there were more natural disasters in the past two years. Many people say that this is the pot of the imperial court and the pot of the rulers, but once a natural disaster is a catastrophe that affects several provinces and even the whole country, what should the imperial court do?
Mobilizing Food for Disaster Relief? Even if you have enough food, transportation is a problem, how long can you keep it? How much money and food does it cost to feed the people of several provinces?
Zhu Houzhao naturally wouldn't do this kind of stupid thing, he wanted to attract displaced people, let them go to Liaodong, go to the northwest, and make money. Once the matter is done, then the displaced people will promote the development of the frontier, and will become the help of the Ming Dynasty's take-off, instead of becoming the time bomb of the Ming Dynasty, which will explode if they are not careful, so Zhu Houzhao is going to gnaw this difficult bone this time.
The ministers listened to Zhu Houzhao's words, their faces were a little ugly, but they were all very disapproving, Your Royal Highness the Prince, just talk about it.