Everyone in the entire Qianqing Palace was quiet at this moment.

The scholars all turned their shocked eyes to Huang Zongxi, who was at the forefront of their team.

This thin scholar who knelt on the ground looked so weak, I really didn't expect him to have the courage to say such a thing.

It is not easy to leave this warm and comfortable Jiangnan, lead the whole family, and go to East and West Burleigh to settle in that winter!

Such a major move is not an easy decision to make, even for a homeless person. What's more, now they have a house and land in their hometown in Jiaxing, Zhejiang, and they can be regarded as the Huang family of the local noble family.

This Huang Zongxi actually wanted to lead the whole family to leave his homeland where he had a successful family business and settle in a foreign country where he knew nothing, which was simply an incomprehensible decision.

He must have been confused for a moment......

Li Xiao's solemn gaze also stared closely at Huang Zongxi, who was kneeling on the ground, speechless for a long time, but there was some inexplicable emotion in his heart.

This Huang Zongxi seems to be really a scholar with lofty ideals in this turbulent era.

Li Xiao has always thought that the so-called positive characters in history books may not really be so noble in real history. Unexpectedly, this person is really like in history, he is a figure who is willing to dedicate himself to his ideals, such a person, in this chaotic era at the end of the Ming Dynasty, is like a rare existence, but let himself, for a while I really don't know, how to evaluate him.

"Taichong, what you say, but the truth? Don't make jokes about this king in this palace hall. ”

"King Tang, students must practice what they say, how can they say anything here. As scholars of the country, we should share the worries of the country, how can we talk about it, but stay out of the matter. This practical policy of immigration, the students have been thinking about it for a long time, but it is the fundamental plan for the benefit of China for generations to come. In the lower body to receive the grace of the country, and the country is a scholar, such a major event does not take the lead in setting an example, how can you stand by and watch? The rule of chaos in the world is not the rise and fall of a surname, but the sorrow and happiness of the people. Tang Wang's move, students must practice it. Huang Zongxi said calmly.

Li Xiao stared at him for a long time, inexplicably happy in his heart, and said slowly after a long time: "Very good, Mr. Taichong's desire to serve the country, this king appreciates it very much, and is willing to support your righteous move to the north with your family." It's just that your parents are old, and Encore has traveled thousands of miles north like this, so you have to be cautious when you move here. ”

"It doesn't matter, I have Xiao brother Huang Zongyan, I can entrust my parents, and my home furnishing property will also be entrusted to him. Yu Zi led his wife and concubines and children to move north. Huang Zongxi's tone was unmistakably firm.

Li Xiao nodded, stood up, slowly descended from the Dan steps, came to Huang Zongxi, and helped him up.

"Mr. Taichong, please stand up and speak."

"King Xie Tang."

After Huang Zongxi got up, Li Xiao sighed: "Mr. Taichong is really a model for me to be a scholar in the Ming Dynasty. If everyone in the world can worry about the country and the people like Mr. Taichong, and practice it, then what worries will there be tomorrow. Li Xiao sighed, his face full of appreciation: "Mr. Taichong's opinion, this king agrees." ”

Huang Zongxi bowed to Li Xiaochang: "King Xie Tang is complete, then he and everyone will retire first." After going back, he conveyed the original intention of King Tang to the scholars of the Wailing Temple, and there would never be any more trouble. ”

"Very good, then the next thing, please Mr. Taichong."

Looking at the retreating figures of the scholars, Li Xiao's face was full of joyful smiles.

Unexpectedly, Huang Zongxi, the initiator of the trouble, was successfully persuaded by his own words, and in turn solved the crying temple incident for himself, this person is really loyal and straightforward. It seems that in the future, when he arrives in Eastern Siberia, he will have to find a way to make him use it for his own good.

Li Xiao thought about it for a while, so he wrote a letter, and Feige sent a letter to Wu Zhuang, the mayor of the fifth town, asking him to receive and settle Huang Zongxi's family at that time.

As Li Xiao expected, after Huang Zongsha returned to the Confucian Temple, he successfully persuaded everyone to disperse, and the crying temple incident was perfectly resolved.

After solving the problem of the weeping temple, Li Xiao immediately began to speed up the implementation of his own land policy, and soon the following year, that is, in the middle of the second lunar month of the second year of Chongxing, the land liquidation and redemption work in the entire Jiangnan area was basically completed.

As a result, as Li Xiao had planned, because the interests of small and medium-sized landlords and yeoman farmers were fully taken into account, and the policy of redeeming surplus land was introduced, most of the big landlords and gentry had nothing to say although they complained in their hearts. 、

Therefore, until the completion of the entire plan, Jiangnan was generally stable, except for a very small number of large landlords who made trouble, there were basically no twists and turns, and the land reform was smoothly implemented.

As for this very small number of big landlords and gentry who did not know the current affairs but made trouble and rebelled against the government, Li Xiao was not merciless and took strong measures to suppress them.

He ordered that all these big landlords and gentry be arrested and imprisoned for the crime of disobeying the decree, and all their family property should be confiscated, and then when the government convicted them, they would be ordered to go to the border of Eastern Siberia to serve in the army, and the whole family would never return to their homeland in this life and this life.

Under Li Xiao's iron fist, this small group of troublesome big landlords and gentry are like prey that have hit the muzzle of a gun, and in addition to sighing for their bad luck in vain, they can only be punished obediently.

In the middle of the third lunar month of the second year of the reign of Chongxing, more than 3 million displaced and unemployed people had been successfully resettled, and Li Xiao, who had completed the land distribution and reform in the Jiangnan region, began to carry out large-scale migration to Eastern Siberia and Outer Manchuria.

He ordered that the other more than 3 million displaced people who had been collected and collected should be sent to East and West Boya and Waiman in batches for resettlement.

The reason why the transport of displaced people has not started until now is that the entire outer sea has not thawed in the spring, and the ice floe on the sea surface has melted away, so that ships can be allowed to move, making it possible to move and resettle the displaced people.

A large number of ships of the Tang Army's naval division undertook this task, carrying a large number of displaced people from various coastal ports in the south of the Yangtze River, and one after another ships full of displaced people collected from all over the south of the Yangtze River slowly left from various ports, went north, and disappeared at the end of the vast sky and sea.

Among the displaced people who boarded the boat and left, there was a family that seemed to stand out among the unkempt and filthy crowd of displaced people.

This family is Huang Zongxi's family population.

After entrusting his elderly parents, as well as most of the domestic servants and farm houses, to his younger brother Huang Zongyan, Huang Zongxi fulfilled his promise and led his wives, concubines and children, a total of 15 people, all by boat to move north to the city of Yakutsk in Eastern Siberia.

Huang Zongxi's family of fifteen, one wife and one concubine, three sons, two daughters, a daughter-in-law, and four domestic servants were all on a No. 2 fortune ship heading north. At this time, Huang Zongxi, who was standing alone on the bow of the boat, looked at the tall bow of the lucky boat chopping the waves, with a contemplative expression.

And standing behind him was also a thin scholar in a Confucian robe. This scholar was his student who had been following him, Vance Tong.

Vance admired Huang Zongxi's righteous deeds very much, so he followed his example, took his whole family, and sailed north together, following his division to settle in Eastern Siberia.

Seeing that Huang Zongxi was silent, Vance took a step forward and asked him, "This time I went north, does the respected teacher have something on his mind?" ”

Huang Zongxi shook his head, but said with a smile: "I have been thinking all the way for the teacher, but now I am more and more admired by Li Xiao, the king of the Tang Dynasty." ”

"Oh, the teacher thinks so highly of King Tang now?"

"Yes, the more the teacher understands King Tang, the more guilty he was for leading the crying temple case before. Thinking about it now, it was too impulsive at the time. Huang Zongxi's face turned ashamed, and he sighed lightly.

Without waiting for Vance to reply, Huang Zongxi said again: "In the past few months, Weishi has seen with his own eyes that the land in the south of the Yangtze River has been re-planned and redeemed, and a large number of displaced and unemployed people have been successfully resettled. In the originally chaotic states and counties, the street homeless people were swept away, and the people's lives were all settled. The surplus land of the gentry was either taxed and sold at market price, and their interests were mostly protected, and in the entire Jiangnan area, except for a very small number of landlords and gentry making trouble, there were no waves, and the plan of the Tang King was carried out very smoothly. His wrist ability is unparalleled in this dynasty. ”

"Tang Wang is indeed capable, and the students also deeply agree." Vance nodded and praised: "Thinking that the Tang King is strong in martial arts, he commanded his troops to the south with lightning speed, quickly pacified Jiangnan, and drove the Hongguang puppet prison and a group of pseudo-rebels to Fuzhou, so that the entire Jiangnan area quickly returned to calm." Immediately, he took action to rectify the chaos in the south of the Yangtze River, suppressed the landlords who did not accept the control, and divided the land to stabilize the people's livelihood. ”

Vance paused and replied: "After the Tang King settled Jiangnan, he collected all the displaced people scattered throughout Jiangnan in various places and put them in the open space of the state capital, and gave them food and clothing to ensure that they could survive the winter safely. Now, taking advantage of the spring thaw in the northern seas, he immediately ordered his sailors to load the displaced people on ships and transport them north, which was also just right to grasp the timing. The students heard that a total of about 3.58 million displaced people had been transported overseas. Among them, in addition to more than 600,000 old and weak families, all of them were shipped north to East Siberia and Manchuria, such a grand immigration strategy is really breathtaking. The spirit of the Tang King is really unprecedented. ”

When Wan Sitong said this, with a look of emotion, he continued: "Tang Wang's grand plan and meticulous planning can be called error-free. From the dispatch of boats, to the collection of displaced people, to the arrangement of food, to registration, all of them were in an orderly manner and there was no chaos at all. The ability to organize and schedule, and the thoroughness of the strategy, really impressed the students. ”

Master and apprentice, at the bow of the boat, you praised Li Xiao again and again, at this time, Vance replied: "This time, the students went to Nayakutsk with the respected teacher, but I don't know how the local officials will settle me?" ”

Huang Zongxi couldn't answer this answer, after all, he went all the way north this time, and although everything was arranged now, it was difficult to know what the local situation was when he arrived in Yakutsk, so he could only take one step at a time.

Speaking of which, Huang Zongxi did want to see how Li Xiao would settle the displaced people after collecting and sending them away, which was also a matter of great concern to him.

After all, it is not easy for these homeless people to settle and survive for a long time in the cold and frozen desert north, and it remains to be seen whether Li Xiao's arrangement can be implemented smoothly in the end.

Because it was sailing against the wind, Huang Zongxi's fleet arrived at Miaojie Fort at the mouth of the Heilongjiang River after a full month of drifting at sea.

In fact, long before, the large number of displaced people's fleets began to divert their ships, and many ships docked at Vladivostok Fort and the coast of Outer Manchuria, and disembarked to settle a large number of displaced people and let them formally settle in Outer Manchuria.

After these displaced people landed and settled in Waimanchuria, they were escorted by soldiers to the vast areas of Outer Manchuria, east of the Azov River and south of the Heilongjiang River, where they settled down and took root in various settlement planning points in Waimanchuria, distributed clothes, ploughing cattle, farm tools, seeds, and other materials, and cultivated land in the local area, thus officially becoming permanent residents of the locality.

The rest of the displaced people all landed at Miaojiebao, and a large number of immigrants arranged to settle in the vast area from the Naudi River to the north bank of the Heilongjiang River at the junction of East Siberia and Transmanchuria. The rest of the immigrants all continued northward, first to Yakutsk, the northernmost city under Li Xiao's jurisdiction, and then arranged to disperse to the entire East Siberian region.

Of course, the delivery of these more than 3 million displaced people cannot be completed at one time, they are all carried out in batches and bands, counting from the earliest batch of shipments, and in the latest batch of shipments, it took Li Xiao more than eight months to complete all of them, and finally before the Whale Sea froze and froze, the entire transportation of displaced people was completed.

After going ashore at the Miaojie Fort, Huang Zongxi, Vance Sitong, and tens of thousands of displaced people, Tang officers and soldiers came to count and distribute, and asked them to cross the Mangge River together, and go north to Yakutsk City along the Miaojie Fort that was being built to the Yakutsk Cement Avenue.

After nearly a month's trek through the local characters, Huang Zongxi and a group of displaced people finally arrived in the city of Yakutsk.

At this time, it was early summer, and Eastern Siberia was still inexplicably cold, and the wind was blowing on the face and body, and it was cold. In the cold wind, one after another of the displaced people were assigned to various towns and villages by the officials who worked in the office, and since then they have settled down permanently in the local area.

These people, in the family unit, each family was allocated 30 acres of land, and there were enough cattle and farming tools and seeds. The amount of land allocated to him is 30 times the number of acres allocated to farmers in the mainland, and the amount of land is twice as much as that of the immigrants who settled in Sakhalin and Hokkaido.

However, the reason why he is willing to reclaim so much land for these immigrants is that Li Xiao also has his own considerations.

That is, because the conditions in the East and West are really bad, it belongs to the most bitter and cold land in Li Xiao's jurisdiction, and can only grow one season of grain at most every year, in order to ensure that enough food can be produced to meet the needs of life and production, Li Xiao of course did not hesitate to give more land to the immigrants, so that they could settle down in this bitter cold land in the north smoothly.

What's more, this extremely vast area of East Siberia, which has not been exploited by human beings at all, has a huge amount of land that can be exploited and utilized.

Compared with those ordinary homeless people, Huang Zongxi's family was granted 200 acres of land, while the Vance family, which had a slightly smaller population, was granted 150 acres.

In addition, Huang Zongxi and Vance were both appointed as local scholars in Yakutsk, in order to make full use of their knowledge to educate the immigrants and the local barbarian people, so that they could make the best use of their talents in this bitter cold and wild land.

When Huang Zongxi and Vance saw the above officials making such arrangements for themselves, they were not stunned, and then they were both impressed.