Chapter 693: South and North
Not all the areas occupied by the Mughurs were grasslands, especially the areas of Chahar, eastern and southern Korqin, and southern Tumut, which were actually good places for farming and grazing, and all of these places had a lot of mineral deposits, including coal and iron.
These places are the foundation for the rise of the Mughal people, and the other boundless prairies will give future generations a small fresh feeling of the greatness of nature, and it is okay to "cultivate sentiments", and it is simply garbage to treat a country and a nation as a foundation.
This is because nomadism can feed a family with a hundred to one hundred and fifty times as much pasture as farming.
As long as the fertile lands in Monan and Modong are actually in the hands of the empire, no one can afford to make big waves with the grasslands alone.
Therefore, Xu Shiyang could not allow the Muguls to continue to control the Chahar, just as he could not allow the Dangxiang people to continue to control the Xingling region.
After the surrender of Chahar Menggu, Xu Shiyang ordered the core areas of Chahar and Horqin to be merged into the new Suiyuan Province.
Just like Solon in Waibo, the Mugh tribe within the Suiyuan Province will be completely split.
According to Xu Shiyang's request, if the Mughal people in these places wanted to stay in their hometowns and live, they had to be dispersed into a maximum of 150 households and a minimum of 60 households.
Xu Shiyang gave a thousand-and-hundred-hundred-household establishment of Mughu, and the number of Muguls who exceeded this number would all migrate to other places.
The first destination of the migration of the Mughal people will be the Western Regions, Xu Shiyang's eldest son, Xu Daixuan, the king of Qin, who is shouting all day long for the population, but now the Han people are impossible to give him, because there are still few Han people in the north, and immigrants from the south must first fill the provinces of North China, Liaodong and Northwest.
But there was no problem with the Mughurs and the like, and moving them out of fertile areas just made room for Han Chinese immigrants.
Moreover, much of the land in Central Asia is actually more suitable for animal husbandry than the Mughal steppes, and it is more promising and reassuring for the Mughurs to raise cattle and sheep there than the steppes on the side of the couch.
Xu Shiyang's second migration to the Mughal people was the islands of Kuyi (Sakhalin) and Ezo – both names referring to different names for the same ethnic group.
The Kuyi people in Huaxia are considered a kind of Waibo Solon, but Xu Shiyang only gave them ten middle hundred households and ten lower hundred households, a total of 2,000 households, and the Kuyi people who exceed this number must move out, and those who refuse to move or do not register with the empire must be counted as savages and can be attacked and killed at will.
Both islands are considered large islands, with a total area of 160,000 square kilometers, of which Ezo Province is a good place to develop animal husbandry, while Kuyi Island is mainly used for hunting.
Xu Shiyang planned to move the hundred households of Sauron on Ezo Island to Kuyi Island, and hand over the vacated pastures to the Mughal people to manage.
On that kind of island far from the mainland, even if the Muguls dared to make trouble, they would not be able to make big waves.
As for the third migration .......
Xu Shiyang's idea was to wait until the navy found the Australian island, so that more Muguls would be moved over and let them raise sheep on the world's smallest continent.
In short, Xu Shiyang planned to reduce the number of people in the grassland, but not only with a butcher's knife, but with this soft knife to strip away the population of the Mugwus, so that they would lose the possibility of rebellion.
As for the Mongyu people who remain in their hometowns, they will also be controlled by both military and economic means, and most of the 100 Mugyu households will move to the real grasslands to live, and the places suitable for cultivation and minerals will be vacated for the Han people to live in.
The Mughurs who dared to resist the migration would have to face the bayonets and bullets of the Chinese army, and the migrating Muguls would be reduced to outright herdsmen, with no other property than the sale of cattle, sheep, horses, and sheep shearing.
All the necessities necessary for living in the harsh steppes—cloth, ironware, salt, tea, grain, wine, and other goods—had to be purchased from the Han Chinese.
Moreover, like all Waibo, the Mughurs had to have a letter of pardon issued by the empire before they could trade with the Han people, and the maximum income from international trade was still to be left to the Han caravans.
I have to say that Xu Shiyang and his cabinet, who specifically formulated the national policy of the empire, were still very tough on dealing with foreign races, and even some areas of the Great Northern Wilderness, which had been reclaimed by relying on the blood and tears of Fusang slaves, had gradually harvested, and after the large-scale settlement of Han immigrants, they had to give up those lands and migrate to other wild places.
This is a tragedy that the slaves must accept, and the Empire will not give the slightest sympathy.
Speaking of the forced migration of aliens under the orders of the Cabinet, it is impossible not to mention the policy of domination in the interior of the empire.
The two and a half wars that were being prepared to be fought simultaneously (against Chahar, Cochin, and Pars, which could only be counted as half wars) involved a lot of troops and supplies, but they did not have much impact on the Empire itself.
At least not as important as the integration of the north and south of the river.
At present, the internal integration of the empire is, to put it bluntly, two things - the industry of the north began to go south, and the population of the south began to go north.
The emperor was seated in Jinling, and experienced state-owned enterprises and domestic enterprises in the north had to set up new factories in the south, including but not limited to the livelihood industries such as glass, soap, matches, textiles, enamel, and salt making, as well as heavy industries such as steel, military industry, shipbuilding, and machine building.
In fact, because of the large population and abundant capital, there is not much resistance to the southward implementation of industry.
But another basic national policy, the so-called population going north, has to think about what should be done.
The empire could not forcibly relocate the Han as it did with the Fusang, Sauron, and Mughal people, so it could only attract people to immigrate automatically with as much benefit as possible.
Next, the empire will open up the land policy in the north, allowing the people to freely buy the vacant land in the north—especially in the newly incorporated areas of the empire, such as Liaodong and Northwest, where there is enough vacant land to absorb many people.
Imperial nationals (both north and south) could purchase these lands up to a limit of 200 acres per household, and if civilians did not have enough money, they could borrow money from the Empire.
This policy was basically aimed at the tenants who were eager to own their own land, and the empire decided to take a more rigid approach to the wealthy landowners and gentry, demanding that they disassociate themselves from the tenants.
The easiest way to do this, of course, is to reduce rent and interest.
As in the North, the Empire demanded that the interest on loans to civilians in the country should not exceed the bank benchmark, otherwise they would be punished as financial fraud.
In the past, old debts had to be deposited with an IOU approved by both parties, and then the Imperial Bank was responsible for clearing them – or at the Imperial tax rate.
This is equivalent to the Empire buying debts on behalf of the common people, and those who in turn incur large debts to the Empire must go north and live in the places designated by the Empire.
After clearing the old debts, the landlords and gentry in Jiangnan could use the money paid by the empire to invest in their favorite industries, transforming from traditional landlords to capitalists.
Of course, you can also invest without transformation, but if you don't listen to the persuasion of the empire, you may have to pay some price in the future.