The troubles encountered by the Resettlement and Reclamation Department are not one or two, but very many, first of all, the problem of funds, although Li Xuan has already formulated a huge financial budget of 10 million taels of silver in the next few years, which will be used to specifically support the resettlement work.

But this money may seem like a lot, but in reality it is not enough.

What do you think, the immigration plan of the Immigration Reclamation Division is not tens of millions of people, but a huge immigration plan with a scale of more than one million people, or even more people, otherwise, why would Li Xuan prepare 10 million!

Since he spent 10 million, he is going to see great results!

On average, the financial subsidy that an immigrant can get is actually a few taels of silver!

In fact, a considerable part of the 10 million taels of silver will be used to purchase land to resettle immigrants, build simple resettlement houses for new immigrants, and prepare rations for them in the early stage, farm tools, cattle, seeds and other things.

There were many of them building houses, preparing rations, farm implements, cattle and seeds, and some of the expenses on the road.

Comparatively speaking, the cost of acquiring land accounts for only a tiny fraction of the cost.

You may still have questions, why do you need to buy land when you go to the barren mountains and forests to reclaim the land?

Or else?

This land is owned by the owner, how can the immigrants be resettled if they are not bought?

Although the land used to settle immigrants will all be wasteland, but in these years, even if it is land in barren mountains and forests, it has an owner, and if it does not belong to a private person, then it belongs to the government!

At present, the official government of the Tang Dynasty is the largest landlord of the Tang Dynasty, and they have accepted all the clan land in the former Ming Dynasty, most of the land in the high-ranking official families of the former Ming Dynasty, official land, etc., so that the current official government of the Tang Dynasty has about 30% of all the cultivated land in the current Tang Dynasty.

And the wasteland, not to mention, is all owned by the government!

The wasteland for resettlement seems to be a barren area with no human population, but don't think that these wastelands are ownerless, except for land with clear private ownership, all other lands, lakes, seas, rivers, etc. are owned by the government.

So even if you run into the deep mountains and old forests, there is no figure within a radius of thousands of miles, and then you can't just draw a circle and say that this place is yours!

This place belongs to the government!

Or to put it more accurately, even if you have a title deed on the land, but the land is not yours, then whose land does it belong to?

It's the Son of Heaven!

The whole world is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister, not to mention the land under your name, even if it is you, it belongs to the Son of Heaven!

In the revised law of the Tang Dynasty, this sentence was written into it, and by this, the Son of Heaven, who is bright and great, greater than the sun, claimed the right to all the lands and peoples known and unknown!

It may not be easy to understand this explanation, but to put it simply: even if it is a land that you imagine and does not really exist, it belongs to the Son of Heaven, and the people there are also subjects of the Son of Heaven!

When you understand the meaning of the phrase "under the law of the Tang Dynasty", you will understand why there are only provincial boundaries and regional boundaries in the Tang Dynasty territory map published by the Royal Publishing House of the Tang Dynasty, but there are no national borders.

Because if you demarcate national borders, then you basically negate this sentence, and you dare to say that Europe, Southeast Asia, America, Africa, and even the whole earth are not the Son of Heaven?

If you dare to think so, it is tantamount to denying the sanctity of the Son of Heaven, which is a huge political mistake and absolutely intolerable.

In this kind of backdropping, even those barren mountains and forests belong to the official land, so in order to resettle the immigrants, it is necessary to spend money from the government to buy land.

Of course, this price is very low, and according to the regulations, new immigrants can buy a certain amount of wasteland in the officially owned wasteland for a symbolic price of a few pennies, and these wastelands are also paid for by the Immigration Reclamation Department.

The resettlement of such immigrants requires a lot of land, but the total cost of this will not exceed 100,000 taels of silver.

However, if the number of wasteland purchased by immigrants at such a low price is limited, and if the quantity limit is exceeded, although it is also allowed to be purchased, it needs to be purchased at the normal market price.

At the same time, the reclamation of these wastelands can also obtain tax incentives under the reclamation order.

In the sixth year of Xuanping, the funds received by the Resettlement Division were 1.2 million taels of silver, but it was still far from enough, because the scale of the immigrants was too large, the Resettlement and Reclamation Division could not even make every family get a free house, and the cattle were not to be considered, and even the farm tools were relatively lacking.

After many immigrants arrived in the locality, although they got the land directly distributed by the government for free, and the amount was not small, but the difficulty of clearing the land was too great, in the absence of ploughing cattle and fine metal farming tools, many immigrant families were the whole family, young and old, and the whole family went into battle, and opened up the land in the fields every day, but just this, it is still difficult to open up too much wasteland.

Although these immigrants have tax exemption for the first three years, even so, the food they grew in the first year is not enough for them to eat.

In addition to the shortage of its own and materials, the Department of Resettlement and Reclamation also reported two other problems, one is the lack of adaptation to the soil and water, and the casualty rate of migrants on the way and after arriving at their destination has remained high.

The immigrants who moved to Hunan from the Central Plains region with many traditional people and little land, that is, northern Anhui, Henan, Shandong and other regions, are better, although there are also water and soil adaptations, but it is not too troublesome, but the immigrants who migrate to the two Guangxi areas are difficult to adapt to the local climate, and at the same time, because the immigrants generally lack medical treatment and medicine, the casualty rate is quite large.

Finally, there is one more important question: the homeland is hard to leave!

When they recruit immigrants, many of them are reluctant to leave their hometowns and go thousands or even thousands of miles away to open up wasteland.

Even if there is land allocated to them after they go, even if the Resettlement Department will send them to their destination, they don't have to spend a penny on the way.

Even if these people live in poverty in their hometowns, without their own land, and it is difficult to feed themselves, they are still full of fear of distant places and are unwilling to leave their familiar hometowns.

For these problems raised by the Immigration and Reclamation Division, Li Xuan can be said to attach great importance to them!

The best solution to this problem is naturally to increase expenditures, and it is easy to do anything when you have money, but the finances are limited, and money is needed in all aspects, so it is naturally impossible to say that you can increase the investment in immigrants.

Under the circumstance that it was impossible for the central government to increase funds, Li Xuan felt that it was necessary for the local yamen to fully assume their responsibilities, and they could not count on the central financial allocation for everything.

In particular, when organizing immigrants and organizing immigrants, the local yamen need to provide the necessary financial support when organizing immigrants to reclaim land in other places, and the pressure on the local population and food is also greatly reduced, so it is natural to pay some price for this.

And this is especially true of the places that accept immigrants, a large group of immigrants have come to you, and they will be the people of your jurisdiction from now on, and you can't ignore it.

In fact, this kind of thing should have been led by the central government and assisted by the local government, but now it is good, the immigration and reclamation department has everything covered, and the local yamen is watching the drama on the side, as if it has nothing to do with themselves.

This can't go on like this!

The problem of water and soil adaptation, this is also no way, who makes China so big, the climate and environment of the Central Plains and the southern region are naturally very different, and what can be done is to provide medicine as much as possible.

And the provision of medicine is also inseparable from the support of the local yamen, otherwise, even if Li Xuan sends all the imperial doctors out, it will not be enough.

In the end, it is difficult to leave the homeland, this is not a big problem in Li Xuan's opinion!

It's nonsense to say that it's hard to leave the homeland and so on!

People go to high places, and water flows to low places; People move to life, trees move to death!

When you are poor, you are not willing to leave your hometown and go to a new place to eat a bite, which is nothing more than timidity!

Just like after the reform and opening up in later generations, some people are willing to go out of the door, see the outside world, and strive for their future, while some people are full of fear of the outside world, for fear that they don't know how to face it when they go out!

Therefore, Li Xuan has nothing to say about this situation, whether to go or not, not to pull down!

As long as the Immigration and Reclamation Department does a good job of publicity and guidance, when necessary, the Tang Dynasty News will also cooperate to a certain extent, and there is no need to react too much.

And where there are many people and little land, there are more landless peasants, there will always be people who are willing to go to a new place to start a new life, and some people are not willing to leave their hometown, so they will not leave.

There are so many places under the rule of the Tang Dynasty, there are more places with more people and less land, and there are more places with fewer people and more places, so far there are always enough immigrants and wasteland, and it is not a big problem for some people to leave their homeland and are unwilling to immigrate.

On the way to Hanyang, Li Xuan specially convened a meeting of the Imperial Cabinet on the imperial ship and made important instructions: all departments and local yamen in Gyeonggi should take the immigration affairs as a century-old plan for the future of the empire!

Finally, he reiterated the tone of the immigration policy, that is: insist on immigration for a hundred years!

Li Xuan convened a meeting of the Imperial Cabinet specifically for immigration affairs, and he also directly emphasized a certain tone in the Imperial Cabinet meeting, which is rare.

But every time this happens, the courtiers know that the Son of Heaven attaches great importance to this matter!

The Holy Son of Heaven attaches great importance to it, and the courtiers will naturally attach more importance to it, and will follow the path pointed out by the Holy Son of Heaven!

So it didn't take long for the latest issue of the Tang Dynasty newspaper to have the big black headline on the front page of the newspaper, which was the original words of the Son of Heaven at the cabinet meeting: Insist on immigrating for a hundred years without wavering!