Chapter 344: Southern Liaoning Layout
Xu Shiyang decided to directly distribute 20 acres of land to each household for the people who voluntarily emigrated to Liaodong.
The status of land in the minds of the Han people is completely self-evident, and the vast majority of ordinary people in Qi Province do not have their own land.
Although the land rent collected by the Governor's Office was relatively small, and even if the land was cooked, it was basically maintained at the level of about 2 gongs and 8 people, and only taxes were not paid, and the actual burden on the peasants was probably the lowest in the world.
However, although the peasants had some grain in their hands, the ownership of the land did not belong to them, and they still belonged to tenant farmers rather than yeoman farmers.
Owning your own land is definitely a very attractive goal for these people.
Of course, in addition to land, the people of Qi Province now have a capital to settle down - recruitment.
Entering the factories of the Governor's Mansion and becoming workers are actually much better than farming, and there are better channels for advancement.
This point is very clear to the people of Lao Qi Province, so setting up a few factories in southern Liaoning is also conducive to attracting immigrants.
In Xu Shiyang's blueprint, the first phase of the factory to be built in southern Liaoning is mainly shipbuilding (Lushun), textile (Lushun), salt industry (Changsheng Island), and quarries in various places (this is dominated by foreign slave labor).
Initially, shipbuilding and salt will be able to absorb 300 and 500 male workers respectively, while textile mills will be able to absorb 500 to 1,000 female workers.
In this case, a large family with a relatively large population and 20 acres of land can divide several family members to work in the factory.
In addition to the scheduled emigration, Xu Shiyang also had the idea of leaving the garrison in Liaodong, because the soldiers of the army are the best immigrants at any time.
Not only can they escort their own immigrants, they themselves can take root in Liaodong, and they can also consolidate the rule of the Han people over Liaodong.
In order to solve the worries of the soldiers, the young women of foreign nationality captured from southern Liaoning will be first distributed to the soldiers stationed in southern Liaoning.
These foreign women would bear children for the Han soldiers, increase the Han population, which Xu Shiyang valued most, and consolidate his rule over the newly opened territories.
In addition, Xu Shiyang also ordered the Agricultural Bank of Qi Province to start an insurance business.
According to Xu Shiyang's request, the soldiers of the New Army fighting in southern Liaoning will pay 5 percent of their military salaries every month, and the Governor's Office will pay another 5 percent of their military salaries and deposit them in the bank to purchase insurance.
In the unfortunate event that a soldier dies in battle, ABC will cover all the costs (including education and medical expenses) for their descendants or designated heirs to reach adulthood (18 years old).
Then their descendants will also enjoy priority recruitment, joining the army, etc.
If a soldier is wounded and discharged, the bank will pay half of the salary until the soldier dies.
These benefits can play a great role in stabilizing the morale of the military.
Of course, each soldier is paid a 5 percent reduction in his salary, which is also very good for improving and helping the banking business.
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While Xu Shiyang was still arranging various defenses and industries in the new territory, a large fortune ship slowly sailed into Port Arthur.
This is the "Fu'an", the ship of Li Feihu, the new boss of the Li Pirate Group.
After Xu Shiyang got the news, he quickly rushed from Changsheng Island to Lushun to meet with Li Feihu.
He met with Li Feihu at the headquarters of the Qi army in southern Liaoning (the former residence of the Jin State in Lushun, Xi Bo, and Xiao Fonu).
This person looked good today, and before he entered the house, Xu Shiyang heard his hearty laughter, which seemed to have brought good news to Xu Shiyang.
There is good news indeed.
"My boat went around the coast of Fuso for most of the time, and I had a hard fight with the local daimyo in the south of Fuso."
Li Feihu said proudly:
"We grabbed three houses, and some other boats, and captured almost a hundred hahaha...... captives alone."
"How's the trade going?" Xu Shiyang asked.
"Ah, I was about to say that." Li Feihu said with a smile: "The daimyo in the south of Fusang don't trade with me, so I have been going north, using the captured captives as guides, and I will find a way to contact anyone I see, and the hard work will pay off, a month ago, there was a little Daimyo of Fusang who promised to maintain trade with me, ahahaha......." ”
"Really? Who is that daimyo? ”
Although Xu Shiyang had some expectations when he saw this guy's smugness, he still felt very happy when he really heard the news.
After all, at this stage, the best closest source of sulfur is Fuso.
"It's a guy named Oda, who has just won a battle against his neighbor with less, and now is the time to be in high spirits."
Li Feihu smiled and said:
"His territory is relatively small, and his strength is actually not strong, so he plans to cooperate with me, he wants to use business to make some money to raise troops to fight, I have already negotiated with him, in the past three years, we will exchange 300,000 yuan of goods every year, and both of us can make some money."
For Mr. Li, 600,000 guan a year is not a big deal, but he is glad to have reopened a window in the Fuso market.
There are two if there is one, right?
"The surname Oda?" Xu Shiyang asked with a sneer: "Could it be the lord of Owari?" ”
"Huh? Brother Xu knows this person? ”
"Is it really him? Oda Nobunaga? Xu Shiyang said with a smile: "This person is worth investing in, he has some future." ”
Li Feihu put away his smile and asked strangely, "Why did Brother Xu say that?" ”
"It's nothing, it's just that I think that in this situation where everyone around him doesn't dare to trade with you, he dares to risk the world's condemnation, this person is at least commendable in terms of aggressiveness."
"Is that so?"
Li Feihu lowered his head and thought for a while, and finally said:
"It's really interesting, there are really not many people with this kind of knowledge, he can cooperate with us, and there is indeed a possibility of making a scene in a small place like Fusang."
There is a dog P meaning, Xu Shiyang said that it was actually just cheating.
What's really interesting is this world, how could there be such a thing as Oda Nobunaga in the Jurchen era of trouble on the mainland?
This era is too powerful, right?
"Brother Li, I don't care what agreement you have with that Oda, my request is that he give me at least 10,000 catties of sulfur every year."
"Well, it should be no problem, the widow has a lot of sulfur in his hands." Li Feihu nodded: "But Brother Xu, do you plan to take out a part of the money I gave you to buy this batch of sulfur?" ”
"No, you'll pay for the brimstone." Xu Shiyang said: "I'll give you something else to compensate." ”
"What's that?"
"The best glass products." Xu Shiyang said: "He is fighting there, and they can't consume too much of these luxuries, but Brother Li is different, if you take the glaze, you can sell it to Jiangnan, and even Nanyang, Tianzhu, and Pars, and you can earn back several times the profit." ”
Xu Shiyang's glass factory finally produced the first product that can be seen before.
Although it is still far from the quality of modern glass products, it is already acceptable and can be marketed in this era.
These glasses will become the second product that can bring a lot of income to Qi Province after salt.
Xu Shiyang will naturally expand its sales channels as much as possible.