The Northeast, on the administrative map of the Ming Dynasty, has a different meaning. Not only because the vast land here can be used to resettle retired officers and soldiers, but also because millions of landless people in the interior can immigrate here.

But because for the Ming Dynasty, Liaodong and Northeast once meant humiliation, this was the land of the Ming Dynasty, but after the rise of the Jurchen was stolen by the Jurchens, the Jurchens rose here, and from here into the Central Plains, and even grandly called the land of the Ming Dynasty why "the land of Longxing in the Qing Dynasty" called Liaodong and the Nuer Gandu Division what "Manchuria", it seems that it never belonged to the Ming Dynasty, as if it was his Jurchen ancestral industry.

After the restoration of Liaodong, and for this vast land, a group of high-ranking officials who were sober and enthusiastic about state affairs directly asked the court to emigrate to the real side, and the tragic lesson of hundreds of millions of people who died of their butcher's knives after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs made almost everyone remember it vividly, so that they did not dare to take this land lightly.

Immigrated to the real border, turned the border area into the interior, and domesticated the barbarians......

However, the painful memories will always fade away, and people will always talk about "benevolence and righteousness" there again, and begin to feel that the "indoctrination" implemented in the Northeast seems to be contrary to the "royal road", and talk about "benevolent government" to those violent Tartars. This kind of voice first appeared among the people, and then some officials in the DPRK and the central government also spoke out one after another about the northeast's wrongs, accusing some of the northeast's actions of violating the royal road.

Just when people were talking about "repaying grievances with virtue" and saying that they should use "benevolence and righteousness to reform" the birth of Jurchens such as fish skin tartars, news came from the palace that His Majesty did not get angry after reading these folds, but ordered people to throw all the folds into the garbage can. Then he ordered the guards to give the message to those men.

You will say that the saint will be "benevolent", but you don't know that "repay grievances with virtue, how to repay virtue" is also the words of the saint, and you have read the books into the dog's stomach! Since they have such experience as the Sectarian Tartars, they will all be sent to the northeast and southwest to educate the Barbarian ......."

A simple metaphor, hundreds of officials were exiled to the northeast and southwest, and it was from that time that people knew His Majesty's bottom line - benevolent government was given to the people. As for the barbarian Tartars, before they were all sinicized, before they "belonged to Huaxia", Renzheng naturally had nothing to do with them.

Of course, there are also some people who have summed up an experience from the lessons of those people's exile, that is, His Majesty's "favor" to Fang Yizhi, the governor of Northeast China, is incomparable to ordinary ministers, after all, His Majesty personally issued an order to make his grandchildren officials, and told everyone with actions that he supported Fang Yizhi's initiatives in Northeast China.

In the Yamen of the Governor of the Central and Northeast of Shenyang City, Fang Yizhi, who has been sitting in the position of the Governor of the Northeast for more than seven years. He never lived up to the emperor's trust, conscientiously fulfilled his duties, and did his best to turn the Northeast into the interior.

In the past seven years, when the governors of the interior were at a loss for what to do when they were adapting to the changes after the Xingqian period and were at a loss, he took the lead in setting up a patrol and arrest bureau in Tianjin, and then opened a patrol and arrest school, trained a large number of inspectors, and implemented the patrol inspection system to all parts of the northeast.

For the Ming Dynasty, the Northeast with a small population and a special situation is like a test field, and the rectification of the officials after the Xingqian is to carry out experiments here, because the Northeast is a remote area, in order to ensure that the officials do not become angry and then fish the people, in addition to the "charcoal supplement", the outside world is called "charcoal supplement" with "raising incorruptible silver", after all, this helps to maintain the integrity of officials to a certain extent. Later, he put forward the slogan of opening up the wisdom of officials, opened the Northeast School of Law and Politics, and hired professors to teach various legal knowledge to officials. The special form of "raising honest silver" was first implemented in the northeast and then in remote areas such as Pingnan, Nantianmen, Yunnan, Guangxi, and Guizhou, and "raising honest silver" ensured the quality of officials in remote areas and made a number of outstanding officials willing to take up posts in remote areas. Even after the implementation of the "maintenance of incorruptible silver" throughout the country, the "maintenance of incorruptible silver" in remote areas is much higher than that of the inland provinces. Of course, in the official mouth, the official name of "Yanglian Yin" is "local allowance", and it is divided into several according to different regions.

In the northeast, as a test field for the rule of officials, while summarizing the gains and losses of previous dynasties and Zhu Mingzhong's personal insights and experience, the reform experiment of government governance was carried out. As the governor of Northeast China, Fang Yizhi was not only a strong advocate of the introduction of immigrants, but also a supporter of industry and commerce.

As early as the first year of Xingqian, the General Administration of Technology was set up in Shenyang and a series of enterprises were founded. Although the Northeast is subject to the weather, the long winter restricts the promotion of hydraulic machinery, but he still tries his best to promote the development of industrial and commercial industry, after the application of the steam engine, the Northeast industry that solves the power source has been rapidly developed. Not only textile mills and other enterprises appeared, but also machine manufacturing companies used to make steam engines and other equipment, and coal mining companies, iron ore companies, water supply companies and other enterprises were established many years ago.

After the emergence of railways in the mainland, Fang Yizhi immediately set up a railway bureau, and recruited chief engineers from the mainland to personally supervise the construction of the railway from Shenyang to Tianjin, and planned the railway network in the northeast.

In this way, in the past few years, as a border area, the Northeast has become a model province of the Ming Dynasty, and the Northeast Governor Fang Yizhi himself is even known as the "first governor of the world", because the Northeast has Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Heishui four provinces, although the population is only more than two million, but when it comes to the vast area of governance, it can be called the first in the world, and it is naturally highly valued by His Majesty. However, all of these are not Fang Yizhi's most outstanding achievements. He devoted all his attention to resettlement in the Northeast.

Fang Yizhi, who has experienced the changes in Jiashen, has a very deep understanding of the importance of immigration, and as the governor of the Northeast, his understanding of the temperament of the barbarian Tartars is not comparable to that of his colleagues in the mainland. He has gained a deeper understanding from his years of administration that immigration to the real border is not only the only choice to stabilize the Northeast, but also the only option to turn the Northeast into the interior.

It is precisely because of this that in the past seven years, Fang Yizhi has been doing everything possible to recruit immigrants, and while introducing immigrants, the "care" of the local people, especially the Heishui Governor's Mansion and the Heilongjiang Jurchens, is also related to the stability of the Northeast. Three years ago, the words "born Jurchen united rebellion and were exterminated" were even more common. And on the other hand. He appeased the begotten Jurchens who had truly surrendered, recruited them out of the mountains and forests, placed them in forest farms and other places, and made them naturalize as people. In the past few years, 50,000 Jurchens have been recruited as civilians, abandoning their primitive lives, either logging in forest farms or working on whaling ships.

Although the birth of the Jurchen began to move towards civilization, but in this regard, Fang Yizhi, as the governor of the Northeast, was still not very satisfied, and he had a further goal for immigration.

"North of the Wei River!"

Pointing to the area north of the Wei River on the map of Shaanxi, Fang Yizhi's eyes looked a little fanatical.

"Yan'an Mansion, Qingyang Mansion......"

Pointing to the names of places on the map, Fang Yizhi shook his head and said to Fang Mao.

"Dunsi, the people in these places will move to the northeast in the next few years, and the four eastern provinces must be prepared to resettle 2 million immigrants!"

2 million immigrants!

After hearing this sentence from the mouth of the governor, Fang Zhimao said in surprise.

"2 million immigrants! This, isn't this to move Shaanxi into the air? ”

The reason why Fang Jimao was so surprised was because as far as he knew, the population of Shaanxi was only three million at most, decades of war, coupled with the fact that in the past few years, the Qing captives had killed all the people in Shaanxi and kidnapped their women as maids, and now there are only three million people in Shaanxi at most, and after the relocation of two million, how many people are left in Shaanxi?

"3,236,500! This is the current population of Shaanxi. ”

Looking at Fang Yimao, a junior of the same sect, Fang Yizhi said a number, and then continued.

"The reason why 6 percent of the people want to move out, especially the people in northern Shaanxi, is because the land there has been barren for thousands of years, even if the wind and rain are smooth, the income of one mu is only one or two buckets, the reason why the people of Shaanxi took risks back then, in addition to natural disasters, the land output is meager, I am afraid it is also one of the reasons."

Then Fang Yizhi said again.

In addition to the natural disasters that lasted for many years, the most impressive thing for the official is that I am afraid that the land in Guanzhong is poor, far beyond the imagination of the people, in the Qin and Han dynasties, Guanzhong was rich and difficult to reach, even in the Tang Dynasty, Guanzhong was still rich, but the land was increasingly barren in the millennium, even if the people worked hard to accumulate fertilizer, it was not enough to meet the production, and its land production was also decreasing, the same piece of land, In the Qin and Han dynasties, one mu can produce up to one stone, but now there are only two or three buckets, and even only one or two buckets, even if the wind and rain are smooth, its output is still like a few decades ago, and has not increased. Tomorrow will be the same. This is always the case all year round. The life of the people guarding those barren lands is really miserable. If there is another natural disaster, that kind of place is absolutely unsuitable for the people to live, and I think this kind of situation is not limited to the one I visited back then. This is the case for most of the people in Shaanxi, so His Majesty intends to solve the problem fundamentally - to move the people of Shaanxi! Only by moving them from there to the Northeast can we radically change their lives and give them a good life. ”

Fang Yizhi didn't know that this kind of "poverty alleviation" measure of "relocation" was Zhu Mingzhong's reference to the experience of later generations, but unlike later generations who moved people out of the mountains that were not suitable for survival, this era benefited from the vastness of the land, so he could use more radical immigration to move the people in the entire region to areas with more fertile land.

"Long-term cultivation and poor land, this is the eternal truth, even in the south of the Yangtze River, during the Jiajing period, one acre can still harvest a stone, to the present, one acre is only five or six buckets, is it necessary to move the people of Jiangnan to other places?"

Looking at the Governor, Fang Zhumao's tone became a little excited,

"It's okay to move people out of some places, and it's okay to move out some people, but wouldn't it be empty of the people to move the people out of the country like this? Then Yan'an to the north is Mongolian, this Han people vacate this place, it will inevitably make Mengtar go south, and at that time, won't this Shaanxi become another northeast? ”

For the 23-year-old Fang Zhimao, if it weren't for the involvement of his fifth brother Fang Zhangyue Ding You Jiangnan Kechang case, he would not have been exiled to Ningguta, and of course he would not have entered the officialdom under the care of Fang Yizhi, an elder of the same sect, as he is now. However, the other party is grateful to Yizhi, but it does not mean that he is a submissive person, in many cases, he has his own opinions, which is one of the reasons why Fang Yizhi uses it very much.

In the opinion of the following officials, if you want to relocate the people of Shaanxi and make them change their poor life, you may wish to follow the regulations on migration made by Hongwu of the National Dynasty, according to "a family of four to leave one; Two for a family of six; The proportion of the family of eight to stay in three" is to migrate, so that the north of the Wei River will not be empty, and the ......time will be taken by the Mongolian Tartars."

"Tartar ......"

With a cold smile, Fang Yizhi looked at Fang Jimao and said.

"They don't have the courage yet, besides, moving the people there is not to empty all the localities, in this regard, Your Majesty has already made a plan a few years ago, this expedition to the west, there are many people who have made military merits, so Your Majesty intends to reward meritorious officers and soldiers with the land of Shaanxi, so let's say so......"

Pointing to the map on the wall, Fang Yizhi said.

"2 million people will be relocated from Shaanxi, which is about 400,000-500,000 households in the northeast, and when the time comes, there will be 100,000 households in each of the four provinces, so that the population of the four provinces can be as much as 6 million, and in another ten years, the population of the four eastern provinces will be no less than 10 million. With these 100,000 military households in Shaanxi, no one can take it away, so how can the Tartars get in? ”

Placing 100,000 soldiers in the township, Fang Jimao naturally knows very well the role of those soldiers, and it is precisely because of those retired soldiers in the township that the Northeast is so calm, and now there is no difference between the Northeast and the inland provinces except for the small number of people in the land, but he has no other concerns.

"However, even if the land there is barren, with no more than two or three dougs per mu, and the land is distributed to meritorious officers and soldiers, I am afraid that their lives will also be relatively difficult, so will not they complain?"

"Well...... this"

Fang Yizhi pondered for a moment, and then said.

"Come to think of it, Your Majesty must have a good explanation."