The people's favorite thing is the yellow earth, and nothing else can tempt them.

Let alone.

The people who followed Zhang Xuan to the outside were all landless refugees.

What they need most now is to have their own land and a home to settle down in.

Otherwise, they wouldn't have followed Zhang Xuan to travel thousands of miles to the outside of the Saiwai, not because they couldn't survive and wanted to have something to eat.

Now that they can have their own land, it is equivalent to giving them the opportunity to settle down and start a business, have children, and continue to be people.

As soon as they heard that the county magistrate was going to give them the land here and re-register them, they also knew that they were going to settle here again, and it was naturally very positive to build the buildings in the city.

Of course, it was not only these landless refugees who followed Zhang Xuan to Yulin City, but also some merchants with gentry backgrounds.

Because Zhu Houzhao decreed that Yulin was in need of revitalization of the new city outside the Saiwai, he abolished the heavy tax paid by merchants when they went out to trade in the border towns in the interior, and only allowed the household department to collect a low stamp duty to encourage merchants to come to the Saiwai Tuntian to do business.

As a result, some far-sighted businessmen followed Zhang Xuan to Yulin regardless of the risks outside.

Although the main reason for the internal relocation of merchants was the reform of the Kaizhong Law, it was not unrelated to the ruthless exploitation of the government and army in the border towns.

Prior to this, in order to control the economy of the border towns and prevent merchants from becoming enemies, the imperial court imposed various harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes in the border towns to supplement military needs, so that many merchants would rather smuggle than go through the legal trade channels stipulated by the government.

After all, the latter would become less profitable, and the government-controlled trade would become more and more cold, and smuggling would become more rampant, making it even more difficult for the imperial court to exercise economic control over the Mongols.

Now, Zhu Houzhao aimed to adopt a flat tax rate and low tax collection in Yulin City, which naturally gave the merchants a lucrative opportunity, and Zhu Houzhao asked Zhang Xuan to tell these merchants that the grain and minerals developed by these merchants in Yulin would be directly purchased by the Royal Industrial Company and Huangzhuang, so as to prevent the merchants from being exploited by the government when they were transported back to Guannai.

In this way, it also makes some merchants more willing to go out of the customs to develop the land outside the customs, for the risk of being able to face the Tartar raids at any time, they are naturally not afraid, as long as there are high profits, even if they risk their lives, the merchants who are heavy on profits dare to do it, even when the two countries are at war, they still dare to export commerce to the enemy country, not to mention these.

Of course, those who were willing to follow Zhang Xuan to develop Yulin City outside the Saiwai were not only these businessmen who were encouraged by Zhu Houzhao's low tax policy, but also businessmen with bureaucratic capital backgrounds who came to Saiwai to collect grain in advance because they learned that the imperial court was going to restore the system of opening the middle school to collect grain for profit, so as to seek salt profits in the future.

Among them, Jiao Fang, the first assistant of the cabinet, and Liu Jin, the chief supervisor of the ceremonies, followed them to Yulin City, preparing to seize the land outside the Saiwai.

Zhu Houzhao also knew through various intelligence channels that these officials, who could grasp the policy trends of the imperial court in advance, would let their families go to Saiwai to grab land first.

But he didn't stop it, he believed that the families behind these court officials would definitely support powerful armaments to destroy the Tartars after seizing the land outside the Saiwai, and even straighten out the salt administration for themselves, because their purpose in the land outside the Saiwai was not to care about the grain outside the Saiwai, but to care about the salt in exchange for the grain.

In addition to the landless refugees and merchants, Zhang Xuan also asked for a group of Confucian scholars from Dongchang and the Three Law Divisions.

These people are either implicated in the case of rebellion against the party and are not guilty of death, or have not yet been executed by the imperial court, or have committed other wrongs;

Especially after the implementation of the examination law, because according to the local officials of the procuratorial department and the officials of the three central law departments desperately improve the efficiency of handling criminal and civil cases, many Confucian scholars were arrested and put in prison for adultery, tax evasion, incest and the like, most of them are life style problems, that is, the problems that literati usually commit.

However, Zhang Xuan did not expect that he wanted the imperial court to give some Confucian scholars who had committed crimes to go to the border towns to educate the herdsmen outside the Saiwai and to run schools to achieve the purpose of making the best use of the people, but he quickly got Zhu Houzhao's approval, and let the cabinet vote to give these Confucian scholars who were infected with bad habits and did not know the teachings of the saints a chance to go to the countryside to reform!

Therefore, there are Confucian scholars, merchants and landless people in Yulin City now.

In order to prevent these people from forming a township party that was not conducive to the rule of his own county, Zhang Xuan disrupted and rearranged these people, and there were both poor and landless displaced people in each square, as well as rich and noble businessmen such as official gentry and merchants.

Then, Zhang Xuan asked each workshop to nominate its own leader.

Even if the scholars are no longer ashamed, they are still admired by the people in the Ming Dynasty, which has a high illiteracy rate, so basically the heads of the workshops are basically still these Confucian scholars.

After Zhu Houzhao learned of this phenomenon, he did not reject this phenomenon, after all, intellectuals are always easy to become leaders, and they are also suitable to become leaders, and it is impossible for Zhu Houzhao to organize the phenomenon of them becoming exploiters again outside the Saiwai, he only requires that the people who rule that land are people of the Ming Dynasty.

And the people who live in that land are also people of the Ming Dynasty, and they must have basic rights, so that these people can know that it is better to be the people of the Ming Dynasty than the people of other countries.

Once the Ming Dynasty falls into a crisis one day, they will feel the great pain caused by the loss of the country.

At the same time as the construction of the buildings in Yulin City, Zhang Xuan began to take his adjutant, staff, and officials, as well as the heads of various workshops and households, to divide the cultivated land outside Yulin City.

Because the first division of the Guards was camped nearby, and the cavalry of the Guards had already been stationed a hundred miles away, Zhang Xuan and the others were not worried that when a Tartar suddenly appeared, they would not be able to return to the city, so they only did the work of dividing the fields with peace of mind.

According to the Cabinet and the Ministry of Households, with reference to factors such as Yulin's geographical advantages in the past and the minimum subsistence materials required by each people, the preliminary rules for the division of land for Yulin City were 40 mu of land for each adult man and woman, and 10 mu of Yongye land.

The former can be planted for 50 years and then returned to the government, which will then redivide it or let you continue to plant.

The latter, on the other hand, is their own private property, which can be passed on to their children and grandchildren, or sold.

Yulin City was originally the land of the Ming Dynasty before orthodoxy, and it was the land of the military camp of the guard, but now because of the internal relocation of the military tun, these places have become ownerless fields, and it is easy to divide the fields, and there is no need to worry about affecting the interests of the military landlords in the border towns.

However, because the Yulin area used to be the land of the Ming Wei Army, there were a lot of fertile fields, even after thousands of soldiers were divided, there were still tens of thousands of acres of fields and a large number of pastures and woodlands.

Zhang Xuan assigned all these lands to the government, that is, the imperial court, but encouraged the people to contract, whether it was to contract these lands for cultivation and grain storage or mining, even if it was only for forest land hunting and logging, except for the difference in contract prices, Zhang Zhang, the county magistrate, would not strictly restrict the business activities of contractors on these lands.

As a result, the merchants who followed Zhang Xuan to Yulin contracted the fields and mines that the government was not able to develop now, making the industries of Yulin City diversified from the beginning.

Of course, the people of the Royal Industries Company also came to contract a mine, and contracted one of the largest iron ore mines here, in order to provide more iron ore raw materials for the increasing iron ore demand of the Ming Dynasty.

The first social science school in Yulin City also rose up in Xinjiang.

However, as a graduate of Beijing Normal University, Zhang Xuan changed the enlightenment education method of social science by only reading the Three Character Classic, introduced simple arithmetic and general knowledge classes, and invited special people to teach them.

The reason is that the current social studies in Yulin are oriented to the children of the common people, and most of these sons of the common people in the future will be difficult to be admitted to the Juren Jinshi, and when they are taught the way of saints, they should also be given the way to make a living, even if they are selected in the future, it will be beneficial to themselves.

Because Yulin City is a newly built city, and it is outside the Saiwai, and Zhang Xuan is a student of Beijing Normal University personally trained by Zhu Houzhao, he naturally does whatever he wants.

Lu Zimin didn't expect him to take root outside this plug, he was just because the whole family was very hungry and had no food to eat, and he had to accept a county magistrate named Zhang Xuan to help him work so that the whole family could have enough to eat.

But he didn't expect that because of this, he followed the county magistrate to Saiwai, and not only did the whole family survive, but also got a share of the land.

As Lu Zimin, who has been a farmer for generations, he has no concept of other things, but he knows the preciousness of land, and he also knows that in his hometown Huaiyang, an acre of land is worth ten taels of silver.

And he now has 100 acres of land, which is equivalent to the court giving him nearly dozens of taels of silver, so he is now very grateful to the county commander Zhang Xuan and the imperial court, and he will willingly take the initiative to kneel and kowtow when he sees Zhang Zhang.

Because Zhang Xuan received the new-style education of Beijing Normal University, he couldn't stand being bowed by the people of the Ming Dynasty as bodhisattvas every day, so he forcibly ordered the people of Yulin not to kneel and bow except for being summoned to the public court and the big ceremony, on the grounds that the cloth in the border town is expensive, so as not to dirty the clothes, and it is easy to damage the clothes quickly by washing them often.

And Zhang Xuan also gained a reputation for loving the people and was rewarded by the imperial court, so that officials in other places followed suit to show that he also loved the people.

In order to plant grain as soon as possible, like many people, he even ignored the ban that Zhang Zhang, the magistrate of Yulin County, required the people to return to the city in order to prevent the night attack of the Tartars, and sometimes went out of the city quietly in the middle of the night or stayed outside the city overnight, in order to pull out the grass in the field one day earlier and plant their crops as soon as possible.

Even if they were flogged for violating the ban, they were willing.

The diligence of the people of the Ming Dynasty is astonishing, and in order to allow themselves to have their own food as soon as possible, the barren fields around Yulin City have been recultivated at an alarming speed.

The weeds seemed to be pulled out and cleaned overnight, and even countless sheep intestine paths were stepped on, laying the foundation for the future construction of official roads.

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