Volume 8 Chapter 237 A Great Migration

Zhang Bin put on a posture of desperate to kill chickens and monkeys, and more than ten of the most famous princes of the royal family finally succumbed, they didn't want to become Zhang Bin's tools, let alone suffer from the torture of a thousand knives.

As soon as the more than ten most famous princes of the royal family gave in, Zhang Bin asked each of them to sign a notice, calling on all the royal family relatives to respond to the call of the imperial court, exchange land, and go to Dongying.

After all, Zhang Bin didn't want their lives, but just their land, and Zhang Bin didn't confiscate all their land, but just confiscated their land through various means.

Zhang Bin did not force them to a dead end, so these people did not have the courage to break the cauldron and fight to the death, and in the end, they all reluctantly accepted Zhang Bin's "kindness" and agreed to exchange their fiefdom to Dongying.

In the Ming Dynasty, the total number of real princes was sixty-three, among the real princes, sixteen princes were abolished and removed from the fief, and fourteen princes were removed from the fief because of the heirs, and in the Chongzhen Dynasty, there were thirty-three princes in total, and the county kings and generals below them were too many to count.

According to the size of each prince's lineage, Zhang Bin exchanged the 33 feudal states of the 66 feudal states in Dongying with their fiefdoms, which were relatively similar to their fiefdoms, and the remaining 33 feudal states were directly under the jurisdiction of the imperial court.

As soon as these more than 100,000 royal family members and their families, relatives, retinues, and guards moved to Dongying, there was also a problem of insufficient land in Dongying, because the grain production was not high at this time, and it was not easy for Dongying's land to feed more than 20 million people.

What to do?

Shall they be allowed to starve to death?

Of course not, people will be desperate when they are hungry to a certain extent, such as the hunger uprising in the five northwest provinces, which is caused by hunger to a certain extent, Zhang Bin doesn't want to suppress the Dongying rebels again, he is ready to make a big migration.

This great migration is multifaceted, the royal family is moving to Dongying, but the civilians of Dongying are moving out, and some civilians in the five northwestern provinces are also moving out, Zhang Bin is ready to move them to Liaodong, Fuguang and other areas that are not seriously affected or not affected.

For example, Qiongzhou Mansion, the southernmost part of Guangdong, has basically not been affected by the disaster, and there is quite a lot of land, and there is no problem in planting three crops a year, but because the weather is hot and the transportation is inconvenient, it has not been developed much, and almost ninety percent of the land is wasteland that has never been cultivated, and it is not a problem to plug four or five million people in the past.

There is also Dongfan, the population is actually not very large at this time, less than two million in total, and it is not a problem to stuff two or three million in the past.

Not to mention Liaodong, which originally had a population of more than 3 million, after more than 20 years of war, had less than one million left, and two or three million people could only reach the pre-war level in the past, and Liaodong's vast territory had to be stuffed with at least four or five million people in order to truly achieve comprehensive development.

Such a large-scale population migration naturally cannot be carried out nonsense, especially when it comes to the rebels who have just been suppressed and the newly conquered Dongying, if they move indiscriminately, it will inevitably bury hidden dangers, and even cause chaos.

The name of this yamen is relatively long, and the full name is Fuguang, the five northwestern provinces, and the governor of Liaodong and Dongying!

Good guys, this is probably the governor with the most jurisdictions in the history of the Ming Dynasty, and all of these places add up to more than half of the territory of the Ming Dynasty!

On this day, the governor's yamen was established, and all the subordinate officials were summoned to a large hall in the front hall of the Wenhua Palace, and these officials were also quite complex:

There is the boss of Yongle Honor, the British Gongzhang Zhiji and several actual governors of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies;

There are the boss of Hongwu Xungui, Xu Wenjue, the Duke of Wei, and several actual governors of the Southern Capital and the Five Military Governors;

There is a military department Shangshu, Liaoyang Hou Lu Xiangsheng;

There are cabinet scholars, Haizhou Hou Sun Chuanting;

There are the chief soldiers of the Fujian Naval Division, Jinjiang Hou Yu Chenglong;

There is the newly promoted household servant Li Yan;

There is the new Ning Yuan Bozu's birthday;

There is the newly promoted governor of Dongying, Kong Zhenyun;

There are even new commanders Liu Guoneng and Li Wanqing!

After these people came in, they were all full of bewilderment, because before they entered the door, they were thundered by the vertical plaques hanging on both sides of the gate.

After entering the hall, the layout inside made them even more dumbfounded, people who have been to Dongfan still know, the layout is a bit similar to the new lecture hall of the Dongfan Army Academy and the Naval Academy, people who have not been to Dongfan will be inexplicable, there is a singing stage in front, and below is a row of tables and chairs, this is a few meanings, please come to see the play?

Then the Wenchen military generals who arrived one after another were even more scorched on the outside, and such a large number of officials gathered together, I am afraid that it would only appear in the early dynasties.

After all the civil and military generals arrived and sat down according to the name tags on the table, a loud chant sounded outside: "The Governor Wei Guogong has arrived." ”

This Wei Guogong is much bigger than the average Guogong, so whether it is Guogong or not, all the people present got up to greet him, but after Wei Guogong Zhang Bin walked in, his face was full of embarrassment, he walked to the podium in front of him so quickly, and stood there without speaking, as if he was waiting for someone.

Everyone is so strange, who are you waiting for, aren't all the seats in here full?

At this moment, another chant sounded outside: "The emperor has arrived!" ”

Well, it turned out that the emperor came, and everyone hurriedly bowed their hands and said in unison: "Long live my emperor, long live, long live, long live." ”

Zhu Cihong smiled under the guards of Wang Chengen and Qi Panzong, walked to the front desk, and sat on the dragon chair brought up by several eunuchs, and then raised his hand and said: "All the ministers are exempt, give me a seat, you don't have to be restrained, I just came to take a look." ”

It turned out that Zhu Cihong heard that Zhang Bin was going to hold such a special meeting, and he felt very curious, so he insisted on following to take a look.

Everyone thanked him and sat down, and Zhang Bin said aloud to everyone: "Everyone, this time I called everyone here, mainly to discuss with you the migration of the five northwest provinces and the civilians of Dongying, everyone knows that the five northwest provinces continue to have natural disasters, and the food produced cannot feed so many civilians at all, and most of the cultivated land in Dongying is about to be replaced by the fiefdom of the royal family, and the grain produced cannot support so many civilians, so after obtaining the consent of the emperor, this duke is ready to make a big move, and some civilians from the five northwestern provinces and Dongying will be relocated to Liaodong. Fuguang and other places. ”

It turned out that this was the case, and the civil and military officials sitting there finally understood that this was a large-scale migration involving tens of millions of people, so it was no wonder that so many and such a large number of officials had to be summoned.