Sun Yuanhua, secretary of the Ministry of War, Yang Sichang, secretary of the Ministry of Households, and Zhang Pu, secretary of the Ministry of Communications, spoke one after another, and the issues of border defense, transportation, and the division of administrative regions were decided one after another, and now the issue of territorial development remained, and this topic was left by Zhu Cijiong to Zhang Cai, the secretary of the Ministry of Commerce.

After everyone touted the name of the new Kyushu, Zhu Cijiong raised his hands, pressed it for a moment, and then said: "Okay, okay, there is one last question, which is the problem of territorial development. “

When Zhang Cai heard this, he hurriedly stood up, respectfully saluted Zhu Cijiong, and then picked up the ash rod, pointed to the map, and said: "With the emperor's permission, Weichen went to several Xibodu Divisions, Weishu and Qianhu in June this year to take a look around and understand the situation. Wechen felt that the strategy of developing the newly occupied territory was quite successful, and the benefits of mineral development alone were unknown. The abundance of minerals in the Siberian Plateau is beyond imagination, with staggering reserves of gold, silver, copper, iron, coal, and oil, and now almost every two thousand households can now find one deposit there, and the total number of deposits has reached a terrifying 500. In particular, the coal mines there are basically open-pit mines, which are extremely convenient for mining, and most of the coal sold in Daming is mined from Siberia. In addition, the development of wood, animal skins, precious medicinal materials, precious ingredients and other industries over there is also quite good. “

When Zhu Cijiong heard this, he nodded with satisfaction and said: "Well, this is all the credit of Chu Yang, take the lead, don't just say good things, make some suggestions." “

When Zhang Cai heard this, he said embarrassedly: "This, the emperor, Weichen thinks that the manpower over there is still not enough, and now many mineral deposits are seriously underexploited, and there is also a shortage of farmland reclamation, if the personnel are sufficient, the income can be at least doubled!" “

Zhu Cijiong didn't expect these questions, he couldn't help but ask curiously: "Oh, there is such a thing, there are five or six thousand men, women and children in a thousand households, and there will be insufficient personnel?" “

This Zhang Cai has learned in detail, he explained: "There are too many things that can make money over there, just raise some deer or even hunt a day, a person will earn more than one or two silver, so heavy physical work like mining basically can't find anyone, they are all the young people of their own guards digging, and the harvest of farming is even more unwatchable, and now Tunwei is terrible, and every family earns dozens of taels of silver a month is considered to be less, basically hundreds of taels, more than a county order!" “

This time it was Zhu Cijiong's turn to be embarrassed, although after he succeeded to the throne, he continued to improve the income of officials, and the income of officials at all levels has increased by at least three or four times, but their own base is too low, and no matter how much they turn over a county order, it will only be dozens of taels a month.

He couldn't help touching his forehead and explained: "Well, this is a problem, the speed of business development in the Ming Dynasty is still a little slow, the tax can't keep up, and the official's income can't go up. As for the Tun Wei, most of their families are fighting for the Ming Dynasty, so it's not too much for them to make more money, right? “

What he said was indeed the truth, the average income of ordinary people in the Ming Dynasty was only about ten taels a month, and hundreds of taels were all rich people, and the Tunwei military household was just a special case.

However, Zhang Cai focused on the sentence "The speed of business development in the Ming Dynasty is still a little slow", he heard this, and immediately said in panic: "Weichen is incompetent, please punish the emperor." “

Zhu Cijiong hurriedly waved his hand and said: "Accept first, you can't be blamed for this, you have only been in office for a short time, and during this time, the Ming Dynasty has been fighting, although the territory is expanding rapidly, the development has been delayed." Didn't I decide to stop and take a break, I just want to develop the newly occupied territory, increase the source of taxes, so that everyone can enjoy the benefits of expanding the territory, tell me, what do you suggest? “

When Zhang Cai heard this, he sighed, and then said solemnly: "Your Majesty, Weichen thinks that in order to develop Siberia and even Nuergan, the Western Regions and other places, it is necessary to have a large-scale population migration, and the surplus labor of the Central Plains and even the south can be transferred over, so that it can truly be fully developed." “

The great migration of the population is a good way, Zhu Cijiong said with great interest: "Tell me, how many people want to be relocated, how to get the people to move there voluntarily?" “

When Zhang Cai heard this, he said with a strange face: "Your Majesty, as long as you have a will, the common people will pass, as for the population, Weichen believes that the Siberian Plateau alone needs at least five million people, and the Siberian Plain is about the same, and Nuergan and the Western Regions have to move at least two million people each!" ”

Forced migration? Zhu Cijiong shook his head and said: "No, no, no, the "Ming Chongzheng Law" that has just been implemented stipulates that ordinary people also have personal freedom, and they cannot go back on their word and change their orders overnight. “

When Zhang Cai heard this, he said embarrassedly: "Your Majesty, most of the people of the Ming Dynasty like to guard one acre and three points of land, live a peaceful life with their wives and children on the hot kang, and let them stay away from their homeland and voluntarily move to the past, which is very difficult." “

Zhu Cijiong heard this, thought for a while, and then said: "This is not very difficult, so let's leave this problem to me to deal with, Chuyang, tomorrow you will issue an order to transfer the Guanning Army, Liaodong Army, Dongjiang Army, and Dingliao Army back to Liaodong, transfer the Tianxiong Army and the Loyal and Brave Army back to Beidaying, let Sun Chuanting lead the Qin Army, the First Army of the Frontier Army and the Second Army of the Border Army to guard Wushan City first, and transfer the Third Army of the Frontier Army to the Yeni River Valley to garrison various fortresses and Tunguska City, The Fourth Army Corps of the Frontier Guards was transferred to the Ob River valley to garrison various fortresses and the city of Rem, and the First Army of the Expeditionary Force and the Second Army of the Expeditionary Force were transferred back to Kandahar for garrison. “

When Sun Yuanhua heard this, he hurriedly stood up and arched his hand: "Weichen obeys the order." “

Zhu Cijiong waved his hand and motioned for him to sit down, and then said to Yang Sichang: "Wen weak, tomorrow you will start to submit the list of officials at all levels in the new Kyushu to the cabinet, and strive to transfer all officials at all levels before November." “

When Yang Sichang heard this, he broke out in a cold sweat, this is another thousand officials, and they will be selected to take office within a month, which is almost life-threatening, but the emperor's dictation has come down, so he has to stand up and firmly arch his hand: "Weichen obeys the order." ”

Zhu Cijiong nodded, waved his hand to signal him to sit down, and then said to Zhang Pu: "Qiandu, you wait and discuss with Meng Hou, tomorrow you will send relevant personnel to the Western Regions and the Siberian Plain to investigate, and make plans for canals and railway lines before the spring of next year." “

When Zhang Pu heard this, he hurriedly stood up and arched his hand and said, "Weichen obeys the order." “

Zhu Cijiong nodded, waved his hand to signal him to sit down, and then said to Zhang Cai: "Shouxian, you go back and write an article, write how to make money in Siberia, the best one is full of gold, and hand it over to me tomorrow." ”

What does this mean, Zhang Cai stood up dizzily and arched his hand: "Weichen obeys the order." “

This Zhu Cijiong didn't explain to him, because he didn't need to explain, he would understand soon.

The next day, the Beijing News devoted a full-page report on how rich Siberia was, how vast its territory was, how rich its land was, and how sparsely populated it was.

On the third day, the "Beijing News" devoted a full page to reporting how easy it is to make money in Siberia, where you can do a job of one or two taels of silver a day, and you can even catch a sable or something on the road, and you can get ten taels of silver casually, and Zhang Cai's article is among them.

On the fourth day, the Beijing News published the "New Kyushu Reclamation Regulations" issued by the Ministry of Households, and the various preferential policies in the regulations were extremely attractive.

For example, ordinary farmers can get a share of arable land equal to the amount of existing arable land after signing up, and they will be exempt from tax for three years.

For another example, ordinary farmers can apply for additional cultivated land, as long as you pay the starting tax, you can apply as much as you want, and it will be half tax for three years!

Finally, there is also a sentence, the number of places is limited, and you must sign up as soon as possible.

Now the whole Ming Dynasty is a sensation again, there are many people who are unwilling to leave their homeland, but there are many who want to make money and want to live a good life.

How to make a fortune if you don't go out and break through, this is the latest popular phrase among the people this year.

Of course, this was also spread by Zhu Cijiong's Jinyi Wei secret agent!