Chapter 456: Economy 3
In fact, it is not only Jiexiu, Penglai, and Dengzhou, but also the whole country, from north to south, from west to east, including the entire Yanyun, Central Plains, Xixia, Guanshan, Hanzhong, Sichuan, Shu, and Jiangnan, is full of busy farming scenes!
Tens of millions of people in the country are busy with farming!
This is a sea change from a year ago!
A year ago, in Jiangnan, Zhao Gou's rampage had just ended, and Yanyun and the Central Plains were in full swing! In just one year, peace was restored to the world, and the people began to spend their minds on production!
This has also changed dramatically from the Northern Song Dynasty!
Especially in the last years of the Northern Song Dynasty, Zhao Ji set up Huashigang, the world was in chaos, there were peasant uprisings everywhere, Song Jiang, Fang La and the like rose up, and the people were not happy! But now, there is hardly any sign of a peasant uprising in the whole country! In Guanshan, Hanzhong, Sichuan and Shu, the rent reduction order is implemented here, and the landlord's rent cannot exceed 30%, which is far lower than in the past, and the people can live with peace of mind! In Gangnam, many harsh taxes have been abolished! In Guanshan, Northwest China, and Western Xia, millions of young people formed production and construction corps to build these places! In Yanyun and all parts of the Central Plains, the landlord class almost completely disappeared, and the common people were given their own land, and they were all working for their future.
There has been an unprecedented Qingming government on the land of China, with an unprecedented low tax rate.
Tens of millions of people work at sunrise and return at sunset, day after day, their hearts are full of joy and excitement!
They are all looking forward to a good harvest!
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In the Central Plains of Henan, Lianghuai area, the development here is still slow!
The main reason is that it is sparsely populated!
Especially in Henan, the flooding of the Yellow River is very serious, and it has been flooding almost every year over the years, and neither the Jurchens nor the Jiangnan government at that time will govern it! Even now, the imperial court does not have the extra manpower and financial resources to control the flooding of the Yellow River!
However, there is a lot of land in Henan, and the people of Henan have fled the Yellow Flood area to cultivate in other places.
Kaifeng Mansion is also extremely dilapidated at the moment, and many of the houses in it are crumbling, and they can't live at all!
At this moment, ten miles south of Kaifeng Mansion, there is a small town here, and the current Yamen of Henan Xuanfu is here!
Qin Hui's family and Henan provincial officials are here!
Further south from here is a huge barracks, with rows of neat and simple houses, where 20,000 soldiers of the Southern Military District lived!
The 20,000 soldiers also train in the morning and plough in the afternoon! The population of Henan is so small that now the military has to be involved in construction.
To the south of the barracks are dozens of villages and towns, which are also newly built, and the villagers are made up of the original rebel soldiers! Those dozens of villages and towns have a total population of more than 200,000!
It can be said that this area south of Kaifeng is now the most populous area in the entire Henan! In other places, it is often difficult to see villages and populations for dozens of miles, only corpses and weeds!
When it was just dawn, Qin Hui had already woken up.
He put on his official clothes and went outside.
At this time, there was a shout of "one, two, one" in the distance, and Qin Hui's heart moved, and he walked towards the outside of the town.
Coming to the outside of the town, Qin Hui saw that the army was running all the time and was about to pass by.
"I am Qin Hui, the envoy of Henan Xuanfu, which general is opposite?" Qin Hui said loudly.
"It turned out to be Lord Qin, under Liu Ze!" A middle-aged man appeared on the opposite side and laughed.
"General Liu, it turned out that you personally led the soldiers out for training! Great, I'm just about to talk to you about something! Qin Hui said with a smile.
He knew that this Liu Ze was originally the leader of the Hebei Righteous Army, and later captured Yan Zongwang alive during the Central Plains War, when Zhao Chen asked Liu Ze what reward he wanted, Liu Ze only said that he wanted to join the regular army, so Zhao Chen asked him to follow Zhao Zhe into the Jingyuan Army! Later, the Jingyuan Army went south and established the Southern Military Region, Liu Ze was also a member of the Southern Military Region, and now Liu Ze is the commander of the 20,000 garrisons in Henan!
"I don't know what it is?" Liu Ze ran over and asked.
"Come on, let's go to the town! The stakes are high, and we need to discuss it carefully. Qin Hui said.
Liu Ze was a little surprised, and at that moment he asked the other generals to continue to run with the soldiers, and he followed Qin Hui into the town.
This town is also very simple, and the Xuanfu Yamen is just a simple courtyard, Qin Hui asked people to prepare breakfast, and the two talked while eating.
"General Liu, there are 20,000 soldiers in your army, and many of them have reached the age of marriage now, right?" Qin Hui said.
"Ahh Liu Ze was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect Qin Hui to say such a thing, he nodded.
"The world has been in turmoil for six years, and many men in Henan have joined the army, with heavy casualties! Now the number of women in the whole of Henan far exceeds that of men! These women are also of marriage age! I think we can organize these women to marry into your army! Qin Hui said.
"This ......" Liu Ze stayed there, he had never thought about this question.
The ancient military system was a lifelong system, once you joined the army, if it was not for special circumstances, you would have to stay in the barracks for the rest of your life! In ancient times, it was normal for a soldier to marry a wife!
Although Zhao Chen once said that soldiers are allowed to retire when necessary, there has been no specific policy issued until now, and for the soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty, they still think that joining the army is a lifelong thing.
"Lord Liu, you can't let the soldiers grow old alone for a lifetime, right?" Qin Hui said.
Liu Ze thought for a long time and said, "Lord Qin's idea is good!" It's just that this matter still needs to be discussed by the rest of the generals in the army! ”
"I'm sure the other generals won't refuse!" Qin Hui laughed.
"When the other generals agree, I'll come to see Lord Qin again." Liu Zedao.
"I think we should talk about how to do this now!" Qin Hui is the way.
"Good!" Liu Ze thought about it and nodded.
For the rest of the morning, the two of them were discussing the matter. In the afternoon, Liu Ze left in a hurry, and he had to discuss with the other generals in the army.
Qin Hui looked at Liu Ze's back, and a smile appeared on his face.
Now the population of Henan is too small, and there is an urgent need to increase the population! If these 20,000 soldiers marry a local woman, they will naturally settle here, and in this way, the population of Henan will increase by 20,000! When they get married and have children, the population will increase again!
"After the war, there are many boys and girls, so it's nothing to let each of these soldiers marry a few more women!" Qin Hui said again.
"Humph! What do you worry about every day? At this time, a cold snort came from behind Qin Hui, and a middle-aged woman with a delicate face stood behind Qin Hui.
This middle-aged woman is Qin Hui's wife, Wang! Qin Hui is very afraid of guilt all his life! Historically, it was the instigation of the Wang family that Qin Hui really had the heart to kill Yue Fei.
"Madam, I'm worried about national affairs!" Qin Hui said.
"This Kaifeng area is very barren, it's too boring to stay here, I think we might as well return to Jiangnan! You go and beg Your Majesty to give you an official position in Jiangnan. Wang said.
"Now that there is Li Gang in Jiangnan, I can only be someone else's deputy when I go there, and it will be difficult to get ahead in my life! Stay here, as long as Henan is restored to prosperity, it will definitely be valued by His Majesty, and he will continue to be in and out of the future in the future! Qin Hui said.
"Henan is so desolate, how can it restore prosperity?" Wang's Road.
"I'm going to let Xi'er go to Jiangnan!" Qin Hui thought for a moment and said.
"What are you going to do in Gangnam?" Wang's Road.
"Go to Gangnam to recruit the population! Let Xi'er tell the people of Jiangnan that as long as they are willing to come to Henan, each family can get at least ten acres of fertile land! If the family has a large population, you can get 20 acres or 30 acres of fertile land! Many of the people in Jiangnan are tenant farmers and have no land of their own, and they will inevitably be moved when they hear the news, and then they will go north! We must not only recruit people from Jiangnan, but also from Hanzhong and Sichuan! In addition, I heard that Your Majesty is going to gather young people to form a production and construction corps in Jiangnan again, and I would like to ask Your Majesty to send some young people to Henan! When the population increases, it will naturally flourish! Qin Hui said.
"I think you're thankless! Those untouchables are nostalgic for their homeland and don't want to leave their homeland at all! Wang said.
"There are interests, and they will come naturally! It is impossible for them to have their own land in Jiangnan for a lifetime, and when they come to Henan, they immediately have so much land, I don't believe they are not impressed! Qin Hui said.
"You are not Your Majesty's cronies, no matter how good you are, Your Majesty will not reuse you." Wang said again.
"Not necessarily! I, Qin Hui, am the best at observing others in my life, and Your Majesty is very different from King Kang! Your Majesty wants to revive the Great Song Dynasty, and what you value is people who can do practical things and have the ability! My Qin Hui's ability is by no means below others! I am the best man at that time, and I am destined to be in charge of the power of the world in my life! Now in Henan, I'm just hibernating! I'm going to use this time to do a lot of things that will please Your Majesty! Your Majesty has set up courts and patrol houses in Yanyun, Hebei, Hedong, and Shandong, and I have also ordered people to set up courts and patrol houses in various parts of Henan, and everything follows Your Majesty to please Your Majesty! The reason why the place is being developed now is also to please His Majesty! Qin Hui said with a smile.
"Well, I wish we would get out of this desolate place soon!" Wang didn't like it in his heart and said.
"Madam, Da Song is about to flourish! This time it's the real ZTE, the unprecedented ZTE! Think about it, Yanyun, Central Plains, Sichuan and Shu, everyone has land at home, everyone will be able to eat in the future, and everyone will have surplus wealth, what kind of scene is this? Never before! Moreover, His Majesty has already decreed that the land in Yanyun and the Central Plains is not allowed to be resold! In this way, there will be no land annexation! In the past, at the end of the dynasties, the land annexation was serious, and the people could not survive and had to rebel, but now the land is not allowed to be resold, everyone has land, everyone has food, and naturally there will be no rebellion! Qin Hui laughed.
He didn't care about Wang's mood at all, he only felt that the current situation in the world was extremely interesting, and in addition to wanting to grasp power, he really wanted to participate in the construction of the new era.
"Land is not allowed to be resold, so there will be no rich people in the world?" Wang Shi heard the news for the first time and said in surprise.
"It's not that there are no rich people, and if you have money, you can do business! Your Majesty has canceled countless tax cards in various places, this is to encourage people in the world to do business! Moreover, Your Majesty has already said that north of Yanyun, in the former Liao Kingdom, Zhongjing, Shangjing, Tokyo, and the area of Liaodong, land is allowed to be resold, and rich people can build large estates there and grow countless crops! Yanyun and Zhongyuan do not allow land to be resold, just for the stability of the world! Qin Hui said.
In the early morning of the second day, Qin Hui first sent his son Qin Xi back to Jiangnan, and asked Qin Xi to gather tenant farmers in Jiangnan to go north! In the afternoon, Liu Ze took the generals to the town, and Qin Hui discussed with the generals about the marriage of the soldiers.
"The king values the economy, and Kaifeng is the central place, extending in all directions, but unfortunately it is broken! I'm going to send people to various places to collect ways to develop the economy, and then I'm going to do research! Late that night, Qin Hui said secretly.
Not long after, he sent more than a dozen officials to various places to collect ways to develop the economy, not to mention.