Chapter 214: Recovering the Loop (End)

The whole operation was completed in one hour, the Guards suffered zero casualties, the Mongols died only a dozen or so, and most of them gave up resistance at the sight of the Guards. They had experienced the great battle of the dirt slope, and their self-confidence had been completely shattered, and when they saw the men in the uniforms of the Guards, they thought of surrendering first.

After Du Guangting completely controlled the four gates, he sent someone to inform Xue Boling that the Naturalization City was divided into an inner city and an outer city, and the place was very large, which could accommodate two divisions, and it was much better to live in the city than to be stationed outside.

Suxiang Taiji, on the other hand, came out and surrendered after the Ming army had taken control of all places, and before that he had no contact with the Ming army except for a few guides, and at this time he acted as if he was forced to surrender, which was understood by most of the Mongols, and Du Guangting gave him very high treatment, allowing him to temporarily command all the Mongols.

Xue Boling pursued Lin Dan Khan unsuccessfully, so he led his troops to Guihua City, and as soon as he came, he asked Suxiang to lead his troops to subdue the surrounding Tumut tribes. As for Bu Weitu, under the treatment of Ming Jun's doctors, his injuries slowly improved. Su Xiang was worried that his position would not be secure, so he was very dedicated in the process of subduing the tribes, so that the Tumuts near the city of Naturalization swore to submit to the Ming Dynasty.

Man Gui and Sun Fumin have captured Jiuyuan, Zhou Yuji and Wang Zuomin are guarding Ordos, Zhang Xinchen is guarding the Jungger tribe by the Yellow River, Xue Boling and Du Guangting have captured Guihua City, and the land of Hetao has been in the hands of the Ming Dynasty.

At this time, Sun Zushou led a division to start from the mouth of the tiger and began to sweep the Mongolian tribes all the way to Guihua City. Lin Dan Khan's rout terrified the small tribes close to the Ming Dynasty, and either they surrendered, or the entire tribe began to move westward towards the territory of the original Chahar.

Sun Chengzong summarized the situation of each army and reported it to the imperial court. Zhu Youxiao ordered the second phase of the Hanwu operation to begin. The Highway Committee will concentrate the workers recruited from all over the country to the Great Wall of Killing Hukou, and from here they will build roads in the direction of Datong and Guihua City at the same time.

Along the road, which was tentatively named the Gyeonggui Highway, a number of cement factories were opened. These cement factories are all run by the private sector, and the patent office issues them construction permits and provides manufacturing technology, and all the products are contracted by the Highway Commission, so it is natural that such a business will be profitable. Therefore, although the license is expensive and the requirements for the construction environment of the cement plant are high, it still attracts many wealthy people from Beijing and Shanxi.

However, when issuing licenses, the Patent Office emphasized that there must be 100 Hetao bonds in order to obtain a license. Moreover, a river loop bond plus 1,000 yuan can obtain a mining area of 50 acres. Money is certainly not a problem for these wealthy people, but some people have not bought the river bonds, which is a bit of a problem.

It soon became clear that the bonds were bearer, meaning that you could buy the Loop bonds from someone else and give them to the Patent Board in exchange for a license, and to the Construction Department of the Ministry of Industry in exchange for a larger mining area.

The Battle of Hetao had been basically completed, and the results of the first phase of the Ming Dynasty's Hanwu operation greatly exceeded expectations. These rich people who bought bonds are already dreaming of their big grange, so how can they be willing to sell this bond to you at the original price? So in Jingshi Qipan Street, the first bond trading market of Daming appeared.

Buying and selling, of course, there must be buying and selling. Now there are bonds that are not willing to sell at the original price, so they can only increase the price. In addition to the people who wanted to open the cement factory, there were also some people who were afraid that they would not be able to recover the Hetao, but now regretted wanting to get more land outside the country. As a result, the Hetao bond soon rose to more than double or even triple its original price in the bond trading market.

After Zhu Youxiao saw the information reported by Dongchang, he was stunned for a moment, is this the prototype of the stock market? When he learned that the tax office had set up a counter here to collect transaction tax according to the standard of deed tax, he relaxed and stopped caring about it. He didn't know what kind of effect his own interference would have on this phenomenon, but it should be best for him to grow according to the laws of business.

Through the bond market, many people have obtained building permits, and many others have expanded their land area in the Loop. The "Daming Weekly" announced that there was now a riverside area that could be resettled, so a large number of immigrants from the interior continued to march towards the grassland.

The Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Agriculture jointly formed a Hetao Resettlement and Development Bureau, which was responsible for collecting bonds and demarcating land. The Immigration and Development Bureau has commissioned the Jingshi University Hall to plan the riverfront, first demarcating roads, canals, military camps, yamen, taxation, patrol and commercial land, and then dividing the large area separated by the road to the bondholders.

The plots were precisely calculated, each of which was fifty acres and was surrounded by canals and roads. After registration, whether you build a house or farm land, you will be taxed according to the standard of agricultural tax. After the deed is issued by the tax department, these lands will be calculated according to the number on the title deed when they are bought and sold in the future, which is very convenient.

If you buy more than one piece of land, you cannot turn the road between the two pieces of land into your own, and the road must be public. Encroachment on canals and roads will be punished severely, and it should be easier to manage when roads and canals are hardened with cement in the future.

The suitable grazing area in the Hetao area is still the pasture of Mongolian herders. However, the Ministry of Agriculture asked the Mongols to stop moving their grazing and to divide the pastures among the tribes. The Urad tribe of Rasuli, who had first defected to the Ming army, was given a fertile pasture, and his father should have rejoiced, believing that the most right thing his son had done was to surrender to the Ming army.

Because the two Etoks near the west of Chahar had moved eastward for fear of the Ming army, all the tribes that surrendered to the Ming army were given their own pastures, and the merchants from the interior had already come to the Hetao region with a large number of goods and began to do business with Mongolian herdsmen.

The vast majority of the bonds sold in the Hetao have been recovered in just one place near the river, so there is still a large amount of land in the Hetao that is uncultivated. Yang Lian thought that immigrants could be recruited from the south to reclaim here, but Zhu Youxiao refused.

He said: "The land of the people of Linhe is bought with money, and it would be the greatest injustice to them if they were allowed to get the land for a very small price or even nothing, and who would be willing to buy it if they issued bonds in the future." Continue to issue Hetao bonds, the land of Hetao, can only be bought with money, I want this place to develop rapidly, the speed of immigration is too slow, as long as those rich people find it profitable, they come to immigrate much more efficiently than the imperial court to immigrate. Anyway, it is to reduce the population of the hinterland, and not everyone who immigrates is the same. ”