But that's just a little bit of improvement. In fact, with the subsequent statistics of the Ministry of Agriculture on the number of people who purchased cultivated land in the frontier, the number of Cossacks and Kazakhs in Siberia accounted for the largest, as high as nearly 300,000 people. The Japanese and Koreans and the Yue people also accounted for nearly 200,000 applications, but the Han people, only less than 80,000 people applied, but the northwest, southwest, southeast Fujian nearly 100,000 people have applied, the Ministry of Agriculture, in order to encourage, these Miao people are all treated as Han compatriots, they have been integrated into China very early, and they are already a member of the Chinese nationality.

In order to prevent Cossack and Kazakh immigrants from becoming larger, the Ministry of Agriculture arranged for these people to be located in the outer northeast and even in the Hexi region of North America as much as possible, and the Miao people were moved to the strategic areas of Siberia. Try to disperse the foreigners as much as possible to avoid them becoming uncontrollable.

With the implementation of the "Frontier Development Act", the Ministry of Agriculture and local governments reported to the cabinet that the bill only made foreigners active, but the Chinese compatriots were not too enthusiastic, and the cabinet consulted Emperor Feng Yunshan and issued a supplementary order, allowing the Han gentry in various places to purchase no more than 50,000 acres of land for the development and cultivation of grain, and Feng Yunshan also asked the Ministry of Agriculture to introduce sugar beet cultivation from Europe, ready to start developing the sugar industry.

In fact, in the process of later generations, before the large-scale development of the black soil in the Northeast, rice was not cultivated in the Northeast, and sugar beets for sugar production began to be planted at the end of Guangxu, and the cultivation effect was very good. Historically, the Soviet Union was the largest producer of sugar beet, thanks to the vast expanse of Siberia and the Outer Northeast. In the cold Siberian wilderness, only sugar beets are suitable for survival, and the latitude below 65 degrees is suitable for planting, which has almost encompassed most of Siberia.

Therefore, Feng Yunshan asked the cabinet to revise the border development law, allowing some Han landowners to buy land in the frontier. At the same time, Feng Yunshan asked the Ministry of Agriculture to launch sugar beet production, the purpose of which was to guide these landlords and squires to go to the frontier, especially in the high-latitude Siberian region and the outer northeast region to plant sugar beets, and then build sugar factories on the spot, turning the originally deserted high-latitude frontier areas into the sugar industry center of the whole country and even the world. And as sugar mills buy sugar beets, it will raise the price of sugar beet and make many immigrants who grow sugar beet see profits, so that more and more people can buy land and grow sugar beet with it.

For immigrants, in addition to encouraging the people, Feng Yunshan also asked the General Staff to issue new regulations to encourage the families of field legion soldiers stationed in the border to settle with the army. Funded by the General Staff of the Chinese Empire, it helped the troops stationed in the military centers and strategic and transportation fortresses in the frontier to become self-reliant, take root, and give good treatment and help, so that the families of these officers and soldiers stationed in the frontier could follow the garrison with their families.

In this way, for example, in the original military fortress on the banks of the Obu River, only 2,000 field soldiers were stationed, because nearly 10,000 families gathered outside the fortress to live, thus forming a small market town of 10,000 people. And because there is a population, there will be consumption demand, and now the imperial field soldiers are okay, when the family moves here, the General Staff will issue some subsidies, and at the same time, the Ministry of Agriculture and the local government will also measure the land around the fortress, and distribute the land according to the number of people of the military dependents, so that the military families can settle down and cultivate the land on the spot. In this way, the hearts of the military families have also settled down, they can support themselves on their own, and even because everything is tax-free, the General Staff will also allocate some agricultural equipment, holy fertilizer, etc. to be transported here and given to the military families for free, so that these military families are more at ease and very satisfied. When the military families settled down, the soldiers who were officers and soldiers of the field army were even more relieved and determined to be their own messengers.

At the same time, the cabinet also asked inland provinces to adjust their land policies, changing the original policy of eliminating annexation to appropriately encouraging land circulation. In other words, the Chinese Empire originally did not allow large landowners who occupied an area of more than 300 mu, regardless of the number of people in the family, to order them to hand over all the land of more than 300 mu, and the Ministry of Agriculture directly purchased it at the benchmark price as state-owned cultivated land, and then the Ministry of Agriculture integrated these state-owned cultivated land and turned it into the empire's public rental land, which was leased to the surrounding people for cultivation for a long time. Now, in order to adapt to the coming era of mechanized farming and improve farming efficiency, this land policy must be changed.

The newly adjusted policy to encourage land circulation was formulated by Li Hongzhang according to Feng Yunshan's request, and this policy was even opposed by other cabinet members, who believed that this was a repeat of the mistakes of land annexation in previous dynasties, and would eventually make the people and the court pay a heavy price, but Li Hongzhang revealed that this was the emperor's intention, and the other four cabinet members kept their mouths shut, because they knew that the emperor had always treated the people with kindness and would not treat the people harshly.

The new land policy has only been slightly adjusted, and the land owners were originally allowed to occupy only 300 mu of land, but now it is 3,000 mu. However, the maximum amount that belonged to him was only 500 mu, and the other 2,500 mu of land that could be added was the land they were allowed to rent from other villagers. In other words, the land sublease market has been liberalized, but land sales are still very rare. If the landlords want to rent more land, they can appropriately rent seeds from the surrounding people who do not want land, and the price of renting seeds must not be lower than the cost of renting seeds from the government. In other words, no matter who owns the public leased land rented from the government, he can plant it, and he will definitely be profitable once and again.

This is a naked encouragement of the transfer of land by the people.

Feng Yunshan was also a little forced to be helpless, and only then did he think of this move in later generations. In the process of urbanization in later generations, the redistribution of wealth caused vicious polarization, and the high housing prices in cities, especially in first- and second-tier cities, caused the rich and poor strata, that is, the house-owning class and the houseless class, and the antagonism between these two classes caused the relative poverty of the middle and lower classes in the cities, while the rural areas were even more desolate, and the villagers except for the relocated peasants on the outskirts of the cities became more thoroughly poor and backward. And all this, Feng Yunshan can't solve it at all. What he can do is to start the circulation of rural land in advance, so that more rural people can enter the cities and towns to work, and completely change their identities to become urban people. However, the only thing that is a little better than that of later generations is that Feng Yunshan can guarantee that even if the land is state-owned, it is actually not much different from private ownership, and the real estate of the Chinese Empire will never be as high as the perversion of later generations.

But since the general trend of the whole world is like this, and since the final result is inevitably to urbanize from the countryside, it is better to start earlier, so that those who are willing to break free from the shackles of those few acres of land, free their hands from the soil, and go to the factory and the industrialized city.

Moreover, through the circulation of land, those traditional landlords who are good at farming, or good at running farms, can invest their energy and resources in these lands, so as to quickly improve the utilization rate of land, so that the empire's agriculture can develop rapidly, towards the road of intensification and refinement, and also facilitate the arrival of the coming era of mechanized modern farms.

Of course, Feng Yunshan believes that with the implementation of the entire land policy, the knowledgeable local squires and landlords will definitely see the future trend. Capital and gravity will inevitably be withdrawn from the land and invested in the city's factories, minerals, and other industrial and commercial industries. And this is exactly what Feng Yunshan hopes to see.