As soon as the news of Fang Yuan's willingness to accept 300,000 displaced people came out, it immediately aroused a positive response from the three prefectures of Fengyang, Luzhou, and Anqing, which were close to Henan and Huguang within the jurisdiction of Nanzhili.

This is not because of the high efficiency of the work of the three prefectures, but because of the raging bandits, Henan and Huguang have been in a series of wars, and more than 400,000 displaced people have fled to the neighboring three prefectures. These displaced people have no land, let alone a livelihood, and either sell their children for a living or plunder the area.

As the governor of Fengyang, Luzhou, and Anqing, Ma Shiying has long been unbearable.

As soon as Ma Shiying heard that Fang Yuan's Suzhou Mansion was going to open its doors to receive a large number of displaced people from Henan and Huguang who had fled to Jiangnan, it was as if he had seen a great savior, and without saying a word, he immediately mobilized the officials and officials under his jurisdiction, as well as the sergeants of Liu Liangzuo and Huang Degong, the chief military officers, to start the work of relocating the displaced people.

Originally, according to the requirements of Chongzhen's holy decree, Nanjing, Fangyuan's four prefectures only needed to accept 300,000 displaced people as an example, but Ma Shiying didn't care about this, and directly threw 350,000 displaced people like dumping garbage.

The first stop of the migration of displaced people was Yingtian, Zhenjiang and Huai'an under the jurisdiction of Shi Kefa.

Shi Kefa also did the same, according to the agreement with Fang Yuan, only 20,000 displaced people were left to be arranged in Yingtian, Zhenjiang, and Huai'an. The remaining 330,000 displaced people, without counting, arranged fifty merchant ships, and drove them all to Suzhou Mansion under Fang Yuan's jurisdiction.

In the port of Suzhou City, merchant ships transported back and forth for more than half a month, and finally transported more than 300,000 displaced people to Suzhou Mansion in Fangyuan.

Fang Yuan also didn't say a word, accepted all the orders, and began to resettle the displaced people in a planned way.

The use of these displaced people was originally divided into three categories.

The first category is to enter the Xuanjia Army.

According to the standard of choosing one out of thirty, 10,000 displaced people were recruited into the new barracks of the Xuanjia Army, and the treatment was halved compared with that of regular soldiers.

The accompanying family members are assigned to military households, engaged in the planting of military fields, or the civilian husbands and horsemen of the military base, logistics and transportation and other related functions, and Fang Yuan will pay the cost of housing resettlement in advance, and return it after the income is stable.

The second category is to enter military factories and shipyards.

What the military factory needs are blacksmiths and miners with skills; Shipyards need carpenters who are proficient in carpentry. Among the 300,000 displaced people, a total of 1,200 craftsmen who had engaged in iron casting and mining were selected and incorporated into the military factories; Two thousand five hundred carpenters who knew how to carpenter were selected and entered the shipyard.

The treatment of these displaced people is comparable to that of employees in military factories and shipyards.

The third category is the homeless people who do not have any skills and can only work as farmers.

Fang Yuan resettled these displaced people in batches to the counties allocated to the quota, and then bought the same amount of hybrid rice seeds on Taobao and handed them over to the local county officials for planting. Fifty brocade guards were dispatched to each county to supervise the resettlement of the displaced people.

Fang Yuan was busy running around in various counties of Suzhou Prefecture for a month, and after quelling seven riots of displaced people, he finally completed the resettlement of all the displaced people who had migrated to Suzhou Prefecture.

As for the 50,000 displaced people thrown by Ma Shiyingduo, Fang Yuan was also eager and took them directly to the Taihu Military Base for resettlement.

At present, Fang Yuan's hands have a total of 30,000 mu of cultivated land sold by the Weng family, as well as 35,000 mu of land confiscated by Songjiang Prefecture from rebel officials and wealthy merchants, a total of 65,000 mu of land.

These lands were originally divided into two resettlement purposes.

The first is to give priority to meeting the needs of military households in the Xuanjia Army, and in accordance with the previously agreed principle of allocating three acres of land to one military household, the existing 10,000 sergeants of the Xuanjia Army have allocated 30,000 mu of cultivated land in Changshu County.

The second is the 35,000 mu of cultivated land in Songjiang Prefecture, and the principle is to resettle 35,000 displaced people in accordance with the plan of resettle one displaced person per acre of land. The land tax is levied according to the cost of 300 catties of seeds, and the 100 catties of land endowment is exempt from field rent in the first year, and then 40% of the field rent is collected every year.

Of course, these newcomers were so poor that they could not hand over food or money to buy hybrid rice seeds. Fang Yuan could only pay in advance, and then the displaced people would return it in three installments, charging a total of five cents of interest.

The rest were only 10,000 able-bodied recruits and 5,000 displaced people who had not been allocated arable land.

10,000 recruits were handed over to Jing Jie to start military training, and then according to the results of military training, they were incorporated into the battalions of the Xuanjia Army; The remaining 5,000 laborers were temporarily placed in the Taihu Naval Base, ready to start building warships.

Although the craftsmen who bought and sold to the Dutch were not yet in place, it was now possible to start building transports, troop carriers, patrol ships, and small and medium-sized warships ranging from 200 to 400 materials.

It is necessary to build a warship, but fortunately, the timber resources of Dongting East Mountain and West Mountain are quite abundant, and the cut wood can be used to build ships, and the cut forest land can be converted into arable land.

The Taihu military base has a total of 150,000 acres of woodland, and the horse farm where the cavalry was originally built occupied 50,000 acres. After 100,000 acres of forest land is developed into cultivated land, at least 100,000 displaced people can be resettled.

For the sake of the rationality and professionalism of the fleet configuration, Fang Yuan also recalled Shi Lang, who was training sailors in Jinshanwei, he was the commander of the sailors, so naturally he should plan the scale of various warships in this navy fleet, as well as the configuration of warship types.

In addition, Fang Yuan also gave an additional 300,000 taels of silver to Jing Jie for military training, logging, and building warships. He added an additional 100,000 taels of silver and handed it over to Bi Maokang and Tang Ruowang of the Changshu County Military Factory, so that they began to free up seventy percent of the military production resources for the casting of naval cannons.

Whether it is the Taihu Lake Military Base or the Arsenal in Changshu County, they are all working at full speed for military training, as well as the building of warships and firearms, and they are busy inside and out.

After Fang Yuan was busy with these bits and pieces, two months had passed.

In these two months, presided over by Mao Bijiang, the comprehensive academy in Wuxi County was also completed, named Jiangnan University Hall.

At this stage, with the talent reserve in Fang Yuan's hands and the scarcity of talents, six classified colleges of Jiangnan University Hall were first planned: Confucian College, Military College, Criminal Investigation College, Military Engineering College, Business School, and Accounting School.

The Confucian Academy, which undertook the educational responsibilities of the previous ordinary academies, specialized in training students who participated in the imperial examinations, and the teachers were recommended by the Confucians, hired by the Confucians, and some prestigious literati.

The Military Academy, the cradle of training officer talents for the Xuanjia Army, is based on the standards of the Whampoa Military Academy. It offers various disciplines such as cavalry warfare, infantry warfare, artillery warfare, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) team, sailor, and logistics. The teacher is Jing Jie is responsible for arranging the theoretical foundation of the Xuanjia Army to serve as a civilian personnel with a theoretical foundation, a semester of two years, after graduation, the Xuanjia Army will organize a unified examination, and enter the Xuanjia Army after passing the examination.

The Military Industry College specializes in cultivating talents in military production for Changshu Military Factory. Majors such as muskets, artillery, gunpowder, bullets, metallurgical casting, and mining are offered. The teachers are Bi Maokang and Tang Ruowang, experts in arms and metallurgy, as well as professional craftsmen in military factories. The semester is two years, and after graduation, the military factory will take a unified examination, and after passing the examination, he will enter the military factory.

Criminal Investigation College, a college dedicated to cultivating talents for Jinyiwei. Majors such as Daming Law, Criminal Investigation, Tracking, Forensic Science, Musket Use, and Equestrian are offered. Jinyiwei sent a special person to guide the teaching. After two years of semester, after graduation, Jinyiwei will take a unified examination, and after passing the examination, he will enter Jinyiwei.

The School of Business and the School of Accounting are schools that specialize in cultivating business talents. Mainly for the government and county officials, Dongting business gang, as well as Xu Hua established the Suzhou Chamber of Commerce and other chambers of commerce to train professionals, by these business gangs, chambers of commerce to arrange experts to enter the college training, semester two years, after graduation by the government, the state and county selected to engage in the work of the officials, or the business gang, the chamber of commerce to arrange employment.

Today's Jiangnan University Hall has completely broken the pure liberal arts teaching that only taught four books and five classics, classics and historical classics, and poetry and songs. Rather, it is both liberal arts and sciences, both civil and military, and only professionals who have been trained by professional universities can better engage in professional work.

At the same time, it also broadened the channels for the low-level people to enter the public service department of the imperial court, and before there were only imperial examinations, or spending money to become officials of the yamen. Now you can choose to work in the army, military factories, Jinyi and other related departments through other colleges.

Fang Yuan also personally attended the opening ceremony of the Jiangnan University Hall, as an emerging official teaching institution, and in the newly pacified Changzhou Mansion, fifty brocade guards were arranged to carry out special guards.

After resettled the displaced people, Jiangnan University Hall is also on the right track, and Fang Yuan's next goal is the last of the four mansions - Yangzhou Mansion!