Chapter Sixty-Nine: A Hundred Wastes to be Lifted

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When Emperor Chongzhen first ascended the throne, the world of the Ming Dynasty was really full of holes, and what he wanted to do was also full of things, even if he wanted to work hard, he didn't know how to do it for a while.

Fortunately, after a few months of flashing and moving, the current imperial court politics are finally on track and have made a lot of improvements. Especially in terms of personnel arrangement, what should be killed and what should be used, now the cabinet ministers and the six ministers are also very effective, and there are many fewer places where he needs to work hard to plan and arrange.

Li Guowei is not famous in history, Emperor Chongzhen was impeached not long after he ascended the throne, resigned and went home with the suspicion of eunuchs, and then reinstated, but quickly dismissed, the only thing that left a name in history is that he recommended Han Ying and Sun Chengzong to Emperor Chongzhen.

In this life, he recommended Sun Chengzong, and he has not mentioned Han Ying to the emperor yet, and Zhu Daming does not have a deep impression of Han Ying, nor does he think that he is a capable minister, he can have him, it doesn't matter without him, so he didn't raise the issue of reviving Han Ying. Now these cabinet ministers are in charge of their own affairs, and they are all busy with the things assigned by the emperor, but the emperor himself is very relaxed.

The day after Sun Chengzong finished the Yuan Palace, he naturally rushed back to Tongzhou to sit in the town, and now although the weather is cold, the matter of recruiting displaced people and arranging households in Tuntian is still progressing.

There is still an endless stream of displaced people from Liaodong, Gyeonggi, Kouwai, Shanxi, Henan and other places. The Huangzhuang and the granges in Gyeonggi, such as Tongju, Changping, Liangxiang, Fangshan, and Zhuozhou, were successively distributed to the displaced people who came to apply for recruitment.

The focus of recruiting people to reclaim also began to expand to more peripheral places, such as Zhending, Baoding, and Daimyo, although these places are getting farther and farther away from Beijing, but the barren mountains and wastelands that can be reclaimed and the Wei Grange that can be confiscated are larger.

Especially under the rule of Baoding Prefecture, most of the granges of Wei Zhongxian's family and five princes were concentrated in this area, with more than 100,000 hectares of good cultivated land, some of which originally had tenants, and some of them drove away the original tenants before they had time to re-cultivate, and those existing and driven out tenants naturally became displaced people, and they needed to re-apply on the land they had cultivated before, and then register their household registration, distribute land, and become new tun households.

Of course, there are more people from all over the world who come to apply. These people have nothing, but they can endure the hardships that ordinary people can't bear, and they can endure sins that ordinary people can't bear.

Under the auspices of Sun Chengzong, Li Banghua, Yang Yingqian, Sun Yuanhua, Mao Yuanyi and others carried out cash-for-work work, attracting a large number of young and strong people, from Zunhua and Tongzhou in the east of Beijing, to Fangshan and Zhuozhou in the west of Beijing, and then to Gu'an and even Baoding in the south of Beijing.

For these hungry homeless people who have lost their land and homes, as long as they have food to eat and a hot kang to sleep, they don't need to be paid at all.

Yang Yingqian's experience in organizing the resettlement of displaced people in eastern Liaodong finally came in handy, and the number of disaster victims, refugees, and displaced people who came to apply for recruitment had exceeded 100,000, but all the arrangements were busy but not chaotic, tense and orderly.

There are three or five cases of people who die of freezing, sickness or accidents every day, and some imperial historians are also staring at them, and from time to time they write impeachments on the ground, but so many displaced people gather, and there are no major riots or problems.

This also confirms Zhu Daming's view, that is, as long as the common people have a bite to eat, they will never embark on the road of killing officials and rebelling. Nowadays, a large amount of silver is spent, and a large amount of grain is also purchased and shipped from the nearby state capital, and as long as the displaced people reach the cantonment site, there is no problem of starvation. It's just that the sanitary conditions of each A, Li and Zhuang are relatively poor, and those who come early live in the houses or shanties in the original grange, and most of the people who come late live in the nests, and the conditions are naturally not much better. And in this era, there are no drugs that are too effective, as long as you are sick and the weather is cold, it is difficult to survive. Therefore, most of the people who died were the old, weak, sick and disabled, and these people had a hard time surviving this winter.

After Yin Yanghe of Shuncheon Prefecture took office, he was also full of enthusiasm for recruiting people to reclaim the land, and his implementation of the decree encouraging the reclamation was also tacitly approved by the emperor. Therefore, in less than a month, the homeless people and beggars in the inner and outer cities of the capital division were empty, and the entire capital division was also much cleaner, and there were no more groups of homeless people begging along the streets.

Of course, some of them volunteered to apply, and those refugees from Liaodong and Kouwai dreamed of owning their own piece of land in Guannai, and if they could support their family by cultivating the land, who would be willing to kneel on the street and beg and make people despised. And some homeless people who were accustomed to begging and did not want to endure hardships and hardships to go to the tuntian fields to farm were tied up and escorted to the Shuntian Mansion officials.

There are also some ruffians and hooligans, and unemployed vagrants who rely on pit abduction and health care, were directly tied up by the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division taken over by Liu Wenbing, and sent to Zunhua to mine and make iron, and the security of the entire Beijing Division also improved rapidly. Those young people who had to sell themselves into slavery also went to apply, and Shuntianfu would help them get rid of slavery. Yang He's arrival is a complete boon to this kind of person.

Historically, when Yang He was the governor of the three sides, he adopted the method of appeasing the thieves and rebellious people in northern Shaanxi, but it was difficult to really implement the cantonment reclamation that had no guarantee of survival at all, and those thieves and rebellious people still couldn't survive after they descended, so they had no choice but to rebel and loot again.

Now the emperor supported the reclamation, not only took out a large amount of silver, but also took out the royal imperial village, most of which were easy to cultivate, and of course there were no problems that Yang He encountered in history.

There is a steady stream of displaced people, but the phenomenon of lack of labor at major construction sites is still very common. Of course, the construction project of Changping Deling did not dare to stop, although the weather was cold, but the work of digging stones and cutting trees continued, and the emperor invested a large amount of silver in the inner treasury, and no one dared to underestimate the emperor's determination.

Therefore, the number of people recruited by the Deling Project has not decreased, but has increased. The same is true in Tongzhou, where tens of thousands of people have been recruited for the construction of civil engineering projects such as the lecture hall, the gunpowder factory, the military war bureau, the gun factory, and the city wall of the new city of Tongzhou. In addition, the new army battalion in Zhuozhou is also in full swing and has begun to take shape.

In order to complete these civil engineering projects, with the strong support of the Governor's Office of Zhili, Yang Yingqian recruited a large number of young and strong men among the newly resettled displaced people, started work everywhere, built one manpower intensive handicraft workshop after another, set up a logging team of the Juntun Division, and established a timber yard to provide timber for various projects; A quarry team was formed, a quarry was set up, and stone was supplied; With the help of craftsmen and technicians sent by the Ministry of Industry, more than a dozen lime kilns and brick kilns were built at the same time, and lime and green bricks were provided for the civil engineering projects that blossomed around Gyeonggi.

The handicraft workshops such as small coal kilns and small mines, which were on the verge of closure and had low production in the vicinity of Gyeonggi, were also revived at once, and a large amount of business was received. Nowadays, although the weather outside is cold, people's hearts have never been so warm, and everyone sees hope and a future that can be looked forward to.

At the same time, the Zunhua Iron Metallurgy, which Li Banghua personally presided over, gradually recovered, and a large number of refugees from Liaodong also had a place to go. Shuntian governor Wang Yuanya, Yongping soldier preparation Zhang Chun is also very effective, organizing the reclamation of refugees in Liaodong and outside the mouth, Li Banghua basically handed over to them, tens of thousands of Liaodong Han and Mongolian refugees in the Guannai have gathered in Jizhou, Zunhua, Qian'an, Fengrun, Kaiping land, to accept the resettlement of the government, although the cold winter Layue can not be reclaimed, but can be divided into a piece of wasteland, these displaced people are also settled down.

Once a person's heart is settled, he will not go to the traitor department, and now that the imperial court has reopened Zunhua iron smelting, the coal mines and iron mines in Baiye City, Malanyu, Shirengou, Wujiagou, Baimayu and other places have been reopened, and the original more than 20 iron-making furnaces in Baiye City have been rebuilt one after another, not only with a huge amount of labor, but also with low technical content, as long as you are willing to make efforts, you will definitely not die of hunger.

The Ministry of Industry alone reopened Zunhua Iron Metallurgy, and successfully resettled another 780,000 displaced people. In addition to the people recruited by the Juntun Division with the support of the Zhili Governor's Office, the people recruited by the Tunhu and the construction sites and mines have already resettled nearly 300,000 displaced people from all over the country.

The Daimyo Mansion near the Central Plains, under the vigorous promotion of Lu Xiangsheng, the prefect who is now only 27 years old, recruited almost the same number of hungry people from Shanxi and Henan. These hungry people originally became the source of thieves in northern Shaanxi in history, but now under the holy decree of recruiting people to reclaim famine and training troops in Tuntian, they have become staunch supporters of the imperial court.