A month later, with the personal intervention of Emperor Feng Yunshan, the cabinet issued the Imperial Land Act on the newly occupied territory, which was signed by the Emperor himself and came into effect on the same day. This land bill, which was confined to the newly occupied territory, was officially called the "Frontier Development Act of the Chinese Empire", and was issued by telegram to all provinces in the country through the Cabinet. At the same time, several major newspapers of the Chinese Empire, such as the "China Imperial Daily", "Yangtze River Evening News", and "Nanfang Daily", published this decree on the large-scale land development of the newly occupied territory.

The Imperial Chinese Frontier Development Act is actually modeled after the homestead law originally issued by the American Federation, which was a law aimed at selling the newly expanded land of the Chinese Empire in recent years to immigrants at a low price, and attracting immigrants to these frontier areas for development.

The Act stipulated that all newly occupied territories of the Chinese Empire would be nationalized by the Empire. The Ministry of Agriculture and the local government respectively sent resident officials to guard the borders of each region, responsible for the survey, measurement and clearing of land.

Regardless of race or color, as long as they have joined the nationality of the Chinese Empire, are loyal to His Majesty the Emperor, are willing to pay taxes, and are adults over the age of 18, regardless of gender, they can register the purchase of land at a low price not exceeding 1,000 mu after swearing that the land is for the purpose of reclamation and cultivation, and all the costs of purchasing land shall be settled at the ultra-low price of 10 mu and one holy yuan, and they can temporarily leave the payment and make a credit arrears, and then return the arrears year by year when there is a harvest. If the registrant who purchases the land has lived and cultivated the land for at least five years, he or she can obtain a permanent land license and become the owner of the land after verification by a local official.

There is also special treatment in the bill, which is aimed at Han compatriots. The supplementary regulations to the bill pointed out that Han Miao and other Chinese compatriots who applied for the purchase of land in the frontier areas would be provided free of charge, and that the Ministry of Agriculture and local governments would implement interest-free resettlement loans and provide agricultural tools, seeds, and other means of cultivation and production free of charge, so as to attract the Chinese people to the frontier to pioneer land.

In addition, the bill also mentions the preferential tax policies in the future, that is, all those who buy frontier land, regardless of race, will be exempted from taxes within five years, and allow land buyers to owe seeds on credit at cost price, etc., and for Han compatriots, the direct provision is that all taxes are exempted for 30 years, and half of the tax is taken within 50 years.

At the same time, however, the bill announced the boundaries of the frontier. Mainly in the outer northeast line, the whole of Siberia and the Kazakh Khanate, as well as the Hexi region, Alaska, Australia and the East Indies in North America. For example, in sparsely populated areas such as Siberia, North America, and Australia, they can apply for up to 1,000 acres of land for cultivation, while in places like Java, which has a large population and the land has been developed, only 50 acres of land are allowed to be cultivated. As for fertile land such as the Mekong Delta, it is not considered a frontier land at all, because it has already been occupied by the Chinese people who migrated in the early stage.

As soon as this bill was introduced, it caused a huge sensation.

For the Cossacks who had been expelled from Siberia and hid in Tibet, many of them had settled in some places and cultivated the wasteland, because of the defeat of Tsarist Russia, they all left the cultivation area and fled into the steppes and mountains, and now they found out the news, ecstatic, for these Cossack tribes, just to have a stable food, whoever is strong in place and who is hard, they immediately surrendered to the Chinese Imperial Field Army stationed in various fortresses, and asked to join the Chinese Imperial nationality, and apply to purchase land to settle down.

And many Miao ethnic minorities who were originally in the mountains and forests also exploded when they heard the news. After some discussion, many Miao people, who had been suppressed by the clan and did not have much arable land, also went to the government to ask to move to the frontier and apply for a large amount of land on credit. Even, many Koreans and Japanese people heard the news and applied one after another.

Moreover, with the help of the application of Miao people, especially the land applications of the Japanese people, Koreans, and Yue people, many Chinese compatriots in many inland provinces also feel a kind of crisis, and of course, more Han people do not want to miss the psychology of taking advantage. The policy has special preferential treatment for the Han people, that is, the maximum amount of 1,000 acres of land is free, and unlike other foreign people's 5-year tax holiday, the Han people are directly 30 years of tax exemption, 30 years, almost a lifetime of people. This is particularly attractive to the Han Chinese.

For example, the people in a village in Shanxi, this kind of people are all living in big families, most of them are people with the same surname and the same clan, each family of more than a dozen people is dozens of acres of dry land plus some wasteland, on average a person is less than ten acres of land, barely to support themselves, in the event of a disaster year, but also need to rely on the relief of the local government, go out to help and even serve to earn some food to feed their families, let alone imagine a serious illness and disaster, although life is much better than the original people's poor livelihood, but still difficult.

As soon as they heard about the imperial court's land policy of developing the frontier, the people in the village suddenly became lively. The population in the village is increasing, and although the wasteland is constantly being developed, the whole village is so big that even if all the land that can be developed is cleared, it will be about ten acres of land per capita at most. But judging by the current harvest, it will never be possible to be rich and not worry about eating. Therefore, in recent years, a few restless young people have left the village and gone to work in some factories in the county seat or the prefecture, or to build official roads, build factories and mines, etc., and make much better money than digging a few acres of land. But the countrymen, coupled with the old concept of the Chinese people for thousands of years, always feel that land is the foundation, and it is best to get a piece of land that can be passed on to future generations.

Therefore, some people in the village consulted with the village elders and village elders to divide the third and fourth sons of each household and arrange to go to the frontier to seek land to earn a living. Although there are not many village elders in this part of the village, they only account for less than one-tenth of the total population, but once they are divided, it is equivalent to everyone in the village can get an extra acre of land, and their lives will be much better. Moreover, it is also a good thing for those who are divided into this part. Because they are Chinese compatriots and belong to the highest ethnic group of the empire, they can not only get a permanent 1,000 mu of land for free, but also completely exempt from tax for 30 years, which is completely equivalent to the fiefdom of the previous dynasty. Moreover, according to the law, the local government also provides subsidies such as seeds and farm tools, which is a good thing, which inevitably makes these children of the collateral who are already discriminated against in the village very tempted.

Profit is the most fundamental driving force. The other clansmen in the village naturally hoped that they would move out sooner so that they could all have more land. In addition, the outside world has gone crazy, foreigners have gone crazy to occupy farmland, and they have been robbed by foreigners and so on when they are late, think about those foreigners have to pay for it, and the tax holiday is only five years, these conditions are much stronger than their foreigners, and now the foreigners are going crazy to rob, and they are not going yet, isn't it a big loss. As a result, more than a dozen young people in the village took action one after another and marched towards the frontier they were optimistic about.

With the sensational effect of the "Frontier Development Act", the cabinet raised the price of grain by half in a timely manner according to the instructions of Emperor Feng Yunshan, which made the people of the entire empire feel the importance of grain and the enthusiasm for cultivating farmland, and with the rise in grain prices, the importance of land has become more and more prominent, so the people's enthusiasm for frontier development has become even higher.

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