Chapter 939: Rare Peace
These trivial things that happened in the area of Tumen Town Shoufu in the winter of Chongzhen's third year naturally had no way of knowing about Emperor Chongzhen in the Forbidden City.
However, when he learned that the area under the jurisdiction of Dongjiang Town, as well as the Hukou of Lushun Town, Rehe, Xuanda, Naturalization, and Hezhong, Emperor Chongzhen was very satisfied.
Perhaps, after this harsh winter has passed, the immigrants who come to these areas will lose 10 to 20 percent of the elderly, the sick and the disabled.
But in any case, the current situation is not easy to come by, and the situation in the Ming Dynasty is finally developing in a good direction.
The possible civil unrest in Shandong and Henan, which Emperor Chongzhen had been worried about, did not occur as in history.
And the reason behind this, in the final analysis, is the result of Chongzhen's own efforts to promote immigration in the past three years.
A large number of hungry people who were unable to make a living because of the famine were the root cause of the frequent turmoil in various places in the last years of the Ming Dynasty.
In addition to transferring all these sources of chaos and arranging them to the vast border areas along the northern part of the country to open up wasteland and reclaim land in the form of immigration, Emperor Chongzhen really couldn't find any other solution.
Encouraging the noble class in the north and south of Beijing to shift their attention away from the land of the grange and devote themselves to the development of industry and mining can also absorb many unemployed vagrants and solve the problem of displaced people in disguise.
It's just that this method is still a little too slow to take effect compared to the actual side of immigration.
In fact, since the imperial court reopened several iron smelting places in Baiye City in Zunhua, Emperor Chongzhen encouraged the development of various industrial and mining measures in various places, and introduced a lot.
In the land of Jingdong, from Zunhua to Baiye City and Yongping Mansion, there are large and small coal mines and iron mines everywhere, smelters, coke factories, cement factories and other factories and mines, government-run, private, and royal and various factories and mines of the royal family and relatives, there are no less than hundreds.
The rise of these factories and mines did absorb many unemployed vagrants from Beizhili and war refugees from the Xuanda area.
However, compared with the large number of displaced people in the north of the Ming Dynasty due to years of war and famine, the number of people that these factories and mines can absorb is still limited after all.
Moreover, in the entire Ming Dynasty today, except for the land of Gyeonggi in Beizhili and the Foshan area of the Liangguang Governor's Palace, there are no other decent industrial zones of a certain scale.
Even if you count the emerging coal mines and carbon factories in Datong Prefecture, as well as the emerging fierce fire oil refinery in the Yan'an Prefecture, the entire Ming Dynasty only has such four decent mining areas.
Therefore, if you want to rely on the development of industry and mining to absorb the relatively surplus population of the Ming Dynasty, it is simply impossible to do it without decades of sustainable development.
In this regard, Emperor Chongzhen didn't want to wait, he couldn't wait, and he couldn't afford to wait.
Because if the problems of various disaster victims, refugees and displaced people are not solved as soon as possible, the Ming Dynasty will have a life span of several decades, and no one will dare to pack a ticket.
Even the current Emperor Chongzhen himself did not dare to say that he would definitely be able to redeem the fate of the Ming Dynasty in the original history.
Moreover, at the end of November, Emperor Chongzhen successively received reports on the situation of the governors and envoys of the various border areas, and understood the progress of the immigrants from all over the north.
In the following days, through the Military Aircraft Department and the Border Guard Governor's Office, in the form of an edict from the military aircraft, the generals and commanders of Hezhong, Xuanda, Rehe, Lushun, and Dongjiang should continue to receive immigrants openly and ensure that the immigrants must be properly resettled.
To the north of the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty, the land is vast enough to house tens of millions of immigrants in the Guannai.
At present, after three years of hard work, the newly opened land in the north of the Ming Dynasty, from Hezhong to Rehe, to Lushun, and even including the land under the jurisdiction of the Wulu General Military Office in Dongjiang Town, the Han people who emigrated to the so-called foreign places in the northern frontier have only accumulated more than one million.
This means that there is still a lot of space to be used north of the Great Wall.
One day, if the scale of the Han people outside the border can reach more than 10 million, then these areas can be firmly controlled by the Ming Dynasty.
Of course, the matter of immigrating to the north of Monan, the north of Liaodong, and even the land of Mobei and Siberia is still a relatively distant idea in the plan of Emperor Chongzhen, and this goal cannot be achieved in the short term.
However, the short-term effect of immigration outside the border and even overseas has really affected many places in the Ming Dynasty.
Originally, there were many civil unrest throughout the country during the Chongzhen period in history, and there were many civil unrest throughout the country, such as the northwest region, the Central Plains region, Shandong, and Jianghuai, needless to say, since entering the Chongzhen period, there was basically not much time to stop, in addition to the southwest region, Huguang region, there were also man-made rebellions every three or five times.
Even in the southeastern coastal areas such as Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong, in addition to the Tu Achou Rebellion and the Chen Wan Rebellion, there are countless large and small civil unrest.
However, in this life, since the rebellion of Lu'an in the southwest region was pacified, with the support of Zhu Xieyuan, the Marquis of Jingnan, Han refugees from Sichuan and Huguang who had lost their land due to natural disasters or man-made disasters began to apply for recruitment to go to Yunnan-Guizhou to pioneer Tuntian.
Whether it is the southwest region, Sichuan, or Huguang region, there has been no large-scale civil unrest since the second year of Chongzhen.
The same is true in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong, after the imperial court suppressed the Tu Achou Rebellion in Zhejiang and the Chen Wan Rebellion in Guangdong, the disaster victims in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong and the landless displaced people began to immigrate to Dongfan and Qiongzhou in a big way.
Under the encouragement and mobilization of the Liangguang Governor's Office, many impoverished people in northern Guangdong sold their meager ancestral property in their hometowns, scraped together a little boat fare, and went to Nanyang with their families to follow the merchant ships that went to sea to make a living.
The loss of population and the decrease in household registration have certainly brought about some financial and tax losses.
However, compared with the civil unrest that occurred in the original history, the cost of this little fiscal and tax revenue is extremely insignificant.
Since the abolition of the ban on immigration to the sea, piracy in the southeastern coastal areas of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangdong has not intensified, but because of the decrease in the number of displaced people on land in these places, the scope of piracy has rapidly shrunk and can only be confined to some islands that are isolated on the sea.
In the past two or three years, with the migration of nearly one million people from Fujian, Zhejiang, Guangdong and other places to Dongfan and Qiongzhou, as well as going to Nanyang to make a living, natural disasters in Fujian, Zhejiang and Guangdong have continued to appear, but there has never been large-scale famine and turmoil.
At the same time, the White Lotus Rebellion, which originally occurred in the Jianghuai area of Shandong during this period, also disappeared because the imperial court continued to recruit immigrants and encourage reclamation.
Under the long-term administration of Yuan Keli, the governor of Caoyun, the local displaced people in Jianghuai, a large amount of wasteland was reclaimed and distributed to those displaced people who had cleared the wasteland.
The areas along the Huai River and both sides of the canal, under the auspices of Yuan Keli, the governor of Caoyun, Yang Yipeng, the governor of Fengyang, and Lu Zhenfei, the prefect of Huai'an, and other capable officials and officials, recruited displaced people and provided relief through work, not only dredged the canals that were often silted up, but also renovated and restored a large number of water conservancy facilities, connecting a large number of rivers, lakes, ditches, canals, swamps and wetlands scattered in these areas.
Therefore, when there was another major drought in the north in the third year of Chongzhen, the drought in the Jianghuai region was greatly alleviated because of the water conservancy facilities connected by these rivers, lakes and ditches.
In the past three years, the potatoes, buds, and sweet potatoes that were persistently promoted by Yuan Keli, the governor of Caoyun, not only achieved self-sufficiency, but also had the spare power, and through a large number of purchases by Yuan Keli's Caoyun Governor's Mansion and Bi Zisu's Lianghuai Salt Transport Envoy, they were sent to the north to help the military and civilians in the Jiubian region.
In the late Ming Dynasty, the Central Plains, which had always been known for its poor livelihood and turmoil, also caused a sharp decline in the local displaced population due to various reasons, and there was no civil unrest.
The first reason is naturally the eradication of the tumor of Fuwangfu.
After the death of the old Fu Wang, the Fu Wangfu was taken away from the domain, and the Fu Wang Mansion and his uncle Zheng family had more than 70,000 hectares of fertile land redistributed under the auspices of the new household division in Luoyang and the Henan Governor Yamen.
A large number of tenants and displaced people who had been encroached upon by the Fu Wangfu or who were originally landless were given a share of the land.
Although natural disasters such as drought and locust plague continue to appear in this area, the people who have been given the land have hope and will not rebel casually.
In addition, since the first year of Chongzhen, under the strong leadership of Qiu Zhaolin, the governor of Henan, a large amount of land in the Yellow Plain in the eastern Henan Plain, which was flooded because the Yellow River broke its embankment and was diverted, also began to recruit people to open up the wasteland and cultivate it.
This vast area is covered with a thick layer of dry sediment, and although it is not possible to grow rice and wheat, it is a natural good place to grow sweet potatoes and potatoes.
Soft sandy soil with plenty of sunlight is more suitable for the growth of sweet potatoes and potatoes.
Although the three-year drought in Chongzhen had a huge impact on the Central Plains, it was not completely lost.
Moreover, Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of Hebei, recruited a large amount of land reclamation in the Yellow River Ancient Road area, which also provided a way for those victims who had no way to live in the Central Plains.
In particular, the establishment of the Lushun Town Guard Mansion in the second year of Chongzhen, and the issuance of the imperial court's reclamation order in the third year of Chongzhen, have attracted a large number of landless people such as bankrupt peasants and tenants in the Central Plains to Hezhong and Lushun Town Guard.
The exodus of a large number of landless people has not only greatly reduced the population of the Central Plains, but also greatly reduced the risk of large-scale civil unrest in this hinterland.
Because of this, the three-year drought in Chongzhen, although as severe as in history, from spring to winter, the entire northern region of the Ming Dynasty did not have a decent rain and.
However, compared with the same period in history, the Ming Dynasty maintained a relatively peaceful situation from north to south and from east to west, and there was no new turmoil.