Chapter 726: A Thousand Rice Waves
The construction of the "New Hangzhou" will include the city of Ayutthaya, and three bridges across the Chao Phraya River are under construction, and the all-concrete bridges with a total length of seven miles that do not affect the navigation of the river are unique in this era.
The three bridges have different designs and will become one of the landmarks of the "New Hangzhou" when completed.
"New Hangzhou" will become the largest city in "Nanming", and the population will not be less than 1.5 million.
This is the center of the Indochina Peninsula, with a unique geographical location, which is ideal as the capital of the "Southern Ming Dynasty".
Guests who came to "New Hangzhou" were attracted to such a feng shui treasure, and many began to negotiate the purchase of land and villas.
They know that they will save a lot of silver coins if they start early, and here is about to give birth to a large city in the "Nanming" kingdom with a land area no less than three or four percent of the Ming Dynasty, and the future business opportunities are unknown, and the price of land is just around the corner.
In December, the Ming Jingshi was in the middle of winter, and the grass and trees had already withered and turned into ice.
However, the capital of "Nanming" is full of melons and fruits, and the surrounding rice fields are rippling in the wind, setting off thousands of rice waves.
Accustomed to the depression of the Ming Dynasty and the cracked fields of the Ming Dynasty, many officials and nobles of the Ming Dynasty who went south for the first time saw the "Nanming" city with prosperous commerce and saw millions of acres of rice fields with drought and flood protection.
Of course, they will make a wise choice and seek a new place for themselves and their families to settle down.
The mother-in-law fell in love with the "New Hangzhou", she lived in Nanjing when she was a child, but she didn't like the dryness and cold of the north, and when she saw her daughter trying her best to ask her to come to the "New Hangzhou" to spend her old age, she readily agreed.
She was going to go back with her husband to deal with some real estate and land, and persuade the children of the family to come with her as much as possible.
The old lady had insight, saw that her son-in-law's country was strong and strong, and listened to the two concubines who had been an official here for several years talk about how the "Nanming" government was harmonious, and learned that this land was fertile and the population was small, and the fertile land that no one cultivated was unknown.
The old lady knows very well why her son-in-law wants to emigrate in large numbers, so she is also ready to do her best to give full play to her appeal and let the children of the Zhang family and the Xu family come to "Nanming" for development.
The Zhang family and the Xu family, the two noble families that have inherited the highest titles for more than 200 years, are by no means idle, and the population of the derived branches may have added up to hundreds of thousands.
It is not a problem for tens of thousands of people to come to "Nanming" to seek development, and there are too many jobs and business opportunities here.
Huang Sheng does not discriminate against the aristocracy, nor does he have the dirty idea that the poor are buddies and the rich are enemies.
On the contrary, Huang Sheng believed in his heart that the overall quality of nobles and intellectuals should be stronger than that of Shengdou Xiaomin.
When the nobles came to the "Nanming", they could obtain official positions through the new school and open recruitment, and they were promoted equally.
The sea is inclusive, and there is tolerance. The wall is thousands of feet, and there is no desire to be rigid. Huang Sheng's criteria for judging good people and bad people have nothing to do with their economic conditions, nor do they have anything to do with their family background, everything is in accordance with the law.
In the Ming Dynasty, there is a saying that "a Qing prefect, 100,000 snowflakes of silver".
This means that even if the incorruptible prefect is not corrupt and perverts the law, after serving for three years, the income from all kinds of bad rules and regulations will be 100,000 taels of silver.
If it's a black-hearted and greedy prefect, then I don't know how much to catch. Of course, this is an exaggeration, but it also blatantly expresses the lack of the Ming regulatory official system.
The legal income of the Ming officials, that is, the superposition of various salaries and expenses is ridiculous, the annual salary of the county lord is only more than 100 taels of silver, and the prefect is only more than 200 taels of silver, which also includes their miscellaneous servants and the monthly money of the sedan chair man.
Therefore, if the Ming officials did not engage in stereotypes and bad habits and take silver, they would really not be able to afford to eat meat like Hai Rui, and the concubines would be hanged.
The "Nanming" implemented a system of high salaries and honest pensions, and the legal income of officials was more than five times that of bureaucrats of the same level in the Ming Dynasty.
The "Nanming" government abolished the Ding tax and raised the mining tax, industrial and commercial tax, real estate tax, deed tax, and vehicle and vessel tax.
The government is responsible for reimbursing the cost of transportation and horses for food during the labor period, and the casualties are paid at 20% of the standard of the fallen soldiers.
For example, if the people participate in major national projects, such as the construction of reservoirs, roads, river embankments, etc., and work for half a year, it means that the people's free dedication within six years has been completed.
His family was not required to send a male child to participate in voluntary work of a state nature for six years.
The "Nanming" government instilled the concept of equality between men and women as much as possible, and women could also be subjected to labor, but only the two could be regarded as strong laborers, and the work was different, and the work on the construction site was relatively light labor such as cooking, sewing and mending, cleaning, etc.
With such humane management, some families simply serve both husband and wife, and can complete the task of several years or even ten years of labor in a few months.
Of course, there are also men who bring concubines of different nationalities to serve, because too many Han families have become wealthy, and many have already taken concubines.
This is mainly due to the continuous wars in Southeast Asia, the serious imbalance between men and women, monogamy will cause too many women to marry, and the young and middle-aged Han people can only dedicate themselves more.
The marriage law of the "Nanming" has been promulgated, which makes it clear that the concubines of the Han people are also protected by the law, and it is clear that civilians of different nationalities do not have the right to take concubines, and the implementation of family planning for all foreign ethnic groups other than the Han nationality is more benevolent, and the basic policy of controlling the third child and eliminating the fourth child is adopted.
If a family of different nationalities gives birth to three daughters, they can continue to have sons if they want to have them, even if they can give birth to eight girls. If it is a foreign family that already has two sons, it is illegal for them to want to have another child, and they will be arrested and sentenced and sent to the coal mine for labor reform.
Huang Sheng thinks that he has exhausted his benevolence and righteousness, and the Han people in later generations can accept only one child, under his own strong management, a foreign family can have two or three and dare not be satisfied, but it is shameless.
The Marriage Law also stipulates that as long as one of the parents is a Han Chinese, the children must be of Han nationality, and now even the Mongols such as the Black Tiger, the Black Panther, and the Black Horse are happy to accept the fact that their children are Han Chinese, because their wives and concubines are fragrant Han women.
There is no doubt that the Indochina Peninsula, which is about to be stable and peaceful, will usher in a peak of fertility, the "Nanming" medical treatment has made great progress, the maternal mortality rate and the infant mortality rate are declining every year, and the physique and quality of the next generation of Hermes-Epitek who have received nutrition and free education will rise again, and even the average height is increasing.
The demographic dividend of the Han people will make the "Southern Ming" more powerful, and more women of different nationalities will become Han concubines, which is of course the icing on the cake.
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