Chapter 36: The Territorial Expansion of the New Song Dynasty (I)

The New Song Kingdom has always been entrenched in Cangzhou, and based on this, it has continued to grow and develop. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The economic and cultural level of Cangzhou has made a leap in a short period of time, compared with the surrounding states and counties, the changes in Cangzhou are like the birds becoming birds, and the light of the fireflies in the surrounding states and counties cannot be compared with its Haoyue.

This has also led to an extremely common phenomenon, migration.

Although according to the laws of the Great Song Dynasty, the population of each state and county was not allowed to leave the local area without authorization, and violators were punished with ten canes, but it is clear that in the marginal states and counties, the laws of the Great Song Dynasty were not so effective.

After seeing the merchants who came back from Cangzhou making a lot of money, seeing the goods in Cangzhou being sold to the surrounding areas in a steady stream, and hearing that the life in Cangzhou is like heaven, there are always many people who will be tempted, at the beginning, they only migrated a small amount, and even many of them just went to Cangzhou to see.

However, when they came to the city of Xincangzhou and saw such a magnificent and prosperous city like Bianjing, they were tempted and dragged their families to Cangzhou, and then on the first New Year, they received gifts from the lord of the New Song Dynasty: a chicken and a duck, and if there was no land, three bags of rice.

It only takes one registration in the Yamen, and those ordinary people can have a Cangzhou hukou, which is much more refined than the register of the Great Song Dynasty.

The red cover, after opening, inside is a page of thick green paper, on which the situation of the household is recorded with a small block of fly's head, and a kind of body card printed with their own appearance will be issued, this kind of card is called 'ID card' by the people of the new Song Dynasty official office, and it feels very smooth to the touch, after seeing this new Song Dynasty resident ID card, there are many people regardless of the long distance, just to get such an identity certificate.

For a time, becoming a citizen of the New Song Dynasty was already a trend that everyone in Hebei flocked to.

But some people get rich, and some people are naturally blushing.

The local officials of the Great Song Dynasty are such a group of people who are red-eyed.

When the New Song Dynasty announced the founding of the country, it spread newspapers, proclaimed the world, and called on people with lofty ideals to come to Cangzhou to conspire together, which scared the governors and officials of the surrounding states and counties half to death, and they were afraid that one day, the new Song Dynasty regime would lead a large army to attack the government offices everywhere, and then kill people and set fire to make an uprising.

Fortunately, after the founding of the new Song Dynasty, it was only entrenched in Cangzhou, and had no intention of external expansion.

However, as Jiang Yin continued to import modern materials into Cangzhou, Cangzhou's advantages began to be revealed.

Not to mention the prosperity of commerce, nor the grandeur of the city, but the food alone can make the people in the surrounding counties greedy.

Although the Great Song Dynasty has been founded for more than ten years, and these ten years can be regarded as smooth weather, the lives of the people are really not rich, and after paying taxes, most of the ordinary people's lives are barely subsisting, and food and clothing are not counted.

But after Jiang Yin transported 300,000 tons of grain from modern times at once, the grain prices in Cangzhou plummeted faster than the eyelids of the common people.

The price of food falling every day has made many elderly people exclaim that Datong has arrived.

Where could these ancient people imagine the means of tuning grain in later generations, and the grain produced in one year in Jiangnan alone in later generations was enough for the entire population of the Great Song Dynasty to eat for three years.

In the 21 st century, the speed at which China stockpiles grain alone is that even if millions of tons of grain are exported to foreign countries every year, hundreds of thousands of tons of old grain will still be destroyed every year.

These old grains may have been stored for more than ten years, and they really cannot be used as food, and will eventually be destroyed, but this little loss will not affect the production of grain in future generations.

Because there was too much grain produced in later generations, in order to benefit the peasants, the government would buy the grain from the peasants at a higher price, part of which would be used as a reserve material and the other part would be used as a market circulation.

Just that part of the grain reserves, every city will have such a granary around it, and the specification of such a large granary is that even if the city does not have any way to produce food, the grain here is enough for the people in the city to live for twenty years.

In the eyes of the ancients, such a stroke was already a means to reach the sky.

Because of the cheap grain prices, more and more people went to Cangzhou to purchase grain, at first only a few counties around Cangzhou, and then gradually developed to the counties and districts of the surrounding states, and in the end, even the state capitals began to have people go to Cangzhou one after another to buy grain.

The temptation of grain for the people of the Great Song Dynasty was huge, and the New Song Dynasty Nationalist Letter promulgated by the New Song Dynasty regime stated that as long as you become a citizen of the New Song Dynasty, you can permanently enjoy the privilege of purchasing grain at a low price.

To become a citizen of the New Song Dynasty, you only need to have a local Cangzhou as a guarantee, and then bring your family to settle in Cangzhou, and you can get a Cangzhou ID card.

At this time, more and more people began to move to Cangzhou with their families, and there is a tendency to intensify.

Every day on the official road to Cangzhou, there are countless people, either riding carriages or pushing carts, the richer ones have ox carts, and the poorer ones carry cloth bags on their backs and walk with their feet.

In just three months, the population of the people around Cangzhou has surged, and almost every piece of land has been expropriated, and even some barren land on the mountains has been occupied as a residence.

There are also many people who want to go to Cangzhou, they also want to become New Song Dynasty nationals, and enjoy the benefits of buying grain at a low price, but they can't leave for various reasons, such as the landlord class, they already have a lot of land in other states and counties, and their lives are quite good, although the low-cost rice grain is very tempting, but this does not make them give up everything to go to Cangzhou.

Others were officials of the Great Song Dynasty, and these people had long been unaccustomed to the methods of the New Song Dynasty, and while they envied the low-cost grain in Cangzhou, they constantly punished the people under their rule for defecting to Cangzhou.

They have written many times, asking the imperial court to send troops to exterminate this puppet dynasty, so as not to continue to suffer disasters in the surrounding states and counties, but when the news enters the court, it is like a mud cow entering the sea, and there is no news at all.

After many times, they gave up, and had to punish the people more severely to go to Cangzhou without permission, and even the caravans for business were restricted, which barely slowed down the migration momentum of some people to Cangzhou.

But what they did also completely angered the people who hoped to live a good life, and for a time the contradictions between the officials and the people in the surrounding states and counties continued to intensify, and the people were not used to these Great Song Dynasty officials who did not let them go, and the Great Song Dynasty officials were not used to these people who ate inside and out......

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