At this time, China, especially the rich areas south of the Yangtze River, was narrow and densely populated, and was already on the verge of a population explosion. Sun Yuan remembered that later generations had read an article by a Ming man who talked about the issue of family planning, which seemed to say that a wealthy family had 100 acres of fertile land. But because there were too many sons, after the family was separated, each person could only get ten acres of land, and he immediately became an ordinary farmer.

The son passed on to the grandson, and eventually, the whole family became a poor peasant. This big family has decayed in just a few decades.

In medieval Europe, no matter how much land a nobleman had and how rich he was, after his death, the family property would only be passed on to the eldest son, rather than evenly distributed among everyone. In this way, the family can maintain its longevity. As for the other sons, they were all kicked out of the house to fend for themselves. These children of the nobility, who had no inheritance, either became monks or joined the crusades to gain wealth and titles on the battlefield.

Unlike the primogeniture system in the European Middle Ages, the Chinese are the most affectionate. As a result, the population grows and the family estate can no longer provide a decent enough life for all. The result of everyone falling back into poverty at the same time is usually accompanied by violent social upheaval, and in the final analysis, it is not because of the contradiction between man and land.

However, this contradiction is not prominent in the Jiangnan region.

It turned out that with the flourishing of handicrafts and textiles, capitalism sprouted and produced workshops, canals, and transportation. CC [marshmallow]

Therefore, in the south of the Yangtze River, there was no peasant uprising in the Ming Dynasty.

Not only that, but because Caoyun, Yanyuan, and Textile absorbed most of the population, the rural labor force was obviously insufficient

。 Ordinary people work on the canal or in the weaving mill for a month, how can they get more than one or two silver wages, heavy physical labor, and even an astonishing three taels a month. In the countryside, after a year, after deducting seeds and court taxes, it is only a small amount of money in the end. Working outside for a month is equivalent to digging in the ground for a year. As a result, it is impossible to talk about the enthusiasm of farmers for farming.

Therefore, in an economically developed area like Yangzhou, there are already signs of a shortage of strong labor in the countryside. This situation has a bit of a modern flavor.

If history does not change, and if it continues in this way, after a few decades, at least in the Jiangnan region, the germ of capitalism will further develop and grow.

Seeing this, Sun Yuan's heart moved, and he immediately realized that this was a good opportunity to resettle the displaced people.

Before the court's reward came down, he was now just a small officer of a thousand households, and it was quite a headache to solve the problem of eating so many people. He also thought about this, and when he was promoted, he let Dahewei and the others come out a little bit by a thousand households, .cc [marshmallow] was really at that time, and a year had passed. The specific arrangements of so many people have to be made by himself.

Therefore, he simply went to the three prefectures and counties of Taizhou, Gaoyou, and Xinghua to discuss with the local officials whether he could rent some land from the peasant households to cultivate. Ningxiang is located at the junction of these three states and counties, and all three have the land of the military office, and everyone has daily dealings.

Sun Yuan defeated the thief army in Chuzhou, and captured Gao Yingxiang alive, and his prestige was flourishing. And rewarding agriculture is the national policy of the Ming Dynasty, and the three local officials are having a headache for the peasants who are greedy for work to make money and abandon a large number of wastelands. Ancient officials had a strange theory: the land was limited, the wealth of the world was fixed, and commerce did not bring actual wealth. All, valuing agriculture and suppressing commerce is an unspoken rule in the imperial court's policy. Most of the indicators for evaluating the performance of a local government are how much land has been newly reclaimed and how much grain has been harvested. Peasants do not farm because they go out to work, and the evaluation of local officials is not good. But now the imperial court implements the "One Whip Law", and only cash silver is collected for taxation, and the peasants only need to hand over the full amount of silver when they pay the tax. If people don't farm, you can't face it.

Therefore, no matter how much the officials encouraged the people, and even held a grand ceremony on the day of the beginning of spring, pretending to plough the land for a few ploughs, the common people did not have any enthusiasm for growing grain.

Seeing Sun Yuan's request, the official seals of the three prefectures and counties immediately nodded in agreement. The two sides hit it off, and after the magistrate agreed to go down, he cleared the land, and they came forward to let the peasants lease the land to Sun Yuan. Sun Yuan, on the other hand, was responsible for bearing all the imperial grain taxes for the peasants

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As for the peasants, they were also happy to lease the abandoned land to Sun Yuan. First, the land was abandoned, but the taxes paid were not a penny, since the military households were willing to bear this expenditure, why not. Moreover, the land needs to be taken care of, and if you don't plough it for a few years, the weeds that breed can absorb the nutrients in the field. If you want to restore it in the future, you don't know how much labor it will take and how much fertilizer will be dropped. There are military households to plough the land, at least to maintain the fertility of the land.

In this way, Sun Yuan's land lease has become a win-win situation for everyone.

Moreover, because Sun Yuan single-handedly handled the food and accommodation problems of the military households, the net worth and lives of more than 10,000 people were firmly tied to him from then on, and they were all for the rest of their lives. In the words of later generations of computer games, loyalty has been filled.

After solving the problem of food for the military households, the housing problem will also be solved in the next few months, and Sun Yuan breathed a long sigh of relief.

On the way back from Taizhou, Sun Yuan also walked with great ease.

After thinking about it, he would go north to serve in Xuanfu a year later, and he still wanted to bring all his military households over. Looking back now, it's still a bit naïve. In the future, the north is full of battlefields, and it is so rotten that it is out of control, and even Gyeonggi is desolate because of the construction of slaves every year. These people are all gone, and survival is in question. It's better to stay in Ningxiang and run your own base camp.

Of course, the army still has to be brought over. Without these capable subordinates, even if he inherited Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong Army, he would be a bare-rod commander.

Now that the Ningxiang Army has been replenished, it is still two thousand. However, there are only six or seven hundred veterans who have been trained for half a year before, and the rest are all newcomers. Even if he is a supplementary spearman in Chuzhou, although he has seen blood, according to the standards of the Ningxiang Army, he is still unqualified. Just take advantage of this period of free time to train. After a year to go to the north, you will be able to fight immediately.

As far as Sun Yuan knew, a year later, that is, in the tenth to eleventh year of Chongzhen, the Manchu Qing in the northeast would move the Ming Dynasty to launch an invasion on an unprecedented scale. At that time, as Lu Xiangsheng's right-hand man, as his future heir, Sun Yuan naturally had to fight a battle with the Manchus.

Moreover, according to real history, Lu Xiangsheng would have died in that battle. Sun Yuan was very grateful for Lu Xiangsheng's support, and wanted to try to see if he could change history and save his life.

Today, the first priority of the Ningxiang Army is to train the army.

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