Chapter 48 Land and Population (2)

"The future development will definitely offend many scholars and large landowners, but as long as we have enough strength to withstand them or overwhelm the caste advantage, then there is nothing to fear." Wu Qi remembered the scene when he knelt down to thank hundreds of migrant family members some time ago. Large rural families who give money and rent land to people with more land and less land are nothing short of explosives, and almost instantly hundreds of families of friends and relatives of partners come to sign immigration contracts. The good credit and huge strength of the crossing have led to an increase in the number of families coming to queue up to sign contracts every day.

"Migration comes from active overpopulation and passive overpopulation. The active classification is that the population is overmultiplied, exceeds the upper limit of environmental productivity, or unemployment due to a decrease in labor demand relative to the past due to increased labor productivity. The passive ones are classified as famines caused by sudden declines in environmental productivity, such as soil erosion, land salinization, desertification, drought, floods, snowstorms, or migration due to force majeure such as wars and plagues. "We need a large number of bankrupt and unemployed tenant farmers to complete the development of Dongyi Island. Fujian Road is a huge source of immigration, with millions of tenant farmers and bankrupt yeoman farmers under pressure to migrate. And it only took us a few days to move them to Dongyi Island, which was the lowest cost and most efficient. The teachers, students and medical staff we sent to Fujian Road easily became highly appealing mobilization experts.

The resettlement work went smoothly after the students of the academy who were officials came forward to guarantee the way out with political axes, paid settling-in allowances in advance, publicized the return of immigrants in the early stage, hired craftsmen and craftsmen to work in shipyards and port cities at high prices, and issued resettlement terms and contracts. The 500 acres of land (modern acres rather than Song acres) of land that was fulfilled by the contract made many customers wait in line for the immigration boat. Although the contract we signed with them clearly stipulates that the Dongyi Island Development Company will bear the land reclamation and various costs in the first ten years, they are also very enthusiastic about these lands, which are only given to them as perpetual tenants, not ownership.

After all, in the eyes of bankrupt farmers, there is no difference between perpetual tenant rights and ownership. The grain and cash crops produced every year on 500 acres of developed land can pay off the resettlement fees and various low-interest loans at least three years, after which the whole family can live a rich peasant life. The attraction is almost as good as letting their whole family move into a landlord's house and live the life of a landlord. The loan we promised is given according to the population, regardless of gender, old and young, 100 yuan per person, and the immigration fee is 50 yuan per person, which is equivalent to a loan of 60,000 wen per person, that is, 60 yuan, or converted into 300 buckets of rice, which is 3.6 tons of grain. This immigration price is equivalent to 18,000 soft girl coins according to the purchasing power of later generations. It's enough for everyone to eat for a year. As long as they reclaim the land and minerals of Dongyi Island according to our plan, it will not take three years to pay off all the loans. Even if you add the loan to buy the cement, masonry and other building materials we produce, build your own house and other expenses, we provide free basic medical insurance for residents and three years of basic compulsory education. Three-year tax exemption, three-year exemption from labor and so on, it will not take 5 years, and 5 million immigrants are not a problem. Sun Chang patted his chest and picked up the ticket.

"Aren't the statistics you talking about grossly distorted? I suspect that there is no such serious human-land contradiction at all. 5 million people is not 5 million Chinese cabbage, even if you search for homeless people and tenant farmers from the six roads in the southeast, it is impossible to 5 million in 5 years! You must know that the landlords have very strict control over the personal freedom of the tenant farmers. Although the degree of personal dependence is not comparable to that of serfs and subordinate peasants. But the tradition of hukou management without the right to move is not so easy to break. Gao Jing was very skeptical.

"We are not targeting the legitimate taxpayers recorded in the official household register, but the hidden Dingkou and landless people who have avoided the disaster. The concealment of Dingkou stemmed from the increasing burden of taxation, labor, and apportionment on the lower households by the imperial court, and the endless influence of local tyrants on the land population**. We will not rob local officials of their political achievements and tax bases, and we will definitely not rob them of their jobs, and we will also greatly help them solve the instability and displaced people in the areas under our jurisdiction.

It is not a matter at all to offend the big landlords who occupy the displaced people and the large number of bankrupt yeoman peasant laborers. As long as we do a good job in our relations with the local officials, buy people's hearts and keep up with the bombardment of public opinion, and take the action of popularizing the agricultural revolution in place, I am afraid that when the time comes, the big landlords who will taste the sweetness and know the power will ask us to emigrate more and reduce the number of small and medium-sized landlords and yeoman farmers who are vying land with him, or buy a large number of agricultural materials to increase our own income. In the face of money, labor is nothing, and China lacks nothing but labor. Sun Chang proudly said that he was wealthy.