Since the beginning of winter and into March, 800,000 people have been relocated from Henan and other places, some to Annan, and some to Liaodong, which is not inefficient. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoHowever, after entering March, the number of immigrants has dropped sharply, and even if the imperial court tries its best, it is difficult to emigrate to the outside.

The reason is very simple, the most difficult winter has passed, March is spring, the weather does not freeze to death, the fields at home are just cultivated, as long as a few months, God will reward a little face, and you can live.

Don't look at the overseas as if it were a flower, but how many difficulties there are, everyone knows it, not to mention trekking thousands of miles and crossing the ocean in these years, even if it is trafficking thousands of miles, when you leave, it is like parting with life and death.

If you can't go, you won't go, the golden nest and the silver nest are not as good as your own kennel.

Thousands of years of ideas are really hard to change.

"I'm!"

Wu Dui jumped like thunder, threw all the teapots and bowls to the ground, took some of the imperial court grain, and signed a contract, promising to immigrate overseas, just because he was not in a hurry to take them away, and after half a month in Kaifeng, everyone ran away, and half of them walked away in two or three days.

"200,000 people were relocated last month, and even 100,000 people can't be saved this month, tell me, how can this be explained to the imperial court?" Wu Dui saw Shen Shi walking in, and hurriedly said: "Lord Shen, I am going to send someone to the village to arrest Ding, whoever does not agree to emigrate, take the flail and put it up!" ”

"Don't!"

Shen Shixing was taken aback, "I said Brother Junze, you can't do this, if you arrest people, you will be even more afraid, and in the end, the number of immigrants will only get smaller and smaller." ”

"How's that to be?" Wu Dui rolled his eyes and said with a smile: "I listen to Lord Shen, anyway, Shoufu blames it, and you will carry it, I don't worry!" ”

Shen Shixing almost vomited blood, daring to love this is digging a pit for himself! If I really provoke the teacher, can I bear this small body?

"Brother Junze, let's report to the teacher truthfully, let's try our best to find a way, the teacher will be reasonable."

After the two discussed, they hurriedly wrote down the situation into a handbook and gave it to Tang Yi.

"It's hard to leave your homeland, and that's true!" Tang Yi looked at it for a long time and shook his head.

He also thought that if he disrupted the old order in Henan, he would be able to quickly immigrate out, but he ignored that order would be restored quickly, and as soon as the pressure on survival was small, the people would be more willing to return to their original living conditions.

Could it be that there will be another big chaos and force the people to go to sea?

Not to mention such a cruel law, Tang Yi can't do it, even if he can be ruthless, if he can't do it, it will provoke a civil uprising and cause a lot of trouble.

This road is absolutely impassable, so what should be done?

Tang Yi thought for a while, picked up the text of the two-country treaty just sent from Annan, and after reading it for a while, Tang Yi had a smile on his face.

Here's the way!

Tang Yi immediately ordered the household department to start drafting a grain bill.

The content is very simple, that is, in order to cope with the food shortage in the Ming Dynasty, it is stipulated that all grain imported from overseas will be exempted from tariffs in the future, and at the same time, a subsidy of 300 yuan will be given for every 10,000 stone of grain. Merchants were encouraged to sell grain from overseas back to the Ming Dynasty.

In addition, anyone who trafficks more than 500,000 stone can become a meritorious meritor, and any meritorious merchant who has been recognized by the imperial court can participate in the operation of salt.

Tang Yi has reformed a lot of things, but salt has not been touched, but he has already had a case, and the Lianghuai salt industry must be reformed, the monopoly of salt merchants must be abolished, the price of salt will be reduced, and the salt tax will be raised.

In line with these two articles, it is necessary to bring in the power of other merchants, but there must always be a name, and it cannot be said that anyone can deal in salt!

Transporting grain from overseas, contributing to the imperial court, and obtaining franchise rights are justified, and no one can say anything.

As soon as this grain purchase bill came out, many businessmen gathered in the capital got the news, and they all ran to Lei Qi's residence, one by one, with a hippie smile on their faces, nodding their heads.

"Seventh Master, Seventh Brother, Seventh Uncle......" is called differently, but there is only one meaning, that is, what is the mystery of this bill!

"Hahaha, everyone, how much profit the salt industry has, I won't say much, you know very well, if you don't want to become a salt merchant, then you are not a businessman!"

The big guys stretched out their thumbs together and hit the nail on the head, which was so right!

"Yuanfu's meaning is very clear, if you want to run the salt industry, you have to transport grain from overseas, these years in the north of the disaster continues, and the south is widely planted mulberry cotton, grain production is getting less and less. There is less food, but the population is more. I just saw the statistics of the household department, and the current population of Daming has exceeded 90 million, plus the hidden black households, as long as it exceeds 10,000 people! ”

According to official records, the peak occurred in the first year of Yongle, about 11 million households, more than 66 million people.

Obviously, this data is not credible, not to mention that Daming has a complex household registration system, and there are a large number of black households alone, which is difficult to calculate.

Of course, not all registered hukou are true, for example, the military households in the nine sides have a very large shortage, and the actual number of people is only five or six percent, or even three or four percent.

There are increases and decreases, and the overall estimate is that the population of the Ming Dynasty is still increasing.

With Tang Yi's vigorous reforms, the abolition of military households, the implementation of the Qingzhang acres of land, and the reduction of tax burdens, various measures have increased, and the household registration of the imperial court has increased to about 15 million, with a population of 90 million, which is more than 20 million more than in the first year of Yongle.

But this is by no means the peak of the Ming population, and the actual estimate is at least about 130 million.

One person has one mouth, how much food has to be consumed every day, I can't imagine that in a disaster year, tens of millions of people have been affected by the disaster, and millions of people have been homeless, how much worry and effort have to be spent on this family......

Lei Qi sighed for a while, and changed his words, "These things are all things that Yuan Fu has to worry about, and they have little to do with us, what is worth caring about is business opportunities!" ”

"What the Seventh Master said is reasonable, but we don't understand the situation overseas, how to buy grain from overseas countries, and how to traffic it back?"

"Wrong, very wrong!"

Lei Qi laughed, "How much grain do those small countries in the South Seas have, how can they easily sell it to Daming?" When you go, aren't you afraid of being slaughtered? ”

Suck!

Everyone's faces changed.

Lei Qi didn't wait for everyone to worry, and said with a smile: "Does the big guy know about the opening of the Chinese law?" ”

"Of course I know, isn't it just to transport grain and grass to the northwest border towns in exchange for salt and salt!"

"Do you know about Shangtun?"

Some people also nodded, "Some people feel that it is really troublesome to transport grain from the mainland, so they rent land on the border, cultivate the fields, and hand over the grain to the army in exchange for salt." ”

After finishing speaking, some people with their heads turned quickly, and they slapped their thighs in a hurry.

"Seventh Master. Do you mean that we should also follow the example of Shangtun and go overseas to Tuntian? ”

"Clever!"

Lei Qi stroked his palms and laughed, in Overseas Tun, the land in Nanyang is fertile, three crops a year, three stones of rice per acre of land, deducting various consumptions, at least one stone can be sold.

If 10,000 acres of land are transported back to Daming with 10,000 stone of grain a year, you can get a subsidy of 300 yuan.

Even if the grain is not profitable, this subsidy is very attractive.

What's more, with the value of these people here, if you don't get more than 100,000 mu, are you embarrassed to say that you are in business!

"Seventh Master, we don't lack money, but where is the field, and where are the people who need to farm the fields?"

"Hahaha, this is not all ready-made, Annan signed a contract with Daming, allowing the people of Daming to go to Annan to do business and buy land, although Annan is a small land, but the cultivated land can be at least 35 million mu, and it is easy to buy 100,000 mu of land from Annan. It just so happened that the north had suffered a disaster in recent years, and you recruited farmers from the north to farm in Annam, and then sold the grain back to the Ming Dynasty, and by the way, you won the right to operate salt. ”

Lei Qi said, wiped his chin, and laughed: "You calculate, how much benefit this is, I'm going to drool." ”

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The price of land in Annan is much cheaper than that of Daming, and to put it mildly, it is actually half grabbed and half bought, and it doesn't cost a few dollars. As for recruiting farmers, providing disaster relief from the imperial court, and agitating for immigrants, there was not much that could be done. But businessmen are different, as long as they have money to make, they have ideas to fool the common people.

Using the disaster victims, in overseas tuntian, first helped the imperial court to relieve the disaster, can get a subsidy, to farm overseas, can collect a rent, transport back to Daming, the price of grain to make a profit, freight subsidy is a sum of money.

In addition, agricultural tools, cloth, porcelain, furniture, pen, ink, paper, inkstone, and books were delivered to Annam...... And make money.

The most important thing is to participate in the salt business and get a share of the salt profits.

And Annam is not a poor mountainous area, there are timber, mines, fishing grounds, and even people! The Ming Dynasty has issued a decree prohibiting the existence of slaves and semi-slaves, but the decree does not interfere with foreign people.

If the women of Annan are brought back to Daming and acted as maidservants, many big families will be very welcome! In the Tang Dynasty, weren't there Silla maids, Kunlun slaves? Why can't the Ming Dynasty have an Annan maid?

A cursory calculation shows that there are no less than a dozen places where you can make money.

No wonder Lei Qidu's eyes are red, there are really business opportunities everywhere!

The businessmen came to the spirit at once, and as soon as they inquired, it was the Beiyang Company that was in charge of Annan affairs at the moment, and then inquired, obediently, the Beiyang Company was run by the old Tang, and I heard that the little Tang was also sent to Annan.

Obediently, the place that Lord Motosuke has long taken a fancy to, how can you let it go!

For a time, the merchants took the merchant ship of the Beiyang Company and immediately went south, just as the merchants in the southeast had arrived in advance, the big guy's eyes were red, Annan was still in the war, the people fled, the land was barren, and many places were almost the price of cabbage, not to mention the support of the Beiyang Company and the Ming Xiongbing.

It's just a money grab!

In an instant, the merchants threw out tens of millions of yuan, and almost all the plains on both sides of the Red River fell into their hands. Of course, the nobles of the Mo Dynasty are still very reluctant, but what can they do, the businessmen take the contract, and the land is not in vain, let's work together, nod and make money together, if you don't nod, General Liu will look for you!

As soon as he heard that Liu Xian was a veteran ruffian, Annan's subordinates obediently signed the contract, and in less than half a year's effort, Annan almost became the pocket of the Ming businessman...... (To be continued.) )