Chapter 157: The Population Question
With the various indicators of the main body of the Jinzhou Fortress, Fu told Jinzhou Wei that "the Liaodong Peninsula has gradually become a safe area, and the people can live and work in peace and contentment."
Because the godson shrank his forces and ceded the three guards of Liaodong, and Mao Wenlong's troops attacked and occupied Gaizhouwei in the hinterland of the peninsula, plus the town of Dongjiang near North Korea. Cut off the only two official roads leading from Lezi to the Liaodong Peninsula. And so it goes. Deng Haonan's Liaodong Governor's Mansion had a natural barrier.
There was Mao Wenlong's department as a buffer zone between the Liaodong Governor's Office and the Shenyang Jurchens, so that the Liaodong Governor's Office could expand the actual control area outward with Jinzhouwei as the center. Fuzhou Wei is next to Jinzhou Wei, so the Liaodong Governor's Mansion rebuilt Fuzhou Wei and built Fuzhou Wei outpost defense fortress, which is a horn with Jinzhou Wei.
Fuzhou Wei did not arrange residents to settle in for the time being, so Fuzhou City did not expand its scale. On the basis of the original, the Liaodong Governor's Mansion was rebuilt into a brick city, which was square in shape. The circumference is meters, the height of the city wall is shorter than that of the Golden State Fortress, ten meters high, the thickness is the same as seven meters, and the female wall is two meters high.
There are three city gates, the name remains the same, the east is called Mingtong, the south is said to be Ying'en, the north is said to be Zhenhai, there are semi-circular urn cities as a barrier in front of the door, and there are high corner platforms built around. Because the west gate is near the sea, in order to facilitate the abandonment of Fuzhou Wei, the water gate was opened. There is a simple dock for boats.
Fuzhou Wei stationed 2,000 city defense troops, equipped with the Apocalypse five-year God of War artillery Tianmen, each corner platform is still equipped with four powerful 5,000 catties of Longwei fortress cannons.
Fuzhou City does not allow ordinary people to live. But the farmland outside the city is allowed to be cultivated by ordinary people. After the distribution of cultivated land in the Jinlu area, it could only meet the needs of 50,000 people, and more than 20,000 people were allocated to the area between Jinzhouwei and Fuzhouwei.
In the north of Fuzhou City, the common people are still not allowed to go to farm, because they are afraid that the shoes will suddenly come to fight the autumn wind, and they will be invested in the enemy after planting grain. In this way, only a radius of 100 miles between Fuzhou Wei and Jinzhou Wei is used as cultivated land. It also meets the needs of the people.
The common people did not have livestock to plough the fields. There were no seeds for farming, but when the common people built the Jinzhou Fortress, they earned a lot of silver from the Liaodong Governor's Mansion. At this time, the Liaodong Governorate purchased livestock, agricultural tools, and seeds from Gyeonggi and Shandong, and sold them to the common people at preferential prices, or rented them or took out loans, completing the primary economic operation mode under the control of the Liaodong Governorate.
As agreed. The Liaodong Governor's Office will exempt the common people under its rule from paying money and grain for three years, and after three years, implement a tax policy of 50 to 1 according to the actual harvest of each family, and promise never to increase the tax.
The exemption of money and food for three years is already a great gift for the common people. Three years later, the tax rate of 50 to 1 is the lowest tax in all dynasties. For a time, the production enthusiasm of the peasants and ordinary people was high, and they opened up the wasteland one after another, and for a time, the Jinlu area was full of hard-working people.
Of course. This ultra-low tax was aimed at the peasants, because they expected to receive a huge amount of revenue from agricultural implements, which later proved to be the wrong way to quench their thirst.
The peasant is at the bottom of social labor, that is, the foundation. Cutting down the peasants will make them have no money to buy things and their commerce will not be able to develop, and over time it will lead to a poor circulation of money and a deterioration in the economy. The Liaodong Governorate imposed a minimum symbolic agricultural tax on the peasants. This will allow the peasants to have food to eat and the society to stabilize. At the same time, the common people had surplus grain to sell for money, and then traded with the merchants, promoting the development of small merchants, and the big merchants ate the small merchants, and then the Liaodong Governor's Mansion ate the big merchants. In this way, a complete and continuous food chain is completed.
The Liaodong Governor's Mansion started with maritime trade, and the little silver for the common people. They didn't even look at it. The purpose of this is nothing more than to gain popularity. Gaining the approval of the common people is the real purpose of the Liaodong Governor's Mansion at the moment.
For the treatment of merchants, the Liaodong Governor's Office stipulated. Merchants in the local area are exempt from paying taxes for two years, and merchants who sell goods by sea are exempt from paying taxes for one year. Merchants with a monthly income of more than 50 taels of silver are subject to one-fifth of the commercial income tax, merchants with more than 300 taels are subject to one-quarter income tax, merchants with more than 500 taels are subject to one-third of the income tax, and more than 1,000 taels are subject to one-half of the income tax.
This kind of commercial tax regulation, compared with the Ming Dynasty government, has not changed the tax on large merchants, and it is still a spider tax, but for small and medium-sized merchants. This is undoubtedly a very favorable policy.
The original intention of the Liaodong Governor's Mansion was to prevent big businessmen from sitting on the throne. It threatened the interests of the Governor's Office, so it restricted the development of large merchants. However, what I didn't expect was to stimulate the development of small and medium-sized businessmen in disguise, so that the economic development model of the Liaodong Governorate developed in a balanced manner from the beginning, which played an immeasurable role in the stability of the Liaodong Governorate.
After pacifying the people, the Liaodong Governor's Mansion began to dig the foot of the wall everywhere.
Taking advantage of the continuous natural and man-made disasters in the coastal areas of the Ming Dynasty, the Liaodong Governor's Office sent warships to search for the people who fled for refuge and settled in Liaodong to enrich the population resources of Liaodong.
Why enrich the population?
This is because after the completion of the Golden State Fortress, the Golden Brigade area became Deng Haonan's only foothold on the mainland, and Deng Haonan also took the Golden Brigade area as the foundation to operate.
Liaodong produces coal, iron, and wood forests, and belongs to the Ming Dynasty to reach the whip, the development of warlords and separatist forces. The Ming court will not allow the emergence of warlord separatist forces in the country, one will destroy one, and two will destroy a pair. But Liaodong is a special exception, because of the threat of the Shenyang Jurchens and the need to maintain an alliance with North Korea, the attitude towards Liaodong has always been very generous, which is also the main reason why Mao Wenlong has developed from a small pirate to a marshal in a few years.
With the establishment of the Jinzhou Fortress, the Suer Jinlu area has become the Woshi of Ancang, and the peninsula advantage surrounded by the sea in Lan, Zhaogan is a commercial port that can conduct short-distance trade with the Ming Dynasty, Korea, Ryukyu, and Xinguo at the same time, and it is not an exaggeration to call it the trade center of the northern hemisphere.
The huge arms trade profits from Mao Wenlong, the Lu Gang, and the Chao Gang were the driving force that stimulated the Liaodong Governor's Office to carry out large-scale industrial construction. The completion of the Lushun Naval Base, the Lushun Shipyard is in a geographical advantage, so that the Liaodong Governor's Office will put the shipbuilding on the agenda.
Nanjing Longjiang Shipyard with its huge ship-building capacity, the first batch of 10 warships of the Exocet-class frigate has been completed and launched, and the craftsmen of Longjiang Shipyard are very hardworking, but because of the difficulty of harvesting timber, their enthusiasm has been affected.
The population in the south has increased more than ten times during the Ming Dynasty, and the increase in population naturally leads to an increase in timber consumption, especially near Nanjing, and shipbuilding timber needs to be shipped from Jiangxi, Guangxi, Yunnan and other places. Layers of pipe clamps have raised the price of wood, coupled with official inventory, which has caused the cost of building ships at Longjiang Shipyard to soar.
In addition, the shipbuilding timber of the South "after it was felled." It needs to be air-dried for a long time, more than a year, less than a few months, so it affects the speed of large-scale shipbuilding.
On the contrary, the North Convenience has no such effect. Because the best time for the battleship to harvest timber is winter, it can be used in ten days and half a month. Especially affected by the Xiaoice period, the north is cold, and the wood can be used after a few days of harvesting, saving a lot of time.
At the same time, the population in the north is small, there are many primeval forests, and the timber resources in eastern Liaoning are abundant, so it can be said that the unique advantages of Liangshun Shipyard are fully displayed.
For this reason, the Liaodong Governor's Office decided to transfer half of the shipbuilders in the Longjiang Shipyard to the Lushun Shipyard, so that the cost of building ships could be reduced by a quarter. The overall cost can save 200,000 taels of silver. And the 200,000 taels of silver were used to expand the Lushun shipyard. The construction of the Lushun base is just right.
And as a military significance, the Longjiang Shipyard is in Nanjing, after all, under the nose of the imperial court, it is easy to be subject to the imperial court. And Lushun Shipyard is at the door of its own house, and it is not safe to look at it!
More than 20,000 shipwrights from the Longjiang Shipyard were relocated to Lushun, and in this way, the population of Liaodong was increased by more than 70,000 at once. made the originally desolate Liaodong suddenly lively.
After the start of construction of the huge Arthur shipyard. According to the steel demand on the Exocet-class frigates, it is necessary to equip a steel mill with a production capacity of 10 tons of steel per month, a wrought iron plant with a production capacity of 15 tons per month, a coke plant with a production capacity of 500 tons per month, a coal plant with a production capacity of 500 tons per month, a sail cloth factory with a production capacity of 10,000 horses per month, a wood processing plant with a production capacity of 20,000 materials of wood per month, and a wrought iron rolling mill, nail suppression factory, paint factory, etc., all of which require a large number of labor.
Naval shipbuilding is a huge industry. In later generations, it was a sign of a country's comprehensive industrial level. Today, it is also a symbol of strength.
Therefore, so many factories need to be built to support the Lushun shipyard. All the Liaodong Governors wanted to help recruit more people and labor, so a wave of immigrants set off, and the Liaodong Governor's Office, under the banner of Deng Haonan, threw out the bait that had no shortage of food and clothing in Liaodong, and wantonly scraped the surplus labor force along the coast and even inland of the Ming Dynasty.
And now Deng Haonan's name is rumored to be miraculous in the land of the Ming Dynasty, and the common people who have no land and work are competing to join the Liaodong Governor's Office.
Originally, the Liaodong Governor's Office was very low-key, after all, collecting the common people would cause dissatisfaction with the local government. Unexpectedly, the result turned out to be very different, and the behavior of the Liaodong Governor's Office. Not only has it not been obstructed and sabotaged by the local government. On the contrary, local governments welcomed it with both hands, and many local officials even hired people and boats at their own expense to help recruit people.
It turned out that at this time, the Daming place could be said to have reached a crisis situation. The peasant uprisings that broke out in Shaanxi have spread all over the country, and the common people who are struggling near the line of life and death are ready to move, and they are about to escalate into mobs.
Therefore, when the local government officials were worried about not being able to resettle the common people at this time, and were worried that the common people would riot and revolt, the actions of the Liaodong Governor's Office were regarded by them as a lifesaver.
In ancient times, in order to protect the territory and the people, local officials would drive them to other states and counties by force as long as there were displaced people.
However, at this time, there were a large number of displaced people in each state, and it was no longer possible to solve the problem by driving each other, so they fully cooperated with the Liaodong Governor's Office to relocate the common people.
The people who came to Jinzhouwei saw the tallness and majesty of the Jinzhou Fortress, and the worry in their hearts was also much lighter. Coupled with the propaganda of the local Liaodong people, their admiration for Deng Haonan, the governor of Liaodong, has risen to a new level.
At this time, the Liaodong Governor's Mansion had been set up in the Jinzhou Fortress as the official external bureaucracy of Deng Haonan's collective. At the same time, Deng Haonan's first-class loyal and brave earl's mansion and the general of Zhengbei were opposite the Liaodong Governor's Mansion.
The common people gave them work in order to show their gratitude to Deng Haonan. To give them a chance to survive, the people of Liaodong spontaneously organized themselves and volunteered to help build the Zhongyong Mansion.
The Earl's Mansion was built very luxuriously, and the officials of the Secret Service such as Qian Shun were originally going to be built in accordance with the regulations of the Prince of Daming and the King of the County, and finally Lin Feng considered that the people of Jinzhou were next to it, and the imperial court was likely to send officials to come and inspect, so it was still low-key and finally built in accordance with the regulations of the Marquis' Palace. If the Beijing Railway Station during the Great Leap Forward was repaired in more than a month, then Deng Haonan's Zhongyong Uncle's Mansion took only 20 days. Of course. The wooden structure of the bungalow, not as good as the high-rise buildings of Beijing Railway Station, but the advantage lies in the exquisite carving and ingenious garden design, in order to express gratitude to that Haonan, the craftsmen; Do. The construction of the construction of the exquisite northern "enhanced version" of the "Suzhou Garden...... taste
Such a large-scale migration of ordinary people. The Liaodong Governor's Mansion was still sweating, because I was afraid that this would arouse the suspicion of the imperial court. Unexpectedly, the result turned out to be like this, and Lin Feng and the others immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
And yet, so many ordinary people. The pressure on the Liaodong Governor's Mansion is also very great.
The housing problem is nothing, and there is uncultivated land in the huge Golden State and Fuzhou. The problem of work can be solved immediately, but the problem of food is very serious.
In the staff meeting room of the Liaodong Governor's Mansion, Lin Feng convened Qian Shun, Yu Minglu, Zhang Chi and Liu Benran from the secret service to discuss countermeasures.
"How many?"
Lin Feng asked bluntly.
Liu Weiran looked around at everyone. Then he said: "As of yesterday evening, we have resettled 470 households for nine years, accumulating more than 50,000 people, and the average increase is more than 2,000 people per day. ”
Lin Feng smiled: "Only more than 50,000 people? We have a labor shortage of at least 20,000 people a year! ”
Lin Feng saw that everyone didn't know him, and immediately smiled: "This one by one, it seems that our opinions are a little different?" ”
Zhang Chi and Qian Shun and the others glanced at each other. The former said, "That's right! We have a huge labor gap, but labor is one thing. At best, there are only about 10,000 people who have come over, and most of them are dragging their families. It takes time for the house to be built, so we can't let them sleep on the street! ”
Qian Shun said: "It's early summer now. As the weather gets warmer, it's okay to sleep on the street for a few days.
But most of these people come to Golden State, and most of them are refugees, and food is a big problem. For the first two months, we needed free relief for the victims, and we waited until they had settled down. to work for us. ”
Lin Feng nodded and turned to Yu Minglu.
Yu Minglu had just come from the old camp to escort food, as well as military salaries and supplies.
"This time, the chief steward only allocated 200,000 stone of grain, 500,000 taels of silver, and a number of other military supplies."
"So little?"
Lin Feng and the others were stunned, now under the rule of the Liaodong Governor's Office, there are 300,000 soldiers and civilians, 200,000 stone grain, in addition to the military food and workers' food consumption, the rest is distributed to the people, and they need to save money to support it for two months.
Yu Minglu said: "Fifty or sixty thousand people are alive and well. The chief steward said that the stored grain was enough to feed the old camp for two years, but with the sharp increase in our expenses in Liaodong, the food was very tight. The chief steward is already trying to find a way to buy food. However, the grain in the interior of the Ming Dynasty is also in short supply, so the big housekeeper is ready to import it from Nanyang, but it will take time! ”
Lin Feng nodded and turned to the others. "Then what do we do?" In case the housekeeper doesn't get food, everyone can't go hungry! ”
Zhang Chi said: "The problem may be worse than imagined!" We are just counting the population in front of us, as the people of the mainland continue to come. Our food will dwindle faster! ”
Liu Weiran said worriedly: "The big housekeeper has allocated us an extra 100,000 taels of funds, and we can purchase a batch of food for emergency purposes first!" ”
Qian Shun shook his head and said, "It's not easy!" The imperial court has recently been troubled by the peasant army in Shaanxi, and all the grain has been transported to the front line of the Shanxi bandits, and the autumn grain will still come down for several months, and the surplus grain in the hands of the common people is not enough to eat! ”
Zhang Chi nodded and said, "Qian Shun is right!" There is a big drought in the south this year, thousands of miles of red fields, summer grain cannot be collected, and Zheng Zhilong is very noisy, and the imperial court needs to help the disaster in turn. It's impossible to expect to buy it domestically! ”
Lin Feng said worriedly: "I learned from Mao Wenlong that the weather has been cold in recent years, the autumn frost has come early, the autumn grain is basically a bad harvest, and there is no grain in North Korea!" ”
Yu Minglu asked, "What about the country?" ”
Liu Weiran said: "Zheng Zhilong uses the relationship between Li Dan and his wife to control Heianjing and only trade with Zheng Zhilong's fleet, so we can't get food from the country!" ”
Yu Minglu asked again: "What about Ryukyu?" ”
Qian Shun shook his head and snorted, and said, "Not to mention Ryukyu!" Where their is bigger. The food produced is not enough for everyone to eat, and they live on the relief food of the Ming Dynasty every year? ”
Zhang Chi shook his head and said with a wry smile: "Da Ming himself has no food to eat, and he also helps others, I really can't figure it out!" ”
Lin Feng sneered: "Those guys in the imperial court are just slapping their swollen faces and becoming fat, and they want to save face!" ”
Yu Minglu sighed: "Then we can only wait for the good news from the Nanyang side!" But listen to the big butler. Zheng Zhilong's strength has swelled greatly in the past six months, and on the southeast coast, from Beigang to Manila, the vast sea is full of his warships and caravans. Huang Zupei said that Zheng Zhilong was preparing for war, and the spearhead was pointed at the principal, so it was unknown for Nanyang to purchase grain! ”
The imperial court, Korea, the kingdom of Wei, and the Ryukyus, these close places can't get food, and if the Nanyang side wants to get food, they must first fight with Zheng Zhilong and break the situation.
The question was tricky, and everyone was lost in thought.
After a long time, Qian Shun glanced at everyone left and right, rolled his eyes, and said, "The Pacific Fleet is coming back soon." Even if the organization fights with Zheng Zhilong, it may not be able to get back the food in a short time, we have to figure out our own way! Lin Feng saw at a glance that Qian Shun had a way, and said, "What kind of pass?" Hurry up! ”
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