When Xu Guangqi walked out of the Heart Cultivation Palace, he was very excited. For many years, he has studied water conservancy and agriculture, and he has seen the problem of food supply in the north of the Ming Dynasty.

Every year, the Ming Dynasty has to mobilize a large amount of grain from the south to the north, and there is a great loss on the route of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. In the Jiangnan region, because of the development of the commodity economy, a large number of cash crops were planted on the land, and the grain in the south of the Yangtze River could not be self-sufficient at this time.

At this time, even the grain in the south of the Yangtze River had to be supplied from Huguang.

The lack of food in the north has had an extremely huge impact on national strength.

Although Xu Guangqi is a member of the Donglin Party, he is a rare talent in the Donglin Party, and the crisis of the Ming Dynasty has also seen a part.

At this time, the emperor wanted to rectify the agriculture in the north, and there were many funds, which made Xu Guangqi not excited.

In addition, at this time, Zhu Youxiao had not yet begun to exclude the Donglin Party in the court, so Xu Guangqi naturally directly took over the appointment of the emperor and began to work as a deputy for Sun Chengzong in the Royal Agricultural Company.

With Xu Guangqi joining, Sun Chengzong was immediately much easier. On this day, when Sun Chengzong entered the palace to face the saint, he praised Xu Guangqi in front of Zhu Youxiao.

"Xu Guangqi is a person who is very experienced in reclamation, and in the opinion of the old minister, the agricultural company can be handed over to Xu Guangqi to be in charge, and it must be in order." Sun Chengzong said to Zhu Youxiaojian, "The old minister just took out his hand and rectified the Beijing camp first." ”

"Teacher, how should Jingying be rectified?" Zhu Youxiao asked.

"Although there are 300,000 people in the Beijing camp today, there are not many people who can fight. In Yichen's opinion, it is better to cut out the old and weak and reclaim the military camp on the outskirts of the capital. In this way, the problem of the old and weak in Beijing can be solved. In addition, the Jingying took the imperial court salary, and the military tun hardly had to pay any cost. Sun Chengzong described the rectification plan in detail, "When the military tun has reclaimed enough land, not only can the imperial court get rid of the burden of military salaries for these soldiers, but also increase the military income for the imperial court every year." ”

"That's a good idea." Zhu Youxiao's eyes lit up and he clapped his hands and praised. The barracks of the soldiers in Beijing were all encroached upon by merchants, and it was not easy to get paid in the city. It's better to let the soldiers of the Beijing camp go to Tuntian! In this way, the life of the soldiers in the capital camp will be better, and the imperial court can also reduce the burden and increase the income.

The most important thing is that this kind of reclamation does not require Zhu Youxiao to pay a penny, and it is all supported by the imperial court's finances. Although the income also belongs to the household department, the imperial court is not the emperor's. After cleaning up the Donglin Party, the emperor will naturally have the final say in terms of finance, and now let the Donglin Party jump for a few days.

So Zhu Youxiao listened to Sun Chengzong's construction and handed over the Royal Agricultural Company to Xu Guangqi to manage. At the same time, look for an opportunity to rectify the Beijing camp.

After Xu Guangqi took over the management of Sun Chengzong, he relied on his experience in reclamation, as well as agricultural technology and water conservancy technology, to manage the reclamation activities of the Royal Agricultural Company in an orderly manner.

"Your Majesty, Lord Xu said that more and more people have come to sign up for the reclamation, and I am afraid that it will not be long before the number of people required for the first phase of the reclamation plan will be exceeded." Li Jinzhong took a note on this day and reported to Zhu Youxiao.

"Too many?" Zhu Youxiao feels that this is a good thing! Wouldn't it be possible to complete the reclamation smoothly! After taking the fold and looking at it, I realized that the situation was a bit overdone.

Because the conditions offered by the Royal Agricultural Company are too attractive to the common people, you must know that many tenant farmers nowadays, many of them only have a dozen acres of land, and the tenant rent to be paid is as high as half of Cheng dù. In contrast, the Royal Agricultural Company paid only 30% of the tenant rent and had 30 acres of land.

Even if the tenant rent is as high as 50 percent, if there is 30 acres of land, the peasants can live a good life if they develop a side business. What's more, there are only 30% tenants. Moreover, these lands will also be water conservatory. Having water conservancy facilities often means ensuring harvest in drought and flood. Although it is not so absolute to be able to ensure harvest in drought and flood, it is much more resilient to disasters. Moreover, the emperor also promised to waive the tenant rent in the event of a disaster, which was even more attractive to the tenant farmers.

Even some yeoman farmers hope to be able to merge their land into the Huangzhuang because of their poor land and water conservancy facilities.

As a result, overcrowding has been created.

"The proposed purpose is to let Xu Guangqi resettle the displaced people first, and the tenant farmers who have land and can be cultivated will not be recruited first. In addition, if the yeoman farmers are willing to merge into the imperial village, the tenant rent will be changed to 20%. Zhu Youxiao said to Li Jinzhong.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Li Jinzhong picked up the brush, wrote the holy decree, polished it, and then sent it out outside the palace.

The reclamation of the Royal Agricultural Company was indeed surprisingly smooth, and not only homeless people came from all over the world to invest, but even tenant farmers and yeoman farmers were attracted to it. There was no shortage of labor immediately, and the reclamation activities were in full swing.

Xu Guangqi recruited 173,000 households according to the 521 acres of land in the first phase of the reclamation plan.

In terms of the management of the imperial village, the eunuchs in the palace used to be in charge. Later, the phenomenon of oppression of tenant farmers appeared, so reforms were carried out, and the administration was handed over to the local government.

The administrative management of the Huangzhuang this time is still the responsibility of the local government, but the palace has intervened. Moreover, in terms of silver folding, it was directly canceled. Unlike in the past, tenant farmers also transported grain to the designated place of the government for folding, and then exchanged it for grain silver and handed over to the emperor's internal money. Instead, grain is levied directly, and at the same time, tenant farmers are levied as much as they produce, and there is no such thing as a fixed amount.

In other words, if a tenant farmer's land can produce 2 stone of wheat per mu, then it will be levied at the rate of one-third of the 2 stone wheat. If only 1 stone is produced, it will be levied at the rate of 1 stone.

The specific amount of grain to be handed over will be verified when the summer harvest and autumn harvest are due.

The appointment of the administrative management of Huangzhuang is the responsibility of the Royal Agricultural Company, and the implementation of the Baojia system in Huangzhuang, that is, one chief of one hundred households and one village of ten guarantees.

It is equivalent to 30,000 acres of land in each Huangzhuang.

An agricultural technician is stationed in each Huangzhuang, who is responsible for guiding agricultural production and organizing tenant farmers to maintain water conservancy facilities during their leisure time. At the time of the summer and autumn harvests, the Royal Agricultural Company sent personnel to weigh the grain harvested by the peasants uniformly, and then determine the amount of grain to be paid. The grain handed over was sold directly to the grain store in charge of Cao Jinyu. At the same time, Cao Jinyu was also responsible for purchasing these grains.

At the same time, every Huangzhuang planted three acres of sweet potatoes in spring, and Xu Guangqi also very much agreed. Three acres of sweet potatoes are enough for farmers to survive for half a year in a disaster year.

In addition to the 5.21 million mu of wasteland to be reclaimed this time, there are about 3 million mu of land in Huangzhuang before, and only 200,000 taels of silver are collected every year.

The benefits of this were obviously taken away by the merchants.

Therefore, these 3 million acres of Huangzhuang land have also been merged into the Royal Agricultural Company for management. The same system of protecting the armor was also implemented, and at the same time, the water conservancy was repaired, and the tenant rent was also set at 30%, which was no longer sent to the government for discounting.

The rectification of the 3 million acres of Huangzhuang land does not require too much cost, and the location of these Huangzhuang is better, and the harvest is very good if the water conservancy is repaired again. Even if it is a yield of 1 stone per mu, it can collect 1 million stone of grain in a year, and according to the price of 0.7 taels of silver and 1 stone, you can earn 700,000 taels of silver every year.

Zhu Youxiao was waiting, looking for an opportunity to rectify the Beijing camp. As long as the Beijing camp is rectified, he will be able to control the Beijing camp in his hands. Coupled with the Tengxiang Four Guards in his hand, Zhu Youxiao really has the capital to compete with the Donglin Party.