Chapter 475: Education and Immigration

In the fifteenth year of the Apocalypse, with the continuation of the reform, the imperial court also spent a huge amount of 3.8 billion yuan, and last year's fiscal tax revenue was 2.5 billion yuan, and there was a surplus of 800 million yuan. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoThe financial forecast for the fifteenth year of the Apocalypse is 3 billion, plus the surplus of 800 million yuan, the budget has reached 3.8 billion.

The huge amount of 3.8 billion yuan was spent, and the effect was also very obvious.

The reform provinces of the Ming Dynasty are all building on a large scale, and the construction of various civil infrastructure has been carried out one after another. At the same time, one of the most important construction is the construction of schools, and all reform provinces will implement a six-year compulsory education system.

The Normal University in Beijing has also trained a large number of teachers, and the six-year compulsory education has been fully rolled out. The six-year compulsory education of the Ming Dynasty also began to implement the free education system in the fifteenth year of the Apocalypse, and compulsory education completely became a non-profit educational welfare.

Although it is completely free, it will increase the cost of education for the imperial court, but it can also ensure that the children of ordinary people have a fair access to basic education, and at the same time, the children of those poor families can receive basic enlightenment education.

Zhu Youxiao felt that if the nation wanted to prosper and be stable for a long time, education must not be neglected, and he had never heard of any nation that was weakened because of education.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao attaches great importance to the six-year compulsory education of the Ming Dynasty, especially the training of teachers, and never makes up the number of indiscriminate teachers, and the training and completion review of primary school teachers are becoming more and more strict.

The Ministry of Rites also wrote a recital to Zhu Youxiao, reporting on the progress of the six-year compulsory education in the country. In terms of the construction of hardware facilities, it is still very smooth, after all, with a large amount of investment, the construction of primary schools in the reform areas has basically been completed.

On the one hand, some people are reluctant to send their children to school, especially in some areas.

On the other hand, in some remote mountainous areas, it is difficult to popularize basic compulsory education. On the one hand, some villages are relatively scattered, there are only a few students in the village, and it is not cost-effective to set up a primary school in several villages, and it is inconvenient for children to go to school, so they need to board in school.

In response to the first question, Zhu Youxiao thought about it and wrote down his instructions.

"Compulsory education is the basic obligation that Ming citizens should fulfill, and the local education departments should do a good job of ideological work for those who do not let their children go to school, and stubbornly order them to pay fines, and the amount of fines will be reconsidered."

Zhu Youxiao is still not surprised by this kind of parents who do not let their children go to school. Some parents don't care whether their children can be educated or not, and they want to let their children herd sheep at home as soon as possible, or work in workshops and factories.

For such parents, do ideological work first, and if you can't do it, you will be fined, and there will always be a way to solve it.

And for those remote mountainous areas and places where the population is not concentrated, Zhu Youxiao is also a little worried.

Should the schools be merged, or should they all be established as a single primary school?

If the school is combined, it is not convenient for the child to go to school, and it is necessary to live in the school. It is very important for children to live by their parents' side in early childhood, otherwise it will affect the development of emotional intelligence and even some psychological disorders. For children, the happiest thing is to stay with their parents, who don't need to do anything, as long as they are around to make them feel at ease. Children who are away from their parents will appear to be hesitant and uneasy.

Therefore, it is not possible to let children live a group life too early, which is very detrimental to children's growth.

"Can we move people out?" Zhu Youxiao thought to himself that at this time, the Ming Dynasty was about to occupy Australia and North America, and the industrial revolution was going to be carried out in China, and the lack of population became a problem.

This means that there is nothing wrong with the overall idea of moving people out of remote mountainous areas. Those people who stay in remote mountainous areas are relatively isolated from economic development, and at the same time, productivity is not easy to develop, transportation is also a problem, if the population is not relocated, then it is necessary to build roads or something for those remote mountainous areas, which will cost a lot of money, and it is not easy to solve the problem in terms of education.

It is better to move out at a low cost, and it can make full use of population resources. They are also beneficial to the people of the mountainous areas who have migrated. When the imperial court moved them out, it was natural to settle them. Land and houses will help them out.

The problem of the Ming Dynasty now is that there are more and more land resources, and the population cannot expand at the same rate. Instead of letting those people stay in the remote mountainous areas to cultivate some land, it is better to move out and resettle, even if they continue to engage in agriculture, they can also be given dozens of acres of land, so that they can give full play to their labor resources. If you immigrate to Australia or the Americas, it's no problem to give them a few hundred acres of land.

Nowadays, the imperial court not only has a large amount of land overseas, but also has a large amount of land in the mainland, and when the Jiangnan capital chaebol was confiscated, a large number of real estate was confiscated, and the cultivated land involved reached more than 80 million mu.

But the land was now owned by the imperial court, which could now distribute it to the people who had migrated from the mountains.

It just so happens that the Gangnam region, which is also a very suitable area for the development of industry, especially light industry, also needs a large number of labor.

There was really no land to allocate, and they could also be relocated to work as workers, so the imperial court settled their household registration and allocated them resettlement houses.

Daming does not need high housing prices in the future, after all, Daming has political sovereignty and is also the most advanced country in the world. The reason why China in later generations wants to raise housing prices is because it must be done that way, otherwise all the money in the hands of the people will run to buy imported cars, Apple mobile phones and other things, and the national wealth will flow out in large quantities. Only after China completes the sprint to high-end manufacturing, when various industries complete the crushing of the West, and domestic products are in full swing, China does not need high housing prices. When the time comes, the housing prices will be lowered, which will just stimulate the local commodity consumption market, so that the country's high-end manufacturing industry will appear a fantastic supermarket, so as to take off completely.

At this time, as the most advanced country in the world, Daming did not have the problem of the outflow of national wealth, so naturally there was no need for high housing prices, the government did not need to rely on land sales to maintain financial revenue, the cost of land was not high, and the construction of resettlement housing itself did not need too high a cost, and it was not a problem to distribute it to the people who moved to the city.

If the ordinary people who migrated from the mountainous areas become workers, the imperial court can solve the problems of household registration, housing, education, and medical care, and in terms of workers' income security, the imperial court has also introduced a security system, so that they do not need to be looked down upon like migrant workers.

After Zhu Youxiao thought about the idea clearly, he gave a variety of migration methods.

The first is to establish new villages, merge natural villages in areas with suitable conditions, establish new villages, and move the people of those natural villages to the new villages to form an administrative village.

The second is to move out, and the local government allocates land to establish administrative villages. This model requires local land resources and the local government.

The third is to migrate out, move to other places, and the court will directly distribute the land, and this model requires the court to have enough land.

The fourth is to migrate to the city as a worker, and the imperial court helps the people solve problems such as employment and housing resettlement.

The fifth plan is to emigrate overseas, and the imperial court will give them hundreds of acres of land, or thousands of acres of pasture.

These five options are decided by the local government and the people in the mountainous areas through consultation, and the people in the mountainous areas are allowed to choose voluntarily. In this way, the people in the mountainous areas will be relocated, their labor resources will be maximized, and the education of their children will be solved.

After the relocation, the cultivated land and forests in the mountainous areas will be nationalized, and a certain amount of compensation will be paid to the local landlords. Tenant farmers also allocated resources to them, and completed the allocation of basic resources under the placement of the imperial court, and the per capita resources would not be less.

After the cultivated land and forests in the mountainous areas are nationalized, the local government protects the primary forests and establishes state-owned forest farms for the management of artificial forests. For the more scattered and difficult to manage forest areas, the original landlord can continue to operate, or contract to individuals to manage.

The reason why Zhu Youxiao can designate such a policy is because after a series of expansions in the Ming Dynasty, a large number of resources have appeared.

Now it is completely possible to relocate those who lack resources, and then allocate resources to those populations, so that they can complete the allocation of resources and have a better environment.

As the saying goes, people move to live, trees move to die, poor change is good, change is clear.

Why are the people of the Loess Plateau and remote mountainous areas poor? It is because there is no resource allocation, or the resources they have are too biased, even transportation is a problem, and resources cannot be exchanged normally. People can only struggle in such a place, and they cannot effectively create wealth at all.

Change to a place with abundant resources, and the problem will be solved. When the common people have the basic resources that can give full play to their labor force and creativity, the wealth they produce will naturally increase, and the more social wealth they produce, the more taxes they will collect.

At the same time, the imperial court now feels that the population is insufficient, and the immigration of those mountain people who have not given full play to their labor resources can also fill this gap.

This immigration policy also happens to solve the problem of education and completes the allocation of resources, which can be described as killing multiple birds with one stone. Previously, the imperial court had moved a large number of people from northern Shaanxi to the northeast, northwest and even overseas regions, and now it has also received very significant results.

The living conditions of the people who have migrated from the Loess Plateau in northern Shaanxi have been greatly improved because of the abundant resources. In the past, food and clothing were all problems, but now it is not a problem at all, and no one is worried about food and clothing anymore.

Nowadays, this relocation of people in mountainous areas is mainly aimed at areas with many mountains and hills in the south, and there are also some areas in the north, which are also within the scope of the policy.

Zhu Youxiao has formulated a five-year resettlement plan to solve the problem of the migration of most people in mountainous areas within five years, and the rest will be followed up with a focus on cleaning.

This policy was quickly sent to the Cabinet, which began to promulgate and implement the policy after making specific improvements to the details of the policy.

For the common people, there is one of the most obvious differences between the imperial court before the reform and the imperial court after the reform, that is, the imperial court before the reform is like a court that does not act, while the imperial court after the reform is very effective.

At the local level, it was no longer a model of self-government, but the imperial court sent a large number of officials to manage it, and the management of society was also very detailed. The government has begun to intervene in the management of a series of social fields, such as water conservancy, agriculture, education, forestry, industry and commerce, and civil affairs.

In particular, there are state-owned enterprises, and the imperial court has also begun to do business.

Terbi is one of the large heavy industries in the north, all of which are run by state-owned capital. State-owned enterprises began to seize resources from private enterprises, and one of the largest areas was mining, and as the reform continued, private mines were seized and then taken over by state-owned mining companies. For those small minerals, they are re-tendered and contracted to private enterprises, but the tax is relatively high.

When state-owned enterprises took over those mines, they built railways and then used trains to transport ore, and the explosives used in blasting and other aspects were also very advanced.

Private mines are technologically backward and cannot make full use of labor resources, so they are indeed not suitable for large-scale existence. Some small mines are contracted out to give full play to the creativity of the people. Once private enterprises lose money by mining mines in the traditional way, they will naturally improve their mining technology.

In terms of forestry, the state has also nationalized a large number of mountain forests. In the past, transportation was not so developed, so the area of artificial forests in Daming was not so large, especially in the south and other regions, there were a large number of primary forests, usually near the river There are many artificial economic forests, and after cutting, the wood is thrown into the river and goes downstream.

In the north, there are a large number of barren mountains, and no one planted trees after they are cut down, which causes soil erosion, which in turn leads to flooding.

After Zhu Youxiao kicked off the reform, the barren mountains in the north were planted with trees by the imperial court, and state-owned forest farms were established. The native forests in the south have also been nationalized, most of them have been protected, and a number of wildlife sanctuaries have been established.

Daming is now expanding overseas, and there is no shortage of timber resources.

First of all, there are large forests in the Northeast and Siberia, and there are large timber resources in Indochina, Southeast Asia, and North America.

Therefore, Daming does not need to cut down those virgin forests and carry out artificial afforestation, there is no need for that at all, it is better to take advantage of the current environment to build more nature reserves.

As for those privately owned forest farms, those with an area of more than 1,000 acres must set up a forestry company and then pay taxes normally.