These areas, especially Anhui, Hubei, Shandong, and other places, have suffered great damage to agriculture, industry, and commerce because of the damage caused by the war.

These are all serious effects on the financial revenues of the empire in these regions!

In addition, in order to restore the people's livelihood and let the people recuperate, the empire generally implemented tax reduction and even tax exemption policies for the areas that were seriously damaged by the war in the past few years, such as the Jiujiang area, which was repeatedly contested by the Taiping Army, the Qing Army, the Zhenhu Army and the Chinese Army.

You must know that Jiujiang is an important agricultural, industrial and commercial base in northern Jiangxi, and this was damaged by such a serious war, which naturally greatly affected the financial revenue of the empire.

In order to restore agricultural production in the Jiujiang region, the empire recruited landless people from other places to emigrate over and distribute land for them to cultivate, and on the other hand, it also adopted a support policy of tax exemption in the first year and half tax in the second year, trying to restore the vitality of Jiujiang and other northern Jiangxi regions as soon as possible.

Due to the devastation of the war, the total amount of agricultural taxes collected in the empire was actually less than that of the pre-Qing dynasty.

However, the empire benefited from the great development of industry and commerce, and the tax revenue of industry and commerce increased significantly, and at the same time led to a sharp increase in customs revenue.

These are the reasons why the imperial tax revenue increased significantly compared to the Manchu tax revenue in the Xianfeng period!

After all, after the Manchu Qing Dynasty eliminated the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in history, they were able to come up with a so-called Tongzhi Zhongxing, and there is no reason why he Lin Zhe did worse after unifying China.

Hence the reunification of China. In fact, it will have more fiscal revenue than in the Xianfeng period to support a series of imperial administrations such as immigration.

Since there is not much of a problem with resources, what are the other factors that limit the hoarding of large-scale migration?

Naturally, it's the official organizational ability!

For the nascent empire. Most of the officials are actually not very competent, and the upper officials are better. Although they may not have a good background, many of them are talented, people who are not in the era of the imperial examination or simply businessmen, and there are few people like Jiang Daoquan who were born in the former Qing Dynasty, but these people used to be the staff of the Lin Zhe shogunate, although they are not very good at doing eight articles, but their ability to do things is okay.

And the middle-level officials of the empire, that is, the heads and directors of the county orders, prefects, and provincial departments. Most of these officials are from the former Qing Dynasty, and most of these people have the fame of the former Qing Dynasty, and the prefects and counties are often from the former Qing Dynasty.

However, although these people have a good ability to do Bagu articles and have experience as officials, it is still difficult for them to adapt to the current new political system of the empire.

So much so that quite a lot of local officials are heavily dependent on the personnel of their subordinate departments to handle official business!

In terms of governance ability, most of the local officials of the empire were unqualified!

However, Lin Zhe is not able to solve this kind of trouble for the time being, after all, it is impossible for tens of thousands of officials who have received modern education to fall from the sky to him.

So although most of the local officials are not very capable, Lin Zhe has to pinch his nose and continue to use it.

Fortunately, the capabilities of the central departments of the empire are still quite good, and there are central departments to do guidance. Even if those local officials were to promulgate and do it on the fly, it is estimated that there would not be much of a problem.

Regarding the matter of immigrating to the Tunbian, Lin Zhe allowed it, but he asked Bi Yutong to start a pilot project first. After finding out the appropriate experience, we will implement it on a large scale.

After getting Lin Zhe's permission, Bi Yutong quickly took action. The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of the Cabinet will take the lead, and then the Ministry of Civil Affairs will cooperate. Started the early pilot project of migrants' hoarding.

Due to the lack of experience at the beginning, the preparation in all aspects was not very sufficient. In addition, Bi Yutong urgently hoped to see results in a short period of time, so as to make a note in his political performance book, so the scale of the first phase of immigration was not large, the first phase of immigration was about 10,000 people, and the immigrants mainly came from landless farmers in Zhili and Shandong provinces.

The resettlement site is near Shenyang (Shengjing) in the northeast.

These newcomers will receive large quantities of land from the state at very low prices, which are not granted free of charge, but at very low prices, about one-tenth of the price of land in the interior, and will be allowed to repay the crops they harvest over a period of 10 years.

At the same time, the preferential policy of tax exemption for the first two years and tax for the second three and a half years will be implemented for a total of five years!

Then the government will also provide farmers with seeds, necessary farm tools, cattle rental and other means of production, of course, of course, it is not free, but the price is quite low, and it is allowed to be repaid in installments over many years.

These are all preferential policies to reduce the difficulty of survival for new immigrants, after all, the empire has only given them a large piece of wasteland, if they don't provide them with the necessary support, let alone pay taxes to the empire, whether they can survive is still a problem.

As for the land provided to immigrants cheaply, it was mainly from state-owned land, and most of it was various granges, paddocks, and forest farms confiscated from the Manchu nobility and the imperial family.

In addition, the large amount of official land retained by the local government itself has led to the fact that most of the land in the northeast, especially in the more remote places, is state-owned, and the private land is mainly concentrated in the Liaohe River and western Liaoning.

In order to cooperate with the implementation of the policy of immigrants hoarding borders, Lin Zhe also officially established a province in Northeast China.

The Northeast region is different from the Guannai region, and the Manchu Dynasty did not directly establish administrative provinces, but mainly the three major jurisdictions of Heilongjiang General, Shengjing General, and Jilin General, and the administrative system is different from the Guannai region.

As the 14th Division of the Chinese Army gradually cleared out the remnants of the Qing army in the northeast, local officials sent by the cabinet also moved in one after another.

At the beginning, because the Northeast region was vast and sparsely populated, there were only a few million people in total, and they were mainly concentrated in the Liaoyang area. Heilongjiang and Jilin, as well as the Outer Khing'an Mountains further north, are all sparsely populated places.

The total population is not as large as that of a prefecture in Jiangnan and other places!

Therefore, at the beginning, the empire set up only one Liaoyang Province in the northeast, and the jurisdiction included the jurisdiction of the three major generals of the former Qing Dynasty. It's basically the whole of Tohoku.

But then I realized that it would be too bad to have only one province in such a big place, but if it was divided into several provinces. Liaoyang is better, with a population of several million, but there are really few people in Heilongjiang and Jilin.

Therefore, the cabinet was entangled for a long time, but it still compromised, and subdivided it into 'Liaoyang Province, Jilin Province, and Heilongjiang Province' according to the three major general districts of the former Qing Dynasty

It is worth noting that the jurisdiction of the above three provinces is different from the jurisdiction of the three modern provinces in later generations, such as Heilongjiang Province, which is bordered by Mongolia to the south and Jilin to the east. It is adjacent to the Erguna River in the west, and the Gelbiqi River, a tributary of the Heilongjiang River, to the north to the Outer Khing'an Mountains. Jilin Province is bordered to the north by the Trans-Khingan Mountains (the area to be negotiated by the Treaty of Nebuchu), to the east by the sea, to the south by Korea and Liaoyang Province, and to the south by the provinces of Korea and Liaoyang, as well as Sakhalin Island.

However, of the three newly established provinces, only Liaoyang Province, the southern part of Heilongjiang Province, and the southern part of Jilin Province could be completely controlled by the empire.

And the vast area north of Heilongjiang is in a de facto uncontrollable zone!

This is mainly because this area is too big, and the Chinese army in the northeast only has a mere 14th Division, for example, a huge Heilongjiang jurisdiction, and the 14th Division only has a garrison of about 3,000 people. And it's spread out over a lot of bases.

As for Sakhalin, because the distance was so far, the military simply sent a company to garrison it in the southern part of Sakhalin, intending to build a small fortress or something. Provide some small supplies to the naval ships going north, as for the common people, there are none, and there are no officials. On the other side of the river is Ezo Island, which is also in the wilderness, that is, Hokkaido.

Of course. China's military presence north of Heilongjiang is rather weak, with dozens of people in one stronghold. And then all of them add up to only two or three thousand people, but there are not many Russian troops on the other side, and there are only a few thousand people when they are full.

However, in addition to the soldiers, there are also a large number of people in these places, but these people are criminals who have been exiled or something, and they can fight with guns, so they can be regarded as armed militias, and if these are added up, the armed forces of the Russians in the Far East can reach more than 5,000 people.

In this barren land, neither side has the ability to maintain a large number of troops, and each side only has tens of millions of men, so no large-scale war can be fought, at most it is an armed conflict.

And this kind of armed conflict is really not a war for this era, today I raid one of your immigration strongholds, and then you come tomorrow to destroy one of my outposts, it is a normal thing, Lin Zhe has not even bothered with these things.

Anyway, it is difficult for that ghost place to send more troops by itself, and now the logistics supply of tens of thousands of horses and horses of the 14th Division has put considerable pressure on the Liaoyang area, if tens of thousands of people are sent over, Liaoyang will not be able to supply it, is it possible to transport grain from the south by himself?

Anyway, if there is a conflict now, there will be a conflict, slowly consuming, anyway, no matter how bad the situation is, it will only lose a few forward strongholds and lose a few hundred people, and the Russians do not have the ability to send troops on a large scale in the Far East, and mobilizing about 10,000 people is its limit.

Lin Zhe wanted to see how long the Russians could get along with him before they were willing to give up the so-called Aihui Treaty they had made!

If he had always insisted so much that Lin Zhe had annoyed him, he would not even recognize the Treaty of Nebuchu more than a hundred years ago, but he would have wanted to see if the Russians were willing to have a big war with him in the broad north.

Whether it is the northeast, the northwest, Central Asia, or the Mongolian region, in fact, both sides are faced with the difficulty of maintaining a large number of permanent troops because the supply lines are too long, and it is impossible to maintain a large number of permanent troops; before the construction of the railway, the war between the two sides will be at most about 10,000 people, and it will be quite difficult to exceed 10,000 people, and the various resources spent to maintain a division in the west of Xinjiang are higher than the cost of maintaining a 100,000-strong army in the Central Plains.

And even if the front line fails, it doesn't have much impact, for example, if he loses thousands of people in Central Asia, Lin Zhe will not frown, and immediately send another division over, although the possibility of fighting and taking Central Asia is very slim, but if the Russians can enter Xinjiang, Lin Zhe's name will be written upside down!

In general, both sides belong to the turtle shell, I can't help you, and you can't help mine!

Therefore, although the border conflicts with the Russians are very frequent, Lin Zhe did not take it to heart, and it is impossible to solve the northern border problem by purely military action, and there is only one most effective and only feasible way, that is, emigration! (To be continued.) )