In order to understand why Yazhou's economic situation was affected by the local land annexation, we must first understand what kind of social phenomenon land annexation was in the late Ming Dynasty. （.）

The impact of land annexation on the social situation at that time in the late Ming Dynasty was also an important topic studied by many scholars in later generations. The general view is that the land annexation of Yan Zòng led to the loss of a large number of peasants, which gradually intensified the social class contradictions at that time. Since yeoman farmers were the main bearers of state taxes and forced labor at that time, the loss of land, the property on which they depended, also greatly reduced the government's fiscal revenue. In addition, the landlord class, which held a large amount of land resources, became more and more powerful, which also posed a certain threat to the feudal centralization and affected the stability of society. Among the large number of peasants who lost their land, in addition to some tenant farmers who had become landlords, many others became homeless people who fled from place to place to beg for food, and when these people encountered social turmoil, they often played the role of powder kegs that exploded at the slightest point, and the difference between the homeless and the homeless was really just a word.

In this process, in addition to the landlords and gentry, there were also a large number of privileged classes such as princes and nobles, who could use a piece of imperial order to bring the land of hundreds of people into their own names. During the Wanli period, Mingshenzong Zhu Yijun once gave two million acres of land to the Fuwang of Henan, so that the cultivated land in Henan was almost covered by him. During the Apocalypse, Ming Xizong Zhu Youxiao ordered the allocation of Zhuangtian to King Gui, King Hui, King Rui, Suiping and Ningguo princesses, with a small number of hundreds of thousands of mu and a large number of even 3 million mu. At that time, the cultivation of cultivated land was very limited, so naturally some prefectures and counties had the dilemma of having no land to allocate, and they actually had to order the local people to share this empty land rent, which was called "landless rent" at the time.

At that time, there was also a victim of land annexation, which was the Guardskaya military system. In the late Ming Dynasty, the army had gradually changed from an army to a professional peasant amateur soldier, and a large number of land in the military tun had been encroached upon by local military leaders and princes, and the military households in the tuntian had gradually become serfs for these people, and the situation was even more miserable than that of the tenant farmers who rented the landlord's land. Therefore, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were a large number of evasions in the guards, and the vacancy situation in the army was strict, and the combat effectiveness also dropped to the miserable Cheng dù. The Executive Committee has long positioned the strength of the Weisuo Army as the five scum of war, and this is not unreasonable.

It is recorded in the "Records of Mingshenzong" that in the cultivated land of the whole country at that time, only the land occupied by the royal family and the gentry without grain payment has exceeded half of the total area of cultivated land, and the empire has lost a large number of taxes, resulting in the state finance of the entire Ming Dynasty in the middle and late periods has been in a very bleak situation. (.) After Chongzhen came to power, the annual income of the state treasury was even worse than that of the salt merchants in Yangzhou. The officials are rich and the people are poor, the gentry are rich and the country is poor, it is self-evident that such a country can have a little resistance in the face of internal and external troubles and natural disasters.

The fundamental reason for this state of affairs lies in the private ownership of land under the feudal system. The natural economic form of feudal society, its essence is the agricultural economy, any feudal dynasty is to maintain the agricultural economy as the foundation, so that the land has naturally become a symbol of personal wealth in the feudal society, whether it is bureaucrats, landlords or ordinary people, all regard land as the only investment object. This gave the rich and powerful enough incentive to continue to annex land, a trend that could not be stopped by the imperial court issuing a few decrees or changing some tax systems, and the only way to change this situation was to change the land ownership system at the root.

The Yazhou Office has a clear attitude towards the changes in the local situation, and cannot afford to watch Yazhou's economic situation decline rapidly due to land annexation. This is not only considering that Yazhou is currently the largest and most important dumping ground for commodities and a source of manpower for the Crossing Group, and that maintaining social stability and economic prosperity here is of great significance to the Crossing Group, but also that the Yazhou Office is also worried that once the law and order situation here deteriorates, it will attract external attention or even the intervention of military forces. For the Executive Committee, it is obviously not a good thing for the Ming court to devote too much attention to Yazhou at this time of laying the foundation.

But now it is clear to everyone that the root cause of Yazhou's current situation is land ownership, and it is very difficult to change this. The reason why the Executive Committee can implement public ownership of land on a large scale near the Shengli Port base camp is that the mountains are high and the emperor is far away, and no one can manage it, and the Executive Committee has sufficient authority in the local area. The problem is not how much money it will cost to get the land near Yazhou under the name of the Executive Committee, but the existence of public ownership of land itself, which is the enemy of all the official gentry class, and these people in the Yaya Office obviously do not have the strength to make enemies on such a large scale.

In the short term, the simpler and feasible solution is to introduce the jobless and proletarian people in Yazhou into the areas under the administration of the Executive Committee on a large scale, so that these people can have a stable livelihood. In this way, the evacuation of potentially dangerous people can indeed effectively reduce the pressure on Yazhou's public security, and at the same time, it can also take care of the manpower demand of the base camp. From this point of view, it is undoubtedly a very good move for He Xi to let tooth merchants recruit immigrants for a long time.

But the problem is that no one knows what kind of attitude Yazhou officials will have towards the public relocation of people in their jurisdiction, and perhaps the officials will be grateful that the people have taken a lot less trouble for their intervention, but it is difficult to say whether anyone will jump out and question this practice. You must know that the number of current and retired officials in this place is amazing, and its density is even close to that of Beijing and Nanjing, and the proportion of smart people among them is certainly not low, and maybe some people will see through the "sinister intentions" of the traversal.

After discussing for a long time, everyone still couldn't come up with a final plan. In the end, Marico came up with a compromise idea, and in the future, the immigration matter should not be handled by the people in the Cliff Office, but by finding "Anfu Xing" or "Fu Ruifeng", so as to reduce the influence of the Cliff Office as much as possible.

Although the idea was settled, the next day's polder market, the Cliff Office still poured out of the nest, planning to see the situation of the servant market with their own eyes, confirm the scale of immigration that may be achieved in the future, and at the same time prepare for some problems that will arise in the immigration, so as not to be in a hurry. When the recruitment of workers on the side of the servant market has formed a set of standardized routines, it can be handed over to the local trading houses and dental shops to operate.

The polder market outside the south gate of Yazhou is twice a month, and the people nearby will take the opportunity of the polder market to buy some daily necessities, and the unemployed who are hoping to find a livelihood will also come to the polder market on this day. After the working group arrived in the polder city, Zhang Guang went to find the tooth merchant yesterday and threw two coins of silver directly to him. If you have money, it is really easy to do things, and the tooth merchant immediately gathered several little girls in the servant market who were going to sell themselves as maids and rings according to Zhang Guang's request, and let them choose.

The quota of this maid was originally intended for Zhao Xiaoruo, and several big men naturally walked aside as if nothing had happened, and let Zhao Xiaoruo choose there slowly. There are not many options, and it is not difficult for Zhao Xiaoruo to pick it up, so she chose a pleasing girl by dividing it by two, and asked about the family situation, and she was ready to settle down.

Unexpectedly, at this time, a group of people suddenly came, all dressed in soap-colored straight jackets, wearing black gauze hats, and carrying a two-foot-long single knife around their waists. The leader pointed to these little girls and said, "These are all left!"

The man shouted, and several people on the working group all turned their heads, and Zhang Guang walked over without making a sound, blocking Zhao Xiaoruo behind him. The tooth merchant walked over tremblingly, bowed down and said, "Lord Gong, I don't know what to order?"

Mu Xiabai and Feng Annan, who originally wanted to come forward to theorize, immediately froze, they were not afraid of these officials equipped with cold weapons, these guys who seemed to be showing off their might were purely live targets in front of mk23, but before they figured out the current situation, they still didn't take the liberty of causing trouble.

The official who was called Lord Gong glanced at the tooth merchant, and his voice seemed to come out of his nose: "The hundred households of Qiongzhou Mansion have moved to a new house, and they want to choose some girls who can serve people, you quickly handle the deeds of these people, and turn around and send people to the yamen." ”

After the man finished speaking, his eyes swirled around the faces of the members of the working group like knives, and he did not seem to see any heresy, and then left with the team.

The tooth merchant said apologetically with a sad face: "Ladies and gentlemen, you have also seen it, sorry sorry, I will return the silver to you here." ”

Qiu Yuanqi said: "These people are officials of the state government, and they act so domineering......

"I'm afraid it's not an official errand. He Xi sighed and said: "The official errand is not enough to cross the industry to shoot the sycophants of a hundred households in Qiongzhou Mansion, if I guess correctly, most of these people are Jinyi guards stationed in Yazhou." ”

The tooth merchant nodded and said, "This old man is right, that one just now is Gong Zongqi of Jinyiwei." ”

Qiu Yuan was stunned and said, "Isn't the symbol of Jinyiwei a flying fish suit with an embroidered spring knife?"

"Flying fish suits, bullfighting suits, and unicorn suits are all worn by senior officials in the brocade guard, and the shrimp soldiers and crabs will not be treated that way. He Xi squinted his eyes and looked at the Jinyi Wei who was going away and said: "The head of Qiongzhou Mansion is only a hundred households? It seems that the imperial court is really at ease with this place in Hainan." ”