Except for Hebei, Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Liaoning, due to the vast area and sparse population, there was no inventory, and all other provinces began large-scale land clearance operations.

If a dynasty reaches the middle stage, Kiyota will become difficult to climb.

But in the early days of the dynasty, it was actually relatively easy to check the acres of land and clean up the population. As long as the relevant policies were reasonable, the vast number of people at the bottom were willing to cooperate, and officials and gentry did not dare to challenge the authority of the emperor.

From Zhu Yuanzhang's creation of the Ming Dynasty to the tenth year of Yongle, the acres and population of the Ming Dynasty were checked once every ten years (there are population statistics every year, but a large-scale inventory is carried out once every ten years).

According to the statistics of "Ming Shilu", it can be seen that the population of the Ming Dynasty has increased year by year, reaching 66 million and 65 million respectively in the first year of Yongle and the tenth year of Yongle. After that, it went all the way down, always hovering around 50 million people, Zhu Di estimated that he was busy with the northern expedition to the grassland, and his control over the local area decreased significantly, and every time he checked the population, the officials were fooling.

Until the Chenghua period, Zhu Jianshen, the faint monarch who favored Wan Guifei, ascended the throne, and faced with the mess of millions of displaced people, the population of the Ming Dynasty skyrocketed to 60 million. By the fifteenth year of Chenghua, the population of Daming had climbed to a peak of 71 million.

Then, a generation of Ming monarchs, the lord of Zhongxing, and the emperor Hongzhi of the Ming Dynasty succeeded to the throne, and the population plummeted to 50 million in an instant.

It is also very interesting to compare it with the number of acres.

In the 24 years of Hongwu, the country's cultivated land was more than 370 million mu. In the twenty-fifth year of Hongwu, the inventory of acres of land was completed, and the cultivated land of the whole country soared to 880 million mu - this was not the beginning, but the peak of the entire Ming Dynasty.

By the time of Emperor Hongzhi, the amount of cultivated land in the country was directly halved compared with Zhu Yuanzhang's time.

As the founding emperor, Zhu Yuanzhang really did whatever he wanted. In one year, the amount of cultivated land in the country doubled, from 370 million mu to 880 million mu.

Zhao Han is also the founding emperor, and he also wants to do whatever he wants.

A holy decree went down, and the officials of the whole country were busy. The province sends commissioners to the government to supervise, and the government sends commissioners to the prefecture and county to supervise. Often, the county government and household departments were understaffed, so they had to seconded officials from other departments, and village and town cadres and peasant associations were also operational.

A large number of cases of violent or hidden encroachment on people's land were exposed in the process of clearing the land.

With the support of the emperor, the local officials still dared to hide it, and there were always peasants who ran to report anonymously. Farmers at the bottom, every household has children studying, many anonymous report letters are written by primary school students, and occasionally some of them can't write new words, and even use pinyin instead.

More and more officials were dismissed, and more and more gentry were arrested, and then they waited to be collectively moved to the jurisdiction of the Heilongjiang Prefecture.

Heilongjiang is too remote, normal immigrants are reluctant to go, aren't there enough immigrants now?

Guo Shunyu, the secretary of the household department, summed up the situation in the two provinces around the capital and reported to the emperor: "Your Majesty, most of the cases of land invasion in Anhui and Jiangsu provinces are due to the loopholes of immigrants. The imperial court organized immigrants every year, and their original land was redistributed. Immigrants can designate one acre of land and donate it to relatives who remain in their hometown. The rest of the land was allocated by the government to the new adults in the vicinity. This kind of distribution was forcibly handed down by the local officials and gentry! The people who encroached on the people's land the most were not rogue officials or wealthy merchants, but county officials and rural nobles. ”

"What do you want to say?" Zhao Han asked.

Guo Shunyu said: "Shaanxi, Shanxi, Hebei and Liaoning provinces have continued to immigrate nearly one million. The imperial court's immigration plan can no longer be implemented, and it is better to wait for these provinces to multiply naturally. The more immigrants to the north, the more chaotic the land administration in the south became, and the imperial court spent a lot of money and food. Since the reconquest of the north, the imperial court has not fought many major battles, but there is not much money and food left in the treasury, and all of them have been smashed into the immigrants. Along the way, the resettlement of displaced people, the gift of cattle, seeds, clothing, subsidies...... Money everywhere and food everywhere. ”

Zhao Han said with a smile: "The treasury is now the head of the Ministry of Finance, and it has nothing to do with your household department, what are you doing in a hurry that the treasury is empty?" ”

Guo Shunyu cried with a sad face: "But the immigrants are in charge of the household department, from the central household department to the county household department, the officials are all exhausted, and one person is used for several people." The money and food needed for immigrants need to be in contact with various yamen, and they are busy all day long from application, review to approval. From the arrival of immigrants in their original place of origin to their new nationality, it is all in the hands of the household registration department. If you make a slight mistake, you will have to eat and hang up at every turn. There are also financial and bank yamen watching from above, and from time to time they have to deal with the examination of money and grain, and they also have to cooperate with the supervision of the Inspectorate. ”

This is to complain, and the officials in charge of immigration are indeed tired. Moreover, the money and food of immigrants are supervised at all levels, and there will be no problems with small greed, and it is easy to be exposed if you are a little greedy.

Zhao Han said: "Let's put immigration on hold. ”

Guo Shunyu subconsciously wanted to continue to advise, but suddenly realized that something was wrong, why did the emperor agree so easily?

Zhao Han said: "It's going to be a big battle, and I can't spare money and food to immigrate." ”

In recent years, the finances have been very strange, and the state treasury revenue has been increasing, but it has not been able to save much grain.

The first is to raise the salaries of officials, the second is the continuous increase in education expenditures, the third is to increase the proportion of local tax retained taxes, and the fourth is the continuous sharp increase in immigration costs.

In the past, immigrants to Shandong and Henan were highly motivated, and there were a lot of enthusiastic applicants, and the cost of immigration was not very large. But after the destination is changed to the north, the common people are not so enthusiastic, and the more remote and bitter cold the place, the more it is necessary to improve the treatment of immigrants, and the cost of each immigration is rising.

Zhao Han continued: "After this war, there will be no large-scale migration. But small-scale migration will not stop, and many parts of Mongolia's territory north of Hebei and Liaoning are suitable for farming. Every year, a group of Han people had to be relocated to the city in order to consolidate the frontier. ”

"Your Majesty Shengming!"

Guo Shunyu hurriedly patted his ass, as long as there was no large-scale immigration.

Officials complain and complain, but they also know that immigration work is a must. Just like in the early years of the Ming Dynasty, many places were destroyed, and Zhu Yuanzhang also carried out resettlement that lasted for many years.

For example, Hongdong County, Shanxi Province, was a northern migrant transfer station in the early Ming Dynasty.

At that time, immigrants from all over the country were sent to Hongdong under the big locust tree for registration, and the final resettlement site was determined before being transferred. Hundreds of years later, in modern society, it has become a holy place for hundreds of millions of Chinese people to find their roots, and they all say that their ancestral home is in the big locust tree in Hongdong.

Ask me where are my ancestors? Shanxi Hongdong big locust tree. What is the ancestral home called? The old eagle's nest under the big locust tree.

The migration of the big locust tree in the Ming Dynasty lasted for fifty years, and Zhu Yuanzhang died and continued! Because of the limited finances at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty and the fact that they were busy fighting wars, they could not emigrate on a large scale in the short term, so they could only be carried out on a small scale for decades.

In this time and space, it is estimated that another collective memory will appear.

Immigrants to the north, except for Liaoning, who take a sea boat, all have to be collected and distributed in Xuzhou, and Xuzhou will become the dream hometown of countless people.

……

"Drive!"

The eastern suburbs of Nanjing, Royal Horse Farm.

This time is an open day, and many people come to play. Even if you don't have the money to rent a horse to ride, you can buy tickets to watch the races, and there is even a phenomenon of gambling.

Whether it's horse racing or polo, there are people who set up gambling games privately.

Of course, the scale of the gambling game is not large, and it can only be carried out quietly, after all, the imperial court has always banned gambling.

"Come on, come on!"

"Whip it!"

More than 2,000 spectators shouted wildly, and more than a dozen horses were galloping on the track.

Regarding the source of "come on", some say it comes from Liu Bowen, some say it comes from Liu Yong, some say it comes from Zhang Zhidong's father, and some say it comes from the number of the oil mill. But in this time and space, the people of Nanjing shouted "come on", which must have come from the Emperor Zhao in the Forbidden City.

Zhao Han watched polo one day, and shouted "come on", and the word gradually spread.

At this moment, Fei Ruhe was taking the prince to watch the horse race.

After returning to Beijing, I played everywhere, and finally felt that the horse was in my heart. not only came by himself, but also took the prince on a trip, Zhao Han did not stop this, it is a good thing that the prince and his uncle are familiar.

"Alas!"

Zhao Kuanghuan watched the head horse rush to the line, and suddenly sat down depressed, and the beloved horse he fostered here only ran third.

Fei Ruhe said: "Prince, I have a horse, which is quite a divine horse, and I raise it in Datong. When the grassland is pacified, he will bring it back to the prince. ”

Zhao Kuanghuan said: "My uncle is fighting on the battlefield, and he needs a divine horse. I'm just playing on horseback, and a few good horses are enough. ”

"You are young and old, whatever you want...... With Your Majesty. Fei Ruhe said with a smile.

After several fights in a row, Zhao Kuanghuan and Fei Ruhe were already familiar with each other, and asked, "Uncle, are the Mongolian Tatars really so cruel?" ”

Fei Ruhe complained: "Cruel fart, I've been suffocated to death in the past few years." The Tartars of Southern Mongolia have long been broken by the Manchurian Tartars, and they can sweep through all the departments with tens of thousands of people. However, His Majesty ordered that he was not allowed to go north without authorization, saying that he would use money and grain for immigration, and wait for the population of several northern provinces to be full and the grain was abundant, and then collect grain from the north to fight the war. ”

"Isn't that right?" Zhao Kuanghuan asked.

"Yes, yes, yes, it's just too much delay," Fei Ruhe said, "I understand Your Majesty's thoughts, if the north withers, you have to transport grain from the south to the grassland." It's easy to fight, but you have to garrison the emigration in the steppe, the supply line drags on longer, and more grain and grass is consumed, and at most you can hit Jining (Ulanqab). After His Majesty's immigration enriches the north, there will be abundant grain and grass, and the supply line will become shorter, not only can you hit Jining, but you can also mobilize a large army to conquer Mobei. ”

Zhao Kuanghuan asked again: "What does Mobei look like?" Has my uncle been there? ”

Fei Ruhe explained: "I haven't been to Mobei, but I have set up a lot of information about Mobei in the caravan. After crossing the Yin Mountain, the Gobi Desert is everywhere to the north, and you will get lost in the desert without a guide. After passing through the desert Gobi, it is the grassland of northern Mongolia. If you want to fight the desert north, the army must not be less, and the long way is full of deserts, and if you don't pay attention to it, you will run out of food and starve to death. ”

"Will my uncle seal the wolf in the future?" Zhao Kuanghuan asked excitedly.

"Feng Wolf Juxu, I will definitely do it, this is the original agreement with Your Majesty," Fei Ruhe said and became depressed, "It's a pity that I don't know where Wolf Juxu Mountain is, I have inquired with the Mongolians, and even the Mongolians have never heard of Wolf Juxu." ”

Zhao Kuanghuan was speechless for a moment, and wanted to seal the general of Wolf Juxu, but he didn't know the specific address.

Fei Ruhe said again: "Yanran Mountain, I have already inquired clearly, it is on the territory of Khalkha Mongolia!" Therefore, regardless of Wolf Juxu, Le Shi Yanran is not bad. ”

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