After the settlement of the resettlement and construction programs of Kyushu and Ezo, the construction plans for the remaining hinterland of the Northeast and Sakhalin Island will be much easier. Because there is no problem of indigenous peoples, just plan directly on the map and according to geographical needs.

There is nothing to say about the local cultivation of tuntian land and the further optimization and breeding of cold-tolerant varieties, and the localities can handle it themselves.

Although Cao Bianjiao and Huang Degong are now in their twilight years, both of them are around fifty-five years old, a difference of two or three years.

However, the control and execution of these powerful generals over the "construction of the Reclamation Corps" under their command are still very strong, and no matter how arduous the task of expanding the border and tuntian, it can be carried out in a forbidden manner.

The money and grain needed to expand the border can basically be solved by local self-sufficiency, and it is nothing more than that the imperial court will ensure that there will be no local taxes in the next ten years, and the local financial revenue will continue to be withheld for its own use, as funds for development and construction and military rations.

This is also the tone set when Huang Degong and Cao Bianjiao became the Duke of the Kingdom. The imperial court promised them that as long as the two of them lived, they would always take special care of the border areas and could withhold taxes. But behind them, it is natural to return the power of the imperial court, so as not to form a feudal town.

In this way, the only thing that needed the help of the imperial court was to send some researchers from the Daming Academy of Sciences in Nanjing to help with engineering planning and design, geographical survey, and further optimization and breeding of Hokkaido rice and rye varieties.

To put it bluntly, money, grain, and people are all raised by the cantonment army in the northeast region, and the imperial court only provides technical guidance.

But don't underestimate this technical guidance, if used well, it can definitely make the construction of the border land twice the result with half the effort. For example, the improvement of Hokkaido rice varieties shows that Hokkaido rice, which was originally brought from Ezo ten years ago before the Manchu Qing Dynasty was destroyed, actually only has a good cold-tolerant attribute that can ensure that it will not freeze to death when planted in Tohoku.

But other than that, the other traits of the original Hokkaido rice varieties were really rotten. Needless to say, just one yield, it is pitiful that the yield per mu can only ensure about 100 kilograms-

You must know that at the turn of the Ming and Qing dynasties, the yield of double-cropping rice in the south was almost more than 150 kilograms, and if you plant two crops a year, even if one of the seasons is slightly lower, counting 100 kilograms, it adds up to 500 kilograms of rice.

The northeast is planted with single-season rice, the growth period is long, it is said that the yield of one season should be close to one and a half seasons in the south, and the yield per mu should be 400 catties. But the Hokkaido rice seeds that have just been moved over have actually reached about half of the level.

During the two or three years of the Manchu rule, those barbarians were uneducated, and they would not engage in the optimization of good breeds, so they just did whatever they wanted. In the eight years after the Ming Dynasty established its rule in the Northeast, it was a little bit piecemeal and tossed, but it also increased the yield per mu by dozens of catties.

Coupled with the Han people who are good at deep ploughing, they found that the nutrient layer below was turned up after deep ploughing of the black soil, and the effect was very good, relying on the blessing of excellent fertility conditions, the yield per mu was finally increased to 300 catties.

Now in this seven-year plan, Zhu Shuren has repeatedly discussed with the professionals in charge of agricultural breeding at the Daming Academy of Sciences to approve the goals.

In the end, the staff of the Academy of Sciences felt that within seven years, if the investment was large enough and the control group observation experiments were detailed enough, they could strive to increase the yield per mu of seeds by another 100 catties to about 400 catties.

Because when you first start to invest in breeding, the room for improvement is always relatively large, and the rise is relatively fast, and the genes of the natural original species are uneven, and it is easy to concentrate the dominant traits.

However, if you want to improve in the future, it will be more difficult, and it may take another fifteen years to go from 400 catties per mu to 500 catties, and you dare not guarantee the follow-up.

Zhu Shuren also knew that science should be respected and satellites should not be placed indiscriminately, so he gave scientific researchers full autonomy. If you can increase the yield of Hokkaido rice seeds by 100 catties within seven years, even if it is just a test field, if you can't do it, give them double the relaxation time, and wait until the end of the second seven-year plan to 400 catties, Zhu Shuren will not give pressure punishment.

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After planning the food problem, the last thing left that needed the technical support of the imperial court was the construction of water conservancy and shipping in the northeast.

There is nothing to say about water conservancy, and some are good at dredging and remediation directly

Fields of water professionals in the past. It is a basic operation to silt up the swamps in several newly established concentrated reclamation areas in the Songnen Plain in northeast China, and to dig deep the natural lakes that can be used to regulate and store water and drought to facilitate irrigation.

The main purpose of shipping rectification is to further explore the depth, hydrology and water conditions of inland shipping channels in the Songhua River, Nenjiang River, Tumen River, and other water bodies in Northeast China. These data were originally blank, and the geological survey team was sent to sort them out, which also facilitated the transportation and deployment of materials between various parts of Northeast China in the future and reduced logistics costs.

The most arduous and important part of the shipping rectification work is to survey the channel of the mouth of the Heilongjiang River, the channel and shallow condition of the Tatar Strait between the mouth of the Heilongjiang River and the dry leaf island, and also to survey the annual freezing season.

Because so far, the Ming Dynasty has wanted to explore and develop the Northeast, and the northernmost part mainly stays in the Songnen Plain, and has not been able to further north to the main stream of the Heilongjiang River.

So far, on both sides of the main stream of the Heilongjiang River, there are still more than 100,000 remnants of fishing and hunting people similar to the Manchurians who fled north, as well as some Kulun people and Emouke/Mouchun people.

After the Ming Dynasty had Hokkaido rice seeds and dry leaf island rye, it was actually possible to grow grain on the south bank of the Heilongjiang River.

Even on the north bank of the Heilongjiang River, if only late spring to early autumn passes and a season of soybeans is planted, it can be used, and it is unlikely that rice can be planted because it is too cold.

The biggest problem is that the main stream of the Heilongjiang River and the Songnen Plain lack of direct water network transportation communication - the Heilongjiang River finally flows from the Tatar Strait on the opposite side of the northern section of the dry leaf island into the junction of the Benhai Sea and the Sea of Okhotsk, where Ming navigators have also visited before, but have not explored the waterway.

If this road is thoroughly explored, and even a port town is established at the mouth of the Heilongjiang River, then the Ming Dynasty's control over the Heilongjiang River basin in the future will be completely stable.

Otherwise, twenty years later, a series of troubles in Yaksa and Nebuchu will strike, and they will have to face the dilemma of "difficulty in supplying the army in the Heilongjiang Valley".

Zhu Shuren has even thought of the name of the town at the mouth of the Heilongjiang River, and he doesn't need to toss, just use the name "Temple Street" used after the Qing Dynasty after Nibuchu in history (the name Temple Street was used in 1858 in history, and a few years later it was renamed Nikolaevsk because of a series of treaties)

Then take up the other points along the way, and the rest can be said slowly.

It doesn't even matter if you build a local town that can only live in half a year to eight months, and you need to go back to the south in winter and early spring to concentrate on cats for winter. Or it is a "townhouse" that engages in winter central heating in the Northeast, and can burn the kang with a connected flue.

Anyway, the current purpose of the Ming Dynasty is only to occupy a pit first, and not to ask these harsh border areas to provide any taxes, money, and grain value for the imperial court, as long as they can support themselves, and they don't have to hand over anything.

Even the Songnen Plain in the hinterland of the northeast demanded that "after Huang Degong passed away, he had to pay taxes for the imperial court normally". And in the main stream of the Heilongjiang River, the Zhu Shuren can even be allowed to extend for another generation.

After Huang Degong, he sent a town general he trusted to supervise him, and then authorized him not to pay taxes to the imperial court for the rest of his life, so that he could finally delay it for another thirty years. I believe that time and development will eventually bridge all technical difficulties.

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The Jiangning Conference, which involved the new policy after the new monarch ascended the throne, finally lasted for more than two months, and it was not until July of the first year of Xiaokang that the curtain came to a complete end.

After this grand meeting that set the tone for the next 20 years/37 years of the Ming Dynasty, the important ministers of the DPRK and the main border generals who were pressed on the task were also a lot more relieved, at least they knew what they should do, and they did not have to worry about the change of the imperial court's decrees.

Time flies quickly, with the arrival of July, the spirit and instructions of the meeting have been distributed to all places, and the household department has also discussed the preliminary implementation of the "abolition of Ding Division" law ordered by His Royal Highness the Regent, and within the scope of Yingtianfu, the pilot implementation will begin this year.

The specific reform content of the new policy was posted at the same time on the first day of July in Nanjing, as well as in the county, towns and townships outside the city. Give the people a month to learn about the changes. It also gives a buffer time for the people of Hucao to register the workers and peasants.

Wait until

At the end of the month, on the first day of the eighth month, when the imperial court began to collect summer grain taxes, this new law was about to be officially implemented. In the middle of this month's publicity period, the people went to the counties to re-register and set their names.

If it is placed in a remote field, it is of course impossible to re-label all the people's household registration as "worker/peasant" within a month, and check and distribute the number of acres of land corresponding to the agricultural registration.

However, Yingtianfu, where Nanjing is located, is the first good district after all, and all the counties in the territory have convenient transportation, the land of fish and rice.

The proportion of the common people who are literate and hyphenated is also very high, and their understanding of policies is very fast, and there is no need for officials to go to the countryside to explain all kinds of words, so all this work can be done relatively quickly.

In just over half a month, the preparatory registration work in various localities has been carried out.

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Zhu Shuren has a lot of opportunities, and he didn't have time to worry about too many details. However, he personally advocated the new law, and occasionally asked a few questions.

Therefore, on the day of the Midyear Festival on July 15, taking advantage of the leisure time during the festival, he recruited people from Ying Tianfu and asked them to give a rough report on the progress of Hu Cao's latest statistical work.

Of course, Ying Tianfu should pay attention to the things that the regent cares about, so Yin Sun Jiaji of Ying Tianfu personally went to the Ewang Mansion to report to the work - this is also an opportunity to show his face in front of the big leaders, who will give up in vain if he has a career in his career?

Just like in the workplace in later generations, even if the specific work is not done by the department manager, when the big boss reports the PPT, the department manager must be in good spirits.

This Sun Jiaji is not young, he is more than fifty years old this year, he is a Jinshi of Chongzhen for ten years, one session earlier than Zhu Shuren, a member of Chongzhen's thirteenth year of science.

When the Qing army hit the south of the Yangtze River, he originally followed the Lu regime to resist the Qing Dynasty, and finally died of defeat, injury and grief. Now it can be regarded as because of the butterfly effect, he has lived for more than ten years and gradually climbed to his current position.

Don't look at Ying Tianfu Yin is just a prefecture-level official, but after all, he is a magistrate in the capital, and he may not be able to change it if he is put outside to give a governor.

After Zhu Shuren was summoned, he first briefly asked Sun Jiaji about the registration of the "Workers' and Peasants' Nationality".

Sun Jiaji did his homework, and immediately replied:

"The counties have enthusiastically responded to the good governance of the king, and the people have been very active in registering and dividing their registration. In just half a month, fifty or sixty percent of the people had already arrived at Hucao to clarify their election. Among them, the best performer is Liyang County, which has been registered for nearly 80 percent."

Zhu Shuren was a little surprised: "So many people took the initiative to register for the division? Is there any persecution of the people? What will happen to those who have not registered when they expire?"

Sun Jiaji said in high spirits: "The counties did not impose forced assessments, because they had already repeatedly preached the benefits of the new policy to the people, and if they did not think about it, they would have to go to Hucao at that time, draw a pledge on the yellow book, and promise that they would have no industrial and commercial properties.

In this way, it will automatically be tentatively designated as a farmer, and will not use up the opportunity to change nationality once in a lifetime, and if you want to change it after a few years, you can change it once. Only those who clearly have a workshop or business name in their name, but are unwilling to register, will be found to have a tax evasion in the future.

Moreover, it has been agreed by the Ministry of Household that this year, because it is a pilot, there are only two months from the issuance of the document to the implementation, and it is probably too late to hastily change the lower limit of the taxable area of the peasant people, so the lower limit of the area of land endowment will not be set for the time being this year, and the tax can be paid by comparison with last year.

In this way, for the peasant people, this year is a pure benefit, which means that the land tax has not increased in the slightest, but the Ding tax is completely exempted, and only the Ding tax is paid by the working people. The only increase in peasant status was the substitution of grain, but this new policy was very popular with the people, and probably only a very small number of gentry felt that it was undignified to pay grain in one piece...... But it's all under control."

Sun Jiaji gave a general description of the situation. The "no minimum limit on the area of land to be allocated this year" mentioned by him is also a temporary measure.

Because at the beginning, Zhu Shuren did not say at the Jiangning Conference that in the future, "if the per capita cultivated land area of a household is less than 10 mu of paddy fields, grain should also be paid according to the lower limit of 10 mu of paddy fields". Now it is too late to recalculate, then we will continue to use last year's taxable area, and the actual number of acres of land in the yellow book will be paid according to last year's fixed tax amount.

People who own less than 10 acres of land per household are equivalent to pure income this year. This is also a transitional measure to boil the frog in warm water, to push things down first.

Of course, the substitute grain must be paid in addition, and this must be paid, because this is for the peasants to replace the forced labor, and the common people are also very happy to pay more grain for convenience.

In particular, Yingtianfu is a rich place, and the money earned by the locals from doing private work for a month and a half is definitely more valuable than the substitute grain handed over to the imperial court, so it is better to go out and work for a month and a half, and then use part of the salary to be exempted.

At this point, it is actually a bit regressive to the old road of the Tang Dynasty's rent and yong adjustment law, giving money or food can not be subject to conscription, and the government spends money to hire people to conscription.

Zhu Shuren had no objection to these statements, and the only thing he was interested in after listening to them was two small points: "You say, is it that in the territory of Yingtianfu and at the feet of the Son of Heaven, there are gentry who feel that it is undignified to pay for the substitute service?"

Sun Jiaji didn't dare to hide it: "Please understand, Your Highness, after all, our dynasty has hundreds of years of preferential treatment of "meritorious fame tax exemption and exemption from military service", and now although there is still no need to let scholars serve, after all, there are still many people who have to pay food to replace them. But the lowly duty will definitely try to suppress as much as possible, and strictly punish the lawbreakers."

When Zhu Shuren heard this, he didn't mean to blame at all, but said, "After all, it's a pilot, and you don't need to be too careful, supplementally, I remember that you are a Jinshi in Chongzhen for ten years, one session earlier than Gu." When you are old, you can leave some things that offend people to the people below."

When Sun Jiaji heard this, he actually shuddered slightly, and he suddenly realized that the regent was planning to make a heavy hand, but he didn't want to draw the hatred of the people. It can't be that you want to promote some wrong people to take the blame and throw them away when they run out, right?

Fortunately, Zhu Shuren didn't dare to respond when he saw him groaning, and he didn't let him wait longer. Zhu Shuren quickly threw out the next question:

"Lone has another question—you also mentioned just now that Liyang County has the fastest registration, and it has been completed eighty percent. What skills are there, and are there any outstanding officials?

Do you have a specialization in the art industry, as Ying Tianfu Yin, you should coordinate the overall affairs of Ying Tianfu, and personally stare at the specific implementation. The so-called gentleman is not a weapon, a gentleman is a music official, and the music is not clear. Those who judge the sound are afraid that they will be deaf to the officials."

Sun Jiaji had thoroughly understood the sound outside the strings, and knew that the regent asked him not to rush to grab the credit, this was a hot potato, so he asked him to be specific and capable, and put the officials who did a good job up, and give more hatred to power.

So he replied directly: "Among the pilots, there are indeed those who have performed exceptionally in the prefectures and counties, and their humble positions must be listed in detail, and they dare not be greedy for merit for His Highness to promote.

As for this Liyang County, it is indeed the best performance under Ying Tianfu, and eighty percent of the workers and peasants can complete the registration of separate registration, all because of the meticulous work of the local households.

When I went to inspect and investigate, I saw that the local household Cao had set up offices in every township to facilitate the people to handle it nearby. There were not enough scribes to preach the New Deal.

They made some samples in advance for the people to copy the format. The format text is also accompanied by pictorial explanations, so that only the minimum content can be explained, so that the people can complete the registration as soon as possible, and can also eliminate the concerns of the rural people about the increased tax burden.

After returning from the lowly inspection of Liyang, he felt that this method was good, so he should promote it in other counties of Tianfu, and the registration progress has been comprehensively improved."

Zhu Shuren nodded: "The first death of the sun arch is also a kind of progress. Even if it is just to let the people run errands less and ask a few fewer questions, it is a kind of good governance, and such people should be promoted. You go back and prepare the resumes of meritorious people in detail, if you are really motivated, and you are not afraid of offending people, Lone will naturally give them a chance."

Sun Jiaji sighed inwardly, secretly wondering if the prince really wanted to use both grace and power to promote a few "cool officials" to help promote the change.