Chapter 412: Recruiting Korean Immigrants

Fu Xinghua's proposal was not unexpected by Su Yan.

To be precise, Su Yan had a plan very early on, using the four tribes of Mobei Mongolia as the main force to attack the Rakshasa Kingdom, which would not only prevent a large number of Han sons from dying in battle and preserve the strength of the Xia army, but also consume the Mongolian tribes, making the Mongolian tribes weaker and weaker, and not daring to resist the imperial court.

Then, Su Yan nodded and said, "Fu Qing is reasonable, but the Mongols are not fools, what if they see the intentions of the imperial court and are unwilling to continue to be driven by the imperial court?"

"Then he will be tempted with heavy courtesy, and at the same time, he will raise a thunderous army to destroy the tribes that are friendly with him, and kill the chickens and monkeys, so under such a combination of grace and power, the Mongol tribes will naturally not dare to resist again."

Fu Xinghua said murderously.

His words won the sacred heart, and a look of appreciation flashed in Su Yan's eyes, but he quickly hid it in his eyes, as an emperor, joy, anger, sorrow and joy naturally cannot be exposed at will.

So, he said, "Let's stop talking about today, stay in Beijing for a little longer, the prosperity of the capital is beyond the reach of Guiyang."

Hearing Su Yan say this, a look of regret flashed in Fu Xinghua's eyes, and he thought that it was his answer that dissatisfied the emperor, so the conversation was ended so quickly.

His regret was not revealed, and he once again respectfully saluted the emperor, and then retreated, slowly exiting the imperial study.

After Fu Xinghua left, Su Yan ordered his close attendants to summon Xu He, the first assistant of the cabinet, and Kong Xingxi, the second assistant of the cabinet, to meet with them, and he was about to announce the decision to appoint Fu Xinghua as the deputy protector of the two of them.

In addition, he also had a new idea, that is, to implement tuntian in Mobei Mongolia, reclaim the fields for planting, and the harvested grain can not only avoid famine in Mobei Mongolia, but also directly supply the soldiers and horses in northern Xinjiang.

In Mobei Mongolia, it sounds a bit fantastical, but in fact, it is feasible, Mobei Mongolia is modern Mongolia under the rule of Mongolia, its domestic agricultural cultivation area in 2020 reached 587,900 hectares, more than 60,000 people are engaged in agricultural planting, and the output value of planting alone accounts for 1/4 of the country's primary industry.

It can be seen that it is indeed feasible to implement tuntian in Mobei Mongolia, and the crops grown in tuntian can choose potatoes, which are the "mainstay" of the country's output value in modern times, and wheat and barley as staple foods.

However, the level of agriculture in this era is far less than that of modern times, and the implementation of tuntian in Mobei Mongolia can only alleviate a little grain problem, and it is mainly necessary to transport from the Central Plains to the grasslands - before the three eastern provinces were reclaimed in large quantities and became the granaries of the imperial court, the Central Plains was the main transportation area.

The majesty and execution of the founding monarch were still unquestionable, and Su Yan easily persuaded the two cabinet ministers and determined the details of the Tuntian policy.

The personnel who carried out the tuntian were to be recruited from Korea by the imperial court, and once those Korean laborers embarked on the journey to northern Xinjiang, they would never be able to return to their homeland for the rest of their lives, and after the construction of the city stronghold was completed, they would also be forcibly incorporated into the auxiliary sequence of the border army, and lived as logistics personnel in various city strongholds in Mobei.

As for whether this policy will make a certain country in later generations claim that Outer Mongolia is their inherent territory, it is not in Su Yan's consideration, to be precise, he does not think that with the existence of the Xia Dynasty established by himself, a certain country can still independently hate the Celestial Empire, since a certain country will not hate the Celestial Empire, then this problem does not exist.

In addition, it is worth mentioning that the purpose of not allowing the border army to participate in the tuntian is to prevent the officers and men of the border army from losing their morale and gradually losing their combat effectiveness in the boring agricultural work, and their responsibility is only to receive training day after day and become a professional soldier who is out of work.

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On the other side, Fu Xinghua, who left the palace, after thinking for a while, decided to go to the south of the city to buy some gifts first, and then go to Fu Dingquan's mansion to ask for a visit.

However, Fu Dingquan was still working in the ministry at this time, and it was his wife who received him on his behalf, and it was not until the evening that Fu Dingquan finally hurried home and personally entertained Fu Xinghua, and he set up a banquet in the mansion to entertain this distant cousin who came from afar.

When talking about entering the palace to face the saint, Fu Xinghua said the last conversation with some discouragement, and he said dejectedly, "Your Majesty is listening

My answer was expressionless, and then the conversation ended, and I guess it was probably out of the way."

"How so? Don't rush to conclusions just yet, wait a few days and see." Fu Dingquan comforted, "Even if you don't pass the assessment, you can be regarded as entering Your Majesty's eyes and leaving an impression, maybe there will be opportunities to reuse you in the future."

"That's it, I'll stay for a few more days, if there is no movement, I'll go back to Guiyang directly."

As soon as Fu Xinghua's words fell, there was a sudden commotion outside, and before Fu Dingquan stood up and asked, the housekeeper in the house broke in with a happy face, he saluted and said, "Master, Master Fu, someone from the palace said that there was His Majesty's will, and ordered Lord Fu to go and receive the order."

Hearing these words, Fu Xinghua's face suddenly became exciting, and Fu Dingquan was the first to react, he pushed his cousin who was still sitting still, and said, "What are you doing in place? Don't get up and get ready to take the order!"

Being pushed by this, Fu Xinghua finally reacted, he was also happy, and walked out with Fu Dingquan happily, the pedestrian in charge of delivering the decree was already waiting in the courtyard, he and Fu Dingquan were polite for a while, and then shouted the decree in front of everyone.

This holy decree was really as Fu Dingquan expected, and Fu Xinghua was transferred from the post of inspector in Guizhou to the deputy protector of the Mobei Metropolitan Protectorate, and ordered him to stay in Beijing for the time being, and then go north together after Li Laiheng, the Duke of Linguo, returned to Beijing.

After the announcement was over, Fu Xinghua happily stuffed a few ingots of silver to the pedestrian in charge of delivering the decree, in exchange for a burst of rainbow farts and compliments from the other party, and then, Fu Xinghua pulled Fu Dingquan back to the dining room, and the two pushed the cup and changed the lamp, and drank until late at night.

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At the same time, thousands of miles away in Seoul, the capital of the Joseon Dynasty, the Joseon Governor Su Fu once again returned to the city, and Seoul was once again restored to a third of its peak after the slaughter and burning of the city by the previous Qing army, although it developed and recovered for a few years.

In addition to the local residents who fled after the liberation, there were also more displaced people from other places, who frantically squeezed the living space of the local residents, built houses on the ruins, and became the new residents of the city.

Those who poured into the city first to build their new homes from scratch were lucky, but the large number of displaced people who came in later had no place for them to live and work in peace, and their presence created a large number of dilapidated slums in and around Seoul, and many homeless people appeared in the streets, and law and order declined rapidly.

However, all this has nothing to do with Su Fu, a big man with a background in the Celestial Empire, to be precise, it gives him a good chance to complete the task.

After he asked to see the Korean monarch Yi Hao and conveyed the meaning of the imperial court to the other party, the monarch who tried his best to govern the country but could not solve the problem of famine and displacement in the country had to reluctantly agree.

His idea was very simple, since he was unable to resettle the displaced people in the country, and he could not solve the problem of famine in various provinces, it was better to transfer those useless displaced people to the Xia Dynasty in exchange for money and grain, and use the exchanged grain to various provinces for disaster relief and solve the famine.

Since the money and grain were to be finally in the hands of the imperial court, he had to refuse Su Fu's request to set up recruitment points in the country, and he told Su Fu that he would directly issue an order to the provinces in the name of the imperial court, ordering each province to collect the displaced people in their jurisdiction, escort them to the border between the two countries, and then transfer them to the Xia army there.

Subsequently, he had some negotiations with Su Fu, and although he admired the Celestial Empire, those exiles were still his subjects in the final analysis, and he did not compromise on the price of the exiles, and finally finalized the terms that were acceptable to both parties.

That is, a young man in exchange for five taels of silver and one stone of grain, a craftsman in exchange for twenty taels of silver and five stones of grain, and two women of appropriate age in exchange for one tael of silver and one stone of grain.

In order to prevent the North Koreans from throwing away the displaced people like garbage, Su Fu also additionally stipulated that no old and weak women and children would be accepted, and the old and weak women and children would not only have no way to contribute, but also might die on the way to Mobei, wouldn't it be a waste of the money and food exchanged.

In the end, Su Fu decided to recruit 30,000 young and middle-aged men, 20,000 women of working age, and 2,500 craftsmen from North Korea in the first batch, and pay a total of 30,000 young and middle-aged men, 20,000 women of working age, and 2,500 craftsmen from North Korea

210,000 taels of silver and 52,500 stones of grain.

The more than 50,000 grains are wheat and rice, and although there is a lot of old rice, there is a famine in the DPRK, and as long as it can be distributed smoothly, the famine in the country will be stabilized.

However, corruption was rampant in the Korean court, and half of the more than 50,000 stone grain could be distributed to corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and Li Hao also realized this, and he could only use the nine Han servants (that is, known as the "Nine Righteous Warriors" in Korean history) who had been accepted in the Qing Dynasty as a team to supervise the disaster relief and grain release.

It is worth mentioning that the two Korean officials and soldiers who participated in the siege of Shengjing were selected from these nine people, and in the face of the opposition of the two classes of nobles, he forcibly approved this appointment on the grounds that the two were familiar with the situation in Liaodong and had the tacit approval of Su Fu.

In addition to ordering the nine righteous men to be responsible for supervising the disaster relief and grain release, in order to prevent the silver taels received from the Celestial Empire from being embezzled by the ministers of the central government, Li Hao directly ordered people to take out half of them and buy grain in the territory of the Celestial Empire, so that even if he could not escape the fate of being embezzled, at least half of it would be taken out and exchanged for real grain.

It's a pity that Li Hao underestimated the corrupt abilities and means of those officials under him, and the 100,000 taels of silver that were ordered to buy grain in the Xia Dynasty were only nearly half actually used to buy grain, and the remaining half were embezzled in various ways.

Of course, all this is none of Su Fu's business, his task has been completed, but in order to prevent anything from going wrong, he still personally stayed in Seoul to supervise the affairs of the transfer of people.