The official ship docked in Yunxiang County, and Zhu Ming called the county order to inquire about the basic situation, and learned that the people at this time mainly lived on the edge of the Han River.

And the area of Shiyan is completely undeveloped primeval mountain forest.

Including the entire Shennongjia, it was developed from the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty.

The Nanxiang Basin was full of displaced people in the Yuan Dynasty, and the Yuan Dynasty was afraid that the displaced people would enter the mountains to rebel, so they strictly blocked Shennongjia. The Ming Dynasty inherited the Yuan system and also continued to implement the blockade policy.

Until the loss of land by the Mingbao Sect, the northern soldiers were in trouble, and the displaced people from the three provinces gathered in Nanyang and Xiangyang, and poured into the Shennongjia area like a tide. At its peak, there were as many as 1.5 million displaced people, and two major uprisings of tens of millions of displaced people broke out before and after.

Emperor Chenghua changed his strategy, and after suppressing the uprising, those who were willing to return to their hometowns returned to their hometowns, and those who could not go back were reclaimed in Shennongjia, and were given unprecedented preferential policies for land reclamation.

Since then, Yunyang Mansion has been established and Yunyang Fuzhi (post with the governor), but also became the top governor of the Ming and Qing dynasties, with jurisdiction over four provinces, five provinces, eight prefectures, and 65 counties in Kyushu. Xiangyang, Nanyang, Hanzhong, Kuizhou, Xi'an...... All within the jurisdiction of Yunyang Fuzhi.

Compared with more than one million people in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, there are only two or three hundred thousand people today.

can only wait for the natural increase in population, and it is impossible for the Zhu family father and son to immigrate to Shennongjia, because there are too many places that need to be reclaimed.

"Knock knock ......"

The official ship continued to go southeast, and the sound of the piano sounded in the cabin, it was Master Li who was stroking the qin, but it was Pei Chang'e who was singing.

Zhu Ming leaned on the chair and closed his eyes to listen, and other wives and concubines also came to enjoy the performance.

Especially Zheng Yuanyi, who nurses the child while listening to the music. Although the milk was insufficient, she hired a nurse, but she occasionally nursed herself.

Zhu Ming's third child finally didn't take the handle, which made him very happy.

Even the name is more attentive, Zhu Ming personally flipped through the "Book of Songs" and named his eldest daughter "Zhu Youyi".

Yu Yi was originally used to describe the countryman as decent and handsome.

From this name, you can see how much Zhu Ming likes his daughter. So the wives and concubines also like it, and they have to tease it from time to time, but Zhu Ming can't stop it, so it can't be said that there are too many bacteria on adults, right?

After singing the song, Zhang Jinping also had itchy hands, so he borrowed Master Li's musical instrument to play it.

Her piano skills belong to the amateur level, and she can't be compared with Master Li's performance level, and she is a little embarrassed after playing a song: "It's ugly!" ”

Master Li said: "Madame has excellent talent, but she is just neglecting to practice. ”

"Don't compliment me, it's far worse than the teacher," Zhang Jinping said with a smile, "Pei Xiaomei sings well, how many years have you been learning to sing?" ”

Pei Chang'e hurriedly replied: "The slave entered the Teaching Workshop Division at the age of twelve and studied for less than two years. Less than a month after entering the palace, he followed his senior sister to Hanzhong. ”

Zhang Jinping was surprised: "Only fourteen years old? ”

Pei Chang'e said: "I will be fifteen years old next month. ”

Zhao Fujin clapped his hands and said: "But he is the same as me, only one month older than me." ”

All the way on the boat, the relationship between several women is close and warm, and many things have happened, at least for now.

Pei Chang'e is the most humble, she is young and not prominent, and she is not as good at talking as Master Li, and she is cautious about who she deals with.

Zheng Yuanyi asked: "Why did my sister enter the Teaching Workshop Division?" ”

Pei Chang'e said: "My father was originally a Kaifeng military general, but he was framed for offending people, and he couldn't afford to pay for the loss of military funds, so the slave and his mother were both in the teaching department. ”

"Poor people, too." Zhang Jinping sighed.

The women were still chatting, and Zhu Ming had fallen asleep on the chair.

Between the mouth of the old river and the mouth of the Danjiang River, the Northern Song Dynasty set up the Guanghua Army, which specially hoarded heavy troops to deter the Shangyong area. Now that the Guanghua Army has been abolished, there is only one Qiande County left, which has been allocated to more than 600 displaced people this year.

The number of displaced people in Gucheng County downstream is only a few hundred.

The two counties are mountainous and are not key reclamation areas.

Further downstream, in Dengcheng County, there are more immigrants, mainly in the northwest of the county, with more than 1,200 people.

Zhu Ming asked his wives and concubines to continue to take the boat, and he took a few entourages and rode to the countryside to check.

Ask questions along the way and find one of the reclamation sites.

There are only more than 400 people here, and all of them are local displaced people, so they are concentrated and resettled in order to facilitate management, forming a new village called "Fengyu Village".

The beans planted have grown seedlings, and the villagers live in makeshift shacks, and are currently building long-term houses on rammed earth.

Zhu Ming inquired carefully, only to know that these more than 400 people could only share four ploughing oxen.

A large amount of wasteland outside the village has not yet been cultivated, and thorns and weeds are everywhere as far as the eye can see.

The chief was an old man in his forties, his hair was already gray, and he said with a smile: "The official is a military general from Hanzhong, right?" We can finish cultivating here in two or three years, and the land will become mature in four or five years, and then life will be better. ”

Zhu Ming asked: "Can the county decree inform you that taxes will be exempted this year?" ”

The chief replied, "Yes, I won't pay taxes this year." Next year, the survey of fields, etc., will only collect 20% of the tax. The harvest of the next year is fifty percent, and the harvest of the next year is eighty. The people in the village were very happy, and Hongfu, who had been entrusted to the generalissimo and the generalissimo, was finally able to live. ”

"Is there enough food to eat this year?" Zhu Ming asked again.

The chief said: "It's enough to save some food, I heard from the official messenger that the grain sent to us by the government was borrowed from the wealthy families in Hanzhong." He borrowed grain from rich people to give interest, but lent us without interest, and had to transport it from Hanzhong, didn't he lose money inside and out? I had only heard of corrupt officials who peeled their skins and drank blood, but I had never seen a good official who was considerate of the people at a loss. ”

Zhu Ming said with a smile: "Don't worry if you have more lice, don't itch if you have more debts, and you have to borrow grain from rich people this year." There is no need to transport it from Sichuan, there are many rich families here. ”

After asking a few more questions, Zhu Ming went to the next reclamation point.

Perhaps it was the execution and exile of dozens of corrupt officials last year that had a tremendous deterrent effect, and officials were much more restrained in their corruption.

In several deserted villages in Dengcheng County, grain distribution is relatively normal.

There must be someone who stretches out his hand, officials are not greedy, officials are also greedy, and they can be pressed to a certain extent, this thing cannot be eradicated in ancient and modern times, both at home and abroad.

In order to appease the landlords, they continued to issue bonds to wealthy households, and this year's land money was reduced again, and only 30 wen was paid per bucket. This thing is the transportation cost of the people when they pay the fields, but the people have to bear it themselves.

The loss of money and grain transportation, that is, the fire consumption of the Ming and Qing dynasties, Zhu Guoxiang did not return to the public for the time being, which is equivalent to letting local officials legally embezzle.

However, the tax must be collected in full, and it can no longer be levied as in the Song Dynasty (the remaining 10% is distributed by the officials and stuffed directly into their own pockets).

Zhu Ming rode to the county seat again and asked about the price of grain here.

Food prices are still high, but they have been pushed down somewhat. At the turn of spring and summer, it is the time when the grain price is the highest in the whole year, and the price of rice and wheat in Dengcheng County is about 1,000 Wen.

This thing should be reduced to three or five hundred to be normal!

The reason why food prices have skyrocketed is not only because of wars and natural disasters, but also because of the excessive amount of money issued by the imperial court in the past few years.

This year, it will be announced that when more than 10 big money and tin money will be invalidated, the government will not care about private transactions, and there is no way to manage it at all. However, the government did not collect more than 10 large coins and tin coins to prevent Song Huizong from continuing to issue coins indiscriminately. The inflow of this money through foreign merchants will disrupt the economic order of the rebels' territory.

The existing iron money will also be gradually phased out, and the coinage supervisor in Sichuan is casting more exquisite iron money.

These high-quality iron coins will definitely be collected by the wealthy, and the inferior iron coins will be used to pay business taxes.

While cracking down on private casting, the government also recovered the inferior money for smelting, and if it suffered, it suffered a loss, and gradually it was replaced. Sichuan has iron mines, according to the amount of bad money destroyed, a limited number of fine iron coins are issued, so as to ensure the smooth transition of coins.

When the value of the iron money is stable and the government warehouses are full, you can try to issue paper money.

There were only more than 3,000 troops in Xiangyang, and all of them were Zhu Ming's pro-army. Not only were these soldiers not given land, but they were only allowed to bring their wives and children, and they were not allowed to move with their families. Because of the high degree of development around Xiangyang, there is not much land to allocate.

The pro-soldiers were treated more favorably, and the land they were given was converted into money, thus dispelling the imbalance in their hearts.

More soldiers, stationed in Jingmen and Xinye.

Because of the vast land and sparsely populated area, the Northern Song Dynasty did not even have Xinye City, only a commercial town, and that large area had so few people that it was impossible to set up a county.

There are more than 6,000 soldiers, and they took the whole family to move to Xinye to settle down.

At the same time, 10,000 displaced people were allocated for reclamation. If the soldiers and their families cannot cultivate their own land, the displaced people must rent a certain amount of land, and give priority to ensuring that the soldiers' land is cultivated.

It is believed that within ten years, Xinye City will be able to reappear in the land of China again.

When Zhu Ming came to Xiangyang, an official ship also came from Nanyang.

The prefect of Nanyang issued an urgent report, and there were too many displaced people there to bear it. Every month, there are Henan refugees, who come in groups from the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, and the officials of Nanyang counties receive several batches, adding up to more than 50,000 people, all of whom have heard that Zhu Thief is willing to settle the displaced people.

"Marshal, you're finally here!"

Zhang Bo said anxiously: "Fangcheng County ordered an urgent report, there is a leader of the rebel army named Cui Dalang, who took 300,000 troops across the border to take refuge. The Fangcheng County Commander was already frightened and at a loss, and ordered him to stay at the border and wait to receive it. ”

"Three hundred thousand? Fooling the hell," Zhu Ming said with a smile, "What kind of Cui Dalang, if there were 300,000 troops, he would have gone directly to Tokyo." ”

Zhang Bo said: "300,000 people must be an imaginary number, but counting the old and weak women and children, this rebel army is probably 20,000 or 30,000. They came from Ye County of the Song Kingdom, and when they heard that they were still running through the Lianghuai River, the Song officials along the way did not dare to stop them, and even wished that these rebels would come to us. I heard that when Cui Dalang led his troops out of Ye County, the county order also asked the rich households to distribute 2,000 stone grain, and accompanied them to send them out of the country with a smile. ”

"Take it, break up the resettlement," Zhu Ming said, "Our grain is not enough, so we can only borrow grain from rich families in Nanyang." ”

What kind of world is this?

The rebels in the imperial court territory swaggered to the thief war zone, and the local officials also raised food to see them off.

(End of chapter)