The solution proposed by Xiao Ming is actually very simple, but everything is related to immigration, the first way, in recent years, floods and droughts in the Huanghuai region have occurred frequently, and there are more and more displaced people, this part of the people is the best labor resource, according to the consistent practice of the Great Song Dynasty, the end of this kind of problem is to recruit soldiers, erect recruitment flags to eat their own food as soldiers.

However, this kind of soldiers have basically turned into van troops and fan soldiers, with low combat ability, lack of training on the one hand, and spending huge amounts of money on the other hand, it is not that there are no good seedlings of soldiers with good physical conditions, but this kind of people basically can't be their own masters.

A large number of displaced people have seriously shaken the ruling foundation of the imperial court, and if there is turmoil, people with ulterior motives will be carried into the rebellion and become a rebel, just like the southeast rebellion of Fang Lamingjiao not long ago, Xiao Ming gave the method of absorbing all this part of the people into the construction of Weihai, or they can also cross the sea to Jinzhou Lushun to participate in the construction.

Of course, this is voluntary, but it is to talk about the conditions first, and at the same time select people with good physical conditions from the middle to form soldiers, Xiao Ming wants to include them in the sequence of his own black bone enemy Lie Commander Army, and become his own private army, since it is a private army, Xiao Ming is still willing to use the people of the Great Song Dynasty first, at least there is no language barrier.

The second method is also to use foreign personnel, that is, Xiao Ming decided to bring most of them into the construction of Weihai port in Shandong from the war-torn refugees in Liaodong, many of these people are Han Chinese, and most of them fled the famine and entered the Liaodong region.

For Xiao Ming's two methods, Zhang Shuye carefully considered that immigration is a state act, since the founding of the Song Dynasty, in order to encourage agriculture, the imperial court has made great efforts to do this, for a period of time, the population flow of the Song Dynasty is very small, the reason is that the people engaged in agricultural production can get the imperial court's tax reduction and preferential treatment every year.

Until after Shenzong, the agriculture of the Song Dynasty was extremely developed, and the harvest of grain and wheat exceeded the best harvest in history, so that under the surplus of grain, the wine-making industry in various places also developed, at this time, the imperial court adopted the policy of persuading agriculture still unchanged, and at the same time began to encourage the development of industry and commerce, and merchants and artisan households all over the country could also get preferential treatment from the imperial court to reduce taxes, so industry and commerce suddenly developed rapidly, increasing the tax revenue of tens of thousands of dollars to the Great Song Dynasty every year.

It is said that the Song Dynasty was the richest dynasty in the Central Plains of China, but this wealth is invisible, it is not reflected in the official income, nor in the books of the official court, but in the pockets of the common people, which is a typical Tibetan wealth from the people, but the Song Dynasty did not solve the problem of regional differences, that is, the rich areas are very rich, and the poor areas are very poor.

In fact, this needs a horizontal flow of resources can be solved, which allows the free flow of people is also a way, the Song Dynasty developed industry and commerce, in the later period caused a lot of land annexation, the peasants tasted the sweetness from the land, so they were very reluctant to lose the land, the peasants who lost the land became displaced people, became the source of social unrest.

In Shandong and other places on Lianghuai East Road, it is a very poor area at this stage, and the tax revenue of Lianghuai Road is less than five million yuan a year, and the imperial court will not know that money will only create higher value if it is used.

If we take the lead in Shandong to let a large number of people move freely, this will inevitably cause the land to be more barren, and the area of cultivated land will be less than the grain will be able to keep up, and a large number of people will flee and lose money if there is a natural disaster, which is a vicious circle, and Zhang Shuye's analysis is very clear.

The poorer the locality, the more frequent the corruption cases, Zhang Shuye is very clear about this from the cases he has thoroughly investigated, but if he follows Xiao Ming's method and introduces the population from the Liaodong area of the Great Liao State, in addition to labor and construction, this part of the population will definitely settle down in large numbers, and if the population can be attracted from other state capitals, the problem of displaced people will be solved, the local population will not be lost, and the phenomenon of barren land will be alleviated.

His idea of completely focusing on agriculture, Xiao Ming can also guess seven or eight points, not recruiting workers from the local area but from other places, it is also out of his selfishness, Xiao Ming doesn't care about this, you just need to cooperate to get people, the cooperation here is two-sided, on the one hand, as the organization and manager of the port construction site, on the other hand, it is necessary to organize a large number of fleets to pick up people from Liaodong, Zhang Shuye's burden is not light.

But this person is a strong character and talented person, at least he will play with the Song Dynasty court, he wrote to the court, in order to put an end to the threat of floods in Huanghuai and other places, it is recommended that the court stop recruiting the army on the Lianghuai Road, and the government of the displaced people will organize to build water conservancy, dig ports, dredge the silt at the mouth of the sea, and wait until the weather improves, and then let these people open up wasteland and farm.

The money and grain taxes in Denglai and Qingzhou and other places are enough to maintain this use, and it is hoped that the imperial court can exempt this area from taxes for two years, and the people here can use forced labor to offset the taxes.

The Great Song Dynasty court agreed to this as appropriate, so after a period of time, the entire Lianghuai Road Shandong area actually attracted a large number of displaced people to enter, these people can not only find work on the construction site, earn money, but also from the official register, exempt from their own taxes, within two years they can get the corresponding land, of course, you don't have money to work on the construction site for half a year.

There are many people who want to go to Liaodong, because there are suddenly rumors among the people that a big gold mine has been found in Liaodong, and everyone wants to go to pan for gold, and Zhang Shuye has no way to do this, so he will be sent to Liaodong by boat under Xiao Ming's arrangement, and some people are singled out, because some people say that they can be used as private soldiers for others, and the military salary is extremely high, and the applicants are also very enthusiastic.

This part of the people Xiao Ming will let Qian Baguang take people to check, now Weihai can only be transported to Lushun after a certain amount of training, and then directly incorporated into his own private army sequence of the Black Bone Enemy Lie Commander Military Division, he has the tax resources and war bonds of the entire Liaodong region, and there is no problem in establishing a private army of 100,000.

Of course, Xiao Ming didn't want so many people at all, he still adhered to the elite line, as soon as the personnel arrived, they were isolated and trained by a few Tiger Guard instructors, of course, the military salary and treatment of this group of people were also the best, and at the same time, he also arranged a large number of gold digging laborers to start building the Lushunkou base.

Of course, these are all later words, Xiao Ming's time schedule in Shandong is very tight, mainly because he wants to draw out the planning of the Weihai base, which requires on-site survey and measurement, where to build a fort, where to build a port, where to set up a lighthouse, where to unload the dock...... These have to be planned by Xiao Ming in the TV and materials he used to watch, and with this kind of planning, it turns out that many places in this area are very primitive and need to be cleaned up.

If you want to engage in construction, you need building materials, and the materials provided by Zhang Shuye are limited to trees, bamboo, stones, etc., and Xiao Ming has to build a cement factory here again, and also build another iron factory, and also as a branch of Taiouping Iron Works, pull coal from Yanzhou nearby, and iron ore transported from Jinzhou by sea, and soon be able to produce high-speed rail. Instead, a whole bunch of workers and miners were born.

But Uncle Zhang also has his own troubles, the entire coastal area of Shandong suddenly became angry, and at this time trouble also followed, this trouble is actually pirates, because there has been a report from the bottom, and the documents of the robbery on the islands along the coast of Qingzhou are placed on his desk.

Zhang Shuye also mentioned this matter to Xiao Ming, at present, he has no soldiers at hand, if he wants to stabilize the coastal defense, how can the third class of the government in his hand be enough? He is very clever on this issue, if the pirates go ashore to rob the port wharf and base, he is not afraid, where there is Xiao Ming's army to guard, at least there are thousands of people in the private army system of intensive training, he is afraid that if the pirates intercept merchant ships and the fleet transporting people to Liaodong at sea, it will be bad.

This is a very troublesome matter, Xiao Ming remembered one thing, so he asked Uncle Zhang about it.

"Lord Zhang, I have always wanted to ask you one person this time, that is, the Song Jiang who accompanied me to escort Sui Gong to the Liao Realm last time, why didn't I see him this time?"

Uncle Zhang's face immediately darkened, and after hesitating for a long time, he said: "That Song Jiang and Song Gongming were originally thieves, and they accepted the old man's recruitment a while ago, and he was willing to be a master under the old man's hands, but he defected and ran away again, this time the pirates are in trouble, I guess it may be that they did it."

"What do you say? Song Jiang is a pirate? Xiao Ming was shocked.

"If my estimate is correct, it should be him!"

Xiao Ming asked: "Why do you say that, can you tell me in detail?"

Zhang Shuye sorted out his thoughts and said to Xiao Ming: "Song Jiang Song Gongming was originally from the family of eunuchs, he was anxious and righteous, and he also had some chivalrous reputations, but he was a thief during the Zhenghe period, from Henglianghuai and Jingdong Road, he still had thirty-six people under him, and he was the head of the group of thieves, and he was recruited back then, but he concealed the whereabouts of the thirty-six leaders under him......

According to Zhang Shuye's analysis, Song Jiang couldn't figure it out, the leaders of the thirty-six bandits under him were actually not all Han Chinese, it seemed that there were Fusang people, and most of these people were actually pirates, and Song Jiang's acceptance of Zhao'an was just a single act, according to him, he was unwilling to force the wishes of the other brothers, so let it be according to his own wishes.

But Song Jiang Zhao'an fell into the grass again in more than a year, robbed the granary of the treasury and the fishing boat of Laizhou Water Gate to go to sea, and then disappeared, this matter should be a stain on Uncle Zhang's political performance, and he also concealed it from the imperial court, but now the pirates are coming to make trouble again, and it is difficult to hide it again.

Xiao Ming said: "It's not difficult to solve this matter, since pirates are more likely to steal merchant ships for the sake of the coast, then we will fight pirates!" ”

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