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Chapter 140 Immigrant Reclamation Order
"The Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, formulate a combat plan as soon as possible!"

"After the spring of next year, the Northern Expedition!"

"If you don't regain the Hetao, you will never return to the teacher!"

Emperor Hongwu held Tian Xian in his mouth, and ordered in a firm tone.

All the generals of the Five Armies Commander's Mansion present took orders.

Although it is said that the founding lords who followed Emperor Hongwu to fight the world are basically withered now.

But Emperor Hongwu himself is a general with great military exploits. He also personally led his troops from the end to the throne, and fought dozens of battles, big and small!
Although it may not be as good as Tang Taizong who is famous for his martial arts.

But compared to Han Gaozu, Tang Gaozu, Song Taizu, Jin Taizu and other founding emperors, it is not 01:30!
As long as the grand strategy is determined, the specific battle plan is not difficult for this group of generals who have experienced battles and have a deep understanding of the military equipment of the Ming Dynasty.

In addition, Emperor Hongwu has checked the battle plan put forward by the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, and this Northern Expedition will definitely be a success!
"Go."

Emperor Hongwu waved his hand, and all the generals of the five armies' governor's mansion retreated.

"Sir, please retire!"

After watching these generals leave.

In the huge Hall of Martial Arts, only a few serving eunuchs, as well as Emperor Hongwu and his grandson remained.

Screened off the servants, leaving only a loyal guard behind.

Only then did Emperor Hongwu look at his grandson with gentle eyes, and said softly:

"Grandson, once the Northern Expedition is successful, I will leave it to you to arrange for the people to emigrate to the border."

"In three years, 20 households must be relocated to the Hetao area!"

"As long as these 20 households take root in Hetao, within three to five years, 40 hectares of fertile land can be reclaimed!"

One hectare is one hundred mu.

It may be difficult for one family to reclaim [-] acres of wasteland in three to five years. In the ancient times when farming was completely manual.

After all, wasteland is no better than cultivated fields, and it takes a lot of time and effort to open up wasteland. Maybe a family of four can reclaim more than ten or twenty acres of wasteland a year, which is not bad.

But now with all kinds of steam equipment, it is not difficult to reclaim [-] acres of wasteland in three to five years.

In particular, the Hetao area itself has some Qinqu, Hanqu, and Tangqu. As long as the government repairs it a little, it will be supplemented with various steam machines.

In three to five years, it is not difficult to reclaim 40 hectares of farmland along the Yellow River in the already well-established Hetao area.

"My Ming Dynasty, summer wheat and autumn millet in the north can harvest two stones of grain per mu of land!"

"In the immigration law, the imperial court collects half of the tax in the first three years, [-]% in the next seven years, and returns to normal land tax in ten years."

"The 40 hectares of new land alone can provide at least 4000 million shi of grain for the frontier army in the first three years!"

"In the next seven years, at least 2000 million stones of food can be transported to the frontier army every year!"

"This is only 40 hectares, and the arable land in Hetao is more than 40 hectares!"

"If it is fully reclaimed continuously, the Hetao area alone will be able to transport 30 to 3000 million shi of food for the frontier army every year in the next [-] years!"

As an emperor of folk origin, Emperor Hongwu was very familiar with those things in the fields.

According to the "Order to Encourage Immigrants and Reclamation" promulgated by Ming Hongwu in 20 years, as long as the people are willing to immigrate with their families, they can enjoy unlimited reclamation for the first five years.

In the past five years, as long as you can reclaim as much land as you want, as long as you plant it all and don't abandon it, then the land will be yours, and the court will not charge extra money.

However, half of the output of the new land will be paid in the first three years, [-]% in the next seven years, and ten years later, it will be collected according to the normal land tax.

In this way, it is equivalent to the poor people planting for the court officials for ten years in exchange for a piece of land of their own.

The "Immigration and Reclamation Order" was mainly to encourage the Ming people to immigrate to the northern border areas.

Due to the years of war, the population ratio between the north and the south of Daming is very different. The north is vast and sparsely populated, and many lands are abandoned, and there are no people to cultivate them. This is why the government issued a decree to encourage people to emigrate.

Five years of free reclamation, and how much land you open, these lands will belong to your family in the future, and in the early stage, the court provided various agricultural equipment and cattle.

Later, it was changed to provide public rental rotary tillers and tractors.

Under the promise of various benefits.

This reclamation order has been implemented for eight years, and it has achieved very good results. A total of one million poor households in the southeastern region have immigrated to the northern nine border regions to enrich the local agricultural development.

The Northern Expedition is now possible mainly because many people have immigrated from the south to the north in the past eight years. The wasteland in the north has gradually been recultivated, and a lot of food has been sent to the nine borders to meet the logistical problems of the war.

Otherwise, it really depends on railway and water transportation to continuously transport grain from the southeast hinterland to the north.

Even if the loss is much less than the previous human transportation, coal still needs to be mined by labor, and if the railway is always occupied, commercial development will also be hindered.

In fact, there are still a lot of intangible losses. Every ten shi of grain transported is equivalent to a loss of two shi!

Not to mention only using food from the south, even if Jiangnan is a land of fish and rice, supplying the entire Nine Sides is indeed a bit nervous.

If you want to take Monan, the out-of-production army will be stationed in Monan for a long time, and there is a great need for food supplies.

Whether the south of the Yangtze River in the Hetao area can be developed or not will almost determine whether it is possible for the Ming Dynasty to truly unify the grasslands!
After much deliberation, whether the land in Hetao can be reclaimed in time is really very important, and it is related to Ming's foreign conquests in the next 30 years.

Emperor Hongwu frowned, and decided to add fire to the enthusiasm of immigrants!

"Well, grandson, you remember."

"After our army has taken all of the Hetao, we will announce a new order, called the "Hetao Reclamation Order"!"

"Every household registered in Ming Dynasty who voluntarily applies to emigrate to Hetao will be given [-] acres of wasteland per household!"

"With the help of a steam rotary tiller and a tractor, a family of five can plow [-] acres of land!"

"Even if there is no time to cultivate in the first two or three years, it is absolutely possible to complete all the cultivation within five years!"

"Two hundred acres of land is enough to make most people fall in love!"

Before the advent of agricultural machinery, the people of Ming Dynasty could plow thirty to fifty mu of land per person. This was already the pinnacle of farming society under the condition of manual labor.

Most poor people can actually have five acres of their own land, and rent and plant ten or twenty acres of private land from government houses or big landlords, which is enough for a family to live on.

After deducting the land tax and taxes, a family of five needs at least about ten mu of land to be barely enough.

If you can have ten acres of self-cultivated land, you can support your family without being a tenant.

So there is a folk saying.

"Ten acres of land, a cow, a wife and children on a hot kang."

But even if there is land, it is hindered by the problem of productivity.

Without machines, a young man in the prime of his life can only cultivate a maximum of [-] mu of land with the most advanced hand-made farm tools and oxen.

Coupled with the children and women in the family, a family of five can only take care of a hundred acres of land when they work by themselves.

So in the south of the Yangtze River, if there is a hundred acres of fertile land, it is already the peak of the owner-cultivator, and he can be regarded as a family of small riches and a serious middle class.

In fact, it may be difficult for a village to have a middle-class family with [-] mu of land.

After all, there is little land in the south, and there is only five acres of land per person on average, and it is impossible to distribute the fields in the south equally to all the people.

Therefore, most poor people own less than ten acres of self-cultivated land.

Now Emperor Hongwu promises that as long as they are willing to immigrate to Hetao, each household will be given [-] mu of land!
For the vast poor class of Ming Dynasty, this is tantamount to reaching the sky in one step!
No matter how hard it is to leave the homeland, under the temptation of the land, there will be countless poor people who have lost their land and have little land to sign up!

The interests are touching!

(End of this chapter)