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Chapter 156 Transferred to Commander Tongzhi!
Lao Li, Xiao Zhao and a group of more than a dozen peasants picked up the farm tools they had in hand and rushed to the county.

Generally, if the imperial court has any decrees and notices that need to be widely advertised, they will be posted on the square at the entrance of the county government office, and the small officials will be asked to read them.

By the time Lao Li and his party arrived at the gate of the county government office, the place was already surrounded by people from Qinghe County.

Under the central bulletin board surrounded by layers of civilians, two small officials and four or five yamen servants stood under the board.

The leading official, holding a simple trumpet made of iron, was reading the announcement aloud.

"Nowadays, I feel sorry for the difficulty of the people's life, and I will issue another immigration and land reclamation order!"

"The capital of Liaodong has already established a chief envoy. From now on, it will run schools, factories, and railways just like the thirteen inland provinces!"

"In less than ten years, Liaodong will become a good place to rival Shandong!"

"Liaodong is vast and sparsely populated. As long as people who are willing to sign up to immigrate to Liaodong, each household can be allocated [-] acres of land without spending a penny!"

"After composting the field, half the tax will be paid on the output in the first three years! [-]% in the next seven years!"

"Ten years later, this field will completely belong to you, and you only need to pay three liters, three ingots and five teaspoons of tax per mu according to the law!"

"In addition, considering that the immigrant households are unable to farm [-] acres per year, the imperial court will use the village as a unit to equip each village with rotary tillers and tractors. With the help of these tools, a family of five people can farm [-] acres. Acres of land!"

Official decrees would definitely not be written in such vernacular.

Even though Emperor Hongwu was born with mud legs, the oral instructions and some imperial edicts usually given to officials are all colloquial.

But this kind of decree to announce the world must be issued after the Imperial Academy has been embellished.

However, for the common people, it is obviously difficult to understand those awkward classical Chinese, and the small officials responsible for propagating government orders in various places explain the content to the common people by themselves.

Easy to understand, convenient for you and me.

"Liaodong is a good place. Not only is it rich in resources, but also the land is very fertile. Although it is colder in winter, the yield per mu is no lower than that in Jiangnan!"

"As long as you immigrate, you will have a better life..."

The little official kept praising the beauty of Liaodong loudly. In his mouth, Liaodong has become a good place comparable to Jiangnan.

The people surrounding the scene all started talking to each other in whispers.

In fact, whether the land in Liaodong is good or not, whether it is cold or not, is not the main consideration for everyone.

No matter how bad the land is or how cold the weather is, two hundred acres of land can always make a family rich.

As for the cold, it is not a problem for the people of Ming Dynasty.

Now because there are many factories in Fucheng, there is no shortage of steam appendages at all.

They have begun to provide heating systems for large households, using insulated pipes to send hot water boiled by steam engines to large households, and engaging in floor heating and wall-mounted heating.

The room is not cold at all in winter.

Even ordinary people can't use this kind of advanced heating. In winter, they can buy coal and burn it for heating, and the effect is also very good.

Now due to the large demand for coal mines in Daming, coal mines are being mined vigorously everywhere, and the price of coal has dropped to the point where ordinary people can easily buy and use it.

Liaodong is cold in winter, which is not a problem at all!

Lao Li and his companions looked at each other frequently.

"The tax for the first three and a half years will be [-]% for the next seven years. Although it is a bit heavier, you don't need to spend money to buy land."

"Two hundred acres of land, even if it's all farmland, without 2000 taels of silver, it's definitely impossible to buy."

"In this way, it is still a great deal!"

"And after ten years, only three liters per mu will be collected, which is much lighter than the land tax in Zhili!"

"Yes, this land tax is good!"

The people's focus is on the land tax, and they continue to praise it.

After Emperor Hongwu decided the world, he set the land tax for officials and people in the world. The tax per mu of official land was five liters, three liters and five scoops, and the tax on private land was reduced by two liters.

Therefore, in the Song Dynasty, the land tax was one bucket per mu, calculated based on two stones per mu, which was almost twenty one tax. Although it was not as good as the thirty one tax in the Han Dynasty, it was considered light and thin in the past dynasties. endowed.

But Emperor Hongwu was even more generous. He only collected less than six liters of land tax per mu for official land, and even less than four liters for private land, which was equivalent to forty tax one and fifty tax one!

It's just that, the actual operation of this thing is another result.

Although the land tax was clearly stipulated to be light, Emperor Hongwu also required that the land tax in the south of the Yangtze River be heavily taxed.

In places like Suzhou, Changzhou, and Songjiang, the tax per mu is as high as eight dollars per mu, which is more than three taxes and one!
The Suzhou prefecture alone needs to collect 281 million shi of grain and rice a year, and the total land tax of the entire Ming Dynasty is only more than 2900 million shi.

It is equivalent to a Suzhou government, and you have to pay 10% of a country's land tax!
Most of the other prefectures in Zhili also have to pay three to five buckets of tax.

Adding Zhili and Zhejiang together, the land tax collected in one year can account for one-third of the total land tax of Ming Dynasty!

On the other hand, places outside the south of the Yangtze River strictly followed the tax collection system of Emperor Hongwu, and only collected a little more than three liters of tax per mu of land.

Although after paying such a high tax, they can still live a good life.

But I usually envy the low taxes in other places!

Compared with other places, the people in Jiangnan are the most heavily taxed.

Now seeing the fields in Liaodong, with so little tax revenue, many people's minds became active.

Two hundred acres are given for free, and the tax is low.

Apart from staying away from Jiangnan, the safe hinterland of Ming Dynasty, and possibly facing the danger of northern barbarian soldiers, everything else is a good thing.

"This immigrant is feasible!"

Many people in Qinghe County secretly made up their minds to sign up for this emigration!
Although the risk is not small, but the benefits can not stop high ah!

Not just Qinghe County.

With the convenience of telegrams and trains, the newly promulgated Liaodong immigration reclamation order by Emperor Hongwu spread throughout the land of Ming Dynasty within three to five days.

The provinces in the north and southwest are not bad. At present, they are in a situation where the land is still enough and the land is sparsely populated. Although they are very excited about the policy of [-] mu of land for immigrants as long as they are resettled in the reclamation order.

But the people who responded can only be said to be very few.

Especially the Yunnan-Guizhou and Guangdong-Guangzhou regions are short of people, so there is no reason to move out.

However, in Jiangnan, Huguang, Jiangxi, Zhejiang provinces, and the populous province of Henan, this immigrant reclamation order caused a sensation!

With the previous example of Yanyun immigration, the enthusiasm of the people who signed up to immigrate to Liaodong this time is obviously much higher!
In just over a month, more than 30 households have signed up, and the total number of people has exceeded 150 million!
The first batch of fast-moving immigrants even passed the local screening and were reported to the central government. They were just waiting to take the train to Shandong, and then set sail for Liaodong!
And on the strait between Shandong and Liaodong, Ming's transport ships are also sailing back and forth day and night, transporting the supplies needed by the people to Liaodong.

It’s almost winter now, and the immigrants will definitely not get a harvest in their first year. They can only rely on the government to allocate food and distribute various living utensils.

The original garrison and civilian households in Liaodong, also led by officials at all levels of the Liaodong Chief Envoy who arrived earlier, built houses for the immigrants and planned their residences.

In any case, the Liaodong region has been included in the Central Plains intermittently since the Warring States period, and there is no shortage of counties and basic water conservancy construction.

There are actually many ripe fields.

It's just that because of the war, the people are sparsely populated all the year round, and the land is abandoned.

After the first batch of immigrants arrived, they could live directly in the existing city and the new village planned according to the city.

Liaodong has a lot of bricks used to build fortresses, which are considered as a kind of military supplies. Now they are distributed to the localities, and the houses can be built in a month or two.

The 50 local people in Liaodong, plus [-] garrisons, are fully capable of this job.

Not to mention more, the original old county town will be repaired, and some new villages will be built to accommodate 40 to [-] people.

Even considering the problem of winter, the kang and fireplace are all available.

Before the first batch of immigrants arrived in Liaodong, their "new houses" were almost built.

Officials at the village, township, and county levels at all levels are also in place.

It's just that there are not many people under his command to take care of, and they are waiting eagerly for the arrival of the first batch of immigrants.

Jianzhou, Ula City.

This place is the territory of "Ula", a large savage tribe entrenched in Jianzhou.

The Wula tribe has a total of more than 3 tribesmen, and it is considered to be the eldest brother in the land of Jianzhou.

However, at this time, the Wula tribe had become the command center of the Ming army in Jianzhou.

The land with a radius of about [-] kilometers in Jianzhou was swept away by the army.

I dare not say that there are no savages at all.

But at least for the large and agglomerated tribes, almost all the ones that should be wiped out have been wiped out.

Even if they were not wiped out, the whole family fled to the north and is no longer in Jianzhou.

However, in the deep mountains and old forests on the border of Jianzhou, there are still some savages left, most of them are small tribes with hundreds of people.

Because of their small population, it is difficult for them to travel long distances, so they can only hide in the mountains.

For the time being, the Ming army did not intend to go to the mountain to sweep them up.

The more than 5 troops who raided Jianzhou, after two months of raids, have all returned to Wula City one after another by this time.

Peng Ke also brought his brothers from the Zhenhai Camp to Wula City in a hurry, and joined his boss Jiang Rengang.

The reason why they are all gathered here.

It was because the imperial court sent an imperial decree.

On the large square in the center of Ula City, headed by Zhou Xing, Governor Song Sheng, Governor Liu Zhen, and four guard commanders transferred from Liaodong and Beiping, Shanhaiguan Governor Jiang Rengang, Peng Ke, Wei Ran, Li Wenchang and others The participating generals all knelt on one knee and listened respectfully to the oracle.

"...Establish the capital city of Jianzhou!"

"...Jiang Rengang, the governor of Shanhaiguan, has been transferred to the commander of the capital of Jianzhou!"

"...Shanhaiguan Counselor Li Wenchang, transferred to Jianzhou Capital Division Commander Tongzhi!"

"... Shanhaiguan Counselor Peng Ke, transferred to Jianzhou Metropolitan Commander Tong Zhi!"

(End of this chapter)