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Chapter 161 Why do you need so many people?
It looks similar to the heavy trucks of the later generations, but the steam transport convoy, which is more bloated and larger than it, carried more than 1000 immigrants, and drove to Lanshan County under the jurisdiction of Jinzhou, beeping black smoke all the way. .

Lanshan County is not far from Jinzhou Port. The county has been established for a very long time. It was established as a county under the rule of Yan State in the Warring States Period.

However, Liaodong, which is located in the frontier, will be occupied by nomads from the north from time to time, and then the local people will be relocated or massacred.

Since the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, the people in the Liaodong area have been withering day by day.

By the time the Ming Dynasty recaptured Liaodong and established the Liaodong Capital, there were only about [-] Han Chinese in the entire Liaodong region.

Lanshan County only has more than 1000 Han people. Although it is called a county, it is only a large village.

During the Liaodong Dusi period, there was not even a guard station established here. It was just a military settlement attached to Jinzhouwei, where more than 1000 local Han people in Liaodong lived, and more than 1 military relatives who immigrated with the army later.

Lanshan County was not re-established as a county government until the Liaodong Chief Envoy was established a few months ago.

However, the population of Lanshan County is still too small, with a total of less than [-] households, not even the lowest county.

Daming is a low-level county. The population of the county seat is at least 5 households. In addition to the surrounding villages, at least a county must have [-] households and more than [-] people before it can be called a county.

Some large counties in the south of the Yangtze River can even have 50 households and [-] people in one county!

Liaodong Chief Envoy did not write a comparison with the hinterland of the south of the Yangtze River, but since Lanshan County has established a county government and dispatched a group of officials, at least [-] households that meet the standard for establishing a county always have to Is it enough? !
One-third of Zhao Liusheng's first batch of immigrants, a thousand households, came to enrich Lanshan County.

And because they arrived early, they didn't need to be assigned to many immigrant villages newly established outside the city, but were arranged to live in Lanshan County.

From now on, they can be regarded as people from the county town.

Although there are few people in Liaodong, it is under military control!

For the army, road construction is definitely a top priority.

In the past ten years in Liaodong, the capital of Liaodong has done only one thing besides recruiting savages, and that is road construction!

From Liaoyang Mansion to more than 20 important guards in Liaodong, a direct road has been built.

Each road can accommodate three horse-drawn carriages or two steam-carriages abreast.

Although half of the guards have been changed to the government now, the repaired roads will not be lost.

Pulling more than 1000 households and driving for another half an hour, a convoy of more than 100 steam transport vehicles drove them along the road from Jinzhou Port to Lanshan County, and sent them to the gate of Dongcheng in Lanshan County.

"Get out of the car, this will be your home from now on!"

The officials of the Liaodong Immigration Department who followed the convoy each brought immigrants ranging from fifty to one hundred households into the city and went straight to their new homes.

Lanshan County has been established for more than a thousand years, and it has been repaired many times in the middle.

Especially after the leadership team of Lanshan County was in place, it has undergone a major overhaul.

The city is divided into four districts, east, west, north, south, and the houses in each district have been renovated.

Most of the people who originally lived in the city gathered in Beicheng near the military camp, which was convenient for the new immigrants.

The Immigration Department arranged the new immigrants in Nancheng and Beicheng according to fifty households as a street.

The houses in Nancheng alone are enough to house seven or eight hundred households.

If the entire Lanshan County is fully populated, more than 3000 households can be accommodated without expansion, and the city is still not small.

The county magistrate of Lanshan County has planned even more new villages outside the city. There are more than ten villages and five townships, which can accommodate another [-] households!

This is also the limit of immigrants that the arable land in Lanshan County can accommodate.

It's not that the arable land in Lanshan County is only enough for more than 8000 households to reclaim, but according to the allocation of 200 mu of land for each household, Lanshan County can only reclaim 160 million mu of arable land!

This is because Lanshan County is relatively large, and it happens to be located in a plain, so there is so much land.

If it is replaced by a county in the south of the Yangtze River, a county with 80 mu of cultivated land is considered a super-large county, and it is very normal for a county in Yunnan, Guizhou and other places to have less than [-] mu of cultivated land.

According to the estimates of the imperial court center, the total number of people who immigrated to Liaodong this time will only be controlled between 20 and [-] households. The total number of immigrants is about one million, and all the cultivated land in Liaodong can be divided.

This caused many officials in the court to criticize, thinking that Emperor Hongwu was too kind to immigrants, and each household could be divided into [-] mu of land.

In fact, as long as one hundred mu of land is given, there will be a lot of people who are willing to immigrate. When the Ming Dynasty immigrated to the north, the reclamation order was given to one hundred mu of land. In eight years, nearly 50 households were immigrated, and the results were remarkable.

There is no need to give [-] mu of land to each household.

But Hong Wudi's call made them speechless.

"When managing Liaodong, do you want population or land development?"

"Those agricultural machines in Yimoyuan can plow up to [-] mu of land in a family of five!"

"Since one household can farm [-] mu, why spend a lot of money and effort to immigrate more households?"

"20 households are enough to farm Liaodong and provide Ming with a steady stream of grain!"

"Immigrating 40 households, or 60 households, will Liaodong produce more food?"

"The Ming Dynasty experienced wars, and the local population dropped sharply. Although it has been recuperating for more than 20 years, the population is still small, and a lot of cultivated land in the north is still abandoned."

"Why bother to move so many people to Liaodong now?"

Daming wanted Liaodong because the land could produce more grain to supply the frontier troops.

That being the case, 20 households are enough to utilize all the arable land in Liaodong, so why bother to immigrate more.

At the beginning of each dynasty, the population will drop sharply due to the war.

This led to the time when the land in the country was saturated before the Ming Dynasty and could no longer support the people, and it was urgent to use the swords and guns of the Ming Dynasty to find arable land for the people of the Ming Dynasty.

Now except for Jiangnan where there are many people and little land, both the north and the southwest are in a stage where the land is vast and the population is sparse.

The local population is not enough, why so many immigrants!

Waste of productivity is a shameful thing!

Immigration is a very troublesome thing. The center will cost a lot of money, and it will also provide food and supplies for the immigrants for the next year or two.

And if there are more immigrants, they will consume more food themselves, and the food produced in Liaodong will be less to supply the court.

Which is more cost-effective if five people plow the field and produce enough food for 100 people, or ten people plow the field and produce enough food for 100 people?
It is good to use the fewest people to do the biggest things.

What Liaodong wants now is to use as few people as possible, cultivate more fields, and produce enough grain to supply the frontier army and the court.

Emperor Hongwu wished that one person could reclaim a thousand acres of land, and thousands of people could plant all the land in Liaodong, so that 99% of the grain produced could supply the army to fight!
Why are there still more immigrants to Liaodong? !

One family has [-] mu, just enough to finish farming, the most cost-effective!
Besides, people will have babies.

In 30 to 20 years, these 60 households will also become [-] to [-] households. Will there be more food to eat by then?
There are fewer immigrants now, at least in the next hundred years, there will be no such thing as insufficient land to support people in Liaodong, and they can continue to deliver batches of military rations to the frontier army!

At that time, if the local land of Ming Dynasty is saturated, then it is time to lay down Monan and Mobei. No matter how bad it is, there will be Jianzhou, and a piece of black land north of Jianzhou. How can it not support people?

The current Ming Dynasty does not lack land at all, what is lacking is the food supply for the frontier army!
Liaodong and Hetao, as long as they can be developed, they can deliver food to the Nine Borders nearby, then there will be plenty of land for the people in the country to plant in the future!
The current group of immigrants to Liaodong and the people who will immigrate to Hetao in the future are all going to contribute to the Northern Expedition of the Ming Dynasty. It is not an exaggeration to give some good treatment!

(End of this chapter)