I am Da Song

Chapter 641
The content of the immigration decree is very simple. It is to move a large number of native Indians on the mainland to a primitive area according to a decree.Let them gather together in it.Then leave a large amount of flat land outside to the pioneers of Zhuxia.

It's a bit like the Han Dynasty, when the Central Plains people occupied the plains, and the Qiang and Di people occupied the mountains.

Just a group of ministers asked in surprise: "This group of natives will also follow the laws of the Holy Dynasty?"

The immigration law kept them away from the territory where they lived for generations.

With a strong smile, Duke Yu said with great confidence: "Masters, you can send people to Dongshan Continent to have a look in person. All the aborigines within the territory currently radiated by the Protectorate of Dongshan have accepted the emigration decree and left the plain. Under the authority of the army, the barbarians had no choice but to follow."

"Now, as long as the princes send people in, they can build towns and cultivate hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile land in the central plain. Li Duhu promised that all new farmland will be exempted from tax within five years."

Zhao Huan did not comment on this point, not to mention hundreds of thousands of acres of tax exemption, even if it is tens of millions of acres of tax exemption, as long as the Dongshan Protectorate itself is willing, the court will not have any opinions.

Because there is no way to transport the local food back to the Central Plains for the time being.

Although the colonies and plantations in North America were economically developed, there was a steady stream of goods shipped to the UK one after another.

But there are almost no routes from North America to the Central Plains.

It was not until the eve of the Opium War that the first cargo ship traveled from Los Angeles to Hawaii, and then crossed the Pacific Ocean to Guangzhou.

Moreover, it was too remote to spend such a high price, and what was transported was not food, but [-] seal skins.

That's right, the main value items sent to the Central Plains in the early days of the New World were primary processed items such as animal leather and oil.

But this does not mean that local food cannot be sent back.

This requires batches of navigators to open up routes. Song Dynasty spent hundreds of millions of military expenses to support such a huge navy. One of their major functions in non-wartime is to wander around the world, surveying water patterns, drawing maps, Record the route.

A sailing battleship can drift alone on the sea for more than a year, and it is impossible to encounter any enemies in front of hundreds of artillery.

There are dozens of battleships cruising the oceans around the world every year, surveying and mapping sea charts.

There are also more than a dozen battleships forming formations, exploring everywhere, and opening up new roads.

As long as a stable and safe shipping route is opened up, according to the current shipbuilding technology of Song Dynasty, a huge ship of 10,000+ stones can continuously transport all kinds of materials back from Dongshan mainland.

Zhang Jun has a very long-term vision. His planning has never only focused on the present. Five years or even ten years are like a blink of an eye for the empire.

There are even favored prime ministers who have been in office for more than ten or twenty years.

He said seriously: "If two fields of tens of millions of hectares can be opened up on the Dongshan Continent, it will mean that my available arable land will double, and my available surplus grain will increase several times! This will allow us to continue our dynasty for hundreds of years."

This is equivalent to adding a super granary to the Song Dynasty, and the cycle of the dynasty will be delayed for hundreds of years.

Especially on Dongshan Continent, the population is sparse. They have vast plains and thousands of miles of fertile soil. The food they produce will greatly reduce the price of food in the Central Plains and ease the population pressure in the Central Plains.

The ministers think more directly, they don't care about the eternity, they only want the prosperity and wealth now.

For them, any experience that cannot be enjoyed at the moment is useless. After I die, I will let him flood the sky.

Someone immediately asked: "If the natives have fled, is it safe for our team to go there? How can we reap wealth?"

Yugong replied confidently: "Everyone, there is no place on the Dongshan mainland that is as safe as Tokyo. A murder case can be picked up by the Kaifeng government with all its strength. In the middle of the night, I hang out in brothels, restaurants and theaters without any worries. But on the Dongshan Continent, as long as it is within the jurisdiction of the Dongshan Protectorate, law and order can be guaranteed."

"Even if there is a war, in theory, our deployment speed in the plains will exceed that of the natives."

This point is the point that is most different from the impression of ordinary people.

The aborigines in the north of the Dongshan Continent were divided into hundreds of chiefdoms. When they faced the Allied Forces of the Song Dynasty, they often fought against the crowd with a small number rather than a large number.

In addition to sneak attacks, as long as it involves dispatching troops, the Dongshan Protectorate's Mansion can always rely on higher organizational capabilities and more convenient transportation to dispatch more troops.

Someone asked: "Didn't it happen that during the Han and Qiang wars, the aborigines in the mountains united 10,000+ people, walked down to the plains, burned the land wantonly, and destroyed the farms?"

Duke Yu said proudly: "During the Han Dynasty, the Han court spent tens of billions of money but could not deal with the Qiang people. The war lasted for hundreds of years. As a result, the Qiang people had an army of [-] people in Xiliang. But in our dynasty This will not happen.”

"I am advancing towards military equipment, which has never been done before. Hundreds of muskets firing together can often defeat the aborigines' invasion."

"After the promulgation of the immigration decree, the aborigines occasionally left the reservation, and most of them were killed by the farm owners themselves."

Zhao Huan nodded, although after the birth of hot weapons, there were occasional records of defeat by primitive aborigines.

But the war is fierce and dangerous, and anything can happen.Hot weapons have won tens of thousands of games, and 10,000+ battles have not been paid attention to.The lost game will be remembered for hundreds of years.

If anyone really tries to fight against hot weapons according to this special case, 90.00% of them will die at the muzzle of muskets.

Anyway, in Midi's western development, it is not the army that fights against the natives, but a group of cowboys and sheriffs.

So Zhao Huan said: "Risk always coexists with opportunity. In terms of the current emptiness of Dongshan Continent, if you send two cows there, it may not be long before you can have a herd of 200 cattle. Send [-] people, maybe Tens of thousands of mu of fertile land can be harvested.”

Yu Gong immediately praised: "The official family has learned a lot. Now there are treasure lands everywhere on the Dongshan mainland, and they only wait for the development of the Central Plains."

This is also the most important purpose of their Dongshan Protectorate's contribution this time, to attract people from the Central Plains to enrich the area, at least to fill the large territory that the Dongshan Protectorate has now conquered.

Farms and towns were built on this vast land. After agriculture flourished, roads would be guarded and commerce would be more developed.

Otherwise, the distance between the two towns is hundreds of miles, and the middle is primitive and barbaric. Even if Dongshan Dufu ruled this place, it would not be able to effectively control it.

The Dongshan Protectorate's Mansion has great ambitions. At least 130 towns, twelve large cities, and tens of thousands of farms should be built in the current control area.

With all of this, Dongshan Protectorate Mansion can persist alone even without the support of the imperial court.

(End of this chapter)