Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 752 Old Valve
"Outside of Beijing, there are still many barren fields. Except for the two cities of Beijing and Tianjin, and the two sides of the canal between the two cities, which are now somewhat bustling and populated, many other places are still empty. To be able to do this, we must immigrate to enrich Gyeonggi."

In the Hall of Martial Arts, Zhu Yihai directly proposed an immigration plan to restore the Gyeonggi area, and even the uninhabited status quo caused by the war in Yan, Jin and Liao.

It is said that the population peak of the Ming Dynasty was at the end of Wanli. Some said that the population reached more than 1 million, and some said it reached [-] million. However, the peak population recorded in the official records of Ming Dynasty was more than [-] million, but later generations generally believe that it actually exceeded [-] million.The peak population is basically at the end of Wanli and the years of Tianqi.

Basically, it is speculated that it is between more than 1 million and close to 2000 million. Even after the Qing Dynasty entered the customs and occupied the whole country, the population at the bottom of the valley was still about [-] million.

At the same time, Europe with a population of 3 to 3 could be called a big city, but in the Ming Dynasty, a population of 500 to [-] could only be regarded as an ordinary city, and in the late Ming Dynasty, the proportion of urban population was relatively high, and the urbanization rate could reach [-]%. , the urban population in the late Ming Dynasty was more than [-] million.

The reason why the official population data is relatively low is mainly due to the fact that under the tax system of the Ming Dynasty, the common people were allowed to escape from households and directly contributed to the famous gentry. In addition, many populations were not included in the statistics of the imperial court. Much lower than official.

Later, the Tartars engaged in the allocation of pedigrees to the mu and never increased the tax. The population exploded. There is no need to send their names to the names of gentry, and a large number of hidden households are registered for naturalization, and after the pressure of poll tax is removed, the poor people also let go of childbirth.

Zhu Yihai was deeply touched by this aspect. After he set up troops in eastern Zhejiang, he immediately began to implement new policies such as the taxation of land into the mu, and the integration of government and gentry into grain. The silver hired people to work on behalf of them, while the small silver was allocated to the fields. The landlords actually borne the burden, and the industrial and commercial industry also borne part of it, which freed the people from the heavy taxes and labor in the late Ming Dynasty.

Coupled with the crackdown on posting names to invest in confiscations, all military households and artisan households are classified as civilian registrations, which greatly increased the number of household registration populations in various places.

"I propose that all officials in Beijing and all soldiers stationed in Beijing should move their family members to Beijing to settle down. The imperial court will directly assign them land and resettlement according to the rank of officials and ranks of officers and soldiers.
In addition, all honored ministers who have been conferred with titles, real-time officials of the fifth rank or above, and those who work outside, should also move their family members to Gyeonggi. "

When the emperor said these words, the ministers who participated in the meeting of the Wuying Palace did not react much, because this was already expected. Before the crown prince took the place of the emperor to patrol the north, Du Yinxi And so on also began to discuss countermeasures, immigration is inevitable.

How to move is not difficult to guess.

During the Northern Expedition of Ming Taizu, he went all the way north. After conquering Dadu, he also immigrated to Shandong, Hebei and other places several times. Later, after Zhu Dijing was successful, he moved the capital to Beijing.

Their immigrants are officials, powerful households, merchants, and even military and civilian refugees.

It is almost inevitable that officials and generals in the capital, as well as soldiers stationed in Beijing, will move their families to Gyeonggi to settle down. Although many ministers may live in various places, they may not be willing to move in this way, but the situation is here.

It's just that everyone didn't expect that the emperor's immigration plan was more aggressive than they expected.

All internal and external officials of the fifth rank or above, all honored ministers, and soldiers stationed in Gyeonggi must be relocated and settled down.

The range is somewhat large.

Of course, this kind of relocation is generally limited to officials and soldiers themselves, and it is not necessary to relocate their entire families.

Zhu Yihai went on to say, "Before the first year of Shaotian, the family of nobles and ministers bestowed by the Ming Dynasty, who now has no official titles in the dynasty, the whole family must move to Beijing to settle down."

Wen Anzhi sat there calmly. In fact, the emperor had discussed this matter with the prime ministers at the Qianqingmen Prime Minister's office for a long time. Come to the capital.

For the high-ranking families in places where the imperial court confers titles and appointments, the imperial court only requires them to move to the capital and settle in the capital, and does not force their clansmen to move to the capital. Those who are willing to come are allowed to do as they please, and some land will be given to the homestead. The preferential conditions, unwilling to come and not forced.

But for those families who have been awarded noble titles before the Ming Dynasty, families whose daughters have entered the palace as queens, concubines, and concubines, families with children who have held fifth-rank real positions in the court, and families who have been military officers, as long as They are still there, and now there are no nobles in the Shaotian Dynasty, none above the fifth rank, and those who are not guarded in Beijing, this time they will be forced to move to Beijing.

Basically, those descendants of the honored ministers, hereditary military officers, and high-level bureaucratic families who are still there at this time must be basically local famous families and big families, at least middle-level and above landlords.

Regardless of whether these people surrendered or surrendered before, or because they fell in the early years, or because of other reasons, they are not currently serving in the court, or their positions are not high, they will still be local tyrants.

For example, those nobles in Nanjing City before, Wei Guogong Xu Wenjue, Baoguo Gong Zhu Guobi, Linhuaihou Li Hongji, Lingbihou Tang Guozuo and a bunch of dukes and earls, and Qian Qianyi and others opened the city and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty.

Some of these people went to Beijing later, but they were basically not reused. Later, they basically returned to Nanjing. In the Battle of Nanjing, they were all killed by Yan Wogong one by one.

After the recovery of Nanjing, Zhu Yihai's treatment of these people was actually quite kind. Basically, they confiscated the land that the imperial court rewarded them, cleared up and took back the military land and official land they occupied, and returned the land that they had accepted. , and then take back the house that was rewarded to them, and let the other families keep it.

Although they were forced to donate several times when defending the city in Nanjing, and the families also donated several times after the city was broken, their vitality is still there.

This centipede is dead but not stiff.

Some members of the Xunchen family also joined the Shaotian Dynasty, and some even had already emerged. Most of the old Xun's children, although politically unhappy, can continue to do business and trade. Taking advantage of the good momentum in the past few years, most of them are at home.

As for those families who died in Beijing at the hands of the Shun Army or the Qing Army, although most of them were later revoked their titles and cleaned up their land, they preserved more vitality, and most of them have gradually recovered in recent years. He began to enter the court again.

For example, the crown prince Taibao Dingguo Gong Xu Yunzhen, who was killed after surrendering to the Chuangjun, offered Qihuamen to surrender, and even persuaded him to enter the table. In the end, the Taifu and Chengguo Gong Zhu Chunchen were executed by Li Zicheng. Gong Zhang Shize, Wuding Hou Xu Xideng and so on.

There are also Taining Hou Chen Yanzuo, Ningyang Hou Chen Guangyu, Huaiyuan Hou Chang Yanling, Wuqing Hou Li Cunshan, Chengshan Bo Wang Daoyun, Guangning Bo Liu Sien, Wujin Bo Zhu Zihong, Jingyuan Bo Wang Yongen, etc., who were deprived of titles after the fall of the Ming Dynasty. Many were neither martyred nor killed, and most of them fled after the death of the two capitals.

For these people, Zhu Yihai used to only seize titles and clean up the fields, and ignored the rest.

Zhu Yihai did not reserve titles for their families, but he only cleared their families of those who would rather die than surrender, such as Pingjiangbo Chen Zhian, Xinlehou Liu Wenbing, Hui'anbo Zhang Qingzhen, and Zhangwubo Yang Chongyou. For the occupied land, the rest will be recognized, registered and reserved, and even given a posthumous title to favor his wife and children.

The old honored ministers were also treated in several grades. Those who surrendered in Kaesong were the last, then those who surrendered, and then those who invaded the army, exiles, and Tartars were killed, and then those who fled and lived in seclusion. Those who die and die for the country are the best.

Different treatment is given for different performances.

Those who died for the country and kept the festival not only preserved their property, but also gave their children more gracious appointments. Those who surrendered to captives basically took back all their fields and houses, and even confiscated them, or persuaded them to donate a lot of money, and Basically be kept away from Shaotian court.

Now Zhu Yihai thought of these people again.

No matter what kind of old honor they are, all of them will be moved to Gyeonggi now. Although these people have no Spyker and no political power, they still have a lot of resources in the local area, and they are still local tyrants. The right to speak.

For the imperial court, these people are not a threat to the imperial court now, but they will not be the basic strength of the loyal country at the local level.

Now to relocate the population to enrich Gyeonggi, these people are the first choice.

Back then, the Western Han Dynasty used the strategy of relocating the powerful to protect the mausoleum to deal with the descendants of the nobles of the six countries, and even the powerful and wealthy households who had reached a certain level of wealth and influence in the local area, and moved these people from all over the country to Guanzhong. The homeland also lost its strong influence. Without these forces in the local area, it would be much easier for the Western Han court to establish effective rule over the local area.

Second, after a large number of nobles and powerful people moved to Guanzhong, Guanzhong became a special economic zone. These powerful and wealthy households gathered in Guanzhong to operate and consume, which greatly promoted the economic development of Guanzhong.

The imperial court moved these people under the eyes of the imperial court, and it was easier to monitor them.

Later, whenever influential families emerged in the local area, the imperial court used the reason of guarding the mausoleum to move them to Guanzhong to weaken the emergence of powerful families as much as possible.

To Zhu Yihai, Jiu Xun had surrendered to the Shaotian Dynasty and the Shaotian Emperor, but these were not enough.

The world's resources are limited, and can only be controlled by a few people. Of course, it is better to be controlled by the direct descendants of one's own confidantes.

Zhu Yihai needs to support them so that they can share weal and woe with the emperor and the country and form a solid alliance of interests.

As for the old Xunchen family, they are not members of the emperor's core alliance, so they cannot be allowed to control too much resources and influence.

Moving these old Xun Qiang to Beijing will not only help restore the population and economy of Gyeonggi, but also weaken their strength. Especially after moving them here, they will use the barren fields here to exchange their scarce and valuable fields in other places, which will make them more prosperous. Break away from the place where your family has lived for generations, uproot them, so that they can no longer have a strong influence in the place.

It's a win-win.

These old honors, those who surrendered to captives, moved directly to the north of the Great Wall, allowing them to reclaim wasteland by themselves, and those who were killed were resettled to the outskirts of Gyeonggi.

Those who escaped and hid were placed near Yongping Xuanhua and others.

Those who died in battle and committed suicide were resettled in Shuntian Prefecture and Tianjin Prefecture.

Not only are the resettlement places different, but the treatment is also different. Those who surrendered moved at their own expense and cultivated at their own expense, and the imperial court would not give any subsidies.

As for those Xunchen families who died in battle, the imperial court will also give some settlement funds, etc., and even retain some of the original hometown's fields, or replace them with more familiar land.

(End of this chapter)