Daming iron-blooded Chief Assistant

Chapter 205 Static population trading, slaves redeem themselves

Looking at the students of the Legislative School with murderous looks on their faces, these scholars became quiet for a while.

Zhang Zongxian, who stood on the gate tower and watched all this, ordered to the disciples below:

"Give me a good lesson on these pious guys, let them see the majesty of my legislative students."

Liang Chengyuan was the biggest student among the disciples present. After Zhang Zongxian finished speaking, he was the first to rush to the troublemaker, and the rest of the school disciples also rushed forward with shouts.

The disciples of the school formed a group of three and helped each other. These scholars who beat them were howling alone. The originally proud scholars all turned into bereaved dogs at this moment, fleeing everywhere.

However, the way to come has been blocked by disciples of the school, Zhang Zongxian is going to wipe out these scholars today.

Thousands of scholars present were beaten to death on the spot that day, and the rest were confiscated and exiled to Dongzhou. Zhang Zongxian just showed them how big the world is and let them understand that the world has changed.

The Confucian way will only lead to self-destruction.

These thousands of scholars were also involved in countless aristocratic families in the south of the Yangtze River. For the aristocratic families behind them, Zhang Zongxian began to exert constant pressure, first he ransacked the family of a few thorns and exiled them.

Then, taking the assassin caught by the investigation department as an opportunity, the matter continued to expand, and the entire family in Jiangnan was panicked.

Then, those hereditary officials who intended to raise troops were wiped out, and all of them were executed by the river, as if the next step was to raise the butcher's knife against the aristocratic family.

These aristocratic families began to think of all means to surrender to Zhang Zongxian, and finally found Liangchen's father-in-law, the Sun Zhifu who had taken refuge in Zhang Zongxian in the early years, and now he has become the Minister of the Six Departments of the Household.

Sun Shangshu had no choice but to take care of Ming's request for help from his relatives and friends in his hometown. Knowing Zhang Zongxian's temper, he found Master Ma and wanted to make a triumphant return from it.

Master Ma made a note to Sun Shangshu, let these aristocratic families take the initiative to leave to avoid capture, either go to Dongzhou, or go south to open up their own territory, or go to the bitter cold land in the northwest.

And you have to leave as soon as possible, otherwise it will be a disaster for you to ransack your family and exterminate your family if you wait any longer.

In fact, this was Zhang Zongxian's hint. He really wanted to kill these aristocratic families, but he decided that they were still valuable, so he kept putting pressure on them, trying to force them to go to the south to open up their territory.

Afterwards, Sun Shangshu notified his relatives and friends, and his family would inevitably be ransacked and wiped out. The aristocratic families in the south of the Yangtze River registered companies and went to sea to avoid disaster.

There were a few powerful families who refused to leave, so they were directly exiled to Beihai.

The entire Jinling City, like the capital city, soon declined, and the flower boats on the Qinhuai River also lost business.

On August [-]th, the cabinet officially announced to the world that all personal attachments will be abolished, and human trafficking will be deemed illegal.

No one can enslave the common people of Ming Dynasty, as long as the common people with household registration files in Daming are protected by the Ming army.

Even the master-student relationship is not recognized, and those who cause the death of the apprentice must be sentenced by the law.

Those who signed the deed of selling themselves could go to the Yamen to redeem themselves. Buyers cannot be stopped. Those who have no money to redeem themselves can take a loan from Taiping, and then go to Dongzhou to work to pay off the debt.

The self-redemption money is reduced according to the number of years he has worked for the master. One year is counted as ten taels of silver, and the part that exceeds the selling money will not be compensated, but a certificate is left.

The whole country cracks down on people who buy and sell people. Once they are caught, they will be executed immediately. Parents don't need to buy and sell their children. Once they are caught, they will be exiled.

Taipinghao will also offer loans, and those who have difficulties in their families can take loans from Taipinghao, and their children will come to repay them in the future.

Later, a reward mechanism was established, as long as the report was verified, one mu of school land would be rewarded.

The servants who were originally attached to the aristocratic family redeemed themselves from their shackles. No one wanted to be a slave, let alone their own children who were born slaves.

The aristocratic family was further disintegrated, and if they no longer controlled the life and death of the servants, who would work for them.

The oiran on the Qinhuai River immediately redeemed herself, and Miss Su even organized medical girls to go to brothels across the country to rescue those miserable women.

The medical woman participated in all the battles of the Legislative Army, and rescued countless Legislative Army officers and soldiers. Many of the medical women's husbands were disciples of the Legislative School.

All localities also took the opportunity to deal with local hooligans and various gangs. Once these people were captured, they would be exiled in Central Asia and let them fight fiercely with the Rosa people.

For the abolition of human trafficking, the common people support it from the bottom of their hearts, and report the evil masters to the government one after another. Of course, there are also people who buy and sell children to cover each other. This needs to be corrected slowly by law.

In the third year of Yongli, there was hardly a single drop of rain in most areas of Shaanxi and Henan. Let alone farming, drinking water was a problem.

Some people in the two places began to accept the fact that there would be a severe drought for three consecutive years, and the land in the north began to be abandoned on a large scale. The people began to accept the cabinet's arrangement and emigrate by boat.

In order to save transport capacity, people in Shaanxi and Shanxi go west to the Western Regions, while people in Henan and Hebei go to Dongzhou by boat.

Limited by the problem of boats, some people couldn't get on the boat for a while, and the cabinet would arrange people to organize them to go to Liaodong to log or build a railway. Anyway, the people couldn't be idle.

Zhang Zongxian also took advantage of the opportunity of abandoning the wasteland, under the pretext of protecting the dragon veins, and began to delineate protected areas in the north, moving all the people in the deep mountains out, and then designated these uninhabitable areas as protected areas.
Grazing and reclamation are prohibited in the protected area, and hunting is only allowed after autumn. The temples and Taoist temples that were originally in the mountains continue to allow them to exist.

In the upper reaches of the Yellow River, no-man's land is directly delineated, such as the Sanjiangyuan area, and troops are sent to sweep it every year. In Mobei and Monan regions, a large number of no-man's land is also designated, so that the land will not be damaged due to excessive grazing. Desertification.

As for Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Jiangxi, Guizhou, and Yunnan, which have many mountains and little land, on the one hand, the cabinet encourages the people to go to sea to find opportunities;

For example, the Luzon region, which has been controlled by Ming Dynasty, will also have corresponding immigration policy support.

After the reconstruction project of the Yellow River in the north is completed and the manpower is free, the people in the south will be organized to go south to the Indochina Peninsula on a large scale, and with the support of the army, they will expand from both land and sea directions.

In line with the Southwest Protectorate's strategy, immigrants are gradually occupying the Indochina Peninsula, especially the plains of the Indochina Peninsula, where three-season rice can be produced.

It is crucial to the future food security of Daming.

(End of this chapter)