A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 537 Development Order

Chao Cuo officially announced that Daqian people could purchase development orders from the royal family and then go to the frontier lands to develop. As long as you can occupy it, you can obtain the hereditary title of the imperial court.

After seeing this decree, the powerful people in various counties and counties immediately became excited. What's the difference between a powerful man and a noble family? The difference lies in official status and family background.

Haoqiang is a big local family. He has money, fertile land, and people, so he can be considered powerful with a large number of people. However, his family is just a rich man with no cultural inheritance, and his ancestors have never been formal officials.

What is a formal official? The county magistrate is. The county magistrate is the lowest level of official, followed by the officials. Although the imperial court allowed officials to be promoted to officials, it was very difficult and required assessment.

Your influence is basically local, and no one will care about you outside of here. The official family may not be as powerful as the powerful in terms of money, land, and population, but they have been officials for generations, and their official power far exceeds that of the powerful. At the same time, the family has inherited knowledge and connections left by ancestors.

It can be said that even if you are from a very poor official family that can hardly afford to eat and has been reduced to a poor family, it is very likely that you will know high-ranking officials such as the county governor or Jiuqing, or have relatives and friends who are the county governor.

As long as you give them some opportunities, they will be able to bounce back soon. Of course, the power in the hands of the vast majority of official and aristocratic families will not be weaker than that of the powerful.

Honors are even more special. Most honors are awarded because of military achievements. Maybe he was born into a poor family, but after becoming a noble, he would soon make amends and become a true noble.

Moreover, the honorable nobles are also high-ranking officials and can raise private soldiers to protect them in an upright manner. Their private guards become the general's personal soldiers after they go to the battlefield. Of course, many nobles also began to send their descendants to learn classics knowledge. One line of the family studied literature and the same line practiced martial arts.

It is very difficult to cross the class. Now the imperial court has given a path. As long as you succeed in pioneering, you can directly become a prince. This decree made everyone in Daqian feel excited, from the nobles and officials to the common people.

For a time, nobles, noble families, and powerful people came to inquire about how to obtain the development order.

The restrictions and requirements of the development order were soon announced. Many people hesitated when they saw that after obtaining the development order, they could only explore outside Daqian and were not allowed to stay in the country for a long time.

The initial idea of ​​these noble and official families was to send a lineage of the family to the wild land, use Daqian's technology and force advantages to open up a stronghold in the wild land, and then use the power of the family to grow little by little. .

In this way, the family will have official status internally and military force externally, becoming the top family in Daqian. It's just that the imperial court had already guessed what those families would do and had blocked this road in advance.

After choosing to develop, you will become a pioneer noble. As long as you occupy the territory, you can be ennobled as a territorial noble. If you don't choose to open up, you will continue to live in Daqian. It's just that we have to face more and more stringent laws.

Just after the development decree was announced, all the nobles and powerful families were hesitant at first whether to make a desperate move.

But soon some families realized that the sooner the development order was issued, the better. After all, the area around Daqian must be developed first. This area is closer to Daqian and can more easily obtain support from Daqian. If you start exploring too late, you will have to go further afield.

After understanding this, a family immediately went to the imperial city to ask for a development order from the royal family. Although the royal family has opened the development order, it cannot be obtained by just anyone. The development order requires 500 imperial silver coins, and it also requires inspection qualifications from the court.

If the imperial court feels that you are not strong enough to complete the development mission, and going to develop will only lead to death, the development order will not be issued. The imperial court's development order was intended to open up more living space for Zhu Xia, rather than sending people to die.

Of course, if the strength is not enough, several families can jointly develop, but these families will make an oath in the name of King Wen and Luo Shui. If they dare to violate the oath, other princes and courts will attack them.

The royal family and Wen Wangzijue endorsed it, but Wang Yi didn't believe it. Someone dared to risk the disapproval of the world and violate this oath.

After the decree was issued, no one paid attention to it for the first half month, but soon, a large number of nobles, powerful people, and officials and families came to ask for the development order.

Wang Yi saw so many people coming to ask for the development order, but did not directly agree. He had already discussed with Chao Cuo that the first batch of development orders would only be ten, and the largest of all the development orders would only have a radius of thirty miles.

Such a big place is not even a county in Daqian, but it is enough for a family. Wang Yi knew very well that most of the first families who were willing to come wanted to take a gamble. There is no powerful family among these people. Wang Yi is worried that these people may not be able to hold on, so he has to pick out those who can fight.

If the first batch of people sent to develop did not occupy the territory, but were taken over by others, it is estimated that the families who wanted to go out to develop later would be greatly hampered.

Therefore, Wang Yi and Chao Cuo also worked hard in order for the first batch of pioneering families to gain a foothold. Because they purchased the pioneering order, these aristocratic families could form an army of more than 100 people and less than 500 people as their family's army.

Of course, this numerical requirement is because in the Daqian Kingdom, if there is a Daqian, there will no longer be a numerical requirement. As long as you can afford it, you can pull out an army of 100,000, and the court will not care.

However, according to the current productivity, the land with a radius of thirty miles can only support five thousand retired soldiers at most, and it is the fertile land that is well developed in the Central Plains region. If it were replaced by the wild areas of the border, it would be enough to support two thousand people.

It will take at least three years for the newly opened land to be harvested before it is barely qualified. To be fertile, water conservancy and fertilizer are necessary, not to mention the more important population issue.

On these newly opened lands, it is not an easy matter to immigrate from Daqian to farm. The first batch of those nobles and wealthy families to farm must be their own hermits, tenants, and domestic slaves. These people either had no choice but to follow, because of trust, or for some other reasons.

But there won't be too many such people. A family with a total of several thousand people would be good. What's more, they use various methods to recruit ordinary refugees. These homeless people are the big ones.

The court now also regards homeless people as a hidden danger. After all, these homeless people have no jobs, cannot make money, have nothing to do, and what will they do when eating is a problem? You can only turn the grass into a bandit. Therefore, the court needs to resettle them as soon as possible to prevent these people from causing trouble.

(End of this chapter)