Chongzhen revived the Ming Dynasty

An order from the emperor can change the fate of countless people.

Li Sanshui, who was far away in Dongning, received a call from Song Yingsheng in advance and was asked to go to Shaanxi to carry out immigration.

After much deliberation, he finally gave up his acting post as the mayor with the support of his wife and chose to continue his immigration.

After all, what he is good at is being a village head. These days, he feels overwhelmed by being the village head and managing a thousand households.

Compared with a baozhang who only manages one hundred households, the work of a du baozhang is more complicated. In addition to managing one thousand households under his command, he also has financial, military and other responsibilities.

How could Li Sanshui, a low-level military household, have received this kind of education?
The reason why he was able to be a good village chief was all because of his dedication.

When you get to the position of Dubaozhang, you will be too busy to handle everything.

Therefore, after receiving Song Yingsheng's letter, he gave up his position as the chief of the police station and used the transfer order in the letter to seek the consent of his superiors.

The officers of Dongning Zhongwei felt very sorry about Li Sanshui's resignation.

Li Sanshui felt that he was not qualified to be the chief of the city, but in the eyes of the top brass of Dongning Zhongwei, he had done a good job.

At least he didn't have any trouble that year, and Li Sanshui didn't bully men and women by relying on his power. Moreover, he set an example when reclaiming wasteland, and learned to grow rice under the guidance of the local Han people, which led many of his subordinates.

So they persuaded Li Sanshui for a while, until they found that Li Sanshui was determined, and then they approved his transfer order.

Fortunately, it is gratifying that the spring plowing in Dongningwei has been completed and the most difficult land reclamation is over.

As long as the successor to the capital is not too incompetent, he will be able to do these things well.

After Li Sanshui left his post, the officers of the Dongning Central Guard quickly appointed a new chief of police. In accordance with the requirements of the Dongning Prefecture, the acting chief of police was replaced, and those who were qualified were transferred to the actual position, and those who were unqualified were appointed to other positions.

Changes also took place in the governance of Duhebao. Not only did they set up a militia, but they also tried to establish cooperative teams such as reclamation teams, planting teams, and harvesting teams.

The militia is responsible for security work and is mainly selected from retired soldiers and military-civilian households. In peacetime, soldiers and farmers are combined to guard against invasions by the natives.

The planting and harvesting teams gathered together their oxen, iron tools and other production tools and worked together during the busy farming season to improve work efficiency.

The reason for this is that it was discovered in Zhuolu District that after the land was redistributed to soldiers and military households, many families became small households with one or two people, and they could no longer cultivate the land after sending their men to serve in the military.

Therefore, some prestigious soldiers joined together with other families to help each other during the busy farming season.

This approach worked quite well. After Chen Renxi, the commander of the Zhuolu garrison, discovered it, he recommended that it be implemented in other garrisons.

Zhu Youjian also appreciated this and formulated relevant policies based on the cooperatives of later generations. After Liu Zongzhou sorted them out, he tried them out in the guards of Shuntian Prefecture and Dongning Prefecture.

Li Sanshui also heard about this and made up his mind to resign as the chief of the city.

Because he was an official outside the country, he met the support policy of the cooperative team. When the farming season came, he would not be unable to take care of the fields at home.

As for the grain he had to pay for it, Li Sanshui didn't care much because he had 801 mu of land. Even if he only reclaimed 200 mu, the harvest in the first year would not be very good, but the grain he harvested would still be a lot, and he didn't have to pay taxes in the first five years of reclamation.

So Li Sanshui is now much more confident and gradually looks like a hereditary soldier.

After arranging matters at home, Li Sanshui prepared to embark on his journey, carrying the military coat he had been awarded last time.

However, before leaving, he encountered another incident that forced him to delay his trip.

That was his wife Yang Dani, who was feeling a little unwell.

Li Sanshui nervously went to the City God Temple to find a Taoist priest who knew medical skills to take a look, and then he learned a piece of good news -

His wife is pregnant.

This made him so happy that he didn't know what to say, but he was also a little afraid to leave.

Because there are only him and his wife at home, after he leaves, the daily weeding, fertilizing and other tasks need someone to watch over them.

Now that his wife is pregnant, how can he feel at ease?

But Yang Dani was very independent-minded, thinking that it was okay as she had just become pregnant and that she had a younger brother who could help her.

Li Sanshui has now even resigned from his position as the head of the city police station. What will it mean if he doesn't emigrate?

So she urged Li Sanshui to set off and sent him on the boat.

Although Li Sanshui was still worried, he could only board the ship heading north with joy and worry.
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In northern Shaanxi, Ma Maocai, a envoy from the Ministry of Travel, was ordered to go to Shaanxi to check the situation. He saw the situation of starving people everywhere in his hometown. With a heavy heart, he wrote down what he saw and heard in a memorial. It was also his "Memorial on Disasters" that made the officials of Yansui dare not hide it. At the beginning of spring, he requested to start immigration.

The food in Yansui had been exhausted. If we delay any further, we won’t be able to guarantee the food supply for the garrisons, so we have no choice but to migrate as soon as possible.

Ma Maocai knew this situation, and since his hometown, Ansai County, had many people who survived because of the military organization, he did not blame the officials of Yansui, and even said some good things in his memorials, praising some officials who did a good job.

However, the situation in his hometown also made him anxious. So after the imperial court's reply was sent back by carrier pigeon, he immediately stayed in Yansui Military Prefecture as a special envoy to help organize immigration.

As one of the few Jinshi in Yansui area, Ma Maocai is quite famous locally.

He passed the imperial examination and became a Jinshi in the fifth year of the Tianqi reign. Now he is an eighth-rank official in the Imperial Court's Xingren Division. The rank of a casual official as determined by the Mokan Law is the sixth rank.

After the news that he wrote a memorial to the court requesting disaster relief spread, many people in Yansui appreciated his kindness and were extremely grateful to him.

Because of this, after he called on the people of Yansui to immigrate, many people who were originally unwilling to leave their hometowns or who had doubts about being incorporated into the garrisons responded to his call and took the initiative to follow the government's arrangements to immigrate.

As the number of immigrants increases, the officials in charge of immigration are unable to cope with it.

Seeing this situation, Ma Maocai wrote another memorial, requesting permission to recruit scholars and military scholars as officials so that they could participate in immigration.

This memorial was not sent to the court because Ma Maocai learned from Zhu Tongmeng that the Personnel Department of the Shaanxi Provincial Administration Department was qualified to appoint low-ranking officials and clerks.

Therefore, the memorial became a joint petition signed by Zhu Tongmeng, the Protector of Yansui Army, and him, and submitted to the Governor-General's Office and Shaanxi Provincial Government.

After seeing this, Yang Wenyue thought this was a good way to solve the problem of insufficient officials. At present, most places in Shaanxi were under military control, and there was a shortage of officials everywhere.

He took this petition and discussed it with Sun Chuanting, Shen Zizhang and others, and they all agreed with it.

However, Sun Chuanting considered more and required that scholars must serve in the army before they could be directly appointed as officials, otherwise they could only be appointed as clerks:
"If there are no restrictions, I'm afraid that scholars from all over the country will come to Shaanxi and pretend to be citizens of Shaanxi."

"There are hundreds of thousands of students in the world. How do we arrange for them to come here?"

"Besides Guanzhong and Hanzhong, Shaanxi is under military control."

“It is only natural to ask them to join the army.”

"Your Majesty once called on scholars to join the army in the capital, and also recruited many college students to serve as trainee instructors."

Based on this reason, Sun Chuanting successfully persuaded Yang Wenyue and others, and turned this decision into a resolution of the Shaanxi Anti-Rebellion and Disaster Relief Committee.

As a result, the civil and military scholars in Shaanxi had an additional opportunity to become officials, that is, to join the army as officers.

If it were in places like Jiangnan, probably not many scholars would be willing to do so, because they would not take officers of the ninth rank seriously at all.

However, there are very few scholars in Shaanxi who can pass the imperial examination and become Jinshi. In addition, due to successive disasters, many people do not have the conditions to study.

So after this order was issued, many scholars responded.

The Ministry of Personnel sent them to Yansui and other places to strengthen the local officialdom.

Moreover, many people were granted the status of military officers in the Hujunfu and were responsible for immigration in their hometowns.

Most of them have some reputation in the local area, so the immigration work in Shaanxi is smoother.

Especially after locals like Li Sanshui returned to their hometown and told them about the situation in Dongning, many refugees voluntarily requested to migrate without the need for the military governor to capture them.

It was really because what Li Sanshui said was too tempting. They had never thought about being able to get dozens or hundreds of acres of irrigated land.

Therefore, immigrants from northern Shaanxi were very enthusiastic this time.

Even after the disaster spread to Guanzhong, some victims there could not survive and wanted to migrate overseas.

They also had connections because the King of Qin was establishing a vassal state and recruiting immigrants.

Sun Chuanting, Zhu Tongmeng and others were very pleased with this and felt that the number of immigration ordered by the emperor could be completed this year.

They also began to secretly carry out the emperor's instructions, giving priority to relocating people of other ethnic groups and those who believed in religions other than Buddhism and Taoism.

To avoid the imbalance of population ratio in Shaanxi and prevent unexpected events. (End of this chapter)