The arrival of nearly 500,000 refugees has really made Yunzhou County very busy. Although they have been prepared in advance, such a huge crowd will always cause various problems, keeping the county governor's office busy.
Coupled with the return of the first batch of spring taxes from Nanli County, the arrival of such a large batch of grains made the county governor's office so busy that they wanted to be there twelve hours a day.
After more than ten days of busy work, the Yunzhou County Sheriff's Office finally settled the 500,000 refugees and the first batch of spring taxes arriving in the treasury.
When the first batch of spring taxes arrived, the endless scenes shocked the five hundred thousand people who had just arrived in Yunzhou County and at the same time they couldn't help but feel relieved.
With so much food shipped back, they surely don’t have to worry about going hungry when they arrive in Yunzhou County, right?
When a new group of people arrived, the first thing they came to were the major workshops in the city. There must be some former craftsmen among these new people, and there were quite a few of them.
what are these?
What a talent!
What is the most expensive thing in the 23rd year of Tiansheng?
Talent!
Ordinary people can grab a lot of them, but skilled talents cannot be found everywhere.
And now, the opportunity has come!
With the expectation of a big gold rush, the owners of small and large workshops in Yunzhou County came to the 500,000 refugees who had just been resettled outside the city to inquire about the various talents they needed.
Once they heard about it, in order to avoid competition among peers, they quickly offered the person a generous package of benefits and took him back to the city on the spot. Not only were they given an advance salary in advance, but food and accommodation were also included!
The arrival of half a million refugees not only provided a population for Yunzhou County's lack of manpower for transportation and troops, but also brought fresh blood to all walks of life in Yunzhou County, which was already at a stagnant stage.
Brought new vitality!
With the help of these old craftsmen who have been passed down for generations from Guan Nei, all walks of life in Yunzhou County have ushered in new breakthroughs in technology, just like the output of steel was already terrifying enough.
But because a master who had just come from Guan Nei learned the latest smelting technology and raised a question, Yunzhou County's iron smelting industry immediately moved forward by a higher level. The cost of iron smelting in Yunzhou County doubled. Iron production also doubled.
The only thing is that iron ore can’t keep up.
And this is easy to handle.
After the local iron ore owner asked the county governor's office for help, the county governor immediately asked Nanli County to escort a group of drug-infected prisoners of war to Yunzhou County. Immediately afterwards, these drug-infected prisoners of war had not had time to see Yunzhou County clearly. The colorful world of Yunzhou County has contributed to the development of Yunzhou County.
"Volunteer" stayed in the dark mine all day long in obscurity, waving a hoe in his hand and working hard for three meals a day.
Some people may have asked why the mine owners in Yunzhou County had so little manpower that they asked the county magistrate's office for help. This has to do with Yunzhou County's ownership of the mines.
In Yunzhou County, all kinds of minerals, the source of iron smelting, are the property of Prince Yun's Mansion, and no one else is qualified to mine in Yunzhou County.
So to put it bluntly, the entire mining industry in Yunzhou County has been monopolized by Prince Yun's Mansion. Not only the mining industry, but also the sources of industries related to people's livelihood, such as the salt industry and grain stores, which are crucial to the people's livelihood, are also almost all controlled by Prince Yun's Mansion. Allow any other force to intervene.
Only the industries extending from these major sources can be operated by private individuals, but they must also be controlled by Prince Yun's Mansion.
Things like the crazy price increases in grain stores during the natural disasters of the Song Dynasty were completely impossible to happen in Yunzhou County.
In Yunzhou County, only Prince Yun's Mansion and County Sheriff's Office have the power to price grain. Every year, Prince Yun's Mansion and County Sheriff's Office set a reasonable range for the price of grain sold on the market based on the grain output of that year, allowing a certain increase or decrease, but You cannot go beyond the warning lines given by the Yamen and Prince Yun's Mansion.
Once a merchant raises grain prices beyond the warning line, Prince Yun's Mansion and the County Sheriff's Office have the right to punish the merchant for violating the normal order of the market by living in Jiqi.
It can range from a fine to a severe penalty, including having everyone in the family beheaded and their property confiscated.
As for the purchase price of grain that year, Prince Yun's Mansion and the County Sheriff's Mansion will also give a guide price, which cannot exceed too much or be less than this amount.
This is a measure to ensure that farmers are priced down by profiteers during good harvest years.
Of course, this pricing power does not completely harm merchants. Whether it is the price of grain collection or the price of grain sales, merchants will be guaranteed to have sufficient profits. However, this profit range is controlled within a certain range by the government and Prince Yun's Mansion.
Not just food, but anything related to people's livelihood, such as the salt industry, etc., also have corresponding regulations to ensure that the county governor's office and Prince Yun's Mansion can control the prices of these materials at a reasonable price.
As a result, there will be no crazy rise in disaster years and crazy decline in good years.
The stability of these people's livelihood commodities has also made other prices in Yunzhou County tend to a stable state in recent years, without major price fluctuations, which has greatly made an outstanding contribution to the stability of Yunzhou County.
It can be said that in the rapid development of Yunzhou County in recent years, many problems have actually arisen, but every time people find that Prince Yun's Mansion has already dealt with these possible problems accordingly. Whenever a problem arises, If it emerges, it will be immediately calmed down by the Yamen and the Royal Palace, which have been well prepared, so that the situation can be kept under control.
This also made Yunzhou County's respect for King Yun's crown grow stronger day by day.
It is simply that if the sky does not give birth to King Yun, Yunzhou will last forever like a long night!
What they don't know is that for the problems that may arise in the developing Yunzhou County, the great country in the previous life has already given Zhao Jun an example. How to deal with it has already been laid out. All he has to do is copy it. .
Therefore, during the years of rapid development of Yunzhou County, Zhao Jun has been firmly controlling the reins of the Mercedes-Benz carriage of Yunzhou County, preventing him from drifting in an unknown direction.
After the workshop owners are the official yamen of Yunzhou County. Not only the major workshop owners, but also the county yamen are in urgent need of technical talents such as carpenters and blacksmiths.
Every time the county governor's office carries out a major project, there is always a shortage of talents in this field. This time, we can finally get some supplements.
After the county guard's office left, this group of refugees came to the recruitment office. With a huge number of half a million people, even with such harsh recruitment conditions, the soldiers were quickly filled up.
The recruiters, who had not recruited all the people from heaven for many days, could finally leave with satisfaction.
As for the remaining people, the Yunzhou County Sheriff's Yamen made arrangements for their whereabouts.
One is to stay in Yunzhou County. Next, Yunzhou County will undergo a major expansion, which will require a huge manpower. In addition, the county governor's office plans to build several new cities in several suitable places in Yunzhou County to accommodate Yunzhou County. growing population.
The other way to go is to take a short rest and then continue forward, to Nanli County, the current colony of Yunzhou County.
Wherever the Yunzhou County Yamen will allocate ten acres of land to everyone, the tax there is relatively high. Because there are too many indigenous people, the current tax revenue of the entire county must be treated equally and maintained at 85%.
But correspondingly, even if there are three crops a year, the surplus grain of ten acres of land can be as much as 600 kilograms every year, which is enough to feed a person and plenty more.
This time, the land was divided according to population. No matter whether they were men or women, old or young, they could all be allocated ten acres of land.
These ten acres of land are tax-free for the first year. The government will lend you a low-interest loan to allow you to settle down locally and purchase a certain amount of property. This loan will take three years with half the tax rate. Return it to the government, which means that you don’t have to pay any taxes in the first year after the land is allocated to you, but after you settle down, you will have to pay 90% of the tax in three years, of which 85% is fixed tax. Half of it is the government's investment in you in advance. You pay back the principal with interest, and half of the tax is paid off in three years.
This is a good deal. Even if you pay the half-percent tax for three more years, the remaining food will be enough for people to live well and have enough to eat!
Most of the people were very excited after settling the accounts and chose to settle down in Shendu.
But there are still some people who are unwilling to leave their hometown. Even if they stay here without land, they are not willing to go so far away, so they choose to stay and become the main force in the subsequent construction of the city. They will also be the first in the new city in the future. batch of residents.
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