In the scorching summer, the cabinet, which was summering in Yuquan Mountain, finally received a memorial from Heilongjiang City.
It takes more than a month to write a memorial.
The cabinet was non-committal on Heilongjiang's request.
Frankly speaking, the population of Jilin and Northeast China has not yet been fully populated. How can it be possible to develop Heilongjiang?
(I made a mistake. Nurgan City is in the Heilongjiang estuary, Temple Street, and Sakhalin area, and Heilongjiang City is in Vladivostok)
"As long as he doesn't ask for money, everything is up to him——"
Yan Chongxin said casually, his tone completely casual.
There is no way. If Jilin is the barrier to Liaodong, then the Heilongjiang region is purely cumbersome and redundant. No matter how bad it is, it is not much worse.
The old territory of Nuergandusi was much warmer two hundred years ago than it is today.
The cabinet nodded in agreement.
"Eh-" Suddenly, Yan Chongxin's people who were circulating the memorial stopped.
His eyes were tightly focused on the memorial and he was reluctant to leave.
A few people on the side were a little surprised, what's so good about this?
Facing the searching gazes of Wang Yingxiong and Zhao Shu, Yan Chongxin raised his head with a hint of joy on his face:
"Heilongjiang Xingdusi seems to be suitable for large-scale development."
Several people circulated it one after another, and all of them suddenly began to think about it.
Without him, Heilongjiang reported that the tax revenue last year alone exceeded 200,000 yuan, and if it continues to develop this year and attracts people from North Korea and Japan to cultivate land, it is easy to reach 3.5 million yuan.
In other words, according to conservative estimates, Heilongjiang can bring hundreds of thousands of taxes to the court.
It seems like a small number, but it is comparable to a county in Jiangnan and a prefecture in Shaanxi.
In other words, after several years of short-term investment, Heilongjiang has reached the harvest season and has a net income.
The whole cabinet was shocked.
As long as it is not a loss-making business, you can continue to do it.
"Officials at all levels in Heilongjiang must also be aligned."
Once recognized, the treatment will naturally be different.
Wang Yingxiong said directly: "After all, it is also the general's palace of the imperial court. All the officials need to be allocated well, and the rules cannot be broken."
Zhao Shu frowned, twirled his gray beard, and said in a deep voice:
"In recent years, although the imperial court has been trying to develop the Northeast region, Liaodong is only slightly populated. Both Jilin and Heilongjiang are vast and sparsely populated."
"This is not possible, we need to step up our efforts."
"Gyeonggi? Or Shandong?" Wang Yingxiong said with a smile.
"Shandong!" Zhao Shu sighed: "Although Shandong has experienced wars for a long time during the Chongzhen period, its population is now at its peak and it is in the north, making it suitable for migration."
"Then recruit 20,000 troops from Shandong and reclaim Jilin -" Wang Yingxiong said decisively.
The imperial court no longer bothered to implement the incentive policies of previous years, such as how much land to allocate.
The best way is to recruit poor local people into the army and let them reclaim wasteland in Jilin.
After two or three years, the land was reclaimed, the raw land became mature land, and most of the land was sold to them at a low price.
Then let him return home in rich clothes, take the money and land he earned, get married, or return to Jilin with his family.
It takes a long time and costs a little more, but it works!
The court didn't pay attention to time or anything else. The only thing that worried about it was money.
To maintain the military pay of 20,000 people and the supply of money, food and materials, no more than one million yuan a year cannot be spent.
Spending one million yuan to buy 20,000 resettlement households is too costly.
Now that the cabinet is willing to pay, the biggest reason is the stimulation in Heilongjiang.
Heilongjiang, which has a sparse population, has become so wealthy, so Jilin is still not allowed to take off?
"Heilongjiang is recruiting Korean and Japanese people. Are there too few Chinese people?"
Yan Chongxin raised his head, chuckled and said, "It's hard for me to perform a memorial.
However, it was Jilin who profited in the end, and Wang Shiguo was so angry that he died when he found out. "
"Hahaha!"
The cabinet burst into laughter.
"Just give him five thousand people!" Wang Yingxiong said angrily: "In a place like Yinuer Gandusi, no matter how many people there are, it won't be able to support them."
As soon as the memorial was delivered, Wang Shiguo immediately summoned a group of merchants to discuss matters, including Korean merchants and Han merchants.
Among these people, there were no large merchants who traveled by boat, but only small traders with a net worth of only a few hundred yuan and a few thousand silver coins.
The most distinctive feature is that they traveled hundreds of miles over land from North Hamgyong Province in North Korea and earned some hard-earned money.
Braving the severe cold and hard work, the group came in groups, ranging from a dozen to three to five people.
Or a few donkeys, or someone carrying a mountain of human burdens, a few pairs of worn-out shoes, needles and thread, homespun cloth, home-brewed water, or fragile pottery.
Li Biao is such a small businessman.
He and several cousins, carrying homespun cloth bought from the countryside, traveled hundreds of miles to Heilongjiang City to make a fortune.
Ordinary Koreans do not have surnames, but he was born into a yangban noble family. He was a branch of the aristocracy three generations ago, but he finally had a surname.
So he could only write his own name, but he still had the courage to bring a family of relatives to Heilongjiang City to do business.
It has been three years since summer turned to cold.
Years of running around have left him with a rough face, but he has also developed a mentality of being unfazed by favors and humiliations.
Surrounded by representatives of various small business groups, people were all uneasy, wondering why the general summoned them.
Suddenly, he raised his head, and the solemn face of General Heilongjiang appeared in front of him, and the hall was full of noise.
"Everyone, the main reason why I have called you here this time is because you are all from North Hamgyong Province, North Korea, so we are hosting a banquet here."
At this time, the merchants became more and more uneasy, and they were pushing and shoving one by one. Finally, it was the turn of a prestigious businessman to ask: "Does the Ming Dynasty also discriminate against us Hamgyong merchants?"
"No, I'm here to give you a way to get rich."
Wang Shiguo said with a smile on his face.
Before leaving, he specially found someone to learn about the story of Xianjing Dao and sighed with regret.
The Establishment of the Joseon Dynasty Li Chenggui was a Taoist priest from Hamjing. According to common sense, he established the Joseon Dynasty and should take great care of the Hamjing Tao area.
But who made Li Chenggui want to abolish the elder and establish the younger, which led his son Li Fangyuan to go through two "Prince Rebellions", killing his own brother Li Fangshuo, minister Zheng Daochuan, exiled Li Fangqian and other Biao people, and finally succeeded in seizing the throne.
In the process, Li Chenggui escaped from Seoul and returned to Hamjing Road, almost causing civil strife in North Korea and splitting it in two.
Because Li Fangyuan kept sending greeting envoys to the north, and was decisively shot to death by Li Chenggui, the Korean idiom "Essential Envoy to Hamjing" was born.
In the end, Li Chenggui could only return to Seoul in frustration and was imprisoned in the palace.
The quarrel between father and son caused chaos throughout North Korea.
And Li Fangyuan was also a ruthless man. He was angry with Ping'an Dao and Xianjing Dao who had raised troops, and resorted to the "Northwestern Confinement".
People who were born in Xianjing Road could only become county officials at most, but they could not become capital officials at all.
There are countless discriminations in taxation and corvee. There are more taxes in disaster years and exploitation in famine years, just like the British starved to death in Ireland.
The official geography book "Zele Zhi" published at that time directly concluded that Xianping Road in the northwest was uninhabitable.
The people of Hamjing Province also had a special hatred for Seoul. When the Japanese army invaded in 1592 and the Bingzi chaos occurred in 1636, many people from Hamjing Province cheered and hoped that the Joseon court would be overthrown and the new rulers would be able to treat them. a little better.
With hostility at this level, Wang Shiguo was extremely happy:
The people of Xianjing Road are absolutely happy to move to Heilongjiang City.
At the same time, if this is the case, there is no need to worry about her being a concubine, cooperating inside and outside, and shaking the rule of the court.
"I know that the people of Xianjing Dao are being bullied and miserable, and you must also know that Heilongjiang City is light on corvee and has little wealth, and the people live and work in peace and contentment. Although it is not rich, it is still livable——"
"As long as you return to your hometown and encourage the people of Xianjing Road to migrate, you will definitely be rewarded."
"In addition, I will treat all the people who move here equally and reward each household with 500 acres of land and a house. I will never break my promise——"
After hearing this, the businessmen were in an uproar.
Everyone whispered to each other, unable to believe such words.
Wang Shiguo was also unambiguous and said directly: "Anyone who can bring me one household will give me three silver coins. Ten households will get thirty yuan, and one hundred households will get three hundred yuan. I will never break my promise."
As he spoke, boxes of silver coins were carried up, and the lids of the wooden boxes were opened. The round silver coins stacked up into a small mountain directly dazzled Li Biao's eyes.
Good guy.
Li Biao felt his heart beating rapidly, his eyes were bloodshot, and his cheeks were full of heat.
"Also, there is salt——"
As he spoke, loads of sea salt were picked out, attracting everyone's attention.
Although Xianjing Road is close to the sea, it lacks salt.
Although the sea water near Heilongjiang City is not as good as the Bohai Sea and the East China Sea, and there are no coal mines for fuel, the price of wood cannot be maintained.
The giant trees seemed to be free of charge. As long as they could be cut down, they could be used as fuel to boil salt.
As a result, sea salt has become a favorite trade item among tribes, and even Koreans like this sea salt.
At least it is cheaper than the salt in North Korea and tastes better, and the profits from the trade are huge.
"I will sell one bushel of salt to one family."
It seems that he knows what these Koreans are thinking, and everything Wang Shiguo says and does falls on their hearts.
"As far as I know, if you resell this bucket of salt back home, the price will double. If you go further south to Xianjing South Road, the price will more than triple."
"What if it's ten stones? What about a hundred stones? It's enough to make you a big shot in the county. You don't need to carry the burden yourself next time you come here."
Li Biao's breathing became rapid.
He also thought about this.
If you carry three to five buckets of salt on your back, you can buy a donkey the next time you come back. Not only can you buy more things, but you can also make a fortune...
The banquet was a success.
More than thirty teams and hundreds of small traders have accepted this task.
As a sweetener, Wang Shiguo even allowed each of them to buy a bucket of salt back at a low price.
"cousin--"
When they set off again, everyone seemed to be carrying a small mountain on their backs.
My back was bent, but I couldn't stop the smile on my face.
"Remember, you have to listen to me when you go back this time."
Li Biao gritted his teeth and became angry.
Afterwards, each person held a stick and carried hundreds of kilograms of baggage on his back, slowly returning south.
Originally there was no road from Xianjing Road to Heilongjiang City, but with more people walking, it became a road.
Xianjing Road was occupied by North Korea at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, and later expanded continuously to the area south of the Tumen River.
However, due to hundreds of years of confinement and turmoil in the northwest, the population of Xianjingdao has been sluggish for a long time.
The northernmost city is Qingxing City, which is only more than two hundred miles away from Mirror City.
Li Biao and others traveled together, and the journey was peaceful. However, when they arrived at the country, they encountered bandits on the way.
After reluctantly paying a toll, they returned to their homes outside Qingxing City.
As soon as they arrived at the village entrance, merchants from nearby villages came directly to the door and ate up their goods.
It is often at this time that Li Biao realizes that the money he has earned through all the hard work is not as good as sitting on the 11th.
After the goods were dispersed, the young people in the village gathered together and wanted to hear what he told about the rumors abroad.
At this time, Li Biao would often raise his posture and speak less.
It's old news, but everyone never tires of hearing it.
Seeing everyone gathering again, Li Biao recalled what happened in Heilongjiang City, coughed and said:
"When I went to Heilongjiang City this time, I found that there were more people there and a lot of goods for sale, including Ming Dynasty porcelain and all kinds of books -"
"Are there any women selling them there?" someone shouted shamelessly.
"Bullshit, that's for sure."
Li Biao smiled and scolded: "There are a lot of boats there, so you don't have to worry about having meat to eat. I saw a wild boar on the street and just put it on the ground to sell. If you don't buy enough, people will scold you——"
"Even a tiger can be hawked along the street. It's very lively——"
This caused everyone to exclaim.
There are many tigers in Xianjing Road, but they are so powerful that few people dare to provoke them.
After talking about a few more strange things, Li Biao talked about what the Heilongjiang General's Office had preached.
"Five hundred acres of land"
"Light corvee and thin gift"
"I can go to my aunt"
One by one, they were all spread through the mouths of the merchants.
All young people know that in Heilongjiang City, a few hundred miles away, there is a place where people are wealthy and have no worries about eating and drinking.
What attracts them most is to join Heilongjiang City and become members of the Ming Dynasty.
From the most discriminated Taoist of Hamjing in North Korea, to becoming a native of Shangguo, who can bear this?
To Li Biao's surprise, there was an endless stream of people asking him, and until midnight there were knocks on the door.
The next day, even several nobles from the nearby two classes sent people to invite him as a guest and asked about Heilongjiang.
After getting the affirmative answer, everyone's mood was completely different.
Clan influence spreads all over North Korea, and Hamjingdao is no exception.
The people who migrated to Heilongjiang were centered on clans, and they were continuously connected in series, and the scale became larger and larger.
In one summer, within three or four months, tens of thousands of people fled from Xianjing Road, leaving entire villages and towns empty.
At this time, everyone in the Xianjing Dao officialdom realized that something big had happened.
Good guy, except for the people in the city, all the people in the countryside have fled, and there is no one left to collect food.
