"As long as they are willing to go out, everyone will be compensated ten acres of land for every acre they occupy. Regardless of the quality of the land they occupy, they will be compensated ten times as much?"
"Will the land tax be exempted in the first year?"
"If you can't cash it out for the time being, can you choose to exchange the market price for silver at that time?"
After Wang Xijue conveyed the emperor's imperial edict, all the people were stunned.
Some people even couldn't believe it and started muttering to each other.
Zhang Wenxi, the governor of Shandong who also came here to ask about the situation, saw this and Wang Xijue glanced at him and said:
"Since you want the land, the court has now promised to compensate you for the land."
"Now, you should be satisfied, right?"
"Are we going to keep making trouble?!"
"Of course I'm satisfied!"
"We are not really unruly people. We are also aware of the difficulties faced by the court. We know that the court cannot find many ownerless fields nearby to compensate us. Now we are willing to use the ownerless fields outside as land. Compensating us is already an act of mercy!"
"If we continue to act recklessly, we will really no longer be human beings."
"That's right. What's more, the imperial court also promised that if it can't be honored, it will use silver coins instead. How can we still be ignorant?"
At that time, someone from Dongchang who was lurking among these complaining people first agreed.
Many simple and honest people nodded after thinking about it.
"yes!"
"It's great if the court is willing to give us land and pay ten times the compensation."
"Sure enough, the current emperor is good. He is thinking about our people."
As a result, many people agreed at this time.
At this time, some hidden personnel from Dongchang further advocated:
"Fellow folks, after we all kowtow to such a good emperor, get up and stop making trouble!"
"Now that the imperial court is willing to try its best to compensate us for the land, we should be content. If we continue to kneel down, we really don't know what is good and what is good!"
"After all, it is difficult for the imperial court. Building railways and improving river channels are also for the betterment of our descendants."
"That's right! You can't be unreasonable, patriotic, and considerate of the court!"
"Since the imperial court takes us into consideration and is considerate of us, we must also be considerate of the imperial court!"
Other lurking personnel in Dongchang also started to incite at this time.
Because Zhu Yijun promised to compensate ten acres for every mu of land he occupied, many people were tempted.
According to the standards during the historical land reform, property over thirty acres belonged to the landlord.
Because this is the limit of the yeoman farmer’s ability to farm independently.
And now, those farmers who have more than ten or twenty acres at home, all of which are to be occupied, have begun to imagine that they can become landlords all of a sudden, and they are very willing to accept such a result.
In addition, the Ming Dynasty has always promoted good governance, which is very popular and trusted by the people.
Now they are being guided by someone from Dongchang who is lurking among them.
These people kowtowed to Zhu Yijun to thank him, then stood up and left without stopping him.
Only some minions who were also pretending to be common people and were secretly appointed by the squires became anxious at this time and shouted:
"What are you doing? Just because you are willing to use land as compensation, will you accept it? What about blood and ancestors? Is land that important?!"
The lurking personnel in Dongchang noticed these people at this time.
And these people will naturally continue to be targeted in the future, and may even be arrested when they are determined to have violated the law.
Of course, the lurking personnel in Dongchang also continued to refute these squire minions at this time and said:
"If we can earn so much land, our ancestors will be very happy to know about it. They won't blame us for leaving our hometown and not keeping our ancestral heritage!"
"So, we are not sorry for our ancestors. As for bloody nature, do we have to rebel against the imperial court to be bloody?!"
This way.
No matter how hard these minions tried, the people dispersed in droves and began to go home to pack their things, bid farewell to their ancestors, relatives and friends, and prepare to move their fields.
"What did you say?"
"Having the occupied people stop the holy driver failed?"
Opposition official Sun Lusheng soon learned from Chen Yuwen that the local gentry had failed to stop Sheng Jia.
Because he himself is a descendant of a squire family near the old route of the Yellow River in Shandong.
Therefore, he has been paying attention to the construction of the railway and the diversion of the Yellow River. He has long known that there are squires in his village who are planning to encourage the people to stop the Holy Driver on the grounds that they do not want silver coins but only fields.
Sun Lusheng originally expected that local farmers who were obsessed with land would force Zhu Yijun to shelve this national policy.
However, Sun Lusheng did not expect Zhu Yijun to resolve the scene directed by a local squire.
The solution was to agree to the people's request and promise to use the land to compensate for the land they wanted to occupy.
This is simply a pie that no farmer can refuse, and even many small and medium-sized landowners cannot refuse such a pie.
Sun Lusheng also knew this, and it was impossible for the people to refuse such a benefit, but after hearing what Chen Yuwen said, he asked a few questions in shock and disappointment, and then sighed and said:
"The imperial court still has more cards!"
"It's more than just a lot."
"The key is that the current court is really popular."
"In the past, the villagers would rather believe in us squires than the court. Now they would rather believe in the court than the squires."
"Just wait. If the country really becomes stronger, the country squire will have nothing to do with it."
"What we should be prepared for now is that more powerful people will force us to sell the land to be occupied in advance. They dare not force the people. After all, they can't force the people to do anything, but they can force us, especially Those stuck in our necks.”
Chen Yuwen sighed and started talking.
Sun Lusheng nodded, and then reminded: "In this case, you write to a few sensible ordinary village officials and ask them to sell their fields to our Sun family and your Chen family. Don't really think about taking advantage of their power. If we really get the benefits from this, we can buy their fields at a high price.”
Chen Yuwen nodded: "I will."
Although such compensation from the court would make many big bureaucrats and big landowners who only habitually invest in land become jealous and join in, especially the big landowners who had previously opposed the construction of railways and the diversion of the Yellow River.
But to Zhu Yijun, these are not important. As long as these people are really willing to go out and become landlords, the court will win.
As Ma Guisu led the army to be invincible in the Kyoto area, a large number of fields in the Kyoto area became the fields of the Ming Dynasty.
This land can just be used to compensate the occupied citizens' fields.
And these lands are currently sufficient compensation, even more than enough.
Because the Kyoto Plain in Japan originally had vast fertile fields, and in addition, during this period in Japan, land was highly concentrated in the hands of the samurai class and nobles. Nowadays, the nobles and samurai have been wiped out in large numbers, so a large amount of unowned fertile land has suddenly been vacated. It was enough for Ming Dynasty to compensate and distribute it to soldiers with military merit.
It was just that there might not be enough points in the future, so Zhu Yijun asked Liu Wei to prepare to conquer the Mughals.
Kyoto.
After the Ming army occupied this place, a large number of nobles and warriors were turned into ashes, which were piled up in some compost warehouses temporarily guarded by the Ming army as fertilizer for future farming use by the moved Han people.
Ordinary Japanese still became miners and were organized to mine gold and silver in some gold and silver mines.
Japan is a country rich in gold and silver mines.
Not only Iwami Ginzan, but also mines such as Sado Kaneyama are also famous.
In short, Japan was indeed the main producer of silver in this era besides the Americas.
Therefore, even in the Kyoto area there are places where gold and silver mines can be mined.
It's just that due to the war in Japan before, Toyotomi Hideyoshi and other Japanese leaders did not have enough energy to mine these minerals. Now the Ming Dynasty does it for them, and mines these gold and silver through work-for-work relief.
Therefore, after some Han people came here in Ye Agui because they had fields compensated by the imperial court, they saw many Japanese wearing Ming-style short clothes mining in the mines. Okura with the word "fertilizer".
This made Ye Agui couldn't help but smile and said to his wife Xiaocao who was traveling with him:
"There are so many miners, which means that there will be no shortage of people here in the future. If there is no shortage of people, there will be no shortage of tenants. Sooner or later, we can use the rent collected from the land to continue to open paper mills here. Then maybe in a few years, we can You are so rich here, and it turns out that your time overseas is not in vain!"
Wang Xiaocao smiled after hearing this, picked up the child and crossed a small creek, and said: "I just don't know if there will be a school, the child must study."
"There will be!"
"I heard from Lao Chen that the first Han people here were the exiled scholars, and they will teach our children to read."
Ye Agui said something.
As a wealthy householder in Huai'an, he had continued to purchase fields nearby in the early years. Now it happened that the railway was going to pass through his fields, and the court encouraged them to go to sea, so he accepted the plan to compensate overseas lands, and Also came overseas.
Now Ye Agui is quite satisfied with coming to Honshu, but even though he is satisfied, he can't help but say: "The place where the Japanese live is not bad, but I don't understand why they always like to plunder my Ming Dynasty!"
Zhu Yijun was also asking this question to the ministers at this time.
Because many scholar-officials in the Ming Dynasty also know the situation in Japan based on their experiences in Japan and related information. They know that Japan is not a barbaric land, but has a lot of wealth.
While Zhu Yijun mentioned this issue, he said:
"In my opinion, if you want to solve this problem and make the Ming Dynasty's waters completely free of Japanese invasion, you don't just have to destroy Japan, you also have to build. After all, Wang Hua is not just conquering and plundering the land, but making the land more beautiful." It was more prosperous before, and with the advancement of our Han civilization now, we should be able to transform Japan and remove a large number of Han people, making it a better place, and no one will be forced to be a pirate."
"As for how to develop it, in my opinion, some industries that are not suitable for domestic operation should be transferred out."
(End of chapter)
