The profiteers who evaded taxes and didn't want to make up for it never expected that the Dog Emperor would kill them.
When the time came, the factory guards were dispatched to arrest their entire family, all their shops were sealed, and all their account books and money were sealed.
Seriously, the profiteers are no match for the wolf-like factory guards.
There were also servants of profiteers who tried to resist, but were shot to death on the spot for treason, and the injured were captured alive.
Originally it was an unfounded crime, but once he resisted, he was completely convicted of the crime.
Even tanks from the North Factory appeared on the street, which shows the seriousness of the situation.
The factory guards have placed their machine guns on the commanding heights near the target. If you dare to resist, you will die!
The emperor's minions killing people in large numbers on the street had not been seen for many years, and now it happened again yesterday.
This is not important. What is important is that during the operation, the factory guard was actually injured by the opponent's weapon, and then he became famous.
Keep servants in captivity!
Hidden weapons!
Deliberately resist taxes!
Intent to rebel!
Listing the four crimes together, it is not an exaggeration to say that he will be executed by everyone.
Regarding the established standards for dealing with profiteers, Emperor Haojing did not think the punishment was too severe.
The soldiers of the King's Division fighting on the front line can only receive less than ten silver coins every month.
These profiteers evade taxes every month based on boxes of silver coins, and then confidently pretend to be good people.
The front is throwing heads and blood, while the rear is bold and inserts bids to sell first!
Then there is no need to pity them. It is better to pity them than to pity those children who enter the factory at the age of twelve.
All direct relatives and employed collateral relatives, except those who have reported meritorious services, will be assigned to mines by the principal offender and the accomplices.
Suspects who are already in custody will be released according to the speed at which their families pay. If the speed is slow, then they can pay their travel expenses.
Because there were undercover agents assigned by the emperor and whistleblowers who jumped out of their own houses, it became extremely fast to verify tax evasion.
It only took Shen Xun less than two weeks to close the case. Of course, this was only in Beidu and surrounding areas.
It would take more than a year to expand to Shuntian Prefecture, even the entire Beizhili, and even the entire Ming Dynasty.
In Beidu alone, more than a thousand people were executed and more than 100,000 accomplices were distributed.
The total value of back taxes and goods offset against taxes reached nearly 80 million silver coins, and the total salary compensation for child labor reached more than 60 million silver coins.
Many profiteers have lost their families and families because of this, but they brought this fate on themselves and cannot blame others.
After the fixed assets such as factories, houses, and land of these profiteers were auctioned, plus the previous income, the household department recorded a total of hundreds of millions of silver coins.
The more than 100,000 slave miners can also create a lot of value for the household department. If each person digs out a net profit of 50 silver coins on average every year, 100,000 people will be worth 5 million silver coins.
According to the order of Emperor Haojing, Beichang was responsible for escorting the miners directly to the Suholoi gold mine in Tangnu Ulianghai. They would never come back in this life.
Due to the food surplus, Emperor Haojing plans to increase the number of miners from the current approximately 15 million to the established 20 million.
An adult miner can create a net profit of about one hundred silver coins every year.
The 20 million slave miners, even including the old, weak, sick and disabled, have a profit of at least 145 million silver coins.
Including free miners and mechanized mining, excluding shareholder dividends, the Ministry of Accounts can receive about 80 million silver coins every year.
Every year from the new Inca Empire on the other side of the ocean, after forging, they can also get copper coins worth 70 million silver coins, a total of 150 million.
If the scale of copper mining on the opposite side doubles within ten years, then the Ministry of Revenue's annual income from mining alone will reach 220 million silver coins, which is close to the current total annual income of 250 million silver coins.
The fundamental reason why Emperor Haojing increased the number of slave miners was, on the one hand, to increase the court's annual income. On the other hand, the free miners heard that they could get large tracts of land for free by settling in the North and opening up wasteland. Many people took the risk.
The imperial court has announced through newspapers that anyone who settles in the North will receive 200 acres of land for men of appropriate age, half the amount for women of appropriate age, and 50 acres for the elderly and children.
First come, first served, all land acquired is free forever. There is no need to pay any taxes for the first ten years, and after ten years only 20% of the harvest is required.
In the spring, the imperial court assigned personnel to drive tractors and plow the land for farmers in the north for free for three years, once a year.
If there are mineral deposits and other resources underground, farmers will receive 20% of the proven reserves, and they can choose to discount them or exchange them for adjacent land of corresponding area according to the value of the resources.
After the Rakshasa Kingdom was eliminated, there were no enemies in the North that made the people of the Ming Dynasty fearful.
Many people wanted to take advantage of the imperial court and were willing to take a gamble.
Especially the area along the southern part of Northland has a relatively warm climate, no shortage of water, and extremely rich forest resources.
The people who came to settle here, especially those near the river, really took advantage of it.
The cultivated land is irrigated by river water and will soon turn into fertile farmland with abundant harvests.
Before that, I could fish every day and there was no shortage of meat.
In order to ensure that they would not go hungry in the first year, in addition to the emergency food provided by the court, every household had to plant potatoes to ensure a harvest.
As long as you harvest enough potatoes the first year, you can survive the long winter.
Generally speaking, if you can grit your teeth and survive the first three years, life will basically be good in the future.
An old couple has two sons and two daughters, half of whom are married. There are more than ten people in the family.
The land area that can be obtained will not be less than a thousand acres, and half a stone of potatoes can be harvested from each acre, and the total will reach as much as five hundred stones.
It is enough to feed a family for one year. In the second year, half of the area will be used to grow wheat, and a gradual transformation will be achieved.
The most typical example is Old Man Liu and his family, who have published their settlement story as a story in a newspaper in Beidu.
The family moved to Wusuo, also known as Wutun, near the upper reaches of the Angara River in the 30th year of Haojing (1673). Seven years have passed now.
Originally, I lived near Nanyang, Henan, and the whole family farmed.
Nanyang is not close to the Yellow River. In the dry season, it suffers along with other places in the Central Plains. Even if the weather is good, it cannot take advantage of the Yellow River.
Mr. Liu's family only has more than 20 acres of land in his hometown. After excluding 20% of the agricultural tax, it is very difficult to feed the family.
After working so hard every year, except for the food and drink for the family and the daily necessities purchased in exchange, I can't save much food, let alone money.
Not moving was like waiting to die. In desperation, after reading the announcement issued by the local government, I could only choose to take a desperate risk and take the whole family to take a gamble.
Because the time was relatively early, he was one of the first movers, so he enjoyed great discounts.
The location of the land was chosen by Old Man Liu. The nearby trees could also be used to build wooden houses, and he could also go fishing on the river only two miles away.
What makes the family most happy is that their family has obtained thousands of acres of land and the title deed from the government, which made Old Man Liu burst into tears with excitement.
The land area is forty times that of my hometown. Even if half of the land is simply left uncultivated and the remaining half is used for farming, we can still support a large family.
The government was very considerate and gave him a free fishing net. The clerk also told Old Man Liu that as long as he didn't lose this thing, his family would starve to death.
Also obtained is a crossbow and thirty arrows. The crossbow is more suitable for people who have no experience in drawing bows and are not hunters.
The Liu family, who had just arrived, were resettled in Wutun, officially called the settlement, together with forty-nine households from the village and neighboring villages, totaling about six to seven hundred people.
It is said to be a settlement, but in fact there is nothing in this place, not even the simplest wooden houses. People live in tents, and they have to accommodate women and children. Men over ten years old have to rely on fires to keep warm outdoors.
Everyone is poor, and most of them are farmers. There are only a few hunters and craftsmen, so there is no distinction between high and low. They all help each other.
The officials went to the local area to divide the land, issued land deeds to each family, and asked the heads of each family to sign a document not to steal land from each other. After giving them a supply of daily necessities and food, they disappeared completely.
Whether they live or die, it's all their own business. Anyway, if they don't collect taxes in the first ten years, they won't get any benefits.
The officials then let them go free, and as long as the corresponding documents were used to explain to the superiors, it would be considered done.
Since we are from the same village, there is no communication barrier, starting from the day after the gentlemen left.
The hunters teamed up to go hunting in the forest. The craftsmen took some of the men to cut down trees and build wooden houses, while the remaining men went fishing together.
In April in the Central Plains, the river water is not very cold anymore.
But in the Northland, you have to make a fire on the shore before fishing.
Because the water in the river was extremely cold, the men who entered the water could not hold on for long and had to go ashore to warm themselves over the fire.
The river is not deep, less than one and a half feet at its deepest point, and the flow is not fast. As long as you know how to swim, you will never drown.
They found a waist-deep shoal, nailed stakes to the shore, and then lowered their nets into the river.
Based on the number of people in the settlement, at least a thousand kilograms of fish would have to be caught to feed everyone.
However, the river fish lived up to expectations, and there were indeed situations where there were so many fish that they hit the nets, which was very similar to what was described in the newspapers.
It is absolutely no problem to catch fish of various sizes, weighing fifty pounds or so, in one net, which greatly increases everyone’s confidence.
In the densely populated Central Plains, fishing with nets rarely happens anymore.
So it was decided that everyone could not just spend time in one place, and some people went to other river sections to set nets.
The temporary fishermen are not afraid of cold water or lack of fish. As long as every net does not fail, everyone will be motivated to work.
When we first arrived, everyone was very enthusiastic about catching fish, and they all consciously carried out division of labor and cooperation.
Those who can't swim pull the net hard on the shore, and those who can swim go into the water to check whether the fishing net is scratched.
The largest harvest in one net was estimated to be nearly 200 kilograms, and the results were very gratifying.
After going back and weighing the fish, I actually caught more than three thousand kilograms of fish, which is quite impressive.
Orion did not return empty-handed, using muskets and bows and arrows to kill two bears, four wild boars, five deer, and more than ten pheasants.
Of course, everyone knows that there will be less and less prey in the future. Fishing is still reliable. What the gentlemen said is true.
In about half a month, the wooden houses where everyone lived were completed one after another, and the village was basically taking shape.
"Tunzi", as the name suggests, means the garrison of Ming Dynasty Zimin.
The next step is to open up wasteland and cultivate the land. This kind of thing can basically be done with long hands.
It just requires going to the fields day after day, and it can't be done by relying on others.
Without being familiar with the land conditions, planting mature and drought-tolerant potatoes has become a unanimous choice.
What is even more distressing is that the gentlemen refused to send tractors to plow the land for everyone on the grounds that the land had not yet been completely reclaimed.
Because the area is so large, just clearing up wasteland and plowing the land can exhaust every household to death.
There's nothing we can do about it. It's all our own land. If we don't open up the land, it will be really wild. In autumn, we won't even be able to harvest potatoes.
Even after sowing, you can't worry about wild boars eating all the seeds in the field.
The hunters became the most popular ones, and everyone hoped to eliminate all nearby wild boars as soon as possible.
Hunters will not neglect this, and their farmland will not be spared from the indiscriminate attacks of wild boars.
It is no exaggeration to say that one adult wild boar can wipe out the efforts of more than a dozen families overnight.
Of course, it is impossible to acquire the land of more than a dozen families.
But just a few acres each family chooses is enough to scare the whole family for half a year.
When it was finally time to harvest, everyone in the village, including Old Man Liu and his family, began to worry about potatoes again.
The newly plowed land in the first year was fertile enough, so that the yield of potatoes per acre reached more than one stone.
The family has 1,000 acres of land, and the amount of potatoes harvested can reach more than 1,000 dan.
The bad news is that you can only eat potatoes as a staple food!
The good news is there are plenty of potatoes!
There were so many potatoes harvested that every household had to dig multiple cellars to store them.
Local gentlemen said that taxes would not be collected, but emergency rations would not be given in the future.
Another point is that the imperial court will not collect potatoes. Due to tight transportation capacity, the barter is temporarily suspended.
People can use potatoes as staple food and main dishes at home, eating baked potatoes and shredded potatoes at the same time...
Due to the lack of cooking oil, frying potato chips was impossible unless game was hunted to make animal oil.
This is news that makes the whole village dumbfounded!
If things continue like this, I won’t have to worry about going hungry anymore, I’ll eat potatoes for every meal!
At least you can still eat some wild vegetables in summer, but in winter, it’s pure potatoes!
What does it feel like to eat potatoes for two years straight?
You’ll know once you try it!
Starting from the third year, everyone switched to growing wheat.
That's good, but taking care of the land is much more troublesome than growing potatoes.
Each family only uses at most a quarter of the area to grow wheat, and the rest is still potatoes, and at most sweet potatoes.
Rice is completely unsuitable here. If you want to improve the staple food, you can only grow wheat. In late spring, you can also grow some cabbage, radish, and seasonal vegetables.
In late summer and early autumn, there are a lot of edible vegetables.
In winter, the main dishes are cabbage, radish, fish and dried meat, the pickles are spicy cabbage and dried radish, and the staple food is potatoes!
Ever since, news of potato production in the southern part of the Northland spread like wildfire.
A few years later, this place got a good name - Potato Country!
By Hao Jing's thirty-seventh year, Old Liu's family could earn about 400 shi of wheat and 800 shi of potatoes every year.
In the Ming Dynasty, this was considered a full-fledged landlord, and many landlords did not have as much harvest as Old Man Liu.
But in the Northland, such harvest standards can only be regarded as ordinary farmers.
The only problem is, what if there is too much food to eat?
Emperor Haojing felt that this matter could be easily solved, that is, eat slowly!
