Because Kimchi's previous economy was very poor, many infrastructure and major projects were only built in the past two decades.
In addition, the high-level officials copied everything from the Ming Dynasty, and the ordinary people worked hard and worked hard without complaining.
This led to the rapid development of the kimchi economy, according to Emperor Haojing's estimate of its tax revenue.
It should reach an annual economic growth rate of about 25%, almost ranking first in Asia.
Even the Ming Empire's average annual economic growth was less than 20%.
The economic development of coastal cities and inland provincial capitals is quite good, but what is holding them back is the inland mountainous areas where railways are not connected and shipping is inconvenient.
Emperor Haojing's method of increasing the annual income of the urban population is very simple. As long as the people work overtime in factories, it is easy to earn 20% more.
Farmers who are unwilling to go to the city rely on their own one-third of an acre of land and want to increase their income in a short period of time. Unless they grow the right crops that sell well on the market, the odds will be high.
This is also the main reason why Emperor Haojing ordered all inland provinces with large populations to relocate to Min. If they stay in their hometowns, these farmers will not be rich in another twenty years.
Farming in another place does not require any skills. The land owned by one's own family can reach five to six hundred acres, or even thousands of acres. It is difficult for farmers to be rich or not.
The focus of Yimin is on poor farmers who own less than ten acres of land. On the one hand, Yimin is to quickly digest the new land, and on the other hand, it is also accurately alleviating poverty.
Emperor Haojing believed that if the Ming Empire wanted to become a developed country leading the world as soon as possible, a rigid target was to achieve the "three things"!
For the primary industry, farmers are required to have more than 100 acres of land, and it is best for one family to own thousands of acres and turn it into a private farm.
As long as farmers own enough land and harvest enough, it will only take two or three years to escape poverty if agricultural taxes are significantly reduced in the early stage.
They are poor because of the land, and they should become rich because of the land.
Since ancient times, there has been no rule in the past dynasties that farmers cannot become landlords.
Landowners who lost their land were tenants, and farmers who had more land were actually landlords.
Like Emperor Taizu, Emperor Haojing believed that agriculture was the foundation for strengthening the country.
In order for the imperial court to have sufficient treasury, the prerequisite is that farmers must have enough to eat.
Farmers who do not have enough to eat, or even go hungry, will not only directly affect their annual income, but also lead to large-scale rebellion.
On the contrary, even the poorest farmers have become rich, and there is no reason why the Ming Empire cannot become stronger.
Yimin also reduced the burden on the court. In the mainland, droughts were prone to occur in the north and floods often occurred in the south.
It's okay when the weather is good, but when natural disasters occur frequently, the little food from the annual income is not enough to provide disaster relief.
By allowing the poor peasants to farm the land, the burden on the court would be greatly reduced. The principle is the same as that of a vassal king moving overseas.
Theoretically, the four territories in the southeast, northwest and north are free to choose from, but those who moved to the north accounted for about 60% of the total, followed by the south and Australia, which accounted for more than 30%.
The land was too far to the east, and there was still Zhang Tianbao and his gang. The people thought they were all good people, and were unwilling to join the ranks of the descendants of the rogue bandits, and felt resentful in their hearts.
Xidi is the territory of King Zhenhai, which sounds very informal. Although Zheng Chenggong is the emperor's disciple, there are too many Fujian people there and they don't speak Fujian, so it is difficult to understand their neighbors.
If you go to Southland, your first choice is the east coast of Australia, which has the most pleasant climate, and then South Australia, which has four distinct seasons.
On the other hand, very few people go to Sumatra and Java in the East Indies because they are hot and humid all year round, almost like a sauna.
Almost all farmers, including farmers in Huaihe and Lianghuai areas, are willing to go to Northland. Even if it's colder, you don't have to worry about contracting tropical diseases.
Even by the late seventeenth century, tropical diseases such as dysentery, malaria, cholera, yellow fever, and dengue fever were diseases that could scare people.
This is also the main reason why Emperor Haojing refused to send troops to attack India. No matter how powerful the king's division is, he cannot withstand the flow of water from the Ganges River...
In the early nineteenth century, the cholera pandemic began in the Ganges Delta!
This directly caused the capital of the British Empire, which reached India, to be swept by cholera. Even in wealthy areas with better sanitary conditions, the average life expectancy was only forty-five years old!
Then cholera swept across Europe and even reached the East Coast of the United States.
The third brother has the Ganges River water to protect his body. The Ming Dynasty King Master does not have this specialty and can only stay away.
Emperor Haojing also did not intend to spend all the money gained from scraping land in India on epidemic prevention.
The reason why only a small number of the king's divisions were sent to fight in the East Indies before was because they were afraid that tropical diseases would infect the entire army.
Large-scale illness of soldiers is equivalent to the loss of combat effectiveness of the organization, and even the court needs to allocate huge pensions.
As for the East Indies, Emperor Hao Jing allowed not to digest it directly, but only to develop the mines and coastal areas in the near future.
They mainly harvest five resources: coal, oil, forests, fisheries, and spices from the local area, and the rest are treated as gifts and given to the indigenous people for their enjoyment.
Those who settle or do business in the East Indies can enjoy full tax exemption for the first five years and half the tax for the next five years.
This standard is still worse than that of Northland, which is free for ten years and 20% for ten years, because the East Indies are easy to transport by sea, but Northland is not.
Without good enough preferential conditions, farmers are unwilling to settle in the North, where winter lasts for five months a year.
This very bad climate makes it difficult for many people south of the Yangtze River to endure, but people in the Huaihe River and Huaihe River can still adapt.
There was a flood in the Huaihe River the year before last, causing all of the central and northern parts of Beizhili to be flooded.
Farmers who still loved their families had to give up their land and go to the North.
Although the climate in the North is not good, it is much better to have fewer floods and less crops than to have them all washed away by floods.
Those who are brave and dare to go out and conquer the world first will be automatically promoted to village chiefs by officials when they welcome their fellow villagers.
Even if this is the benefit of them being the first to respond to the court's call, those who follow the court's orders first will still receive great benefits.
After those bachelors who did not marry Yangma became village chiefs, they had the opportunity to attack the village beauties who came here later...
At this time, the advantages of having a girl at home, especially a fairly handsome girl, become apparent.
Emperor Haojing has always emphasized equality between men and women, but many people don't understand it.
It wasn't until I arrived in the North that I discovered that this was indeed the case.
There are benefits to having a boy, and there are benefits to having a girl.
The family has a girl who is not ugly, has normal intelligence, and has no serious health problems. When they arrive in the North, the family will not have to worry about life.
As long as you are over twelve years old and have not yet been engaged, you can be married directly by the village chief.
Usually she is the principal wife, the village chief's wife.
As a result, the status of the natal family was greatly improved.
For village-level units, Ming Dynasty has two models.
One is that there is no one in the local area before, and a hundred households come directly, and the heads of each household vote. The person with the most votes can become the village chief. valley
The other is that there is one or more families in the local area. As long as these people do not make big mistakes, the village chief will be elected from among them, which is a benefit to the farmers who moved here first.
The village chief serves a term of five years and can be re-voted after expiration. However, he is not part of the imperial establishment. He only serves as a mouthpiece for the imperial orders. However, it is also a good thing to get the news in advance.
The higher-up unit leaders are directly appointed by the court. They have a fixed monthly salary and are assessed every year. They can be promoted. If they violate the rules, they will also be punished accordingly.
Town-level units have government offices, hospitals, shops, and post offices, and can obtain the latest newspapers and magazines.
The difference between the Southland and the Northland is that there are almost no villages, just towns or even cities. There are very few people farming there.
In contrast, there are many people engaged in logging, fishing, and herding in the Southland.
Anyone who goes to the Southland to graze can automatically get thousands of acres of pasture.
Emperor Hao Jing has already established four small shipyards in Australia, one each in the southeast and northwest.
Each shipyard can currently only build steam fishing boats of up to 500 tons, but demand exceeds supply.
The territories of Huiguo, Xiangguo, and Qin are all located in the South Pacific, and their fishery resources are extremely rich.
After steam fishing boats began to be put on the market, the three countries also benefited greatly.
The South Pacific was also the largest source of tuna for the Ming Empire, and there were countless groupers, snappers, swordfish, swordfish, sharks, and sardines.
In the capital ports of the Three Kingdoms, there are refrigerated ships waiting all year round. When they are full, they will set sail immediately and sail to the mainland of Ming Dynasty.
Just by relying on large-scale seafood fishing, the three countries can already win.
Before tractors spread throughout the country, the four livestocks of cattle, horses, mules, and donkeys were still the main force in cultivating land.
In addition to pigs, sheep and poultry, seafood is available in large quantities, which is an excellent supplement to ordinary people's dining tables.
"Arableland F4" has also been included in the scope of protected animals by the court. Even if it goes to cultivate land, pull goods, or carry people, it is better to be slaughtered and put into the pot.
Those selling donkey meat must also sell pork or chicken for barbecue, otherwise it will be a bad behavior that will affect farming.
It’s okay if you feel you can’t accept it, the imperial court will send someone to take you to the North or South.
When you get there, you can sell bark and burn it!
The birth of steam merchant ships and fishing boats meant that the oil products that had been imported on a large scale from the Ottomans and refined had a greater use.
The daily consumption of a civilian steam ship is very staggering. Thousands of steam ships are going to sea, which means that the oil refinery can make a lot of money every day.
According to an agreement reached with Ottoman Sultan Ibrahim, the Ming Empire increased its annual oil imports from the Ottomans from the current three million barrels to ten million barrels starting in 1684.
Ibrahim agreed to reduce the price of each barrel by half a silver coin to four silver coins, which was equivalent to a 20% discount. The annual total amount was 40 million silver coins.
Daming has the right to add up to five million barrels of imported oil orders each year at the same unit price, and as before, it is the CIF price.
In addition, Ming Dynasty will also receive two million barrels of oil worth eight million silver coins free of charge every year for fifteen years to offset the fourth-level ironclad ship worth 120 million given to Ibrahim. .
The original price of the fourth-level ironclad ship was 200 million silver coins. Emperor Haojing directly gave this old friend a 40% discount. The other party was embarrassed and could only give a 20% discount for the oil.
If the discount is any lower, the local Ottoman nobles will not be happy.
Emperor Haojing also expressed his understanding. As long as both parties can accept it, it will be settled in the end.
This is equivalent to using 30 million barrels of oil to buy a fourth-level ironclad ship without spending a single silver coin.
For Osman, the cost of extracting a barrel of oil was less than one silver coin, and the cost of 30 million barrels of oil was only more than 20 million silver coins.
The market price of a fourth-level ironclad ship built by the Ming Dynasty is 200 million silver coins. The discounted price is 120 million, and the actual cost is about 10 million.
This is tantamount to mutual benefit and win-win cooperation!
The bulk of the cost of Ottoman oil exports was not extraction but transportation.
The shipowners had to be patient and float on the sea for three months before they could reach the Ming Empire.
Even so, everyone is flocking to it because it can be filled with many goods from the Ming Empire when they return.
Before a trade hub was established in Ceylon, Ottoman shipowners could only make two trips a year.
After the opening of Ceylon as a trade transit station, they only needed to transport oil from Kuwait to Ceylon and exchange for goods there.
In order to encourage Ottoman merchants to transport more oil, Emperor Haojing also allowed them to enjoy the same purchase price as if they came to the Ming Dynasty.
The prerequisite is that it can only be exchanged for oil. If it is exchanged for other local products, the price of the bartered goods will increase by 20% as freight.
After raising horses in Jeju Island for many years, Ming Dynasty’s demand for Ottoman war horses was no longer great.
On the contrary, with the vigorous development of industry, the demand for oil is increasing day by day.
The Ming Dynasty established the world's largest oil storage warehouses in Ceylon, Qiongzhou, and Dongfan, and tankers could relay transportation.
Before the birth of giant oil tankers, relays were the best way to reduce risks in maritime transportation.
Let the Ottoman ship owners have the opportunity to make a trip to Ceylon once a month, so everyone will be more motivated!
After the launch of 7,000-ton and 10,000-ton merchant ships, Ming Dynasty also has equipment for automatic door-to-door pickup.
The difference is that the price for door-to-door pickup remains unchanged, but the small bucket of 50 kilograms will be replaced by a large bucket of 100 kilograms.
If you help your old friend save the freight, you have to use oil to fully pay for it.
Fortunately, there are spouting wells all over Kuwait, and oil extraction is convenient and cheap, so there is no problem at all.
The local tycoons also like this method of trading. They do not have to leave the Persian Gulf to unload various Ming Empire commodities and load the already worthless oil on the ship. This kind of transaction is really good.
Whenever the Ming Dynasty's steam merchant ships docked, the nobles would rush to the port to buy novel goods as if it was a holiday.
Of course, the rated goods on the ship are pre-determined by the two countries and cannot be tampered with. Once found out, especially if they are found to have committed theft, passed off inferior goods, etc., the captain will lose his head.
But the captain also has a way, and that is to use his own small room to fill a pile of goods in addition to the goods specified for transportation.
This is a common rule at sea, and crew members can also do this when using their own living quarters. The corridor is a common place for accumulating extra merchandise.
The premise is that these goods are purchased by the crew at their own expense, and they need to sell them themselves after they arrive ashore. If they cannot be sold, it will be considered a waste...
Emperor Haojing can further squeeze the other party's profit margins, but due to the friendly cooperative relationship between the two parties, it will not be used for the time being.
The advanced weapons such as armored ships, aircraft, tanks, and machine guns, as well as a dazzling array of commodities, are enough for the Ottomans to use all their strength to export oil.
Otherwise, he will face a huge trade deficit. For Ibrahim, it doesn't matter if he owes money, he can use oil to offset it.
If he can't get the elixir, it will cost him his life!
