The matter of refugees outside the city finally calmed down.
Emperor Tianqi and all the officials took a step back.
King Xin Zhu Youjian was ordered to spend a month in front of the wall in King Xin's Mansion.
The children who were sold were safely returned, and those who embezzled disaster relief funds were dismissed and investigated.
Statistics show that the number of refugees from Liaodong is less than 30,000. Most of them are young and strong.
After screening, most of the young men with clean financial status were enrolled in the Beijing camp.
The rest were dispersed and settled. Among them, more than 500 orphans were adopted by Prince Xin's Mansion and incorporated into the Qiming Chamber of Commerce.
After that, everything was buried, and many people in the capital nearby did not even know that refugees from Liaodong were starved to death outside the capital in the previous period.
During the month when he was sitting in front of the wall in Prince Xin's Mansion, Zhu Youjian was not idle. Through Wang Chengen's investigation, Zhu Youjian finally had a general understanding of Huangzhuang.
The so-called Imperial Village is, to put it bluntly, similar to those farms in the United States in later generations.
On average, the owner of the imperial estate needs to pay 30% of the income for each mu of the imperial estate.
Normally, even if you pay 30%, it is enough for people to live.
However, under the control of the eunuchs, the people on the farm worked hard for a year and could not even afford food and clothing.
No wonder these people don’t recognize themselves? For them, if they change their master, they will still be the same, with no enough food to eat and no warmth to wear. How can they recognize themselves from the bottom of their hearts?
What's more serious is that because the farmers have received too much oppression, the output of Huangzhuang is far inferior to the output of the farmers' own land.
This is something Zhu Youjian cannot bear, and the reform of Huangzhuang is imperative.
As for the reform plan, Zhu Youjian decided to copy it.
Another time and space has proven its superiority. Just use it yourself.
So at Zhu Youjian's signal, the 2,000-acre Huangzhuang under Zhu Youjian's name officially began to implement reforms.
When the land is contracted to the people, they only need to pay 0.5 shi of grain per mu per year, and the rest belongs to the farmers.
At the same time, it was stipulated that excess grain must be sold to Prince Xin's Mansion at a fair price and must not be resold privately.
As soon as this move came out, the number of people who agreed with Zhu Youjian increased sharply, directly to 150 people, and it is still increasing.
Zhu Youjian estimates that when this year's autumn harvest is over, the number of people who agree with him will increase again. After all, who knows whether this policy will change directly by then?
In Ming Dynasty, such things are not uncommon.
The stewards of the Imperial Village were all recalled by Zhu Youjian, and after some beatings, they were thrown into the Qiming Chamber of Commerce established by Zhu Youjian.
Who told Zhu Youjian to be just a prince now? He was still a prince in the late Ming Dynasty and could not recruit talents at will. Otherwise, according to Zhu Youjian's temper, these people would have been cut into pieces long ago.
The reform went smoothly. After all, Emperor Tianqi had given the Imperial Mansion here to himself, and those civil servants could not control the Imperial Mansion no matter how long their arms were.
"The upgrade is successful. Level 3 idle rewards. If you idle, you can only get first-class equipment, basic food, daily necessities, and biochemical soldiers (the probability is extremely low).
Level 2 AFK ends automatically, and the AFK reward has been placed in the warehouse, please check it. "
"Level 2 idle time is 20 days, 300 shotguns (including ammunition)... 500 bags of rice (50 kilograms per bag), 500 bags of flour (50 kilograms per bag). 1 box of toilet paper (24 bags), 2 toothbrushes, 1 Box of Zhonghua toothpaste (180g).”
As King Xin, the prince of the Ming Dynasty, he brushes his teeth with a handmade pig-bristle toothbrush and green salt, but how can the effect be compared with a real toothbrush and toothpaste?
Rice paper is used in the toilet. Although it is much more comfortable than the toilets used by civilians, how can it be compared with toilet paper?
After brushing his teeth impatiently, Zhu Youjian felt that his entire mouth had become much fresher.
I took out 10 packs of toilet paper and gave them to my eldest brother. He kept 10 packets for his own use, and Zhu Youjian hung the remaining 4 packets in his shop, worth 1 tael of silver each. There is no way, who makes oneself poor?
If there wasn't only one box of toothpaste, Zhu Youjian would have already put the toothpaste in his store.
In order to establish the chamber of commerce as soon as possible and spread it across the country, Zhu Youjian spent a lot of money to buy shops. and training staff. and buying a boat.
Zhu Youjian has not forgotten that this era is the era of the ocean. It would be a pity if Ming Dynasty missed it.
These shops continued to provide blood transfusions to Zhu Youjian, but Daming's transportation system was really poor, and there was no good financial system. These shops could only wait for more money to be escorted over.
As a result, although Qiming Chamber of Commerce still has a large amount of money on its books, Zhu Youjian doesn't have much to use now.
Coupled with the refugee issue, it put great pressure on Zhu Youjian. It was so difficult to deal with less than 30,000 refugees. So what will happen to 300,000 or 3 million?
How much food and other reserves will be needed?
How much trouble will it cause if it is not handled properly?
Natural disasters and man-made disasters - lack of food - people react - fewer people grow food - food production decreases. This is a vicious cycle.
Natural disasters can be avoided, but man-made disasters must be eliminated.
Shaanxi cannot be in chaos, and Ming Dynasty cannot be in chaos. Those corrupt officials must spit out ten times what they have eaten.
Otherwise, even if Zhu Youjian had the system in hand, he would not have enough confidence to save Ming Dynasty.
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Time flies and it’s July. As expected by Zhu Youjian, under the superior system, the 2,000-acre imperial village under Zhu Youjian's name achieved a bumper harvest.
The yield per mu reached an astonishing 2 stones. Among the imperial palaces in the capital, it is definitely one of the best.
Zhu Youjian did not break his promise and collected the tax at the standard of 0.5 shi per mu. At the same time, he also collected the hearts of the farmers in Huangzhuang.
The number of people who recognized Zhu Youjian soared to 500.
The Qiming Chamber of Commerce has also achieved tremendous development. With the help of his teammate Dongchang, the Qiming Chamber of Commerce has developed much faster, and it has also saved Zhu Youjian a lot of money to buy a store.
In just a few months, the Qiming Chamber of Commerce has opened stores in various prefectures in the north of the Ming Dynasty. Although the operations are different, they are all involved in food and salt, two aspects that are closely related to the people.
Although each prefecture is not large in size, with its strong backing and the increase in grain purchase prices and reduction in grain sales prices, the Qiming Chamber of Commerce has a pretty good reputation in each prefecture, although it often runs out of food. .
In Shuntian, Baoding, Tianjin, Datong, and other places, Qiming Chamber of Commerce has built directly affiliated grain depots, with grain storage no less than 10,000 shi.
However, according to feedback from the heads of various chambers of commerce, Qiming Chamber of Commerce has touched the interests of many businessmen. If it increases its share of food, salt, etc., it is very likely to be targeted and suppressed by the other party.
