There is no doubt that the population recruited by the Anton Dudu Mansion basically comes from the Central Plains and the north. Recruiting from the south is more expensive, and it is more difficult for the people in the south to adapt to the climate of the northeast. In addition, people in the south are rarely willing to leave their warm and suitable environment.
The scope was further narrowed, and the recruited people were concentrated in Henan, Hebei, and Yanshan. Among them, Han people from the Henan area accounted for almost 40% of the total.
In particular, the people in Denglai, Qingmi and several states are more active and enthusiastic. He was not only attracted by the tempting conditions provided by the Andong Governor's Palace, but also by taking advantage of the rise of northern shipping in recent years, especially the opening and expansion of trade routes to Goryeo, Japan, and Liaodong, and the local people's understanding of the outside world was also increasing.
As a famous maritime businessman returned from overseas with a full load, he made a lot of money and returned to his hometown in glory, attracting the attention of the local people. The spread of such stories of getting rich has also aroused the desire to explore in the hearts of local people. Not everyone can do business. It requires both capital and luck. If you are not careful, you may lose everything.
For those farmers, the only thing they can rely on is their strength and farming skills. And what the Anton Governor's Office built for him was a beautiful blueprint and vision. In his hometown, he might just be a small farmer, but he had to face the pressure of competition with his brothers to divide the land and produce. But when he arrived in Anton, he was another small farmer. A vast field, starting with a "landlord" of at least a hundred acres.
This is a direct improvement in class status, and according to the policy promoted by the Anton Governor's Office, there is no limit on the number of acres in Anton. As long as you have the ability to farm, you will not be suppressed even if you have 10,000 acres of land. , even if it is transferred, there is no need to bear the high transaction tax like in the mainland.
Such conditions also inspired the desire and motivation of the children of Henan to venture into Anton. At the same time, as the imperial court encouraged people to have children and raise children in recent years, the population surged and the private labor force began to become surplus.
For most farm families, the land is free to cultivate for the time being, but every family faces a problem, and that is the issue of property inheritance.
Not only emperors, nobles and bureaucrats need to face this problem, but also small farmers and small households. They may not have a strict inheritance system like the dignitaries, but they are inevitably favored and favored, and there are many widows. Under such circumstances, it is also a good choice to send some children to Anton, and you can also share part of the resettlement expenses, which are Huang Chengcheng's copper coins, and can save a lot of food used in exchange for money to pay taxes.
With the support of many factors, immigration in Anton has just achieved good results, which is completely different from the situation in other parts of the Han Dynasty. Of course, this is also caused by the particularity of the Anton region.
At the same time, the immigrants of more than 100,000 people also have a distinctive feature. They are all armed immigrants, holding a knife in one hand and a plow in the other.
Although there are nearly 20,000 troops under the Anton Governor's Mansion, such a small army cannot take care of the huge Anton area. These new immigrants have to rely more on their own protection and must have certain self-defense capabilities. Village fortresses and militias protecting each other are self-defense policies formulated by the governor's government. Weapons are provided by the government. In addition to special equipment such as iron armor and hard crossbows, the weapons of these immigrants are very sophisticated, at least not comparable to those of the local barbarians.
In addition to the Han people from various states, some Hu people were also recruited, and the results were very good. Most of them were Xi people from Yanshan North Road.
The Han Dynasty had a vast territory and numerous ethnic groups. From south to north, although there were many diehards who were rebellious and unwilling to accept the king's rule, there were also some docile tribesmen. For example, the Qiang people, the Wenmo people, and the Tuyuhun people had a special army in Hedong in the early years, but now they have completely disappeared in the long river of history and have been integrated into the Han people.
Similarly, the Xi people are also a relatively docile ethnic group. They have obeyed the rule of the Han Dynasty for ten years, and Yanshan North Road is not as turbulent and troubled as expected.
One thing to say is that this is thanks to the Khitan people's domestication of the Xi people, which was very good. Now, they just changed a master, a ruler with a gentle appearance and a "gentle" light all over his body.
Of course, the fundamental reason lies in the strength of the Han Dynasty, the majesty of the imperial court, and in the process of the Han-Liao struggle for hegemony, the Xi people who suffered from the trauma of the war also needed to recuperate, and the tribesmen also wanted to live a stable life, and In addition to being stricter and more powerful in terms of control, the rule of the Han Dynasty was generally relatively mild.
In addition, the original Xi people's nobles and tribal chiefs, headed by King Xi Ning, were also tamed and submissive by the court. They rarely cooperated. In addition to being deprived of their right to govern, they had all other rights. Most of them could still be in power. A big man lives a life of superiority. If he performs well, he can become an official or a general, and even take part in the imperial examination.
Like Xi Wang Thou Ning, he is now living a happy life in Kaifeng, taking care of himself and having good food and clothing every day. Even meeting Emperor Liu is not difficult. Now, we can no longer call Tsou Ning "King Xi". Emperor Liu changed the title of Tsou Ning to the title of Duke of Hue in the 11th year of Kaibao. This is obviously different from the Han Dynasty's naming rules for titles, but The political implications are profound.
As a result, nearly ten thousand Xi people were recruited by the Anton Governor's Palace to settle down in Anton and enjoy the same treatment. This is also supported by the center.
In addition to attracting ordinary farmers and herdsmen from various places, there are also some people who have become powerful aids in development, and can even be said to be the main force.
That is a group mainly composed of nobles and bureaucrats. Of course, not many people are willing to let these nobles go to Anton to make a living, and they are even resistant.
But there was no way. With Emperor Liu's instructions, the nobles and bureaucrats of the Han Dynasty had to perform well. Even if it was just to cater to the emperor, they had to invest money and food and send their family members to go to Anton.
Emperor Liu once said something that no one can refute: My sons are all working hard on the border and serving the country. Are the children of noble officials’ families more valuable than them?
This sentence is so true that people have no choice but to follow His Majesty the Emperor's call. Of course, some of the noble and bureaucratic children who went to Anton were to become officials, some to join the army, and some to enclose land and buy property.
There is also an unspoken rule that has always been popular in the imperial court, that is, people with extensive resumes have more opportunities to be promoted. For those who are interested in an official career, Anton is also a good place to go. After all, it is special. It also attracted the attention of those in power in the DPRK.
Even though most of the descendants of the family who were sent to Anton were concubines or descendants, the resources they could bring with them were obviously not comparable to those of ordinary farmers and herdsmen.
Small fights are not their style. Their pioneering also has certain political goals. Their land enclosures often cover tens of thousands of acres. After all, they have money and people, and the land, mountains, forests, mineral deposits, furs, medicinal materials and other resources in the Northeast, supplemented by Anton's loose policies, are indeed profitable. .
Of course, Anton's land was not given away arbitrarily. Liu Xu made a stipulation, that is, how much land is given to you, you must cultivate it, there must be crops in the field, and there must be output in the field.
But this brings another problem, that is, the shortage of labor force. However, they have many methods, or they can spend money to recruit from the mainland. If they feel that the cost is high, they simply start a business without capital to capture serfs and bring those who are active in the local area. The indigenous barbarians who relied on fishing and hunting were forced to the fields.
As a result, the "slave-catching industry" gradually emerged in Anton. Slave-catching teams organized by noble children even cooperated with the Anton army to eliminate local security. However, such behavior caused a considerable backlash. , has also become one of the sources of turmoil in the Andong region.
But even so, there is still a shortage of people, and farming requires technical experience. It is not just someone who can pick up a hoe and cultivate a good field.
Later, some people even paid attention to the indigenous people in Annan and other areas and spent money to buy people from the south. Of course, the imperial court explicitly prohibited the keeping of private slaves and the sale of human beings, so similar behaviors were all under the name of "employment."
Only in the Andong region can these acts of violence, power and exploitation be so blatant and justified.
Therefore, by the 17th year of Kaibao's reign, the newly populated immigrant population in Anton had exceeded 200,000. Of course, in addition to the above, there is another group of people who also played a role in promoting the development of Anton, and that is the merchants.
