Chapter 264 We all have a better tomorrow(1/2)
The whole world was in turmoil, and the court was busy for the legacy left by the Northern Yuan Dynasty.
But for the people in the Ming Dynasty, there are not so many important things to keep them busy.
After all, they only need to manage their own acre of three parts of the land, work hard to survive, and hope to have a good harvest next year.
More food storage is their greatest wish.
Li Si is an ordinary farmer in the Central Plains. He lives in Henan. After years of war, his original hometown has long been unknown.
His ancestors only knew that his grandfather was not from Henan and knew nothing else.
But it doesn't matter. After all, it's already a great thing to be able to survive in such a chaotic world.
Li Si didn't really care whether he could return to his hometown or not. After all, he himself didn't know where his hometown was.
There are not a few people like him. Fortunately, after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, with the protection of the Ming government, this kind of wandering around has a life of not having tomorrow, and finally it is a little more stable.
Li Si has been thinking about whether to migrate to Yunnan recently.
Because of His Highness the King of Liao, many people in the village have recently discussed going to Yunnan to redevelop.
After all, the most terrifying thing in Yunnan is the savages and miasma, and the words of the savages have been tamed by King Zhu Qi of Liao.
If there is miasma, there are also medical books written by His Highness the King of Liao.
Now they are posted at the entrance of the village, and those officials who promote immigration come to promote the benefits of going to Yunnan with these villagers every day.
Many young people who have not yet started their families and careers have signed up, and the first batch has been shipped off last month.
But after hearing from others in the family, Li Si would be exempted from tax for 5 years after going to Yunnan. Naturally, Li Si didn't want to miss such a good thing.
However, there are still many concerns. After hearing the latest news, Li Si finally had no concerns, that is, the people of Central Plains who went to Yunnan who settled in Yunnan could also allow their children to study in a new school in addition to being tax-free for 5 years.
And tuition fees are 20% off.
Originally, tuition fees were not something ordinary people like them could think about.
After all, it costs a lot to go to school, but after inquiring about the school’s tuition and the work-study system, Li Si suddenly became excited.
You said that in Henan, how could he have the opportunity to let his children go to a new school?
Of course he doesn't have children yet.
But there will definitely be something in the future. Considering that the next generation can study, it will be tax-free for 5 years.
Li Si gritted his teeth and decided to leave his hometown and go to Yunnan to develop like those young people who have not started their family.
In this way, in the 17th year of Hongwu, Li Si signed up and waited for two months, and finally waited for the notice from the government office.
He and more than 2,000 young people from a hundred miles away around him went to Yunnan, and even chose the place to settle down.
It's in Dali, Yunnan.
Li Si has never heard of Dali, Yunnan.
But I heard from some knowledgeable people in the village that it seems to be very far away, but it is far away.
It is not particularly beneficial for Li Si to get close to Yingtian Mansion.
Moreover, judging from the past experiences of war, when the north was full of porridge, didn’t everyone run south?
Now I go to Yunnan in advance to settle down. If another war comes to the north, it will definitely be much safer in Yunnan.
Li Si thought about this in his heart and felt at ease.
Li Si quickly packed up his things, then said goodbye to his hometown with the other young people and headed towards Yunnan.
There are quite a few people like Li Si. In addition to Yunnan, who needs the population of the Central Plains to immigrate and fill in the border, the grasslands of the Northern Yuan Dynasty also need the population of the Central Plains to immigrate and fill in the border.
The current population of the Ming Dynasty is not as good as that of the Song Dynasty.
After all, after so many years of war, it is normal for a sharp decline in population.
However, in order to maximize control of the grassland, it is very necessary for immigrants to fill in edges.
Some ordinary people may find it strange that they can still plant fields and study books in Yunnan, and have a place to live.
But the grassland is a ghost place where dogs do not shit but birds do not lay eggs.
And how can I get to the place where the birds in the wilderness are uninhabited?
Didn’t I go past the same as nomads, and I couldn’t shed every day?
The common people will definitely not do it. Look at how miserable the herdsmen in Beiyuan lived, and they didn’t even have clothes. They didn’t want to live such a life.
Although it is a bit painful in the Central Plains, sometimes the harvest is not good and you will have to starve, at least it will not be like the Northern Yuan Dynasty, and there will be no hope every year.
When the people of the Central Plains heard that the Beiyuan side also needed to immigrate.
None of them had any interest or enthusiasm.
However, their situation was already expected by Zhu Qi, and what did Zhu Qi do? He is good at intelligence and public opinion.
So Zhu Qi had already prepared the promotional materials in advance, so the discount on this grassland is naturally greater than that in Yunnan.
As long as you are willing to go to the grassland to open up land, you can be exempted from tax for 10 years. In addition, on the grassland, all children of ordinary people can enter school for free.
In addition, the country also provides seeds and tools, as well as other building materials to help them build their own cities and villages, etc.
Someone may ask, if so many benefits are given, the Ming Dynasty has so much finance, can it support these ordinary people?
If tens of millions of people in the Central Plains had gone to the Northern Yuan Dynasty, they would definitely not have so much money.
But Zhu Qi had already considered it. Even if he took out these materials to promote it himself, there would probably be more than hundreds of thousands or millions of Han people who were willing to go to the grassland.
It is unexpected to reach 300,000.
Moreover, it cannot be achieved in one year. I am afraid that it will take more than ten or twenty years to slowly fill in the immigration, so Zhu Qi did not think that there would be any tight financial situation.
What's more, Zhu Qiye did not intend to use the food grown by the people on the grassland as taxes.
Because Zhu Qi valued taxes in overseas trade more, the output of ordinary people's grain is not large.
Moreover, there are not many taxes that can be compensated. Compared with the little food on ordinary people, it is better to look at those merchants or foreign countries. This is more appropriate.
This is how Zhu Qi did it, and Zhu Yuanzhang trusted Zhu Qi very much in these things.
Of course, it was done according to Zhu Qi's suggestion, so the people in the Central Plains did not want to go to the grassland, but when they heard that the conditions given by the court were so rich, they all became interested.
But I just thought about it. If I really have to make up my mind to live on the grassland, it is not something that ordinary people can do.
Even with such generous conditions, descendants can read for free, and the country even provides various tools and building materials.
But these blessings must be enjoyed with the destiny.
In Yunnan, only miasma is the only one who kills people, but many people kill people on the grassland.
Like nomads, they don’t know what attitude they are. If they go there, they have to pass the Great Wall when they rob themselves, but now they are delivered to them, and they don’t even need to pass the Great Wall.
Maybe one day I stab myself to death with a scimitar. Are you right?
Not to mention so many wild beasts in the wild, it is really unreliable.
Zhu Qi had long considered what the people were thinking, so the goal of immigration was no longer deep in the grassland.
And building some towns nearby next to the Great Wall is where the people of the Central Plains first began to live.
When the grassland is close to the Great Wall and the land is divided, then slowly move them deep into the grassland.
Of course, this immigrant must follow the water source. Build cities where there are more water sources. If there is no water source, you will definitely not be able to build cities or find abusers.
The immigration plan here in Daming is very perfect.
Although the people of the Central Plains were not interested at the beginning, they couldn't resist giving too much.
So many people signed up intermittently. In just one month, nearly 30,000 people registered across the country.
This was much beyond expectations, and Zhu Qi did not wait any longer and soon ordered the 30,000 people to be sent to the grassland, which were the first batch of land explorers.
In the past, they naturally first reclaimed wasteland to build houses and settled down first to have a bright and beautiful future.
After this continuous immigration, the already crowded Central Plains region became wider again.
Those farmers have more land to cultivate and more wastelands to be reclaimed. With land, they naturally have the desire to give birth.
Everyone started to make children at home, and the yield of the three civilized treasures planted by Zhu Qixin is so high, which is really a great guarantee of the population.
The population growth of the Ming Dynasty naturally represented the increase in national strength. After all, in this era, manpower represented national strength.
The vacant land of the people in the Central Plains who immigrated to the Central Plains is just right for the new generation to plant and reclaim.
There will be no big land conflict in the next few decades.
Of course, those officials and rich people should always pay attention to the matter of annexation of land.
If you leave it alone, it will easily lead to a major collapse.
Of course this is a political matter, and Zhu Qi can't control so much.
He only cares about economy and people's livelihood.
Zhu Qi's strategies and strategies were naturally under the control of Zhu Yuanzhang. As Zhu Yuanzhang's adviser and so close to Zhu Di, Liu Bowen naturally had the opportunity to come into contact with this level of planning.
When Zhu Qi planned these things, he didn't feel that it was so great.
To be continued...