Chapter 177: The Difficulty of Immigration

From the very beginning, Zhu Qizhen was thinking about this fundamental contradiction, and in an agricultural country, the problem of cultivated land is the root of all problems.

It's just that since Zhu Qizhen inherited the throne, he has been creating problems and solving them. This fundamental problem can only be dragged on. Or the temporary treatment of the symptoms does not cure the root cause.

In other words, Zhu Qizhen didn't know how to cure the root cause.

In fact, he also had a vague idea in his heart. That is foreign immigration, and at some times, Zhu Qizhen also hinted to Liu Dingzhi.

After all, Liu Dingzhi is Zhu Qizhen's most important partner. Zhu Qizhen still wants to cooperate with him for a long time, so Zhu Qizhen will also ventilate Liu Dingzhi in many things.

Communicate well in advance, and it will be much easier to do when it is implemented in the future.

Liu Dingzhi also knows the meaning of elegance when he hears the sound of strings. He pondered for a moment and said, "Your Majesty, it is a good thing to move people to a wide township, but the imperial court can't reach it. If you go forward, I am afraid that there will be natural disasters, but there will be more man-made disasters. It is also a way to harm the people. ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "If the reform of officials is completed, can't it be done? ”

Liu Dingzhi said: "The minister doesn't know, and he will only talk about it then, but now is not the time to talk about this." ”

In fact, Zhu Qizhen has also figured out this matter many times.

He actually knew that he couldn't do it.

The Ming Dynasty was not without the execution of large-scale official immigration.

In the early years of Hongwu, Emperor Taizu migrated densely populated places to settle in the Northern Expedition after repeated wars in the north, and the people migrated from Shanxi, Shandong, and Jiangnan to Henan, Hebei, and Lianghuai respectively.

The number is also one that can be counted in Chinese history.

Even Daming has been dead for so many years, and this time the migration still remains in the historical memory of the Chinese people, especially the place where the people gathered from Shanxi, there is a big locust tree.

This big locust tree has become a symbol of the hometown that I don't know how many people pass on by mouth.

But just because it can be executed successfully does not mean that it is well executed.

You must know that at that time, the war was decided, and the people were panicked.

Among the righteous armies of all parties, only Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty took not killing people as the main purpose, and the military discipline of the Ming Dynasty was still relatively good. It is more the military that executes the emigration, not the people of the civil administration.

How to immigrate. Just look at a few nouns to know.

Untie the hand, convenient, these two words, are produced by this immigration, legend has it, the army used to tie people's hands to a rope to prevent escape. Such a long rope was tied to many people.

If someone has an urgent need for feces and urine, they will beg the officer to relieve him and give him convenience.

And so these two words were handed down.

This compulsory, apportioned immigration. At the beginning of the country, it was okay, but now it is absolutely impossible to do.

Not to mention, after a long period of peace, the relationship between the people and the imperial court in various places has become closer than before. We must not act in such a way in disregard of the will of the people.

There were problems even in the beginning.

The people of the Ming Dynasty have always been relocated to a peaceful land.

I don't want to leave my hometown unless I have to.

It will not work without coercive means. However, the use of coercive measures in this way will certainly become a reason for the persecution of the poor by the local magnates. Even now, there are such forced demolitions.

In ancient times, this order would naturally provoke great social contradictions.

It is not impossible to even be used by some well-intentioned people to make the world go up in smoke.

Of course, this problem is not unsolvable. As long as the fine words of the imperial court management are carefully found, it is best to let those people who are living in difficulty in their hometowns take the initiative to emigrate.

It's just easy to say.

But in reality, this is a very administrative efficiency drain.

This is also the reason why Zhu Qizhen has to bear a huge financial burden at all costs and complete the reform of the officials.

Because he didn't kill the Xu officials, the administrative ability of the Ming Dynasty has been tied.

There is a lot of good governance, and it is impossible for Zhu Qizhen to do it.

It's just that even if the reform of Xu officials is completed and the old administrative system of the Ming Dynasty is turned into a civil service system close to modern, can this thing be done?

Zhu Qizhen also has no bottom in his heart.

Zhu Qizhen sighed and said: "Okay, let's put this matter aside for a while, no matter what you say below, the matter will always be solved, so let Yuan Jie patrol Nanyang, Xiangyang, Yunyang, and Runing Mansions, specifically settle the homeless, and those who are willing to return to their hometowns will return to their hometowns, and if they are not willing to return to their hometowns, they will settle down in the local area." ”

"Let him look at the situation and add a few counties as appropriate. Or analyze it and let him make a plan and report it. ”

This plan is not a cure.

Although there is a lot of open land between Xianghan and Han, as far as Huguang itself is concerned, his land resources are also limited.

The development of Huguang was also completed between the Ming and Qing dynasties. During the Hongwu period, Huguang also cultivated the most land. And this situation continued after that, until the completion of the situation where the lake was wide and ripe, and the world was full, and then the population expanded to the southwest, and there was the possibility of large-scale land reform and return.

Now Zhu Qizhen said that he would change the land and return to the stream, but in fact, these toasts in the southwest of Guangxi and Jiaozhi were changed and returned to the stream.

It's not that the population density in these places is not high, and there are even more Han people.

It's just that Huguang is fine, but it is too difficult to continue to look for land in the mountains in the southwest.

Zhu Qizhen wants to make a change in the route of this population movement. The direction of immigration has changed from southwest to overseas

The land overseas, the land in the southwest, is nothing at all.

For overseas colonization, Zhu Qizhen has always felt that the Ming Dynasty is the most needed.

Today, there are already 100 million people, and if the Ming Dynasty remains strong, the population growth will only increase. Therefore, the need for migrants will become more and more urgent in the future.

Now what Zhu Qizhen sees is just a sprout.

"I must establish a sound overseas immigration system." Zhu Qizhen secretly said in his heart: "Don't leave this problem to your children and grandchildren." ”

It's just that although he thinks so in his heart, this one thing is not something that can be done now.

Liu Dingzhi heard that Zhu Qizhen had given up this idea, and immediately said, "Your Majesty is wise. ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "What is wise or not, it's just helpless." This helpless reality made Zhu Qizhen's mood slightly depressed. He transformed something that made him happy. He said: "This time the effect of the steam engine is very good, you big boss, you have to settle the account." ”

Liu Dingzhi's face was bitter for a while, and he said: "Your Majesty, I also understand the role of the steam engine, but it's too expensive, right?" One costs five thousand taels. A total of 100,000 taels, isn't this just a big iron pot? How can there be so much money? ”

Many prefectures and counties do not pay 100,000 taels of taxes a year.

Liu Dingzhi is the home of the imperial court, so he naturally has to be careful in his calculations, especially now that the capital chain of the imperial court is tight, and all kinds of consumption have gone to the sea.

Don't say 100,000 taels, it's 1,000 taels of silver, Liu Dingzhi has to think twice.

Zhu Qizhen said: "I don't lie to you, these five thousand taels each are real, many places are made of the best steel, and they are all the best craftsmen of Daming Wensi Academy, hammer by hammer." ”

"It's no easier than playing a set of chimes."

"How can this be without money?"

Wensi Yuan was originally a palace in the Tang Dynasty.

However, the Tang Dynasty put the things made by the craftsmen in the palace in the Wensi Academy. Many of the precious ceremonial vessels and even weapons were made by the Wensi Academy, and the Wensi Academy became another way of saying that the royal system was made.

This name has been passed down from generation to generation.

But all the craftsmen who can serve in the Wensi Academy are the first-class craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty.

Now Zhu Qizhen has classified the Wensi Institute from the Ministry of Industry to the Waiting Academy, if the Imperial Academy is regarded as the National Academy of Sciences, then the positioning of the Wensi Academy in the future is the National Academy of Engineering.

Of course, it's not that long-term yet, but Zhu Qizhen also hangs the offerings of craftsmen and craftsmen who are good at various crafts under the Wensi Academy.

And when these masters were making steam engines, they all went into battle.

This is also the limitation of this era, just like a cannon, an early cannon is generally like a work of art, and none of them are exactly the same. Because it's handmade by different people.