The answer is that many people, especially the young and strong laborers, have gone to Shanghai to work, and although the countryside is not deserted, there is no idle redundant labor.

This made Li Kaiji feel the crisis, this young and strong labor force was seduced away by the Songjiang Mansion next door to Shanghai, in the future, wouldn't his Jiaxing Mansion have a smaller and smaller population, this has no population, how to reclaim more wasteland and increase the total grain production.

If there is no grain production, is Jiaxing still the land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River?

But those idle laborers go to Shanghai to work by themselves, and the local government naturally can't stop them, after all, you can't stop people from pursuing their own better lives, and you can't stop them.

However, now the enterprises in Shanghai have directly sent people to recruit workers, but they have recruited thousands of people, so he can't bear it.

Although this Jiaxing Mansion is a high-class government in the south of the Yangtze River and has a large population, it can't stand the flow of thousands of young and strong laborers.

In order to avoid the large-scale flow of young and strong labor in the jurisdiction, which will cause land abandonment and the like, Li Kaiji was also ruthless and directly ordered to go down, let the people below find a name at random, and detain the recruiters sent by the enterprises.

But how to deal with it?

Now he can't pay attention to it for a while.

Because since these enterprises can come to Jiaxing to recruit workers, and the number of recruits is thousands or thousands, the scale of this enterprise is naturally not small.

Behind this big enterprise, there must also be complex interests of all parties, and perhaps there are still interests in the territory of state-owned assets.

In this case, if you deal with it rashly, it is easy to cause unnecessary trouble.

Therefore, he only temporarily detained the person, but did not proceed to the next step.

As a result, sure enough, the Huating government sent someone to inquire about the situation.

Li Kaiji also felt extremely helpless at this time!

Because according to legal principles, other enterprises do not break the law, they just recruit workers, and it is inappropriate for him to arrest people, but he can't watch the young and strong labor force in the jurisdiction outflow!

Therefore, he dragged Huating directly and did not give any clear answer, and then Kuaima sent a letter to the yamen of Zhejiang, the governor of Hangzhou, asking for instructions.

After receiving the relevant information, the governor of Zhejiang first issued a reprimand for Li Kaiji, asking him to release him immediately, after all, he arrested people for no reason, and these enterprises are all medium and large enterprises, and behind them are still the interests of Huating and even the entire Songjiang Mansion, and even the entire industrial and commercial industry.

If Jiaxing can arrest people casually and prevent enterprises from recruiting employees, will there be local yamen who will ban and prohibit enterprises from recruiting workers in the future, or even simply prohibit people in the jurisdiction from going out to work in big cities?

If this is the case, where will the workers needed in this factory come from?

As far as the existing urban population is concerned, it is not enough to fill it all in.

Therefore, in fact, when Feng Ni wrote to Jiaxing, Zhejiang, in fact, many companies in Shanghai got the news, and then they also launched a relationship to put pressure on Zhejiang.

Li Kaiji didn't know that in fact, the governor of Zhejiang was under a lot of pressure.

However, although the governor of Zhejiang asked Li Kaiji to release him, he also made an excerpt to Gyeonggi, which explained that the young and strong labor force in some prefectures and counties such as Jiaxing and Huzhou was seriously lost.

At the same time, affected by the prosperity of the textile industry and the high price of silkworm cocoons, farmers in some areas began to plant mulberry, cotton and other cash crops on a large scale, rather than growing grain.

After this letter arrived in Jinling City, it quickly received the attention of the ministers of the imperial study, and even Li Xuan also attached great importance to it.

The problem reflected in this excerpt is not just the problem of one or two prefectures, but the problem of industrial and agricultural conflicts!

Especially in the Jiangnan region, this problem is particularly serious.

Because in other places, the development of industry and commerce is relatively general, and the development of agriculture is also limited, so the development of industry and commerce can just absorb more people for employment.

But in the south of the Yangtze River, this place is very special, first of all, this place is the most important granary in the Chinese region, even if the development of Huguang in recent years is very rapid, grain production has increased year by year, but still can not be compared with the south of the Yangtze River.

At the same time, relying on Shanghai, the south side of the Yangtze River has developed extremely rapidly and on a very large scale!

Among these industries, the textile industry is a very important industry, and the textile industry needs raw materials, silkworm cocoons and cotton are the most important raw materials.

In order to get more cocoons, and at the same time, when the competition is relatively large, merchants increase the price of cocoons, and after pushing the price of cocoons, farmers will plant more mulberry trees to raise silkworms to obtain higher incomes.

At the same time, the same pattern is applied to cotton farming.

In this way, it is inevitable that the scale of grain cultivation will be reduced, and eventually the grain production of the entire Jiangnan region will be reduced.

Jiangnan is the most important granary of the empire, and if the grain production begins to decrease, the impact will be huge and bad.

No matter how much money you make, but there is no food, and it is useless!

However, it is clear that the development of industry and commerce cannot be stopped, otherwise there will be no industrial revolution.

Li Xuan felt a bit of a headache about this, the competition for population and land between agriculture and industry had already begun to appear, and it had appeared in the most important Jiangnan region.

If this matter is not handled well, then there will definitely be big trouble in the future!

Either the industry cannot develop, or the grain production is greatly reduced, and Li Xuan does not want to see these two.

In the end, Li Xuan summoned his ministers to discuss how to resolve the conflict between industry and industry!

You know, although it has only erupted in the Jiangnan region today, in fact, this kind of problem is widely found in areas where industry and agriculture are relatively developed throughout the day, such as the Pearl River Delta region.

The Pearl River Delta region is now one of the most important grain producing areas in the south, and at the same time, industry and commerce are also developing quite rapidly, and there are also conflicts between industry and commerce, and there are many of them.

It's just not as serious as Jiangnan's side.

At the meeting of the imperial study, many ministers also said a word from you, and all kinds of methods were proposed!

And Li Xuan, as always, only listened and didn't speak, and when the meeting was almost discussed, Li Xuan finalized the final decision, since there was a competition for land and population between industry and industry in some areas, then disperse.

This dispersion is a broad concept!

Including the dispersion of grain production, that is, we should not rely too much on the grain output of Jiangnan in the future, such as increasing the grain output of other regions of the empire, especially the Huguang region, and at the same time developing other areas suitable for production, so that the empire can use more granaries to avoid the degree of dependence on the granaries of Jiangnan.

Secondly, there is the dispersion of industry, although because of cost and other reasons, enterprises always like to get together, Shanghai is the most typical example.

However, the empire will plan to support other regions to develop industry as well, such as Tianjin, which has coal resources nearby, and the terrain is flat and close to the sea, and it is also the political and economic center of the north, which is suitable for the development of industry.

For example, several other places, such as other cities along the Yangtze River, can also develop industry by relying on the Yangtze River.

Finally, there is the dispersion of the population, which means that when recruiting workers in the industrial area, we cannot focus on the population of the local or nearby areas, which will not only push up the labor cost due to the competition for labor, but also lead to a large inflow of local labor into the factory, which in turn will lead to the number of people engaged in agriculture.

Therefore, encourage enterprises to recruit workers from places with more people and less land, or directly to open labor-intensive factories in places with more people and less places.

To this end, the empire will carry out a series of policy adjustments, one of which is very important, preparing to gradually abolish the large financial subsidies and preferential policies in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Tianjin and other regions.

The advantages of these places are already big enough, and they can develop well on their own without the need for financial subsidies and policies from the central government.

On the contrary, other places are more in need of policy support from provincial highways and the central government because of their own lack of attractiveness.

This series of decentralization policies was used to alleviate the pressure of Shanghai and Guangzhou, where agriculture and industry were relatively developed, which in turn caused major conflicts.

You know, the empire has a population of more than 150 million, and most of the population has not reached the level of food and clothing, and the workers needed in the factories at this stage are only a small number for the huge population of the empire.

The crux of the matter was that factories were crowded into a few places such as Shanghai and Guangzhou, which led to population and land conflicts, while many other parts of the empire were overpopulated and struggling with not enough land or jobs.

The policy of 'decentralization' was carried out in order to keep agriculture and industry at a high speed!

Li Xuan made a decision, and the empire quickly began to implement relevant policies!

Specific to Zhejiang, after the officials of the Zhejiang Governor's Yamen got the relevant news from Gyeonggi, they immediately started to act before the official documents came down!

They began to take the initiative to send invitations to Zhejiang factories in Ningbo, Hangzhou, Huzhou and other places, as well as factories in Shanghai, inviting them to recruit workers in southern Zhejiang.

He also promised that the local government would organize labor to apply.

Of course, the local government will not interfere with whether the employment agreement between the enterprise and the workers is reached, they are only responsible for matchmaking, how much money the company spends on recruiting, how many people to recruit, whether the local labor force is willing to go, and the government will not interfere in any way!