Chapter 877: Opportunity to Go South
"Giving birth to a child is tax-free!"
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In the festive atmosphere of the New Year, the policy of encouraging childbirth was spread through newspapers in the country of Chongqing.
Now, for the readers of the Great Chongqing Kingdom, the newspaper is the vane of the Great Chongqing Kingdom, and even many readers will collect the newspapers to check the policies that the Great Chongqing Kingdom has promulgated historically.
The childish voice of the newspaper boy caused many people to laugh softly, and they all took out copper coins to buy newspapers to learn about the new decree.
There is no doubt that this decree is a joyful event for officials, businessmen and ordinary people, because they will receive a lot of income for those who want to continue to have children.
After the New Year, the decree was passed from Qingzhou to other provinces, and the prefectures also stepped up their propaganda efforts.
Within half a year, all the people in the northern states and counties learned about this birth encouragement policy.
The effect of this policy is that before the beginning of spring, many young and strong bodies in Dayu have lost weight, and the trend of competing to have children has gradually expanded.
However, this decree also gave the ministers a reason to let Xiao Ming prolong the heir, he had no choice but to jump into the pit he dug, after Cui Xueer was pregnant, pothos and aster were also pregnant, and the royal heirs were going to increase to four.
At a time when the north was going to carry out the birth of a child as a war, the contradiction of the Chu state's savings broke out.
On 13 June, Jiang Ying, a general under Li Chuyuan, led 80,000 soldiers to attack Suzhou, and the two sides fought at Wu County, the southern gateway of Suzhou.
At the same time, the other two generals Huacheng and Liu Xu each led 50,000 horses to attack Jiaxing and Songjiang Ercheng, and for a time the south was filled with gunsmoke.
"Your Majesty, the last general has transferred the soldiers equipped with falcon rifles to Jinling City, and the remaining 20,000 people are estimated to be able to complete the training in September."
Niu Ben, the staff of the Qingzhou battalion, reported to Xiao Ming on the deployment of the army.
After Niu Ben finished speaking, Luo Quan said: "The navy has already conveyed an order to keep them on standby at any time, and the canneries in Dengzhou are also working day and night to produce cans for use in wartime. “
"Well, yes, this logistics must no longer use hundreds of thousands of people on a large scale as before, and if you have canned food, you must give full play to the advantages of canned food, and try to use the army's own logistics army as much as possible." Xiao Ming commanded.
"Yes, Your Majesty." Niu Ben and Luo Quan said in unison.
Xiao Ming nodded, he had already received the news in advance before the start of the war in Chu State.
For Li Chuyuan, the soldiers trained for more than half a year were enough to be put to use, and with this self-confidence, he officially declared war on the merchant council.
As for Cao Kun, he was not confident enough to defeat Li Chuyuan at the beginning, after all, the power of the merchant council was still somewhat weak.
But for most of the past six months, he has been actively expanding his army, and the number of troops controlled by the merchant council has doubled, and his waist has hardened.
After arranging the army, Xiao Ming returned to the palace, and then he summoned Pang Yukun, and the cabinet of Dayu was officially full during the Chinese New Year.
In addition to Pang Yukun and Fiji, there are more Zhan Xingchang, Ge Yiren, Yang Chengye, Chang Yuchun, Kong Yongan, Chao Jun and others.
Pang Yukun is still the first auxiliary minister in these nine middle schools, and he is responsible for coordinating the overall situation, so Xiao Ming can sometimes go directly to Pang Yukun.
According to the plan, he will go south this autumn, at this time Li Chuyuan and Cao Kun, who have been fighting for three or four months, are estimated to be sleepy and lacking people, and he can easily bulldoze it at that time, but compared to the situation of the vast area of Kanto and the small number of people, the south is a densely populated area with many cities.
Once the fight starts, it will inevitably cause the displacement of the people, and this is the time to drain the people.
This time he came to Pang Yukun for this matter.
"According to Lin Wentao's statistics, last year, the Qingzhou government sold 2,000 steam engines to the people, even if a businessman's factory uses four steam engines, now Dayu has also established 500 steam engine-powered factories, and this number has increased more rapidly in the first half of this year, reaching the number of last year in half a year, which shows that since the railway has been completed, the enthusiasm of businessmen to build factories is high."
After a pause, Xiao Ming continued: "The government-run factories of the imperial court have developed faster than the private factories, and they use more steam engines, but the result of this is that there is a shortage of workers in Qingzhou Mansion now. “
Pang Yukun nodded, last year, the Great Chongqing Kingdom issued a series of special terms, the workshop was officially renamed the factory, and the craftsman was also renamed the worker.
So he can understand what Xiao Ming said.
"Xia Guan understands what the emperor meant, at present, the industry of Dayu is mainly concentrated in the south of the Yangtze River, which is difficult to change in the short term, so Jiangbei needs more people to enter the factory as workers, and the chaos in the south is giving us this opportunity, if it is handled properly, the industry of Dayu will win another outbreak."
The corners of Xiao Ming's mouth showed a smile, Pang Yukun looked very poisonous, an obvious fact is that now the resources brought by the railway, the dividends of the Northern Expedition, the Goryeo market brought funds, and now the bottleneck of industrial development is the mobile workers, and now the chaos in the south has made up for this shortcoming, and the industry will naturally break out, and the city along the railway will definitely develop greatly.
"That's right, in addition, the cabinet should draw up a preferential decree for the relocation of Kanto as soon as possible, and I will give you a death order, this time you must relocate at least three million people to settle in Kanto." Xiao Ming said.
"Three million!" Pang Yukun suddenly felt a lot of pressure, although this number is not much compared to the total population of Dayu Kingdom, but this project is not small, and he has to use a lot of officials for this.
Gritting his teeth, Pang Yukun was heartbroken, and said, "Yes, the emperor, the lower officials guarantee that it will be completed." ”
"That's very good." Xiao Ming said: "By the way, how is the production in Kanto recovering now?"
Pang Yukun said: "After the end of the war last year, the household registration system of the Kanto people has been perfected, and the land has also been distributed to the hands of the people of Kanto, and at the same time, because the Kanto region is blank, the lower officials have implemented the contract responsibility system of dividing the fields to the households in accordance with the emperor's order, and the production team has produced under the management of the production team. ”
"If the effect is good, Qingzhou and other prefectures will gradually cancel the collective work of the production team, after all, the collective production raises lazy people, but the production team cannot be canceled, they are still responsible for supervising and assisting the people in production."
In the past, Xiao Ming implemented collective production because of the scarcity of production tools, but now it is different, and the development of the breeding industry in recent years has increased the number of cultivated cattle a lot.
Moreover, the development of the iron and steel industry has also allowed sickles, steam threshing machines, seed drills, and animal harvesters to enter the people's people, which should improve the enthusiasm of the people for production and raise agriculture to a higher level.