Emperor Ming Dynasty

Chapter 784 Land, Land
Although both Jilin Xingdusi and Nuergandusi are in the same city, their management scopes are different.

One belongs to the military household area, and the other is in the Jimi area.

To put it bluntly, you can't become a fat man by eating in one sitting.

No matter how much Zhu Yixi longs for the north, he cannot cover all places in one step.

Stopping in Jilin is the best choice at present, but it is not the last step.

The area from the south of Jilin to the north of Kaiyuan belongs to the border of military settlements. After three to five years of reclamation, if nothing happens, these places will become the granaries of the Northeast.

When the time comes, the best plan is to help the city step by step, station troops, and then turn it into a country.

With the road as the line and the castle as the node, it expanded step by step, and the tribe of Ji Mi became the best thugs and absorbed it into the Ming system.

As a result, the emperor and the court promulgated the land exchange policy:

For all soldiers in the army, whether they are officers or small soldiers, or nobles, as long as the Xuntian is changed from Guannei to Liaodong, their land will be doubled.

That is to say, if Xuntian has [-] mu in Guan, then it becomes [-] mu in Liaodong area.

As for those nobles above the baron, the emperor mandated that two-thirds of their land must be replaced by Liaodong.

As soon as this remark came out, all the mansions in the capital were terrified.

This is too cruel for them.

Those above earl basically entered the army during the Huguang shogunate period, and part of the land was in Hubei Province. These have now become good irrigated land, with two crops a year, and the value has doubled several times.

After arriving in Nanjing and the Northern Expedition, the land went to Hebei and the Shuntianfu area. These are all good lands.

The scale is naturally not small.

Leaving aside the points of meritorious service from [-]% to [-]%, let’s talk about the emperor’s enthronement in Nanjing and the relocation of the capital to Beijing. The rewards are definitely quite a lot.

Just to compensate for the title crimson, ten hectares of land granted by the earl, fifty hectares of the marquis, and a hundred hectares of the duke are enough to be passed on to the family.

Xuntian is not allowed to be bought or sold, not transferred, let alone assigned, and can only be confiscated by the emperor.

Take Zhao Shu, Duke of the State of Feng, as an example. Even if he is not keen on land expansion, but only transmits poems and books to his family, his family's land now exceeds [-] hectares, or [-] mu.

Without him, the Duke's annual salary reached 5000 shi, plus 5000 yuan in silver dollars, and the official salary. Excluding the expenses of the mansion, there would be [-] yuan left a year.

At this time, the bank has to pay interest for depositing money, so the only option is to expand the industry.

Buy shops, do business, and use the money earned to buy land. In just a few years, the land has reached [-] mu.

In today's world of narrow investment channels, buying and selling land is the best way to preserve value.

Naturally, land annexation is inevitable.

The emperor could barely control the sale and purchase of Xuntian, and he could only charge deed tax on land mergers, but he couldn't restrain it, because it was against the whole world.

To take the most extreme example, ordinary people have to sell their fields to raise money in order to save their parents. Can you stop them from buying and selling?

Under such circumstances, since the upstart group came to Beijing, the land merger in the entire Hebei region is the most serious.

Both the prefect of Shuntian and the governor of Hebei said frankly that [-]-[-]% of the land under their jurisdiction was purchased by nobles, and the rest was also purchased by the soldiers of the Beijing camp. Only [-]-[-]% of the land was actually reserved for ordinary people.

People from Shaanxi make their home in Hebei. Although it is inappropriate for doves to occupy magpies' nests, this is what they mean.

Thinking of land annexation, the emperor could only ask for a replacement.

For low-level officers, only lures can be used, while for high-level officers, mandatory requirements are imposed.

The replaced land was rewarded to those officers and soldiers who made meritorious service from Liaodong.

Because in the Liaodong army this time, there were many good families who were recruited in Gyeonggi, and the land was rewarded to them. In a sense, it was considered as letting them set up a family business.

The army was about to return in honor, and the city of Beijing was full of joy for a while, and the merchants were rejoicing, and they kept coming in with goods, preparing to make a big fortune.

Who doesn't know that during this war in the Beijing camp, they copied Man Qing's lair and ate a stomach full of oil and water, so they would definitely spend a lot of money.

All of a sudden, businesses in Beijing gathered together, and caravans from south to north gathered, waiting for the fat sheep to return to Beijing.

There is a three-day banquet in the palace, singing and dancing to promote peace, and the emperor and ministers celebrate together.In the early dynasties, meritorious deeds were rewarded, ranging from civil servants and generals to officers and soldiers of various ministries.

Not surprisingly, the army is most happy with the land.

According to the statistics of the Ministry of Military Affairs, the face of the household department is green: 70,000 people, exchanged for merit points, and a total of one million acres of land will be distributed.

The civil servants went to the five-army governor's mansion to test whether they could replace it with gold and silver, but they were kicked out in a blink of an eye.

After filing a complaint, the Ministry of War was reprimanded by the emperor.

Zhu Yixi also had a rare time of fun, going to the queen's concubines one by one at night, and no one was left behind.

After each round, sometimes three people fight the landlord, or even four people play mahjong. This ridiculous scene lasted for half a month.

After enjoying himself, he felt very tired, more tired than fighting on the front line.

How to say it, I'm tired.

After eating all the abalone, now when he sees a woman, he feels a little back pain and flustered.

Of course, this is definitely like a Chinese New Year holiday. People are weak after the New Year, not other...

However, in view of this, Zhu Yixi still fasted for three days to cultivate his body and mind, and there was not a single maid who accompanied him all the time, they were all eunuchs.

It wasn't until this moment that Zhu Yixi realized that it was no wonder that the rich and powerful in ancient times liked to play with children, and it turned out that it was really because they were tired of playing.

But he was good enough to persevere to the end.

Sitting upright in the chair, he let out a breath, then reached out and stroked his forehead for a while.

It's just that he didn't get in touch with those troubles for a few days, and he actually became a little irritable.

This is not good, really not good.

Hun Jun really came step by step.

When a country has reached its peak in its own hands, it will naturally become tired of the government and indulge in pleasure, thus turning the dynasty from prosperity to decline.

"Where is this going!"

Zhu Yixi patted her face, making a crackling sound.

The eunuchs on the side were startled and knelt down to plead guilty.

"Get up, I'm fine."

Zhu Yixi spread out the memorial and began to examine it carefully.

There are not many incidents now, and the busiest thing in Beijing is the replacement of those lands.

The nobles were as busy as ants on a hot pot, trying their best to hurt one by one.

Some wanted to complain of illness, and some wanted to take the route of his wife, asking his wife to come to see the queen and ask for forgiveness.

But all were rejected.

And the emperor has been indulging in the harem, ignoring them.

Under the strong request of the cabinet, the nobles could only compromise and report it reluctantly.

When these days are counted, the household department is shocked.

Gonghou Bozinan, the fifth-class nobles, the scale is only more than 2 people, and the land they replaced exceeds [-] hectares, [-] million mu.

The actual area is 4 million mu.

In other words, in just a few years, these hundreds of people actually owned 4 million acres, and all of them were good cultivated land and irrigated land.

If you add larger soldiers, the scale is beyond imagination.

(End of this chapter)