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Chapter 496 Qingtian Immigration
  Jianwu switch, Monan, Liaodong and Mobei tribes paid tribute.

This is probably what the history books will say.

After the beginning of the new year, except for the newly restored areas of Monan, Liaodong, and Guangnan, which were sparsely populated and complicated due to their vast land area, a large-scale inventory of land acres and the reconstruction of Huangzhu (household registration) began across the country.

This is not Zhu Yijiong's whim, but the time is almost up.

It has been almost ten years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty. Although there have always been statistics on the population registration of each province, there has never been a truly large-scale nationwide census.

In the pre-Ming Dynasty, Lao Zhu began to inventory the acres of land and reconstruct the household registration yellow list. In later generations, a nationwide population and land census was maintained every ten years.

It wasn't until Emperor Taizong went on foreign campaigns for years and neglected the country's internal affairs that the ancestral system of checking every ten years gradually collapsed.

By the way, the Ming Dynasty's treasure banknotes also collapsed during the Ming Taizong period. Because there was no money for the war, Taizong excessively issued a large number of treasure banknotes in order to make money, causing the treasure banknotes to depreciate faster than expected.

By the time of Hongzhi and ZTE, the Baochao system had basically existed in name only.

Ming Taizong's expansion into the Han and Tang Dynasties paid a heavy price. Not only did he sacrifice the central government's control over the grassroots, but it also severely weakened the military influence in border areas such as Tibet and Jiaozhi.

It can be said that during the Ming Taizong period, the rule of the major frontier governors basically relied on the personal prestige of Emperor Taizong. Wulianghawei alone rebelled four times. Until Taizong died, Wuliangha completely devoted himself to Mongolia. embrace.

An interesting point is that in the 7000th year of Chenghua's 4600th year, the Ming Dynasty had a registered population of [-] million. However, in the first year of Zhengde, the Ming Dynasty had a registered population of only [-] million.

In just twenty-five years, the population of Ming Dynasty decreased by one-third. Not only were there no natural disasters or military disasters, there was also the famous Hongzhi ZTE.

Good guy, Hongzhi ZTE, an average of [-] people died every day, and the tax will never change for [-] years, no matter how many people there are, it will always be [-] million taels.

What a low tax to support the people!
  Moreover, what is even more interesting is that although the population of the Ming Dynasty increased during the Chenghua period, the land shrank by half compared to the [-] million acres that Lao Zhu had inventoried in the early Ming Dynasty. It was not until Hongzhi Zhongxing that the area was restored to [-] million acres. In the first year of Zhengde, it dropped again to [-] million acres.

It highlights the fluctuations and is breathtaking.

Zhu Yijiong naturally cannot allow such a situation to happen, at least not while he is still alive.

As the founding emperor, as long as he opens his mouth, he can say that he will inventory the land and create a new household registration book. No one, including local officials and gentry and landlords, dared to challenge the emperor's authority at will.

Moreover, this was a privilege that only the founding generations of monarchs had. In the later years of the dynasty, the central control of the imperial court weakened. No matter how tough the emperor was, it would be difficult to clear the land.

Zhu Yijiong is now setting the ancestral constitution in advance, and the specific development is none of his business.

With the issuance of the imperial edict of Qingtian, officials across the country began to get busy, and no one dared to muddle through the work. The year before last, the literary inquisition and corruption had just been launched.

This year's national clearing of land is not only an imperial decree from the emperor, but also inspection officials from the Metropolitan Procuratorate are going to various places to supervise. It is said that behind the scenes, there are also Jin Yiwei who are conducting random unannounced inspections. If anyone dares to bend the law for personal gain, the head of the main culprit will be beheaded, and the entire clan will be involved. Heilongjiang, Monan, and Guangnan were selected and one was exiled. In serious cases, even members of the three ethnic groups were exiled.

For a time, officials and gentry were arrested every day across the country.

It has been ten years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty. Even if the emperor insists on fighting corruption, it will still become corrupt after a long time.

Even those old ministers from Conglong who once followed the emperor to raise armies, but who have been unable to be promoted for a long time and are getting older, will think of taking risks. After all, glory can no longer be obtained, and wealth must be in hand.    This is due to human nature and cannot be eliminated.

On the other hand, Heilongjiang Dusi has a large number of exiles. It is too remote and bitterly cold, and now it relies entirely on corrupt officials and exiles to enrich the local Han population.

And the luck of these corrupt officials and prisoners was quite good. After all, they were exiled to such a bitter and cold place where landless people were unwilling to go. It was certainly impossible for the court to exploit them. Instead, they had to prevent them from starving to death and freezing to death, and even assigned indigenous women as wives so that the Han population could quickly multiply and grow in Dusi, Heilongjiang.

Not only Heilongjiang Dusi wanted to immigrate, but also Monan Dusi, Yunzhong Dusi and other places, and the imperial court had to continue to immigrate there.

It seems unlikely that there will be a big war this year. At best, it will be a small fight in Yunzhong Dusi. Moreover, the Fujian Naval Division will also send troops to work with the British to regain the old port under Dutch control.

Chen Ji, the Minister of Hubu, complained every year.

Because although the state treasury taxes have been steadily increasing year by year, they are unable to save money and food at all. They either have to send troops to fight foreign wars, or they must immigrate to newly occupied lands to reclaim wasteland.

These consume a lot of money and food, but they still have to be done. Every time the imperial court uses troops abroad, it is basically approved by the emperor, and the reasons are sufficient, and the cabinet cannot refute it.

As for the issue of immigration, it is a top priority. From the late Northern Song Dynasty to the middle of the Qing Dynasty, all central courts have been immigrating to the frontiers to reclaim wasteland.

In later generations, Hongdong (tong) County in Shanxi still left a large locust tree as a tourist attraction for root-seeking and ancestral worship. It was the immigration transfer station in the early Ming Dynasty. Wherever there are Chinese people in the world, there are basically descendants of the immigrants from the Sophora japonica tree.

Legend has it that the word "relieve" was also born under the big locust tree in Hongdong, which means to prevent immigrants from escaping, so they are tied with ropes and can only relieve themselves when going to the toilet.

The immigration site of the Ming and New Dynasties was not the Hongdong Sophora Tree, but Suqian County of Xuzhou, because it was connected to the Yellow River and the Grand Canal, and could directly connect to the three provinces of Henan, Hebei, and Shandong.

In the next few hundred years, a new Suqian locust tree root-seeking and ancestor worship tourist attraction may be formed here.

While the imperial court was making great efforts across the country to inspect the fields, a fleet was wandering at sea. First we went to Fujian via Taiwan, and now we finally arrived in Shanghai Pu.

This year is the first Governor of Luzon, and he has been in office for five full years. Cui Li watched the ships slowly sailing into the Yangtze River waterway, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "After many years, I am finally back."

From the initial position of Secretary of the State Supervisor, to later the Prefect of Taiwan, and then to the Governor of Luzon, his official career can be regarded as smooth.

When they heard that the Governor of Luzon had returned to Beijing to report on his duties, the officials of various ministries and agencies in Nanjing, led by the cabinet, went to the dock to greet him.

It's not because of Cui Li's great reputation, but because half of the fiscal taxes of the Luzon Governor's Mansion must be shared with the national treasury. This was decided by the emperor when the Luzon Governor's Palace was originally established.

Although the cabinet did not have hope for the fiscal revenue of the Luzon Governor's Palace, it still led officials from various ministries to welcome him at the pier with great fanfare.

This was not a fight between the cabinet and the emperor to seize power. Instead, it cooperated with the emperor to establish rules and prevent future emperors from misbehaving and embezzling the finances of the Luzon Governor's Mansion.

This is important!

(End of this chapter)