Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 572 Daming has an extra county
When Zhu Youjian was reviewing the self-recommended memorials from Ming officials about running for the cabinet chief assistant, the Second Corps of the Second Army of the Guards and Li Dingguo's Ministry had already entered the territory of the Karaqin Ministry of Mongolia.

This is the first time that the Ming army has actively entered the Mongolian activity area after many years.

The Harqin tribe is not a big tribe, but because it is close to the border of the Ming Dynasty, it often intrudes on the Ming Dynasty.

However, this time, Daming mainly targeted the Horqin tribe.

Therefore, as long as the Harqin Department does not take the initiative to provoke the Ming army, the Ming army will not do anything to it.

After the Second Army of the Guards and Li Dingguo's Ministry entered the territory of Karaqin, they did not send elite scouts to scout out the location of the king's court of the Karaqin Department, except for sending out scouts to guard against the surrounding enemy situation.

However, when the Ming army marched for fifty or sixty miles from Gubeikou to an abandoned city named Qingsong, they did not encounter Mongolian cavalry from the Harqin tribe.

The Ming army continued to move forward, and one hundred thousand soldiers and horses covered the boundless grassland like thick clouds all over the sky.

With the arrival of spring, the grasslands are full of water and grass, and the wild wolves who have been hungry all winter have begun to stick out half of their heads, but now that the Ming army appears, even the wild wolves have to stay away.

From Gubeikou to Kaipingwei, it was the territory of the Ming Dynasty. Even the current Qingsong City is the castle built by Xu Da, Lanyu and others when they chased the remnants of the Mongols. Turned into a pile of gravel.

According to the current military strategy of the Grand Marshal's Mansion, once Qingsong City is occupied, it will not be abandoned.

Therefore, after arriving in Qingsong City, Zhang Huangyan, the governor of the Corps, immediately appointed Meng Sen as the magistrate of Qingsong County, and rebuilt the city here to immigrate.

Before the army set off, the cabinet of the Ming Dynasty had already issued a general order to the provinces, ordering Shandong, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Nanzhili and other prefectures with relatively high population density to call on business groups and common people to reclaim outside the customs.

Originally, in history, it was after Guangxu in the late Qing Dynasty that the Han people were allowed to leave the pass to farm, but it was too late at that time, and a lot of fertile soil had long been in the hands of Tsarist Russia.

But now Daming is more than 200 years ahead of schedule!

According to the cabinet decree, as long as they are willing to leave the customs with the army, business groups and individuals can allocate land, and there is no limit on the area of ​​the land, how many points there are, and the population (mainly non-Han people), minerals, vegetation, and even cattle on the land. Animals such as sheep are all privately owned.

Although there were not many business groups and people who were called out at the beginning, there were a few bold business groups and a group of people with the spirit of gold digging who submitted applications to the local government and followed the army all the way north.

The main business group is Huangzhuang.

Huangzhuang is now the largest business group in Ming Dynasty, with countless lands under its command, spread all over the provinces of Ming Dynasty, and the number of tenant farmers controlled by Huangzhuang is far more than the number of tenant farmers controlled by other bureaucratic landlords and common people landlords.

Today, Huangzhuang has recruited a group of more than [-] people from Sichuan, Fujian, Jiangxi, Shandong and other places to go out and cultivate with the army, and its scale is much larger than other business groups.

After Meng Sen became the county magistrate of Qingsong County, he took the leaders of the business group, the common people and his subordinates, officials and soldiers from the north of Qingsong County, and rode his horse to the Liuhe River before stopping:
"With this as the radius, the surrounding land is under the jurisdiction of Qingsong County. Pull the stele and stand it here!"

As soon as Meng Sen gave an order, his subordinates immediately brought over a cart of stone tablets that had been prepared by officers and soldiers. After digging a hole on the bank of the river, they drove in the half-foot-long stone tablet. After compacting it, the officers and soldiers began Use this as a starting point to pull iron wires and drive wooden piles, and drive all the way along the Liuhe River.

Meng Sen looked back and pointed to a vast grassland: "Now you who have horses ride horses, those who don't have horses run, and those who have bows and arrows shoot arrows. According to the amount of the first land tax you paid in advance The allocated serial number starts to choose your own territory, and the time is also limited according to your tax payment time level!"

After finishing speaking, Yu Yingshi, the representative of Huangzhuang with the first serial number, came out wearing horseback riding: "Magistrate Meng, so Yu started running?"

"You can just run away, but Brother Yu, I can tell you what I said earlier. Now the cabinet stipulates that the land outside the customs is temporarily taxed according to the size of the area. All grasslands are equal to the mountains in the customs. That is to say, if the area you choose is the Gobi But as long as there are [-] hectares of desert, you have to pay taxes according to [-] hectares of mountain land, so don’t blame Meng for not being clear when you go in the wrong direction.”

Because Huangzhuang is the property of the emperor, Yu Yingshi can be regarded as someone who works for the emperor, so Meng Sen had to remind him a few words first.

"Thank you Meng Xianzun for reminding, how could Yu be careless with the emperor's mission on his body, and he had already memorized the geography and geomantic omen of this area before leaving the customs."

After Yu Yingshi finished speaking, he took the housekeeper of Qingsong County and ran out with his horse and whip.

After waiting for two hours, he ran back from another direction: "The area with the horseshoe prints just now is the territory of my Huangzhuang. Please also ask the county magistrate Meng to file a case."

Without any hesitation, Meng Sen immediately took out the document, wrote the title deed and stamped it with the official seal, and handed it to Yu Yingshi.

Immediately afterwards, other business groups also began to select land by themselves according to the amount of tax paid.

Individual people do not need to pay fees, and they will circle their own land after the business group circles the land. It is limited to one hour, and how far they can run or how far they can walk counts as their own land.

Soon, the entire grassland in Qingsong County from Gubeikou to the Liuhe River had its own new owner.

The people of the business group of Ming Dynasty began to develop their land here.

The Han people have always been industrious, not a group that relies on plunder to get something for nothing, and Nuo Da's country is just a little bit of hard work and expansion, not only the butcher's knife can expand.

After the business groups and the common people got their own land in Qingsong County, they started their own farming. Some business groups started to build their own animal husbandry bases here, preparing to supply the needs of the army and the people for horses and even cattle and sheep;
Some business groups found coal mines and iron mines here, and started the construction of their own coal and iron mine bases.Most ordinary people choose to reclaim farmland here, and also raise poultry, cattle and sheep in captivity.

As a representative of Huangzhuang, Yu Yingshi was instructed by Zhu Youjian, the upper echelon of Huangzhuang, to undertake some public works on his own initiative, and established the first new school in Qingsong County, named Qingsong School.

Of course, to establish an agricultural and industrial base in Qingsong County, which is vast and sparsely populated, what is most needed is population, and the surrounding herdsmen were forced to become tenant farmers of various lords.

According to the regulations of Qingsong County, everything in the territory belongs to the lord, and the herdsmen in a certain territory, their horses, sheep and even tents are naturally confiscated by the lord.

The business groups will force them to give up the traditional nomadic way of life, arrange them to live in fixed huts in the territory, and register them as households, stipulate their working hours and salary treatment, and change from free herdsmen to workers of the business group .

However, the grassland was sparsely populated, and the herdsmen in Qingsong County alone could not meet the needs of the merchant groups. Some merchant groups began to organize armed teams to plunder the herdsmen from the surrounding areas and return to Qingsong County to force them to convert to herdsmen.

Qingsong Academy is a welfare education institution run by Huangzhuang. Naturally, the Han people in the pass are unwilling and need not come to this school with only a few dilapidated tile-roofed houses to study. They can only arrest many herdsmen's children and force them to learn Chinese characters. learning Chinese.

Although some herdsmen were killed in some conflicts during the plundering, most of the herdsmen did not resist after they were incorporated into households in Qingsong County.

For them, being a serf for the tribal leader may not be as good as being a low-level commoner in Qingsong County now. At least as long as they work honestly, they can get paid, and they can use the reward to buy food, cloth and salt, and they don’t have to worry about other tribes. Looting was even persecuted by slave owners.

The key is that my own children can still be polite and polite in cloth robes and long gowns like the children of the Han people, instead of being dirty and dirty on the grass to milk the goats for the tribal leaders.

However, the upper-class nobles of the Harqin tribe soon realized that something was wrong.

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