Although the plan was to use Daishan to infiltrate Jiannu into a sieve, Zhu Guoqiang did not waste too much time on him, and did not even meet him. Instead, he directly handed the matter over to Shi Lei, a professional

Things should still be handled by professional people. As for "condescending to welcome me"...it's just a slap in the face, and he is not worthy of it.

Although the "Victory of Zhengfang Mountain City" was an unprecedented victory, in Zhu Guoqiang's view, it was not worth mentioning at all. After all, this so-called "big sweep" was mixed with too much water. The so-called Donglu was nothing more than

Just tens of thousands of Korean soldiers who had just "raised their nationality and adopted the flag".

When Zhu Guoqiang put the good news aside, he saw Li Xin carrying a stack of official letters. After seeing the ceremony, he put the official letters on the table.

"Your Majesty,"

Li Xin was the first to report,

"Song Xuezhu, the governor of Shandong, sent an urgent letter saying that there has been no rain for several months in northern Zhili, Shanxi, Henan, Shaanxi and the prefectures north of Jiangbei in southern Zhili. Jiangbei is thousands of miles away from east to west, and there is no harvest. The same is true in Shandong. Fortunately,

The prince promoted the planting of peas and built tens of thousands of iron wells for pressurized water, so that the people could make a living. When the towns around Shandong learned that Shandong had government relief and that the people had food to live on, they fled to Shandong one after another. At present, there are already

No less than a million refugees have flowed into Shandong. Although the government can still manage to maintain it at present, it is expected that tens of thousands of refugees will flow in every day in the future, far exceeding the government's relief capacity. Governor Song wrote to ask how to deal with it."

"We must provide relief! Every time we help a refugee, not only one less person will starve to death, but also one less person will become a bandit. This is to fight for... and to fight for people from the bandits. The more people come to our side, the more people will be killed by them."

There are fewer people over there.”

Zhu Guoqiang said without hesitation.

"The food provided by the government for relief is insufficient. The general government is trying to find a way. Well, there is still one million dan of military food in Jinan. Give these food to Song Xuezhu. In addition, notify the navy to organize a fleet as soon as possible to deliver the food.

The refugees were transported to Taiwan for farming, and "land granted to people" was implemented. Each person was given fifteen acres of land, two acres of vegetable land, and every three households were given one cow. After the land was granted, rent was free for three years."

In fact, these are the ancestors' methods. When Zhu Yuanzhang founded the country, in order to enrich the north and border areas, all parties were forced to immigrate. The standard was usually to give each person fifteen acres of farmland and two acres of vegetable land. They were exempted from taxation for three years.

In terms of rent tax, one dou per acre was paid. The sergeant's farmland was calculated in shares, and each sergeant received one share of the land, which was 50 acres. In fact, in the early Ming Dynasty, military households had a high status, and having more land was also the key.

Later, the status of military households became lower and lower. To put it bluntly, it was still a matter of operation. The simplest problem was that in order to enrich the military households after Yongle, everyone was included in them. They often exiled prisoners as military households, and they used them casually.

Prisoners served as military households, which lowered the status of military households infinitely. They themselves were small landowners with glorious military achievements, but they turned into a place where filth was tolerated. In the end, even the small landowners were gone, and they wanted honor but not honor.

If there is no land, will all the military households flee?

Thinking of this, Zhu Guoqiang naturally thought of the tens of thousands of captured Korean soldiers. Using these prisoners as soldiers? Wouldn't it infinitely lower the status of military households?

Let’s just use the captives as slaves!

The military household's status is very high, how can it tolerate being lowered down, not to mention there are still 50,000 prisoners! How many soldiers and horses do you have to fight against the captives?

"This should also increase the enthusiasm of the soldiers, and reward slaves for military merit... Well, after all, this is also a restoration of the pre-Qin system!"

Of course, Li Xin didn't know what the prince was thinking in his heart, so he just continued to report.

"Your Majesty, the governor of Song Dynasty reported in the letter that considering that there will be too many refugees in the future, and it is difficult to send all the refugees to Taiwan for reclamation with the current transportation capacity, can we consider granting land to the refugees? After all, the slaves were invaded twice, and Shandong

Both sides of the canal within the territory are completely inhabited for hundreds of miles, so..."

Before Li Xin could finish speaking, Zhu Guoqiang directly objected.

"No! Those lands will be granted to military households in the future, and they must not be granted to refugees. Now that the land is given to refugees, what will I give to military households in the future? Is it possible that I can only grant meritorious sergeants to the border areas?"

In fact, to a certain extent, the reason why Zhu Guoqiang was able to use land to win over the soldiers was because of the massacre in the north when the slaves invaded. The towns and villages along his offensive route were wiped out, and the population was reduced by 80 to 90%.

So much so that the saying "thousands of miles without human habitation" has been left! The sudden decrease in population gave Zhu Guoqiang enough land to reward the Pinglu army. Now the Pinglu army only has 130,000 people, even if it is calculated at 100 acres per person.

, or even the standard of two hundred acres, but only more than 20 million acres of land are needed. By rewarding the officers and soldiers with these ownerless lands, they can have an army whose interests are tied to him.

Through the granting of land and the promise of granting land, these military households are no longer the military households equivalent to slaves in the Ming Dynasty, but a privileged class whose interests are closely tied to themselves. Although the so-called "privilege" is actually just "option"

"Promise, but through the rewards to a few retired military households, all officers and soldiers can see a bright future for them. They can obtain the land, houses and other treatment they deserve through their military ranks and military merits. Not only that, they and

Their families will no longer bear the burden of taxes and corvees.

This interest-bound privileged class was a necessary measure to ensure Zhu Guoqiang's security under the current realistic background of emperors above, slaves outside, rogues inside, and threats from officials. It was certainly his capital to conquer the world.

It is precisely relying on those "land options" that the Pinglu Army in Zhu Guoqiang's hands is not a Pinglu Army at all, but a powerful meritorious interest group. Any usurpation of his power by the outside world will be violently attacked by this interest group.

Fight back.

"Land options" are the foundation of this interest group, and the unowned land is the key to realizing the "land options"! For this reason, as early as last year, Zhu Guoqiang turned all the unowned land into the "village land" of the palace.

", that's a total of 40 to 50 million acres!

As a privileged class in this era, not only was he powerful, but he also had the government to cooperate with him in doing things. These unowned lands were naturally "occupied" by him. As a direct participant in all this, Song Xuezhu certainly

Knowing this, this is why he thought of using these farmlands to resettle the refugees.

But Song Xuezhu didn't know that these lands were the foundation for the prince to conquer the world, and there was room for others to make plans on these lands.

"Your Majesty, Governor Song's concerns are not unreasonable. If tens of thousands or even tens of thousands of refugees flood in every day, they will not be engaged in production, and sooner or later they will give birth to troublesome shrimps. That's why they hope to use the method of land transfer.

, let them fend for themselves..."

Li Xin thought for a while and then said.

“If we don’t grant land to the military households, we can first let the refugees work as tenant farmers to cultivate the land for the military households, so that the people can make a living and the land will not be left uncultivated after the military households allocate the land in the future.”

"After the land has been cultivated for a long time, it becomes someone else's. If you give the land to them now, it will not be so easy to take it back in the future."

Shaking his head, Zhu Guoqiang rejected his suggestion, but he thought about it again...

“Let’s work for relief!”

In ancient times, work-for-relief was also the most common method of providing relief to victims of disasters. Instead of letting them engage in production, it was better to use food for relief and let them participate in some projects.

“Work-for-relief? What suitable jobs are available now?”

"Just build roads! Rebuild Shandong's official roads."

Zhu Guoqiang said straightforwardly that marching and fighting are always inseparable from roads. Using refugees to build roads can not only help the refugees, but also improve Shandong's transportation. It can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

"And spread the word about this great victory to Jinan and Nanjing respectively. Qian Qianyi knows what to do."

The right people in the right position can indeed play an unexpected role.

In fact, speaking of it, he was indeed very conscientious. At first, he only gave him five thousand taels of silver and an idea for running a newspaper, but Qian Qianyi still managed to run the "Da Ming Daily", and it did a very good job. Of course,

Investigating the reason, the most important point is probably the advanced concept of running newspapers.

Now he and his newspaper are his propaganda tools for the mainland. Of course, to the outside world, that newspaper has nothing to do with him.
Chapter completed!