Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1875, The Importance of Immigration

"This is Vladivostok!"

Emperor Hongzhi stood on the deck and looked at Vladivostok in front of him. Both the port and the size of the city were relatively small, far from being able to compare with those big cities and ports in Ming Dynasty.

"Yes, Your Majesty, this is Vladivostok, one of the many new cities that have emerged due to the rapid development of our Ming Dynasty over the years."

Liu Jin on the side nodded and said.

To talk about the cities of Ming Dynasty, in addition to the rapid development and expansion of local cities, another feature is that overseas cities have sprung up like mushrooms, such as Nanyang, Hezhong, Western Regions, Liaodong and so on.

With the continuous influx of immigrants, along with the development and development of these places, cities continue to appear and develop rapidly.

Vladivostok is one of them.

In the past, it was a place where the Ming Dynasty exiled criminals. In the earliest days when the Ming Dynasty developed some remote areas, they developed these places by exiling criminals.

Like Beihai, Winter City, Congling, etc., these places are places that immigrants are unwilling to immigrate to, but Daming needs to carry out certain developments in these places to consolidate the rule of the Ming Empire over these places, so there are exiled criminals one place at a time.

Relatively speaking, the conditions in Vladivostok are actually very good. Liaodong is considered a wealthy place, not too far from the mainland of Ming Dynasty, and there are railways and roads. Exile here is relatively a good place to go.

"The immigration policy you proposed at the beginning was correct. If there hadn't been a large-scale emigration of our Ming people, I'm afraid our Ming Dynasty would not be as prosperous as it is now."

Hongzhi looked at the city of Vladivostok in front of him, thought about it and sighed.

Of course, he is the clearest about Daming's situation.

In the past, there were many people and little land in the Ming Dynasty, and land conflicts were extremely acute. A large amount of land was in the hands of a few gentry landlords and wealthy families, and a large number of farmers had no land at all. They could only live by cultivating land. The hardships are always on the weak strings.

Once there is a natural or man-made disaster, the land will be starved, the flames of war will be everywhere, and the people will be in dire straits. It can be said that such a Ming Dynasty is already quite fragile and dangerous.

Later, with the expansion of the Ming Empire, under the leadership of Liu Jin, the Ming court began to organize large-scale immigration to move a large number of people to the newly acquired land.

Liaodong, Western Regions, Hezhong, Nanyang, Australia, Golden Continent, Central Asia, Nanyun, Black Soil, etc., a large amount of land was included in the territory of Ming Dynasty. These places are fertile and sparsely populated.

When the Ming people immigrated to these places, it was as if they were born again. Relying on their hard work and wisdom, they quickly took root in these places and took root.

Not only did he own a large amount of land and lived a happy life, but he also consolidated the Ming Empire’s rule over these places, relieved the conflicts and pressures between people and land in the local area of ​​the Ming Dynasty, and greatly eased the ecological pressure in the local area of ​​the Ming Dynasty. , population and land pressure.

The former Loess Plateau has been fragmented, but there are still a large number of people living there with difficulty, living like weeds without even drinking water.

I am tired and miserable, and I will make the environment of the Loess Plateau even worse.

Now most of the people in the Loess Plateau have immigrated to the fertile areas of Liaodong, Hezhong, and Heitu.

It is said that the Yellow River is clear and the sage comes out. The water of the Yellow River is indeed becoming clearer and clearer now, because there are fewer people on the Loess Plateau, and the environment is slowly recovering on its own.

The Vladivostok in front of me is just one of the many places where the Ming people immigrated.

But look at this small town in front of you, everything here looks so peaceful and harmonious, you can clearly see it with a telescope, the people here are well fed and warmly dressed, and everyone is quite energetic Yes, children are even playing in the snow, making snowmen and so on.

These children are all very healthy and strong, unlike the scene I saw during the snow disaster. At that time, let alone children, even adults were dressed in rags, and they wore extremely thin clothes in winter , cold purple.Skinny.

"Haha, as the saying goes, trees are moved to death and people are moved to live. My Ming people are hardworking and intelligent. I used to be limited to the local land, so I lived a very hard life."

"Now our Ming Dynasty has an incomparably huge country, rich in resources, and a lot of land. The people of our Ming Dynasty will naturally be able to live a prosperous life."

When Liu Jin heard this, he immediately said with a smile.

To be honest, this is what Liu Jin has always felt the most proud of.

That is, through external expansion, Daming has a vast land, allowing Daming people to have a wider living space, and through foreign immigration, it is also allowing Daming people to have a new cradle.

As for the new learning, becoming the chief assistant of the cabinet, having a huge net worth, etc., these are actually not important to Liu Jin.

"Yes, the people of Ming Dynasty are very hardworking and intelligent. As long as we have land, we can build a beautiful home."

Emperor Hongzhi also nodded solemnly in agreement.

This time I went out and made a lot of money, and built many places in Daming. I also made a big circle in overseas places. I saw brand-new cities, tasted the wealth and prosperity of Daming overseas, and met the people of Daming in just two short days. A piece of sky built overseas in ten years, and a beautiful home built.

Emperor Hongzhi knew that he was really wrong before.

Blindly believe the nonsense of those civil servants, such as the emperor ruled by the emperor, ruled the country with benevolence, justice and morality, ruled the country with filial piety, warlike will die, militarism and so on.

These are all bullshit.

It's just something made by civil officials in order to consolidate the interests and rule of civil officials.

These civil servants are an interest group. They enslave countless ordinary people of Ming Dynasty and live the life of a master. All they care about is their interests.

The so-called people in their mouths are worthy of the scholar-bureaucrat class and the gentry class. As for ordinary people, they are not considered people at all. They are just the lowest level of livestock.

They hope that Emperor Hongzhi will listen to them in everything, so that their interests and rule can be consolidated.

As for the life and death and hardships of the people at the bottom, it has nothing to do with them. Anyway, the land is in their hands, and the right to speak is in their hands.

As for foreign affairs, if peace talks can be made, then peace talks can be made. If peace talks fail, it’s a big deal to let them rob. If they rob enough, they will leave naturally.

It is impossible to fight a war, because if a war is fought, the generals and honorable groups will rise up and rob them of their right to speak.

In this land, in this country, what really needs attention is the life of the people at the bottom, and it is the gentry and landlords who need the least attention.

As long as the common people at the bottom live a good life, everything else will be easy for Ming Dynasty, and everything else will become better.

On the contrary, as long as the people at the bottom do not have a good life, then worrying about other things is just to stop the boiling soup and drink poison to quench thirst, which has no meaning and effect at all.

Just like the previous famine, no matter how good the disaster relief is, the people can survive this famine, but the people are still very hard and difficult.

When another famine came, they were still starving to death, wars were still raging, and the people were still struggling.

In essence, it is because the common people do not have their own land, and the food they grow will be exploited. The common people's family background is too thin, and life will be difficult when the wind and rain blow.

Looking at the present, famines still occur every year, whether it is a severe drought in Henan or floods in the Yangtze River, but are ordinary people afraid of famines now?

I am not afraid of famine at all. I have money and money in my home. Even in a famine year, I can live a happy life. The food is cheap. Let alone not farming for a year, it is okay not to farm for three to five years. You can also go to the city to work, and earn a few taels of silver a month to buy enough food for a family for several years.

So even if there is a famine now, it is not a big deal.

A large number of people have immigrated to various places. If a famine occurs in one place and the population is limited, other places can quickly provide assistance.

Now that Emperor Hongzhi was in no hurry to receive the famine memorials, the situation described in the memorials was also different from before.

In the past, there was a severe drought, no rain for several months, people famine, starvation all over the ground, beacon smoke everywhere, bandits screaming in the mountains and forests, etc., and then how much money, food, soldiers and horses were required from the court to come to disaster relief, quell chaos, and suppress bandits What.

Often a toss is a headache for a long time, and sometimes once it spreads, several provinces may be tossed to death, and I will inevitably have to eat and sleep well for several months.

Now the memorials of local officials usually say that there is a severe drought, there has been no rain for several months, and the farmers have no harvest. They ask the court to allocate some grain and money for disaster relief, and also ask for exemption from this year's taxes and the like.

As for the common people, life should continue as it should, and there will not be any major fluctuations or changes. After all, there are fewer and fewer people farming now, and the land is in the hands of landlords and gentry, and there is nothing for them to farm.

Generally speaking, these landlords and gentry need to operate their own machines to cultivate the land. They have money and can afford all kinds of ditches, pumping equipment, etc. Even if there is no harvest, it will not affect them. Not too much, it’s nothing more than collecting less food, and the food can’t be sold for a few dollars anyway.

Many of the current landlords and gentry have transformed to open factories and workshops for business. Who will guard the food on that little land?

(End of this chapter)