I am Da Song

Chapter 341 A Good Opportunity to Cross Classes

Zhang Jun said: "With regard to the jurisdiction of the newly expanded territory, the first thing is the administrative division. If the division is unreasonable, it will inevitably lead to unstable governance."

"That's why the Zhengshitang intends to allocate all the land of Kyushu behind the mountain to Hebei Road. The remaining land outside the Great Wall is mainly divided into four roads."

"From the north of Koryo to the south of Shenzhou, it is compiled as Liaodong South Road. This is the hometown of my Han family. During the Qin, Han, Wei and Jin Dynasties, it belonged to Youzhou. Therefore, all laws and regulations are the same as those in the interior. Even if there are nomads, fishing and hunting in the local area According to the custom, households should be registered as households, and farming should be rewarded.”

"Good, very good! This proposal is quite in line with my heart." Zhao Huan even clapped his hands in praise.

No matter from any point of view, this has been the core area of ​​Zhuxia since ancient times, and there will not be much resistance to reorganizing them into Qimin and returning them to the Central Plains.

Wang Bolong was born in Liaodong Han'er, and he has obvious imprints of Zhuxia on his body.

Implementing the same ruling method here as in the Central Plains is also conducive to strengthening the local national identity.

An important reason why the newly opened territories of the empire are prone to rebellion is that the local officials themselves do not agree that the two sides are one nation, so they treat them differently and enslave them harshly.

And the Song Dynasty ruled Liaodong, obviously there would be no problems in this regard.

Any official who dares to act recklessly here and extort money, Zhao Huan would definitely not mind personally executing him as an example to everyone else.

After talking about Liaodong, Zhang Jun emphasized: "Another most important plan is Liaobei Road. From the north of Shenzhou, there are tens of thousands of miles of fertile land here."

"Qinchuan, which is eight hundred miles away in Guanzhong, is known as the land of abundance, with fertile fields and thousands of miles away. The scale of Liaobei Road is no less than ten times that of Guanzhong."

"Moreover, the plain is vast, the land is fertile, and a large number of water systems flow through it. I have searched all over the Central Plains for water injection, and I have never seen anything comparable to this place."

"Reclaiming this black and fertile soil is enough to become the largest granary in the north of my dynasty."

"Not only can it supply the needs of the frontier army, but it may even feed back the Central Plains."

Zhao Huan concluded: "The Great Northern Wilderness has become the Great Northern Cang."

"What the officials said is very true. As long as the imperial court's frontier army can hold the territory, this vast land will develop agriculture in the hinterland. The environment is stable and the conditions are good. Hundreds of millions of mu of good land will inevitably be reclaimed quickly."

"The imperial court collects silver on a per-acre basis, and North Liaodong Road alone can provide hundreds of millions of fiscal revenue."

Zhao Huan asked, "How does Qing plan to reclaim this land?"

Zhang Jun immediately said comprehensively: "I plan to immigrate at least 20 households from the Central Plains."

"If one man manages a hundred mu of land with five members of his family, at least 2000 million mu of fertile land can be cultivated here."

"In order to encourage border guards, Zhengshitang suggested exempting these people from land tax for three years."

Exemption of land tax for three years, under the current national system of Song Dynasty, means that these people will not have any national tax during these three years.

They plunged into this fertile mountains and rivers, and everything they found was their wealth.

To put it more difficultly, this is called northern land reclamation.

To put it romantically, this is the Da Song version of Xanadu.

Moreover, the Song court will also provide certain pensions and care for the elderly, children, widows, widows and loneliness.

The Datong society envisioned by Confucius and his elders is only to this extent.

And here is an advantage that is far beyond the reach of the Central Plains.

That is to accumulate wealth and achieve class leapfrogging.

In the densely populated Central Plains, it is really difficult for a poor person to change his fate.Only through continuous internal scrolling, scrolling doctors, scroll craftsmen, scrolling to read and write, killing enemies and making meritorious deeds, can it be possible to change fate.

But in all of this, there is still hope for young people.

But how should those poor people who are old, unable to marry wives in their 40s and [-]s, and illiterate change their destiny?

With the less than ten acres of Susukida at home, I would be thankful for God's blessing to ensure that he would not starve to death. If he could fight for half his life, then accumulate a little wealth and marry a wife, that would be simply thankful.

This is not a rare example, on the contrary, in the Dasong countryside, this is the most common state for the common people.

Because the Song Dynasty has a population of 1000 million, but the farmland is only a little over one billion mu, which is less than ten mu of land per person on average.

More importantly, 70.00% of these lands are in the hands of scholar-bureaucrats.

Later generations always scolded the Song Dynasty for its false economic prosperity, but in the most prosperous Jiangnan, infanticide was a common practice.

This is really a bit of injustice to the Song court.

In the [-] years of peace, the population exploded, and the arable land per capita could only plummet. There were only so many acres in the hands of the common people. As long as there was a natural or man-made disaster, the family had to sell their children.

In this case, the court could not find a way out.

But North Liaodong Road gave these poor people the fastest way to cross class.

Working people are the most glorious.

As long as you work hard, you don't need to involve in the Central Plains.

Pack your bags and come to North Liaodong Road, where you will become a landlord without any external obstacles.

The tax system of the Song Dynasty determined that the imperial court would not grant land, and restricted the common people to a maximum of [-] mu of cultivated land per household.Instead, it encourages the people to reclaim wasteland.

Coming to North Liaodong Road, as long as a poor person is willing to seriously cultivate, it is no problem to realize hundreds of acres of fertile farmland.

Three years of suffering in the early stage, and a lifetime of enjoyment for the rest of my life.

This investment is really worthwhile.

If you have money and food, you are a landlord and an outsider, so you are afraid that you will not find a beautiful wife and concubine?

In any case, it is much, much better than rolling in the Central Plains.

In the Central Plains, apart from his field of less than ten acres, there is no other hope in sight.

Zhao Huan said: "I know that our Zhuxias have always relocated. The people are also unfamiliar with Liaodong, so they dare not come rashly."

"I will ask the bank to cooperate with Zhengshitang in recruiting people this time. For those who are willing to move to Liaobei Road, the bank will give them a loan of [-] yuan. Help them buy cattle and farm tools to reclaim wasteland. No interest for three years, three years After the year, the annual interest is [-]%. People can repay it at any time."

Thirty guan coins per household, and 20 households are only 600 million guan coins.

It has to be said that the purchasing power of the Great Song Emperor Banknotes is really very strong, super economical.

A set of infantry armor armed to the teeth is only 36 guan, and the price of a good horse in Guangxi is only [-] guan.

As for the cattle used for farming, in the fourth year of Daguan (1110), "the price of one cattle is only five or seven thousand." That is to say, the price of one cattle is five to seven guan.

Zhao Huan lent [-] pennies of money to the people at one time, enough for them to purchase a complete set of production tools equivalent to a landlord's house.

The imperial court had just defeated the Jinren, and there were plenty of cattle, mules and horses in the north.

At this time, they took the loans from the bank and went to the north to open up wasteland, and they could easily get rid of poverty and become rich.

This is a win-win situation for the people and the country.

They have achieved a class leap and become winners in life.The country also has 2000 million mu of arable land.

(End of this chapter)