Father can be an enemy to the country

There are three keys to completing "Jiangxi's filling of Huguang": people, land and money.

As long as there are people, there will be enough immigrants from Jiangxi.

He has almost completed this point, and Zhengdao accounts for almost half of it. The remaining half was almost collected during the household registration process in Qingtian.

After all, people in Jiangxi are not too resistant to going to Huguang. First of all, most of them are immigrants or descendants of immigrants from other places, and they have no feeling of being unable to move to their homeland.

Secondly, Huguang is not a wild land. Jingxiang was already well developed during the Three Kingdoms period. When it comes to natural conditions, Jiangxi is not comparable. Just because of the war, the population is temporarily missing.

To put it bluntly, it was easy to make money by immigrating there at this time, not to mention that the court not only exchanged one acre for two acres, but also gave them tax exemption for many years.

Therefore, except for those big households, the resistance of the people is not serious. There are even people who actively sign up to go to Huguang to make a living.

So, the human level is settled.

Then there is the land. Huguang must provide enough land to accept immigrants from Jiangxi. This issue is also very complex and mainly involves the distribution between various provinces.

Good places like Wuchang, Hanyang, and Changsha accept immigrants wherever they can. Huguang is short of people, but there is no shortage of people in these prosperous places. No one wants to let people from other provinces come to grab food.

Backwaters like Yongzhou, Chenzhou, and Yunyang, which have complex folk sentiments, wish they could recruit more people to increase the strength of the local Han people. If you really send immigrants in large numbers, they won't be able to resettle them.

Therefore, if you don’t want something, you have to force him to accept more; if you want something, you have to give him as little as possible. This all has to be combined with the actual local conditions and cannot be decided at a glance.

But no matter what, the land is also a problem that can be solved, it is nothing more than a little troublesome.

Finally, there is money, which is also the most troublesome one.

The imperial court of the Ming Dynasty was poor, and local officials were even poorer. It was simply a fantasy to expect the province to come up with the 20 million yuan of immigration funds.

Neither the Huguang Chief Envoy nor the Jiangxi Chief Envoy has this ability.

That's why the old thief never dared to open this copy of "Jiangxi Filling Huguang". At this moment, all the suggestions were given to Lao Liu, and I really admired him.

This means that sons are not born in vain, and princes are not given in vain.

Lao Liu had no choice but to use his ability to make cards out of thin air and force Zhang Daren to transfer all the 160,000 hectares of hidden fields in Zhengda to the imperial court.

In addition, during the process of land clearing, the confiscated hidden fields were discovered one after another, and there were about 140,000 hectares of land, adding up to a total of 300,000 hectares of land.

This is indeed a huge asset. Although land prices are extremely low in this era, one acre of land in Jiangxi is only about one or two cents. But he has so much land in his hands that he can't stand it. Three hundred thousand hectares of land is worth thirty to fifty million dollars.

Zhu Di was very happy when he heard this and shouted: "These lands are worth so much money. If we sell them, won't we have money to immigrate?"

"Fourth brother, that's not how the accounts are calculated." Lao Liu smiled helplessly. A ruler is short but an inch is long. The fourth brother's financial idiocy is as impressive as his carpentry skills.

"How is that calculated?" The fourth child also knew his own shortcomings and humbly asked for advice.

"Not to mention whether so much land flowing into the market at the same time will trigger a collapse in land prices." Zhu Zhen explained seriously:

"Even if we force transactions, let those big households and businessmen buy these lands at a fixed price. Although it can solve the immediate urgent need, it will only make the land flow from one group of people to another group of people. It will even make the annexers The situation is even more serious, this is asking for death!"

"Is it so serious?" Zhu Di said in a stunned tone.

"It's so serious." Zhu Zhen said lightly: "The secret of dynasty change, to put it bluntly, is the word 'land annexation'. When the land is highly concentrated in the hands of a small group of people, and the majority of the people have no place to stand, they can only stand up. Revolt, and the dynasty will enter its apocalypse.

"When the vast white land is really clean and everyone, rich and poor, is dead, a new dynasty can be established. At this time, the land is vast and sparsely populated, and everyone has farmland, and the dynasty enters the so-called governance. Until the new dignitaries return again Once large-scale mergers begin, the dynasty will go downhill. As for the length of its life, it is inversely proportional to the speed of mergers."

"Hiss..." Zhu Di thought that this was really the case, otherwise his father would not have launched any large-scale immigration. "That is to say, the faster the annexation is, the shorter the lifespan of the dynasty is. The slower the annexation is, the longer the lifespan is, right?"

"That's right." Zhu Zhen nodded. "So the mission of the imperial court is to suppress annexations. Do you understand what I mean now?"

"I understand." Zhu Di nodded with admiration and said with sincere envy: "The wisest thing my father has done in these years is to let you become Liu Bowen's disciple."

"The father-in-law I found for my fourth brother is also very wise." Zhu Zhen said with a backhand.

"I will also be my father-in-law in the future." Zhu Di laughed.

"Hahaha." The two brothers looked at each other and laughed.

"In short, we will keep these 300,000 hectares of land with the government and make it official land forever." Then Lao Liu said seriously: "The reason why Suzhou can bear one-eighth of the country's taxes with one government is It’s because it has a lot of official land.”

"That's right." Zhu Di nodded and said, "This is a long-term plan to benefit the country and the people, but the problem is that water from afar cannot quench the thirst of nearby people."

"So we have to find a way to make money in advance." Zhu Zhen said with a smile: "We have to rely on friends from Suzhou."

"I knew..." Zhu Di couldn't help laughing: "You will definitely fall on them in the end."

He had figured it out last year. He had no money to feed the people, so he turned to Suzhou's big family; he had no money to build ships, so he turned to Suzhou's big family; he couldn't afford the ransom, so he turned to Suzhou's big family...

But those big business owners at that time were imprisoned by Lao Liu, so they were naturally at his mercy. But now that he has regained his freedom, can he still get whatever he wants? The fourth child couldn't help but worry about the sixth child.

"I can't help it. Whoever makes the world rich is them?" Zhu Zhen smiled sheepishly and said, "You don't think that I, like Shen Wansan, have a cornucopia that can make money for myself, do you?"

"No, you are much better than Shen Wansan." Zhu Di said half-jokingly.

"Haha, there's no comparison. What's my identity and what's his? The difficulty is too different." Zhu Zhen was very self-aware, stood up with a smile and said:

"It's almost time for them to arrive in Nanchang now. I'm going to meet them at Prince Teng's Pavilion."

"You really gave them face." Zhu Di curled his lips and said. ,

"That's our God of Wealth. You can't just beat him. You still have to offer what you have to offer." Zhu Zhen didn't take it seriously. He never hesitated to give such free favors.

Besides, he really likes to hold banquets...

After taking a few steps, Zhu Di also followed.

"I'll accompany you."

"Fourth brother doesn't need to condescend to me," Zhu Zhen said with a smile, "I alone am enough to flatter them. I'm afraid they won't be able to bear the burden of two princes working together to take care of them."

"It's three." Zhu Di laughed and said, "Actually, I mainly want to study and see how you do it with them?"

"Haha, today we are just chatting, not talking about business." Zhu Zhen said with a smile.

"Then I will just accompany you." Zhu Di walked out of the cabin with him.