Since winter began, until March, 800,000 people have been moved from Henan and other places one after another. Some have gone to Annan and some have gone to Liaodong. The efficiency is not high. However, after March, the number of immigrants has dropped sharply, and even if the court tried every means, it would be difficult for them to immigrate to the outside world.

The reason is very simple. The most difficult winter has passed. March is spring and the weather cannot kill people. The fields at home are just right to cultivate. Just a few months, God can survive by giving him a little face.

Although we say overseas is like a flower, we know how many difficulties there are. Not to mention traveling thousands of miles and crossing the ocean these days, even if we are trafficking thousands of miles, it is like separation from life and death before leaving.

If you can, don’t leave, don’t leave. A golden nest is not as good as a dog kennel.

The concepts that have been around for thousands of years have really been difficult to change.

"I'm so angry!"

Wu Dui was furious and threw all the teapots and bowls all over the floor. He took the imperial court's food and signed a contract letter to agree to immigrate overseas. Because he was not in a hurry to take them away, he stayed in Kaifeng for half a month and left half of them in two or three days.

"Last month, 200,000 people were moved, and this month, even 100,000 people could not be saved. Tell me, how can I explain this to the court?" Wu Dui saw Shen Shixing walk in and hurriedly said, "Mr. Shen, I am going to send someone to the village to arrest the resident. Whoever does not agree to immigration will take the big shackle and get up!"

"Don't!"

Shen Shixing was startled, "I said, Brother Junze, you can't do this. If you arrest people, you will be even more afraid. In the end, the number of immigrants will only decrease."

"What should I do?" Wu Dui rolled his eyes and smiled: "I listened to Lord Shen. Anyway, the chief assistant blamed him. You will take care of him, so I'll rest assured!"

Shen Shixing almost vomited blood. It turns out that this person was digging a hole for himself! If he really made the master angry, can my little body withstand it?

"Brother Junze, let's report to the master truthfully. Let's try our best to find a way to meet the masters and be reasonable."

After the two discussed, they hurriedly wrote the situation into a handwritten copy and gave it to Tang Yi.

"It's hard to leave my hometown, it's true!" Tang Yi looked at it for a long time and shook his head.

He also thought that if he disrupted the old order in Henan, he could quickly immigrate, but he ignored that the order would be restored quickly. With less pressure on survival, the people would be more willing to restore their original living conditions.

Could it be that another chaos has started, forcing the people to go out to sea?

Not to mention such a way to repress the people, Tang Yi couldn't do it. Even if he could make up his mind, it might cause civil unrest and cause a lot of trouble.

This road is definitely not working, so what should I do?

Tang Yi thought for a while, picked up the letter of the two countries' appointment that he had just sent from Annan, and read it for a while, a smile appeared on Tang Yi's face.

The solution is here!

Tang Yi immediately ordered the Ministry of Revenue to start drafting a food bill.

The content is very simple. It is to cope with the food shortage in the Ming Dynasty. It is stipulated that all food imported from overseas will be exempted from tariffs in the future. At the same time, a subsidy of 300 yuan will be given for every 10,000 shi of grain. Merchants are encouraged to traffic grain from overseas and return to the Ming Dynasty.

In addition, anyone who traffics more than 500,000 stones can become a meritorious businessman, and any meritorious businessman recognized by the court can participate in the operation of salt.

Tang Yi reformed a lot of things, but he had not touched the salt yet. However, he had a long time ago. Lianghuai Salt Industry must reform, abolish the monopoly of salt merchants, reduce the salt price, and increase the salt tax.

Based on these two points, we must introduce the power of other merchants, but we must always have a name. We cannot say that anyone can manage salt!

Transporting grain from overseas has made contributions to the court and obtained the franchise rights. It is legitimate and no one can say anything.

As soon as this grain purchase bill was released, many merchants gathered in the capital received news and ran to Lei Qi's residence, smiling and nodding.

"Seventh Master, Seventh Brother, Seventh Uncle..." The title is different, but there is only one meaning, which is what the mystery of this bill has!

"Hahaha, everyone, I won't say much about the huge profits of the salt industry. You know it well. If a businessman doesn't want to become a salt merchant, then he is not a businessman!"

Everyone gave their thumbs up together, and they hit the nail on the head, which was right!

"Yuan Fu's meaning is very clear. If you want to run the salt industry, you have to transport grain from overseas. In recent years, disasters have continued in the north, and mulberry cotton has been planted in the south, and grain production has become less and less. There is less food, but the population is more. I just saw statistics from the Ministry of Revenue. The population of Ming Dynasty has exceeded 90 million, and with hidden black households, as long as there are more than 10,000 people!"

There is a lot of debate about the population of the Ming Dynasty. According to official records, the peak occurred in the first year of Yongle, which was about 11 million households and more than 66 million people.

Obviously, this data is unreliable. Not to mention that the Ming Dynasty has a complex household registration system, there are many black households alone, which is difficult to calculate.

Of course, not all registered household registrations are real. For example, there are very large gaps in the military households in Jiubian, and the actual number is only 50% or 60% or even 30% or 40% of the records.

There are both increases and decreases. Overall, it is estimated that the population of the Ming Dynasty continued to increase.

With Tang Yi vigorously reformed, abolished military households, implemented the implementation of clearing the land and reducing tax burdens, the court's household registration increased to about 15 million, with a population of 90 million, which was more than 20 million more than the first year of Yongle.

But this is by no means the peak of the Ming Dynasty population. The actual estimate is at least about 130 million.

It’s unimaginable how much food you have to consume every day when one person opens his mouth. In the year of disaster, tens of millions of people were affected and millions of people were homeless. How much worry and effort did you have to spend. This family is really hard to be...

Lei Qi sighed for a while and changed the subject, "These things are all things that Yuan Fu has to worry about, and they have little to do with us. What everyone is worth caring about is business opportunities!"

"What Qi Ye said is reasonable, but we don't understand the situation overseas. How can we buy grain from overseas countries and how can we sell it back?"

"Wrong, very wrong!"

Lei Qi laughed, "How much food do they have in those small countries in Southeast Asia? How could they easily sell it to the Ming Dynasty? If you go, aren't you afraid of being slaughtered?"

suck!

Everyone's faces changed.

Lei Qi didn't wait for everyone to worry and smiled and said, "Do you guys know how to open China and France?"

"Of course I know, isn't it just transporting grain and grass to the northwest border town in exchange for salt and management of salt!"

"Do you know Shangtun?"

Some people nodded, "Some people think it is really troublesome to transport grain from the mainland, so they rent land in the border areas, farm farms, and hand over the grain to the army in exchange for salt traction."

After saying that, some of my head was spinning fast, so I slapped my thighs quickly.

"Seventh Master. What do you mean is that we can follow Shangtun and go overseas to farm?"

"clever!"

Lei Qi smiled and said, in the overseas village, the land of Nanyang was fertile, with three ripe a year, and one acre of rice produced three stones. After deducting various consumption, at least one stone could be sold.

If 10,000 mu of land is transported back to the Ming Dynasty for 10,000 stones of grain in a year, you can get a subsidy of 300 yuan.

Even if food is not profitable, this subsidy is very attractive.

What's more, with the value of the people here, if you don't get a million or tens of thousands of acres, would you be embarrassed to say that you are in business?

"Seventh Master, we don't lack money, but where is the land? If you need manpower to farm, where is the land?"

"Hahaha, these are not all ready-made. Annan signed a contract with Daming, allowing the people of Daming to go to Annan to do business and purchase land. Although Annan has a small land, at least 30 to 50 million mu of arable land can be used. It is easy to buy a hundred million mu of land from Annan. It is easy to make it happen. It happened that the north has suffered disasters in recent years. You recruit farmers from the north, farm in Annan, and then sell the grain back to the Ming Dynasty, and then take the management rights of salt."

Lei Qi said, wiped his chin and laughed: "You can think about it, I'm going to drool in the amount of benefits this is."

...

The price of land in Annan is much cheaper than that of the Ming Dynasty. To put it bluntly, it is actually half-grabbing and half-buying, and it cannot cost a lot of money. As for recruiting farmers, the court to provide disaster relief, and encourage immigration, there are no ways to do so. But merchants are different. As long as they have money to make money, they have the idea of ​​fooling the people out.

Using the victims to farm overseas, he first helped the court to rescue disasters. He could get a subsidy. When he went overseas, he could collect a rent and transport it back to the Ming Dynasty. He made a sum of grain and freight subsidy was another sum of money.

And you can also make money by conveying agricultural tools, cloth, porcelain, furniture, pens, ink, paper and ink, books to Annan...

The most important thing is to participate in salt management and get a share of salt profit.

Moreover, Annan is not a remote mountain area, with wood, mines, fishing grounds, and even people! The Ming Dynasty has issued a decree that slaves are not allowed or half-slaves are allowed, but the decree does not interfere with foreign people.

If Annan’s woman was brought back to the Ming Dynasty and acted as a maid, many wealthy families would definitely welcome her! During the prosperous Tang Dynasty, weren’t there Silla maids and Kunlun slaves? Why can’t Annan maids be allowed in the Ming Dynasty?

After a quick calculation, there are no less than a dozen places where you can make money.

No wonder Lei Qi is jealous. It turns out that there are business opportunities everywhere!

The merchants suddenly felt energetic. When they inquired, it was Beiyang Company who was in charge of Annan affairs. If you inquire, please beg, Beiyang Company is run by Old Tang, and I also heard that Xiao Tang was also sent to Annan.

Goodbye, Lord Yuan Fu has long been interested in, how can he let go of it?

For a time, the merchants took the Beiyang Company's merchant ship and immediately headed south. It happened that the merchants in the southeast had arrived in advance. Everyone's eyes were red, Annan was still in war, the people fled, the land was deserted, and many places were almost bargained, let alone the Beiyang Company and the Ming Dynasty's heroic soldiers.

It's just a robbery!

In an instant, the merchants spent tens of millions of yuan and frantically encircled land in Annan. Almost all the plains on both sides of the Honghe River fell into their hands. Of course, Mo Chao's royal family members were still reluctant, but what could they do? The merchants took the contract and the land was not in vain. Let's work together, and nodded and make money together. If you don't nod, General Liu will find you!

As soon as he heard that Liu Xian was a veteran, Annan signed the contract obediently. In less than half a year, Annan almost became the bag of the Ming merchants... (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!