Xu Guangqi was very excited when he walked out of the Yangxin Hall. For many years, he had studied water conservancy and agriculture, and saw the food supply problems in the north of the Ming Dynasty.

Every year, the Ming Dynasty mobilized a large amount of grain from the south to go north, and there was great loss on the route of the Grand Canal of Beijing and Hangzhou. In the Jiangnan region, due to the development of the commodity economy, a large amount of economic crops were planted on the land, which led to the Jiangnan grain being unable to be self-sufficient at this time.

At this time, even the grain from Jiangnan must be supplied from Huguang.

The food shortage in the north has a huge impact on national strength.

Although Xu Guangqi is the Donglin Party, he is one of the few talents among the Donglin Party, and he has also seen some of the crisis of the Ming Dynasty.

At this time, the emperor wanted to rectify northern agriculture and had a lot of funds, so how could Xu Guangqi not be excited?

In addition, Zhu Youxiao had not yet begun to reject the Donglin Party in the court, so Xu Guangqi naturally accepted the emperor's appointment and began to serve as deputy to Sun Chengzong in the Royal Agricultural Company.

With Xu Guangqi's joining, Sun Chengzong immediately became much more relaxed. When Sun Chengzong entered the palace to meet the saint, he praised Xu Guangqi in front of Zhu Youxiao.

"Xu Guangqi is very experienced in the settlement. Laochen's opinion, the agricultural company can be handed over to Xu Guangqi to take charge, and it will definitely be in order." Sun Chengzong suggested to Zhu Youxiao, "The oldchen happened to take action and rectify the Beijing camp first."

"Teacher, how should the Beijing camp be rectified?" Zhu Youxiao asked.

"Although there are 300,000 Beijing camps now, there are not many people who can fight. In my opinion, it is better to eliminate the old and weak and reclaim military camps outside the capital. In this way, the problem of the old and weak and full of the Beijing camps can be solved. In addition, the Beijing camps receive the imperial military pay, and the military camps almost does not need to pay any cost." Sun Chengzong explained the rectification plan in detail, "When the military camps have reclaimed enough land, not only can the court get rid of the military pay burden of these soldiers, but it can also increase the military camp income for the court every year."

"This idea is good." Zhu Youxiao's eyes lit up and he applauded. The barracks of the soldiers in the Beijing camp were occupied by merchants, and it was difficult to live with such a little military pay in the city. It would be better to let the soldiers in the Beijing camp go farming! In this way, the soldiers in the Beijing camp can live a better life, and the court can also reduce the burden and increase income.

The most important thing is that Zhu Youxiao does not need to pay a penny for such reclaim, and it is all supported by the court's finances. Although the income is also included in the Ministry of Revenue, the court's part is not the emperor's part. After the Donglin Party is dealt with, the emperor naturally has the final say in terms of finance. Now let the Donglin Party jump for a few days first.

So Zhu Youxiao followed Sun Chengzong's advice and handed over the Royal Agricultural Company to Xu Guangqi for management. At the same time, he found an opportunity to rectify the Beijing Camp.

After Xu Guangqi took over Sun Chengzong's management power, he relied on his experience in reclamation, agricultural technology and water conservancy technology, and indeed managed the Royal Agricultural Company's reclamation activities in an orderly manner.

"Report to the Emperor, Lord Xu reported that more and more people came to register for the settlement, and it is probably not long before the number of people required for the first phase of the settlement plan will exceed the number of people required for the first phase of the settlement plan." Li Jinzhong took a memorial to report to Zhu Youxiao that day.

"Too many people?" Zhu Youxiao felt that this was a good thing! Isn't the settlement successful completion? After taking the memorial, I found that the situation was a bit too far.

Because the conditions offered by the Royal Agricultural Company are too attractive to the common people, you should know that many tenants nowadays only have more than ten acres of land, and the tenant rent that has to be paid is as high as half. In contrast, the Royal Agricultural Company only needs to pay 30% of the tenant rent, and has 30 acres of land.

Even if the tenant rent is as high as 50%, if there are 30 acres of land, farmers can live a good life after developing side jobs. What's more, only 30% of the tenant rent. Moreover, these lands will have complete water conservancy. Having water conservancy facilities often means that profits are guaranteed to drought and flood. Although it is not absolutely capable of profits are guaranteed to drought and flood, the ability to resist disasters is much higher. The emperor also promised that tenant rent can be exempted when disasters are affected, which is even more attractive to those tenant farmers.

Even some self-cultivated farmers hope to incorporate their land into the imperial village because of their poor land and water conservancy facilities.

This will also lead to a phenomenon of overcrowding.

"I plan to ask Xu Guangqi to resettle refugees first, and no all tenants who have land and can be cultivated will be recruited. If the farmer is willing to merge into the royal farm, the tenants will be changed to 20%." Zhu Youchao said to Li Jinzhong.

"Yes, the emperor." Li Jinzhong picked up the brush, wrote the imperial edict, polished it, and then sent it out of the palace.

The Royal Agricultural Company's settlement was indeed surprisingly smooth. Not only did refugees come to invest, but even tenants and self-cultivated farmers were attracted. There was no shortage of labor immediately, and the settlement activities were booming in the court.

Xu Guangqi recruited 173,000 households according to the 521 acres of land under the first phase of the settlement plan.

In terms of the management of the imperial village, eunuchs in the palace were in charge. Later, the phenomenon of oppressing tenants appeared, so reforms were carried out and administrative management was handed over to the local government.

The imperial villages that were reclaimed this time were still under the responsibility of the local government, but there was an intervention in the palace. Moreover, the color of the grain silver was directly cancelled. Unlike before, the tenant farmers also transported the grain to the designated locations of the government for color change, and then replaced it with the grain silver to pay the emperor's treasury. Instead, the grain was directly collected, and the tenant farmers would collect as much as they produce, without a fixed quota.

In other words, if a mu of tenant farmers can produce 2 shi of wheat, it will be collected at one third of the shi of wheat. If only 1 shi is produced, it will be collected at one shi.

How much grain is paid? Wait until the summer harvest and autumn harvest are unified.

The appointment of the administrative management of Huangzhuang is under the responsibility of the Royal Agricultural Company, and the Baojia system is implemented in the Huangzhuang, that is, one insurance chief is set up for one hundred households and ten insurances are one insurance company.

It is equivalent to each royal farm owning 30,000 acres of land.

Each Huangzhuang always has an agricultural technician, responsible for agricultural production guidance, and organizes tenants to maintain water conservancy facilities during slack farming. During summer and autumn harvests, the Royal Agricultural Company will send people to uniformly weigh the grain harvested by the farmers, and then determine the amount of grain to be paid. The food handed over will be sold directly to the grain shop under Cao Jinyu. At the same time, Cao Jinyu is also responsible for purchasing these grains.

At the same time, Xu Guangqi also highly agrees with the policy of planting three acres of sweet potatoes in spring. Three acres of sweet potatoes in the disaster year is enough for farmers to last for half a year.

In addition to the 5.21 million mu of wasteland that were planned to be reclaimed this time, there were about 3 million mu of land in the imperial village, and only 200,000 taels of silver were collected every year.

The benefits were obviously taken away by the merchants.

Therefore, these three million mu of imperial farmland land were also incorporated into the Royal Agricultural Company for management. The Baojia system was also implemented, and the water conservancy was repaired, and the tenant rent was set at 30%, which was no longer sent to the government for color discount.

The land rectified by the 3 million mu of imperial villages does not require much cost. Moreover, these imperial villages are in good locations, so after repairing the water conservancy, the harvest is very good. Even if the output of 1 sl per mu, 1 million sl of grain can be collected in a year. At the price of 0.7 taels of silver and 1 sl of silver, you can earn 700,000 taels of silver every year.

Zhu Youxiao was waiting to find an opportunity to rectify the Jingying. As long as he rectified the Jingying, he could control the Jingying. With the four Tengxiang Guards in his hands, Zhu Youxiao really had the capital to compete with the Donglin Party.>
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