First Prince of Ming Dynasty

After Zhu Biao took a deep breath, he put down the vital skills of Qimin. It is useless to think so much now. After all, Daming has not even recovered the minimum population and infrastructure.

The matter of the imperial examination cannot be rushed for a while, and there will be no problems if you think about it. Zhu Biao simply focused on the matter of relocation. The relocation cannot be a village-by-village migration, otherwise it would still be demolished. Does the east wall make up for the west wall?

Seventy out of every one hundred households in a village give priority to those who are poor. In fact, in addition to the difficulty of leaving their homeland, it is actually good for those who are poor in the local area to relocate. The subsidies and policies of the court are also very good.

Zhu Biao showed a map. This time the immigrants are going to Fengyang, Anhui, which is Zhu Yuanzhang's hometown. It is estimated that more than 200,000 people will be relocated. Of course, this is only the first batch. It is estimated that hundreds of people will be relocated in the future. million people.

Since the Yellow River flooded at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, it has not been opened for 20 consecutive years. The Yuan court ignored internal and external troubles. As a result, a large area of ​​land in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River was reduced to swamps, and finally the population disappeared and the villages were reduced to ruins.

The current population of Shanxi is probably more than 20 million according to Xu Da's report, while the rest of Ming Dynasty may not add up to 10 million.

Therefore, it is very important to do a good job in the first relocation of people, so as to give a look to the follow-up relocation work.

The migration to Fengyang is also to replenish the population nearby. After all, Fengyang is very close to Nanjing and it is the hometown of the emperor, so it is natural to give priority to replenishment.

Zhu Biao looked through the records of the migration of people in previous dynasties, but unfortunately most of them were small-scale migrations. Thousands of soldiers drove the people away like sheep, and those who fell behind went up and gave them a few whips.

Most of the rest are natural disasters. Even if there is no imperial organization, the people can only be forced to relocate, just like the people from all over the Central Plains voluntarily ran to Shanxi because of the famine and war.

First of all, we must tell them the benefits and lure them with benefits. Most of the people who fled to Shanxi are not doing well, and Shanxi is not their hometown, so it is relatively easy for them to migrate.

Tell them all along the way that the rations of all of them are provided by the imperial court. When they arrive at the place, a man will be divided into ten acres of land. If he is willing to open up ten acres of land, he is allowed to keep eight acres for himself.

In the local area, births are encouraged. As long as there are more children, regardless of gender, the imperial court will reward them.

The 50,000 cattle and sheep brought by Zhu Biao from the grassland have already been placed in Fengyang, and the imperial court is also using tea and salt to trade with various tribes of Mongolia. Cattle, sheep and horses are good things.

Of course, forced relocation is unavoidable in the end, but it can’t be like herding sheep. In these days, everyone is extremely precious. Zhu Biao plans to relocate the young and strong first, let them go fast after they are full, and follow them when they get to the place. The army built houses in a unified manner, farmed fields to burn carbon, and did a good job in infrastructure construction.

The old and young in the back can slow down, anyway, they will not be of much use when they get there. If they rush to Fengyang, they will get down and have to arrange people to take care of them, which is not worth the loss.

Zhu Biao also planned to recruit orphans. Although the people in Shanxi lived well, it was still compared with places that had experienced wars and turmoil. There were also many orphans there.

Compared with adults, Zhu Biao likes these orphans more. They only need to be fed, and then they can be cultivated properly no matter what they are used for.

And not only Zhu Biao needed it, but Zhu Yuanzhang’s pro-military Duwei Mansion also needed it. When it was reorganized into Jinyiwei in the future, it would need a lot of manpower.

At that time, after Zhu Biao gathers, he will be trained in a unified manner and distributed according to his talents. Compared with the expansion of special agents, Zhu Biao now hopes to cultivate a group of talents with talents in science and engineering and shipbuilding.

According to current estimates, when the people migrate to Fengyang, it will be autumn, and the next biggest problem is that winter is coming. Only after this first cold winter can the people who migrated be considered to have settled down. Start spring plowing, summer cultivation, autumn harvesting and winter storage.

In this way, after two or three years of tax exemption policy by the imperial court, the people of Fengyang began to farm and give birth with peace of mind.

But although Fengyang is said to be in the south, it is still very cold in winter, and the winter at this time is much colder than in later generations. Although the coldness in the south is far less than that in the north, if there is not enough heating, people will freeze to death at night.

No matter where the future generations are, even if the family is poor, there will be at least a cotton coat and a thick quilt. But now it is very difficult to get these, such as cotton, you must know that the origin of cotton is India and Arabia.

Before cotton was introduced to China, China only had kapok for filling pillows and mattresses, but no cotton for weaving. Before the Song Dynasty, China only had the word "cotton" next to silk, but not the word "cotton" next to wood.

Zhu Biao still remembers seeing their quilts when he went to Fengyang to worship his ancestors. Most of them were filled with catkins, kapok and other materials. The warming effect can be imagined, but there is no way but to cover a few more layers. Of course, you can’t buy them. With so much cloth, it can only be covered with linen.

The common people huddle together for one night. If the conditions are better, they can use some animal feathers such as chicken feathers, goose feathers, and duck feathers to make quilts and clothes to keep warm. These things are very pungent and smelly. It's uncomfortable, but there's nothing you can do about it.

Rich households are able to build a mattress made of some kind of skin, such as dog skin or something. Generally, hunters in the mountains use the fur of wild animals. If it is a peaceful season, the common people can exchange food with hunters for fur.

Although cotton has been introduced, how can the common people dare to grow cotton as a cash crop? Famines and wars have plagued the country for years. If they can grow a grain of grain, they may survive. Who would waste land to grow cotton, and where can they sell cotton? go out.

At this point, Zhu Biao is going to praise his father. Two years ago, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered that the cultivated land near Nanjing City must grow some cotton. Maybe Lao Zhu has also suffered from winter. Now the Ministry of Households has arranged for people to start making quilts Yes, it will be shipped directly to Fengyang at that time.

With the clothes and quilts of the house, the only thing left is the heating facilities. In fact, kangs have appeared in the north, but they are generally not used in the south. The main reason is the lack of fuel. Wood cannot be burned, so carbon must be used.

Coal is actually available now, and in Shanxi, Zhu Biao read the "Shui Jing Zhu" written by Li Daoyuan, which recorded the spontaneous combustion of coal seams and the development and utilization of coal in Datong, Shanxi.

Coal was widely used in Datong area in Song Dynasty. During the Liao, Jin, and Yuan Dynasties, the coal mining industry in Datong area was well developed, and the iron smelting industry also lasted for a long time.

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