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Text Chapter 439 The Great Colonization Begins

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    Thinking of those vast and ownerless lands, Zhao Pu felt jealous.  In China, due to lack of land, farmers revolted and rioted everywhere. It was a mess. Dynasties changed every two to three hundred years.  And every time there is an incident, only one out of ten people can survive, with a population close to hundreds of millions, after fighting hard, only a few million are left.  Many emperors and famous ministers wanted to carry out land reform, suppress land annexation, and reduce the number of refugees, but they all failed.  At this time, Europe was at war with various countries, fighting endlessly, and was oppressed by the Holy See. It was always in dire straits. At this time, the population of Europe had never exceeded 10 million. The most important thing was that Europe was short of materials, no iron, no food.  , extremely miserable.  Europe had to use war and constant fighting to reduce its population and relieve population pressure.  "Compared with the suffering in China and the misery in Europe, the people of the Americas are much happier.  There is a large amount of arable land in the Americas, as well as high-yielding crops such as corn and potatoes.  There will be no famine or peasant riots here, just because the land here is so fertile. As long as you cultivate it carefully, you don't have to worry about not having enough to eat.  The people of America are so happy and comfortable.  But it is precisely because it is too comfortable and the society is too stable that after thousands of years, it is still stuck in the primary stage of primitive society and slave society. Its national defense strength is too weak and it is easily exterminated.  The Americas are too far away, separated by the Pacific Ocean, and with the navigation technology of this era, it is too difficult.  Australia and Southeast Asia are relatively close.  Can be better developed During the European colonial era, 400 million Indians were exterminated with naked killing.  Burning, killing and looting were criticized by later generations.  The Song Dynasty could not adopt such colonial methods, which was difficult to accept for the scholar-bureaucrats who were indoctrinated with Confucianism, but they could adopt softer and more flexible methods.  There is no need for mass murder.  No need for mass looting.  It can be educated, fundamentally transformed with Confucianism, and become part of the Han people.  Civilization and enlightenment.  New farming methods replaced the old farming methods, and new customs replaced the old customs, bringing the indigenous people out of their original state.  ????????????????????????????????????????:  Become a harmonious whole.  Not short-term development, but long-term occupation.  ??For the various ethnic groups in the colonies, divide and disintegrate them, defeat and weaken the strong ethnic groups one by one, and completely eliminate the stubborn ones.  ¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­ A month later, news came from Hubei.  Zhong Xiang¡¯s rebellion was completely wiped out, and the Dongting Lake Water Village was burned to the ground.  The number of captured refugees reached as many as 300,000, and the number implicated was even higher.  It seems huge.  The astonishing rebellion was completely wiped out in less than two months after the army was deployed.  If the march time is calculated, the entire campaign will be shorter.  And those officers and soldiers who countered the rebellion also received commendations and rewards.  In other areas, some scattered refugee rebellions also subsided.  The imperial court's dazzling swordsmanship showed its ferocious side!  Subsequently, some young officials such as Shi Hao and Wan Qixi were transferred to the capital, and Yu Yunwen, who was originally a military general, became a civilian official.  Later, some older civil servants were squeezed out of the cabinet and placed in unimportant positions or retired.  The old and the new are changing, and power is changing.  ¡°Some people are uneasy, some are seeking a new background, and there are countless people in the court who have changed their appearance.  And Zhao Pu didn¡¯t care about any of this.  These are all small things, not worth worrying about!  These days, Zhao Pu is obsessed with formulating colonial policy strategies, constantly adding and deleting, turning plans into implementable plans.  At this time, the newspapers were also big propagandists, promoting the prosperity overseas, and the focus was on how much fertile land there was overseas and what the output was. The most important thing was that most of them were ownerless.  It can be obtained at will.  For several months in a row, there have been reports of fertile land overseas, constant bombardment by public opinion, and constant hype, including some false information.  With the public hype, the entire Hangzhou and even nearby prefectures and counties were shaken, and some ordinary people were also shocked.  The land south of the Yangtze River is relatively open in itself. There are many ships sailing overseas, bringing back shiploads of rare and exotic treasures from overseas, and then selling them for a lot of money.  But there are many risks overseas. When a storm hits, the fleet will be overturned. If you are not careful, the car will be crashed and people will be killed.  If you don¡¯t have the guts, don¡¯t even think about going overseas.  And if you don¡¯t have money or capital, don¡¯t even think about going overseas.    "Only the big officials and big businessmen will benefit from making a fortune overseas, but ordinary ordinary people will not get any benefit at all."  But as soon as the words "ownerless land", "fertile land" and "harvest comparable to the best fields" were bombarded, people were shocked.  At this time in Jiangnan, the contradiction between man and land was extremely tense.  With the development of land annexation, more than two-thirds of farmers became tenants of the government or landlords, and the proportion was much higher than that in the Northern Song Dynasty.  They suffered from heavy land rent exploitation and lived a very difficult life.  Heavy taxes Farmers also have to pay heavy taxes to the government.  In order to meet the needs of the war, temporary miscellaneous taxes and miscellaneous corvee under various names also came one after another, making the people miserable.  The scholar-bureaucrats were extravagant and extravagant, and their exploitation of the people was even more cruel.  In addition to the old second tax and personal money that were levied as usual, many additional miscellaneous taxes in the early Southern Song Dynasty also became fixed taxes, and many new items were added.  And in the newspaper, it was reported that there was no tax exemption for three years, and there were only three levels of tax for five years. In the future, the tax rate will be stable at three levels.  The tax rate is too low, attracting a large number of landless people, or people who are severely exploited.  Suddenly, huge waves were set off among the people at the bottom.  This is also one of Zhao Pu¡¯s plans.  In the Song Dynasty, it was too difficult to allocate land to local tyrants; it was also too difficult to reduce rents and taxes.  Even if Zhao Pu resists the pressure and carries out some land policies that are beneficial to poor people, they will be distorted and changed by lower-level officials, and good policies will become bad policies.  Therefore, we simply do not change the land policy, but use market laws to regulate the land policy.  At this time, farmers' rents and taxes are high. The main reason is that there are more people and less land, and we are in a seller's market. If some people immigrate overseas, the population in the inland will decrease and there will be fewer people working on the land. Landlords will have to lower land rents to attract people.  .  ¡­¡­¡­ At this moment, in a mansion, Li Gang looked depressed and in an extremely bad mood.  The current emperor is considered a holy king. Even if he doesn't like him, he will not kill or demote him, nor will he be demoted or exiled. At most, he will be transferred away and worshiped like a Bodhisattva.  At this moment, Li Gang no longer has the position of prime minister, but has gained the position of grand master, which can be regarded as compensation!  "It's a pity that the emperor has no heirs yet, so naturally there is no prince. The so-called grand master is in name only!"  At this moment, Li Gang is retired!  However, Li Gang understood what the emperor said when he was summoned not long ago.  He couldn't keep up with the emperor's pace and seemed a bit useless. He could only abdicate and give way to his capable younger generation.  ¡°It¡¯s just that I feel a little unwilling in my heart.  The Kingdom of Jin has not yet been destroyed, how can he retire!  "Meet the Grand Master!" At this time, a scholar dressed as a young man came to greet him. This person was Yu Yunwen.  Li Gang retreated, but Yu Yunwen rose up.  Before, Yu Yunwen was a fourth-grade military general, but now he is a fifth-grade civil servant. It seems that his official status has been lowered. ????????????????????? However, from Wu to Wen, his status in the emperor's heart has been invisibly improved a lot.  The official position and grade are not important. What is important is that Jane is in the heart of the emperor.  Among the many former officials who have been promoted recently, most are from outside and were promoted from the front line.  Most of them are old ministers who have died, so these young ministers are asked to take their place. It is more of a matter of making up for the vacancies.  But this person is the emperor¡¯s confidant. From the fierce battle in Xiangyang to now, in more than five years, he has been promoted from a humble person to a new star.  "Father Bin, how are you doing lately?" Li Gang asked kindly.  "Thank you, Grand Master, for your concern!" Yu Yunwen said.  Then, the table was set, the dishes were served, the wine was served, and between changing glasses, Li Gangkai began to ask trivial questions, as if a senior was caring for a junior.  And Yu Yunwen also responded skillfully, and the atmosphere was very lively.  "Your Majesty, have you made up your mind to expand overseas?" Li Gang asked.  Yu Yunwen said: "Expanding overseas and fatal expansion has been our dynasty's national policy for a century. Unless the Song Dynasty is destroyed, this policy will continue to be implemented!" (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature for better and faster novels!
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