Chapter 519: Immigrants and New Currency
"For all people who immigrate to New Liaodong, the imperial court will grant each person thirty acres of high-quality fertile land, and each household will be given five taels of new silver coins and a courtyard house; within three years, all taxes due will be exempted..."
In the 23rd year of Wanli, at the first court meeting in early March, the little fat man officially issued an edict to start the large-scale immigration to Liaodong and the issuance of new coins.
In fact, as early as the end of the 22nd year of Wanli, the first batch of millions of immigrants from Henan and Shandong had already been registered. And after a year of preparation, tens of millions of taels of new silver coins were fully prepared and were just waiting for the court.
Officially ordered.
Then, as the Royal Daily published and reprinted the contents of Little Fatty's edict, the immigrants who were still reluctant to immigrate to such a cold and cold place as Liaodong finally felt at ease, and even
Started to look forward to it enthusiastically.
There is no other way. Not to mention the money and the house, the thirty acres of high-quality farmland per person is already attractive enough.
You should know that even at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, when there were many people and little land, the land granted by the court was only about fifteen acres per person.
But now as long as they immigrate to Liaodong, each person can be allocated thirty acres of high-quality fertile land. If a family includes five people, that is one hundred and fifty acres, almost ten acres of land. It is already considered the property of a small and medium-sized landowner in an inland province.
The number of fields owned.
In other words, as long as they are willing to immigrate to Liaodong, a poor family who has no land in the mainland and can only become a landlord and tenant farmer can become a small landlord in an instant.
Such a good thing, not to mention the tenant farmers who have no land, even the small landowners can't help but feel jealous at this moment.
However, firstly, the imperial court stipulated that immigrants could only be landless people; secondly, in the land of Liaodong, which was the fiefdom of His Royal Highness, the fields granted by the imperial court could not be bought or sold. They were all the same as those in the four prefectures on the peninsula.
, it belongs to 'official land' which only pays the same tax as private land.
Otherwise, faced with such good 'welfare', these people would even sell their original fields, rationally take advantage of the loopholes in the court's laws, and reasonably occupy a large amount of fertile land.
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"Huh? You don't need to pay extra fire fees when paying taxes in Singapore dollars?"
Just when many people were excited and envious about the immigration to Liaodong, some people noticed the issuance of new coins behind the immigration edict.
"The patterns and patterns on these new coins look pretty good, but I don't know what the quality of these silver coins will be like when the time comes?"
Looking at the new coin styles and exchange details specially published in the Royal Daily under the edict to implement the new currency system, many people expressed doubts about the new silver coins that were about to be issued.
There was no way, people were really frightened by the treasure banknotes issued by the Ming Dynasty. So even if this silver coin was made of real gold and silver, the frightened people still didn't dare to believe it.
"If these silver coins are of sufficient quality, they will be much more convenient than scattered silver coins!"
However, although they were skeptical about the fineness of these silver coins, many merchants became interested after seeing that the new coins no longer required cutting the silver coins to find change.
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"Get it on Tuesday. This is your family number plate and Anjia silver. Don't lose it!"
Less than half a month after the little fat man officially ordered the immigrants, the first batch of immigrants in Henan and Shandong began to gather and prepare to leave.
And before departure, the most important thing is to distribute the Anjia silver. After all, it is the real money and silver that you get that is more attractive.
"My dear, there's actually a dragon cast on this little silver pancake. If it's used for cutting flowers, wouldn't it offend the Dragon King?"
After taking his number plate and Anjia Bank, he casually hung the number plate with a rope around his neck. The middle-aged man named Tuesday, at this moment, all his attention was attracted by the small bag of shiny new coins in his hand.
Lived.
In order to promote the new currency as soon as possible, the Anjia Bank issued to these immigrants this time contains a complete set of new coins of various denominations. Therefore, the Ministry of Accounts spent a small amount of money for this purpose, specifically for
for the making of this silver bag.
"I said it's Tuesday. Don't waste time here if you haven't seen the damn money. Quickly order it and get out. Didn't you see the people behind you are still queuing up?"
Seeing the middle-aged man named Tuesday just holding a piece of Longyin and getting excited, the yamen responsible for distributing Anjiayin couldn't help but urge him.
There was no way, in order to let every cent of the Anjia silver fall into the hands of the immigrants, under the arrangement of the crown prince Zhu Changluo, these people were required to count the money in person when they received it.
For this reason, after Zhu Changluoshen asked the little fat man for instructions, he even sent Jin Yiwei and Dongchang to supervise.
In addition, this new coin is different from the previous silver, and even the slightest damage can be seen. Therefore, these government officials who used to take advantage of others are very 'law-abiding' this time.
"Besides, haven't you seen that all these coins are big and small, and there are even parts and odd amounts? In the future, with these new coins, you won't have to open the money to find change..."
While the immigrant named Tuesday was counting the money, the officer in charge of distributing the money couldn't help but explain it to him in a sour voice.
Of course, this kind of "sour" is not entirely because of these five taels of Anjia silver, but more because of these exquisite and unusual new silver coins. The first people to get them are not members of the public, but those who are about to immigrate to Liaodong.
of former sharecroppers.
However, what these government officials don't know is that although the little fat man has issued an edict to issue new coins, in addition to introducing the benefits and characteristics of these new coins in newspapers, the most he can do is reiterate the punishment for counterfeiting new coins.
.Even the capital, the 'heart' of the empire, has no intention of releasing it immediately.
The reason for this is just to better create the so-called "hunger marketing" atmosphere under Wang Bing's suggestion, so as to achieve the smooth implementation of the new currency policy.
And the effect of this ‘hunger marketing’ is pretty good so far.
Because after the immigrants got the new coins, many officials in Henan and Shandong were already reporting to the court, hoping to issue new coins in these two places as soon as possible.
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"Third brother, look, the state leader's condition has improved. Now the immigration and new currency issuance are on the right track. Next, should we start comprehensively rectifying the Ming Dynasty's army?"
With immigration and the issuance of new currency on track as expected, the little fat man has once again set his sights on rectifying the military.
No, the little fat man who came to Yongnian Hou Mansion in the name of visiting his father was actually planning to capture Wang Bing's 'strong man' again.
Chapter completed!