In the few days after warning Hou Xun, the gold, silver and treasures that the Jinyiwei had found from Nanjing were delivered to the capital one after another.

Zhu Youjian is not very interested in these things now. No matter how much gold and silver there are, they are just some numbers to him.

He was rich and powerful and already felt numb to wealth.

Now it is not the time when I first arrived in the Ming Dynasty, when I was so poor that I had to patch my underwear.

It is no exaggeration to say that his personal wealth is greater than the small countries around him combined.

In the past, I thought I had to spend money on everything I did, but now I am worried about how to spend money.

Spending money is also a science.

Although he lacks financial knowledge, he has heard in his previous life that a large amount of wealth flowing into the market in a short period of time is likely to cause inflation, which will greatly reduce the only property in the hands of ordinary people and make the poor more poor.

However, after thinking about it carefully, Zhu Youjian was a little suspicious whether this theory would work in the current Ming Dynasty.

In the Ming Dynasty, where the poor account for more than 80% of the population, even if you give 100 taels of silver to each household, these poor people who are afraid of being poor will never squander it because they suddenly get rich.

In addition to taking out corresponding silver to improve living conditions and then buying some normal daily necessities, the people will 100% hide the remaining silver in places where mice cannot find it, rather than use it to shop wildly.

In this era of extreme material shortage, farmers, who account for 90% of the total population, have no place to make money, and what they want in a year is nothing but food and clothing.

However, most people have no time to have a few full meals throughout their lives. In many places, people do not have cotton coats and only have a pair of straw sandals to wear on their feet.

Since there is no visible and tangible continuous income, even if you have a lot of money, who dares to spend money randomly?

Spending a little money means you will never come back.

Now if you want to stimulate the vigorous development of handicrafts, you must have a large number of consumer groups. Only with a stable and continuous income can farmers be willing to spend money.

How to increase farmers' income is indeed a difficult problem.

Increased grain production has become the only solution that Zhu Youjian has thought of so far.

To treat the symptoms but not the root cause by simply paying money, long-term plans must be made so that more farmers can gradually become rich after solving the problem of food and clothing.

Before the emergence of fertilizers, there is no possibility of a significant increase in grain output.

Judging from the current grain output in various parts of the Ming Dynasty, Jiangnan still needs to occupy a larger share.

In the two provinces of Shandong, Shaanxi, Henan, and some prefectures and counties that are less affected in Shandong have an average yield of about one stone per mu as water conservancy facilities are becoming increasingly complete. After a series of measures such as deep cultivation and meticulous cultivation are implemented on a large scale, this data will reach one and a half stone, and some fertile fields will reach about two stones. The yield per mu will be maintained for a long time and will not be significantly improved.

In addition to the continued immigration resettlement in Jingxiang area and outside the customs clearance, data reported by local governments that have basically completed immigration resettlement work shows that after several years of unremitting efforts by all parties, the grain output in these areas is growing steadily.

The vast majority of immigration resettlement sites have achieved self-sufficient food. Both government officials and farmers have a considerable amount of grain reserves, and most areas have basically no longer need to watch the weather for food.

By the time the resettlement work in Jingxiang area is fully completed and the number of land reclamation in other areas continues to grow, based on the existing population, the Ming Dynasty will no longer have any worries about food shortage, and the goal of comprehensively solving the Ming Dynasty's population will be achieved.

The results of the Nanjing Purgatory are still very gratifying.

This crackdown not only completely solved a stubborn disease that has been around for thousands of years, but also allowed the gentry class who had always enjoyed preferential treatment to start paying taxes, but also the direct results of the cleaning movement were extremely rich.

The Jinyiwei collected more than 9 million taels of gold and silver, more than 7 million mu of land, more than 30 workshops, and more than 30 shops in the store. The remaining antiques, calligraphy and paintings cannot be counted for the time being. They will not know the value until they are cashed out.

In addition to these assets, the various luxury houses and mountain residences left behind by these large officials and gentry families were also a valuable asset after their families were confiscated and exterminated.

In addition to the fields, all other property has been handed over to the Sihai Commercial Bank for clearing and inventory, and then digested and absorbed, and the cashed assets will also be sent to the capital.

Seventy percent of the more than 7 million mu of land are planted with mulberry cotton, and the rest are planted with rice.

In addition to taking out some of the fields and distributing them to many private farmers, Lu Xiangsheng, who was in charge of this matter, will be assigned to the local government as public land for rent.

In addition to paying 30% of the tax, tenants also need to pay another 20% of the tax to the local government to enrich the government's granary and prevent the use of hunger years.

In Jiangnan, where every inch of land is valuable, even if it is such a high rent that can be divided into five or five points, you don’t have to worry about not being able to rent it out.

The local big farmers do not lack food. What they lack is the fields that can be processed into commodities and made to make greater profits. For them, hiring people to plant them is just giving some food, and the value of these fields in the end is ten times or even dozens of times that of those foods. Why not do such a good thing?

This time, more than 120,000 private farmers were released from the families of Jiangnan. Lu Xiangsheng distributed the fields according to the number of ten acres of each dying person and five acres of each dying person.

These private farmers are landless farmers or bankrupt civilians. When they are assigned to the fields, their various information will be re-registered and registered by the government and obtained household registration. The fields they assigned are also strictly prohibited from being sold. Not only will the violators be confiscated, the whole family will be sent to outside the customs for five years.

This regulation eliminates the behavior of some large households who want to spend high prices to purchase fertile land from these new tenants, and is also an effective means to curb land annexation.

Zhu Youjian did not reject or oppose the traditional practice of growing mulberry cotton in Jiangnan.

Jiangnan is the most developed area of ​​handicrafts in the Ming Dynasty, and its prosperity is based on the everywhere workshops.

Planting mulberry cotton locally can effectively reduce transportation costs, so that these cash crops can be quickly converted into commodities that are lacking in the world after short-distance transportation.

This phenomenon has been in existence for more than a hundred years. The grain and rice required by the people of Jiangnan gradually developed from self-sufficiency to buying rice from Huguang for household use. The fertile fields that originally planted a large amount of rice have also become what they are now.

After the problem of food and clothing is fully resolved, rotation and planting will be put on the agenda.

Cash crops such as corn, millet, soybeans, rapeseed, peanuts, sesame, and non-land sweet potatoes will be fully promoted. While enriching the public's consumption needs, farmers can also benefit additionally.

Corn had spread to the Ming Dynasty as early as the Wanli period, but due to the continuous natural and man-made disasters in the past decade, the planting area of ​​the entire Ming Dynasty was not large. It was only planted in Guangdong, Guangxi, Shaanxi, Shandong and other places. As for sweet potatoes, under the attention of Zhu Youjian, after a large amount of seedling improvement in the past two years, they began to plant in the Jingji area in a small area, and were abandoned in the Jiangnan area, which was first introduced.
Chapter completed!