The people's favorite is the loess land, and nothing else can tempt them.

What's more.

Those who followed Zhang Cong to the frontier were all landless refugees.

What they need most now is to have their own land and a home that can be settled.

Otherwise, they would not have followed Zhang Cong to travel thousands of miles to the frontier, because they couldn't survive and wanted to have some food to eat.

Now that they can have their own land, they have the opportunity to settle down and have children and continue to be human.

When they heard that the county magistrate wanted to allocate the land here and re-register their household registration, they all knew that they wanted to settle down here again, so it was naturally very active to build the buildings in the city.

Of course, not only these landless refugees followed Zhang Cong to Yulin City outside the Frontier, but also some merchants with gentry backgrounds.

Because Zhu Houzhao issued an order on the grounds that Yulin was needed to be revitalized, the heavy tax paid by merchants in border towns in mainland China was cancelled, and the Ministry of Revenue only allowed a low-tax stamp duty to encourage merchants to come to the border towns to do business.

This attracted some visionary businessmen to come to Yulin regardless of the risks outside the border.

Although the main reason for the relocation of merchants was to promote the reform of China and France, it was not unrelated to the exploitation of the border government troops too ruthlessly.

Before this, in order to control the economy of border towns and prevent merchants from investing in enemies, the court imposed various taxes on border towns to supplement military supplies, which made many merchants rather smuggle than go through the legal trade channels stipulated by the government.

After all, the latter's profits will become very small, which will make the trade activities controlled by the government increasingly cold, while smuggling will become more and more rampant, making it even harder for the court to implement economic control over the Mongols.

Now, Zhu Houzhao has issued a goal to adopt a unified tax rate and low tax collection in Yulin City outside the Great Wall, which naturally gives merchants a profitable opportunity. Moreover, Zhu Houzhao asked Zhang Cong to tell these merchants that the grain and minerals developed by these merchants in Yulin will be purchased directly by the Royal Industrial Company and the Royal Village, so as to avoid merchants being exploited by the government when they are transported back to the pass.

This also makes some merchants more willing to go out to develop places outside the pass. They are naturally not afraid of the risk of plundering by the Tartars at any time. As long as there is a high profit, even if they sacrifice their lives, the merchants who value profits will dare to do it. Even when the two countries are fighting, they dare to export commercially to the enemy country, let alone these.

Of course, those who were willing to follow Zhang Cong to develop Yulin City outside the West, not only were those merchants encouraged by Zhu Houzhao's low-tax policy, but also those with bureaucratic capital backgrounds who learned that the court would restore the system of paying food and making profits in China, but also those who came to the West to cultivate fields and grain in advance so that they could seek salt profits in the future.

Among them, there were people including Jiao Fang, the chief assistant of the cabinet, and the chief supervisor of the Sili Supervisor, Liu Jin, and others who followed him to Yulin City outside the Great Wall to seize the land outside the Great Wall.

Zhu Houzhao also knew through various intelligence channels that these officials who could grasp the court's policy trends in advance would ask their families to seize territory outside the Great Wall first.

But he did not stop him. He believed that after seizing the land outside the border, the families behind these imperial officials would definitely support strong arms to destroy the Tartars, and would even rectify the salt administration for themselves, because their purpose in the land outside the border was not to care about the food outside the border, but to the salt intake exchanged for food.

In addition to landless refugees and businessmen, Zhang Cong also asked a group of Confucian scholars who committed crimes from the East Factory and the Three Fa Offices.

These people were either implicated in the case of rebellion and were not guilty of being killed, or had not been executed by the court, or had made other mistakes;

Especially after the implementation of the law, the officials of the local magistrates and officials of the Central Three Laws tried hard to improve the efficiency of handling criminal and civil cases, so many Confucian scholars were arrested for adultery, tax evasion and incest, which was mostly due to lifestyle problems, that is, the problems that literati usually make. It is naturally nothing if they are not investigated, but if they are investigated, they can also be used to punish crimes and make up for political achievements, which has led to more and more Confucian scholars waiting to be executed.

However, Zhang Cong did not expect that he would give the court a memorial to the court to give some conspiracies to the border towns to educate the herdsmen outside the border and to promote the school to achieve the purpose of the people's efforts. He quickly obtained Zhu Houzhao's approval, and the cabinet would like to give these Confucian scholars who were infected with bad habits but did not know the teachings of the saints a chance to go to the countryside to reform!

Therefore, there are Confucian scholars and merchants in Yulin City nowadays.

In order to avoid these people forming a village party that was not conducive to the rule of the county magistrate, Zhang Cong disrupted and reorganized these people. Each house includes both poverty, refugees without land and wealthy, like businessmen in the official and gentry family.

Then, Zhang Cong asked each party to recommend one of the parties themselves.

Even if scholars are not ashamed of others, they are still respected by the people in the Ming Dynasty, where the illiteracy rate is very high. Therefore, the heads of the villages are basically still these Confucian scholars.

After learning about this phenomenon, Zhu Houzhao did not reject this phenomenon. After all, intellectuals are always easy to become leaders and are suitable to become leaders. Zhu Houzhao could not organize them to become exploiters again outside the Great Wall. He only asked the person who ruled that land was from the Ming Dynasty.

And those who live in that land are also from the Ming Dynasty, and they must have basic rights so that these people can know that being the people of the Ming Dynasty is better than being the people of other countries.

Once the Ming Dynasty falls into crisis one day, they will feel the great pain brought by the demise of their country.

While building the buildings in Yulin City, Zhang Cong began to take his assistants, clerks, as well as the heads of the houses and households to divide the cultivated land outside Yulin City.

Because the First Division of the Guards was camping nearby and the cavalry of the Guards had already been on guard for a hundred miles away, Zhang Cong and others were not worried about the sudden appearance of Tartars, and they did not have time to return to the city, so they just did the job of dividing the land with peace of mind.

According to factors such as the Cabinet and the Ministry of Revenue referring to factors such as the previous geographical location of Yulin and the survival information of each person’s minimum needs, the rule of distribution of land for Yulin City is to divide land for 40 acres of land for each adult male and female, and ten acres of permanent land for each adult.

The former can be planted for fifty years and then returned to the government, and then re-divided by the government or let you continue to plant.

The latter is that their own private property can be passed on to their descendants or sold.

Before Zhengtong, Yulin City was originally a land of the Ming Dynasty and was the military garrison of the garrison. However, now because the military garrison is moved inward, these places have become ownerless fields, and it is easy to divide the fields, so there is no need to worry about affecting the interests of military landlords in the border town.

However, because the Yulin area was once the military camp of the Ming Dynasty's military camp, there were quite a lot of fertile land. Even after thousands of scholars and civilians divided it, there were still tens of thousands of acres of land and a large amount of pasture and forest land.

Zhang Cong assigned all of these lands to the government and the court, but encouraged scholars and citizens to contract, whether to plow, farm, grain or mine, or to contract only forest land to hunt and log, except for the different contract prices, the county magistrate Zhang Cong would not strictly restrict the contractor's business activities on these lands.

Therefore, the merchants who came to Yulin with Zhang Cong contracted the fields and mines that the government was unable to develop, making the industry in Yulin City diversified from the beginning.

Of course, the people from the Royal Industries also came to contract a mine and contracted the largest iron ore here, in order to provide more iron ore raw materials for the increasing demand for iron ore.

The first social school in Yulin City has also emerged in Xinjiang.

However, Zhang Cong, who graduated from the Peking University, changed the enlightenment education method of only reading the Three Character Classics in the sociology, introduced simple arithmetic and common sense classes, and asked specialists to teach them.

The reason is that the society in Yulin is now aimed at the children of ordinary people, and most of these common people's sons will find it difficult to get into the juren Jinshi in the future. When they are taught the way of saints, they should also be given the way to make a living. Even if they pass the juren Jinshi in the future, it will be beneficial to them.

Because Yulin City is a newly built city, it is outside the border, and Zhang Cong is a student of the Beijing University trained by Zhu Houzhao himself, he naturally does whatever he wants.

Lu Zimin didn't expect that he would take root outside the border. At first, he just had to accept a county magistrate named Zhang Cong's request to help him work, so that the whole family could have a full meal because his family was so hungry that he had no food to eat.

But he didn't expect that he followed the county magistrate to the outside world. Not only did the whole family survive, but he also had the land.

As a Lu people who have been farmers for generations, he has no idea about other things, but he knows the preciousness of the land and knows that in his hometown of Huaiyang, a mu of land is worth ten taels of silver.

Now he has a hundred acres of land, which means that the court has given him nearly dozens of taels of silver. Therefore, he is particularly grateful to the county magistrate Zhang Cong and the court. When he sees Zhang Cong, he will willingly kneel down and kowtow.

Because Zhang Cong received a new education from the Capital University and could not stand being bowed like a Bodhisattva every day by the people of the Ming Dynasty, he forced the people of Yulin to not have to kneel down except for being taught to court and tribute. The reason was that the cloth in the border town was expensive to avoid dirtying clothes, and washing them frequently would easily cause the clothes to be damaged quickly.

Zhang Cong gained a reputation for loving the people and was commended by the court, which made officials from other places follow suit to show that he also loves the people.

The people of Lu value the most important thing now is that they have new land in their homes. In order to plant food as soon as possible, they even ignored the ban on the ban that Zhang Cong, the magistrate of Yulin, required the people to return to the city at the You hour to prevent the Tartars from attacking at night. Sometimes they quietly left the city in the middle of the night or stayed outside the city overnight, in order to pull out the grass from the fields one day earlier and plant their own crops as soon as possible.

Even if they were whipped for breaking the ban, they were willing to do so.

The diligence of the people of the Ming Dynasty was surprising. In order to get their own food as soon as possible, the deserted fields around Yulin City were reclaimed at an astonishing speed.
Chapter completed!