The Minister of Household Affairs explained the reason and said: "It's not that the number of deaths has increased, but that many people have gone to the rebels in the north. Too many people have gone. Now it has seriously affected taxation and food production. Taxation will further increase."

If it decreases, the treasury will dry up; without food, the army will not be able to support it. Your Majesty must make a decision early, otherwise something will happen sooner or later."

Nowadays, when the south calls An Ran, they are northern rebels.

Since they don't think An Ran is Princess Fu'an, then her name is naturally not that, so naturally she can't be called her. And then they don't know her real name, so they just call her the Northern Rebel.

Emperor Jianfeng couldn't help but feel chills after hearing the report from the Minister of the Ministry of Finance. He instinctively understood that Anron was using another method to attack the south, a way to kill the enemy invisible. At the moment, it seemed that this method

It is very likely to succeed - if this continues, if there are only one or two million people left in the south, how will it survive? The dignitaries will not even be able to find anyone to wait on them.

Realizing that the danger was at hand, Emperor Jianfeng quickly summoned the cabinet and six ministers to discuss what to do about the matter.

This matter was what the ministers wanted Emperor Jianfeng to know, so when the meeting was held, everyone realized that this matter could not continue, so they quickly reached a consensus: an escape order was also issued in the south,

Those people are not allowed to escape.

Although the rebel bandits in the north, the "fake" Princess Fu'an once said that anyone who issues an escape order will be beaten... Anyway, if you don't issue it, you will die, so whoever is afraid of whom should fight if you have the ability.

But they were overly worried. Enron had no plans to attack the south for the time being, so even though they heard that they had issued an escape order, they didn't bother with it. Anyway, immigrants have formed an industrial chain, so there was no need to worry that the escape order could really control the current population flight.

situation.

But in the south, Emperor Jianfeng thought that he could control the matter by issuing an escape order, but he underestimated the motivation of capitalists to risk their lives for profits.

But he said that although everyone in the Hou Qi Dynasty was aware of the danger, everyone from the emperor to the ministers planned to intercept it.

But... the benefits are very attractive, and the profits from transferring people are becoming more and more abundant. Who is willing to make a living? Some people even think that it doesn't matter even if the land is not cultivated. Anyway, the rewards for transferring people every year are better than those from farming.

The money is more - if you transfer one person now, they can get almost ten taels of silver. If you successfully transfer 10,000 people a year, you will have an income of 100,000 taels. If you can transfer 100,000 people, how much will you get?

Money; besides, if they don’t do it, others will do it, so not only do they have to do it, but they also have to rush to do it, lest in the future people will transfer almost all the money, no one can transfer it, and they will not be able to make a fortune.

At that time, the south will really not be able to survive. They will be afraid of having money. At worst, they will take that large sum of money to buy land in the north and continue to live.

Although the northern fields are said to be owned by the state, and those who buy them only have the right to operate them, it is said that the taxes paid are extremely low, and even if they only have the right to operate, it is still cost-effective. Moreover, it is said that the operating rights last for a very long time, and you can own them for thirty years if you buy them once.

Right, which is no different from ownership.

The more I think about it, the more families that participated in the population transfer in the early stages of the population transfer, and now have mature transfer routes and huge profits, continue this business, not afraid of what kind of terrible situation the south will fall into if all the people are transferred.

.

Therefore... although the escape order exists, it is in name only. Except for some people who have not participated in this enterprise, who feel that their farming interests have been harmed and will risk their lives to file a lawsuit with the imperial court, most others have not said anything, and even

Help conceal it, because more and more people are engaged in this business, and these people do not want their own interests to be harmed.

In fact, those who risk their lives to inform are indeed risking their lives, because those with vested interests will find ways to kill them.

When Emperor Jianfeng heard that there were still people helping to transport people, he was furious and ordered the people below to control them strictly. Those who were not strictly controlled would be brought to trial.

But... Emperor Jianfeng, whose decrees were difficult to get out of the small imperial palace in the south, had little ability to execute what he said.

As more and more people dared to report this matter in front of the imperial court, Emperor Jianfeng had no idea how well the people below him were performing. What he always got was the illusion of peace and prosperity, and Anron's failure to attack the south also made this illusion worse and worse.

The more real.

This is what Enron wants.

Emperor Jianfeng didn't know the situation outside. He didn't know that after the evacuation order was issued, not only did people in the south not run away less, but more and more people ran away.

This is also normal.

As far as An Ran knows, although the water system in the south is developed and it is convenient for farming, there are more people and less land. Most families have not reached the level of three acres of farmland per person. A family of more than ten people, old and young, can only have a few acres of thin farmland.

That’s pretty good.

In the north, more than a dozen people are not too many, just like a family of fifteen. Although the mortality rate is high in this era, family planning is not practiced at the same time, because parents do not separate the family, and a family of ten people, old and young, can live together.

It is still common for a family of five to be allocated 45 acres of land, and the family business can be expanded five to ten times in one go. In addition, there is no need to spend money to go to the north to pick someone up (this is what Enron repeatedly emphasized,

(cannot collect money from immigrants), who wouldn’t want to go there and have a look? Anyway, everyone has heard about it from relatives and friends, saying that the living conditions there are excellent, so it is normal for them to go north.

In the beginning, only those who were brave went there. Slowly, as more and more people came to know that the living conditions in the north were very good, the less brave ones also ran away. Now, even the timid people are willing to go there.

I searched all over, but there was nothing I could do. All the relatives and friends around me had left, and their letters all said they had made a fortune there. Aren’t you jealous? Of course, I went over to have a look. Anyway, everyone else had been there for a few years and passed by.

Everything is fine, what are you afraid of?

So the crazy immigration began.

And this is what the rich and powerful people in the south like to see. After all, the more people go, the more they earn. If not for Princess Fu'an's order, they cannot force others to go. Otherwise, in order to make money, they are afraid

They will kidnap some people there, and even risk crossing the tropical rainforest to catch some natives from the tropical continent and sell them. After all, compared with the profit, even catching some natives from the tropical continent to sell them is cost-effective.

But they were afraid of Princess Fu'an's intelligence network in the south - after someone did this, they were refused business cooperation in the north - so everyone was still honest. Of course, the main reason was that if this continued, sooner or later the south would be ruled by Princess Fu'an.

When I checked, I found out that they had forced people to go to the north, and it would be terrible if they caused trouble.
Chapter completed!