Iron Dynasty

Having a child is tax-free!

Each child subsidizes the hardware dragon.

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In the festive atmosphere of the New Year, the policy of encouraging births was spread through newspapers in the Great Yu Kingdom.

Now for the scholars of the Great Yu Kingdom, the newspapers are the weather vane of the Great Yu Kingdom, and even many scholars will collect the newspapers to check the policies promulgated by the Great Yu Kingdom.

The childish voice of the newsboy made many people laugh softly, and they all took out copper coins to buy newspapers to learn about the new decree.

There is no doubt that this decree is a happy event for officials, merchants or common people, because for those who want to continue to have children, they will receive a lot of income.

Such a decree of Huili is naturally the fastest to spread. After the new year, the decree was passed from Qingzhou to other governments, and the governments also increased their publicity efforts.

In half a year, all the people in the northern states and counties learned about the birth encouragement policy.

The effect of this policy is that before the beginning of the spring, many young and strong people in the Great Yu country have lost weight, and the atmosphere of fighting for children has gradually expanded.

However, this decree also gave the ministers a reason to let Xiao Ming extend the heir. He reluctantly jumped into the hole he dug. After Cui Xueer became pregnant, Luluo and Ziwan also became pregnant, and the number of royal heirs will increase to four one.

When the North implemented childbirth as a war, the contradictions of Chu's savings broke out.

On June 13, Li Chuyuan's general Jiang Ying led 80,000 soldiers to attack Suzhou. The two sides fought in Wuxian, the southern gate of Suzhou.

At the same time, the other two generals Huacheng and Liu Xu each led 50,000 horses to attack Jiaxing and Songjiang. For a time, the smoke of gunpowder in the south filled the air.

Your Majesty, the final commander has already transferred the soldiers equipped with the Falcon Rifles to Jinling City, and the remaining 20,000 people are estimated to be able to complete the installation and training in September.

Zhong Niu Ben, the staff of the Qingzhou Camp, reported the deployment of the army to Xiao Ming.

After Niu Ben finished speaking, Luo Quan said: We have sent an order to the Navy to keep them on standby at any time, and the canning factory in Dengzhou is also producing canned food around the clock for use in preparation for war.

Well, yes, this logistics must not use hundreds of thousands of people on a large scale like before. If you have canned food, you must make full use of the advantages of canned food and try to use the army's own logistics army. Xiao Ming ordered.

Yes, Your Majesty. Niu Ben and Luo Quan said in unison.

Xiao Ming nodded, he had already received the news in advance before the war in Chu Kingdom started.

For Li Chuyuan, the soldiers trained for more than half a year are enough. With this confidence, he officially declared war on the Merchant Council.

As for Cao Kun, he did not have enough confidence to defeat Li Chuyuan at the beginning, after all, the strength of the merchant council was still a little weak.

But for the past six months, he has been actively expanding his army. The number of troops controlled by the Merchant Council has doubled, and his back has become stiff.

After setting up the army, Xiao Ming returned to the palace, and then he summoned Pang Yukun. During the Chinese New Year, the cabinet of the Great Yu Kingdom was officially full.

In addition to Pang Yukun and Fiji, there are Zhan Xingchang, Ge Yiren, Yang Chengye, Chang Yuchun, Kong Yongan, Chao Jun and others.

Pang Yukun is still the chief minister of the Nine Middle Schools and is responsible for coordinating the overall situation, so sometimes Xiao Ming can directly find Pang Yukun.

According to the plan, he will go south this fall. Li Chuyuan and Cao Kun, who have been fighting for three or four months at this time, are estimated to be exhausted. At that time, he can easily push down. The south is a densely populated area with many cities.

Once the fight breaks out, it will inevitably lead to the displacement of the people, and this time is the time for drainage.

This time he came to Pang Yukun for this.

According to Lin Wentao's statistics, the number of steam engines sold by Qingzhou Prefecture to the private sector reached 2,000 last year. Even if a businessman's factory uses four steam engines, now Dayu Kingdom has established 500 steam engine-powered factories. This number increased more rapidly in the first half of this year, and reached the number of last year in half a year. It can be seen that since the completion of the railway, the enthusiasm of businessmen to build factories has been high.”

After a pause, Xiao Ming continued: The government-run factories in the imperial court developed faster than private factories and used more steam engines, but as a result, there is a shortage of workers in Qingzhou.

Pang Yukun nodded. Last year, the Great Yu Kingdom introduced a series of special terms. The workshop was officially renamed the factory, and the craftsman was also renamed the worker.

So he understood what Xiao Ming said.

Xiaguan understands what the emperor means. At present, the industry in the Great Yu country is mainly concentrated in the south of the Yangtze River. This is difficult to change in the short term. Therefore, more people in Jiangbei need to enter the factory as workers, and the chaos in the south is giving If we handle this opportunity properly, the industry of the Great Yu Kingdom will win another outbreak.

There was a smile on the corner of Xiao Ming's mouth. Pang Yukun looked very poisonous. It is an obvious fact that the resources brought by the railway, the dividends of the Northern Expedition, and the capital of the Korean market. Now the bottleneck of industrial development is the floating workers, and now the chaos in the south After making up for this shortcoming, the industry will naturally explode, and the city along the railway will definitely develop a lot.

That's right, in addition to this, the cabinet should formulate a preferential decree for relocating to Kanto as soon as possible. I will give you a death order. This time you will relocate at least three million people to settle in Kanto. Xiao Ming said.

Three million! Pang Yukun immediately felt a lot of pressure. Although this number is not large compared to the total population of the Great Yu Kingdom, this project is not small, and he has to use a lot of officials for this.

Gritting his teeth, Pang Yukun was heartbroken and said, Yes, Your Majesty, the lower official promises to complete it.

It's so good. Xiao Ming said: By the way, how is the production recovery in Kanto now?

Pang Yukun said: After the end of the war last year, the household registration system of the Kanto people has been perfected, and the land has been allocated to the people of Kanto. At the same time, because the Kanto is empty, the lower officials have implemented the contract responsibility system of dividing the land to the household according to the emperor's order. The production is under the management of the team. According to the feedback received from the lower officials, the people of Kanto welcome this land contract responsibility system, and they are also very active in cultivating their own farmland. In addition, the fertile land in Kanto has achieved a bumper harvest a year ago. The second-season wheat will be harvested soon.

If the effect is good, Qingzhou and other prefectures will gradually cancel the collective labor of the production team. After all, collective production supports lazy people, but the production team cannot be canceled. They still have to supervise and assist the people in production.

In the past, Xiao Ming promoted collective production because of the scarcity of production tools, but it is different now. The development of the breeding industry over the years has increased the number of cattle a lot.

Moreover, the development of the iron and steel industry has also brought sickles, steam threshing machines, seed drills, and animal-powered harvesters into the people. For him, it is time to increase the enthusiasm of the people for production and elevate agriculture to a higher level.