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Chapter 639: Ordered by Tian Jun

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    After deciding on the plan, Huang Mingyuan asked Lai Bo to mobilize money and food from various places and send them to Fengzhou to help Xia Anxun build the bank.

    Although he, as the ruler of Fengzhou, can fully utilize Fengzhou's resources for his own benefit, Huang Mingyuan is not willing to do so to avoid criticism.

    Of course, it is also to set an example for others, both public and private.  However, the current bank is still specialized in Toyosu, and others cannot follow suit and set up a second one.

    Since it is a business group, the minting of coins will have to wait.  But banks can still play other roles, including salary distribution.  Many people will have objections to this at first, but once people get used to it, it will become a routine.

    Xia An has been working hard for more than half a month, and on May 1st, the bank was officially established.  Naturally, the Fengzhou Bank that Huang Mingyuan planned to name could no longer be named, so Huang Mingyuan named it Sui Minsheng Bank.  Although there is some plagiarism, the main motivation for the establishment of this bank is to improve the people's livelihood in Fengzhou.

    The head office of Minsheng Bank is located in Jiuyuan, with one branch in each of Datong, Yulin, Jinhe and Yongfeng counties.  Fuchang County is located too far south and does not have a dedicated military office, so it is temporarily vacant.

    Huang Mingyuan is not planning to establish a bank outside Fengzhou for the time being.  It is difficult to build a bank but easy to rob a bank. It will be very difficult for a bank to operate without government protection. Huang Mingyuan does not want the bank he worked so hard to build to have its credit ruined by others.

    To Huang Mingyuan¡¯s expectation, the emergence of the bank was very popular, especially among the military. There was no resistance at all as Huang Mingyuan thought before.

    The army is quite clean now. Besides, wages are not paid on a monthly basis. Most of what is paid are rewards, which is very transparent.  Moreover, Huang Mingyuan was very strict in checking rewards, so there was basically no phenomenon of withholding rewards in the army.  Generally, the master will distribute his share to the people below, so everyone will get more.

    "And the further down the army goes, the fewer people in the army are literate. If there are too many rewards, it will be difficult to issue them.

    The bank not only solved the problem of the army distributing money and food, but also solved the problem of preserving the value of their rewards.  Soldiers are attracted to banks, so how can they oppose them.

    Soon, banks had a complete monopoly on the payment of salaries and the leasing of grain seeds and agricultural tools.  Although some people felt a little sad about the other party, relying on Huang Mingyuan's prestige, it was still implemented smoothly.

    With the emergence of banks, money and food could go directly into the hands of soldiers, so Huang Mingyuan took the opportunity to carry out land reform in the military.

    After the Dragon Boat Festival, the official immigration activities from Hebei and Henan have almost ended. There are occasional immigrants organized by individuals, but they are only sporadic.  In early June, a census organized by the Fengzhou government showed that the entire Fengzhou, including military, civilians and officials, had more than 133,750 households and a population of more than 324,760 people.

    There are less than 2.4 people in each household, and more than half of the immigrants to Fengzhou are non-eldest sons who come to Fengzhou to survive.  Of course, most of these people are mainly middle-aged and young people. Once they settle down in Fengzhou and start a family, the next five years will be an explosive period of population growth in Fengzhou.

    The mango, the May festival, is called the garden of the mango.  The arrival of "awn seeds" heralds the beginning of farmers' busy field life.

    By this time, after more than half a year of hard work, the soldiers and civilians of Fengzhou had reclaimed more than 1,000 hectares of wasteland and built and dredged more than 200 miles of canals, basically meeting the foundation for large-scale agricultural production in Fengzhou.  Among these newly reclaimed wastelands, two-thirds of the land belongs to the government, and the Fengzhou Governor's Office occupies more than 500 hectares of land.

    With bank and land conditions already met, Huang Mingyuan started his military land reform plan. In the thoughts of many people, Fengzhou's first land order was officially issued.

    But these fields are not easy to get.

    On June 15th, the General Manager's Office issued an order: "Toyozhou General Manager's Office Accepts Land Order"

    This order to receive land is not long, and it mainly talks about three things.

    First of all, all Fengzhou officers and soldiers settled in Fengzhou, and the Fengzhou government no longer interfered with the land granted by their place of origin.  Due to insufficient government land in Fengzhou, direct land granting to individuals has been temporarily suspended, and the land originally granted to individuals is only listed in the directory for the time being.  In order to compensate the officers and soldiers of Fengzhou, each person was granted an additional 24 acres of military land.  The military field is under the unified management of the General Administration, and those with military registration can enjoy all the income from the military field.  At the same time, a period of twelve years is set. When the period expires, the military field will be owned by the individual, inheritance is allowed, and only sales to the general manager are allowed.

    Although the system of the Sui Dynasty was to allocate 80 acres of land per person and 20 acres of world industry land, the government actually couldn't do it. It has developed to the point where each person can have 20 acres.  The actual twenty-four acres of military land has made all the soldiers very satisfied.

    Second time??In the future, those who have made military exploits will be awarded merit fields in exchange for rewards based on the size of their military exploits.  The meritorious fields are owned by individuals and are allowed to be inherited. They can be bought and sold to the General Manager's Office or handed over to the General Manager's Office for unified management.

    This can be regarded as an actual restoration of the land granting system for military merit, but Huang Mingyuan also had reasons. Fengzhou was poor and could not provide much material, so he could only reward the meritorious officials with some land.  To the outside world, this is not priceless, and must be replaced with loot.

    Besides, the imperial court has always awarded land to meritorious officials. All of Huang Mingyuan's land rewards add up to hundreds of hectares. However, the scale has always been controlled at the upper level, so no one thinks it is a land granting system for military merit.  Huang Mingyuan is just taking a trick now, which makes sense.

    Third, the General Administration has set up pension fields. Those who are discharged due to injury or killed in battle will be granted 20 to 200 acres of land respectively according to the level of disability and the situation of death in battle.  These lands are also managed by the general administration, and pensioners can enjoy all the income from the military fields.  The pension land will be recovered by the general manager's office until the death of the pensioner himself, or until all conditions are met, such as the death of the parents of the war dead, the death of the children, the death of the wife or remarriage, etc.

    ¡°The sword has no eyes on the battlefield, and no one dares to say that he will be able to survive.  Even opponents of this policy dare not speak out against it.

    Huang Mingyuan's policy completely relieved all the soldiers' worries.  After this order, the people in the army were inexplicably excited, and they were all grateful to Huang Mingyuan.

    As for ordinary people, although there are some who say harsh words, they also know that they have to pay for these fields with their lives, and people block them back before they even say it.

    Things came true so smoothly that even Huang Mingyuan didn't expect it.

    Huang Mingyuan originally thought that receiving land for military merit was an important part of the criticism of the Qin Dynasty in the past dynasties. Once Huang Mingyuan's reform measures came out, everyone should not regard them as a scourge.

    But Huang Mingyuan forgot that when military generals were still in power, Confucianism was already weak.  Officials at the middle and lower levels don't even understand what conferring military merit is, let alone oppose and criticize it.

    Including Rong Bi, he saw that Huang Mingyuan's actions were inappropriate, but he didn't know what Huang Mingyuan wanted to do. He simply thought that Huang Mingyuan was trying to win people's hearts. Although he was dissatisfied, he could only let it go.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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