I am the prince of the Ming Dynasty, I don't give up

Chapter 408 Reform Policy
In this era, the mortality rate of exile is still very high. After all, this is indeed the case if there are no relatives or friends to help take care of it.

Because they would have to be escorted on foot in shackles to a place thousands of miles away, eat poorly, sleep poorly, be physically tired, and not adapt to the climate and water. It would be easy to lose one's life due to a small problem, so the death rate in exile has always been quite high.

But Zhu Houxuan exiled these people not to let them lose their lives, but to open up colonies.

Therefore, Zhu Houxuan thought of many ways to reduce the death rate of exiled prisoners on the way to exile.

These methods were also summarized through continuous overseas immigration.

The simplest and most direct way is shipping. The Royal Group has been building ships continuously for the past three years, and the shipyard in Jinzhouwei has been expanded twice.

Zhu Houxuan directly and indirectly controlled the largest number of ships on the East Asian waters, so shipping was the best option.

The places of exile (colonies) he chose were all close to large rivers or oceans, and were accessible to the Royal Group's merchant ships. This made it very convenient to transport supplies to and from the colonies, and also helped the colonies to quickly integrate into the Royal Group's industrial system.

Transporting immigrants and exiles by ship can greatly reduce the death rate on the journey. After all, there is no need to walk, the body is less tired, and various diseases are less likely to take advantage of the situation.

With the Royal Group's persistent immigration over the past three years, two relatively mature immigration routes have been established.

One is to go to Guandong, which is Liaodong. At that time, there were only a few hundred thousand Ming people in Liaodong. It was vast and sparsely populated, but rich in resources. It was only under the jurisdiction of the military organization Liaodongdusi and had no civil affairs organization. Zhu Houxuan chose to immigrate here because of this.

The second is to go to Southeast Asia, using Taiwan as a forward and transit base to continuously transport the bankrupt Ming people out of Ming. Now there is a forward base on Luzon Island.

In fact, Zhu Houxun is still preparing another immigration route, but this immigration route can only start immigration after Zhu Houzhao recovers Hetao.

This immigration route goes west and immigrates to Hetao. Hetao, a place suitable for reclamation, is too important. It is the most important fulcrum for the Central Plains dynasty to control the grassland.

Therefore, once Hetao was recovered, Zhu Houxuan would organize a large number of immigrants to settle in Hetao and firmly control the Hetao area.

In fact, these three routes are the three directions of immigration for modern Chinese people. These three routes will be opened up by Zhu Houxuan. If this were in the game, it would be worth an achievement.
As for the southwest direction of the Ming Dynasty, this direction is too far away from the core area controlled by Zhu Houxun, and the traffic conditions are also very bad. In Zhu Houxun's view, this direction will sooner or later become a waste of time, so he is not very concerned about the development of this direction now.

Back to the topic, when Zhu Houxuan completely controlled the 24 prefectures and counties of Shuntian Prefecture, his new policy began.

The second reform policy he issued was to abolish the road permit system within the capital's te district, allowing the people of the 24 counties of Shuntian Prefecture to move freely within Shuntian Prefecture. The third reform policy was that all taxes and labor service fees in the 24 counties of Shuntian Prefecture could be collected and paid by the government if they were paid with silver yuan coupons, but if they still paid taxes in kind, they could only be collected and paid by the people.

Changing the system of people collecting and solving problems to government-managed problems is definitely a good policy for ordinary people. It can significantly reduce the burden on the people and is very tempting to the people.

Some people may not know what "min hui min jie" means. Let's take a famous incident during the reign of Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang as an example. During the reign of Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, tens of thousands of households in Jiangnan were required to transport their taxes to the homes of more than 9,000 Jinwu Guard soldiers as their military pay for the year. Every few households were responsible for transporting the taxes to the home of one Jinwu Guard soldier, and this system was successfully implemented during the Hongwu period.

If the transportation location is far away, the people will have to pay a lot of extra costs.

At the same time, the Royal Group also began to build many infrastructure projects and various factories in Shuntian Prefecture. These projects provided many job opportunities, and the remuneration for these jobs was silver yuan coupons.

Zhu Houxuan used political means to allow the people of Shuntian Prefecture to use silver dollar coupons, and used economic means to provide job opportunities to earn silver dollar coupons, thus forming a cycle for the circulation of silver dollar coupons.

In fact, the essence of this matter is that Zhu Houxuan used some colorful pieces of paper to mobilize the people of Shuntian Prefecture to work for him, but after being packaged by political and economic means, the people of Shuntian Prefecture were willing to accept it.
Does this look familiar? In fact, this is how the government of later generations prints trillions of dollars and invests in infrastructure to boost the economy.
Zhu Houxuan estimated that the population of three to four million in the twenty counties of Shuntian Prefecture could absorb at least 20 million silver yuan coupons.

What he needs to do now is to continuously use economic and political means to increase the use scenarios of silver dollar coupons. This is just like the promotion of mobile payment in later generations. Only by constantly increasing the use scenarios can the people of Shuntian Prefecture fully realize the convenience of silver dollar coupons and develop the habit of using silver dollar coupons.

Only in this way can the credibility of the silver dollar notes and the people's confidence in him be gradually established.

If the Ming Baochao not only fails to increase its usage scenarios but also continuously reduces them and restricts its use, then the market will not recognize its value, and thus it will become waste paper.

Driven by this series of measures, silver dollar coupons were fully circulated in Shuntian Prefecture. Zhu Houxuan's plan was to circulate them in Shuntian Prefecture first, build up enough reputation and then spread them outward.

Because the Royal Group can fully handle the issuance of silver dollar notes of this scale. Even if all the silver dollar notes circulating on the market are taken to the Royal Bank to be redeemed for silver coins, the Royal Bank has the strength to make the redemption.

Therefore, the Royal Bank unconditionally exchanged all silver dollar certificates for silver coins. This straightforward and confident approach made the people of Shuntian Prefecture more confident in the silver dollar certificates.

Shuntian Prefecture's special political status meant that the impact of the circulation of silver dollar certificates would not be limited to Shuntian Prefecture, but would continue to spread to the surrounding areas, paving the way for the spread of silver dollar certificates on a larger scale.

In order to reduce the adverse effects of Ming Baochao on silver yuan coupons, Zhu Houxuan directly abolished Ming Baochao, making this paper currency that had been in circulation in Ming Dynasty for nearly 150 years a thing of the past.
(End of this chapter)