Chapter 450 Immigration
Jiang Tangtang didn't know at this time what kind of storms and waves her new policies had caused in the surrounding countries.
Earlier, when Jiang Tangtang and Lu Shiyan conquered Xirong, and the people's lives became better and better, the people of the neighboring countries were very moved. They often asked the traveling merchants about the news of the Damin people, wishing they could be Damin people themselves.
Now Damin has actually promulgated a new policy, registering the people from various countries who come to Damin to settle down and distributing land.
How could this not excite them?
Some people who had long been unable to make ends meet immediately packed up their bags and ran to Damin with their families.
In addition to the oppressed people whose lives were so hard, the slaves of wealthy families also tried every possible way to escape.
This angered the local gentry and officials in some neighboring countries.
The tenant farmers and slaves have all run away, who will they oppress?
They were deeply resentful of Jiang Tangtang and often used insults in private, using phrases like "long-haired but short-sighted, pushing new policies recklessly, the country will eventually be destroyed" and "no matter how strong you are, you still have to lie under a man's crotch." But aside from private insults, they had no other recourse.
Daming now has a strong military force. Who among these small countries dares to provoke him?
Didn’t you see that the emperor of their country had to hold it in and let her bully him?
They did not dare to provoke the common people, but instead took out their anger on the common people. These powerful local gentry and officials became more and more aggressive, enslaving the common people and making them suffer unbearably.
At the beginning, only some people who really couldn't make ends meet secretly ran to Damin.
Those who were timid and cautious by nature did not act.
However, as the gentry and officials in the country became increasingly cruel, and as the people who had escaped brought back news that the rumors were true, more people began to find ways to escape to Daming.
With the rise of migration, many new industries emerged in Damin. For example, some people saw business opportunities and specialized in guiding those outsiders, earning a few copper coins for each guide.
Some people also started food businesses.
Although most of the people attracted by this new policy are people who have been severely oppressed in their own country and can no longer make a living.
But there are also merchants who have a certain amount of money at home and want to come to Damin to find new opportunities to make money, or they feel that the officialdom in their country is dark and have their eyes on the development of Damin, so they move to Damin with their children in order to make a name for themselves in Damin!
The influx of these people also made Daming's economy more active.
At first, some local officials did not understand Jiang Tangtang's new policy. They did not understand why she would implement such a policy and give away good land to foreigners.
That's land!
How many things have been passed down from generation to generation!
In the past, what was the war between nations all about? Wasn't it land?
She actually gave the land away for free!
But as more and more people came to Damin, some originally deserted places became lively.
Seeing that the depressed local business became hot due to the influx of a large number of people, and shops and houses were built enthusiastically, those slow-reacting officials finally reacted, understood the benefits, and began to scramble for people.
Some officials who had previously been passive and lazy also started to think about how to attract people to the local area.
The new policy promulgated by Jiang Tangtang is very humane.
The people who moved to Damin were not forced to settle in a specific place, but were given a range of choices. Of course, this range of choices did not include places like Lingnan City.
Most of the areas divided by Jiang Tangtang are vast but sparsely populated areas.
Daming has a vast territory, and even local people may not necessarily understand another place, let alone the new immigrants.
Most of the local officials who accept new immigrants are passive and lazy, so they think it doesn’t matter where these immigrants go.
Let these immigrants run around like headless flies.
But when they discovered that new immigrants could boost the local economy and tax revenue and affect their political achievements, they began to take action.
Someone hired a clerk to write a brochure introducing the local area and specifically promoted the local situation.
Some officials also took into consideration that some people could not read, so they asked them to memorize the contents of the brochures and explain them to them.
There are also officials in particularly remote and cold areas who, considering that the areas under their jurisdiction have no competitiveness compared with other places, have worked hard on the resettlement terms.
With the active response of officials, the new policy was implemented smoothly.
By the end of May, the total population of Damin had increased by 30,000, and many wastelands were being cultivated.
The new policy has achieved such results right after its implementation, and it will surely be even better in the future.
The actual results were far beyond everyone's imagination. The influx of a large population not only brought the wasteland of Damin under cultivation, increasing local tax revenue, but also boosted the local economy.
The national treasury, which had been empty since the establishment of Damin, was finally filled.
Of course, this is all later.
Let’s get back to the present.
Although Mu Yuchong worked together with Qu Xiujie and other officials of the old dynasty, he did not completely trust this group of people.
Now that Daming has implemented new policies, Mu Yuchong and his group simply changed their identities into businessmen and walked around Daming with open arms.
The next day, Mu Yuchong came to Qiongzhou at his daughter's request.
Although Daming Harbor was novel to Mu Wanning, in her heart, this strange country was still far inferior to Dayao.
But the prosperity and uniqueness of Qiongzhou really shocked and delighted her.
The quaint houses, the wide streets, the various beautiful clothes and jewelry in the shops, and the novel food, all made her love them all.
Mu Wanning pointed at the jewelry in the glass cabinet and said, "I want all of these!"
She was currently in a silver shop in Qiongzhou.
This silver shop was the Jiuxia Silver Shop where Jiang Tangtang and Chu Mingyu had originally cooperated.
However, today Jiuxia Silver House has grown from a small shop into a big brand with countless branches across the country and is thumbs up by countless people.
The reason why Jiuxia Silver Shop is doing so well is not because of Jiang Tangtang.
In fact, people outside don’t know that most of the Jiuxia Silver House belongs to Jiang Tangtang.
Firstly, apart from occasionally helping out with some ideas and giving some design drawings to Chu Mingyu, Jiang Tangtang basically does not participate in the management of the silver shop.
On the other hand, Chu Mingyu is low-key enough. Even if the silver shop encounters problems, he never uses Jiang Tangtang's name to solve the problem.
Not only does she act with discretion, she also knows when to advance and when to retreat. She knows what she should take and what she shouldn't take.
Jiang Tangtang looked at the silver shop's accounts several times and found that every transaction was clean and without any ulterior motives, so she was willing to maintain the status quo.
When I have free time, I will also give some advice to the jewelry store.
Seeing that the glass was successfully produced this time, she designed some glass cabinets for displaying jewelry and gave them to Chu Mingyu.
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