A New Exploration of the Wasteland Number and the Reclamation Process in Shanxi in the Early Qing Dynasty
After the principle of setting taxes based on the original amount of Wanli was determined in the early Qing Dynasty,a large number of wasteland figures were formed through"removing wasteland and collecting reclaimed land"(Ti Huang Zheng Shu).Through the investigation of Shanxi Province in the early Qing Dynasty,it can be seen that the number of wasteland mainly refers to the excluded wasteland in the original land amount.In the process of wasteland classification and successive census,the numbers showed characteristics of delay,stratification and systematic missing.Under the influence of the policy of exemption,on the one hand,it included some uncultivated or wasteland difficult to cultivate formed in the middle and late Ming Dynasty,on the other hand,it did not include a large number of easily reclaimed wasteland formed in the late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty.In the reclamation process in early Qing Dynasty,these wasteland number became an important basis for the rulers to judge the reclamation situation and the starting point of reclamation.Therefore,although the situation of reclamation in Shanxi was not good before Yongzheng's era,the actual reclamation process of wasteland started earlier,was larger in scale and completed faster than that was reflected in the reclamation figures,and it's different in terms of spatial process.
Early Qing Dynastywasteland numberreclamation processShanxi Province
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