1. Biography of Qing Shi Huang
He ordered 30,000 households to immigrate to this area promising the households they would be free of tax and labor obligations for 12 years. ... [Citation] The emperor's mandated immigration resulted in principle center on the southeastern Shandong for several centuries due its economic promise in salt production. Several other mandated immigrations were also recorded in "Shi ji", these immigrations were meant to be a way for agricultural expansion and economic improvement for the empire. ...
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