Chapter 361 Human and material resources
The initial transportation construction plan did not include building bridges. After all, in this era, in people's inherent concepts, the Yellow River and the Yangtze River are absolute natural barriers, and most of them no one thought of building a bridge across these two rivers.
But Ying Yi proposed it.
It is indeed extremely difficult to build a cross-river bridge, but it may not be impossible to build it with gold-yuan alloy materials and engineering components.
So the Ministry of Works first considered this and saw if it could come up with a charter.
Upon hearing this, Song Yingxing bowed: "Your Majesty, it is necessary to build a bridge that crosses rivers and rivers, but there are still some difficulties that need to be solved urgently."
"Oh?" Ying Yi nodded gently: "Song Qing comes and listen."
Song Yingxing said: "Weichen and several master bridge-making craftsmen have discussed this. We need to build a bridge that spans the natural barrier, use gold-yuan alloy to build bridge columns, bridge frames, bridges, and bridges, then lay alloy plates, and then lay soil, sand and gravel on it, and use engineering components to condense it into a flat stone path. In this way, extremely strong bridges can be built."
Ying Yi smiled and said, "What about the difficulty?"
Song Yingxing said: "Your Majesty is wise and difficult to do, lies in the laying of frames such as bridge columns. Your Majesty, the bridge that crosses the heavenly chasm, is so grand that it is so strong that the bridge column is tens of feet long and half a meter thick. How can such a huge bridge column be inserted into the bottom of the river, but it is powerless to do it with manpower. Therefore, I asked Your Majesty to set up this project in Yuanqi Hall to study related corpses. When such corpses are built, they will solve the problem that human power cannot reach, and the bridge can be built."
Ying Yi said: "Yeah, what Song Qing said is very true."
Song Yingxing said again: "Your Majesty, there is no need to worry about this matter. When the main avenue is built to the point where it is necessary to lay a bridge, at least around winter this year, Yuanqi Palace has enough time to study related corporations."
Ying Yi smiled and said, "That's right." Then he said, "Road construction only needs to be paved according to the plan. Where the manpower of building bridges cannot reach, it must be solved when necessary. The Ministry of Works does not need to worry about this, but just come up with a specific bridge construction plan."
"Abide by the emperor's order!"
Song Yingxing said, and then said, "Your Majesty shines thousands of miles. In addition, the Ministry of Works plans to comprehensively recycle the three types of private gold, silver and copper on a large scale, and increase the mining of such minerals. The empire should build an increasingly demand for such raw materials, and we have to prepare for it."
Ying Yi said: "Soon Song Qing presented it to Yige in the form of a memorial."
"Yes, your Majesty."
The great dynasty meeting in Daxia lasted for half a month, and the empire must have accumulated many problems that need to be solved in half a month. Therefore, after Song Yingxing retreated, Huang Zongxi, the minister of the Ministry of Rites, came out to report.
"Your Majesty, the education system has been fully launched in Hebei, Central Plains, Jiangnan, Guanzhong and Sichuan. However, the people are conservative and doubtful. Now, there are not many villages and towns that have built Yixue, and there are not many enrollment. The Ministry of Rites asks Your Majesty to issue an edict to enact legislation..."
For the people, knowledge is indeed expensive. It is not that the people are unwilling to enter the school, but that they choose the problem - in terms of farming, making money and enrolling, more people choose the former.
In this era, when a child grows up to seven or eight years old, he has to take on some farming tasks. From the age of 11 or 12, he will be used as a strong labor force. Nowadays, the people are 20 acres of land per capita, and the labor force at home is even short of, so many people are more willing to let their children farm rather than enroll in school.
After all, the interests of farming are visible to the naked eye.
This is a huge obstacle to the spread of the education system. Therefore, after internal discussions, the Ministry of Rites, which was in charge of education, wrote a letter to Ying Yi for legislation and imposed strict restrictions on this.
The people's hearts are like iron, and the official laws are like furnaces. In the current situation, only legislation is the most direct solution to this problem, and children can be liberated from farming and into the ocean of knowledge.
Ying Yi deeply agreed and said, "Yes."
Then he said to Sun Wen of the Imperial Court: "After the dispersion of the court, the Imperial Court will formulate a constitution in advance."
"Yes, Your Majesty." Sun Weng went out to worship.
Then Ying Yi said to his ministers: "This is the foundation of the empire. However, the people choose the former between visible interests and invisible futures. The biggest problem is the shortage of labor. The empire's land has twenty acres of land per capita. If before the empire was established, before the emergence of good seeds, they could barely be able to work hard, and one of them could not do it. Now, it cannot be. One is the intensive farming, and the other is the yield is too high, which requires a lot of labor to manage. It is not a lot of blame for keeping the children in the family for farming."
"To solve this problem, labor force is the first." Ying Yi said: "To increase the labor force that the people can dominate, slaves are the first."
Ying Yi said: "Allowing the people to buy slaves and farming can reduce the demand for labor. All the barbarian women captured from all frontiers will be sold."
"You can also start with business." Ying Yi thought: "The people cannot take care of the fields in their homes, and they can rent land that they cannot reach to merchants. There can be large farms in Liaodong, but the mainland is not impossible. However, there must be perfect laws here to prevent merchants from infringing on the people and entangling merchants."
"Whether it is selling slaves or renting land, the law needs to be improved. On this matter, the Pastoral Court and the Imperial Court need to come up with the charter as soon as possible."
Nothing in an empire can be seen alone. Often, an agricultural issue will involve all aspects of problems, education, business, etc.
Zheng Yunzhi and Sun Wen all went out to worship and said, "Abide by the emperor's order."
A major court meeting, from the morning hours to the eve of night, and there is a short rest at noon. The Pastoral Court, the Imperial Court, and even the Military Office have a large number of problems that need to be resolved at the court meeting.
But many problems have been solved before the court meeting. It is easy to deal with them.
With the personal qualities of civil and military officials in the court today and Ying Yi's powerful spiritual power, no matter the overall situation or the details, he will not go on a business trip.
There is a problem, and solve one problem and never leave it to the next court meeting.
After the scattered court, the imperial edicts were issued by the Humanitarian Supervisor, and Ying Yi kept the Yige Pavilion ministers and the Military Affairs Office's Logistics Department, the Military Prefecture Department and the Ministry of National Security.
"The empire is in its early stages, and all aspects of construction require mobilization of a large amount of manpower and material resources."
Ying Yi said, "Whether it was the issue of the Ministry of Works or the issues of the Ministry of Rites at today's court meeting, it was all related to this."
"In terms of material resources, the preparation of gold-yuan alloys requires a large amount of raw materials. The mining of raw materials still involves human resources."
"The empire is planned to be thousands of miles from north to south, even if it is agricultural production, the manpower is insufficient. Therefore, it must be solved."
In the imperial study, Ying Yi looked at a group of important officials and said, "All the ministers speak freely about this issue and have any ideas, just raise them."
Chapter completed!