Li Jiaozheng said: "This way there will be no problem."
Chongzhen stared at Li Jiaozheng and began to think deeply, wondering if he should give him a chance?
Li Jiaozheng mistakenly thought that Chongzhen was worried about the money, and immediately said: "Your Majesty, in fact, the construction of lake embankments and river embankments requires huge initial investment. However, once the lake embankments and river embankments are completed, the huge initial investment will be eliminated."
You can offset the expenses by selling Hutian and Jiangtian, and you may even have a surplus after the expenses are offset.”
"Hutian and Jiangtian?" Chongzhen's eyes lit up when he heard this.
Only then did Chongzhen remember that Pan Ji also sold polders when he was regulating the Yellow River.
"Your Majesty, look over there." Li Jiaozheng stretched out his hand to point to a large beach not far away and said, "This beach is at least tens of thousands of acres in size. However, because it is too close to the lake, water seepage is serious.
It is a silt beach and is flooded by rising lake water every flood season, making it impossible to farm normally."
"But if the lake embankment is built, this area will become fertile farmland with a little improvement."
After saying this, he continued: "There are more than a hundred tidal flats like this around Dongting Lake. So after the lake embankment is repaired, at least one million acres of fertile land will be available at your fingertips."
Chongzhen couldn't help feeling a little emotional after hearing this.
This is the difference between a capable official and a mediocre official. A mediocre official can only take a step forward with a whip, but a capable official can carry out work creatively. Not only can he do the work as well as possible, but he can also find ways to reduce expenses and increase income.
"Okay, I remember what you said." Chongzhen said happily, "Go back and listen."
After sending away Li Jiaozheng and a group of officials, Chongzhen immediately wrote a letter and arranged for someone to send it to Nanjing and hand it over to the cabinet.
Of course, Chongzhen only "suggested" that the cabinet should let Li Jiaozheng, the prefect of Yuezhou, serve as the censor of Youqiandu and the censor of water control, and be responsible for all water conservancy projects in Huguang.
At the same time, he also wrote a letter to Ma Mingluan.
Ask Ma Mingluan to build a water conservancy and grain bank, raising a total of 20 million taels.
The two million taels of silver need to be earmarked and used only for water conservancy in Huguang.
However, the construction of water conservancy projects will not directly generate profits. If there are no benefits, the gentry merchants in Jiangnan will definitely not be able to raise funds, so it must be linked to the grain trade in Huguang Province.
In other words, from now on Huguang’s grain will be purchased and sold by the Water Conservancy and Grain Bank.
In this way, the water conservancy and grain bank account will become profitable, and people will subscribe to it.
Moreover, having the Water Conservancy and Grain Bank monopolize the purchase and sale of grain in Huguang also has the advantage of preventing unscrupulous grain dealers from maliciously lowering grain prices. In short, capitalists have no bottom line and must be guarded against.
In fact, Chongzhen's current layout is actually moving in this direction.
For example, the Industrial and Commercial Bank is a powerful lever used by the Ministry of Internal Affairs to control industry and commerce.
For example, the Shipping and Shipbuilding Bank is a powerful lever used by the Ministry of Internal Affairs to control the shipping industry.
Another example is the Water Conservancy and Grain Bank, which is a powerful lever used by the Ministry of Internal Affairs to control the purchase and sale of grain across the country.
As for the millions of acres of lake and river fields that Li Jiaozheng built after he built the lake embankments and river embankments, these are first-class fertile fields and are specially used to settle Wuchang's soldiers.
Wuchang Zhentai will become a demonstration project that Chongzhen strives to build.
Whether the chieftains from Guangxi, Xiangxi, and Yunguichuan can successfully change their land and return to their hometowns depends on Wuchang Zhentai.
Chongzhen is now becoming more and more proficient in the use of financial tools. Without spending a tael of silver, he can get 20 million silver from the pockets of the Jiangnan Jin gentry, which is specially used to build water conservancy projects in Huguang.
After completing the major work of water conservancy construction, the renovation work of Huguangda Granary has basically been completed.
Chongzhen believes that at least before the population of the Ming Dynasty has experienced explosive growth, there will be no food crisis. After all, in addition to Huguang Granary, Xuzhou, Guide and Kaifeng Prefecture will also start large-scale food crises this year.
Grow sweet potatoes, cereals and potatoes so there is no chance of a food crisis.
There will be no stability without farmers, and once food security is guaranteed, the Ming Dynasty will at least stop rioting.
Once the territory of the Ming Dynasty was stabilized, the people would only think about living a peaceful life. At this time, the whole country could concentrate its efforts on launching the Northern Expedition against the Jiannu.
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In mid-March, Chongzhen returned to Wuchang.
By this time, 270,000 new troops had arrived in Wuchang and were stationed in Hanyang Prefecture, Wuchang Prefecture and Huangzhou Prefecture to continue arduous training.
Among them, 20,000 new troops were stationed in the newly built iron smelting factory at the northern foot of Guishan Mountain.
As soon as he returned to Wuchang, Chongzhen heard the good news that the first iron-making furnace of Hanyang Iron Smelting Factory had been built, and the first furnace of molten iron was produced three days ago.
Chongzhen was overjoyed and was about to cross the river to visit Hanyang Mansion when he received a secret message from Zuo Maodi from Xi'an.
When I opened the letter, I found that Jiannu actually launched a surprise attack on the naturalization before the beginning of spring. This caught Pseudo-Shun off guard because Pseudo-Shun had agreed on a time to gather troops with the Khalkha, Chahar and Junggar tribes.
It was in the autumn of this year, but the Jiannu slaves took action before spring.
It is said that Dorgon raised more than 200,000 troops and surrounded Guihua City.
Li Yan, who was stationed at the naturalization camp, organized several counterattacks, but was defeated by Jian Nu.
Zuo Maodi specifically mentioned Jiannu's firearms unit in his secret letter, saying that Jiannu invented a self-generating fire blunderbuss that was more convenient and more lethal than the previous matchlock gun.
Because the firearms were not as sharp as Jiannu's, several of Li Yan's counterattacks collapsed.
However, Jiannu did not rush to launch a strong attack, but began to dig a trench around Guihua City.
Hearing that naturalization was urgent, Gao Yigong, the pseudo-shunquan general, immediately led the main force of the rear battalion out of the Hetao and went to rescue them. However, they were blocked by the slave-building army led by Dorgon himself near Junzijin, and there was a stalemate for a while.
Well, this has become a turning point in the Battle of Songjin. The Battle of Xuzhou was like this, and the Battle of Naturalization will be like this again.
Jian Nu can be regarded as knowing the taste by eating the essence, because he tasted the sweetness, so every time he encountered a tough battle, he would take the medicine again according to the Songjin War.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! After Chongzhen finished reading the chapter, he handed it to Zhu Cijiong.
After Zhu Cijiong read it, he gave it to Xu Yingwei and Yan Yingyuan.
After all three of them had finished reading, Chongzhen said, "You all should talk about it."
"Jiannu is calling for reinforcements at the encirclement point." Zhu Cijiong said, "The attack on Guihua City is just an illusion. Its real intention is to lure the main force of the hypocritical rear camp from the Hetao to the grassland and then annihilate them in the field."
Xu Yingwei said: "I think it is true to build slaves and besiege the city, and it is also true to send reinforcements."
Yan Yingyuan said: "Yes, Dorgon wanted to complete his achievements in one battle and eliminate the threats from the direction of Tumut River and Hetao through this battle."
After saying this, Yan Yingyuan added: "Compared to the Battle of Naturalization, I think the self-generated fire muskets mentioned in the secret letter by Lord Zuo as a new weapon for establishing slaves is more noteworthy. It is likely to be a flintlock gun."
Chongzhen said: "It's not very possible, it's just a flintlock gun."
After a pause, Chongzhen said again: "And I can guess who built it for Jiannu."
"Tang Ruowang." Zhu Cijiong said with a dark face, "Tang Ruowang, the imperial eunuch, was originally a missionary from the West, so he must have seen a flintlock gun, so it is not surprising that he can make it."
Yan Yingyuan said: "Your Majesty, this person should be eliminated as soon as possible."
"It's not easy." Chongzhen waved his hand and said, "I have already ordered Li Ruolian to eradicate Tang Ruowang if there is a chance. However, Li Ruolian replied that the church where Tang Ruowang lived was guarded by hundreds of red-armored slaves, and there were even white-armored soldiers when they came in and out.
I'm traveling with him, so I can't find any chance to get off my phone, and I can't even get close to him."
After a pause, Chongzhen said again: "But you don't have to worry too much."
Flintlock guns are also different from flintlock guns. With a sharp flintlock gun, you must have flintlock tactics. Otherwise, the flintlock gun is just an enhanced version of the matchlock gun, and it is difficult to achieve a subversive improvement in combat effectiveness.
In terms of tactics, the Ming army had unparalleled advantages over the Jiannu.
Chongzhen asked again: "You all tell me, which one has a greater chance of winning in the naturalization battle?"
Zhu Cijiong said: "I think hypocrisy has a greater chance of winning. The hypocritical general Quan Yigong of the rear camp may not be as good as Hong Chengchou, but Zhang Neng, Ma Chongxi and other generals in the rear camp are worse than Li Fuming, Wang Pu, Ma Ke and so on. The troops in the eight towns including Datong, Xuanfu and Jizhen were too powerful to compare with the Pseudo-Shun rear camp, so Erchen thought that it was impossible for Jiannu to repeat the story of Songjin, and he might be in trouble this time. A big fight."
Yan Yingyuan said: "My opinion is exactly the opposite of that of King Ding. I think that Jiannu has a greater chance of winning in this war. From Shanhaiguan to Guguan and then to Tongguan, the Pseudo-Shun and Jiannu have never won in a head-on battle. Compared with me,
The Ming Dynasty's border troops were not much stronger, not to mention that the Puppet-Shun army did not have the slightest advantage in terms of military strength during the naturalization war."
After saying this, Yan Yingyuan added: "What's more important is that the firearms equipped by the puppet shun army are not large in number and are far less sharp than the firearms of the slaves, so the chance of victory is slim."
Chongzhen's eyes turned to Xu Yingwei, who was still thinking.
"Xu Yingwei, what about you?" Chongzhen asked directly, "What do you think?"
Xu Yingwei said: "Your Majesty, I think this victory is unpredictable, but if it is just a war between the Pseudo-Shun Houying and Jiannu, the Pseudo-Shun Houying will be defeated, but if the Pseudo-Shun Houying forces the whole country to fight for naturalization and
Jiannu will fight decisively, and at the same time, the Mongolian tribes such as Khalkha, Junggar, and Chahar also come to help in the battle, so Jiannu will definitely lose!"
Chongzhen smiled and said: "If you say so, only God knows whether we will win or lose this battle."
Zhu Cijiong said: "Father, should we also step in and send troops from the direction of Henan to respond?"
"We won't join in the fun." Chongzhen waved his hand and said, "While the Jiannu are fighting against the puppets, we can put down the rebellion in Yunnan first, and if there is still time, we can kill Zhang Xianzhong."
All in all, unless hypocrisy threatens to destroy the country, the Ming Dynasty will never send troops to respond.
Under the premise that hypocrisy will not destroy the country, the harder and more miserable the two families fight, the more beneficial it will be to Ming Dynasty.
