Chapter 492: Harmonious development between grandparents and grandchildren
For Zhu Ying now, he is already at the pinnacle of power.
This is something that many people would not envy.
But now Zhu Ying is still very busy every day.
In fact, he can also live his whole life in a bad way.
Awake to hold the power of the world, drunk and lying on the knees of a beautiful woman.
Some of the fantasies I had in my previous life can now be easily realized.
For someone like Di Yusen, just a few words can turn him from a low-level official directly into a third-rank official, wielding great power.
If Zhu Ying had lived in the palace from the beginning, this would have been a very possible choice.
But after experiencing many things in the Western Regions, especially when he was so hungry that he competed with wild dogs for food, his character changed greatly.
He is cruel, because if he is not cruel, he will not survive.
At the same time, he also has a kind heart, because if his heart were not kind, there would not be so many people following him loyally.
There are tens of millions of mansions in Ande, which can shelter the poor people all over the world and make them happy.
Scenes from history in his memory will always appear in his mind.
If Zhu Ying did not make changes, today's prosperous age might be just a flash in the pan in the history of the Ming Dynasty.
Just like Zhang Juzheng's Wanli Zhongxing, how long can it last?
Especially the danger from the West.
In his lifetime, he can eliminate the Jurchens, conquer the Mongols, and even control the countries in Southeast Asia.
But will this allow Ming Dynasty to live forever?
Does not.
You must know that when the Manchu Qing Dynasty fell, there were mountains of firearms in the warehouse.
Therefore, Zhu Ying wanted to complete the restructuring of the Ming Dynasty and truly realize his ambition.
At this point, in the twenty-sixth year since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, with the support of the old man, it is the most promising.
High-yielding crops have indeed enabled the Ming Dynasty's national power to continue to rise.
However, in some poor places, many people still starve to death.
The city of Nanjing is indeed prosperous now, ranking first in the world, but it is currently limited to Nanjing and its surrounding areas.
This is because there is an extreme lack of talent in Zhu Ying's hands.
As for the current situation, we can only support Nanjing first and then drive other places.
Sea trade is now the fastest way to increase wealth.
It seems that there is a lot of money nowadays, but in fact there are more places to spend money.
The construction of the North-South Expressway involved a lot of labor, food, and money.
Even with Zhu Ying's many methods to let many landlords and gentry share this sky-high cost, it was still a huge expense for the Ming Dynasty.
From Nanjing to Peiping, there are more than 2,000 miles in total. It is really very difficult to build it.
Especially some problems encountered during road construction can easily delay the project.
However, it is expected that this north-south expressway will be almost completed by the beginning of next spring.
Almost a year.
It sounds a bit incredible, as if roads were not built so quickly in previous lives.
This is not the case.
The Ming Dynasty is currently constructing the North-South Expressway with almost all the efforts of the country. There are probably millions of people involved in it alone.
It is different from ordinary road construction.
Zhu Ying divided the North-South Avenue into hundreds of paragraphs.
Officials from the Ministry of Industry are responsible for each paragraph, and there are strict requirements on completion time.
And local people, after receiving a certain wage subsidy, are also required to participate.
With wages to be paid, people's enthusiasm will naturally be much greater.
Moreover, this north-south highway is not reopened, but an expansion of the original official road.
90% of these floors have been treated, relatively speaking, they are directly laid with cement.
What affects the progress of the project now is not the manpower, but the cement production that cannot keep up.
This is why Zhu Ying made the cement formula public to the public before this, so that many businessmen could participate.
It is certainly unrealistic to ask the Qunying Chamber of Commerce to open hundreds of factories.
However, the cement formula is of course not given for free. Each factory's Qunying Chamber of Commerce will never occupy a certain share of dry shares because of the cement formula provided.
And in Ming Dynasty.
If a businessman wants to open a factory, he needs to obtain approval from the government.
You can have whatever cement formula you want, but the official approval means that you must hand over the dry shares to the Qunying Chamber of Commerce.
The current Qunying Chamber of Commerce is actually no different from the Royal Private Chamber of Commerce.
In other words, it is currently planned to be included in the palace funds.
From the perspective of the previous life, this place was equivalent to the private property of the royal family.
Now, the support for many royal descendants is gradually being transferred from the imperial household department to internal funds.
For example, the shops on both sides of Zhengyang Avenue are the private property of the royal family.
The rent collected every year is included in the internal funds.
This also saves the emperor from having to compete with the Ministry of Revenue for money.
And the current money and grain of the Ministry of Revenue can be used entirely within the Ming Dynasty, instead of being misappropriated by the emperor himself.
It is equivalent to public funds.
Regarding the distinction between public and private funds, Zhu Ying is well aware of the stakes involved. Although he cannot clearly clarify it with the old man now, he has gradually begun to change the old man's habit of using personal funds.
Regarding this point, Zhu Yuanzhang is actually very cooperative.
Now there is so much money in the internal funds that Zhu Yuanzhang feels like he can't spend all of it.
Not only the banknotes, but also the assets have increased dramatically.
You must know that all the properties related to the Qunying Chamber of Commerce and all current land deed documents have begun to be transferred to the palace.
For this purpose, a special place was set aside to store these title deed warehouses belonging to the royal family.
Zhu Yuanzhang, who had been poor for almost his whole life, would take a walk in this warehouse every day after handling government affairs.
Whenever he went in and walked around, Zhu Yuanzhang would smile from ear to ear when he came out.
I said before that I could just sit back and enjoy the world, but when I'm in charge, I only need food, rice, oil and salt.
The Ming Dynasty has always relied on printing treasure banknotes to make its transition, and income and expenditure are not directly proportional at all.
Otherwise, words like Fengyang Flower Drum would not have spread.
Even his hometown cannot get rich, which has always been Zhu Yuanzhang's worry.
When we were having dinner that night, Zhu Yuanzhang said: "Grandson, we are from Fengyang. We were born in Fengyang since we were young. Now we are rich, but the folks in Fengyang are still living in poverty.
day."
"Please see if there is any way to make our hometown live a better life. Not only will everyone be rich, but at least they will have enough to eat."
Zhu Yuanzhang still has great feelings for his hometown Fengyang.
At the beginning, he had no soldiers, so he could only go back to his hometown to recruit troops. The first 500 people, including the 24 generals who founded the Ming Dynasty, were all from Fengyang.
From this aspect, it seems that Fengyang has produced many talents.
However, in reality, talent is nothing compared to opportunity.
There are many more talented people in the world than Fengyang. It's just that the opportunity comes, so there are so many famous generals and ministers.
Otherwise, even if you have great talents, they can only be buried in daily food and clothing and field work.
People who don't even know where their next meal is will have any thoughts about the general trend of the world.
Zhu Yuanzhang felt a little guilty about his hometown Fengyang.
Although Zhu Yuanzhang was a little sad about Fengyang Flower Drum, he did not make Fengyang feel better.
I originally thought about moving the capital, but now I have no choice but to give up.
Now that life is getting prosperous, Zhu Yuanzhang has many ideas, but before that, he should seek advice from his great grandson.
Hearing this, Zhu Ying nodded and replied: "Grandpa, don't worry, my grandson should know that Fengyang is a good place. Not to mention there will be great development, but there is still no problem if we promote it."
"Let's leave this matter to my grandson."
Hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang nodded happily.
Developing a place is certainly not a problem for Zhu Ying.
The simplest way is to attract investment.
All you need to do is let the Qunying Chamber of Commerce choose Fengyang as the location to open its factory, and then implement certain incentive policies to attract other businessmen to come. Then the employment problems of a large number of people will be solved, and the matter will be settled.
"We heard that the first batch of disciples at the Military Academy are about to graduate."
After taking a rest after dinner, Zhu Yuanzhang asked casually.
Zhu Yuanzhang has always been concerned about the Ming Dynasty Military Academy, or when it comes to some changes in military power, Zhu Yuanzhang has never been concerned about it.
Zhu Ying replied: "In a few days, it will be the first day of October, which is also the day when these students graduate."
Zhu Yuanzhang thought for a while and asked: "Is the Great Sun going to arrange all these students into the guardhouse?"
This is not a simple matter. From a small perspective, Zhu Ying began to place his own disciples. From a large perspective, it is also a big reform for the current health system.
Because according to the preparations mentioned by Zhu Ying before, it is to create a professional army.
Professional soldiers are full-time soldiers. Apart from training, they do not need to undertake any other agricultural work. Their combat effectiveness will naturally be extremely high. However, it is also a big impact on the current guard system.
At present, the burden of the Ming Dynasty's millions of troops still lies in the garrison and does not fall on the court. This saves an unknown amount of money and food.
Once the guard system was changed, the burden on the court would be extremely high.
No wonder Zhu Yuanzhang didn't pay attention to it.
Zhu Ying shook his head and said, "My grandson does not want these first batch of students to join the army for the time being. Instead, they will continue to serve in the college as instructors."
"They are students who have received the latest military knowledge, which is valuable in many aspects. Therefore, training new students can be of great help."
There are too few teachers in the Ming Military Academy, and there are even fewer teachers with comprehensive talents.
Currently it is teaching teaching and practicing practicing.
There is no complete systematic training, and these first batch of students, in fact, have only studied for more than half a year.
If we say proficiency, that's just it. Of course, this is actually better than many generals.
If they leave the academy, it will be difficult to say that they have achieved snowballing development.
Zhu Yuanzhang reminded: "Real generals are made by fighting on the battlefield, not by studying."
"On this point, Da Sun should be clear in his mind."
Zhu Ying nodded and replied: "What grandpa teaches is that my grandson has an idea in his mind and wants to establish grassroots work experience for students."
"After next year's new students graduate, they will be transferred to various health centers in the Ming Dynasty for an internship. This does not grant a formal official position, but serves as an internship for three years on behalf of a hundred households."
"After three years, we will conduct an assessment based on their situation, including the overall changes and performance of the health center where they are located, and then determine the position of each trainee."
Zhu Ying could only implement these changes in the system, especially those involving military power, with the approval of the old man.
Perhaps for many princes in the past dynasties, this feeling seems to be that their power has been restricted.
They were unable to express their political opinions at all, which is why many princes were at odds with the emperor.
No matter how the prince's behavior is, once the emperor feels that it is not good, he can overthrow it completely.
This has always been the case since ancient times.
However, this does not exist with Zhu Ying, because he believes in the wisdom of the old man, and if there is anything wrong, he can definitely find out the omissions and fill them up.
If it is feasible, it will be implemented.
In terms of the distribution of power, Zhu Yuanzhang gave Zhu Ying a lot of room for free development. Accordingly, every change Zhu Ying made would be first implemented after seeking Zhu Yuanzhang's approval.
This also made the relationship between the grandfather and grandson more tacit, and even if there were disputes, they were very peaceful.
After hearing these words, Zhu Yuanzhang thought for a while and said: "Da Sun's idea is good, but it should be considered based on some special circumstances."
"The Hundred Households may not seem like much to Da Sun, but in the guardhouse, every Hundred Households have made contributions to the Ming Dynasty."
"Most of the military households in the guard station are from the hometown. If an outsider is rashly inserted, there will be no problem in the capital. But if it is elsewhere, it will be extremely easy to cause conflicts."
Having said this, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but sigh: "In fact, we are also aware of some of the conditions in the guardhouse. It is extremely difficult to completely change them. Some things do not need to be done too hastily. You can wait until the time is right."
In fact, Zhu Yuanzhang had a clear conscience about the military attache's greed for money, but he naturally had social reasons for not controlling it.
Being a soldier has not been a good livelihood since ancient times.
Even though Zhu Ying tried his best to promote the status of sergeants in the hearts of the people, for now, the effect is not very strong when it comes to any territory in the Ming Dynasty.
Some plans need to be adapted to local conditions, and the situation in the capital cannot be generalized.
Hearing this, Zhu Ying naturally had more thoughts in her heart.
There is a big gap between imagination and reality. Some seemingly absurd policies cannot be implemented, but in fact there is no problem in the imagination.
It's just that the development of things does not completely follow the idea, and it is more common to go in the opposite direction.
Such a situation is unavoidable even in future generations, let alone today.
"What grandpa taught me is that my grandson is not very thoughtful in this regard."
Hearing Dasun's reply, Zhu Yuanzhang said with a smile: "Dasun, there is no need to belittle oneself. Our arrangements in this regard seem to be good, but we must do it step by step."
"The situation in the health center has reached this point, and it is time to make some adjustments."
Everyone wants to have a more powerful army, and Zhu Yuanzhang is no exception.
The emergence of the guard system was actually a helpless choice for Zhu Yuanzhang. Now that the Ming Dynasty was rich, the guard system had been unable to keep up with development.
It's just that it involves too much, and sudden changes can easily cause turmoil.
Especially after the change affects the hereditary inheritance, this must be carefully considered.