Jinling's depression and population dropped sharply, which had a huge impact. Jinling, which was originally prosperous and developing rapidly, suddenly seemed to have been transformed from a pond that diverted living water from its source into a dead, dead water, showing itself dry and unrestrained.
In response to this, Wang Shouren was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot. He took many officials from South Zhili and began to visit various places to find ways to save Jinling and not let Jinling fall like this.
However, Liu Jin knew that if there were other factors, there were still ways to solve them, but things like the human heart were really difficult, very difficult, and it could be said that there was no way at all.
Once people's hearts are broken up, they are really broken up.
These big businessmen, big families, and big gentry in Jinling have chilled the hearts of ordinary people. If they have a choice, they will naturally not come to Jinling again.
Whether it is Songhu, Suzhou, Yangzhou, Hangzhou or other places, they are developing very fast now. A large number of factories require a large number of laborers. There are many jobs and the pay is not worse than here in Jinling.
Moreover, overseas colonies and vassal states need manpower even more. As long as they are willing to immigrate there, one person can get hundreds of acres of land. If a family immigrates there, they will be given even more land. If you are a bachelor, basically
Xanadu will also give you one or two female white slaves for free to warm your bed.
There are many choices for everyone. There is no need to come to Jinling again and suffer the hardships. In the end, you will feel heartbroken.
The present is different from the later generations, which have just begun to develop rapidly in the first two decades or so.
At that time, the population was large and cheap labor was abundant. There were few factories and few job opportunities, so the factory owners were not afraid of being left without people. Whether you wanted to work or not, there were people to do the work.
Without any choice, the vast number of migrant workers can only earn a meager salary and work hard without complaint. A full generation of youth has been dedicated to the construction of a prosperous and powerful motherland. It is precisely because of the sacrifices of their generation that this generation can
With the re-emergence, the next generation will be given more choices.
After the 1990s and 2000s, young people are more willful.
Not to mention remuneration, if the environment in the office is not good, the boss looks bad, or someone is unhappy, these people can resign directly and willfully, I just won't work, what the heck.
Anyway, at worst, I can go home and grow old without the pressure of my parents, and I don’t have to bear so much pressure and responsibility.
"That's fine. Technology and technological innovations gradually broke out in such an environment."
"It is always the nature of capital to pursue lower costs. Since labor cannot be reduced, it will naturally choose to use machinery, and technology and technology will naturally be more popular."
Liu Jin looked at Jinling City outside the window, thinking about everything and far away.
The reason why slaves are not allowed in the native land, and the existence of slaves is not only to maintain the purity of the native blood, but more importantly, to promote the development of local science and technology.
Because only by mastering advanced science and technology can we master the most powerful power, and we can always stand on top of the world and maintain our position as the world's big brother.
"Dong dong~"
"Sir, the envoys from Huguang and Jiangxi want to see you~"
At this time, there was a knock on the door, and he quickly came to report.
"Huguang, Chief Envoy of Jiangxi?"
When Liu Jin heard this, he immediately frowned slightly. What were these two people doing looking for him?
"Please~"
Liu Jin also walked towards the living room with doubts.
Here in the reception room of the Jinling Hotel, two groups of officials were looking at each other, and they were very angry with each other. They were blowing their beards and glaring at each other, as if they were unhappy with each other.
"Master Gao, you are so fast. Even though I am traveling under the stars and at night, I can't catch up with you."
Wei Ying looked at Gao Jiang opposite and felt extremely unhappy.
I rushed from Wuchang to Nanjing to see Liu Jin, and unexpectedly met Gao Jiang, the chief minister of Jiangxi, and I immediately understood the purpose of his coming here.
"Master Wei is really fast. You came to see Mr. Liu in such a hurry. Is there something wrong?"
Gao Jiang looked at Wei Ying opposite and asked with a smile on his face.
"Ha, there's nothing wrong. I just came here to report to Liu Gong some of our situation in Huguang. What's the reason for you coming here?"
"Haha, I don't have anything to do, I just want to come over and visit Mr. Liu."
The two of them actually knew each other's purpose of coming, but neither one revealed it.
Soon, Liu Jin, who was wearing a crimson robe, walked into the living room. The officials from Huguang and Jiangxi who were sitting there quickly stood up and shouted to Liu Jin in unison: "I have met Mr. Liu~"
"Well, everyone, please sit down."
Liu Jin glanced around and his eyes naturally fell on Wei Ying and Gao Jiang.
Liu Jin still has a good influence on these two people. In the debriefing meeting, these two people have achieved good political achievements. Compared with the officials in Jiangnan, the two of them can be regarded as hard-working officials.
Of course, every official wants to climb up the ladder. The official evaluation system formulated by Liu Jin has extremely high requirements for the evaluation of feudal officials. However, Liu Jin is a person who works according to the rules and sets his own rules.
According to the rules, Liu Jin will promote those who excel in the assessment.
In the same way, as long as officials who fail the assessment and remain idle, Liu Jin will punish them unceremoniously, ranging from demotion to demotion, or even letting them go home for retirement.
Naturally, a group of hard-working officials were cultivated.
Regardless of whether these officials want to be promoted, or they are really based on the concept of serving as an official for one term and benefiting one party, if officials of the hard-working style want to be promoted and promoted, they must make some achievements.
Wei Ying, the chief envoy of Huguang, and Gao Jiang, the chief envoy of Jiangxi, are similar in all aspects and do quite well. However, when they reach the position of chief envoy, they are already high officials in the border areas, and they are senior officials of the third or second grade.
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You must know that Liu Jin, the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, was only a second-rank official, just a little higher than them. Even Liu Jin did not directly appoint, remove or remove them from their duties.
If they want to move up a level, if they are transferred back to the capital to become officials, they will basically hold the position of Minister of the Sixth Ministry or Minister.
There are only a few positions for the six ministers and ministers in total. There are many chief envoys and inspectors throughout the Ming Dynasty. That is to say, there are more monks and less rice. Everyone wants to be transferred back to the capital to become an official in the capital, and they all want to be promoted.
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Among them, the most important one was the recommendation of Liu Jin, the official minister.
Whenever there are six ministers in the court, and an official at the rank of minister retires or resigns, leaving a vacant position, the minister of official affairs usually draws up a list of several recommendations, and then several cabinet ministers discuss and eliminate them.
If unsuitable candidates are eliminated, the emperor will usually be asked to choose one from among the last few candidates.
Of course, sometimes, when the emperor has a candidate he likes, he will directly bypass the Ministry of Personnel and the Cabinet to appoint him. However, generally, officials appointed in this way will not be recognized by other officials in the court, will be despised by others, and will often act very awkwardly.
Not going well.
Some things are everyone's default rules. For example, non-Jinshi will not be admitted to the Hanlin, and non-Hanlin will not be admitted to the cabinet. This is almost the default rule of the game in the Ming Dynasty officialdom. Breaking the rules will naturally lead to everyone's dissatisfaction.
Therefore, if they want to be promoted one step higher, it can be said to be as difficult as climbing to the sky. Reaching the level of chief envoy is already the ceiling, but if Liu Jin, the official minister, is willing to recommend them, they may not have no hope of being promoted again.
step.
A chief envoy is a chief envoy, but compared with the six ministers, there is always a big difference. Even if he returns to his hometown in honor in the future, the difference between retiring as a minister and retiring as a chief envoy is very different.
big.
Liu Jin finally came to the south once. Huguang and Jiangxi are also close to Nanjing. If you take a boat, you can arrive there very quickly along the river. Naturally, he must come over to report his work to Liu Jin. At the same time, more importantly, in order to win the next
The imperial court's support for their respective localities.
"Mr. Liu, I haven't seen you since we parted ways in the capital the year before last, and I haven't seen you for more than a year. You are still as charming as ever."
Wei Ying looked at Liu Jin and changed the topic with a smile.
"Haha, Mr. Wei is joking."
When Liu Jin heard this, he immediately laughed, then thought for a moment and asked, "Is the situation in Huguang pretty good?"
"Thanks to the great blessing of the Emperor, and also to the support of the princes of the DPRK and China, Huguang has developed well in recent years."
"The past few years have been going well, and grain production has been increasing year by year. This is also thanks to Liu Gong's insistence that the court set up a grain and agriculture department to promote improved seeds and good farming methods throughout the country, so Huguang can have bumper harvests every year.
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"Last year, the grain output in Huguang increased by 20% compared with the previous year. With the promotion of high-yielding rice and mechanization, as well as the promotion of duck farming in rice fields, not only was the grain harvest achieved, but Huguang's duck production also ranked first in the country. Every year
Tens of millions of ducks can be transported to Beijing, Tianjin, Songhu, and Nanjing."
While Wei Ying reported the situation in Huguang to Liu Jin, he also did not forget to flatter Liu Jin.
"That's good, that's good~"
"This is the result of the hard work and hard work of Huguang people themselves, the result of diligence and wisdom."
"I think your Majesty will be even happier if he hears the news."
Liu Jin nodded with satisfaction. Wei Ying, the envoy to Huguang, had indeed spent a lot of effort in this regard.
Vigorously promote high-yielding rice, promote steam cultivators, harvesters and rice mills, and improve mechanized farming. At the same time, we have learned from Jiangnan the method of raising ducks in rice fields, which is to grow rice in the rice fields and raise ducks at the same time. Not only can
Remove pests, diseases, and weeds in rice fields, and also add fertilizer to rice fields.
While increasing production, the ducks raised are also sold to other provinces on a large scale, increasing income.
For this matter, Huguang even specially funded the Daming Royal Institute of Technology to study how to breed and reproduce ducks on a large scale, and made a major breakthrough that allowed large-scale duck breeding. This made rice farming more feasible.
Duck's plan can be implemented and promoted on a large scale in Huguang.
Liu Jin knew about this and had a very good impression of Wei Ying.
Since ancient times, in fact, as long as directions are given, there will naturally be no shortage of talents in all aspects. Many of the things many frontier officials have done to improve their political performance have left Liu Jin stunned and he had to express his admiration.
