On the official road leading to Tianjin, the team of Li Dongyang, Zhou Jing, and Zhang Mao was slowly moving forward. Because they had arrived in Tianjin and had confirmed that there was indeed a penny per pound of meat in Tianjin, so the three of them were now
I was not in a hurry, but rode slowly while digesting what I saw and heard today.
What they saw in Tianjin today was far beyond their imagination, whether it was recruiting victims to build roads, giving them meat, eating fish for a penny per pound, or this spacious road in front of them,
An extremely smooth cement road.
Before today, their world was still the same world, but now the original world seems to be falling apart. The terrible super earthquake has completely shattered their original world.
Since ancient times, disaster victims have been a burden and trouble in the eyes of officials, and they are a group that is prone to trouble. Because the victims need relief, which costs the court money and food, they are a burden.
There are so many things to do to relieve the victims, and there are so many troubles, so they are troubles. Since ancient times, the victims who cannot survive often imitate Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, raise an uprising, or steal, rob, and become shears.
Small thieves, thieves and bandits who dominate the mountain, etc., are extremely fragile and prone to accidents. After all, when they cannot survive, they can do anything.
Therefore, all dynasties in the past dynasties have been extremely careful and cautious in dealing with disaster victims. Once the number of disaster victims gathers too much, they will immediately find ways to disperse these victims. If someone starts to attack, war will immediately start.
But now, here in Tianjin, tens of thousands of victims have gathered, but everything is in order and there is no problem at all.
Here, the victims are neither a burden nor a trouble, and nothing will happen to them. Instead, Liu Jin organized people to organize these victims to build official roads, build houses, build ports, and complete major projects.
Not only can it easily solve the problems of the victims, but it can also use these cheap labor forces to complete the big projects and projects that they want to complete, killing multiple birds with one stone.
The victims who have jobs can support their families with their own hands. Naturally, no one will make trouble. In addition, with the promotion system provided by Liu Jin, as long as you work hard and work hard, you can become a regular worker and a manager.
, not only can you have three meals a day, but you can also get a generous salary every month.
In addition, many of the current managers are victims of the disaster who escaped from the famine in the past. These people are the best living typical cases, letting the victims know that what Liu Jin issued is not a bad check. Naturally, everyone will work hard and will not cause trouble.
.
The combination of various measures resulted in a prosperous scene in Tianjin, which continuously attracted disaster victims.
"Liu Jin is worthy of being a disciple of a master. He is really admirable."
Riding a horse on a spacious and flat cement road, the road is spacious and divided into left and right directions. All pedestrians, vehicles and horses walk on the right, so although this road is very busy, everything is very orderly.
Look at the trees planted in the middle of the road. When these trees grow up, they can provide resting and shady places for pedestrians. Everything has been thought out and arranged, which makes Li Dongyang have to admire Liu Jin.
"It's really amazing. Wherever he is, everything has changed dramatically."
"In times of famine, we actually relied on eating meat to survive."
Zhou Jing also nodded, but couldn't help but shake his head as he spoke.
He didn't say he was a rich scholar, but at least he must have read this book a lot. But since ancient times, he has never heard of letting the victims eat meat to survive the famine years. It is unheard of. If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he would definitely
Won't believe it.
"Xie Gong, do you think I am facing the Forbidden Sea..."
Zhou Jing didn't say all the words. If you click on some things casually, smart people will know what you mean. Li Dongyang and Zhang Mao are obviously smart people and know what he wants to say.
It was just here in Tianjin that I heard about this fishing boat going out to sea. It can catch more than 100,000 kilograms of marine fish in a day. Such a huge harvest brought a huge shock to Zhou Jing, and directly changed his inner understanding of the ocean.
subversion.
In the past, Zhou Jing could be said to be very unfamiliar with the ocean. The imperial court had always implemented a sea ban policy. Without the imperial court's permission, no sails could go into the sea.
Under such a strict maritime ban, the development and utilization of the ocean was almost zero. This ocean was almost dispensable to the Ming Dynasty, even because of the occasional sporadic Japanese pirates (Japanese pirates actually existed since the founding of the Ming Dynasty).
A little bit, it really became widespread during the Jiajing period), and it would bring some trouble to the Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, regarding the ocean, firstly, the Ming court did not realize the importance of the ocean; secondly, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, still believed in agriculture-based policies and was extremely disgusted with businessmen, and locked the common people firmly through various policies.
On one-third of an acre of land.
Under the system that emphasized agriculture and suppressed commerce, not only was the sea banned, but fishing was not allowed. Perhaps the only use of the sea was to boil salt.
Now there is a famine in the three northern provinces. The people have not harvested the wheat they have worked so hard to plant. They are starving all over the ground and have to exchange seeds for food. However, here in Tianjin, only one ship and hundreds of people are needed to get more than ten grains in one day.
Thousands of catties of sea fish.
This made Zhou Jing, Li Dongyang, Zhang Mao and others instantly change their understanding of the ocean. At this time, the ocean in their eyes had turned into granaries and endless meat warehouses, with endless sea fish in them.
Endless meat.
"Perhaps I am really wrong. If the sea ban can be lifted, this famine will not be a problem."
Li Dongyang thought for a while and nodded and said: "My Ming Dynasty has thousands of miles of sea territory. If fishing can be done along the coast, it can feed countless people. If nothing else, the famine in Shandong and Beizhili can be completely eliminated.
Worried."
"Yes, although our Ming Dynasty is rich, it is China's land of China, and now your majesty is a rare sage through the ages. He works hard to govern, is light on corvee and pays little in taxes, and is diligent and thrifty."
"But in our Ming Dynasty, there are still countless people who don't have enough to eat. As for this meat, even a landlord's family cannot eat it every day, but if the sea ban can be lifted."
Zhou Jing nodded and sighed from the bottom of his heart: "There is no need to fully open the sea ban, even if it is just open to fishing, how many sea fish can we catch in the Ming Dynasty's thousands of miles of sea, countless people are alive, and more people can eat it."