It was a bit cold this winter, and the sea in the north of Wadao was frozen and it was difficult to travel, so the excavated silver was transported from the islands north of Wadao to the south, and then shipped to Daming.
As a result, it was delayed for some time, but the time was just right. After the Spring Festival, everyone was actively preparing supplies, hoping to take action after the beginning of spring. Sea ships carried silver coins to Yingtian, and Zhu Biaode
After finding out that the fortune amounted to fifteen million yuan, everyone fell into the trouble of happiness.
"How come there are so many?"
Zhu Biao looked at the memorial sent and curiously asked the Minister of Finance: "Isn't there only eight million taels of silver every year?"
The Minister of Finance immediately said: "It was indeed eight million silver before, but a few years ago the King of England sent students overseas. Those students have now become talents. The management of Iwami Silver Mountain is more in line with the procedures, and the local people have also
They recognized it very much, so they burst out with very high enthusiasm, which led to a substantial increase in the excavation work of silver coins... However, those students were not satisfied with this, and even thought of using gunpowder to blow up the mountain to mine more
ore."
Zhu Han's call for 100,000 students to go overseas did indeed lead to a shortage of some local officials in the Ming Dynasty. But in terms of gains, sending 100,000 students overseas would bring greater benefits to the Ming Dynasty. For example, everyone can see the benefits now.
More money means more things can be done.
Zhu Biao plans to invest all the extra money in infrastructure construction, establishing cement factories, building more steel factories, roads and railways. If they can be built faster, this will be a good thing for the people.
Moreover, the expansion of Ming Dynasty is also a good thing.
Yes, Zhu Biao developed road construction so vigorously just for expansion.
There is no other reason: there are more and more people in the Ming Dynasty. In the next ten to twenty years, the population of the Ming Dynasty will reach 500 million, and it will be very troublesome to feed 500 million people on the current land. If the population continues to increase,
The Ming Dynasty had only one path to take: expansion.
Of course, the Ming Dynasty that Zhu Biao is talking about now refers to the Ming Dynasty itself, and the overseas enclaves are not yet within the scope of Zhu Biao's management.
If he wanted to get rich, he had to build roads first. Zhu Biao spent 15 million taels of silver, which directly led three million people to devote themselves to the construction of roads and railways. In addition, the money sent from Europe, Yinzhou, and the island country
A steady stream of captives and slaves, at least five million people, were invested in the construction of the highway.
After Zhu Yuanzhang learned about this situation, he felt very happy. What he wanted to see most was for Ming Dynasty's railways to cover the world. Now Zhu Biao suddenly threw out a large sum of gold and silver to accelerate the development of railways. How could Zhu Yuanzhang be unhappy?
The truth?
Not only is Zhu Yuanzhang happy, but the people are also happy. Today's Ming Dynasty is still an agricultural civilization, industrial civilization is still in its infancy, and today's people still keep farming.
But how much money can you make from farming? Every year, the court issues a lot of engineering work. These tasks are based on work. As long as you work, you can get the corresponding wages, and the quality and quantity can be completed ahead of schedule. It's OK
Receiving part of the reward, let alone other things, in the spare time of farming, the salary for completing the tasks given by the court every year can catch up with the income of more than half the year of busy farming. Why not participate in such a good thing?
There is a more important point: men's self-esteem is challenged.
Since Zhao Min led Yingtian women to work in factories, businessmen in other provinces seemed to have seen the huge benefits brought by women's work and began to recruit women to work in factories.
Women take advantage of it and make more money than the men in the family earn in a year. How can the men, who have always been the backbone of the family, endure this?
Today is a patriarchal society, where men are the dominant force. Women are more like men’s accessories and have no human rights at all. But what about now? Men don’t earn as much money as women every year.
How can a man with a strong self-esteem endure this?
Therefore, the projects announced by the court have become a channel for men to regain their dignity. They also want to make more money and regain their family status.
Of course, there are still a few places where men like this have regained their self-esteem and started working on court projects. More people go to work because their families are poor. This kind of poverty does not mean that they cannot afford to eat, but that they want more.
Building a new house for their family, buying a new set of clothes every New Year, and allowing their children to study are all reasons why they want to work for the court.
Today's Ming Dynasty, because of Zhu Han, has completely canceled the "relief" type of work. In the past dynasties, in order to maintain their rule, they would assign tasks to the people during the slack seasons and let them do work. This is completely
Free labor. If we were born in the prosperous times, ordinary people would be willing to work for free. But once there is a war, it is a different matter. The ordinary people basically cannot even cultivate the land and can only work non-stop.
, work, and have to pay grain taxes until the autumn harvest. This method makes the people miserable.
Before the founding of the Ming Dynasty and when Zhu Yuanzhang was still calling himself the "King of Wu", Zhu Han rejected the public opinion and abandoned the work of "relief". Instead, he adopted the work-for-relief method.
Who wouldn’t want to participate if they had money to take it?
This is also the reason why Ming Dynasty’s infrastructure developed rapidly under Zhu Yuanzhang’s rule.
Everyone in the world is clamoring for profit. This sentence is absolutely correct.
However, there are also some unnecessary infrastructure constructions that make Zhu Yuanzhang very unhappy.
"Build a city wall? What's so good about building a city wall?"
When Zhu Yuanzhang saw the memorial in Xiangbei, he immediately became unhappy. He pointed at the memorial and said: "The person in the memorial is a brainless bastard. He is also surrounded by brainless pigs. Nowadays, artillery is becoming more and more powerful.
, can building a city wall stop artillery bombardment? Bullshit! If you ask me, we have to tear down these walls. With so many bricks, wouldn’t it be just right to build houses for the people?”
Zhu Biao did not speak, but looked at Zhu Han aside. Zhu Han thought for a while and said: "Brother, you can't say that. There is indeed no need to repair this city wall, but... it is still necessary to preserve the walls in some places.
For example, in some cities with rich historical heritage, those city walls are equivalent to a kind of historical inheritance, and they will not play much role in defending against enemies. However, when it comes to the extension of history in the future, these city walls are still necessary.
, it can also be regarded as a historical and cultural landscape. As for the new city wall, forget it. In some more important checkpoints, it is enough to reinforce the checkpoints."
Zhu Yuanzhang heard that it made sense, and decided to do as Zhu Han said. Of course, he would not do it, but leave it to Zhu Biao: "Biao'er, this is your business, let's leave this matter to you.
, you handle it."
Zhu Biao took the memorial, nodded and said, "Yes."
Today's Zhu Yuanzhang is almost the same as Zhu Han before. He only makes suggestions and does not participate in government affairs.
Zhu Yuanzhang then said to Zhu Han: "The commercial banks in each province have almost been established. We have given them a certain degree of autonomy, but in terms of supervision, we have to be in control and we cannot let moths destroy the roots of our Ming Dynasty."
Zhu Han nodded: "It should be so. Our supervisory departments at all levels in the city are here to prevent this situation from happening. This matter must be treated as a major matter. If things like Kong Yinyu and Guo Huanyu happen again,
Eucalyptus is not a good thing for us."
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We talked about one thing after another, and finally came to the Ming Dynasty’s national strategy.
Zhu Yuanzhang listened to Zhu Han's words and wanted to separate the Ming Dynasty and Ming Dynasty. On the matter of site selection, Zhu Yuanzhang began to ask Zhu Han's opinion.
Wealth and honor are like walking at night in brocade clothes. According to Zhu Yuanzhang's wishes, he preferred to build the headquarters of the Ming Dynasty in his hometown of Fengyang. But now the Yellow River flows from the Huaihe River to the sea, and Fengyang simply cannot afford to become a national headquarters.
Then there are Kaifeng or Chang'an. These two places had experience in being capitals in ancient times, but with the development of the times, they are no longer enough to support the development of the Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao were also worried about this problem. The father and son did not discuss a definite answer, so they could only throw the question to Zhu Han. The father and son also believed that Zhu Han could definitely provide them with a definite answer.
Possible solutions to problems.
Sure enough, Zhu Han's solution to the problem exceeded their imagination: "You chose Kaifeng, Chang'an, or Fengyang, but have you ever thought about other places?"
As soon as Zhu Yuanzhang heard Zhu Han's words, he immediately guessed that Zhu Han would definitely come up with another way to solve the problem. The two of them immediately acted like they were all ears to listen to Zhu Han's answer.
"I feel that neither Kaifeng nor Chang'an are suitable. On the contrary, Yuan Dadu is very suitable to be a royal city!"
Zhu Han looked at Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao and said to them: "Yuan Dadu is the former capital of the former dynasty. You may think this place is ominous and not suitable for being the capital, but in my opinion, Yuan Dadu is the most suitable place to be the capital. Now
The Ming Dynasty was really rich all over the world, so the role of the capital was more focused on geographical location, rather than considering whether the surrounding people could afford to support the capital and its consumption."
The most consumed thing in the capital is food. As for other things... the areas around Yuan Dadu can become supply points for items.
Yuanda is the most suitable.
Zhu Han's mention of Yuan Dadu undoubtedly provided Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao with a new idea. They fell silent and considered whether Zhu Han's proposal was correct.
Then both Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao discovered that Yuan Dadu mentioned by Zhu Han was really a good place.
There are ports (Qilu, Jinmen) around it, and it can also connect to the grasslands. As long as the railways and highways are opened, it will be easy to rule the south. Furthermore... the Chinese capital of the Ming Dynasty was established in Yingtian, which is located in the south.
, even if the capital of the Ming Dynasty is moved to Yanjing, and Yingtian still controls the Ming Dynasty, there will be no problem.
If that's the case, then there's something to talk about.
Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but nodded: "Well, Qi Wu is right. Yanjing is a good choice. China is the most important place in the Ming Dynasty. Set the capital of China in Yingtian, and set the capital of the Ming Dynasty in Yanjing, one in the south and the other in Yanjing."
North can control the whole of China more conveniently."
Zhu Biao also nodded: "Well, yes, my father is right."
Zhu Han continued: "There is another consideration in setting the capital in Yanjing. Our Ming Dynasty was founded on the basis of the collapse of the Yuan Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty defeated the Yuan Dynasty... In this way, for other people who want to rebel,
It is said that it is a particularly strong pressure. If they want to replace the Ming Dynasty, they need to capture the capital of the Ming Dynasty."
"Well……"
Zhu Biao hesitated and said to Zhu Han: "Uncle, is it too early for us to consider the demise of the Ming Dynasty now?"
"Why is it early? It's not early at all!"
On the contrary, Zhu Yuanzhang agreed with what Zhu Han said and said to Zhu Biao: "Don't you understand the principle of being prepared for danger in times of peace? The previous dynasties and the founding emperors all had the ambition to build the court for eternity, but what was the final result? Isn't it still after hundreds of years?
Did it perish in a year? The same is true for the Ming Dynasty. Failure and destruction must be considered first!"
Then, Zhu Yuanzhang continued: "We think the Seventh Five-Year Plan was well thought out. It is a good decision to build the capital of the Ming Dynasty on top of the capital of the Yuan Dynasty."
Seeing Zhu Yuanzhang's immediate agreement, Zhu Biao had no reason to object. After considering the words of Zhu Han and Zhu Yuanzhang, he also felt that Zhu Han's words were reasonable, and then said to Zhu Han: "But now... Yuan Da is not suitable to be the leader."
There is nothing there now in the royal capital, and the palace of the Yuan Dynasty is also in dilapidated state, so what should happen next?"
"Just build it again."
Zhu Han looked at Zhu Biao and said to him: "The construction of the palace is the same as the construction of railways and highways. They are all public constructions. It can be done with work instead of relief. Isn't it just money... Isn't our Ming Dynasty still short of money?"
"Short! Very lacking!"
Following Zhu Han's words, Zhu Biao quickly said: "Although the Ming Dynasty's current income is very considerable, there are many places where it needs to spend money. How much will it cost to build a new palace? The Ming Dynasty's treasury cannot bear such a heavy burden.
"
Hearing Zhu Biao's words, Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to get angry, but in the end he held back.
Didn’t the Ming Dynasty still have enough money to build the capital?
Can the money spent on building the palace be considered money?
Zhu Yuanzhang thought to himself: He didn't let Zhu Biao live a hard life, so why did Zhu Biao take money so seriously?
Not as good as Zhu Han, at least Zhu Han doesn't care about money at all.
Zhu Biao is still too young, and there is still a lot of room for growth. It is up to Zhu Han to make the decision to establish a state capital for the Ming Dynasty.
As expected, Zhu Han proposed a completely different approach than Zhu Biao: "Biao'er, the Ming Dynasty's imperial palace and the Ming Dynasty's infrastructure construction both belong to national conditions. Railways and highways can be built, why can't the Ming Dynasty palace be built? When the time comes, the palace will be built
Let the people and craftsmen around us do it. For them, it can bring a very considerable income to their families, so why not agree?"
"this……"
When Zhu Biao heard what Zhu Han said, he thought it made sense. After thinking about it, he asked Zhu Han: "Uncle, if it were you, what do you think we should do?"
"There is no need to do anything. Just put it in the court and let the courtiers discuss it. I think it is unlikely that they will object."
Zhu Han gave Zhu Biao a 'you know' look and said to Zhu Biao: "This project is a very big one. It will take three to five years to build. How much family income can it bring in three to five years?"
Double it? Have you ever thought about it, Biaoer?"
