Daming reckless man

Chapter 661

Jiajing got off the battleship, and the soldiers of the navy lined up below to wait for Jiajing.

Jiajing was very happy, inspected the soldiers, and then spoke, and the soldiers shouted long live three times.

Jiajing followed Zhang Hao and the others to the cafeteria this time. Chen Zhengqing introduced to Jiajing what the soldiers of the Navy eat and how much their daily meals cost, because they need to board the ship, and they stay for half a month, or even a few Yue, so, the food is very good, Zhang Hao also explained this reason to Jiajing.

Jiajing nodded in agreement.

After eating here, Jiajing was about to go to the resting place. Zhang Hao accompanied him there. When he arrived at the place where he lived, Zhang Hao originally needed to deal with the boat workshop, but was stopped by Jiajing.

"Your Majesty, is there something wrong?" Zhang Hao stood there and asked suspiciously.

"I'm going to inspect other places tomorrow, so don't go there. I know that you haven't been here for a while. I guess there are a lot of things. Your father can just accompany me there. Besides, local things, you I don’t know, I’ll just sit here at night, and later I’ll call some ministers over to chat and talk about the naval affairs!” Jiajing looked at Zhang Hao and said with a smile.

"That can't be done, His Majesty is out of the palace, and I have to follow. Nothing is more important than His Majesty's safety!" Zhang Hao immediately shook his head and said.

I am Jiajing's personal bodyguard. If Jiajing leaves the palace and I am not around, it will be a dereliction of duty. If something happens at that time, then I will be in big trouble.

"What could be the matter, there are so many Jinyiwei, and your father's army is also there, what are you afraid of?" Jiajing immediately said to Zhang Hao pretending to be dissatisfied.

"That's not okay. Assassination is not about how many people are brought here, but because we are afraid that we will be negligent. Then one person will be able to pose a threat to His Majesty!" Zhang Hao still firmly disagreed.

Jiajing heard it, so he had no choice but to give up, and was very satisfied with Zhang Hao's attitude in his heart.

But when Zhang Hao heard that Jiajing wanted to talk to those ministers, he had no choice but to not go to the workshop. After Jiajing returned, he could come over and deal with it by himself.

After a while, Zhang Rong, Yan Song, Zhou Yan, and Zhang Jing all arrived at Jiajing.

"Have you had a hard day today? Let you follow me for a day!" Jiajing sat there with a smile making tea, and Zhang Hao sat beside Jiajing.

"Your Majesty, there is no such thing as hard work. However, there is still a sailor in this shipyard today, but we are so excited to see it. I really didn't expect that Lu Anhou would have such a skill!" Yan Song sat there and said with great emotion. .

"Yes, Marquis Lu An, how do you know this?" Zhou Yan also asked Zhang Hao.

"Explore, keep finding the reason from the failures, and, Your Majesty gave me so much money this time, I dare to try and make mistakes. If I make a mistake, I will adjust it immediately, hehe!" Zhang Hao immediately said with a smile.

"You boy, it's okay. I will take responsibility for such a mistake. I am very satisfied with the navy this time, but the navy needs to be expanded!" Jiajing sat there, pointing to Zhang Hao with a smile and said, feeling really proud in his heart, I don't like such an honorable son.

"The navy needs to be expanded. In the future, we will need to build three major naval forces in the Tang Dynasty. One will be here to defend the capital, the other will be in Fujian to defend the southeast, and finally we will need to be in Qiongzhou to attack Southeast Asia. Also the territory of other places.

Many places are lands without an owner. Our army has passed by, and those places will belong to our Ming Dynasty. When the time comes, our territory of Ming Dynasty will not know how big it will be.

And I heard from those foreigners that at the other end of our continent, some countries have sent warships to rob things everywhere. Their warships are more advanced and powerful than ours. Now our new warships have come out. They The warships are not our opponents, and I estimate that in the next few decades, our navy will definitely fight the opponent's navy, and it will be determined who is the real overlord by then! "Zhang Hao sat there and said to Jiajing and the others.

"Well, there is such a thing, how come I don't know?" Jiajing heard it, looked at Zhang Hao with a little doubt and said.

"Really, I heard from foreigners that at that time we also need to send people to the other side of the mainland to find out their situation. Otherwise, we will suffer!" Zhang Hao said in a very sure tone while sitting there. .

After Jiajing heard this, he looked at the other ministers. Those ministers looked at me and I looked at you. No one had ever heard of such a thing, and had never thought of such a thing.

Zhang Rong looked at Zhang Hao solemnly and asked, "Is this true?"

"Of course it's true. I don't know how many countries there are outside the ocean. If we don't develop naval forces, won't they develop? If we don't develop, we will be beaten by then!" Zhang Hao sat there, Open your mouth and say.

When Jiajing heard this, he nodded and said, "Zhang Hao is right. If we don't develop, others will. Therefore, the navy should pay attention to it. In addition, the country also needs to develop. The people were too poor before. I have been exempted from taxes in the past year, and I don’t know how the people are doing!”

"It's better, but it's still poor. This needs to be done slowly!" Zhang Hao took the words and said.

"Well, being poor is still very poor!" Zhang Rong also nodded.

When Jiajing heard it, he sat there, thought about it for a while, and then asked Zhang Hao: "Do you have a way to improve the living standards of the people?"

"Yes, it's easy to say, but difficult to say!" Zhang Hao said immediately.

"Oh, come on, talk!" Jiajing immediately looked at Zhang Hao when he heard this, and the other ministers also looked at Zhang Hao.

"Your Majesty, do you know how much the workers in our soap factory earn a year?" Zhang Hao immediately looked at Jiajing with a smile and asked.

"I really don't know about this!" Jiajing shook his head and said.

"The workers in our workshop can earn almost 20 taels of silver a year! It is estimated that it is difficult for ordinary farming families to earn 5 taels of silver a year. I said it is a family, and our workshop is a family. People!" Zhang Hao then introduced to Jiajing.

"The difference is so big?" Jiajing frowned when he heard this.

"Of course, it's actually very simple. Encourage those workshop owners to open workshops, so that those people have work to do. If there is work to do, the people will be able to make money. If they have money, they will go to buy things. It also promotes the production of goods by the workshop owner, and the tax revenue of our court has also increased.

However, this is very difficult. Officials don’t want this to happen. They hope that they are the first, and the status of businessmen should be the lowest, so that they are satisfied. But, those people have shops and restaurants in their homes. They are all doing some businessman's work, but they just don't let those businessmen make money, so, Your Majesty, the difficulty lies in this! "Zhang Hao sat there, looking at Jiajing in embarrassment and said.

"Your Majesty, this is indeed!" Yan Song sat there and said immediately.

"Well, if you want to encourage businessmen to do business, I guess those officials in the court will oppose it!" Zhou Yan also said.

"Actually, Your Majesty, the workshop owner is actually producing, such as our previous soap workshop. We discussed this before. Are they businessmen? If according to our officials, they can't be businessmen, they are farmers, and they also need Putting things in, producing new things, and selling them is not about mobilizing materials from the south and selling them to the north.

They still do a lot, such as our iron and steel workshops. Those workshops need to invest a lot of money, manpower and material resources. Want to look down on it? "Zhang Hao sat there and continued to ask them.

After Jiajing heard this, he sat there thinking about it, and so did the other ministers.

"If there aren't enough workshop owners, and the people just rely on the people to cultivate the land, there is no way to improve the people's living standards, and there will be chaos!" Zhang Hao continued.

"Hao'er! Don't talk nonsense!" Zhang Rong reminded Zhang Hao that he didn't want Zhang Hao to talk nonsense.

"Your Majesty, what I said is true. You can even imagine that there are ten million people in our Daming, and there is only so much land now. In a few years, if the people in our Daming exceed twenty million, Your Majesty, You said, is our land enough to feed the people?
In particular, some land is concentrated in the hands of some landlords and officials. At that time, the people will not be able to support themselves, and they will be in chaos again. What we are doing now is just delaying the outbreak time! "Zhang Hao continued to speak to Jiajing.

"Zhang Hao is right, if the people can't support themselves, they will be in chaos!" Jiajing nodded and said.

"I think this is a bit alarmist. How can the growth of the people be so fast?" Zhang Jing sat there and said.

"Of course soon, as long as there is no war for 20 years, the number of people will increase a lot!" Zhang Hao said after looking at Zhang Jing.

"It's like this, Mr. Zhang Ge. In the past few years, a large number of children have been born around the capital. As long as there is no war and there is enough food, the people will have children, and the population will grow rapidly!" Yan Song said immediately Said to Zhang Jing.

"So, we must let the common people have work and earn money, so as to avoid such things from happening?" Jiajing looked at Zhang Hao and asked.

"Yes, only in this way, people will not think about rebelling when their living standards improve. In addition, the strength of our Ming Dynasty will also increase. At that time, the court will have so many taxes, and it will be able to increase greatly. Military strength!" Zhang Hao nodded and said to Jiajing and the others.