Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 256 Armed Equipment City

Taichang frantically caught up with the vassal kings all over the place, and the suzerain-vassal problem was finally almost resolved.

At least, these vassal kings will no longer affect the survival of Daming in a short period of time.

As for how to deal with these vassal kings properly in the future, it has to be done step by step, and it is not bad to be able to do this step at this moment.

Of course, he went crazy to clean up the vassal kings everywhere not just to solve the suzerainty problem, the money and food in the hands of these vassal kings was also his goal.

If it wasn't for the money and food in the hands of these princes, he wouldn't have to spend so much trouble.

Fortunately, his hard work was not in vain, the money and food he harvested this time was quite astonishing.

Eighteen vassal kings, they are all rich and oily lords!

There are countless fields. If you add the fields that the remaining ten vassals "voluntarily" exchanged, there must be more than [-] million mu.

With so many fields, the officials of the household department estimated that it would take several months to clarify them.

Moreover, it's the autumn harvest season now. After the grain is harvested, distribute some to those tenant farmers on the spot, and then transfer some to the disaster victims.

In this way, neither the tenant farmers nor the disaster victims should be hungry for the next year.

As for how to use these fields to completely solve the disaster situation in the northwest, so that the victims can be self-reliant, there is still a key water tanker missing at the moment, so this field can only be discussed after the Ministry of Finance clarifies it.

The rest is money, food, treasures, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, etc.

These vassal kings are really frighteningly rich. For food alone, more than 2000 million stones were found in the 3000 mansions of the vassals, and more than [-] million taels of silver were confiscated!

Now he is really not short of money or food.

He is going to hand over the money directly to the Daming Bank to take care of it, and let the Daming Bank spread the semi-colons throughout the two capitals and thirteen provinces of Daming as soon as possible. Have.

In this way, the silver can continuously create profits, the business environment in the entire Ming Dynasty can be greatly improved, and the court's taxes will increase.

As for food, he decided to use it to gather artisans and build all the weaponry factories as soon as possible.

In the meeting hall of the Wenhua Palace, a group of trusted ministers gathered again.

At the moment Taichang is full of vigor and high spirits, as if he wants to start a fight immediately, but all the trusted ministers have strange expressions and are worried.

Alas, the emperor is really crazy this time.

None of them expected that the emperor would arrest the vassal for such a thing.

Eighteen vassal kings, they will be cut as soon as they say it, and hundreds of thousands of royal family members, all of them will be demoted to common people!

It's really too cruel to do this.

Cheng Zu, who was in power at Jing Nan back then, was not so cruel to his own feudal lord!

The name of Crazy Emperor Taichang is now being spread among the people, and some people really think that the emperor is out of his mind!
Of course, they didn't dare to mention this nickname in front of the emperor. Moreover, the matter of the vassal king was the emperor's housework, and they couldn't take care of it. They were just worried that the emperor would be furious if he knew that someone had slandered him like this.

How did they know that Taichang had already heard the folk rumors, and he was not angry at all.

What happened to Mad Emperor Taichang?
As long as he can bring the Ming Dynasty into an unprecedented prosperity, he will eventually become a famous emperor through the ages!
He really doesn't care about the name of the mad emperor, he just wants to quickly build up all the weaponry factories.

He rationalized his thoughts a little, and then said loudly: "Everyone, now we finally have no shortage of money and food, and the weather is just right, neither cold nor hot, so I plan to recruit the craftsmen as soon as possible, and get all the weapons Build the equipment factory as soon as possible. What are your plans for the city along the Haihe River?"

This plan naturally exists, and the Ministry of Industry is in charge of this matter.

Hearing this, Bi Maokang quickly cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty, the area along the Haihe River is big enough, but it is quite difficult to build a large city to cover it, because there is a Haihe River in the middle, and it is difficult to connect the two sides together.

Moreover, the Haihe River is too long. It is more than 150 miles from the mouth of the Sancha River in Tianjin Acropolis to the mouth of the Haihe River, while the outer city wall of Jinling City, the largest city in Ming Dynasty, is only about 120 miles in total.

In this way, it took nearly 30 years for Jinling City to be built.

If we want to build a big city to include the entire Haihe River, the length of the city wall must be at least 100 li. If we count the construction progress of Jinling City, we need to build such a big city for at least [-] years! "

what?
More than 100 years!
Hearing this, Taichang couldn't help but gasped.

How could he have waited more than 100 years?
He can't live more than 100 years!

It seems that it is unrealistic to build a super city, at least it is unrealistic at the current construction speed.

So what to do?

He was stunned for a while, and then asked: "Has the Ministry of Industry come up with any solution?"

Bi Maokang nodded, then took out a large stack of paper from his arms, and carefully spread it in front of Taichang.

This is a map, a topographic map of both sides of the Haihe River, and there is already a city plan on it.

However, the city above looks a bit weird.

Taichang took a few glances but still didn't understand, why does this city look so strange?

He really didn't understand it, because he had never seen this kind of city before. What are the grids in the middle? It looks like a road, but the road is not painted like this!
He couldn't even understand the blueprints of the city, which made him a little embarrassed.

Fortunately, Bi Maokang immediately introduced: "This is the method that the Ministry of Civil Affairs and Cleaning came up with. We can build cities one by one according to the number of weapons and equipment factories. Each block is a factory. Moreover, the relevant craftsmen The houses of the households are also built inside, we can build as many squares as we need now, and we can add more slowly in the future. Not only will it be built faster, but the defense effect will be much stronger than that of a general big city."

Good way!

It is the city that has been doing this for a long time!
It is indeed unrealistic to build a big city with a radius of [-] miles at one time, but it is not a problem to build it one by one according to the number of factories.

A factory, together with craftsmen and their family members, can number tens of thousands at most, that is to say, each grid is only a few miles around, and at most it is more than ten miles around.

Such a small city is easy to build, and if it is built one by one, the city wall in the middle can be shared, saving an unknown amount of time.

Taichang looked at the general plan and said decisively: "Okay, let's build it like this, one grid at a time, we will build as many grids as we need, and we will continue to build after expansion!"

Bi Maokang hurriedly cupped his hands and said: "The emperor is wise, and I ask the emperor to name this city."

Taichang knew that this was for the convenience of compiling official documents. With the name of the city, various expenses, materials and labor could be compiled and recorded.

So, what is the name of such an important city?
He thought about it for a while, and then he made a decision: "Denglai has a city for preparing for Japanese pirates, which was built to guard against Japanese pirates. It was built for manufacturing weapons and equipment, so it's called Wubei City."

This is easy to handle with the name of the city. As for the name, it will be what the emperor says.

Bi Maokang cupped his hands without hesitation and said, "The emperor is wise."

Uh, this guy's flattery is getting smoother and smoother, which is not good.

Taichang shook his head, and said with a slight smile, "Mr. Meng, you should use the word "wise" with caution in the future."

Hearing this, Bi Maokang couldn't help but said in embarrassment: "Your Majesty forgives the crime, this minister just said it smoothly, and I will definitely change it in the future."

All the trusted ministers couldn't help smiling when they heard the words.

Taichang shook his head slightly, and then solemnly said: "The city planning of this Wubei City has been finalized in this way. Next, let's discuss how many blocks to build first."

After discussing with each other for a long time, everyone finally decided to build a dozen or so grids south of Haihe River first.

Because there are only a dozen factories that need to be built and relocated at the moment, and the shipyard, cannon factory, gun factory, and Tianjin Acropolis are all on the south bank of the Haihe River. Building in the south first will also benefit the traffic between these grids. It is a bit troublesome to build across the river, because it is too difficult to build a bridge on the main stream of the Haihe River, which is more than [-] steps wide.

The preliminary planning of Wubei City was decided in this way. However, the folks like to call it Grid City, because the city structure here is too special, and there is no such city in other places.

(End of this chapter)