Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 620 Crazy Road Construction
It is indeed a bit unruly for Taichang to confer canonization to a group of cronies.

However, it doesn't matter much.

He is the emperor, so there is no need to talk about rules or irregularities.

The reason why he asked everyone to keep a low profile was because he didn't want the court officials to get angry. If someone dared to jump out and chatter, he would slap them down and make them shut up.

That's it for the canonization.

Taichang slightly raised his hand and said: "Okay, everyone put away the imperial edict, let's discuss something serious."

When everyone heard this, they hurriedly stuffed the canonized edict into their bosoms like a baby.

Taichang then pointed to the map on the table and said: "Now we have cleaned up the Chahar Grassland, the Horqin Grassland and the large grassland to the north, and all the Jiannu have been escorted to the New Jingzhou Mansion. These grasslands are equivalent to It's all empty, we have to move to guard the past, and guard the frontier while grazing.

In this way, our nine-border defense line is equivalent to moving thousands of miles north, and the nomadic tribes outside the Great Wall will be cleared by us one after another. "

This is a good thing. In the future, Daming will not have to face the invasion of nomadic tribes outside the Great Wall.

When everyone heard the words, they all praised the emperor for his wisdom and martial arts.

Taichang waved his hand slightly, and continued: "There is also the area of ​​Liaodong. All the soldiers of the Liaodong Army and the Liaodong garrison must be moved to the new Jingzhou Mansion to guard. This area has almost vacated tens of millions of mu of fertile land, including all the land in the area. It is estimated that the garrison fields vacated after the Tunwei moved to the grasslands outside the Great Wall are at least hundreds of millions of mu, Sishou, you should count them carefully."

Nan Juyi, Shangshu of the Ministry of War, hurriedly cupped his hands and said, "I understand."

Taichang then said to Xu Guangqi: "Zi first, the cabinet issued a document to inform all the prefectures and counties of the two capitals and thirteen provinces of the original Ming Dynasty to sell them in garrison and farmland. All registered farmers can buy them. Those who have no money can borrow from the Daming bank. The interest is only one percent, but each person can only borrow a low-interest special fund of twenty mu of land."

Uh, isn't this the same as giving land to farmers?
Because according to the current market situation, the cultivated land is only about 20 taels per mu, and the yield of the cultivated crops has been improved compared to the original after improvement.

Moreover, most of the farmland is now cultivated for two seasons. Even if it cannot be cultivated for two seasons, high-yielding crops such as potatoes and sweet potatoes can be intercropped.

If the farmers work harder, they can still earn four or five taels per mu of land a year, and 20 taels will come back in four or five years.

And based on an annual interest rate of one percent, even if it takes five years, it will only be one or two taels of interest.

This is almost indistinguishable from giving away for nothing!

Xu Guangqi was stunned for a moment, and then asked cautiously: "Your Majesty, it is estimated that all farmers will rush to buy such a good thing. The problem is that there is only more than 1 million mu of farmland at most. I am afraid it is not enough to sell. What about the farmers who have not bought land?" manage?"

Taichang said without hesitation: "It depends on the attitude of the farmers themselves. Some people may be lazy and don't bother to buy. Some people may be more sloppy in doing things. When they want to buy, they are gone. Whoever is the most diligent can buy the land. It’s no one else’s fault.”

Not necessarily.

Xu Guangqi asked carefully again: "Your Majesty, the officials of the local prefecture and county government are likely to take advantage of this. If they use the share of the purchased land to make money, or simply ask their relatives and friends to buy all the land they can buy Come down, what should I do if the common people don’t get any benefit?”

This is easy to do.

Still without hesitation, Taichang said: "This must be a stern warning to all local officials in advance not to take advantage of this, otherwise the consequences will be serious.

This is called saying something first, and then let the censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate go to check the sold land, one by one, and check carefully.

If there are still people who are not afraid of death, stretch out their hands randomly, find out one by one and chop one by one, don't show any mercy, we just use this to correct the official style. "

Well, this time, I don't know how many officials will be killed.

There is no way, it is useless to warn about this kind of thing, hundreds of millions of acres of land, at least 20 billion taels of loan line, I don’t know how many people will go crazy about it, no one will reach out.

Alas, I hope that too many people will forget the emperor's strictness on corrupt officials because of greed. The emperor said to cut it down, but it was true!
Xu Guangqi sighed slightly, then cupped his hands and said, "I understand."

Taichang said to Wang Zheng again: "Liangfu, you go to Nanzhili to rectify the official shipbuilding yard there, and start building water transport ships again, the kind driven by steam, that is, the Spike warships are not equipped with artillery. It should be easy to build a large water transport ship, steam engine and boiler set, and directly build it in the military equipment city and transport it there, right?"

This is of course simple.

The large water transport ship was originally built by the shipyard in Nanzhili. It only needs to repair the dock there, clean up the waterways, and dispatch some skilled craftsmen to start the work.

Question, how much to make?

Wang Zheng thought about it, and then said carefully: "Your Majesty, this is relatively simple. The problem is the scale. How many ships do you think are suitable for building in a month?"

You have to ask the person in charge of the Western firm about this.

Taichang asked very simply: "Chunchen, how many such large water tankers do Western companies need to transship rice, wheat, potatoes and cotton?"

Zhu Chunchen was still excited at the moment, he really didn't expect that he would also have his share in this fiefdom.

Taichang really didn't consider Zhu Chunchen, the Duke of Cheng, at first, but Taichang was very satisfied with his performance last time, so this time, by the way, he sealed the land for him.

Zhu Chunchen was more concerned about the affairs of Western companies, and he had also considered the transshipment of rice, wheat, potatoes and cotton.

He thought for a while and said cautiously: "Your Majesty, there are thousands of prefectures and counties in Daming, and I feel that there are at least a thousand large water transport ships."

Taichang nodded slightly, and then said to Wang Zheng: "Let's build [-] ships a month. In the first year, sell them to Western merchants first, and then sell them to merchants in various places in Daming. Remember, they must be from Daming. Merchants can only purchase through the Yellow Pages."

One hundred ships a month is a bit big.

However, it is not a big problem for the current Ministry of Industry.

Wang Zheng hurriedly cupped his hands and said, "I understand."

Taichang then said to Bi Maokang: "Meng Hou, the next step is to build the railway, you should think about it carefully, all places that cannot be reached by water must be connected by railway. Connect them, and then strive to build the railway to all the capitals and counties of the two capitals and the thirteen provinces."

The amount of this project is simply astonishing!

Bi Maokang thought for a while, and then asked: "Your Majesty, this project is too large, and it may take a long time. Are we going to build it slowly, province by province, or start construction in two capitals and thirteen provinces at the same time?"

Of course, the sooner the better.

Without hesitation, Taichang said: "It is best that the railway can reach all the prefectures and counties of the two capitals and the thirteen provinces of Daming within one year."

My God, this is unlikely!
When Bi Maokang heard this, he couldn't help wondering: "Your Majesty, if we want to build so many railways in such a short period of time, I am afraid that at least millions of laborers will be recruited. How much should we pay these laborers? With one tael of silver a month, it may be difficult to recruit so much labor, but if it is five taels of silver a month, we may have to spend 2000 to [-] million taels of wages per month."

What is 2000 million taels a month, Taichang said without hesitation: "It's still [-] taels of silver a month, directly allocated from the land purchase funds of the Ministry of Agriculture. You should plan carefully and start next month."

Well, this time the Ministry of Agriculture has at least 20 billion taels of income on its books. Although most of them are left-handed and right-handed, and basically use bank notes, it should not be a problem to release 2000 million taels.

However, this project is really amazing. To build so many railways in such a short period of time is not only a matter of manpower, but also sufficient materials and machines.

Soon, Wubei City opened four new super factories, one specializing in casting rails, one specializing in processing sleepers, one specializing in the production of steam locomotives, and one specializing in the manufacture of road repair machines.

The prefectures and counties of the two capitals and the thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty also quickly received a joint document from the cabinet and the Ministry of Industry, and began to sell land, recruit labor, and prepare gravel and roadbeds.

Followed by crazy road construction.

The entire Ming Dynasty's two capitals and thirteen provinces started operation almost simultaneously. Millions of laborers worked together, and more than ten sets of road construction machines went into battle together.

This investment is quite large, just a few million labor wages, a month is tens of millions of taels of wages.

If it was the emperor in the past, he would not have such a hand at all, and Taichang was so crazy.

Crazy investment, crazy road construction, crazy distribution of money to the people!
(End of this chapter)