Emperor Ming Dynasty

Chapter 836
ps: I didn't ask for leave today, isn't it a surprise?
The cool breeze blows from Yuquan Mountain, and the sound of cicadas keeps singing. It is the most refreshing in this hot summer.

Several people in the cabinet worked separately. Although the words of the first assistant were soft, they could hear them clearly.

Everyone was silent and continued to work.

In fact, I can't help the population to complain, it is because the recent expansion of the site is too big.

Regarding the expansion of the territory, anyone with a little ambition is happy to see it, but this thing cannot be developed blindly.

Regarding land, the cabinet also has an account in mind.

They divided the territory of the world into three parts according to taxation.

The first is profit, that is, the harvest is greater than the administrative cost, such as Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang and other southern provinces, which belong to the type of dairy cows supplied, supplying [-]% of the country's tax revenue.

The second is flat, which means no profit and no loss, such as Henan, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Guangxi and other provinces, where taxes can be self-sufficient.

The third is dangerous borders, such as Liaodong, Gansu, Suiyuan, Tiannan and other places, which are financially dependent on the central government and the cost of governance is extremely high.

In this case, the more the third category, the greater the financial burden, resulting in an imbalance in the balance and making ends meet.

It is precisely because of this worry that during the Xuande period, civil servants abandoned Annan, a financial black hole, for fear of falling into the ocean of uprising.

This was the case in the Chongzhen Dynasty, which tried its best to export Liaodong, and then Shaanxi, Henan, and Huguang were in chaos, and their finances collapsed directly.

If you accept the people of Liaodong, abandon the land of Liaodong, and try your best to quell the civil unrest in Shaanxi, the situation will be very different.

So, if Emperor Shaowu took all the fertile lands like Jiangxi and Zhejiang, the civil servants would have been happy?Where can I be dissatisfied.

Unfortunately, the reality is that whether it is Tiannan or the current Luzon Governor's Mansion, they all need the strong support of the central government and increased financial expenditure.

"Budget is overrun again."

Yan Chongxin sighed, his face full of worry.

"In the past few years, I have made a lot of surplus, so I can make do with it."

Wang Yingxiong's deep voice sounded: "In the end, it is to expand the territory, punish the people and punish crimes. The Luzon Governor's Office must be established."

As he spoke, he raised his head and said loudly: "I heard that Luzon is different from other barbarians. There are tens of thousands of people here, several cities, and countless farms."

As he said that, Wang Yingxiong waved the memorandum presented by the Taiwan government: "Taiwan government said that after taking Luzon, it can earn hundreds of thousands of net income every year. How can the imperial court make ends meet? This is a big profit!"

"Ok?"

The rest of the people were astonished and quickly circulated it.

This time, the atmosphere in the cabinet instantly eased a lot.

This is not a losing business.

Zhao Shu and the others finally showed smiles on their faces.

If there is one more Taiwan government, it will be a huge profit.

"The Luzon Governor's Mansion is newly built, so what about the rules?" Jiang Yueguang hastily changed the topic.

The emperor just said to set up the governor's office, let them nominate the governor, and list the regulations to establish the rule of law.

The rank of officials, the number of secondary officials, the number of troops, laws, etc., all need to be drafted by the cabinet and approved by the emperor.

Now, several people chattered and discussed for more than half an hour before reaching a consensus.

The Governor's Mansion of Luzon has a governor with a rank of two ranks, who is also in charge of civil affairs and the army.

At the same time, the Governor's Mansion has a navy and an infantry commander each, who are in charge of the navy and infantry, and are ranked fourth.

Although the emperor said that he wanted to decentralize power, the nature of civil servants forced them to consider checks and balances, so they set up an inspector to act as an agent for judicial and official affairs.

According to the inspector, follow the second grade.

Among them, the navy is called the Luzon Navy, and some people are drawn from the East China Sea and the South China Sea to form a navy with a scale of 3000 people.

The infantry is 3000 people stationed in Luzon.

"With such regulations, the Luzon Governor's Yamen needs 38 officials and 150 officials."

Lu Daqi was quite satisfied and said: "In this way, after two or three years, when the rule is stable, it can be set up as the governor's office, just like the province."

Everyone is also satisfied.

The high level of Luzon means that the cake is big and can accommodate many people.

For example, the governor of Luzon is the second grade. As soon as he comes back, he will be able to serve as the nine ministers immediately, which is a very good ladder.

After several years of adjustments, the Nine Departments of the imperial court were formally formed.

Among the six ministries, the names of the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Households, and the Ministry of Punishment remain unchanged, plus the Ministry of Fan, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and the Ministry of Finance.

Among them, a few years after the birth of the Organization Department, the Provincial Examination was formally included in the Ministry of Rites, and the officials also had grades, so the Organization Department was re-merged into the Ministry of Officials, and its powers were restored, worthy of the first department.

The diplomatic attributes of the Ministry of Rites were all eliminated, and the full-time departments in charge of imperial examinations, enlightenment, and etiquette were all handed over to the Lifan Academy.

The Li Fan Academy was also renamed the Fan Department, which was in charge of the internal and external feudal affairs, as well as the foreign affairs of other countries.

Needless to say, the Ministry of Civil Affairs was born out of the Ministry of Household Affairs and is in charge of household registration, land, population, minerals, etc.; the Ministry of Finance is responsible for tax collection and budget matters.

After that, the household department was only responsible for managing the warehouse, storing money and food, keeping accounts and paying expenses and other chores.

In the central government, the head of the cabinet and the nine departments are responsible for checking the affairs.

At the local level, at the provincial level, the chief envoy, the inspector, and the general army are in charge of administration, criminal names, and soldiers and horses, and the governor is in charge.

At the first level of the government, there are prefects and generals, and the prefects are in charge of administration, and the judges are in charge of prisons.

At the county level, the county magistrate is in charge, and the county magistrate assists the county magistrate in managing the county government. He is in charge of the county's food tax and household registration.

In addition, there are patrol battalions responsible for suppressing localities.

In the countryside, the three elders of the township, the head of the township, the elders of the township, and the township police are respectively responsible for civil affairs, enlightenment litigation, and security, and each does his own thing.

It can be said that in the tenth year of Shaowu, the entire imperial court has been straightened out, and the top and bottom are well-organized. Although it can't reach the point where it can be used like an arm, it is still well-organized and harmonious.

The biggest change is that all the former subordinate officials have been promoted to rank, which has led to a large increase in the number of officials and a rapid increase in expenditure.

After all, the former subordinate staff did not pay their salaries.

The total number of officials, civil and military, has reached 20,000 people, among which there are more than 3000 people in Beijing, and about 6000 people in local officials.

As for the officials, the exaggeration is about [-].

Fortunately, these officials are all from the ninth grade, with an annual income of ten yuan or ten stones, and one county magistrate is worth forty or fifty.

And in each county, there are about two hundred officials who eat the imperial salary:
Officials are county magistrates, cheng, lieutenants, master books, classics and history, inspections, prisons, taxation, instruction, and instruction.

Officials are catchers, horses, jailers, Kushou, Minzhuang, long class, waiters, servants, guards, watchmen, cleaners, bearers.

The ones with the largest increase are the secretary office of the county government, old officials, and local elders.

However, the establishment of townships was originally to bear the pressure of the county government, so there are only three or five townships in a county, and the number of three elders is not too many.

The cabinet here is busy with discussions, and the emperor took advantage of his free time to come outside Beijing.

After galloping for an hour, Zhu Yixi came to a septic tank.

To put it simply, it is a large-scale septic tank, which is specially responsible for receiving night fragrance in Beijing.

In the past, Yexiang in the city had a special Yexiang guild, which was controlled by some members of the beggar gang, who specially oppressed those poor workers.

The workers dig out the dung every night, and then sell it to the people outside the city, thus earning a lot of income.

But after the emperor came to Beijing, he couldn't see these lazy people.

Therefore, idlers like the beggar gang, jobless people, are destroyers of social order, and must be strictly controlled, so all of them were caught and forced to reform through labor.

Building bridges and paving roads, garrisoning fields and building canals all require a lot of labor.

Since there was no rampant beggar gang, the Yexiang Guild operated as usual, but after a while, it was controlled by some vassals of powerful families.

Although Yexiang is not very eye-catching, her annual profit is beyond imagination, not less than one hundred thousand yuan, so she will naturally be taken down.

But it's a little better than the Beggars' Gang before, and they want to show some face.

The emperor can't control it, and he can't control it anymore. It is impossible to include them in the establishment, right?

He tried his best to let Wucheng soldiers and horses supervise and manage to prevent mistakes.

In a big city like Beijing with a population of one million, as long as no one takes out excrement for a day, all the toilets will overflow, even exaggerating to the point of overflowing the streets.

This is not a lie. In medieval Paris, there were only tens of thousands of people, and the dung outside the city piled up like a mountain, flooding the moat, and instead became a barrier.

Far away, the establishment of septic tanks is mainly to plan the management of manure, so as to order and regulate, and make Beijing more clean and tidy.

Of course, going to the septic tank was just passing by. Zhu Yixi glanced at the cheerful farmers who went to buy manure, and said lightly:
"After standardization, cooperation will benefit both sides, and the people will be happy with it!"

The nostrils were full of a stench, and the mud on the road was even black. The emperor couldn't help but want to vomit.

After forcibly suppressing it, he got into the carriage again and continued to move forward.

What he will inspect is related to Beijing's water source.

Although deep wells have been dug deep so that the people of Beijing no longer have to worry about water, but in the end it is groundwater, which can quench their thirst but not enough, and sooner or later there will be problems with water sources.

The source of water in the Yuan Dynasty was diverted from Changping Baifu Spring in the Wenyu River Basin, and finally flowed into Wengshan Po, and then flowed to Gaoliang River.

In the Ming Dynasty, there was a major failure in the water conservancy system. The imperial mausoleum was located in Changping, which led to the abandonment of the water source of Baifu Spring. The water from Yuquan Mountain and Wengshan Pond was no longer distinguished, and a new one was dug in the south of Taiye Pool. The lake forms the "three seas" in the north, middle and south, and takes priority to receive water from the western suburbs, but seriously damages the original waterway system.

Trees are planted on both sides of the streets in Beijing, and ditches are dug on both sides to discharge flood water, and then drain to the moat and then to the lower reaches of the Haihe River.

There was a problem with the water source, and Zhu Yixi thought of Miyun Reservoir for the first time.

But the amount of this project is too large, and the water far away cannot quench the near thirst. After discussion by the Ministry of Industry, the target is Xishan and Yuquanshan.

That is to say, all the springs including the Reclining Buddha Temple, Biyun Temple in Xiangshan Mountain and Yuquan Mountain will flow into the Wengshan Park through the diversion stone canal, and dredging will be greatly increased, and the east embankment will be built.

The water from the east stream of Yuquan was blocked to form a large water area, and the catchment area of ​​Wengshan Po was three times larger than that of the previous dynasty.

Then build a sluice on the east embankment of the lake and the north and south ends of the lake.

Usually, the three sluices are closed to store water. The south gate is used to supply water to the city through the Changhe River; the east gate is used to replenish water for the gardens and rice fields in the western suburbs;

The enlarged Wengshan Lake has a new name, Daming Lake.

In fact, this is the first reservoir, Kunming Lake, to appear in the suburbs of Beijing during the Qianlong period.

It is precisely because of this that when faced with a project of 1 million, he approved it without hesitation.

However, the emperor's deepest thoughts are still the Miyun Reservoir in the northeast.

However, this is a large project, hundreds of miles away from Beijing, and it cannot be completed in a few years. The Ministry of Industry estimates that it will take five years, 5 million blocks.

The diversion canal from Xishan is called the Yongding River Canal.

The two projects, one big and one small, were enough to make the household department feel sad for a long time.

But who let this be Beijing?

The family members of civil and military officials all live in Beijing, no matter how reluctant they are, they have to stamp their seals for the sake of their wives and children.

After walking a word, at noon, Zhu Yixi saw Yongding Qu.

Thousands of mules and horses left carrying a large amount of soil, and the sweaty workers continued to dig, working extremely hard.

At this time, a supervisor in the distance saw an army approaching quickly from a distance, and upon closer inspection, it turned out to be guards.

And the carriage in the center, don't you know the emperor's driving who likes to visit in micro clothes?
Seeing this, he hastily summoned the on-site management, walked away quickly, and knelt down: "Your Majesty, I'm waiting—"

"Get up!"

Just as Liu Afu was about to reprimand him a few times, the car curtain was pulled open, revealing a mature and handsome face.

The emperor was dressed in a fish-white close-fitting robe, with a jade hairpin on his head and a paper fan in his hand, looking like a jade tree facing the wind, with a high spirit.

"Come and talk—"

Zhu Yixi said casually, and the principal bowed and walked, his face full of excitement.

No surprises, this is the performance of the cabinet ministers.

If your low-level main job is like this, it will seem strange.

There is soil on the feet, grains of sand and broken soil, which is quite rough. This place really belongs to the remaining veins of the Western Mountains, so it is not easy to dig.

"How many people are here?"

The emperor looked at the workers who continued to work.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, there are nearly 3000 people in the diversion canal, all of whom are construction camps of the Ministry of Industry."

The chief said in a low voice.

The so-called construction battalion was actually the production and construction corps of the Ming Dynasty. Inspired by the emperor, the Ministry of Industry recruited rural and mountainous people from the private sector and let them be responsible for the construction.

For example, the construction of official roads, embankments of the Yellow River, and dredging of ditches was done by construction camps, without the need for civilian corvees.

These people are like soldiers. They do hard work on food and pay, with food and housing included, and one silver dollar a month.

Basically, after three to five years, you will take your savings and go home to build a house and buy land, marry a wife and have children.

Although the burden on the Ministry of Industry is heavy, the benefits are many.

First of all, it does not disturb the people, it can continue to work during spring plowing and autumn harvest, without destroying private production, and the construction efficiency is excellent.

The Ministry of Industry supports nearly 20,000 people in such a construction camp, accounting for [-]% of its annual budget.

"In hot weather, don't work at noon, or you will die."

Feeling pity, the emperor said, "Just take an hour's rest at noon."

(End of this chapter)