The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 861 Misfortune lies in the present age, merit lies in the future

But after a while, Ma Shiying said again: "My minister thinks that the imperial court is free of charge, so maybe nothing will happen in the past few years. In the future, the people all over the world will send their children to go to school, what should we do? How can we raise them?"

Now Ding Yi calculates that there are only 600 people in each county.

But if it is free all the time, there will be 6000 people in the future?What should I do then?
Ding Yi was silent for a while. Originally, he thought that after hundreds of years, there would not be so many people in a single county.

But what Ma Shiying said is right, we can’t keep doing this in the future, because after everyone gets used to collecting money in the future, it will be easy to have conflicts.

"I suggest." Chen Youfu from the household department said: "Ordinary people receive a little money every year, and merchants, officials, gentry, craftsmen, etc. earn a little more."

This remark caused hatred, and many people at the scene stared at him, why not.

Ding Yi didn't make a decision, just sat and watched the officials argue.

After arguing for more than an hour, everyone finally decided.

Anyone with a public position, including officials in various bureaus of the imperial court, craftsmen, and people in various factories, pays two taels of silver every year.

You can also not pay, for example, you can go home for dinner.

The rest of the merchants, ordinary people, and children of other occupations pay five qianyin, or three buckets of rice, every year.

If the family is really in difficulty, the payment is exempted.

As for whether it is difficult or not, of course it is up to the county government to decide.

Therefore, in the third year of Rende, Ding Yi approved the largest expenditure since the founding of the Dagan Dynasty, the national education subsidy.

In the future, the annual expenditure on education will be close to 2000 million taels.

The next day, after discussing with the cabinet, Ding Yi revised the content of the new code again.

In Ding Yi's words, agriculture is the foundation and the hope for the survival of the people across the country, while commerce is the driving force for national development.

Ding Yi wants to receive business taxes continuously, so the goods must flow and the merchants flow.

Ding Yi decided to make Daming's original official water post road free for commercial use.

As mentioned earlier, the official water post roads of Ming Dynasty extend in all directions, except for some particularly remote places in a few provinces, waterways can reach them.

In the past, only honorable and important businessmen could use it after they bribed the officials.

Either pay heavy taxes, or bribe the tax collectors.

Ding Yi now only collects business tax, and the water post road is free to use.

But there is one, during wars and special times, military supplies are given priority.

Ding Yi even asked Zheng Zhilong, the commander-in-chief of the Dagan Naval Command, to increase overseas trade with Japan, North Korea and other places, so that a steady stream of overseas goods will enter Dagan and flow in the market, driving everyone's consumption.

In short, in modern terms, increasing imports and exports will allow commerce to operate strongly, thereby driving the development of commerce across the country and increasing tax revenue for the court.

At this time, the end of the Ming Dynasty had just ended a few years ago. To be honest, most ordinary people did not have much spending power. It was considered good to be able to stock up on farmland and pay grain taxes on time.

Therefore, Ding Yi's method is similar to that of later generations, which is to increase the investment of state-owned assets.

Later generations of countries will invest trillions of dollars at every turn to promote the development of all walks of life in the country.

The most common thing is to get real estate, which can drive various industries such as cement and construction.

Now Ding Yi is engaged in infrastructure construction, water conservancy, land hoarding, and education. With the crazy investment of state capital, he has also driven all walks of life, including ordinary people.

Like building bridges and paving roads, labor is required, and ordinary people can participate when they are not busy, and they still have money for it. With money, they will naturally have spending power.

In September of the third year of Rende, Ding Yi and the cabinet ministers confirmed the plan for next year.

The imperial court invested heavily to drive various developments in the country. Anyway, Ding Yi's money would never run out.
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At the beginning of October, Lu Daqi, Minister of the Ministry of Agriculture, Du Ruhai, Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture, Zheng Xingsong, Secretary of the Water Conservancy Department of the Ministry of Agriculture, Song Fei, Secretary of the Ministry of Transport and Construction, Qian Fuhai, a doctor of the Infrastructure Department of the Ministry of Transport and Construction, Ruan Wenlong, Minister of Finance, and Chen Youfu, Secretary of the Ministry of Household Affairs, came to Gan Dongnuan Pavilion of the Qing Palace.

"Greetings to the emperor." Several people clasped their fists together.

"Hahaha, sit down, sit down." Ding Yi smiled, then stretched out his hand to greet behind him.

A young man appeared behind him, he looked only fifteen or sixteen years old, with a slightly green expression.

Du Ruhai, Seong Fei, Ruan Wenlong, and Chen Youfu stared at each other.

"Ye'er pays respects to Grandpa, Uncle Du, Uncle Song, Uncle Chen, Duke Lu, Lord Zheng, and Lord Qian." Ding Ye seemed to be much more polite than before, but his expression was always indifferent.

If Ding wants to be here, he must be respectful, polite, and humble.

"Ye'er." Ruan Wenlong was of course very happy to see his grandson.

Everyone also looked at each other.

After Ding Yi ascended the throne, he did not establish a prince, and his sons and daughters were not even named princes and princesses.

For Lu Daqi, Qian Fuhai and Zheng Xingsong, it was the first time they saw the emperor's eldest son, and they felt a little unbelievable.

"I plan to enshrine the prince and princess."

"Ding Ye is the eldest prince (the eldest son of the emperor)."

Ruan Wenlong's expression was blank, the eldest prince?What the hell is this?Why not the prince?
Someone responded: "Meet the eldest prince."

They saluted Ding Ye one after another.

Ding Ye was still standing still, Ding Yi turned his head to look at him, he suddenly realized, and quickly laughed along: "Excuse me, excuse me."

Ruan Wenlong secretly sighed in his heart, Ding Ye had no scheming, and his worldly skills were also poor, the gap between Ding Xiang and Ding Xiang was too great.

"Come here, upload the picture." Ding Yi didn't talk nonsense at this time, and asked someone to upload the picture.

Zhong Xian and the two official ladies took a huge Dagan map, and slowly spread it on the long table.

In Dongnuan Pavilion, there is a long table specially made by Ding Yijiao, which can be used as a dining table and conference table, which is very convenient.

Everyone gathered around and took a closer look. It turned out to be the official water post road of Dagan.

"Waterway transportation is not only an important means of transportation for a country, but also the embodiment of a country's economic lifeline."

"Whether the country is developed or not, and whether the mobilization ability is strong or not, in this era, it can only be reflected on the water post road."

In later generations, it depends on the airdrop ability.

For example, Laomei has a strong airdrop capability. The soldiers and equipment of the entire division can be airdropped to any place in the world within a few hours, which is quite powerful.

"When we attacked Annan, we borrowed Annan's waterway, used a large number of ships, transported tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and penetrated directly into their hinterland."

"Thus saving the protracted mountain crossing and mountain warfare."

Including Ding Yi's subsequent attack on Zhang Xianzhong and Yunnan, etc., they all used Daming's waterways to transport a large number of soldiers and materials.

"When Yang Guang just came to the throne, he was tossing around." Ding Yi changed his tone: "The excavation of the Grand Canal is said in history books to be a waste of money and people."

"But I think that his misfortune lies in the present, and his merits lie in the future."

The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal is one of the longest, largest and oldest canals in the world. Together with the Great Wall and Karez, it is called the three great projects of ancient China.It starts from Beijing in the north and ends in Hangzhou in the south, passing through four provinces including Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shandong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, with a total length of about 1797 kilometers.

The following dynasties continued to expand on its basis, some using natural rivers to connect, some using artificial excavations, and the Huitong River was excavated in the Yuan Dynasty.

After continuous construction, after the capital was moved to Beijing during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, in order to realize the transportation of grain from the south to the north, the Ming Dynasty focused on the renovation of some important sections of the canal on the basis of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal in the Yuan Dynasty. A set of institutional management system has been established. So far, the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, the main artery connecting the north and south regions, has begun to take shape.

In the 12th year of Yongle (1414), Chen Quan managed the Huainan transportation road. He organized manpower to dig water for Xu and Lv Erhong, and built a gate at Hongkou to ensure water transportation. It is 1432 feet deep and 2 feet wide. There is water in summer and autumn, and boats can be sailed. Two stone gates are built on the canal, which are opened and closed on time to facilitate travel.After this treatment, the navigation conditions of Xu and Lv Erhong have been greatly improved.

In the late Ming Dynasty, the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal, commonly known as Caohe, had a length of more than 3000 miles.

Each path is different, and the names of each section are also different.Generally speaking, from Tongzhou to Tianjin - Section 2 uses the Chaobai River, also known as Baicao: from Tianjin to Linqing uses the Weihe River, also known as Weicao: from Linqing to the south of Jining, it is the Huitong River dug in the Yuan Dynasty, It is known as the gate channel: Xuzhou to Huai'an is the original swimming channel, which was later captured by the Yellow River, so it is called the river channel: from Huai'an to Yangzhou, most of them are lake channels, so it is called lake channel; and the channel south of the Yangtze River is commonly called Zhejiang canal.Among them, Baicao and Weicao used natural rivers, and there were few problems. Zhecao was located in the south of the Yangtze River, with dense river networks and smooth transport routes, which did not require much labor.However, the three sections of Zhacao, Hecao and Hucao are located in the flooded area of ​​the Yellow River. The impact and problems caused by the flooding of the Yellow River are also the greatest, and they were the focus of governance and transformation in the Ming Dynasty.

In the late Ming Dynasty, in order to avoid the canal of the Yellow River, the Nanyang New River and the canal were dug successively. At this time, due to the decline of national power and the internal and external difficulties of the Ming Dynasty, it took more than [-] years to implement the transformation of part of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal. The section from the south of the Zhihekou in Pizhou to the Qinghe River in Huai’an still borrows the Yellow River Canal, so the reconstruction of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal to avoid the Yellow River as a transport channel was never completed in the Ming Dynasty.The reconstruction of this unfinished channel was not realized until the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty when Jin Fu excavated Zhonghe.

Throughout the Chongzhen period at the end of the Ming Dynasty, due to internal and external troubles, no one cared about the rivers in the Ming Dynasty. During the 17 years of Chongzhen's reign, the waterways in the country were almost unchanged, and there were many collapsed places that no one repaired.

Ding Yi has many boats and sailors, and he likes to transport on water, so he understands the role of water conservancy in this era.

"The predecessors have already laid the foundation for us. Now we only need to build on the foundation of the predecessors and strengthen it, dredge the waterways, expand the canals, and connect the great waterways to all parts of the world."

As mentioned earlier, the waterways of Daming are very developed, and only Yunnan in the whole country is not connected to the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.

Only one Zhenyuan Prefecture in Guizhou has a waterway, and it can go all the way to the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.

In other provinces, there are waterways that can connect to the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, but in some places, people cannot move around at certain times.

Ding Yi’s goal in the early stage is very clear. First, he will complete the unfinished part of the Ming Dynasty. That is, during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, Jin Fu, a water conservancy expert and known as the first river control expert in the Qing Dynasty, excavated the middle river to avoid the Yellow River. Transformation of fortune.

Of course, Ding Yi didn't know about this period of history in the Qing Dynasty, but in the Ming Dynasty, someone proposed to avoid the Yellow River Canal, but he gave up because of the weak national power of the previous Ming Dynasty and was unable to afford it.

Having said that, Ding Yi turned to Ding Ye: "You tell me."

(End of this chapter)