Mixed with salted fish in Hongwudang

Chapter 332 Ni Sun, You Are Not Finished!
Old Zhu also had a face full of surprise, subconsciously walked down the steps and circled around the train in amazement.

He sees trains differently than officials.

Although he also felt that this item was quite expensive, it was a one-time investment that would benefit future generations.

Once Daming built such a railway, the grain and soldiers from the south could be continuously transported to the north through the railway, thus launching a lasting blow to the North Yuan!
The biggest problem facing the Ming Dynasty against the northern grasslands was the transfer of grain and grass. If one stone of grain was to be transported to the northern border, it would cost seven or eight stones just for people on the road to eat horse chews.

If such a train that does not use manpower or animal power is used, how much food will Daming save every year?
"Good stuff!"

"If this thing is built, our Daming will no longer be afraid of those Tartars in the grassland!"

"It's making us anxious, let's build the railway to the door of Beiyuan Wangting's house, and kill him directly, hahaha!"

When Lao Zhu said this, the model train happened to be driving to a steep slope.

Seeing this, everyone held their breath, for fear that the slow train would get stuck or slide down the steep slope.

Lao Zhu also had a nervous expression on his face. When he saw that the train only slowed down a little, climbed up the steep slope without stopping, and swooped down from the steep slope, his face showed a relieved expression.

Lao Zhu hugged Dasun and touched Dasun's small head with a smile on his face.

"Good job!"

"We're ready, you're allowed to set up that Ministry of Railways."

Zhu Yunxi said with a smile when he heard the words.

"Grandfather, don't just talk about it, it's expensive to build this thing, don't even think about it if you don't have two or thirty million taels of silver."

"Look, what to do with the money?"

When Lao Zhu heard this, it was as if someone had stuffed a rag into his mouth, and Long's mouth closed instantly.

Dare to mess around for a long time, this grandson is waiting for him here!

"Da Sun, aren't you rich?"

"You put it on first, and I will give it to you when we have money!"

Zhu Yunxi rolled his eyes when he heard the words, and immediately turned his face away.

"No money!"

"Even if you beat me to death, I have no money!"

When Lao Zhu heard this, he wished he could give this grandson two kicks.This Nisun is so generous to those little Wang uncles, and every time he makes a move, he pays 10 taels of silver per person, why is he so stingy when he comes to me!
Seeing that Lao Zhu was silent, Zhu Yunxi began to tease Lao Zhu again.

"Grandfather, if our Daming has this thing, the frontier soldiers will no longer have to worry about food and grass."

"This thing is so good, you can eat, drink, and sleep without rest. From the capital to Datong, it only takes three to five days to arrive. It's really fast and saves money!"

"If we get dozens of trains, our Ming Dynasty's millions of soldiers can be deployed to the border of the Ming Dynasty at will within a few days..."

When Lao Zhu heard this, he looked at the model train driving in the hall, his eyeballs turned red with greed.

Now Lao Zhu really wants to put his grandson on the ground and beat him up!
This grandson definitely did it on purpose. He knew that Daming had no money and couldn't afford to build such a railway, but he still had to take this thing out. Wasn't he deliberately envious of himself, a silly old man!
Thinking of this, Lao Zhu turned his head with a look of disgust, then waved his hands at Dasun.

"What a broken thing, take it away from us quickly, don't pollute our place!"

Zhu Yunxi asked cheaply when he heard the words.

"Grandfather, you really don't want to have a railway like this?"

"We don't want to!"

"Since you don't want to, then grandson will order someone to dismantle it?"

"dismantle!"

"Dismantle it quickly!"

"After the demolition is over, we have to talk about business!"

While talking, Lao Zhu walked up the steps angrily.However, he had just walked a few steps when he heard the grandson behind him speak again.

"Ugh!"

"Originally, grandson wanted to contribute a plan to you so that the imperial court can own such a railway without spending a penny."

"Since Grandpa Huang doesn't like it, then don't say anything!"

"dismantle!"

Following Zhu Yunxi's order, Ma Bo immediately took people to dismantle the model.However, just as they were about to start, they were interrupted by an anxious voice.

"slow!"

Lao Zhu ran down the steps with a benevolent face, and enthusiastically held Dasun's hand and said.

"Dasun, what did you just say that the railway can be repaired without spending a penny from the court?"

Although Zhu Yunxi said he was angry with Lao Zhu, his desire to do something was true.Seeing Lao Zhu agreeing so straightforwardly, he immediately smiled happily.

"Grandfather, the grandson of the railway construction can completely raise money by himself, without the help of the court, but the proceeds after the railway is completed must go to the grandson."

"allow!"

Lao Zhu agreed without thinking about it when he heard this, but Chen Zongli, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, quit.

"Your Majesty, this is absolutely impossible!"

"If the income goes to the emperor's grandson, what will the court do when it transports troops and food in the future? Should it also give money to the emperor's grandson?"

"This matter must be clearly determined, what benefits the court can enjoy, and what benefits the emperor's grandson can enjoy."

Seeing that the emperor's grandfather was fooled into agreeing by him, Zhu Yunxi suddenly jumped out of Chen Zongli, and immediately roared viciously at him.

"The imperial court didn't pay any money, why should I share the proceeds with me!"

Chen Zongli replied without any hesitation.

"Who said the imperial court didn't have a penny?"

"The emperor's grandson built the road and occupied the land of the imperial court. Such a long railway must not occupy the land at 01:30!"

Zhu Yunxi stared nonsense.

"There is no king in the world!"

"I'm a grandson, what's wrong with using my grandfather to order land!"

As soon as Zhu Yunxie's unreasonable words came out, all the officials in the court looked up at the sky, as if they didn't understand what Zhu Yunxie said.

Chen Zongli also smiled and retreated to the team, but looked at Lao Zhu jokingly, and Lao Zhu's old face became feverish.

Although it is said that there is no king's land in the whole world, and no king's ministers on the shore of the land.

But since ancient times, the distinction between monarch and minister is clear.

There is a clear line between what is royal and what is imperial.

Just like old Zhu Gui being the emperor, there is no reason to draw everything to his own house.

Even if a few sons were made vassal kings, it took a lot of effort and caused a lot of trouble.

In principle, rivers, lakes, seas, mountains and roads, etc., all belong to the imperial court.

The imperial court is nominally under the leadership of the royal family, but the royal family is only the leader, not that the imperial court is the private property of the royal family.

If you really regard the imperial court as your own and take whatever you want from the imperial court, then you will not be far from subjugation.

Although Lao Zhu has always regarded the world as the private property of Lao Zhu's family, he only thinks so in his heart, and on the surface he still maintains the righteous name of the court.

Therefore, under the gaze of a group of civil and military officials, Lao Zhu felt guilty for a while.

"Rebellious grandson!"

"Don't talk nonsense!"

Zhu Yunxi also knew that he was talking nonsense, he was just deliberately messing around.Now that he heard Lao Zhu getting angry, he hurriedly slipped aside and gritted his teeth secretly at Chen Zongli.

Seeing the strange behavior of his grandson, Lao Zhu realized that he almost fell into the trap of his grandson.

He thought that this grandson had changed his nature, and knew that he was doing things for the court regardless of personal gain, so he dared to feel that his grandson wanted to prostitute for nothing!
Lao Zhu became a little angry when he thought of this, because he was too stingy.

He is the emperor's grandson of Daming, and the whole of Daming will belong to him in the future, so why is he so clearly separated from the imperial court?

In Lao Zhu's simple values, he is the emperor, he represents the imperial court, and the imperial court is his private property.

Therefore, when he formulated a series of systems, he never thought of distinguishing between public and private. If he lacked money, he would take it directly from the court's treasury, and if the court was short of money, it would also move it from the palace's treasury.

But Lao Zhu knows how to restrain his desires, and he advocates frugality and dislikes extravagance and waste, so it has little impact on the court's finances.

However, his financial thinking that does not distinguish between public and private has also brought a series of financial problems to later generations of Ming Dynasty.

For the emperor after Lao Zhu, it was a struggle to spend some money.

For example, Emperor Longqing, the son of Emperor Jiajing, would be scolded by civil officials for being extravagant if he wanted to make jewelry for his concubines.If you want to reward others with something, you will be rejected by the civil servants.

As for building a garden or building a palace, it is even more troublesome, and the civil officials can only be scolded as the king of Jie and Zhou.

In order not to cause this trouble, the emperors of later generations directly sent eunuchs to various places to collect taxes.

But in this way, it gave birth to chaotic policies such as mine supervisors and tax supervisors, which caused great harm to Daming.

Therefore, Zhu Yunxi's attitude of distinguishing between public and private is actually the most suitable way for Daming.

Clearly stipulate what is royal and what is court.

The royal money is naturally at the disposal of the royal family.The province's own descendants, if they want to build a pavilion in the palace, they have to look at the faces of a group of civil servants.

As for the money of the imperial court, civil servants cannot be allowed to squander it, and it has to be spent under the supervision of the emperor.

After Lao Zhu scolded his eldest grandson, he looked at Chen Zongli unkindly.

"Chen Zongli, let me tell you, is this road still repaired, and if so, how should it be repaired?"

Chen Zongli also knew the benefits of building the railway, but he just didn't want all the benefits to be taken by the royal family.

It's not that he thinks that way, but that all civil servants and military generals have such thoughts.

The struggle for power between the emperor and his courtiers has never stopped since ancient times.

When Lao Zhu was entrusting the kings, the general Xungui also had a lot of opinions.

The reason for their opposition is also very simple. Why should we give your son a fiefdom for no reason?

Therefore, as far as the enfeoffment is concerned, Lao Zhu is very unreasonable in the court.In the end, it was he who used imperial power to forcibly suppress objections, and then he entrusted his sons out as vassal kings.

Chen Zongli saw that the old emperor called his name, thought for a while and stood up.

"Your Majesty, the railway is naturally a great thing that benefits the country and the people, and it must be repaired."

"However, I secretly think that the revenue from the railway cannot all go to the emperor's grandson, at least the imperial court should take part of it."

"Moreover, for any important military affairs, the imperial court can also requisition them without compensation, and immediately guarantee the supply of food and grass for the frontier troops."

"In this way, the imperial court has to send full-time officials to monitor the railway, and has the right to stop and requisition the railway at any time..."

As soon as Chen Zongli's words came out, all civil and military officials in the Manchu Dynasty expressed their support.

"Your Majesty, what Chen Shangshu said is justified!"

"The railway is related to the lifeline of the country, and it is related to the transshipment of freight, materials, and population between the north and the south. It must not be controlled by individuals!"

Lao Zhu heard that his courtiers overwhelmingly supported Chen Zongli, and gave a reason that he himself did not believe.

"Our eldest grandson is the grandson of the Ming emperor. The railway is in the hands of our eldest grandson. Is there any difference between it and the imperial court?"

"When our eldest grandson becomes emperor in the future, won't the railway be under the management of the imperial court?"

"Dasun, don't you think so?"

Lao Zhu originally wanted to give Dasun a step, and let Dasun go down the slope.

However, he underestimated Dasun's greed. Hearing this, his Dasun just stood there and pretended to be stupid, completely ignoring him as an old man.

After Chen Zongli and others heard Lao Zhu's words, they all secretly laughed in their hearts, what about his family's grandson, does he have no idea?

The emperor's grandson is different from the emperor, public and private are clearly distinguished!
Old Zhu hit a soft nail on Zhu Yunxi, so he didn't have the face to mention it.

"This matter is on hold for now!"

"Let's move on!"

As soon as Lao Zhu finished speaking, Zhan Wei, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, came out again with the memorial.

He has a few questions about the appointment of local officials today, and he has to ask the old emperor for his opinion before they can be implemented.

However, just as he wanted to go up with the memorial, he saw Zhu Yunxi jumping out ahead of him.

"Grandfather, grandson has a book to play!"

Lao Zhu is going to annoy his grandson to death now, and Daming can't afford to repair a train he made.This grandson can afford it, but he doesn't want to share it with the court.

If it weren't for the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty staring at him now, he really wanted to hang Ni Sun up and beat him up!
This Nisun didn't even want to build the railway for the imperial court, why did he take this thing out to make others jealous!

"You stay here and let Zhan Wei talk first..."

"No!"

"Grandpa Huang taught his grandson for so long yesterday, didn't he just hope that his grandson will work hard?"

"Today, my grandson will give you a hard time, so that you can see what my grandson is capable of!"

When Lao Zhu saw Ni Sun say that, he was so angry that he couldn't say no.

"Say!"

"Grandfather Sun Qizhao, the function of my Daming station is too single, it can only be used for military newspapers and official documents, and it cannot cover the needs of the people."

"Sun Er proposed to establish a postal department and set up post offices in counties and market towns across the country to fully meet the needs of the people of Ming Dynasty to mail letters and parcels."

"The existing station system can also be managed by the Ministry of Post!"

When Lao Zhu heard this, he refused without thinking.

There are six imperial courts, which have existed since ancient times.

It's fine if the grandson doesn't write a letter, but once he writes a letter, he will establish a new department besides the six ones.

According to his tossing method, in one morning, Daming would have to change from six parts to eight parts!
"No!"

Lao Zhu rejected Ni Sun's request, so he hurriedly greeted Zhan Wei.

"Zhan Wei, what did you want to say just now?"

Just as Zhan Wei was about to speak while holding the memorial, Zhu Yunxie on the other side spoke again.

"Grandfather, grandson has something else to say!"

When Lao Zhu heard this, he was so angry that he hammered the armrest of the dragon chair.

"Ni Sun, you are not finished yet!"

Facing Lao Zhu's roar, Zhu Yunxi looked over without showing any weakness.

"It's not over!"

"The grandson played the role of the emperor's grandfather. The grandson checked the household registration atlas of Yingtian Mansion, ordered people to visit the folks, and obtained a set of data."

"Ying Tianfu has more than 30.00 newborn babies every year, but the adult rate of these [-] babies is less than [-]%."

"More than 60.00% of babies die before the age of ten."

"More than 40.00% of babies die within two years of age."

"There are more than..."

Originally, Lao Zhu thought that this grandson was going to mess around again, annoying himself with some unimportant things.But when he heard a set of shocking data, the anger on his face gradually subsided, replaced by an inexplicable shock.

Daming dies so many babies every year?

It's no wonder that the total population of Daming can't be raised, how long will China be able to restore the prosperity of China with such a death method!
Lao Zhu is very concerned about the population recovery of Ming Dynasty. If the civil officials did not stop him, he would want to abolish the folk custom of "keeping filial piety" for parents, so that people have more time to have children.

Even if officials stopped him, he secretly shortened the time for keeping filial piety by a lot.

The reason why Lao Zhu paid so much attention to population growth was because for every additional person in Ming Dynasty, the court would have one more soldier and one more person who would pay corvee and taxes for the court.

In a word, if there are people, there will be money, and if there are many people, there will be great power!

In fact, this is what the emperors of all dynasties have been doing. In some dynasties, those who lack people are directly assigned by the government. Even if there are widows who want to keep the festival, the government will directly match you with a husband, and let you give the new husband to give birth to the country. .

"Ying Tianfu's 30-year-old man dies more than [-] people every year..."

"Yingtianfu's population over the age of 60 dies more than 2 people a year..."

Lao Zhu couldn't stand it anymore when he heard this, so he hurriedly called a stop.

"do not talk!"

"Just tell us directly why our Ming Dynasty dies so many babies every year!"

"Reporting to Grandpa Emperor, the reason why so many people die of illness in our Ming Dynasty every year is because there are too few medical institutions in our Ming Dynasty, and the common people lack medical care and medicine, and lack scientific guidance."

"In many villages, infants can only seek help from witches and gods when they get sick, and get some talisman water for treatment. This kind of medical environment has led to a very high infant mortality rate."

"So Sun'er proposed to build three medical colleges near the capital to teach medicine to meet the medical needs of the people of Ming Dynasty!"

"establish!"

Old Zhu gritted his teeth.

"It costs money to build!"

"Even if we sell our palace, we must build a medical school!"

"Da Sun, just tell me how much you want!"

Zhu Yunxi glanced at the numbers on the memorial, and then said lightly.

"It won't cost much. It is estimated that an initial investment of 300 million taels will be enough."

"Follow-up investment... It is estimated to be about 100 million taels per year, which is not a large amount..."

When Lao Zhu heard this number, his face twitched.

Isn't 300 million taels a decimal?
How many tens of thousands of taels of silver can our Daming treasury enter in a year!
"Chen Aiqing, do you think the money is under pressure?"

When Chen Zongli heard this "Chen Aiqing", he felt great pressure.

The old emperor is also dead, Chen Aiqing is fine, Chen Zongli is fine, he is a dog when he gets angry...

"Your Majesty, I can scrape together 30 taels with all my money, and the remaining 270 million taels can only be harvested next year..."

"If the imperial court still uses troops against Bei Yuan next year, then this matter will have to be postponed until the year after, or the year after..."

As soon as Lao Zhu heard this, he felt a splitting headache.

He wants to do too many things, but the court's money is always not enough.

It’s fine if he doesn’t know about it, now let him know that so many infants and working adults die every year because of the lack of medicine and medicine in Daming, his heart is so painful that he is bleeding!
When Lao Zhu was helpless, he suddenly caught a glimpse of Ni Sun giggling at the bottom of the steps.

When Lao Zhu saw this situation, his mind suddenly brightened.

Right!

The steel and briquettes in this grandson's hands are all big money-making businesses. Let alone a few million taels of silver a year, this grandson can definitely let the grandson put the money first!
"Great grandson, can you see if you can help the imperial court with cushions first, and then wait until the imperial court has money..."

"Grandpa Huang, grandson's money is also hard-earned, and there are shares of Grandma Guo in it, so grandson can't..."

Lao Zhu added a sentence without waiting for Ni Sun to finish.

"If you do this well, we will save you from going to the court every day in the future, and just have someone send you a copy of the records of the court's major events, so that you can familiarize yourself with what happened in the next court!"

When Zhu Yunxi heard what Lao Zhu said, he knelt down on the ground immediately, the banter on his face was wiped away, and he said righteously.

"Serving the emperor's grandfather, serving the court, and serving the common people in the world is the duty of my grandson!"

"Grandfather, please rest assured, grandson will definitely do a good job in this matter!"

(End of this chapter)