Daming: Brother, there is no future for monks, let's rebel

This winter is a bit cold, and the sea in the north of Wa Island freezes and makes it difficult to travel, so the silver dug out is transported from the islands in the north of Wa Island to the south, and then shipped to Daming.

In this way, it was delayed for some time, but the time was just right. After the Spring Festival, everyone was actively preparing supplies and wanted to take action after the beginning of the spring. The sea boat transported the silver to Yingtian, and Zhu Biao got Knowing that 500 million taels of silver arrived, the whole person fell into the trouble of happiness.

"How come there are so many?"

Zhu Biao looked at the memorial sent, and asked the Minister of Finance curiously: "Isn't there only 800 million taels of silver every year?"

The Minister of the Ministry of Finance immediately said: "It was indeed 800 million silver before, but a few years ago, the King of England sent students overseas, and those students have now become talents. The management of Iwami Yinshan is more in line with the process, and the local people are also very satisfied. Therefore, a very high enthusiasm broke out, which led to a substantial increase in the mining work of Yinliang... However, those students were not satisfied with this, and even thought of using gunpowder to blow up the mountain to mine more ore .”

Zhu Han's call for [-] students to go overseas has indeed led to a shortage of local officials in the Ming Dynasty, but in terms of benefits, the [-] students going overseas will benefit Daming even more. For example, everyone can see the benefits now.

More money means more things you can do.

With the extra money, Zhu Biao plans to invest all of it in infrastructure construction, building cement factories, building more steel factories, roads and railways, if they can be built faster, it will be a good thing for the people.

Moreover, the expansion of Daming is also a good thing.

That's right, Zhu Biao's vigorous development of road construction is for expansion.

There is no other reason: there are more and more people in Ming Dynasty. In the next ten to 20 years, the population of Ming Dynasty will reach [-] million. However, it will be very troublesome to feed [-] million people on the current land. If the population continues to increase, Ming Dynasty will The only way to go is expansion.

Of course, the Daming that Zhu Biao is talking about now refers to the mainland of Daming, and the overseas enclaves are not yet under Zhu Biao's management.

If you want to get rich, build roads first. Zhu Biao threw out 500 million taels of silver, which directly led 300 million people to devote themselves to the construction of roads and railways. At least 500 million captives and servants of the country were invested in the construction of the road.

After Zhu Yuanzhang learned of this situation, he was very happy. What he wanted to see most was that the railways of Ming Dynasty spread all over the world. Now that Zhu Biao suddenly threw out a large sum of gold and silver to speed up the development of railways, how could Zhu Yuanzhang be unhappy? reason?

Not only is Zhu Yuanzhang happy, but the people are also happy. Today's Daming is still an agricultural civilization, and the industrial civilization is still in its infancy. Today's people still keep farming.

But how much money can farming make?Every year, the Chaotang will issue a lot of engineering jobs. These jobs are paid for by workers. As long as you work, you can get the corresponding wages, and if you finish the work ahead of time with quality and quantity, you can also get some rewards. Say, let’s say that during the slack season, the salary for completing the tasks given by the court can catch up with half a year’s income from busy farming every year. Why not participate in such a good thing?
There is a more important point: the man's self-esteem is challenged.

Since Zhao Min led Yingtian's women to work in the factory, businessmen from other provinces seemed to have seen the huge benefits brought by women's work, and began to recruit women to work in the factory.

The woman took advantage of it and earned more money than the man in the family in a year. How can the men who have always been the pillars of the family bear it?

Today is a patriarchal society, where patriarchy prevails, and women are more like accessories of men, with no human rights at all, but what about now?Men don't earn as much as women every year.

How can a man with strong self-esteem endure this?
Therefore, the project announced by the court has become a channel for men to regain their dignity, and they also need to earn more money to regain their family status.

Of course, there are still a few places where this kind of man finds his self-esteem to do court work, and more people go to work because their families are poor. This kind of poverty does not mean that they cannot afford food, but that they want more.

To build a new house for the family, to buy a new set of clothes every year during the Chinese New Year, and to let the children of the family go to school, these are the reasons why they want to work for the court.

Today's Daming, because of Zhu Han, has completely canceled the "relief" type of work. In the past dynasties, in order to maintain their rule, they would assign tasks to the people during the slack season and let them go to work. Free labor, if it was born in a prosperous age, the common people would be willing to work for free, but once a war breaks out, it will be another matter, the common people basically can't even grow the land, they can only work non-stop , work, and pay food taxes until the autumn harvest, this method makes the people miserable.

Before the establishment of Ming Dynasty, when Zhu Yuanzhang was still called "King of Wu", Zhu Han tried his best to reject the work of "relief" and adopted the method of replacing relief with work. If you have money to take, who would not want to participate?
This is also the reason why the Daming infrastructure under Zhu Yuanzhang's rule developed rapidly.

Everyone in the world is shouting for profit, this sentence is not wrong at all.

However, there were also some unnecessary infrastructure, which made Zhu Yuanzhang very unhappy.

"Building a city wall? What's so good about building a city wall?"

When Zhu Yuanzhang saw the memorial in Xiangbei, he was immediately unhappy. He pointed to the memorial and said, "The person who submitted the memorial is just a brainless bastard, and he is surrounded by stupid pigs without brains. Now the power of artillery is getting stronger and stronger. , Can building a city wall stop the bombing of the artillery? Bullshit! Let’s say, these walls have to be demolished, so many bricks, wouldn’t it be just right to build houses for the common people?”

Zhu Biao didn't speak, but looked at Zhu Han who was on the side, Zhu Han thought for a while and said: "Brother, you can't say that, the city wall really doesn't need to be repaired, but... the city walls in some places still need to be preserved For example, in some cities with rich historical background, those city walls are equivalent to a kind of historical inheritance, and they will not play much role in defending against the enemy, but when it comes to the continuation of history in the future, these city walls are still necessary , can also be regarded as a historical and cultural landscape, as for the new city walls, forget it, in some more important checkpoints, it is enough to reinforce the checkpoints."

Zhu Yuanzhang sounded very reasonable, so he decided to do what Zhu Han said. Of course, he didn't do it, but Zhu Biao did it: "Biaoer, this is your business, we will leave it to you. , you take care of it."

Zhu Biao took the memorial, nodded and said, "Yes."

The current Zhu Yuanzhang, almost the same as the previous Zhu Han, only makes suggestions and does not participate in government affairs.

Zhu Yuanzhang then said to Zhu Han: "The establishment of commercial firms in various provinces is almost done. We have given them a certain degree of autonomy, but we have to hold the supervision in our hands, and we must not let moths destroy the roots of our Ming Dynasty."

Zhu Han nodded: "It should be so. Isn't the supervision department at all levels in our city just to prevent this from happening? Such a case is not a good thing for us."

Let's go on one by one, and finally talk about Daming's national strategy.

Zhu Yuanzhang listened to Zhu Han's words and wanted to separate the local Ming Dynasty from the Ming Dynasty. On the matter of site selection, Zhu Yuanzhang began to ask Zhu Han's opinion.

According to Zhu Yuanzhang, he prefers to build the headquarters of the Ming Dynasty in his hometown of Fengyang, but now the Yellow River flows from the Huaihe River to the sea, and Fengyang simply cannot afford to become a national headquarters.

Then it is Kaifeng or Chang'an. These two places have the experience of being the capital of the country in ancient times, but the development of the times has not been enough to support the development of Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao were also worried about this issue. The father and son could not come up with a definite answer, so they could only throw the question to Zhu Han. The father and son also believed that Zhu Han would definitely be able to provide them with a definite and feasible answer. solution to the problem.

Sure enough, Zhu Han's solution to the problem was beyond their imagination: "You choose Kaifeng, Chang'an, or Fengyang, so have you thought about other places?"

As soon as Zhu Yuanzhang heard Zhu Han's words, he immediately guessed that Zhu Han would definitely come up with another solution to the problem, and the two of them immediately listened with respect and listened to Zhu Han's answer.

"I think neither Kaifeng nor Chang'an are suitable. On the contrary, Yuandadu is very suitable to be a royal city!"

Zhu Han looked at Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao, and said to them: "Yuan Da is the former capital of the former dynasty. You may think that this place is ominous and not suitable for being the capital of the country, but in my opinion, Yuan Da is the most suitable place for being the capital of the country. Now Daming is really rich all over the world, so the role of the country's capital is more about the geographical location, rather than considering whether the surrounding can afford the country's consumption or not."

What the capital consumes most is nothing more than food, as for the others... the surroundings of Yuandadu can be used as supply points for goods.

Yuanda is the most suitable.

When Zhu Han mentioned Yuan Dadu, it undoubtedly provided Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao with a new way of thinking, and the two fell silent, considering whether Zhu Han's proposal was correct.

Then both Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao discovered that Yuan Dadu mentioned by Zhu Han was really a good place.

There are ports (Qilu, Jinmen) around it, and they can also connect to the grasslands. As long as the railways and roads are open, the rule of the south will be no problem. Besides... the Chinese capital of the Ming Dynasty was established in Yingtian, which is located in the south. Even if the Ming capital is moved to Yanjing, Yingtian still has control over the Ming mainland, so there won't be any problems.

In this way, there is something to talk about.

Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but nodded: "Well, the Seventh Five-Year Plan is right. Yanjing is a good choice. Huaxia is the most important place in Ming Dynasty. Set the capital of Huaxia in Yingtian and the capital of Ming in Yanjing. North can control the entire Huaxia more conveniently."

Zhu Biao also nodded: "Well, yes, my father is right."

Zhu Han continued: "There is another consideration for setting the national capital in Yanjing. Our Ming Dynasty was established on the basis of the collapse of the Yuan Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty defeated the Yuan Dynasty... In this way, it will be difficult for other people who want to rebel. It is said that it is a particularly great pressure, and if they want to replace Da Ming, they need to capture the capital of Da Ming."

"Uh……"

Zhu Biao hesitated, and said to Zhu Han: "Uncle, isn't it too early for us to consider the demise of Ming Dynasty?"

"Early, why early? It's not early at all!"

On the contrary, Zhu Yuanzhang agreed with what Zhu Han said, and said to Zhu Biao: "Don't you understand the principle of being prepared for danger in times of peace? In the previous dynasties, the founding emperors all had the ambition to establish the court for eternity, but what was the final result? Didn't it still go through hundreds of years? perish in one year? The same is true for Ming Dynasty, failure and perish must be considered first!"

Then, Zhu Yuanzhang continued: "We think that the Seventh Five-Year Plan is well considered. It is a very good decision to build the capital of the Ming Dynasty on top of the capital of the Yuan Dynasty."

Zhu Biao saw that Zhu Yuanzhang agreed immediately, and he had no reason to object. After considering what Zhu Han and Zhu Yuanzhang said, he also felt that what Zhu Han said was reasonable, and then said to Zhu Han: "But now... Yuan University is not suitable to be Wangdu, there is nothing there now, and the palace of the Yuan Dynasty is already dilapidated, so what should we do next?"

"Rebuild it."

Zhu Han looked at Zhu Biao, and said to him: "The construction of the imperial palace is the same as the construction of railways and roads. It is a public construction. It can be done with work, isn't it just money... Our Daming is still short of money?"

"Lack! Very lack!"

Following Zhu Han's words, Zhu Biao quickly said: "Although Daming's current income is very considerable, there are also many places to spend money. How much money will it cost to build a new palace? Daming's treasury cannot bear such a heavy burden. "

Hearing Zhu Biao's words, Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to get angry, but finally held back.

Don't you have enough money to build the capital of the Ming Dynasty?

Can the money for building the palace be counted as money?
Zhu Yuanzhang thought to himself: Zhu Biao didn't let Zhu Biao live a hard life, why did Zhu Biao value money so much?
It's not as good as Zhu Han, at least Zhu Han doesn't care about money at all.

Zhu Biao is still too immature, and there is still a lot of room for growth. It is up to Zhu Han to make up his mind about setting up the capital of Ming Dynasty.

Sure enough, Zhu Han proposed a completely different method from Zhu Biao: "Biaoer, the Ming Dynasty's imperial palace is the same as Daming's infrastructure construction. They all belong to the national conditions. Railways and roads can be built. Why can't the Daming Palace be built? When the time comes, the palace will be built." Let the surrounding people and craftsmen do it, and for them, it can be regarded as bringing a very considerable income to their family, why not agree?"

"This……"

When Zhu Biao heard Zhu Han's words, he thought it made sense, and asked Zhu Han after a while: "Uncle, if it were you, what do you think should be done?"

"No need to do anything, just put it in the court hall and let the courtiers discuss it. I think it is unlikely that they will object."

Zhu Han gave Zhu Biao a look of 'you understand', and said to Zhu Biao: "This project is a very big project, and it will take three to five years to construct. How much family income can be raised in three to five years?" Double? Have you ever thought about it, Biaoer?"