Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 259 The Nature of Huangzhuang
Zhu Youxiao finally agreed to the request of the Royal Weaving Bureau to temporarily recruit only [-] weavers for reemployment training, and asked Yang Shouchun of the Royal Bank to give the Royal Weaving Bureau an unconditional loan to solve the crisis and burden of the Royal Weaving Bureau's backlog of cloth goods. The previous training costs of these weavers and the operating costs of the Royal Weaving Bureau's entry into the markets of other chief ministers across the country except Jiangnan.

Yang Shouchun did not dare to disobey the will of His Majesty the Emperor. Sometimes it is like this. The Royal Bank is closely related to other royal capitals. Once the royal industrial company or the Royal Weaving Bureau does not manage well or the losses caused by other reasons will also affect the Royal Bank. The Royal Bank is back.

The degree of commercialization of the Ordnance Department cannot keep up with the Royal Industries Company and the Royal Weaving Bureau. His current orders are all needed for the combat preparations of the Imperial Guards. Even many of the Ordnance Department's ordnance weapons are still in the confidential stage, and they are not open to the public, nor are they outside the Ming Dynasty. of military power for sale.

However, Zhu Youxiao intends to wait until the Ming Dynasty's technological industry has developed to a stage, at least after the main equipment of the Imperial Guard has been updated for a generation, then he can open up the foreign weapon blockade, allowing the Ordnance Department to eliminate the Imperial Guard, but it still belongs to the The more advanced weapons of the current era are sold to foreign countries, even the Qing Dynasty.

By making the enemy dependent on the weapons they make, you can thus indirectly control the enemy's weaponry.

If one day Man Qing can forget his cavalry and archery skills, and get used to fighting with his own flintlock guns, that is definitely what Zhu Youxiao would like to see. It is difficult for Zhu Youxiao to guarantee that the cavalry will be able to use this Kill the Manchus, but if everyone uses firearms, Zhu Youxiao feels confident that Daming will defeat the Manchus in the shortest possible time.

"Today, there are still ten battalions of Imperial Guards who have not yet completed their orders. Most of the reason is that there are very few skilled craftsmen. We can receive 5 people and train them. We will strive to complete the ban before the Double Ninth Festival this year. Orders from the Guards, but please allow the Royal Bank to allocate another sum of money to the Ordnance Department, otherwise it will be difficult to complete the placement of the 5 people."

Bi Maokang said with a bitter face.

Among the several royal capital industries, the Ordnance Department is losing money, even a lot of money. Since its establishment, the Royal Bank has been subsidizing it. Although the Ordnance Department is the production place of the most advanced military weapons in Ming Dynasty and even the world today, who Unexpectedly, it still owes the Royal Bank tens of millions of debts.

Now that he wanted money from the Royal Bank, Zhu Youxiao had no choice but to give it, so he asked Yang Shouchun to give the Ordnance Department another free loan.

Yang Shouchun cried out that his flesh hurts, but there was nothing he could do about it. After all, the Ordnance Department was the most powerful backing for the Royal Guards to control the current situation of the Ming Dynasty. A few vassals can't let the weapons collapse.

The large project proposed by Minister of Industry Huo Weihua can provide employment for 50 people. The Royal Industrial Company can accept the employment of [-] people, and the Royal Weaving Bureau can accept the employment of [-] people. In addition, the Royal Bank is also willing to accept a batch of jobs. Except for schoolchildren and those who are familiar with accounting as apprentices, most of the common people can only be handed over to Huangzhuang.

Today's Huangzhuang is not just as simple as Zhu Youxiao's private land. In fact, his essence is to take ownership in the name of the emperor, distribute most of the land he won and the emperor's original land to the common people for cultivation, and It is a disguised land reform that allows the common people to have decades of contracted use rights without compensation.

The largest landlord is His Majesty Zhu Youxiao, but Zhu Youxiao did not restrict other rights and interests of the farmers who contracted Huangzhuang. Life and private property were treated like protection by the court.

And as early as the seventh year of Tianqi, Zhu Youxiao asked Xu Guangqi, the left servant of the Ministry of Industry, and Wang Chengen, the supervisor of ceremonies, to be responsible for contracting the land of Huangzhuang to various people in the form of official documents, but the premise is that the landless people and the people with good tax credit in previous years , the right to use each self-employed contracted Huangzhuang is 50 years.

During these 50 years, the imperial court will not interfere with what you plant and how much you reap, but every summer and autumn, the rent will be collected on time, which is lower than the imperial court's tax standard in that year.

I have the right to use it for 50 years, so I don’t have to worry about not planting it for 50 years, and the court doesn’t interfere with what you plant, and the tax you pay is lower than when you plant your own land, and the land is owned by the court, so you don’t have to worry about being robbed Go, so many people are willing to donate land to Huangzhuang, and voluntarily go to Huangzhuang to contract land.

However, Huangzhuang has limited the land contracted by each individual family, and specially divided it into two types: farming and other types. Farming is naturally purely planting and producing food, while others include land for commercial purposes such as building houses, workshops and kilns. , the above-mentioned rent is lower than the imperial court tax refers to the former, and the land tax for commercial purposes is not low, even far exceeding the so-called one-thirty commercial tax.

The purpose of doing this is naturally to ensure that Huangzhuang can become a base for providing food, an important strategic material, and prevent it from being over-commercialized. It also achieves the purpose of suppressing land mergers by limiting the scale of land contracting by contractors.

No one is bold enough to annex His Majesty's land.

But such a move is naturally against the interests of literati and bureaucrats, after all, it has hindered their annexation of land.

However, most of the literati and celebrities in the south of the Yangtze River are now either arrested in prison or exiled to the western countryside of the Ming Dynasty to help students and teaching assistants. The decision is made by the school, but there are still a lot of private complaints. The most direct one is that His Majesty is extorting and annexing land, leaving the people with no land to grow and the common people with no clothes to wear.

But in fact, because of the appearance of Huangzhuang, etc., the refugees, especially those in the north, have been greatly reduced, and even many people in the south have directly ventured out of the county, out of the south, and traveled thousands of miles to the capital to find the person in charge of Huangzhuang. people, they are required to be able to contract more than ten mu of land.

The literati hated this deeply, but they had no choice but to curse behind their backs.

Fortunately, the current Huangzhuang has ransacked homes, actively purchased them, and the people actively donated. As a result, the fields in Huangzhuang's hands have spread all over the two capitals, thirteen chief envoys, and Kong, Dong and other big The landlord's land belongs to Huangzhuang, so Huangzhuang is now fully capable of absorbing so many people.

Zhu Youxiao nodded approvingly, even if the employment problem of the people in the south of the Yangtze River has been solved smoothly, but it has to be admitted that it is because of the livelihood of millions of people and the foundation of the Ming Dynasty that several royal capitals are in danger. It has reached saturation. If the overseas market is not expanded, once the domestic demand reaches saturation, several royal capitals will face the possibility of shrinking profits or even going bankrupt.

"You must have your own sea power!" This is Zhu Youxiao's strongest feeling at this time.

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