open sea

Chapter 565 Lushui
Corvettes are required for large-scale construction projects, and the construction of the Beiyang Military Government Yamen is no exception. The imperial court specially dispatched engineering departments to supervise this matter, and together with Zhao Shizhen, they were in charge of the construction of warehouses, and they cooperated tacitly.

Since Yin Zhengmao went to Beijing and Fu Yuan left Tianjin to go to Japan, Chen Mu didn't bother him with other things. Apart from exercising martial arts with Juniper and others and studying ancient books, he mainly focused on design and drawing.

The drawing of the Beiyang Yamen has long been perfected. His map is the area outside the Beiyang Yamen in Tianjin to develop intensive handicrafts and simple industries according to local conditions.

But if you want to make this picture, you can't do it without on-the-spot investigation.

"Let Mr. Xu watch the construction site, and Chang Ji will go out with me."

In May, the weather was getting hot. Chen Mu didn't want to go anywhere else but had no other choice, so he planned to ask Zhao Shizhen to suffer with him, and walked to the planned location of the Beiyang Military Mansion Yamen. Many craftsmen and servants worked in full swing. Three simple warehouses have been built, which are just used to store the wood obtained from the rammed earth.

These unprocessed timbers can be used to build temporary camps, but they cannot be used for construction. They can only be stored here first, and we will talk about it later.

Zhao Shizhen was at leisure. After the design drawing was agreed upon, he basically had nothing to do with him. What's more, Xu Wei's cold was cured. Crazy Xu, who intercepted books from the Xiyi ship and taught himself geometry, was obviously more suitable than him to guide craftsmen. There are not many places for secretaries.

All day long, he pretended to bring some tea from the [-]-household yamen in Dagukou, and made a big bowl of tea in the small room on the construction site, and only chatted with the Taoists of the Ministry of Industry.

Two days ago, Chen Mu also heard that there was an engineering department who appreciated Zhao Shizhen's talent and wanted to recruit him as his son-in-law.

Chen Mu's trip to the construction site was no exception this time. Zhao Shizhen was sitting in the room chatting with people again. He was so happy to be called out by Chen Mu. He tidied up and rode on his pony and went out with Chen Mu, asking as he walked: " Where are you going, the students can't be idle anymore, are you going hunting?"

"Hunting?" Chen Mu looked back and saw that his entourage, including Juniper, were fully armed, and they were all armed with bird guns and hand guns. He smiled at Zhao Shizhen: "If you don't hunt, you have to walk a long way, and you are worried about encountering wild animals. Go around the surrounding counties and plan the industrial construction around the military government office in the future."

"The surrounding area is good. Then the commander-in-chief can call my father-in-law, uh, the engineering department is for Mr. Xu."

Zhao Shizhen hadn't seen his daughter before, so he already called his father-in-law here. Chen Mu blushed and explained: "Mr. Is it important!"

Seeing that Chen Mu didn't take it seriously, and still looked at him with narrow and teasing eyes, Zhao Shizhen said at a very fast speed: "Mr. From the outskirts of Beijing, but now we all rely on the southeast, the grain is the grain, the soldiers are the squadron, and it is said that the ancient wealth of the northwest can not enrich the granaries and train the soldiers?"

"It is advocated to dig old canals and waste weirs in Henan and Shaanxi, dredge the springs in Shandong, and dredge [-] tributaries in places that often suffer from water damage in the Suncheon and Zhenbao areas, and divert water to irrigate farmland. The southeast, and it can relieve the flood... He said that the flood in the north is just because the water conservancy is not built, and the water conservancy is built to eliminate the flood, I think this is very insightful!"

Chen Mu, who was riding the horse, turned the horse's head around, and said to Zhao Shizhen with a strange expression on his face: "You are indeed insightful, go and call Mr. Xu from the Ministry of Industry, and let's walk together!"

Water conservancy in the north has always been a big problem. Once the Yellow River bursts, millions of people will be displaced and the land will be further desertified.

In the north, if the water conservancy can be repaired and the farmland can be increased, it will be a good thing for the court.

Then how come it was a matter of last year to get started, but there is still no movement this year?
Xu Zhen will be in her prime in her [-]s next year. Seeing that Chen Mu was called as a guide, she readily followed and introduced the surrounding industries to Chen Mu. However, when Chen Mu asked why his manuscript was not approved by the court, he did not answer, but just smiled wryly. He brushed his beard and shook his head without saying a word.

But in the introduction on the road later, Chen Mu probably understood the bitterness Xu Zhenming showed when shaking his head, which made Chen Mu want to go wild but found nowhere to go.

From Dagukou to Tianjinwei, through the official road all the way to Zunhua, which is underground at the root of the Great Wall, the journey is more than 400 miles, which is not far, and the road is more than 500 miles. If the river is closer by boat, Chen Mu will know more about it. Decided to go overland on horseback.

Who knew it would be better to walk along the river, without looking at anything, just listening to Xu Zhenming's explanations one by one, this is Huangzhuang, that is Gongzhuang, that is clan farmland, that is military farmland, and that is Huangzhuang... ...Of course, the fields belonging to the common people are not rare, but they are not as dense and coherent as the official fields.

"People who grow grain in private fields only have three or four points, while official fields are divided into eight or nine mulberry seedlings. There is not much grain to be grown. Compared with paddy fields, irrigation is less, and the common people save more effort." Xu Zhenming listed the benefits of mulberry fields one by one, saying: " The leaves can be fed to silkworms, the wood can be used to make utensils, the branches can be used to weave baskets, the mulberry bark can be used to make paper, the mulberries can be used for food and wine making, and the leaves, fruits and root bark can be used as medicine."

"Growing this is more profitable than growing wheat, and the common people and tenant farmers are less laborious than growing paddy fields." Xu Zhenming is not skilled in equestrianism, and he is a little trembling on horseback, but he still smiles when he talks about planting wheat and mulberry seedlings , although Chen Mu didn't know what he was laughing at, so he continued to say: "Besides, these fields used to be military fields, civilian fields, and idle fields. Their current owners are not given by the Ministry of Industry. Can you afford it?"

In the era of Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, the people discovered that wild land could be reclaimed by themselves, and the government did not pay any taxes. Those fields were called idle fields. In the hands of a few.

There is no need for sheep to eat people at all, and the enclosure movement of the Ming Dynasty has long been completed.

Why did so many people in the Ming Dynasty do occupations other than self-cultivating farmers, because most people had no land at all for them to be self-cultivating farmers.

Chen Mu got off his horse and was a full head taller than Xu Zhenming who was riding on a mainland horse. He asked, "Do you know that building water conservancy projects will cause trouble?"

Cutting off people's wealth is like killing one's parents.

He thought that the Ministry of Industry didn't know about it.

"A middle official, a gentry, a nobleman?"

"I'm not afraid!" Xu Zhenming was still laughing, this time Chen Mu seemed to know what he was laughing at, "The ministers refuted my handwriting, firstly because it changed the mulberry to paddy fields and tired the people, and secondly because of the lack of preparation for the sudden play. I compiled a book called "Lushui Guest Talk", and I know that my proposal must be implemented."

"As long as it is perfected and implemented, there will be no more food shortages in the north. This is a good thing that benefits the country and the people. Five or eight years." Xu Zhenming's smile is restrained, there is no impassioned or loud voice, and even his tone is as dignified as his expression. With suspicion, he said softly: "I can afford to wait."

Chen Mu's horse whined softly, and he nodded.

"Okay! When you finish compiling the book, you must show it to me first. If I think it's good, I will definitely support you!"

　Note: The preferential treatment for the gentry in the Ming Dynasty was not tax-free according to the land. All people had to pay taxes as long as they had land. Officials also paid rations, and gentry also paid rations.

　　In the 24th year of Jiajing's "Exemption Rules", Beijing officials were exempted from grain by [-] shi and people from [-] ding.

　　The online Wanli 38 Years "Excellence and Mitigation New Regulations" comes from "Changshu Private Records".

　　The preferential exemption was because of Xu Min's style of uniform labor, whoever had more land would serve heavy service, and the officials were given a certain preferential exemption to reduce resistance from the court... But in the end he was still scolded bloody.

　　
　
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