I was the emperor in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 249 The City of the Future

Whether it is a match workshop or a soap workshop, what the workers have to do is very simple.

The ingredients are controlled by the craftsmen temporarily supported by Tiangongyuan, after they arrange the materials.

Matches only need to dip the cut sticks in the material, then place them, dry them, and pack them into boxes.

Some of these steps may not seem cumbersome, but when the amount of work is large to a certain extent, the required manpower is very considerable.

Whether it is cutting small wooden sticks in the early stage or pasting paper boxes, these things can actually be outsourced.

So that more poor people can also share a certain amount of profits.

In this way, more small workshops based on families can be born.

Gluing cardboard boxes is such a simple and easy job that even children can do it, although they can't do it as fast as adults.

But as long as I can make three or five of them a day, each earning a penny or two, and buying two candied haws to eat, it is more than enough.

And making soap is even easier. After the ingredients are prepared, the rest is simple work such as lighting a fire, stirring, cutting, drying, and boxing.

Like matches, boxes also need outsourced personnel to help make them.

In this regard, Li Tian also intends to outsource most of the cheap packaging boxes.

The rest of the more expensive soap boxes are specially made to order by workshops.

High and low are separated without delaying each other.

The reason why he did this is actually another purpose.

That is to take more care of the foreign population like this couple.

With these years, the capital city has become more and more prosperous, and this place has become the place with the largest population and the richest life within a thousand miles.

The annual population is more than one million, and if the floating population is added, it will probably reach 30 million.

Among them, at least 10,000+ people came here later.

They have no relatives in the local area, no arable land, and no housing, and everything has to be paid for by the meager salary they earn every month.

After a month, the rent, daily necessities, clothes, shoes and socks can almost wipe out all their savings.

It can be said that these immigrants are the earliest Moonlight Clan.

And these moonlight clans became, Li Tian recruited workers to create the best soil for the working class.

After sending the two people away, Li Tian turned to Jiang Bao and Wang Fu and said,

"The workshop will be completed in two days. When the time comes, when recruiting manpower, priority will be given to those who live in the city without a fixed place."

At this time, Wang Fu was a little puzzled and said,

"Your Majesty, the population of the capital exceeds one million, and it's too late to drive them out. If you do this, won't more people flood into the capital?"

"At that time, the number of migrants will increase, and the capital will become more and more chaotic. This may cause many problems to the stability of the capital."

Jiang Bao also said at the right time,

"Your Majesty, you must not have forgotten the Mingjiao's assassination before. These people were able to enter the city by mixing with such refugees."

After listening to the two of them, Li Tian didn't take their worries to heart.

In his view, if a capital city does not have a population base of one million, how can it be productive and prosperous.

Whether it was the Ming Dynasty or the later Qing Dynasty, they only built the capital Beijing as a consumption-oriented city.

This creates a new problem.

In the city, there are not only family members of officials, but also high-ranking officials and nobles, and less than one-third of the common people. In such a city, the consumption power has increased.

But you must know that Beijing is a land city, and the materials needed basically depend on the supply from other places.

Every year, only the materials consumed by the royal family, the transportation costs required almost account for more than half of the overall price.

Therefore, it is not unreasonable that an egg in the royal family is several times more expensive than the outside.

This is just the case of the royal family, the high officials and nobles who account for [-] to [-]% of the capital, the consumption is even more astonishing.

And these consumptions also require a lot of manpower and material resources to transport.

This obviously does not meet the development needs of a comprehensive big city.

If a city itself has no productivity, it is almost impossible to truly develop.

Even if there are more rich people, the prosperity propped up by force is nothing but fake prosperity.

It doesn't matter what time it is, the poor are still the poor, and that doesn't change at all.

Such a city is not what Li Tian wants.

The capital city is his old nest and his home at this time, and he doesn't want his home to pretend to be prosperous all the time.

Only when the common people are also rich can the city truly prosper.

Of course, talking about such a profound issue with Jiang Bao, Wang Fu and others at this time, they probably wouldn't understand.

Li Tian simply didn't explain to them at all.

"Just do as I say, you don't need to worry about other things for the time being."

The two nodded resentfully. Although they felt very uncomfortable, they had no other choice but to follow Li Tian's words.

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After wandering outside for a while, and buying some gifts for the cheap sons and daughters at home, Li Tian and the others went back to the palace.

At this time, the imperial palace has been decorated with colorful lights.

If he didn't know that he was returning to the imperial palace, Li Tian probably thought he had stumbled into an amusement park by mistake.

The harem, the Hall of Spring Harmony.

The whole family has been waiting in it for a long time.

Among them, Zhu Zhanji, Zhu Zhanyong, and Zhu Zhanqian are the most conspicuous.

The age difference between the three of them is not too much, and they are all born to the queen, the so-called legitimate sons.

Zhu Zhanji is the biggest, but this year is nothing more than that. (As the plot requires, their ages have been deliberately lowered!

Zhu Zhanyong and Zhu Zhanqian, one sixteen and one fifteen, in this relatively precocious era, they should have done so.

But Li Tian deliberately didn't let them go, in fact, he had his own plan.

When the three of them saw Li Tian coming, they lined up and saluted respectfully.

"I see my father, I respectfully wish my father the dragon's health..."

The three of them are incomparable to the other children in terms of status and status in Zhu Gaochi's mind.

Even if Li Tian dies early and Zhu Zhanji succeeds to the throne, if Zhu Zhanji dies without a son, the throne will only be chosen between Zhu Zhanyong and Zhu Zhanqian.

And as the second son, Zhu Zhanxi didn't have any chance until the three of them died cleanly.

This is the difference between a legitimate son and a concubine.

This situation is not only reflected in the status of the prince, but also in the seniority of such family gatherings.

The three of them didn't finish their salutes. No matter how much the other princes are favored, they are not qualified to go forward.

Li Tian looked at these cheap sons, but he didn't feel much joy in his heart.

(End of this chapter)