parentshiftbook Chapter 806: Ru Taisu: Millions Of Arable Labor Force? [Please Subscribe, Please Order In Full]
Chapter 806: Ru Taisu: Millions Of Arable Labor Force? [Please Subscribe, Please Order In Full]
After deciding to completely abolish women's foot binding, Empress Ma returned to the phoenix throne and sat down. She looked at the more than 3,000 civil and military officials below, as well as some of their wives and daughters, and said:
"In order to better educate the princesses and princesses of the Ming Dynasty, I have decided to contribute money from my own salary and the royal treasury."
"Build a women's college modeled after Saint's College, and regularly hire professors and lecturers from Saint's colleges to give lectures at the women's college."
"My dear wives, if you are interested in this, you can register at the Women's College later."
Queen Ma's tone was calm, as if she was talking about an ordinary and trivial matter.
All the civil and military officials looked at me and I looked at you. After thinking for a long time, they finally raised no objections. Finally, they all bowed and said:
"The empress is wise! The empress is merciful!"
After all, Queen Ma's words made it very clear. In order to better educate the princesses and princesses, she used her own money and money from the royal family's treasury to build a women's college.
If they are talking about spending money from the national treasury, then they still have reasons to say the last two sentences.
But now that no money from the treasury is being spent, what do they say?!!
Could it be that the Queen wants to give her princesses and princesses a better education?!!
This is naturally impossible.
Moreover, this women's college was mainly built to educate princesses and princesses, not the princes and grandsons of the Ming Dynasty.
The education of princesses and princesses of the Ming Dynasty is different from the education of the princes and grandchildren of the Ming Dynasty.
Because the education of the princes and grandsons involves the "two, seven, and three" countries of the Ming Dynasty in the future.
To put it bluntly, the princes, princes and grandchildren will inherit the Ming Dynasty in the future, and they must be carefully cultivated and educated [so that a promising Wise Monarch can be cultivated in the future.
Therefore, the education of the princes and grandchildren of the Ming Dynasty was not only a private matter of the emperor, but also a public matter and a state matter.
For the sake of the emperor and the country of Ming Dynasty, these ministers can still add one or two sentences to express their own opinions.
The education of the princess and princess of the Ming Dynasty can be said to be a private matter, so unless the emperor or the queen asks them to give their opinions, they are not qualified to express their opinions on it.
And Queen Ma just said that after this women's college is established, their daughters can also enroll in it.
Rounding up, this is equivalent to their daughter being able to enjoy the same educational benefits as the princess and princess of the Ming Dynasty!
This is also an extremely rare welfare benefit for the vast majority of civil and military officials.
At least few civil and military officials dare to pat their chests and say that the educational treatment they provide to their daughters is better than the educational treatment provided by the royal family to princesses and princesses.
In the end, the establishment of a women's college was approved without causing any trouble.
Seeing this scene, a faint smile appeared on Queen Ma's face.
Dark things are easy to do, but light things are hard to do.
If she directly said that she wanted all women in the world to study and go to school like men, and even join the court as officials.
Then after such words are spoken, it will inevitably lead to crazy impeachment by a group of civil and military officials.
But if she just said that she would build a women's college to teach princesses, princesses and noble ladies, then there would be no civil and military officials who would disagree.
As long as the college opens, she will have the final say on what female students will be admitted and how to teach them.
When all the civil and military officials came to their senses in the future, their own wives and daughters had become the beneficiaries of the women's college and were abducted from the women's college in disguise.
By then, it will be impossible for them to oppose or even abolish women's colleges.
[Take your time, I can first pave the way for women in the world to study and make progress. 】
【After the road is paved, the road for women in the world will be much easier. 】
[But before that, we have to fight for the distribution of land for women in the world. 】
Thinking of this, Queen Ma's eyes fell on the civil and military officials below, who was originally the supervisor of Qin Tian Jian, but was now transferred to the professor of the astronomy department of Fang Min Science Academy.
After all the civil and military officials agreed to Empress Ma's proposal to build a women's college, the professor of the Astronomy Department of the Academy of Sciences also held a jade tablet in his hand and said loudly:
"Your Majesty, the Academy of Sciences has reproduced a large spinning wheel based on the "Agricultural Book" written by Wang Zhen in the past!"
"Compared with the original spinning wheel, the large replica spinning wheel can spin thirty-two yarns at the same time. Driven by human or animal power, it can spin nearly 120 kilograms of cotton yarn in one day, which is dozens of times more efficient than the original spinning wheel. .
"In addition, there is a large water-spinning spinning wheel, which can use water power to spin day and night. It can spin two hundred to three hundred kilograms of cotton yarn a day, which is nearly a hundred times more efficient than the original spinning wheel!"
"In addition, the dean also invented the dragon-tail cart. The irrigation efficiency is dozens of times higher than that of the keel cart. Three people can irrigate dozens of acres of fields."
"There are also various other convenient agricultural tools that can reduce the difficulty of farming and improve farming efficiency."
"Nowadays, even an ordinary strong woman can, with the help of many convenient agricultural tools, be as good as a man in farming!"
"Coupled with the large spinning wheel and the large water-powered spinning wheel just mentioned, these appliances only need to be fully promoted."
"Then the Ming Dynasty will at least be able to liberate millions of women from weaving in the future, which is equivalent to creating millions more farming labor forces out of thin air!"
"And with millions of extra farming laborers devoted to cultivating acres of land, at least thousands of square acres of crops can be planted for Minggao!"
As soon as these words came out, Ru Taisu, who was the Minister of the Ministry of Finance, was the first to get excited and couldn't help but ask:
"Is this true?!!"
The professor of the Department of Astronomy nodded and affirmed:
"How dare you lie to Your Majesty!"
Ru Taisu said with a happy face:
"Okay! Great!"
The chaotic wars at the end of the Yuan Dynasty in the past brought extremely huge harm to the people of the Central Plains.
In addition, His Majesty has made an unprecedented move from the south to the north. It can be said that the north in the early years was really uninhabited.
Even after that, their majesties forcibly moved the people to the north several times, but they could only barely restore a little popularity in the north.
The entire north, and even the entire Ming Dynasty, is still in a state of vast land and sparsely populated areas.
After all, ordinary people are not crops. Crops can be harvested once or twice a year, but if ordinary people want to raise a large population, it will take at least ten to twenty years.
It has only been eighteen years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty. At most, it is only a generation that has just grown up.
Under such circumstances, the population of the Ming Dynasty was far from enough.
Not to mention whether there are enough civilians to develop the black land plains of Liaodong. Even in the north of the Ming Dynasty, there are still many abandoned acres of land that no one has reclaimed and restored.
And these wasted acres of land, in Ru Taisu’s opinion, are all money!
Because the more acres of land reclaimed and restored by the people, the more land and acres taxes the court can collect!
The more land and acres taxes are collected, the more fiscal revenue the country will receive, and the more things the court can do!
Especially when we counted last year's tax revenue from land and acres, we found that after the Beiyuan surrendered 300,000 to 400,000 yuan in the past and the people spent several years, barely one-fifth of the Liaodong Plain was initially developed and began to be worth millions. After consistent output.
Ru Taisu almost wanted to report to Zhu Yuanzhang to request further expansion of trade with the northern Xinjiang grassland tribes, so that the northern Xinjiang grassland tribes would not be able to provide the goods needed by the Ming Dynasty on time.
Then they used this as an excuse to force the grassland tribes to use their own tribal population to pay debts.
In the end, the Ming Dynasty used these grassland tribes to help the Ming Dynasty further develop and cultivate other acres of land, while the Ming Dynasty and the people of the Ming Dynasty could sit back and enjoy the benefits.
The reason why he didn't speak now was simply because the little bit of benevolence, righteousness and morality that remained in Ru Taisu's heart was causing trouble.
However, if those acres of land continue to be abandoned, then sooner or later Ru Taisu will choose to discard the remaining Confucian benevolence and morality.
Because the land is abandoned, in Ru Taisu's opinion, it will be punished by God!
Although the Confucian "Theory of Influence between Heaven and Man" has long been overturned, it does not prevent Ru Taisu from thinking so.
And now if we can promote these convenient and beneficial agricultural tools, most women can be liberated from spinning and weaving, and they can also be responsible for cultivating acres of land.
In that instant, the Ming Dynasty was equivalent to millions, or even tens of millions, of available farming labor forces out of thin air!
With the supplement of these farming labor forces, the currently vacant and abandoned acres of land in the north of Ming Dynasty will soon be able to resume planting, production, and harvesting.
There might even be surplus farming labor to further support the development of the Liaodong Plain.
By then, Ming Dynasty will at least be able to collect an increasing amount of land and acres tax from those acres of land that have resumed planting, production, and harvesting!
Thinking of this, Ru Taisu immediately turned to look at the emperor and said respectfully:
"I request your Majesty to vigorously promote these agricultural tools that are convenient and beneficial to the people, and I will follow your Majesty's instructions to list the number of local women's feet bound as an important assessment item for local officials!"
"In addition, I have heard that there are many cases of abandoning and drowning female infants among the people. This phenomenon is against human ethics. I would like to ask Your Majesty to issue an order: It is strictly prohibited for the public to abandon and drown female infants!!"
"If found, it will be the same crime as forcing women to bind their feet!!!"
At this moment, in Ru Taisu's view, women all over the world are not only the so-called women responsible for weaving, but also young and middle-aged laborers who can cultivate acres of land.
Under such circumstances, Ru Taisu would be able to blow the head off of anyone who asked women to bind their feet!
Because every additional woman with bound feet is equivalent to the elimination of a young and middle-aged labor force that can cultivate acres of land. It is also equivalent to dozens or hundreds of acres of land that cannot be cultivated and restored.
As a result, the court will lose tens or hundreds of acres of land and tax revenue!
If women all over the world had their feet bound, how much land and acres of tax revenue would their households lose each year?!!
And it’s the kind of losses that continue every year. Which Ministry of Household official can bear such losses!!!
In addition, he received news that the remaining five departments and other military generals have drafted and prepared a large pile of project plans for the next second five-year plan.
Although he does not know the specific project plans for the time being.
But what he is sure of is that these project plans must be extremely expensive.
And where does the money come from?!!
Naturally, their household department is responsible for giving the money!!!
Under such circumstances, if he didn't plan ahead and find a way to help the Ministry of Household Affairs increase some financial revenue.
Then sooner or later, all the money and food accumulated in the treasury of the Ministry of Revenue will be used up by the other five ministries.
In order to create millions of more women who can work for farming, Ru Taisu instantly became a staunch supporter of the anti-women's foot-binding movement.
Holder.
The same principle applies to strictly prohibiting people from abandoning or drowning female infants.
The series of agricultural tools that are convenient and beneficial to the people launched by the Academy of Sciences have greatly reduced the difficulty of cultivating acres of land, liberated textile women, and enabled women to also become farmers.
after an important workforce.
And excluding factors such as the need to inherit the family's incense, the current baby girl is no less valuable than a baby boy in Ru Taisu's opinion.
Under such circumstances, every time a baby girl was abandoned or drowned, the Ming Dynasty lost an important labor force that could cultivate acres of land in the future, and also lost tens of thousands of people.
Tax revenue from one hundred acres of land.
So abandon and drown the baby girl?!!
Don’t even think about it!!!
Ming Dynasty was still waiting for these baby girls to grow up and then go to cultivate the fields together.
Even after the abandoned acres of land in the north are reclaimed and cultivated in the future, women and common people can still be relocated to develop the Liaodong Plain.
Anyway, the Liaodong Plain is very large, and both female and strong male labor are very scarce.
Not to mention millions of women's labor force, even thousands of cubic meters of women's labor force may not be able to meet the labor shortage in the Ming Dynasty today.
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