parentshiftbook Chapter 782: The Benefits And Significance Of Vigorously Carrying Out National Infrastructure Constr
Chapter 782: The Benefits And Significance Of Vigorously Carrying Out National Infrastructure Constr
On the podium, looking at the pensive Zhu Yuanzhang, as well as the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes, Yan Changqing paused for a moment and then said again:
"In addition to the 'one field, two systems' just mentioned, 'prohibiting the private donation and sale of land and acres', and 're-equalizing the land and acres', the methods just mentioned by your highnesses can also inhibit land annexation, The role of alleviating the contradiction between man and land. "
"After all, the essence of the contradiction between man and land, to put it bluntly, is that there are too many people, but too few acres of land. And after people lose their land and acres, they often lose the foundation for their continued survival and find it difficult to survive."
"In other words, if the imperial court can allow the people to survive after losing their land, then the people will also not choose to rebel.
The contradiction between man and earth will also be alleviated. "
"In other words, it is to allow people to have other means of making a living in addition to relying on acres of land to grow food.'
Having said this, Yan Changqing wrote on the blackboard [Provide jobs, reduce the unemployed population, maintain stable social order, increase the upper limit of the land's population carrying capacity, and ease the contradiction between man and land], then looked at Prince Zhu Biao and said:
"For example, as His Highness the Prince just said, these refugees who have lost their land will be recruited into the engineering team officially established by the imperial court."
“Then by using work instead of labor and paying people, these refugees who have no land can undertake and carry out the country’s infrastructure construction.
"This is actually equivalent to the imperial government providing a job to the people who have lost their land, and then allowing the people in these engineering teams to work and receive corresponding work remuneration."
“Then I use this part of the work remuneration to buy food, salt and other daily necessities, and finally allow my family to continue to live.
"And for these ordinary people who join the engineering team, in essence, it is not much different from their original farming."
“They originally farmed in exchange for rewards called “grain”17 through labor, and then used the grain to exchange for oil, salt and other daily necessities, or to keep their family alive. "
"The same goes for joining the engineering team officially established by the imperial court and then working for labor in exchange for remuneration."
"As long as the court has formulated corresponding rules and regulations in advance, for example, the people in the engineering team will work normally for four hours a day, and a maximum of five hours."
"Among them, we work two hours in the morning and two hours in the afternoon. If people are short of money, they can ask for an extra hour of overtime."
"Then the corresponding salary and remuneration are enough to support yourself and your family, and the salary and remuneration are paid normally and on time. "Chongdong is prohibited from restraining or abusing people named Miao in the engineering team.
"Then this is also a benevolent policy for those people who have lost their land and have no way to make a living."
"Maybe more people will like this kind of work-for-pay job compared to farming."
"After all, when farming, you have to pay attention to the weather. If the weather is bad, the crops that have been worked hard for a year may fail."
"But in this kind of work-for-service work, as long as they have a lot of effort, they will get a lot of rewards."
"In a sense, it is better than farming to ensure a good harvest despite droughts and floods."
"For the imperial court, by providing a large number of jobs to the refugees who have lost their land, it can also reduce the number of unemployed refugees in society, thus further stabilizing the social order!"
"At the same time, it can further increase the upper limit of the land's population carrying capacity and alleviate the contradiction between man and land."
"After all, if the national engineering team recruits a refugee who has lost an acre of land, it can guarantee the food, clothing, housing and transportation for a family of five, so that the family of five can continue to live without being desperate and finally choosing to rebel."
"Then if the national engineering team recruits one million homeless people, it can guarantee the food, clothing, housing and transportation for five million people, so that these five million people can continue to live without being desperate and finally choose to rebel."
"Similarly, if the National Engineering Team can recruit 10 million homeless people, it will be able to guarantee the food, clothing, housing and transportation of 50 million people, so that these 50 million people can continue to live without being desperate. The final choice rebel."
"This is equivalent to increasing the original upper limit of the land's population carrying capacity by five million, or even 50 million!"
"More importantly, this is a long-term, stable and moderate solution to improve the population carrying capacity of the land and alleviate the contradiction between man and land."
Having said this, Yan Changqing paused and gave Zhu Yuanzhang, as well as the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Fang, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes a moment to digest and absorb.
Then Yan Changqing wrote on the blackboard [The benefits and significance of vigorously carrying out national infrastructure construction], explaining:
"In addition to vigorously carrying out national infrastructure construction to absorb a large number of displaced people who have lost acres of land, increase the upper limit of the land's population carrying capacity, and alleviate the contradiction between man and land, it also has the following related benefits."
“First, through the construction of national infrastructure, it can promote the employment of a large number of unemployed people in the country and increase the income of the people, thereby expanding market demand and further stimulating economic growth.
"To put it simply, there are currently so many sea salt and salted fish production bases in Daming."
"If we were the people of the Ming Dynasty before the implementation of the work-for-service policy, then the vast majority of the people of the Ming Dynasty would not be able to afford these sea salt and salted fish meat, at least not to the extent that they could buy them every other day."
"And the imperial court produced so much sea salt and salted fish meat. If it can't be sold, what's the point of it to the imperial court?!!"
"It doesn't make much sense [after all, sea salt and salted fish meat are not rare and valuable items like gold or silver that can be stored for a long time and that everyone wants to hold."
"Even if you say something unpleasant and give it to the civil and military officials and noble marquises in the imperial court in large quantities for free, few people are willing to take it.'
"And if so much sea salt and salted fish meat cannot be sold and consumed in time."
"Then if they are allowed to accumulate there for a long time, they are actually no different from worthless garbage."
“By recruiting ordinary people into the national engineering team to carry out infrastructure construction, we can provide them with corresponding salaries, thereby increasing their own income.
"And when the people's own income increases, "then the people's own consumption desire will naturally increase.
"And the people's own consumption desire has increased, so they naturally want to buy and buy all kinds of commodities, including sea salt and salted fish meat."
"After the sea salt and salted fish meat are sold, the imperial court can obtain huge profits in return."
“At the same time, when the demand for various other commodities expands, the overall market demand will naturally expand, and merchants will purchase more raw materials, recruit more manpower, and invest in greater production.
"By then, the number of market transactions will further increase, the economy will grow rapidly, and the court's tax revenue will also increase."
Yan Changqing wrote under "Benefits and significance of vigorously carrying out national infrastructure construction", "Promote employment, generate income, expand demand, and increase the economy".
“The second benefit of the country’s infrastructure construction is to improve people’s quality of life and enhance their attachment to the country’s court.
"For example, take the concrete roads that the imperial court built throughout all provinces, prefectures, prefectures, and counties across the country."
"It greatly facilitates people's daily travel and shortens the time they spend on the road."
"In addition, the concrete road is flat and will not become bumpy when it rains, nor will it become dusty."
"The most important thing is that [common people are paid to build concrete roads]."
"So even though the amount of concrete and cement road construction in all provinces, prefectures, prefectures and counties across the country is huge, people all over the world have almost no complaints about it. On the contrary, when asked about their opinions on the construction of concrete and cement roads, they basically praise it. It’s a benevolent government.”
"But, is this enough?!!"
"not at all!!!"
“In my opinion, there is still very, very much room for improvement in Ming’s current infrastructure construction, and there is also very, very much room for improvement in people’s quality of life.
"For example, build water supply projects in various provinces, prefectures, states, and counties."
“Nowadays, if the residents in Yingtianfu need water, they need to go to nearby wells, lakes, canals and other places to fetch water for drinking.
“But in fact, this can be done one step further, by building urban water pipelines, and then using principles such as air pressure, high and low water levels, and siphonage to transport water from wells, lakes, canals, etc. to the homes of every resident.
“To the point where every resident can stay at home and just turn on a tap water switch, and water will flow out for residents to use.
"For example, Su Shi of the Northern Song Dynasty remotely guided his friend Wang Minzhong to build a tap water supply system for urban residents in Guangzhou."
“In addition to this, there is Ming Construction City’s water discharge, treatment and sewerage facilities.”
"When there is a heavy rain in Yingtianfu, the accumulated water in the city will not be discharged in time, resulting in urban waterlogging. This is also an area that needs improvement."
"In addition, there are also transportation facilities within the city and transportation facilities outside the city. These also have great room for improvement."
"For example, public buses and carriages can be built to benefit the people in the city, and stations can be set up in Yingtian Mansion, and then people can buy tickets according to the distance of the station, so as to facilitate their own travel, and at the same time, it can also bring additional financial revenue to the court. ”
"Actually, there is something like this among the various colleges I established. If Your Majesty and Your Highnesses pay attention, you will find that there is a stop sign not far from the front and back entrance of each college."
"A large number of students, businessmen, and ordinary people are waiting around these stop signs. They will buy tickets for one penny or two or three penny, and then take the bus to the front and rear entrance of a certain college, or sit directly from the college. Return to Yingtianfu City."
"And between cities outside the city, long-distance carriage services can also be established to benefit the people."
"For example, every year the imperial court arranges carriages to send students from various colleges back to various provinces, prefectures, prefectures, and counties. This can also be further expanded to establish long-distance carriage lines in all provinces, prefectures, prefectures, and counties around the world."
"Then people in need can take these long-distance carriages to any province, prefecture, state or county they want to go."
"When this business expands, it can also add 760 additional fiscal revenue to the court."
"In fact, private people have already started to have this kind of long-distance carriage service."
“In addition, there are other public infrastructure
Facilities, such as environmental sanitation, landscaping, environmental protection and other infrastructure, as well as fire prevention, flood prevention, ground subsidence prevention, wind protection, snow prevention, earthquake prevention and other infrastructure.
“Once these infrastructures that are convenient and beneficial to the people are built, they can also greatly improve the quality of life of the people and enhance their attachment to the country and the court.
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Zhu Yuanzhang below, as well as the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes, turned green when they heard the large-scale infrastructure mentioned by Yan Changqing.
Although once those large infrastructures are built, as Yan Changqing said, they can indeed greatly improve the quality of life of the people and enhance their trust in the country and the court.
centripetal force.
However, it costs money to build these large-scale infrastructures that are convenient and beneficial to the people!
Moreover, if it is still like building concrete cement roads throughout every province, prefecture, state, and county in the world, then the amount of money that needs to be spent will be simply an astronomical figure.
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At least Zhu Yuanzhang, as well as the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes will not be able to calculate how much money it will cost for a while.
And let’s talk about it, is it necessary to be so kind to the common people?!!
Like what Yan Changqing just said, you can turn on a tap water switch without leaving home, and there will be tap water flowing out. Even the emperors and princes like them don't have this.
What a good treatment!
If the emperors and princes need water, they still need to have servants carry it.
Thinking of this, whether it was Zhu Yuanzhang or the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes, they all responded to what Yan Changqing had just said about Su Shi's remote guidance of his friends in Guangzhou Mansion.
The built tap water supply system was very curious, so the decision maker turned back and asked the workers to study it.
Whether we really want to build such tap water supply systems for the residents of all provinces, prefectures, prefectures, and counties in the future will be decided after the Grand Council.
But they have to make arrangements for themselves now. They can't let the people of Guangzhou use such an advanced tap water supply system as early as the Northern Song Dynasty, and they these days
The prince and prince want water, but they have to have someone specially pick it up, right?!!
When I say this, I feel like these emperors and princes have fallen into disgrace!!!
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