parentshiftbook Chapter 762: At The End Of The 17Th Year Of Hongwu, Salt And Meat Were In Short Supply [Please Subsc
Chapter 762: At The End Of The 17Th Year Of Hongwu, Salt And Meat Were In Short Supply [Please Subsc
Time passed by, and before we knew it, it was the end of the seventeenth year of Hongwu.
Songjiang Prefecture, Qinghua Prefecture.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty has a decree!"
"Do you think our family should announce the decree here, or move to another place?"
The chamberlain who came from Yingtian Mansion first bowed to Prince Zhu Biao meticulously, and then asked respectfully.
Prince Zhu Biao, who was standing aside and waiting for the decree, said with a gentle expression:
"Just announce it."
After getting the consent of Prince Zhu Biao, the chamberlain opened the imperial edict and read out according to the edict:
"The emperor's edict says: Little bastard, come back quickly to celebrate the New Year, your mother misses you!"
Since the conclusion of the "Great Debate on the Induction of Heaven and Man" a few years ago, Zhu Yuanzhang thought over and over again, and finally directly removed the four words "Fengtian Chengyun", leaving only "The Emperor's Edict"
Four words.
Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang's imperial edicts now all begin directly with "The Emperor's Edict".
When Prince Zhu Biao heard his Lao'zi's simple and straightforward words, he couldn't help but reveal a wry smile, then shook his head and replied:
"My son, I accept the order!"
Then Prince Zhu Biao reached out and took the imperial edict with only one sentence, looked at Fang Xiaoru on the side and said:
"Xizhi, just like last year, arrange all the work in Qinghua Prefecture in advance. I will go to the new district for a walk."
"Yes, Your Highness!"
Fang Xiaoru answered with cupped hands.
Immediately, Prince Zhu Biao rode on a special bicycle parked at the door, took three or five followers, and dozens of royal guards and headed towards the new district.
The so-called new area is the same as the previous four control areas in Haizhou City. It is a large area specially designated by Prince Zhu Biao for drying sea salt, drying salted fish, making colored glaze, and building ships.
After these two years of operation, although the sea salt, glaze, salted fish, and shipbuilding production base in Qinghua Prefecture, Songjiang Prefecture, has not yet had enough manpower, the supporting building facilities have been basically completed.
All that's left is to continue to recruit people from surrounding prefectures, and then recruit them into various sea salt, salted fish, and shipbuilding production bases in Qinghua Prefecture to work as workers.
According to the current development trend, Zhu Biao estimates that in two years, when the four-year governorship period expires, the Qinghua Prefecture sea salt, salted fish, colored glaze, and shipbuilding production base he is responsible for will be in charge.
Whether it is in terms of venue size or manpower, it should not be worse than Haizhou City 17 two years ago.
As for the current Haizhou City, Zhu Biao probably can't compare.
Although some of the manpower in all aspects of Haizhou City were transferred by these princes two years ago, after a year of replenishment, the replenishment has been basically completed.
After another year of vigorous development, this year, Haizhou City is said to have produced more than 600 million kilograms of sea salt and 400 million pounds of salted fish meat!
But the strange thing is that in addition to Haizhou City, the sea salt and salted fish production bases that their princes are responsible for have each produced more than 100 million kilograms of sea salt and salted fish meat so far this year.
The six princes and six sea salt and salted fish production bases combined together will produce at least 600 million catties of sea salt and 600 million catties of salted fish this year.
If this is added to the amount of sea salt and salted fish produced in Haizhou City, then the Ming Dynasty produced at least 1.2 billion kilograms of sea salt and one billion kilograms of salted fish meat this year.
However, even though it produced 1.2 billion kilograms of sea salt and one billion kilograms of salted fish meat, the Ming Dynasty was still like a bottomless pit of consumption of sea salt and salted fish meat, completely digesting them.
It's like no matter how much sea salt and salted fish meat is produced, the people of the Ming Dynasty can digest it.
Among them, salted fish meat can be said to be one billion kilograms of salted fish. On average, the 60 million people of the Ming Dynasty can get about sixteen and a half kilograms of salted fish meat a year.
If it is broken down further, one person can probably eat about one pound and three taels of salted fish meat every month, and one person can eat about six or seven taels of salted fish meat every half month.
In the end, one person can only eat about half a tael of salted fish meat per day.
If ordinary people eat salted fish meat every three to five days, and then add up the amount of salted fish meat to about half a tael per person per day.
So every three days, one person can accumulate about one and a half to two and a half taels of salted fish meat; every five days, one person can only accumulate about two to three taels of salted fish meat.
For a family of five, if the whole family's salted fish meat is accumulated, they can accumulate about two to three kilograms of salted fish meat every three days.
This amount of salted fish meat is just enough for the whole family to have a delicious meal.
If it is five days apart, then the total amount of salted fish meat for the whole family can be accumulated to about five kilograms to seven kilograms and a half.
This kind of salted fish meat is enough for a whole family to eat, all you can eat!
In addition, in the past two years during the slack period of the Ming Dynasty, people were hired everywhere to build concrete roads and other hydraulic construction facilities, so the people had a lot of spare money.
At the same time, the official supply and marketing cooperatives of the Ming Dynasty were also selling large quantities of salted fish meat at super low prices.
Today's common people in the Ming Dynasty can afford to buy two or three kilograms of salted fish every now and then.
So from this point of view, the oath that Prince Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes swore to make the common people able to eat meat every now and then can be regarded as reluctantly fulfilled.
Therefore, this year, Zhu Yuanzhang went everywhere and boasted about his sons with all the ministers, and really made it possible for everyone in the Ming Dynasty to eat meat every now and then!
Who has been able to achieve such great achievements since ancient times?!
If it weren't for the fact that Prince Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes were still just princes and had not ascended the throne as emperors, he would have wanted to boast that his son would be the emperor for eternity!
But it doesn’t matter if he’s not the emperor now, he can first boast that his sons are the first princes in the ages!
Well, originally Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to be known as the number one son throughout the ages, but he had seven such sons who were the number one throughout the ages.
So in the end I had to change it, changing "first" to "first batch".
Although it sounds like I've lost a lot of quality, it doesn't matter [the achievements are real.
At least his son really made it possible for the 60 million people of Ming Dynasty to be able to afford meat every now and then.
Such praise spread from the capital to all directions of the Ming Dynasty.
And when ordinary people across the Ming Dynasty knew that the ultra-low-price sea salt and salted fish meat they could buy now were obtained by the princes of the Ming Dynasty who worked hard and even risked their lives to salvage them from the sea.
The common people all over the Ming Dynasty have a favorable impression of Prince Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes who have never been masked. Their favorability is rising slowly, and they are not even much worse than Zhu Yuanzhang.
You must know that Zhu Yuanzhang has taught the people how to read and write for free in the past two years, and also distributed potatoes with a yield of 20 to 30 shi per mu to the people for free [his prestige has reached an extremely terrifying level.
Under such circumstances, the reputations of the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes were able to catch up with Zhu Yuanzhang's reputation.
It can be seen from this that this incident shocked the people of Ming Dynasty.
After all, in the past dynasties, they had never heard of any prince risking his life to go out to sea to catch fish in order to let common people like them eat salted fish meat.
It can be said that during that period, even the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes who were in the local area could hear the voices of the people sincerely praising them whenever they went out. The best prince among all!
This made the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes feel a little embarrassed, but at the same time they felt that their dedication and efforts had been affirmed. "The fighting spirit in their hearts also became more high."
On average, the common people can only eat two to three taels of salted fish meat every three to five times a day. How is this possible?!
When outsiders found out, they thought the people of the Ming Dynasty could no longer afford salted fish meat!
One pound per person!!!
The common people must be able to eat at least one pound of salted fish on average per day!!!
If it’s not enough, then build more fishing boats and go to sea more times to try to catch some sea fish!!!
Anyway, there are endless marine fish in the sea. After salvage, there will be more, and after salvage, there will be more. There is no need to worry about no sea fish to catch.
According to the estimation of Prince Zhu Biao, in two years, when the sea salt and salted fish production bases of each of their brothers have been completely replenished with enough manpower, and even further expanded, they should be able to truly make the people of the Ming Dynasty have an average of one person per day. A pound of salted fish!
But compared to the salted fish meat, which is still in short supply today, according to his rough estimate, the sea salt produced in the next year should have already exceeded demand.
You must know that there are 1.2 billion kilograms of sea salt. After deducting the 100 million kilograms of sea salt required to marinate one billion kilograms of salted fish meat, there are about 1.1 billion kilograms of sea salt left.
As for the 1.1 billion kilograms of sea salt, on average, the 60 million people in the Ming Dynasty could get about 18 kilograms of sea salt a year.
Eighteen pounds of sea salt, multiplied by 500 grams per pound, is nine kilograms of sea salt.
Nine kilograms of sea salt divided by 365 days a year, then on average, one person will receive about 24.5 grams of sea salt per day.
Based on the recommended amount of sea salt, which is recommended to be no more than six grams per person per day, approximately 24.5 grams of sea salt per person per day is enough to meet the needs of 60 million people in the Ming Dynasty, and there is even a large surplus.
After all, salt really cannot be used as food. If a person can eat dozens of grams of sea salt a day, it will be very salty.
And most people don't have that much fish, meat, and the like that need to be salted.
Therefore, from a long time ago, the sea salt they produced should not be said to be overproduced, but it should have almost reached a level of saturation.
But until now, the sea salt produced by various sea salt production bases in Daming is still very popular and shipped to various supply and marketing cooperatives, as if there is always a shortage of sea salt. There is no feedback that there is a surplus of sea salt production.
So this point made Prince Zhu Biao very confused.
But this is also related to the fact that Prince Zhu Biao is not in the center of the court now. If Prince Zhu Biao was in the center of the court.
Then he will find that a large part of the sea salt produced by various sea salt production bases this year has been used by Zhu Yuanzhang to trade with the northern Xinjiang grassland tribes.
Since Zhu Yuanzhang listened to what Yan Changqing said at the beginning of the year about the governance strategies of the northern Xinjiang land and the tribes in the northern Xinjiang, Zhu Yuanzhang convened six ministries, nine ministers and ten princes to discuss matters.
Today's Northern Xinjiang, Ming Dynasty has no spare capacity to completely control it.
Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang adopted what Yan Changqing said was the method of "inducing them with benefits". On the one hand, he asked the Mongolian people in the Liaodong Plain to secretly recruit the Mongolian people in the grasslands of Northern Xinjiang.
On the one hand, he used the official name of the imperial court to conduct trade with various grassland tribes.
After spending several months, Ming Dynasty finally connected with a large tribe on the grassland.
In the Ming Dynasty, they promised that as long as they trade well and do not go south to harass the Ming Dynasty, then
Since the Ming Dynasty would not take the lead in sending troops to kill them, the large grassland tribe was tremblingly forced to choose to agree to trade with the Ming Dynasty.
At first, the large tribe in the grassland was afraid that Ming would take the opportunity to send troops to overthrow their tribe. However, after Ming calmly said that I will not break your deal several times, the grassland tribe
The big tribes have tasted the sweetness.
As long as they sell a large amount of wool to the Ming Dynasty, or sell people and captives such as women and children they despise to the Ming Dynasty.
Then the Ming Dynasty will give them the salt, tea and other daily necessities they need at clearly marked prices according to the corresponding wool and population prices, and even 680 kinds of gorgeous products.
"Glazed luxury goods".
Under such circumstances, the tribe quickly developed and expanded.
As they grew stronger, they naturally needed more daily necessities such as salt and tea, as well as a variety of "glazed luxury goods" that looked very gorgeous and precious.
But after the wool is sheared, it takes three to five months to grow back.
Without wool, Ming Dynasty would not have sold them daily necessities such as salt and tea, as well as various "glazed luxury goods" that looked extremely gorgeous and precious.
Similarly, the tired old, weak, women and children of their own tribe were sold to Da Ming as soon as possible when Da Ming said they needed them.
So after thinking about it, the grassland tribe finally decided to plunder the populations of other small grassland tribes.
As Yan Changqing said, when they returned to the grasslands, they had no concept of the Mongol and Yuan Empire in the past. "Some Song people have the concept of their own tribe."
Therefore, the large grassland tribe robbed other small grassland tribes without mercy, and sold prisoners in the same way, even more neatly.
As the grassland tribe frequently plundered other small tribes, other grassland tribes gradually learned about their transactions with the Ming Dynasty.
After seeing that the grassland tribe had gained so many benefits from its trade with the Ming Dynasty, they also quietly established a line with the Ming Dynasty's official trading officer stationed in the grassland.
The Ming Dynasty also accepts all comers. As long as you have wool or population, the Ming Dynasty can sell daily necessities such as salt, tea, and all kinds of extremely gorgeous and precious products.
Give them "glazed luxury goods".
These same tribes, large and small, soon sold their tribe's wool and other old, weak, women and children who were considered tired to the Ming Dynasty.
After seeing that their tribe had nothing to sell, they also set their sights on other grassland tribes.
Finally, for the tribes in the entire northern Xinjiang grassland, today it is not you who plunder my tribe's population, but tomorrow it will be me who robs your tribe's population. In short, the fight is very lively.
In this great excitement, the Ming Dynasty also took the opportunity to make a fortune from the war, harvesting millions of catties of wool and hundreds of thousands of grassland grassland including young, old, weak, women and children.
population.
After these hundreds of thousands of grassland tribes were further dispersed by the Ming Dynasty, they were also thrown into the Liaodong Plain. It is expected that the development progress of the Liaodong Plain can be accelerated a little more.
Therefore, after taking into account the amount of salt consumed by the population of the grassland tribes in northern Xinjiang, there is still a large demand gap for the 1.2 billion kilograms of sea salt a year in the Ming Dynasty.
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