parentshiftbook Chapter 476: CorvéE Is Common Across The Country. If You Want To Be Rich, Build Roads First [Please
Chapter 476: CorvéE Is Common Across The Country. If You Want To Be Rich, Build Roads First [Please
"Mr. Yan, since the imperial court has a lot of money, can we give part of this money to the royal family, vassal kings and clans?!!"
"After all, we have 'distributed' money to the common people, so we should give some to the royal family, lords, and clan members, right?"
Qi King Zhu Su raised his hand and looked at Yan Changqing and asked.
Hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes lit up slightly.
He is a typical patriarch. When he has no choice, when it is time to reduce the welfare benefits of the descendants of the old Zhu family, he will not show mercy.
But when he had the opportunity to fight for an increase in welfare benefits for the descendants of the old Zhu family, he was also willing to fight for an increase in the welfare benefits for the descendants of the Zhu family who were under ten.
Yan Changqing's eyes fell on Qi Wang Zhu Shu, shook his head and said:
"Does not."
Looking at the confused faces of Zhu Yuanzhang, Prince Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes, Yan Changqing further explained:
"What is the purpose of 'distributing money' to the people?!!"
"It is to solve deflation, expand the material needs of the people of Ming Dynasty, and balance the supply and demand of 657 in the market!!!"
"To put it more bluntly, it is actually to solve the problem of nearly 10 billion kilograms of sea salt production every year, and tens of millions kilograms, or even tens of millions kilograms, of salted fish every month!!!"
"Because the only ones that can digest nearly 10 billion kilograms of sea salt every year are salted fish in the pickling industry."
"Only the tens of millions of people in the Ming Dynasty can digest tens of millions of pounds of salted fish every month!!!"
"It is for this reason that we need to 'distribute money' to the people and use the method of 'work instead of labor' to increase people's income and promote people's consumption!!!"
"And if money is given to the clan members of the Ming royal family, can the clan members of the Ming royal family be able to produce nearly 10 billion kilograms of sea salt every year and produce tens of millions kilograms to tens of millions of salted fish every month? !!”
"Does not!!!"
"As long as we can't solve the problem of nearly 10 billion kilograms of sea salt production every year and tens of millions of kilograms to tens of millions of salted fish production every month, but at the same time pay money to the Ming Dynasty royal family, vassal kings and clans, then in the end it will only cause A phenomenon.”
"That is, nearly 10 billion kilograms of sea salt every year, and tens of millions of kilograms to tens of millions of salted fish every month, are wasted because the people can't afford it and the court can't eat them all."
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, nearly 10 billion of sea salt is wasted every year, and tens of millions of jins of salted fish are wasted every month. The past dynasties have never done such evil things, right?!!"
"At the same time, because the money in the hands of the Ming Dynasty royal family and feudal lords suddenly increased in large amounts, it flowed into the market wantonly, thus causing social inflation!!!"
"In the end, Ming Dynasty had deflation in oil, salt, and salted fish on one side, and inflation in society on the other."
"If one fails, the Ming Dynasty's Tongxing Baobao may be ruined."
"As for the consequences of playing with the Ming Dynasty's treasure currency, I have said it before, and I think you should still remember it."
After hearing what Yan Changqing said at the end, "The Ming Dynasty's treasure banknotes may have been destroyed", Zhu Yuanzhang, as well as the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes, all looked solemn.
Qi King Zhu Shu, who had just raised his hand, lowered his hand and lowered his head. He had no intention of increasing the salary of the Ming Dynasty royal family, vassal princes and clan members.
The collapse of the Ming Dynasty's public banknotes means that the national credibility of the Ming Dynasty has collapsed, and if the national credibility collapses, then the country will basically come to an end.
For such a small amount of money, the inflation of the Ming Dynasty may even destroy the currency of the Ming Dynasty.
None of them will do such a thing, and they will not allow others to do it, even if this person is a relative of the Ming Dynasty royal family, they will not allow it!!!
After abandoning the plan to provide the Ming Dynasty royal family with stipends, Zhu Yuanzhang, as well as the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes once again thought about the "work instead of service" thing that Yan Changqing had mentioned before.
"If it is 'work instead of labor', then what kind of corvee can involve 60 million people of the Ming Dynasty and can also bring benefits to the Ming Dynasty?!!
Chu King Zhu Zhen touched his chin and thought.
After all, the purpose of "replacing labor with work" is to provide money to as many people as possible in the Ming Dynasty.
Only if the income of the 60 million people of Ming Dynasty has increased, then they can spend money to buy.
The annual output of nearly 10 billion kilograms of sea salt and the monthly output of tens of millions of kilograms of salted fish are consumed.
But the problem is that this kind of corvee that can involve 60 million Ming people is not easy to arrange. It should even be said to be very difficult to arrange.
Because it was impossible for all the 60 million people of the Ming Dynasty to leave their prefectures and counties and go to other places to complete their corvee work.
And this also means that the corvee that the Ming Dynasty wants to arrange for the 60 million Ming people must be a nationwide corvee.
In other words, this corvee can be carried out in any province, prefecture or county in the Ming Dynasty, and it needs to be carried out, and there can be no time requirements and restrictions, and it must also be beneficial to the Ming Empire!!!
Only in this way can all 60 million people of the Ming Dynasty participate in it and receive corresponding rewards.
At the same time, it will not delay the busy farming season and harvest, and it will ultimately bring great benefits to the Ming Dynasty!!!
However, for a corvee like this, Chu King Zhu Zhen really didn't expect any corvée to meet the requirements.
Zhu Yuanzhang, as well as the other princes including Prince Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di, etc., also looked like they were frowning in thought.
Yan Changqing, who was on the podium, turned around again and wrote a big word "路" on the blackboard behind him, then turned to look at Zhu Yuanzhang, as well as the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes and said:
“As the saying goes, ‘If you want to be rich, build roads first’!!!”
“If there is any kind of corvee work that can involve all 60 million people of the Ming Dynasty and bring great benefits to the Ming Dynasty, then road building must be one of them!
Below, Zhu Yuanzhang became interested when he heard the word "road construction"...
Among the emperors, Zhu Yuanzhang can also be said to be the emperor who prefers to build roads.
On the twenty-second day after Zhu Yuanzhang proclaimed himself emperor, he ordered the rectification and restoration of post stations across the country, changed the Yingtianfu Mansion into the "Huitong Pavilion", and set up Shuima Post Stations, post offices (delivery offices), and express bureaus (express delivery offices) all over the country. shop).
The next year, he issued an edict to rename all "stations" in the Yuan Dynasty as "posts".
After that, every time he captured a place, Zhu Yuanzhang asked the engineering team to quickly build roads and post stations [even often sending high-ranking officials such as Xun Guijiang Kang to be responsible for road construction.
For example, he successively "sent Fengxiang Hou Zhang Long and others to Yunnan to set up a post station", "ordered Jingchuan Hou Cao Zhen to go to Sichuan to manage roads", "ordered Puding Hou Chen Huan to go to Shaanxi to build Lianyunzhan into Sichuan, and the governor Wang Cheng to go to Guizhou to level the dangerous coast. Build bridges over ditches to connect roads" and so on.
From this, we can see that Zhu Yuanzhang attached great importance to road transportation.
"Your Majesty, and your Royal Highnesses, haven't you noticed that the road from Yingtian Mansion to [Wanmin Agricultural College] and [Wanmin Medical College] is different from the roads in other places after such a long time?!!"
Yan Changqing looked at Zhu Yuanzhang, as well as the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Fang, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes and smiled lightly.
Hearing what Yan Changqing said, Zhu Yuanzhang and the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Lou, Zhu Fan, Zhu Jiao and other ten people began to recall the road they took when they came to [Fangmin Medical College] today.
Thinking about it this way, even if they discovered the difference.
Especially the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes who had just returned to Beijing by carriage from the local area not long ago were able to discover the huge difference.
That is the section of road from Yingtianfu to [Wanmin Agricultural College] and [Wanmin Medical College]. It seems to be very smooth, and it can even be said that there are almost no bumps.
And not only was there no bumps, there was no dust raised when the carriage was galloping.
It can be said that the stretch of road from Yingtianfu to [Wanmin Agricultural College] and [Wanmin Medical College] is a very comfortable stretch for Zhao.
It even gives people a much better feeling than walking on some of the stone roads in the palace!!!
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