Nanming: I can build wonders

Along the way, Zhao Zhenming noticed that the roads were very smooth. Although it might be possible on rainy days, at least on a sunny day like this, the carriage would feel stable on these newly built dirt roads.

"It's all a road built by the emperor's trainer. We have received a great favor from Lord Long Live. It's nothing to do some work. Moreover, once the road is built, everyone will benefit!"

The imperial trainers in the army also spread to the grassroots level of the Ming Dynasty.

Now that the Ming Dynasty has civil servants and imperial trainers at the grassroots level, it has become history that the imperial power did not go to the countryside.

After finishing speaking, Zhao Zhenming's second uncle took a puff of his cigar.

This is a new gadget in the Ming Dynasty. To these middle-aged and old men, it is as tempting as cigarettes.

The second uncle of the Zhao family took a deep breath, then quickly exhaled the smoke, smacking his lips a few times, as if he was carefully savoring the aftertaste left in his mouth, throat, and even his nose.

There was an expression of enjoyment on his face.

Zhao Zhenming did not expect that cigars, a specialty of Beiyinzhou, would become popular in Ming Dynasty so quickly.

And the price is also quite cheap.

No, my second uncle who just came back from the county town bought a lot of cigars at Huangying Cigarette Company.

Smoking is of course not a good thing, but it is obviously much less harmful than the heavy smoking that was rampant in the early years.

And after all, the imperial court wants to have a meal.

Tobacco and alcohol were naturally a royal monopoly, and private production and trade were not allowed.

Seeing that his second uncle loved to smoke cigars, Zhao Zhenming took out a few boxes from the compartment of his backpack and stuffed them into his trousers.

"What is this?"

"Second uncle, this is the cigar that Ming Lijian paid tribute to Ming Dynasty!"

Minglijian was the original twelve-state colony in North America.

The second uncle lowered his head and took a look and exclaimed, "Tribute, then this is a good thing!"

Although Zhao Zhenming's second uncle was from the countryside and had not seen much of the world, he was still in his fifties after all.

From Zhao Zhenming's coat, he could guess that his nephew might be famous outside.

It is obviously unusual to be able to present tributes now.

However, the Ming Dynasty is now prosperous, and ordinary farmers have no worries about food and drink.

Therefore, the second uncle of the Zhao family had no idea of ​​asking his nephew for help, but he definitely wanted to ask carefully what happened in the past ten years.

Maybe there is smoke coming out of their Zhao family's ancestral tomb!
Don't tell me, my second uncle really guessed it right.

Zhao Zhenming can go to the military academy to be a teacher, which is also a military academy. Even if he was not mentioned as a scholar before, he is still a well-known scholar!

Soon, Zhao Zhenming and his party drove into the village from the entrance of the village. They saw that there might not be anything else in front of every house in Zhao Village, but there were piles of dung piled high.

Sure enough, His Majesty is right: the farming gene is rooted in the bones of the Chinese people.

Zhao Zhenming knew that the imperial court might really look down on the food grown in the countryside in the future.

As the former battalion commander of the National Defense Forces, Zhao Zhenming naturally knew some of the military's plans.

For example, because of the reduction in wars, Zhu Kezang plans to recruit the second-line troops of the National Defense Force with poor combat effectiveness to farm!
This is Ming Dynasty’s new agricultural strategy!

There are three best-quality black lands in the world, namely the Ukrainian plain that is half-divided between Maozi and Poland and Lithuania, the northeastern plain of the Ming Dynasty, and the great plain of Beiyinzhou.

Nowadays, there are two fertile fields in the world.Ming Dynasty’s new agricultural strategy is to turn these lands into state-owned mechanized large farms. In the future, all Ming people will not go hungry!
The Northeast Plains of the Ming Dynasty have become the new granary of the Ming Dynasty.

As we all know, the Tatars regarded the Northeast as their ancestral land and did not allow Han people to farm. This policy was really beneficial to the new Ming Dynasty.

Because the owners of those lands were all Tatars, and those Tatars were driven out to the outer Northeast and Siberia by the Ming Dynasty, and the fertile black land in the Northeast became ownerless land.

Then they all belong to the imperial court!

The Ming Dynasty had steam machinery for farming, so the grain output of the Ming Dynasty has soared, so much so that the price of grain has been driven down.

Thinking of this, the second uncle of the Zhao family smoked a cigar and sighed: "The cheap grain hurts the farmers!"

"But even if the grain cannot be sold, it is safe to pile it up in the warehouse. Now the people in the village are happy farming, and what they grow is their own."

Zhao Zhenming really wanted to persuade his second uncle to stop farming and at least let the young people go out and have more adventures.

Now the way to make money is to work in factories in the southeast of Daming.

When he was in the county town before, Zhao Zhenming saw the recruitment notice for the basalt processing plant in Shuangliu County on a telephone pole.

Shuangliu is rich in basalt mineral resources.

How to put it, Zhao Zhenming is not saying that farming is not good, but that the cost-effectiveness of personal farming is too low, which is not as comfortable as working as a worker in a factory.

Especially in state-owned and imperial-owned factories, you can get a fixed salary every month, with a minimum guarantee of two to three silver dollars. It's not too satisfying, and you don't have to worry about the factory going bankrupt.

As long as His Majesty is here, these factories cannot close down.

According to the past, when they worked in these factories, they were eating royal food!
Moreover, unless it is a war period, these state-owned and imperial camps strictly implement a two-week work system, and wages are also mentioned. Isn't this more fragrant than farming?

Of course, factories run by private merchants are not so good, but with the supervision of the court, they have to have one day off every week no matter what.

The court does not force them to rest on weekends, so private merchants' factories generally adopt a rotating rest system, taking turns to rest and ensuring that each worker has at least one day off per week.
More importantly, there are public holidays in Ming Dynasty.

For example: one day off for Tomb Sweeping Day, one day off for Martyrs’ Memorial Day, one day off for Dragon Boat Festival, one day off for Children’s Day, one day off for Mid-Autumn Festival, three days off for National Day, one day off for Winter Solstice, and five days off for Spring Festival.

They all take real breaks and don’t take extra breaks.

Therefore, it is really nice to work in Xindaming.

Of course, the reason why the factory treatment in the New Ming Dynasty was so good was based on the exploitation of major vassal countries and colonies.

For dual-income families in state-owned or imperial factories, there is a guaranteed minimum of fifty silver dollars a year!
But in the village, guarding one-third of an acre of mountainous land and working hard, how much money can you make in a year?

Now you can still sell some of the grain you grow, but it's just that "the price of grain hurts farmers." Zhao Zhenming estimates that in a few years, it won't be a problem of "hurting farmers" but that it will be completely free.

As long as the new agricultural strategy is implemented, the people of Ming Dynasty will have nothing to do with starvation.

In addition, he also heard that the Ming Dynasty Royal Chemistry Laboratory was researching some chemical fertilizers, which were said to be even more powerful than guano!
By the way, Zhao Zhenming remembered that in Ming Dynasty's Southeast Asian land, even though Siam was a vassal state, they had to pay tribute of 80.00% of Siam's rice every year!

If Siam is also included in the new agricultural strategy of the Ming Dynasty, I am afraid that the southern part of the Ming Dynasty will be filled with Siamese fragrant rice in the future.

Zhao Zhenming was absolutely right.

In later generations, Siam had too much rice to export, so pig feeding was encouraged!
But at this moment, the farmers living in the interior are not aware of this and are still happily picking up dung piles.

"Hey, Gou Sheng, our dung pile is very big and well-organized, so several of your cousins ​​have found wives, aren't you envious?"

The second uncle saw Zhao Zhenming's old face blushing and said in surprise, "Gou Sheng, you haven't asked for a wife yet, have you?"

(End of this chapter)