I'm really not the carpenter emperor

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With the gradual acceleration of Shanxi's inspection operations, there have been a large number of personnel changes in various health centers.

Many people also knew that no further persuasion would have any effect. Therefore, Zhu Youxiao finally got rid of the political disputes caused by Reform Guard for a short time.

Officials and officials are separated from each other, and they will still play a few memorials to persuade them not to check the guards, but it has no effect on Zhu Youxiao.

Ministry of War.

The officials of the Ministry of War had no time to pay attention to the emperor's personal feelings, and were discussing the overall regulations for this expedition to Uzang.

Now that the main candidates have been decided, the next step is to provide food and grass along the way and how to enter Tibet.

Wang Qia, Shangshu of the Ministry of War, looked around and said:

"Have you all forgotten that during the Yongle Dynasty, Emperor Chengzu once built an official road from the capital to Uzang?"

Shao Fuzhong, the minister of the Ministry of War, said: "There is indeed such an official road, but it has been in disrepair for a long time, and many places may be impassable. If it is opened, the Ministry of Industry must be notified and funds will be allocated for reconstruction."

After the words fell, all the ministers of the Ministry of War began to discuss in a low voice.

"This official road runs through the north and the south. The project is huge. To say the least, hundreds of thousands of manpower will be used, and millions of dollars will be allocated by the imperial court. This..."

"Yes, I'm afraid the Ministry of Industry will not be willing."

Wang Qia raised his hand to stop everyone's discussion, and said:

"Everyone, after rebuilding this official road, it will be very convenient for the imperial court to pass orders to Uzang, Qinghai and other places. This is a century-old plan that will benefit the country and the people!"

"Since we want to take back Wusi Tibet and Qinghai, we must plan ahead!"

Shao Fuzhong said again: "At present, there are many refugees in Shanshan, Shaanxi and other places, and disaster relief in Shandong is also the main stage. The imperial court's road construction and recruitment of a group of scattered refugees will also greatly ease the situation for the local government."

As soon as this remark came out, it got the approval of most people.

At present, there are constant small disasters in Shanshan and Shaanxi, and the resettlement of refugees is insufficient. However, Wen Tiren and Yang Sichang are in Shandong for disaster relief, dealing with locust plagues, and more refugees come north to Beijing every day.

This road construction is a huge project, and its importance is no less than that of the construction of the three main halls from the first year of Tianqi to the third year of Tianqi.

What's more, this is led by the Ministry of Industry, starting construction in many provinces at the same time, rebuilding the north and south official roads as soon as possible, will definitely give a large number of refugees a place to use their talents.

In this way, it not only promoted the connection between the imperial court and the local government, but also helped the local government deal with a group of refugees.

This is a good thing that has the best of both worlds, but the court has to spend more money.

The Ministry of War discussed and came and went, and the decision was feasible, so it was an inscription to the cabinet.

The four cabinet ministers Wei Guangwei, Xu Weijing, Hu Shiguang, and Wang Zaijin were discussing in the signing room. They felt that the matter was important, so they immediately convened six ministries to discuss it in detail.

Chapter 653 Bad guy, I still have to do it

Sign room.

Wei Guangwei, the chief assistant of the cabinet, sat in the north, and when the last person came to his seat, he opened his mouth and said: "Since all the important members of the six ministries are here, let's have a discussion."

"The Ministry of War, tell us about your proposal. After the Ministry discusses it, it will be handed over to His Majesty for a decision."

After speaking, he turned his gaze to everyone in the Ministry of War.

Wang Qia, Shangshu of the Ministry of War, got up, first nodded to the chief assistant, and then said: "The minister believes that the expedition to Uzang should be planned in advance, so as to open the door for future governance."

Everyone's eyes lit up and they listened carefully.

Wang Qia continued: "In the Yongle Dynasty, Emperor Chengzu once ordered to build a road from Wusizang to the capital, called the Jingzang official road."

"This official road has been passed down to this day, and it is almost deserted. If the imperial court sends troops, if they can travel through this official road, it will greatly shorten the time of marching and relieve the fatigue of soldiers along the way."

"What's more, in the long run, rebuilding the official road will bring great convenience to the imperial court's jurisdiction over Uszang and Qinghai, or to the tea and horse trade department's business operations."

Speaking of this time, the courtiers of the six ministries have already discussed it.

A doctor in the household department frowned and said: "The official road in Beijing and Tibet has been abandoned for many years. If it is to be rebuilt, I am afraid that the manpower, material resources and financial resources will be consumed. It is not a small amount..."

"Currently the locust plague in Shandong, and the prefectures of Shanxi and Shaanxi are also experiencing droughts to varying degrees. Not to mention ordinary people, even us officials in the court are having a hard time."

"At this time, such a huge project is being started. If there is another disaster in other provinces in the future, how can the imperial court still have the spare power to relieve the disaster?"

"It is because of this that we must immediately announce to the world and rebuild the official road in Beijing and Tibet!" Shao Fuzhong, the Minister of the Ministry of War, said:

"Mr. Song, roughly how many refugees from Shandong come to Beijing every day?"

Hearing this, the doctor surnamed Song of the Jifu Civil Affairs Department of the Household Department sighed and said, "To tell you the truth, there were more than [-] refugees from Shandong just yesterday..."

"This is the first time in the past few days that the number of people has been small. At most, there were ten thousand refugees from Shandong. The staff of our Civil Affairs and Cleaning Department has long been stretched..."

Hearing this, Xu Weijing, a scholar of the Wenhua Palace, said, "It's so difficult, why didn't you report it to the imperial court?"

Song Langzhong quickly said: "Returning to Mr. Xu Ge, the official clearing department originally wanted to report the resettlement of refugees to the headquarters in the past few days, but Eunuch Wei of the East Factory suddenly subsidized thousands of vacant houses outside the city. Stop the situation."

"Wei Zhongxian?" Xu Weijing was taken aback for a moment, but also stopped talking.

Wei Zhongxian is rich and powerful. I don't know which year he got these thousands of houses from the rich.

But this is also a good thing, after all, it came in handy.

They didn't know that Wei Zhongxian was actually showing his loyalty to Zhu Youxiao by doing this. After all, the royal family did not raise you for nothing.

With so many benefits, they have to be used forever at critical times.

Everyone has indeed heard about the refugees, but in recent months, the various ministries of the imperial court have been around day and night, and their news is limited to the occasional mention of family members when they return home for dinner at night, which is somewhat closed.

Many people knew that there were a lot of refugees coming to Beijing, but they didn't expect that it had become the scale it is now, and there was a lot of discussion for a while.

"If these thousands of houses are used up, where should the refugees be resettled?"

"That's right, with so many refugees, their daily expenses for food and clothing have to be provided by the Nursing Home, Huimin Pharmacy and other companies, which is not a small amount!"

"Need to find a solution as soon as possible..."

"What is the solution? If the locust plague in Shandong is not resolved, there will only be more and more refugees! No matter how many houses are added, it will only treat the symptoms, not the root cause!"

Soon, there was a lot of noise in the signing room.

Wei Guang frowned slightly, waved his hands, and the room gradually became quiet. He didn't speak, but looked at the Ministry of War.

Shao Fuzhong, the servant of the Ministry of War who was asking questions just now, seemed to have something to say.

Sure enough, he continued:

"Everyone, although it is a temporary solution rather than a root cause, the 'symptom' now needs to be treated. The resettlement of displaced persons cannot only rely on the Department of Cleaning Officials of the Ministry of Household Affairs. This is a matter for the entire court."

After speaking, Yu's department complained.

"what can we do?"

"The Ministry of Households is in charge of the civil affairs of the world. Since ancient times, the six departments have had their own division of labor. Well water does not interfere with river water. If they exceed their authority, will the world be in chaos?"

Shao Fuzhong looked over and sneered:

"Pedantism!"

"The reconstruction of the Beijing-Tibet official road that the minister said is the solution at this stage!"

"The Ministry of War proposed that the Ministry of Households should take the lead in rebuilding official roads in Jifu, Xuanfu, Datong, Miyun, Ningxia, Uzang, and Qinghai."

"This project is very large and can provide a large number of labor positions in a short period of time!"

"Recruiting homeless helpers can not only solve the problem of too many refugees who cannot be resettled, but also use a lot of vacant manpower. Wouldn't it be the best of both worlds?"

The voice fell, and the discussion became louder.

The officials of the Ministry of Industry nodded one after another. They had never thought about this before, but now that they heard it, it was like enlightenment.

But now it is the turn of the household department to complain about the unwillingness. The household department minister Zhao Bingzhong said with a troubled face, "Seven places are building roads at the same time, and the number of laborers recruited is more than hundreds of thousands?"

"Regardless of how much manpower is used, our household department is currently stretched short of deposits."

It is true that the household department has difficulties in this regard.

The money in the inner treasury is obtained from formal channels, and it is only about 3000 million a year. The money that is really hidden in the income is all quietly staying in the emperor's inner treasury.

No one knows the actual number except Zhu Youxiao himself.

This kind of project will take several months at the fastest, and the monthly settlement will cost millions of taels of wages for the workers, not counting the daily food and lodging expenses of these hundreds of thousands of workers.

Nearly 1000 million taels, this is not [-] yuan, this is an astronomical figure that many people dare not even dream of, and the water is usually sprinkled out like this, and everyone will feel distressed.

"Nonsense, is this the time to worry about money?" Wei Guangwei felt that he had to stop talking, and as the chief assistant, he still had to have some insight.

At the critical moment, he, the chief assistant, is needed to take charge.

Wei Guangwei looked serious, and said: "Rebuilding the official road in Beijing and Tibet, and regaining the two capitals of Uzang and Qinghai, this is the century-old plan of the Ming Dynasty in the mind of His Majesty!"

"All of us colleagues have worked hard, let's get over the difficulties in front of us first."

Hearing this, Zhao Bingzhong, Shangshu of the Household Department, lowered his head and said helplessly, "Since the old man said so, the Household Department has no objection."

"It's just that the internal treasury really can't allocate much money. If we want to start construction, we have to go to Qianqing Palace to disturb His Majesty..."

Wei Guangwei hadn't spoken yet, but there was a sharp and strange laugh coming from behind the door.

It turned out to be Wei Zhongxian, who did not know when he came to listen outside the cabinet signing room. He walked slowly into the room, and all the civil servants who passed by stood up in surprise and fear.

"The governor has been serving the Lord for almost 20 years. You are all people of status and status. I'd better ask the governor to bring up this kind of damage."

"Bad guy, I still have to do it."

After Wei Zhongxian finished speaking, he glanced at Wei Guangwei, the chief minister of the cabinet. He didn't know if it was a threat or something else, but he turned his head and left anyway.

"You guys continue to discuss. The governor is a eunuch, so it's better not to participate in this kind of thing."

Chapter 654

"Father..."

Zhu Youjiao was resting on the imperial case when he suddenly heard a soft call.

He was very familiar with this voice, so he smiled and said:

"Zhongxian, why are you here?"

Wei Zhongxian got the emperor's signal, and then he walked slowly into the Xinuang Pavilion, walked all the way to the imperial case, squeezed Zhu Youxiao's shoulders, and said with a smile:

"It's nothing, I just miss the emperor."

"Stop coming." Zhu Youxiao also smiled, "Since you're here, you must have something important to do. Tell me, I'm listening."

"God is wise." Wei Zhongxian flattered habitually, "It's a matter of Beijing-Tibet officialdom, and the ministry has agreed to rebuild it."

Zhu Youxiao didn't speak, but his face faded.

Wei Zhongxian was still pinching, even the strength in his hand was steady, and said:

"The emperor doesn't know yet, does he? There are a lot of refugees who have come to Beijing in recent days, and the Jifu Qingli Department of the Household Department is almost overwhelmed."

"Oh? Why didn't you report this to me earlier?" Zhu Youxiao raised his eyebrows, motioning him not to pinch, and then loosened his shoulders.

Wei Zhongxian came to one side, stood respectfully, and said:

"It was Song Xi, the doctor of the Jifu Qingli Department of the Household Department, who embezzled thousands of vacant mansions from somewhere, and this maintained the situation."

These words made Zhu Youxiao take another look.

Could Zhu Youxiao not know about this?

The matter of the refugees had been reported to the Ministry of Civil Affairs long ago, and the management of the locust plague in Shandong has also been followed by a series of incidents. It is surprising that Wei Zhongxian did not come to claim credit this time.

This old guy, after all, the city is still deep.

Zhu Youxiao laughed loudly: "Song Xi, send you joy! This name is well chosen, he is here to send me joy."

"Zhongxian, go ahead and draw up the decree, and give him a regular evaluation of his merits! Just... be promoted to a member of the household department, Wailang!"

"If Mr. Song finds out, he will definitely thank Heaven's grace." Wei Zhongxian was also happy, as if he was happier than hearing that he was rewarded, and said:

"My lord, the refugee situation has been temporarily relieved, but if the locust plague in Shandong does not disappear, there will only be more and more refugees."

"This rebuilding of the Beijing-Tibet official road can also provide a large number of laborers, killing two birds with one stone."

Zhu Youxiao frowned and said:

"Since when have you become such a mother-in-law? What's the matter? Just tell me, am I the kind of unreasonable person?"

"Is it because there is not enough silver in the internal treasury of the household department for the start of construction?"