Ming Emperor Chat Group, Creating Apocalyptic Prosperity

The development of the matter did not meet Zhu Youxiao's expectations.

After the common people in the two capitals heard that the imperial court paid back their wages for road construction, they all rushed to sign up for the job excitedly!

Of course, at first the common people did not believe that they could still get money if they worked for the imperial court.

After all, during the slack period in the past, every household had to give a strong man to help the court to serve corvee.

This year, not only do I not have to do corvée, but I also get my wages back!

Many ordinary people thought at first that the court was there, but they didn't believe it until they saw that those who came back from repairing the road had received real wages!

Only after this inquiry did I know that it was the emperor's order to abolish the corvee system!

Hearing this news, the common people who have been oppressed by the corvee system for thousands of years were all happy and encouraged, lamenting that the Son of Heaven is benevolent, righteous and virtuous!

Some people even raised funds to set up a shrine in the village to offer incense to His Majesty the emperor who is far away in the capital!

After learning that they can really get paid for building roads for the imperial court, the common people are all excited!

Anyway, during the slack season, being idle at home is also idle. Why not go to build roads to earn more money and have a good year then!

And the most important thing is that the roads that have been repaired must be walked by the common people themselves!

Another way of thinking, this is also working for your own home!

Work for yourself and get paid, such a good thing, it's a long time to see you!

There are many ordinary people who want to make money.

For a time, not only men, but even women came to sign up for road construction.

The imperial court did not refuse, mainly because the emperor ordered, saying: Men and women should be matched, and work will not be tiring!

Women can work too, if they want to.

Since the wages are settled daily, there must be some thugs who sneak in and fish in troubled waters.

Therefore, the way the imperial court calculates wages is to let the common people work in groups.

Each group repairs a section of road every day, and distributes it according to the daily workload that normal groups can complete.

If you can't fix it, then you fix it!

Of course, you can also put off until the next day to fix it!

Anyway, the wages for each section of the road are fixed. When this section of road is repaired, you can get the money!

Of course, if you delay for too long and affect the overall progress, you will be expelled directly and will never be hired!

If there are lazy people in the group who are not active in their work, then adjust within the group!

You can beat him, you can also change people, in short, the team just needs to complete the daily workload!

As long as the daily workload is completed, there will be money to bear!

Since the wages for each section of the road are fixed every day, the imperial court doesn't care how many people you have in a group.

Anyway, there is only so much money, and your group divides it up according to the number of people.

Those with fewer heads can naturally share more, but the work is more tiring.

If there are more people, although it is easier to work, but if it is shared in this way, the wages will naturally be less.

In addition, team formation is very free, and you can decide who to form a team with, so many of them are formed by a family.

In this case, there is no such thing as who does more and who does less, after all, they are all members of their own family.

If there is a conflict, then go home and fight!

The road work went very well!

According to the current progress, I am afraid that before the summer of the next year, work will be completed ahead of schedule!

In order to facilitate management, Zhu Youxiao directly reopened a "Department of Communications" to deal with road construction.

In this way, the Ministry of Communications is separated from the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Industry, and many things do not need to be reported at multiple levels, which saves a lot of trouble.

However, the Ministry of Industry has a lot of things at hand, and it will be much easier without the road construction.

In addition, the matter of sailing to the West is also in full swing.

This time the shipment is more cargo and the fleet is bigger!

Because the sea areas that need to be sailed this time will be farther, and more countries will be reached!

The orders you pull, the money you earn, will be even more!

Apocalypse six years, spring.

The cement avenues of the two capitals have already been completed, and now the road sections in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Henan, Shandong and other places are about to be completed.

Meanwhile, the age of steam has begun!

Bicycles have begun to spread.

The fleet sailing to the west has also returned!

Qianqing palace.

Zhu Youxiao took a deep breath after reading the order he pulled back this time.

Apart from daily necessities such as tea and porcelain, what surprised Zhu Youxiao the most was the silk order!

Three million silk orders!

If it is replaced by the previous textile machine, I am afraid that even the shuttle will have to smoke!

Zhu Youxiao is very fortunate that the spinning machines and looms of the Jiangnan Weaving Industry have been replaced by the "Spinning Jenny" machine rewarded by the system, and the "Flying Shuttle Loom" newly developed by the Ministry of Industry!

In this way, it is not a problem to rush to make the order of these three million pieces of silk!

But soon, a new problem appeared!

Zhu Youxiao suddenly discovered a very important problem!

He called Wei Zhongxian and asked, "Wei Zhongxian, how many are there in the Jiangnan Weaving Industry?"

Wei Zhongxian thought about it with his fingers: "Reporting to Your Majesty, at the end of last year, the weaving company reported that there were about 600,000 pieces of cloth. Now it is February, and based on the annual output of 600,000 pieces in previous years, Up to now, there should be an increase of about 100,000 bolts of finished cloth, which is about 700,000 bolts of finished cloth.”

Zhu Youxiao, who heard this answer, lowered his eyebrows and thought about it.

There are only 700,000 bolts of cloth in stock at the moment, and the order for the 3 million bolts of cloth will set sail in Houyangyang at the latest.

Based on the output of 50,000 pieces of cloth per month, it feels too late no matter what.

The reason why it is too late is not because the efficiency of textile is not high enough.

It's because there aren't that many silks!

"No!" Zhu Youxiao made a decision!

He waved his hand and ordered: "Go and call the seven ministers other than the "Ministry of Communications" and those from the cabinet. I want to hold a meeting!"

After Wei Zhongxian took the order, Lu hurriedly nodded and retreated to summon him.

Hall of Parliament.

Qibu Shangshu and the elders of the pavilion have not seen the emperor's boss for a while.

It was quite unexpected to be summoned suddenly.

Everyone also knew that the emperor basically didn't show up at ordinary times, but as long as he summoned the ministers, he must have something important to order.

If there is no accident, it is still a difficult task.....

Zhu Youxiao did not ink any ink marks, and directly started the topic,

"Dear dears, I am calling you here today because of the silk orders that will be shipped to Western countries in the year to come.

During this voyage to the West, the pre-ordered silk order was as high as 3 million pieces, but when I returned to my Ming Dynasty, there were only about 700,000 pieces of silk.

Calculated according to the output of previous years, at most 600,000 pieces of silk can be produced a year.

When the fleet sets sail in the middle of the next year, it can only weave 2.1 million bolts of silk at most.

There is still a shortfall of 50 million horses from the order number of 3 million horses!

Ladies and gentlemen, where do you want to get these 900,000 bolts of silk?"

Zhu Youxiao counted it all together, and directly fooled this group of veterans...

They are not ignorant of arithmetic.

What they regret is, how do they know where to get 900,000 bolts of silk from!

For a while, everyone was silent...

Zhu Youxiao is not in a hurry, just follow these people.

Everyone also knew that it would be impossible to procrastinate like this, and the boss of the emperor couldn't be kept waiting!

The emperor boss is here to let them solve the problem, not to keep them silent.

For a moment, everyone's complexion was tangled, and it seemed that everyone was thinking hard!

Of course, there are also those who seem to be thinking very hard, but are actually wandering away.

For example, the ministers of the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Rites, and the Ministry of Punishment.

The Ministry of War is only in charge of fighting, the Ministry of Rites is in charge of sacrifices, and the Ministry of Punishment is in charge of punishment.

Things like silk have nothing to do with them, so they naturally don't bother to think about them.

These people are cool, but people like the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Industry are not so good.

Needless to say, the household department needs money for everything, and the household department is in charge of money, which means that the household department has to manage everything.

And the Ministry of Industry can't get rid of it. After all, some techniques of weaving silk and textile machines are related to the Ministry of Industry.

In the end, after everyone's hard thinking and meditation, the first person to speak out was Fang Congzhe, the old resentful family secretary.

No way, if he doesn't come out, whoever comes out.

"Your Majesty, I think that the only way right now is to negotiate with the silk merchants, reschedule the delivery date, and delay the delivery time."

Fang Congzhe has no choice but to delay time now, it can only be delayed...

"Delay?"

Zhu Youxiao smiled.

"900,000 bolts of silk, how long do you want to delay? Make silk merchants wait another year and a half?

After so long, do you think there will be people who will dare to do business with our Ming Dynasty next time?

And even if the silk merchants agreed to postpone the delivery date, what about the merchants of other goods?

Sailing to the West is a big project, and it is impossible for me in the Ming Dynasty to "specially" sail to the West once for silk merchants.

Fleet, you must load the goods together! Set off together! And the departure time, at the latest in the middle of June of the following year!"

Zhu Youxiao's purpose is obvious, one-time transport away, one-time transport back.

In this way, the fleet is larger and the combat capability is stronger!

When you meet some pirates or something, just "fire" and it's over!

But it would be troublesome if we specially set up a small fleet to sail to the west. Not to mention unsafe, if we encounter a larger pirate fleet, even if our army has cannons, it may not be able to retreat unscathed.

All in all, Zhu Youxiao will not fight such unsecured battles, nor will he engage in unsecured business!

If you want to fight, you must crush it! If you want to earn, you must earn it steadily!

Fang Congzhe's first proposal was rejected by the emperor's boss, so he had to bow his head and try again.

Next, Gu Bingqian, the current chief assistant of the cabinet, also put forward his opinions.

He proposed to discuss with the silk merchants to reduce the order quantity, and the remaining 900,000 bolts of silk will be shipped to them next time by Western Painting.

This proposal was still passed by the emperor's boss!

Now, everyone is really confused.

People in the Jiangnan weaving industry can only weave so much silk every day.

The emperor does not agree to procrastinate, and does not agree to reduce the order quantity, what else can we do!

Facts have proved that there is always a way!

And the person who proposed this method was actually the eunuch Wei Zhongxian, the eunuch who stood aside.

"Your Majesty, this servant has a plan. If there are no accidents, I can finish the order of three million pieces of silk in the middle of the next year. It's just that it's difficult to implement..."

Wei Zhongxian said cautiously and entangled.

Zhu Youxiao raised his eyelids and said with great interest, "Tell me about it."

Wei Zhongxian lowered his head, recalling the sentence that His Majesty the Emperor casually mentioned to him not long ago: "If only there was enough silk, how come there are no people growing mulberry and raising silkworms?"

Recalling His Majesty's reminder, Wei Zhongxian gritted his teeth and said his own suggestion,

"Your Majesty, this servant thinks that we can increase the scale of planting mulberry trees and encourage the people to raise more silkworms. Only silkworms

Enough, the output will come up.

After all, the weaving speed of our Ming Dynasty has been reborn, as long as there is enough silk, let alone 600,000 bolts of silk a year, even a million bolts of silk are no problem. "

Wei Zhongxian was also gambling, he had followed His Majesty the Emperor for so many years, and he almost guessed the Emperor's mind.

The sentence that the emperor mentioned casually to him earlier, no accident, was a hint to him, asking him to take the initiative to make this suggestion.

After listening to Wei Zhongxian's suggestion, Zhu Youxiao smiled with satisfaction.

The old man was still not confused, he heard his prompt.

||I think Wei Daban's suggestion is very good, only by solving the problem from the root is the real solution to the problem!||

Now my Ming Dynasty can't produce so much silk, it's all because of insufficient silk production, not because we can't weave it.

The only way to increase production is to expand the planting of mulberry leaves and expand the number of silkworm farmers. "

At this time, Wen Tiren, Shangshu of the Ministry of Agriculture, raised a question: "But Your Majesty, there are only so many fields in my Ming Dynasty, and the common people use them to grow food. "There is not so much land to plant steamed trees."

Zhu Youxiao smiled, and said what he had decided early on: "Since there is not so much land, then change rice to mulberry! Change the farmland to plant mulberry trees!"

Changing rice to mulberry?

After hearing the words, everyone was shocked!

The matter of changing rice to mulberry falls on the Ministry of Agriculture anyway.

Wen Tiren, who is the secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture, naturally has to raise difficult points,

"Your Majesty, although the income from planting mulberries will be many times higher, but... the common people are absolutely unwilling?

But after all, planting mulberry is not as practical as planting rice, and the common people have no experience in planting mulberry trees.

Zhu Youxiao: "That's the business of your Ministry of Agriculture. The Ministry of Agriculture can teach the common people how to grow potatoes and sweet potatoes. Naturally, it can also teach the common people how to grow mulberry trees."

Wen Tiren: "But this also depends on the food stored in the people's homes, which is enough to last until the season of picking mulberry leaves. Otherwise, there is no stock in the family, and the food tax will be paid at the end of the year [Lao Miao can't be hungry, right?"

Zhu Youxiao: "It's easy to handle. I have decided that all farmers who agree to change rice to mulberry will be exempted from food tax! In this case, the grain stored in the people's homes will be enough to support the mulberry leaves.

Picking season. "

This time, everyone was speechless.

The emperor exempted the grain tax. In this way, the grain stored in the common people's homes can be eaten until the season of picking mulberry leaves.

After the mulberry leaves are picked and sold at a high price, there will be no more worries about food.

Seeing that everyone has lost their opinions, Zhu Youxiao directly made a decision! (Nuo Qian Zhao)

He directly ordered,

"It's spring and February, and it's a good time to plant mulberry seedlings!

Plant it now, and you will have a harvest by the end of the frost day!

Wen Tiren, this matter is entirely up to your clothing department!

The experiment site starts from the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas, the soil and water in this area are most suitable for planting mulberry trees!

Taking advantage of the fact that the farmers have not transplanted rice seedlings, quickly order them to change rice into mulberry!

In addition, as long as they agree to change rice into mulberry, not only will they be exempted from any tax, but each household will be subsidized with ten taels of silver!

But remember, this is voluntary! If the common people don’t want to accept the ten taels of silver to change rice into mulberry, don’t force it!

If someone coerces the people, he will be punished directly as the crime of treason!"

The emperor's order has been issued, and the Ministry of Agriculture hastened to handle it!

Busy is in full swing!

The most lively place is the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions.

After all, this place is about to change rice to mulberry!

Although most common people believe that growing food is safer than growing mulberry trees.

But under the temptation of ten taels of silver and tax exemption, many people still couldn't bear it, and threw themselves into the ranks of violent ministers!

Of course, there are also rigid and conservative people. Although they are greedy for the ten taels of silver, they still feel that growing rice is more practical!

In addition, tax exemption is not a particularly big temptation for them.

After all, the current food production is so high, they don't have to worry about this tax, they are proud!

Facts have proved that people are prone to pink eye.

Time flies to the end of the year, after the frost.

At this time, it is the season of mulberry leaf harvest!

Those people who are still insisting on growing rice, after seeing the people who changed to rice and mulberry making a lot of money, the envious Kun'er turned purple!

"Fuck! If I knew how to make money like this, I would have been with Guoshu back then!"

"Look at the old Wang's daughter-in-law next door, she's just earning two scumbags, she's gorgeously dressed, she's stinky!"

"No! Next year our family will also grow ornaments!"

"But next year, there will be no subsidy of ten taels of silver......

"No way! Our ten taels of silver!".