New Shun 1730

In recent years, the population of the capital has been increasing. This is inevitable. It is bullshit to say that a large number of people are being sent back to their hometowns. Because they must have nothing to do and can't survive, they are running to the capital.

Now the land is privately owned, and no one has their own land. Forcing people to go back is equivalent to asking them to rebel.

Coupled with the canal problem, there are indeed many refugees.

Even the Qing Dynasty knows that "most of the refugees who make a living are people who have no land or houses to rely on in their hometowns. Even if they return to their hometowns, they are still unemployed. It is better to let them find food and make a living on their own."

Dashun is naturally stronger than the Qing Dynasty, and it still understands this principle - mainly because the thunderstorm in Europe has not appeared and has not been transmitted. If it is transmitted, Dashun will definitely learn from Europe's advanced experience and carry out urban transformation to avoid building barricades - so now, the population is increasing day by day.

There is a saying that goes, even if you are a dog, you have to be reborn in the capital. Although there are no barricades in Dashun yet, the capital will certainly not allow refugees to rebel. When it comes to relief, the efforts will definitely be greater than elsewhere.

With more and more people, Jingzhao Yin is quite supportive of the Wuding River reconstruction project.

These refugees are either digging rivers, building railways, or working in coal mines.

And the railway construction and coal mining have nothing to do with him. If there is a problem there, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce is responsible. On the contrary, it can help him solve the security pressure caused by refugees. He naturally supports it.

On the other hand, if there is no special Ministry of Industry and Commerce that emerged due to the Songsu Reform, responsible for a series of official-supervised and business-run industrial and commercial development, Jingzhao Yin will definitely jump up and down to oppose the construction of railways and the opening of coal mines.

This is Jingzhao Yin's choice.

On the emperor's side, the problem is actually bigger.

The livelihood issues in the capital are a problem.

In addition to the livelihood issues, there are a lot of other things.

The mint needs coal.

The cannon factory needs coal.

Guns, firearms, lead bullets, all of these need coal.

The silver of Dashun is basically concentrated in the Songsu area. The scope of currency reform is those places that have been pulled into the Songsu system.

The Songsu system itself is a strange system.

For example, tea from Fujian cannot be exported in Fujian, but must be shipped to Shanghai for export through customs; for example, the salt tax after the reform of the salt administration in Jiangnan and Jiangbei, after Yangzhou was abolished, Shanghai became the financial center and logistics center of the salt industry.

The internal economy is constantly developing, and most of the previous silver has flowed to the development of Nanyang and Northeast China. Places outside the Songsu system also need money.

In addition, all places are actually developing. Although the speed is not fast, the diffusion of technology has brought certain productivity improvements. There is also an increase in population.

More and more money needs to be minted every year. Minting money must be minted in the capital, which is easy to supervise, and the coal used every year will be more and more.

It is not possible not to mint money.

The military development of Dashun in recent years has also made the emperor believe that military equipment manufacturing must still be placed around the capital.

Guns and the like are easy to say.

He was worried about cannons and the like, if they were placed elsewhere.

All these forced Dashun to quickly solve the fuel problem in the capital. Many people had already taken risks and went to cut trees on the imperial mausoleum.

Liu Yu took advantage of this opportunity to propose the Wuding River governance project.

He was happy to hand over power in Songsu, and returning to the Privy Council was just for retirement. The emperor was also giving him a strange gift - in the emperor's view, this was compensation. There was no merit or reward. In this case, if he didn't want to kill him, it would be best to find him something to do, so that the emperor still used him. According to the thinking of the monarch and his subjects, this was also a gift.

With a stroke of the pen, it was also happy to allocate money, and it was done.

In recent years, the gold mines in Mohe, Heihe and other places have gradually made profits, and the money paid according to a fixed amount each year has also increased day by day.

It also solved the emptiness problem of the northern border and the problem of cross-border immigration on the border of North Korea.

The widened Wuding River and the subsequent plan to use coal instead of firewood for soil and water conservation have also slightly solved the flooding of Wuding River.

In general, the emperor has been okay in recent years. Some ministers have proposed to directly demolish Nanyuan, connect the river water, and use it as a lake to regulate water storage. The emperor just said no, but did not reprimand the ministers for their evil intentions.

According to the evaluation standards of a feudal emperor, this is considered good.

Generally speaking, after the Songsu Review, Liu Yu basically did these things during his time in the capital.

He built a short railway, solved the problem of coal supply in the capital, immigrated 40,000 to 50,000 people to the border area of ​​Heilongjiang, and widened the Wuding River.

After all, this is the capital, and he is restricted and unable to exert himself. If this were not the capital, he would have demolished Nanyuan long ago.

As for the dissatisfaction of the sea people in Nanyuan now, it also shows that the capital is different.

In Huainan, Liu Yu directly suppressed the uprising of salt households by sending them to the northeast or to Southeast Asia.

In the capital, Liu Yu could only give advice, suggesting getting a bunch of apple trees, which are still relatively rare now, and planting apples in Nanyuan.

Plant apples and sell them in the capital, and the court will give you some subsidies and rewards as compensation for not being able to sell firewood.

The money for the saplings and so on was paid by the court, and students of agronomy were specially selected to teach them. Plant some new species from America, such as eggplants, peppers, tomatoes, zucchini, glutinous pumpkins, etc.

This matter was also resolved.

So when Niu Er just returned to the capital, he saw soldiers in the capital and thought something had happened.

After waiting to find out what happened to Liu Yu, his focus was no longer on this matter, but on the railway.

For him, this was a big deal.

As for the contradictions and interests in the reform process, he had seen a lot in Nanyang. And that was Nanyang, and the means were much more cruel. He was accustomed to the vested interest problems encountered in the reform, and when he heard about this, he didn't think it was a big deal at all.

After all, he had thought about it, after occupying Bengal, he would first arrest those big merchants who did cotton export business with the British and shoot them.

But the railway is very different.

This railway has different meanings in the eyes of different people.

In the eyes of some officials, this is a siege to alleviate the coal shortage in the capital, which is similar to repairing the canal, moving people, and building a canal boat.

But in the eyes of Niu Er and his group, this is a tonic.

In the future that they heard, imagined, and were subtly instilled with Liu Yu, there was this thing.

What the future would be like, what kind of society, what kind of political structure, whether there would be an emperor, they had not started to think about it, or some people had just started to think about it.

But, in the future that they imagined, there must be cars with black smoke, running on the rails, connecting the world.

Before, they had only heard of this thing, seen the railroad pulled by horses, seen the model of the Academy of Sciences, and imagined what it looked like.

But, can it become a reality?

Although they were full of confidence, they were actually uncertain after all.

And now, this thing has really come out. For them, insufficient efficiency, insufficient power, this problem, that problem, it doesn't matter.

What's important is that they firmly believe that the future they imagined is accessible.

It can be touched.

Seen.

It is no longer the illusory rule of three generations.

Naturally, this was a big deal. For them, it was much bigger than the firewood trade of the people in Nanyuan. After all, they did not make a living by selling firewood.