The Ming Emperor’s chat group created a prosperous age of apocalypse

The development of the matter was indeed not unexpected by Zhu Youxiao.

After hearing that the imperial court built roads and paid them back, the people in the Liangjing area all ran excitedly to sign up!

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

After all, in the past agricultural leisure period, every family had to give a strong man to help the imperial court serve.

This year, not only did I not have to serve in labor, but I was paid back to my wages!

Many ordinary people at first thought that the imperial court was cursing people, until they saw that those who went to build roads and returned received real wages, and the big guys believed it!

Only after this inquiry did I know that it turned out that the emperor ordered the abolition of the conscription system!

Hearing this news, the common people, who had been suppressed by the conscription system for thousands of years, were happy and rejoiced, sighing that the Son of Heaven was benevolent and virtuous!

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

After learning that they could really receive wages for building roads for the imperial court, the people were all boiling!

Anyway, agricultural leisure time, idle at home is also idle, it is better to build roads to earn more money, when the time comes to have a fat year!

And the most important thing is that the repaired road is also walked by the people themselves!

To put it another way, this is also working for your own family!

Work for yourself and get money, this kind of good thing, just live for a long time!

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 the emperor ordered, saying: men and women match, work is not tired!

Women can work, if they so choose.

Since the wages are paid daily, there must be some lazy people who sneak in and fish in troubled waters.

Therefore, the way the imperial court calculated wages was to let the people work in small groups.

Each group builds a section of the road per day, which is divided according to the daily workload that the normal group can complete.

If you can't finish repairing, then you will work overtime to repair it!

Of course, you can also postpone it until the next day!

Anyway, the wages for each section of the road are fixed, and when this section of the road is repaired, when will you get the money!

Of course, if it drags on for too long and affects the overall progress, then it will be fired directly and never hired!

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

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

As long as you complete your daily workload, you will have money to take!

Since the daily wages for each section of the road are fixed, the imperial court does not care how many people you have.

Anyway, there is so much money, and your group counts it by head.

If there are fewer heads, they can naturally be divided a little more, that is, they are tired of work.

If there are many heads, although it is easier to work, but once it is divided in this way, the wages will naturally be less.

In addition, it is very free to form a team, and you can decide who you want to team with, so many of them are family teams.

In this way, there is no one who does more and who does less, after all, they are all their own families.

If there is a contradiction, then go home and fight yourself!

The road construction work went very well!

According to the current progress, I am afraid that the work will be completed early before the summer of the second year!

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

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

And the Ministry of Works already has a lot of things at hand, and it can be much easier to block there without the construction of roads.

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

This time there was more cargo on board, and the size of the fleet was also larger!

Because the sea area that needs to be navigated this time will be farther, and more countries will arrive!

Pull orders, earn money, will be more!

Six years of the apocalypse, spring.

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

At the same time, the age of steam has begun!

Bicycles have begun to become widespread.

The fleet that went down to the West is also back!

Qianqing Palace.

After Zhu Youxiao read the order pulled back this time, the whole person took a deep breath.

In addition to daily necessities such as tea and porcelain, what surprised Zhu Youxiao the most was the silk order!

Three million horses of silk order!

If you change to the old loom, I am afraid that even the shuttle will have to smoke!

Zhu Youxiao is very glad that now the spinning machines and looms of Jiangnan Weaving Company have been replaced by the "Jenny spinning" rewarded by the system. machine", and the newly developed "flying shuttle loom" of the Ministry of Engineering!

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

But soon, new problems appeared!

Zhu Youxiao suddenly discovered a crucial big problem!

He called Wei Zhongxian and asked, "Wei Zhongxian, how many horses of cloth are there in Jiangnan Weaving Company today?" "

Wei Zhongxian twisted his fingers and thought for a while: "Back to Your Majesty, at the end of last year, the weaving company reported that about 600,000 horses of cloth had been produced. It is now February, and based on the annual output of 600,000 horses in previous years, it should have increased by now about 100,000 horses of cloth, that is, almost 700,000 horses of cloth. "

Zhu Youxiao, who heard this answer, pondered his eyebrows.

At present, the stock is only 700,000 horses of cloth, and the order of these 3 million horses of cloth will set sail in the middle of the following year at the latest.

Based on the output of 50,000 horses of cloth a month, it feels too late.

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

It's because there isn't that much silk!

"Nope!" Zhu Youxiao made a decision!

With a wave of his hand, he ordered, "Go and call the seven Shangshu except for the Ministry of Communications, as well as the cabinet members, and hold a meeting!" "

After Wei Zhongxian took the order, he hurriedly nodded and retired the summons.

The House of Parliament.

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

It was quite unexpected to be summoned suddenly.

Everyone also knows that the emperor usually does not appear, but as long as he summons the ministers, there must be something important to order.

If nothing else, it's all a big thing to do...

Zhu Youxiao also did not ink, and directly began the topic,

"Dear Aiqing, I am calling you here today for the silk orders that need to be shipped to Western countries in the year after tomorrow.

This time in the West, the order of silk ordered is as high as 3 million horses, but my Daming now only has about 700,000 horses of silk.

According to the output of previous years, up to 600,000 horses of silk were produced a year, so calculated,

By the time the fleet set sail in the middle of the following year, it would be able to weave at most 2.1 million horses of silk.

There is still a full 900,000 horses short of the 3 million horses of the order!

Dear Aiqing, where do you say you will take out these 900,000 horses of silk? "

Zhu Youxiao calculated it together and directly blinded this group of old ministers...

They are ignorant of arithmetic.

They wondered how they could know where to take out 900,000 horses of silk!

For a while, everyone fell silent...

Zhu Youxiao was not in a hurry, just waiting for these people.

Everyone also knows that it is not okay to drag on like this, and you can't let the emperor boss wait forever!

The emperor boss came to let them solve the problem, not to silence them.

For a while, everyone's faces were tangled, and they all looked like they were meditating!

Of course, there are also those who seem to be very meditative, but in fact they are wandering the world.

For example, the Ministry of Soldiers, the Ministry of Rites, and the Ministry of Punishment.

The military department is only in charge of fighting, the ceremonial department is in charge of sacrifice, and the criminal department is in charge of punishment.

Like what kind of silk, they can't fight with them, and they naturally don't bother to think about that.

These people are cool, but people like Hubu, Ministry of Works and others are not so good. (Read violent novels, just go to Feilu Fiction Network!) ）

Needless to say, everything needs to use money, and the household department is in charge of money, that is to say, the household department must manage everything.

After all, some of the technologies of weaving silk and the loom are all related to the Ministry of Engineering.

In the end, under everyone's hard thinking, the first person to come out and speak was Shangshu Fang Congzhe, an old grudge.

No way, he doesn't come out who comes out.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the only way to do it now is to negotiate with the silk merchants, reset the delivery date, delay the delivery time, and then delay it."

Fang Congzhe can't help it, at the moment, in addition to delaying time, then it can only drag out time...

"Delay?"

Zhu Youxiao smiled.

"Nine hundred thousand horses of silk, how long will you delay? Let silk merchants wait another year and a half?

After dragging on for so long, do you think that next time someone will dare to do business with our Ming Dynasty?

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

Going to the West is a big project, and it is impossible for my Ming Dynasty to "specialize" to go to the West once for silk merchants.

The fleet must be loaded together! Let's go! And the departure time is at the end of June in the middle of the following year! "

Zhu Youxiao's purpose is obvious, to transport it away at one time and back it all at once.

So that the fleet is larger and more combat-capable!

If you encounter some pirates or something, just "fire" and you're done!

However, if we specially drive a small fleet to the Western Ocean, it will be troublesome, not to mention the insecurity, in case of encountering a larger pirate fleet, even if our army has artillery, it may not be able to retreat with the whole body.

All in all, Zhu Youxiao does not fight such an unguaranteed battle, nor does he do unguaranteed business!

If you want to fight, crush it all! If you want to earn, earn a solid one!

Fang Congzhe's first proposal was dropped by the emperor's boss, so he had to bow his head and think of a new way.

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

He proposed to discuss with the silk merchants to reduce the number of orders, and the remaining 900,000 horses of silk would be shipped to them the next time they went to the West.

This proposal was still met with the PASS of the emperor's boss!

At this moment, everyone is really scratching their heads.

People in Jiangnan Weaving Line, can only weave so much silk a year.

The emperor did not agree to delay time, and did not agree to reduce the volume of orders, what else could be done!

It turns out that there will always be a way!

And the person who proposed this method was actually the eunuch of the ceremonial supervisor Yubi, Wei Zhongxian, who was on the side.

"Your Majesty, the slave has a method, if nothing else, it can complete the order of three million horses of silk in the middle of the following year, but it is a little difficult to implement..."

Wei Zhongxian said cautiously and tangledly.

Zhu Youxiao's eyelids lifted, and he said with interest: "Tell me about it." "

Wei Zhongxian lowered his head and recalled the sentence that His Majesty the Emperor casually mentioned to him not long ago: "If only silk were enough, why didn't anyone grow mulberry silkworms?" "

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

"Your Majesty, the slave thinks that the scale of mulberry planting can be increased, and then the people can be encouraged to raise more silkworms, only if there is enough silk, the yield will rise."

After all, the current textile speed of our Ming Dynasty has been reborn, as long as the silk is enough, let alone 600,000 silks a year, or 1 million silks. "

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

The words that the emperor casually mentioned to him earlier, not surprisingly, hinted at him and asked him to take the initiative to make this suggestion.

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

This old thing was not confused, and heard his prompt.

"'I think Wei Dapai's suggestion is very good, only by solving the problem from the root can we really solve the problem!

Now my Ming Dynasty can't produce so much silk, it's all because the output of silk is insufficient, not because it can't be spun.

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

At this time, Shang Shuwen Tiren of the Ministry of Agriculture raised a question: "But Your Majesty, there are so many fields in my Ming Dynasty, and the people have used it to grow grain, and there is not so much land to plant mulberry trees." "

Zhu Youxiao smiled and said the method he had decided on a long time ago: "Since there is not so much land, then change rice to mulberry!" Convert farmland to mulberry trees! "

Change rice to mulberry?

When everyone heard this, they were all surprised!

The change of rice to mulberry fell horizontally to the Ministry of Agriculture.

As a Shangshu of the Ministry of Agriculture, Wen Tiren naturally has to put forward difficult points.

"Your Majesty, although the income from growing mulberry will be many times higher, but... What if the common people don't want to?

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

Zhu Youxiao: "That's your Ministry of Agriculture, which can teach the people to plant potatoes and sweet potatoes, and naturally it can also teach the people how to plant mulberry trees." "

Wen Tiren: "But this also requires the grain stored in the people's homes, which is enough to support the mulberry leaf picking season." Otherwise, there is no stock at home, and at the end of the year you have to pay a grain tax, and the common people can't always grow mulberry hungry, right? "

Zhu Youxiao: "This is easy to do, Xu decided, but all farmers who agree to change rice to mulberry, the grain tax will be directly exempted!" In this way, the grain stored in the people's homes will be enough to last until the mulberry leaf picking season. "

At this moment, everyone had nothing to say.

The emperor exempted the grain tax, so that the grain stored in the people's homes was enough to eat the mulberry leaf picking season.

After the mulberry leaves are picked and sold for a large price, it will be even more difficult to worry about eating.

Seeing that everyone had no opinion, Zhu Youxiao directly made a decision! (of money)

He ordered directly,

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

Plant it now and you will be able to harvest by the end of the year!

Wen Tiren, this matter is handled by your Ministry of Agriculture!

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

Taking advantage of the fact that the farmers have not yet planted seedlings, they quickly ordered them to change rice to mulberry!

In addition, as long as you agree to change rice to mulberry, not only will you be exempted from any tax, but each household will be subsidized with 10 taels of silver!

But remember, it's voluntary! If the common people are unwilling to accept these 10 taels of silver and change the rice into mulberry, don't force it!

If someone forces the people, they will be dealt with directly as conspiracy! "

The emperor's order was issued, and the Ministry of Agriculture hurriedly handled it!

Busy can be described as hot!

The most lively is the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions.

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

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

But under the temptation of ten taels of silver and exemption from taxes, many people still couldn't help but plunge into the ranks of planting mulberry!

Of course, there are also stereotypical and conservative people, although they are very hungry for the ten taels of silver, but they still think that growing rice is more realistic!

In addition, exemption from taxes is not a particularly temptation for them.

After all, the current grain production is so high, they don't worry about this tax, arrogance is!

It turns out that people can get pink eye.

Time flickered to the end of the year, after the frost fell.

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

Those people who are still insisting on growing rice, after seeing that the people who changed to rice planting mulberry made a lot of money, they all envied Kun'er turned purple!

"! I knew it was so profitable, and I went to plant mulberry trees in the first place! "

"Look at the old royal daughter-in-law next door, isn't it just to earn two smelly money, dressed up and tricky, smelly!"

"Nope! Next year, we will also plant rules! "

"But next year, the imperial court will not subsidize ten taels of silver..."

"Isn't it! Our 10 taels of silver! "。