Chapter 399: The End of the 15th Five-Year Plan (3)

The first emperor of the ages is a false name, and Zhu Yunwen didn't care at all, so the praise of the top officials in the court just made him smile indifferently, and waved his hand.

The reporting process will continue.

After talking about the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of Households, he was followed by Wei Jun, the secretary of the Ministry of Works, who rushed to invite merit.

"In the past five years, the progress of the Ministry of Works has been completed thanks to the blessing of His Majesty.

Among them, Nanjing to Xi'an, Nanjing to Chengdu two Beijing roads have been completed, every mountain to blow up the mountain, meet the water to build a bridge, mixed with cement assistance, built out such two green history has never had a thoroughfare, now, from Nanjing to Xi'an of the Beijing road for 2,700 miles, choose the northwest horse along the way to set up more than 20 post stations, 800 miles, four and a half days can be reached!

And from Nanjing to Chengdu, it is only seven or eight days, the so-called Shu Road is difficult to say, today I Daming does not exist. ”

With cement, supplemented by smelted earth steel, even if a modern industrial hoisting bridge cannot be built, the quality is enough to complete all the bridges in this time and space.

There are no heavy trucks and armored vehicles, a new bridge, enough for a unit to cross the border without worrying that the bridge body will not be able to bear the weight and collapse.

"In addition to these two Beijing roads, the whole line of the Yangtze River has been completely dominated by boulders, and the cement greasy joints are filled with the auxiliary mixed embankment to complete the completion, and the rivers of thousands of miles have since been fixed in the sea, and the flood problem that has plagued the people along the line for thousands of years is beneficial in the present generation, and the merit is in the future, just one move, Your Majesty's work, far beyond the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal."

Wei Jun is not a sycophant, the completion of the Yangtze River embankment, this achievement does not dare to surpass Emperor Yang of Sui, but it is definitely not a boast compared to the Grand Canal.

Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty opened a Grand Canal to bury his dynasty, and in order to build such a Yangtze River embankment, where could the Ming Dynasty easily deal with it.

Every year, the budget of the Ministry of Industry is not less than 20 or 30 million, this is still the main force of the army's Asanlaonu, if it is the people of the Ming Dynasty, this labor cost will be at least three to four times, enough to drag down the entire Ming Dynasty's national finances.

The whole line of the Yangtze River has buried nearly 500,000 dry bones in just a few years! This is a levee made of flesh and blood.

There is nothing to say, thank you for your international assistance.

Talking about sympathy, Zhu Yunwen only felt the core essence of the sentence 'backwardness will be beaten' more deeply.

for we have tasted more afflictions than these.

"The filial piety tomb has been completed, and we as courtiers have finally fulfilled the way of loyalty and filial piety, and have been able to rest the soul of the Taizu saint with the power of ordinary people.

In addition, the five major shipyards of Longjiang, Fuzhou, Quanzhou, Guangzhou, and Pingjin launched a total of 60 Fu ships, 300 warships, and 1,000 ships, exceeding the five-year plan.

In terms of military industry, a total of 500 artillery pieces were made, which was also exceeding the original plan of 300 guns, and the Ministry of Industry received strong support from the cabinet in this task target.

At present, most of these cannons are equipped with Fujian and Zhejiang naval divisions, and a few are deployed in Nanjing Yangtze River Estuary and Quanzhou Port for coastal defense, and have completed pre-installation test guns, all of which are made of new alloy steel casting, which can fire 15 to 20 time-delayed gunpowder shells without exploding. ”

The power of capital and the drive of interests have made the Ministry of Industry today's achievements.

Local capital promotes the development of the Daming sea shipbuilding industry, out of the urgency of foreign plunder, so that the cabinet gives the greatest support to the Ministry of Industry every year in the tilt of the budget.

The current Ministry of Industry is really the most popular ministry in the Ming Dynasty, asking for money and people.

This is because from the government and the opposition, from the central government to the local government, all those who are waiting to make a fortune are supporting the Ministry of Industry and raising and cultivating excellent craftsmen.

For the first time in thousands of years, the status of craftsmen has been significantly improved.

The reason for the improvement of his status this time is not that Zhu Yunwen, the emperor, explicitly issued a decree to ask everyone to pay attention to it, but the choice of society.

It was Zhu Yunwen who awakened the greed of the upper and lower bureaucrats and the capitalists, and this group of people took the initiative to create favorable environmental conditions for the craftsmen.

For this matter, Zhu Yunwen or the Ming Dynasty spent ten years!

"The tasks of the military department have also been fully accomplished, the conscription system has been fully popularized, and there are no weak or over-age non-commissioned officers in the active army, except for officers from more than 100 households."

The report of Qi Tai, the on the first street of Daming, is much simpler, and there is nothing to do with him after summarizing it in one sentence.

"What about the Ministry of Rites."

Zhu Yunwen looked at Zhu Gaochi, and when he spoke, his heartbeat still missed a beat.

The latter thought for a while, and then replied: "At present, all the Buddhism and Taoism halal in the country have been investigated, and nearly 200,000 documents have been recovered, and these extra Taoist monks have been sent back to their hometowns, and those who have no family members from their origins have moved to Liaodong to live in peace." ”

At present, the number of religious figures retained in the Ming Dynasty does not exceed 10,000, and the proportion is so small that they do not exist and have significant influence in the local area.

Although most of the common people still believe in Buddhism and Taoism, they believe in cows, ghosts and gods, so let them go, and the more ignorant they are, the more they believe.

What Zhu Yunwen is doing is to control the phenomenon of catechumens and worshipping Buddha in the bureaucratic system, and increase investment in popularizing education.

This is not a day's work, but a century-old plan.

The mission of the Ministry of Rites is over, and then the Ministry of Punishment is over.

Daming Law's national legal popularization campaign, including the implementation of the rule of law spirit of controlling the extraordinary law, comprehensive drug prohibition, and banning poppy planting during the special period, can be regarded as the focus of the Criminal Department in the past five years.

"The effect is significant."

The implication of this is that it is not 100% perfect.

When Zhu Yunwen was touring the south, he still found contraband made of poppies in Quanzhou, and there are many huge riches in Quanzhou.

Although the local situation in Quanzhou is very decisive, drug abuse and drug trafficking are both guilty of beheading, and there must be those who have not been discovered in secret, Zhu Yunwen has no eyes, and he does not fantasize that he can eradicate the roots.

After the traditional six parts are reported, the remaining ones are the new four.

It is also the four easiest departments to produce results.

Commerce, taxation, state-owned resources and education.

Regarding the work requirements of the Ministry of Commerce, Zhu Yunwen and the cabinet have relatively the same meaning, that is, to find a way to improve the phenomenon of 'the south is cheap and the north is expensive'.

The so-called 'cheap in the south and expensive in the north' refers to the phenomenon that the prices of salt, grain and cloth, which are commonly used by the people, are relatively cheap in the south, but much more expensive in the north.

The Hongwu Dynasty has a saying that there are eight in the south and two in the north, which refers to the proportion of grain production and taxation, and the territory of the north reaches more than half of the Ming Dynasty, but it only accounts for 20% of the grain.

However, the north has always been in a state of war readiness, which has led to the need to transfer grain from the south to the north, and the grain from the south of the Yangtze River has been transported through the Grand Canal to the front lines in Beiping and Liaodong, resulting in great transportation consumption.

Even military supplies are tight, let alone civilian.

The price of grain, salt, and cloth in the north has been slightly stabilized after ten years of efforts by the Jianwen Dynasty, but it is still much higher than that of Jiangnan.

Ironware, coal, wool spinning.

Relying on the support of these troikas, the people of the north are barely living, and at least they can ensure the balance of payments through the major policy of mutual trade between the north and the south, so that they will not be led by the nose by the south all the time.

The humidity in the south is heavy, and now for the winter, every family can't do without honeycomb coal.

As for the rest, policy issues related to the deepening of commercial economic innovation are not the main tasks of the Ministry of Commerce.

The Federation of Industry and Commerce and the Daming Bank, which were established by Yan Zhen, are the main leaders of Daming's economic innovation.

Grianci, an economic adviser from Italy, is in charge of the main work.

"Although the tax money of the provinces has not yet been put into the treasury this year, because of the existence of banks, even if there is no settlement of cash currency, according to the calculation of bank deposits, the Ministry of Taxation estimates that this year's annual income should be able to reach about 130 million taels.

However, in this figure, according to His Majesty's requirements, the central bank carried out cash money for the people, including the copper bills that had been printed with 300 million yuan before, and this annual income was at least 30 to 40 million taels of cash that could not be used, and most of this cash silver came from Nanyang and Dongying. ”

According to the records of world economic history and silver capital, the total amount of cash money in circulation in the world in the 16th century was about 120,000 to 150,000 tons, that is, nearly 3 billion taels.

Japan alone accounts for more than one-third of them.

In the eighteenth century, after Europe adopted the gold standard and the joint banking system, these hundreds of thousands of tons of silver flowed into China.

At present, the Ming Dynasty began to use copper tickets as the main circulation and settlement currency of the people, a large number of broken silver horns were recovered and melted into silver ingots of uniform weight, and the total number of silver was sealed as reserve silver and guaranteed silver, the total number has approached two to three hundred million taels, relying on the existence of the bank to pry leverage, this amount of cash silver, plus the Ming and Ming Empire system under the massive amount of tribute paid by those countries every year to ensure the price, at least five to eight hundred million copper tickets can be issued.

It's just that Zhu Yunwen and the cabinet do not plan to continue to print.

There is too much money to be spent, or it is no longer available.

If it weren't for the economic opening up of the coastal areas, Zhu Yunwen would have planned to limit the proportion of foreign capital inflows from Japan and the South Seas.

"One hundred and thirty million taels."

Zhu Yunwen sighed heartily, and his heart was complicated.

"If you convert the purchasing power and reference grain prices, the income of the Ming Dynasty has officially surpassed the Kaiyuan and Southern Song Dynasty, and has become the richest dynasty in thousands of years of history."

It's no wonder if it's not rich, the Ming Dynasty's consistent unit of measurement is the Chongzhen Dynasty.

The annual income is more than 100 tons of silver, that is, more than 2 million.

130 million, 65 Chongzhen Dynasty on the top, what about the flowers?

After all, looking around, there is no use for the 'friends' of the Ming Dynasty.

"The tax department has done a great job, and I am very pleased."

Zhu Yunwen, who was in a better and better mood, had not diminished the smile on his face, and he had already begun to think about it in his heart.

Wait until the big guys have finished reporting, and then they will discuss it together.

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