Chapter 404: Sketching the Blueprint for the Second Five-Year Plan (4)

On the matter of whether the Ming Dynasty will move the capital, there are differences between Zhu Yunwen and the cabinet, and they are very large, and this agenda item was also proposed by Zhu Yunwen, the emperor.

Nanjing's high affluence and the comfortable living environment in the south of the Yangtze River are quietly corroding the hearts of millions of people in this land.

Whether it is a clan, a martial artist, or a dignitary, the city of Nanjing, where the candles are lit at night and there is laughter and laughter everywhere, is really too noisy and noisy.

This is an invisible depravity, and everyone looks at it from a different perspective.

Some say that the responsibility lies with the supervision of children and parents, and some put all the responsibility on the game manufacturer, believing that children do not have the mature self-control and ability to learn as adults.

With this kind of disagreement, you can't achieve national unity.

The cabinet headed by Yang Shiqi did not want to move the capital, because they themselves were all from Jiangnan, they were more accustomed to the climate of Nanjing, they were close to their hometowns, and most of their homes were around Gyeonggi, so moving the capital would cause great damage to their own interests.

Another reason is that Yang Shiqi once proposed it to Zhu Yunwen.

"If Beiping changes to Beijing, and the magnates, officials, and wealthy households move to the north, it will not take 30 years, and Beijing will also be richer than the south of the Yangtze River.

Who dares to say that Beijing in later generations will not be prosperous, and where will the lights be inferior to Shanghai?

Zhu Di moved the capital, moved to Jiangnan Fu Jia Shi Beijing three times, and waited until the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the same was singing and dancing.

At that time, thanks to the large steppes, the Warat Tatars intruded every year, and forced by external military threats, Beijing was still on guard and did not have a vigilant heart.

But now in the Ming Dynasty, there is no external threat in the north.

A hundred years from now, Beijing's elites will still be corrupt.

Moving the capital loses its positive significance.

"The matter of moving the capital, forgive the words of the ministers, will do more harm than good."

This is the original words of Yang Shiqi when he was in the Qianqing Palace: "Jiangnan is the land of taxation and cultivation by the imperial court, if the center goes north and neglects supervision, it may lead to a reduction in taxes, local collusion, and corruption." At present, there are less than 20 million people in the north of the country, less than half of the south of the Yangtze River, and they are forcibly moved north, and the south of the Yangtze River is large on holidays, which is not conducive to local stability. ”

In general, Yang Shiqi's suggestions were very reasonable, and they once made Zhu Yunwen hesitate for a long time, but in the end he still made a strong decision on this matter.

"There are many reasons why I want to go north, and now that there are many ethnic groups in the north, we need to increase the supervision and assimilation progress to avoid becoming the bane of civil strife during the holidays.

The second one is also the honor of opening up the territory and expanding the territory for the war in the northwest in the future, and it is really difficult to give up as the emperor. As for the matter of Jiangnan, I might as well say bluntly that Nanzhili is divided into two and placed in Anhui and Jiangsu provinces. The Beijing Road from Beijing to Nanjing has already been completed, and the land route will not take five or six days, and the sea route will be faster, so don't worry. ”

In fact, there is another very subjective factor, which Zhu Yunwen did not say.

That is, he naturally prefers to use Beijing as the capital, which is probably a kind of ardent hope for him to be an official in later generations.

Therefore, where to build the capital, the subjective intention of the emperor occupies a large proportion.

Zhu Hongwu made his capital Nanjing, because he was a native of Fengyang and was more accustomed to Jiangnan.

And Zhu Laosi has been used to staying in Beiping for decades and moved over, and as soon as Zhu Gaochi ascended the throne, he planned to move back to Nanjing because Zhu Gaochi liked Jiangnan.

said a lot of objective truths, in fact, Zhu Yunwen himself made this proposal reasonable and tenable, otherwise he would have directly passed on a sentence to the cabinet.

"I just want to go north."

This is too capricious.

"The Ministry of Industry to build a new capital and the Beiping Political Envoy Department to discuss together, Your Majesty's instructions, the imperial city does not need to be too big, just imitate the Nanjing Imperial Palace, Wei Butang, you count the budget on this matter, Your Majesty said, the cost is supported by the internal funds."

Wei Jun sighed almost subconsciously.

The money to build the palace and let the emperor pay alone?

Does the emperor have so much money!

Of course not, although Zhu Yunwen doesn't know how much silver Zhu Lao Si spent before and after moving the capital in history, but roughly calculated, it is also the income of the Yongle Dynasty for a few years, and at least hundreds of millions of expenses, although the money to build the new capital now belongs to the imperial court, and the internal government only bears a sum of money from the palace, which will cost at least thirty or fifty million, of course Zhu Yunwen does not have it at the moment, so he plans to borrow money.

The emperor borrowed money from the bank.

Every year, the profit of the imperial merchant is also several million, and it can always be paid off in twenty or thirty years.

Alas, the crossing is an emperor, and he still has to be a house slave, where is the reason.

But as Fang just said, the move of the capital to Beijing was Zhu Yunwen's personal subjective reasons, accounting for most of it, so in the public office, Zhu Yunwen didn't want the state treasury to pay for his selfishness.

"How can there be any reason in the world for Your Majesty to take on the construction of the palace, and I implore Your Majesty to take back your order."

At this time, no one can care about dissuading Zhu Yunwen from moving the capital, Xu Buji's first sentence can be regarded as a reminder to everyone, showing loyalty and filial piety first is the top priority.

"The ministers implore Your Majesty to take back your order."

"The palace is built for me to live in, how can there be a reason for my residence to be borne by the treasury, there is no need to say anything about this, Elder Yang Ge, continue to the next item."

Moving the capital hurts the interests of most people, so Zhu Yunwen simply hurts his own interests, so that the big guy feels a lot better.

The wood has been completed, and Yang Shiqi did not delay much and continued to report.

"The Ministry of Rites must crack down on the so-called cults and obscenities such as the locust temple, the dragon king temple, and the mountain temple in the localities, and those who preside over it to take advantage of natural disasters to bewitch the people, defraud money, or even rape ** women must all destroy the temples and exterminate the shrines and behead them for public display.

At the same time, the Ministry of Rites should preside over the construction of the following buildings: the Yellow Emperor Temple, the Yandi Temple, which is the place where the ancestors of our Yanhuang civilization worship Chen.

Build Yue Fei Temple, Wen Tianxiang Temple, this is the temple of our national heroes.

At the same time, the Ministry of Rites should organize a nationwide propaganda activity to publicize the behavior of Jiangxi's flood-fighting officers and soldiers and General Sheng Yong's unity and integration for all nationalities, take the end of the flood fight as the death day, and organize the local officials and people to go to the Jiujiang Flood Fighting Martyrs' Cemetery once a year to worship the ceremony, these are the faith and spiritual strength that all our Ming people really need, and remember it for a long time. ”

At this point, the big guy didn't have too many ideas, and nodded frequently in agreement.

Buddhism is weak under the blow of the First Five-Year Plan, and there will naturally be a blank period of faith, which will only allow the folk to take advantage of the gods of the great gods, so it is an important thing to seek new beliefs.

Rather than believing in those invisible and untouchable gods and ghosts, of course, it is better to worship heroes.

Not to talk about the shrines of the two emperors of Yan and Huang, but only to talk about the national heroes and the spirit of fighting floods, the baptism of these values must be much better than those cults of locust gods and mountain gods.

This proposal was also made by Xu Buji, and there is actually a paragraph in his original manuscript.

Now the people of the provinces, there are many people who set up shrines for His Majesty, and the Buddha of all families prays for the longevity of our emperor, which shows that all the people in the world are grateful for His Majesty's grace can be called the heart of the world. ’

Good guy, this is to make Zhu Yunwen a living god who is compatible with politics and religion and the unity of man and God.

This is much more numb than Dong Zhongshu's unity of heaven and man and being ordered by heaven.

This proposal was naturally not accepted by Zhu Yunwen, but was cut directly.

Whether the people respect him as an emperor or not depends on whether the people want it or not, but it is more important to see whether he is qualified as an emperor.

The construction of temples and shrines in various places and the forcible organization of officials and people to worship together are simply nonsense.

In other words, Daming's current personality cult has become more and more serious with Xu Buji's performance of the Ministry of Justice.

I don't know if it's good or bad.