Xu Jie and Yan Shifan, one is bad from the inside out, the other is not bad on the surface, and even worse on the inside, only God knows what the two of them can do when they get together.

But even if it succeeds, it will take some time to send the money back, and Wang Yue still needs to plan carefully, how much budget space he still has in his hands.

Since Xu Jie's resignation from the Ministry of Households, Wang Yue invited a person who no one could have imagined to join the cabinet, this is the great Confucian Ji Ben of Mind! Although Ji Ben was a jinshi in his early years, he had abandoned official teaching for many years, and was suddenly promoted to the cabinet by Wang Yue, which attracted a lot of side attention.

From a scholar directly to the cabinet, Ji Ben can be regarded as creating history.

However, when Ji Ben sat in the position of the head of the household, people understood the power of this little old man.

Ji Ben used to be a local official, and later when he was teaching, he often went to the people to conduct research, and they all said that he read thousands of books and traveled thousands of miles.

Ji Ben has walked more than 50,000 miles, and he runs outside for most of the year.

The report he sent to Wang Yue was also the most detailed and specific.

For example, Ji Ben pointed out one thing, he said that in many rural areas, there is infant drowning, especially female babies, often the father himself, when the child is delivered, it is found that it is a baby girl, and it is directly dumped.

This kind of thing is outrageous, but Ji Ben also pointed out that there are many people and few places, and they can't support so many children, compared to a boy who can set up a family and inherit the family business, sooner or later he will become a girl with a foreign surname, and he can be sacrificed casually.

However, due to the existence of infant drowning, the ratio of men and women in many rural areas is out of balance, and many boys have to be beaten as singles.

Ji Ben also used this principle to persuade many villagers, and when they spoke, they all listened to it, nodded again and again, but when they turned around, they were still the same.

After all, the truth is reasonable, but the daughter they have to spend money to raise is destined to belong to someone else's family, how can they wronged themselves for the sake of others?

Ji Ben's report was sent to the cabinet at that time, and Zhang Xuan was the first assistant, and after discussion with Wang Yue, it was finally decided that when the land was re-cleared, the girl also had the right to divide the land.

Equality between men and women has been achieved in terms of property, and this principle has been implemented as Junda has continued to advance.

Girls are no longer a burden, but a tangible asset, with access to a share of land.

After the implementation of this article, the behavior of infant drowning has been directly reduced by more than ninety!

Therefore, if you really analyze the contradictions of gender, race, religion, and all kinds of messy contradictions, most of them are property contradictions, and as long as you start from here, you can overcome most of the social problems.

And he has walked a lot in the place, and Ji Ben has gradually converged a lot of concepts of mental learning.

He is not as pious as Qian Dehong, Wang Gen and others, and it is much easier to change naturally, and in the past few years, Ji Ben has not paid much attention to mental studies, and has instead written a lot of local studies, Shinong industry and commerce, and the analysis of the differences between various classes.

In Wang Yue's view, the old man is now a standard sociologist.

To put him in charge of the household department is to distribute benefits from the perspective of a sociologist.

"Yuanfu, I think the biggest problem in the Ming Dynasty at the moment is the imbalance between the north and the south, the east and the west." Ji Ben said directly: "Yuanfu, if you remove Jingshi and Tianjin, there are almost no decent cities in the entire north, even Chengde and Daning, the scale is too far apart. Besides, the gap between the east and the west, like the original hometown of Sanqin, has long been decayed, and Shaanxi and other places are even more poor and poor. In addition, he recovered the Hetao and marched into the Western Regions...... We can't swing our fists out, the heart of the heart, weak, right? ”

Wang Yue smiled and nodded, "Indeed, what about your suggestion?" ”

"What I mean is very simple, in addition to building a railway along the canal, we also need to build roads to the west, to achieve a balance between regions. I agree that it is easy to repair first, but we must not leave the west behind, and we must send personnel to study how to lay out the national railway network in the entire territory of the Ming Dynasty. ”

In the face of Ji Ben's proposition, Wang Yue not only agreed, but also agreed.

"It looks like it's not just the money for a railway that needs to be raised, it's not easy for us to be a family!"

Ji Ben pondered for a moment and sighed lightly, "Now the income of the Ming Dynasty is a lot, but only the three items of raising soldiers, revitalizing schools, and officials and officials account for more than eighty percent. After deducting some daily expenses, the money that can be squeezed out every year is only 20 million. ”

Wang Yue said in a low voice: "Yes, a railway line will cost more than 100 million yuan, not to mention repairing several railways at the same time." ”

Ji Ben groaned: "Yuanfu, I thought about it, can I make it clear to the people, mobilize the people, and work for free, so that I can save a lot of money." ”

Wang Yue frowned, "This method is not bad, but can the people afford it?" Also, what if the officials take the opportunity to apportionment and oppress the people? ”

Ji Ben said: "This requires the local officials to be effective, I recommend Gao Gong and let him be in charge of this matter." ”

"High arch?"

"Hmm!" Ji Bendao: "Gao Gong is pragmatic, honest, energetic, and has strong work ability, and he is definitely the best candidate." ”

Wang Yue thought for a moment, "Okay, let him go down with the personnel of the exploration route first, understand the people's situation, and come up with a plan." ”

Ji Ben nodded and went to do it immediately.

Wang Yue was the only one left, and he thought for a moment, even if he could save expenses, he would have to get at least an extra 100 million yuan!

There are Xu Jie, Yan Shifan and Yan Shifan on the European side, so it's up to them to toss.

On the side of the Wa Kingdom, it can only be handed over to Cui Shilin.

As for the American silver, let Yang Bo and those big businessmen figure out how to get as much as they can.

Wang Yue thought about it again, what else was overlooked?

What else can squeeze out oil and water?

Gradually, Wang Yue thought of Tianzhu!

Oh my God!

Why did you forget the third brother?

It really shouldn't be!

Who can be forgotten, and the third brother cannot be forgotten, not only can he not forget, but he must also make him the most beautiful cub in the crown of the Ming Empire!

Once Wang Yue made up his mind, he was an absolute man of action, and he brought Zhang Jing over.

"How's that answer? Any news? ”

"Yes!" Zhang Jing immediately said: "Yuanfu, we sent Zeng Mo to follow me, according to his report, I Da's army, out of the Western Regions, through nine hundred miles of no man's land, the road is very difficult, and the attrition is also very amazing. ”

Wang Yue frowned slightly, "I passed the answer successfully?" His subordinates are so able to endure hardship? ”

Zhang Jingdao: "It is indeed very hard-working, but there is also a story in it." Zeng said that when I was marching into the army, many people shouted to retreat, saying that it was too hard. But on the way, they came across a bridge, which was built by Jebe during Genghis Khan's westward expedition. All this time has passed, and the ruins remain. I immediately sacrificed Genghis Khan by the bridge, and also beheaded three leaders who advocated returning, and the army calmed down. After paying the price of nearly 20,000 attritions, he successfully seized Samarkand, and then occupied Kabul, where he was invincible all the way, and also cooperated with the local powerful Humayun to form an alliance. ”

"Humayun? Who is this? ”

"Back to Yuanfu, Humayun's father is Babur, who once invaded Tianzhu and established the country."

Wang Yue frowned, he seemed to know that this Babur should be the founder of the Mughal Empire.

It's just that what Wang Yue doesn't know is why Babur's son was driven out again?

It's a really inspirational story, and Babur did seize a lot of territory in India and build a state. It's just that his son Humayun didn't have his father's skills, and after the defeat, he was driven out of India.

If it ends here, there will be nothing more to say.

But then, the defeat of Humayun also failed, the king was killed in battle, and Humayun received support in Central Asia and Persia, and once again entered India, and finally established the Mughal Empire.

Although Wang Yue didn't know much about these things, it didn't hinder his judgment.

The next step of the alliance between Altan and Humayun is probably to enter India.

I replied that if it entered Tianzhu, it would be lively.

Just when Wang Yue was thinking about it, suddenly the left squire of the military department came again, this time it happened to be Hu Zongxian's urgent report, according to the spies he sent to report, my men and horses have broken through the Khyber Pass, a total of 100,000 coalition troops, about to wave south......

Good guys, I'm straight good guys! I'm good enough! Even the Khyber Pass has been taken, isn't India still clicking and sending it?

Now there is only one question left, how can we turn India into the crown jewel of the Ming Dynasty!