Chapter Seventy-Five: Yu Qian played right

Yu Qian said: "The minister is also prepared. ”

Immediately, Yu Qian took a few steps forward and pointed to the various punctuation points, various sluices, and flood discharge areas on the drawings. One by one.

Zhu Qizhen saw it in the clouds.

First, this map itself is not too standard, although Yu Qian has tried his best to make this map more detailed, but Zhu Qizhen still feels that it is not standard.

As for the professionalism of Zhu Qizhen in water conservancy, it is just a little understanding.

The establishment of the sluice, the arrangement of the flood discharge area, the place of silting. Wait, Zhu Qizhen didn't understand, but he felt that this was clearly a reservoir divided into twelve sections.

Zhu Qizhen listened to Yu Qian's detailed explanation, and just nodded.

Yu Qian finally said: "In the opinion of the ministers, all the rivers upstream are adapted to local conditions, storing water for spring drought, and as for the main rivers after the water is collected, such as the Daqing River, it is natural to raise the embankment to burst the embankment. ”

Zhu Qizhen didn't ask, naturally he might not be able to understand, in general, there are also three lakes and five rivers plus a large project of widening the river channel into Tianjin, but there are many small projects attached to the upstream.

Zhu Qizhen said: "Where are you going to start? ”

Yu Qian said: "Last year to strengthen several main rivers, this year is mainly from top to bottom, now to sort out the upstream water, at the same time can also carry out the Tianjin Wei River widening, expenditure canal project, the minister wants to use five years of work, first upstream, then five rivers, and then three lakes. So that the land of Hebei has to be irrigated. ”

When Zhu Qizhen heard this, he was also very excited in his heart, and said: "If this is the case, Qing's merits can be compared with Li Bing." ”

What is the best fertilizer for crops?

It's water.

Especially before harvesting, if you can water more than once, you can water less than once, and you can get a lot of grain.

If the land in Hebei can be irrigated, even if the yield of wheat is not as high as that of rice, Hebei will become one of the main grain producing areas of the Ming Dynasty. How much has changed Daming, Zhu Qizhen himself can't say.

Zhu Qizhen turned his head to Yang Pu and said, "What does Mr. Yang think?" ”

Yang Pu said: "The minister thinks it is very good, before the minister came, he had already talked with Cao Daxue, Li Shangshu, and Wu Shangshu, as long as the Lord reported it, the Cabinet Ministry of Work would be approved." ”

"Okay." Zhu Qizhen said: "Then this matter, please sir." ”

Without Yang Shiqi, the success of this conference surprised Zhu Qizhen. When everyone dispersed, a little eunuch came to Yu Qian and said, "Your Majesty said, I haven't seen Mr. Yu for a long time, I miss it very much, so I left Mr. Yu to speak." ”

For a while, the other ministers looked at Yu Qian, and their eyes showed envy.

Yu Qian's holy family is rare in the world.

Yu Qian could only salute the others and said, "In this way, Yu is out of company." ”

Yu Qian came to the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Qizhen was already there, Zhu Qizhen pointed and said, "Mr. Yu, sit down." ”

After Yu Qian saluted, he also sat down.

It seems that the ministers are also used to sitting in front of Zhu Qizhen. At the beginning, many people still felt trembling, but after a long time, they all dared to sit down.

Zhu Qizhen said: "It's been a hard year for Yu Qing. ”

Yu Qian said: "For the imperial court, where can the ministers have hard work. ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "Actually, I didn't understand the matter of water control today, but I can trust Mr., Mr. just let go and do it, I am responsible for everything, who does not cooperate with the water control, Mr. only needs a piece of paper into the big house, and I will solve it for Mr." ”

Yu Qian was moved when he heard this, and then advised: "Your Majesty, the court has its own rules and regulations, how can you convict people because of the minister's words?" In this way, the minister guides the king to evil, and the minister does not dare to call himself a villain, nor does he dare to mistake His Majesty, please don't say this. ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "Okay. It's a gaffe. From this winter to next spring, how much will the gentleman prepare? I have a number in my heart? ”

Yu Qian said: "The minister estimates that it will be four million taels plus this year's autumn grain. ”

When Zhu Qizhen heard this, he frowned a little and said, "Why so few?" ”

In the drought this spring, Zhu Qizhen naturally smashed in 10 million taels, although many of them were not spent, but they were just converted into grain.

But overall, Yu Qian prepared far fewer materials this year than in the same period last year.

Yu Qian said: "Your Majesty, this year's disaster victims and ministers have all settled in various counties. Therefore, there is no need to work for relief, it is natural to conscript civil servants from all over the country, and the people are suffering from floods and droughts, as long as the imperial court is sincere in controlling the water, the people are naturally willing to work and contribute. ”

"It doesn't have to be too expensive."

Only then did Zhu Qizhen know how much difference the consumption of cash-for-work was between the normal project of the imperial court.

Although the Ming Dynasty's conscription system is hardly reasonable, it is more about the physical exploitation of the common people by the imperial court. The common people also complained about forced labor.

Zhu Qizhen has heard of it.

But sometimes it's good to use.

It is this kind of power that can make the people work for free that can build so many big projects.

However, these conscriptions are all built on the basis of the perfect Yellow Book, and with the invalidation of the Yellow Book, there are more and more cats in the conscription, and the scholars do not obey the conscription, and there are ways to evade the conscription, but there are many conscriptions, which naturally let the people escape.

This mechanism of state mobilization naturally collapsed.

Zhu Qizhen said: "Then the yellow book of Hebei will make Mr. bother. ”

Yu Qian said: "The ministers will naturally verify the yellow books one by one, and they will never let the people be resented and aggrieved." ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "There is one thing, I also want to say hello to Mr. in advance

, Taizu set the amount of taxes in various places, but now the time has changed. Some things are also going to change, such as this time, the imperial court invested Hebei silver money and grain, not to mention tens of millions, if the quota in Hebei is still the same as at the beginning. What is the use of these efforts? ”

"If there is no interest with the imperial court, even if I push it again, I am afraid that no one will be willing to do this in the future."

"So, I want to move the tax amount in Hebei."

Yu Qian seemed to be about to say something, Zhu Qizhen stretched out his hand and said, "Sir, listen to me first, although I am young, I also read the books of sages, so I naturally know the truth of loving the people." Therefore, I don't want to levy and extort arbitrarily, but I just want my husband to verify them one by one according to the taxes set by Emperor Taizu, otherwise some people can pay taxes, and some people don't have to pay taxes, isn't it unequal. ”

Yu Qian said: "Your Majesty, since Yongle, in order to increase the population of Hebei, the first emperors of the Lie Dynasty have issued edicts, saying that they will open up wasteland in Hebei and never levy science. ”

"Is there such a thing?" Zhu Qizhen was stunned for a while.

Yu Qian said: "The minister has served many times in Hebei and Henan, and it is absolutely impossible to bully the king, if Your Majesty does not believe it, the minister immediately went to find the edict of Yongle in the eleventh, thirteenth, and nineteenth years, which must be among them." ”

Zhu Qizhen had a big head for a while.

I only think that other people's grandfathers and grandfathers are all good things for future generations, but his Taizu Emperor Taizong. It's all about leaving him a pit.

Zhu Qizhen thought for a while and said: "I will never be able to go to class, but I will never be able to go to class, not that my descendants will not be able to go to class, if the land of the wasteland is still here, then I will follow the will of Emperor Taizong and not go to class, if I am not there, my descendants will be there, but I will start class." ”

Yu Qian said: "Your Majesty, it's ----- like this" Yu Qian didn't know what to say for a while.

Zhu Qizhen sighed and said: "Sir, it's not that I'm greedy for the wealth of the small people, it's just that the people don't suffer from widowhood and unevenness. Why do others have to pay taxes, he doesn't pay taxes, people's hearts are bitter. ”

"And after paying the tax, they will be registered in the imperial court, and they are people's property, if they don't pay taxes, are they on the yellow book?"

"It's not necessarily good for them."

Yu Qian immediately understood that he had been a magistrate for a long time, especially in Shuntian Mansion, so he naturally knew the faces of the powerful.

Especially for the Sun family, there is land in the yellow book that needs to be taxed, and if you want it, you will naturally sell it for money. But those who are not on the Yellow Book, and who are still considered wasteland in the imperial court registration, have a lot to do.

Zhu Qizhen almost fell into the scheme, Hui Changbo did such a thing, he came to Zhu Qizhen and said that so-and-so had a wasteland, he wanted to open up the wasteland, and let Zhu Qizhen allocate it to him.

Zhu Qizhen felt that it was a good thing to open up the wasteland at that time, and almost agreed, if it wasn't for many hearts, he asked Jinyiwei in private. This village became the property of the Huichang Bo family.