Chapter 21 The section of the Wei River into the sea

Zhu Qizhen will be worried about the series of problems caused by land annexation, and even the acceleration of land annexation in the future. Came to Tianjin.

The first thing he saw was a city without walls.

After the establishment of the Tianjin Prefecture, the imperial court moved a large part of the eastern part of the Shuntian Prefecture. Transferred to Tianjin Mansion. But unfortunately, although this area is large, it is mostly saline-alkali land and swampy wetland.

It also allocated all the radiation range of the triangular lake to Tianjin. There are also several counties such as Hejian Prefecture and Jinghai Prefecture that are classified as Tianjin Prefecture.

Overall, the area of Tianjin is not small, but on the whole, most of them are not good places. Moreover, Tianjin City was originally an acropolis. Yu Qian felt that the Tianjin Acropolis was too small. The north and south walls are only two hundred and fifty steps, and they are still rammed earth walls. No matter how you look at it, it's not the specifications of a provincial town. Therefore, the governor of Zhili was not placed in the Tianjin Acropolis, but outside the Tianjin Acropolis.

Because the Tianjin Acropolis is long from east to west and short from north to south. The south side is close to the Wei River, and Yu Qian has established the governor line in the north of Tianjin, and the urban area has been planned. It's just that the money and grain of the imperial court, and even the money and grain of the local government of Zhili have been put into the water control, so Yu Qian only set aside the position of the city wall. It was not built.

Even so, Tianjin City, which has no city walls, also looks different from what it used to be.

Let's not talk about it, the Yamen of the Governor of Zhili, the Yamen of the Governor of Zhili, and a series of affiliated yamen, the Yamen of the Zhili Political Division, the Yamen of the Zhili Judge, and the Yamen of the Zhili Commanding Division. This is kind of local.

There is also the Yamen of Tianjin Customs, and Tianjin Jingcang.

Needless to say, the customs yamen, as the end point of the northern shipping, after the opening of the sea, brought not to mention the population to Tianjin. As for the Jingcang Yamen, it was Zhu Qizhen who felt that there was too little grain in the north of the Ming Dynasty.

Establish a granary in Tianjin.

After Zhou Chen's reform, the financial system of the Ming Dynasty was divided into four parts, one is the inner treasury, that is, the inner carrier warehouse, and the other is the Taicang silver treasury. Or it can be regarded as a money bank, where silver and copper coins are stored, and the third is the Beijing warehouse. It is the granary, where the grain is stored. And these warehouses in Tianjin are also under the direct jurisdiction of the Ministry of Households.

After all, there are millions of stone grains, how can the local government manage it.

Fourth, there are various miscellaneous libraries. Although Zhou Chen tried his best to eliminate all kinds of taxes in kind handed over below, the imperial court taxes should be in their true colors, that is, grain, or money. But there are many things that are realistic. For example, there is a big gap in the imperial court, the military uniforms of the army, and the official uniforms of hundreds of officials.

Therefore, except for grain and money, the storehouses are classified as miscellaneous.

However, the management of miscellaneous items is more complicated, for example, the Ministry of War has a gunpowder storehouse, and the Ministry of Industry also has a firewood storehouse, a charcoal storehouse, and so on. There are also warehouses for various types of jewelry in the palace. As for the small coffers of the ministries and so on.

None of this is under the control of the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of Households

All that can be managed is the household's own miscellaneous library.

These purely official investments are enough to build a city.

As soon as Zhu Qizhen came to Tianjin, Yu Qian naturally went out of the city thirty miles to greet him.

Zhu Qizhen dismounted and saluted Yu Qian, helped Yu Qian with both hands and said, "Mr. is thin." ”

Yu Qian seemed to be in good spirits, but his temples were a little frosty and snowy.

Zhu Qizhen was inevitably a little ashamed in his heart.

The large-scale project, which lasted for several years, consumed not only the manpower and material resources of the imperial court, but also Yu Qian's hard work and life. Almost most of the adult males in the entire Zhili Province can hardly escape the fate of being requisitioned by the government.

Even if there is enough money and food, if you want to do this project well, there will be no major mistakes, and it is a very heavy workload in itself.

Thinking about it now, Zhu Qizhen also felt that he was too aggressive. But fortunately, there is a lot of thought. Zhou Chen almost rebuilt the financial system of the imperial court single-handedly and filled the hole with a salt tax.

Otherwise, the money left by the Empress Dowager would run out, and Zhu Qizhen wouldn't know what to do.

It's more hard and humble.

There are no more than 1,000 days and nights of Yu Qian's work, almost all night. Every day, they go from one site to the next.

There is no Yu Qian. This project simply can't get to the point where it is today.

Zhu Qizhen was also glad that he could meet a reassuring minister like Yu Qian.

Yu Qian said: "It is the duty of a minister to share worries for His Majesty. ”

Zhu Qizhen ordered Yu Qian to walk with him to show his favor.

As soon as he entered Tianjin City, Zhu Qizhen did not stop at all, the first thing he saw was the Wei River, specifically, the section of the embankment where the Wei River entered the sea.

Zhu Qizhen will leave a large group of men and horses in the city of Tianjin, and take 3,000 cavalry with Yu Qian and local officials of Zhili to inspect the embankment of the Weihe River.

It can be said that there are 3,000 people, and generally speaking, Zhu Qizhen has the lowest number of guards around him.

Therefore, in the city of Beijing, there may be fewer people around Zhu Qizhen, but generally there are no less than one or two hundred guards, and as for outside Beijing, three thousand people is the minimum standard.

The so-called micro-service private interview is simply nonsense.

At least Zhu Qizhen won't do it, because it's too irresponsible for him. Think he has so much to do.

Before reaching the embankment of the Wei River, Zhu Qizhen looked over from a distance and found that the earthy yellow dams that stretched out of sight were all rammed earth structures.

Although such a levee, in fact, is not very strong, it is easy to seep into the leakage, or there are some animals in the embankment to make holes. Triggering a levee breach.

But there is no way around it.

Everything has to be cost-conscious.

Even if it's nearly eight million taels a year

Invested, all the money added up, enough money for the imperial court to fight a decisive battle in Mobei, and not enough to replace all the embankments in Hebei with stone embankments.

And above this embankment, there was a sluice gate at a distance of several miles, and a channel was opened.

Yu Qian explained to Zhu Qizhen that these branch canals are used to silt fields, when the river rises sharply and the sediment is lowered, the canals are opened to divert water, and these muddy water containing sediment will be washed and silted out of these wetlands, or saline-alkali land, and the fields that can be cultivated.

Last year, there was a drought in Henan Province, and Zhu Qizhen still remembered that more than one million stone grain taxes were exempted. Generally, catastrophes are caused by displaced people, and Hebei Dagong has absorbed almost the entire northern displaced people.

Although the specific number of people, Zhu Qizhen did not know for a while, but the movements of the entire homeless people, Zhu Qizhen still had a spectrum in his heart.

Zhu Qizhen inspected the Wei River all the way and saw that there were not many boats in the Wei River. Some are just ships of the Tianjin Wei.

Zhu Qizhen listened and said, "Why should I be alone, but the working people are like this? ”

Yu Qian said: "The minister knows that His Majesty loves the people, but this is the imperial court system, and the minister cannot obey his orders." ”

If it were someone else, Yu Qian would still be able to make a move, but the Wei River into the sea channel, after being widened, has become an important line of communication.

There is a fleet of Daming shipping, but there are also many maritime merchants.

The sea fleet is not enough. After all, they are the people of the imperial court, but these maritime merchants are really the way to death, which makes Yu Qian very unhappy.

These overseas wild people, in the city of Tianjin, actually dare to draw their swords without saying a word, and that's it, many people are on fire, and even firecrackers can be used.

How could Yu Qian endure this.

directly sent troops to encircle and suppress, and killed them on a large scale, so that most of these maritime merchants, in fact, did not have the capital to do business at sea. knows that this Tianjin is Uncle Yu's territory, and he is honest one by one.

In fact, in the past few years, all the magistrates in various parts of the sea have complained. Someone even went to the imperial court, please ban the sea again.

It's just that it was caused by the opening of the sea, and the local security is very bad.

These overseas businessmen adapt to the rule of overseas lawlessness, and if they disagree, they will be merged. However, the local officials are in the habit of officialdom, and it is impossible for them to communicate effectively with each other.

Therefore, the best way for these magistrates to come is to ban the sea, and it will be a hundred.

What do you say will help the country's finances? Sorry, the customs silver is directly dissolved by the Ministry of Accounts, is there a dime in the place? Even Yu Qian knows that the customs bank occupies a lot of the water control funds.

But still unwilling to Tianjin Customs to be placed in Tianjin. At least I don't want him to sleep in the governor's yamen easily, there was a commotion outside, and two streets away, someone was on fire.