It's not that Wu Zheng is a pragmatist, but that reality forces Wu Zheng to adopt pragmatism.

Poetry and distance are too extravagant for today's Wu Zheng.

Wu Zheng doesn't have much time, the method used is actually the way of assembly line operation training in later generations, you don't need to understand, you just need to follow the step-by-step, one or two technicians can lead hundreds of illiterate people to engage in scientific research, although there is a lack of creativity, but it can be done quickly, two bombs and one star in later generations, this is how it was made, otherwise, the training of tens of thousands of grassroots scientific research personnel will take at least decades, or even hundreds of years, how can two bombs and one star be created in more than ten years?

And this move made it clear to everyone in Jiangnan that King Wu was going to change the officialdom of the general's mansion and the Northern Expeditionary Army from top to bottom, of course, this is also a gradual process, with a period of three years.

A new hand, in the three years of serving as a deputy, he and his boss slowly completed the process of replacing the old with the new.

Perhaps, in these three years, the two sides can reach a tacit understanding of righteousness, or perhaps in these three years, they can complete a compromise with each other, so as to avoid the pain of tearing caused by one-size-fits-all.

This is the most basic and necessary step related to the continuous implementation of the new policy.

The meeting decided on the special laws on agricultural soil, fertilizer, water, seeds, density, protection, management, and work, strictly implemented deep ploughing, soil improvement, land exploration and planning, rational fertilization, water conservancy and rational water use, cultivated and popularized grain varieties (barren land introduced sweet potatoes to Guangdong for joint planting), rational dense planting, pest control, field management, and tool improvement, especially for the fertile land in the Yangtze River basin, which was originally a relatively high-yield area. Xiong Rulin, the political envoy of Zuo Bu, was solely responsible for this matter.

Over the past four years or so, Wu Zheng has had a unified understanding of what he has seen and heard on the issue of agricultural output, and has also relieved the doubts that plagued his heart.

At this time, the people sowed in spring and harvested in summer, planted another crop, and harvested in autumn, which was no different from later generations.

But the output is not as good as 30% of later generations, why?

Was it because the people were lazy in the past? Actually, no, it's similar to later generations.

The problem lies in three aspects, one is that the land measurement is different, the mu at that time was small, only about three-quarters of the city mu in later generations, and the same is true for the house, one mu of small courtyard, it is not said that the city mu of later generations.

Second, the grain varieties are not well improved, and the seeds usually used by farmers are the leftover grain harvested in the previous season, rather than the grain seed stations that have been specially screened and improved in later generations.

Third, the farming methods are backward, which is the biggest reason, the people often sow seeds, and then no longer take care of them, unless there is a major drought and flood, and even the most basic fertilizer is lacking.

This is not to say that the people are lazy, but that the population was small at that time, and at the peak of the Ming Dynasty's population, the registered population was only about 20 million households, equivalent to a population of just over 100 million.

Such a vast and sparsely populated area, per capita acres of land is more, a ding is divided into 20 acres, which is considered to be less, like the Tang Dynasty, a ding has 100 acres (including 40 acres of Yongye field), like such a number of acres, to take care of carefully, without mechanical assistance, it is impossible to do.

Therefore, the quality of grain varieties is not distinguished, uneven, and neglected after sowing is the fundamental reason for the low yield per mu.

It is difficult to solve this problem at this time, because population is a big problem, and so are the conventions that have been cultivated for thousands of years.

But now, Wu Zheng has confidence, because there are tens of thousands of prisoners in this battle, and all of them are men.

They were regarded as the lowest level of the cultivated population, and hundreds of thousands of acres of experimental fields were set aside around Wusong New Town for cultivation.

As long as the trial planting is a season, once the yield is high, it is enough to attract the people to follow suit.

The best way to implement the decree is to lead the people to take the initiative to follow suit, which is the highest level of herdsmen.

For the commerce of the counties under the jurisdiction of the eleven prefectures, policy guidance was carried out to attract businessmen from all over the country to invest in workshops, so as to change the ratio of agriculture and labor, gradually convert merchant capital into industrial input, and drive the industrial revolution.

Especially in the vicinity of Hangzhou, tax incentives or exemptions are given to owners who open weaving workshops, and half-price leases of workshop land can be carried out for up to 50 years.

Under the guidance of the government, the steam loom just developed by the military workshop was promoted to the people, so as to promote and expand the output of silk and cloth fabrics, drive the vigorous development of the garment industry, and lay the leading position of the garment industry in the country and even the whole world.

Wu Zheng is confident that he will let Huaxia guide the world and carry out the first industrial revolution one step ahead of schedule, so as to establish Huaxia's position as the world's righteous governance and cultural center.

Therefore, Wu Zheng began to actively guide and transform the merchant class, and the guidance was to guide the merchants to transform commercial capital into industrial capital, which needed to be stimulated. Trade-offs, opportunity costs, and incentives are the three principles of economics.

Under the jurisdiction of the General's Palace, those who pay the highest taxes each year can be awarded by the imperial court to the seventh-rank loose rank undertaker, and the second to tenth can be awarded the seventh-rank Shilang. This is equivalent to the official position of a county main hall, although there is no real power, but after all, it is an official body, which for thousands of years, the suppressed merchant class, this decree is equivalent to lifting the chains on their bodies, from the lower nine classes directly to the way to stand side by side with the scholars.

But at the same time, Wu Zheng added two other shackles to them, one is those involved in tax evasion, tax evasion, and tax evasion, and they will be imprisoned for one year for every 1,000 taels, which can be accumulated until indefinite, and another fine of three to five times will be imposed, and family property can be confiscated as compensation. Second, in order to ensure the wages of migrant workers, the minimum legal remuneration is set at three taels per month, and the government can be responsible for recovering any arrears of wages exceeding 500 taels, and those who exceed 3,000 taels will be sentenced to imprisonment for up to eight years and confiscation of family property. This matter was led by Mo Zhinian, and Zhang Huangyan was supervised all the way.

At the same time, a separate supervision department was set up, allowing the supervision department to set up supervision branches in each county, with a quota of 10 people, and allowing the supervision department to have an independent supervision force, with a maximum number of 300 people, under the control of the supervision envoy.

July 23.

Wu Zheng summoned the commanders and deputy commanders of the guards and the two commanders and deputy commanders of the two naval divisions, and set the strategy of expanding the army and strengthening the army for three years.

The Wusong Naval Division had 12 72 and 64 heavy gunboats, 36 river gunboats, 24 scout ships, and 28 large transport ships, with a maximum strength of 6,800 men, and at the same time, a separate 3,200-strong marine corps was organized.

The Zhoushan Water Division began to change ships and equipment, and within three years, it was expanded into a new fleet equal to that of the Wusong Water Division.

Hangzhou Wei was reorganized into the First Army of the Northern Expedition, and the number of personnel was expanded to 50,000, with five battalions under it, as the main force of the Northern Expedition.

The rest of the guards were all part of the Second Army of the Northern Expedition.