Chapter 54: Zhu Youxiao's Scheme
Tongzhou City is the first gateway to the capital.
Tongzhou City, surrounded by three rivers, has very developed waterways.
Every day and night, there are countless boats, along the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, back and forth to Tongzhou City.
It's just that recently, the capital has undergone great changes, and all the people and things, after entering Tongzhou City, most of them have entered and exited.
It is not to seize their goods, but to let everyone stay in Tongzhou City temporarily, so as not to leak the news of the great changes in the capital.
It wasn't until more than ten days ago that this Tongzhou City really returned to its original appearance of people coming and going, and boats of all sizes were flowing endlessly.
This is because the news of the great changes in the capital has been completely leaked, and there is no need to continue to block Tongzhou City and the Shuntianfu area.
No matter what the emperor or those Jiangnan gentry think, most of the commoners or businessmen who live on Cao Yun are still doing their own business or coolies after a false alarm.
In business, everyone will not stop doing business because of the tension between the north and the south of the Ming Dynasty.
How to live the old days, still have to live now.
The idea of small people and small and medium-sized businessmen, it's that simple.
At three o'clock, the army came to Tongzhou City, and Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting continued to lead the 500,000 army to continue to hurry.
Zhu Youxiao was single-handed, and temporarily stayed in Tongzhou City.
The main reason for this was that he felt bored traveling with the army.
With his current status in the hearts of the soldiers, there is no need to encourage the soldiers by means of "taking the lead" and "sharing weal and woe".
Anyway, with F1 and these fighting chickens, they can communicate at all times, and they can't miss any major events.
For other general situations, Sun Chuanting and Lu Xiangsheng were enough to deal with it, and they solved it casually.
In his previous life, Zhu Youxiao was very interested in Tongzhou City, but he didn't have the opportunity to see him.
And after crossing the rebirth, he has never been to this Tongzhou City.
In his previous life, he was just a passerby, a little person who would be ignored when he walked on the road.
And his temperament is a bit eccentric and different, and he doesn't like to travel or anything, so he hasn't been to too many places.
One is because of the lack of money, and the other reason is that I don't like to join in the fun.
He likes to go to those sparsely populated scenic spots to take a look, which is less irritable and cleaner.
Now that he has a lot of time and energy, and an identity that can be unscrupulous, he definitely wants to make up for the regrets of his previous life.
He changed into a suit of civilian clothes, walked out of a large inn, and walked in the direction of the large pier not far away.
The two divine swords and the Xuantie Divine Sword did not fall.
This is because of the good thing that saves life, and when a person goes out, it is better to be careful.
He was wearing the kind of caftan that ordinary Xiucai wore, and it was easy to cover the two divine guns around his waist.
And the sword in this era, the average scholar shows that it is a must-have object.
It can be used for self-defense, but also for pretending, so why not?
He headed for the canal pier on his way out for a reason:
One is to see with my own eyes the grand scene of the canal in this era, and the other is to explore the transportation problem of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.
Since more than ten days ago, the news of the great changes in the capital spread all over the south of the Yangtze River, and these days, the transportation of Jiangnan to the Beijing division has also been cut off by those rebels.
Those rebel ministers were indeed bold, and as soon as they confirmed that the news from the capital was true, they quickly conspired to rebel.
They not only cut off the transportation, but also contacted many large merchants to cut off the circulation and supply of various materials in Shuntianfu as much as possible.
Zhu Youxiao had anticipated this situation for a long time and made effective countermeasures.
Overhauling the super official road and the big farm is his supreme weapon to break the enemy's blockade.
Judging from the current situation, it is obvious that Zhu Youxiao's two major decisions are extremely correct.
Before, he led the army from the capital and walked the newly built super official road.
The 30-zhang wide Daguan Road not only corrected a large number of unreasonable curves, but also doubled the speed of the army's march by the newly built giant stone bridges that passed through large and small rivers.
Based on Zhu Youxiao's personal experience, if in the past, hundreds of thousands of troops wanted to reach Shanhaiguan, it would take at least a month or so.
And now, with the super official road from the capital to Shanhaiguan, it will be a week at most.
This saves a lot of time, not only greatly strengthens the control of the other party in the imperial court, but also saves an unknown amount of grain, grass, manpower and material resources.
Not to mention, if it is not long before the super official road completes the connection of all the counties and important towns of Shuntian Mansion and Yongping Mansion, the great changes that will take place in the Ming Empire will take place.
First of all, starting next year, with these vast areas, there are more than 10,000 new ecological farms on both sides of Daguan Road, and the output of grain, fruits, livestock and poultry meat is estimated to exceed the original entire Beizhili area.
Secondly, as long as it is the area controlled by Zhu Youxiao, it solves the harm of natural and man-made disasters that have intensified because of the arrival of the Xiaoice River period.
Everyone can be fed and clothed, and there is still no need to worry about starving to death?
Third, in the area under his control, where the big official road passed, not only did the displaced people and bandits disappear almost completely, but also dealt a fatal blow to those large and small landlords.
Because of the construction of official roads and large farms, it attracted almost all the common people and homeless people, as well as those black households hidden by large and small landlords.
Fourth, it has changed the pattern of social composition in the future.
As long as Zhu Youxiao's Daguandao and Da Farm plans are carried out, such a social composition model will inevitably form in the area under his control:
The original villages and towns have slowly disappeared, and the people of those villages and towns have been relocated to various large-scale ecological farms, each with an area of between 10,000 mu and 100,000 mu, and will be large and medium-sized villages and towns in the future.
It has formed a three-level management form consisting of a government city, a county seat, and a large farm.
In this way, the common people will no longer have to worry about eating and drinking in the future, and if they go to the market, they can go to nearby cities.
In the future, every household will have a beautiful and unique house of 200 square meters, and each person will have at least five acres of his own land.
What if the number of people in the family increases in the future and there is not enough to live?
The emperor said that in each family, there are more than five people in the family, and each adult male, after getting married, there will be a new house to be allocated, and each person will still be allocated five acres of land according to the head.
It's just that you have to leave your old home.
This is not a problem, future generations, branching out, is the right way.
At that time, the people of the empire, who had solved the problems of food, clothing, housing and transportation, and had no worries, except for the busy farming season, had nothing to travel to various places and take a look, how good was it?
If you have a large family and some people don't want to farm, you can join many royal workshops and work as workers in various cities.
Ten years later, at most, this new model of social composition will take shape in the Ming Empire under the leadership of Zhu Youxiao.
As a result, we don't know how much forests and fields have been saved, how much wildlife has been protected, and how many man-made natural disasters have been reduced......
The most important thing is that in the area under Zhu Youxiao's control, the living problems of the masses of the people were completely solved, the royal rule was stabilized, and the occurrence of peasant uprisings was prevented.
In the future, a large number of people at the bottom of the empire, under the strict control of the government, everyone has something to do, everyone has a house, a field, surplus food and spare money, where will they rebel?