Chapter Twenty-Three: If You Want to Get Rich, Build Roads First
Looking at Lin Yu in front of him, Young Master Yang felt even more confused: "You follow?" What about the business of Drunken Immortal Building? β
Lin Yu said with a smile: "Brother-in-law, don't worry, the younger brother was originally the drunken immortal building that took care of Tianfu, and this drunken immortal building in the capital doesn't need to worry about the younger brother."
This time I went north, my sister really couldn't rest assured, so I asked my little brother to follow you, and there was a good response on the way. β
Zhu Zhanji, who seemed to have eaten a lot of oranges, said sourly: "Tut, there were people who didn't recognize this brother-in-law before, but now they even call their younger brothers, so they don't want to be faceless!" β
Young Master Yang glared at Zhu Zhanji and sneered: "No matter what, he is also my brother-in-law, what kind of biscuit are you Zhu Erjiu, don't you also keep up with your face?" β
Zhu Zhan could basically feel that the biscuit should be a good thing, but after thinking about it, he should be angry, and he couldn't think of anything to refute Young Master Yang, so he simply snorted and turned his head away from paying attention to it.
However, Young Master Yang didn't want to let go of Zhu Zhanji so easily, lifted the curtain and pointed outside, and said, "You take a look outside first." β
Zhu Zhanji glanced out and said in a muffled voice, "What's going on outside?" Isn't it just the people who are farming? β
Yang Shaofeng nodded and said, "Yes, it's farming, but will you?" β
Zhu Zhanji glanced at Young Master Yang, looked at his own hand, and then at Young Master Yang's hand, and couldn't help but smile: "You are wrong about this."
I'm not very good at farming, but I've done farm work anyway, but you're not necessarily the same. β
Yang Shaofeng laughed and said: "My son really can't farm, but he can increase the grain production in this field, do you believe it or not?" β
Zhu Zhanji got up with a pout, but forgot that this was in the carriage, and the intimate contact between his head and the roof of the car made him can't help but snort: "Don't talk nonsense, do you know what merit it is to increase grain production?" β
Yang Shaofeng shook his head and said: "If the merit is not meritorious, I don't care, I just want the people in this land to have enough to eat, occasionally eat meat, and it would be great to be able to pull two new clothes during the New Year." β
After coming back and looking at it a few times, it seemed that he was about to become a saint, and Zhu Zhanji couldn't help but be a little suspicious: "This is not like your person?" β
Yang Shaofeng smiled and said, "Isn't it like it?" Did you see that I was fighting against those corrupt people at the poetry meeting, and said a lot of inappropriate remarks? Did you see that I wanted to go back to my hometown, but I didn't want to go out and serve the imperial court? β
Zhu Zhanji nodded and said: "Yes, anyway, I don't think I look like a saint who cares about all the people in the world, but like a bandit who wants to go to the Qinhuai River but can't get it, and forgets his righteousness!" β
Yang Shaofeng snorted and said, "How can you smear people's innocence out of thin air? How did I ever say I was going to the Qinhuai River?
Besides, I have a temperament that is out of the ordinary, and I don't want to be an official, but I also have the people of the world in my heart, is there any conflict between the two? β
Zhu Zhanji shook his head, and really didn't come up with any way to refute Young Master Yang, so he had to pull the topic back: "Just now you said that there is a way to increase grain production, but I don't know what the method is?" β
Yang Shaofeng snorted coldly, but changed the topic again: "I won't tell you, guess slowly!" β
Now it was Zhu Zhanji's turn to be unhappy, and after glaring at Young Master Yang, he sneered: "In my opinion, it's not that you don't want to tell me, but you don't know at all!" β
Yang Shaofeng said with a smile: "Look, it's really Zhu Erjiu Zhu Gongzi from Xungui, who knows the method of agitation?" It's a pity, no matter how cunning you are, this son just won't tell you. β
After finishing speaking, Yang Shaofeng smiled and picked up the tea that Ling'er had just brewed, and said to Zhu Zhanji: "Speaking of which, don't you think our trip is too slow?" β
Zhu Zhanji, who was originally unhappy because he didn't get an answer, is even more unhappy now: "What else do you want?" If you really want to be fast, why didn't you agree when I said to take the waterway? β
Yang Shaofeng said: "Did you say before that you will experience the suffering of the people?" What can you see on the waterway? Shipping or shipping?
But don't worry, when we come back, we will take the waterway, and then you will naturally be able to experience what it means to be suffering. β
Being a little confused by Young Master Yang, Zhu Zhanji simply asked, "What do you want to say?" β
Yang Shaofeng put down the teacup in his hand and said with a smile: "I think the road should be built!" β
first pointed out the window, and then pointed to the carriage under him, Yang Shaofeng said: "As the saying goes, if you want to get rich, build the road first."
If the roads are repaired, the flow of goods and goods between the north and the south will be accelerated, and the imperial court will be able to receive more taxes, and then more roads will be built, whether it is to transport troops or grain, it will become extremely convenient. β
Zhu Zhanji's eyes lit up, and then darkened again: "It's simple.
If you want to build a road, you don't just need to move your mouth, it needs to involve the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Households, and even the Ministry of War, there are too many messy things in it. β
Yang Shaofeng nodded and said with a smile: "Theoretically, this is true, but if we don't want to do it if we think about the difficulties, then who will be willing to build this road in the future?"
In other words, this matter can only be promoted by the court, then implemented at the local level, and finally the people will benefit, and then fed back to the tax side, which is a very long process and an extremely difficult process. β
Seeing that Zhu Zhanji was deep in thought, Yang Shaofeng couldn't help but add another fire: "I once heard someone say that we are not the generation that waits to see, but the generation that does." β
Zhu Zhanji, who was still pondering just now, suddenly raised his head, and his eyes were shining: "Who said this?" It makes sense. β
Yang Shaofeng said: "This sentence was said by a gentleman named Zhou Shuren, but this gentleman likes to travel the world, and it is easy to see his old man." β
Zhu Zhanji nodded and said, "Mr. Zhou is really talented!"
He's right, we should be the generation that does it, not the generation that waits and sees. β
After finishing speaking, Zhu Zhanji suddenly fell silent again, and only said after a while: "It's just that it's easy to say about road construction, but it's difficult to really do it."
If you want to build a strong road, unless you steam the soil and then hammer it like Qin Zhidao, the seeds in the soil and the rain will become a broken road in a few years, unless you send people to maintain it every year.
However, if you send people to maintain it every year, the cost of manpower and material resources is too high, how can the imperial court afford it alone? β
Yang Shaofeng couldn't help but shake his head and said: "As long as your thinking doesn't slip, there are always more ways than difficulties, and I'll tell you the solution when I get to Shuntianfu." β
After finishing speaking, Young Master Yang pointed out the car again and said with a smile: "Let's go to Yangzhou first." β
The so-called waist wrap 100,000 guan, ride the crane down Yangzhou, this is a very good wish, especially for those poor and sour cuo, even if 100,000 guan is exchanged for not very valuable treasure banknotes is definitely not a small amount, after having money, go to Yangzhou to see the so-called Yangzhou thin horse is naturally also the meaning of it.
But Yang Shaofeng Yang Young Master Yang never thought of seeing any Yangzhou thin horses, especially after seeing his fiancΓ©e in this life, Young Master Yang decided to be a beautiful son who guarded himself like jade.
The reason why he took Zhu Zhanji to Yangzhou was because Young Master Yang planned to see the pilot project in Yangzhou.
That's right, it's a pilot, because Young Master Yang fired the map cannon when he was going to try, especially when he took out the matter that Daming treated scholars too much.
For the bigwigs in the court, many people don't like Young Master Yang, even if this bastard thing is the champion of the six songs, which is the concrete embodiment of Wenqu Xing's descent to earth.
But there are also many people who like Young Master Yang, such as Xia Yuanji and Xia Lao, this ruthless man who dares to follow Zhu Laosi's bull is always thinking about how to make the treasury more full and spend less silver.
There's no way, a boss who is good at fighting a war, doesn't save a little bit to live, and the treasury of the Ming Dynasty can't be empty enough to run a horse?
It just so happened that after Young Master Yang put forward his opinion that the scholars were treated too preferentially, Xia Yuanji was like finding a bosom friend, except for lamenting that Young Master Yang was born decades late, the rest was to figure out how to do things.
After pondering and pondering, arguing with colleagues in the court several times, and having several beards scratched off, Xia Yuanji finally got the support of Zhu Laosi and planned to find a place to conduct a pilot.
Pick and choose to pick and choose the good place of Yangzhou - the business is developed, the cultural atmosphere is not strong, the literati are a large piece of it, but there are not many really outstanding, and it is the most suitable for pilot.
Therefore, Young Master Yang did not hesitate to take a detour to Yangzhou, just to see if there were any changes after the implementation of this pilot.
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As soon as he entered Yangzhou City, a strong business atmosphere came to his face, dressed as a son-in-law and a template Zhu Zhanji looked left and right, and only felt that everything was fresh.
There is no way, Zhu Zhanji usually goes out of the palace mostly on official business, and even if he really goes to the place, most of them deal with the government, and it is the first time to hang out like this.
After almost half a day of shopping, Zhu Zhanji pointed to a restaurant on the side of the road and said to Young Master Yang, "Are you hungry?" I've eaten you several times, and this time I'll treat you to it! β
Yang Shaofeng touched his stomach, looked at the heroic Zhu Zhanji and said with a smile: "Invite me to dinner?" Do you have money? β
Zhu Zhanji took out a handful of treasure money from his sleeve and shook it in front of the eyes of the rather unconvinced Young Master Yang: "Look at what this is?" More than a hundred, so many treasures, isn't it enough to eat? β
Yang Shaofeng laughed strangely and said, "Tsk, there are a lot of treasure money, then today's meal is all up to you!" β