Chapter 188: Feeding the Pigs with Sweet Potatoes (Page 1/1)

The next day, Zhu Youxiao told Fang Congzhe the same meaning, and asked him to convey it to the officials of the Qi Party, the Chu Party, and the Zhejiang Party. But he also clearly told him that it would be a long process for the emperor to delegate power to the first assistant. At least in the imperial court, two or more groups with different governing ideas would be formed.

Since everyone wants to fight for the party, let's fight for something useful. I don't want you to fight over who is a villain and who is a gentleman, you can fight for who is corrupt, and who has the wrong way of governance...... Anyway, you have to fight for something real, and as for the dispute between the illusory gentleman and the villain, you can put an end to it.

The emperor's approach seems to be to encourage everyone to form a party, and it also means that the emperor does not think that they are gentlemen, but that they are villains. Although Zhu Youxiao had made it clear to the two auxiliary ministers before, he didn't mean this, but just wanted everyone to do something practical, but there was still no way to completely avoid dissatisfaction, but Zhu Youxiao didn't care much. When the civil servants get a taste of power, their discontent will disappear.

As for how effective this is, Zhu Youxiao doesn't care much. In any case, he was not prepared to decentralize power immediately, and the acceptance of the population was also a slow process. I am only in my twenties, and I should have enough time to slowly push forward this process, as long as I first raise the spirit of the people in China, and everyone's understanding has been improved, if I don't believe it, I will not be able to come up with a set of political methods suitable for the Ming Dynasty, and maybe the way will be better than the two-party system in the West.

Wei Zhongxian commanded the factory guards and continued to dig deep into the tax evasion and tax evasion incidents in the south, while the Independent Commission Against Corruption used some materials handed over by the factory guards to invite officials who were guilty of corruption and abusing their power for personal gain to "drink tea" and dug up a large number of resident insects. Since the Independent Commission Against Corruption is only under the direct control of the emperor, and Zhang Cheng personally sits in charge as an uncle, anyone who wants to intercede here cannot speak, so the effect can be said to be excellent.

Not to be outdone, the Economic Investigation Bureau began a large-scale operation to settle accounts in the counties of Nanzhili. They famously say, "Numbers don't lie." Of course, numbers can also deceive people, but under the guidance of Zhu Youxiao, the students of the arithmetic department of the research institute and the accounting department of the clerk's school studied a large number of real ledgers and found a rule, that is, the probability of the number with one as the first number is far greater than the theoretical one-ninth, and the larger the number, the more difficult it is to appear in the first number.

This law has become an untold secret of the Economic Investigation Bureau, and it is used to verify whether it is fraudulent or not. And as long as you know that you have faked, then under serious inquiry, no matter how perfect the fake account is, it will not stand up to the investigation.

Moreover, the imperial court issued an order two years ago that all public ledgers must be recorded in double-entry accounting. This was mainly a decree issued to provide positions for the accountants of the Clerk's School, and this bookkeeping method made it more difficult to falsify accounts, and it was easier to find flaws in auditing.

The factory guards are mainly responsible for public investigation and security matters, the Independent Commission Against Corruption is mainly responsible for dealing with corruption among officials, and the Economic Investigation Bureau has the power to audit all state agencies. The three divisions perform their own duties but can communicate with each other, which greatly improves the efficiency of each division. The three divisions also have the right to supervise each other, which also makes it easier for the three teams to maintain their own purity.

The officials fell, and the empty space left behind became an attractive fruit, which made many officials want to pick. Zhu Youxiao and Xu Guangqi said that when appointing officials of the seventh rank and above, they must ensure that this person is committed to the emperor's new policy, and all those who have complained about the emperor's new policy will not be considered. Now is not the time to delegate power, we must first pinch the country into an iron plate in order to deal with the possible war of national destruction in the future.

Winter went to spring and came again, and in August of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, Yang Lian's field experiment of Peigao finally came to fruition. He used six crops: wheat, corn, peanut, sweet potato, potato, and millet (millet), and carried out strict control experiments in Shaanxi, Beizhili, Shanxi, Shandong, and Nanzhili.

The results were encouraging, and although the yield of sweet potatoes, corn and peanuts was not tripled, but more than doubled, as the emperor said, it already shocked the officials of the Ministry of Agriculture. When Yang Lian reported the good news to Zhu Youxiao, he was so excited that tears flowed out. He said: "Your Majesty's law of cultivating high fields, although it cannot be implemented in all parts of the country, can at least account for more than 30% of the country's land. Moreover, a lot of saline-alkali land that could not be cultivated before can also be planted, which is equivalent to how many acres of land have been added. Not to mention that there is no need to worry about drought anymore, Your Majesty, the goal of accumulating grain in the country for two years can be achieved at a glance. “

Of course, Zhu Youxiao was even more excited in his heart, but a method he saw in the book had such an effect, and it was impossible to say that he was unwilling. He smiled and said, "The fry that I fed should not have been harvested yet, but this is better than grain." “

Yang Lian said: "Because it takes a long time to make the field, the fish fry have only grown for five months, and it is not yet time to harvest, but the minister has seen the fat fish swimming in the ditch, and there should be no problem in harvesting dozens of catties of one acre of land." “

Zhu Youxiao said with a smile: "Two years of grain reserves refers to the situation of not starving to death, but my idea is that two years of wheat or rice reserves, sweet potatoes, of course, can be full in hungry years, but it is a bit too much to eat on weekdays." If one day, the farmer feeds the sweet potatoes to the pigs, then there is really no need to worry about the food problem. “

Yang Lian said with a hesitant face: "Your Majesty, there are really farmers in Shaanxi who feed sweet potatoes to pigs, but the minister scolded them fiercely, and the days have just passed, and they began to mess around, isn't it good to be a vermicelli?" “

Zhu Youxiao was stunned for a moment, and quickly figured it out: "I understand what Yang Qing means, I have exchanged views with the Ministry of Railways and the Highway Commission on the transportation problem from Beijing to Shaanxi, and I am ready to build the G3 high-grade highway from Beijing to Xi'an first, and at the same time start the exploration work of the western Beijing line." The Ordnance Bureau has already carried out coal and iron ore exploration in Shaanxi, and the construction of the Shangzhou Iron Works has already begun, so the traffic situation in Shaanxi can soon change. “

Shaanxi is the root cause of the peasant uprising in the Ming Dynasty, and of course Zhu Youxiao does not want to have peasant armies such as King Chuang, so after he ascended the throne, the first important note is to ensure that the people of Shaanxi have food. First Sun Chuanting, and then Hong Chengchou, two powerful ministers, sat in Shaanxi, and the stability of Shaanxi must be guaranteed.

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