There was silence in the Wenhua Hall for a while, and what Emperor Chongzhen didn't expect was that the auxiliary minister Min Hongxue broke the silence first: "Your Majesty, that's what you said, the matter of building a road has also been repaired by the minister in Yungui." At that time, just building a path for the army to pass through consumed a lot of manpower and material resources. It's not easy to build roads! ”

During this feudal dynasty, road construction was all requisitioned by the imperial court. Ordinary people had to bring their own dry food and tools to go to the service. Therefore, sometimes, this kind of labor is far more feared by the people than the land endowment. In particular, some heavy and long-term labor, and sometimes, the people who were conscripted had to say goodbye to their families. Because, this time, it is very likely that you will never come back.

And according to what the emperor said now, the road construction is definitely the biggest project, compared with the previous construction of the Great Wall and the opening of the canal, it will take longer and be huge.

Therefore, after Min Hongxue finished speaking, the second assistant Sun Chengzong also followed: "Your Majesty, now that the country is in the beginning of peace, there are just signs of prosperity, if you build too many roads, I am afraid that the people will lose their money, the people's grievances will boil, and the disaster of Emperor Yang of Sui will be repeated!" ”

What he said was a bit heavy. Among the courtiers, he is still qualified or has the courage to say this.

In history, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty had a project that benefited future generations for thousands of years, which was to build the Grand Canal. But as a result, it also exhausted the national strength, the people's grievances boiled, and in the end, the whole world rebelled, and the powerful Sui Dynasty, like the Qin Dynasty, died twice, I have to say, it is a great pity.

Of course, it would be an exaggeration to say that the fall of the Sui Dynasty was attributed to the construction of the Grand Canal. The fall of the Sui Dynasty was also related to a series of his policies, such as the three expeditions to Goguryeo, the promotion of the imperial examination, and the interests of the family.

The topic was pulled back, but it was said that after Emperor Chongzhen read Sun Chengzong's speech, he was slightly angry in his heart, but he quickly dispersed, and still patiently replied: "What Qing and others said actually proves what I said, the post station is independent and necessary to become the Ministry of Communications." ”

"Building roads is not a matter of one lifetime, but a matter of thousands of generations! Do what you can, gradually build the road of the world, and repair the road of the world. There is a plan to continue to build roads within the tolerance of Daming, so that the adverse effects of road construction will be minimized. And this is what the Ministry of Communications should do well! ”

Emperor Chongzhen had already said the benefits of building roads before, and now he has also learned the lessons of history, done what he can, and planned to do it, so that many courtiers were silent for a while.

Whether it is what Min Hongxue said or Sun Chengzong's alarmism, as Emperor Chongzhen said, it just proves the necessity of establishing the Ministry of Communications.

As before, Cao Huachun, the eunuch who held the seal of the celebrant and the eunuch, first expressed his position and seconded the proposal. But his statement doesn't mean anything. After all, the celebrant is the inner court, so it is strange that he would oppose the emperor's will.

On the other hand, the Ministry of Communications belongs to the outer court, and it mainly relies on the outer court, so the statement of the civil officials is also important, and Emperor Chongzhen has been waiting for the opinions of the civil officials. To set up an additional department, if you want to do it properly, it is not just a matter of the emperor's decree. Even if the West Factory in history was set up by the emperor, because it belonged to the inner court and had nothing to do with the outer court.

Although he can now rely on his prestige to forcibly set up, he does not like this style of one-word hall, and if possible, of course he hopes to be supported by the outer court.

Therefore, for major affairs of the court, the first step is to try to persuade his courtiers to make them understand, so that there will be no situation where the yang is in violation, unless this first step is useless, and he has to implement it, then he should use the emperor's power, and he will use the emperor's power, just like when he first crossed over.

didn't wait for a while, Shoufu Wen Tiren opened his mouth and said: "The old minister thinks that the Ministry of Communications should be established!" ”

Anyway, what the emperor said made sense, and one more Shangshu was also under the cabinet, so it had no impact on him. But there was one thing he couldn't figure out. It's that the emperor asked him to do the experiment of the main chat group before, but what does this have to do with the establishment of the Ministry of Communications?

"Your Majesty, the minister also agrees, for the sake of my Ming Dynasty's plan for thousands of generations, a Ministry of Communications should be set up!" The head of the household, Bi Ziyan, followed closely with the song.

The emperor has already said just now that the benefits of building roads are obvious, and it is of great help to him, the head of the household, and of course he has to agree. However, he also has a question, he has doubts in his heart, and he is ready to ask if the emperor doesn't say it.

When the other courtiers heard this, they also expressed their approval one after another. Seeing this, Shen Yongmao was a little helpless, but he had no choice, so he had to agree.

Then this matter is so decided, Emperor Chongzhen is also happy in his heart, and he has also chosen the candidate, that is, Liu Mao, who is now in charge of the military department of the road and bridge, will be the first secretary of the Ministry of Communications.

In this regard, first, the appointment of these high-ranking officials is not under the control of the ministry, but directly from the emperor's order; The second is that Liu Mao has been in charge of the affairs of Daming Road and Bridge in recent years, so his promotion to the secretary of the Ministry of Communications is expected by these high-ranking officials of the imperial court.

After a while, Liu Mao, who was hit by a pie falling from the sky, was dizzily pulled into this group of Wenhua Palace, and now, he has this qualification.

Knowing that he had become the second grade of the new Ministry of Communications, Liu Mao was overjoyed, no, he was crying with joy, fortunately it was not voice communication, but he could also know his excitement from his continuous thanks.

Emperor Chongzhen appeased him, and then continued: "Trains, steamships, will also be assigned to the Ministry of Communications in the future, in this way, Liu Qing's side of the task is very heavy, must do a good job of planning, cement roads, railways, water and land transportation must be comprehensively planned and considered, be sure to let the construction of each road, within the tolerance of the imperial court, and the greatest possible support for the economic construction of the Ming Dynasty!" ”

"Wechen obeys the holy will!" Liu Mao immediately responded.

At this time, these courtiers in the Wenhua Palace group suddenly became a rin again, could it be that the emperor had already planned for a long time, interlocking, starting from the invention of cement, even until the train came out, the ultimate purpose of these is for the Ming Dynasty traffic? No, it should be to finally make everyone in the Ming Dynasty rich?

Thinking so, they were surprised again, you know, when cement was just invented, it was still when the construction was strong. At that time, the court was all worried about Jianyu, and they were thinking about how to deal with Jianyu. But the emperor has already thought further and thought of today's step!

Thinking of this, they suddenly thought of one word in their minds: foresight!

However, Bi Ziyan still had doubts, he saw that Emperor Chongzhen had not said what he wanted to say, so he finally couldn't help but ask: "Your Majesty, the cost of this Ministry of Communications is a large expense, and now, money is being used everywhere. Although building roads is a good thing, Weichen can't squeeze out too much money. ”

In the past, if the national treasury had received so much revenue every year, he would have woken up from a dream with a smile. But who knows that the income of the treasury is increasing year by year, but it makes him feel that the money is not enough year by year. Thinking about it carefully, he found that although he earned more, he also spent more!

In the past, the salaries of the soldiers in the world were all given half of them, and they would never be given more, and they could be delayed, but now, these salaries are issued through the Daming Construction Bank system, and they are all real.

In the past, the officials of the world were only a little bit old, and they would think of using some physical objects that could not be used, or even the previous Ming treasure banknotes to lower a part. But now, not only have the officials in the whole world increased their salaries, but even the officials who did not need to pay the imperial court in the past have become officials and receive them every month. The world's officials plus the previous officials' expenditures, this is definitely a lot of money, but it is actually distributed through the Daming Construction Bank system every month.

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At this moment, in Bi Ziyan's mind, he thought a lot at once, and the more he thought about it, the more his heart hurt, so he hurriedly added: "Although the various incomes of the imperial court at the end of this year will be more than last year, Weichen has already calculated, and there will be more places to use money in the coming year, which is ...... Ministry of Communications."

He complained here, and Liu Mao saw that the enthusiasm was like being poured cold water. Although he has been building concrete roads in the past two years, he has tried to use various methods of fund-raising. However, others are not stupid, in prosperous areas, there are many people, there will be people who participate in the shares, this is no problem.

However, if the road construction is raised to the position of the Ministry of Transportation, it will not just be selectively repaired only in the prosperous area. For the sake of the Ming Dynasty, even if it is not a prosperous place, it must be repaired. As the emperor said, only when the road is repaired, will there be more prosperous places. And the roads in these places really cost the money of the imperial court.

Now that the Ministry of Household is already crying poor, what should the Ministry of Communications do, will it eventually become just an idle yamen, a yamen that makes people laugh?

Who knew that Emperor Chongzhen heard this, but he smiled in his heart, he had actually prepared for a long time, and immediately replied: "This point, Bi Qing doesn't have to worry, I can open it to Qing again." ”

As the saying goes, if you want to be rich, there are only two ways.

The so-called open source and reduce expenditure is actually to find new ways to make money and save money. It's easy to say, but if you really do it, it's too difficult. Compared with throttling, open source is more difficult!

There are always smart people in the world, and there are always ways to make money, and there are always people who will think of and do it. Therefore, it is actually very difficult to do this thing of open source.

When these people in the Wenhua Hall heard this, everyone immediately lifted their spirits. The emperor actually has a way to make money again? How do you feel that it is so easy to make money here in the emperor?

If others say that he has an open source method, many people may be suspicious. However, Emperor Chongzhen said so, none of these high-ranking officials of the Ming Dynasty would doubt it. It is really Emperor Chongzhen's past, and he has proven that he has this ability!

I saw that Bi Ziyan was a little surprised and immediately replied in the group: "Your Majesty, how to open it up?" ”

Everyone else stared at the chat area of the makeshift group, waiting for the emperor's reply. They want to know what kind of wonderful ideas the emperor has this time to create a new way of wealth for the imperial court!

When Emperor Chongzhen saw the question, he said in the group: "All of you should understand the benefits of this chat group, instant messaging!" Therefore, I decided to launch an upgraded version of the letter in Daming, that is, instant messaging charges! ”

If it were a later generation, they might immediately understand what Emperor Chongzhen wanted to do. But these people in this Wenhua Hall group still don't understand very much, the upgraded version of the letter? What do you mean?

Emperor Chongzhen probably knew that they didn't know much, so he explained in detail: "I'll give you an example." For example, in Yingtianfu, the imperial court announced that if the people of Yingtianfu had something to tell their relatives and friends in Beijing, or business partners, the imperial court could help them bring the message immediately, or send the news to the corresponding person in half a day. ”

"As for the specific operation, we will set up a new yamen, which can be attributed to the Ministry of Communications or the Ministry of Households, which is to be determined. The core of the people in this yamen is the people in the chat group, who are responsible for sending and receiving messages from the two places, and then the local people send the news to the local people. This is something that is impossible for other people, but for me, it is extremely simple, how about it? ”

To put it bluntly, this is actually the idea that Emperor Chongzhen thought of before, that is, similar to the telegram of later generations, and if it goes further, it is equivalent to a telephone.

Hearing this, none of the people in the Wenhua Hall group spoke. For future generations, this should not be too normal. But for people at this time, using the chat group to set up an instant messaging yamen, such a thing is unimaginable. It's also a shame that they are all in the chat group, otherwise, if you tell them, you won't believe it.

Seeing that everyone in the group was shocked, Emperor Chongzhen didn't care, and continued to say in the group: "As for how to charge, you can discuss it and set a charter." What I mean is to benefit the people, not to be high and low! When the time comes, I will set up such a yamen all over the world, so that the people of the Ming Dynasty can benefit from this, and they can also increase their knowledge, and they will no longer be complacent! ”

Compared with the telegrams of later generations, Emperor Chongzhen can be said to have no cost at all. No, there is also a bit of a cost, that is, the people who deliver news from the local yamen, these also have to pay salaries. There are also yamen and so on, but these costs are low.

The courtiers in the group, after a while, immediately praised one after another, and the emperor's wise words were like swiping the screen.

You know, this chat group is the emperor's, and now he has taken it out to benefit the people, which actually benefits these officials. They also have the need for remote communication, especially instant messaging.

And Wen Tiren didn't understand until this time why the emperor would let him do that before the meeting. Because of this, in fact, members of the chat group can do it. But now, only the person designated by the emperor can do this, and it has become a unique business!

In addition, there are many benefits to this practice!

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