The next day, Song Yingsheng went out with the detailed strategy given by Song Yingxing, this kind of thing is to the patent office of the Military Command Division, where some technological innovations and innovations will be reviewed, of course, this is the result of Wang Debang and others being rewarded heavily, including Han Laoliu's double-chamber iron frying method, these technological innovations have been heavily rewarded by Zhang Han! The reward is so heavy that even the Song brothers are very tempted, so you can imagine how attractive it is to ordinary people. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

After so many years, it can be regarded as mud and sand, and some practical ideas have been used, most of them are civilian, and there are also craftsmen of the Firearms Bureau who have been recognized for their innovation in gun manufacturing, and the rewards are very heavy.

Attracted by the bonus, people come to the military department almost every day to talk about technological innovation, and many of them are utopian, and even many of them are simply delusional.

In order to deal with these people, a special technology patent institute has also been set up, as long as there is real ability, the silver will definitely be given, but it is a pity that after so many years, there are only a few people who can really take away a lot of silver here.

Song Yingsheng himself is a person from the research institute, and he also takes a temporary position in the patent institute, and he goes to the temporary position once in a while, and he sees a lot of absurd people and absurd statements, and he is also a little uneasy in his heart, afraid that the method given by his brother is not as successful as he thought, if he sees the smile he usually has when he sees absurd people, it is too embarrassing.

The place where they live is a dormitory area for middle-level personnel, when they go out, they are paved with blue brick paths, there are large flower pots planted with flowers and trees on both sides, there are some residual snow on the roadside that has not melted away, but in the middle, there are miscellaneous personnel arranged by the military department to sweep it away, and there are many people walking out of the alley, and the snow on the avenue is also swept by someone, and there are some places where the snow is very thick and frozen, and the miscellaneous servants use large baskets to carry coarse salt to dry on it.

Although he has seen such a scene many times, Song Yingsheng still feels a lot of emotion in his heart...... These salts are rare and expensive items in the poor people's homes in Jiangxi, and it is difficult for ordinary people to eat salt, and even this kind of crude coarse salt is a high-priced item that many people's families cannot consume to their heart's content, but here, it is used to melt snow!

He Yusheng found several large salt ponds on the grassland, Qinghai and other places were originally places where good green salt was produced, which was several times more expensive than the salt produced by ordinary salt ponds, but unfortunately most of these salt ponds could only produce coarse salt, and even if it was fine salt, Zhang Han did not plan to challenge the traditional interests of the generals and gentry in various places.

In the Ming Dynasty, salt tea is monopolized, the control is very strict, the salt merchants around the world have a relationship with the sky, in the northwest military town here, salt profit is also a very important source of interests, has long been divided by the major generals and gentry and relatives of the clans, Zhang Han even if there is a salt pond to produce salt, but also try not to consider this aspect, and Yusheng's current development is to create new profits to give the collaborators more ways to make a fortune, rather than the tiger's mouth.

Even if the merchant army can now sweep through the towns in the northwest, it is better not to provoke these original collaborators before the rebellion.

A large amount of salt is extracted, and the fine salt is eaten by the military and civilians in the core control area, and the price is very low, which is half sold and half given, while the coarse salt is of little use, and the snow melt is a good use on a snowy day.

People gradually came to the end of the road, and at this time they were inhabited by middle-level officials of various military departments, and only at this time did people realize that He Yusheng had developed to the point where it is now, and the middle-level officials alone were already in an endless stream, and their numbers could not be seen clearly at a glance.

A large number of manned light carriages and so on at the intersection, of course, it is impossible to have one per person, the carriage is also an important chess piece for Yusheng to generate income, the military department has released the index, no longer as before to engage in hunger marketing to push up the price of the carriage, reduce some decorative expenses, reduce sales, and at the same time launch a miniaturized four-wheeled carriage, as much as possible to earn some profits.

The carriage in front of you, even if it is a standard reduced version, is actually a reduction in a lot of luxurious accessories and some utensils inside, and even so, the cost has been reduced by at least three percent.

By the time they reached the intersection, the officials had already diverged their ways, and the carriages of the various military divisions were parked at different locations.

The whole road is full of cars and horses, a large number of carriages are not crowded on the road, there are at least more than 500 permanent carriages in the core area of Lizhuang, including the military department for its own use and the army's transport fleet, as well as the company's commercial department transport vehicles, it can be said that this is the earliest place in the Ming Dynasty to engage in traffic control, the role of the traffic police is carried out by the military justice department's magistrate, at first these townsmen are also confused, or Zhang Han personally trained, left and right branches, intersections in batches and other rules are now learned and sold, After more than a year of traffic control, the horse-drawn carriages from Lizhuang have now consciously turned to the right, and in the rest of the place, the carriages and sedan chairs are walking proudly in the center of the road.

When Song Yingsheng got in the car, he was used to greeting a few colleagues.

After all, they are all middle-level identities, of course, they will not be crowded in a car with more than ten or twenty people like the carriage of the little official, at most five or six people in each car, and there is still a charcoal fire under the seats in the car, because the fire and warmth are very good, the carriage is very warm.

Although it was a sunny day outside, the north wind was strong and the temperature was very low, and you could tell how low the temperature was from the ice on the grass on the side of the road.

The canals on both sides of the road froze over, as did the north and south canals under the magnificent embankment not far away, and many children who had been on winter vacation ran around on the ice, letting out bursts of cheerful laughter.

A fat official of the carriage said with a smile: "That is, here in our Li Zhuang, under the rule of Heyusheng, the children are either reading or playing, and they have changed places, and it has not snowed on this day, so they don't hurry up to pick up dung on the road, or they are rolling grass or something, how can they be idle." ”

"Not really."

"The key is hunger and cold." Another official with a square temperament is from a person from northern Shaanxi, he is a middle-level official of the Commerce Department under construction, with this person's temperament experience was originally not suitable for managing many matters of the company in the Commerce Department, but this person is good at arithmetic, the original Finance Bureau also wanted him, but the Commerce Department was first established, and talents were needed, so this person was asked to go over. The man of the business department said with a painful face: "I just went back to my hometown a while ago, miserable, miserable, too miserable." What I saw was shocking. We are here in northern Shanxi, and other places are much better because of the existence of Yusheng, the harvest is not low, and you can also do some casual work to supplement the family, but there is no way in northern Shaanxi, last year many places were reduced by seventy percent, but the imperial court increased the salary, and the local area was even more rampant, the people have been displaced, and many people have become beggars. And with all due respect, if this situation is another three or five years, I am afraid that the people will have to change their children and eat, and at that time, it will not be far from the unraveling of the rod. ”

Everyone listened attentively to the official of the Department of Commerce, and Song Yingsheng was also very concerned, but he couldn't imagine how the northern Shaanxi side would get to the point where this person said.

Moreover, according to this person, it was not only the lower classes of the common people who could not survive, but also the small landlords and ordinary gentry who had great difficulty in making a living. In the military towns from northern Shaanxi to northern Shanxi and Gansu, military salaries were either paid late, or they were simply not paid once for several months and half a year, and the sergeants could only borrow money to survive, and if they reached the point where they could not borrow money, they could only sell their wives and children.

The military official from northern Shaanxi finally said: "Many wives of border soldiers in Yulin Town have done a 'half-closed' business, and there are not a few who sell their sons for a bag of miscellaneous grains!" ”

There was a sigh in the carriage, and finally someone wondered: "Is the court just ignoring it like this?" ”

"Liao's salary is important." Someone said in a mocking voice: "Jiafu is a matter of the Wanli period, and now it is said that it is the Zhongzheng Ying Dynasty, the first assistant, the second assistant, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the six departments, most of them are people from the Donglin Party, do you see which of them proposed to levy Liao salary?" At the beginning, Emperor Shenzong collected mining taxes and commercial taxes everywhere during the Wanli period, how did you see how the people of Donglin had a hard top with the Wanli Emperor, and now? ”

"It's good that the Liao Levy is useful, but I'm afraid that as our adults said, the more we levy, the easier it will be to levy the feudal towns."

"I see, Da Ming is going to finish!"

"Not so." Song Yingsheng said disapprerovingly: "Our Jiangxi side has been in good weather in the past few years, and my family wrote a letter to say that the city is full of traffic, the restaurant is overcrowded, and the door of the gold and silver shop is full of carriages...... Northern Shaanxi has suffered a lot of disasters in recent years, but you must know that most of the places are still very rich. ”

"Abundance?" Someone retorted: "Beizhi, Henan, Shandong, where is not a serious disaster, I have heard about the situation in Henan, it is really sad and tragic." ”

"And not only the people are poor, the imperial court is becoming more and more insufficient, and the military town can't even pay the military salary of the border army.

Song Yingsheng listened to the heart is not a taste, he is from Jiangxi, in the Ming Dynasty also belongs to the Jiangnan lineage, the style of writing and the various customs of the people are similar to Jiangnan, of course, the people's income is far from being compared with Jiangnan, but it is also the land of fishing and rice, and the people's lives are still passing.

Not only Jiangxi, but also Huguang, that is, the two lakes region in later generations was the most productive grain producing area at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and even if the people were not so rich, they still had enough to eat.

Guangxi is poorer and Guangzhou is also quite rich.

In the south of the Yangtze River, it is even richer, and the people can feed a family by their wives with a textile machine at the door, and they can not only live a good life, but also live quite well.

Some of the later literati's notes on the records of the Wanli period are very reminiscent of the life at that time, the people were rich, the literary style was prosperous, and the high pressure of ideological clamping disappeared, it can be said that the people of Jiangnan during the Longwan period, they lived in a very rich and civilized country, for them, the past is the best memory, and what wars and famines are just rumors far away from them.