Chapter 259: The Nature of the Imperial Village

Zhu Youxiao finally agreed to the request of the Royal Weaving Bureau to recruit only 100,000 weavers for reemployment training for the time being, and asked Yang Shouchun of the Royal Bank to give the Royal Weaving Bureau a loan unconditionally to solve the crisis of the backlog of cloth goods of the Royal Weaving Bureau and bear the previous training costs of these weavers and the operating costs of the Royal Weaving Bureau's entry into the markets of other political envoys across the country except Jiangnan. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

His Majesty the Emperor's will, Yang Shouchun did not dare to disobey, sometimes it is like this, the Royal Bank is closely related to other royal capital, once the Royal Industrial Company or the Royal Weaving Bureau mismanagement or other reasons caused by the loss will also affect the Royal Bank, so that the Royal Bank will be responsible.

The degree of commercialization of the Ordnance Department cannot catch up with the Royal Industrial Company and the Royal Weaving Bureau, and his current orders are all for the combat readiness of the Praetorian Guard, and even many of the Ordnance Division's ordnance weapons are still in the secrecy stage, not open to the people, and not sold to military forces other than the Ming Dynasty.

However, Zhu Youxiao planned to wait until the development of the science and technology industry of the Ming Dynasty reached a stage, at least after the main equipment of the Praetorian Guard had been updated by one generation, he could open up the external arms blockade and allow the Ordnance Department to sell the weapons that the Praetorian Guard had eliminated but still belonged to the more advanced weapons of the current era to foreign countries, even the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

By making the enemy dependent on the weapons he has made, he can indirectly control the enemy's weaponry.

If one day the Manchus can forget their riding and archery skills, and they are also accustomed to fighting with their own flintlock pistols, it is definitely Zhu Youxiao who is willing to see it, the cavalry is vertical and horizontal, and it is difficult for Zhu Youxiao to guarantee that the Manchus can be killed with this, but if everyone uses firearms, Zhu Youxiao feels confident that the Ming Dynasty will defeat the Manchus in the shortest possible time.

"Now the order of the Praetorian Guard still has ten battalions of equipment not completed, a large part of the reason is that there are few skilled craftsmen, Weichen can accept 50,000 people, and then train them, and strive for the order of the Praetorian Guard before this year's Double Ninth Festival, but please also ask Your Majesty to let the Royal Bank allocate another amount of money to the Ordnance Division, otherwise it will be difficult to complete the placement of these 50,000 people."

Bi Maokang said with a bitter face.

In several royal capital industries, the Ordnance Division is losing money, and even a lot of losses, since its inception, it has been the Royal Bank upside down, although the Ordnance Department is now the Ming Dynasty and even the world's most advanced military weapons production place, but no one expected that it still owes tens of millions of debts to the Royal Bank.

Now that he was going to ask the Royal Bank for money, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but give it, so he asked Yang Shouchun to give another free loan to the Ordnance Division.

Yang Shouchun shouted that it hurt, but he was helpless, after all, the Ordnance Department was a strong backing for the royal guards to control the situation in the Ming Dynasty, and it was also the most typical representative of production, education and research.

Huo Weihua, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, proposed a large project that can meet the employment of 500,000 people, the Royal Industrial Company can receive the employment of 50,000 people, and the Royal Weaving Bureau can receive the employment of 100,000 people.

Today's Huangzhuang is not just Zhu Youxiao's private land, in fact, his essence is a disguised land reform in which he occupies ownership in the name of the emperor, distributes most of the land seized and the emperor's original land to the people for cultivation, and allows the people to have the right to contract and use for decades free of charge.

The largest landlord was His Majesty the Emperor Zhu Youxiao, but Zhu Youxiao did not restrict the other rights and interests of the peasant households who contracted the Imperial Village, and according to Zhu Youxiao's latest will, the tenant farmers of the Huangzhuang enjoyed the same treatment as the yeoman farmers, and their lives and private property were protected by the imperial court.

And as early as the seventh year of the Apocalypse, Zhu Youxiao asked Xu Guangqi, the left attendant of the Ministry of Industry, and Wang Chengen, the celebrant supervisor, to be responsible for contracting the land of Huangzhuang to all the people in the form of formal copywriting, but the premise is that the landless people and the people with good tax credit in previous years have the right to use each self-employed person who contracts Huangzhuang for 50 years.

In the past 50 years, the imperial court will not interfere with what you plant or how much you harvest, but every summer and autumn, it will collect a rent on time that is lower than the tax standard of the imperial court in that year.

You have the right to use it for 50 years, you don't have to worry about not planting for 50 years, and the court does not interfere with what you plant, and the taxes you bear are lower than when you plant your own land, and the land is not worried about being robbed by the imperial court, so many people are willing to donate land to Huangzhuang and voluntarily contract land in Huangzhuang.

However, Huangzhuang has limited the land contracted by each individual family, and it is specially divided into cultivation and other two types, cultivation is naturally simply planting and producing food, while others include commercial land such as building houses, building workshops and kilns, and the rent mentioned above is lower than the former of the imperial court tax, and the tax on commercial land is not low, and even far more than the so-called commercial tax of one out of thirty.

The purpose of this is naturally to ensure that Huangzhuang can become a base for the supply of grain, an important strategic material, and to prevent it from being overly commercialized, and to curb the phenomenon of land annexation by limiting the scale of land contracts for contractors.

No matter how bold anyone is, he will not dare to annex the land of His Majesty the Emperor.

But such a move is naturally contrary to the interests of the literati and doctors, after all, it has hindered their annexation of land.

However, now most of the Jiangnan literati and celebrities have either been arrested and put in prison or exiled to the western part of the Ming Dynasty to go to the countryside to help students and teachers, coupled with several successive purging of literati, so that no one dares to openly oppose His Majesty Zhu Youxiao's decision-making, but there are still a lot of complaints in private, the most direct is to say that His Majesty is now tyrannical and annexed land, so that the people have no land to plant, and the common people have no clothes to wear.

But in fact, because of the emergence of Huangzhuang and others, the number of displaced people, especially those in the north, has been greatly reduced, and even many people in the south have directly ventured out of the county seat, out of the south, and thousands of miles to the capital, to find the person in charge of Huangzhuang, and ask for more than ten acres of land.

The scholars hated this, but they were helpless, so they could only scold a few words behind their backs.

Fortunately, the current Huangzhuang has taken the initiative to purchase and the people to take the initiative to contribute, resulting in the fields in the hands of the current Huangzhuang has spread all over the two capitals and 13 political envoys, plus the land of several large landlords such as the Kong family and the Dong family belongs to the Huangzhuang, so the Huangzhuang is now fully capable of absorbing so many people.

Zhu Youxiao nodded thoughtfully, even if the employment problem of the people in Jiangnan is successfully solved, but I have to admit that it is because of the livelihood of millions of people and the foundation of the Ming Dynasty that several royal capitals have reached saturation.

"You have to have your own sea power!" This is Zhu Youxiao's strongest feeling at this time.