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When spring came in Jiangning, the residents of the city already knew that the name of Jiangning was about to be changed to Tianfu - this was the old name of Jiangning, and with this name, there was also the great tomorrow. As the situation gradually calmed down, the residents of the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties no longer had much to care about the future hardships of the Daoguang Emperor and the Northern Qing Dynasty, and began to care about the prosperity that the revival of the Ming Dynasty would bring to Yingtian.

Although the Great Tomorrow is still in Shanghai, Ying Tiancheng is already boiling. First of all, the huge palace and filial piety repair project, the original Jiangning Mancheng and the filial piety tomb at the southern foot of the Purple Mountain has now become a large construction site, countless skilled craftsmen and migrant workers from all over the south of the Yangtze River are concentrated here, and there are many building materials transported by Western sailing ships, what Siamese teak, Zhangpu stone, Foshan's ash, steel cai, Jingdezhen fired glazed tiles, Suzhou gold bricks, all of which have been transported in a steady stream, piled up like a hill in Yingtianwang City. It seems that Zhu Datianzi is preparing to renovate the Yingtian Palace and Xiaoling Tomb and restore it to its heyday!

If such two huge projects were to be shelved in the former Qing Dynasty, how could they cost 10,000,000 taels of silver, right? However, the son of the Zhu family is said to be a businessman and is very good at planning. Some time ago, a public tender was held in Shanghai, and two projects were awarded to several construction companies from Anhui and Guangdong for less than 10 million silver dollars (Zhu Jishi paid out of his own pocket).

The second is the comprehensive opening up of Yingtiancheng to the outside world, which of course refers to foreigners. As soon as the Spring Festival passed in the 2nd year of liberation, Yingtian Street, which was not originally a commercial port. All of a sudden, there were many blonde and blue-eyed foreign devils. And not only men. There are also women, who are generous in the streets, and the officials do not dare to expel them. These foreigners are either envoys of various countries, or wealthy businessmen, and even many of them are Ming officials!

At the gates of Yingtian City, a notice was also posted for the people, saying that the Great Tomorrow Son came from overseas, and the emperors of Western countries and the Great Tomorrow were friends, so the whole territory of the Ming Dynasty was opened. We welcome businessmen, scholars and tourists from all over the world. Of course, the residents of Yingtian are not very satisfied with this. However, Zhu Jishi's Son of Heaven was not voted for by them, so there was no need to please them.

However, what surprised the residents of Yingtian the most was not the attitude of the Great Tomorrow towards foreign devils - now it is the Three Kingdoms Hegemony, who doesn't point to foreign devils to help him? If you look at the army of the Zhu family, you will know that the foreign guns and cannons of Yishui are all Western-style, and even the military uniforms are Western-style, and they are more energetic than the green battalion soldiers of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. What surprised the residents of Yingtian the most was the Daming etiquette system that had just been promulgated, and the promotion of the small people did not have to kowtow to the officials! Isn't this an official or an official, and the people not a citizen? Of course, most people have no disagreement on this matter. It's always good to kowtow less. And their minds are all on food, clothing, housing and transportation, and the people are not looking forward to having a good emperor to rule the world. Do you want to make the days easier?

Zhu Jishi was wearing a dragon robe at this time, and he and Zuo Zongtang and a few secretaries were walking in the original Liangjiang Governor's Mansion. The original solemn style here, the top wearing flower feathers in and out, seems to have disappeared cleanly, leaving only the decline and desolation of the courtyard, which is in stark contrast with the hot palace construction site not far away, which seems to indicate the inevitable end of the Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty. However, Zhu Jishi's brows were tightly twisted, and there was no trace of the joy of the winner.

"This Cao Tong is quite familiar with the wind and rudder, could it be that there is a master behind his back?"

Zuo Zongtang smiled faintly and said calmly: "Don't talk about current affairs and be a hero, the son born to Cao Wenzhenggong, who is blindly mellow and humble, still needs the guidance of a master?" But your majesty, you don't need to be angry with these businessmen and Miao Yusan...... They also have their difficulties. The salt merchants are all big families, and there are tens of thousands of salt stove households hanging below, all pointing to this bit of salt to eat. Miao Yusan, Huaibei was self-supporting, and the imperial court only provided one army's weapons and supplies, regardless of others. He faced the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, with more than 100,000 elite soldiers under his command, and the expenses were huge, so he could only live by pointing to the little salt in Huaibei. It is better to pass the ticket salt law in Huainan, hand over the Huaibei salt industry to the two Huaibei salt merchants, and then report the military expenses of several million taels to the salt merchants. ”

Zhu Jishi's face sank: "Miao Peilin's silver is not enough to spend, can't the court make up for him?" What is the annual income budget for the 2nd year of liberation? There are more than 60 million, right? If the salt policy is reformed, at least a few million more, 70 million can be available, and the salt merchants can be used? And besides, their silver fell from heaven? To repay millions, at least 10 million must be scraped from the salt business. Guwang has already calculated, the cost of refined salt is 4 small dollars a catty, the wholesale price including tax is 25 small dollars a catty, the 13 southern provinces plus the Grand Duchy of Lanfang, the annual consumption of salt is not less than 1 billion catties, if all use refined salt, there will be an income of 21 million silver dollars, of which the salt tax can get 19 million silver dollars. ”

This Zhu Tianzi really wants to cut off all the mess in the salt industry and start a new situation! Zuo Zongtang was speechless for a long time, and only sighed after the last: "Your Majesty, you don't have to think about the salt merchants, those guys have been fishing for 200 years, and it's enough to go back and eat your own, but you can't ignore the salt ding, stove households, and the salt gang that sells smuggled salt, and there are hundreds of thousands of people on the ground in Lianghuai pointing to the salt industry to eat." Now that the canal is blocked, hundreds of thousands of children of the Cao Gang have no food and clothing, and hundreds of thousands more, but millions of people have no food to eat. In addition, there are thirty or forty machine weaving factories in Foshan, and the cost of the cloth produced is very low, and sooner or later it will hit the Jiangnan cloth industry, and then it will smash the jobs of hundreds of thousands of people. Your Majesty, this heaven and earth are big, and the food is the greatest, if there are more than a million people in the two rivers who have no food, it will be a big mess......"

This is probably the impact of industrialization on the traditional economy! Zhu Jishi said in his heart. Such an impact is inevitable even in the afterlife. Every major industrial upgrade will cause the corresponding industry to be eliminated, but whoever turns a blind eye to industrial upgrading because he is afraid of being eliminated is tantamount to an ostrich with its head buried in the sand.

However, it is indeed not a trivial matter that more than a million people have nothing to eat, Zhu Jishi took a deep breath, and replied to Zuo Zongtang's words after consideration: "Zuo Xiang, don't always look at more than one million people unemployed, you also need to see the opportunities brought by industrial development to Jiangnan." Now that the mining ban has been abolished, there are iron mines, coal mines, and copper mines in Liangjiang, and they can be developed to set up iron factories and copper factories, and to cast iron and bronze tools, all of which require the employment of labor. There are so many factories and mines in Guangdong, but there have been millions of people who have no food and clothing? Moreover, the imperial court also had to build a large project, one was to control the Huai River, the second was to strengthen the embankments of various dangerous sections of the Yangtze River, the third was to build the Jiangnan Railway, and the fourth was to expand Yingtian and Wuchang Fucheng. How can four big workers absorb millions of laborers? In addition, the imperial court can also distribute land to the poor, Lanfang's land is larger than that of Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, and the population is less than 1.5 million, even if it doubles, it is also less people and more land. If it doesn't work again, the lone king will raise troops to expedition to Manchuria! Take down the fertile soil of Manchuria, so that it is enough to divide it, right? ”

"Your Majesty, it is difficult to quench your thirst from far water!" Zuo Zongtang shook his head, "The four major projects may not be able to open this year, the cost of immigrating to Lanfang is not small, everyone needs at least a few dozen yuan of travel expenses and resettlement fees, a million people are tens of millions, as for Manchuria...... I haven't beaten it down yet. However, the hundreds of thousands of people begging for a living on the canal of the two rivers have no way to make money, and if they replace Huai salt with Lanfang salt, they are afraid that there will be chaos in the short term. It's better to be more serious about this salt reform. ”

Zhu Jishi frowned, Zuo Zongtang cried again and again, and there was some truth in thinking about it, but there was still no need for the two Huai salt merchants to keep it.

"Then the ticket salt law!" Zhu Jishi said in a deep voice, "Lanfang salt does not come out of Liangguang and Huguang, and Lianghuai salt is marketed in Liangjiang, Fujian, Zhejiang, and Huaibei, and the market for Sichuan salt is Sichuan and Yunnan-Guizhou." ”

The ticket salt law is actually a card salt merchant, legalizing the salt baron, and at the same time taking care of the interests of the stove households. The impact was small, but it wasn't without it.

Zhu Jishi said again: "In addition, the salt merchants must settle and dismiss their respective salt kings, so that the Lone King will not hold them accountable for their sins of serving the Manchu Qing for 200 years!" (To be continued......)