The employment rate of the people in the capital quickly rose because of the development of royal capital. Previously, a group of ordinary people who could not get along in the city and became poor people had signed up to reclaim wasteland.

At this time, the people of the capital did not have to worry about not being able to find a job, and in order to cope with the demand for labor from the royal capital, the labor market in the south of the city developed rapidly.

As long as you go to the Seongnam Labor Market, you can definitely find a job.

In particular, the Royal Military Factory, which at this time quickly became the largest manufacturer of military equipment in the Ming Dynasty, needed not only many craftsmen, but also many ordinary workers.

Military equipment manufacturing has become the largest industry developed by Zhu Youxiao in the capital, and its ability to drive employment is very terrifying. The Royal Military Factory alone has provided a large number of jobs for the capital, and has also attracted a lot of foreign population. You must know that the scale of the Royal Military Factory at this time is still expanding. With the next reorganization of the border army, the Royal Military Factory will provide various military equipment for hundreds of thousands of Ming troops.

Originally, with the recruitment of poor people to reclaim wasteland outside the city and the abolition of the Beijing camp to develop military camps, a large number of poor people have been placed in agricultural production, and the population in the city has also decreased a lot.

However, the development of factories such as the Imperial Military Factory and the Mint has caused the population of the capital to grow again, attracting many poor people from the surrounding areas to come to the capital to make a living.

At this time, the capital is indeed better to make a living.

But Zhu Youxiao's goal is obviously more than that, Yang Guorui quickly negotiated a construction plan covering the entire Beizhili with several other big treasurers, and the construction expenditure reached about 10 million yuan. It's all about the construction of supporting facilities for Royal Capital's companies.

Roads, fleets, fleets, mines, warehouses and other facilities are all built, covering everything from the production of raw materials to transportation and sales.

This investment of tens of millions of yuan can drive a lot of jobs.

After the investment is completed, the expansion of the scale of the business will require more workers.

"Only by ensuring the employment of the entire people in Beizhili can our model of taxation and monopoly be maintained. We will also allocate $10 million from our internal funds for infrastructure construction. Zhu Youxiao decided. At this time, there were already more than 13 million yuan in internal funds.

If you save any more money, you're going to get moldy. Only by spending it can it produce an economic pull effect.

"Your Majesty, if you want to invest in infrastructure construction, it is a good project to comprehensively repair the Beizhili Water Conservancy." Yang Guorui built yì road.

"Why?" Zhu Youxiao asked with some puzzlement.

"Although this cheapens the landlords. But the emperor had a reason to tax them. When the time comes, we will not talk about the collection of land taxes, but the collection of 'water conservancy money', and when the time comes, it will be levied on a per mu, and no one will be able to run. Yang Guorui made a surprise to Zhu Youxiao's eyes.

The roundabout idea is good, albeit to say that taxes are levied on the big landowners who are exempt from taxes. It means tearing up the face with the privileged class. However, Zhu Youxiao has already decided to make a move on the Donglin Party, and after the Donglin Party is brought down, Qi Chu, Zhejiang, and the Xuan Party have to support the tax reform if they do not support it.

As long as you support it, you can get a piece of the pie, and if you don't support it, you can get out.

Under the strategy of division, there will always be officials who will betray the interests of the noble class.

"The project is good, but it's not the best project at the moment. The best infrastructure projects at the moment are actually urban infrastructure. Zhu Youxiao thought for a moment and said, "Our monopoly projects are mostly aimed at urban people. Case. After we scattered the money in the way of hired labor, and distributed it to the people at the bottom, only the money in the hands of the people in the towns was the easiest to buy the grain, salt, coal, and other things that we monopolized. For the people outside the city, the money in their hands is more likely to be earned by private capital, so our capital circulation circle is equivalent to leakage. ”

"Leaky!" Yang Guorui thought about it for a while, as if he suddenly realized something, and then his eyes lit up, and he said with some excitement: "Your Majesty, Weichen understands." This area of Beizhi is subordinate to our reform, and it is like a bucket. Our money is like water. The people are like little grass, and we sprinkle the water evenly on the grass. If the water leaks from the bucket, this watering cannot be sustained. But as long as it doesn't leak too much, it can still be maintained. Because we can get a bigger capital outside of Beizhili. ”

That's it, and our construction activities, which don't care about returns, are actually the inevitable result of human development. Because wealth is generated through guò cào, those economic activities that can invest less labor and create more wealth will generate a large amount of surplus wealth once we monopolize it in large quantities. These surplus wealth. It will be presented in the form of a monetary table. But currency is not important to the consortium, because money is not wealth, many times it is just a pile of waste paper and metal. Zhu Youxiao was in a good mood, so he mentioned to Yang Guorui: "Assets are the core of the consortium, so after the consortium generates a lot of profits, the ultimate means are to convert these wealth into assets, which can be expensive to build, or assets that are waged war and finally seized from the enemy." ”

To sum up, the ultimate goal of the ruler's economic construction activities is to have more surplus labor to squander. In the end, the wealth squandered is likely to be used to create a face-saving project that the ruler likes, or it may be consumed in large quantities in the war.

For example, World War I and World War II, why can the scale be so huge? It is because of the development of productive forces and the rise of consortia that various industrialized countries have a huge surplus labor force to squander.

In Chinese history, many emperors ignored the level of productivity and squandered labor, which led to a large number of uprisings. For example, the short-lived Sui Dynasty, the construction of canals, the Northern Expedition to Goguryeo, and other activities, many activities were indeed beneficial to the nation, but ignored the upper limit of the labor available for squandering.

The reason why the national strength of the Ming Dynasty was weakened was because these squanderable labor forces were seized by landlords, merchants, and magnates, and squandered by these groups for personal enjoyment, which in turn led to social problems, and the values were already distorted.

If Zhu Youxiao wants to snatch labor resources from the landlords, merchants, and magnates, the only way is to add fuel to the fire of the commodity economy, and at the same time make the commodity economy more overflowing, and at the same time squeeze out other businessmen from the market, and exclusively enjoy the most fertile benefits of the commodity economy, and then distribute the benefits to the people at the bottom.

As for the Manchu methods, they directly knocked down the commodity economy with a hammer, and maintained the small peasant economy through guò raids, killings, and continuous repression.

This tactic is too crude. Even if Zhu Youxiao is the emperor, it is impossible to do this. Moreover, in this way of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, it can only be said that the symptoms are not cured, and it will lead to the regression of social strictness.

Now that Zhu Youxiao is already in Beizhili. It has gradually monopolized the industries closely related to the common people, such as grain, salt, and coal, so that the benefits must be divided so that the common people can afford these daily necessities.

The only way to do that is to increase employment.

Increasing employment is simply too simple for the traverser, and it's not a matter of ability. It's a matter of vision and insight. This is indeed a very simple question, whether it is to repair toilets or build munitions, it is not a project that can increase employment, it is just a matter of what kind of goal you want. As long as there is enough money to scatter and create jobs, it will not be an easy task.

After some monopoly operation, as well as the crazy scraping of the tax bureau, as well as the minting interests of the Royal Bank, Zhu Youxiao now has silver in his hands.

The goal is also very simple, to exterminate the wild boar skin and maintain the stability of the empire.

There is no need to increase military spending for the time being, but the Beijing camp will be expanded next year. Military spending will continue to increase.

Then from the internal construction to increase jobs, engaged in urban infrastructure has two benefits, the first is to win the hearts of the people, the living environment of the people in the North Zhili town has improved, then it will naturally sing the praises of the emperor. Moreover, if this money is sprinkled, it will also solve the problem of insufficient purchasing power of the people at the bottom of Beizhili.

Soon, Zhu Youxiao personally selected several urban public facilities construction projects.

Public toilets, public baths, urban drainage systems, and the creation of a new urban sanitation department.

The first to start construction is the capital, public toilets can greatly facilitate the people, and public baths can also allow people to have a convenient place to take hot baths. The cleaning and construction of urban drainage systems can avoid urban water accumulation. The sanitation sector is extremely important. If the city is dirty, maybe there will be a plague.

These urban infrastructure activities have sufficient funds to ensure this time, which is tens of millions of taels of funds.

But these infrastructure activities. It has nothing to do with the of the DPRK and Chinese officials. They can't help it if they want to reach out and card money, these projects are all under the auspices of Royal Capital. For the purpose of these urban infrastructures, Royal Bank has set up a 'Royal Infrastructure Company'.

The Royal Infrastructure Company was quickly established and began to recruit workers on a large scale.

The labor cost is still very low, 30 yuan a day, only 900 yuan a month. It is similar to the salary of 900 yuan a month in later generations. However, in this era when the goal is to fill the stomach, such a wage standard is extremely attractive to ordinary people.

The main reason is that the grain in this year is too expensive, the northern grain is 1.5 taels of silver and one stone, which is equivalent to 900 wen yuan, and a catty (500 grams) of grain is about 4.5 wen yuan.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the price of grain and meat, the purchasing power of 1 yuan was similar to that of 1 yuan in later generations, but there was a problem in agriculture in the north, and the purchasing power of a penny was not as good as that of a dollar in later generations, and the purchasing power of a penny in the south was higher than that of a dollar in later generations.

Under normal circumstances, these laborers only have a salary of 1 tael of silver a month, which is 600 Wen.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the people at the bottom of the northern towns only received 600 yuan a month in the city when they met, and the labor intensity was relatively high. The wages of construction workers in later generations were ten times that of workers in the late Ming Dynasty.

These low-level migrant workers at the end of the Ming Dynasty don't have to think about education, medical care or anything, it's good to have enough to eat. Housing is even worse, if the wife of a male laborer will also go out to work to support the family, and can afford to rent a small house that can still be lived. If you drag your family with a lot of children to raise, you will have to go to the slums.

These bankrupt peasants who have gone to the cities to work cannot go back to the countryside because they no longer have land and houses in the countryside. When the city can't get along, slums are their only way out.

The construction period of 30 wen a day is really not high. But it made the people at the bottom of Beizhili happy, and their wages rose by one-third, and there was nothing more pleasing to them than this. (To be continued.) )

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