In the fourteenth year of the Apocalypse, the bank relaxed its monetary tightening policy, and the relaxation was to continue to tilt funds towards railway construction. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Railroad, railroad, railroad!

In the northern provinces, there are railway construction sites everywhere, and a large number of workers are sweating on the construction sites, and their wages have increased slightly compared with the past year.

In addition to the railway, it is iron-making and steel-making.

At this time, steel and railways became the main magic weapon of Zhu Youxiao's economy, and with the foreshadowing and cultivation of talents in previous years, steel smelting officially broke out.

&nbs, "Pig (Pig) Island" Novel; "Your Majesty, the General Administration of Railways is playing, and the railway to the Western Regions will be officially opened to traffic tomorrow." Bingbi eunuch Li Chaoqing said to Zhu Youxiao, and Zhu Youxiao picked up the piece and looked at it.

"It's finally open! Well, this year's cotton from the Western Regions can be easily transported back to Guannai. Zhu Youxiao sighed happily.

This year, 15 million acres of cotton were terminated in the Western Regions, and the railway was built just in time.

This is simply to make Daming's textile industry like a tiger with wings! With the cotton output of the Western Regions, coupled with the cotton producing areas in the Yellow River Delta, the cotton of these two major producing areas will add up, so that the people of Daming will not have to be frozen in the future.

The fourth year of the Apocalypse begins with the Seven Red Venus Order, and this earthly fortune will continue until the twenty-fourth year of the Apocalypse. Now it is about to reach its peak, and it is a good time to develop metallurgy, chemical industry, and railways, all of which belong to gold.

Zhu Youxiao estimated in his heart that he still had to continue to build the railway.

Zhu Youxiao looked at the map and the railway construction report submitted below, saying that railways are being built everywhere in the northern provinces this year, and grain transportation will be much more convenient.

Especially in the Northeast region, the railway can cover many places this year. When the grain in the northeast arrives at the time of the autumn harvest, it can be transported into the customs in large quantities from the railway relatively smoothly.

There is a lot of arable land in Northeast China, and now many people have migrated to the past, agricultural production has also been developed and arranged, and the output of commercial grain is increasing year by year.

Coupled with the convenience of railway transportation, no matter what natural disasters are, there is no need to worry about the people running out of food to eat.

After more than ten years of struggle, Zhu Youxiao can finally breathe a sigh of relief. Now that the people of the northern provinces do not have to worry about not having enough cotton and grain, and there are railways to transport grain for disaster relief, the north will not be able to get out of chaos.

As long as there is no chaos in the north and no chaos in the south, the country can maintain basic stability.

"Your Majesty, slaves and maids have heard that the people are now singing praises for your great achievements everywhere, especially those provinces that have entered or completed reforms." Li Chaoqing bowed down and said with a smile, "It is said that the emperor has made everyone live a good life." ”

"Nonsense, I don't know if the lives of the common people are good." Zhu Youxiao said a little unhappily, and Qian Guoxing on the side hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, you are too worried, after Your Majesty rectified the rule of officials in the past few years, the life of the common people is indeed much better!" ”

Zhu Youxiao nodded, from this point of view, the life of the common people is indeed much better. However, Zhu Youxiao knows that the times are going to develop, and people's needs are also rising with the improvement of productivity. It's just that with the increase in productivity, the ability to resist natural disasters increases.

In the past, the imperial court did not act, and the local chaos was serious. Coupled with the ravages of natural disasters, it is often a problem for ordinary people to eat.

Now, after the reforms, ordinary farmers have begun to be exempt from taxes. At the same time, there is no food in the field, and you can go to the construction site to work and earn wages, and you can't starve to death.

The part of the common people singing praises is only because the imperial court has begun to take charge of affairs, and the phenomena of corruption, bribery, and taxation in the local area have been cracked down on and curbed. We dare not do things that violate discipline in the open, so we can only do them in secret. Swatted a whole bunch of flies to death.

Coupled with the reduction and exemption of forced labor, the reduction of land endowments, and the guarantee of grain transportation, the common people are not so difficult to survive. Naturally, it's much better than before.

However, Zhu Youxiao knew that if he stopped, the internal contradictions would still be huge.

After all, with the opening of the industrial revolution, the problem of urbanization will gradually be exposed. The gap between the rich and the poor may continue to widen in the future, especially in the twenty years of the Eight White Saturn after the 24th year of the Apocalypse.

In the original history, with the entry of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, a large group of powerful people and lackeys developed to the extreme after defecting to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the poor became serfs, and the rich continued to be strange.

The reason why the Manchus were able to sit firmly was because after a large group of traitors and lackeys defected to the Manchus, they found that they could still follow behind and rob other people's houses, land, women, and money, and they were even richer than before, and as a result, they began to consolidate the rule of the Manchus.

The Manchus also allowed corruption in office, as long as you didn't touch the military power, making China a country where officials could openly embezzle.

The wealth of the whole country is firmly in the hands of that group of people. Ordinary people are getting poorer and poorer, and it has become very difficult to survive. As a result, throughout the three hundred years of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the whole society was content with the status quo and unwilling to develop, and ordinary people were malnourished for a long time.

Of course, the big masters are not willing to develop, how can they continue to be big masters after they develop?

And even if the people want to develop, they are willing to develop. As a result, as soon as it developed, it was forcibly seized by the local prefect and county order. As a result, which ordinary people are still willing to work hard? Even if they want to fight, they don't have enough resources for them.

At this time, through Zhu Youxiao's efforts, history has deviated from the direction. The Jiannu had been swept away, leaving only some remnants of the forces to flee to the lower Volga region.

The overall surrounding environment is very good, without external aggression and oppression.

At the same time, the Ming Dynasty also began to embark on the road of industrialization, and the speed of wealth creation became faster. Although the common people are also malnourished, at least in the two hundred years of the Ming Dynasty, the monarchs of all dynasties still put the people's interests first, although the people's interests were later stolen by the officials and businessmen below.

In the current Ming Dynasty, the common people are not so malnourished, and the overall appearance is much better than that of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Now, after Zhu Youxiao has completed the maintenance of basic stability, he will continue to devote himself to wealth distribution and other aspects. In addition, the industrial revolution will inevitably have the pains of urbanization, and the imperial court must also do something about this.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao solved the previous contradiction, and the people praised it as normal. But the contradictions that followed continued to arise.

Of course, the widening gap between the rich and the poor is sometimes inevitable, but it is necessary for ordinary people to have adequate nutrition, so that they can have the channels to work hard, and after hard work, they can get enough rewards.

"Your Majesty, the American Gold Mountain Camp reported that gold mines had been discovered in its territory." Li Chaoqing opened the recital and said to Zhu Youxiao.

"Found a gold mine?" Zhu Youxiao took the chapter and looked at it, nodded and said, "Yes, let the cabinet arrange for the gold troops to go to mining." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty."

It will take some time to develop the Americas, at this time, the focus of Ming immigrants is still in the South Seas and Australia, and there are still many gold mines in South Africa, but since the gold mines in the Americas have been discovered, they will naturally be mined.

The more gold, the stronger the Apocalypse Treasure Bill.

Gold is a precious metal, and when paper money is worthless, it still has value.

At present, the Ming Dynasty is still a silver standard country, at this time the weather treasure banknotes are mainly exchanged for silver, although the provinces that have been reformed are not exchanged for silver at will, but in those provinces that have not completed the reform, the Apocalypse banknotes and silver can still be freely exchanged in the bank.

Since the issuance of the Apocalypse Treasure Banknote, private transactions have obviously become much more convenient. People don't have to worry about the fineness of the silver, and they don't need to weigh it or anything, just make sure that the treasure money in their hands is not a counterfeit, and there are many officially recognized banknote identifiers among the people.

"Your Majesty, Luo Sigong asks to see you."

"Biography." Zhu Youxiao waved his hand and said, and after a while, Luo Sigong came in, "Emperor Qiqi, the minister has just received a secret report from Jiangnan. ”

"Oh! What's the situation? Zhu Youxiao asked curiously.

"The main officials, businessmen, and magnates in Jiangnan are secretly contacting and rebelling at this time, and they have already set a strategy." Luo Sigong handed over a secret guarantee.

Zhu Youxiao opened the secret report and read it, and then smiled, "Qingjun side? Bribing court officers? ”

"Yes, Your Majesty. They planned to secretly bribe officers at all levels with heavy sums of money, and then use the banner of the Qing monarch to directly attack the Beijing division, and then eradicate the Han Emperor. Luo Sigong said: "At the same time, they set up a puppet emperor in Nanjing and called on the world to oppose Your Majesty. ”

"Huh! This plan is one after another. Zhu Youxiao shook his head with a smile, this plan is simply ridiculous.

But if it was before, it would be useful.

After all, wealth is moving, and it is estimated that few generals can resist the temptation of heavy bribes. As long as you are willing to spend money, there will always be people who are willing to take risks for the return of money and status.

But is it okay now?

With so many officers at all levels, can they be bribed?

Do the soldiers below agree?

Zhu Youxiao's holy decree can directly kill the rebel officers.

The most important thing is that Colonel Zhu Youyou has already formed a military interest group, tying all the main officers below to the same chariot.

They are not short of money.

It is simply impossible to bribe high-ranking officers, it is simply whimsical.

However, the group of officials and businessmen in Jiangnan who ruled the place still had a set of plans, that is, to set up another puppet emperor and sing opera across the river from Zhu Youxiao.

The intention is two-pronged, and it is enough for Zhu Youxiao to succeed.

"It seems that there is no need to wait until next year to eat fat sheep, Jinyiwei will continue to investigate, get out the list of those involved in the rebellion, and then arrest people." Zhu Youxiao said.

"Obey." Luo Sigong excitedly took the order and left, it was another big rhythm of raiding the house!

Obviously, there is a mole within the Jiangnan official and business class, otherwise Jinyiwei would not have been able to get the secret report so quickly. There is no unity internally, and you still want to rebel? Don't you serve these guys in one pot now! (To be continued.) )