"There is a book!" The eunuch on duty tore away the duckling's throat and dragged out a long tail note.

"The minister has this to play!" Zhai Luan came out of the ranks, holding an ivory wat board in his hand and said: "The Ministry of Industry undertook the construction of the five cities of Baiyun'e, Chahar, Sunit, Bahrain, and Horqin, and the transportation of grain and materials is extremely inconvenient......

"What do you think of Zhai Aiqing's proposal?" Zhu Houwei on the throne asked expressionlessly.

The steam engine has already shocked the world with its great convenience and powerful transportation capacity, and when the people accepted the train and no longer foolishly thought that they would be eaten by the iron monster when they took the train, it was only a matter of time before they were recognized.

A few months have passed in a flash, and now the people in the whole territory of Beizhili are no longer afraid of the train, and after the bold attempt, it is even more amazing!

Scholars who have seen far above ordinary people and even Beijing officials have long sensed the huge commercial value from it, just imagine, if the train can run throughout the Ming Dynasty, what will be the effect?

It means that the freight in the southeast and northwest will reach an amazing degree of speed, and the rapid transportation of goods directly means that the cost is reduced, and it is greatly reduced!

Among them, grain transportation is a huge benefit!

You must know that in today's Ming Dynasty, the grain in the north still depends on the south to transport, and one million stone of grain will be transported from the south to the north, so the grain consumed by the people on the way will not be less than thirty percent, and if you take the waterway, the loss will be less, but this is only limited to official ships, because private ships will be exploited!

But what about trains? It is more than 2,000 miles from Nanjing to Beijing, and according to the speed of the train, it can be reached in two days and nights!

Moreover, the train can load hundreds of thousands of stones of grain without any manpower transportation, and there is almost no loss.

Rich and noble do not return to their hometowns, such as wearing brocade clothes at night, the officials in the capital also have hometowns, with such a convenient transportation car, who doesn't want to drive the train station to their doorstep?

If the trains have been extended in all directions, but there is no one in his hometown, is he not afraid of being poked in the backbone by the parents and villagers in his hometown and scolded for being incompetent?

The officials of the Manchu Dynasty all believed that the emperor had spent more than ten years and that the train that he had developed with great difficulty would definitely run around the land of China in the future, and in fact, the ministers did not guess wrong.

When the traffic between Tongzhou and Beijing was opened, how to lay the railroad tracks, make trains and carriages was put on the agenda, and it can be said that the officials of the Ming Dynasty have never been so enthusiastic about wanting to do something quickly!

However, to the dumbness of the government and the opposition, it had already been planned and unanimously approved by the Liangjing Railway, and within three months, not even a single track was laid on the ground, and only a few stations were built in Fuzhou along the Shandong line.

The officials of the Manchu Dynasty were anxious, but the emperor began to grind and grind in an extremely abnormal way!

No one knows what kind of medicine is sold in the emperor's gourd, but the reason given by the emperor can only be described in four words.

Sneer at!

The two reasons for Emperor Jiajing's stagnation in the construction of the railway were that the silver in the inner treasury was not enough to lay the Liangjing railway, and the production capacity of the Tongzhou Iron Works could not meet the huge demand for rails!

Is this the reason? The courtiers once again clearly and profoundly realized the lower limit of today's shamelessness!

What is Contracting?

The core concept of the contract system is very simple at present, that is, at the beginning of each year, the contractor will pay the silver for the various mineral deposits contracted this year, not to the capital, but to the money banks in various places.

Therefore, the money bank is the emperor's inner treasury, and the silver in the inner treasury can also be said to be the reserve of the money bank.

Even if the officials of the Ming Dynasty no longer understand economics, they will still be able to calculate the dead debts, and it doesn't matter if the money bank's ability to absorb savings is not clear, but the contracted silver is still very clear.

Of the 25 million taels of the salt administration, 5 million and 20 million were allocated to the household department, and as for the mining administration, although it has not yet spread all over the world, the emperor has definitely obtained no less than 10 million silver from the current mining administration!

There is also the silver owed by the royal family, don't think that you can repay the debt, the royal family has land and annual Yulu in the name of the royal family, which vassal king dares to repay the debt, Emperor Jiajing can collect the land, stop the debt, maybe this shameless person can still do such a deed of losing his conscience as recovering the palace!

The income of various industries under the emperor's name will definitely not be a small amount, last year he killed the eleventh Jin merchant and copied his family, just this one, at least more than 10 million taels!

Emperor Jiajing was shameless to say that he had no silver, and the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty didn't know how the emperor had the face to say such an excuse.

What's more, does it cost money to build a railway?

The laying of railways relies on manpower, the rails are at most a sleeper, the wood is worth a few dollars, the rails are produced by the iron factory, how much can the labor cost be?

Even if there is no forced labor, you need to hire 10,000 people, and the monthly salary plus food silver will not exceed 50,000 taels, and it will only be 600,000 taels a year!

The emperor didn't even want to pay for this money? It's unreasonable!

Zhai Luan is not a drunkard at the moment, the emperor built ten new cities in the grassland, the purpose is to completely control the grassland through the means of trade, so that the nomads on the grassland are completely dependent on the Chinese Dynasty, so as to put an end to foreign troubles, so in order to ensure trade, it is necessary to build railways.

If the emperor has the ability to build a railway, then why can't the railway between the two capitals be repaired, there is a contradiction between this, so the meaning is very clear, or quickly build the two Beijing railways, and then quickly start to connect the railways between the provinces of the world, as for the Fuzhou state, it is not in a hurry.

In short, these railways are not repaired, and the emperor wants to build the grassland railway, but there are no doors.

A very simple move is to retreat into advance, and the problem is thrown to the emperor.

The emperor asked, and it was not good for the ministers to pretend to be deaf and dumb, and Yang Yiqing came out and said: "The construction of the grassland railway is the foundation of Your Majesty's thorough solution to the troubles of the grassland, and it is a major policy, and the ministers seconded Zhai Shangshu's proposal."

"The ministers seconded the proposal." The first assistant seconded the proposal, and the ministers were naturally not far behind.

"Yang Aiqing and Zhai Aiqing are reasonable, but I am a little bit of a sacrifice...... "Zhu Houwei sighed: "There are canals in the mainland, and the way has been passed down for thousands of years, and it will not have much impact if it does not make major changes for a while, but the matter of the grassland will not be settled for a day, and I will not be at peace for a day."

Zhai Luan's back was cold and swishing, feeling that he was probably lifting a stone to hit his own feet, or that he was very likely to be pitted by the emperor.

"Now the Ministry of Industry is focusing on building the five grassland cities, and it is indeed a bit difficult for the Ministry of Industry to continue to be responsible for the railways leading to the five grassland cities, but the railway must be repaired, so according to the old method, Qian Zhuang will take the lead in bidding the world!"

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