"The construction of the Great Wall, the digging of the Grand Canal, any one in history in the future is a great project, all soaked in the blood and tears of the people, I want to repair the Longyangxia Dam and Gezhouba Hydropower Station, and will build the Great Nullah and the bridge across the Yangtze River and the Yellow River in the future, these are impossible in the eyes of all Aiqing, and the miracle project will inevitably be born in the land of the Ming Dynasty one by one.

I am not a merciful lord or a tyrant, and I value the lives of all the people of this world more than anyone else, and if I could, I would not want to harm the lives of any of them in the process of building these projects.

You may think that I will not care about the lives of foreign laborers, and treat their lives as if they were a scrappy, but you should not forget that although I do not care about the death or injury of foreign people, I know that only the living can create the greatest value.

It is not a pity that the alien laborers died, at most they were burned and their ashes were thrown away, but their value also ended at the moment of their death, so I wanted them to live, and in this respect, I did not deny that I was an exploiting class.

Because I really want to squeeze the full value of the alien race, as long as they are still valuable and can create value for the infrastructure of the Ming Dynasty, then I am willing to watch them live until they are old, and even when they can't do anything, they can live for a long time! ”

The ministers were silent, if you want to say that Emperor Jiajing is a benevolent monarch, it definitely doesn't count, at least for the privileged class, think about how many officials Emperor Jiajing killed after he took the throne, how many gentry's homes were raided, and how did he treat the clan and nobles? So he is not a benevolent monarch, this is the consensus of the government and the opposition.

But you want to say that Jiajing is a tyrant...... Then you have to ask the thousands of people in the world, it is estimated that the saliva of the common people can drown you......

Dissatisfied scholars can make up names to arrange the emperor, but they can't have no scruples, otherwise once the people know who is so unconscionable, it is estimated that they will die extremely ugly.

As for Emperor Jiajing himself, it must not matter, he doesn't care about reputation......

Now the emperor's words have once again refreshed their cognition, and Emperor Jiajing has actually said a crooked theory about value, and this crooked reason sounds quite reasonable......

Thousands of miles to transport Xiyi from Western Europe is not to torture these barbarians to death, otherwise what are you doing to waste that thing, wouldn't it be more simply to slaughter them directly?

The emperor wants the barbarians to work for him, to squeeze the last drop of blood out of the barbarians, to hand over the most difficult and dangerous things to the barbarians, and to use the lives of the barbarians to ensure the lives of the people of the Ming Dynasty!

When the lord of men is in this position, there is no one in history who can calculate so much......

"There is no need to mention the matter of Longyang Gorge and Gezhouba, I have made up my mind." Zhu Houwei said categorically: "Now that the water conservancy engineers I have trained are already formulating detailed construction plans and drawing drawings, Zhai Aiqing can send officials from the Ministry of Water Resources and even the Ministry of Construction to various project headquarters on the Yangtze River and the Yellow River, learn more, and don't put on a arrogant official show, Zhai Aiqing should also know that the talents I have cultivated do not eat that set."

Zhai Luan had no choice but to say depressedly: "The minister obeys the order."

Yang Yiqing got up and said, "Dare to ask Your Majesty, is there a budget for the money and manpower spent on the construction of major projects?"

"Nope." Zhu Houwei said categorically: "But it is certain that the silver cost of the two dams will not be less than 50 million taels, or even as much as 10,000 taels!" But it doesn't matter, in my opinion, the construction of these two dams can be as short as seven or eight years, and as long as ten or twenty years, so the annual investment in silver is only a few million taels, and I will give it!

As for manpower, the Xiyi people brought back by Guhou are now building official roads and railways to the grassland, and they can't spare a lot of free manpower for the time being.

But in another month or two, Gu Hou should also come back, this time I asked Gu Hou to bring back at least 200,000 Xiyi to me, so that these 200,000 free labor can be used for the three major projects, I think it will be enough......"

"Three major projects?" Yang Yiqing had an ominous premonition and said: "In addition to the Longyangxia River and Gezhouba, dare to ask Your Majesty what is the third major project?"

Zhu Houwei smiled and asked, "Is the household department short of money?"

Yang Yiqing was speechless, but he could only say helplessly: "There is no financial worry for the time being."

"That's right." Zhu Houwei is a lively profiteer at the moment: "I have long said that no matter how much silver is piled up in the treasury, it can only be a pile of broken copper and iron, and they have no value in themselves, their value lies in circulation!"

I also know that the household is poor, but now that I have been rich for a few years, I dare not say that there are more than that, and now the household has a total of 350 million taels of silver in the treasury, how can it continue to accumulate?

Or is it worthless...... I also know that you want to prevent problems before they happen, but how many problems can there be? If there is a real disaster, will I watch it?

Silver! Only by making full use of the silver, can the Ming Dynasty build better, the better the Ming Dynasty builds, the more money in the hands of the people, the household can receive more taxes, this is a virtuous circle!

Yang Aiqing, as the first assistant of the cabinet and the head of the household department, will not even be able to understand such a simple truth for a few years. ”

Yang Yiqing didn't want to speak, how much silver did the household department have, it is estimated that his Shangshu may not be clearer than Emperor Jiajing, the reason is very simple, the household department does collect taxes, but it is only the final summary collection, and it is the tax department that collects taxes locally, of course, even if the tax department is controlled by Confucian officials, but there are audits in addition to the tax department!

If there is an audit department in various places, then the audit department is responsible for the supervision and inspection of the tax department, and if there is no audit department, the banks in various places are audits, and the audit is not the yamen of the imperial court, but the emperor's private!

In other words, in the past, the government wanted to embezzle and corrupt taxes by making false accounts, reporting losses, etc., but now it is almost impossible!

If you want to say that you want to bribe the people of the Audit Department to embezzle together, then don't forget, there is also Tianyan, the people of the Audit Department are either from the Yongwang Mansion and Xinxue, or they are the accounts recruited by the emperor from the people, and they are not afraid of death?

The auditing system, the supervision system, the reporting system and the eye of the sky are intertwined into an impenetrable giant net, and all officials are fish in this huge net!

This is the case with the local government, and even more so in the capital, the former household department, which was definitely fat, but now? When the official stretches out his hand to try, every once in a while, the audit department will come to the door to check the accounts, sometimes even cross-check, once the major wrong accounts are found, then the last audit is dereliction of duty, dereliction of duty what ends, think about it......

That is to say, now don't look at the emperor's promotion of high salaries and honesty, and increase the income of officials several times, but now the life of officials is much more difficult than before......

But there is still bitterness that I can't say, I want to knock out my front teeth and swallow it in my stomach!

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