Chapter Seventy-Seven: Food Matters
Freshly baked from the Daming Royal Taxation Bureau, after the gradual implementation of the pilot.
Local officials suddenly discovered a very serious problem.
My own source of income seems to be cut off...
This feeling of disconnection is extremely uncomfortable for almost all local officials.
As a result, a large number of twists and turns began to drift into the capital like snowflakes.
The main thing he said was a clichΓ©.
This HMRC now doesn't just collect taxes on merchants.
He also completely grasped the right to collect money in the hands of his own unit, which can make the place live.
Thereupon.
At the beginning of March of the first year of Chongzhen.
It is the beginning of spring in the lunar calendar.
A mighty local industrial development plan was put on Zhu Youzhen's agenda.
Daming Development Planning Agency was born!
It seemed like overnight.
Officials from all over the Ming Dynasty either embarked on their own journeys.
Or send their most powerful assistant to participate in the "First Local Development Conference of the Ming Dynasty" mentioned in the joint text of the seven departments.
Originally, such operations were very rare in Daming, mainly because of the restrictions on traffic.
If it's like Zhili, Shanxi, Shandong, it's nothing to go to Beijing.
Therefore, it is generally the local leader who personally rolls up his sleeves and gets on the carriage to go to Beijing.
And people like Huguang and Shaanxi are facing such a meeting.
You can only send a deputy, after all, the road is far away.
If there is a fire in the backyard on the road, there will be a temporary accident, and you can't rush back.
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The spring breeze blows, and the spring willows sprout.
The people of Jingshi began to smile gradually, and frolicking children were playing in the alleys.
In the peaceful Shuncheon Mansion, people have gradually chosen to retreat from the heavy cotton clothes in winter because of the warmer weather.
After all, clothes that haven't been rinsed for months have already taken on a lot of smells.
And beyond the majestic city gates.
There are one tall and one short, one fat and one thin... Two people.
The leader is wide and fat, with a bloated posture.
The trailing man was as thin as a hemp stick, but his eyes were purring back and forth, and he looked a little shrewd.
"My lord.. We seem to have arrived in Beijing.."
"Nonsense, can't I see that this is Jingshi? How many years... Finally back. β
The master had these puzzled expressions in his expression, and asked, "Isn't the master born in Shaanxi?" This Zhizhou was donated to you by our master.."
"Fart! This is the official cold window for decades of hard work, and I am fortunate to be rewarded by His Majesty, for the official side, for the benefit of the people! If you talk nonsense again, be careful that the official goes back and cuts out your tongue. β
After that, he pretended to arch his hand.
"Yes, yes, yes! Your Excellency is right. The tall and thin man replied disappreciatively.
Some of the bloated leaders are a governor of Shaanxi, who is looking down at his five internal organs temple at this moment, and said: "This Jingshi can be described as a collection of delicacies in the world, let's quickly enter the city to find a restaurant to have a good meal, this way is tired of the official." β
"Okay, my lord, then go and tell us to enter the Beijing Division."
Having said that, the tall and thin man who was obviously dressed as a master had some disdain in his heart.
I don't know what you've eaten along the way...
Sleeping at night and a night pot can smoke people to death the next day..
Officials from all over the world gathered in Beijing, which was also the first large-scale summoning of officials to Beijing since the Chongzhen Dynasty.
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And Zhu Youzhen frowned in the palace at this moment.
"Sure enough, the weather is warm, and the old thing Huang Taiji can't sit still, so he told the Tianhu Army to let go of the son of a bitch who beat him!"
"I will continue to expand the Tianhu Army, the Fifth Division stationed in Ningyuan will move to Guanning in batches from now on, the new Sixth Division and the Seventh Division will open Ningyuan on the same day, and I will also pull up the Fourth Brigade of Logistics Support, bring enough military rations, and march to Liaodong!"
"The old slave obeys!" Wang Chengen's process of bowing down is not over yet.
Zhu Youzhen waved his hand to signal that he was exempted.
Wang Chengen already has a feeling of dying old age, and Zhu Youzhen, who is familiar with history, knows it.
Even if there are no accidents, Wang Chengen may not be able to hold on for too long.
Before that, he must cultivate the next internal official who is worthy of trust.
Otherwise.. I'm afraid something will happen.
Zhu Youzhen is still a little worried about this.
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The Ming Dynasty's Royal Heavenly Tiger Army was about to be ready to go, and the news that all of them had been marched to Liaodong to fight against Houjin quickly spread throughout the Jingshi.
This time, Zhu Youzhen was not hiding like he was at the beginning, after all, in his opinion, if he could still be defeated by Houjin with his strength now.
Then there is only one case.
That is, he should run away as soon as possible and study how to go to Nanjing faster.
Large-scale military mobilization has extremely high requirements for logistical support, but thanks to Zhu Youzhen's original independent brigade system for logistical support, today's Great Tomorrow Tiger Army is worthy of the title of the Son of Heaven's pro-army.
It is not an exaggeration to say that the support in all aspects can be described as excellent, and the Fourth Brigade of the Tianhu Army's logistical support, which had received Zhu Youzhen's order, was quickly mobilized.
On the one hand, the wartime materials that had been stored in peacetime began to be continuously mobilized and set off with the large troops, and on the other hand, a large amount of reserve military rations were produced with additional grain from overseas.
In addition, the 5th and 6th Logistics Support Brigades, which are training in the Beijing Division, also participated in it temporarily.
"Second brother, this grain is really good, there is still sesame salt filling in this white hot dough cake, and our Tianhu Army soldiers will never starve on the battlefield again."
"Starving? When did the emperor's Tianhu army go hungry, you see that dozens of cauldrons over there are all meat, and all kinds of cooked meat are smoked with salt and dried firewood, and when you eat it, your mouth is full of oil! βγ
The school grounds of the Fifth and Sixth Brigades have become temporary military grain processing centers.
Every day, a large amount of rice, meat, eggs, and vegetables are continuously sent here, which are processed into standard military rations that are convenient for storage and carrying, cutting off logistical worries for the Tianhu Army.
The Ordnance General Bureau is also full horsepower, working in three shifts every day, carrying forward the principle that people can not rest in shifts to produce machinery, and the small-scale experiment of the steam engine has made the Ordnance General Bureau take the lead in realizing mechanized production.
Much of the work that had been laborious was gradually replaced by the steam engine, which was sent by the Royal Academy of Sciences to conduct experiments.
"Master, if you want to say this steaming... What kind of steaming machine is really easy to use, originally we had to manually use a boring cutter on the lathe to boring out the rifling, but now it can be poured, and the manpower only needs to grasp the direction to easily bore in. β
"Boy, what do you think? There are still a lot of good things in Daming today. The master heard that all the production will be handed over to the machinery in the future, so we just have to watch the machinery do it! β
The little apprentice on the side suddenly showed a face full of incredulity.
"Master, where did you hear this, how is this possible!"
"Hey! You still don't believe in your master anymore? It's me... Listen to the old men of the Academy of Sciences! β
"Good boy!"