"Entering the Industrial Revolution, reducing the value of land investment, accelerating land annexation, and finally returning land to the state ......"

Zhu Youzhen turned around and sat back in his place, picked up the pen and began to write down his thoughts.

A more effective way to alleviate land annexation appeared in front of Zhu Youzhen, and that was the Industrial Revolution.

As long as the Ming Dynasty is allowed to step into the industrial revolution, the status of cultivated land as a means of production will be greatly reduced, and those who do not have arable land will be absorbed by industry and service industries, and Zhu Youzhen will not need to curb land annexation.

On the contrary, when the time comes, he will encourage the centralization of land management to increase productivity and reduce the agricultural population.

Zhu Youzhen carefully studied the process of land annexation in the Song Dynasty, and first of all, in the face of land annexation in the Song Dynasty, the method adopted by the Northern Song Dynasty was also to innovate and suppress.

However, in the face of the general trend of land annexation, the first to survive is not the people whose land is annexed, but the people whose land is not annexed......

It's not that the tyrants robbed the peasants' land, and the peasants couldn't survive, so the peasants rebelled.

Rather, it is said that the imperial court originally collected money from 100 peasants, but later 50 peasants were annexed by the large tax-exempt households, so the remaining 50 people had to pay 100 shares.

As the burden increased, some peasants who could not bear it again joined the large households, and the burden on the remaining people continued to increase.

In the end, some of them were squeezed out of the way, so they abandoned their land and became refugees, or simply rebelled.

By this time, the imperial court was like a sieve, and the whole body was a bunch of independent kingdoms with "tax evasion".

You want to care which one of them, and everyone else will stop you for their own benefit.

For the rebels, they are not in conflict with a certain big family, but with the whole system.

Killing a den is a drop in the bucket, and if they stop there, they will still be burdened.

The Industrial Revolution could not inhibit land annexation, but it could alleviate land annexation and allow the dynasty to transition to a new era of technological revolution.

Zhu Youzhen remembers that he read a book that contained information about land annexation after Britain's first industrial revolution.

Probably after the first industrial revolution, nearly eighty percent of Britain's land was in the hands of about 400 or so wealthy families for a long time.

This must have been the product of repeated mergers and acquisitions, and although there were many riots in the process of annexation, from a macro point of view, these large landowners have long been the backbone of Britain.

Later, because the world changed, the landlords fell behind in the struggle with the capitalists, and the imperial court began to levy high inheritance taxes on them.

The more land you have, the more taxes you pay, and finally Britain boiled frogs in warm water to finally dismember the big landowners around the twentieth century.

Therefore, it is impossible to count on the Industrial Revolution alone to alleviate land annexation, and the Industrial Revolution can only increase jobs and provide more employment opportunities for displaced people.

If the displaced people have the opportunity, they will not break out into turmoil, and the court will be able to get a respite, and then slowly attack the gentry.

It's just that the current situation of Daming is very embarrassing, first of all, the British land is privately owned, and all can collect inheritance tax.

Although Daming is also privately owned, nearly 200 million mu of the more than 800 million mu of land is currently under public ownership.

In this situation, it is not advisable for the Ming Dynasty to emulate later generations, or to emulate Britain during the Industrial Revolution alone.

Zhu Youzhen can follow the example of Britain and recognize private ownership of land, but in essence he still wants to nationalize all land and prohibit land from circulating in the market.

The ban on the circulation of land will inevitably make it impossible for some peasants to sell their land to go to the towns to engage in business, and to open up new ways to get rich.

However, the prohibition of land circulation is also a disguised protection for farmers, even if the other party fails to enter the city, there is still land in the village for the other party to support their families.

It's just that......

Writing this, Zhu Youzhen's pen paused.

He is well aware that the industrial revolution is a double-edged sword, because the industrial revolution will stimulate the capital market and finally release the beast of capital.

On the left is the gentry and strong, on the right is the capitalist, and Zhu Youzhen is standing in the middle, in a dilemma.

He knows very well that the current Da Ming is actually trying to step into the stage of the first industrial revolution, and due to the previous accumulation, once Da Ming steps on this stage, he will directly reach the peak.

Of course, the Ming Dynasty was too big and the population was too large, so the industrial revolution of the Ming Dynasty was actually comparable to the industrial revolution of a continent.

With such a large volume, it is destined that yeoman farmers will not be able to disappear too much at one time, so Zhu Youzhen needs two things.

Stability, ...... demand

Stable domestic political situation, commodity demand in domestic and foreign markets, labor demand.

Only taking domestic demand and pulling large infrastructure under the environment of natural disasters can alleviate land annexation and feed the hungry people, which can be seen from the fact that corrupt officials and corrupt officials have to start with the "work for relief" silver.

"Cash-for-work" is the last way for the hungry people to survive, and if this road is blocked, then the only way to survive is to sell land.

It's a pity that "cash-for-work" requires a huge amount of money and grain, and Zhu Youzhen collected this money and food from home and abroad, and as a result, most of it was eaten by a group of bloodsuckers after it was invested.

This group of people was not satisfied with eating most of the money, and they had to unite with the local gentry to eat the people's fields.

On this point, it was decided that no matter what Zhu Youzhen did, the anti-corruption campaign would continue, and Sun Chuanting's road as governor would continue.

Zhu Youzhen has not done anything for the time being, he is waiting for an opportunity.

He is waiting for the fourth-generation steam engine, and he is also waiting for Huanglong to open up a second market for Daming.

As long as these two things appear together, domestic and external demand will be pulled together, and a huge economic closed loop will be formed, accounting for half of the world's population.

At that time, whether it is a monetary reform, or to appease the displaced people, and reduce the status of cultivated land as a means of production, the Ming Dynasty will be handy.

After the outbreak of the Industrial Revolution, the trade surplus between the East and the West will become larger and larger.

For the same sum of silver, playing with trade surpluses can earn several times the profit, and playing with land can only earn a meager harvest.

At that time, as long as the reluctant gentry go to the sea to become capital, then there are some weak gentry left, and Zhu Youzhen will be much easier to clean up.

However, if you clean up the gentry and be strong, it will provoke a more greedy capital, whether it is worth it or not, Zhu Youzhen needs to measure it himself.

He's walking a path that no one has ever walked before, not even a person to emulate.

His identity is first the king of Qi of the Ming Dynasty, followed by one of the rulers of the Ming Dynasty, and then the people of the Ming Dynasty.

He has to maintain the rule of the Ming Dynasty while carrying out reforms, and if he is not careful, he may play the situation out of the situation and play himself to death.

Of course, he can also continue to fight corruption to pursue stability, but anti-corruption also comes at a cost, and it also needs scapegoats.

Using Sun Chuanting as a scapegoat, he can't do this kind of thing.

Gradually, Zhu Youzhen didn't know how to write it down.

There are too many things to balance him, and he has to take into account all aspects, otherwise if he makes a mistake, he will lose everything.

"It is still necessary to create a group of people who lack the means of production, use them to drive away the big gentry, and finally force the weak gentry to do so."

Zhu Youzhen closed the half-written booklet, walked to the stove with it, and threw the booklet that had been written for an hour into the stove.

"Basic education must be promoted, and Sun Chuanting needs a group of helpers......"

The firelight shone on his face, drifting, and he probably figured out a way.

"Your Highness!"

At this time, Lu Wenzhao, who was holding the booklet, walked into the carrier hall, Zhu Youzhen turned to look at him sideways, and he also said:

"Your Highness, Tianzhu's market demand is here."

As he spoke, he handed over the book with both hands, and Zhu Youzhen also took the book and read it in general terms.

In general, the population market in Tianzhu is placed there, and in fact, as long as the demand for goods in the major Mughal cities is investigated, the goods that are needed in the place can be roughly judged.

As long as it is a human being, it is actually involved in the four behaviors of "clothing, food, housing and transportation".

Needless to say, the South Field Weaving Bureau specializes in weaving cloth.

The reason why the scale of the weaving bureau has not expanded to seize the domestic market of Daming is because the folk family workshops in Jiangnan still need this income.

Zhu Youzhen needs to be worried about at home, but he doesn't need it abroad.

The white cloth of Tianzhu is 500 wen for a broken color, and the white cloth of the Ming Dynasty is 200 wen, and the profit is enough to exchange for a lot of gold and silver.

In terms of food, first of all, among the edible things such as salt and vinegar, rice and wheat, sugar, and meat, it is impossible to export rice and wheat Daming, and salt is the foundation of a country, and Zhu Youzhen is not ready to compete with the feudal domains, but chooses to cooperate.

Needless to say, the remaining vinegar, sugar, wine, and tea will be the main commodities of the Ming Dynasty's exports.

These things, except for vinegar, which is not so strong, the other four items are necessities in any country.

These four commodities can benefit not one household, but millions, millions of households.

The economic layout must begin, and it will take two or three years for Huanglong to win most of the South Asian market.

Mulberry and silkworm farming, sugarcane planting, and tea cultivation must be implemented.

Sugarcane was best cultivated in the Old Port, but the Ming Dynasty needed the Old Port as a base to ease land annexation and supply food to the country.

It is a good behavior to put sugarcane in Guangxi, which is not densely populated, with only more than 3 million people in the province, and the drought in Guangxi has begun to decline since this year, and it is not surprising that there will be no more major drought in the next ten years.

There are two grain production bases in Sichuan and Jiaozhi in the southwest, and it is a good construction to build a sugar extraction factory in Guangxi.

Of course, the choice of Guangxi is also because the local Haoqiang here has long been solved by Zhu Youzhen, and it is easier to install the pillar industries of the imperial court.

As for the tea farms, it can basically be said to include all provinces south of the Yangtze River, and what needs to be done is to expand the scale.

Heavy industry in the north, light industry in the south, this configuration is good, the ore is constantly transported from overseas, and it will not harm the resources of the north itself, except for the coal mines in Shanxi and Shaanxi.

Driving the gentry to South Asia will not only promote culture, but also exploit minerals, and use the resources of South Asia to develop from Donghu to the interior.

However, this is only possible if domestic wages keep up.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen closed the book, and after a moment of silence, he spoke:

"This year, a notice was issued that the fields where sugarcane is planted in Guangxi are exempt from taxes, and the price of sugarcane collected by Huangdian has risen from one penny to one catty."

"In addition, the major tea farms supervised by the Tea Department will be expanded from this year, and the output of tea will double in five years."

"The purchase price of silk in Jiangnan remains unchanged for the time being, but the field endowment in Sangtian has been reduced to fifty to one."

"In addition, the speed of acquiring mines in various parts of the country needs to be accelerated, and this year's Huangdian will also screen a group of people to come out, so that students who graduated from Yanshan can enter and improve efficiency."

Of the three policies formulated by Zhu Youzhen, two directly benefited farmers, one was the increase in the purchase price of sugarcane, and the other was the reduction of mulberry fields.

The reason why the purchase price of silk was not increased was for the sake of small private workshops.

With the scale and channels of the southern field, it is natural to increase the purchase price of silk, but in that case, small private workshops and family workshops will not survive.

They had no access to ocean-going trade, so they could only buy materials at high prices and sell the cloth at the same price in the Ming market.

Small workshops will slowly withdraw from the stage of history, but not now.

Zhu Youzhen needs to give the people a way to live, whether they are homeless people, homesteaders, or urban people.

"How many of the disaster workers in the imperial court are there now?"

Zhu Youzhen asked Lu Wenzhao, and Lu Wenzhao knew this: "There are about more than 1.2 million people." ”

The number of employees of the victims has decreased, which was Zhu Youzhen's first reaction, but he did not ask why it had decreased, but asked:

"How much money and food do you have saved up in the national treasury? How much can you get this year? ”

"Excluding the gold and silver to be used for currency, the national treasury still has more than 3,760,000 taels of silver, 10,720,000 stones." Lu Wenzhao responded honestly:

"It has rained a lot since April this year, and the household's prediction of the land endowment has risen to about 58 million stones, and the tax silver should be about 27 million taels."

The total amount of tax payments has recovered somewhat, which is good news, but Zhu Youzhen knows that there are more places to spend money.

The drought will continue, but it will usher in a low period of about three or four years.

This trough does not mean that the drought will subside, but that the scale of the drought will not be greater than that of the previous three years.

The first wave of drought peaked last year and is slowly fading until a second wave will be ushered in three or four years later.

Daming needs to enhance the people's ability to resist drought under the condition of local drought resistance, and sum up the experience of fighting natural and man-made disasters in the first drought to prepare for resisting the second wave of drought.

How much land has been annexed as a result of this three-year drought, and how many corrupt officials have embezzled money for disaster relief to help the gentry and tycoon oppress the people, all these must be summed up and prevented in the next drought.

In this great drought, the unreliable temperament of the local government was completely exposed.

In the final analysis, the officials are also part of the gentry, and they expect all of them to have a conscience to help the victims, so it is better to hope that Master Huang will donate his family property.

The affairs of banks must be promoted, and so must the system of family registration and passbooks.

It is much more direct to distribute wages directly in the user's passbook than to allocate money and food to the local government, and then the local government will forward it to the people.

In the final analysis, in this drought, there were too many middlemen between the court and the hungry people, and everyone had to eat a layer of kickbacks, and the hungry people had nothing to eat after eating.

If the bank gets it right, the "cash-for-work" payment only needs to go through a middleman.

Even if this middleman has corruption, if you want to trace it, it is not only less difficult, but also very fast.

Zhu You deposited a large amount of gold and silver to implement the currency system, and now he only needs to wait for Li Changgeng to make a move, and the bank can be established quickly.

He turned around and walked back to his position, sat down and explained to Lu Wenzhao:

"You personally go to the financial department of the household department and tell Li Changgeng that next month's Enke, he can add a separate department and select the people he wants."

"In short, no matter if he wants money, food or talents, as long as the imperial court has it, the imperial court will support him, and before the end of next year, I must see banks standing up in all parts of Daming."

"Your Highness......" Lu Wenzhao asked cautiously:

"This is not sent to the cabinet? Is it sent directly to the Department of Finance? ”

"......" His words made Zhu Youzhen silent for a few seconds:

"Send it to the cabinet, and also send it to the Department of Finance, if the cabinet does not approve it, it will follow the central order, and Li Changgeng will take it himself."

"Yes......" Seeing this, Lu Wenzhao retreated with the news in his head, and then personally wrote two identical notes and sent them to the Financial Department and the Cabinet.

When the cabinet got the news, it was not yet dawn, and there were still only Yuan Keli and Sun Chengzong in the entire Wenhua Palace.

When this note about the bank was sent to the two of them, the two quickly understood what Zhu Youzhen wanted to do.

"Your Highness, this is going to go beyond the place and directly distribute money and food to the hungry people."

Putting the music on the table, Yuan Keli saw the essence clearly, and he also thought it was a good means.

"If this is a batch of red hair, the attention of the hundred officials will be transferred from Sun Chuanting to His Highness."

Sun Chengzong picked up the song and looked at it carefully, saying while watching.

"The pressure is on His Highness's side, it's better than on Sun Chuanting's side."

"On His Highness's side, you can still discuss and discuss." Yuan Keli picked up the teacup, brewed it, looked at the tea leaves brewed in the tea, and continued to speak:

"If it's on Sun Chuanting's side, that group of people is going to die."

"The mine has to be promoted, and now the imperial court has begun to intervene in the matter of cane sugar, and it is already a little difficult to work together, but I have to get a bank again, I always feel that it is ......" Sun Chengzong wanted to speak and stopped.

"It's not that exaggerated...... Yuan Keli took a sip of tea:

"Factories, royal stores, banks, these links are linked, as long as people are diligent enough, few people can get in."

"These three links are linked, and Sun Chuanting doesn't need to investigate corruption, just check the bank directly."

"His Highness took him out of it, but with what I know about Sun Chuanting, it's still unknown whether he is willing to be pulled out of the quagmire."

Yuan Keli put the teacup on the table, and Sun Chengzong also frowned: "What do you mean?" ”

"What do you mean?" Yuan Keli leaned back in his chair:

"From the perspective of others, the struggle against the gentry and the corrupt officials is purely a moth to a fire."

"But in his Sun Chuanting's view, I'm afraid this is what an official should do."

"His Royal Highness thought of Sun Chuanting simply, underestimated his stubbornness, and overestimated his obedience."

"......" Hearing this, Sun Chengzong felt that things were a little tricky, and asked tentatively:

"If this Sun Chuanting is unwilling to be taken out, then the bank and corruption will be carried out together, this is ......"

"The people below are going to make a fuss, and this can't be stopped." Yuan Keli is here, and obviously when he saw the music, he understood that the situation could not be changed.

"Even in the Hongwu years, even in the Hongwu period, I still have hundreds of officials forcing the palace and forcing them to play."

"At the moment, it can be regarded as more than three years of peace."

"In the past three years, both the outer court and the inner court have accumulated a lot of tempers, take advantage of this time to vent, and then let Banzai or His Royal Highness come out to finish, and this matter will be settled."

"The only variable is Sun Chuanting, he will return it or not, and now it is not His Highness, but himself."

"But you said he wouldn't retreat." Sun Chengzong's brows furrowed, and Yuan Keli bowed slightly:

"He won't return, because if it were me, I wouldn't return."

It was rare for Yuan Keli and Sun Chuanting to stand on the same foot, Sun Chengzong looked at him with some surprise, but Yuan Keli said indifferently:

"How can a person not have a temper, he Sun Chuanting was stopped and intercepted by the people below, and he was disgraced."

"Now that he has Shang Fang's sword in his hand, if he doesn't kill a few people, do you think he will be honestly taken out?"

"How can a person who throws a pen from Rong stand this anger?"

"What do you mean...... Long live this Shang Fang sword sent by mistake? Sun Chengzong is constant.

"That's right, it happened to be the right one." Yuan Keli put the black gauze hat on the table back on his head:

"The arrogance of the people below is to kill them, and they have to know who is in charge of the overall situation above the dome of the Ming Dynasty."

"Don't think that they can cover the sky with one hand when the next party is dominant, as long as the superior thinks about it, they still have to die when they deserve to die."

"I see that their brains are jammed with silver, and with three points of ability, they want to wrestle with Banzai and His Highness."

"Now long live Sun Chuanting Shang Fang Sword, I am sure that not only will they not be able to clean up Sun Chuanting, but they will be cleaned up by Sun Chuanting, and maybe they will have to fall into ashes."

"But the drought and the case in eastern Sichuan are over?" Sun Chengzong frowned, realizing the seriousness of the matter.

"Yes......" Yuan Keli is in:

"The matter in eastern Sichuan is over, but don't forget, the rich place in Sichuan is western Sichuan, and it is the prefectures in Chengdu."

"Corruption in eastern Sichuan, under the vine and melon, and in western Sichuan, can you be honest and honest?"

"I'm afraid that Sun Chuanting, once he learns the news of Shang Fang's sword, he will go directly to Chengdu by car......"

Yuan Keli's words made Sun Chengzong's thoughts drift to Sichuan, but he soon came back to his senses and looked at the music on the table:

"If that's the case, then this is ......"

"Let's get red." Yuan Keli sighed:

"Even if you and I don't approve of the red, Your Highness will let Li Changgeng take over the order."

"Things can't be stopped, Sun Chuanting wants to kill people, His Royal Highness also wants to kill people, if the people below still have three brains, maybe they can save themselves if they are soft now."

"It's just that I saw Gu Bingqian, Feng Quan, and Shi Fenglai living at home behind closed doors, and it seems that those people have become outcasts."

"You and I will be on duty in this Wenhua Palace, no accident, I'm afraid you and I will have to be busy next......"

(End of chapter)