Chapter 433: The Withering of the Qi Palace
"Slave maid, please Your Highness...... Choose another capable person! ”
Cao Huachun is really tired, the scale of the imperial shop is too large, and the scale of Juntuntian is also too large.
More than 100,000 emperors, nearly a million employees and tens of thousands of factories and millions of workers behind them......
These are enough to make Cao Huachun very busy, and now he has to add Jun Tuntian, with his ability, he really can't manage it.
He said these words not to praise Zhu Youzhen, but really wanted Zhu Youzhen to remove the burden of Jun Tuntian, the envy of outsiders, from his shoulders.
His thoughts, when he said this, Zhu Youzhen was clear, but his face showed a tangled look.
Cao Huachun is not capable of leading two yamen, if he has, Chongzhen will not be unable to sort out the financial situation of the imperial horse supervisor in history.
The current Cao Huachun is the result of Zhu Youzhen's many trainings, and his ability is much higher than that of Cao Huachun in history, otherwise he wouldn't even be able to manage the imperial store.
The reason why Zhu Youzhen didn't choose anyone else was because he really didn't have too many people available.
Most of those who could emerge at the end of the Ming Dynasty were military generals, and there were only a few Wenchen.
Such as Bi Ziyan, Li Changgeng, Shen Tingyang, Dong Yingju, Hong Chengchou, Sun Chuanting, Yang Wenyue, Wu Aheng and others were all collected by Zhu Youzhen early.
The remaining Nan Juyi, Gu Bingqian, Zuo Guangdou, and Yuan Keli, Zhu Youzhen knew that they were talented, but he didn't trust them.
Give them nearly 100 million acres of military tuntian of the imperial horse supervisor, and if they want to manage the military tuntian, they need to install their own people.
Who are their people? Is it the gentry's people or the party's people?
Juntuntian is handed over to them to manage, and I am afraid that it will not take a few years before it will be out of Zhu Youzhen's control.
Zhu Youzhen is not facing a game, not a casual click of the mouse can make people 100% loyal to themselves, obedient like a robot, and execute their own instructions.
He is facing reality, it is a human being, and as long as it is a human being, there is human nature, and human nature has shortcomings, and most people's shortcomings are nothing more than four things: power, wealth, beauty and fame.
He Zhu Youzhen also seeks fame and power, but what he seeks is the name of eternity and the power of a country.
Yanshan has cultivated a lot of talents for him, but those are only talents from one town, one county, and one government, and the existence of Juntuntian, which involves a quarter of the Ming Dynasty's taxes, is not something they can manage.
People need time to experience and then improve their abilities, Yanshan students have only been in the officialdom for five or six years, the elders are only in their early thirties, and the younger ones are only seventeen or eighteen years old.
If they were given a few more years, there might be a few talents, but not a few yet.
"Jun Tuntian, you lead it for the time being, and if you have the right person, I will take you out."
Looking at Cao Huachun, Zhu Youzhen, who had no one available, still chose the general Tuntian to manage Cao Huachun, but also promised to take him out.
"His Royal Highness Long's ......"
Cao Huachun bowed in return, and could see that he was indeed tired.
"How's the situation with the Imperial Horse Warden?"
Zhu Youzhen walked back to his place and sat down, and Cao Huachun also took two steps forward when he heard this, and continued to reply:
"At present, there are more than 12,000 factories, more than 3.76 million employees, an annual output of more than 360 million catties of steel, and ...... cement."
"In the future, 1,000 catties will be turned into a ton, and the output value of the factory this year will not need to be reported. Zhu Youzhen looked at the music and interrupted while dealing with it.
His words instantly made "ton" appear more than two hundred years in advance, although according to his words, one ton of the Ming Dynasty is equal to six hundred kilograms, although it is not an integer in later generations, but it is an integer for the Ming Dynasty, and it has been simplified a lot.
"Yes......" Cao Huachun was stunned for a moment, and Zhu Youzhen also wrote a ton of words with a Zhu pen for Cao Huachun to see, and after reading it, he responded and continued to say:
"There are 30,000 officialdoms, 19,000 pastures, more than 524,000 employees, 220,000 military horses in captivity, and 1.63 million horses, horses, mules, horses, donkeys, and other livestock."
"There are more than 9 million sheep, more than 4 million pigs, 1.27 million cattle, more than 20 million poultry, and elephants......
Ten years of accumulation, the family funds saved are enough for the Ming army to launch an expedition, and it is also enough to ensure the meat of more than 900,000 soldiers.
It's just that there is a lot of accumulation, and there is a lot of consumption, just to support the nearly 50,000 officialdoms and pastures in the world, the Ming Dynasty needs more than 20 million stone rice wheat and tens of millions of stone sweet potatoes and potatoes every year.
In short, the abundant animal power gave the Ming army the capital to launch an expedition of thousands of miles, and the military horses allowed the cavalry of the Ming army to quickly recover their combat strength after being hit.
Captive military horses are not the same as military horses in the army, and there are 267,000 military horses in the Ming army.
The cavalry of the Shangzhi Gongwei Battalion and the ordinary Gongwei Battalion is two military horses and one horse per capita, but due to the rapid expansion of the army, many Gongwei battalions have no cavalry.
At present, among the Ming army, there are only one hundred and fifty battalions of arch guards with cavalry, and there is only one sentry in one battalion.
Counting the Shangzhi, the total number of cavalry of the Ming army is 117,150 people, of course, this is the division in the Ming Dynasty several major war zones and Xiaoxiyang, Jiugang, Yingzhou and other places.
This number does not seem to be much, and the Ming army also has 220,000 military horses that can equip 110,000 cavalry, but the problem is that all the military horses are out of production, and the pressure on the Ming is too great.
A completely out of production military horse needs at least 50 acres of pasture every year, plus 3 acres of bean fields, and captive military horses also need 30 acres of pasture and 2 acres of bean fields.
The Ming army, which has less than 490,000 military horses, has occupied more than 20 million mu of grassland and millions of mu of soybean fields.
In addition to other horses, horses, cattle and sheep each need 10 to 20 acres of grassland, if it were not for Zhu Youzhen to lay down the Hetao and Taining three mansions, then even if these horses, cattle and sheep are all captive, it is enough to occupy one-tenth of the cultivated land of the Ming Dynasty.
The cavalry and military horses of the Ming army actually grew explosively since the sixth year of the Apocalypse.
Especially after taking the three provinces of Taining, Wang Chengen introduced a large number of Hequ horses and constantly changed horse breeds, which allowed the Ming army to ride Hequ horses with a shoulder height of four feet and four, and no longer need to ride Mongolian horses with a shoulder height of less than four feet.
You must know that at the peak of each Han dynasty, the cavalry was basically Hequ horses and Yin Li horses, and when the dynasty began to weaken, the cavalry began to ride short Mongolian horses.
In the Hongwu period of the early Ming Dynasty, there were only 100,000 Hequ military horses, and they could attack the grassland with more than 30,000 cavalry.
At present, the officialdom has cultivated nearly 490,000 Hequ military horses for the Ming army, and there is no dynasty that can compare with them for the time being.
Not to mention that the Ming army has now begun to use the Arab horses and sweaty horses brought back by Xu Xiake to start cultivating military horses.
If nothing else, ten years later, the Ming cavalry could ride Arab war horses that were two or three inches higher than the Hequ horses.
The prosperity of officialdom is also the reason why Zhu Youzhen is most satisfied with Wang Chengen.
"At present, more than 196,000 stores have been opened, with 1.19 million employees."
Cao Huachun saw that Zhu Youzhen didn't speak for a long time, so he continued to talk about the achievements of the Imperial Horse Supervisor, and finally explained:
"There are a total of 6.72 million workers in various factories, imperial shops, officialdoms, and shipyards, and a total of more than 37 million taels of silver are paid every year, and more than 70 million taels of silver are flowed every year, and about 32 million taels of profit are made."
The expenses of the imperial store are large, the income is also large, and the turnover is larger, otherwise Zhu Youzhen would not be afraid of the counterfeit money dealers in the market, and wanted to wait for the Apocalypse Tongbao to save enough and release it at one time.
"Li Changgeng has come to me, and the current denomination of silver coins in the mint has reached more than 19 million taels."
After listening to the summary of the Imperial Horse Supervisor, Zhu Youzhen instructed Cao Huachun to say:
"This amount is still too small, I want to wait for him to save 90 million taels and release it at one time, what do you think?"
"The slave doesn't understand this, but if you want to take back the flowing silver from the imperial store and release the court's own new coins, then this amount should be enough." Cao Huachun replied respectfully:
"It's just that the imperial store is just digested, it seems to be a little slow......"
"Naturally, it won't be digested by the imperial store alone." Zhu Youzhen took a sip of tea:
"Now that the mint has added 200 mints, it is estimated that by the end of next year, it should be able to save more than 50 million taels of new coins."
"I am ready to implement the new policy for the other six provinces in the north together with the success of the new deal in Sichuan next year, and implement the policy of giving one to one for nearly 27 million mu of cultivated land in one Beijing and six provinces."
"The household department estimates that next year's field endowment will drop from the estimated 70 million stone to 52 million stone."
Zhu Youzhen is about to start reducing the land endowment, and the premise of the reduction of the field endowment is the issuance of new currency and the opening of banks.
Juntuntian's seven civil officials, Zhu Youzhen, said that he would reduce it from the fourth year of the Apocalypse, but he kept saying that it had not been implemented for six years.
This is of course because of the drought, but also because the finances of the Ming court cannot be operated.
But now it is different, the annual income of the imperial shop has reached 32 million taels, and counting the imperial court's ding tax and miscellaneous items, it has basically reached about 45 million taels.
The field endowment has decreased by more than 18 million stones, and after folding, it is only more than 9 million taels.
In conjunction with the household registration system and the passbook system, as well as the system of collecting grain from the imperial horse supervisor, the imperial court could directly transfer the money to the peasants' passbooks while buying grain.
In this way, the peasants and workers may go to withdraw it in the early days, resulting in the bank being empty of money, but with the royal store, a steady stream of new money will flow into the bank, and the bank can completely survive.
When the run passed, and the peasants believed that the court would not withhold the new currency, they naturally deposited the silver in the bank.
In this way, Zhu Youzhen can at some point embezzle a small amount of bank deposits for disaster relief.
There are more than 160 million people in the Ming Dynasty, and each person who saves one penny can save 160,000 taels, and if each person saves 100 wen, it is 16 million taels.
One hundred wen is only a third of the yield per mu for peasants, and less than half a month's salary for urban workers.
As long as they can save money, Zhu Youzhen does not need to worry about finances, because no matter how he embezzles, the inflow of gold and silver from overseas will make up for this shortfall.
All he needed to do was keep a good grasp of population growth and the amount of gold and silver flowing into the coinage.
"The slave thinks it's a good thing."
Cao Huachun had no reason to reject the imperial court's policy of reducing the field tax, because the main reason why the military tuntian was difficult to manage was that the land was levied a lot, the transportation was difficult, and more manpower was needed.
If the field endowment is reduced, then the military tuntian can rely on animal power to make the transportation of the field much easier.
As for the matter of collecting grain, the grain can be transported slowly after it is collected, and there is no need to be as anxious as Tian Fu.
"Since you think it's okay, then the matter of Juntuntian, you can start preparing for the new deal after the autumn harvest next year."
Zhu Youzhen was red for the music in front of him, and at the same time instructed Cao Huachun:
"In this process, if you want to lay off redundant personnel, you should also pay a little attention to it, don't cut too much, and the people who are laid off should arrange a new place for them."
Zhu Youzhen wants to solve the problem of employment, not to create jobs.
The fact that the laid-off people have no food to eat and no work to do will always become a factor of unrest among the people.
At present, the imperial court is expanding its territory and conquering all directions, and some jobs are given to this group of people.
"The slaves and maids are going to send them to the land of the slaves after His Highness has destroyed them to prepare for the relocation."
"The slave has learned about the situation of the slave from Cheng En, and I am afraid that not only does it not need to lay off redundant personnel, but also needs to recruit experts."
Cao Huachun did not disappoint Zhu Youzhen, he did not plan to lay off redundant personnel, because the redundant part of the people could be thrown to slaves, and this number of people was not enough.
According to Zhu Youzhen's words, even if there are only 10,000 villages in the land of Nuergan, 20,000 village officials are needed to manage them, and to manage these 10,000 villages, at least 1,000 towns and hundreds of counties are needed.
Moving the population out of the country will reduce the workload of local village officials, and it will also reduce the volume of trade.
However, on the whole, the imperial store is taking advantage.
The people are dense, but the per capita output is not much, the value is low, and the people have no silver in their hands, so the trade volume is small.
The migration of people to reclaim new land is equivalent to making the cake bigger, and the people have silver in their hands, and the trade volume of the imperial store will continue to grow.
However, he still went around and came back, and if he wanted to reclaim the land and make the royal shop of the slave gan profitable, he had to distribute enough farm tractors.
In other words, the only way to do this is to rely on the power of the industrial revolution to liberate the labor force and move the people inside the border to outside the border and overseas.
If Zhu Youzhen is not mistaken, the current population of the world is between 400 and 600 million, except for the people of the Ming Dynasty who can eat enough because of his new policy, the people in other places have to endure inflation and do not have enough to eat.
This situation drove Europeans to live in the Americas, and the reduced grain production caused by the Xiaoice River also caused the price of rice and wheat to skyrocket.
The current territory of the Ming Dynasty, if you count the clan system, is more than 20 million square kilometers, and later generations, with industrial strength, on this large piece of land, 6 or 7 billion mu of cultivated land, as well as nearly 10 billion mu of pasture.
There are less than 900 million mu of cultivated land in the Ming Dynasty, less than 300 million mu of grassland, plus the Xiaoxiyang and clan systems, the cultivated land is not more than 1.3 billion mu, and the grassland is basically 300 million mu.
But if the Ming Dynasty can develop this territory to the extent of one-fifth of the later generations, it will really be able to achieve a period of "well-off" for a period of time.
Not to mention anything else, at present, there are less than 400,000 people living on Nanzhou, the largest area in the Ming Dynasty, and the combined arable land and pasture are less than 2 million mu.
If the potential of Nanzhou can be released, Daming can monopolize the grain of this era, and counting other places in Daming, Daming is qualified to monopolize the grain market in this era.
With less than 2.5 billion mu of cultivated land in the world, Daming has occupied nearly two-fifths of the developed land.
It's very simple to deal with the Europeans, as long as the Ming integrates the internal forces and then drives them back to Europe from the Americas, then release a large amount of grain to increase the population of Europe, and finally use the grain trade to clean up Europe.
The Xiaoice Age is not only for Daming, but Europe has experienced a food shortage crisis for nearly a hundred years, so it can only develop the American continent to feed Europe.
But the Americas......
Zhu Youzhen thought of Yang Wenyue's letter, and sneered in his heart.
Without the Americas, coupled with the situation of many European countries, in the 90-year-long Xiaoice Age, unless they are willing to continue famine, Daming's grain will become the largest export commodity of the East and West in the future.
It's just that in any case, if the Ming wants to export grain, the most important thing is to develop the cultivated land in his hands first.
The industrial matter Zhu Youzhen is ready, and now it is only necessary to destroy Jianyu, and then the Ming Dynasty will be able to recuperate and reduce the intensity of the war.
The next Wusizang, the Western Regions, and even Mobei don't need Zhu Youzhen to spend any energy, and the people below can clean them up.
After destroying Jianyu, his energy had to be put on the land of the feudal domains, and the land of the Qi country.
Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen asked at the door:
"Cheng'en, how many vassal kings in the capital are there who have not participated in the feudal domain?"
As soon as he opened his mouth, Wang Chengen, who had been standing at the door for a long time, hurriedly walked into the hall and responded:
"There are also six princes such as Tang Domain, Ji Domain, and Huai Domain, and nineteen county kings have not become vassals."
"However, it seems that the old Tang King of the Tang Domain has no intention of going to the Tang Kingdom with the sons and grandsons of the Tang Domain, but is preparing to ......go to the Tang Kingdom by himself."
"I know that." Zhu Youzhen interrupted him.
Zhu Shuoxi, the king of the old Tang Dynasty, wanted to go to the south of India with his youngest son, Zhu Qiwei, the king of Miyang, to conquer the kingdom of Mysore, and hollowed out all his family property to his younger son.
This approach was extremely stupid in Zhu Youzhen's eyes, not to mention the land they chose, Zhu Shuoxi's move alone made him feel stupid.
Zhu Qiqi and Zhu Yujian, the father and son, Zhu Youzhen have been secretly observing.
In general, Zhu Qiqi is weak, but he has a good heart, and the five sons under his command are united, with Zhu Yujian as the leader.
Zhu Yujian's ability is not bad, and after being cultivated by the Yanshan Military Academy, he has basically reached the level of a general soldier.
Zhu Yujian's four younger brothers, Zhu Youzhen looked at it, and they basically reached the level of a general.
That is to say, if Zhu Yujian leads the troops, his four younger brothers can command the four battalions well, and Zhu Yujian cooperates with his four younger brothers, he is a qualified general of 10,000 people.
The generals of 10,000 people, although this is a little worthless at the moment, but before the first year of Taichang, Daming can find five or six such generals.
Zhu Yujian's target is either the Middle East or western Levia.
On the balance, Zhu Youzhen hoped that he could take Tang Fan to Central Asia or Eastern Europe to settle the domain.
With his ability, coupled with the equipment after the elimination of the Ming army, Da Ming is behind him, and it is very likely that Da Ming will not have to make a move, he will be able to pose a threat to the countries of Eastern Europe.
However, in this part of Eastern Europe, Zhu Youzhen is not ready to be crowned king, because he has to find an outlet for Daming.
If there are vassal kings all around, then what the Ming has to do is to cut the feudal domain, or infighting.
Eastern Europe is the main battlefield for the outside world after the Ming Dynasty, and as for Zhu Yujian, it is best to go to the Middle East.
However, Zhu Yujian is not stupid, if he goes to the Middle East, he will become a pawn of the Ming Dynasty, and after the Ming Dynasty enters the Central Asian River area in the future, he will also need to be restrained by the Ming Dynasty.
He should go to a place that is conducive to the development of the Tang Kingdom and away from the struggle of the feudal domains.
In this way, his target may be the Americas, but now that the Americas have become the territory of the Qi Kingdom, his goal can only turn to the central and western regions of Leviya.
There are gold mines here, and there are traces of man-made rough development, and it is far enough away from Daming, and there is the supervision of the Southern Kunlun Supervision Envoy, Daming will also rest assured.
"How much gold and silver have they saved?"
Zhu Youzhen knew about the seizures of Zhu Yujian's family on the battlefield, but he did not debunk them, but kept indulging them.
However, when the war has reached this level, Zhu Yujian should lead people to withdraw from South Asia and be ready to surrender at any time.
Zhu Youzhen really wanted to know how much capital he had at the moment.
"According to the estimation of the Fusi of Jinyi Weibei Town, the Tang Domain has probably accumulated more than 600,000 taels, the Huai Domain has accumulated more than 400,000 taels, the Ji Domain has more than 500,000 yuan, and the Ning Domain ......."
Wang Chengen told the report of Beizhen Fusi one by one, and Zhu You was very interested after listening to it:
"Counting the 500,000 taels of silver I allowed Tang Fan to borrow before, this Zhu Yujian has saved no less than one million taels for his father, which is a bit interesting......
Zhu Youzhen didn't expect Zhu Yujian to accumulate so much silver in just three years, but these silver will eventually fall into the hands of Daming.
"Has Zhu Shuoxi already set off?"
"He has already set off, and in the second batch of ships going to the West, he and Zhu Qiwei, the king of Qinyang, rushed to the domain with three hundred palace guards and two thousand men." Wang Chengen responded:
"In addition, he also discussed with the household department, and after he succeeded in vassalizing, he would move 30,000 craftsmen and men to the Tang Kingdom, and he rented a battalion of soldiers and horses from the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies."
"He saved a lot of silver, but unfortunately it was all spent on Zhu Qiwei, the king of Miyang, and Zhu Qiwei, the son of Tang Shizi, was really unlucky, fortunately he had five good sons."
In the end, Wang Chengen couldn't help but sigh at what happened to Zhu Qiqi.
Zhu Youzhen didn't feel anything, after all, if it weren't for him, Zhu Qiqi wouldn't have survived now.
"With these five sons, he will be able to enjoy a happy night."
Zhu Youzhen put the Zhu pen on the pen holder, and the last book was also processed by him.
At this time, Yang Yuanai and Yang Ru walked to the door of the palace, and when Zhu Youzhen saw the two of them, he raised his hand to signal them to come in.
After the two walked in, they skillfully behaved, and said one after the other:
"Your Highness, the layout of the palace is almost complete, and I have to talk to you about the process now."
"His Royal Highness didn't care about his own wedding, but he was a busy man."
Yang Yuan loves to explain softly, Yang Ru is very Li Qingzhao's character, with thorns in his words, but with a reminder of concern.
If you meet someone who is anxious, I am afraid that you will have to choke to death by Yang Ru, but fortunately, Zhu Youzhen is open-minded and doesn't care about her little woman's behavior, just smiled:
"Don't fall behind in your homework, I expect you to become a female poet and add another good story to my apocalyptic prosperity."
"Your Highness, let's get married first and have a few boys." Yang Ru said as he stepped forward and hugged Zhu Youzhen's finished work to the side, and finally turned around and choked:
"The old Fu King of the Fu Domain came to the domain, and whispered that our Qi Wangfu people were withered."
"You have to give birth to a few more generations, and you will be angry with that big fat man."
"Hahaha......" Hearing Yang Ru compare Zhu Changxun to a fat man, Zhu Youzhen laughed heartily, and at the same time got up and nodded:
"Your Highness will work hard......"