"Back to Your Highness, the provinces that will open official schools in the next year are Sichuan, Yunnan, Jiaozhi, Guizhou, Guangxi, Guangdong, Jiugang, and Duogan seven provinces, and the Ministry of Industry has built a total of 5,400 official schools, which can basically be put into use in the winter months."

Zhou Yanru is still that virtuous, poke and move, and resolutely does not talk about things outside the Ministry of Industry, but he has revealed enough information.

The construction of government schools is basically 500 to 1,000 students, and 5,400 schools means that at least 2.7 million to 5.4 million students will be enrolled.

According to the perspective of one teaching for every 30 students, Daming will invest at least 180,000 yuan in teaching and learning this year, an increase of more than 2 million taels.

He didn't mention anything about the official department, but he told the basic situation of the official department.

can guess that it is Zhu Youzhen's ability, but if you can't guess, it has nothing to do with him.

Zhu You calculated that the population of the Han family in these seven provinces is about 22 million, and the number of students is between 2.7 million and 5.4 million, which basically accounts for about one-eighth to one-quarter of the population, which can almost meet the needs of basic education.

Counting the six provinces in the north that have implemented basic education, among the two capitals and 23 provinces in the Ming Dynasty, one Beijing and 13 provinces have implemented basic education, and among the remaining ten provinces, except for the three provinces outside the Guan, the other seven provinces are basically provinces with large populations.

Among them, one of the two provinces in the south of the Yangtze River has the largest population, one province tops six provinces in the north and seven provinces in the southwest.

So for these provinces, you can only take your time.

After calculation, it is estimated that it will take five or six years for these ten provinces to complete the promotion of official learning, and after the promotion, it is time for Zhu Youzhen to dig the roots of the gentry.

"How is the Ministry of Industry going to plan for the construction of the government school next year?"

Thinking of digging the roots of the gentry, Zhu Youzhen put his eyes on Zhou Yanru, Zhou Yanru felt the gaze, heard the inquiry again, and returned the salute for a while:

"I was about to ask Your Highness how to plan the official school of tomorrow......

Zhou Yanru would not advocate the establishment of an official school in any province, because whoever advocated it would be hated by the local gentry.

He wanted to be Shen Zheng, not Zhang Juzheng......

"Cheng'en, go and pass on self-discipline and become virtuous."

"Slave and maid receive ......"

Zhu Youzhen had long expected that Zhou Yanru would shirk it, so he gave instructions to Wang Chengen and discussed something else with Zhou Yanru.

"How's the construction of the railway? Is the construction period delayed or accelerated? ”

Zhu Youzhen lowered his head and dealt with the sparseness, as if he was asking absentmindedly, but Zhou Yanru knew that Zhu Youzhen was very concerned about the railway.

Four of the nine railways of the Ming Dynasty faced the northeast, northwest and southwest, in order to consolidate the Ming rule in the region.

The remaining five, except for the Mentougou Railway, which is to deal with industry, the remaining four are all for the purpose of maintaining stability, the most important of which is the Beijing-Hangzhou Railway.

Once the Beijing-Hangzhou Railway is opened, it will be much easier for the imperial court to deal with Nanzhili and Zhejiang, and it will be difficult for Nanzhili and Zhejiang to default on taxes.

Zhou Yanru can distinguish the importance clearly, he can speed up the construction of the other eight railways, but he can not speed up the construction of the Beijing-Hangzhou railway, so for the construction of this railway, he used the construction period set by Zhu Youzhen.

This railway can't be fast or slow, if it's slow, he will be punished by Zhu Youzhen, and if it's fast, he'll be hated by the Jiangnan gentry, which is a difficult life.

However, compared to this railway, the construction of other railways is much faster.

With the use of the fourth version of the steam engine, Daming's steel production and cement production began to increase dramatically, and a large number of steel and cement began to be used on the construction site, so raw materials are not a problem.

Raw materials are not a problem, then the problem is only geographical advantages and manpower, and among the geographical advantages, the Beijing-Long Railway is the most difficult, because this railway needs to cross the Qinling Mountains and climb the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau.

In addition to the difficulty of this railway, the construction difficulties of other railways can be overcome.

"The railway from Beijing to Xining, the current roadbed construction has arrived in Pingyang Prefecture in Shanxi, and it is expected to be repaired to Chang'an County, Xianning County, Xi'an Prefecture in the middle of next year, and to Xining in three years."

"As for the laying of the railway, it has been laid to reach Datong, but only the capital to Zhangjiakou can be passed, and it is expected to be opened to Datong by the end of the year, and the railway will arrive in Shuozhou."

"It will take another seven years for the railway construction of the entire project to be completed, but if it is only the section leading to Xi'an, it is expected to be completed in the first month of the fifteenth year of the Apocalypse."

"At present, the biggest problem is that in the Beijing-Long Railway, from Xi'an through the Qinling Mountains to Hanzhong, from Hanzhong through Bashan two sections of the road."

Speaking of these two roads, Zhou Yanru was a little embarrassed, so he could only say:

"For these two roads, the suggestion given by the Ministry of Industry is to directly blow up some of the hills to be taken by the railway, and then blow up the original plank road that cannot be blown up, and blow it ten zhang wide to form a north-south double track."

The proposal of the Ministry of Industry is very simple and realistic, that is, to use gunpowder to directly blow up Qinling and Bashan to create two roads more than ten zhang wide.

Qinling Railway, if Zhu Youzhen is not mistaken, the construction of this railway in later generations is quite difficult, and even produced a term "Qinling Railway Tunnel".

The length of the tunnel for the entire railway reached more than 20 kilometers, and tunnel boring machines were also used.

These technologies, not to mention the current Ming Dynasty, I am afraid that the Ming Dynasty in thirty years and fifty years later may not be able to solve them.

Zhou Yanru and the group of people in the Ministry of Industry said very simply, they used explosives to blow it up, but problems also followed.

Not to mention whether the explosion of the plank road will have an impact on the mountain, just say that if the water is blown out of the operation improperly, the water in the mountain can fill more than 100 West Lake.

Besides, how much earth and rock will be produced by the explosion of the mountain? And how much manpower is needed to clean up?

As soon as he thought of this, Zhu Youzhen had already moved the idea of changing the route in his heart, but Zhou Yanru's words made him dispel this idea.

"If the mountain walls of some post roads are blown up, and the cost of this section of the railway will rise more than tenfold, and the original cost of 960,000 taels will rise to 9.6 million taels."

"Therefore, the Ministry of Industry suggested that the line from Xi'an to Chengdu should be changed to Fengxiang to Chengdu, and a high bridge could be built along the mountain, so that the cost could be reduced to 6.27 million taels, that is, the cement and iron materials would be a little ......."

Zhou Yanru's words woke Zhu Youjian up, that is, the Ming Dynasty did not need to build a railway according to the standards of later generations, because the train speed of the two sides was different.

The speed of trains in later generations, even if the green train that crossed the Qinling Mountains in the 50s and 90s was 48 kilometers per hour when fully loaded, and if the speed of the train in the Ming Dynasty was converted into hours, the fastest speed was only 20 kilometers when it was fully loaded, and the normal speed was only 18 kilometers.

A train with a speed of 18 kilometers per hour has a comparison with the requirements of track and road conditions compared with a train with a speed of 48 kilometers per hour.

To put it bluntly, the train is just a slightly faster carriage, and if you don't blow up the mountain, you can completely build a post road along the side of the post road, or use a small amount of gunpowder to widen the post road without affecting the mountain.

Of course, there is a disadvantage to this, that is, if you want to run trains that exceed this speed in the future, the original railway will not be usable, or it will become a single track.

The faster the speed, the wider the inflection point of the train, and the construction of tunnels is unavoidable.

But if the train of the Ming Dynasty can reach the level of later generations, then the technology will be developed accordingly, and the construction of tunnels will naturally be difficult for the Ming Dynasty at that time.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen suddenly became enlightened, and was a little more attentive to the words of Zhou Yanru and other officials of the Ministry of Industry:

"If it is used to build a high bridge and expand the post road, how long will it take?"

"If this section of the road is to be built in this way, then the original 890 miles of road will become 1,400 miles, and it is expected that it will take at least seven years to build it."

Zhou Yanru's answer made Zhu Youzhen sigh, in seven years, under the condition of using hundreds of thousands of workers, it was possible to build the 1,400-mile Qinling Railway, which shows how difficult the transportation construction of Qinling is.

You must know that the Pacific Railway in later generations was more than 3,000 kilometers long and crossed almost the entire North American continent, but even then it took only seven years and more than 20,000 workers.

At present, the gunpowder technology of the Ming Dynasty is not up to the technology of the sixties of the nineteenth century, but the technology of the Qinling Railway can not be gradually realized until the fifties of the twentieth century.

The Qinling Railway is so difficult, so what about the railway into Wusizang?

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen was even more determined in his idea, that is, to move the Han people living in remote mountainous areas to the plains, especially the people in the Yunnan-Guizhou region, they can live in the Red River Delta and the Yinrawaddy River Delta.

The more than 40 million acres of plains in Donghu are not only easier to build a transportation network, but also easier to maintain the rule of the Ming Dynasty, and it is not easy to divide them.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen looked at Zhou Yanru: "The construction period of the Beijing-Long Railway is fifteen years, right?" ”

"Back to His Royal Highness, it is fifteen years, although it will take seven years for the Qinling section, but the railways of other sections of Jinglong can be built at the same time, and it will not be a problem to open to traffic in fifteen years." Zhou Yanru explained, and continued:

"The Jinglong Railway is the most difficult railway among the nine railways of the National Dynasty, as long as this railway can be built, then the difficulty of the railway from Longchuan to Demasa (Assam) will be greatly reduced."

"How many years is it expected that the railway from Kunming to Longchuan will take?" Zhu Youzhen asked about the second most difficult project of the Beijing-Long Railway.

To cross the Hengduan Mountains, this is no less difficult than crossing the Qinling Mountains.

However, Zhu Youzhen underestimated the flexibility of the craftsmen below, and according to the speed of the train, they found a railway that did not need to cross too many mountains.

"Under the guidance of Hong Jingluo and the local people, local craftsmen have found a road to Longchuan, which is expected to only require the construction of 16 tunnels along the mountain that are no more than one mile long, and the construction began in Kunming last year and is expected to be completed within five years."

The methods Zhou Yanru said are basically in accordance with the methods that can be completed by the existing science and technology of the Ming Dynasty, although this way, these railways may be rebuilt in the future, but at present, Zhu Youzhen cannot wait for scientific and technological progress in a few decades.

Needless to say decades, just if he left Daming after more than ten years, it is a question whether his policy can continue.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen was just about to ask about the progress of other railways, but Wang Chengen walked into the hall:

"Your Highness, Bi Shangshu and Cheng Shilang are here."

"Well, let them in." Seeing that Wang Chengen said that Chengde and they were coming, Zhu Youzhen signaled him to pass on the people to enter the palace.

Under his words, Bi Ziyan and Chengde quickly walked into the hall and saluted Zhu Youzhen.

Seeing this, Zhu Youzhen motioned for them to sit down, and then asked:

"You all know about the opening of government schools in Sichuan and Duogan provinces next year, right?"

"I asked you to come here to ask you which provinces should build government schools next year, what is the population of the province, and how much should be built."

Zhu Youzhen said while looking at Bi Ziyan, and Bi Ziyan said when he heard this:

"Your Highness, the seven provinces plus one capital and six provinces in the north add a total of one capital and thirteen provinces, with a population of more than 69 million."

"According to the statistics of the Ministry of Households, the current expenditure of the government and education department has reached 3.89 million taels, and if you count the seven provinces next year, I am afraid it will reach more than 6 million."

"It just so happens that except for the three provinces outside the Guan, the remaining six provinces in Beijing are all provinces with large populations."

"Therefore, the suggestion of the lower officials is, can we take a break and only open official schools in the three provinces outside the Guanguan?"

As soon as Bi Ziyan finished speaking, Chengde frowned and interrupted:

"Your Highness, the minister thinks it should be the three provinces outside the Guan, plus Huguang and Fujian."

"Although it is difficult to have a household department, the three prefectures of Modong in the three provinces outside the Guanxi Province already have an official and educational foundation, and only the gathering places for newly displaced people need to be added, and the population of Beishan and Donghai provinces is only more than 400,000."

"These more than 400,000 people, plus the new population in Modong, are at most more than 500,000, and there are probably less than 100,000 school-age children among the more than 500,000 people."

"According to the ratio of teaching to students at 30 to 1, that is, only 3,000 teaching is enough."

"Not to mention that the number of teaching and learning is not enough to solve the employment problem of Enke's unsuccessful students, and the expenditure alone is only 60,000 or 70,000 taels."

"The three provinces outside the border are just a small head of education, and whether the increase does not affect the overall situation, should not be taken out separately."

"Therefore, the lower officials think that Huguang and Fujian provinces can be used as places for the promotion of government learning."

"This ......" Bi Ziyan frowned, but Chengde questioned Bi Ziyan: "Bi Shangshu, dare to ask how much is the population of the Yellow Book in Huguang and Fujian?" ”

"If I'm not mistaken, the population of Huguang Huangshu in the eighth year of the Apocalypse was 9.3 million, and Fujian was only 4.24 million, right?"

Chengde said the accurate data he remembered, which made Bi Ziyan a little passive, but in this regard, Bi Ziyan still explained:

"Cheng Shilang is right, but this is only the yellow book population, and there are hidden households among the people."

"There are not a lot of hidden households in the people, and since the promotion of official learning, every time the official education is promoted, many hidden households can be identified."

For example, the population of the north this year, the Yellow Book records that there are only 26 million people in the six provinces of Shanxi, Shaanxi, Hexi, Henan, Shandong, and Liaodong, but what about the reality?"

Bi Ziyan said to Zhu Youzhen: "Your Highness, there are actually 35 million people in these six provinces, and counting the Northern Zhili, it is close to 43 million. ”

"At present, seven provinces, including Sichuan and Duogan, have not yet begun to publicize official studies, and there are already many hidden households who have gone to the local yamen to register and make records."

"These seven provinces have only 22 million people on the Yellow Book, but in fact I am afraid that 26 or 7 million people can be found."

"These two six or seven million people are five or six million households, even if they have only one child in each household studying, that is five or six million students, although the burden on the dynasty is not too great, but if you add Huguang and Fujian, it is not necessarily."

Saying that, Bi Ziyan looked at Chengde: "In the tenth year of the Apocalypse, the population of Huguang has risen to 9.72 million, and Fujian has 4.41 million. ”

"Among them, some are recluses, and some are newborn children."

"The population of these two provinces together is more than 14 million, nearly 3 million households."

"Even if there is only one child in each household attending a government school, there are nearly three million people attending the government school, and 100,000 students are needed to teach and build at least 3,000 government schools."

"The construction of the official school will require at least 1.5 million taels, and the teaching and training will also occupy 1.2 million taels of the annual expenditure of the dynasty."

Bi Ziyan's tone softened: "This one after the other, it is an expenditure of nearly 2.7 million taels. ”

"If there are still hidden households, then I'm afraid this expenditure of three million taels will not be able to stop."

"Although the government has made financial profits in recent years, it has also spent a lot of money, and the national treasury is only looking abundant, but it is actually weak and empty......

Although his tone was softened, Bi Ziyan kept looking at Chengde, obviously he knew very well why Chengde was questioning and why he wanted to keep opening official schools.

Zhu Youzhen wanted to dig the roots of the gentry, but Chengde had to prepare for the students of Yanshan.

It is impossible for him to let Yanshan's students become unemployed after graduation, and the government school, which requires tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of jobs every year, is targeted by them.

What Bi Ziyan can perceive, a person like Zhou Yanru can naturally perceive, but he doesn't care at all, because he has no conflict of interest with Chengde, and he can't deal with Chengde.

The only person who can deal with Chengde is Zhu Youzhen, who is sitting under the "General Map of Kunyu under the Great Tomorrow".

"Okay......"

When Zhou Yanru thought that only Zhu Youzhen could clean up Chengde, Zhu Youzhen also spoke.

As soon as he spoke, the three of them withdrew their gazes and lowered their eyes for him to speak.

"It is true that Huguang is densely populated, but after several migrations, Fujian's population has plummeted from 10 million to more than 4 million, and the maximum number of children in need of government education is one million, and the number of children who need education is only more than 30,000."

"That's it......" Zhu Youzhen came up with an idea and continued:

"Hong Chengchou gave me a lesson, guaranteeing that with Huang Fei's cooperation, he could destroy all the Tusi in Donghu in three months."

"Since this is the case, then prepare to migrate by land and sea from Guizhou, Yunnan, Sichuan, Guangxi, Guangdong, Fujian and other places."

"Don't publicize the affairs of official education first, first publicize the matter of immigrants to Donghu."

"In the near future, I will meet with Brother Huang, set up Luchuan Province, and Luchuan Political Envoy."

"The household department is responsible for publicity, and since October, those who voluntarily relocate to Luchuan will be given 20 acres of mature fields according to the number of heads, regardless of gender, old and weak."

Zhu Youzhen once again activated the policy of distributing ripe fields, and he still distributed 20 acres of mature fields by himself.

You must know that the ripe fields in Luchuan are only more than 30 to 40 million mu, and according to Zhu Youzhen's method, the Ming Dynasty will move up to 2 million people to the past, and all the fields in Luchuan will be divided.

"Your Highness, in this case, Luchuan can move up to two million people, and the local people ......"

Bi Ziyan frowned and asked Zhu Youzhen, but Zhu Youzhen said: "The hundreds of local Tusi tribes say that there are only three or four million acres of cultivated land, but maybe there are more?" ”

"The extra land will be cultivated by the local people, if it is not enough, then when the imperial court has settled the people in the northeast, it will send tractors to the people of Luchuan to cultivate."

"......" Zhu Youzhen's words made the three of them silent, everyone knows that the number of immigrants in the Northeast is increasing, and it may take four or five years to really settle down.

In four or five years, the local people in Luchuan have been able to reclaim millions of acres of cultivated land by themselves.

Moreover, the people under the rule of Tusi did not have arable land, which led to the fact that after Tusi was destroyed, all arable land went to the hands of the Ming army, and the Ming army had to distribute arable land to immigrants.

In this way, the local people have no land, what can they do?

Needless to say, they can only become a member of the Ming Dynasty to work for relief, receiving a daily salary of ten wen to build Luchuan, and there is not much time to reclaim new arable land.

At that time, four or five years have passed, and when the tractors of the Ming Dynasty began to be distributed, it is estimated that they have already learned the official language and Chinese characters among the perennial laborers and become part of the Ming Shaomin.

Everyone could see what Zhu Youzhen thought, but they didn't dare to pierce it.

"After the recovery of Luchuan, it is also necessary to repair the city with work for relief, and the Ministry of Industry will prepare to build enough official schools according to the needs of Luchuan in the next ten years."

"In this way, the government schools that need to be built next year will be temporarily set as Luchuan, Fujian, and the five provinces of Modong, Beishan, and Donghai.

Zhu Youzhen decided the matter in a few words, although this is far from the hundreds of thousands of official learning and training places expected by Chengde, but the official learning and teaching places in these five provinces can also have 30,000 or 40,000, compared with the 3,000 places in Bi Ziyan's mouth, 30,000 or 40,000 places are not bad.

"The subordinate officer receives the order......

"The subordinate officer receives the order!"

Chengde took the lead in nodding, Bi Ziyan could only reluctantly return the salute when he saw this, while Zhou Yanru saw that both of them nodded, and he also nodded, and no one could be offended.

Looking at the appearance of the three of them, Zhu Youzhen had no expression on the surface, but he was unhappy in his heart.

But he had no choice, Daming's cake was made bigger by him, but there were more people who wanted to share the cake, so he could only sit in the position of King Qi and constantly balance all parties.

"Stand down, Bi Ziyan stays."

Zhu Youzhen waved his hand to Chengde and Zhou Yanru retreated, leaving Bi Ziyan alone.

Cheng De and Zhou Yanru got up when they heard this, but compared to Zhou Yanru's hurried retreat, Cheng De glanced at Bi Ziyan before slowly leaving.

This scene was seen by everyone, and Zhu Youzhen didn't say anything, but asked Bi Ziyan after Chengde left:

"How many people does the country have at the moment? And how many young people? How many laborers? ”

"Back to Your Highness......" Bi Ziyan replied respectfully, and then said:

"At present, there are 149,350,000 people and laborers in the national dynasty, and 24 million young people, Yingzhou occupies the majority, followed by Jiaozhi, then the old port, and finally the southwest."

"As for the number of labourers in the book, there are more than seven million three hundred and sixty thousand four thousand."

Bi Ziyan gave a general overview of the population situation, which made Zhu Youzhen frown a little.

According to Bi Ziyan's words, the young people from all sides have accounted for two percent of the population of the Ming Dynasty.

If the Ming Dynasty includes Luchuan, which may have five or six million people, and Wusizang, which has nearly one million people, then the proportion of Shaomin will further reach nearly thirty percent.

Although the Han people have a strong ability to assimilate, judging from the current situation, it is still possible that some territories will break away from the rule of the Ming Dynasty when the Ming Dynasty is turbulent.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen is ready to issue a new policy.

"Decree the feudal domains, from now on, the relocation order will add the young people, if you are willing to move the young people, you only need to pay one or two migration silver."

"Then send an order to Jiaozhi, Yingzhou, and Jiugang provinces, if there are young people and men who learn the official language, they can be allowed to move to the feudal kingdoms and grant ten acres of land."

Zhu Youzhen wanted to use some means to relocate the young people's men, and this relocation place was the vassal state of the feudal domains.

Although there are many young people, they are the faces of East Asia after all, and for the vassal kings who want to go to Leviya and India to serve as vassals, the faces of East Asia are more trustworthy than the local natives.

As for whether the young people will migrate? Zhu Youzhen is not worried at all, especially Yingzhou, which has the most men.

When those Yingzhou men who only had one acre per person learned that they could go to India as Ming people to work in Levia as Ming people, I am afraid that they would not need Yang Wenyue to do it, and they began to study abroad on their own.

As long as the vassal king makes proper use of it, he can completely use the men of Yingzhou to quell the local rebellion.

As for whether the men in Yingzhou will go down? Then we have to see if they can use their bodies to block the guns of the Han arch guard camp in the hands of the vassal king.

In short, this hand is played, and Zhu Youzhen doesn't believe that this group of people will not leave......