Fengyang.

"This is the current Yellow River, this is the Yellow River before Du Chong excavated Li Gudu, and as long as the Yellow River is still taking over the Huai, then we must face the long-term decline of Henan.

The bursts of the Yellow River again and again have made the people in the hinterland of the Central Plains miserable.

The impact of the flood and the siltation of sediment after the receding water made the entire richest plain of the Northern Song Dynasty impoverished, and the water of the Yellow River poured into the Huai River flooded along the Huai River, and the sediment that also accumulated in Hongze Lake also made the bottom of the lake gradually rise and form a serious threat to Huainan, so that Huaiyang had to rely on dikes to protect it.

It can be said that Henan, Shandong, and Huai are all deeply affected by the Yellow River.

The solution is actually quite simple.

Taking advantage of the sparsely populated Hebei now, he simply tried to guide the river to resume its northward flow.

Once. ”

Yang Feng looked at the map hanging on the wall and pitched his big project.

Of course, it is purely a PPT project.

The purpose is actually very simple, take advantage of Zhu Yunxi's youth and encouragement, find him some grand ambitions, let his blood surge, and let him be full of imagination for the future......

Flickers!

It's just a flicker!

Through flickering, he made him a national teacher in Zhu Yunxi's mind.

As for whether it is feasible......

In fact, it's not a pure brain hole.

Because the Yellow River is the most reasonable in terms of interests, the north flow is the most reasonable, and the south flow has destroyed too much, so it can be said that there is no benefit, after all, the Yellow River has always been the north flow since ancient times, although there is more than one way to flow north, but the general trend of the north flow has not changed. The southward flow is only artificially caused, after Du Chong dug the Yellow River, the north and south entered more than 100 years of confrontation, no one cared at all, and the capital was in the north when the Yuan Dynasty came, of course, it was impossible to re-lead back to the north.

Besides, the original dream of the Mongols was to turn the Han land into a steppe.

In the later period, the river was only for transportation.

But for the Ming Dynasty, the southern flow of the Yellow River was the most unprofitable.

Beiliu is right.

Once the Yellow River resumes its northward flow, the prosperity of Luxi and Henan is restored, the problem of the imperial tomb is solved, the problem of flooding of the Huai River is alleviated, and the problem of siltation at the outlet of Hongze Lake no longer exists, and even the main canal can be excavated, so that Huai'an, Xuzhou and other places will also restore prosperity.

The only problem is that the diversion process will cause havoc on the people of the new river.

But......

There's no one there!

The restoration of the Yellow River in the Northern Song Dynasty is to let the Yellow River be inserted diagonally from Zhengzhou to the north into Tianjin, mainly flowing through the regional Weihui Mansion and the Daimyo Mansion and Hejian Mansion, and now the population of these three prefectures adds up to hundreds of thousands, so it is necessary to move in advance. With the current administrative capacity of the Ming Dynasty, it is fully capable of completing the migration in this area, and this diversion must be to go through the Wei River, and before the diversion, the embankment on both sides of the Wei River can be built in advance to make arrangements. Although there will be some costs, but it is much stronger than the average in the future to face a break in Henan every two years, the Yellow River in the Ming Dynasty broke twice in three years, and in the later period, it was broken every year, and it was not uncommon to drown hundreds of thousands at a time.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the whole of Xuzhou was gone.

Moreover, the Yellow River is destined to flow north, and it is better to lead it artificially than wait for the next copper tile box.

You must know that the drowning of the copper tile compartment alone and the subsequent famine death will be tens of millions of dollars.

In this way, taking advantage of the current small population in the north, Nu worked hard to carry out a major project, and compared with the entanglement with the Yellow River in later generations, it must be the former cost-effective.

Of course, the luck was broken.

Because the northern section of the Wei River is now a canal.

Once the northern flow of the Yellow River is restored, it is necessary to rebuild the Cao Yun system of the Northern Song Dynasty, that is, to connect the Luo River and open the stone gate into the Yellow River water system, but now the Cao Yun is already broken, and the Luxi side is still silted.

So there is no such problem.

Moreover, the maintenance cost of the Beiliu channel is extremely low.

Because the entire downstream section can be completely ignored and broken at will, which is why the Tang and Song dynasties were not really entangled by the Yellow River until the Han Dynasty, while the Ming and Qing dynasties regarded river governance as the top priority, which required a huge amount of money every year, and the effect was limited. Because in the case of the Yellow River flowing north, the downstream can only break to the east, that is, to flood in the direction of Bohai Bay, that is, the area between the modern Yellow River and the Haihe River, and there are few people in this area of the Ming Dynasty.

From the northeast boundary of the mountain to the Haihe River, the entire north and south are nearly 200 kilometers, and there is a Yanshan county town on the vast land of more than 100 kilometers from east to west.

It's all salt flats.

Drown.

Moreover, even if this river breaks to the west, it is actually a wetland water network at this time, and the entire eastern part of Hejian Mansion in the Ming Dynasty is pasture.

Bandits are rampant, water networks are dense, and people are sparsely populated.

Therefore, the length of the Yellow River that needs to be maintained after flowing north is almost half of the length of the south flow.

It can be said that in addition to the shocking world, this is almost the most perfect solution, spend ten years on both sides of the Wei River to leave enough width, then build two embankments, and then connect to the north bank of the Yellow River, and finally solve the dam in one go, the specific location is still around Yangwu. That place is now a Yangwu and a Yuanwu, the two county towns face each other across the river, the twenty-fourth year of Hongwu Yuanwu Break, is now the Yellow River, Hongwu fifteen years Yangwu Break, so it already has the necessary conditions for diversion.

"However, the human and financial resources required for this are huge, especially the need for a large number of people, which can be said to be a huge consumption of national strength."

Zhang Xianzong said.

"Then it depends on how it works."

Yang Feng said with a smile.

Zhu Yunxi looked at him with obvious excitement.

Obviously, the ambition in the heart of the imperial grandson has been aroused, which is much more exciting than fighting, artificially redirecting the Yellow River, beautifying it can be said to recreate the mountains and rivers, especially this is the original ancient direction of the Yellow River, then his grandfather expelled the Tartars to restore China, and he directly rebuilt the mountains and rivers.

A grand narrative is always easy to make a teenager's heart surge!

"First, the men cannot be conscripted, all the manpower is employed, and the wages must not be less, and the wages for food and shelter shall not be less than the harvest of the fields they have cultivated at home for a year.

Second, all the materials needed are procured from the private sector and at reasonable prices.

Third, the migrants not only had to pay for the construction of houses and resettlement by the imperial court, and for the cultivation of cattle and seeds for the land, but also had to pay sufficient compensation. ”

Yang Feng said.

"How much does that cost?"

Zhang Xianzong said in astonishment.

It is said that you have to hire hundreds of thousands of people, and His Majesty the Emperor even prostitutes the officials in vain, so he pays to hire hundreds of thousands of people, which is simply a fantasy.

"Isn't the money printed?

As long as you conquer the Wa Kingdom, get gold and silver mines, and produce a lot of gold and silver, money is not a problem.

Instead, we need to spend money.

When the time comes, the question is how to spend money reasonably. ”

Yang Feng said.

Indeed, the most important thing at that time is not that there is no money, but how to spend the money, with the current situation it is estimated that next year, the Ming Dynasty will take the Iwami Silver Mine and Zuodu Island, and the silver mines in Liaodong have begun to be mined in small quantities this year. So at most, when Zhu Yuanzhang died, the Ming Dynasty would not be short of silver, and at that time the free exchange of treasure banknotes could be released.

It is not destined to last.

Originally, he designed for Zhu Yuanzhang to survive the first few years, wait for the large-scale mining of Iwami Yinshan and Zuodu Island Jinshan, and then gradually open up free exchange.

Transfer gold and silver coins.

Freely convertible gold and silver double standard.

And this time period should be after Zhu Yunxi succeeded to the throne.

Zhu Yuanzhang also imagined this, as soon as his grandson succeeded to the throne, he would let go, so as to buy the hearts of the people.

However, after there is more gold and silver, how to turn the increased currency into economic development requires a big project, and this grand project of rebuilding mountains and rivers is carried out in the form of state investment. To put it simply, Zhu Yunxi printed money, hired people with banknotes, purchased materials, and then released the free exchange of gold and silver coins to ensure that the treasure banknotes would not depreciate.

But copper coins can't be let go.

Because it is necessary to keep enough bronze cast cannons.

The common people are paid to increase their spending power, and the same large-scale state procurement will also lead to the rapid development of private industry and commerce......

Roosevelt's New Deal.

Junior version of Cairns.

The emperor realized his grand plan, and the common people got real money, solved the trouble of the Yellow River for future generations, promoted private industry and commerce, gave birth to the Ming version of the capitalist, and the Ming Dynasty entered a new era.

Of course, there are also those who are simply giving.

The Japanese people are paying, after all, they have to mine for the Ming Emperor.

Only the world where the Japanese people are wounded.

In fact, they also got it, after all, they got the protection of the Ming Emperor, although they lost the gold and silver, but they got the grace of heaven! To be content, to be grateful, in short, to be able to mine for the Ming Emperor is their glory, they can work hard in the silver mine, and then feel their glory under the protection of the Ming Emperor, imagine the rapid change of the Ming Dynasty, they should be proud of being under the protection of such a great emperor.

So they also get what they deserve.

Yang Feng's explanation made Zhu Yunxi's eyes suddenly brighten......

It's okay!

"Your Highness, money must flow in order to create value, Your Majesty's agriculture-oriented, although it can indeed be said to be long-term, but it can only be said that after the troubled times, in order to recuperate, it is a last resort, although he may think that this is his ideal society.

But he was wrong.

The future belongs to business and industry.

It is true that the foundation cannot be shaken, but what we need is for the tree to grow upward, spread its branches and leaves, and even bloom with flowers, into a cluster of flowers, rather than a very strong trunk all the time. You need to reform his things that are not suitable for the times, encourage commercial circulation, encourage industry, loosen the ban on household registration, let go of the movement of people, and no longer limit the status to occupation.

These are all musts.

Of course, you also need to establish a better tax system.

In particular, the taxation of industry and commerce.

This way, while spending money, you can keep recovering it, and then my bank will take deposits and lend you money, and the taxes and loans will add up to keep you financed. In fact, the taxes of the Ming Dynasty were really too low, but the taxes on agriculture must not be increased, because the grain produced by the peasants is the basis for maintaining all this, so we must give agricultural support. Encourage land reclamation, encourage new agricultural technology, and encourage the introduction of improved seeds, so in the future, we have to go to the Americas to get new seeds, but these new crops need to be improved for a long time except for sweet potatoes, which can quickly realize their value.

This is not immediate.

In short, the agricultural tax should not be increased, and the peasants should be rewarded for growing grain.

The main source of tax revenue is then shifted to industry and commerce.

You have to be able to collect taxes. ”

Yang Feng said.

"Excessive taxes?"

Zhang Xianzong was speechless.

As a Fujianese, of course, I support industry and commerce, but while supporting industry and commerce, I also increase all kinds of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes to industry and commerce, which is difficult for people to like.

"What kind of taxes are we having? Ever heard of the window tax? In the future, the most powerful country in Taixi, Britain, used to collect a window tax, and the tax was charged as much as there were a few windows, which caused the country to block the windows, and until our time, there were still many such old buildings left in their country. Ever heard of the beard tax? Four hundred years later, Peter, the most powerful monarch in Russia, whom they called the Great, collected a beard tax, and men had to pay a tax if they wanted to grow a long beard. Have you ever heard of a tax on a woman's chest covering her chest? A later monarch in southern India forbade pariahs to wear clothes on their upper bodies, and their climate there was similar to that of the South Seas, which was not cold, and they could not freeze to death without clothes.

But if you want to cover your chest, you have to pay taxes separately.

Exorbitant taxes and levies?

Haven't you seen what it means to pay taxes and miscellaneous taxes?

Ever heard of pre-collection? In later generations, there was a warlord scuffle, and some local warlords collected taxes for 80 years in order to collect money.

Since ancient times, I have never heard that there is a tax on, and now there is only fart and no donation.

This is a harsh tax.

The Ming Dynasty did not need to collect harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, that is, all the commercial taxes in Kaifeng in the Northern Song Dynasty were collected, and a huge amount of income could be obtained in one year.

What's more, in the future, there will be taxes on opening up overseas trade, and we will have a sky-high price for a broken porcelain plate to get to the sky, and the price will increase more than a hundred times, so it is very reasonable for us to charge twice the export tax, right? Imported spices are wild trees all over the mountains in the place of origin, picked casually, as cheap as sand, so it is so expensive to sell in our Ming Dynasty, and it is very reasonable for us to collect some tariffs, right?

You have to pay taxes!

In other words, there is not even a decent tax agency now, and we had a special tax office in the township at that time.

At that time, the most powerful law enforcement department in the most powerful country was the tax department, and even robbers had to pay taxes, and it was clearly stipulated that the proceeds of theft and robbery must pay taxes, so the first thing the robbers did after discovering that they might be caught was to hurry up and pay taxes, because the punishment for being caught by the government was not as heavy as tax evasion.

On the contrary, if you do not pay the tax, the tax department will send troops with cannons to the door. ”

Yang Feng said.

Zhu Yunxi and Zhang Xianzong looked at each other.

At this time, there was a series of scolding outside, accompanied by the sound of horses' hooves and the shouts of women.

Zhang Xianzong opened the door.

"Ambassador Yang, Miss Zhang is here!"

He said.

Yang Feng went over unexpectedly and looked at Zhang Ying who was outside.

The latter was being stopped by the guards.

"Yang Feng, the princess asked you to go back quickly, Ying Tianfu copied your factory, arrested many workers, said that it was a lie to confuse the public, and in addition, your night school was sealed, and your righteous girls were not allowed to go down the mountain, saying that they were immoral."

Zhang Ying, who saw him, hurriedly shouted.

"Damn, this is a blatant provocation, when my extraterritoriality is an ornament?"

Yang Feng said angrily.

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