Chapter 211 Daming New Economic Experimental Zone
Negotiation......
Then there will be only negotiations.
In fact, everyone understands that this bureau was not done by Yang Feng himself.
Their supreme commander-in-chief also has a part.
The imperial grandson also has a share!
Since this is the case, everyone is still entangled in a fart, it is nothing more than acting with others.
So in the end, after Ambassador Yang's intermediary, the people of Shanxi also agreed, which is also very reasonable, the last time it was mainly Taiyuan Prefecture and Pingyang Prefecture that participated, in fact, Pingyang Prefecture also had several prefectures and counties that did not participate for various reasons. And Zezhou Luzhou also has Datong Mansion, which is also considered Shanxi, these are not involved, even if Datong Mansion is not counted, more than a quarter of the remaining Shanxi population has not been elected to participate.
And the military households did not participate.
Since it is to be popularized, then all the people should participate.
Finally, a new round of the conference was confirmed.
The emperor himself was very satisfied with this, and believed that this method also set an example for dealing with some things in the future, first, without the need to die, and second, without spending money and food, and to resolve disputes peacefully.
Enough to set an example.
Of course, it will take some time for these leaders to converge in Kaifeng.
And they also have conditions, such as the previous free grain for all fields, such as the division of land by military households, these are the real key issues, especially the later issue of land division by military households, which involves the national policy of the Ming Dynasty. However, Yang Feng had been lobbying Zhu Yuanzhang to revise the military household system, and simply asked Sister Liu to pass on some records of the erosion of the military household system in the later period of the Ming Dynasty, and directly let the imperial grandson show it to him. Lao Zhu was also a little shaken, in the final analysis, the reason why he maintained the military household system was to reduce the burden on the people, but if the financial situation was rich and the burden on the people was not heavy, then it was not impossible to revise it.
However, the price is that the generals are dissatisfied, after all, this will affect their interests.
But it's just dissatisfaction.
After all, they have their own fields, their own income, and they are all in business.
Zhu Yuanzhang did not prohibit military households from doing business, and it was very common for military households to do business in the early Ming Dynasty, and there was no separate business registration at this time, and civilian and military households could do business, so it was very common for generals to do business.
The rest of Juntian is very simple, in fact, His Majesty the Emperor is also happy to take this opportunity to divide the land of the big landowners in Shanxi, this incident, let His Majesty the Emperor also see that the big landowners in Shanxi still have a certain strength, this must be cracked down, just now the people are going to divide the land, and they will no longer listen to them, so they will forcibly divide the land.
Let's see what you do in the future.
It is indeed difficult to do free grain, but after all, Shanxi is only two million stone a year, which is only equivalent to one-fifteenth of the Ming Dynasty's annual income, and if Yang Feng can pass economic reform, Shanxi's industrial and commercial tax revenue will exceed this figure, which is also acceptable.
Moreover, Shanxi's tax grain is mainly supplied to the garrison of Datong, as long as Yang Feng can guarantee to solve this problem.
Other provinces follow suit......
Let's take a look at Shanxi's reform first!
If Shanxi can develop industry and commerce through Yangfeng's economic reform, industry and commerce will ......
That can be promoted!
His Majesty the Emperor collects taxes to collect grain, even if industry and commerce develop, they still buy grain and pay taxes, and food security will have no impact, but will force merchants to open up wasteland. After all, if you really buy grain and pay taxes, it will inevitably lead to an increase in grain prices during the tax payment period, so for businessmen, instead of buying grain and paying taxes, it is better to open up wasteland and grow grain and pay taxes.
As for the manpower needed to open up the wasteland, that involves another issue.
You can use slaves!
Yang Feng has already done this in Huining.
Of course, it was not Yang Feng who did it, in fact, the development of Huining was managed by green slaves, and she had already introduced this advanced model, the generals of Fusang's guards bought Japanese slaves from the southern Wa Kingdom, and the guards of Longquan Mansion sold Korean slaves to the reclamation team, but at present, they are mainly women.
The women around those reclamation team members were either Japanese women or North Koreans, and there was no problem of adaptation.
These women are very capable.
In fact, this plan is a partnership between Yang Feng and the imperial grandson, trying to create an economic experimental zone in Shanxi, not Yang Feng himself, Zhu Yunxi has always wanted to experiment with the new economic policy, but his grandfather strictly forbade him to do it in Jiangnan. Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the agricultural areas in the south of the Yangtze River very closely, and even regarded it as the bottom line, no matter how he did it, he couldn't move the grain production area, Zhili, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, including Huguang, this area could not be moved to him, which was the foundation of food security in the Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, we can only develop in Shanxi.
After all, this requires local food self-sufficiency.
Food self-sufficiency is a prerequisite for the development of industry and commerce.
There is not enough food to eat, and it is a fart!
Second, there must be an industrial and commercial tradition.
Shanxi is the most suitable.
From beginning to end, Yang Feng was not messing around, and he informed Zhu Yunxi of every step.
Of course, it may not have time to wait for him to agree and act completely autonomously, but this is an exchange, after all, Zhu Yunxi wants him to solve the second domain of Zhou and Jin, and he can solve these two dangerous uncles for the imperial grandson, but how he does it, it doesn't need the imperial grandson to care.
Capital.
Yang Feng stood at Longjiang Pass, looking at the new warship on the river......
Of course, he didn't have to open it all the time.
At this time, the altar was still being repaired there, including changing the Zhou Palace's mansion into the Song Temple, and Zhu Yuanzhang added a Song Xianzong to Han Lin'er......
Of course, don't overdo it.
Offering belongs to a very good name, but the Cao family started a beginning, it is reminiscent, but the name itself is excellent, so far the dragon and phoenix regime has been clearly recognized, that is, the continuation of the Song Dynasty, in history can be called the Later Song Dynasty, the Northern Song Dynasty, the Southern Song Dynasty, the Later Song Dynasty in the same line, similar to the Later Han Dynasty. Similarly, those ministers of the Longfeng regime were also recognized, including Zhu Yuanzhang's own Song Yitong Sansi, the prime minister of Xingtai Zuo in Jiangnan Province, Wu Guogong, and even the later King of Wu. Liu Futong, Mao Gui, Mr. Guan and others, and even Zhu Yuanzhang and his father-in-law Guo Zixing, all of them were Song Chen, although his father-in-law had been crowned the king of Chuyang in the Ming Dynasty, but at least he was still the marshal of the Great Song Dynasty when he died.
In short, these people were put together in this Song Temple to worship.
Including other emperors of the Song Dynasty.
Anyway, the Zhou Wangfu is very big, and the main hall puts the emperor and the ministers in the partial hall.
If you can find the bones of another tomb, even if you can't find it, even if you can't find it, Mr. Guan will set up a monument if you can't even find it, and set up a guard for the Song Temple in Kaifeng, and also guard the Song Tomb in Gongyi.
Enough face.
So now it's up to heaven.
As for the river god, of course, he returned to his Yellow River, but before leaving, he also made a suggestion to the Ming Emperor, that is, to rebuild the Yellow River north flow of the old road, divert the Yellow River water to restore the north flow, take advantage of the current sparse population in Hebei, especially the Song Dynasty along the old road There is not much population, so that the Yellow River north flow to prosper Hebei. At the same time, it reduces the maintenance pressure of the Yellow River, and also prevents the southward flow from continuing to block the mouth of the Huai River, causing the two Huai River to flood, and even the Hongze Lake continues to rise, and even the river god warns that in a few years, I am afraid that the Hongze Lake embankment will have to be repaired to prevent the lake from flooding Huaiyang. And even if it is repaired, it is useless, and in the future, as the sediment of the Yellow River continues to accumulate in the mouth of the mouth, this embankment will have to be heightened or even rebuilt every few decades.
Of course, he was just making suggestions.
Whether to adopt it or not, this is the business of Emperor Daming, after all, this project is too big.
However, this matter did try to do it in the Ming Dynasty, there was a minister in the Chenghua period, proposed to introduce Huang into the Wei to pass the transport, but was vetoed, at that time the capital was in Beiping, Hebei has long been densely populated, once the introduction of Huang into the Wei once broken, the flooding is the Ming Dynasty's Gyeonggi.
But these problems do not exist at this time.
The entire Hebei province of Jiapingjin currently has a population of only 2 million.
It's easy to make way for a river.
The only problem is that the embankment needs to be repaired, so this is a big project, but if we start working now, it will still take more than ten years to complete.
"Ambassador, the old man has lived for so long, and this is the first time I have heard that you can be allied with the people."
Liu Sanwu stood beside Yang Feng and said.
"Then you should be glad that you have lived long to see this kind of extravagance."
Yang Feng said.
"In this way, what is the way of the monarch and the minister?"
Old man Liu said very calmly.
"The people are precious, the monarch is light, this is what you Confucianism said, since the people are precious, is there any problem with respecting the will of the people? As for the way of the monarch and the minister, I remember that the monarch is not right, the minister votes for another country, the country is not right, and the people attack it is also what you Confucianism said, right?
Then where do you exist as kings and ministers? ”
Yang Feng said.
Old man Liu smiled but said nothing.
In fact, this situation is beneficial to them, which is also the reason why these civil servants do not make trouble.
In fact, under normal circumstances, as long as the result of this election is either them or the people they support, it is impossible to push out some thorns like before.
That is to say, if in the future, if the local election is really allowed to discuss such a major matter, it will definitely be the elderly villagers who control the situation.
That is, the gentry.
That's a good thing.
It's just that he was caught off guard by Yang Feng this time, but it won't be like this in the future.
In fact, the election of the head of the city in Zezhou and other places has begun to gentrify.
And what they diligently pursued before was nothing more than to compete for power from the hands of the imperial power, and now Yang Feng has come up with this set, which can just allow them to compete for power in the way of public opinion, of course, they can't oppose it. Even if it was because Yang Feng did it, he couldn't openly support it or even blame it, but he had to sit on the side and reap the benefits.
"Liu Gong, I heard that you are the chief examiner of this subject?"
Yang Feng suddenly said with a smile.
The new imperial examination has to be completed, but the main examination has already been decided.
"Exactly."
Old man Liu nodded.
"Then I wish you can choose some more talents for Your Majesty."
Yang Feng said.
So it's time for the North-South list to begin.
Although the situation has changed now, it should be very possible to say that this old man will make the South List again.
Teach a lesson to the northern ministers!
This time, come to Gong, what role did these northern ministers play, Old Man Liu, they are very clear, these northern ministers are obviously loyal to the emperor's grandson, so the northern and southern ministers are actually opposed, and it is strange not to teach them a lesson when they have this opportunity! What's more, as long as there is a break in one subject of the northern Wenchen, that is, the southern Wenchen will have hundreds of more official positions, and then form a huge advantage, anyway, Old Man Liu is already over eighty this year, and he doesn't care about accidents.
He has transcended all laws except conspiracy, treason, and murder.
And this is no longer a matter of the dispute between the princes.
It's a battle between the North and the South.
The factional dispute within Confucianism, this is even more serious than the dispute between the princes, after all, the dispute between the princes can change the court, and it is a big deal to no longer support Zhu Yunwen and support the imperial grandson.
But the dispute between the north and the south will not work.
You can't move north, can you?
The contempt of the southern Wenchen for the northern Wenchen is deep-rooted, one is that they were the first to follow Zhu Yuanzhang, and the northern Wenchen is considered a conquered in a sense in their opinion, and the other is that the Confucianism of the Northern Wenchen is indeed worse, after all, Hu has been Hu for a long time, and it is good to be able to read literature and ink, and they cannot be expected to have much knowledge.
Three ......
Orthodoxy, of course.
After all, after the change of my Great Song Jingkang, I traveled south in clothes, and those who stayed in the north were all scum.
The question of legitimacy is principled.
So it's not surprising that they came up with a South List.
Liu Sanwu didn't care, they continued to look at the new warship in front of them, this was the first new warship built by Yan Wang, that is, the ocean-going ship prepared for going to the Americas. According to the standards of the Ming Dynasty, it belongs to the 3,000-material sea ship, the ship type is of course the British-style Galen ship, the keel is made of iron wood, and most of the other parts are lychee wood, camphor wood, and the rudder is ebony wood.
It can be said that all of them are top-quality shipbuilding wood.
Fortunately, at this time, it was the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, and there was no shortage of these woods.
Especially after the defeat of Annan, there will be no shortage of iron power wood and the like.
In fact, Yang Feng really wanted Zhu Di to build a ship with golden silk nanmu, after all, at this time, the golden silk nanmu had not been repaired by him to repair the palace, and there were still a lot of them in Sichuan, and this thing should be able to be used for shipbuilding, and the Tang Dynasty used it. Such a golden silk nanmu battleship as the seat ship of King Yan of the Ming Dynasty, that absolute high-end atmosphere, although Zhu Di did not go to the Americas in person, but such a battleship as his envoy The effect is the same.
And in the future, it can be specially used to inspect those overseas subject countries, so that they can feel the power of heaven.
"My lord, these people still have some problems with the boat."
Yang Feng looked at Zhu Di who came over and said.
The new warships are soft sails and require long-term training.
"Ambassador, don't worry about the ship first, the imperial grandson is in a hurry for five hundred miles, let you hurry back to Kaifeng."
Ma He said with a smile.
"Well, what's going on, it's been less than three days since I came back!"
Yang Feng said.
"I heard that someone in Zezhou caused a fight because of the election of the capital, and also used firearms, and more than a dozen people died, and the emperor said that since you are the middleman, you have to deal with it at this time."
Ma He said.
"Ambassador, it seems that these Diao people are still stubborn!"
Liu Sanwu said.
"It is also called martial arts abundance!"
Yang Feng said.
This kind of thing is not uncommon, and it even belongs to his plan, after all, his purpose in doing this is not to let those old villagers control the people, and the importance of electing the head of the capital has long been spread among the people. The emergence of armed fighting is a good thing, which means that the common people really attach importance to it and have begun to learn to use force to protect their own interests.
(End of chapter)