It took more than half an hour for Hang Min, Chen Xun, and Bai Gui to recommend the three main officials of Mobei who had already declared the political envoy to be established in the territory under their jurisdiction.

They are all elite middle and low-level officials drawn from the major domestic political envoys.

As for the capital corresponding to the secretary of the political envoy......

It is a matter for the Ministry of War and the Governor's Office of the Five Armies.

After that, Baekyu prepares to retire.

As a result, Zhu Jianji looked at the time and said, "Then let's have a meal together, let's have a drink." ”

An old father-in-law, an uncle, and a Ming God of Wealth, Zhu Jianji still wants to win them over, after all, as long as these three people support land reform and cooperate with Chen Xianzhang, a great Confucian, in the circle of scholars, the effect will still be very eye-catching.

After the meal, Zhu Jianji canceled his lunch break.

Get down to business first.

Baekyu retired.

Zhu Jianji, Hang Min, and Chen Xun drank tea and began to talk about the next thing.

First of all, the Ministry of Works.

Zhu Jianji said to Hang Min: "The current official road plan-" said to Dai Yi: "Spread out the Kanyu map of the entire territory of China, the Kanyu map of the Indochina Peninsula and the Kanyu map of Mobei." ”

After the spread out, Zhu Jianji took the two Shangshu to stand in front of the map of the whole territory of the Ming Dynasty, and said: "After this year, the Ming Dynasty will recuperate for three or five years, and these years are also the time for the comprehensive construction of domestic official roads. an official road from Kunming to Guangzhou; an official road from Chengdu to Suzhou and Hangzhou via Yuzhou and Changsha; an official road from Chengdu to Gyeonggi via Hanzhong, Xi'an, and Taiyuan; an official road from Hami to Gyeonggi via the Hexi Corridor and the Hetao area; It is also necessary to build an official road from Gyeonggi to Guangzhou through Wuhan and Zhuzhou; An official road from Lanzhou to the sea through Xi'an, Luoyang, Zhengzhou, Nanjing, and Wuxi. At the same time, in order to strengthen the control of the area along the Great Wall, priority was given to the construction of official roads from Gyeonggi to Xuanfu and Daedong. This is the general planning of the official roads in China, and then the important towns between the major official roads also need to be connected with each other. ”

In this way, a cobweb-like official road in a key town can basically be formed throughout the country.

Hang Min's brows jumped when he heard this.

Chen Xun had a splitting headache when he heard this.

This......

Your Majesty, you said for a while, it's easy to say, have you ever thought about how many official roads this is.

Kujo!

Nine official roads, plus the official roads that are linked to each other between important towns, roughly calculated, the Ming Dynasty will build nearly 20 cement official roads in three or five years, which is simply astronomical.

How many people are needed for this, and how much steel and concrete are needed.

Is there so much money in the treasury?

After this official road is repaired, I am afraid that in the next few years, the household department and the Ministry of Industry will have to be busy, especially the Ministry of Industry, almost all of them will have to plunge into these projects.

Hang Min said weakly: "It is impossible for these official roads to start construction at the same time, right?" ”

Zhu Jianji nodded, "Of course it can't be, there is not so much money, and there are not so many people, so the Ministry of Industry should choose a few priority construction plans according to the situation, there is a basic principle, the first few official roads, must be done from the role of connecting the whole territory of our Ming Dynasty, such as the starting point in Chengdu, Kunming, Lanzhou and Gyeonggi to Guangzhou, plus the two from Gyeonggi to Xuanfu and Datong, these are of great strategic significance, and the rest can be postponed." ”

Hang Min secretly said in his heart, it turns out that Your Majesty you don't have so much money and people.

shook his head decisively, "It's impossible, even these six can't be started at the same time, you need to choose the most important one or two days to repair first, and take your time behind the rest." ”

Zhu Jianji also knows that with the current economic volume and material output of the Ming Dynasty, it is indeed impossible to start too many infrastructure projects at the same time.

And there really isn't the money.

Said to Hang Min: "Anyway, the Ministry of Industry plans on its own, and when the time comes, it will be played on me, the matter of the people and funds, this is not something that the Ministry of Industry should worry about, and I will solve it." ”

Hang Min sighed, "That Weichen can receive the order." ”

Chen Xun said on the side: "That Weichen can't get the order. ”

No money!

After the construction of this official road, Daming will not have any surplus in the treasury in the next three to five years, and even have to make ends meet, and the Chinese have a conservative mentality.

I always feel that there is money in my purse to feel safe.

Chen Xun also thinks so.

Therefore, he will definitely not agree to empty the treasury to repair the official road at the same time.

Zhu Jianji knew what Chen Xun was worried about, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, it won't take a few dollars, don't forget, our Daming now has a huge back garden." ”

There are people in Indochina!

Chen Xundao: "Weichen knows what His Majesty means, in the Indochina Peninsula, you can recruit a large number of people to reduce costs with a meager amount of money, but don't forget, these official roads require a lot of cement, steel and river sand, and the cost of transportation is also extremely huge, several official roads are combined, the treasury cannot bear it at the same time, and the climate has been getting colder and colder in recent years, and our crop yield——"

Zhu Jianji interrupted him, "Shu knows that he is about to enter the Xiaoice River period, but the crop yield is not declining, but rising, otherwise we have skyrocketed by tens of millions of people, are we all drinking the northwest wind?" ”

I have to say that it was prescient to establish the Ministry of Agriculture in advance to develop agricultural planting.

The population of Daming has almost doubled!

In this way, there has been no food crisis in Daming so far, and sweet potatoes have played a certain role, but the biggest role is the research and development of agricultural scientific planting by the Ministry of Agriculture, and under the vigorous promotion, food production has been greatly improved.

But if the population continues to grow so dramatically, the food crisis will always come.

So land reform is urgent.

Without land reform, it will not be possible to promote the people's enthusiasm for planting, and it will not be possible to make more land reach the use value - the population density of the Ming Dynasty is still very thin.

There are many places where pits can be opened, but they have been deserted.

Chen Xun was silent.

This is His Majesty's merit, and he can't refute the fact that he has in front of him.

Zhu Jianji continued: "As for the cost of transportation, it will be greatly reduced, I will give the Ministry of Industry some design drawings in a few days, and the Ministry of Industry will set up a special team to quickly tackle key problems and produce equipment for river sand excavation and screening, and the transportation of river sand - in this way, the Ministry of Industry will set up a special production plant, and at the same time open a number of production lines of neat transport vehicles, and strive for a monthly output of 20 units or more, so that it can be put into use in the construction of official roads across the country." ”

"That's fine, but then there's a problem, the demand for steel and coal will increase dramatically, and we need to continue to mine and plant the number of steel mills to meet the growing demand in the country," Hang said. ”

Zhu Jianji nodded, "Coal mining and steel smelting, the focus is on the Indochina Peninsula, and the coal and iron ore in the Indochina Peninsula will be used as much as possible, after all, that place, I dare not guarantee, will always be my Ming Dynasty's back garden." ”