Chapter 744: Da Ming: The Sprout of Capitalism
Now in the Ming Dynasty, the imperial power is stable and powerful.
Among the ministers, although there are no capable ministers such as Sanyang and Zhang Ju, nor are there any Confucian scholars such as Wang Anshi and Ouyang Xiu, but the current group of ministers of the Ming Dynasty are all capable and practical.
And hard-working.
Moreover, fame is paved by merit.
In the evaluation of later generations and the list of Qing Shichen, Hang Min's status will definitely not be lower than that of Zhang Juzheng in history, that is, Chen Xun, Bai Gui, He Jian and others have also become among the famous ministers.
Not to mention that there is also a Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty that was personally sealed by His Majesty Guang'an.
However, in terms of knowledge, there is really no one who can match Ouyang Xiu, Wang Anshi and the like.
Zhang Peng, Chen Xianzhang and others, after all, a lot of meaning.
Although many departments of the imperial court are sinking, with the construction of official roads, the imperial power will be further stabilized, and correspondingly, the centralized power of the Ming Dynasty is being further strengthened.
Therefore, in the second half of the fifth year of Guang'an, under the unified planning of the imperial power, various measures were implemented in an orderly manner - as long as the current issue of land annexation did not touch the core interests of the landlord group, no one was willing to argue with the imperial power.
As a result, the Ming Dynasty, which issued an additional billion Daming treasure banknotes, appeared in full swing in Guang'an in the fifth year.
Nine vertical and horizontal cement official roads directly responsible for the Ministry of Planning and Industry of the People's Republic of China, connecting many important towns, began to start construction, and the political envoys and local dignitaries went to Gyeonggi to take the Shenlong in Beijing-Taiyuan, and were invited to a banquet by His Majesty the Emperor Guang'an, and drank a meal.
In order to cooperate with the main official roads, a traffic cobweb is formed throughout the country.
After these feudal officials returned to their respective jurisdictions, they immediately looked for people everywhere to find money, and the Ming Dynasty has opened the sea for so many years, plus the landlords and elite groups themselves, there are already many rich people.
The official word has two mouths.
What's more, what the local feudal officials said, sometimes the weight is actually more effective than what Zhu Jianji of Gyeonggi said.
After all, the county officials are not as good as the current management.
As a result, those who have money contribute money and grain provide grain, and the political envoys all over the country have begun to build cement official roads for branch lines according to their own conditions.
In fact, on this matter, although the local magnates and rich people are in pain with money and food, they are not necessarily forced.
Because it's visible to the naked eye.
Once the official road is liked, there will be more ways for them to make money.
Some clever wealthy and powerful people, after handing over the money and grain to the local envoys, immediately sent people with higher status in the clan to Gyeonggi to find a permanent bicycle company, hoping to get the goods and transport them back to the local area for sale, and become a middleman.
There are also some people who go to the Royal Power Company in the hope of having a cooperation model.
Zhu Jianji has already instructed, so these people basically return with a full load, just waiting for the production and refining scale of rubber, and after the bicycles are mass-produced, they will be shipped nationwide through the cement official road, or they are preparing to lay the power grid locally, ready to be a power middleman, or they hope that after the mass production of electric fans, they will be a middleman of electric fans.
It's not just these two industries.
Basically, all the landlords, magnates, and wealthy people in the country know that the issue of land annexation must be moved, and whether the landlord group will win or the imperial power will win, and the current situation is not clear.
But the superstructure these people are not stupid.
It's good to win.
What about losing?
Therefore, I made preparations with both hands, did not dare to merge land on a large scale, and used more cash in other industries, especially those who have seen the Shenlong train, and feel that the convenience of transportation in the future will bring more business opportunities.
I started to play the idea of geographical differences.
With the influx of a large amount of capital into the commercial field, the commerce of the Ming Dynasty also developed wantonly in the second half of the fifth year in Guang'an, and the number of various commercial houses and large workshops skyrocketed.
In view of this situation, the Tobe side quickly smelled the smell.
Chen Xun hoped that the taxation departments under the Ministry of Households, such as the Criminal Department, the Dali Temple, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, would sink down to the county level to popularize taxation for industry and commerce.
Zhu Jianji naturally agreed.
He wants to let the landlord group of the Ming Dynasty go too far into capital, but he can't let the money be made by capital, and the state also needs to increase the revenue of the treasury through taxation, so that more money can be invested in infrastructure.
The construction of official roads and power stations requires a huge amount of money.
And if more capital collects enough taxes, then it can reduce the taxes of ordinary people, like the new China in the 21st century, not only can farming not only not pay taxes, but also grain subsidies, which will win the hearts of the people.
Of course, the current Ming Dynasty has not been able to do this, and the revenue method of the treasury is still a bit single at present, so the people still have to pay a little grain to the state for farming, which is the mainstream of the treasury income.
It is precisely because the grain tax is the mainstream of the national treasury revenue that the issue of land annexation has to be resolved.
Because the amount of steel needed for the country's commerce and industry is extremely large, the Ministry of Industry, which has been busy day and night due to the construction of official roads, the official houses of the sinking departments, university campuses, and the expansion of government schools, is once again facing challenges.
It is necessary to further increase the mining of iron ore and the smelting of iron and steel.
But the Ministry of Industry is indeed a bit stretched.
There is a serious shortage of manpower.
In the end, the Jiuqing and Zhu Jianji discussed for several days before they came up with a plan: to completely open up the mining resources of the Indochina Peninsula, and allow the commercial houses in the Ming Dynasty and even the local natives of the Indochina Peninsula to mine iron ore and coal mines in the Indochina Peninsula, and build a smelting plant.
After receiving the decree, the political envoys of the five major undertakings of the Indochina Peninsula immediately cooperated with the personnel of the Ministry of Industry to survey the mines under their jurisdiction and carried out an "auction" of the right to use the mines in accordance with Zhu Jianji's clear instructions.
Domestic capital is moving.
Fools don't go.
Although there are only ten or twenty years of mining rights, the labor cost of the Indochina Peninsula is low, and if the mined iron ore is smelted into steel, the state will buy it back, and the sales channel will not be worried, and the price will not be low, and the profit is huge.
If you buy a coal mine...... It's a bit risky.
After all, there is not much demand for coal mines now.
However, those who have seen the Shenlong train know that as long as the official road continues to develop, the demand for coal mines will gradually rise.
Even if the price will be squeezed by the state, it doesn't matter.
It's a big deal to go back and squeeze the miners.
Anyway, the miners are recruited in the Indochina Peninsula, not the people of my Ming Dynasty, who will feel sorry for them and give them a job to make a living, they should be grateful to Dai De.
Driven by a series of commerce and industry, the landlord group of the Ming Dynasty gradually found a way out of capital.
It's no longer confined to the land.