"I owe 200 million taels, and the interest is not counted. If you want me to pay it back, borrow another 40,000!"

Xu Jingchang held a teapot in one hand, stood tall, and read crooked poems aloud to the wind.

It happened that Miss Huang came over with a fox fur and put it on him, for fear of freezing.

Xu Jingchang smiled: "You say, do I have the wind of Li Taibai now?" Like a merry man? ”

Miss Huang glanced at him, "Like, remove the two words, it's even more like." ”

"What two words?"

"Maniac!" Miss Huang said unceremoniously: "Your Majesty has a heavy responsibility, and everyone in the world is looking at Guogong, but you are so out of tune now, are you really not afraid of accidents?" ”

Xu Jingchang smiled and said: "You are wrong, I have no choice now, and the conventional strategy no longer works." Even if there is a mountain of gold in front of me, I have to find enough people to dig for me! Actually, the courtiers and your majesty have made a mistake, and they ask me for money, thinking that I will put the silver in front of them...... That's 200 million taels, where can I get it? ”

Miss Huang was taken aback, "What are you going to do?" ”

"Actually, just change your thinking, I just need to make Beiping into the appearance of the capital, and be able to carry His Majesty to the north, it is enough."

Miss Huang frowned a little, turned Beiping into the capital, and got 200 million taels to build Beiping...... Does it make a difference?

She really couldn't figure it out, didn't it cost money to build Beiping?

She couldn't figure it out, but she wouldn't ask more.

"In short, Guogong knows in his heart, you are a southerner, and Beiping is cold, don't freeze. It's better to go back to the house and rest as soon as possible. ”

Xu Jingchang nodded, Beiping is indeed much colder than the south,

So let's hope those people can survive!

Who are the people Xu Jingchang is referring to?

That's right, when Xu Jingchang transferred the land of the guard, he left a back door...... Because he carefully calculated, even if the land in the north was converted into a farm, it aroused the enthusiasm of the military households.

However, it is also impossible to take out enough grain for trade on the premise of maintaining the living standards of military households.

Not at least initially.

So after thinking about it, Xu Jingchang made a decision, that is, to take the captured Duoyan Sanwei people, as well as those smuggling merchants, and the uncooperative guards and generals, including their families, as well as Beiping, all the captives were reduced to slaves, and let them serve as hard labor, farming and logging, and developing Beiping.

He knows the consequences of doing this, and there will definitely be constant attacks from the government and the opposition, even if he has a strong background, he may not be able to withstand it.

Zhu Di may not go all out to protect him.

But when this matter is linked to the relocation of the capital and the annual income of the national treasury, Zhu Di has no choice.

You must know that once Zhu Laosi recognizes something, it is quite axial.

Xu Jingchang can just rely on Zhu Di's protection and let go.

Of course, the one who acted as the vanguard for him was also the Han King Zhu Gaoxu.

Xu Jingchang took advantage of the good weather, took a tiger shooting car, came out of Beiping, went straight to the northwest, and arrived at Huailaiwei. A Sanggan River, right next to it, is fed by river water, and the land on both sides is very suitable for farming.

Zhu Gaoxu was inspecting here, and when he heard that Xu Jingchang was coming, he urged the horse to come over, and complained to him: "It's like this every time, you enjoy it in the back, let me resist the wind and snow, you are too unauthentic." ”

Xu Jingchang smiled, "Your Highness's ability is here, I am ashamed, I am afraid of causing you trouble." ”

Zhu Gaoxu snorted coldly, "Don't talk about those useless ones, I'll just ask you, how much labor can you get me?" ”

Xu Jingchang said: "You can have as much as you want!" ”

Zhu Gaoxu was taken aback, "Impossible! ”

"Why?"

"The reason is very simple, if you count all the captives and criminals, there are only thirty or twenty thousand people, and many of them have to go to Daning to build a field and renovate the Great Wall, where can you get so many people?"

Xu Jingchang suddenly smiled faintly, "Really? His Royal Highness King Han, you need to open your mind, don't you have people? On the steppe, Liaodong, Goryeo, Waguo, and even Annam! As long as you can afford the price, how can there be a shortage of people? ”

"You? What do you mean? Zhu Gaoxu was surprised, and looked at Xu Jingchang stupidly...... Even if he had done a lot of calculations, he didn't expect that this surnamed Xu would play so fancy?

Zhu Gaoxu looked around, had to pull Xu Jingchang up, and when he got to his tiger shooting car, the two of them sat down, and then he leaned over and said in a low voice: "Cousin, what are you planning, you can tell me the bottom!" Otherwise, I don't feel at ease. ”

Xu Jingchang also smiled: "So far, I have also said that the cost is just the result of conversion...... For example, grain is not necessarily transported from the south, and if it is omitted, a large amount of money can be saved. ”

Zhu Gaoxu frowned and said, "What you said is good, but the north does not produce much." How many people are there in Yingtian? More than a million, move the capital to Beiping, Beiping is afraid that there will be more than one million people, where do you get so much food? You're not afraid of forcing the people to rebel? I can warn you, if you really get to that point, I won't do anything with you, I'm afraid I'll get caught in it. ”

can make the always bold Zhu Gaoxu panic, which shows how dangerous this thing is.

Xu Jingchang smiled: "Don't be busy yet, listen to me...... It is absolutely impossible to let the common people farm and produce grain and feed millions of people in Beiping. But if you plough the fields with slaves, things seem to be different! If the slaves don't make money, you won't shout about me! ”

Zhu Gaoxu hesitated again and again, and suddenly he seemed to understand as if he had been struck by lightning......

As a shrewd businessman, Zhu Gaoxu is very good at settling accounts.

The reason why the nine-sided military households fled was that the output was too small, the taxes were too high, and the oppression was too ruthless, and they couldn't survive...... But how much is the land rent around Beiping?

Thirty into five out of three.

It is far less than the horror ratio of more than 50% in Jiangnan, and even in Suzhou and other places, it can reach an astonishing 70%.

With this ratio, the common people can't stand it.

Why is this so?

The reason is not complicated, in addition to the harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, the common people also have to support their families, have children, and marry daughters-in-law to bury the elderly...... In short, let them live like people, and if they can't, they will flee.

But what about these people who were reduced to slavery?

First of all, they certainly don't have to be responsible for exacting taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and they don't want to have children, because they are guilty of crimes, and they have nowhere to run, so they can only work honestly and work on the farm.

A strong laborer can cultivate almost thirty acres of land...... That's why there is a saying that there is a cow on 30 acres of land, and the wife and children are hot on the kang. This is the ideal life of a yeoman farmer.

And a slave in the prime of life, squeezing hard, is estimated to be able to cultivate about forty acres, even if it is calculated according to thirty acres, around Beiping, in a year, there can be an income of twenty stones.

Twenty stones of grain can be given to the slave two stones as rations, even if it is a great grace of heaven.

In other words, if you use slaves to plough the fields, you can take out ninety percent of the grain, use it as commercial grain, and enter the trade market...... Do the math, how much is the difference between this and the rent of ordinary tenant farmers?

Not to mention homesteaders.

"When there is a surplus of food, we can feed more artisans...... The conditions for setting up workshops around Beiping are very good, not to mention anything else, in the Kaiping area, there is kaolin for firing porcelain, and we can copy the Jingdezhen set to Kaiping...... On the steppe, North Korea, and the Wa Kingdom, all need a large number of porcelain, and how much tax revenue can be contributed by this alone? There are also timber from Liaodong, port wharves from Tianjin, coal and iron from Yongping, and livestock from Daning......"

"Say no more!"

Zhu Gaoxu suddenly interrupted Xu Jingchang's words, and his whole person was immersed in a huge shock, counting that he was not young in Beiping, except for galloping on horses and fighting out of the fortress, it was wind, sand and bitter cold...... He really didn't think that in Beiping, there was so much wealth.

And the reason why it was not developed is not that Xu Jingchang is a genius and the ancients are waste.

There is no shortage of eyes in this world that can find wealth...... But there is one problem, and that is food!

If you want to build an industry, you need people, many, many people. When so many people are gathered, we need food for everyone, and we need food.

And at the current level, transporting grain from other places cannot meet the huge gap at all, even if the power of the Ming Dynasty is exhausted, at most it will support a Beiping City.

Xu Jingchang opposed the relocation of the capital, which is why Beiping really does not have the conditions to become the capital at this moment.

"Brother Xian, if you use slaves to plough the fields, you will inevitably freeze to death and die of exhaustion, right?"

Xu Jingchang nodded, "Indeed." ”

"If you do that, you'll probably be ruined, right?"

"Possibly."

"Then will someone immediately find trouble and punish the crime with the law of the Ming Dynasty?"

Xu Jingchang shook his head, "This one definitely won't ...... After all, this is supported by His Majesty, and those who are slaves are not human beings! ”

Zhu Gaoxu was shocked, it stands to reason that he is a ruthless person, after all, he was killed from the battlefield, and he thought about killing his uncle back then.

But if you want to treat tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people, not as adults, Zhu Gaoxu still can't accept it.

After a long time, he said slowly: "What if these people make trouble?" ”

"Suppress it with the guards and military households, if these wastes can't even control the slaves who are not familiar with life, then they should also act as slaves!"

Zhu Gaoxu nodded again, "Then can you settle accounts with me, how much money can you make by doing this?" ”

Xu Jingchang said: "This account is not difficult to calculate, for example, a thousand households, with an annual output of 20,000 stone of grain, can support about 10,000 craftsmen...... I can ask the imperial court to encourage merchants to come and set up workshops, even for five years, tax-exempt. People came, workshops were opened, towns were raised, and markets prospered. As long as the property is enough to supply hundreds of thousands of people, it is not impossible for His Majesty to move the capital, and I can make a plan for moving the capital in fifteen years, which is not difficult. ”

Zhu Gaoxu was silent for a long time, and suddenly laughed, "I said Brother Xian, are you planning and waiting for this day?" ”

Xu Jingchang smiled, "Don't think so badly of me, I'm for the so-called, after all, this thing has been done, and it is also good for your Zhu family's world." ”

"Really?" Zhu Gaoxu frowned.

"This is natural, after all, after the abundance of products, the forces that the imperial court can mobilize will come up, and it will not be a problem to deal with the Tartars. The Ming Dynasty may be able to achieve a great cause that has not been achieved in previous dynasties. Your Royal Highness the King of Han can also accumulate the wealth of the sky, and the wealth is not a problem. ”

Zhu Gaoxu gritted his teeth and suddenly smiled: "Since you said that, do I still have a choice?" ”

"Absolutely!" Xu Jingchang said unceremoniously.

"What?" Zhu Gaoxu was puzzled, "What do you mean?" ”

"I mean, if you don't dare, I can talk to King Zhao, or tell Zhu Zhanji!"

"No way!" Zhu Gaoxu was furious, "This is my business, no one wants to rob it!" ”

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