September of the second year of Yongle.

Within Shaanxi.

Jingyang, Sanyuan, Liquan, Gaoling, Lintong. Military households and peasant households in various localities were organized, and under the leadership of the local government, the largest flood canal weir in the local area was repaired.

The people were in full swing.

Women and children also hold up half the sky, and they cook and bring water.

An old man sits under a quiet tree, his head resting on his lap, as if asleep, squinting at the people resting at noon.

"Uncle Zhou."

"You're old, go back and rest."

The elderly over the age of 60 do not need to participate, the descendants of the village comforted.

In the Tatar region, there is a place called Wanzaida, where people in this area, when they are old, commit suicide and then be eaten, according to the local saying, they are buried in the womb because of the hard work of their parents, and they cannot bear to be abandoned in the mountains.

Because it was recorded in writing by the Ming people, it was passed down to future generations.

Da Ming doesn't have to be like this.

Unless the economy is bankrupt.

When the Ming economy went bankrupt, the lower limit was the norm in other regions.

The old man shook his head.

Life is rare for seventy years, and he wants to see more.

The descendants of the village brought food to the elderly, because they were repairing the canals for themselves, and the government was only responsible for providing rations, and would provide a batch of machinery and farm tools, but there was no salary.

The people of the village are not lazy.

If the labor force of any family dares not to participate, it will not survive in the village.

The large porcelain bowl is piled up with Shaanxi's special noodles, sprinkled with chili oil, which makes people have a great appetite, the old man picks up chopsticks and eats it in a big gulp, he never wastes food.

After eating, the old man burped pleasantly.

"Old."

When he was young, he could dry a big pot, but now he only has one bowl, which makes him panic.

The old man is a living history.

The old man got up from under the tree, cuffed up, and did not put away the bowl, as if he had forgotten, and did not know where he had gone.

"How come there is a bowl here?"

"Didn't Uncle Zhou be here just now?"

The passers-by did not care, picked up the empty bowls, and soon the people of the land began to work again.

Farming.

It's not just about sowing seeds.

The old man walked on the ditch.

There were not many teeth left in his mouth, and his shriveled face was like dead bark, and his steps became faster and faster.

"It's weird."

"That's Uncle Zhou, isn't it? Old Uncle Zhou is getting younger and younger, and he is walking faster than the next generation. ”

Someone saw the old man's movement and sighed curiously.

"Did you see my father?"

"Nope."

The two men asked around.

"See, they were all here just now, why didn't they disappear if they weren't careful."

The old man walked and walked, gradually getting tired.

He lived here all his life, and when he was a child, his family was very poor, hungry every day, and never knew what it was like to be full.

From the day of birth.

There are no ditches here, and there are pastures everywhere.

It turns out that this land, since ancient times, has been like this, the old man looked at the surrounding canals, one after another fertile fields, "It's a pity." ”

The old man sighed.

The friends who played together as children are now the only ones left, many friends have not grown up, and some people can't see the current situation.

In the past 100 years, since the conversion of fertile land into pastureland, the waterways of various fields have been completely blocked, the rivers have often not been brought under control, grain production has been reduced, per capita food rations have declined, and the population has regressed greatly.

Today, the people in the village are thriving.

There are children everywhere, and the daily activity is very lively, even making the elderly irritable.

This wasn't the case before.

Where is there so many people in the village.

Shaanxi in the Northern Song Dynasty had 1.5 million households, and Shaanxi in the Northern Song Dynasty was still a border area.

By the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, there were only more than 200,000 households in the huge Shaanxi.

In August of the first year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, he took the capital of the former Yuan Dynasty, and then went westward to recover the two provinces of Shaanxi and Shanxi, and the news was transmitted back to Jinling, Jinling was formulating policies, and in April of the second year, Shaanxi and Shanxi provinces were officially set up.

Plus the time of the march of the great army, the time of the message.

What does that mean?

The Ming army didn't fight any battles in the two places, so where did the population of Shaanxi go?

After a hundred years of governance, it was still in the interior of the Yuan Dynasty, and the population not only did not grow, but decreased rapidly, reaching the red line of extinction, and the productivity declined deeply, something unheard of in history.

The old man lived for more than seventy years.

He sat down on a lump of dirt and hammered his knee.

"A saint is so good."

The old man sighed.

They didn't know about Lao Shizi Daming at first, but later, the imperial court sent many officials to build water conservancy every year, and they also repaired it here, and many people complained about it at the beginning.

The ditch was named the Flood Weir.

Not only them, but also the neighboring counties of Jingyang, Sanyuan, Liquan, Gaoling, and Lintong have benefited, and they have heard that this ditch has irrigated nearly one million acres of fields.

I still remember the seventeenth year of Hongwu.

At that time, he was still doing things, complaining about the emperor's troubles.

Looking at the ditch under his feet, the old man's eyes were full of emotion, this ditch fed his family, his sons, grandsons, grandsons, grandsons, generations of generations will count on this ditch.

The sage is still right.

The old man couldn't help but think.

"The four babies of the old family, they have to quarrel to be soldiers, and they want to change their homes into military households, this baby has to fight, and now I see the benefits of being a military household, and being a soldier is to fight."

The old man has lived all his life and does not envy other people's military households.

He thinks it's not good to be a soldier.

"There are also dolls from the third family, but they can read, and they will tell the third child when they go back, as long as the baby can read, they will also be able to sell iron."

The old man thought about it.

A smile unconsciously appeared on the corner of his mouth.

A breeze blows.

The corners of the old man's clothes were blown off, and there was a patch of other colors, which was sewn for him by his daughter-in-law, and the needlework was intensive, and the workmanship was careful, and it seemed that a lot of thought had been put into it.

"Quack."

The frog jumped into the ditch and found several people in the distance.

"Daddy."

"Daddy."

"Grandfather!"

Several people were shocked, then wept bitterly, and knelt down in front of the old man.

——

Capital.

Mandarin Palace.

"In the seventeenth year of Hongwu, Emperor Taizu sent Guozisheng and talented people to all parts of the country to supervise the construction of water conservancy, which became a common practice."

The household department is still in the book, and it reports on local affairs.

It is necessary to sort out the acres of land and investigate the water conservancy and irrigation projects in various places.

"As of the twenty-seventh year of Hongwu, a total of 40,987 Tongtang weirs have been built."

"In the future, some of them will be sent to their own territory, some will rely on the help of neighboring counties, some will be supplied with materials by the government, some will be mined in the mountains, some will gather for labor during the slack time, some will be completed at any time, and some will be sent to the minister to supervise the completion."

From Hezhou Tongcheng Weir and Xing'an Ling Canal to Shanghai Hujiagang, Dengzhou Penglai Gehe River, Pengzhou Dujiangyan, Cizhou Zhanghe River burst embankments, and even Jingzhou Yueshan Dam was dug to irrigate the people's fields.

The technology of agriculture has been played with in ancient times.

Even the dare.

The rest of the places are not mentioned.

One of Shaanxi's super projects, the Hongqu Weir irrigates more than 200 miles of fields in Jingyang, Sanyuan, Liquan, Gaoling and Lintong, and is repaired in 31 years of Hongwu, and the dredging channel is more than 103,000 zhang, reaching more than 600 li.

Jingyang Hongquyan irrigates more than 8,400 hectares of fields in five counties, that is, more than 840,000 acres.

An agricultural project like Daming is nothing more than a project in Shaanxi, but it can feed the current productive population of the entire United Kingdom.

Zhu Gaochi couldn't help but think.

And such agricultural projects, Hongwu Dynasty, all parts of the Ming Dynasty, built and renovated for more than 30 years.

"Food prices need to remain stable."

Zhu Gaochi still insisted.

With the increase in acres of land and the bumper harvest in agriculture, the grain depots in all warehouses across the country are still full, even if they are used to supply hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians of the Western Expedition, the most difficult thing is the process of transportation, not the lack of grain.

Many officials spoke out on behalf of the people and demanded that grain prices rise, which also contributed to the clearing of acres of land in the whole country.

"The non-agricultural population of the Ming Dynasty is increasing, although it shows that the economic prosperity of the Ming Dynasty and the social division of labor are becoming more and more detailed, but there must be a crisis under the prosperity, and everything has two sides."

"The stability of food prices is the guarantee of everything."

Zhu Gaochi explained.

"No matter how poor you are, as long as you have land, you can eat your stomach."

"But those citizens who have completely left the land and fully integrated into urban life, if they go bankrupt economically, they will not only be poor, but they will not have enough to eat, and they will starve to death."

Hearing the words of His Royal Highness the Imperial Grandson, some people disagreed, and some people thought carefully.

Yu Xin frowned.

In society, the price of commodities has risen for a round, but the price of grain has not risen, and this year's grain price has a downward trend.

Yu Xin had heard of the policies formulated by the Cabinet and the grain banks, and he belonged to the group of opponents, who in their eyes were tantamount to looting the peasant and military households.

Zhu Gaochi shook his head helplessly.

It can only be said that they have not seen it, or they do not know enough about the way of economics.

The global economic crisis of the future.

China is the only one that has maintained a high degree of development.

In addition to the reasons for the Chinese model, most of the people who moved to the cities at the beginning were not completely separated from the countryside, and many of them were able to continue farming in their hometowns after losing their jobs.

Not in economically developed areas abroad.

Because they lose their jobs, they will really starve to death.

After many economic crises, economically developed countries have found out their experience, in addition to providing legal protection, but also introduced a relief meal system, etc., to avoid the recurrence of such a phenomenon.

There is such a thing in China.

In the era of economic bankruptcy, in those old industrial areas where the industry was particularly developed, the same large number of people had been completely separated from the land, and countless tragic things happened in the end.

With the current development of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Gaochi must consider these factors in advance.

You can't always know the hidden dangers yourself, but ignore them, wait for ten or twenty years, and then deal with them after the contradictions erupt, and the price you pay will be too great.

Beiping, Beijing, Shanghai these areas.

In a few years, there will be more people completely detached from the land than people think.

Therefore, grain prices must be stable, which is the foundation of economic development.

Otherwise, the faster the economy develops, the more unstable agriculture will be, and it will be a huge "bomb".

Soon.

Chen Heng, president of the headquarters of the Grain Stamp Bank, and Cai Wen, minister of economic planning and finance, came to the Wenhua Hall and brought the plan they discussed.

"The expansion plan for railway construction will not expand the number of workers in the next five years."

Cai Wen said directly.

"According to the data of the factories of the Daming Industrial Bureau, as well as the analysis of the development of the upstream and downstream industrial chains, the current productivity of Daming has reached the extreme, and it needs to be slowed down."

Zhu Gaochi flipped through it carefully.

This plan was proposed by him.

The productive forces of the Ming Dynasty are limited, and although there has been great development in technology, it has not broken through the society of the first industrial revolution, but it is only the revival and improvement of traditional technology.

The reason for the rapid economic development is that Zhu Gaochi adopted large infrastructure projects and railway projects, which are like a few cows pulling up in front.

From Peking to Beijing, from Beijing to the whole country.

"In the next stage, we will promote the development of private commercial banks, stabilize the foundation of the Ming Industrial Bureau, support the birth of new technologies, improve the domestic demand economy, and open up the combination of overseas markets and mainland markets."

"While giving policies to overseas commercial banks, we must also restrain them, obey the layout of Daming's national chess, and provide impetus for Daming's production."

Zhu Gaochi closed the booklet and pointed out the direction of the next stage.

Let's talk about it.

Daming's foundation is too thin.

The carriage can run with it, but it can't run for a long time, and now it is necessary to strengthen the frame, and only a brand-new frame can continue to run, and the economic development is also ups and downs.

The huge changes in the past ten years, Daming needs time to precipitate.

It is not only about digesting new land, but also about internal self-adjustment and optimization.

Chen Heng thought about His Royal Highness the Prince's thoughts.

This is the only way for him to sit firmly as the head of the grain stamp bank.

Only by understanding His Royal Highness's thinking can we keep up with His Royal Highness's thinking and formulate economic policies that meet His Royal Highness's needs.

The emperor had already defeated Timur.

The news reached the country and sparked cheers across the country.

And His Royal Highness the Crown Prince began to make a big move.

For two years.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince seems to have lost momentum, and everything is based on stability, so now, with the clarity of the war, it seems that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is about to launch a new move, so what is it about.

Domestic.

Still domestic.

Chen Heng figured it out, his thoughts revolved around the context of the domestic economy, and he immediately understood His Royal Highness the Prince's plan.

Sure enough.

Hearing that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince proposed to support private trading houses, and finally mentioned overseas trade, Chen Heng had no doubt that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had set his sights on the businessmen engaged in overseas trade.

Over the years, with the expansion of the Ming Dynasty.

Those failed businessmen who could not compete in China have gone abroad, from weak to strong, from scratch, and have become a considerable capital force.

Southeast Asia, East Asia, Central Asia, and even West Asia.

They are all there.

It's nothing more than collecting taxes.

Chen Heng couldn't help but smile.

His Royal Highness the Prince's words, you can't just listen to the literal meaning, you will definitely be taken to the ditch, and I don't know who His Royal Highness the Crown Prince learned such a routine from.

It's nothing more than those things that have rotten grains of sesame seeds, and after the mouth of His Royal Highness the Imperial Grandson, they have become very civilized.

As if not doing what His Royal Highness the Imperial Sun said is uncivilized.

"The minister believes that a more detailed policy should be formulated on bulk commodity trade, and the customs should not only count the data of bulk commodity trade, but also require the commercial banks engaged in overseas trade to take the initiative to submit data, and the tax department will review it."

Chen Heng immediately said: "Any commercial firm that falsifies data will be punished by more than three times and less than ten times, and in serious cases, it will be directly fined and confiscated and shut down." ”

Zhu Gaochi nodded with satisfaction.

"When you go back, carefully negotiate the charter along these lines."

What is the Ming Dynasty's huge navy used for?

It's used to make sense.

What's the reasoning?

The truth of the Ming Dynasty.

Merchants at home are subject to taxes, and merchants abroad are also subject to taxes.

Without relying on the strength of the Ming Dynasty, where did those merchants purchase goods, and why did they go to the vassal kingdom to do business? It's really your own ability, even if you have the ability, you have to obey the rules of the Ming Dynasty.

There is always something to be made up.

Since the railway project is to be stabilized and can no longer expand as much as in the past, the new impetus is nothing more than that.

The interests of the people must not be touched, and it is not yet that time.

To move.

Nature is in the interest of the merchants.

In these years, the stocking-like overseas trade, Daming will start to be on the head this year.

Day 2.

The organization founded by Zhu Gaochi in Beiping has been quiet over the years and has become the most powerless department in the Daming Industry Bureau system, and even many people don't know that there is such a place.

Overnight.

The major newspapers are advertising temporary help homes in difficult life.

"Any worker who has registered with the Ministry of Workers' and People's Unions can apply to the Temporary Aid Institute for Living Difficulties if he cannot find a job, his family members have no other income, and his family has no food, he or she can apply to the Temporary Aid Institute for Living Difficulties, and a certificate from the Ministry of Workers' and People's Unions is required."

"The temporary help center for those who are living in difficulty is provided with five steamed buns per person a day until they find a job and resume the time for family recovery."

I published careful regulations.

Even the weight of the steamed buns is uniform, and if the weight of the steamed buns provided by the temporary help center is not enough, you can file a complaint with the local government.

Meantime.

Only the group of workers who have passed the rank of the Ministry of Workers' and People's Unions have no income at home, and this income refers to the restrictions on the lack of land in their hometowns.

Today's newspaper has sparked discussion.

"Although Emperor Taizu abolished the prime minister, Emperor Taizu also knew that if he lost the support of the people, his emperor's throne would also collapse. Therefore, in the relationship between the king, the subjects, and the people, Emperor Taizu believed that the "people" was the "center".

Several scholars discussed.

"Emperor Taizu said: Lianwentian is born for the people, the king is for the people and serves the ministers, and the ministers are the king's hearts and ask the people, and it is appropriate to be in office. It can be seen that Emperor Taizu believed that the monarch and the ministers were set up for the people. ”

"Emperor Taizu said it was the will of heaven."

"The reason why Shinong and industry are willing to do errands, pay taxes and grain, so that officials do not raise silkworms, do not plough the fields, do not brave the cold and heat, have clothes to wear, have food to eat, and sit happily under the public house, is only to set up officials and duties for the emperor to protect his life."

"If the emperor's actions are improper, against the will of heaven, unpopular with the people, tamed to the extreme, and angry and resentful, there is no one who does not die, the official uses the people's money and food, does not distinguish right from wrong with the people, and reverses many disciplines, and encounters a lawsuit, and will do it or not, and if it is not done, it is such an unjust thing, and the ghosts and gods refuse to spare him, and he must be guilty."

"Emperor Taizu firmly believes in the creed of the people who are feared by the sky and the people who are feared, and he has acted like this all his life, which shows that Emperor Taizu loves the people deeply."

Later generations said that Zhu Yuanzhang betrayed his identity as a peasant.

But they forgot.

Zhu Yuanzhang must break away from his original identity in order to govern the country well.

Is it that the peasants have left the land, they must continue to be peasants, and the companies they founded are not considered to be separated from the original class, so how can they be founded?

I don't know what Zhu Yuanzhang did, the background of what he did, and what Zhu Yuanzhang said, and what his thoughts were.

Only "people's foot" can "make the country rich".

Only "people's security" can "national solidity".

Otherwise, there will be "chaos and chaos" and "disaster will come".

"To govern the people is to govern the water. Those who govern the water follow their nature, and those who govern the people follow their feelings. Human affection is not good for life and evil death, and punishment should be saved and rested to protect it. Don't get tired of the poor and like the rich, when the agriculture is heavy, the thin endowment is thick. Don't be bad at hard work, when Jian Xing does it, and the servitude is peaceful. If it is not used at the right time, and it is not used in its way, but it is suppressed by power, forced by force, forced by force, and begged to obey, it is like rushing water, not its nature. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang said so, and he has done so all his life.

It has been possible to examine the people's likes and dislikes, likes and dislikes from the perspective of people's "feelings", "sexuality" and "desires", and use this as the basis for formulating policies of provincial punishment, thin endowment, and light punishment.

How many officials can achieve such a moral character in later generations?

How many officials can take to heart what the people like and what they dislike, and formulate policies according to the ideas of the people?

In the XIV century, a peasant born in the Yuan dynasty.

has broken away from the backward concept of the old slave society, even if it is the limitation of the times, it is already the history of the Ming monarch before the new China, unsurpassed.

Therefore, many people are not satisfied with the temporary help for help in the newspaper.

Because of the hardships of life, the temporary help center is only for workers.

Scholars have also begun to discuss.

Compared with ordinary people, scholars can consider the overall situation and see the truth of this policy.

To put it bluntly.

Daming's productivity is insufficient, and it cannot take care of everything, so it can only start with the groups that need it most, rather than reaching all groups of people at the beginning.

First of all.

Some academics voiced their support in the newspapers, sparking even more discontent.

The winter of the second year of Yongle.

The Ministry of Household publishes data to the world.

Liaodong Province, Northern Parallel Province, Daning Province, Kai Parallel Province, Senan Province, Shanxi Province, Shaanxi Province, Western Regions Province, Yili Province, Shandong Province, Henan Province, Sichuan Province, Hubei Province, Hunan Province, Yingtian Province, Zhejiang Province, Jiangxi Province, Guangdong Province, Guangxi Province, Guizhou Province, Yunnan Province, Jiaozhi Province.

Twenty-two provinces and one capital.

It has a population of more than 100,536,000.

In addition, there are eight major divisions, including Nuergandu, Saibeidu, Dongchagatai (Anxidu), Usizangdu, Duogandu, Chamchengdu, Dayuandu, and Samarkand.

At the bottom of the newspaper, there is an inheritance tax decree.

If the amount of the inheritance is higher than $1,000 and less than $5,000 food stamps, 5% inheritance tax will be levied; If the amount of inheritance is more than 5,000 yuan but less than 10,000 yuan, 10% inheritance tax will be levied.

If the amount of inheritance is higher than 10,000 yuan but less than 50,000 yuan, 15% inheritance tax will be levied; If the amount of the estate is more than 50,000 yuan but less than 100,000 yuan, 20% of the inheritance tax will be levied.

If the amount of the inheritance is more than 500,000 yuan, 50% of the inheritance tax will be levied.

The world's commercial houses were in an uproar.

The common people couldn't help but sigh when they saw the newspaper.

The imperial court will really collect money.

But they didn't say anything on their own.

5,000 yuan.

Ordinary workers only earn more than 10 yuan a year, and they can only earn 5,000 yuan if they don't eat or drink for hundreds of years, and many small traders can't save 5,000 yuan in their lifetime.

The biggest reaction was from the big businessmen.

(End of chapter)