The stone steps in front of the main hall of the Wenhua Hall are wide and smooth, showing the solemnity and majesty of the royal family. On either side of the stone steps stand two tall bronze lions, which are majestic and majestic, as if they are the patron saints of the royal family.

Xu Ning, who was in his forties, slowly walked up the steps.

August of the ninth year of Yongle.

The Daming Railway Engineering Department had a nest case, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Jinyiwei, the Criminal Department, and the Investigation Department jointly enforced the law, settled in the Daming Railway Engineering Headquarters, and carried out the entire picket activities, and the Daming Railway Engineering Department panicked.

The benefits are moving.

Those officials are like wolves and tigers, eager to overturn the Daming Railway Engineering Department, investigate the bottom of the matter, and become their political achievements in promotion.

Fifty knows the destiny of heaven.

Since Xu Ning was young, he was recognized by the little prince and prepared to set up the Railway Engineering Department. Xu Ning couldn't remember it.

Time flies.

The Ministry of Railway Engineering has become a behemoth, and the Railway Operation Group, which has been separated from the Railway Engineering Department, is also a giant of the Ming Dynasty.

After years of hard work and trouble, Xu Ning's hair has turned gray.

According to the regulations of the imperial court, the railway engineering headquarters is the three-product yamen, so the big treasurer Xu Ning is the third-grade member of the imperial court, and the envoy of a province is only the third-grade, and the political envoy is the second-grade, which is equivalent to the level of the feudal official, and the position is high and powerful.

"Shopkeeper Xu is here."

The eunuch came in softly and asked.

Zhu Gaochi withdrew his gaze from the map and nodded.

The official eunuch hurriedly withdrew from the Wenhua Hall and brought in Xu Ning.

on the map.

It is the map of the Ming Dynasty, as well as the map of the world that was detected, and there is a gap between it and the maps of later generations.

The Ming on the map.

The entire northern region, and the northeastern region, belonged to the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

west to Qazvin.

Qazvin is a city in later Iran, located in the north of Iran, the capital of Qazvin Province, the capital of the Safavid Dynasty in the 16th century, a famous cultural and historical city, and an important post on the Silk Road.

The Ming army's sphere of influence did not set foot here, and only reached the Mashhad region two or three thousand miles away.

But so.

Timur's grandson sent envoys to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty and accepted the canonization of the Ming Dynasty, so it was included in the territory of the Ming Dynasty and became the most distant vassal state.

Then the southernmost one.

Even if it is not obedient, the Burmese and Siamese Xuanwei Divisions also belong to the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

Yongle Dynasty in history.

The Strait of Malacca not only has the vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, but also the old port propaganda department set up by the Ming Dynasty, and the current Ming Dynasty has not established the old port propaganda division in the local area.

With such a huge territory, what is needed is governance.

What means can be used to implement governance?

Let Chinese civilization shine in the world?

This requires more patience and means.

The West will also fake.

The rise of sea power in Portugal, Spain, and Britain has had many drawbacks in the process, but it is undeniable that it has also achieved great success in the end, and it is worth learning from other civilizations through hundreds of years of alternating development.

In their process, they have a lot of things that can be used for reference, which are all valuable assets of Zhu Gaochi.

Zhu Gaochi needs to take it out.

Or combined with the national conditions of the Ming Dynasty, after a change, make better use of it.

Abandon each other's dross and learn from each other's essence.

Even in Japan, it is worth paying attention to.

Only a nation that is good at learning will have a great future.

Luckily.

The Chinese nation has been good at learning since ancient times.

Historically, there have been a lot of techniques learned from outside, as well as species brought back.

Barbarian, Yi, Hu, chieftain, king.

The ancients had an accurate division.

Because of the backwardness of the world in the early later generations, the advantages of Chinese civilization no longer existed, so some descendants sensitively said that the ancients were too arrogant and did not take the surrounding tribes into account.

In fact, those kingdoms that are worth learning from, the ancients did not miss.

But so.

Look at the world.

Many tribes around the Ming Dynasty, in the process of decay, did not have much to make the Ming literati sigh, only barbarism and backwardness, very few places and kingdoms, can give China help.

On the contrary, in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, those Westerners who could cross thousands of miles to the Ming Dynasty had some of their own things, just like the great cannibals of the year, so they came into contact with those talented Westerners, and the literati of the Ming Dynasty took the initiative to learn a lot, and the two sides had long-term and in-depth exchanges.

Through the organizational strength of the Ming Dynasty, it is currently implemented in Samarkand and the South Seas region in the form of early investment.

But so.

Ran into some big problems.

Zhu Gaochi looked at Xu Ning with a respectful face.

The construction of railways is a major infrastructure project that can stimulate the economy, but what is needed is money, and behind the money is the support of productivity.

Being able to invest 100 million to build a railway does not mean that the imperial court can spend 100 million on real money.

A turnover of 100 million is different from a cash of 100 million.

"I heard that you support the proposal of splitting the Ministry of Railway Engineering."

Zhu Gaochi said with a smile.

Xu Ning heard Zhu Gaochi's smile, got out of the chair again, stood up, and said seriously: "The scale and volume of the Railway Engineering Department should indeed be split, and the current scale, the system of the Railway Engineering Department, can no longer be adapted. ”

Zhu Gaochi understood what Xu Ning meant.

The split of the Ministry of Railway Engineering has long been controversial in the imperial court.

The number of official railway workers in the Ministry of Railway Works reached 1.2 million.

Even in the thirties of the twentieth century, the total number of railway workers of all kinds in the country was only 230,000. The number of railway workers in the Ming Dynasty is not only more than five times larger, but the age structure also tends to be rationalized.

Although the number of illiterate railway workers in the Ming Dynasty is large and the level of education is low, the age group of railway workers has an advantage, and they can be divided into different categories according to the variety of jobs, the management department, the workplace, the level of skill and the nature of employment.

However, like the government at that time, the railway workers also implemented an eight-hour workday, but only for regular workers at the Daming Railway Engineering Headquarters.

But what's the matter.

The territory of the Ming Dynasty is too big.

Especially in the border environment, railway workers have many risks in their work, such as traffic accidents, rampant robbery, hostile forces that destroy the tracks, and risks in railway construction.

The Ministry of Railway Engineering and the Railway Operation Group will be given a certain degree of delegation of force.

Seeing that Xu Ning was indeed sincere, Zhu Gaochi was very satisfied, and handed the constitution of the Ministry of Railway Engineering to Xu Ning, which was discussed by the cabinet.

Xu Ning opened it and took a look.

According to the charter, the number of railway workers will be expanded to 1.5 million within two years and 2 million within five years.

It's a huge plan.

It is divided into three major railway engineering departments.

The Ministry of Railway Engineering in China, the Ministry of Railway Engineering in the seven western provinces, and the Ministry of Railway Engineering in Nanyang.

The Ministry of Railway Engineering in China is mainly structured with the current Ministry of Railway Engineering, the Ministry of Railway Engineering in the seven western provinces with Samarkand and Yili Province as the main region, and the Ministry of Railway Engineering in Nanyang is mainly based on Cochin, extending to Laos, and plans to build a horizontal railway in 20 years.

Where does the money come from?

Xu Ning looked questioning.

Money is not worth much, the support behind the money is everything.

Xu Ning understands this truth, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has already put forward this theory in Beiping, and he has been doing it for 20 years, but as His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said, everything has a degree.

Xu Ning doesn't think that Daming has such ability at the moment.

Especially in the unstable environment in the west and in the South Seas, even the Japanese state is still engaged in small-scale wars, although under the intervention of the Ming Dynasty, there is no current trend of expansion.

The country is too big.

Every time I move troops, there are too many involved.

Oh, yes.

Where does the money come from.

Zhu Gaochi looked at a blank report on the desk.

The report expounds a new economic theory, although the text description is different, but it coincides with the proposal of later generations of domestic scholars, and has some commonalities.

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Twenty-five years of Hongwu.

Zhu Gaochi shouted out the people-oriented development concept in Beiping.

It's not a slogan.

What does it mean to be people-oriented?

Respect for the common people.

Don't treat the common people as grass mustard.

What does grass mustard mean, grass mustard refers to the dry grass on the side of the road, a section of dry grass, the ancients used it as a metaphor for worthless things that are not enough to cherish, which can be trampled on and discarded at will.

Nine years of Yongle.

Twenty years have passed in the blink of an eye, twenty-one years.

The social studies in the township and the county school have been on summer vacation.

The young students returned to their hometowns, and during the busy farming season, the children worked hard in the fields.

It's a hot summer.

Agricultural machinery has become widespread in the north, and in addition to some small households who still guard their homes, they are still using traditional farming methods and cannot afford to use agricultural machinery.

In the south, agricultural machines are also emerging, but due to the difference in the planting environment, most places still use manpower, but the price of agricultural tools with large sickles is affordable for many farmers.

In just half a month, the children have tanned and lost several layers of skin.

But so.

Everyone smiled with relief.

It's been a good year.

Schools for the children of workers.

On the archway of the school, a pattern of boxes was posted, and the name of the class was written on each box, and teachers and students crowded around to find the name of their class and see where it was arranged.

Participation in social activities is not a slogan.

Reading is not pleasure.

The school has its own agricultural machine, which is taken out of the storeroom and distributed to the classes, ensuring that everyone has it.

Tiny scythe.

Twenty years ago, it was a lot of money, but now it is not only cheap, but also affordable for the people, and the increase in the production of various agricultural machinery factories has been used daily.

Many people's homes will not even be reluctant to discard them, and they will replace them with new ones in two or three years.

The new farming tools are not only easier to use, but also easier to use.

Each class, under the guidance of the instructor, left the city by bus, and then stepped on the land of the suburbs to go to the liaison guard station, where they worked with the military uncles.

The children complained bitterly.

Farm work is hard.

However, participation in labor is a compulsory subject in school.

The activities that began at the prefectural school are a lesson that has been stable and unchanging.

Students in some areas of the north are enthusiastic about using agricultural machines under the guidance of military households.

Especially pushing sickle carts.

There is a certain danger in pushing the sickle cart, and the military households do not dare to let it go for the children to use.

The teachers were on hand to educate the children.

The machines in the books are like this, and how are they used by the military households.

Respect for schools and husbands is engraved in the bones of Chinese, even in modern wars, aspiring warlords will respect their husbands in their own territory and build schools on a large scale, such as Shanxi.

Instead of repairing the yamen, the school was renovated, a tradition that has been passed down for thousands of years.

The Ming Dynasty was a corrupt official, and when he returned to his hometown, the first thing he did was to invest money in the local social studies.

After a full month of labor, the students return to school and then go home for the rest of their summer vacation.

Most of the working-class families are dual-income workers.

After the children regained their strength, they went crazy in groups of three or five in the city.

in the building.

The man who spoke the lame Daming dialect greeted the neighbors warmly, and in the evening, I don't know who was in the alley, and placed his bamboo bed in the corner.

Under the shade of the big trees, the neighborhood gathers here.

On the left is where the men play chess, cards, tea and chat, and on the right are the women fanning their fans and discussing their children.

Men who trespass into women's crowds will be defeated by women who speak obscenities and are more rude than men.

People chatted about the next three ways.

Children chase fireflies, dragonflies, girls arrange flowers, grab cloth bags, hopscotch.

The red sunset provides light to this world.

The man tried his best to blend in with the neighbors.

"You Goryeo heard that it is going to be attached?"

"I don't know."

The man is reluctant to talk about such topics.

The king of the north died, and the eldest son of the king of the north inherited the throne, and there were indeed rumors about this, but the king of Goryeo and the king of the south of Goryeo were not very willing, and the specific situation was not known to the man.

It has been half a year since he moved to Daming with his family, and a lot of domestic news has lagged behind.

His land was sold to a merchant of the Ming Dynasty, and he half-gave up his identity in the two classes of Goryeo.

So he is not short of money.

The neighbors only knew that the new neighbor was very rich, and he also went to this person's house as a guest, and his belongings were very extravagant, but they did not know that this person was a lord of Goryeo, and faintly deduced that the other party was not an ordinary person.

At night.

The man called his child.

He has five sons, and his daughter is married.

The eldest son stayed in Goryeo as an official, the second son died of illness at a young age, leaving orphans and widows, and was also brought to the Ming Dynasty by him, the third son died young, and the fourth son joined the Ming people in Goryeo to set up a trading house, and the youngest son was only nine years old.

"I've got the charter in place for you, and you can enroll next month."

The man said solemnly, not easy-going outside.

The child is afraid of his father.

The man explained something.

With his status, it is not easy for his children to enroll.

He finally maintained a good relationship with his neighbors and obtained a joint guarantee, which was a condition for entering the school, which was not like this when he was in Goryeo before, and the local people were afraid of him like a tiger.

In order to facilitate the management of his own slaves and tenants, he used it to kill chickens and monkeys, and directly contaminated with at least one slap in the face.

When the Ming Dynasty was founded, Zhu Yuanzhang issued an order to abolish slaves, but left a gap, designating the high-ranking nobles and vassal kings who founded the country, as well as the royal family, to use slaves, and the rest of the people were not allowed to use them.

Goryeo next door was not canceled.

So there were a large number of slaves and hermits in Goryeo.

If the local people saw that the lord on their head was so kind in Daming, I am afraid that they would be shocked and speechless. (End of chapter)