"There are two warehouse officials in the household warehouse, and you are three people."

"Each of the three of you is on duty in the warehouse every day, and the other two are responsible for following the houses where the money and grain are withdrawn to check below to see if the money and grain withdrawn are implemented."

"If it is not implemented, if you report it once, you will get a year of paid leave."

"This leave is usually used by officials to take the imperial examination, and only those who are admitted to the examination have the possibility of serving as the chief official."

"However, it is only possible to be a student, and if you really want to be 100% sure of serving as the chief officer, you have to take the examination to raise people or jinshi."

"Do you understand all this?"

In the Yamen of Nandian County, Gao Guan took Zhu Zhanyan, who was not much different from him, to walk around in the yamen.

After walking around, I finally took him to the door of the warehouse managed by the house.

At the door of the warehouse of the house, there are two teams of small flags of the Terracotta Division stationed, and there are also Terracotta Divisions patrolling all around.

"The house is an important place in the county, so it is surrounded by a wall that is three feet high and three feet wide."

As for Zhu Zhanyan, these two officials who served as warehouse officials were not blind, although Zhu Zhanyan's skin was dark and rough because of Hailaoer's edges, but the temperament on his body looked like everyone's children.

"At present, the Central Plains Railway began to be built, Shaanxi, Henan, and Shandong have railways, and even Sichuan, Jiaozhi, and Yunnan also have railways."

"Introduce yourself, I'm leaving."

When the words fell, Gao Guan took Zhu Zhanyan to the door of the warehouse and raised his hands, accepted the inspection in front of everyone, and walked in.

When the two saw Gao Guan bringing people over, they didn't have to think much to know that this was their new comrade.

He turned Zhu Zhanyan's passbook and handed it to Jiang Huai, who was on official business, but still glanced at it.

After finishing what he had to do, Gao Guan went to return the passbook to Zhu Zhanyan, and left the warehouse afterwards.

"This place is fifty steps from east to west, sixty steps from north to south, and there are two warehouses of money and grain, the money depot occupies no more than half of the area, the grain depot covers an area of seven points, and the remaining one point is a patrol road."

Unless there was first-hand information, no one would have thought he was here.

Gao Guan communicated briefly, and the two hurriedly nodded in response.

Gao Guan said, Zhu Zhanyan also took out a small folded book, the outside of the book is thin leather, and there are hot out number numbers on it.

"Identity, is it?" Jiang Huai closed the passbook, with a slight smile on the corner of his mouth:

"Keep it secret for the time being, and when the people in the yamen are familiar with him, then disclose his fake identity, so that he can also experience the experience gap."

"High Warden!"

Because of this, after opening a passbook and depositing money, it takes three months at the earliest to withdraw money from non-local banks in the two capitals and 16 provinces, and at least half a year to withdraw money from non-local banks in Nanyang, and as for the west of the Manraka Strait, it takes six months to a year.

In the previous issue of "Daming Daily", it was also clearly published that the prince was on the border of Hailaer.

These booklets are sent to local banks on the 25th of each month, where they are registered and sent to provincial and national banks for records.

Zhu Zhanyan was studying quietly in the warehouse, while the city of Beijing, thousands of miles away, was filled with the smell of gunsmoke.

"Register your passbook number with me, then take your passbook to me at the end of each month to get it stamped, and go to the bank the next day to get it."

"Amazing ...... indeed"

Soon, they began to take Zhu Zhanyan to adapt to the working environment of the warehouse, and Gao Guan also found Jianghuai with Zhu Zhanyan's passbook.

"You take him with you these days, and when you think he can, let him be on duty alone in the warehouse and go to the construction site with the car."

Seeing this, Gao Guan also looked back at Zhu Zhanyan: "I'll take this passbook first, and I'll bring it to you before I leave." ”

These banks vary from a few days to a year.

"Although the Changji Railway is only 200 miles, the railway construction in the northeast is far ahead of the country, and in comparison, the railways in other places have made no progress."

Seeing this, Gao Guan didn't say much, but just registered Jianghuai's passbook on the books of the county government and the government office.

For example, if someone only opens an account in this month, it will take about a month to reach the head office, and the head office will collect the documents and distribute them to more than 2,400 banks across the country.

"Yes!"

Gao Guan took the passbook and walked to the door of the warehouse with Zhu Zhanyan, and there was a table and two warehouse officials who were guarding the warehouse.

"Don't say it's you in this place, even I need to check it."

"You ......" Gao Guan smiled bitterly, but Jiang Huai smiled and lowered his head to deal with government affairs.

"This is Guo Yan, a native of Tianfu, and he will be a warehouse official like you in the future."

He walked into the study, opened the passbook and sighed a few times: "It is worthy of the person who came out of that place, look at this deposit ......"

Without figuring out his background, these two warehouse officials would not easily offend Zhu Zhanyan.

30,000 guan, this is almost the annual tax revenue of some large counties, even if it is Longchuan Mansion with a population of more than 300,000 yuan, its annual income is only 80,000 guan.

"Xie Gao, Officer." Zhu Zhanyan made a salute, and there was no prince's frame.

Of course, except for Jiang Huai, Zhang Bohai, Wang Xuan and Gao Guan, no one in this place knows that he is the crown prince.

Jiang Huai couldn't help but shake his head, and Gao Guan also said:

"After close contact with him, his momentum looks like a superior person, and I secretly took a look after I left the warehouse, Liu Jin and Zhou Ji are very respectful to him, and I am afraid that they will not target him until they figure out his identity."

"The warehouse does not provide money and grain at night, so you only need to open the lock at the end of the day and lock it at the end of the day, and work for seven hours a day, and pay the monthly money on the last day of the month."

Normally, however, merchants are aware of these rules, and there is no need for the common people to know them, after all, the people's money is the most stable, because they rarely leave their place of residence.

Leaving a word, Gao Guan left with Zhu Zhanyan's passbook.

The passbook clearly records the eight-digit capitalized number, although the unit is a text, but the conversion has reached as many as 30,000 yuan.

"In this case, it is reasonable to consider the railways of the provinces south of the Yangtze River first, such as the construction of a railway from Wuchang to Ningbo."

"I have calculated this railway, starting from Wuchang, connecting with the future Huguang Railway, passing through Huangzhou, Jiujiang, Nanchang, Raozhou, Chizhou, Taiping, Yingtian, Zhenjiang, Changzhou, Suzhou, Songjiang, Jiaxing, Hangzhou, Shaoxing, etc., arriving in Ningbo, etc., totaling one Beijing, three provinces and 16 prefectures!"

"In terms of population alone, this railway is larger and wider than the Liangjing Railway, and the population of the 16 prefectures alone is as high as more than 30 million, and the economic benefits created are self-evident."

In the main hall of Wuying Palace, Yang Pu sat in his place and debated the issue of the railway to everyone.

In the past railway construction, Jiangnan hardly got any benefits, but has been spending money outside.

Whether it is the Northwest Railway, the Northeast Railway, the Liangjing Railway, or even the current Mobei, Central Plains, Sichuan, Yunnan-Vietnam, Kaihan and other railways, these are basically railways built north of the Yangtze River, but the extensive Jiangnan region has not been touched by any benefits.

Over the years, there will inevitably be some imbalance in the local area.

Just in the face of Yang Pu's words, Wang Hui, who was sitting in the seat, retorted:

"These places mentioned by Mr. Yang are basically connected to the Yangtze River water transport, and with the Yangtze River, even if there is no railway, commercial goods can be passed, so the construction of the railway is just the icing on the cake, not a charcoal in the snow."

"In comparison, although Jilin also has the Songhua River, the Songhua River freezes for up to four months every year, and four months is enough to delay a lot of things!"

Although Wang Hui was a person who later migrated to the Bohai Sea, with this identity, he also received a lot of help that he had never had.

The more he stood up for Bohai and the New Deal, the easier it was for him to gain support, which is why Xu Shuo had been working the frontier for so many years, and he was just playing tricks in Beijing to finally compete with Xu Shuo.

Sitting on the chair, Xu Shuo also looked at his former friend with complicated eyes.

They used to be carefree fishing and shrimp on the beach in Rice Cang Town, but now they are sitting in this center of power in the Ming Dynasty.

Such a change made Xu Shuo feel embarrassed.

"I didn't say that the railway between Changchun and Jilin could not be built, and the imperial court could build it at the same time."

Yang Pu saw that Wang Hui was sharp-tongued, and he didn't want to argue with him for the 200-mile railway, what he wanted was the 2,600-mile Jiangnan Railway.

"The situation of the imperial court can indeed start the construction of these two railways again."

As the representative of Zhu Gaoxu who was selected by Zhu Gaoxu and the mud, Xue Xuan opened his mouth to appease the two, and the rest of the people looked at their noses and noses.

Xu Shuo did not take the initiative to fight for any resources, because he was the person elected by Zhu Gaoxu, and the reason for choosing him was very simple, that is, no one could be elected in the army, and he was born in Bohai, and he had nothing to do with the New Deal faction, as the representative of the Governor's Office of the Sixth Army in the cabinet, he could not speak easily.

Yang Rong and Yang Pu naturally did not refute Yang Rong and Xue Xuan's words.

Wang Hui frowned when he heard this, after all, the Jiangnan Railway would not be less than two thousand miles at least, and if this railway was really to be built, it would cost at least tens of millions of dollars.

If these tens of millions of dollars and grain are invested in the Northeast, Shanxi, Beizhili, and Shandong, it will undoubtedly make the economy of the north go to a higher level.

"The construction of the Jiangnan Railway is just the icing on the cake, what the imperial court should do is to send charcoal in the snow, for example, although there is a railway in Shandong at present, but there is only a railway in Luxi, but there is no railway in Ludong at all."

As he spoke, Wang Hui suddenly got up and waved to the side hall and said, "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that a railway should be built from Dongchang Station of the Liangjing Railway to Jinan, Qingzhou, and Dengzhou. ”

"In addition, a railway from Haizhou to Port Arthur in Jinzhou and from Jinzhou to Dingliao County should also be built."

"In this way, if you take the sea route in the future, Liaodong and Shandong will also trade more easily and frequently!"

"Strong words!" Hearing Wang Hui's words, Yang Rong couldn't sit still and got up and said:

"Your Majesty, there are already railways between Liaodong and Shandong, and even if the railways mentioned by Mr. Wang are built, they can only affect millions of people."

"In comparison, the Jiangnan Railway, which is ten times the number, can promote the circulation of goods and allow the people to live and work in peace and contentment."

The two competed against each other, but Zhu Gaoxu in the side hall did not move.

After a while, the waists of both of them were slightly sore, and Zhu Gaoxu's voice sounded in the side hall.

"You have a point, but I'd like to hear the advice of the other three Fellows."

When Zhu Gaoxu's words fell, Yang Pu said: "Your Majesty, the minister supports Bachelor Yang Rong. ”

"Your Majesty, the minister supports Wang Hui's bachelor...... "Xue Xuan is from Henan and doesn't want to offend Wang Hui, so he chose Wang Hui."

In this way, only Xu Shuo did not speak.

"It's hard to do......"

Feeling the gazes cast around him, Xu Shuo sighed secretly, and then slowly got up.

He didn't pay attention to the gaze of his Bamboo Horse brother, or deliberately ignored it.

"Your Majesty, the minister feels that enough money and grain have been allocated for the construction of the railway, whether it is the Jiangnan Railway, the Changji Railway, or the Liaodong and Shandong Railways, these railways can be discussed after the completion of the construction of the Mobei Railway, the Northwest Railway, the Central Plains Railway, and the Kaihan, Yunnan-Yue, and Sichuan Railways."

"Now the imperial court continues to expand the railway, and it is not the imperial court's money that is used, but the people's money in the bank."

"It's easy to spend this money, but it's hard to earn it back."

"The imperial court is still burdened with millions of yuan in interest waiting to be repaid, and the minister thinks that he should be steady and steady, rather than trying to become a fat man in one bite."

Xu Shuo was a local official and also knew about the situation of the household department, so he thought that the emperor did not approve of the expansion of the railway on the existing basis.

You must know that in the past, whenever it was necessary to build a railway, the emperor had already sent the Ministry of Engineering to investigate without waiting for the reaction of the ministers, but now the emperor has not moved, which means that there is no need to build these railways.

I have to say, he guessed right......

Soon after his words fell, footsteps rang out from inside the side hall.

Not long after, Zhu Gaoxu walked out of the side hall wearing regular clothes, and everyone bowed deeper when they saw this.

"Xu Shuo is right, the court has money, but this money is not the money of the court, but the money of the people of the world."

"The construction of railways is not only economic, but also political and military."

"Railways that are not necessary can be postponed for the time being and built slowly."

"It is true that the imperial court can build all the railways you say in one go, but what are the consequences of this, you have to think carefully."

"It is not my nature to eat grain, and if it were not for the bridge between the north and the south, I would not have built a railway from Jiangpu to the northeast and northwest."

"You can spend money like water, but when the people need it, I don't know how you can get the money back and return it to the people?"

Zhu Gaoxu said as he walked onto the golden platform in the main hall of the Wuying Palace, and sat down on the golden platform steadily.

The ministers cautiously turned in the direction he was moving, and breathed a sigh of relief as they watched him sit down.

"You are also from a commoner's background, how difficult it is for the people's money to come by, you should know it, why is it not as transparent as Xu Shuo's understanding?"

"I recently read "Zhenguan Political Leaders", in which the chapter of "Debating the Rise and Fall" is very worthy of my vigilance, I wonder if you know what this article is about?"

Zhu Gaoxu asked everyone, and everyone couldn't say it for a while, as for Xue Xuan, who was proficient in Confucianism and classics and historical classics, he stood up and said:

"Your Majesty should be talking about the great drought in the fourteenth year of Emperor Kaihuang of Sui, and there are many people and hunger. Now the storehouses were overflowing, and they were not allowed to give alms, but they made the people chase for food. ”

"Sui Wen does not pity the people but cherishes the warehouse, compared to the last year, counting the world's accumulation, it can be supplied for fifty or sixty years. Emperor Yang relied on this wealth, so he was luxurious and unreasonable, and then perished. ”

"Emperor Yang lost the country, and this is also the reason. Whoever is in charge of the country is not in the storehouse. ”

The ancients said: "The people are insufficient, who is the king?" But so that the warehouse can be prepared for the year, besides why bother saving! If the heir is virtuous, he can protect the world; If it is not good, it will accumulate more warehouses, which will benefit its luxury in vain and be in danger. ”

Xue Xuan's voice fell, although everyone had not read this article, they could understand the meaning, and they also understood the system of the Sui Dynasty, so they knew what Zhu Gaoxu meant when he said this article.

The Yicang of the Sui Dynasty was a kind of national grain relief measure, which was undertaken by the state, and all sectors of society paid for the barnage, and the disaster relief was for the public.

However, Yang Jian later felt that the people were short-sighted and had no long-term plan, so he carried out reforms and issued an edict to set up Yicang in the state or county, and the government would manage it.

The original voluntary donation has also become a tax that must be paid, and is divided into upper, middle and lower taxes according to the situation of the people, of which the upper household Nagu is one stone, the middle household is seven buckets, and the lower household is four buckets.

Such a compulsory donation system is problematic in itself, but as long as it can provide normal disaster relief, it is still a good system.

However, in the fourteenth year of the emperor's reign, the people had a famine and begged Emperor Wen of Sui to open a warehouse to release grain, but Emperor Wen of Sui did not give a decree to open a warehouse, resulting in countless people dying of famine, and the treasury of the Sui Dynasty became more and more abundant.

Under the operation of such a system, the money and grain saved during the Kaihuang period accumulated enough for the political team of the Sui Dynasty to run for fifty or sixty years.

However, Emperor Wen of Sui's idea failed to materialize, because Emperor Yang of Sui relied on the solid treasury and continued to spend, squandering the money and grain that was originally enough for the Sui Dynasty to run for fifty or sixty years.

In the end, the Sui Dynasty fell, the people did not survive, and everything was empty.

Of course, this disaster relief in the 14th year of the emperor was originally a means for Emperor Wen of Sui to take the opportunity to reform and want to promote Luoyang, but this means was promoted with the lives of hundreds of thousands of people, so Zhu Gaoxu was very disdainful.

He asked Xue Xuan to explain this article at the moment, just to tell the ministers not to think that the money that the people kept in the bank belonged to the imperial court, and not to think that the money could be used casually.

Emperor Wen of Sui thought so at the beginning, but in reality, the people rebelled because of heavy taxes and no relief for famines, and the great Sui Dynasty collapsed.

As a scholar of the Imperial Palace, if they don't even understand this kind of reasoning, then Zhu Gaoxu will have to consider changing a group of people.

"Ministers, please be taught......"

Under Zhu Gaoxu's reminder, Wang Hui and others saluted one after another, and Zhu Gaochu didn't know whether they really understood or falsely understood, in short, it was enough for his meaning to be transmitted.

He needs a cabinet that helps him make ideas, not a cabinet that makes decisions for himself.

"Okay, it's time for lunch, you go to the kitchen for lunch and then deal with government affairs."

Zhu Gaoxu got up and walked back towards the side hall, and the ministers sang one after another, and then withdrew from the Wuying Palace.

After they left, Zhu Gaoxu walked back to the side hall and sat down, Yishaha poured tea for him, and said:

"This Wang Hui and Xu Shuo know each other, but the political opinions of the two are very different."

Zhu Gaoxu bowed his head and commented at the same time:

"Xu Shuo still pays attention to hard work, but Wang Hui doesn't care about this, all he wants is support."

"In addition, it can be seen today that the ten-year education under the new policy still despises national studies too much, and this must be strengthened."

"If the Chinese culture is not strong, it will be difficult to assimilate the four Yi with culture, and the Ming Dynasty cannot become a reckless man with a strong body and a stupid head."

"The slave will go to the Ministry of Rites to remind you." also lost his response, and Zhu Gaoxu also touched his mustache and short beard.

"What's going on with my father lately?"

"The Emperor Taishang is recuperating in his body, but according to the report of the imperial doctor of the Daming Palace, the Emperor Taishang's body is very healthy and there is no major problem."

Yizha responded to Zhu Gaoxu, and Zhu Gaochu also bowed his head and said: "As long as he is in good health, let him cultivate well, and the construction of the Mobei Railway often tells him the progress, gives him hope, and he can be happier on weekdays." ”

Zhu Di is sixty-four years old, according to history, he should have been seriously ill at the age of sixty-one or two, and probably had a premonition that he was likely to live shortly, so he launched three consecutive northern expeditions in less than four years.

However, at the moment, Zhu Di may be because he retired early, so his body is still healthy and he is not riddled with diseases.

In Zhu Gaoxu's heart, he still hopes that Zhu Di can live longer, after all, there are fewer and fewer people who can talk to him.

Thinking of this, he exhaled a turbid breath, closed his eyes for a moment, and then began to deal with the cabinet handles.

While he was dealing with the sparseness, Wang Hui and Xu Shuo, who walked out of the Wuying Hall and went to the Da Ku Kitchen Road, also deliberately slowed down their pace.

Although Yang Pu and the others noticed it, they didn't want to stay and left quickly.

Seeing them walk away, Wang Hui stopped and looked at Xu Shuo with a frown.

"Meng Ming, you should support me."

Wang Hui was talking about what happened just now, Xu Shuo's expression was complicated when he heard this, but he still explained: "It's useless for me to support this matter, besides, why I can manage the government in Wuying Palace, you should know better than me, what I want to do is to help Your Majesty speak, not help you." ”

"If I help you, I am not helping you, but I am harming you."

"That being said, it goes without saying it so conclusively!" Wang Hui interrupted.

"Is there something wrong with what I said?"

Xu Shuo was explaining, but Wang Hui was angry that he didn't favor himself a little.

Both of them are high-ranking people, who can stand being targeted?

Even if it is the former bamboo horse brothers, when they come to this temple, they can tell you and me clearly.

"Don't forget, you and I were born in Shandong, but belong to the Bohai Sea, if you want to show your high level, I won't stop you, but you think about it, the burden of the Ming Dynasty is carried by our group of people, otherwise just with the group of insects in the south of the Yangtze River, I'm afraid that even the new policy can't be implemented now."

Wang Hui said something a little ugly, and Xu Shuo directly raised his hand to the Wuying Hall not far away when he heard this.

"The burden of the Ming Dynasty can only be picked up by His Majesty, His Majesty can bring out the old man and the newcomer, you can do it yourself!"

When the words fell, Xu Shuo walked past Wang Hui to the big kitchen, Wang Hui looked at his back and was angry, but he didn't dare to refute directly, so he could only endure his temper and follow him.

(End of chapter)