Things in the Ming Dynasty will be settled in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 130

Emperor Chongzhen didn't care how much the people in the capital complained. In short, Dongchang's performance in urban management was outstanding. In just a few days, Dongchang fined more than 60,000 taels of silver.

According to past practice, the factory governor Wang Zhixin took away 18,000 taels of silver, which was 30% of it, and was responsible for punishing thousands of households and managing hundreds of households. Sihu and others shared 10% of it, which was 6,000 taels of silver.

A total of 6,000 taels of silver were distributed among the sergeant commanders, subordinates, and warriors below.

This can be regarded as a happy event for everyone.

"Daddy, we have caused public outrage this time. Are those unscrupulous people going to sue our Dongchang?"

Wang Zhixin smiled lightly and said: "Okay, let them sue. We are on an errand under the emperor's order this time. The more they sue, doesn't it mean that we are able to handle the errand well?"

"My godfather is wise!"

Wang Zhixin sent the remaining 30,000 taels of silver to the Forbidden City. Looking at the smelted and recast silver, Emperor Chongzhen greatly appreciated Wang Zhixin's work ability.

Seeing how he was making money by punishing people for pooping and urinating in the capital, Luo Yangxing, the commander of the Jinyiwei, suddenly became anxious: "Your Majesty, the Jinyiwei can do this job too!"

Wang Zhixin smiled and said: "If Commander Luo doesn't bother me, our family can share your worries for the Emperor!"

Wang Zhixin caused a lot of anger in the capital, and he was already prepared to be impeached by the officials. The more harshly the officials impeached him, it means that he worked harder for the emperor.

But the problem is that Wang Zhixin waited and waited, and all the civil and military officials in the capital collectively pretended to be deaf and dumb, and no one impeached him.

At first, Dongchang fans stopped and fined people who urinated on the streets and alleys, which indeed aroused the indignation of countless officials. However, they found that after Dongchang's actions, the streets and alleys were actually clean.

too much.

Although Wang Zhixin did not install trash cans, underground drainage ditches and other facilities like Cheng Shijie did in Jinzhou City, the problem is that once no one urinates and defecates at any time, the streets will be too clean.

Especially those officials who live in outer cities because they have no money. When they go to court, they get up early, even if they hold a lantern. If they are not careful, they will step on landmines. They will be unlucky when encountering rainy days and slippery streets.

, and even fall into the urine and muddy water. It will be as embarrassing as it is.

As the saying goes, the butt determines the head, and the head determines the thinking. Officials will not do such things as defecation anywhere because they want some face.

This made Wang Zhi, who wanted to have sex, very hurt. These beasts in clothes have actually changed their gender?

In fact, it is not that these officials have changed their gender, but that they feel the benefits of a clean capital. It has been raining in the capital these days. As the rain flows across the street, officials sit in carriages or sedan chairs on the street. They do not

Dare to lift the car or sedan curtains.

Because it's too harsh on the eyes.

The food that people eat these days is not good, and most of them lack oil and water in their stomachs. The feces they excrete are hard. When soaked in sewage, they float up and down. The taste... is absolutely sour.

These officials discovered that this group of eunuchs in the East Factory had finally done something wrong.

As for those people whose families were ruined because of a leak of urine or feces...

They simply ignored it.

It is precisely because of this that Wang Zhi, the eunuch of the East Factory, was very hurt. He wanted to cheat, but he never thought that these officials were not fooled at all.

People who also felt hurt were Huang Long in Lushun.

In the fourth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1371), Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty Zhu Yuanzhang sent two generals, Ma Yun and Ye Wang, to take a boat from Penglai across the sea and land here to regain Liaodong. Because the sea journey was smooth sailing, Shizikou was renamed Lushunkou.

In the first year of Tianqi, Shenyang and Liaoyang fell to the hands of the slaves one after another. Jinzhou and Lushun were occupied by the slaves at the same time. In the third year of Tianqi, Yuan Keli, the governor of Denglai, sent troops to recover. However, at the beginning of the fifth year of Tianqi after Yuan Keli resigned, the deputy general of the Dongjiang Army Zhang Pan fell into a tight siege and died due to lack of effective response and backup, and Lushun once again fell into the hands of the Jiannu.

In the first year of Chongzhen, Liu Xingzuo, the deputy general of Liaonan who was established as a slave, rebelled against the Jin Dynasty and returned to the Ming Dynasty. Mao Wenlong took the opportunity to regain Lushun. Now Lushun has been in the hands of the Dongjiang Army for more than four years.

But Song Xiance, the new director of the Liaodong Management Committee, first set fire to Lushun. The southern and northern cities of Lushun and the coastal islands of Lushun were now under the jurisdiction of the Dongjiang Army.

Although the Dongjiang Army also falls under the jurisdiction of Cheng Shijie, the Liaodong manager, there is a layer between the Dongjiang Army and Ning Haijun.

Therefore, Song Xiance sent a team, headed by Ma Shilin, to ask the Dongjiang Army to withdraw from Lushun and hand over the management authority of the north and south cities of Lushun and the coastal islands to the Liaodong Management Committee.

Anyone who eats meat cannot spit it out. Now Lushun has become a favorite of the Dongjiang Army. There is a powerful neighbor like Ning Haijun to the north. Unless Jiannu can fly, it will be impossible to reach it. Lushun, threatening Lushun.

Under such circumstances, Huanglong and the generals of the Dongjiang Army were unwilling to give up Lushun, but the problem was that Ma Shilin was very determined. If the Dongjiang Army agreed to give up Lushun, Ning Haijun would make up for it and become as close as one family with the Dongjiang Army. If you don't agree, then let's not interfere with the river in the future.

Faced with Ning Haijun's decisive attitude, Huang Long had no choice but to compromise, but to compensate, the lion opened his mouth and demanded 100,000 shi of food.

Ma Shilin did not bargain, and proposed that the grain should be delivered after autumn. There are still nearly three months before the autumn harvest, and the Dongjiang Army can take advantage of this time to relocate.

In fact, as long as we wait until the autumn harvest, the current grain output of more than 5 million acres of reclaimed land in southern Liaoning, no matter how low it is, will be more than 5 million tons of grain. What's more, Liaonan grows a large amount of corn, sweet potatoes and potatoes. .

In this way, on the fourteenth day after the establishment of the Administrative Committee, on June 20, the fifth year of Chongzhen, the Ning Navy Administrative Committee signed a cooperation agreement with the Dongjiang Army, and planned to launch a cooperation agreement on August 20, two months later. , officially delivered to Lushun.

Cheng Shijie looked at the result of the negotiation and was very satisfied. Not to mention 100,000 shi of grain, it was 300,000 shi of grain. Cheng Shijie was also willing to buy it. Lushun preserved a large amount of virgin forest, and the value of this wood alone was more than 100,000 shi of grain.

Of course, what Cheng Shijie is more concerned about is the natural port and strategic position of Lushun. Putting Lushun under the jurisdiction of the Liaodong Management Committee has added more than 500 square kilometers of land to Liaodong, which is equivalent to the territory of a small county in the Central Plains. .

Song Xiance, the newly appointed director of the management committee, made a bold move and raised his second sword.

At the fourth special working meeting of the first session of the Liaodong Administrative Committee, Song Xiance said straight to the point: "Committees and colleagues, we have not had a heavy rain in the entire southern Liaoning recently for 44 consecutive days. Fortunately, the commander had the foresight to lead all the military households in the field to actively dig irrigation wells and repair canals at the beginning of spring plowing. Farmland irrigation was effectively guaranteed. Although the drought was serious, it did not have a great impact on our fields! Although the field farming was The impact on work is not big, but our management committee faces a lot of problems."

This is all due to Cheng Shijie. As an engineering student, he likes to use numbers to express all problems. Song Xiance and his staff have already compiled all the reports. He can just read them in front of the reports:

"As of now, we in southern Liaoning have established a total of 755 100-household settlement stations and 697 100-household settlement stations for projects, divided into 75 towns and one Zhenhai City, with a total of 100-household settlement stations and 100-household settlement stations.

There are 144,739 military households, 1,322 commercial households, and a total population of 423,504. Only one-third of the military households have completed housing construction.

Slightly more, there are still more than 80,000 households without houses to live in!"

Cheng Shijie listened to Song Xiance's report calmly. Although he had already seen these data, he was still a little excited. When he first arrived at Zuo Qian House, there were only 7,485 households in Dengzhou Wei Zuo Qian House.

There are a total of 14,857 people, with an average of less than two people per household.

Almost all military households are bachelors. They are too poor to afford a wife. Now the total population of southern Liaoning has exceeded 420,000. Of course, this only counts civilians, not soldiers, plus Ning Haijun’s

There are more than 48,000 soldiers, and the military and civilian population of southern Liaoning has exceeded 470,000.

It has increased by more than 30 times than before. With the increase in population, the number of households has also increased from less than two people on average to now exceeding two people and nearly three people.

This also means that in the past half year, many people have started families. After the autumn, each household will have more food in stock, and the people will have a sense of security. By then, southern Liaoning will usher in a new era.

Population explosion.

"But the problem is that we in Liaodong are developing rapidly, and major factories continue to expand and recruit workers on a large scale. Workers are far from being able to meet the demand!"

Song Xiance continued: "The construction speed of building people's houses solely by relying on the Hundred Households Project is too slow, and when the Hundred Households Project is building people's houses, there are great limitations. Some people come early, and they have a lot of money in their hands."

They have a certain amount of savings and are willing to build better houses. Some people came late. They have no savings in their hands and have not had a few meals. Their requirements for housing are not so urgent and they are not willing to borrow debt to build new houses. In this kind of

Under such circumstances, Song thought that we should change the current situation and contract out the current 192 projects responsible for building houses for 100 households to individuals, and let individuals be responsible for the profits and losses! This can not only reduce the financial expenditure of our management committee

, you can also put all your energy into the development of industry!"

When Cheng Shijie saw Song Xiance's report, he had to admit that Song Xiance, a charlatan, was underestimated.

In fact, Cheng Shijie also knows that many people do not have talents, but do not have a platform to display their talents. Just like Zhou Yandong, the original official of Baihu. As Cheng Shijie was promoted, he gradually put more burdens on Zhou Yandong and made him responsible.

The production management work of these multiple factories is responsible for the logistics and supply work of Ning Haijun.

As far as the current scale of Ning Haijun is concerned, it will be at least a military-level unit in future generations. Logistics management talents of this level, even professional undergraduates, will be very difficult to face these tasks. But the problem is that when Zhou Yandong is dealing with these things,

It seemed very relaxed and he was always at ease.

To be sure, Zhou Yandong is an underestimated talent.

The same problem also happened to Chen Guodong, the former ordinary commander-in-chief of the Dongjiang Army. There were two to three hundred officers of this level in the Dongjiang Army. However, when he served as the supervisor of the Military Supervision Department, he faced many problems.

, Cheng Shijie did not expect that he had already thought of it, and could also use his method cleverly to solve some difficult problems.

It is also certain that Chen Guodong is a hidden talent.

Secondly, it was Shen Mingyu and Chang Yu. Shen Mingyu was better. After all, he had been a temporary Qianhu official and had a father who was a Qianhu official, but Chang Yu was just a porter carrying bags...

In fact, everyone in Cheng Shijie's original team is growing rapidly.

"It has been more than half a year since the earliest batch of immigrants. They work hard every day and have accumulated a considerable amount of food and money!"

Song Xiance said: "In the words of Mr. Cheng Jinglue, they have passed the most difficult stage of food and clothing, and have begun to pursue higher-level pursuits. They are willing to build bigger houses. If the people have no money left in their hands and the number of people in their families has increased,

With less, they can build two adobe houses by themselves, and they can also be protected from wind and rain!”

Today's farmers are actually very similar to those of later generations. Give them hoes and they become the best farmers. Give them tools and they become the best workers. Give them weapons and they become the best soldiers.

Nowadays, the technical threshold for building a house is quite low, and almost everyone can build it. Just like in "Into the Dust", Ma Youtie can build a small courtyard with a sick man.

Building a house cannot be forced, as each person's needs vary. Liu Qingsong relied on the bounty from killing enemies and spent fifty-seven taels of silver to build a twenty-room three-in courtyard.

But the problem is that although fifty-seven taels of silver is not much, 90% of the people in southern Liaoning cannot afford it. Most of the people are actually more like Luo Pinggui. They haven't spent a penny. The three of them got up early and spent it.

In one month, five adobe houses were built, one for each of the three sons, one for Luo Pinggui, and one for the living room and kitchen.

Until later, the three of them were working, and the four of them could earn four buckets of food a day. Soon the family could no longer store enough food, so they quickly built two more houses as granaries.

Song Xiance's idea is to separate the 100 households responsible for building houses, because for now, the houses built by Ning Haijun's project are mainly provided to the martyrs' families first, and then to the military families. Now Ning Haijun has 480,000 houses.

The houses of more than a thousand soldiers have been almost completed, and the task of the 100-household project has been almost completed.

The reason for not providing housing to the immigrants was that Ning Haijun's family was too poor and he couldn't afford it. Spending the least amount of money to accomplish the greatest things was Song Xiance's purpose.

He has now received news that Mengjin's crossing of the Yellow River has burst its banks.

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the Yellow River overflowed so much that it burst its banks in two places, causing suffering throughout Huaibei and North China, and the canals were blocked. As a result, Huaibei was covered with yellow flood areas, and people suffered great disasters. Zhu Yuanzhang's hometown was the most severely affected place.

Under the auspices of Tuotuo, the imperial court began to manage the Yellow River. However, all the funds allocated by the imperial court were corrupted by corrupt officials. The people who built the river not only did not have wages, but also did not even have food to eat. Eventually, a great uprising broke out and the Yuan Dynasty was destroyed.
To be continued...