Chapter 187 Terrified Cannon Phobia

Author: tx Cheng Zhi

Chapter 187 Terrified Cannon Phobia

Chapter 186

Emperor Chongzhen is no longer a novice when he just ascended the throne. He has actually thought about many things and understood them. If he didn't know about the gentry problem mentioned by Cheng Shijie before, he already knows it now.

Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the subjects have been opened more than 80 times (actually 89 times), and a total of about 25,000 Jinshi (actually 24,586 people) have been admitted, including a total of 267 first-class Jinshi.

, there are 6,469 second-class Jinshi, and a total of 17,850 third-class Jinshi. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, there have been a total of more than 108,000 people. Since the Chenghua Year, the average number of Jinshi alive in the world has been

There are about 3,000 people. If you include Juren, the number is about 12,500 people.

This means that the Ming Dynasty now has 15,500 privileged gentry class. This is not 15,500 people, but 15,500 families. Among these 15,500

A family has formed an intricate network of relationships.

Zhang Juzheng's reform finally brought the concealed land to 1.16 billion acres. By the Chongzhen Dynasty, nearly half of it was lost.

Emperor Chongzhen knew about the gentry's problem, but he was also in a dilemma. At this time, Emperor Chongzhen was just like Bald Jiang. He also knew that the government was corrupt and corrupt, but the question was, what could he do?

Fight corruption and destroy the party.

If you don’t fight corruption, the country will be destroyed.

What lay before Emperor Chongzhen was actually just one road, leading to death in every direction.

After seeing the strength of Ning Haijun and seeing Ning Haijun re-create the slaves, the existence of Guan Ning's army was no longer necessary. Emperor Chongzhen just tried it out and wanted to embezzle Liao's salary to reward Ning Haijun. This was a hornet's nest.

, all civil and military officials collectively opposed it.

At first Emperor Chongzhen didn't believe it, but the problem was that he had to believe that Liao's salary had become a cancer of the Ming Dynasty. It was the Ming Dynasty court that was hurt, but it was the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty who were fattened. Of course, it was actually the civil servants of the Manchu Dynasty who were fattened.

and some military attachés.

The current annual income of the Ming Dynasty is only six to seven million taels of silver, but the Liao salary is almost six to seven million taels of silver. Half of the six to seven million taels, or even more, goes into the pockets of civil servants.

Faced with this dilemma, he only had to ask Cheng Shijie, hoping that General Cheng, who could manage the army when he mounted his horse and care for the people when he dismounted, could answer his questions.

When he heard Cheng Shijie's method, Emperor Chongzhen was still a little embarrassed and said: "No one has ever done anything like setting up a factory. It goes against the ancestral system..."

Cheng Shijie smiled and said: "ancestral system? How many are left now?"

On the Internet, there are many haters who do not understand history. They have been slandering the Ming Dynasty and also slandering Zhu Yuanzhang. In fact, the only emperor in history who can be compared to the four emperors of Qin, Han, Wu, Tang and Song is Zhu Yuanzhang and only Zhu Yuanzhang.

Comrade Lao Zhu.

Zhu Yuanzhang suffered a lot, so he was able to consider the interests of the people and established a series of policies to safeguard people's livelihood. The social welfare system was also very sound.

Zhu Yuanzhang knew very well the principle that "the king is the boat and the people are the water. Water can carry the boat or capsize it." Therefore, he hoped that his people could live a happy and secure life, so he attached great importance to the welfare development of the Ming Dynasty. For example, the pension policy

, the Ming Dynasty adhered to Confucianism and valued the principle of governing the world with filial piety, so it also paid more attention to the issue of elderly care.

Zhu Yuanzhang knew that it was not easy to provide for old age. His own parents did not escape the famine and starved to death on the streets. Zhu Yuanzhang could not even bury his parents properly at that time. This was also Zhu Yuanzhang's inner regret.

Therefore, after he became the emperor, he spread filial piety as a traditional virtue and asked people to respect their elders and help the elderly in the Ming Dynasty to provide for their old age. He also issued a special decree requiring the whole society to respect the elderly and treat them well, and local officials also

Visit the elderly from time to time with daily necessities.

In order to allow his children to serve the elderly with peace of mind, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered that if there is an elderly person over seventy years old in the family, one person in the family can be exempted from chores and can serve the elderly with peace of mind. In order to commend the children who respect and love the elderly, the Ming government will also from time to time

Clothing was distributed as a reward. For the elderly without children, Zhu Yuanzhang established a nursing home. All elderly people who had no children and could not take care of themselves could enter the nursing home.

Since Zhu Yuanzhang did not have the ability to bury his parents properly at that time, he established a free cemetery system after he came to the throne to help people bury their relatives properly. Luzeyuan became a system specially responsible for the government, so that the elderly can be provided for and the dead can be buried.

It was also strictly implemented according to Zhu Yuanzhang's instructions in the "Da Ming Law".

Zhu Yuanzhang also established the importance of medical construction and set up Huimin Pharmacies in various places. People who did not have money to see a doctor could go to the Huimin Pharmacies to see a doctor and get medicine. Not only ordinary people, but also the border troops received free medical treatment.

Welfare, Huimin Pharmacy runs through the entire social welfare system and has achieved outstanding results in people's livelihood.

In addition, Comrade Lao Zhu was the first emperor in history to propose free welfare housing. Of course, no one implemented these policies by the end of the Ming Dynasty. The only person who implemented them was actually Cheng Shijie, and Cheng Shijie's Ning Haijun welfare system. In fact,

Many of them originated from the welfare system at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty.

For example, the children of fallen soldiers are raised by the court, and the children of fallen soldiers can be hereditary (Ning Haijun did not implement this provision). Beheading the enemy can reward fields, kill the enemy for meritorious service, and can be promoted and make a fortune. Fallen soldiers can receive pensions, free medical care, and houses to live in.

Wait, this is actually part of the welfare system of the health center system in the early Ming Dynasty.

Emperor Chongzhen also knew that the ancestral system had been almost destroyed. The current ancestral system only had one function left, which was in line with the interests of civil servants. The ancestral system was just a fart. If it did not conform to the interests of the civil servant group, the ancestral system was just a shield. It could also be said to be a chamber pot.

, when it is useful, take it out and use it; when it is not useful, just throw it aside to gather dust.

The Ming Dynasty had too many shortcomings, not just this one?

Emperor Chongzhen smiled bitterly and said: "It is good to set up factories, but...who knows which factory is profitable and which factory is not profitable? If the factory is not profitable, the craftsmen will have no food to eat, and farming will be abandoned..."

"There are definitely risks in doing business. As the saying goes, the higher the risk, the greater the profit. Everyone can make a sure profit without losing money. Is there any profit?"

Cheng Shijie said with a smile: "What kind of factory makes money and what kind of factory doesn't make money? They can figure it out by themselves before doing it. Why should Your Majesty worry about it? Just lure the Kaizi over and give them a piece of land with no farming value for them to build factories."

Then just charge the factory for tax management fees and garbage disposal fees, which is awesome!"

"Kaizi!"

Emperor Chongzhen asked in confusion: "What do you mean?"

"It's just that people are stupid and have too much money!"

Cheng Shijie smiled and said: "Those gentry are actually mostly Kaizi. Nowadays, there are natural and man-made disasters, either drought or rain. The risks of farming are very high. Let them set up factories. There are many benefits to setting up factories. To build factories, you have to

Is there land? Is it bricks? Is it tiles? Is it wood?"

Emperor Chongzhen nodded and said: "Not bad!"

"Also, you need people to build a factory, right? Only people can build a factory, right? In this way, the people who own the land will make money, the brick and tile workshops will make money, the lumberjacks will make money, and the local plasterers will also have a bite to eat.

.If more factories are built and the brick and tile workshops are prosperous, they will definitely have to recruit more talents to keep them busy, which will absorb all the surplus labor. In the end, with so many factories, you have to pay taxes, right?"

Cheng Shijie smiled and said: "The more factories you run, the more money you make, and the more taxes the government can collect. In this way, the people who set up factories make money, the people who have no land have food to eat, and the government receives

The taxes are also increased, wouldn’t everyone be happy?”

Emperor Chongzhen said: "The common people have gone to work, and the bandits are..."

"Not only is it difficult for rogue bandits to recruit soldiers, but it is also difficult for gentry landlords to recruit tenants. The commissions will definitely increase significantly. As a result, the income from farming will be much thinner. I believe many landlords will lose interest in farming!"

Cheng Shijie explained patiently: "Since then, a virtuous circle has been formed. Farming does not make money, and landlords can only set up factories. In this way, won't more people have farmland? In the final analysis, it is still a question of the size of the cake.

, the current cake is too small, even if it is eaten by one person, it is not enough to fit between the teeth. But if it is made ten times or a hundred times bigger, and everyone can eat it in one bite, there will be no need to fight so fiercely.

!”

Emperor Chongzhen hesitated and said: "There are really so many benefits to running a factory?"

"Of course, there are many benefits!"

Cheng Shijie did not tell Emperor Chongzhen that in later generations, China's population exceeded 1.4 billion and kept growing, but the cultivated land did not increase by an inch. On the contrary, it kept decreasing, but there was no trouble. What did it rely on?

It relies on the four words "world factory". The factories that are popping up all over the country provide farmers with another way to get rich besides farming. The income of working in the factory is ten times that of farming. With this salary, you can solve the problem of food and clothing.

Problem.

If we continue to rely entirely on agriculture as in the past, relying on 1.8 billion acres of cultivated land to support a population of 1.3 billion, even if we calculate based on an output of 2,000 kilograms per mu, the per capita income will only be more than 1,000 yuan.

Of course, if the situation remains the same, war is inevitable. This is the law of survival, natural selection, and poor Chinese people are the most terrifying.

When industry develops to a certain level, industrial taxes will completely replace agricultural taxes, and agricultural taxes can be abolished, and even some subsidies can be given to farmers. For farmers, this is a great thing.

Emperor Chongzhen still had some doubts and said uncertainly: "If running a factory is really so profitable, I'm afraid no one will be willing to farm. Wouldn't this mean that farming and mulberry farming are wasted? Farming and mulberry farming are the foundation of the country..."

"Things are rare and therefore expensive! On the grasslands, mutton like this is not as expensive as vegetables and salted fish. In coastal areas, salted fish is not as expensive as vegetables and not as expensive as grain."

"Furthermore, if there are more people running a factory, it will no longer make money. Growing food may be more profitable than running a factory! Of course, not everyone can afford to run a factory! To run a factory, you need to buy land and build factories.

It costs too much to purchase machinery and recruit workers. The more factories we open, the more people will come to work and the more people will eat. As a result, the prices of grain and vegetables will naturally rise. Farming

It’s still profitable. Since it’s profitable, why should we worry that no one will do it?”

Only then did Emperor Chongzhen realize that he had read a lot of books, but they were of no use at all.

Of course, he was embarrassed to tell Cheng Shijie.

"After listening to your words, I have ten years left to study!"

Emperor Chongzhen lamented that he was far worse than Cheng Shijie.

However, Cheng Shijie knew that it was useless for him to tell Emperor Chongzhen about the logic of economic development, because Emperor Chongzhen was different from him. Emperor Chongzhen was dancing in shackles, but Cheng Shijie was not.

Cheng Shijie controls the army, and this military group already has its own interests. First, the Ning Haijun Business Group, headed by Xie Jinglin, began to take the lead in expansion.

After Cheng Shijie defeated the Jiannu slaves, Xie Jinglin went to North Korea in the name of Cheng Shijie's special envoy and received a high-level reception. He focused on North Korea's iron ore because Cheng Shijie once told him that North Korea's iron ore resources were very rich.

Asia’s No. 1 iron ore mine.

Xie Jinglin didn't know the concept of Asia, but he knew that this iron mine was larger than all the iron mines in Ming Dynasty, so he would cooperate with North Korea and let North Korea sell the mined iron ore to Ming Dynasty, that is, Cheng Shijie.

When talking about North Korea, most people think of being closed, backward, poor, mysterious and rigid. Because North Korea is mostly mountainous, it is very rich in natural resources. It has nearly 200 kinds of useful underground mineral resources, such as iron ore and other ferrous metal minerals.

As well as gold, silver, lead, zinc and other non-ferrous metal minerals, the reserves of graphite and magnesite are among the highest in the world.

It can be said that it is a country lying on the Bricks. But the problem is that the current North Korean King Li Yan did not know that when Xie Jinglin arrived in Pyongyang, Li Yan was actually no longer in North Korea. He was invited by the Ming Emperor to go
To be continued...