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Chapter 259 The nature of Huangzhuang

Zhu Youxiao finally agreed to the request of the Royal Weaving Bureau to recruit only 100,000 weavers for reemployment training, and asked Yang Shouchun of the Royal Bank to unconditionally give the Royal Weaving Bureau a loan to solve the crisis of the backlog of goods in the Royal Weaving Bureau and bear the previous training costs of the Royal Weaving Bureau and the operating costs of the Royal Weaving Bureau's entry into the markets of other provincial government departments in the country except Jiangnan.

Yang Shouchun dared not to obey His Majesty's decree. Sometimes it is like this. Royal Bank is closely related to other Royal Capital. Once the Royal Industrial Company or the Royal Weaving Bureau is poorly managed or the losses caused by other reasons will also affect the Royal Bank, causing the Royal Bank to take the blame.

The commercialization of the Ordnance Division cannot keep up with the Royal Industrial Company and the Royal Weaver Bureau. His current orders are all required for the Imperial Guards' combat readiness. Even many Ordnance Division's ordnance Division's ordnance weapons are still in the confidential stage, not open to the public, nor are they sold to military forces outside the Ming Dynasty.

However, Zhu Youxiao planned to wait until the Ming Dynasty's science and technology industry was developed to a stage. At least the main equipment of the Imperial Guards had been updated for one generation, and the weapons blockade could be opened to be opened, allowing the Ordnance Department to sell weapons that were eliminated by the Imperial Guards, which were still more advanced in the current era to the Gentiles, even the Qing Dynasty.

Let the enemy rely on the weapons they make, so you can indirectly control the enemy's weapons and equipment.

If one day the Qing Dynasty could make the Qing Dynasty forget its ability to ride and shoot, and be used to fighting with the flints he built, it would definitely be Zhu Youxiao who would be willing to see it. The cavalry was scattered and scattered. It would be difficult for Zhu Youxiao to guarantee that he could kill the Qing Dynasty with this. But if everyone used firearms, Zhu Youxiao felt confident that the Ming Dynasty would defeat the Qing Dynasty in the shortest time.

"Now the order of the Imperial Guards has not been completed. Most of the reasons are that there are few skilled craftsmen. Weishu can accept 50,000 people and then train them to strive for orders from the Imperial Guards before this year's Double Ninth Festival. But please ask the Royal Bank to allocate another sum to the Ordnance Division, otherwise the placement of these 50,000 people will be difficult to complete."

Bi Maokang said with a bitter look on his face.

Among the several royal capital industries, the Ordnance Department lost money, and even lost a lot. Since its establishment, it has been the Royal Bank's remittance. Although the Ordnance Department is the production site of the most advanced military weapons in the Ming Dynasty and even the world, no one expected that it still owed the Royal Bank tens of millions of debts.

Now that he is going to ask Royal Bank for money, Zhu Youxiao has to give it to him, so he asked Yang Shouchun to give the Ordnance Department a free loan.

Yang Shouchun kept crying out that he felt so painful, but he was helpless. After all, the Ordnance Department was a strong backing for the Royal Imperial Guards to control the Ming Dynasty and was also the most typical representative of industry, education and research. His Majesty the Emperor Zhu Youxiao once said that he would rather raise a few fewer vassal kings than let the Ordnance collapse.

The major project proposed by the Minister of Works, Huo Weihua, can meet the employment of 500,000 people, the Royal Industrial Company can accept employment of 50,000 people, and the Royal Weaving Bureau can accept employment of 100,000 people. In addition, the Royal Bank is also willing to accept a group of school children and apprentices who are familiar with accounting, most of the people can only be handed over to the Royal Village to solve the problem.

Today's imperial village is not just Zhu Youxiao's private land. In fact, his essence is a disguised land reform in which he possesses ownership in the name of the emperor, distributes most of the land seized and the original land of the emperor to the people to cultivate, and allows the people to have decades of contract use rights free of charge.

The biggest landlord was the Emperor Zhu Youxiao, but Zhu Youxiao did not restrict their other rights and interests to the farmers who contracted the Huangzhuang. According to Zhu Youxiao's latest order, the tenants in the Huangzhuang, like the self-cultivated farmers, enjoy the treatment of participating in the imperial examinations, and their lives and private property protected by the court.

As early as the seventh year of Tianqi, Zhu Youxiao asked Xu Guangqi, the left minister of the Ministry of Works, and Wang Chengen, the supervisor of the Sili, to contract the land of the Huangzhuang to all the people in the form of formal copywriting, but the premise is that the landless people and the people with good tax credit in previous years, each self-employed person who contracted the Huangzhuang had 50 years of use.

In the past fifty years, the court will not interfere with what you plant and how much you gain. It is just that every summer and autumn, it will collect rents with lower tax standards than the court's tax standards on time.

If you have fifty years of use, you don’t have to worry about not being planted for fifty years. Moreover, the court will not interfere with what you plant, and it will be lower than the tax you bear when planting your own land. In addition, the land is the court and will not worry about being stolen, so many people are willing to donate land to the imperial house and voluntarily go to the imperial house to contract land.

However, the imperial village has limited the land contracted by each family, and is specially divided into farming and other two types. Cultivation is naturally simply planting and producing grain, while the others include building houses, building workshops and kilns for commercial purposes. The rent mentioned above is lower than the court tax, which refers to the former, and the tax on commercial land for commercial purposes is not low, even far from the so-called commercial tax of thirty or one.

The purpose of this is naturally to ensure that the royal village can become a base for providing food, an important strategic material, and prevent it from over-commercializing it. It also achieves the purpose of curbing land annexation by limiting the contractor's land contract scale.

No matter how bold he is, he will never dare to annex His Majesty the Emperor's land.

But such measures naturally violate the interests of literati and doctors, after all, this has hindered their annexation of the land.

However, most famous scholars in Jiangnan have been arrested or exiled to the Daxi West of the Ming Dynasty to the countryside to assist in education and teaching. In addition, several consecutive purges of literati have made no one dare to explicitly oppose His Majesty Zhu Youxiao’s decision, but there are still many complaining privately. The most direct thing is to say that His Majesty is now expending intensive taxes and annexing land, so that the people have no land to plant and the common people have no clothes to wear.

But in fact, due to the emergence of the imperial villages, refugees, especially those in the north, have been greatly reduced. Many people in the south have even ventured out of the county town and the south, and traveled thousands of miles to the capital to find the person in charge of the imperial village, and asked that they could contract more than ten acres of land.

The scholars and officials hated this to the core, but they had no choice but to curse behind their backs.

Fortunately, the current imperial village has been searched for homes, voluntarily purchased and the people have taken the initiative to contribute, resulting in the land in the imperial villages that have been spread all over the two capitals and the thirteen governors, and the land of several major landlords such as Kong and Dong family belongs to the imperial villages. Therefore, the imperial village is now fully capable of absorbing so many people.

Zhu Youxiao nodded with consent. Even if the employment problem of the people in Jiangnan is successfully resolved, it has to be admitted that it is because of the livelihoods of millions of people and the foundation of the Ming Dynasty that several royal capitals have reached saturation. If the overseas market is not expanded, once domestic demand reaches saturation, several royal capitals will face the possibility of shrinking profits or even bankruptcy.
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