The employment rate of the people in the capital quickly increased due to the development of royal capital. Previously, a group of people who could not survive in the city and became poor people signed up to reclaim wasteland.

At this time, the people in the capital did not have to worry about not being able to find work. In order to cope with the demand for labor by royal capital, the human resources market in the south of the city developed rapidly.

As long as you go to the Chengnan Human Resources Market, you will definitely find work.

In particular, the Royal Military Factory quickly became the largest military equipment manufacturer in the Ming Dynasty. In addition to requiring many craftsmen, it also needed many ordinary workers.

Military equipment manufacturing became the largest industry developed by Zhu Youxiao in the capital, and its ability to drive employment was very terrifying. The Royal Military Factory alone had already provided a large number of jobs for the capital and attracted a lot of foreign population. You should know that the Royal Military Factory was still expanding at this time. With the subsequent reorganization of the border troops, the Royal Military Factory will provide various military equipment for hundreds of thousands of Ming troops.

As the capital city recruited poor people to settle wasteland outside the city and lay off the Jingying to develop military camps, a large number of poor people had been resettled to agricultural production, and the population in the city also decreased a lot.

However, the development of Royal Military Factory, Mint and other factories has led to the population of Beijing growing again, attracting many surrounding poor people to come to Beijing to make a living.

At this time, the capital city was indeed making a better living.

However, Zhu Youxiao's goal was obviously more than that. Yang Guorui quickly discussed with several other shopkeepers a construction plan covering the entire Northern Zhili, with the construction expenditure reaching about 10 million yuan. All of them were about the construction of supporting facilities of various companies in Royal Capital.

Roads, fleets, fleets, mines, warehouses and other facilities are all built, covering everything from raw material production to transportation and sales.

This investment of tens of millions of yuan can drive many jobs.

After the investment is completed, more workers are needed to expand the business scale.

"Only by ensuring the employment of the people of the entire Northern Zhili people, our tax and monopoly model can be maintained. I will also take out 10 million yuan from the treasury to use it for infrastructure." Zhu Youxiao decided to say that at this time the treasury had already had more than 13 million yuan in funds.

If this money is saved, it will become moldy. Only by spending it can it produce an economic boost.

"Prince. If you want to invest in infrastructure construction, comprehensive renovation of Beizhili water conservancy is a good project." Yang Guorui suggested.

"Why?" Zhu Youxiao asked in confusion.

"Although this is cheaper for those landlords, the emperor has reason to tax them. Not to mention levying land taxes at that time, just say levying 'water conservancy money', and then levying it on acre, no one can escape." Yang Guorui's statement made Zhu Youxiao's eyes lit up.

The idea of ​​roundaboutism is good. Although collecting taxes from those tax-free landlords means breaking apart with the privileged gentry class. However, Zhu Youxiao has decided to take action against the Donglin Party. After taking down the Donglin Party, the Qi, Chu, Zhejiang Propaganda Party and other horsemen must support tax reforms if they do not support it.

As long as you support it, you can get a share of the pie. If you don’t support it, get out.

Under the differentiation strategy, there are always officials who will sell the interests of the gentry class.

"The project is good, but it is not the best project at present. The best infrastructure project at present is actually urban infrastructure." Zhu Youxiao said after thinking for a moment, "Our monopoly projects are mostly targeted at urban people. In this case, we spread the money by hiring workers. After we distribute it to the lower-level people, only the money in the hands of the people in the town is most likely to be taken back by us by purchasing the food, salt, coal and other things we monopolized. And the people outside the city are more likely to be earned by private capital, so our capital circulation circle will be equivalent to leaking."

"Leaking!" Yang Guorui thought in a daze, as if he had suddenly realized something. Then his eyes shone and said excitedly: "Your Majesty, I understand. This Beizhili belongs to our reform area, is like a bucket, and our money is like water. The people are like grass, and we sprinkle the water on the grass. If the water leaks from the bucket, this kind of watering cannot be sustained. But as long as it is not leaking too hard, it can still be maintained, because we can obtain greater capital outside of Beizhili."

"That's it, and our construction activities that do not count for returns are actually the inevitable result of human development. Because wealth is generated through creation, and once economic activities that can invest less labor and create more wealth are monopolized by us, a large amount of surplus wealth will be generated. These surplus wealth will be expressed in the form of currency. But currency is not important to the consortium, because currency is not wealth, and often it is just a pile of waste paper and metal." Zhu Youxiao was in a good mood, so he pointed to Yang Guorui: "Assets are the core things of the consortium, so after the consortium generates a large amount of profit, the final means are to convert these wealth into assets. These assets can be expensive to build, or they can be assets that start a war and eventually seize from the enemy."

To sum up, the ultimate goal of the ruler's economic construction activities is to have more surplus labor to squander. The wealth that is eventually squandered may be used to create the face-saving project that the ruler likes, or may be consumed in large quantities in war.

For example, World War I and World War II, why can it be so large? It is because of the development of productivity and the rise of consortiums that have allowed various industrialized countries to have a huge surplus labor force to be squandered.

In Chinese history, many emperors ignored the level of productivity and overdrawd the labor force, which led to a large number of uprisings. For example, the short-lived Sui Dynasty, the construction of canals, the northern expedition to Goguryeo, and other activities. Many activities were indeed beneficial to the nation, but they ignored the upper limit of labor force that could be squandered.

The reason why the national strength in the Ming Dynasty was that these labor forces that could be squandered were seized by landlords, merchants, and powerful people, and were squandered by these groups on personal enjoyment, which led to serious social problems and seriously distorted values.

If Zhu Youxiao wants to grab labor resources from landlords, merchants and powerful people, the only way is to add fuel to the commodity economy. While making the commodity economy more rampant, it will squeeze out other merchants out of the market and enjoy the most abundant benefits of the commodity economy. Then it will distribute the benefits to the lower-level people.

As for the Qing Dynasty, it directly knocked down the commodity economy with one hammer, and maintained the small peasant economy through house searches, killings, and continuous suppression.

This method is too rough. Even if Zhu Youxiao was the emperor, it would not be possible to do this. Moreover, the Qing Dynasty's method can only be said to treat symptoms but not root causes, which will lead to serious social regression.

Now that Zhu Youxiao has already been in Northern Zhili, he has gradually monopolized industries such as grain, salt, and coal, which are closely related to the people. Then, he must divide the interests so that the people can afford these necessities of life.

The only way is to increase employment.

Increase employment is too simple for time travelers. It is not a problem of ability, but a problem of vision and insight. This is indeed a very simple problem. Whether it is repairing toilets or building arms, it is not a project that can increase employment, but only what kind of goals you want. As long as you have enough money to spend and increase employment, it is not an easy task.

After a period of monopoly operation, the crazy collection of the Taxation Bureau, and the coin interests of the Royal Bank, Zhu Youxiao now has silver.

The goal is also very simple, to wipe out wild boar skins and maintain empire stability.

There is no need to increase military expenditure for the time being. However, the Beijing camp will be expanded next year, and military expenditure will continue to increase.

Then increase employment opportunities from the perspective of internal construction. There are two benefits to urban infrastructure. The first is to win over the people's hearts. If the living environment of the people in the towns of Zhili in Beizhili will be improved, then it will naturally praise the emperor. In addition, if the money is spent, it will solve the problem of insufficient purchasing power of the people at the bottom of Beizhili.

Soon Zhu Youxiao personally selected several urban public facility construction projects.

Public toilets, public bathhouses, urban drainage systems, and the establishment of new urban sanitation cleaning departments.

The first thing to start construction is the capital city. Public toilets can greatly facilitate the public, and public bathhouses can also give people a place to take hot baths. The cleaning and construction of urban drainage systems can prevent urban water accumulation. The sanitation department is even more important. Whatever the city is dirty and may even cause a plague.

These urban infrastructure activities have sufficient financial support this time, which is tens of millions of taels of funds.

However, these infrastructure activities have nothing to do with the officials in the North Korean government. They have no choice but to get a hand in the money. These projects are all under the supervision of Royal Capital. For the sake of these urban infrastructure, Royal Bank has established a "Royal Infrastructure Company".

Royal Infrastructure Company was quickly established and immediately began to recruit workers.

The labor cost is still very low. The wages of thirty cents a day are only 900 cents a month, similar to the wages of 900 yuan a month in later generations. However, in this era where the goal of filling in the stomach is to be filled, such wage standards are very attractive to ordinary people.

The main reason is that the grain is too expensive these days. The northern grain is 1.5 taels of silver per stone, which is equivalent to 900 cents and a pound (500 grams) of grain is about 4.5 cents.

The price of grain and meat in the late Ming Dynasty, 1 cent of 1 cent was similar to that of 1 yuan in later generations. However, there was a problem with agriculture in the north. The purchasing power of one cent of 1 cent is not as high as that of one cent of later generations, and the purchasing power of one cent of 1 cent of 1 cent in the south is higher than that of one cent of 1 cent in later generations.

Generally speaking, these laborers only have 1 tael of silver per month, which is 600 yuan.

The people at the bottom of the northern towns met in the late Ming Dynasty. When they met, the later society only received 600 yuan in the city a month, and the labor intensity was relatively high. The wages of construction workers in later generations were ten times that of workers in the late Ming Dynasty.

Don’t think about these lower-level migrant workers in the late Ming Dynasty, education, medical care, etc., as it would be good to have enough food. The housing was even worse. If a male laborer wife would go out to work to subsidize her family and could rent a small house that she could live in. If she had to raise a family with many children, she would have to go to the slums.

These bankrupt farmers who entered the city to work could not go back to the countryside because they no longer had land and houses in the countryside. When they could not make ends meet in the city, slums were their only way out.

The construction period of 30 pm per day is really not high. But it made the people of the lower class of Northern Zhili very happy. The wages have increased by one-third, and nothing makes them happier than this. (To be continued...)
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