In order to deal with the frequent disasters, Zhu Youxiao issued a document to formulate a disaster relief mechanism within the Han Imperial Party and spread it to various new policy areas, allowing Han Imperial Party officials to hold a meeting to study.

The document clearly states that when local disasters are affected, the government should respond immediately, mobilize all the forces that can be used to rescue the affected people. It should do its best to reduce the losses of the people to the greatest extent. At the same time, it put forward a concept that in the face of all problems, the basic right to survival of all people should be guaranteed. As for the current productivity of the Ming Dynasty, the basic right to survival of the people is to be able to eat enough and continue to live.

The basic right to survive is a concept that changes constantly with the development of productivity. If it is under the condition of low productivity, then the basic right to survive is to have enough food. If it is under the condition of continuous development of productivity, then the basic right to survive also includes housing, education, medical care, pension and other aspects.

The basic right to survival is a socialist theory. For example, in the early stage of the socialist exhibition in China in later generations, some of the employees of state-owned enterprises only paid their wages and did not do anything. When they were state-owned enterprises, they could not fire them, nor could they reduce their wages. No matter how much the employee did, they protected their basic right to survival.

Socialism and market economy are both ideal states. Westerners engage in market economy, and theoretically they should be full of competition, and companies that do not seek to make progress will be eliminated. But in fact, Westerners are prone to monopolistic oligopolies, and a lot of competition will no longer exist.

Idealized things are difficult to achieve in the face of reality. Therefore, China in later generations has embarked on a new path of socialism, which is to begin to respect reality and no longer engage in idealism. Through the combination of socialism and market economy, it has emerged a new model that is different from Westerners and from the Soviet Union.

At this time, the Ming Dynasty under Zhu Youxiao's rule was actually embarking on this path. The official mainly promoted the concept of socialism to protect the people's basic right to survival, and at the same time engaged in a market-oriented economy. After the combination of the two, it would not lead to excessive idealization. Thus, it embarked on a relatively balanced development route.

As for the imperial system, it does not conflict with this new socialist principle. At the same time, the new socialist path is more in line with the interests of the emperor. Because of idealistic socialism, many problems will arise. And the idealistic market economy will be like the West. For the sake of interests, capitalists do not care about the lives of the people, and if there is a problem with the country’s war and the economy will be a problem, the emperor will take the blame instead.

Choose a new socialist model for later generations, that is, control the lives and death of the people. There is also a certain market economy to regulate people's livelihood. The emperor's power will not be too supreme, but he will have the ability to control the situation. The status of merchants will not be too low, nor will the merchants manipulate the country.

As long as merchants cannot operate the country, they will not be able to do anything like the first World War in later generations. After the battle, the imperial system of several countries will be destroyed. There will also be no such thing as merchants only care about their own interests and toss a world hegemon into a second- and third-rate country.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao should implement the core socialist concept in the new policy area, and also develop a market economy dominated by state-owned capital.

Once a disaster relief mechanism is formed, you can follow this process if there is any natural disaster in the future so as not to be dizzy.

Under the strong relief of the imperial court, the summer soaring for six years was not affected by the earthquake, and the damage caused by the earthquake to rural areas was not so serious.

There is nothing to do if an earthquake kills people. As long as people don’t starve to death, there will be no chaos. Therefore, summer soaking must be fully guaranteed.

Because commercial grain can be produced in Liaodong, after the summer harvest, Zhu Youxiao added roads and water conservancy infrastructure construction in Shandong.

Shandong has entered the new policy reform since the beginning of the year, and in half a year, the reform has been basically completed. Most of them have been replaced by Han Huang Party officials. The court's ability to control Shandong has been greatly improved. At the same time, the police station, armed police force, courts, and tax bureaus have also been established.

Many people have realized that Shandong may be classified as the new policy area, but the court did not officially announce it. Therefore, it seems calm, but some waves have already appeared in secret.

Shandong is a coastal province, and commercial grain and fishery products are easily transported and arrived, so it can liberate more farmers from the land and invest in infrastructure construction and industrial production. Therefore, the imperial court accelerated the road and water conservancy construction in Shandong, and would not lead to famine because a large number of farmers began to work on the construction site.

As long as road facilities and water conservancy facilities are built, Shandong will not experience any famine in the future. Even if it is affected by disaster, it can transfer a large amount of commercial grain and a large amount of fishery products from other provinces, and with the support of commercial grain and fishery resources, Shandong will become a good area for industrial development.

Later generations, Shandong had very strong industrial strength, and its industry was mainly heavy industry.

Shandong has great advantages in the field of machinery manufacturing, shipbuilding, chemical industry, etc. At the same time, the agricultural resources in Shandong are still relatively rich, with 160 million mu of arable land.

The main grain crops in Shandong are wheat, corn, and sweet potatoes, with a planting area of ​​more than 100 million mu, while the main economic crops are cotton and peanuts, with a planting area of ​​about 3,000 mu.

After the promotion of corn and sweet potatoes in recent years, the planting area in Shandong has increased significantly. The planting area of ​​cotton has also expanded due to the significant increase in commercial cotton. At the same time, there are also a lot of wasteland in Shandong.

The construction of roads and water conservancy will have a great promoting effect on Shandong's agriculture. In this way, agricultural production can be easily transported and exported, and agricultural production means can also be transported to rural areas well. The large-scale construction of water conservancy facilities can improve the agricultural disaster resistance and output.

Building roads and water conservancy can also increase farmers' income, allowing them to have money to afford seeds from agricultural machinery and excellent crop varieties. At the same time, due to the improvement of roads and water conservancy conditions, farmers' energy invested in agriculture can be reduced to varying degrees, so they have more time to earn money to work on construction sites.

Since the reform of the Shandong officialdom began, the corvee service in Shandong has disappeared overnight, and the government has no mention of corvee service at all. After any project started, farmers can get wages when they work on the construction site and provide food. And the wages are still a lot, with thirty-five cents a day.

Moreover, the number of construction sites has begun to increase, roads and water conservancy are being built everywhere, and workers have begun to be recruited in various provinces.

People who cannot obtain enough survival resources in rural areas go to the construction site to do work. The wages on the construction site can allow them to eat quickly and save some money.

After the banknotes were carried out, the imperial court had enough money to build projects and other projects. As long as the grain could be supplied, the construction site could be continuously increased. As for how much money was sold, it still depends on how much it was produced.

When the construction scale increases, it requires an increase in currency, and at the same time, the population of agricultural engaging in agriculture will be reduced, resulting in a decrease in the scale of agricultural production. However, when there is enough food, the scale can continue to increase. If it continues to increase after reaching a critical point, it will cause a shortage of supply of food and other commodities, which will in turn cause prices to rise.

Smaller price increases can actually stimulate production and play a positive role. However, crazy price increases will greatly weaken the purchasing ability of the people, and thus cause people's livelihood problems.

Therefore, the increase in currency depends on the scale and degree of the goods supplied. Where the currency flows after the increase in currency depends on what purpose it wants to achieve. At this time, the imperial court increased currency in order to promote the economy, improve people's livelihood and disaster resilience.

In the sixth year of Tianqi, a lot of people went to the Northeast to work. As a large number of construction projects began in Shandong, many migrant workers also went to Shandong.

In Henan, Shaanxi and Shanxi, there are also projects under construction, that is, the main road road project that runs through northern provinces. After this road is completed, branch roads will begin to be built, and main roads will be built in Gansu, thus greatly improving the traffic conditions in the north.

In the environment of constant natural disasters, the start of these engineering construction projects undoubtedly provides a way out for disaster victims to be unable to starve. As long as you go to the construction site to work, you will definitely not starve to death.

As long as you don’t starve to death, there will be no chaos in the area.

As for grain supply, the Northeast region will become a real commodity grain supply base in the next few years, and the Nanyang region will also begin to import large quantities of grain and other agricultural products into the Ming Dynasty. At that time, more workers and farmers can be mobilized to invest in construction.

As long as the roads and water conservancy facilities in the northern provinces are built, and the produced grain is taken into the hands of the official and the natural disasters cannot be killed.

If this goal is achieved, the Ming Dynasty will not perish.

This goal is relatively easy for Zhu Youxiao to achieve, because he is already on the trajectory of achieving this goal. After stabilizing the north, the problem in the south can be fully solved and the problem of the huge gap between the rich and the poor in the south is now changing.

The fundamental basis for achieving this goal was military power. After Zhu Youxiao arrived in the capital, he began to carry out drastic reforms to the military in northern provinces.

The two provincial garrisons in Northern Zhili and Shandong were all removed from the garrisons, and at the same time, the nine borders were once again abolished two towns, and the remaining four border troops would be completely removed within two years.

The method of abolishing border troops is still to immigrate, immigrating these military households to the Northeast, where a large amount of arable land has not been opened.

However, the northward, the worse the infrastructure is, which is one of the major factors restricting immigration.

The infrastructure is poor and agricultural resources are not very useful, which means that agricultural products may not be transported out. As the scale of ocean-going merchant ships continues to increase, Zhu Youxiao began to think of immigrating to Australia.

Although the Ming Dynasty did not have any infrastructure in Australia, it could first immigrate to the coastal areas of Australia. The lowest transportation cost was ships. As long as there were enough merchant ships, it was relatively easy to drive the coastal areas of Australia. The northern people were also more suitable for immigrating to the southeastern region of Australia, where wheat was suitable for growing, and Australia was also suitable for grazing. (To be continued.)
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