Zhu Zhiyu has now built a ship that can travel twenty-five miles in an hour without an empty boat.
At Zhu Youxiao's request, he is now mainly increasing the loading capacity and building the ship larger.
Because Zhu Youxiao believes that there are not many ways to improve speed, so he can only start from other aspects.
The largest steamship has reached a thousand materials.
Although it is nothing compared with later generations, it is already considered a big ship in this generation.
According to Zhu Youxiao's estimate, building a steamship capable of sailing on the sea with more than 5,000 materials should be completed within three years.
He felt that the Daming River Network was rich in water conservancy resources, and water transportation was much cheaper than land transportation.
Therefore, the Water Transportation Research Institute led by Zhu Zhiyu now has more than 300 people, and there are two shipyards dedicated to shipbuilding in accordance with the requirements of the institute. test.
Zhu Youxiao said: "For this immigration matter, let's do it according to the suggestions of the ministers just now.
Don't the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Agriculture have an immigration guidance bureau?
They will first formulate a plan, and then start compulsory immigration.
There are some domestic The mountainous areas are not suitable for life at all.
Move these mountain people collectively to the immigration points.
Don’t be afraid of spending money.
If money is not spent, there will be no goods.
They will be useful only if they are circulated. " Zhong Yuzheng, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, said: "Your Majesty, if the immigration intensity is increased, we can actually recruit more people from the country to build roads and railways.
Why do we need to recruit so many people from India?
We have money and food for the people at home.
Wouldn’t it be better for people to use it?”
Zhu Youxiao smiled and said: "Some dangerous jobs can still be done by others.
Let's recruit fewer Indians, but we have to recruit them.
It is better to do as little as possible without losing the people of the Ming Dynasty."
All the ministers said together: "Your Majesty's kindness is a blessing to our people in the Ming Dynasty."
In the eyes of the people of the Ming Dynasty, Indians cannot be regarded as human beings, they are just barbarians.
It does not matter whether they are dead or disabled.
Bi Ziyan said: "Your Majesty, large-scale immigration may lead to a decrease in the reserves of the treasury.
I think we can issue some road and railway bonds to supplement the shortage."
Increasing immigration efforts, or even immigrating entire villages, will of course cost a lot of money.
Because transporting immigrants and allocating houses, farm tools, daily necessities and food to immigrants all costs money, and they are tax-free for ten years, which means that the taxes paid by these immigrants in ten years are gone.
Although the Ministry of Household Affairs has paid commercial taxes in recent years The amount of money increased greatly, but after all it was difficult to cope with spending money like water.
What Bi Ziyan said about the decrease in national treasury reserves was actually just a pretentious statement.
What it really means is that the national treasury will be drained, and there will even be a larger deficit.
Zhu Youxiao said: "What is the situation in the treasury now?"
Bi Ziyan said: "Last time, I asked the Ministry of Household Affairs to make a special calculation.
Last year, the expenditure of the treasury was 10 million yuan higher than the revenue.
According to the data of previous years, the annual commercial tax can be increased by at least 10% in the future, so If spending this year is the same as last year, the state treasury will be in the red About 7 million yuan.
But if His Majesty increases immigration, even if it only increases by 20%, this number will become 15 million yuan.
At the end of last year, the national treasury still had a balance of 41 million yuan.
According to this.
If the rate continues, the national treasury will have no savings in three years.”
Zhu Youxiao pondered for a while and said: "Both highway and railway bonds must be issued, and banks can issue bonds in other names.
The interest can be slightly more and the term can be slightly longer.
Judging from the increase in commercial taxes, six years later We can break even, so issue bonds for five to ten years and in ten years we will never be short of money again.”
A minister from the Ministry of Rites said: "Your Majesty, haven't we started to issue one-yuan banknotes now?
Everyone agrees with banknotes.
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I don't understand why we issue bonds and then give the interest to those businessmen, but don't just print more banknotes."
Woolen cloth" Zhu Youxiao smiled and said: "It's really not easy to explain this to you clearly.
You only need to know why the issuance of banknotes cannot be continued.
The biggest reason is the unlimited issuance of banknotes.
Banknotes things, we must slowly develop Okay, you must store as many banknotes as you want in the early stage, and issue as many banknotes as you want.
This ensures that anyone who wants to change silver coins can change it at any time, so that the credibility of the banknotes can be established.
You must not be tempted to use more banknotes when you have no money, because in the end, the gains outweigh the losses. " In fact, Zhu Youxiao didn't understand how banks issued banknotes in later generations.
He just wanted to let banknotes first exchange silver and copper coins out of the circulation market, and then slowly turn silver and copper into pure metals.
However, he also understands that this is a long-term matter and may not be completed in a hundred years.
He is not in a hurry.
As long as he has this concept first, he will naturally be ahead of other countries in developing it later.
As far as he knew, it would be decades before paper money appeared in Europe.
His ultimate goal is to turn banknotes into inconvertible currency.
Before that, the authority and credibility of the government must be established, so banknotes must not be issued indiscriminately.
After the meeting, the Immigration Guidance Bureau jointly established by the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Agriculture soon formulated the detailed immigration rules of the Ming Dynasty, which detailed various precautions for immigrants, and immigrants could choose to return to their place of origin after one year.
The regulations put many immigrants at ease.
The requirement to relocate immigrants from the same place nearby has greatly reduced everyone's resistance to immigrants.
However, the measures of forced immigration still caused dissatisfaction among many people.
But now that the regulations have been issued, the Immigration Guidance Bureau does not care whether you are satisfied or not.
As long as the average land amount is low, there will be quotas for forced immigrants.
After immigration, you must Reaching the prescribed average amount of land has become a rigid indicator for government assessment.
Some officials were very dissatisfied and wanted to ask for help for the people.
As a result, the emperor sent the memorial directly to the Immigration Guidance Bureau, and then the Immigration Guidance Bureau directly rejected it without even bothering to give a reason.
And when the two county magistrates who were stubborn and unwilling to cooperate with the Immigration Guidance Bureau were beaten to the end by the officials, the other officials understood the court's firm will to implement this policy and immediately turned around, but there was no one without a wink.
People came to challenge the Immigration Guidance Bureau.
After Wei Zhongxian was fined, he learned his shame and then became brave.
He set up a special department called the Civilian Life Investigation Bureau in the East Factory to collect statistics on prices, people's average income, and minimum income in various places, and then After conducting intelligence analysis, some seemingly abnormal data were listed separately, and a table was made every month and presented to the emperor.
The emperor ordered this list to be published in an internal newspaper for the reference of officials above the fifth rank
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