Although Zheng Sanjun was very dissatisfied with Fang Congzhe, Wang Yingjiao, and Bi Ziyan, he could only watch these three people write out the household inscription book for infrastructure projects to benefit people's livelihood."
Who let it not be their own Donglin Party who is in power, there is no way."
Zheng Sanjun sighed in his heart.And after Fang Congzhe entered the palace, Han Yi, the second assistant of the cabinet, also had the same feeling as Zheng Sanjun when he saw Fang Congzhe passing by the cabinet.Because he could only watch Fang Congzhe take the household inscription book and go directly to the Qianqing Palace in a sedan chair.Han Yi felt that his cabinet assistant had become a mere ornament at all."
Your Majesty!
This is the question book of the Ministry of Household on how much grain can be allocated for the construction project, please read it to the Holy Lord. ”After Fang Congzhe came to the political affairs hall, he handed the household inscription book to Zhu Youxiao.Zhu Youxiao unfolded it and said: "You can take out more than 5 million taels of silver and more than 7 million stones of grain, which can be a big project, and immediately draw up the order, and immediately draft the order, and immediately agree with the Ministry of Industry what project to build to let these homeless people live and work in peace and contentment." ”"Obey the order!"
Fang Congzhe replied.And Zhu Youxiao continued to ask: "How many homeless people are there in Beijing now?"
Are there many starving deaths this year?
”"Back to Your Majesty, there are no less than 300,000 people, the current starvation death is far less than last year, because this year's Cao Yun was temporarily interrupted, but because the king in Jin raised food in time, so there was no starvation to death, plus the next Cao grain recovery, and there are a lot of food after the reminder into Beijing, so it feeds a lot of Beijing displaced people, and because the canal freezes after entering the winter, many grains can only be transported by land, requiring more manpower, so, along the way there are many more displaced people to Beijing, However, now that the grain transportation has basically ended, these displaced people will have to continue to starve to see if they can starve until the canal opens next year. ”Fang Congzhe replied."
In this way, it means that there are more than 300,000 idle homeless people in Jingshi at the moment?
Just right for engineering!
”Zhu Youxiao nodded, he had to admit that Daming's Cao Yun was really an economic artery, and there were so many displaced people who relied on this Cao Yun to eat.At the beginning, the gentry in Jiangnan cut off not only military rations, but also the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of displaced people.Fortunately, the emperor used the West Factory in time to stop the ambition of the Jiangnan gentry to cut off grain, thus avoiding the starvation of countless homeless people.Next, the Ministry of Industry held a ministerial meeting.Because the main purpose of the Ming Dynasty to carry out infrastructure projects this time is to use the surplus treasury money and grain to feed the displaced people in Beijing, and most of the displaced people in Beijing are gathered in the area of Tongzhou and Tianjin, and live on Cao Yun, so the Ministry of Industry proposed to dredge Cao Yun and rebuild Tianjin Sanwei Acropolis and Tongzhou City, as well as the official roads along the way.After reading the suggestion of the Ministry of Industry, Zhu Youxiao directly instructed: "This is not enough, we have to resettle these displaced people, reorganize their households, and make them new households in Beijing, so that they can live and work in peace and contentment, not just let them not starve to death and have a straw hut to sleep in, but let these displaced people settle down here, find out their family history, and no longer become homeless, their children and grandchildren can study, can become officials, and can also have the opportunity to become rich, and can have the opportunity to pay taxes to the imperial court again." ”"What Your Majesty said is that the ministers and others have also thought about reorganizing the homeless people, but the Beijing division has no idle land to divide, and it has been incorporated into Tianjin, Tongzhou and other cities to settle down, and they are worried that there will be spies mixed into the city, so it is really difficult to organize the households."
Fang Congzhe replied."
As far as I know, there is a lot of saline-alkali land in the area of Tianjin Wei, which leads to serious abandonment, and immediately issued an order, Tianjin Sanwei was changed to Tianjin Prefecture, which is Zhili Prefecture, and all the Beijing homeless people are arranged as Tianjin Prefecture households, and a saline-alkali land is selected to rebuild the new city, as a resettlement place for the displaced people, and all the displaced people will be resettled here, and the name of the city will be called Tianjin City, and Tianjin Sanwei Acropolis will be the four cities of Tianjin Prefecture."
Zhu Youxiao said, and said: "The original Tianjin Tongzhi Department is retained, and it is still in charge of the affairs of Tianjin Sanwei, and the power remains unchanged. ”"Yes!"
Fang Congzhe replied.Then, Zhu Youxiao sent Liu Ruoyu after returning to the Qianqing Palace, and instructed: "Shang Gongjian here, also send a reliable person to Tianjin City to open wood, iron and other processing plants, some technical requirements but require a lot of manpower to participate in the manufacture of parts from the capital to these places, hire the settled homeless people to process the wooden and iron and even bamboo parts needed by the inner court, in order to increase the scale, and then transport these parts back to the capital for assembly, but pay attention to the core components still have to be made in the inner court's own workshop, When ordinary parts are made by homeless people, they also set up factories and let different homeless people make different parts, so as to avoid them connecting in series and leaking the opportunity of my inner court. ”Zhu Youxiao intends to engage in manufacturing in the north.And that's just the beginning."
Slave and maid obey!
The slave and maid will do it. ”Liu Ruoyu replied.Next, after receiving the emperor's will, Bi Ziyan officially began to take charge of the proposed project.First of all, the renovation of Tianjin Three Acropolis and Tongzhou City, as well as the construction of Tianjin City and the renovation of official roads.Zhu Youxiao directly gave Bi Ziyan the establishment of 60 household department members and 30 workers in the Ministry of Works, and asked Bi Ziyan to recommend a group of scholars to serve in these official positions, and form an engineering group with Bi Ziyan, and Bi Ziyan served as the general supervisor of the engineering group, responsible for leading these scholars to carry out the task together.According to the previous model, it was necessary for Bi Ziyan to spend his own money to hire a staff member, and then let the staff be specifically responsible for the things that Bi Ziyan was responsible for.However, in order to improve the efficiency of government affairs and the enthusiasm of the specific executors below, Zhu Youxiao directly increased the number of officials.Daming is really not short of officials who want to be officials, many people and tribute students because they know that Bi Ziyan can give them the official position of the outsider, so they are actively looking for Bi Ziyan, begging Bi Ziyan to recommend them, although what Bi Ziyan is doing now is not in the interests of the gentry class, but for many gentry who are eager for power and have not been able to become officials, this is a good opportunity for them to enter the official career.You must know that even if there are few opportunities to get an official position in the Ministry of Officials, even if there are few opportunities to seek an official position, it usually takes several years to get it, and there are still many people waiting in line.Now that Bi Ziyan has sixty official positions for the six ministry members, the gentry are naturally eager to sign up.Because there are too many people who read in the Ming Dynasty.And there are really not many official positions.Therefore, Bi Ziyan quickly recommended 60 foreign langs, and then he took these 60 foreign langs to start planning the scope of Tianjin City, and began to recruit displaced people to this area, set up households and workshops, and then appointed Fang Zheng, and then organized these displaced people to start building cities and roads with the fang as a unit.Located on the bank of a canal in Yinjiawan, Zuowei, Tianjin, a group of homeless people live in straw huts in this area, and their main occupation is to pull fiber for the canal ships entering Beijing.It's just that now the canal has been frozen, there are fewer and fewer boats entering Beijing, and even the boats no longer carry grain, so they have very little work now, and naturally they don't have much food income to earn, so they can only starve in this cold winter.Not far from them was the official warehouse of the imperial court.The official warehouse stretches for dozens of miles, and because of the effective collection of taxes this year, the imperial court has increased a lot of revenue, and the granary has increased a lot.But because there are officials and soldiers to protect these granaries, and these displaced people are also used to being obedient people, even if they starve to death, no one dares to come to rob the granaries."
Daddy, I'm hungry!
I'm still cold!
”A boy with no clothes to wear, Tang Dou Sprouts trembled and said to Tang Youshan, who belonged to the countless homeless people in Beijing.Tang Youshan, who was rubbing his son's body with heat, glanced at the flying snow outside the grass shed and said, "Son, bear with it again, endure it for another day, let's drink that bowl of porridge again!"
Now that the Chinese New Year is coming up, there is no work to transport grain, if we can't bear it, we won't be able to survive this winter!
”Tang Dou Sprouts nodded: "What about Mother?"
”"ShhhhDon't ask your mother, be careful that people will hear and go to find your mother to eat!
”Tang Youshan hurriedly reminded Tang Bean Sprouts.Tang Douya nodded obediently, hungry and panicked, only looking at his father's thin shoulders.And at this moment, there was an excited shout outside: "There is a job!"
There's work!
”At this time, outside the grass hut, many homeless people shouted excitedly, as a reminder to their fellow villagers and run to tell each other.