SFS First Minister Section 564
First Minister Section 564
Chapter 783 It's Time to Slaughter the Fat Sheep
The arrival of Zhang Shuning made Zhu Di overjoyed.When friends got together, Zhu Di changed his habit of two dishes per meal, and prepared more than 20 dishes for Zhang Shuning, including eighteen drinks.
Zhang Shuning also had to sigh, it is true that Zhu Di is not poor, otherwise he would not be able to put on such a posture!
Hu Yan is also even more curious, what is going on with the development of industry and commerce... Has it become richer or poorer?
What is the difference between Beiping and the Central Plains?
Hu Yan accompanied the three of them chatting together, and Zhang Shuning toasted frequently... It takes two million years for a monkey to evolve into a human being, but it usually takes only one drink for a human to become a monkey.
Not surprisingly, Zhu Di really showed his true colors.
After a few glasses of wine, I said everything outside, and I couldn't stop it.
First of all, is Zhu Di poor?
He is very poor, the foreign debt of Prince Yan's Mansion alone is 800 million guan, not counting the expenses of building a normal school... But Zhu Di is also poor, he has a very terrifying cash flow.
Just this year's bumper harvest of grain, he has mastered more than 300 million shi of grain.
After deducting the cost, these grains can also bring a profit of 100 million guan, and after deducting the part of the merchant, he also has 50 thousand guan.
In addition, Liaodong land reclamation, there is a greater income, that is high-quality red pine.
This is a good thing, used as a building material, the price is lower than mahogany, but the quality is excellent, and the output is large... Wherever the land reclamation team goes, the logging team must pass by.
The so-called tired logging is not a joke, not only tired, but also deadly!
In the past three years alone, more than 1 loggers have died. There are still statistics, and those who log without permission are not counted among them.
Timber alone can bring more than 50 yuan in income to Peiping.
And in the process of opening up wasteland, gold mines were also discovered, and Liaodong is a place where gold is produced.
Now it can provide 3000 taels of gold to Peiping every year!
If more efforts are made, the income from gold panning can double quickly.
In addition, [-] tons of ginseng are transported from Liaodong to the Central Plains every year!
This is not counting other medicinal materials!
Rough calculations show that Zhu Di can earn 200 million yuan from Liaodong and other places.
By the way, there is also wool textile, and the annual woolen sales also have 80 yuan in dividends, and the follow-up profits will be even greater.Kaiping City, the upper capital, has long been turned into a city of wool.
This is not the end, when silk, tea, porcelain, and various commodities from the south are sent over, Zhu Di can get tariffs.
All together, Zhu Di can earn more than 300 million yuan a year.
It is almost equivalent to earning 30 a year and having a debt of 100 million.
It's a lot, but not unacceptable.
And Zhu Di didn't talk about everything, after all, Hu Yan was here... He didn't talk about the benefits he got from Gao Li, and the dividends he shared with Li Shanchang and Lan Yu.
Anyway, Zhu Di is not only not poor, he is also very fat, very fat!
"Let me tell you, the benefits of developing industry and commerce are obvious... Let me ask you, how much silk can an ordinary woman weave a year?"
Hu Yan thought for a while and then said: "Your Highness, my mother often spends her spare time weaving in order to support me in studying. She can weave four bolts of cloth a year. For twenty guan, it is considered the second only to food in my family. income, "
Zhu Di laughed loudly, "Then do you know how much a weaver in Suzhou can weave a year?"
Hu Yan was stunned for a moment, then said: "I'm afraid there are dozens of horses?"
Zhu Di nodded, "If the raw materials are sufficient, there will be about [-] horses in a year, and it can't be higher."
Zhang Shuning asked curiously, "What about the woolen cloth from Shangdu? How much can there be?"
Complacent, Zhu Di stretched out a finger, and even shook it triumphantly!
One hundred horses!
How come there are so many?
Neither Zhang Shuning nor Hu Yan could believe it.
But Zhu Di laughed loudly, "That's why you don't understand... First of all, in the workshop in Kaiping City, all the best looms are used, and the ones that can spin 64 threads at a time have all been eliminated! Yes, if you want so much wool, you must have enough wool... Go and see now, there are sheep flocks everywhere in Monan and Liaodong! The [-] tents of the Mongolian Duoyan tribes conferred by the emperor are now Graze for me! Also, on the front line of the Great Wall, there are so many frontier soldiers, and they also have their own pastures and farms. Now I have advanced machinery, sufficient wool, and orders from the court. You say, if I don’t make money, who else will make money?”
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Like pouring beans out of a bamboo tube, Zhu Di told the whole story.
Zhang Shuning was dumbfounded, and Hu Yan was eye-opening.
After eating this meal with Zhu Di, he investigated around to find out the situation. For this reason, he went to Liaoxi, Liaoyang, Tieling, and Kaiping.
After running in this big circle, Hu Yan had some experience.
He started to write a report for Zhang Ximeng.
The biggest change brought about by the development of industry and commerce is not a sudden increase in wealth, nor is it a sudden increase in wealth and people. The most fundamental change is the improvement of efficiency!
Thanks to Zhang Ximeng's lectures, the way these young people look at various issues has greatly changed.
Let's just say this, if you make efforts to develop industry and commerce and build factories and workshops, the common people will be rich immediately, all industries will prosper, and the country will enter a peaceful and prosperous age... all problems will be gone, then it will be too easy!It's too unreasonable. Are there things in the world that have only advantages and no disadvantages?
I can't!
Take the Tuntian Company as an example. If the people of Daming were to do it, no matter what, they would have to keep enough rations first, and if conditions permit, they would also store some.
The common people may not be willing to buy grain merchants, but they must wait for a good time and sell them at a high price!
Therefore, the cost of trading with small farmers is always high and the efficiency is appallingly low.
But it's different if you switch to Tuntian Company.
Still want to leave rations?
Go dream!
The laborers brought in from Goryeo and Wa countries only have that little ration every day.
As for the dishes?
Have you ever seen pig food?
Just that thing, add two catties of salt to it, and eat it!
Fortunately, it is close to the Changlu Salt Field, and the salt is cheap, so you can eat whatever you want.
The taste of that dish is several times saltier than pickles!
You said that this kind of food was given to the coolies in Japan and Goryeo. These people are still grateful, thinking that apart from working longer hours, there is nothing to eat and drink.
Sure enough, Shangguo is much more magnanimous than their master.
Hearing this news, Zhu Di was dumbfounded, am I not black-hearted enough?
He had no choice but to ask about it specifically, so just tell me, what do these two countries eat?
Half a month later, Sapphire sent the news that many of these laborers were captured soldiers, so what they ate was military rations.
Moreover, the two countries have the same habit, that is, they should not let the soldiers eat too much, otherwise, it will affect the fighting spirit, and they will not be mentally alert during training...
Zhu Di was dumbfounded after hearing this, is this speaking human language?
You must know that on Daming's side, Zhang Ximeng's military logistics has always aimed to keep the soldiers well fed and well fed... Although sometimes they can't do it, the whole army has this goal.
If any team is good at growing vegetables, raising pigs, and eating well, it should be praised.
But Waguo is different from Goryeo, eat well?
What are you thinking?
Consumables also match wasted food?
Sapphire told Zhu Di that in the final analysis, Japan and Goryeo are both strictly hierarchical, especially in the military, where there is a huge difference... In their view, if the nobles and generals in the military eat the same food as ordinary people, how can it be reflected? Nobility?
So we must widen the gap.
But the problem is that their support ability is so stretched, there is no way to feed everyone and show the same level.
I'm sorry, mules and horses in the army, you can only eat kneeling family meals.
According to Lan Yu's introduction, they are lucky, and if they can snatch it from the common people, they can have a good meal.
If you can't get it, relying on the supplies sent up later, it is basically the amount of a rice ball.
This rice ball is not pure food, it needs to be mixed with some beans or even weeds.
Occasionally, when I meet a conscientious person, when making rice balls, I will dip my hands in salt water and knead the rice balls, which can be regarded as adding some flavor.
Clean and hygienic.
The problem is that the shelf life of this kind of rice balls is too short, and they are often moldy and spoiled after they are delivered to soldiers, with a bad smell...Anyway, as long as you have seen the military meals in Japan and Korea, you will be glad that you were born in Daming .
Thanks to Zhang Xiang's compassion, in comparison, you will feel that Zhang Xiang is simply a Bodhisattva descended into the world.
Therefore, Koreans and Japanese people are definitely the best labor force at the moment. After all, only they can accept that kind of ultra-high-intensity squeeze without rebelling.
Hu Yan concluded that the increase in efficiency brought about by the development of industry and commerce is one kind of increase in the efficiency of woolen factories, which is obtained by upgrading machines.But even if the machine is upgraded, the workers need to spend more time, working six hours a day is considered lucky.
The other is the Tuntian Company. They simply squeeze the oil from the bones... After reading it, Hu Yan can be considered clear why it can't be placed in the Central Plains... If it is really done in the Central Plains, Emperor Hongwu and Zhang Taishi will be there , may not rebel.But when these two are gone, the world will be in chaos immediately, there is absolutely no other possibility!
Since the disadvantages are so obvious, why bother to develop industry and commerce? What is the purpose?
In the final analysis, it is still those two words: efficiency!
The current Zhu Di can produce several million stones of grain, hundreds of thousands of pieces of wood, and millions of pieces of cloth... In a word, this guy is covered in oil and water, so fat that he can nourish Daming!
Hu Yan's report was sent to Zhang Ximeng, and Zhang Ximeng had returned to Yingtian at this time, and Zhu Biao saw it as well.
Then, a letter was delivered to Zhu Di.
"Fourth brother, elder brother is currently short of 200 million shi of food, make up for the shortfall, and help the victims, no matter what, you have to help elder brother!"
Chapter 784 Zhu Biao Bet Everything
It has been two years since old Zhu went to the north and Zhu Biao supervised the country.Without his father's repression, Zhu Biao became more confident, and the demeanor of a superior was getting stronger day by day.
To rule the world and control this huge country really needs such a magnanimity.
But I have to admit that Zhu Biao's heat is still a little bit worse, and this country is too big and too complicated.
Because no matter how hard Zhu Biao tried, he found that famine, hunger, and even refugees continued to appear... Although the scale was small, they could not be ignored.
The most ironic thing is that the year before last, there was a famine in Haozhou and other places. By the way, Haozhou at this moment has been renamed Fengyang.
Fortunately, a batch of food was urgently allocated, so no major accidents occurred, but Zhu Biao was so frightened that he broke into a cold sweat.If there is a civil uprising in Fengyang, and Zhu Yuanzhang is not dead yet, a new Zhu Yuanzhang will emerge, this great Ming emperor and minister, it will be a lot of fun.
Zhu Biao had to cheer up and study carefully. What is the problem?
Is it really that he can't do it, or is there something wrong with the local officials?
Or is it God's fault?
After about a year of research and understanding.
Zhu Biao reluctantly admits that perhaps this is the normal state of an agricultural society, with three years of drought and three years of floods, constant famines and difficult livelihoods.
When Zhu Yuanzhang first raised his army, due to the chaos of war, the population fled and the land was abandoned.At this time, a large-scale land equalization was implemented, and each household could get a lot of land, and the people who had just acquired the land wanted to start a family and start a business, so many people built houses and got married.
As a result, a large amount of surplus grain was brought to the market.
Coupled with the construction of water conservancy, which greatly increased production, it was possible to prosper for a period of time.
Taking Huaixi and other places as an example, it has been more than 20 years since they were brought under Lao Zhu's rule.
The first child born is now a father.
The soaring population soon carves up the excess land.
Half a child eats me to death.
There are at least three or five children in a family, and no amount of surplus food is enough to feed them.
In the past few years, floods, droughts, and locust plagues have occurred one after another... The accumulation of ordinary people is quickly drained. If there is no relief, there will be refugees.
In fact, this is the normal state of the past dynasties. Basically, after the founding of the country for 50 years, or even shorter, there will be a lot of problems... Try to work hard, and you can barely survive 100 years.
After 50 years, there are already holes everywhere. At this time, a strong man will come from the sky, and if he implements decisive measures, he can prolong his life for a period of time.
When the time comes when even the reform cannot be changed, then the only option is to wait for death.