Zhu Youxiao had naturally learned about the signing of the treaty in advance through Jinyiwei and Dongchang.
But he still listened carefully to Wei Guangwei's report.
After all, you never tire of hearing good news.
Fang Congzhe and others were also like this. They listened with joy as Wei Guangwei reported to the emperor what they already knew, and they still actively congratulated the emperor.
"It's very good. The treaty can be signed so smoothly. Ai Qing and others have done the most great service. I have planned to add Wei Guangwei, Crown Prince Shaobao, Minister of Rites, and Shen Yourong, Commander-in-Chief!"
Zhu Youxiao first rewarded the officials involved in the negotiations.
Wei Guangwei and Shen Yourong were able to facilitate this negotiation and allow Daming to gain a lot of benefits at once, so they are naturally worthy of reward.
Next, Zhu Youxiao began to discuss with his ministers how to arrange the compensation of 30 million yuan in silver coins, how to rule the overseas colony of Nagasaki, and how to send officials to stay in Edo and further trade. , and there is the matter of dealing with the corresponding criminals.
For a time, Zhu Youxiao and his ministers had to be busy again, even busier than when they were reforming internal affairs.
Just like in history, the great powers demanded indemnity and colonies from the Qing Dynasty, but they were busy with how to spend the indemnity and how to rule their own colonies.
However, because the benefits directly plundered from foreign countries did not harm the interests of any class in the country, and it was a huge amount of wealth that was difficult to earn in a short period of time, this kind of busyness was very comfortable for the monarchs and ministers of the Ming Dynasty. Cool thing.
"Continue to build more official roads! In the future, the roads will be national roads, provincial roads, and county roads. Each Chief Secretary's residence must have national roads leading to the two capitals. Each prefecture and county must have provincial roads leading to the Chief Secretary's residence. Each county There should be county roads with each township, and the Department of Transportation should be established. The Secretary of the Department of Transportation should be promoted immediately to be responsible for the water and land roads in the world. From now on, the Governor of the River Channel will also serve as Minister of the Department of Transportation."
The Ming Dynasty's treasury suddenly had a sudden increase of 30 million yuan in silver coins, so it naturally had to be spent. Otherwise, it would just be silver coins left in the treasury and would not be able to fulfill its currency function.
However, Zhu Youxiao did not directly reduce the amount of endowments because of this, such as saying "never increase endowments in prosperity", but still demanded that the money be used for infrastructure construction.
There is no other reason. Zhu Youxiao knew that even if the Ming Dynasty was now considered to be Qingming in its official governance, the people would still not be benefited by the light taxation and thin taxation. into policies that only benefit them.
Because in a top-down governance model, even if all taxes are exempted, local officials and gentry will find other ways to exploit the people, and it will be difficult for the people to become rich.
Therefore, instead of doing this, it is better to use the powerful imperial power of the emperor to directly pool the money for infrastructure construction and turn it into public facilities that benefit the people.
“In addition, water conservancy projects such as canals, reservoirs, and dams for flood control and drought relief must continue to be built!
The Ministry of Agriculture was added, with the Water Conservancy Department under it, responsible for the expansion of water conservancy projects in various places;
In addition, the Ministry of Agriculture has set up the Reclamation Department, which is responsible for organizing the reclamation of wasteland by refugees and the promotion of newly cultivated high-quality crops;
The Academy of Agricultural Sciences is placed under the Ministry of Agriculture. It is still a fourth-level official office, specializing in agricultural machinery and new crop cultivation. There are separate departments for rice, wheat, corn, and potatoes. Each of these departments should have capable people who specialize in researching how to improve these grains. According to the output, the imperial court regularly allocates funds. If there are achievements, additional silver rewards and official promotions will be issued, and the promotion will be promoted quickly! "
Zhu Youxiao continued to make arrangements in agriculture.
Although he did not expect that anyone in this era could significantly increase rice production like Yuan Lao, he still hoped that through his attention as the emperor, the grain yield per mu of the Ming Dynasty would reach a higher level.
After all, agriculture is the foundation of everything. If agricultural productivity does not improve, other technological trees will be in vain. Moreover, Ming Dynasty cannot only solve the food crisis by borrowing grain from abroad. This method can only be used in emergencies. It is basically useless. We still need to improve our production technology.
"Social studies need to be expanded. In addition, in order to have enough private schools for social studies, we issued an order to the world to add a normal course to the Jinshi department!
We also built normal schools in two capitals and thirteen provinces, and increased the number of normal students in each prefecture and county;
After the academic examinations of each province's academic officers are held, the normal examination will be held to select the normal students. Those who succeed will enjoy the qualifications of fellow students;
Normal students can directly obtain the qualifications for the provincial examination after teaching social studies for three years. All normal students who pass the provincial examination can enter the Beijing Normal School, and can also take the admission test for normal schools in various provinces. The admission examination for each normal school will be after the results of the provincial examination are released. Students in the school are all given the same background as a juren. After graduation, they can take the examination, or directly apply for teaching positions at the Ministry of Civil Affairs, or they can take the normal examination. Those who take the normal examination and are admitted are given the same background as the Jinshi. Officials were awarded directly by the imperial court. "
"In addition, we should establish an additional academic department to take care of the world's academic affairs!
Within the academic department, there are academic affairs departments of each province, as well as academic counselors, who are the fourth rank, and are concurrently held by the academic envoys of each province. Therefore, the academic envoys of each province need to report academic matters to the academic department. In addition to the academic affairs departments of each province, the academic department should also have a normal education department and a Jinshi department. , specializing in normal subjects and Jinshi examinations. "
Although the compensation of 30 million yuan in silver coins cannot allow Zhu Youxiao to directly engage in education for all, it will be enough to support a few more normal students in the future.
If we want to popularize education, we must first have enough teachers and enough normal education. Therefore, Zhu You School decided to add a normal department first.
"We still need to build more government-run hospitals. What Ming Dynasty lacks most now is not money, but people, especially enough Han people. Otherwise, how can we solidify our borders and prevent these territories from being lost after we open up new territories in the future?
To increase the population, we must first reduce the death rate so that diseases and plagues can be controlled, and this requires more doctors!
The imperial edict was issued to establish the Department of Medicine and the Department of Medicine. Like the Normal Department, each school set up doctors and built medical schools. Graduates were all called medical doctors and could be directly awarded medical officers or directly participate in the imperial examinations. The admitted doctors could serve as medical teachers. officials. "
Zhu Youxiao also decided to take this opportunity to spend money to improve the medical level of Ming Dynasty. After all, plagues often lead to crises in a country.
He remembered that in history, the plague in the northern region during the Chongzhen period also caused great damage to the Ming Dynasty. Now he had to prepare in advance and train more medical personnel to prepare for future outbreaks. .
What's more, the era of smallpox pandemic is approaching.
In this way, the six parts of Ming Dynasty became ten parts.
The number of official offices in the imperial court undoubtedly increased again.
The trend toward big government is becoming increasingly difficult to avoid.
Some public utilities previously undertaken by local gentry began to be taken over by the government.
Zhu Youxiao did not dislike this trend, because he had to admit that in the past, when the local gentry was allowed to assume more functions, it did not allow the entire country to develop in a good direction, but instead gradually declined.
Therefore, Zhu Youxiao felt that it would be better to let the court officials take care of more things and spend more money as they are now.
Zhu Youxiao now spent the compensation received from the Japanese country on people's livelihood, education and medical care, instead of saving all the money like the local gentry.
After all, he is the emperor. Unlike the gentry, the gentry can not care about the life and death of the Zhu family dynasty. He, the emperor of the Zhu family, has to care about the life and death of the Zhu family dynasty and keep the empire developing for the better.
Zhu Youxiao believes that if this indemnity is paid, Ming Dynasty will make great strides in both hard and soft power, just like the great powers in history have greatly improved their national strength after receiving many indemnities from the Qing Dynasty.
In addition to this compensation, how to manage the colony is also a problem Zhu Youxiao has to face now.
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