"But Your Majesty, of all the places in the world, I, China, are the richest and have the most people in the world. Most of the other places are sparsely populated and barren land. Even if I get it, I'm afraid I won't be able to afford the military pay."
Bi Ziyan said at this time.
"Some land is naturally barren if it is used for farming, but if it is mined and opened to the sea, it will become a rich land. It depends on how the politicians develop it. Before Li Bing and his son built the capital of Jiangyan, Shu was not a big granary of the Qin State. Good governance is to turn poor mountains and rivers into wealthy lands. I leave the matter of opening up new territories to the soldiers, but how to turn the opened territory into a place to increase the revenue of the Ming Dynasty's treasury depends on you, the ministers of governance. , if you can't do it, then abdicate and make way for talents. If abdication doesn't work, then you can only give it to the new rich and new people, like the Fang family, who gave up their government-owned shares."
After Zhu Youxiao answered like this, Bi Ziyan had no choice but to reply: "Yes!"
"In this way, the key now is to encourage soldiers to move to the border and strengthen armaments."
Xu Guangqi replied.
"This is easy. As long as you are willing to reward military merit, the soldiers will be eager to fight every day."
Xiong Tingbi replied.
"It is necessary to get rewards. Not only rewards, but also the system of rewards for military merits must be optimized. Rewards of silver, titles, and honors should not be limited to the highest reward. In addition, a more rigorous and thorough military merits system must be implemented. What is the standard for a duke? What is the standard for a marquis, and more titles must be divided. Public counties, counties, marquises, and uncles must also be subdivided. There must also be more titles below the count. The threshold for the lowest official title must be lowered. Anyone who kills an enemy, Then we can get it. In short, we will separate the officers and soldiers of Ming Dynasty to actively perform meritorious service on the battlefield, so that the sons of the world can either study hard in the cold window or perform meritorious service on the battlefield. There is more than one way to wealth. The official profits given up by the Fang family will be allocated to military merit rewards. The increased profits each year are added to military merit rewards."
Zhu Youxiao said: "It has been many years since the Ming Dynasty has awarded the title of prince for military merit! It can be seen that martial virtue has indeed not regained its former glory! In general, I will have the opportunity to create a Ling Yan of the Ming Dynasty in the future A collection of portraits of the heroes of the pavilion, otherwise, how dare you call yourself the Great Emperor or the Holy King?!"
After hearing this, Qin Liangyu pursed her lips and looked a little excited. His Majesty the Emperor wanted to confer several princes for military merit, so she was naturally very excited.
"Go do it immediately!"
Zhu Youxiao then gave a firm instruction.
"According to the order!"
…
"Immediately take a letter back to the clan and tell me what I say, master. All the young masters in the clan who have failed the provincial examination for more than two times will change to practice martial arts and prepare for the martial arts lecture hall! Otherwise, the military merit and title will be someone else's. It’s a matter of fact! In addition, if the clan members are good at war and martial arts, they can turn to martial arts, and part of the clan’s funds will be used to build a private martial arts school.”
"Now that your Majesty has said this, I have realized that the situation in the world will change in the future. Emphasis on civility and suppression of martial arts will become a combination of civil and military affairs, and even martial arts is more important than literature! You guys will change your registration to the martial arts hall next year!"
"It is inevitable that the Ming Dynasty will open up new territories. Otherwise, we will cut off our own flesh. A new wave of princes and nobles will appear. Our clan must seize this opportunity!"
After Zhu Youxiao and the ministers discussed the future expansion and optimization of the military merit system, and even used the officials who originally belonged to the Fang family to distribute military merit rewards, the ministers of the DPRK and the Central Government immediately began to secretly plan for their own clans, and Immediately began to ask the clan to change the direction of training the family's children.
These people are closest to the emperor, understand the general trend of the court more quickly, and react naturally the fastest.
The military ministers knew that the imperial court was going to expand territory and even optimize the military merit system. Even the emperor had decided to grant some princes in the future. After proving that he was a great emperor and a holy king, they were naturally very excited. They knew that this was the golden age for people like themselves. It's really coming.
As a result, the number of scholars who applied for the Ming Dynasty Lecture Hall began to exceed the number of admissions by more than ten times.
Books on various types of military art also began to sell well, and even stories about Qi Jiguang, Yu Dayou, Xu Da, Chang Yuchun, and even Yue Fei began to become more and more popular.
The empire became increasingly martial.
The Ministry of War's purchase orders for warships and firearms from the General Administration of Ordnance Manufacturing continued to increase, and the demand for steam engines also increased, causing the demand for iron ore and coal to also begin to surge.
When the Ming Emperor and his ministers decided that the productivity gained after the emergence of the steam engine in the empire would rather be transformed into guns used to open up new territories, rather than abandon the application of new technologies and then cede their own interests to the newly increased empire population After that, it was destined that the state machine of Ming Dynasty would start its pace of external expansion and could not stop it.
"Your Majesty, the Privy Council has written the original statement. Next, we will expand the army by 500,000, and add an army with the same structure as the Guards in each town on the nine sides."
"Your Majesty, the Ministry of War has written an inscription that it is estimated that next year it will need to increase the production of 800,000 flintlock muskets, 50,000 Tianqi six-year-old cannons, 74 warships, etc., which will require more than 10.6 million yuan in silver coins. "
"Your Majesty, the title of the Ministry of Industry states that the current shortage of iron ore is 3 million jins, that of green vitriol is 1 million jins, that of caustic soda is 600,000 jins, and that coal is the most scarce. At present, the large-scale use of steam engines is expected to It is necessary to add eight million kilograms of coal and expand the steam engine manufacturing plant, which is expected to cost more than two million yuan in silver coins..."
…
The ministers reported this to Zhu Youxiao at this time.
The heavy industrial economy was still running rapidly due to the expansion of the army. Behind these weapons and ores that needed to be purchased in large quantities by the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Industry, it meant that more workers were needed to complete this production task and thus gain wealth.
This wealth comes from the royal court's taxes and trade income from government-run industries, and will eventually flow into the hands of private merchants through the hands of these workers.
"All are approved according to the votes!"
After reading these question books, Zhu Youxiao replied.
Then, Zhu Youxiao said: "The number of workers and businessmen will definitely increase rapidly in the future. The income of landlords and farmers who live solely on the land will undoubtedly become less and less than before, but food is still very important. I have said before , once the commercial tax revenue exceeds half of the land tax revenue, the world will be exempted from corvee service, and now we are edicting the world to abolish the law of corvee forever!"
"Long live my emperor! Long live!"
Yuan Keli was overjoyed and bowed back.
"Long live my emperor! Long live!"
The other auxiliary ministers also responded excitedly.
After all, this is really good governance that has not been seen in thousands of years.
"Even during the reign of Wen and Jing and the founding of the Zhenguan Dynasty, nothing like this has ever happened. The world is free of corvee service. This is truly a symbol of the prosperity of the country!"
After shouting long live, Bi Ziyan couldn't help but say another sentence.
"Corvee service has always been a burdensome policy for the people, and many people even died in service, which in turn affected a family's production. Now that corvee service is abolished, people's lives will undoubtedly be more peaceful, and there will be fewer civil unrest."
Yuan Keli also said with a smile.
"But my Han family has always been hard-working and unwilling to be idle for a moment. Now that they are exempted from corvee service, most of them will not be willing to live idle in the countryside after the slack. They will inevitably go to the city to work. However, the road guide system prohibits the gentry. It is not strict, but it is very strict for the common people. Next, the road guide system must be changed so that the people can freely choose where to work. This can also be regarded as allowing the wealthy labor force of the people to maximize their value and enable those who are diligent to work. Richer.”
Zhu Youxiao made further instructions at this time.
7017k
