"Your Majesty, I have a purple secret message to report."
Before Zhu Youjian could finish speaking, another guard rushed to Zhu Youjian with a purple box.
After seeing this, Zhu Youjian's face suddenly dropped, and at the same time he kept praying in his heart that there must be no big man attack somewhere. The local officials were about to drive the people to death.
Opening the purple box with slightly trembling hands, he took out the letter inside. After breaking the seal, Zhu Youjian's heart finally calmed down.
"All participating craftsmen will be rewarded with ten silver coins, and important craftsmen will be rewarded with 100 silver coins. Merit is 800, not 900.
At the same time, he told those craftsmen that as long as their merits are 1,000, they can exchange them for a second-class uncle, and if they have 5,000 merits, they can exchange them for a first-class uncle! "
"By the way, tell those craftsmen that firearms are the most important weapon of the country. They must pay attention to safety during the research process and the quality of the products they produce must be guaranteed!"
Zhu Youjian said.
"Yes," replied the imperial guard who summoned him.
"Your Majesty, today is such a good day. Not only did we punish those traitors, but we also got a double happiness..."
"Whether the Ming Dynasty can become a true dynasty in the next ten years depends entirely on these craftsmen and soldiers."
Zhu Youjian said meaningfully.
The most difficult moment of Ming Dynasty has passed, but there are still huge crises waiting for Ming Dynasty in the future.
In less than four years, we will enter the famous Chongzhen drought period.
If the Ming Dynasty cannot make good use of these four years to save enough capital to withstand the seven-year drought, even if the Ming Dynasty can survive this crisis, its strength will inevitably be greatly damaged and it will not be able to carry out expeditions within a few years.
The famous Chongzhen drought in history, even if dozens of countermeasures were taken in advance, Zhu Youjian still did not have the confidence to survive it safely.
After all, not everyone hopes that Ming Dynasty can survive peacefully.
But now that steam engines are available, the appearance of steam trains must not be far away. As soon as steam trains appear, a lot of pressure on the court will be relieved.
"By the way, Wang Chengen. How did you find the person who is good at finding the location of the well?"
Zhu Youjian asked.
"Your Majesty, after screening, we have found 10 people who are good at finding well locations. Their success rate in finding well locations is about 30%."
Wang Chengen replied.
You go and make arrangements, send Jin Yiwei to help them find suitable well locations in the north and around the counties, and tell them that for every ten-meter well that can produce water, they will be rewarded with 1 silver coin and 1 meritorious service.
We must hurry up on this matter and ensure that 10 new wells are added in each county in the north within three years. "
Zhu Youjian ordered.
"Your Majesty, how do you calculate the cost of digging a well?"
Wang Chenen asked.
There are 1,427 counties in the Ming Dynasty, and the number of northern counties is not less than 800. If you count 10 wells in one county, at least 8,000 wells will be drilled.
In order to drill a normal well, at least three places need to be drilled. In other words, if you want to drill these 8,000 wells, you need to find at least 24,000 suitable places. Twenty-four thousand wells were drilled.
Even if one well costs 5 silver coins, the cost of 24,000 wells is at least 120,000 silver coins.
Coupled with His Majesty's reward, it was enough to spend 130,000 silver coins.
Although the court's tax revenue has increased a lot now, the court's expenditures are also a lot.
130,000 silver coins is not a small amount of money. Nowadays, money is used everywhere in the imperial court. It is not an easy task for the Ministry of Revenue to approve these 130,000 silver coins.
"This money will be spent from my internal funds. Remember, it must be earmarked. If you do it well, I will reward you. If anyone dares to fool me, the knife in my hand is not for looking at."
Zhu Youjian said.
To be honest, it is not difficult to get the Ministry of Accounts to provide the money, but it will probably take a year to go through a set of procedures.
After all, not everyone knew from Zhu Youjian that there would be a severe drought in four years.
Nowadays, it costs money to build dams, reservoirs, and clean up rivers in the south of the Ming Dynasty. It also costs money to immigrate to the north, pave roads, and build water conservancy projects.
In order to reduce the consumption of transportation silver, tax revenue from various places now basically only goes into the treasury, and then the banknotes are symbolically entered into the treasury and transferred out nearby.
Although the current annual tax revenue of the great Ming Dynasty is no less than 30 million silver coins, the money in the treasury has never exceeded 100,000 silver coins.
You can tell with your toes that without the pressure of drought, it would be impossible for the officials of the Ministry of Household Affairs to review and approve so much money to build wells at once without a proper trial.
"Your Majesty is very happy. The railway track from Beijing to Shenyang has been completed. This is a tiger skin presented to Your Majesty by the Shenyang Orions." At this moment, a guard held up a tiger skin the size of a cowhide to Zhu Youjian. Come running.
"Did you dig out the magpie's nest today? So much good news all at once."
Zhu Youjian muttered in his heart.
After Zhu Youjian regained Liaodong, in order to strengthen the management of Liaodong, he began to prepare for the construction of the Beijing-Shenyang Railway.
Later, because the matter was complicated, Zhu Youjian did not pay special attention to this matter.
Unexpectedly, it was finally solved now, and the Orion gave a tiger skin to celebrate, and Zhu Youjian suddenly felt happy.
"I will accept this offer. I will ask someone to check the price of the tiger skin and then hand it over to the other party.
At the same time, tell Orion that everyone has their own responsibilities.
It is the emperor's responsibility to protect the people to live and work in peace and contentment.
I am only fulfilling my duties. The people abide by the law and live and work in peace and contentment. This is the greatest gift to me.
He also directly informed the world that no one was allowed to give gifts to members of the royal family. All the property was searched and any member of the royal family who accepted the gift was automatically kicked out of the royal family. "
Although tigers are still very common in the Ming Dynasty, tiger skins are considered rare. Even tiger skins the size of cowhide are valuable and are not in short supply in the palace.
But the value of this thing is not low. At least it can be worth hundreds of silver coins.
Although one hundred silver coins is only a small amount to Zhu Youjian, it is definitely a huge sum of money to ordinary people.
They gave this thing to Zhu Youjian. Although it was possible that they respected themselves, Zhu Youjian couldn't feel at ease with this thing.
After all, everything that has one must have two, and if there are two, there must be three. If you can't step on the brakes in time, there will definitely be fewer gifts in the future.
What, do you think people can just give it away if they want to?
If it is sent to other places, but your own administration does not send it, will it cause dissatisfaction to His Majesty? Will it make His Majesty feel that he is incapable of governing?
If this continues, will the local officials be happy if the local people don't give it away?
If the officials are unhappy, will the people have a good life?
With such an emperor, will the people below give less gifts in disguise?
Gong Yixiu once said, "Now that I am the prime minister, I can provide myself with fish. Now I accept the fish and get away with it. Who will give me the fish again? So I won't accept it."
As the king of a country, he lacks everything. In order to collect a few things, he must break the moral code.
