I don't know why, but every time Su Yonglin releases a task, there are always people who pat their chests and say that they will work hard to complete it.
This made Su Yonglin very helpless.
"Who wants your life? Live a good life. There will be many places that will need you in the future. You must not die."
Su Yonglin laughed and cursed for a while, looked at the rolling water of the Yellow River, and said again: "Even if the diversion is successful, the management of the Yellow River is still very difficult and dangerous. From Taohuayu to the east, there is the risk of overground rivers. If we change the course, we can't do it." For how long, it will still be a river on the ground.
Therefore, you have to find a way to collect water and flush sand. In places where the flow rate is gentle, you must complete the project of confining water and flushing sand. If it takes a long time, then take a longer time. The quality of the project must always be ensured and cannot be rushed. It was repaired in a hurry, but within a few years the Yellow River turned into a disaster again. "
"Thirty-five billion dollars, A Lang. I will never waste this national money. I will spend every penny where it should be spent. Otherwise, I will have no words to come to meet A Lang."
Tian Guizi expressed his determination: "I can't guarantee it in three years, but in four years, within four years, I will definitely let the Yellow River return to its old path in the Eastern Han Dynasty! The necessary water-reinforcement projects will be fully equipped, including throttling, flood diversion, and flood discharge. , I will complete all preparations, and after this battle, I will never let the Yellow River lose control again!"
Su Yonglin smiled and patted Tian Guizi on the shoulder.
"You have never failed to live up to my expectations. I can rest assured that you will do things well."
After talking about the Yellow River diversion project, Su Yonglin had a conversation with Tian Guizi about the return of farmland to forest in various places in Guanzhong.
"It is not difficult to implement the conversion of farmland to forest. With the foundation of the previous IQ, the people are willing to believe in the Ming government's promise to give them adequate compensation. Households in areas that need to be converted to forest can be relocated without much difficulty.
However, according to further investigation by the people sent there, it was found that the area of Guanzhong soil erosion is beyond imagination. It is at least 30% worse than the previous report given by the Qilu Corps. There are too many places where afforestation is needed to stabilize the soil. . "
Tian Guizi frowned when he heard this.
"Didn't I say that there are still woods there left by Zhao Kuangyin and Zhao Guangyi's afforestation?"
"Basically all of them have been cut down. The situation of land annexation in Guanzhong is no better than that of other places. There are also a bunch of generals who have been rooted in Guanzhong since the Song Dynasty. There are generals and landlords and gentry, who are crowding out the people. Continuously open up wasteland.
This kind of land reclamation will lead to the destruction of forests. The efforts made by Zhao Kuangyin and Zhao Guangyi have been destroyed by them, and it is meaningless. We are basically starting all over again, and there is no shortcut.
Therefore, it will take several years for the strategy of planting trees to stabilize the soil to be effective. In the next few years, the sediment situation in the Yellow River will not improve much. To finally achieve a balance between sediment and washout, it will take at least Ten years. "
"Damn it! A bunch of bastards!"
Tian Guizi clenched his fists: "So Alang, I have long suggested that we launch action in Guanzhong as soon as possible to liquidate the landlords and gentry, re-measure the acres of land as soon as possible, and carry out comprehensive land reform. This will not only fully control Guanzhong, but also better promote the return of farmland." Forest!"
"If there was no Xia Kingdom, of course I would be willing to deal with those bastards as soon as possible, but the Xia Kingdom is still there, and if the Xia Kingdom mobilizes its entire army, it can also mobilize an army of two to three hundred thousand. When the time comes, the desperate generals, landlords and gentry will cooperate with the Xia army inside and outside, Guanzhong Isn’t it dangerous?”
Su Yonglin frowned and said: "Internal troubles are internal troubles, and foreign troubles are foreign troubles. If we can handle them separately, we should handle them separately. We must not let the two merge and become internal troubles and foreign troubles. By then, it will be more difficult to deal with, so I have to deal with Xixia first." , and then reorganize the interior.
But don’t worry too much about how they can shake things up. When the Ming Law is officially promulgated, I will fully implement the tax reform. By then, don’t worry about the landlords and gentry not showing their fox tail and being caught by me. Once I am caught, don’t blame me. Cruel and ruthless. "
Su Yonglin's eyes flashed fiercely, and he was obviously ready to kill.
And there won’t be very few people to be killed in this wave.
The Yellow River Project had just begun, and the Ming Empire obviously did not have more financial resources to deal with Xixia. It needed to eradicate a wave of borers and extract military expenditures from them before it could plot against Xixia. Therefore, the battle to annihilate Xixia had to be postponed.
This is indeed not a happy thing, but Su Yonglin and Ming Dynasty cannot be blamed for this.
To blame, we can only blame the Northern Song Dynasty and the Jin Kingdom for leaving the Ming Dynasty with a crippled start. The Ming Dynasty had inherent deficiencies that it had to work hard to fill in order to become a country with normal development.
Renovating the Yellow River alone feels no less difficult than Dayu's flood control.
Tian Guizi was quite helpless about this and could only nod in agreement without saying anything else.
Su Yonglin inspected back and forth along the Yellow River from early August to early September, checking the preparation of various projects and the food and accommodation conditions of the soldiers and civilians participating in the project. After feeling satisfied with everything, he returned north to Zhongdu and continued to control the overall situation.
On the ninth day of September, the day after Su Yonglin returned to Zhongdu, he announced at the Zhongdu Grand Council that the newly compiled "Ming Law" was officially promulgated to the world. From then on, the Ming judicial institutions had a written law that could be used as a guide for law enforcement and compliance. rely.
Once the "Ming Code" was promulgated, it immediately caused a wave of waves in the Ming Dynasty. Officials, scholars, traders, farmers, workers, and the army were all very concerned about it.
While the Ming Dynasty had successfully survived a crisis, Zhao Hao and his "administrative base" were still worried about wiping the war's butt.
If Zhao Hao and the ministers who support him from the main war faction want to develop themselves, the first thing they have to face is the mess after the war.
No matter in the local area or in Lin'an City, people are asking for money everywhere. Without money, many things cannot be done.
However, the money has to be used to exchange for war reparations and to prepare annual coins, and there is simply no amount of money that can be spared to subsidize local finances and restore local production.
For this reason, the ministers tried their best but could not come up with any effective method.
Some people have even proposed raising the salt tax again to get more revenue from the salt tax. Everyone has to eat salt anyway, which is definitely a huge profit.
But Shi Hao rejected it.
Shi Hao believes that the current salt price has caused widespread public dissatisfaction over illegal salt sales. Continuing to raise salt prices will only make more people take risks. Salt prices must not be raised. Instead, salt prices should be lowered, and illegal salt dealers should be vigorously cracked down on.
Lowering the price of salt will let people know that official salt can still be purchased, and cracking down on private salt dealers will let people know the consequences of buying and selling private salt. As one goes, the other will increase, and people will be motivated to buy private salt and join private salt selling groups. If the price decreases, you will continue to choose official salt.
Only in this way can we continue to fish from the lake, instead of stewing the hen that laid the golden eggs in one go. If that were to happen, people who couldn't afford salt would collectively rebel. Wouldn't it be a good thing for the Song Dynasty?
You guys really don’t understand at all!
Regarding this, Zhao Hao supported Shi Hao and felt that salt prices could not continue to increase. Continuing to increase salt prices would be playing with fire.
This plan was rejected, and some people proposed to increase commercial taxes and increase the shipping commission to make money from the astonishingly profitable maritime merchants.
This is a method that makes Zhao Hao and the ministers quite excited. He has also heard about the money made by maritime merchants. The imperial court can get a lot of money from maritime merchants every year, which is also an important part of the fiscal revenue.
If some work can be done in this area, it should be possible to increase the court's financial revenue.
So this method was handed over to Shi Hao and others for careful discussion. If the impact was not significant, it would be implemented to make money from maritime merchants.
But this is not something that can be achieved immediately. In order to make money faster, Zhang Jun slapped his head and gave Zhao Xun an idea.
Ransomware.
