"Your Majesty, Your Highness the Crown Prince, the common people are going back."
After hearing what the village chief said, Feng Gui was anxious. He wanted to go back to the village to discuss it with everyone.
Dig out the muddy beach, mix it with lime and dry it, leaving a big pit to use as a pond for planting things, and plant other things around it.
"This won't work. If you go back and dig now, you don't even know how to deal with the dug hole. You eat here, and I will explain it to you in detail after eating."
When the chief saw the other party leaving in a hurry, he quickly stopped him. He just mentioned that the specific operation was very troublesome!
The muddy beach does not end when you dig it out. There are many sayings in it, otherwise it will still be a muddy beach.
"Then... Your Majesty, Your Highness the Crown Prince, can I have a meal?" Feng Gui asked Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao cautiously.
"Can we still allow you to eat? Let's go! Just go there." Zhu Yuanzhang said to Feng Gui, got up and went to the cafeteria.
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Breakfast is porridge and fried buns, and rice dumplings are eaten at noon.
After the meal, the village chief and Feng Gui went to the study, while Hanhan was left to protect Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao and continue walking around the village.
I visited the previous bamboo fungus planting base and white fungus planting area, but they are now empty. The things have been moved outside Chaoyang Gate, otherwise no one will take care of them.
The children followed and introduced the situation.
The little girl walked up and down, her ponytail flying around.
“When I originally planted bamboo fungus, I was looking for more than seventy bamboo fungus seeds in one day, and then I bought them from other villages.
When planting, it was said that it would take two years to reach a large scale, but we all thought it was too slow.
As time went by, there were already so many. They were sold to the barbarians and made money to subsidize the Ming Dynasty. "
The little girl pointed to that area and talked about what happened at that time, as if it was yesterday.
"That's right! There are so many now. You can eat whatever you want. As long as you have the ability, you can grow anything."
Zhu Yuanzhang decided to take some time to go back and take a look at Xiaqiu Village over there. The construction there was almost complete.
Some of the construction teams were divided up to guide the migrant worker settlement, while others began to repair the twelve newly purchased shops in Xiaqiu Village.
The ten shops inside correspond to his current ten sons, one for each of them.
“The mountain temple here is where Brother Hanhan usually lives, and there are still quilts in it.
However, Brother Hanhan has been living in the sacrificial hall in recent days. The sacrificial hall has a patio, where it is convenient to take a shower.
The village was poor at that time, but it still gave Brother Hanhan enough lamp oil. Wherever he went, there were ever-burning lamps. "
The little girl talked about the mountain temple again, and at the same time looked at her hands. They were white and tender. Her nails used to be long and her hands were very dark.
Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the children. Yes, none of them looked poor: "Your village is no longer poor, and our palace will become rich."
This year it is estimated that 70% of the Ming Dynasty's fiscal revenue will be obtained. This is because there are many mines and they belong to the imperial court.
Coupled with blast furnace iron smelting and open hearth steel smelting, otherwise the palace's income would exceed the imperial finances. "
He talked about money. The palace had made a lot of money before, and it was about to catch up with the court's money.
As a result, after the palace made more money, iron ore, copper ore, alkali ore, phosphate ore, bitter salt ore, yes, bitter salt is called magnesium sulfate heptahydrate.
All these things together are counted as the income of the imperial court. The number of merchants coming from Jiangsu and Zhejiang via the Rouge River has increased. Although the tax is only one-thirtieth, it is collected from every transaction.
Thinking about buying and selling things, Zhu Yuanzhang thought about something: "Ling'er, why didn't the people in Xihe Village send mugwort and other medicinal materials?"
"Huh? Medicinal materials? Oh! Your Majesty, that's it. They sell it directly to department stores.
Ningguo Mansion and Taiping Mansion together have 210 department stores, and people can sell their things to the stores.
The store will help with the processing. It is a joint venture between the village and His Highness King Qin, with the palace accounting for 80%. "
The little girl blinked and looked at Zhu Yuanzhang doubtfully.
"Yes! There is a department store, I almost forgot. Where did the freight collected by the department store go?"
Zhu Yuanzhang slapped his forehead. He didn't think of such a big thing as a department store.
“They are sold at convenience stores behind libraries in Xuancheng, Ningguo Prefecture, Dangtu, Taiping Prefecture, and Nanjing!
When a businessman wants to buy the item, he will discuss how to hand it over and sell it when the time comes.
Including poultry chicks, they said that villages like ours in Xihe Village sell a lot of chicks, which are twice as expensive as eggs.
Department stores continued to increase prices, so they contacted merchants, loaded them in baskets, and fed them all the way to the delivery location.
If a businessman wanted to sell poultry chicks to Sichuan, one chick would cost at least ten eggs, and no one would do that. "
The little girl talked about what she learned about the situation. The department store had large-scale sales.
The store buys some things, sells some, and earns the price difference.
However, the department store does not settle taxes with the local government, and keeps the money in its account. In the end, it depends on how much profit is left, and it is divided with the palace.
Brother Hanhan said, this is actually wrong. The palace is embezzling the national fiscal revenue, but this is the best way.
Because only when the palace has money, can it be allocated more freely and sent directly to every place in the Ming Dynasty for use.
The more money in the palace, the greater the emperor's power, and he could bypass the court administration to do things.
This model is the most reasonable at the moment. Ministers are all looking at money, and every department wants money to do things.
Only when the imperial court's fiscal revenue increases will they have money to spend, and they must work hard to do their jobs well.
"It seems that the operation of a department store is not easy. It must have absolute support." Zhu Yuanzhang thought of the difficulty.
"That's right! Your Majesty, so the shopkeepers of our department stores are all scholars, who can take the imperial examination.
The internal publications we publish will guide them in doing things and increase their knowledge.
When they learn well in the future, won’t you have people available? Driving them home is no better than now. "
The little girl once again reminded Zhu Yuanzhang that all our people came to participate in the imperial examination, but you were not satisfied and they were all dismissed.
Zhu Yuanzhang laughed: "Haha! Yes, we don't like them. They have a lot to learn, and they have to be like you.
If they have the skills you have, how can we not want them? Yi Chang means that the Four Books and Five Classics need to be memorized, but it is very strong in other aspects. "
Zhu Yuanzhang praised the chief, who had been studying for a few years. Now he didn't need an expert to follow him at all times. When he asked questions, he answered questions fluently.
Are you afraid that the Four Books and Five Classics are different? It is important to be able to take over government affairs immediately when sent to local areas and educate the people.
Everyone talked all the way to the first four hundred acres of land.
At that time, the village bought a lot of large livestock and specially planted purple flowers and soybeans here.
Nowadays, we still grow these two species. Purple flowers are perennial and we harvest a batch when they grow up. Soybeans are harvested before they mature and are used as silage after harvesting.
Therefore, the soybeans here are grown three times a year, and each crop is harvested in advance, so there is always no shortage of edamame. If you want to eat it, let people here pick some and send them to you.
(End of chapter)
