"Also, there is one more thing."
Zhu Yunxuan continued to lecture: "Although Ming Dynasty is rich now."
"The treasury is full."
"But every penny of the money must be spent wisely! Nothing can be wasted!"
"Don't think that because life is getting better, you can enjoy it or relax your vigilance!"
Peaceful days are always associated with decay and depravity.
But today's Ming Dynasty is far from the time to enjoy it. In the upcoming unprecedented changes, the only way is to keep your head down and move forward diligently.
Otherwise, if you have too many peaceful days, you will inevitably lose your fighting spirit.
Even if they know that there are infinite treasures overseas, the wealthy and wealthy class who are already satisfied will not have the motivation to look for them.
This is why Zhu Yunxuan devoted himself to cultivating a new class.
Because the powerful class is inherently corrupt and degenerate, and has no motivation for innovation.
On the contrary, the capitalists are obsessed with profit, and as a new class, they do not have power, and they even want to fight with the powerful.
Have an enterprising spirit!
"The money from the treasury is all arranged, so don't worry about it."
"In addition to building national highways, the Ministry of Revenue will send another sum of money to Songjiang Prefecture and distribute it to Jiangnan Shipyard and the Magic City for shipbuilding and the construction of the Magic City."
"We must not let the construction of the Magic City slow down."
Zhu Yunzhen arranged everything in place.
Then he said: "Let's go here this morning."
"Retreat from the court."
The ministers knelt down and bowed before slowly exiting the Fengtian Hall.
Only then did Zhu Yunxuan relax. Today's morning meeting was not easy for him. Today's Ming Dynasty had too many directions that required his attention.
It is not enough to just focus on development and economy.
Thoughts, systems, knowledge, economy, military... almost every item needs improvement in Zhu Yunxun's opinion.
But among all the threads, there must be a thread.
Hammering here and there, but ultimately getting nothing.
Zhu Yunzhen sat in the Fengtian Hall, silently thinking about his plan, checking for gaps and filling in the gaps, and constantly deducing.
Want to find that thread.
"It's true that when the book is used, it will be less regretful..."
Zhu Yunxuan suddenly felt regretful. He didn't take the Maoist education course seriously at the university.
I just didn't think it was of much use, so I only got a score of 70 or 80, thinking that it would be enough to pass.
Looking back now, this is the real dragon slaying technique!
But there was no use regretting now. Zhu Yunzhen could only recall as much as possible, and then analyze the current situation using the dragon-slaying skills he had superficially learned.
Today's Ming Dynasty seems to be prosperous.
But in fact, everything is lacking.
Although the national treasury is no longer short of money, there is no use putting money in the treasury.
Only by circulating it can we create more wealth!
This can be seen from the continuous emphasis on domestic demand in later generations and the continuous reduction of interest rates in an attempt to stimulate consumption and make money flow.
Zhu Yunxuan must also use all the money in the treasury.
At the same time, although the national treasury is not short of money, the people of Ming Dynasty are short of money!
Now the people of the Ming Dynasty are far from wealthy, and can even be said to be poor!
It is already good if there is food stored at home.
Not to mention the spare assets, as a result, the Ming Dynasty's economy will naturally be lifeless and lifeless.
Secondly.
Daming is short of labor! Very lacking!
People are needed for farming, and people are needed for road construction. When the Bureau of Technology Research and Manufacturing comes up with new gadgets and opens factories, people will be needed even more!
Labor must not be restricted to the land!
Must be liberated!
After understanding what Ming Dynasty's top priority was now, Zhu Yunxu had an idea in mind.
The next step is to get more money, a lot of money.
Then it is distributed to the people and the landlords and gentry, so that the people can become rich and have more sufficient consumption power, and by the way, new capitalists can be cultivated.
Let Ming enter a virtuous circle.
Secondly, it is to liberate the labor force and allow more people to enter the labor market.
Rather than being tied to the fields or being a slave in the mansion of a powerful family.
There is also the need to develop new armies as much as possible, dismantle old armies, abolish the guard system, and let the soldiers in these guard posts become the new labor force.
By then, with the strength of the new army, Ming Dynasty would not need so many soldiers at all.
According to statistics, today's Ming Dynasty has a total of 10,652,870 households, with a total of 60,545,812 people.
Plus some gangsters.
Zhu Yunzhen estimated that there should be about 65 million people.
And now the Ming Dynasty's army numbers 1.91 million, and they are all laborers in their prime!
Of the 1.91 million troops, the five major battalions of the capital alone accounted for 200,000.
For ancient times, two million troops was not a large number. After all, the Song Dynasty boasted 800,000 forbidden troops, and every vassal town in the Tang Dynasty had tens of thousands of troops stationed there.
But for Zhu Yunxuan, the number of this army was slightly larger.
After all, with a population of more than one billion in later generations, the total number of troops was only more than two million, which was only one-tenth to one-twentieth of the current Hongwu Dynasty.
Taking up too much labor!
These are all excellent labor forces!
"It seems that military technology research and development cannot be stopped..."
Zhu Yunzhen planned to continue to let the Technical Research and Manufacturing Bureau build new weapons and improve the quality as much as possible, instead of relying on mindless accumulation of numbers to maintain the army's combat effectiveness.
In this way, the old army can be continuously eliminated.
Reduce the number of the army to about one million, releasing nearly one million young and strong labor force!
However, this needs to be done slowly, and these downsized troops must be properly placed. Otherwise, once these young men are eliminated, there will be no suitable job arrangements.
There will be huge chaos.
Zhu Yunzhen is not so stupid as to cause trouble for himself.
After a long time of thinking.
Zhu Yunzhen also figured out his future ideas in his heart, making money, making people, and cultivating a new class!
Everything revolves around these three directions!
Making money is quite simple. All you need to do is continue to issue more national debt and print more banknotes, plus Zheng He conquers the Japanese country and goes to the Japanese country to get back a large amount of silver.
To manipulate people, you can start by increasing agricultural production, freeing domestic slaves, and streamlining the army. Moreover, Zhu Yunxu did not necessarily have to start from the territory of the Ming Dynasty.
Prisoners are also labor force!
Japan, Beiyuan, Annan, the Western Regions, and even overseas...
This world lacks everything, but it doesn’t lack people!
The third point is the real difficulty... You want to cultivate a new class with your own hands, but you also want this new class to stay within your control...
The difficulty can be said to be higher than the sky!
"Harvest the fields!"
“If you want to solve these problems, in the final analysis, you still have to harvest the fields!”
Suddenly an idea flashed in Zhu Yunzhen's mind!
It’s as if I’ve realized something!
Only all the fields should be taken back to the Ming Dynasty and distributed to the people.
Only then can we fundamentally solve these problems once and for all!
By collecting land, you can take the opportunity to give money to the people and give money to the landlords and gentry, thus giving birth to a new class.
At the same time, it can also solve the problem of unified land tax that currently causes Zhu Yunzhen a headache.
As long as everyone's land is official land, the land tax issue will no longer be complicated! Better formulated too!
Moreover, state-owned fields also have the advantage that they can control the amount of land owned by each person and limit one person from owning too many fields.
It is no longer possible to make a fortune from farming alone.
Forcing the landowners and gentry to find new ways.
At this time, they have a lot of silver in their hands, and with a little guidance, they will definitely embark on the road of opening a factory!
Zhu Yunzhen seems to have found the lifeblood of all problems.
The fundamental solution to all these problems is to collect land, which is land reform!
"My wisdom is far inferior to the great man's case..."
Zhu Yunxuan shook his head and sighed.
Standing on the shoulders of those who came before me, I thought about it for a long time. I didn’t know that the great man had found a way out of the darkness in this way...
Walk out of Fengtian Hall.
The sun rises in the east.
Clear skies.
The sunshine in early spring is warm but not harmful, and shines selflessly on the earth.
Zhu Yunxuan looked at the red sun hanging high in the sky.
I can't help but be stunned...
(End of chapter)
