Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 483 Reverse Output
"Returning to Your Highness, the provinces that will open government schools next year are Sichuan, Yunnan, Jiaozhi, Guizhou, Guangxi, Guangdong, Jiugang, and Duogan. The Ministry of Industry has built a total of [-] government schools, which can basically be put into use in winter. "

Zhou Yanru still had the same virtue, poking and moving, resolutely not talking about things other than the Ministry of Industry, but revealed enough information.

The construction of government schools basically has a scale of 500 to 1000 students, and 270 schools means that at least 540 million to [-] million students will be enrolled.

According to one teaching for every 18 students, Daming will invest at least 200 yuan in teaching this year, an increase of more than [-] million taels of expenditure.

He didn't mention anything about the lawsuit, but he told the basic situation of the lawsuit.

If you can guess it is Zhu Youjian's ability, if you can't guess it, it has nothing to do with him.

Zhu Youjian calculated that the population of the Han family in these seven provinces is about 200 million, with 270 million to 540 million students, basically accounting for about one-eighth to one-quarter of the population, which can almost meet the needs of basic education. up.

Counting the one capital and six provinces in the north that have implemented basic education, among the 23 provinces in the two capitals of Ming Dynasty, one capital and thirteen provinces have implemented basic education, and in the remaining ten provinces, except for the three provinces outside the customs, the other seven provinces basically have basic education. It is a populous province.

Among them, the first and second provinces in the south of the Yangtze River have the largest population, one province tops the six northern provinces and the seven southwestern provinces.

Therefore, for these provinces, we can only take it slowly.

Calculated, it is estimated that these ten provinces will take five or six years to complete the promotion of official schools, and after the promotion, it will be time for Zhu Youjian to dig out the roots of the gentry.

"What will the Ministry of Industry plan for the construction of the government school next year?"

Thinking of digging out the roots of the gentry, Zhu Youjian set his sights on Zhou Yanru. Zhou Yanru felt the gaze, heard the question again, and replied for a while:

"I am about to ask His Highness how to plan for the official school next year..."

Zhou Yanru would not advocate the establishment of official schools in any province, because whoever advocates will be hated by the local gentry.

He wants to be Shen Yiguan, not Zhang Juzheng...

"Cheng En, go and pass on Bi Ziyan and Cheng Delai."

"The servants take orders..."

Zhu Youjian had expected that Zhou Yanru would shirk, so he gave Wang Chengen instructions and discussed other things with Zhou Yanru.

"How is the construction of the railway? Is the construction period delayed or accelerated?"

Zhu Youjian lowered his head and began to deal with the memorial, as if asking absent-mindedly, but Zhou Yanru knew that Zhu Youjian was very concerned about the railway.

Of the nine railways in Daming, four of them face northeast, northwest, and southwest, in order to consolidate Daming's rule in the area.

The remaining five, except for the Mentougou Railway, are for industries, and the remaining four are for maintaining stability, the most important of which is the Beijing-Hangzhou Railway.

Once the Beijing-Hangzhou Railway is opened to traffic, it will be much easier for the court to deal with Nanzhili and Zhejiang, and it will be difficult for Nanzhili and Zhejiang to default on taxes.

Zhou Yanru was able to distinguish between the important and the important. He could speed up the construction of the other eight railways, but he could not speed up the construction of the Beijing-Hangzhou Railway. Therefore, for the construction of this railway, he used the construction period set by Zhu Youjian.

This railway can neither be fast nor slow. If it is slow, he will be punished by Zhu Youjian, and if it is fast, he will be hated by the gentry in Jiangnan. It is a hard life.

However, compared with this railway, the construction of other railways is much faster.

With the use of the fourth version of the steam engine, Daming's steel and cement production began to increase sharply, and a large amount of steel and cement began to be used on construction sites, so raw materials were not a problem.

Raw materials are not a problem, so the only problems are location and manpower. Among the locations, the Jinglong Railway is the most difficult, because this railway needs to cross the Qinling Mountains and climb up the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau.

Except for the difficulty of this railway, the construction difficulties of other railways can be overcome.

"For the railway from Beijing to Xining, the subgrade construction has already arrived in Pingyang Prefecture, Shanxi. It is expected to reach Chang'an County and Xianning County in Xi'an Prefecture in the middle of next year, and it will reach Xining in three years."

"As for the laying of the railway, it has already been laid to Datong, but only the capital to Zhangjiakou can be passed. It is expected to open to Datong by the end of the year, and the railway will reach Shuozhou."

"The railway construction of the whole project will take another seven years to complete, but if it is only the section leading to Xi'an, it is expected that Tianqi will be completed in the first month of the 15th year."

"The biggest problem at present is the two sections of the Jinglong Railway, from Xi'an across the Qinling Mountains to Hanzhong, and from Hanzhong across the Bashan Mountains."

Speaking of these two roads, Zhou Yanru was a little embarrassed and could only say:

"For these two roads, the Ministry of Industry's suggestion is to directly blow up some hills where the railway will go, and then blow up the original plank road that cannot be flattened, and blow it ten feet wide to form a north-south double track."

The proposal of the Ministry of Industry is very simple and practical, that is, to use gunpowder to directly blast the Qinling Mountains and Bashan Mountains into two roads with a width of more than ten feet.

Qinling Railway, if Zhu Youjian remembers correctly, the construction of this railway in later generations was quite difficult, and even a term "Qinling Railway Tunnel" was born.

The tunnel length of the entire railway has reached more than [-] kilometers, and tunnel boring machines have also been used to build it.

These technologies, not to mention the current Ming Dynasty, may not be able to solve them in 30 or 50 years.

What Zhou Yanru and the group of people from the Ministry of Industry said was very simple, just blow it up with dynamite, but problems followed.

Not to mention whether the explosion of the plank road will affect the mountain, but if the water is blown out by improper operation, the water in the mountain can fill more than 100 West Lakes.

Besides, how much earth and stone will be produced by blasting the mountain?How much manpower is needed to clean it up?
Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian already thought of changing the route, but Zhou Yanru's words made him dispel this idea.

"If the mountain walls of some post roads are blown up, and the cost of this section of the railway will increase by more than ten times, the original cost of 96 taels will increase to 960 million taels."

"Therefore, the Ministry of Industry suggested that the route from Xi'an Prefecture to Chengdu Prefecture should be changed to Fengxiang Prefecture to Chengdu Prefecture, and a high bridge along the mountain should be built. In this way, the cost can be reduced to 6207 million taels, which is the materials used for cement and iron. It will be a bit big..."

Zhou Yanru's words awakened Zhu Youjian, that is, Daming did not need to build railways according to the standards of later generations, because the train speeds of the two sides were different.

The speed of the trains of later generations, even if the green leather trains crossing the Qinling Mountains in the 90s to 48s is full-loaded, the speed is [-] kilometers per hour, while the speed of the trains of the Ming Dynasty is converted into hours, the fastest is only [-] kilometers when it is fully loaded, and it is only [-] kilometers per hour normally. .

The train with a speed of 48 kilometers per hour, compared with the train with a speed of [-] kilometers per hour, the requirements for track and road conditions are like heaven and earth.

To put it bluntly, the train is just a slightly faster carriage. If the mountain is not blown up, the post road can be widened along the side of the post road, or a small amount of gunpowder can be used to widen the post road without affecting the mountain.

Of course, this has a disadvantage, that is, if you want to run trains that exceed this speed in the future, the original railway will not be usable, or it will become a single track.

The faster the speed, the wider the inflection point of the train, and tunnel construction is unavoidable.

But if the trains of the Ming Dynasty can reach the level of later generations, then the technology will be developed accordingly, and the construction of tunnels will naturally not be difficult for the Ming Dynasty at that time.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian suddenly became enlightened, and he took some light on what Zhou Yanru and other officials from the Ministry of Industry said:

"If it is to build high bridges and expand post roads, how long will it take?"

"If this section of the road is to be completed in this way, the original 890-mile road will become [-] miles, and it is expected to take at least seven years to complete."

Zhou Yanru's answer made Zhu Youjian sigh. It took seven years and hundreds of thousands of workers to build the [-]-mile Qinling Mountains Railway, which shows how difficult the traffic construction in Qinling Mountains is.

We must know that the Pacific Railway of later generations has a total length of more than 3000 kilometers and almost traverses the entire North American continent, but even so, it only took seven years and more than [-] people.

At present, the gunpowder technology of Ming Dynasty is not up to the technology of the 60s, but the technology of Qinling Railway will not be gradually realized until the 50s.

The Qinling Railway is so difficult, so what about the railway that enters Uzbek?

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian became more determined in his mind, that is to move all the Han people living in remote mountainous areas to the plains, especially the people in the Yunnan-Guizhou area. They can live in the Red River Delta and Irrawaddy River Delta.

The more than 4000 million acres of plains in Toungoo are not only easier to build a transportation network, but also easier to maintain the rule of the Ming Dynasty, and it is not easy to separate.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian looked at Zhou Yanru: "The construction period of the Jinglong Railway is 15 years, right?"

"Returning to Your Highness, it will take 15 years. Although the Qinling section will take seven years, the other sections of the Beijing-Longzhou railway can be built at the same time. It will not be a problem to open to traffic in 15 years." Zhou Yanru explained, and continued:
"The Jinglong Railway is the most difficult railway among the nine railways in the country. As long as this railway can be built, the difficulty of building the railway from Longchuan to Dimasa (Assam) will be greatly reduced."

"How many years is it expected to take to build the railway from Kunming to Longchuan?" Zhu Youjian asked about the second most difficult project of the Jinglong Railway.

To cross the Hengduan Mountains is no less difficult than crossing the Qinling Mountains.

However, Zhu Youjian underestimated the flexibility of the craftsmen below. According to the speed of the train, they found a railway that did not need to cross too many mountains.

"Under the guidance of Hong Jinglue and the local people, the local craftsmen found a road leading to Longchuan. It is estimated that only [-] tunnels along the mountain with a length of no more than one mile need to be built on this road. Construction started in Kunming last year and is expected to be completed within five years."

The methods mentioned by Zhou Yanru are basically the methods that can be completed according to the existing technology of Ming Dynasty. Although it is said that these railways may be rebuilt in the future, it is impossible for Zhu Youjian to wait decades for technological progress.

Needless to say decades, if he leaves Daming after more than ten years, it is a question of whether his policies can continue.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian was about to ask about the progress of other railways, but Wang Chengen walked into the hall:
"Your Highness, Bi Shangshu and Cheng Shilang are here."

"Well, send them in." Seeing that Wang Chengen said that Chengde and the others had come, Zhu Youjian signaled him to send them into the palace.

Under his message, Bi Ziyan and Chengde quickly walked into the hall and bowed to Zhu Youjian.

Seeing this, Zhu Youjian motioned for them to sit down, and then asked:

"Do you all know about the establishment of official schools in Sichuan and the seven provinces of Duogan next year?"

"I asked you to come here to ask you which provinces' government schools should be built next year, what the population is, and how many should be built."

Zhu Youjian said while looking at Bi Ziyan, and Bi Ziyan bowed when he heard the words:
"Your Highness, the seven provinces plus one capital and six provinces in the north, add up to one capital and thirteen provinces, with a population of more than [-] million."

"According to the statistics of the Ministry of Household Affairs, the current expenditure of the Department of Justice and Education has reached 3809 million taels, including the seven provinces next year, it may reach more than [-] million taels."

"Exactly, except for the three provinces outside the customs, the remaining six provinces in Beijing are all provinces with large populations."

"Therefore, the lower official's suggestion is, can we take a break and only open government schools for the three provinces outside the customs?"

Just as Bi Ziyan finished speaking, Cheng De frowned and interrupted:
"Your Highness, I think it should be the three provinces outside the Guan, plus Huguang and Fujian."

"Although the household department is difficult, the three prefectures of Modong in the three provinces outside the customs already have a foundation of official education, and what needs to be added is only a gathering place for newly immigrated immigrants. As for the population of Beishan and Donghai provinces, they are only more than [-]."

"These more than [-] people plus the new population of Modong, at most more than [-] people, and the number of school-age children in the [-] people is probably less than [-]."

"According to Guochao's [-] to [-] teacher-to-student ratio, that means only [-] teachers are enough."

"Not to mention that the amount of teaching is not enough to solve the employment problem of Enke's failed students, and the expenditure alone is only 7 to [-] taels."

"The three provinces outside the customs are just a small part of education. Whether the increase will not affect the overall situation, it should not be mentioned separately."

"Therefore, the lower officials thought that the two provinces of Huguang and Fujian could be used as places to promote official learning."

"This..." Bi Ziyan frowned, but Cheng De questioned Bi Ziyan: "Bi Shangshu, may I ask how many people are there in Huguang and Fujian?"

"If I remember correctly, in the eighth year of Apocalypse, the population of Huguang Yellow Book was 930 million, and Fujian was only 4204 million, right?"

Cheng De uttered the accurate data he remembered, which made Bi Ziyan a little passive, but Bi Ziyan still explained:

"Cheng Shilang is right, but this is only the yellow book population, there are also hermits among the people."

"Guochao has a large number of hermits in the private sector. Since the promotion of government schools, every time the promotion of government schools, a lot of hermits have been found out."

"There are advantages and disadvantages, one cannot just look at the paper data in the Yellow Book, for example, the population of the North this year, the Yellow Book records that the six provinces of Shanxi, Shaanxi, Hexi, Henan, Shandong, and Liaodong have only 600 million people, but what is the reality? "

Bi Ziyan bowed to Zhu Youjian and said, "His Royal Highness, there are actually 500 million people in these six provinces. Counting Beizhili, it is close to 300 million people."

"Currently Sichuan, Duogan and other seven provinces have not started to publicize official schools, but there are already many hidden households going to the local yamen to register and compile records."

"There are only 200 million people in these seven provinces on the yellow book, but in fact, I am afraid that 700 million people can be found."

"These two thousand and sixty-seven million people are five or six million households. Even if they have only one child in each household, that is five or six million students. Although the burden on the country is not too great, if Huguang and Fujian are added, That’s not necessarily the case.”

As he said that, Bi Ziyan looked at Chengde: "Ten years after the apocalypse, the population of the Yellow Book in Huguang has risen to 970 million, and Fujian's 440 million."

"Among them, some are hidden households, and some are newborn children."

"The combined population of these two provinces is more than 300 million, or nearly [-] million households."

"Even if only one child in each household is studying in a government school, nearly 300 million people are studying in a government school, and [-] yuan is needed for teaching, and at least [-] government schools need to be built."

"The construction of official schools requires at least 150 million taels, and teaching also takes up 120 million taels of the country's annual salary expenditure."

Bi Ziyan's tone softened: "The first and the last are nearly 270 million taels of expenditure."

"If there are still hidden households, then the expenditure of 300 million taels may not be able to stop."

"Although Guochao has been financially profitable in the past few years, it has also spent a lot of money. All localities have used work as relief, which consumes a lot. The treasury only looks rich, but it is actually weak and empty..."

Although his tone was mild, Bi Ziyan kept looking at Chengde. Obviously, he knew why Chengde was questioning and why he wanted to continue to open government schools.

Zhu Youjian wanted to dig out the roots of the gentry, but Chengde had to prepare for Yanshan's students.

It is impossible for him to let the students of Yanshan become unemployed after graduation, and they are eyeing the positions of government schools that require tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people to be employed every year.

What Bi Ziyan can detect, a man like Zhou Yanru can naturally detect, but he doesn't care at all, because he has no conflict of interest with Cheng De, and he can't deal with Cheng De either.

The only person who can deal with Chengde is Zhu Youjian who is sitting under the "General Map of the Great Tomorrow and Xia Kunyu".

"All right……"

When Zhou Yanru thought that only Zhu Youjian could clean up Chengde, Zhu Youjian also spoke.

As soon as he opened his mouth, the three of them withdrew their gazes and lowered their eyelids, waiting for him to speak.

"Huguang is densely populated, but after several relocations in Fujian, the population dropped from 1000 million to more than [-] million. There are at most one million children who need government education, and only more than [-] people need to be taught."

"Well..." Zhu Youjian came up with an idea, and continued:
"Hong Chengchou gave me a memorial, promising that with the cooperation of Huang Fei, all the chieftains in Dongyu will be wiped out within three months."

"Since this is the case, then prepare to migrate by land or sea from Guizhou, Yunnan, Sichuan, Guangxi, Guangdong, Fujian and other places."

"Don't publicize the affairs of the government and schools first, first publicize the matter of immigration to Toungoo."

"In a few days, I will meet Brother Shuhuang to establish the Luchuan Province and the Luchuan Chief Envoy."

"The Ministry of Household Affairs is in charge of propaganda. Starting from October, those who voluntarily relocate to Luchuan will be given [-] acres of mature land based on the number of people. There is no limit to men or women, old or weak."

Zhu Youjian once again launched the policy of distributing mature land, and he still distributed [-] acres of mature land alone.

You know, the cultivated land in Luchuan is only more than 4000 million mu. According to Zhu Youjian's method, Daming will relocate at most 200 million people there, and all the fields in Luchuan will be wiped out.

"Your Highness, in this case, Luchuan can relocate at most 200 million people, and the local people..."

Bi Ziyan frowned and asked Zhu Youjian, but Zhu Youjian said: "There are hundreds of local chieftain tribes, and they say there are only 4000 to [-] million mu of arable land, but maybe there is more?"

"The extra land will be cultivated by the local people. If there is not enough land, the court will send tractors to the people in Luchuan to cultivate after the people in the Northeast have been resettled."

"..." Zhu Youjian's words silenced the three of them. Everyone knew that the number of immigrants in the Northeast was increasing, and it might take four or five years to settle them down.

In four or five years, the local people in Luchuan were able to reclaim millions of acres of arable land by themselves.

Moreover, the people under the chieftain's rule had no arable land, which led to the fact that after the chieftain was destroyed, all the arable land went to the Ming army, and the Ming army had to distribute the arable land to immigrants.

In this way, the local people have no land, so what can they do?

Needless to say, they can only become members of Daming's work-for-relief group, earning ten cents a day to build Luchuan, and they don't have much time to cultivate new farmland.

At that time, four or five years have passed, and when the tractors of Daming start to be distributed, it is estimated that they have already learned Mandarin and Chinese characters from the perennial labor, and become part of the young people of Ming Dynasty.

Everyone could see what Zhu Youjian was thinking, but they didn't dare to expose it.

"After the recovery of Luchuan, it is also necessary to use work as relief to repair the city. The Ministry of Industry is ready to build enough government schools according to the needs of Luchuan in the next ten years."

"In this way, the government schools that need to be built next year will be tentatively designated as Luchuan, Fujian, and the five provinces of Modong, Beishan, and Donghai. The pressure from the household department will not be too great, and the students of Enke who failed the ranking will also have a place to go."

Zhu Youjian settled the matter in a few words. Although this is far from the 10,000+ official teaching places that Chengde expected, the five provinces can also have [-] to [-] government teaching places, compared with the [-] places that Bi Ziyan said , [-] to [-] places are not bad.

"The next officer takes orders..."

"The subordinate takes orders!"

Cheng De nodded first, and Bi Ziyan had no choice but to return the salute when he saw this, but Zhou Yanru saw that both of them nodded, so he followed suit, and no one was offended.

Looking at the appearance of the three of them, Zhu Youjian had no expression on the surface, but he was unhappy in his heart.

But he can't help it. Daming's cake has been made bigger by him, but there are more people who want to share the cake. He can only sit in the position of King Qi and constantly balance all parties.

"Let's step back, Bi Ziyan stays."

Zhu Youjian waved his hand and Chengde and Zhou Yanru withdrew, leaving Bi Ziyan alone.

Cheng De and Zhou Yanru got up when they heard the words, but compared to Zhou Yanru who retreated hastily, Cheng De glanced at Bi Ziyan before leaving slowly.

This scene was watched by everyone, and Zhu Youjian didn't say anything, but asked Bi Ziyan after Chengde left:

"How many people does Guochao have now? How many people are there? How many laborers?"

"Return to Your Highness..." Bi Ziyan returned the salute respectfully, and then said:

"At present, there are 930 civilians and 400 laborers in Guochao, and [-] million minorities. Yingzhou occupies the majority, followed by Jiaozhi, followed by Jiugang, and finally Southwest."

"As for the number of workers listed in the document, there are a total of 730 to [-]."

Bi Ziyan gave an overview of the population situation, which made Zhu Youjian frown.

According to Bi Ziyan's words, the minorities from all sides already accounted for [-]% of the population of Daming.

If the Ming Dynasty includes Luchuan, which may have 600 million people, and Uszang, which has nearly a million people, then the minority population will further reach nearly [-]%.

Although the assimilation ability of the Han people is very strong, judging from the current situation, some territories may still break away from the rule of the Ming Dynasty when the Ming Dynasty is in turmoil.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian is going to issue a new policy.

"Decree to the feudal vassals that from now on, the relocation order will add Shaomin. If you are willing to relocate the Shaomin men, you only need to pay one tael of relocation silver."

"Then order the provinces of Jiaozhi, Yingzhou, and Jiugang. If there are young men who learn the official language, they can be allowed to move to the feudal states and grant ten acres of land."

Zhu Youjian wanted to use some means to relocate the young men, and the place of relocation was the vassal state of the various vassals.

Although there are many people, they are East Asian faces after all. For the princes who want to go to Levia and India to serve as vassals, East Asian faces are more trustworthy than the local natives after all.

As for whether the Shaomin will migrate?Zhu Youjian is not worried at all, especially Yingzhou who has the most males.

When those Yingzhou men with only one acre each learned that they could go to India as servants and Leviathans as Ming people by learning Mandarin, they probably started to teach themselves to go abroad without Yang Wenyue's hands.

As long as the vassal king uses it properly, he can use the men of Yingzhou to quell the local rebellion.

As for whether the men in Yingzhou will fight against each other?Then we have to see if they can block the guns of the Han guard camp in the hands of the feudal king with their bodies.

In short, after this hand of cards is played, Zhu Youjian does not believe that this group of people will not leave...

(End of this chapter)