Brother Zhu Youxiao

"Send his relatives to Qi State?"

When Zhu Youjian's voice sounded, he had already returned to the carriage, and the reason why he was surprised was because of Bi Ziyan's handwriting.

In the handwriting, Bi Ziyan expressed directly that he wanted to send his family to Qi State, so as to ask when Qi State would accept immigrants.

Wang Chengen did not dare to answer this question privately, nor did he dare to answer it privately, so he handed the question to Zhu Youjian.

Although Zhu Youjian was a little surprised as to why Bi Ziyan wanted to send his relatives to Qi State, but under the second question, he felt that maybe it was just a fake news that Bi Ziyan was testing when he immigrated and when he would become a feudal clan That's all.

"Still don't think I'll give up Fan..."

Zhu Youjian murmured, then closed the letter, and explained to Li Dingguo who was sitting on the side of the carriage:

"Let Cheng En write back, saying that Tianqi began to accept immigrants in 20 years, and if Bi Ziyan is willing, let his relatives immigrate together."

"Yes..." Li Dingguo bowed in response, and Zhu Youjian also embarked on the road back to Prince Qi's mansion.

Soon, following the issuance of Zhu Youjian's edict, Wang Chengen responded to Bi Ziyan according to what he said, and at the same time sent an edict to the Ministry of Households and the Ministry of Industry to build railways and provide relief with work.

The difficulty of the railway around the capital is not high. Compared with the Jinglong and Jingjia railways, it can even be regarded as very simple.

In just three days, the Ministry of Industry handed over the memorial.

The Circum-Beijing Railway has a total of [-] miles. Construction will start on April [-] and will be completed and opened to traffic on the third day of the twelfth lunar month. It is estimated that more than [-] people will start construction. The wages cannot be as high as factories, and can only reach the daily Twenty Wen, for three meals.

Although such conditions can only be considered average in the capital, the finalization of this project will undoubtedly solve most of the slack problems of farmers in Northern Zhili.

Therefore, after finalizing the project on April [-] and confirming the start of construction on April [-], Zhu Youjian also started to build a new railway for the Beijing-Liaoning Railway that was about to be completed.

The proposal he gave was to build a railway from Dengzhou, Shandong to Xi'an, Shaanxi, so as to connect the northern provinces.

The second is to build a second railway from Nanchang, Hankou, Hanyang, Wuchang, Ruyiling, Baidi City, Chongqing, from Songjiang Mansion in South Zhili to Chengdu Mansion.

Of course, it is said to be the second railway, but it is actually Daming's No.18 railway.

If all 22 railway lines are connected, apart from the overseas provinces of Yingzhou, Jiugang, Nanzhou, and Liuqiu, among the [-] provinces of the Ming Dynasty in Asia, only Fujian, Guangxi, Guizhou, and Wusi There are no railways in the four provinces of Tibet.

For the first three, Zhu Youjian will also start construction of the railway connecting the three provinces after the construction of the front railway line is completed.

As for Uszang, Zhu Youjian looked at Sun Chuanting's memorabilia, and it can be said that with the technology of the Ming Dynasty, even how to build cement roads in Uszang has not yet reached the standard.

The weather in Uzbekistan is very cold, and the soil and land are frozen. After the concrete road is built, if the ice melts in the summer, the building will loosen on the basis of the original construction, and the entire railway will be destroyed. break down.

At present, the Ming Dynasty does not have the technology to obtain asphalt by decomposing it, nor does it have the stone layer technology of later generations, so the Uzang road can only be repaired for another year.

The cement roads are still like this, let alone the railways that carry more lives. Therefore, before the technology meets the standards, Ming will not easily build railways in Uzbek.

Instead of thinking about how to build a railway in Uzbek, it would be more realistic to send troops directly to destroy the Mughals.

As long as the Mughals are wiped out, Ming only needs the territory north of the Ganges River, and there is no need to garrison troops in Uz-Tibet, and it doesn't even matter if this place becomes a no-man's land.

But that's too far away, because the current Ming army in U-Tsang is no threat at all. The soldiers of the third battalion stationed in U-Tsang are equipped with rifles equipped with [-] bullets all the year round.

In this case, they just don't bother others. If others want to cross the Himalayas from the south to carry out attacks, they will be rewarded with military merit.

Therefore, Ming's policy in Uzbek is mainly to maintain stability, especially the population ratio is the most obvious.

Even if the Heshuo Special Forces surrendered and more than 3 people moved to the Uzbek Qinghai region, the number of Han Chinese in Uzbek was as high as 29, nine times that of the Mongols.

The ratio of Han minorities in Uzang has been maintained at nine to one. Although many minorities have moved into Hexi, the ratio of Han minorities in Hexi has also remained at seven to three.

If the proportion of Han people is maintained, the local minority people are less likely to be incited, not to mention that the amount of arable land and grassland given to the minority people by the Ming Dynasty is no less than that of the Han people.

At present, many Tibetans and Mongols have experienced a period of enslavement. If anyone wants to rebel, they will pacify these people spontaneously.

Therefore, the border ethnic policy of the Ming Dynasty in the western frontier made the western frontier very stable. It seems that as soon as the Beijing-Jiajia Railway is opened to traffic, the Ming army can immediately go on an expedition to the Western Regions and recover this old land that has been lost for more than 800 years.

Time is passing by little by little, the conservative faction is waiting for Zhu Youjian to become a vassal, the Yanshan faction is waiting for a good time to appear, and Zhu Youjian is waiting for the local construction and the severe drought to pass.

In short, everyone is waiting, and the waiting process is destined to be difficult.

On the first day of June, as two new signs were added to the schematic diagram of the yamen of the Ministry of Rites, many officials knew that His Royal Highness King Qi was going to start "tossing" again.

The State Press Bureau and the "Department of Verification and Examination" under its jurisdiction appeared in this way. Before these two yamen appeared, the officials had already learned the news.

Everyone knows that this is a tool used by King Qi to help the royal family buy people's hearts, but no one can intervene, and they dare not intervene.

While all the officials were still watching, on the first day of July, the first edition of "Da Ming Pao" was officially published, a little faster than Zhu Youjian thought.

As a newspaper run by the imperial court and mainly facing civilians, "Da Ming Pao" does not have many words on it, and five sections the size of a face plate are serialized with five articles.

Although the length of the article is not long, it is all about the current major policies of the imperial court, and the essence of the writing is quite impressive.

The five sections correspond to military affairs, politics, diplomacy, and people's livelihood. The first edition of military affairs describes the process of fighting with small groups of troops on the front line. The text is only a thousand words, but it is economical and interesting.

Politics in the second section mainly refers to the population and the number of fields in the latest census of Ming Dynasty. Although there are suspicions of exposing the national power, it can be regarded as a demonstration against external forces.

Not to mention the third edition of diplomacy, which mainly explains what happened in various countries under the suzerain-vassal system, especially the battle of the Indian vassals against the "Mughal" invasion of their homeland.

The fourth edition of Minsheng mainly talked about Zhu Youjian's approval of railway construction, preparations for the re-construction of railways connecting the high officials of the Yellow River and the provinces of the Yellow River in the north and the south, as well as the construction of canals in the two provinces and the stabilization of food prices in the south of the Yangtze River.

Compared with the previous four editions, the fifth edition has a lot of economic content, because it is the only edition printed on the back of the newspaper, and its content is the sum of the previous four editions.

The reason there are so many is because this is different from the previous four editions.

The first four editions mainly talked about major events in Ming Dynasty, and these contents cannot be changed, but the economic column of the fifth edition is a blank area that can be republished by each province according to the situation.

Provincial government offices, imperial stores, and factories can publish their own job recruitment information, and even individual shops can pay to publish job recruitment information, but whether they are imperial stores, government offices, or private shops, they need to indicate their jobs. The specific distribution of time and wages, as well as the price of wages.

If someone applies, go to the local newspaper office, and there will be a special reception official at the entrance of the newspaper office.

Officials will supervise farmers and employers to sign a contract paper, write down all the conditions printed in the newspaper, and then sign and pledge.

This deed is also time-limited. For example, farmers only want to work in slack, and employers only work for a short time, so they need to indicate the working time and duration.

For example, "From June to September, when you go out and return to you, wages are paid once every ten days, ten coins a day." The latter two are used to settle wages.

From the beginning of June, farmers are his workers, but until the first day of October, farmers can choose to renew their contracts or not. This process cannot be forced by the employer.

If the employer says that the farmers are not doing well and owes wages, the farmers can choose to play drums locally or in other places.

These results must be sent to Qi Wangfu for review by officials of the Provincial Metropolitan Procuratorate and officials of Dali Temple.

If the employer made a false accusation maliciously, he would be sentenced to ransacking his home and exiled after investigation by officials from the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Dali Temple.

If the peasants really can't do it well, then the employer should also pay the migrant workers [-]% to [-]% of their wages after investigation by officials from the Metropolitan Procuratorate of the provincial government office and Dali Temple officials.

If someone defrauds the employer, the farmer and his family will also be sentenced to ransacking and exile.

To sum up, as long as there is any fraudulent behavior on one side, the minimum punishment is the house raid and exile.

In the view of officials of the Yanshan faction of the Ministry of Punishment, most crimes can be eliminated only if the cost of crime is high enough. They are more radical than Zhu Youjian.

However, Zhu Youjian took a tacit attitude towards the laws they added.

For Zhu Youjian, it is impossible for him to give up most of the space for local officials and merchants to operate because of a small number of misjudgments.

Therefore, with his acquiescence, "Da Ming Pao" began to radiate from Beizhili, and Zhu Youjian has been checking the price of "Da Ming Pao" all the time.

The paper industry developed in the late Ming Dynasty, and the price of paper was already very cheap. Basically, you can buy ten sheets of paper for fifteen renminbi. ten sheets of paper.

Therefore, although many officials of the Ministry of Rites want to block the promotion of newspapers, they have no way to set the price too high in terms of the price of newspapers. Instead, they sell newspapers at a price of four cents per newspaper according to the price and cost of newspapers. .

Although such a price is a bit expensive for ordinary people, fortunately, one newspaper can be read by many people. Therefore, more than 600 copies of the newspaper were sold on the first day of sale in Beizhili.

With such good results, Zhu Youjian also began to order to expand the scope of publication of "Da Ming Pao", so that all provinces rushed to follow suit.

Thanks to the well-developed novel industry and printing industry in Ming Dynasty, "Daming Newspaper" appeared in Guangdong, Guangxi and other places in late August, and in Yazhou County, Qiongzhou Prefecture, Guangdong Province, a black arm also handed over copper coins , I got a copy of Da Ming Pao.

Holding the newspaper, the owner of Suo Hei's arm got on a weird bicycle that was saluted by everyone around him.

Four wheels, four pedals, four people, and can carry a certain amount of goods...

In the entire Ming Dynasty, the only one who could have such a configuration was Zhu Ciran as the prince.

After being exposed to the summer sun in Yunnan, Guangxi, and Guangdong provinces, Zhu Ciranshuo is so dark that people can't recognize him at this moment. If he is suddenly thrown in front of Zhu Youxiao, Zhu Youxiao will probably shout: "There are assassins! "

However, although his skin had turned dark, Zhu Ciran's mood was indeed getting better and better.

Unlike when he was in Yunnan, he could still feel the cruelty of the imperial government's policies. When Zhu Ciran entered the border of Guangdong and Guangxi, due to the sufficient arable land in Guangdong and Guangxi, there was almost no forced relocation there.

All the people have an average of [-] or [-] mu of arable land, and everyone lives and works in peace and contentment. Compared with the people in Sichuan and Yunnan, their lives are better, because in addition to pork, beef and mutton, their choices also include cheap seafood.

"This abalone is so big, it costs ten cents a catty in the capital, but it only costs one penny in Qiongzhou. Mr. Zhu, let's eat more today!"

Liu Shun, who was darker than Zhu Ciran, carried a basket of abalone and a basket of fruit, and walked towards the car with his white teeth showing.

But when he approached, he found that Zhu Ciran was not sitting in the front row, but was sitting in the back row, holding a large gray paper in his hand.

After all, it is Jin Yiwei, well-informed, Liu Shun has long known that the court is preparing a newspaper, but this is the first time he has seen the entity of the newspaper, so he can't help but ask:
"This is Da Ming Pao, what is written on it?"

Liu Shun followed Zhu Ciran and sat in the back row, while the two dark and thin Jin Yiwei looked at each other, and reluctantly took the two seats in the front row.

"Ride slower."

Zhu Ciran looked at the newspaper, and after saying hello, he stepped on it himself.

Liu Shun put the fruit between the two of them, and then stepped on the car. As for the Jin Yiwei in front, it goes without saying.

The scene of four people and one car reappeared. They rode from the market town outside Yazhou County to the east along the coastline.

After nearly seven months of riding, Zhu Ciran and Liu Shun have adapted to the fun and hardship of riding. Of course, they have adapted to it as much as they do, and there is a group of skinny, black guards and soldiers who are far behind them. eunuch.

Zhu Ciran looked at the "Da Ming Pao" in his hand. To him, it was no different from "Di Bao". The only difference was that it explained the imperial court's policies in straightforward vernacular, and used a lot of simplified characters throughout.

Zhu Ciran didn't take a closer look at the policies on the four frontal sections, because he took a rough look, and he basically read them when he was dealing with the memorials in the Qi Palace.

That is to say, Ming Dynasty's policies at the end of last year have not been implemented until now, and some policies have been handed in for nearly a year.

This kind of work efficiency seems to be very slow in later generations, but in this era of underdeveloped transportation, it is already very fast.

Zhu Ciran focused his attention on the back of Da Ming Pao, which also posted the recruitment needs and conditions of various prefectures and counties in Guangzhou.

He just took a cursory look, but what he saw was all the recruitment needs of Huangdian and Yumajian Factory, and few private merchants posted posts seeking work.

This is not surprising, because it is the slack time for farming, and many private merchants have recruited long-term workers early. Naturally, they will not recruit workers at a time like August. Only the Huangdian, which is constantly expanding production, needs to continue to recruit workers.

[Changjiang Shilu Iron Mine is recruiting 600 miners, who return home from the united states. There are two shifts in black and white. The daily salary is 32 cents per ten days. Requirements are between 45 and [-] years old, with a height of five feet or more. Board, lodging and three meals are provided]

[Lingshui Huimin pharmacy recruits 30 apprentices from the medicine field, who leave home and return, with a daily salary of [-] cents, and a settlement every ten days. The requirement...]

[Hainan County Haikou Wharf is recruiting 200 laborers, and they will return home. The daily salary is [-] cash, and the salary is [-] days. The requirement... 】

【Wenchang County...】

Zhu Ciran took a general look at the conditions and requirements for recruiting workers. Among them, "returning at a young age" and "one settlement in ten days" are basically the norm. As far as he knows, the wages given by the imperial shop are often higher than that of private merchants. Two texts.

That is to say, the normal situation in Qiongzhou Prefecture is to "go out and return", "one settlement per ten days", and the wages are around ten to thirty cash, depending on the job and the wages are different.

Zhu Ciran didn't have anything to say about the ten-day settlement and wages, but he frowned slightly.

Under the environment of "going out and returning to unitary", that is to say, workers usually start work at Mao time and rest at unitary time, working for a total of five hours.

Working five hours (ten hours) is much harder than working in the fields.

Of course, this also refers to the present, not the past.

Having gone through this journey, Zhu Ciran also knows how the people of Ming Dynasty lived in the past, and why they would rather farm than work now.

In the past, the people of Ming Dynasty were basically tenants of landlords, and a small number of self-cultivating farmers only had six or seven acres of land. It was very difficult to support a family, so they had to go to nearby towns to work.

The hours of work have basically remained the same. Since the Song Dynasty, the day laborers have basically "returned after leaving the country", and the wages they get are similar.

After a year, if you can find a place with food and shelter, you can only save two or three taels of silver.

Two or three taels of silver. Before Wanli 30 years ago, the purchasing power was relatively stable and strong. It was not a problem to buy six or seven shi of grain.

Take it easy, counting the family's field food, or as a tenant, the leftover food after paying the land rent to the landlord's family, it is not a problem to feed five people, and it is not impossible to touch meat occasionally, it is this kind of " Occasionally" is calculated in months.

After 30 years in Wanli, working alone will not be enough to support the family, and eating meat is a luxury that children born at this stage can only achieve during the Chinese New Year.

On weekdays, the child and the mother who stayed at home had to go up the mountain to dig wild vegetables, or go down the river to fish, or go down to the field to fish for loach. In short, even a seven or eight-year-old child had to contribute to fill his stomach.

Everything has changed since the fourth year of the apocalypse.

This year, the imperial court began to divide the fields, and the 9000 million mu of military farmland was distributed to more than 7000 million people.

Some of them are tenants of landlords, and some are self-cultivated farmers, but none of this prevents them from being happy at the moment they get the land.

An acre of land may seem like nothing, but the more than 7000 million people are actually 2000 million or even more than 1000 million households.

Calculated, each family has an extra four or five mu of land. Even if 100% of the harvest is handed over to the Imperial Horse Supervisor, they can still get six or seven hundred catties of grain, and each person has an average of more than [-] catties of rations.

In this way, many children of seven or eight years old are rarely asked to take the initiative to work.

In the sixth year of Tianqi, with the recovery of the old port in the south, Hetao in the north, and Modong in the north, the wave of immigration and land distribution has completely transformed many tenants into self-cultivating farmers.

By this time, the common people barely returned to the level of the 30th year of Wanli, and they could be exposed to meat every one or two months.

Afterwards, there will be continuous migration. The population of various places will move, stay, and divide the land. The living standards of the people will further increase, until the average per capita that Zhu Ciran sees along the way is five or six mu. Even the phenomenon of more than ten acres.

Although it is still difficult to eat meat, except for Shanxi, people in other places can still taste meat every five or six days, and the effect of the distribution of cultivated land has begun to show.

In sparsely populated places such as Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Guangdong, it is not difficult to eat a meal of meat every day.

Take Guangdong, which Zhu Ciran is currently experiencing, as an example. There are more than 900 million mu of arable land in the area, and only 320 million people live there, of which there are six to 10,000+ people living in various counties.

Of the more than 900 million mu of cultivated land, excluding the more than 900 million mu of cultivated land belonging to the powerful gentry, the remaining 2000 million mu of land was basically divided equally among 250 million people.

These lands alone allowed the common people in Guangdong to reach the level of seven acres per person. Although the more than 900 million acres of land owned by the powerful gentry existed in their hands, they also needed to pay land taxes and farmers to help cultivate them.

Although you have to pay 5000% of the land rent, you get 500% of it, which is equivalent to the total output of more than 500 million shi in Guangdong and Guangxi. After deducting the land tax that must be paid for 4000 million shi, and the land rent of more than 250 million shi, the remaining [-] million The stone capital is owned by tens of thousands of people.

Even with the addition of 10,000+ people in the city and 4000 million shimimai for 320 million people to eat, they can't finish it no matter how much they eat and drink. They can only sell it and buy feed to raise livestock.

Zhu Youjian's 15 years of hard work have turned Guangdong, which was still suffering from famine in the first year of Tianqi, into a rich place where Tianqi can taste meat every day for 16 years.

Zhu Ciran listened to these things along the way, and he admired his uncle more and more in his heart, but he also felt more and more reluctant in his heart.

Throughout the ages, like my uncle, there has been no famous official or virtuous king who can make one-third of the people in the world eat meat in 15 years. Even Guan Zhong and Xiao He can only make the people full, while my uncle, who can Let the people eat meat.

Thinking of this, Zhu Ciran handed the newspaper in his hand to Liu Shun, who was showing off the fruit beside him, and looked at the distant sea with a touch of sadness.

"If my uncle leaves, can I maintain the current life of the people..."