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Although Xie Jin now knows how to solve the final difficulty in the construction of the western railway.

But he still followed Gao Yangzhi's instructions and went to find Zhu Yunxi.

After all, Xie Jin thought about it and decided that not only did this matter need to be discussed in the cabinet, but the most important thing was that the grandson had to bring it up first.

If he, Jie Jin, forcibly relocated people's ancestral graves, then he would definitely insist that this matter was no one's business and was his own fault.

But the court showed mercy and the emperor issued an order to move the tombs of the people. This meant that the country cared about the people and showed them kindness. This incident also became a matter for the royal family to show the kindness of the heavenly family.

Although Xie Jin was a cabinet minister of the Ming Dynasty, some matters still had to be prioritized.

Zhu Yunxi did not expect that Xie Jin would come up with such a method. After careful consideration, he felt that it would take a long time to get rid of the problem in the minds of the people, but it would make the people not think that the railway was a scourge and block it. Railway construction is indeed a good idea.

"Jie Ge has a good idea. The royal decree is a favor to the people. The last difficulty in the construction of the western railway has now been solved."

Xie Jin did not dare to take credit and said frankly: "Your Highness, this is not what I thought of. If I really thought of it, I wouldn't be so anxious because of this matter a few days ago."

Zhu Yunxi held the teacup, took a sip, and said with curiosity: "Oh? So, if Xie Ge didn't think of this method, then who thought of it."

Recently, he was first busy with the development of the Zhili Road and the basic industries built around Yingtian City, and then turned to the matter of completely transforming the southwestern chieftains into natives and returning them to the countryside. He really had very little interference with the affairs of Xie Jin and the cabinet.

Xie Jin smiled: "It's not someone else, it was Chunfeng who came up with it. Chunfeng said that His Highness proposed at the court in the past that he wanted the court to build a mausoleum for our Ming Dynasty meritorious service in Zhongshan, and also build a mausoleum for meritorious officials outside the city.

As soon as this move started, the civil and military officials in the court were delighted.

Nowadays, people in the northwest are dissatisfied with the imperial government's plan to build a western railway to connect the western regions because the railway passes through their ancestral graves.Then you can follow the example of His Highness in the past, build mausoleums in the northwest, supervise the construction of merit arches, and officials will pay homage during the Qingming Festival and Winter Solstice. The dissatisfaction in the hearts of the people will inevitably be eliminated.

I thought this was a good idea, so I came to discuss it with His Highness. "

Zhu Yunxi held the teacup in both hands and stared at Xie Jin respectfully in front of him with deep eyes.

A slight smile appeared on his face.

"The method is a good one. It is not difficult to get the old man to issue an edict. It is not impossible to build a merit arch in every cemetery. Even if you ask the local officials to come to the park to pay tribute every Qingming and Winter Solstice, it is only a matter of the imperial court's decree. "

Zhu Yunxi spoke softly and stared at Jie Jin silently: "It's just that, although this is done for the Western Railway, since we have to do this, why not do it extremely well and let the people know We can’t find any fault with it, and we can’t let the people think that the court only did this because of the Western Railway.”

Xie Jin took a cautious step forward.

"What do you mean, Your Highness?"

Zhu Yunxi smiled and said: "I called the people from the Qintian Prison, and went to the Senglu Department and the Daolu Department to co-organize it, and asked Buddhist and Taoist masters to make a trip along the Northwest Railway. Explore the places with good Feng Shui and do it first. The Water and Land Dharma Assembly was said to be a consecration of Feng Shui land in response to the imperial court's wishes, to accumulate yin virtues for the people's ancestral graves and create a blessed place.

Let’s set up another memorial day that is different from Qingming Festival and Dragon Boat Festival. All local officials and citizens can enter the garden to pay homage and pray specifically for the deceased in the garden.

The imperial court issued another decree. From now on, every Tomb Sweeping Day, Winter Solstice, and Memorial Day, trains will be stopped along the Western Railway and people who have moved tombs along the line will be transported to the cemetery to pay homage to their ancestors.

In this way, even people who are moving graves far away from the cemetery can conveniently pay homage to their ancestors.There will be no reason for people to move their graves, and then they will no longer be able to pay homage to their ancestors.

Outside the cemetery, on these three days every year, the court pays for the purchase of incense, candles, and paper money required for memorial ceremonies, so that the people can save some money. "

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Xie Jin's eyes widened when he heard this.

He originally thought that as long as a cemetery was built along the Western Railway, the problem of people along the line preventing the construction of the railway could be solved.

But now Zhu Yunxi added this.

He felt that he was one of those common people and had no reason to refuse.

In addition to the Qingming Festival and Dragon Boat Festival, the court will also select another day as the memorial day.On these three days every year, the Western Railway is suspended to allow the people to pay homage to their ancestors.

There are also free incense candles and paper money.

Everything in this way is meticulous, thinking of all the possible troubles that the people may have.

Zhu Yunxi put down his tea cup, looked at the speechless Jie Jin in front of him, and just smiled.

"Xie Ge should go back to the cabinet and write a memorial. When the time comes, ask someone to send it to Gu, who will then forward it to His Majesty for personal reading."

Xie Jin cupped his fists and bowed.

"My minister retire."

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The 29th year of Hongwu's reign in the Ming Dynasty finally passed in an auspicious snow.

The last period before the end of the year.

The whole court seemed extremely busy.

The first is Muying, Marquis of Xiping, who was granted the title of Duke of Guizhou for his meritorious service and has finally secured his position as a cabinet minister.

Regarding the matter of Mu Yingjin being granted the title of Duke of Guizhou, neither the government nor the public had any opinions.

After all, according to everyone's thinking, if it weren't for the relationship between Duke Mu Ying of Guizhou and the royal family in his early years, and the fact that he had become a relative of Taisun Mansion in the past two years.

He, Mu Ying, should have been promoted to the title of Duke long ago.

Now that he has become the Duke of the country, it is the expected result after a long delay.

Then, on the day when the Jin Dynasty granted Mu Ying the title of Duke of Guizhou, the imperial court also issued an order to change the title of Duke of Liang to Duke of Liang.

Just waiting for Lan Yu to receive the order, I'm afraid she will have to wait until next year to know the news.

At this time, he was still on the front line of Lake Baikal, building a new frontier fortress defense line for the Ming Dynasty.But everyone knows that Lan Yu will probably get drunk on the day when the decree is delivered.

After all, Lan Yu should have belonged to Duke Liang back then, but because what he did at that time was too domineering, the character Liang was changed to the character Liang as a warning.

Now it has been fulfilled.

On the day the decree came down, Lan Yu's eldest son Lan Chun entered the palace to thank his father.

I heard from officials I met that Lan Chunhe entered the palace with red eyes and walked out of the palace with tears on his face but a smile on his face.

In addition to these two matters involving the Duke of the country before the year.

That is, the various ministries and yamen of the court discussed and settled the financial revenue and expenditure of the Ming Dynasty in the 29th year of Hongwu.

Generally speaking, the Ming Dynasty in the 29th year of Hongwu can be regarded as a prosperous era.

Although the imperial court spent countless money on the Northern Expedition, the financial impact was not great.

It is even far less expensive than building the Daqing City that has not yet been completed.

The imperial court became increasingly wealthy, which made Xia Yuanji, the Minister of Household Affairs, the most handsome person at the year-end meeting.

After a calculation at the meeting, the Ministry of Revenue not only became rich this year, but also saved a lot of money and food for the court.It's just that except for the cabinet and the nine ministers of various ministries, no one else knows how much money and food is.

But judging from the fact that the Ministry of Revenue made a generous wave of hands and asked the Ministry of Industry to build 99 warehouses in the north of Xuanwu Lake, it can be seen that the Ministry of Revenue has really saved a lot of money and food now.

Because he was the Governor-General of Zhili Province, Zou Xueyu also participated in the year-end final accounts meeting.

Seeing Zhang Ergong, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, nodding his head and saying that 99 warehouses could be built for the Ministry of Household Affairs in just half a year, Zou Xueyu burst into laughter.

Yingtian Mansion was also under his direct jurisdiction as the governor-general. With so many warehouses being built at the same time, it was bound to employ a large number of people to work on them.And it must not only be limited to Yingtian Mansion, because now a magical scene has appeared in Yingtian Mansion.

Because countless workshops were built and countless handicraft workshops were put into use.

In Yingtian Mansion, there is a rare labor shortage.

Now Yingtian Mansion has begun to request the Zhili Governor's Yamen to coordinate with surrounding prefectures and counties to bring those idle people to Yingtian Mansion to work.

The more the people work, the more money they earn, which means the better the economic level of Zhili Road is and the richer the people are.

Then he, the Governor-General of Zhili Province, is qualified.

Basically everyone was happy at the meeting.

At the end of the meeting, the Crown Prince Zhu Biao, who presided over the meeting, after discussing with the Crown Prince, even took advantage of the fact that the Ministry of Household Affairs had money, and as the new year was approaching, everyone had a real job according to the rank of the imperial officials. The reward here is regarded as a New Year's gift.

This time, everyone became happy.

In this way, the court's settlement meeting for Hongwu's 29th year, plus some side issues, was finally completed.

Then came the imperial court's financial budget and work plan arrangements for the upcoming 30 years of Hongwu.

At this time, Xia Yuanji, the Minister of Household Affairs, immediately turned into a miser. Even if it was a matter of one tael of silver, he would have to lead his ministers and a group of colleagues to spend every penny.

However, the current major expenditures of the imperial court are actually not much.

First, it was the construction of the Yellow River channel. Pan Deshan, the Governor-General of the Yellow River, had already made a budget for this matter, and it was just a formality to send it to the court.

After all, the imperial court also knows the results of the current construction of the river channel. They are all made of practical and good materials and are made with good craftsmanship.

The second is the construction of cement roads connecting Yingtian City to various places. In addition to the original cement roads that need to be extended, several new routes are now needed to increase the freight capacity of Yingtian City connecting surrounding areas.

This incident once again made Zou Xueyu, the governor-general of Zhili, very happy.

After all, no matter how this route goes, it will always start from his territory, and the series of consequences brought about by paving the road show that a large amount of the money spent by the Ministry of Revenue will fall on his Zhili Road. On the people of the land.

The third is the imperial court's construction expenditure on the Daqing City under Daqing Mountain.

This is the Ming Dynasty’s national policy for the naturalization of grasslands.

Even Xia Yuanji, who has turned into a miser, has no reason to object. He even stated that even if Daqing City has no income in the future and is a money-losing place, the Ministry of Household Affairs can still squeeze out money to invest in the construction of Daqing City.

In addition to these three major expenditures, there is only the regular expenditure of the Southern Expedition Army, which is nothing more than the supply of military supplies.The expenditure of money is still concentrated on the pension for the fallen soldiers, and it is impossible for the imperial court to cut off the money for the pension of the fallen soldiers and the support of the orphans without respecting benevolence and righteousness.

In addition, at the end, there are two new additions.

One is the Western Railway Construction Plan proposed by the cabinet minister Xie Jin, and the derived plan to reopen the Silk Road in the Western Regions.

This is a large project that costs roughly 5000 million taels of silver, not counting the formation of the Western Expedition army and the construction and transportation of grain, grass and military supplies.

But fortunately, the railway needs to be repaired bit by bit, but the expenditure required for the army is nothing.

As for the relocation of ancestral graves of people along the railway line, the imperial court has also issued a decree.Judging from the reports coming back from the local area, the people have no objections now. Many people are beginning to hope that the court will quickly build the railway so that their ancestors can be buried in the cemetery built by the emperor. I wonder if my family can also receive blessings from our ancestors, so that our descendants can enjoy the blessings of the heavenly family.

The imperial court used another method to solve the last problem before the construction of the western railway started.

The theory of Feng Shui and luck was also smashed by the cemetery built by the royal decree.

On the contrary, within the royal family, they sneered at the rumors that occasionally came to their ears about the construction of railways that would destroy the dragon's veins.

This Ming Dynasty was conquered by the emperor himself.

Does the founding emperor still know whether there is a dragon vein?

As for the last financial budget, it will fall in the New World tens of thousands of miles away.

The imperial court has determined the policy of vigorously developing the New World.

To this end, two support teams were formed.

One was a land team composed mainly of northern frontier troops. Following the tracks left by the team that pioneered the exploration of the New World, they built official roads and stations along the route, and also explored resources along the route.

The other is a cross-sea fleet drawn from the naval fleet.

Dozens of ships, large and small, are loaded with all kinds of materials and equipment needed for the development of the New World.They will complete supplies in Yingtian City, and then go to Yingzhou Fourth Road to complete the final preparations. They will set off along the coastline and first open up large material transportation channels at sea.

Then the shortest sea route will be explored to shorten the travel time between the Central Plains and the New World.

Regarding the development of the New World, the imperial court was divided into two factions.

One group strongly supports the development of the New World, believing that as long as the imperial court develops the New World and shortens the travel time between the two places, the Ming Dynasty will gain great strategic benefits and balance the contradictions and pressures within the Central Plains.

The other group believes that although the New World is good, it is too far away, requires too much initial investment, and may have the risk of becoming king in the future.

It's just that the emperor's family firmly supports the development of the New World, and the opponents in the court can only say a few words.

Regarding the development of the New World, the debate ended with the mobilization of huge resources.

It's just in a place where no one knows except the cabinet and the six ministers.

In Hongwu's 30-year financial budget, the imperial court added a budget for improving the infrastructure of Huguang Road connecting Sichuan Road, Guangxi Road, and Yunnan Road.

On the surface, it was used to improve official traffic in various parts of the southwest, but in fact, this budget was just a military budget that was used to cover up the return of the chieftains of the southwest to their native land.

Just to avoid alerting others, I just changed the excuse.

And when all is over.

The hall full of vermilion in Yingtian City braved the wind and snow, leaving footprints one after another after walking out of the imperial city.

Ming dynasty.

The 29th year of Hongwu also ended with a burst of lively firecrackers.

Ushering in the 30th anniversary of Hongwu.

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