Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 291 Make Daming a Powerful Capital Empire (Second Update)

Zhu Youjian's current basic national policy for governing Ming Dynasty is to promote commercial development, further open up the Ming market, and even abolish the guide system that exists in name only.

At the same time, Zhu Youjian continued to reduce the exploitation and squeeze of the agricultural economy by the gentry and landlords. In any case, agriculture was always the foundation of all production.

Although Ming Dynasty will develop into an industrialized country in the future is the lifelong goal set by Zhu Youjian, the emperor.

But Zhu Youjian never dared to ignore the attention to agricultural production.

In today's Ming Dynasty, although Zhu Youjian has transferred the cost of running the court and supporting the royal family and the army to business.

However, most of the gentry class is still supported by the vast peasant class. Zhu Youjian reduced the expenditure of the peasants to the court, but he had to prevent the gentry class from increasing the levy and heavier exploitation of the peasants.

Fan Jingwen, Chief Assistant of the Cabinet and Secretary of the Household Department, is an official from the north. Now he has no land in the south. Naturally, he does not object to the policy of Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youjian to take care of the farmers. He even directly praised His Majesty for thinking about the people.

However, Liu Wanchun, the left servant of the household department, and Qi Biaojia, the right servant of the household department, are both gentry and big landlords in the south of the Yangtze River. They have no objection to encouraging commerce and reducing the tax payment for farmers, but they have no opinion on the policy of encouraging landlords to reduce rent and interest rates proposed by His Majesty. Can't help but secretly smile.

However, Liu Wanchun, the left servant of the household department, did not object to Zhu Youjian, and still nodded and said yes. He knew that he had no reason to refute His Majesty, and he also knew that what His Majesty did was truly beneficial to the country and the people.

Qi Biaojia didn't say anything, but she also thought to herself that perhaps the majority of the gentry class could only continue to expand their commercial scale in order to continue to ensure more wealth.

"Qi Biaojia, the right servant of the household department, you are responsible for the expenditure of the household department. Now you should know that the household department has more than 9000 million silver dollars in the central bank of Ming Dynasty. Adding the tax next year, it will be a lot of money;

You have to draw up an expenditure plan in advance, and then Liu Wanchun, the left servant of the household department, will give you the approximate tax revenue for next year, and you have to make a comprehensive calculation of the national treasury revenue for next year, and determine how much Ming will spend on military, agriculture, commerce, and teaching. Financial expenditure, how much money is expected to be invested in each department, and at the same time, let each department determine the plan for next year according to your plan;
I will give you some suggestions here, you go back and discuss with the officials of the Ministry of Household Affairs, and then hand it over to Mr. Fan Ge, the chief assistant, for deliberation, and then hand over the final plan to me, and I will personally review it;
These are the main points I have to mention in advance. Next year can be said to be a constructive year. The two major wars this year have been fought from April to July. The entire imperial court has always focused on military affairs;
But there should be no war next year. The Manchu Qing lost nearly [-] Manchurian cavalry. Coupled with the turmoil in the north, the uprising continued, and the livelihood of the people was not restored.
Therefore, there should be no war next year, and I, Daming, just take this opportunity to carry out construction.

First of all, based on the principle of agriculture, the rivers and water conservancy in many areas need to be refurbished;

Secondly, roads everywhere in the world need to be widened and repaired;

There is also the improvement of weapons and new weapons and equipment of the Guards and Guards, as well as the stockpiling of military supplies;
In addition, after the switch is switched on again, the construction of various ports and docks and the manufacture of ships have to be put on the agenda;
Another thing is that running a school is also a top priority. I hope that every child of the Ming Dynasty can afford to go to school as soon as possible, so that every Ming citizen can read and write.

When Zhu Youjian said this, Qi Biaojia, the right servant of the household department, was a little horrified, but at the same time, he also felt that the burden on him seemed to be a lot heavier, and he couldn't help but secretly sighed that His Majesty seemed to be doing something great, to be an emperor through the ages Otherwise, why did they first put forward the ideal of permanent tax exemption for agriculture in the world, and now they put forward the ideal of making every citizen of Ming Dynasty afford to go to school.

"Please rest assured, Your Majesty, I will definitely arrange everything that Your Majesty asks." Qi Biaojia got up and bowed to Zhu Youjian.

Zhu Youjian nodded, then looked at Han Shoujing, Yang Mingshen, and Wang Jiaqin:
"You are in charge of the Daming Central Bank, which is equivalent to controlling the flow of money in the entire world. Whether the market is chaotic, whether the court can make money, and whether the entire Ming Dynasty will collapse due to rising prices are all up to you;

There is no precedent for you, and I can't help you too much. You can only see yourself in control at all times, and the balance between lending and saving must be well controlled;
Gold and silver reserves must be sufficient. I will order Dongchang to set up a special army to be responsible for gold collection and increase the central bank's gold reserves. As long as the central bank has enough gold, it will be able to print enough money, and even one day It can also directly let the people use precious banknotes, and let people all over the world use Daming's precious banknotes. You think, if you do business with foreigners, they will bring a bunch of goods and take away a bunch of banknotes made of paper; But my Ming merchant went out and brought a bunch of goods, but what I brought back was gold, silver and gems, who is more cost-effective. "

With Zhu Youjian's analogy, all the officials present laughed, and instantly understood the purpose of His Majesty's plan to open a bank and change the money law in the past.

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Zhu Youjian can imagine that the most important thing next year will be economic reform and industrial transformation.

The entire Ming Dynasty, especially the Jiangnan area, was already in the embryonic stage of capitalism, and entering the capitalist society was only a short step away. It was impossible for Zhu Youjian not to seize this opportunity and use his power as the ruler of the Ming Dynasty to let Ming Dynasty directly enter this era.

Just like the serfdom reform carried out by Peter the Great in Tsarist Russia and the newly established capital empire by Napoleon in France.

Zhu Youjian also hopes that he can make his Ming Dynasty a capital empire. As a Han emperor, he is naturally different from the Manchu emperor.

From a certain point of view, the Manchu emperor could not regard the Huaxia country and nation as his own property. He could only be an occupier and user, and he had to always be on guard against the rise of Han forces, threatening his rule. And had to carry out the policy of ignoring the people and imprisoning thoughts.

But Zhu Youjian, as the emperor of the Han people, doesn’t have to worry about the rise of the Han people’s power, because he himself is the representative of the Han people’s power, so even if he is not a time traveler, he will actively change the Ming Dynasty after realizing that the Western power may surpass it system to catch up with the pace of the world without worrying about the rise of any Han power in the country.

Just like the reform and opening up that later generations of China started in the late 70s, although it is also autocratic, but because the Han people are in power, the central power is fully capable of suppressing the stubborn and old-fashioned, and promoting a country that has been backward for a hundred years in a short period of time. 0 years to catch up.

It was different in the late Qing Dynasty. Although there were Westernization Movement and Reformation Movement, they were all the efforts of local Han bureaucrats and Han intellectuals from the landlord class. Naturally, there was no way to defeat the stubborn and conservative central Manchu nobles who held power.

What's more, Zhu Youjian is still a time traveler, so naturally he is more active in making changes to Daming.

　Explosive update today

　　
　
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