Chongzhen Wiretapping System

Chapter 388 Is This Butterfly Effect Good or Bad for Daming?
Of course, the experience of each battle still needs to be summed up.

This time, it can be said that the most profound feeling is that there are too few elite soldiers in Ming Dynasty.Just like the three major battalions, there are too few who can become the main force.

On the Guanning Army side, the Ancestral Army was indeed the most elite. Therefore, after the Ancestral Army was wiped out by Jianlu, the remaining troops could still defend the city and cooperate in combat, but they just couldn't participate in the battle as the main force.

Therefore, the first thing that Emperor Chongzhen did after he came back was to call Liu Kongzhao, the Chief of the Beijing Army, and said to him bluntly: "The reform of the Beijing Camp is imperative. I will give you a month. For the current Beijing Camp We will weed out the weak and retain the strong."

This matter had already been foreshadowed before, so Liu Kongzhao had already expected it.But at this time, when Emperor Chongzhen mentioned it, he wanted to talk and talk about a few things he had considered. If these things are not resolved, the reform of the Beijing camp is still unlikely to be thorough.

However, Emperor Chongzhen seemed to know what he wanted to say, so he continued to say to him directly: "There is only one principle, weed out the weak and retain the strong. You can be divided into three classes. The first class is the old, weak, sick and disabled, who can't even do basic physical work." Those who cannot persist; the second class, those who are strong but not suitable for the battlefield; the third class, soldiers who are suitable for the battlefield; I classify these three classes, and do not limit the number of places for you. For each class, the number should be How much. Within half a month, you can complete all the distinctions, and I will verify it myself."

Speaking of this, he looked at Liu Kongzhao's eyes, saw that he hesitated to speak, and said with a smile: "I can tell you first, the first class of old, weak, sick and disabled, I will give them a grain field to live on. However, they are not in the capital, but in Shanhaiguan for the first generation, and they can be dismissed to work in agriculture; the second-class soldiers, I will reorganize them into engineering soldiers, which are used for people's livelihood such as road and bridge construction, disaster relief and prevention. The third class, Naturally, I don’t need to say anything.”

Liu Kongzhao did not expect that the emperor had arranged everything properly, so he had nothing to say and immediately received the order.

Emperor Chongzhen was going to personally watch over the innovation of the Beijing camp.After this matter is completed, it will be used as a template to gradually implement it in health centers across the country.

The Ming army should also change.

After ordering this matter, Emperor Chongzhen immediately began to check the financial situation.

The reform of the salt administration is still in progress, and whether the common people will benefit from it is still unclear for the time being.

Phased results have been achieved in the establishment of branches of the Daming Royal Bank, which have been set up and started operating in the two capitals and thirteen provinces of Daming.As far as the current situation of Jingshi is known, the situation of deposits and loans in various places is not extensive enough.Relatively speaking, there are more in Jiangnan, but only a little more.In this regard, the imperial court still needs to continue to guide it.

After reading the memorial, Emperor Chongzhen went out in person and was received by Song Yingxing of Kaiwu Division.

Song Yingxing naturally knew the emperor's intention of running over so quickly, so he immediately played to Emperor Chongzhen: "Your Majesty, there are some results so far, and it can indeed be burned as your Majesty said. But now there is a difficulty, that is, the refractory bricks. It's still a bit weak, and Weichen is still experimenting with various methods, and I believe that after another year or so, the current difficulties should be resolved."

Emperor Chongzhen did not hope that Song Yingxing could do it all at once, but there should be some reminders, so he said to Song Yingxing: "Don't be stingy with the rewards that should be given, and fully mobilize the enthusiasm and creativity of the craftsmen. If you are not satisfied, please apply to me. This thing is widely used and will greatly change the current people's livelihood. Of course, it can even improve the government's finances, so we must hurry up!"

Song Yingxing laughed immediately when the emperor's words came to the bottom, and immediately replied: "Your Majesty has already told me about the importance of this matter, how dare I procrastinate!"

Emperor Chongzhen was still very satisfied with Song Yingxing's ability to do things, nodded and prepared to leave.But before leaving, he suddenly turned around and said to Song Yingxing: "It's really not easy for Song Qing to insist on refusing to give gifts under various excuses!"

Song Yingxing was stunned for a moment, and then came to his senses. He knew that after he became the prince's lecturer, he became very popular. He did find various relationships and gave gifts under various excuses, but he rejected them all.The emperor has factory guards in the capital, so it is normal to know this situation.

Thinking about it this way, when he came back to his senses, he immediately put on a serious face, bowed his head and said back: "This is the official duty of a minister, and I dare not break the bottom line. The salary of a humble minister and the reward from your majesty are enough. I use it for my life!"

"Hehe, you must have a good understanding!" Emperor Chongzhen said with a smile after hearing this, "When you accomplish this, I will give you 60% of the shares, and you can receive dividends every year. The time is set to [-] years. alright."

Hearing this, Song Yingxing couldn't help being overjoyed. After Emperor Chongzhen's explanation, he knew that if the thing could be made, it would be widely used, which was unprecedented.In other words, this thing is very valuable.Even if it is divided into [-]% of the shares, as the scale expands, it will definitely be much higher than the salary.

"I thank you for your kindness!" Song Yingxing immediately saluted solemnly. With this great gift, the Song family will have no worries about food and clothing from now on!

In this regard, Emperor Chongzhen accepted it calmly and went back to the palace immediately.

What he just mentioned was indeed reported to him by Wang Chengen, the admiral of Dongchang.Almost all the important officials in the capital and the factory guards have already set up eye spies to monitor them.As soon as Emperor Chongzhen returned to Beijing, a summary of the relevant memorials was already placed on his imperial record.

Compared to Song Yingxing, Chen Zilong took a little more.However, Emperor Chongzhen can still understand, because Chen Zilong's social relationship is far more complicated than that of Song Yingxing, so there are naturally more human contacts.As long as it is not too much, Emperor Chongzhen will turn a blind eye.After all, if the water is clear, there will be no fish. It is simply impossible for all officials to be like Hai Rui!
After returning to the palace, Emperor Chongzhen began to read the disaster memorials from various places.

Since April, there has been severe drought and no rain in the Wujiang area, and the locusts have taken the opportunity to make things worse.However, thanks to the disaster relief mechanism established by Emperor Chongzhen and the timely delivery of food, there was no large-scale starvation to death.

However, Emperor Chongzhen saw that there was still a stack of memorials, all of which were about disaster warnings.There is a summary of the disaster situation of the cabinet at the top.Emperor Chongzhen's face became a little serious just by looking at it.

There are also signs of severe drought in the land of Gyeonggi and near Nanjing, as well as in Shandong, Henan, Zhejiang, and Huguang.The range is so wide.It's a little scary.If there is no rain in the future and there is a severe drought all together, then the problem will be serious.

As far as the cabinet wrote in the memorial, it is said that such a large-scale drought has rarely occurred before.There will be rain everywhere.Qin Tianjian also gave a reply, thinking that the disaster situation in some provinces should be alleviated.

Although they all thought so, Emperor Chongzhen did not dare to be careless.During the period at the end of Ming Dynasty, it was a famous period of continuous natural disasters and man-made disasters.Said it shouldn't be, maybe God will.

Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen preferred to assume that these provinces would suffer severe droughts in the future.Therefore, regarding this matter, he immediately convened a meeting of the six ministries and nine ministers in the Wenhua Hall.

Today, Emperor Chongzhen's prestige is really high, and he can deduce the truth from clues, so none of these high-ranking Ming officials dare not take the emperor's opinion seriously.

Under Emperor Chongzhen's re-emphasis, these high-ranking officials of the Ming Dynasty spoke freely about the disaster that he was worried about.

"Your Majesty, I think that the local procuratorate can send censors to inspect the disaster areas. In this way, the scope of inspections by the censors is limited, and we can concentrate on rectifying the local disaster resistance!"

"Your Majesty, I believe that we should build water conservancy and do a good job in water storage and drought relief."

"Your Majesty, sweet potatoes have been promoted as a supplement to the staple food for three consecutive years, especially in the southern regions, such as Fujian, Guangdong, Zhejiang, Hunan, Jiangxi and other places, where the harvest has been great. Part of the food can be transferred from it."

"Your Majesty, the imperial court has given repeated orders to local governments to pay attention to sweet potatoes, corn and other crops and plant them outside farmland to supplement food needs."

"..."

Each of the suggestions basically had some truth, so Emperor Chongzhen nodded his head.

In fact, behind these suggestions are the hard work of Emperor Chongzhen.After several years of layout, it can be regarded as some gains.

After the meeting, there were a total of twelve relevant suggestions. After sorting out, the imperial decree was issued to the capital immediately, ordering all regions to implement it.

Emperor Chongzhen didn't know that he had done nothing wrong with the matter he took so seriously.

In the original history, from April to August in the 14th year of Chongzhen, there was a severe drought and no rain in the Wujiang area, and locusts covered the sky.The official order to arrest him is getting worse.The price of rice is four taels of silver per stone, and the beggars are full of roads, and many of them die on their pillows.Folks use bad food and rotten residue as a delicacy, or eat tree scraps and elm bark.Plants are set up everywhere to serve porridge, and tens of millions of people eat it every day.

With such a tragic situation, it can be said that the Ming court was completely powerless to do anything to the local area.The people of the Ming Dynasty, in that plane, really lived in dire straits, it was completely like the scene at the end of the dynasty.

Also, in the original history, starting from June of the 14th year of Chongzhen, there was a severe drought and locusts in Liangji, Shandong, Henan, Zhejiang, and Huguang.At that time, Shandong and other provinces reported disasters year after year, and Zuo Mao and others supervised and urged the water transportation. The Taoist said: "I arrived in Linqing from Jinghai, and saw that three people died of starvation, three died of epidemics, and four were robbers." Li Qingshan then Leading the people to revolt, blocking the water transportation, the Ming court was greatly shaken.

But now, the 14-year disaster in Chongzhen, because the Emperor Chongzhen took proper precautions, the adverse effects are being delayed.At least in the Wujiang area, no historical tragedy happened.As for the disaster-stricken provinces in various places, Emperor Chongzhen now also attaches great importance to it, and sorted out twelve disaster prevention and relief measures.

In the original history, the bandits were not wiped out, but at this time, wars were already everywhere.The chaos of war has added frost to the disasters in various places.If there were no man-made disasters, such a large-scale disaster would never have occurred.

No matter how serious the disaster is, as long as the government and the people work together to fight the disaster and relieve the disaster, the so-called man will conquer the sky will be reflected.

And Emperor Chongzhen did this, just to do the thing that man will conquer the sky.

But in his heart, he still knows that the various measures he has deployed in the country still need time to accumulate effects.For example, the promotion of sweet potatoes, although they can be grown, but the selection of varieties, storage, how to produce more, and how to get a good harvest cannot all be solved by relying on the experience left by Xu Guangqi.It takes time to accumulate, and it will explode after reaching a certain level.

As for potatoes and corn, which are more demanding on the environment, Xu Guangqi did not specifically experiment and write a summary of experience when he was alive, so it is even more difficult to promote.Although this task was handed over to Chen Yulong.But the Ming Dynasty has a vast territory, and it still takes a few years to accumulate experience in various places.

From this, Emperor Chongzhen knew that, at least in the past few years, the most critical aspect of Daming's disaster relief was the issue of food.And this still depends on the Zheng family's fleet to continuously transport food back from Nanyang.

It should be since last year that the Zheng family began to transport grain to Daming on a large scale.Whether it is the disaster relief of domestic food in the Ming Dynasty, the food of the Dongjiang Army, or even the food of the Guan Ning Army, a large part of it depends on the blood transfusion of the Zheng family.

Emperor Chongzhen was a little worried. There was no such thing in the original history.Now that food is shipped from Nanyang on a large scale, this matter will inevitably have a butterfly effect.I don't know what will happen to this butterfly effect, will it be good or bad for Daming?How big is the impact?
If there is a problem with the food in Nanyang and the food can no longer be imported, it will have a great impact on Daming.For example, disaster relief and disaster relief is one issue, and war with Jianlu is another issue.

Thinking of these, thinking about food restricting the Ming Dynasty and ZTE.It can even be said that whether the Ming Dynasty is revived or not depends on whether there is enough food.And this currently has to be solved by Nanyang.This made Emperor Chongzhen feel that his neck was stuck. He didn't know when he would be strangled.Or, won't you?
My life is up to me, not others!Emperor Chongzhen secretly felt ruthless in his heart, he must pay attention to the grain output of Ming Dynasty, and the manpower and material resources invested in this area were still too little.Isn't it Yuan Daxia's hybrid rice that solved the problem of food and clothing for 13 billion people?It is nothing more than the artificial breeding of various rice, right?

Thinking of this, Emperor Chongzhen immediately sent Zhang Zilong from the Agricultural Department to tell him this idea, and asked him to send the backbone of the agricultural department to the south to select experimental fields. Once the location was determined, the local government would fully cooperate and conduct more experiments.Even if it can't be done in ten years, what about 20 years?
While Emperor Chongzhen was busy with disaster relief, a large army was gathering on the grassland outside the Great Wall of Shaanxi.In the central army tent, the one sitting in the main seat, with the tail of money, is very obvious, needless to say, it is Jianlu.

This person is Jierhalang sent by Huang Taiji to the Hetao area.At this time, he was listening to the news from the man kneeling in front of him.

The person who reported the news was dressed as a Han Chinese and spoke Daming Mandarin with a Shaanxi accent.

(End of this chapter)