I am the king of the dead

In fact, Zhu Qiyu could rely on the Great Law to forcibly retain these officials who were Ding You, retired, and worshiped the ancestors, but the hearts of the people are gone, so what's the use of forcing them to stay?

At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang had no one to use, so he would do that, and if he didn't do that, half of the government officials in the world were lacking.

Now that Daming's official positions are in short supply, there are three people waiting in a pit, waiting in line to go to work, so naturally there is no need to stay.

They don't do it, some people do it.

If they were left behind, they would instead become people who hindered their government affairs.

Xing'an held more than a dozen memorials approved by His Majesty in his hand, bowed his head and said: "Actually, Your Majesty, some ministers have the intention of retreating to advance. They call it resignation, but they just want to live in the official residence."

Zhu Qiyu sneered and said, "I killed Gu Yao and the others just to make an example to the monkeys? They still want to bargain? The law of my official residence has spread since the Chinese New Year."

"I don't object to their opposition, but can any of them understand this matter from the way of being a minister?"

When Zhu Qiyu implemented the farm law before, he told the courtiers that they could oppose it, but they had to explain the logic clearly and clearly, and not oppose it for the sake of opposition.

Regarding the four points, phenomena, problems, causes, and solutions, we must seek truth from facts.

But even if they talked about the principles of clan etiquette, they couldn't understand it.

The strong words are unreasonable, Jin Yiwei's Tiqi is not eating the Emperor Ming's food for nothing.

They can't explain, they can't tell what's wrong with the Mansion Law and the Farm Law, so they can only Ding You, resignation, resignation, and ancestor worship. Since they are willing to leave with dignity, Zhu Qiyu naturally gives them dignity.

"Let the Ministry of Officials and the Metropolitan Procuratorate recommend and fill in these missing members. Xing'an, didn't you draw up a list before? Give it to Wang Shangshu and let him choose the best." Zhu Qiyu told Xing'an many things.

Zhu Qiyu paid attention to a lot of officials, and since there were missing officials, he naturally arranged them quickly.

It also saves Zhu Qiyu from doing anything.

Xing'an said with a smile: "Your Majesty, there is a good thing. Xianfei Qiantui is also happy. Empress Qiantui is about to give birth in about four months."

"It's all a good thing. According to the regulations, we should set up incense tables, wine and fruit and other objects in front of Fengtian Hall, and give silk, silk, yarn, brocade, and banknotes to enjoy with all officials."

"This matter is not urgent. We will discuss it after the child is born. The ministers are hanging on to this matter day and night. If it is not born in a healthy way, it will not be beautiful."

Xing'an bowed his head and said: "Your Majesty, do you take the time to look at the picture album? The Ministry of Rites has sent it for a long time. Your Majesty has not approved it, so this matter has stopped again."

Only then did Zhu Qiyu remember that there was also a picture album of girls selected by the Ministry of Rites. Apart from Tang Yunyan, Zhu Qiyu circled a few more, then handed it to Xing'an and said: "One empress and three wives, no nine concubines, now there are virtuous concubines, as long as two People. Don’t let the Ministry of Rites send a lot of them.”

"The minister leads the decree." Xing'an took the album and handed it to the waiting Xiao Huangmen, finally heaving a long sigh of relief.

Heirs are very important to His Majesty, and they are also very important to the courtiers, but Tai'an Palace is airtight, one queen and one wife are pregnant, and no one in the outer court knows about it except the Imperial Hospital.

"Your Majesty, the memorial of Shi Pu, Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry." Xing'an, as the chief eunuch, naturally knew what His Majesty was most concerned about.

The Shijing Factory is currently what His Majesty is most concerned about. The official residence has been put into use. That is because it has not been demolished and rebuilt, but repaired, which is completely different from the Shijing Factory.

Shijing Factory is now investing more and more.

Zhu Qiyu looked at Shi Pu's memorabilia, frowned and said: "In the past, more than 40 people were mobilized to build the building, but now more than 34 people have been mobilized, with more than 12 shi of grain, [-] jin of iron, and [-] cubic meters of stone. There are [-] pieces of wood, and there are many complaints, begging to be dismissed."

34 jin of iron sounds like a lot, but it is actually only over 170 tons.The main reason is that more stone materials are used.

But it is still within the tolerance range of the various libraries of the Ming Dynasty, so why is this just a request for reform?

Xing'an sighed and said: "This is not counting what I told His Majesty before, such as the leveling of the Xishan Mountain Road, the reconstruction of the Lugou Bridge, the dredging of roads in various places, and the diversion canals. It consumes a lot of people's resources. I went to see it a few days ago. As stated in the memorial."

Xing'an lowered his head, he knew that His Majesty had a tendency to fail to achieve his goal and vowed not to give up, but the capital only lost more than [-] strong men last year, and although there were military drills and Japanese troops to enter the capital, the strength of the people was still exhausted .

If these 50 strong men hadn't died, the Shijing Factory would have been well-established by now.

Before that, there was corvée labor to transport grain to the Xuan Mansion, and spring plowing, all of which consumed a lot of people's energy.

Zhu Qiyu put down the memorial and said, "In the end, it's still a pot of raw rice."

"I'm guilty." Xing'an hurriedly pleaded guilty as soon as he heard it. His Majesty had repeatedly told him not to worry, not to make a pot of raw rice, but he still didn't finish the job well.

But Zhu Qiyu shook his head and said, "Let's be flat, it's not your fault, nor Shi Pu's. When Marquis Changping was in the Xuanfu, he told Uncle Jianping Gaoyuan to ask for help in time if he encounters a strong enemy."

"It's not your fault if you can't do it."

Are Xing'an and Shi Pu unfavorable?

That's definitely not the case. It's the limited capabilities of their department that caused this kind of thing to happen.

"What's missing now?" Zhu Qiyu asked, holding the memorial in his hand.

Xing'an bowed his head and said: "There is food and land, but there is a shortage of people. Either it will be postponed for half a year, or 2 people will have to be added."

Shortage?

This is indeed a problem that is not easy to solve. Lack of money, Zhu Qiyu has money in his internal funds, but lack of food. Last year's battle of the capital was too short, and there are actually some left.

lack of people...

Suddenly Zhu Qiyu's eyes lit up and he said: "A group of beggars were sent to the Tenth Regiment Battalion before, right? Craftsmen can do it, but the work of dragging and moving can be entrusted to them."

"There are about [-] beggars, and the construction period can be extended for a few more months."

"It's just right, let's see if the group of people Yu Shaobao said has reformed after entering the barracks."

The reason why Xing'an mentioned this matter was to ask if the Beijing camp could add 2 people. When His Majesty said this, Xing'an nodded and said: "Your Majesty said so, I remembered that there are such a group of people."

Zhu Qiyu continued to explain: "You can't eat Daming's rice grains every day for nothing."

"Let Sun Ting take this group of beggars there, and let me see the results." Zhu Qiyu wrote the transfer order, and signaled Xing'an to take the eunuch of Yinshoujian to the Beijing camp with the fire card for dispatching troops.

Even if it is an engineering battalion formed by beggars, it is still a serious military registration, and there should be corresponding procedures.

When Sun Tong received the military order, he was training the beggar army. They had their own official name, Weizhenying Engineering Battalion.

The current Daming Beijing Camp is divided into twelve regiments.

They are Wufen, Wuyao, Wulian, Wuxian; Bravery, Yongguo, Yongxiao, Yonggu; Weili, Weishen, Weiyang, and Weizhen twelve regiment battalions. Three Thousand Battalion and Shenji Battalion.

The Fifth Army Battalion is mainly engaged in infantry combat, the Three Thousand Battalion is mainly engaged in cavalry warfare, and the Shenji Battalion is mainly engaged in artillery.

Since His Majesty proposed that engineering battalions are also combat power, and sent a bunch of beggars into the military camps, adding engineering battalions to each regiment battalion has been put on the agenda.

Sun Tong, officially responsible for the training of the engineer battalion.

The beggar army under him is not the ten thousand people that His Majesty thought, but nearly thirty thousand people.

The beggars who were not registered as beggars in Ming Dynasty, and the beggars who had nowhere to go, were all sent to the Beijing camp.

Compared with registered beggars, Sun Tong trusted those unregistered beggars more. Most of these unregistered beggars were ordinary people who fled from Kyushu outside the mountains and entered the customs.

Sun Tong didn't immediately order soldiers at the school site, but took His Majesty's warrant first, went to Shijingshan and the general office of Shijing Factory for in-depth communication, and determined the specific places that needed to be rushed.

The general office of the Shijing factory is the general supervisory office, which is concurrently held by Kuai Xiang, the head of the Ministry of Industry and Repairs Department, and there are various ministries, co-organizers, and assistants.

Sponsored by various ministries, mainly by great craftsmen.

Xu Siqi, for example, is the office of the Iron and Steel Department, responsible for the construction and production of Jingtai Furnace;

For example, Chen Qingyi is the Office of the Superintendent of the Charcoal Division, responsible for the construction and production of charcoal;

For example, Huang Xuchi served as the office of the Coal Wells Division, specializing in organizing the reconstruction and production of Xishan Coal Kiln.

For example, Liu Yiyong was appointed as the office of the driving department, and was responsible for scheduling, communication, transportation and other matters.

Sun Tong needs to figure out how many people he needs to go to the Iron and Steel Department to install jingtai furnaces, how many people he needs to go to the Charcoal Department to build walls, how many people he needs to go to Xishan to open wells and draw water, and how many people he needs to go to the Driving Department to level roads and repair bridges paving.

After running all the way down, Sun Tong's forehead was covered with sweat, not because he was tired, but because the calculation was extremely troublesome, and he didn't understand some things.

He wrote this matter in the memorial, and sent someone to the lecture hall.

The Jingying is the backbone of His Majesty, and it is possible to send memorials directly to the Imperial Palace without going through Wenyuan Pavilion and Sili Supervisor.

Zhu Qiyu got Sun Tong's memorabilia, and it was already the time when the willows were on the top of the moon. With Queen Wang and Concubine Hangxian pregnant, Zhu Qiyu became free from get off work when he was off work.

He was just about to tell Xing'an to turn off the lights and return to Tai'an Palace, but he received a memorial from Sun Tong.

Sun Tong wrote his assignment in the memorandum, but Sun Tong mentioned arranging production, but it was a trouble that he couldn't understand.

Zhu Qiyu sat in front of the table, said with flickering eyes: "I remember, there are a group of eunuchs in the palace who are especially good at settling accounts, right?"

"Yes." Xing'an said without knowing why.

Chapter 172 Planning Committee

There are a group of eunuchs in the Daming Palace. Their mission in life is to make calculations and help Zhu Di calculate how much money he has earned from his voyages. They belong to the Inner Transport Depot.

"Xing'an, tell me, how much iron does the Iron and Steel Division need to drill, how much coal does the Coal Division need to burn, how much coal does the Coal Wells Division need to dig, and how many civilian workers are needed for these, don't they all have to plan in advance?" Zhu Qiyu put down his hands Sun Tong's Memorial.

The scale of Shijing Factory is much larger than before.

For example, there are less than 200 craftsmen living in the Wanggong Factory, but the Shijing Factory needs at least 2 craftsmen and [-] warriors for the iron and steel department alone. The entire Shijing Factory has about [-] people.

Zhu Qiyu has great expectations for Shijingchang.

"Naturally it is necessary." Xing'an replied without knowing it. Does Your Majesty have any fancy ideas?

Zhu Qiyu said with a smile: "I plan to let these eunuchs who make plans, and the Du branch of the household department, make all these accounts clear."

Xing'an frowned, and then said in a daze: "Is Your Majesty talking about planning and saving?"

"During the Song Dynasty, there were three divisions of Yantie, Duzhi, and Hubu. These three divisions were collectively called Sansi, and they were also known as Jisheng. It's very similar, especially in the Song Dynasty, which specialized in salt, iron, wine and alum, the ministers were extremely busy."

The finances of the Ming Dynasty and the finances of the Song Dynasty are completely different. Of course, Zhu Qiyu knows well that the Song Dynasty can't do anything else, but getting money from the court is the best.

For example, the salt, iron, tea, wine, and alum are all monopolized in the Song Dynasty. How much to produce and how to mix them are all decided by the court, but Ming Dynasty is not at all.

There was almost no monopoly in Ming Dynasty, even because of the prohibition of cutting mountains and digging rocks, even mining classes were not set up. During the Wanli period, there were great conflicts with the courtiers because of the eunuchs of the mining class.

The only way to do something decent is to open the middle salt method, calling merchants to transport grain and supplying salt. It began to be implemented in the third year of Hongwu. One stone of rice shipped to Datong is equal to three buckets of rice in Taiyuan, which is equal to a small lead of Huaiyan salt.

The opening of the salt method began to collapse during the Hongwu period.

"Good planning." Zhu Qiyu nodded uncontrollably. This is the benefit of a long history. Whenever Zhu Qiyu said an idea, it immediately appeared in history.

He originally wanted to set up a planning committee, but Zhu Qiyu immediately had systems such as planning provinces, accounting plans, etc. in front of him.

Zhu Qiyu asked another question: "How is Lianghuai Yanyin doing this year?"

Xing'an was stunned for a moment, flipped through the memorabilia of the Ministry of Accounting, put the memorandum in front of His Majesty and said: "Huating, and Zao Ding, the second counties of Shanghai, are calculated to be responsible for the salt class of 63 yuan."

"Dayan Yin?" Zhu Qiyu asked strangely.

He learned a little bit before he realized that at the beginning of the kingdom, one salt was [-] catties of salt, which was called big salt, and the border salt merchants were small salt miners, [-] catties.

In the 14th year of orthodoxy, the imperial court distributed 63 Datong rice in Huating and Shanghai counties alone, worth about 120 million Datong meters.

That's still two counties.

The collection of salt in the Ming Dynasty was not limited to the government-run salt farms, but also started classes.

It is to recruit civilian husbands to go to the major salt farms to boil salt, and each stove will be exempted from taxes on 25 acres of land and other corvees.

It is to use the tax of 25 mu of land and other corvees of this person in exchange for salt.

"How much salt is owed by the entire Jiangnan Salt Field?" Zhu Qiyu asked after taking a deep breath.

Xing'an opened the memorabilia of the Hubu Du Branch and bowed his head and said: "Your Majesty, this account is not clear."

Zhu Qiyu picked up the memorial and read it for a long time, but he really couldn't figure it out, and he owed too much salt.

In the memorandum of the magistrate of Huating County, there is an anecdote that after the salt merchants went to the frontier to collect grain, they got the salt, but they could not cash it in the salt field, so they had to stick to the salt field.

At this time, the Kaizhong salt method has been completely corrupted, and the imperial court owes an unknown amount of salt to lure out. Every small amount of salt is a stone of rice in Datong.

How can you owe it?Where are you owed?How much salt will be produced next year?Why is it super-salted?Who is producing the salt now?

Is the Ming Dynasty's method of opening Chinese salt to be abolished?Or continue to improve?All these problems lack the support of data.

No one knows how many salt quotations Daming issued, and no one knows how much salt quotations the court owed.

This is how Daming's corruption has reached the family's finances.

Since the beginning of its establishment, the Ming Dynasty’s finances have been in a state of sustainable collapse, with more and more expenditures and less and less income. For example, before the farming of grain, it was the grain and tax of the army. In the 14th year of Zhengtong, there were only 400 Wanshi.

In the first year of Yongle, there were still 430 stones.

Daming is strong, and strong is strong. Under such a corrupt financial system, it has survived for more than 200 years, and it has continued to collapse for more than 200 years. If it were not for natural disasters and man-made disasters, it would still be able to survive...

The demise of the Ming Dynasty, in fact, is not to blame Chongzhen. Since the third year of orthodoxy, the Ming Dynasty has been in debt for 200 years. I don’t know that the Emperor Chongzhen looked at the ancestors and owed the 200-year debt. what expression.

"The eunuch who allocated the abacus in the internal shipping warehouse, and the bureaucrats in the Hehu Department's branch, cleared up this matter. I don't set a deadline, but I want to know the most detailed figures as soon as possible."

Zhu Qiyu said to Xing'an: "Let the Supervisor of Rites and Wenyuan Pavilion draw up an order, and get this matter done as quickly as possible."

"The minister leads the order." Xing'an bowed his head and said.

Zhu Qiyu intends to set up an organization like a planning committee. China's history is too long, so he can directly ask Ji Sheng to take over this responsibility.