Tomorrow

Chapter 97—The Neglected Group

In the spring of Yanjing City, there is nothing to say except the wind and sand.

The all-pervasive dust is the main power to rule the city of Yanjing, and the emperor Yun Zhao is nothing.

Zhang Guozhu, the prefect of Shuntian Prefecture, is now going further into the city's clean and sanitation campaign.

There are only two main tasks, one is to eliminate the smelly ditch in Yanjing City, and the other is a clean drinking water plan.

In the city of Yanjing, there are two huge stinky rivers, one is called the Tongzi River and the other is called the Gaoliang River.

The city of Yanjing has been one of the most important cities in China since the Yuan Dynasty. Therefore, the people living in this city have ruined this land for hundreds of years.

Among them, both sides of the Gaoliang River were originally a low-lying marshland. After hundreds of years of changes, the low-lying land on both sides of the Gaoliang River has been filled with garbage and gradually rises above the river surface, forming a new residential area.

Since ancient times, garbage has been one of the main reasons for the demise of cities, and the most important reason.

Many ancient cities were not destroyed artificially, but forced to relocate by rubbish. According to the estimation of archaeologists under Sitianjian, many cities in the Yin and Shang dynasties disappeared because people polluted the cities. In order to have clean water and more resources, people have to abandon those cities and move elsewhere to continue pollution.

The sections of the Tongzi River and Gaoliang River that enter the city of Yanjing must be covered, otherwise, the excrement and urine dumped by the people of Yanjing city will completely turn this good city into a smelly city.

The most unbearable thing is that with these two smelly rivers, this place has become a breeding place for mosquitoes and flies. After summer, the mosquitoes and flies here are overwhelming like patches of thick black fog.

Lay cement pipes!

This is the decision Zhang Guozhu made.

The premise of making this decision is to tell the truth not to improve the living environment of Yanjing people, but because Xu Wuxiang built several huge cement workshops at the foot of Yanshan Mountain.

I thought that the products produced by these cement workshops would definitely be in short supply. On the one hand, they needed to supply Shanhaiguan to build a city defense, and on the other hand, they needed to meet the needs of the people in the Yanjing area to build houses.

Unfortunately, the reality deviated from what was expected. Li Hongji, the founder of Liaodong, all ran away. At this time, there was no need to build Shanhaiguan fortress, and the road to Liaodong did not seem to be built by the State.

This is very troublesome.

Seven or eight cement workshops support no less than 50,000 people.

These 50,000 people don't know how many families have supported them. Now the cement can't be sold. These people are about to drink Northwest Wind. There is no other way, Zhang Guozhu had to launch the Yanjing Drainage and Water Supply Project.

Want to use these two huge projects to consume the cement produced by the cement factory near Yanjing? By the way, it will drive the Yanjing people's habit of using cement and prosper the market.

Such an operation was a basic operation for the Lantian Dynasty, and it was nothing strange.

So? The entire Yanjing city became a huge construction site because it was constructed at the same time? Most of the main roads were dug out with a wide and deep trench.

Yun Zhao likes the feeling of turning the city into a big construction site... Back then? He wanted to dig the city into this way too? But there was always no chance.

Now? Where does he want to dig? This feeling of freedom is very exciting.

This behavior of modifying the city is also a process of a city's gradual self-improvement. Every time a city is destroyed, the city's function can be improved by a level.

Since the transformation of the city is spent on national money, that is, the people’s money, it also means that the people themselves are working hard to transform their cities? They are ready to give themselves a better living environment. In short, this behavior is a kind of forward behavior. .

Although sometimes it seems stupid to look at this behavior? However, this scene can only be seen in cities that are constantly progressing and prospering. If the city's aggressiveness is insufficient, such a grand occasion will basically not be seen.

This time, the renovation of Yanjing City does not only deal with water supply and drainage. The real action is to dig the entire streets of Yanjing City. This is not a small project. Judging from the current progress, at least It takes three years.

When Zhang Guozhu came back from Miyun, Xu Wu wanted to build a reservoir in Huairou. After seeing it today, Zhang Guozhu felt that Xu Wu wanted to do things a bit stingy. That reservoir is located in the mountains, not big, and its main role is to irrigate farmland, because It is not big enough, so the area of ​​irrigated farmland is very small, and it can't play a big role.

He plans to expand the reservoir by more than ten times. Only in this way can the farmland near the city of Yanjing not be irrigated.

"The money in the treasury must be spent as soon as possible..."

Zhang Guozhu came to Yun Zhao's palace and sat down exhaustedly, his expression even more wilted.

Yun Zhao looked at Zhang Guozhu strangely and said, "Didn't you always worry about making ends meet?"

Zhang Guozhu sighed: "The prices of bulk commodities have fallen all the way, and if they fall again, everyone will lose money."

Yun Zhao smiled and said: "The linen and homespun cloth stocked by the Prime Minister's Office, haven't they been taken out?"

Zhang Guozhu smiled bitterly: "Where's the grain? What about the steel? Where's the cement? I never thought that one day there would be a situation where I will have too much grain to eat."

Yun Zhao looked at Zhang Guozhu with a sneer: "It’s your country’s prime minister's mansion that is rich, and your country's prime minister's mansion is the one who can eat a lot of food. As far as I know, in Daming, there are still few people who can afford white rice. Some of the people, most people still eat corn, millet, sweet potatoes, and potatoes to satisfy their hunger.

In the past, I suggested lowering taxes. None of you agreed with this. You always said that I don’t know that the hungry guys are hungry, and one by one, I want to collect the last bite of the people’s food bags.

Okay, now I’ve collected enough. I’ll see what you do, how you can slowly rot the grain in the granary, how you can make so much steel rust slowly, and how you can make it so A lot of cement slowly becomes damp and fails. "

"Taxation is the foundation of the country, how can it be decided by your Majesty's words?

Besides, we have already exempted 80% of the exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes. We only charge the positive tax and it is still twenty-one. The most important thing is that we pay taxes on the basis of land, and there is no need to pay tax if there is no land.

This is Tianda's benevolent governance, okay?

If we follow His Majesty’s words, it’s not impossible to lower the agricultural tax to thirty one tax. However, if we do so, the people will forget that there is a country, and our political foundation will be greatly reduced. ——Liang system.

If there is no agricultural tax, the chiefs will not have the basis to rule the local people. If the system of chiefs is destroyed, we will not cry at all.

That’s right, the Han Dynasty was indeed regarded as a small tax. The state stipulated that only one-fifteenth of the people’s income was collected a year, but in fact only one-thirty was collected. During the Emperor of Han Jing, there was no agricultural tax even for eleven years. .

However, have you ever counted the military service, force service, counted gifts for adults, and verbal gifts for children during the Han Dynasty?

Counting these, the taxes in the Han Dynasty are more than a hundred times heavier than mine!

Just one military service takes up most of the time of all males in the world. The verbal payment is 23 yuan a year, and the payment is 60 yuan a year.

My big tax is in business, and the agricultural tax is already low and can't be lower.

Your Majesty should now consider how to spend the things in his hands instead of taunting the ministers here. "

"Take it to build a road—"

"There are more than 37,000 miles of roads under renovation this year. No matter how much, it will affect people's livelihood."

"Repair the railway--"

"Two railways have been set up this year. Baocheng Railway and Luoyan Railway have been launched. We don't have redundant technical manpower to expand new railways."

"Then build a ship, build a giant armored ship!"

"Sixteen iron armored ships are under construction, and even the steam giants expected in the pen are also being tested and manufactured. This is already our greatest capability."

Yun Zhao frowned and walked around the room two times and said: "Are we really to the point where there is no more money to use?"

Zhang Guozhu shook his head and said, "No, it's because we produce some surplus, such as grain, steel, cement, beef and mutton, dairy products, and many things like this. I haven't talked about porcelain, silk, paper, these. Things that can be sea traded.

The common people are not so rich that they lack everything. On the contrary, they lack everything, just because the price of food has fallen ~www.wuxiahere.com~ the prices of pigs, chickens, ducks and geese have fallen, and they have nothing. Too much money to buy other things. "

After listening to Zhang Guozhu's words, Yun Zhao was silent for a moment, and he finally understood why this problem occurred in Daming—that is, the process of industry and commercial production far surpassed the process of agricultural production.

As a result, the forward speeds of the two no longer match, and there is no way to form a closed loop again.

The consequence of this problem is that industry, commerce, and a large amount of output, the Daming people, whose main force is agriculture, cannot keep up with them because of the low input-output ratio.

Seeing Yun Zhao thinking, Zhang Guozhu found a pleasing piece from the snack plate and put it in his mouth and chewed it slowly. It seems that after throwing the problem to the Yellow Emperor, his state minister can sit back and relax.

"Do you have any good solutions?"

Yun Zhao gritted his teeth and asked in a low voice.

Zhang Guozhu threw the remaining pastry into his mouth, took a sip of tea and pressed it down and said: "Yes, we all agree that what Daming has to do now is to increase the price of agricultural products. The price of one hundred catties of white rice and half a silver dollar is no longer in line. The national conditions are now."

Yun Zhao said: "I remember that food prices are the cheapest in the heyday. Only in troubled times will food prices soar."

Zhang Guozhu sneered: "Now, I have few people, many livestock, good seeds, advanced farming tools, and complete water conservancy facilities. Does your Majesty think farming is a difficult task?

In addition, the Annan people were still transporting grain to Daming by boat, and the grassland was continuously transporting beef, mutton, and dairy products to Daming. After the sea ban was imposed, people began to farm the sea, animal husbandry and fish.

It is the farmer who has been the hardest hit by Quan Daming!

They have nothing to do except farming, and when the food is not worth the money, they naturally become a vulnerable group. "