Cutting 1719

Chapter 672
After all, controlling the Yellow River is a century-old project. Even the new China of later generations has experienced decades of history in controlling the Yellow River. More than 1.7 kilometers of dikes above five levels finally made the Yellow River bid farewell to the history of breaches.

Of course, it is not enough just to say goodbye to the breach. Only by going through a longer period of water and soil maintenance and restoring the vegetation on the Loess Plateau can the sediment in the Yellow River be truly reduced. These things are by no means what Ning Yu can see Yes, he can only do well to be the next generation.

After inspecting Guyuan Town for several days, Ning Yu quickly inspected Suide, Yulin and other places in Shaanxi Province. The sky was also full of yellow sand. Originally, the environmental deterioration in northern Shaanxi was not so serious in the early Ming Dynasty, but at that time In order to carry out the system of "farming the fields", a lot of deforestation and land reclamation have been carried out here, which has caused a lot of damage to the green plants in northern Shaanxi.

Fortunately, the timing of Ningyu's crossing was quite coincidental, just before the third large-scale reclamation, that is, the reclamation led by Yongzheng, which preserved the millions of acres of grasslands in the northern part of the Loess Plateau and the Ordos Plateau. In terms of reducing the environmental pressure to a certain extent.

"All the people on the Loess Plateau need to actively guide immigration. Now that I have a wide range of immigration, I don't want to stay in this poor mountain nest anymore. I must boldly go out, whether it is to Nanyang, or Whether you want to go to Nanzhou or Jinzhou, I will let someone arrange it, so go boldly!"

Ning Yu looked at the officials in Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai and other places beside him, and said vigorously: "I know that there are still millions of people on the Loess Plateau right now, and it will not be a matter of one day to completely remove them, so I also I won’t urge you, but you must urge this immigration project well, it’s a plan that will affect my family forever!”

"Yes, Your Majesty."

For the emperor whose vision has exceeded a hundred years, everyone can only nod honestly. After all, with the emperor whose authority is getting deeper and deeper day by day, almost no one dares to say no to Ning Yu anymore.

What's more, most people are quite satisfied with some of the emperor's current measures for the northwest. Except that the people can no longer cut down trees spontaneously and plant trees instead, other aspects have developed better and better, especially It is because the imperial court has already implemented several tax reduction and welfare policies for several provinces in the northwest, so the days are naturally getting easier.

In addition to the conventional tax reduction policy, Ning Yu also specially emphasized that the richer provinces in the southeast should support the poor provinces in the west, and achieve poverty alleviation in the poor areas of the west in the form of mutual assistance. These measures are all innovative. Open up meaning, so many people can't quite understand it.

In particular, officials in some affluent areas in the southeast have begun to have some doubts about this, because in their view, one side supports the other side with water and soil, and everyone only needs to pay the royal rations on time. What about strangers to help?
"From your point of view, we are all strangers, but from my point of view, we are all compatriots connected by flesh and blood, and the people of Great Chu. In my eyes, you are one family!"

Ning Yu said emotionally: "A hundred years have passed since the end of the Ming Dynasty, and you should also understand that the world is connected in one vein. If the northwest is in chaos, the world will be in chaos. If the world is in chaos, no matter how rich the southeast is, it will only be a mirror image, but it will be stable. Only by entering the Northwest can the world be stabilized, which is a real good thing for everyone!"

"Long live Your Majesty! Your Majesty is wise!"

"Long live Your Majesty! Your Majesty is wise!"

In the winter of the 16th year of innovation, when the imperial chariot that Ning Yu was riding was about to leave the northwest, almost all the people along the way spontaneously came out to greet them. The emperor is also the emperor who can truly understand the difficulty of life for the people.

The half-year-long inspection of the northwest, starting from the Yellow River and ending in northern Shaanxi, Ning Yu gained not only countless popular support, but also a real and practical investigation of the empire. He can finally say something with confidence. In other words, no matter how much competition with Western countries in the future, the people of Dachu will definitely have the most cohesive force, and this is the true foundation that is hard to change.

After returning to Nanjing, it has entered the deep winter season, but at this time, Ning Yu felt more and more cold and humid in Nanjing, which he has been very unbearable for a long time, so he directly arranged a large number of heaters in the palace , but it warmed the whole palace, and even the air was a little more warm.

"Your Majesty, the new "Currency Reform Law" has been officially promulgated. By the middle of the 17th year of innovation, our banknotes should be officially issued. The key now is to calculate the land and acres, formulate currency rules, and make money machines. And the format, when the first batch of banknotes will officially flow into the market."

Song Enming was wearing a neat official uniform, and the beard on his face was meticulously combed, just like the booklet he was holding in his hand at this time, and the handwriting on it was quite delicate. I saw him continue to read: "According to the Ministry of Industry and Commerce and the Currency Committee It is estimated that after this year's banknotes enter the market, the deflation phenomenon will be improved to a certain extent, and my Dachu's annual income will rise to a new level by then."

Ning Yu nodded with a smile. Although he has not continued to pay attention to these things, they are indeed under his control, but what makes him more concerned is that it is not the currency, but Song Enming's focus on education and education. A series of new decrees promulgated by scientific research, all of which reflect Song Enming's political thinking.

In fact, since the establishment of the cabinet system, Ning Yu intends to expand the power of the cabinet and the chief assistant. Only in this way can he grasp the general idea and not get bogged down in the details, especially it is more conducive to training some practical talents. For example, after Song Enming became the first assistant, his actions were much more drastic than those of his predecessors.

Among them, in terms of education, Song Enming increased his support for new-style education and vocational education. By allocating a certain amount of education funds, many new-style schools were built in the Midwest and other places, and many scholarship policies were formulated to support those who are diligent and eager to learn. Children from poor families with good qualities also have the opportunity to go to college.

As for the policy on scientific research, Song Enming revised the original "Patent Protection Law". As far as the education bill is concerned, it is more controversial, and even Ning Yu has some doubts in his heart.

"Song Qing, if the patent protection period is shortened, will it dampen the enthusiasm of those patentees to invent and create? There is still a great need for the protection of knowledge. Otherwise, no one will be able to invent and create in the future!"

I don't know why, although Ning Yu said that, he thought of various companies in later generations who used patent claims as their main source of profit.

Song Enming hurriedly cupped his hands and said: "Reporting to Your Majesty, this bill is actually to speed up scientific research and innovation. Only by shortening the duration of patents can people avoid people living on patents for a lifetime. This is also not conducive to the promotion of new technologies."

In fact, this bill was clearly established by Song Enming for the industrial and commercial circles, and it was mainly aimed at steam engines. You must know that according to the previously formulated patent bill, after any steam engine is manufactured and sold, it will need to apply to the owner of the steam engine patent. The royal consortium pays a patent royalty, which was relatively high at the beginning, and this virtually limits the expansion speed of the enterprise.

Later, at the request of Ning Yu, the Royal Consortium lowered the patent fee for the steam engine twice, but this is still a large expenditure for the enterprise. The time has 50 years, and this has naturally been dissatisfied by many people.

Under the impetus of various forces, Song Enming's revision of the bill this time did conform to the "popular sentiment" of some people, but Ning Yu didn't feel too disgusted with this idea from the business circles, even though it was detrimental to the royal family from the current point of view. However, it is a good thing from an overall point of view, because it will be more conducive to the large-scale promotion of steam engines, and it will also be conducive to further technological upgrades of steam engines in the future.

Seeing that Ning Yu did not continue to object, Song Enming also showed a smile on his face, and he whispered: "Your Majesty, Xueqing Kuruhisa, Fujiwara, and Mitsui intend to meet with His Majesty a few years ago. I wonder what Your Majesty thinks?"

Ning Yu nodded knowingly. Obviously, these little Japanese came here eagerly, probably because of Japan's "combination of public and military forces". The Chu version of the "combination of public and military forces" is in the process of being implemented.

The shogunate's version of "combination of public and military forces" refers to the annexation of the public by the shogunate, the promotion from the general to the emperor, and the complete establishment of the status of the Tokugawa family. Of course, this ambition has been wiped out with Edo, and now Dachu is in Japan. The "combination of public and martial arts" means that the great Chu royal family became the new Japanese public family, that is, Emperor Ning became the king of Japan, and the other three hundred samurai each owned a piece of land, and they only had to be loyal to Emperor Ning.

Therefore, for those samurai nobles, the most important thing right now is to divide the family. How to divide the [-] samurai territories fairly and justly involves too many problems. For people like Xueqing Cangjiu, There is no way to balance the interests, and we can only rely on His Majesty the Emperor of the Heavenly Kingdom to personally rule.

You know, dividing the originally small Japanese archipelago into [-] independent territories of similar size is also a very challenging thing for Ning Yu. Maybe in the future, a Japanese jigsaw puzzle game can be created based on this. This is simply too much fun!

"Okay, let me think about how to divide it first."

Seeing Ning Yu's posture of wanting to make a big splash, Song Enming's face froze, he sighed lightly, and walked towards the door.

When Emperor Ning was planning to unload more than 300 pieces of Japanese territory, in the state guesthouse, several Japanese were sitting opposite each other, and they were the representatives of the Japanese government and samurai respectively, among them, the representative of the government was Fujiwara Hideshi , Konoe Jiro, samurai representative Yukiharu Kurahisa, Mori Akien, and a very special character - Mitsui Kohei.

As the well-known Mitsui Zaibatsu in later generations, its history is naturally very long. It can even be traced back to the Heian period in Japan. Of course, Mitsui at that time still belonged to the Fujiwara clan, that is, the fifth son of the fourth son of Fujiwara Michizane. Dai grandson Fujiwara Uma nobu, he didn't want to continue to be an official, so he went to Mitsui Village in Omi Country to settle down and start a business, and changed his name to "Mitsui".

But to really talk about the history of the Mitsui Zaibatsu’s fortune, in fact, it was decades ago, that is, Mitsui Takahira’s father, Mitsui Kohei, the current owner of the Mitsui family. Mitsui Gore shop, which specializes in selling kimono materials, and he has a business mind, soon opened a branch in Edo, and the business grew bigger and bigger.

Of course, if this is the case, Mitsui's is just an ordinary cloth shop. The key is that at this time, Mitsui Gaoli, relying on his keen sense of smell, soon opened "two clothes shop" next door to "Wufu shop" in Edo. The store "is engaged in the financial industry such as exchange and lending, and what he does is not an ordinary business, he specializes in foreign trade bills of exchange. You must know that the main customer of the Mitsui family at that time was the Tokugawa shogunate!

Relying on the family's rich capital strength and flexible minds, the Mitsui family gradually became the financial tycoon in Japan at that time, and even won the appreciation of the shogunate. Therefore, the Mitsui family began to emerge step by step. Today, the Mitsui family has basically become Japan's most powerful family. Top merchants too.

Of course, in the eyes of the public and the samurai at this time, they still look down on the Mitsui family. After all, they are low-status businessmen, and they are not worthy of their eyes. It was because of Xueqing Cangjiu.

Xueqing Cangjiu understood in his heart that in today's Dachu, the status of the industrial and commercial industry is getting higher and higher, and it will inevitably affect Japan in the future, and Japan in the future will also need some businessmen who can get the table. Among them, the Mitsui family It was a team with great potential, which made Xue Qingcang spend a long time trying to win him over.

Only in this way, the whole room became a little quiet, like Mitsui Kohei, naturally he did not dare to speak rashly, while Fujiwara Hideshi and Konoe Jiro looked down on Yukiharu Kurahisa and Mitsui Kohei more or less, as for Mori Akien, he was always closed. They looked rested, so when Xue Qingcang hadn't spoken for a long time, none of the crowd had opened their mouths.

Xue Qingcang couldn't help but sighed softly for a long time, he said in a deep voice: "Since we have already reached the Heavenly Dynasty, we still have to work together as one, and we can't let people see our jokes!"

(End of this chapter)