After five years of teaching support, Daming became an empire on which the sun never sets.

"The backward official system has greatly hindered the development of Daming's coal industry and iron-making industry. This has hindered Daming's economic development and the revenue of the treasury in disguise." Shen Wansan said, "So His Majesty's move today coincides with the Its meeting just solved the problem of poor road transportation, which is extremely wise."

Then he said: "Businessmen pay their own money to build roads, which is definitely not as formal as the imperial court's decree to build roads. Individual road construction varies, and the imperial court needs to make unified planning."

"The veteran thinks that if it is necessary to overhaul the official roads, it is only necessary to build roads in Shanxi Province to facilitate coal transportation. Why should the whole country be overhauled?" Lu Chang, the president of the Jinxing Bank, said, "Other provinces have not got it. The commercial activities that were sold, I am afraid they will be idle after repairing them, and it will not help Daming's income much."

"Only building roads in one province is too much favoritism." Shen Wansan said, "Master Lu, we can't just focus on our eyes, we have to take a longer view."

"What if other provinces develop in the future? It will be too late to build roads at that time."

"Moreover, the transportation of the silk industry also depends on official roads. Now that Southwest is changing rice into mulberry to provide silk for the Jiangnan area, is it not even repairing the road from Southwest to Jiangnan?"

"Then add the road of building the official silk road," Lu Chang said.

"Master Lu, you are really picky!" Shen Wansan sighed.

"I think you are not in charge of the family and don't know that firewood, rice, oil and salt are expensive. The whole country is overhauling official roads. How much food, manpower and material resources will it cost? Moreover, official roads still need to be maintained. If they are repaired too much, they will cost a lot of money." Lu Chang He said to Zhu Yuanzhang, "My Majesty, the national budget for road construction is too large. Please think again, Your Majesty."

"Lord Lu, the current Daming treasury should not be short of money." Shen Wansan said, "Moreover, most of the income of the Daming treasury comes from commerce. Road construction is conducive to the development of commerce, this is called sharpening the knife without cutting firewood. "

Most of the treasury's income comes from commerce, so Shen Wansan, the Shangshu of the Ministry of Commerce, also began to speak hard.I completely forgot that not long ago, merchants were still inferior in people's eyes.

"What I mean is that we only build roads in Shanxi and Jiangnan, and it's not that we don't build roads at all," Lu Chang said.

"Lv Chang, you seem to have forgotten the scope of your responsibilities. You only have the responsibility to manage money but not the power to use it. In other words, it doesn't matter how the court uses money." Zhu Yuanzhang reminded.

In the past, he was the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, and his scope of duties included managing and using money.

But now as the president of the Gold Bank, he only has the power to manage money.Now he only needs to manage the money in the treasury and sort out the accounts.When the court needs money, he must take it out.

As for whether to use it, when to use it, and how much to use, it is not something he should consider.

"Old minister, I understand." As soon as Emperor Zhu said this, Lu Chang retreated immediately.If he objected again, it would be ultra vires.But if the budget is really too big and the treasury can't afford that much money,
He could still tell the emperor.

"Shen Wansan, you are most familiar with business affairs. How much money will be spent on building roads across the country, and the budget is up to you." Zhu Yuanzhang said, "After finishing, come up with a figure and give it to us."

"Then we will discuss with Lu Chang whether the treasury can spend so much money to build roads."

"Follow the order!" Shen Wansan said.

Lu Chang sighed after hearing the words: Shen Wansan's figures will not make the old man have a cerebral hemorrhage!
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"Okay, the matter of road construction has been decided in this way, and there is no need to discuss it again." Zhu Yuanzhang said, turning his head to Shen Wansan, "Shen Wansan, what tools did we use to transport coal in the past?"

"It is pulled by a horse-drawn cart." Shen Wansan said, "A horse-drawn cart can pull a thousand jin of coal at most at a time."

"Because there are a lot of people using horse-drawn carts to pull coal, the horse breeding industry in the Northwest is also booming. Seeing this opportunity, many horse merchants in Mongolia have also transported their horses to the border for sale."

"As a result, the market in the frontier area will prosper, and the people will also increase their income."

"The prosperity of an industry drives the surrounding industries and improves the lives of the people in the entire province."

"So business is equivalent to a stream of running water, which can revitalize the economy of the entire society." Shen Wansan kept feeling, and there was only one meaning he wanted to express, that is, the correctness and forward-looking nature of Daming's business development .The previous dynasty emphasized agriculture and suppressed business, which is simply stupid, the most stupid thing in the world.

"I heard that there are many people in the market saying that the emperors in ancient times emphasized agriculture and suppressed business because of their superb wisdom. I think it is completely fucking shit and toad fart!"

"Because His Majesty now attaches great importance to the prosperity brought by commerce and trade to the dynasty, and the benefits brought to the people, anyone who is not blind can see it."

"What we are asking is, is it convenient to pull coal by carriage?" Zhu Yuanzhang stopped him from continuing.At the same time, I can also understand Shen Wansan's complaints, after all, he used to suffer enough from emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business.I'm very upset, and I want to complain a few words as soon as I get the chance.

"It's nothing inconvenient." Shen Wansan said.He has never seen anything good, so he naturally thinks that the horse-drawn cart is the best and the most advanced. "The horse-drawn horse is much better than the cow-drawn horse. Although the horse's strength is not as strong as the cow's, it is faster."

It really is knowledge that determines a person's ability!Zhu Yuanzhang sighed in his heart, and began to seduce: "What we are asking is, what's wrong with pulling coal by carriage."

"There are indeed many disadvantages." Shen Wansan said, "For example, it takes too long for the carriage to pull coal, and it also needs to eat grass along the way, which also consumes a lot of forage and wheat cakes. The horses that pull the coal cart are not enough. Years, after all, the physical exertion is too great and it hurts the horse too much. In addition, along the official road to pull coal, there are horse manure and urine everywhere."

"Because the carriages are transported too frequently, both sides of the official road are almost like cesspools."

"However, if there are villages along the way, there will be villagers who get up early in the morning to pick up the manure, and pick up the horse manure to make fertilizer. On the road section without villages, the government will send people to pick it up."

"If there is a horse-drawn cart that can transport coal by itself without grazing grass, and can transport tens of thousands of catties of coal each time, the speed is dozens of times faster than that of a horse-drawn cart..." Zhu Yuanzhang asked, "My fellow ministers, What do you think of such a carriage?"

"How can there be such a carriage in the world!?" As soon as Zhu Yuanzhang finished speaking, all the officials said one after another.

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard the words, he was too lazy to talk to him for the time being.

"According to your Majesty's description, it seems that Zhuge Liang invented the wooden ox and horse." Li Shanchang stepped forward and said, "However, the production technology of the wooden ox and horse has been lost for hundreds of years, and no one can make it."

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