Villager of Daming

Chapter 656: It’s hard to get ahead of emergencies

"Your Majesty, I mentioned before when I went there that normal farmland is not allowed to be used, and we can only find land in the mountains.

At the same time, several plans were given, if they could find more barren mountains instead of mountains with better trees.

Then let them plant it, provided that the grain production is not allowed to decrease, otherwise we will deal with it. "

The head of the village said it was no problem, they could just farm, but they couldn't occupy the grain fields.

"Oh! Yes, we remembered this. On the other hand!" Zhu Yuanzhang recalled that the news sent there mentioned how to plant and breed.

This water-powered spinning wheel was given to local businessmen to contract the barren hills. Now it is actually necessary to plant them in normal fields, which is obviously not possible.

"The other is to grow cotton in other places. Barren hills are not only found in Luoyang, but also in other places.

You can tell those businessmen that they are allowed to leave Luoyang and find help elsewhere.

Use them to drive economic development in other places. They earn their money, and we collect our taxes and dividends.

Women in various places do not have much energy to farm. They usually spin and weave at home, and then sell the cloth to make some money.

After growing cotton, they can pick it when it’s time to harvest, which gives them an extra income.

The common people can use cotton and hemp at home to exchange them with merchants in Henan Prefecture for finished cloth, and they can make clothes.

Or they no longer sell woven cloth, but sell cotton and hemp. Their land cannot grow cotton. This is a decentralized economy that helps the people, and it goes like this..."

The head of the village continued and told Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao another economic model.

For example, the factory in Xiaqiu Village adopts a centralized operation model. It recruits people to work and pays them piece-rate or hourly wages.

This is the model of the handicraft industry. In fact, the handicraft industry can also be dispersed to various families. For example, those who are older can take a bit of work and work slowly.

This was given when we built a big market before, and every citizen used their free time to make use of it.

Now it belongs to planting. Without delaying normal food growing, people can find some places to reclaim some land, plant cotton, and then directly exchange money after harvesting, without having to do anything themselves.

And this money will become more and more, that is, the price of cotton will increase, otherwise the merchants will not be able to collect it. The imperial court will tell the common people that the merchants who make water power will make more money.

"In this way, the people will benefit, and we..."

"Our costs have increased and our profits have decreased. We have a role in it." Zhu Yuanzhang interrupted the director when he was summing up.

Zhu Yuanzhang knew that the cloth produced by weaving could not be sold at a price higher than the market price. The people would rather weave it slowly than sell it.

Only when the price is lower than the cost of people weaving their own cloth, people will sell cotton to merchants and then switch to cloth for use. In this process, people save time to do other things to make money, which is beneficial.

According to the village chief's method, the price of harvesting cotton was high, so the people found some small places to grow additional cotton to earn income.

The purchase price of merchants and palaces increases, the sales price remains unchanged, and profits naturally decrease.

"Your Majesty, if you want more profits, let's use steam engines to drive equipment to produce cotton cloth. It is better than water power. Water power has limited flow and speed. As long as the number of steam engines is large, we can add more spinning machines and looms. .”

The director mentioned the new technology. Not only hydraulic equipment is useful, but steam engines are even more powerful.

He said this was not a technical issue, but to tell Zhu Yuanzhang something.

Zhu Yuanzhang was stunned at first, and then slapped his forehead: "We have forgotten that there is never a shortage of ways to make money, but there is a shortage of ways to make people make money.

Since people can get more money from it, they can live more peacefully.

We want to make money, and there are ways to do it. We should not make fun of me because we are really scared of being poor. "Zhu Yuanzhang realized that the head of the village was telling himself that money was easy to make but the people were not safe.

When do you have to worry about money when you have the masters from Xiaqiu Village?Wherever minerals are needed, minerals will be provided; if technology is needed, technology will be provided.

In this case, why bother with the people about their little income?The people are suffering too much.

"Your Majesty was joking. We just thought that His Majesty loved the people as his own children. We told him a way and His Majesty actually thought of the people."

The chief immediately praised him. Anyway, it is right to praise him more. Even if His Majesty knows that he is praising him, he will be happy. This is what Hanhan said.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah!" Zhu Yuanzhang really took advantage of it and looked at the question book on the table: "That... should be long! Take a look at this."

As soon as he finished speaking, the eunuch next to him stood up immediately. He was experienced and stretched out his hands. He just received the question book handed over by His Majesty, and he was giving it to the chief.

Chief: "..."

He was a little panicked. What do you mean?Make yourself the prime minister?Isn't it agreed?He only needs to take care of Xiaqiu Village.

Show me the question book and I'll give you an idea?Is it suitable?
"Take a look." Zhu Yuanzhang urged.

The chief looked through it and was stunned. This was not developed somewhere, and it was not for people to pay for building river embankments or cleaning up silt.

The matter written in the question book involves Xiaqiu Village. Someone proposed that Xiaqiu Village continue to occupy the land to the north of the land previously given.

Then Xiaqiu Village will build roads over there, especially the rails. As mentioned before, lay the rails over there.

Since you can pave one section, you can pave a longer section.

Using the pier on the riverside of Shangxiaqiu Village, other ships came over with empty boats. The goods that were supposed to be loaded in Dangtu County were then transported upstream by a railway to Xiaqiu Village before being loaded onto the ship.

If you need to take the Huangchi River and enter Shijiu Lake to deliver goods to the south, it will be more convenient.

After reading it, the chief looked to see who had mentioned it. Li Min, the Minister of the Ministry of Industry, was not the Minister of the Ministry of Husbandry.

"How is it?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked the chief.

The chief didn't know how to answer, so he showed a helpless look: "Your Majesty, can you allow the civilians to go back and think about it?"

"Oh oh oh! Yes, this matter is important, don't you know? Come back! Hanhan, give us a few more oranges to eat, won't you keep the basket?"

Zhu Yuanzhang understood that Zhu Yichang needed to go back and ask the experts.

He asked Hanhan for an orange. This orange was sweet. The kumquats in She County were famous for their delicious taste. Despite their small size, they were very sweet.

Zhu Wentian nodded: "Hey! Here, stay, Quan, um! Hey hey hey hey!"

As he said this, he put the basket down, and after thinking about it, he put half of the food in his hand into it, which meant that it was all for you.

"Thank you Hanhan!" Zhu Yuanzhang followed helplessly, but he couldn't say anything else.

After the chief took Hanhan away, Zhu Yuanzhang peeled off an orange and said, "He can answer some normal questions, unless he encounters something involving Xiaqiu Village, which is beyond what most people think."

"Father, are you saying that the master taught the village chief a lot of knowledge, but did not consider Xiaqiu Village?" Zhu Biao said understandingly.

"What we mean is that there are actually things that an expert cannot predict in advance, otherwise he would have taught Zhu Yi a long time ago." Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head.

　Two updates today. The farmer is going out to celebrate the festival. Tomorrow, the farmer will calculate how many chapters are missing this month and find a way to make up for it. Five chapters a day, and there should be 150 chapters a month. Just make a subtraction.The tickets you have are about to expire, there are only a few hours left, vote quickly, thank you!
　　
　
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