Daming: The most ruthless tyrant in history

Chapter 825: Rebirth of the Imperial Manor (1)

Zhu Youxiao prepared a great gift for the Ming Dynasty, that is, the officials under the jurisdiction of the Shaofu. He wanted to embed a new model, new concept, and new system into Northern Zhili, so that it could take root in this area until it became an existence that influenced the central and local areas of the Ming Dynasty, and then advance into other places at a rapid pace.

Zhu Youxiao wanted to achieve a grand goal, that is, to govern the country, amend the law, try cases, manage rivers, and build roads...

Industry specializing in surgery.

A team of professional talents in various fields must be built up during the Tianqi Dynasty, rather than relying solely on an imperial examination as before, and then keeping them in the central government and sending them to local areas to serve as officials.

No matter how long you study hard, if you only know how to read books but don't do anything related to your profession, how high will your chances of success be when you become an official?

Zhu Youxiao would definitely not do such a stupid thing as abolishing the imperial examination system. It was the only channel for promotion from the bottom up. If it was abolished, the Ming Dynasty would be really finished.

However, reforming the imperial examination system was something Zhu Youxiao had to do, to combat the monopoly of the "clan", the fraud of "power", and the favoritism of "interest". Not to mention achieving full fairness, but to ensure relative fairness, at least more people would see hope. Otherwise, who would still be loyal to the Ming Dynasty?

This is bound to be a tough struggle!!
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"Your Majesty, please drink some water." Bumbutai held the water bag and handed it to Zhu Youxiao. "You have been running around these days. I feel sorry for you."

Ok?
When the people surrounding Zhu Youxiao heard Bumbutai's words, they all looked at him with different expressions. On the other hand, Zhu Youxiao reached out to take the water bag and ignored it.

"That means there are more than a hundred imperial farms in and around the capital, but only a dozen of them have been selected to destroy farmland for construction?" Zhu Youxiao stared at the map in front of him and said to his left and right.

"Are these twenty-odd imperial farms enough to accommodate the people who have lost their jobs in the capital and its suburbs? You can't fool me about this matter!!"

"That is enough, Your Majesty."

Sun Guozhen, who had rushed over, said hurriedly: "Among the more than 20 imperial estates selected by the Shaofu, the largest one has more than 10,000 acres of land. In accordance with the core area of ​​Beijing mentioned by Your Majesty, both the inner and outer cities are included in this category. The addresses of these imperial estates are all on the edge."

"The staff from the Ministry of Finance have been mobilized to design many buildings based on our dynasty's architecture. When all the buildings in the area involved are completed, they will be able to accommodate at least 40 people!"

"Do this for me!"

Zhu Youxiao said with a serious expression: "Now the various districts inside and outside the capital city accommodate too many people. Even if there are officials responsible for repairs and transportation, it is not enough to solve many practical problems."

"Let alone anything else, just the outbreak of an epidemic would be a disaster for the capital city!!"

"From now on, the court must plan the capital city purposefully, dividing it into core and non-core areas, and relocate more people to other places."

"Your Majesty, is it true that we will not build city walls in the non-core areas of Beijing as initially planned?"

After hearing this, Sun Guozhen said with a worried look on his face: "After all, if these non-core areas are to be fully built in the future, the population they can accommodate will probably be over one million, which is probably too few."

"With so many people gathered in various places, without the protection of city walls, this will bring great troubles to future governance."

“Not building!”

Zhu Youxiao said firmly: "Let's do the current work well first."

"The minister obeys the order."

Sun Guozhen bowed hurriedly and said, "What a joke."

The planning and construction of the Ming capital began in order to sort out the various functions of the capital. The buildings built at a huge cost of money and grain were surrounded by high city walls. What development could we talk about in the future?
Intensive manual manufacturing has been developed. When the quantitative change turns into qualitative change, the industrial revolution with Shenzhou characteristics will collide in Ming Dynasty. The city wall is the obstacle to the development! !

Zhu Youxiao knew very well what Sun Guozhen was worried about.

If the northern Zhili border was breached by a powerful enemy, and the garrisons surrounding the capital failed to serve as a blocking force, allowing the enemy to rush to the capital area, and without the city walls as a blocking barrier, who knows what kind of tragedy would occur that day.

It's just that Zhu Youxiao attached great importance to the development of firearms. Even though all kinds of firearms and artillery at this stage were still named in the Hongwu style and had not yet reached the lower limit of the Yongle style, Zhu Youxiao firmly believed that the Ming Dynasty's future warfare model would gradually tilt towards hot weapons.

By that time, even the majestic city walls would not be able to withstand a salvo of thousands of cannons! !

Since he knew the result, why would Zhu Youxiao do something that would cost the people money and time?
"In addition to the capital, have the imperial farms that I asked the officials to reserve in Tianjin and Yongping been clarified by now?" Thinking of this, Zhu Youxiao looked at Sun Guozhen and said.

"Your Majesty, it has been reserved."

Sun Guozhen said truthfully: "At present, the early planning of the new city has been started in Tianjin Prefecture, and as various industries take root, the population gathered in Tianjin continues to increase."

"Especially in the Tianjin Weicheng area, the population has exceeded 20. It may be difficult to accommodate such a large population with the existing Weicheng layout alone."

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“Not to mention that maritime trade in Tianjin will continue to grow in the future, which will drive further development in areas such as shipbuilding. I am afraid that the population size will continue to increase.”

"We need to do a good job, and the officials in the Ministry of Finance need to keep a close eye on this matter."

Zhu Youxiao frowned and said, "As intensive manual manufacturing continues to develop, the size of the off-duty group will continue to increase. Their needs are different from those of self-employed farmers."

"The money they earn should be enough to buy a property. If they can't even do that, then what is the point of working so hard to earn money?"

"I understand."

Sun Guozhen lowered his head and said.

As intensive handicraft manufacturing continued to flourish in various parts of northern Zhili, the Ming Dynasty faced entirely new problems that it had never encountered before.

Zhu Youxiao knew it, but the people under him didn't, so everything was in vain.

Therefore, from now on, in order to deal with new problems and challenges, a group of people must be involved, sort them out, solve them and summarize them, so that there will be solutions in subsequent governance.

"What we are doing now cannot be done by the Shaofu alone. We should try to issue a batch of special bonds and offer higher interest rates to attract private hot money."

Zhu Youxiao frowned and said, "But the actual construction must not be allowed to be directly participated by civilians. This matter must be led by the Shaofu. Right now, it is still in the stage of groping for experience. If too many people get involved, good things will turn into bad things!!"

Zhu Youxiao was well aware of the power of private capital.

At present, we are constructing residential houses on a large scale and planning urban areas. Everything is still in the stage of groping forward. Before the system framework is perfected, these people must not be allowed to participate in it, otherwise, the leading power of this matter will be shaken! !

(End of this chapter)