Daming: The most ruthless tyrant in history

Chapter 992 Choice
The imperial court meeting due to water conservancy was held in the Chongzhi Hall of the Western Garden for several days. However, except for the first day, Zhu Youxiao did not attend.

All matters concerning the Water Resources Administration have been made clear, and all matters that need to be clarified have been clarified. The purpose of convening this imperial court meeting is to enable groups related to water resources in the future, both at the central level and at the local level, to understand each other and become familiar with all the systems as quickly as possible through this court meeting.

Of course, during this process, any good suggestions or ideas will be summarized and eventually presented to the emperor for approval or retention.

This is how things are done. No matter how many ideas a person has, he can never compare to a group. Zhu Youxiao specially set up or restarted corresponding departments to concentrate the pillars of society who were willing to do practical work in a certain field, so that they could move forward with full fighting spirit.

The role that the emperor has to play is not to do it himself and compete with a group of players, but to play the role of a referee, so that he can always take the initiative.

"The imperial court meeting in the Chongzhi Hall is still being held. Regarding water conservancy, the court is determined to make good repairs to ensure that water-related disasters will not occur easily under the Meiji rule."

Xiyuan.

Qionghua Island.

Zhu Youxiao, wearing his regular clothes, walked on the platform and said to Ma Shiying and Lian Guoshi, who were specially summoned, "Of course, if the General Administration of Water Resources wants to play a role and gradually improve the Yellow River, Huai River, and Grand Canal, this is by no means something that can be done overnight."

"For our country, frequent disasters are the norm. No one can predict whether there will be new disasters in the future and where they will occur."

"However, there are some matters that I think the two departments of disaster relief and emergency response under the jurisdiction of the Shaofu, especially the joint branch stationed in the local area, can be connected with the Water Resources Administration."

Ma Shiying and Lian Guoshi looked at each other and immediately understood what the emperor meant.

Since the emperor ascended the throne, disasters have never stopped and occur almost every year, affecting many places. This also leads to a large number of disaster victims in the Ming Dynasty every year.

Especially in the past two years, there have been many joint branches of the Disaster Relief and Emergency Response Departments stationed in local areas, and they have always been in charge of all matters related to disaster relief and resettlement.

The work-for-relief approach has indeed solved many problems in disaster relief.

But it also brought a lot of problems.

Not all places can be like Northern Zhili. After the disaster relief is over, those victims who have nothing can be resettled in some industries to seek new life if they have performed well during the relief period.

"According to my expectation, the General Administration of Water Resources will carry out large-scale rectification of the Yellow River, Huai River, and even the Grand Canal by the end of this year or next year at the latest."

While the two were thinking, Zhu Youxiao stopped and said, "Repairing dams, improving water conservancy, planting trees and consolidating soil all require a large number of people."

"Everything is prepared, and failure to prepare leads to failure. I think that the Disaster Relief and Emergency Response Departments can select personnel from various places from now on to serve as the main force for the Water Resources Administration to implement the above policies in the future."

"Your Majesty, the scale of the Water Conservancy Bureau is so large that it will probably cost a lot of money and grain." Lian Guoshi frowned and said what he was thinking: "The national treasury may not be able to..."

"These are not what the Qing family needs to consider."

Zhu Youxiao waved his hand and said, "Since you are in the position, you must do your job well. If you can't even do these things well, then what use do I have them for?"

This……

Lian Guoshi and Ma Shiying all showed different expressions. They knew that something would happen in the central government or even in the local government. Speaking of which, the work of the Water Conservancy Bureau was related to disaster relief and emergency response. They had done a lot of work before, and they both knew how much the water conservancy project cost.

This is not something that can be achieved immediately by simply spending a few million taels of silver. It requires continuous spending of silver, and even new disasters may occur during this period. But even so, the court must persist in doing it, otherwise what has been done before will be meaningless, or even fail.

Zhu Youxiao saw what the two were thinking, but didn't say anything else.

Now he is doing one thing.

The upcoming pressure will be transferred to the corresponding groups, especially the officials. The current Ming Dynasty is facing so many problems. Since everyone has chosen to be an official of the Ming Dynasty, they should show their true abilities, otherwise they should get out as soon as possible and let more capable people do the job.

The Censorate was merged into one and the powers of the Censorate were strengthened. At the same time, the Integrity Commission and the Procuratorate were specially established. Zhu Youxiao did not want them to be just for show.

In the future, the administration of officials will always be strictly enforced. In addition to anti-corruption, those who are lazy and negligent in their work will also be punished. The elimination of officials from the Ming Dynasty has already begun quietly and invisibly.

Zhu Youxiao is not Chongzhen.

When something goes wrong, he won't pass the blame on others.

He doesn't care about fame.

After all, history is written by the victors.

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Now that such a trend has been created, Zhu Youxiao must maintain it, eliminate the greedy and mediocre people, and provide limited positions to those who have real talents, ambitions, and ideas. Perhaps in this process, the Ming Dynasty will still experience some turmoil or disturbances, but as long as the team of officials is getting better, many things can be advanced.

As for the money, Zhu Youxiao would think of various ways to solve it.

Rather than simply and crudely allocating funds internally.

Zhu Youxiao would never do such a stupid thing as transfusing blood and bleeding at the same time.

"Regarding this aspect, my idea is to select young and strong men, preferably those with several male members in the family," Zhu Youxiao continued.

"All we need to do is to tell these people that if they work for a certain number of years and perform well, the court will help them find a marriage and allow their offspring to continue their studies."

At the current stage, and even for a long time to come, the Ming Dynasty will still focus on solving the problem of food and clothing. There are still many hungry people in the Ming Dynasty today.

If we want to achieve results in the field of water conservancy, there will inevitably be a large number of people who are willing to do the most tiring work, even for their entire lives.

Under this reality, they are destined not to get rich. Apart from being able to make ends meet, it will be difficult for them to turn their lives around in this life. But if you want them to be willing to do this, there must be something that can bind them.

So Zhu Youxiao thought of these.

Although Zhu Youxiao knew that this was very cruel and heartless, if the Ming Dynasty wanted to change and get better, someone had to do things that others were unwilling to do. Water conservancy was too important, so important that there had to be enough people to do it at the grassroots level. Dangerous things could be done by foreign captives, but boring and repetitive things could only be done by the people of the Ming Dynasty. The only thing Zhu Youxiao could do was to give these people some hope...

(End of this chapter)