Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 696

Looking up at the window, Li Jing sighed lightly: "We Han people pay attention to returning the fallen leaves to their roots. This time, the relocation of the population will make it difficult to return. It is impossible for ordinary people not to miss their homeland, and it is hard to leave their homeland!
So we can't force the common people to relocate. Even if we recruit new soldiers, we have to recruit from nearby. I think they recruit from Sichuan and Shaanxi.First recruit 20 people and place them at the junction of the Hetao area and the Duogan area, and we will slowly develop westward.As for the area where the Tumed tribe is located, it was naturalized and moved to a Mongolian tribe.Since everyone is Mongolian, it is easier to adapt to local conditions. "

"The commander-in-chief is sympathetic to the people, which is really a blessing for all the people of the Ming Dynasty." Su Heng laughed.

Li Jing shook his head: "What kind of sympathy for the common people, tormenting the people is almost the same. But this person, you have to torment! If you don't torment them, they will be content with the status quo and don't know how to make progress!"

After a pause, Li Jing said again: "However, there must be a limit to the toss. If the toss is too big, the people will be dissatisfied with the court if they can't bear it. You have to toss slowly. During the toss, let the people know The imperial court did this for their own benefit, to let them realize that every time the imperial court makes troubles, their life will be better."

Su Heng said with a smile: "The life of ordinary people must be much better now than before. Those who had no land before have been allocated land. Although the tax rate has increased a lot, the exorbitant miscellaneous taxes have disappeared. In fact, the burden of ordinary people has been reduced. As long as If natural disasters do not occur, the common people will not worry about food and clothing.”

Li Jing sighed: "However, the time for the common people to be assigned to the land is still short, and the situation has not been good for the past two years. In a good year of two or three years, the common people can save some food in their hands, and then the court will not have to worry about it all day long.

In fact, the difficulty of the imperial court in the past two years has been caused by natural disasters. If there were not so many disasters, there would be no problem for the imperial court to have a surplus of several million taels of silver a year. Not to mention that the money was not saved, and the famine caused tens of millions of taels of silver.

Originally, this year was a good year, there were no major disasters anywhere, the industry and commerce had also made great progress, and the tax revenue was better than in previous years. I thought I would have some money left this year, but I didn’t expect Huang Degong and others to rebel. Not only did I not have a penny left Silver, and a large sum of money was posted in. "

Su Heng heard this and couldn't help but remain silent.

As Li Jing's portable book office, Su Heng is very aware of how Li Jing is working hard every day to increase the income of the national treasury, but no matter how many ways Li Jing thinks about and how much money he earns, there is always a big hole waiting to be filled, which is really embarrassing have no choice.

After pondering for a while, Su Heng said: "Commander, don't get angry. Now that the rebellion is settled, as long as we cultivate our health and rest for a few years, the court will be able to relax."

Li Jing smiled: "Do you think I'm really angry? I used to say that it's a blessing in disguise. To tell you the truth, although this rebellion cost the court a lot of money, I just took advantage of it to send troops to quell it." Moxi.

You may not understand why I am in a hurry to pacify Moxi, what good is such a desolate place?Let me tell you, pacifying Moxi can bring endless wealth to Daming. "

"What? Can it bring endless wealth to Daming?" Su Heng exclaimed.

Li Jingjing nodded: "Everyone knows that most of Moxi is a desert, but they don't know what's in that desert. Hey, let me tell you again, there is salt there, no one needs to process it, just dig it out. Otherwise, Why do you think the Tatar Tumed tribe is wasted in such a place? What do they live on?"

"What? You don't need to process it, you can just dig it out of the ground and eat it?" Su Heng exclaimed again.

Li Jing smiled and nodded.

Picking up the teacup and taking a sip slowly, Li Jing continued: "Hong Chengchou's tribe has now occupied the territory of the Mote tribe. I have asked him to send people to search carefully in the local area, looking for salt mines. As long as they find salt mines, this battle , all our expenses came out."

"All the expenses can be paid out, so how much salt is there!" Su Heng exclaimed.

"As much as you want! What we are struggling with now is how to get out so much salt." Li Jing laughed.

"If you can have as much as you want as the commander-in-chief said, then we will build a road to the salt field." Su Heng said hastily.

Li Jing smiled and said: "It's not as easy as you think, but this road must be repaired after all, no matter how much money is spent, no matter how much time it takes to repair it."

It seemed to confirm Li Jing's words. As soon as Li Jing finished speaking, Xiao Jiu hurried into Li Jing's study with a messenger.

After saluting to Li Jing, the messenger took out a box and presented it.

Li Jing took it, removed the seal, opened the box, took out the letter and read it carefully.

After reading it, Li Jing couldn't help laughing loudly: "Hahaha, Hong Chengchou really found it. In three months, Hong Chengchou sent more than 1 people, and it took three months to finally find the salt mine. Pingzhi, immediately Inform the deputy prime minister, the ministers of various ministries, and Gao Qi to come to my place to discuss matters."

Hearing this, Su Heng quickly walked out of the study, and ordered the guards to deliver letters to the yamen of various ministries.

Shaoqing, Zhou Hengchen, Shen Zheng, Yang Liufeng, Fang Fang, Gao Qi and others hurried over.

After everyone saluted, Li Jing handed the letter to Shen Zheng first: "Father-in-law, take a look."

Shen Zheng took it and read it hastily, and then said with great joy: "This is great news!"

As he spoke, he handed the letter to Yang Liufeng, and everyone passed it on to read it.

After everyone finished watching, Li Jing smiled and said, "Tell me, how this thing will work."

Yang Liufeng smiled and said, "Marshal, you must have already made plans."

Li Jing shook his head and smiled, "I do have some ideas, but I don't know if it's feasible."

Yang Liufeng smiled and said, "The commander-in-chief's idea is definitely feasible."

Li Jing smiled and said, "Since you say it's possible, you need to work harder."

Yang Liufeng smiled and said, "No problem, as long as I can get the salt out, I can do whatever you want!"

Li Jing shook his head with a smile, turned his head to look at Gao Qi and said, "Brother Gao, immediately set up an engineering unit in the name of the Military and Political Department, and then recruit recruits from various places to form a unit. The number is tentatively set at [-]."

Although he didn't know what Li Jing set up the engineering team for, Gao Qi clasped his fists and said without hesitation: "Yes! Commander, I'll do it when I get back."

Li Jing turned his head to look at Fang Fang and said, "There is no solution. Immediately, you will send capable personnel from the Ministry of Industry who know how to build roads to Chaerhan Lake to survey the local terrain. Once the engineering team is formed, you will start building roads."

"Yes!" Fang Fang hurriedly said.

Turning his gaze back to Yang Liufeng, Li Jing smiled and said: "Careful, you can do whatever you told you to do just now, and now I have a task for you to raise money and food immediately to prepare for road construction."

"This..." Yang Liufeng couldn't help looking at Shen Zheng when he heard the words.

Li Jing smiled: "Careful, my father-in-law is getting old, you can help my father-in-law to share in raising money and food this time, this is not an easy task."

Yang Liufeng nodded.

The raising of money and food that Li Jing said is of course not enough to prepare the food. Li Jing just said very clearly that if the engineering troops are to be used to build roads, then the money and food must be supplied to the engineering troops at any time. This requires the logistics department and the food supply department. It is only by the cooperation of Shangtong, which is by no means an easy task.

Then Li Jing asked Zhou Hengchen to prepare officials to manage the saltworks.

Such a saltworks cannot be managed by non-savvy and capable people, and this person must not only know how to manage the saltworks, but also have a good relationship with the army, but this person is not easy to find.

In the end, everyone discussed for a long time and decided to send one officer and two officers to manage the saltworks. One officer and one officer were in charge of the administration of the saltworks, and the other was responsible for the army guarding the saltworks.

After discussing the candidates, Shen Zheng pondered for a moment and said, "Marshal, your arrangement like this is a long-term solution, but for a long time, the imperial court has been spending and has no income, such a big project, the imperial court's support is too heavy a burden.

I think that if this is not the case, we should issue salt certificates to salt merchants like Pingyang Prefecture, and then let the salt merchants find a way to transport the salt from the Cha... Chaerhan Salt Field.In this way, the court can now see the benefits. "

Li Jing pondered for a while after hearing this, and then said: "If there is no road to the interior, it will cost a lot of money for the salt merchants to transport the salt. I don't know if the salt merchants are willing to do it."

Shen Zheng smiled and said: "It depends on how much we spend on mining salt. If, as Hong Chengchou said in his letter, we can dig out the salt casually, then the cost of mining salt is quite low. We can use the salt If the price is lowered, more profits will be given to the salt merchants, so the salt merchants will definitely be willing to do it."

Li Jingjing nodded: "What Hong Chengchou said in the letter is not wrong. The cost of mining is indeed extremely low. We only need to pay for the soldiers' salaries and food for mining."

Shen Zheng heard the words and continued: "Then it's easy to handle. We can lower the price of salt by [-] cents, and let [-]% of the profit go to the salt merchants, which is enough for their transportation expenses."

Li Jing shook his head: "I'm afraid it's not necessarily the case, I think it will be a [-]% concession, so as to attract the salt merchants to go."

Shen Zheng smiled and said: "Okay, anyway, we are doing a business without capital, let alone [-]%, even [-]% we can afford."

"Since my father-in-law is sure, I will leave it to you to contact the salt merchant." Li Jing said with a smile.

Shen Zheng waved his hand: "I'm old, and I don't have much energy to do these things. I think this job should be handed over to Jixian. Jixian is a businessman, and it is much more convenient for him to deal with businessmen than us."

Hearing Shen Zheng's recommendation of Shen Jixian, Li Jing couldn't help but smile. It seemed that Shen Zheng wanted Shen Jixian to follow his old path and use business as a career in politics.It's just that from one moment to another, Shen Jixian's situation is completely different from Shen Zheng's.

Shen Zheng helped Li Jing manage logistics matters such as money and materials when he started his family, and later served as the magistrate of Pingyang Prefecture, during which he accumulated a lot of experience in politics.

Although Shen Jixian also accompanied Li Jing's development all the way, Shen Jixian's main energy was still on business. Now that Shen Jixian is allowed to enter politics, I am afraid that Shen Jixian will never reach the level of Shen Zheng.

(End of this chapter)