I was the emperor in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 853

But at the same time, he also knew that instead of pinning all his hopes on a person he couldn't control at all, it would be better to turn to the customer and see that the initiative is firmly in his own hands.

In fact, after so many days of thinking, Li Tian has basically thought of a solution to the large-scale unemployment that Nanjing is about to face.

In fact, this method is also very simple, that is, the Ming Dynasty grassroots civil servant system that will be launched soon.

Nanjing City was the capital of the Ming Dynasty for five or sixty years, and it has been a treasure land of cultural prosperity since ancient times.

Therefore, the cultural level of the people here is much higher than that of other places.

Among other things, let's talk about the nearly tens of thousands of students in Nanjing Guozijian, and foreign student visiting groups.

These people are excellent candidates for grassroots civil servants.

And those officials who have lost their jobs are more suitable than him.

So it is still very easy to find them a job that can support their families.

Once the civil service system is implemented throughout the country in the Ming Dynasty in the future, the number of literate personnel required will be an astonishingly large number.

Even if all the literate people in Nanjing were filled in, it would still not be able to fill one-tenth of this gap.

Of course, literate people are easy to arrange for work.

But those who are illiterate or even unwilling to be officials are a bit difficult to deal with.

Not only are there a large number of them, but they also don't know how to farm. Even if they know how to farm, there is no extra farmland around Nanjing for them.

In fact, Li Tian also has basic arrangements and plans for these people.

First of all, Zhang Yongri's workshop will open soon.

The scale this time will far exceed that of Beijing, to say the least, it will be three to five times the size of Beijing today.

Based on the data of more than 3000 people in Beijing today.

This workshop alone is enough to absorb the idle labor of tens of thousands of people.

The location of Nanjing is very special. Although it is not as good as Wuhan, which is the thoroughfare of nine provinces, it is a relatively developed southern city in the north and south. It is not far from Shanghai, an important future gateway, and has convenient transportation on the Yangtze River.

Therefore, it is very suitable to set up some large state-owned workshops in Nanjing, even more suitable than Beijing.

As for what type of workshop to build, Li Tian has yet to make a conclusion.

But there is one item that is designated to be launched, and that is the cement workshop.

For things like cement, if they are transported over long distances, it is a loss to specify.

Therefore, it is the most cost-effective way to build workshops wherever roads will be built in the future.

The newly built dozens of blast furnaces for firing cement in the capital are not enough to supply the entire Northern Zhili area.

There is no support here at all, so if Nanzhili and the surrounding areas want cement, they can only produce it locally.

For things like cement, from mining ore, to transportation, to firing, to delivery to the construction sites of various construction projects, a lot of manpower is required in the middle.

To say the least can solve the livelihood problem of 2 to [-] people.

If you let go of your hands and feet, it is not impossible to accommodate 5 to [-] people.

But even if all these things are counted, for the hundreds of thousands of unemployed people, it is only a small part, and the fundamental problem has not been solved.

But Li Tian still has a trump card in his hand, and that is Tang Sai'er, whom he has admired for a long time.

Hasn't she been thinking about where to get people to expand her free kingdom overseas?

She didn't have any name before, even if she used real money to lure people to go overseas to start a business, it is estimated that not many people would be willing to leave their hometowns.

But if Li Tian let her loosen this hole, so that those people who have lost their livelihood, as long as they are willing to go with her, not only will they be paid for travel expenses, but they can even provide free farm tools and seeds.

With the name of the imperial court and such a powerful subsidy, I believe that by then, a large number of people will be willing to go to sea to try it.

After all, the Chinese people's love for the land has been passed down by thousands of people.

No matter where people are, as long as they have their own land in their hands, they will be very satisfied.

In this way, not only can Tang Sai'er fulfill her own dream, but also help herself solve this most difficult problem by the way.

It can be said to serve multiple purposes.

The price Li Tian has to pay is just an edict, and farm tools and seeds whose total value may not exceed one million taels.

Compared to the hundreds of thousands of people who might cause chaos in the entire Ming Dynasty, it only takes a million taels of silver to completely solve the problem that Nanjing City is controlled by many honorable nobles, and the tail is too big to lose, consuming a lot of national power every year.

Li Tian felt that the deal was definitely worth it.

You know, not to mention the annual salaries of those nobles, but the annual salaries of all the officials of the six departments in Nanjing, which together have far exceeded this figure.

Bai Wanliang silver, to Li Tian today, is nothing but a drop in the bucket, nothing at all.

These few measures, even if they can only achieve half of the expectations, will solve a huge problem and let this problem be solved satisfactorily.

This is actually the main reason why Li Tian didn't rush to Nanjing to preside over the overall situation immediately after getting the news.

However, the implementation of all this will take time.

Whether it is the construction of workshops, the preparations for immigration, or the falling rocks of civil servants in various places.

All of them require a lot of time, and some may even take more than half a year of preparation before they can be implemented.

Therefore, in order for all these preparations to be carried out smoothly, there must be someone with absolute authority sitting in Nanjing.

But at present, the crown prince has no deterrent power, and the King of Han is not very qualified. Only Li Tian himself can live in pressure until these preparations are completed, and ensure that the people of Nanjing will not be in chaos.

Therefore, no matter how much preparation he has in mind, everything still depends on his presence at the scene and sitting in the town in person.

But now it is the middle of February, at least one month away, even if he wants to go there immediately, it is impossible.

Not to mention that the ship has not yet been built, and the equipment of the new army has not yet been completed.

So before that, Li Tian had to appease Liu Bian and others who already knew the inside story.

This time, the meeting between Liu Bian and Zhou Chen became particularly crucial.

So Li Tian took up his pen overnight and began to write replies to Zhou Chen and Yang Suwen.

In his heart, he told them the news that Nanjing's status as the accompanying capital was about to be cancelled, and told them in a very secret way, and warned them to keep this secret very strictly, and not to disclose this news to any third person, not even Prince Zhu Zhanji.

Li Tian had to do this.

(End of this chapter)