A year passed in a flash in the midst of this unpredictable storm. The sixth year of Zhaowu seemed to be at the end of the year.
Like in previous years, the political chaos, under the suppression of power, has had such a slim impact on the people.
Since the unification of the world, the capital, which had already developed rapidly, has completely entered a peak period that has never been seen before after the convergence of north and south.
According to the land population inventory in the third year of Zhaowu, the population of the capital city has reached more than 700,000, several times higher than the population of a province in Liao Province that year.
As of the end of the sixth year of Zhaowu, the Ministry of Revenue's household registration statistics show that the number of people in the capital has increased by nearly 200,000 in just three years.
These are naturally due to the court's policy support for business and the changes in the household registration system of the former Ming Dynasty.
Commercial policy support naturally drives population mobility, and there are many business travelers running around the world.
The most important thing about the change of the household registration system is to abolish the previous Ming Dynasty's household registration system, that is, the craftsmanship and merchants, etc., all of which were abolished.
Everyone, scholar, farmer, craftsman, are equal.
Until now, only military household registration has not been abolished.
Military household registration naturally exists for historical reasons.
Just like Daheng is now, it still retains the military system of the former Ming camp soldiers and garrisons coexisting.
There is only one reason for this: the unification of the world is still unstable. In addition, the southwest and important areas of the Korean border are still difficult to defend peace. There are still great enemies in the northwest and northern grasslands.
The world is too vast and there are too many places to guard.
Today, Daheng, including the navy, has as many as 1.2 million registered troops.
If these more than 200,000 troops were all full-time war camps, the court's finances could not afford it at all.
Not to mention, there are two major forces, including local inspections and tax inspections.
The recorded battalions, except for the 12th Regiment of the Beijing Army, had about 150,000 soldiers, the Imperial Guards, and about 100,000 soldiers.
Liao Province, North Korea, the northwest, southwest border, and northern border towns. There are so many places, with a total of less than 50,000 battalions of soldiers, plus several major navy troops that have been expanded and customized to a total of 100,000 soldiers.
In other words, only 400,000 of this one million and two million army were battalions that needed the court to allocate money and food and operate full-time.
Among them were 800,000 troops, all of which were soldiers of the garrison who did not need to allocate money and food to guard the border and settled the self-sufficient army.
Each garrison soldiers means a family, and 800,000 garrison soldiers means 800,000 households and millions of people, taking on the responsibility of guarding the border and reclamation in the border areas.
All this was very small. In the first few years when Daheng was established, these garrisons not only did not require the court to allocate money and grain every year, but also handed over the crucial grain for cultivation to the court.
These were handed over until the end of the fourth year of Zhaowu, and the emperor canceled them.
It is completely conceivable that if the 800,000 soldiers of the 800,000 guards were not allowed to rely on the camps to guard the border, Daheng's financial pressure would be so terrifying.
Of course, although the military household registration system still exists, in order to change the low situation of military household registration, the emperor also arranged money and supplies during festivals every year, and specially issued subsidies to the soldiers of the garrison station.
This is also the greatest concern for the soldiers of the Wei Institute under the current harsh finances.
It is obvious that military households lie in the military and the border, and they cannot affect the world. After the division of household registration of the people was abolished, coupled with the prosperity of commerce, the population flow brought about by the population will naturally increase in the population of the capital.
After all, it is impossible for a country's capital to turn away its own people, but no matter what, it is obvious that the skyrocketing population of a city will inevitably bring huge population pressure.
Food, clothing, housing, roads... everything needs to be solved and planned.
In the midst of the wind and snow, a convoy of carriages slowly moved forward on the streets, and the emperor, Liu Qiyuan, the chief assistant of the cabinet, and Hong Chengchou, the Minister of Works, were also sitting upright in the carriages in the convoy.
The eaves on both sides of the street are covered with snow, dazzling, and on the street, pedestrians and vehicles are constantly trampling. Under the trampling, turbid sewage is wet and accumulated snow, which is obviously quite dirty.
The emperor silently stared at the scene outside the window. The increase in population brought about the increasing prosperity of the streets. Of course, dirty and messy will inevitably appear.
As the carriage moved forward, the scenery of the capital slowly came into the emperor's eyes. Until the carriage entered the east city of the capital, the speed of the carriage suddenly slowed down a lot. The scenes reflected in the emperor's vision also obviously lacked a little prosperity and a little more real noisy in the city.
Just this slight change, the emperor knew that the destination of this trip was arrived.
Development anywhere is developed according to the changes in the world's overall environment.
The same is true in the capital.
Strictly speaking, this capital is not the first choice for a farming nation.
Since ancient times, during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the Qin, Han and Tang Dynasties, the choice of capitals in all dynasties was in a place with fertile land.
It is a capital city that integrates military, politics, and agricultural economy, and is the first choice for all dynasties.
However, with the trend of east and west since ancient times, since Jin and the south of the Yangtze River, the trend of east and west has evolved into the trend of north and south.
The prosperous land in Jiangnan has also become the preferred place for the capital.
Since the demise of the Song Dynasty, the Yuan Dynasty entered the Central Plains, and the grassland peoples entered the Central Plains, it was naturally impossible to leave their nests and run to the south of the Yangtze River to establish their capital.
Therefore, Beijing, a city that is not an agricultural center but is close to the grassland, became the Yuan Dadu.
But in this way, it is not an agricultural center, which means that the existence of the capital, the political and military center, brings a huge population that makes the capital unable to achieve self-sufficiency.
In other words, the capital's politics and military needs other agricultural centers to provide blood transfusions.
Such a capital city is obviously not in line with the primary element of dominating the world.
After all, since ancient times, they have been strong central governments and weak local governments.
In an era of inconvenient transportation and inconvenient communication, the central government occupies the center of agriculture, so it can use rich agriculture to support strong central troops, and then weaken the local area with deterrence, thus forming a strong central and weak local situation.
The fundamental reason for the sentence that has passed down since ancient times is that those who win Guanzhong will win the world are the unique wealth of Guanzhong and the advantageous terrain that only needs to guard the key areas.
However, the political and military capitals that have lost their agricultural focus and are subject to local governments are obviously not a long-term way.
After the fall of Yuan Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty naturally established its capital in Nanjing, a capital that integrates military, political and economics.
It is obvious that Emperor Yongle moved the capital to Beijing, which has many disadvantages.
Daheng inherited the Ming Dynasty and established this disadvantage was naturally inherited.
When Daheng was established, the canal transportation was cut off by the Jiangnan rebellion and controlled the lifeline of agriculture, which clearly showed that the military and political center of the capital did not radiate to the terror of the agricultural economic center.
In the Ming Dynasty, although it was rich in Jiangnan, it could not be used at all. The reason was largely because the political and military center could not be directly controlled by the economic center, allowing local forces to control the central government's agricultural economy lifeline. The establishment of Nanzhili in the Ming Dynasty obviously also had this reason.
But obviously, the Ming Dynasty's strategy for Southern Zhili was not very effective.
Although the emperor had the idea of ​​moving the capital, it was obvious that the conditions for moving the capital were not met at present and even for a long time in the future.
After all, the foundation of the emperor lies in the north, and Daheng's great enemy lies outside the northern border.
If these two problems are not solved, Daheng will never be able to move the capital. The emperor can only bite the bullet and solve the problem that the capital cannot directly control the economic territory.
For example, developing Liao Province, abolishing sea bans, opening sea transportation and trade, such as Xingsheng business...
These reasons are also the direct reason for the surge in the population in Beijing today.
Business is inseparable from rivers and seas.
The lifeline of the capital is also inseparable from rivers and seas.
Merchant ships go to the capital through the sea and canal, and sea transport canal also go to the capital through the sea and canal.
The Grand Canal of Beijing-Hangzhou, from Jiangnan to Tongzhou, from the Jiangnan Sea Frontier Maritime Warehouse Department, to Tianjin Maritime Warehouse Department, and then from Tianjin Maritime Warehouse Department, along the Northern Canal of the Grand Canal, to Tongzhou.
Whether it is sea transportation or canal transportation, they are ultimately in Tongzhou, and go directly to the moat of the capital through Tonghui River, while the wharf is located in the east city of the capital.
Obviously, the changes in the world's business environment will eventually be reflected in the Dongcheng District of this capital.
The most direct response to the changes in the capital is also in this Dongcheng District.
Chapter completed!