Chapter Four Hundred and Ninety Thirty-Two Outlines for Farm Development(1/2)
The preparation process for boiling cement is not complicated, it is just crushing limestone, adding clay, throwing it into the cement stove to calcinate.
The fire temperature of coke is completely sufficient, and even ordinary firewood can be used to calcinate the raw materials into clinker.
However, the road construction itself requires a lot of labor. There are not so many machinery now. The road construction is entirely carried by shoulders and backs. This is a matter of poverty and depletion of people's efforts.
Building roads was indeed the top priority of the Ming Dynasty, but we should not impatiently put this burden on the people.
Zhu Qiyu thought seriously for a long time and said, "It is too early to harden the roads of the farm. It is already very difficult to have a glutinous yard in each farm."
"You can build a gravel yard first to level the road surface and harden the road surface for the time being."
"The farm can't stand the tossing now. I think it's still the farm at this stage, and it's still the main focus of farming and sericulture, and the production of crops should be encouraged."
"For example, planting crops such as cotton, hemp, mulberry, soybean, rapeseed, sesame, tea, tung oil, beet, tea, fruit trees, medicinal materials."
They are cotton spinning raw materials, oil materials, sugar materials and cash crops.
"King Xiang did a good job in Guizhou. He encouraged the people to plant gold without changing and Panax notoginseng, and encouraged transplantation of tung trees to facilitate picking and centralized management. This is a good path." Zhu Qiyu affirmed Zhu Zhanji's achievements in advocating agriculture and serenity in Guizhou.
When Zhu Zhanqi returns to Beijing, he is afraid that another magic card will be obtained.
Yu Qian thought seriously, bowed and said, "Your Majesty is wise."
This wise saying is Yu Qian's perfunctory, to be precise, Yu Qian retained his own opinions.
In his opinion, we can actually start to do some raw materials reprocessing workshops now.
The technology of water lime kiln is not complicated and can effectively improve farm transportation.
Zhu Qiyu certainly knew that Yu Qian's wise words were conservative oppositions.
He explained: "I mainly consider the people's strength, but the people do not have much ability to bear it. I still believe that the farm law is still the main focus of consolidating the results."
"There is great potential for advocating agriculture and sericulture, such as building water conservancy, increasing compost, improving agricultural tools, and actively opening up land."
"First ensure that they eat enough and make them more utilitarian. Only those with labor can they work, only those with labor can they work and create wealth, and not allow the people to eat enough. Where do they have the energy to have children and have the energy to raise children?"
"There are many things that can be done, such as the construction of water conservancy projects, such as digging wells, digging ponds, building embankments, digging dry wells, opening canals, building ditches, and building ditches for water storage and drainage. Can craftsmen from the Ministry of Industry and various official factories come up with ideas after conducting on-site inspections?"
"For example, this compost can be combined with breeding. Pigs, sheep, chickens and ducks are all meat-eating. They also feed these livestock, compost more, and increase the yield per mu of land. Who will teach farmers how to farm?"
"Can trees such as fruit trees, mulberry, oak, tea, lacquer, tung trees be considered for planting according to local conditions?"
Yu Qian hesitated and said, "Your Majesty, there is no need to be so cautious."
Sometimes, the steps can be larger, and the people of the farm do not have no ability to bear it.
Of course, what Your Majesty said must be done, and you must work hard to do it. This is all this.
But similar to a small workshop, it can also be put on the agenda and move forward in the exploration of farm law.
Yu Qian thought seriously, what is His Majesty guarding against?
Prevent some people from destroying the farm law.
How was the military and guard law destroyed back then?
In Li Xian’s fourteen questions, he said it very clearly that some people take labor for themselves. The main method of this practice is to hide the household and hide the people.
Your Majesty's governing style is still a big and open style, without any mercy. You can imagine that for the incident of the shady female household, someone will definitely be sent to the Jieyu Courtyard.
As the representative of the elders, Li Jian is afraid he can't escape it.
But as long as the matters of the people are involved, Your Majesty will be extremely cautious.
For example, the Ministry of Revenue has previously proposed a method of anti-counterfeiting and small face value, but His Majesty refused to use it. Until now, it is only used on the exchange and reserve absorption of Baoyuan Bureau.
Because Baoyuan Bureau faces a large number of people with more than 100 silver coins, His Majesty used the silver notes on them without hesitation.
Your Majesty is so cautious that he is a little afraid of his head when it comes to the people.
"Your Majesty, in fact, the people are not without self-protection..." Yu Qian said halfway, shook his head and said, "Actually, this is good."
Yu Qian's words are inconsistent.
When he thought of armed tax resistance, the people did not always fail in struggle. When faced with private requests from the towns, the people would also take up their few weapons to fight. There was always a win or a loss in struggle.
Those castles are the products of the struggle.
However, after thinking about it, Yu Qian still agreed to His Majesty's cautious approach to the people. In other words, he was still convinced by His Majesty.
The Farm Law has just been implemented for five years, and the system has stabilized, but it is still relatively fragile. Every step is steadily taken. It is a stable road to manage the Farm Law well according to local conditions.
Your Majesty is prosperous in spring and autumn, and is good at hygiene, so you don’t have to hurry up to this moment.
What Your Majesty said about the construction of water conservancy, the increase of compost, the improvement of farm tools, the active development of land, the raising of more livestock, etc., are all prudent policies and are a good thing for the people.
Zhu Qiyu and Yu Qian discussed in detail various matters about the farm law.
In addition to consolidating existing achievements, encouraging farming and sericulture, and raising livestock, the Agriculture and Forestry Bureau, which also has the ten major bureaus that match the degrees, will also undertake a lot of work.
For example, actively collect excellent planting experiences in each farm law, compile and print books according to local conditions, and disseminate and promote them.
Breed good varieties and select excellent agricultural and mulberry crop seeds for planting.
In the farm, we advocate diligence and thrift, prevent the bad habit of advocating extravagance from being introduced into the farm law, and promote the simplicity of everything for human relationships, such as red and white events.
In the farm, we should make up for poverty alleviation, accumulate grain to prevent wasteland, and store grain to prevent natural disasters.
In the farm, we actively eliminate pests such as mice, flies, mosquitoes. These pests not only spread diseases, but also seriously affect the production of farms in the Ming Dynasty.
In the farm, actively promote the "Simplified Prescription for Prevention and Health" to advocate prevention, hygiene and training doctors.
In terms of system, Zhu Qiyu planned to pay all the money for the money of the heroes, to protect the rights and interests of the wives of heroes, to protect food, clothing, to protect burning, to protect children, to protect burial, etc., but was persuaded by Yu Qian with the state system.
This part of the money is not much, it is just a wife and children in the temple of the Heroes. Before becoming a resident at the age of fifteen, a household with a total of only fifty silver coins were counted.
Zhu Qiyu was happy to pay the money.
Yu Qian believed that the soldiers were not just His Majesty’s private army, but also the imperial army. They used to be poor in national treasury, but now the national treasury is not poor at all, especially the local banknotes and market departments, as well as the seigniorage tax, and the national treasury is already very rich.
When His Majesty made a fortune, he never forgot to bring the Ministry of Revenue to make a fortune together.
To provide pensions to heroes, the money should be paid in the proportion of 55, or even 307.
Your Majesty gives 30% and the imperial court gives 70%.
But in the end, Zhu Qiyu decided to share the pension with a ratio of 50% to pay.
There is also the most important content, based on the foundation of the Wei Suo Confucian Academy, social education is promoted in the farm, so that at least the people can understand common words and phrases.
This is a work that has been a century of cultivating people. On the basis of the past, it needs to be continuously and steadily promoted.
Zhu Qiyu and Yu Qian talked about the plans for the next five years of the Farm Law.
About 32 outlines of the development of farm law were determined.
"Wuqing Marquis, there are Volunteer League training in these farms. It is a very complicated job to manage them, especially selecting them to serve in the Beijing camp. It is also a big deal. These things will be done by Wuqing Marquis." Zhu Qiyu said to Shi Heng.
Shi Heng bowed his head and said, "I will definitely live up to Your Majesty's expectations."
Shi Heng breathed a sigh of relief. He thought the Ola people had run away and the Ming Dynasty was about to start promoting Wen and Wu again, which made him very nervous.
But this concern did not happen.
His Majesty still raised countless Volunteer League training in the farm, which were the source of the Ming Dynasty.
In fact, in Shi Heng's view, the quality of the Volunteer League training in the Farm Law is even stronger than that of the soldiers in some garrisons in the Southern Yaya.
There are certain differences between the north and the south. The Xingwenwu in the South Yai is even more serious. The corruption of the Coastal Inspection Department is simply horrifying.
Zhu Qiyu smiled and said, "Even if there are no Oirats, there are bandits and bandits, and wild animals. It is very necessary to maintain a certain scale of Boxer League training."
Shi Heng and Yu Qian looked at each other. In addition to the bandits and beasts, there were also gentry who were privately sought by the towns.
Don’t Your Majesty know? Obviously, Your Majesty has classified the gentry as wild beasts.
After all, if you don’t do human affairs, isn’t it just a lack of conscience and benevolence, or isn’t it just a wild animal?
Zhu Qiyu ended the match and started a busy day.
The imperial examination ended within expectations, with some people happy and some people worried, and Zhu Qiyu got Qiu Jun's answer.
Qiu Jun, a student from Qiongzhou, was the first in the imperial examination.
After reading it, Zhu Qiyu nodded repeatedly.
The tenacious vitality of Confucianism exceeded Zhu Qiyu's expectations.
Qiu Jun is obviously a fantasy. His dream about the world of Datong coincides with the management and learning, mainly the use of financial affairs and the use of profitable handles.
However, Qiu Jun learned from the experience of Jingtai's failure in the second year of imperial examination. This time he no longer discussed financial affairs, but discussed the standards of the monarch's virtues and kingly ways.
Translation is the monarchy.
Qiu Jun does not empty talk about the metaphysical things such as the mind and nature do not hide the function and utilitarianism.
Specific requirements for the king's virtue and kingly way were put forward.
For example, if the king cannot be governed alone, just like no one can work without the help of others, the king cannot do without the assistance of his ministers.
The monarch cannot be governed alone, but it must be seen. Whatever the court officials say is, the monarch will be fooled and lame.
You should not be stubborn and ban advice, but also distinguish right from wrong; you should comply with the public opinion of the world, and you should not favor your own selfishness.
To be continued...