Chapter Eighty-Seven: Priorities

Qian Duoduo lay on a brocade couch and pretended to be pregnant with a thick blanket.

As far as Yun Zhao knew, she didn't have any farts in her stomach except for the dragon's eye core that she had just accidentally swallowed.

Even if he was humming and chirping, Yun Zhao pretended not to see or hear, since the slave market was opened, there had been a mountain of music books coming up from all over the place.

Say anything.

There is a suggestion for Xu Wu to be promoted.

There is a suggestion to divide Xu Wuxiang's five horses.

There are also those who stand on a certain height and use rational words to measure the correctness of this matter.

Of course, the most is to talk about the pros and cons of this matter, but he did not name and say that he wanted to divide Xu Wuxiang's body.

For this matter, Zhang Guozhu didn't want to participate at all, as long as it was the folds he received, he gave all the folds to Yun Zhao, and he didn't even have the heart to sift it out.

The wall is standing thousands of people, and there is no desire!

This is Zhang Guozhu's attitude on this matter.

In his opinion, whether to introduce slaves, first of all, it depends on whether the people of the Ming Dynasty can develop the mentality of the superiors, once there is this mentality, then, slaves should be introduced, after all, the emergence of slaves can solve many contradictions within the Ming Dynasty.

The emperor insisted on paying the craftsmen well, and the emperor insisted that the workshop owners who hired the Ming people must be responsible for the life, old age, sickness and death of their husbands in addition to making money.

Although this is suspected of overkill, this is the emperor's love for the people, and no one can oppose it, and once he opposes it, he will completely stand on the opposite side of the people.

However, this is problematic after all, it is very detrimental to the industrial and commercial development of the Ming Dynasty, the burden of merchants and workshop owners is too heavy, and a large part of the benefits are taken away by the craftsmen, so the consequence is that the workshop owners and merchants are not motivated to rebuild the workshop and the shops.

When the slaves came in, the problem was solved immediately, at least to balance the problem, on the one hand, the people of the Ming Dynasty received high remuneration and could live well, and on the other hand, the merchants and workshop owners could get some compensation from the hired slaves.

Therefore, after the emperor issued the national policy of introducing slaves, the Prime Minister's Office immediately published the issue of the proportion of hired slaves, and the number of slaves hired by a workshop and an economy must not exceed the number of hired Ming people.

If someone violates this national policy, he will be greeted with an unprecedented penalty, and even have the power to bankrupt the merchant or the workshop owner.

For the supplementary opinions of the Prime Minister's Office, Yun Zhao also adopted it, so the slaves entered the Ming Dynasty? It has become a sure fact.

The reason why Yun Zhao agreed to allow slaves to enter the Ming Dynasty was the countless small officials under his command.

These people are the foundation of the Ming Dynasty.

In order to achieve this goal, Yun Zhao has always spared no effort in the cultivation of small officials.

Basically, every Ming official climbed up step by step from a small official? So? The crowd of petty officials is a stage that Ming officials must go through.

Inside, big? Zhixian, Zhizhou? Magistrate? Central? These official ranks are the most precious experiences in the Ming official system? Only those who climb up these steps will be valued by the court and even the world.

After you have dealt with the folds? Yun Zhao came to Qian Duoduo's side and sat down? The hand was unconsciously placed on Qian Duoduo's slippery and greasy belly, this woman was already crazy, God knows what strange things she smeared on her belly.

"Zhao Guoxiu said that my body is fine, I can barely have a little palace cold, and I can quickly adjust my body after applying these drugs."

"What if it's my fault?"

Yun Zhao couldn't help but be a little worried.

Qian Duoduo snorted and said, "Is there anything wrong with my husband, don't I know if I'm a wife?" Judging by how you did last night? The one with the problem must be me and Feng Ying.

Hearing Qian Duoduo say this, Yun Zhao also felt that he didn't seem to have a problem, but it was still very sad that he had no harvest after eight years of hard work.

Zhao Guoxiu is pregnant!

Although the child's origin is strange, no one dares to ask, and whoever asks, Zhao Guoxiu will be in a hurry.

She stood in front of Yun Zhao again and again with a big belly, pointed to the child in her belly and said, this is her child!

I don't understand why Zhao Guoxiu emphasized this nonsense, the child she gave birth to was not hers, could it be the emperor's?

Now, Yun Zhao is very afraid of receiving an excerpt from a female official, and even more afraid that a female official will suddenly tell him that she is pregnant, and this method of asexual reproduction makes Yun Zhao ashamed and embarrassed when facing many moral people.

Rich people should have more children!

This sentence was not said by Yun Zhao, but the unified words issued by the two high-level academic places of Yushan Academy and Yushan University Hall.

It was very selfish, even a little shameless, but the gentlemen in the two academies also came up with ironclad facts to prove the correctness of the truth they had summed up.

Even Yun Zhao couldn't refute it.

Because - the richer a place is, the higher the probability that the place will produce talent.

They even came up with a comparison table of the grades of students in various places, without comparison, there is no harm, and after the comparison, even fools can see that students in rich places have better grades and more outstanding abilities.

Therefore, wealthy places are very willing to invest funds in cultural industries such as academies, while difficult places are still trying to take care of the bellies of the people, as for the brains, they can't take care of it for the time being.

Yun Zhao knew that within ten years, there would be a visible gap between schools in various places, and in the next few years, there would be people in the Ming Dynasty who specially migrated for their children's studies.

This is true now, and it will continue to be so in a few hundred years, and it will get worse and worse.

Seeing that spring was about to begin, Daming suddenly became calm.

There are no more appalling or sensational poisonous legends on Yun Zhao's table, and there is no tragedy of people killing tens of thousands of people at every turn, everyone is busy making money, and it seems that there is no time to call for wind and rain.

Yanjing City is still as cold as ever, and the most annoying thing is that the wind begins to blow here in the spring, and the wind still carries gravel, and the ghost screams of the tall trees that blow do not stop all night.

God is willing to give Yanjing City strong wind, gravel, but not willing to give a little rain and snow, the land in the garden has been thawed, Yun Zhao personally dug a pit, and dug until three feet deep to see the wet soil, this year's moisture is really bad.

However, the people of Yanjing City are not very worried, mainly because Xu Wuxiang built two huge reservoirs outside the capital when he was in office, and as long as there is water in the reservoirs, the people are not worried that the crops in the fields will not be able to grow.

In fact, the drought in the north of Daming is still continuing, but because too many water conservancy projects have been built day and night over the years, this has made the drought less noticeable.

However, the lack of water in the north is still a fact that cannot be ignored.

Thinking of this incident, Yun Zhao's mouth was bitter, he knew how this matter should be changed, for example, building a dam on the Yellow River, and putting countless pumping machines around the Yellow River to pump water every day and night, after doing so, the Yellow River will also have a fart flood, and there is a possibility that it will dry up in Shandong.

The problem is that he can't do it, not only by building dams upstream, but also by continuously supplying the Yellow River to dry up areas.

To the Yushan Academy, Yushan issued a scientific research topic on the diversion of the Yellow River irrigation to reduce the water volume of the Yellow River, and the two academies did not have any good methods except for proposing an artesian canal irrigation method.

The artesian canal was not invented by them, but was researched by Li Bing, that is, to dig a canal on the high position of the Yellow River, divert part of the Yellow River water to other places, and create a new main stream of the Yellow River.

These days, Yun Zhao has approved sixteen such local projects in one go.

At the same time, he also ordered the Henan garrison to start shelling the ice surface of the Yellow River, so as not to silt up the ice on the Yellow River and create terrifying ice dams on the river, and finally drown the people on both sides of the river.

The reason why we talk about the Yellow River, the Yangtze River, and the Huai River, at the beginning of each year, the imperial court has to allocate river control expenses to the river workers, especially this year, because Henan was flooded last year, the imperial court allocated 21 million silver dollars of state funds to the river workers at one time after research, occupying 10% of the national expenditure.

What a big burden, this money even exceeds the overall military expenditure of the Ming Dynasty, and also exceeds the cost of the imperial dynasty to distribute officials.

It is impossible to accomplish all the work in the river work.

In this matter, God has never given Da Ming any good face.

When local officials and ordinary people have just spent a lot of money to build two dikes that can prevent a once-in-100-year flood, there may be a once-in-500-year flood next year.

Cang Tian slapped the officials and the emperor in the face like this, so that by now, he has become numb.

After Zhang Guozhu allocated funds for river control, Yun Zhao was very afraid that Zhang Guozhu would say something that could sit back and relax.

Fortunately, Zhang Guozhu did not say.

"Since the Wanli period of the river master Pan Jitao, I Ming is still using this person summed up the means of river control, yesterday, we weighed the Yellow River water, the river workers said, this year's Yellow River water will carry more sediment, so it is very dangerous.

Although our investment in the matter of controlling the river is the highest in the history, I am still very worried that something will happen to the Yellow River, as long as something happens to the Yellow River, we will basically work for nothing for a year, so the Prime Minister's Office is ready to send an inspector to control the river now, and is ready to restrain the officials along the Yellow River with strict punishment and strict laws, and treat this matter as a top priority. ”

Yun Zhao nodded and said: "The matter of governing the river will be implemented according to your ideas, I will say one more thing, that is, be careful, be careful, be careful, don't only care about the Yellow River, and forget the Yangtze River, Huai River and other rivers, never dare to be attacked by God."

If God doesn't give us a way to live this year, he will move the people out of the Yellow River flood area and the floodplain area of the Yangtze River and the Huai River. ”