Chapter 43: Yu Zijun

After seeing this kind of ordinary person, the surprise passed for a while.

Pekingese are even more accustomed to the steam engine.

They are more willing to say some strange things, such as a certain boiler exploded, a part flew out of two streets and killed an official, and later checked, this official did everything without conscience, this is retribution.

Things like that.

Many people are in the midst of high-speed change, but they don't know it.

But Liu Daxia is different.

It was only a moment later that he became a railroad faction.

Because he sees the great benefits and effects of it.

If the railway can be spread all over every province of the Ming Dynasty, the effect on the Ming Dynasty is no less than opening up the second vein of the governor.

This is also the reason why many officials, led by Han Yong, are willing to follow Zhu Qizhen's concept, not only because of Zhu Qizhen's power, but also because Zhu Qizhen pointed out a very bright direction for him.

It has been more than ten years since the Biyong Society, but many of the things proposed in the Biyong Society have only slowly but firmly penetrated into the hearts of the people.

Because the nature of the Chinese nation is to be pragmatic. What you said is useless.

Only when people see the benefits can they be believed.

After Liu Daxia entered Beijing, he arrived at the sign in the palace, and the rest could only wait for news.

And at this moment, Zhu Qizhen is summoning Yu Zijun.

Yu Zijun valued Zhu Qizhen with his organizational ability for disaster relief this time, and intended to let him replace Ma Wensheng as the head of the household department, and Ma Wensheng was transferred to the cabinet to replace Xu Youzhen's position.

Before that, Zhu Qizhen naturally wanted to have a conversation with Yu Zijun.

Yu Zijun is in his fifties, and the age difference with Zhu Qizhen is similar, but it is a completely different state from Zhu Qizhen.

Zhu Qizhen is pampered and careful, and even got Hu Hui's maintenance essentials, and practiced on time every day, so he was in good health, with black hair and few gray hair.

Occasionally, there are a few of them, and they are also pulled out when combing their hair in the morning.

But Yu Zijun is different.

Yu Zijun is a native of Qingshen, Sichuan. Known for its incorruptibility. is also a staff official, many times he does it himself, such as this disaster relief, Yu Zijun is busy day and night, and he does not dare to delay at all. He even personally followed the victims from Ningxia to Guanzhong on foot.

The arrangements were very appropriate, and the people were kept alive as much as possible.

It's just that this kind of work intensity, even young people may not be able to endure it, let alone a fifty-year-old person.

And he's not just this year, he's been there before.

Therefore, this overwork overdrew his body in advance.

When he played against Zhu Qizhen, anyone who saw Yu Zijun would not think that he and Zhu Qizhen were the same age

, I only think that Yu Zijun is more than ten years older than Zhu Qizhen.

I saw that his body was slightly hunchbacked, and I didn't know if it was too long. The hair is almost completely white, with only a few hairs stubbornly remaining black.

The color of his official uniform has also faded a lot. Some are discolored.

With Yu Zijun's official position, at least a few hundred taels of silver a year. If you maintain Yu Zijun's current living state, it is definitely enough. You can even live pretty well.

In fact, as long as the officials do not pursue the sound of dogs and horses, they are generally enough. Yu Zijun never did these things, but he never had a balance in his annual income.

It's just that he has left some of his money to help the people for many years.

That's why there is such a situation, with a bit of shabby.

Zhu Qizhen was a little sad when he saw it, and he felt a little respectful. Just asked, Yu Zijun came to his face with a strong Sichuan flavor of official words. said: "Your Majesty, Shaanxi is bitter." ”

Yu Zijun told the suffering of Shaanxi in 1510.

First, the land is barren, grain does not produce grain, and in many places in Shaanxi, each acre of land does not produce more than a few buckets of millet seeds. It is not comparable with the average yield of two or three stones per mu in Jiangnan.

Not to mention, the extreme output in Jiangnan even has seven or eight stones. That's the power of intensive farming, but it's a special case.

Second, there is the pain of transshipment.

The war in the Western Regions is not extinguished, and the pain of transshipment is pressed on the heads of the people of Shaanxi.

As far as the whole world is concerned, that is, the people of Shaanxi bear the greatest pain of transshipment.

The large-scale construction of Chidao and the establishment of granaries in various places have minimized the suffering of the people's transportation. In many cases, the people sold grain in the county, and it was enough to pay silver.

If you suspect that the grain merchants in the county are lowering the price, you can go to the house and sell it to the household warehouse, generally speaking, there is a minimum price here.

However, the national strength of the Ming Dynasty can only be maintained at the provincial level, and even in remote places, only the province has a household granary.

But even so, it maintained the price of grain for most of the Ming Dynasty, and it was not out of the control of the imperial court.

Of course, such benefits are difficult for Shaanxi to enjoy.

The ability to gallop on the plains is completely different from the ability in the mountains.

The south is a waterway, and the north is a gallop, but there is no waterway in the northwest, and the gallop is in the mountains, and it is more like a kind of goods.

Therefore, in many cases, the people of Northwest China need to bear the obligation of transshipment.

From this point of view, the people of Shaanxi are probably the most bitter.

Third, there are many disasters and difficulties.

If you look at the number of earthquakes listed at the beginning of this volume, you will find that Shaanxi is the period of active earthquakes, and this year's earthquake is only the largest, not that there were no earthquakes in previous years.

In addition, the perennial drought in Shaanxi is even more commonplace.

This is still a big way to say, a lot

The details are even more shocking, there is a division commander in Japan who asked soldiers to eat grass to attack in World War II, and many people laughed at him.

But if you take a closer look at the life of the people in Shaanxi, wild vegetables are not only half a year's food, but also eat wild vegetables before you can eat a few bites of millet.

Isn't that grazing?

Zhu Qizhen could hardly bear to listen to the more tragic human tragedy under natural and man-made disasters. Even if Zhu Qizhen has tried his best to provide disaster relief, but the national strength is here, and what he can do is actually quite limited.

Zhu Qizhen said: "Yu Qing, you are from Shaanxi, what should Shaanxi do to make the people live and work in peace and contentment." ”

Yu Zijun said: "Build the railway. In the past few days, the minister has come to Beijing and carefully inspected the railways around Beijing. If there is a railway that goes directly to the northwest, it can face the suffering of the people's transshipment. ”

"And the minister asked the price of the Jingshi, a stone of coal can be sold for a penny, in the middle of winter, you can even count a stone, and there are many places in the northwest, coal is a clay-like thing, as long as it can be transported out of the northwest, it is enough for the people to live and work in peace and contentment."

"Please also ask Your Majesty to remember the millions of people in Shaanxi and send this heavenly grace."

Yu Zijun also knew that the cost of the railway must be very large, and he almost pleaded.

Zhu Qizhen sighed, he felt that there were still many ministers in the Ming Dynasty who were doers. When Yu Qian governed Zhu Qi Town in Shaanxi, he hoped to build a gallop road.

And Yu Zijun now begged the imperial court to build the Northwest Railway.

The actions of the two are almost identical, which can be seen. Maybe they don't know that if they want to get rich, they must first build roads. But they've already done it.

The railway is right next to Beijing, and I don't know how many officials have seen it.

Imperceptibly, there are very few people who strongly oppose the construction of railways.

But Zhu Qizhen's biggest problem is no longer the minister who opposes the construction of the railway, but money.

The cost of the railway is at least 10,000 taels per mile. And that's not saying anything else. If you calculate comprehensively, a mile of railway is not just 10,000 taels.

How many railways do Daming need to build, even if they are built along the current Chi Road layout, not to mention manpower and material resources, just financial resources, it is a thing that Daming can't do if he sells it.

Zhu Qizhen picked up Yu Zijun and said: "Yu Qing's meaning, I already know, but now that the treasury is empty, this matter can only be put aside, but Shaanxi has encountered such a big disaster, and the imperial court is not good not to say something, so I will order that Shaanxi Province will be exempted from taxes for three years, and the affected places will naturally be exempt from taxes, and the money and grain in the places that have not been affected will be left for Shaanxi to spend." ”

Zhu Qizhen gave this discount is also quite good.

In the play, there is the kind of joke that exempts money and food for three years, generally speaking, the imperial court will be exempted from taxes for the current year at most, and it will continue to be exempted if it cannot be collected in the next year.

After all, the imperial court also has to eat. This is also a large amount of silver in Jiangnan into the treasury, so that Zhu Qizhen can be generous.