Back to the Ming Dynasty to be a tyrant

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Wu Ganlai bowed and said, "Your Majesty Qizuo, I still have something to report."

After Emperor Chongzhen nodded his head, Wu Ganlai said: "According to the statistics of the 25th year of Chongzhen, although the grain output did not drop much, the idle rate of private land has increased compared to the 24th year of Chongzhen.

If we look at the data of Chongzhen 15 years ago, I am afraid that this data will have to be expanded several times.

Weichen is worried that starting this year, the land vacancy rate will rise again, which may eventually affect grain production. "

This is a very serious problem.

Whether a country is stable or not, food is definitely a very important factor, followed by issues such as public security or government officials.

It's very simple. Whether you can eat well and dress warmly is the first need of a person. As for public security or government administration, it can basically be classified as the second need after satisfying the first need. It's self-evident. .

Regardless of whether this article is placed in ancient times or in other worlds or even in the fictional world created by the writers of Qidian, it is actually universal.

Otherwise, you can expect the common people to pay attention to etiquette and shame when they are hungry?

Just kidding?

Emperor Chongzhen said, "What's the reason?"

After Wu Ganlai glared at Hong Chengchou and the three of them bitterly, he bowed and said, "Your Majesty Qizuo, the income from grain production is not as good as the money from working on construction sites, especially the construction sites of the Ministry of Railways, Ministry of Communications, and Ministry of Industry. There is more silver than farming.

In addition, in addition to the employment needs of these projects of the imperial court, those workshops run by the people also raised the wages of workers from the side, which led to more and more people choosing to work instead of farming. "

Emperor Chongzhen nodded and said, "How long is Daming's current grain reserve enough? If you look at the situation in the past few years, if there is no harvest every year, how many years can it last?"

After pondering for a while, Wu Ganlai bowed and said: "If it is true that there is no harvest every year, and there is not even a single grain added to the warehouses in various places, if the grain stored by the people is not counted, it can only last for three years at most. It's just Three years later, I am afraid that the tragic situation of changing sons and eating will reappear, and even the world will be in chaos."

Emperor Chongzhen laughed immediately.

If the grain stored in the regular warehouses and the reserve warehouses in various places can last for three years, even if the grain stored by the people themselves is not counted, there will be no problem.

Supply and demand will take care of itself.

If there are fewer grain growers, there will be less grain circulating on the market. As long as the government does not come forward to suppress it, the price of grain will inevitably rise. This is a very normal market supply relationship.

The original situation that the income from growing food is not as good as that from working will be changed. Seeing that growing food is profitable, the common people will naturally go back to growing food in order to earn more money.

Even if there is no increase in food prices, Emperor Chongzhen will not be too worried.

At present, the main labor force in Ming Dynasty is still those big projects in the three ministries of Railways, Communications, and Industry. As for the private workshops, the actual amount of labor is really not that big, and it is far from the high demand for labor in later generations.

The projects of these three companies do require a lot of labor, but the people of Ming Dynasty are not used to traveling far away to work. Once the local projects stop, they will go back to farm in a dishonest manner. Do they still have to follow the three major projects all over the world? run?

After smiling indifferently, Emperor Chongzhen said: "Look at the people around the capital and Nanjing, have more people chosen to go back to farm recently, this matter is much easier to handle.

The so-called higher income from working than farming is actually an inevitable phenomenon, but what if there is no work to do?Where should the people go?Don't we still have to farm?

A few years ago, I and all the love ministers had a headache about how to make the common people work, but now they have a headache about how to let the common people farm. It is really funny to think about it. "

Although Wu Ganlai did not have seen as many things as Emperor Chongzhen, but after Emperor Chongzhen said the key to it, he immediately understood.

I was frightened by the ever-increasing land vacancy rate, and I was afraid that the people all over the world would leave the land and go to work on the construction site.

In fact, even if the people all over the world go to work, this matter will not be accomplished overnight, it will definitely be delayed for a long time, and nothing will be seen at all in ten or eight years.

Even if there is a day, there must be a corresponding way to solve this matter at that time.

After uncovering this article with a smile, Wu Ganlai took advantage of the opportunity to bring the topic to Tsarist Russia.

Wu Ganlai had no interest in Tsarist Russia, even if Emperor Chongzhen now asked everyone to get a foreign female slave home to serve as an example, Wu Ganlai still had no interest.

Regardless of whether you have money or not, at your level, the imperial court will send female slaves anyway, so why worry about it?

What Wu Ganlai cared about was how much treasury would be used in the war against Tsarist Russia—there was money in the treasury, but if it really used too much, it would be different from cutting your own flesh...

Zhang Zhitun thought about it and said, "Shouldn't be too many? This time, the main focus is to eliminate those barbarians. The main battle is cavalry, and the artillery will not be used too much."

Before Wu Gan could speak, Hong Chengchou asked first, "Cavalry? Suppression? Is the military government mainly killing people this time or arresting those barbarians?"

Can't help Hong Chengchou not worrying, it's because the history of the Fifth Army Commander's Mansion is a little bit too much - how many times have I said, try to catch as many barbarians as possible, don't just think about killing them!

But the current situation clearly shows that the military mansion didn't want to catch barbarians.

It would be fine to replace it with those pure civilian officials who don't understand military affairs, but Hong Chengchou has led the army after all, and he knows how the cavalry behaves on the battlefield.

It is too much to describe them as barren, but these killers are much more ruthless than artillery.

No matter what happens to the artillery, some fish will slip through the net, and the infantry can still catch them back as coolies. Once the cavalry starts to charge, they are basically going to kill them all!

Zhang Zhiji said in pain: "Then what does Hong Butang say? If artillery and troops are used, let alone the question of whether those barbarians can run or not, the weather over there alone is enough for the army to drink a pot! "

Even though he knew Zhang Zhiji was telling the truth, Hong Chengchou couldn't help but said: "Anyway, please try to catch as many barbarians as possible from the military mansion and bring them back? Killing fewer people will also accumulate more sins, right?"

Zhang Yingxuan also said: "That's right, it would be great if we could catch more barbarians, so why kill more?"

Zhang Zhiji gave Hong Chengchou and Zhang Yingxuan a bitter look.

Don't look at these bad old men who are now benevolently asking for less killing and more evil, in fact these old guys are all bad!

If you don't believe me, just look at how many barbarians died on the various major projects of the Ministry of Railways, the Ministry of Communications, and the Ministry of Industry. Now they are jumping out to pretend to be a Bodhisattva?These scholars are so damn good at telling lies with their eyes open!

Wu Ganlai was thinking about it in his heart.

For those killers in the military mansion, it doesn't really matter whether they kill the barbarians or catch the barbarians.

Don't look at catching a barbarian can have military merit, and you can sell it for five taels of silver by the way, but is the military merit of capturing a prisoner the same as killing an enemy?

Obviously, even if there is a bonus of five taels of silver, the military merit of capturing prisoners is not as good as the military merit of killing the enemy, the two are obviously not the same thing!

In the past few years, it was easier to say that the hands of Qiu Ba were a little nervous after all, and being able to sell five taels of silver to subsidize their families was the choice of many big soldiers, so there were more cases of capturing prisoners.

Now that Ming's treasury is getting richer and its military expenditures are getting higher and higher, these Qiuba people have money in their hands, so naturally they care about military achievements and not money.

That won't work, for Qiu Ba and others, military merit is more cost-effective, but for the household department that spends money, it is more cost-effective to capture prisoners-even if a barbarian captive costs five taels of silver, it is less than the reward for military merit for killing the enemy Some!

After pondering for a while, Wu Ganlai finally opened his mouth and said: "Mr. Ying, the Ministry of Households still buys each barbarian captive at five taels of silver, but can the military mansion revise the calculation method of military merit, and include the military merit of the captives as well?" Mention?

If you don't mention the military merits of capturing prisoners, I'm afraid that the soldiers are too busy killing the enemy to take care of capturing prisoners?By then, won't we still have a headache like now? "

Zhang Zhiji nodded and said: "It's okay to mention it upwards, but this trend cannot be raised. If it becomes a rule in the future, who will concentrate on killing the enemy? I'm afraid they are too busy capturing prisoners."

Seeing that Wu Ganlai still had a sad face, Zhang Zhiji couldn't help but said, "If you want to catch more barbarians and bring them back, is there really no way?"

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