"You can get brands anywhere in the Ming Dynasty." Xing'an thought for a while and answered His Majesty's question.

There are brands all over the Ming Dynasty. As long as you are willing to do something, you will have your own light and enthusiasm, and your Majesty will see the results you make.

I'm afraid of not doing it, and even more afraid of doing something wrong.

After Lu Zhong reported it, he walked in and said helplessly: "Your Majesty, according to the previous confession of the Sichuan censor Jia Jie, he did accept bribes, so his attitude changed three times."

Li Sui found someone to report the situation and found Jia Jie, the seventh-grade Sichuan censor. Jia Jie just declined at first, but his attitude changed after receiving the benefits.

Jia Jie originally planned to wait until after the imperial examination to talk to Li Sui in person.

By that time, everyone will be Jinshi and bureaucrats, and they will have a stand. It will be best if they sit down and talk about the difficulties. In the end, it would be best if they can convince Li Sui.

But Jia Jie violated His Majesty's taboo and blocked the way to speak.

What the Metropolitan Procuratorate does is gossip, and their great prestige is all because the court needs them. But they actually deceived the superiors and deceived the subordinates. Then Zhu Qiyu cannot be blamed for being rude.

Lu Zhong bowed his head and said: "According to Jia Jie's explanation, I investigated three people and found that they all accepted bribes. Jia Jie received three hundred taels of silver, and the other two received one hundred taels each."

"According to Article 95 of the Constitution, the crime will be increased to the third level and he should be sent to Shijingchang for ten years of hard labor."

Zhu Qiyu took Lu Zhong's memorial and asked, "What did the Sanfa Si say?"

Lu Zhong replied: "Dali Temple, the Ministry of Punishment and the Three Legal Divisions of the Metropolitan Procuratorate unanimously decided that these three people involved in the case for more than 100 taels but less than 500 taels will be sentenced to three years. If the crime is increased to third level, the sentence will naturally be ten years."

It's no joke to be punished by being an official.

This itself is a case that the emperor is personally concerned about. Recently, the officials have been arresting corruption with such intensity.

Isn’t three hundred taels greedy?

Zhu Qiyu looked at it for a long time and said with confusion: "Are you so stingy?"

"There are a total of 700,000 households in Sichuan, and each household has one qian and 8,000 taels of silver. The total is 120,000 taels of silver. This does not include the children they concealed. They only use 500 taels of silver to settle the matter. Doesn't it look down on Beijing too much?

Official?"

Lu Zhong bowed his head and said: "What they want to do is Li Sui's case, not the case of vindicating the Sichuan leader, so naturally they only gave five hundred taels."

"Money is not easy to use in the first case."

Zhu Qiyu understood clearly that the five hundred taels were arranged by Li Sui.

This is a big case, and it definitely can’t be kept secret.

Li Sui all overflowed from Sichuan and went to the capital to complain.

The tax collection team from Zhenxiong Prefecture went to Zunyi Prefecture to fight against the autumn wind. The Huanglong Civil Rebellion had already occurred and could not be suppressed. They only hoped to slow down the situation.

But there is no relief for a moment.

Zhu Qiyu chatted with Lu Zhong again about the progress of the Sichuan head-hunting case concerning the abnormal female household. The seven elders of the abnormal female household have been escorted to Beijing, and the investigation has begun.

Lu Zhong hesitated and said: "Nanya sent three human pigs. Their life was cut off on the road. They were escorted to Beijing in ice coffins. I went to see them. They didn't eat for three days. It's so miserable."

"I call myself a cruel official, but I have never behaved like them."

When Ji Gang killed Jie Jin, he didn't torture him into that state.

There are seven important criminals in the case of the abnormal female household, who are to be sent to the prison. There are nearly a thousand prisoners who need to be beheaded, nearly 10,000 people are involved in hard labor, and nearly 50,000 people are exiled.

The destination for the exile of these 50,000 people has been found, and it is Jilong Island.

In the case of the abnormal female household, more than twenty witnesses were also brought to the capital. These three people were the ironclad evidence of their crimes.

Lu Zhong was not nauseated, but couldn't eat.

Everyone said that His Majesty was cruel, but His Majesty was always cautious towards Ling Chi. In his eyes, there were many people who deserved to be sent to Jieguan, but in the end they were just beheaded.

But this group of elders were thousands of times more ruthless than His Majesty. Some women who had no strength to restrain themselves had their hands and feet cut off just because of a few words, and their eyes were gouged out and poured with copper.

of ferocity?

Killing someone is just a nod to the ground.

No wonder His Majesty wants the Beijing troops to go there, this is indeed a heavy blow.

In addition to sending prisoners with zero female households to Beijing, Nanzhen Fusi Yamen also sent more than 300 corrupt officials, most of whom were sent to Shijing Factory, Shengzhou Factory, Liuzhi Factory and other places to do hard labor.

, most of them start within ten years.

The corruption amounted to a huge amount and he was about to be beheaded. One of the more outrageous cases was that the magistrate of Changzhou County had been corrupted for a hundred thousand gold and silver for three years.

As a county magistrate, he had embezzled one hundred thousand taels, and he was also on the list of executioners, waiting for His Majesty Zhu's approval.

Corrupt officials also need to be investigated and punished three times. The death penalty will be punished three times. It will take about August to be beheaded, which happens to be autumn.

After Lu Zhong reported it, he left Juxian Pavilion.

Zhu Qiyu continued to process the official documents on the slips, as he did every day.

Under the auspices of the Ministry of Industry, the capital began to harden the ground of Guandaoyi Road. It was a small trial. It first repaired the coal road from Shijing Factory to Beijing, and then repaired the road from Deshengmen to the Tomb of the Ming Emperor.

These two roads are the first phase of the project and are experimental in nature. Once successful, they will be paved over a large area.

If social cognition wants to become a science, the first resistance is the distortion of the exploitative class. Specifically, it is the values ​​​​similar to eccentricity and skill. The same is true for the group of people who still chatter about Taiyuan Hospital today.

The second resistance is that due to the small scale of production, it limits the development of productivity, which also limits the transformation of social cognition into science.

Zhu Qiyu came to the Wenhua Hall and prepared to hold a court meeting. Today's court meeting was about one thing - spectacle.

Lin Xiu, the eunuch of the inner transport warehouse and the eunuch of Ji Province, said: "Your Majesty, I have calculated that Shuntian Prefecture alone needs more than three thousand miles of road hardening."

"If you include the Kowloon Post Road, there will initially be a need for road hardening of 60,000 miles."

"If you want to be completely connected in all directions, it will take about 300,000 miles and more than 30 years. Calculated at 500 silver coins per mile, this is about 150 million silver coins."

Jin Lian's face immediately turned ugly, and he frowned and said: "150 million silver coins? This is too much, Lin Daxuan, does it cost 500 silver coins to build one mile?"

Lin Xiu pushed over a ledger and said: "This is the number converted from materials, work materials, and freight. It is just a constraint. In actual calculation, it is only a lot more."

In the first year of Zhengtong, after converting part of the official tax, the annual silver tax of the Ming Dynasty was about 1.3 million taels of silver. After converting all the official taxes, the annual tax of the Ming Dynasty was only 15 million grain and silver coins.

However, the Ming Dynasty's finances were negative. They were losing money every year. They could not make ends meet and had no balance at all. It was only after His Majesty ascended the throne that the court began to have no deficit.

Have you only been rich for a few days? Are you going to be stretched thin again?

This Shijing Factory made cement to harden the road surface, and it actually cost 500 silver coins for one mile!

This half step (about one meter) requires as much as one silver coin?

Aren’t they all just rocks?

Lin Xiu continued: "If you encounter hillsides, rivers, cliffs, etc., you will have to pay more."

Jin Lian felt like he couldn't breathe anymore.

If he asked for more money before he even started, wouldn't this cost him, the Minister of Household Affairs, his life?

Even if he sells Jin Lian, it's not worth 150 million silver coins!

Jin Lian bowed his head and said: "Your Majesty, you have to plan it slowly. Thirty thousand miles in thirty years is really too much."

Road construction is a necessary condition for improving productivity. If goods are not communicated well, what about improving productivity? What about large-scale production? What about the Ming Dynasty's social awareness of the budding science?

"I know it's expensive, but there are many benefits, and the return cannot be measured by 150 million silver coins." Zhu Qiyu said to Jin Lian.

Zhu Qiyuyan does not need to explain the economic laws in this too clearly. Jin Lian knows it very well. He is just afraid of spending money.

As every country enters the process of increasing productivity, there is a process of infrastructure construction, and the degree of infrastructure construction is closely related to the six-star national rank proposed by Li Binyan.

For example, when the United States was plunged into an economic crisis that led to a world war, it chose to use infrastructure construction, building roads, railways, dams, etc., to tide over the difficulties.

For example, when Xu Youzhen faced the newly opened land of the Hetao, he used infrastructure construction and the Jingtai Anmin Canal to create a big cake for the people who were in chaos at the time. The key is that the people of the Hetao actually ate the cake.

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There are many advantages to doing this, the only disadvantage is that it costs money.

Zhu Qiyu said with great conviction: "A huge investment will bring huge returns. We have invested 150 million silver coins in thirty years, and the benefits are numerous."

"First of all, the official factory can be maintained in stable operation, and there will be more opportunities for trial and error in exploring the system and process."

"Secondly, most of this money goes into people's pockets."

"The craftsmen who dig burnt stones, the cart drivers who transport the stones, the craftsmen who calcine water lime, and the workers who dig the road, they have received labor remuneration, and they need to exchange it for retained capital and current capital, or even invest in fixed capital."

"Then more people will need to produce more liquid assets, which will inevitably lead to an increase in fixed assets."

"During the entire construction process, our craftsmen naturally want to improve production efficiency. Whether it is through machinery or training people, Daming will benefit a lot."

"So we need to do this. Although it seems that it is really expensive, it makes more money!"

Zhu Qiyu tried to persuade the money-hungry Jin Lian to accept this spectacle plan. The 300,000-mile highway plan is indeed a bit appalling, but what if the timeline is extended to thirty or fifty years?

But Jin Lian still shook his head and said: "Your Majesty said a lot of good things. It is indeed so good, but it can't change its high price. How can the imperial court have so much money? To invest hundreds of millions in this, it will cost more than 100 million."

What about the big project of silver coins?”

"This will bring the Ming Dynasty to pieces, Your Majesty!"

"The former Yuan Dynasty mobilized the people to build the Yellow River, causing trouble for the people and making them miserable, and finally they revolted, right before their eyes."

Zhu Qiyu had no choice but to build a road by himself and become the king of subjugation.
To be continued...