Real estate has driven the entire Luzhou "chicken and land fart". According to Zhang Zijun's idea, building and selling houses is not to make money, but a people's livelihood project. The reason is that the current house construction is done by the Luzhou government, and as a government, it cannot do it

Buying and selling, but the problem is that there is no precedent, Zhang Zijun

It is in the name of doing practical things for the people, providing "resettlement housing" for homeless and houseless residents. This is a political achievement. Part of the profit from the sale of houses is used to build roads and drainage facilities, and the remaining part is used as welfare within the yamen.

.If you do this, you won’t be afraid of the imperial court coming to investigate.

What Zhang Zijun values ​​​​more is the economic growth brought about by housing consumption, including its pulling effect on the upstream and downstream industrial chains. For example, it drives ironware, various building materials, paints, roads, various transportation vehicles, various home decorations, furniture and culture.

The market and other means of production and consumption of daily necessities have increased correspondingly. Think about how much prosperity this has. All of these are due to the lack of understanding of the foundation of urbanization in ancient times. In ancient town construction, they did not pay attention to the cleanliness of streets.

, often when the population is large and the houses are full, you are next to me and I am next to you, naturally forming a street. This kind of spontaneously formed urban street is not planned. It is a good street. Some houses have a corner protruding during construction.

, and then other houses also protruded in and out, becoming uneven and became a winding street, and the houses on both sides of the street were very close to each other, most of them were about three meters apart. If you open the window upstairs, you can interact with the one on the opposite side.

Fang did housework and handed things over.

The streets are paved with bluestone slabs where possible. In fact, a ditch is dug in the middle of the road for sewage discharge purposes and covered with stone slabs to form an underground ditch. Rainwater and domestic sewage all flow into this ditch from the cracks in the stone slabs.

If the road surface is very wide, an open ditch will be opened on both sides of the street. All garbage and domestic sewage will be in the ditch. The stench is unpleasant and mosquitoes and flies are everywhere.

It has been more than half a month since Shang Ren came to Luzhou. What he has seen in these days are all things that can subvert previous concepts. Building a house here has become so simple. In the Ming Dynasty, if ordinary people wanted to build a house, they might

It takes ten years or more to prepare first, even for those who are rich and wealthy

, building a house would take several years to complete at the fastest, but what Shang Ren saw was that in less than a month, on the originally barren land, the road extended forward, and a whole row of houses on the roadside could be completed. Every craftsman

Leading a team of people to do only one thing, which is to build roads with the most labor.

, hundreds of people are responsible for the roadbed. Among these hundreds of people, they are also subdivided into picking soil, shaping it, and crushing it with big stone rollers. These people are just picking soil every day, and then there are people who are only doing leveling and digging drainage ditches, as the road surface

If it is flat, there will be people driving donkeys and carriages from behind to transport the goods in a steady stream.

Gravel blocks were brought to pave the road, and the last team was even stranger. They brought yellow sand, gravel powder, etc., mixed the off-white powder with water in a round barrel, and then poured it into a one-foot-square wooden frame.

The surface is smooth and polished, so that the road surface extends forward piece by piece.

In the center of the Bao River in the east of the city, there is a small island with a White Horse Temple built on it. Zhang Zijun will answer questions for many people here tonight and has prepared a lot of food. The officials who came from Nanjing gave Shi Zhongwei

The family members include Cao Heng, who was seduced by Li Sheng two months ago and came to Luzhou, plus Hu Jing and Shang Ren from the imperial court, and Wu Yun, the general judge of Luzhou.

Among them, Wang Qiaoqiao, Sheng Mi, and two colleagues, Zhu Haoming, Gu Lin and others. Among these people, Hu Jing and Wei Juan came to inspect Luzhou to see if they had done anything against the imperial court. Li Sheng was the governor of Wuweizhou, and Cao Heng was the one who knew Luzhou.

The one who came to Nanjing's Dali Temple to make soy sauce was also Zhang Zijun's best friend. Except for Shang Ren who came here to clear up doubts, the rest were all people with vested interests in Luzhou Prefecture.

First, Hu Jing and Wei Juan asked: "The Luzhou city wall is incomplete and has collapsed seriously. Why is it not repaired and the people's houses are built outside the city? This is not in line with the imperial government's official system."

Zhang Zijun replied: "You two adults don't know something. We don't have money to build the city wall. Building the city wall requires a lot of money. Where will it come from? There will also be a lot of civilian labor. The people are poor enough. If Luzhou prospers again,

If the corvee builds the city wall, the gain outweighs the loss. This is also the purpose of the government not to have corvée during the term of office. Corvee is exploiting the blood and sweat of the people and making the originally poor people worse. The court should also prohibit corvée in the future."

Shang Ren asked: "Zhang Xiaoyou, I think the importance of city walls is still there. Since ancient times, "Xi Zhong made chariots, Cangjie made books, Houji made crops, Gaotao made punishments, Kunwu made pottery, and Xia Gun made the city."

The city wall is to protect the residents of one area from thieves, thieves, bandits, etc. It is also an important measure to ensure the safety of the residents in the city and maintain social order. "Build a city to protect the king, and build a perimeter to protect the people."

Zhang Zijun replied: "The city wall has advantages and disadvantages. The main function of the city wall is external military defense. It is also internal defense. It is just to prevent theft and robbery. But in my opinion, the cost is too high and not cost-effective. In the future, it will be used in the military

With the extensive use of firearms and artillery, the city wall was unable to resist foreign aggression and became a turtle in a urn. In addition, access was blocked, which was not conducive to the development of the city, so it was not repaired."

This is a novel argument. Shang Ren was thinking deeply and was obviously led astray by Zhang Zijun's statement. Zhang Zijun continued: "Do you still remember the cannon I built? You can imagine that if there are hundreds of such cannons,

If you attack the city, what kind of scene will it be in the city? Even the thickest and tallest city wall can't stop the continuous cannons.

Bombardment. It is a pity that the court did not pay attention to the development of firearms at all. If the court established an improved firearms army, it would not be a problem if the Tatars invaded and directly hit their home base. But now, the court is in the Tatar

The repeated disturbances have continued, and the amount of money spent and lost over the years has amounted to tens of millions of taels."

Shang Ren was startled again and asked: "Zhang Xiaoyou, if you lead an army, how will you deal with the Tatar invasion?

Zhang Zijun saluted the Shang Dynasty and replied: "To deal with the Tatars, you don't have to worry about them attacking. They can attack them. On the other hand, the Ming Dynasty can't attack them? There is a saying in the military: "You attack you.

Yes, I will fight mine." Ming Dynasty can form multiple warrior armies, and the number of people does not need to be large. They can attack and defend.

Equipped with all firearms and equipment, they are specially designed to roam around and attack their bases. They can run away when they hit and are not fond of fighting. Here is a sixteen-character motto: "When the enemy advances, we retreat; when the enemy is stationed, we harass; when the enemy is tired, we attack; when the enemy retreats, we pursue

"Instead of going to a face-to-face positional battle, the Tatars have the advantage of mobility, and the Ming Dynasty should proceed step by step and cooperate.

The enemy harassment squad that came forward made the Tatars exhausted. Here some of the Ming Dynasty's firearms need to be improved, such as building more cannons. The cannons should be made lighter so that they can be pulled by a horse, the range accuracy of the muskets should be improved, and dense "

"Three-stage shooting", more importantly, invent some new firearms, such as large

New firearms such as the firing of artillery shells, hand grenades thrown directly by hand, and landmines that can be buried underground. However, the current court is content with the status quo and does not want to make progress. It is very good at fighting in the nest. Those who really do things and want to do things are attacked and cannot be punished.

Well, slowly step into the footsteps of the Southern Song Dynasty."

In the conversation between the two big guys, Zhang Zijun's remarks can be described as "treasonous". Everyone was frightened when they heard it, but if they think about it carefully, they make sense. Although there are many words in it that they don't understand, which makes them embarrassed.

If you ask carefully, it seems that your level is low.

Shang Ren sighed: "Since Tianshun, Tatars have continuously invaded the border. The court has been struggling to survive. The annual border defense silver tael has been continuously increased. In addition, civil strife has caused constant natural disasters, and our court is in danger."

Zhang Zijun replied: "In order to be strong militarily, the first step is to make the country strong, improve the living conditions of the people, and at least have enough to eat. The promotion of "high-yielding grains" is the best way to strengthen the country. The development of trade can improve

The income of the common people, collecting commercial taxes can increase the tax revenue of the court. Don’t focus only on the income of the court.

In terms of agricultural taxes, there is too much resistance to land reform and the gains outweigh the losses. Therefore, we need to develop another way to increase the income of landless farmers instead of blindly exploiting land. Abolish some local miscellaneous taxes and encourage people to diversify their businesses.

The world must be connected. Here is another six-character motto: "If you want to be rich, build roads first."

What Zhang Zijun said tonight is to let Hu Jing and Wei Juan pass these words to the North and South Zhili. Hasn’t the prosperity of Luzhou already been seen? If it is extended to the whole country, what kind of explosion will it look like? The labor force will basically

If it is not enough, what else is there to make trouble? Later, Zhang Zijun also moved his "crow's mouth" about the evaluation of officials and said: "The evaluation, appointment and removal of local officials at all levels must first look at the quality of life of the local people.

Whether it is stable, whether it has enough food to eat, whether it has a house to live in, whether it is possible to build a road for passing cars to neighboring counties. If these are not up to standard, then give it up, but you can't occupy the manhole and not shit. The court should let it go

Farmers get rich

The road to Kang is getting wider and wider, and it is better to open it up than to block it. Take a look at the current refugee uprising in Jingxiang. Isn’t it because of the fierce land annexation and heavy taxes and servitude, coupled with the continuous famine for years, the number of refugees is increasing. Huguang Jingxiang area

It is an important area where refugees live. But the imperial court did not agree with the approach. The imperial court was afraid that the refugees would gather in crowds to cause trouble, so it sent heavy troops to destroy the area and tried to ban the refugees from entering, but it could not control the influx of refugees.

By the beginning of Chenghua, more than 1.5 million people had entered the mountains to reclaim wasteland and mine. The imperial court still ordered them to be dispersed many times. The refugees were desperate. In March of the first year of Chenghua, Liu Tong, Shi Long, and Feng Zilong

take the lead

Dashichang of Fang County raised a yellow flag to rebel, occupied Meixi Temple, and named Han Wu. The country was named Han, and the reign was named Desheng. He appointed generals, marshals, and other positions, supported hundreds of thousands of people, divided his troops to attack Xiang, Deng, and Hanzhong, and won a great victory.

Victory. The imperial court at that time

They were so shocked that they sent more than 500,000 people to encircle and suppress them. A large number of refugees were massacred, and the dead slept in the valley where they lived. So what, the refugees in Jingxiang subsequently rose and fell, going back and forth, but it was the common people who suffered.

I don’t even understand why the number of refugees is increasing. They just keep killing people. The people who can be killed are all the people of our country. This is a typical government-forced people’s rebellion. Why not ignore it. Is there anything wrong with refugees going to the mountains to cultivate wasteland, grow food, and start mining operations?

The imperial court can also increase taxes. As long as they don't rebel, they are good people.

Therefore, local officials have selfish motives. As long as the court gives them a way out of these areas, as long as they control it administratively, no matter how hard it is, the Ming Dynasty will still be the country. Even if the court does not get a penny of tax revenue from these areas, as far as I know, from then on

From the Tianshun period to the present, the refugees in Jingxiang have rebelled.

When rebellions resumed, the imperial court mobilized financial and material resources to suppress them, spending no less than a million dollars. Later, there were uprisings by ethnic minorities in Shanduzhang, Sichuan, and uprisings by the Yao and Zhuang people in Dateng Gorge. We should not blindly treat these places that do not want to be enlightened.

Seeking success requires time and management. The more severe the suppression, the more

The resistance became more intense. Over the years, the imperial court invested in these places not the livelihood of the people, but the military brutality. They only increased the imperial expenses by killing people, and all the money was wasted. In the end, they were unable to suppress it. It went back and forth like this.
Chapter completed!