To be honest, although Zhu Dadian's words were not correct, they were not completely unreasonable.

Unfortunately, Chongzhen's temper is a typical example of first working behind closed doors to develop a set of principles of governing the country, and then announcing that "principles are above everything else, and it is not allowed to seek truth from facts based on actual conditions"—

If it is absolutely necessary, some ministers are willing to take the blame for "destroying the principles" and then behead the blood sacrifice. In this way, the emperor always adheres to the principles, and some treacherous people deceive their superiors and hide their subordinates and adapt to the situation.

Moreover, the level of this minister cannot be low. If you don’t borrow a head of the cabinet-level official, you still want to rely on the "forever correct" His Majesty Chongzhen to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to

As expected, after hearing Zhu Dadian's words, Chongzhen was immediately furious.

"Random! Zhu Dadian! The Ministry of Revenue formulated a strategy, so naturally it was frugal to save expenses first! Now, in order to train troops and suppress the thieves and drive away Jiannu, it has added nearly 8 million taels of training salary. If the number Chen Qing said just now can be realized, the savings will be half of the money!

In your eyes, the lives of those grain workers are fate, and those people in the world who are forced to be at a loss by the training of wages are not fate! If people are in trouble, they should find another way to find a way out instead of letting redundant personnel lie on the court to suck blood!"

To be honest, Chongzhen still doesn't think that there was anything wrong with his abolition of the post station or strict military discipline.

We cannot deny the reduction of redundant staff just because the people who are in financial services are reduced and Li Zicheng is released. We cannot deny the implementation of military discipline just because Zhang Xianzhong, who is being beaten by military sticks, is willing to deny the implementation of military discipline just because he is grudged.

Zhu Dadian was also in a hurry just now. Now when he heard the emperor say this, he was also very distressed and knew that he had said the wrong thing. He asked himself that it was not for the money of the whole family, but for the people who were supported by finances.

His mind was moving rapidly, and finally realized that he had to admit defeat at this moment - if the emperor killed him, he could prevent the transformation of the canal transportation from the sea, and he could still be famous in history and be recognized by historical books as a righteous minister.

The key is that if Chongzhen killed him now, he would definitely continue to force the canal transportation to change the sea, so he would die in vain and even a name would be left in history.

He knelt down and kowtowed and apologized: "I made a mistake for a moment. Please forgive me. But what I said is for the sake of the country. Your Majesty insists on forcing the transformation of the canal transportation into the sea. At least, please ask Chen Tingyang to come up with a strategy to resettle the redundant canal residents!

If he can't take it out, it means killing or burying your Majesty, and it will be unkind! Your Majesty insists on punishing the ministers severely, and I have nothing to say. As long as your Majesty also severely punishes such thieves who trap the king, I will die without regrets!"

Zhu Dadian has been tied to the interests of the canal transportation throughout his life. At the moment, he is also full of passion. He feels that as long as he kills Chen Tingyang, a traitor who violates the laws of his ancestors, he will do it even if he lives for one life.

Anyway, I am sixty years old, and it’s not long before I can live. The other party is just forty, so it won’t be a loss if he changes! It’s best if both of them die, the benefits of the family and the entire interest group can continue, and the old national laws can be stabilized. That’s no big deal!

The annual wealth of millions of taels of silver is to make people so crazy that they can be willing to bet on their own.

Chongzhen was stunned when he heard this. He did not expect that Zhu Dadian suddenly became so sincere and made such a big concession. He even refused to retreat to advance until he was not afraid of death. He seemed to be a loyal minister.

Chongzhen was inevitably shaken, feeling that he could not control the killing and burying. Even if he wanted to implement reforms, he had to make more preparations for the backup.

He was silent for a long time and turned to Chen Tingyang:

"Chen Qing, you have heard Zhu Dadian's words, and it is indeed reasonable. Even if some things are right, you must think carefully before doing them. If you insist on changing the canal transportation to sea, how many canal residents will be unemployed and how to resettle them? Have you ever thought about it?"

Chen Tingyang had been watching Zhu Dadian and Chongzhen's performances just now. Seeing that the problem was gradually moving towards the direction his son had practiced with him before, he was nervous and looking forward to it.

Fortunately, he was compassionate and his son thought about it carefully, so he had prepared for this issue in advance!

Chen Tingyang immediately cheered up: "Your Majesty, I have calculated that the transformation of the grain transport into the sea will have an impact on the livelihood of many people. Now the total cost of grain transport in the court is more than one tael of five cents per stone, less than two taels. Calculated based on the amount of four million stones, after the transformation of the sea transport, you can save three to four million taels, which is equivalent to half of the salary training.

There are now about hundreds of thousands of civilians in the country who rely on the canal transportation. The garrison guards have seven battalions and guards, each battalion and guard, with a total of 3,500 soldiers and a total of 24,000 soldiers being responsible for patrolling the canal. However, as far as I know, many of them have empty salaries, and some battalions have less than 2,000!

In addition to civilians and patrol soldiers, there are also guards, involving more than 30 guards and counties along the river. The total number of troops transported is more than 100,000, but in fact, there are many free wages.

After the canal transportation was changed to the sea, I roughly estimated that since it could save 40% of the cost, the money and grain consumed by each person was equal, and roughly estimated that the redundant staff was roughly 40% of the squeezed out. It was mainly concentrated in Linqing, Shandong and Huai'an, southern Zhili.

The total number is about 11,000 patrol soldiers, 60,000 soldiers transported by the garrison station, and more than 500,000 civilians. Among these people, patrol soldiers and garrison station transported by the garrison station, they rely on the government funds all year round to support the government. 500,000 people will have other livelihoods to subsidize their household income in the free season, and the busy season will be used by the court. Therefore, these 600,000 people can only make a living by three or four million taels of silver.”

Chen Tingyang analyzed the money he could save and the number of people he wanted to resettle in one breath. Although he had not mentioned the specific solution, at least the problem was investigated very clearly.

With the prices at the end of the Ming Dynasty, if 600,000 people were full-time full-time to serve the canal transportation, of course, three or four million taels would not be enough.

That means that everyone only costs five cents of silver per month. These people still have to support the elderly, weak, women and children. Five cents of silver are not enough for the whole family to eat.

In addition, Chen Tingyang's words also defined the geographical scope of the problems to be solved very clearly - mainly Linqing and Huai'an, and other places will not affect them.

Chongzhen did not understand the principle of this at the beginning, and then asked again. Chen Tingyang made an in-depth analysis and made it clear: the other two major places of gatherings of canal residents, Tongzhou and Yangzhou, can be easily digested.

As the last grain harvest, Tongzhou has the least impact. Even if the dock loading and unloading facilities are upgraded and the production efficiency is improved, the extra people can move to Tianjin Wei. The relocation distance is not far and the cost is not high.

After the sea change, the labor force needed in Tianjin increased, just to make up for the gap in Tongzhou people.

The situation in Yangzhou is slightly more complicated than that in Tongzhou, but it can also be solved. The Jiangnan region will also create a new labor gap due to the transformation of canal transportation, and the arrangement will be made clear.

After understanding these points, Chongzhen was in a clear mood: Chen Aiqing was still very cautious in thinking about things! This is not very clear about the long-term consequences he might have caused, and at least half of them have been solved!

Seeing the emperor happy, Chen Tingyang hurriedly continued to strike while the iron was hot and analyzed: "Your Majesty, let alone the 600,000 people in Linqing and Huai'an are not something that needs to be solved at once. Now my husband's fleet is insufficient, and other maritime merchants can use it for the court, so it also takes time to schedule and rectify.

The transformation of canal transportation into the sea will only involve 20% of the total transportation capacity this year, and the remaining 80% will still have to go through the canal. If everything goes well, it can increase by 20% every year, so it will take five years to complete the reform step by step.

The money that could save for the court in these five years increased by 800,000 taels per year, and only reached 4 million taels after five years. The redundant staff needed to be arranged was only 110,000 to 20,000 a year, and only after five years were all squeezed out the 600,000 people.

After careful calculation, it is enough to arrange more than 50,000 laborers in Linqing and Huai'an every year. If it is inconvenient to find a way out in the local area, some people can be immigrated."

Chen Tingyang's accounts were very detailed. Chongzhen was already willing to hear this.

Moreover, when Chen Tingyang was planning, Chen Shuren obviously did not tell him the foresight of history, so Chen Tingyang calculated according to the progress of "completely completing the reform in five years". He did not know that Chongzhen would die in less than four years.

But no matter what, even if the reform cannot be completely completed, it will be a good thing to save 800,000 to 3 million taels each year in the next four years.

Save money to train more soldiers and reduce the burden on the people. Even if the emperor dies, he has to do this.

Chongzhen became more and more excited as he thought about it. He couldn't help but ask questions and think about the details: "Chen Qing, what else? Tell me quickly, in Linqing, Huai'an, how to place 50,000 laborers every year, have you ever thought about it?"

Chen Tingyang glanced at his son who was a clerk next to him and said with confidence: "I have imagined some ways. First of all, the soldiers patrolling the canal can be directly converted to local areas to suppress the bandits. Now Yang Ge Lao is fighting in various provinces of the Central Plains, and there is no force in the military. These people can fight after strict training and restraint.

The garrison transports troops to the south and Tianjin to be responsible for port construction. Although it also costs money, after spending this money, it can actually leave a better dock and machinery. Unlike the grain transport every year, there is nothing left after the transportation.

The last ordinary seasonal canal residents can move most of the people away, and the remaining small number of people farm and relocated land can also be solved by some of the rented land that the migrants have left. They are originally a slack farmer to help subsidize their household income. As long as there are few people and more land, they can only have a few acres of land.

The part that was moved is also the largest number of people, and each mansion should not exceed 30,000 to 40,000 people per year. In recent years, I have worked with the dog son and some enlightened gentry in Jiangnan to deal with the famine and come up with some ways to make the existing land and mulberry garden more intensively cultivate, absorb more labor, and have a higher total output. It should be able to absorb 60,000 to 70,000 people per year."

As he said that, Chen Tingyang took out some drawings prepared in advance and explained to Chongzhen the method of "building mulberry-based fish ponds in prefectures with developed sericulture industry."

In places where mulberry and silkworms were originally only allowed to grow, add some excavation work for land preparation, especially using natural resources in areas with more swamp wetlands, pile up and dig deep, which can increase the yield of fields and produce more fish. Even if feed is not added, a mu of fish pond can naturally produce dozens to hundreds of kilograms of fish a year.

Historically, the appearance of mulberry fish ponds in the late Qing Dynasty and modern times was not first established in Suzhou, but in Guangdong. However, Chen Shuren has now opened some technical bans in advance, allowing higher yields per unit area and absorb more labor. It is no problem to start with Suzhou first.
Chapter completed!