Chapter 393: If the efficiency is low, lets invite tenders.
"Liu Shenhong, please arrange for the students to settle down first."
Although these people have graduated, in Zhu Han's eyes, these people will always be his students.
Sometimes he even feels it.
These kids are still the same frizzy boys they used to be.
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
Liu Shenhong went down to arrange the students.
Zhu Han ignored the fatigue of the journey, took a few guards with him, and went straight to Yanjing City.
The reason why this journey is so slow is that besides training these students, it also has another purpose.
Before they arrived in Yanjing, he wanted to find out the situation in Yanjing first.
There is something after all.
If he were to see it as a prince, he would never be able to see it.
Li Shanchang is temporarily stationed in Yingtian Mansion to carry out preliminary coordination work. Liu Ji is now mainly in charge of Yanjing.
He definitely has the ability, but Liu Ji is only one person after all. He can control himself, but he may not be able to check and balance the civil servant group in Yanjing.
He was actually very dissatisfied with the results Jin Yiwei reported to Zhu Han.
He would not believe Jin Yiwei's words. Now, Zhu Han wanted to see for himself whether what Jin Yiwei reported was true or false.
As soon as he entered Yanjing, Zhu Han frowned.
Regarding the construction of Yanjing, both Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Han had a very grand plan.
According to their idea, the entire Yanjing should be demolished and rebuilt.
Originally, almost the entire Yanjing City would become a huge construction site.
But now...
The city of Yanjing is certainly bustling and lively, with pedestrians and horses on the streets, and many small vendors can be seen along the streets.
But Zhu Han could not see the slightest hope on the faces of these people.
These people gave him the feeling that they were ordinary people who lived numbly under the rule of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty before he led his eldest brother to rebel.
In recent years, Ming Dynasty has been expanding rapidly.
Although the life of the people is getting better and better, it is undeniable that because the territory is too vast, some places will inevitably not be taken care of.
It's not that Zhu Han can't understand this. No matter what you do, you have to do it step by step.
But when this happens in Yanjing, it is more serious.
Now the entire imperial court is supporting the construction of Yanjing, and a lot of money and countless materials are being sent to Yanjing.
Many projects are being prepared to start.
The jobs these projects can bring can feed at least one million people.
For ordinary people, the current Yanjing City should be a golden city full of opportunities and money can be made everywhere.
It will never be like this, a pool of stagnant water.
Zhu Han randomly picked a stall and picked up a porcelain vase with rough workmanship: "How much does this porcelain vase cost?"
Although it was a private visit incognito, the way Zhu Han was dressed made it look like he was not an ordinary person.
The hawker's eyes shone and he immediately started selling hard: "This gentleman, you can see that he has a discerning eye. The porcelain here is of the highest quality from Jingdezhen."
Zhu Han couldn't laugh or cry when he heard this. If the porcelain vase in his hand really came from Jingdezhen, their brand would be smashed.
"Just tell me how much it is."
"Five..." the vendor said while observing Zhu Han's expression. Seeing him raise an eyebrow, he immediately changed his words and said: "Four hundred and ten cents, what do you think? This price is definitely a discount."
"Okay." Zhu Han couldn't help laughing.
At this price, let alone Jingdezhen porcelain, you can't even buy the fragments of Jingdezhen porcelain.
While the boss was looking for boxes to pack the porcelain bottles, Zhu Han pretended to be shopping for other products, chatting with the vendors about everything.
"What's your last name, boss?"
"Don't dare to take it seriously. If you laugh, your surname is Zhao."
"It turns out to be Boss Zhao, you are so distinguished this year."
"The little one is already forty-six."
"I would like to ask, how much does a stall like yours earn per month?"
When this was mentioned, the vendor let out a long sigh: "I'm not going to hide it from you, I can barely make ends meet this year."
"Master, don't believe me. Just tell me about these goods. The price of purchasing goods from Dehua County..."
The vendor suddenly realized that he had spilled the beans and hurriedly covered his mouth.
Zhu Han laughed: "It doesn't matter, boss, just go on and treat it as if I paid for your information."
Seeing this noble gentleman, he seemed to have no intention of pursuing the case, and the stall owner was completely relaxed: "When I bring these porcelains back, I first have to pay the city tax, then the commercial tax, and when I set up a stall here, I have to pay the local tax. In short,
, almost half of the income is subject to tax."
"This is because after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, a lot of exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes were reduced. If it were the time of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty, ordinary people like us would not even think about being able to do business to support ourselves."
Zhu Han pretended to be surprised and said: "It was indeed difficult in the past, but boss, you will definitely make a fortune in the future. Isn't the current emperor already planning to move the capital to Yanjing?"
"I heard that not only the palace, but also many places will be demolished and rebuilt. By that time, the court will definitely have to hire a lot of people. With more people, your business will be easier to run."
"That's what I said." The hawker disagreed with Zhu Han's words: "Those national events have nothing to do with us little people."
"In the past month, there have been a lot more people in Yanjing. But the business..." With a sigh, the vendor handed the wrapped porcelain bottle to Zhu Han: "Sir, please put it away. Is there anything else you like?"
"
Zhu Han went shopping and bought some things.
At the same time, he also put the news he wanted in the mouths of these small vendors, which was almost in the lobby.
Overall, the situation is quite different from what Jin Yiwei reported.
After that, he went to several projects that had already started construction and took a look. In order not to alert others, Zhu Han only took a few glances from a distance.
Even from a long distance, he could clearly see that those workers were just working hard.
For example, moving cement.
One of the workers took the cement off the carriage, put it on the ground, and then stood here waiting.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! There are two people here, one of them helps to put the cement on the shoulders of the other person, and then slowly walks to the door of the house being built and puts it down, and another person comes out,
Carrying cement into the house.
If this was an assembly line operation, Zhu Han wouldn't say anything.
The key thing is that in this whole process, as long as one person is moving, the rest will stop. Four people can only do the work of one person at most.
No!
Even if it is one person, the efficiency is higher than the four of them.
If all projects had this efficiency, it would probably take a hundred years and the capital city of Yanjing would not be able to be built well.
"What on earth is this guy Liu Ji doing!"
Zhu Han was really angry now. In order to support the construction of Yanjing, the imperial court spent almost half of his family fortune.
As a result, this is how these bastards work for the imperial court?
At this moment, Zhu Han suddenly understood his eldest brother a little bit.
Now he wants to be like Zhu Yuanzhang and kill all the officials responsible for these projects.
but……
Most of Zhu Han's anger dissipated when he saw Liu Ji.
How many days have we not seen each other?
Liu Ji seemed to be a completely different person.
His eye sockets were sunken, with thick dark circles, and he was completely thin and out of shape. Even an acquaintance might not be able to recognize him if they didn't look carefully.
"Your Majesty, Liu Ji, has met His Royal Highness."
Looking at Liu Ji, who seemed to have aged more than ten years, Zhu Han couldn't bear it and said in a stiff tone: "Get up."
When Liu Ji stood up, Zhu Han asked with a stern face: "Tell me, what is going on? Why is the construction progress in Yanjing so slow?"
Liu Ji lowered his head: "When I return to His Royal Highness, my lower official's ability is limited. I didn't expect that the construction of Yanjing would be so complicated."
"Since arriving in Yanjing, Xiaguan goes to bed at three o'clock every day and gets up early to deal with official duties at five o'clock every day. However, the construction progress in Yanjing is still slow."
"The lower officials are incompetent, please ask the prince to punish you."
"You really disappoint me." Zhu Han hated the fact that iron cannot become steel.
Liu Ji was indeed very attentive to the construction of Yanjing.
According to Jin Yiwei's report, he said that he went to bed at three o'clock and woke up at five o'clock, which was a modest statement. Many times, Liu Ji went to bed at about a quarter before four o'clock and got up before three o'clock every day.
He has been sleeping only two hours a day for more than half a month.
If Zhu Han and the others were to delay on the road for another half month, by the time they arrived in Yanjing, Liu Ji might be able to lose weight and only have about ten pounds left.
The reason why it became like this was actually Liu Ji's fault.
After all, people like Liu Ji were from traditional scholar-bureaucrat backgrounds. Although they were also loyal to the Ming Dynasty.
But he also valued his status as a scholar-official.
So most of the time, they still do things in the way of scholar-bureaucrats.
Take for example the construction of Yanjing City this time.
First, the Ministry of Finance allocates funds, and the Ministry of Works then uses the money to hire civilian laborers.
Although after the arrival of the railway, it was no longer difficult to hire civilian laborers to work in other places. However, in order to save money, of course they still preferred to hire civilian laborers locally.
And this also gives local bureaucrats the opportunity to take action.
Even though Zhu Yuanzhang never showed mercy when killing corrupt officials, once the benefits reached a certain level, someone would always take risks.
When money passes through a yamen, it is stripped of its skin. After changing hands several times, it would be great if only one-tenth of the money saved could go into the hands of civilian craftsmen.
In this case, if the efficiency of the craftsmen can increase quickly, then it is called ghost.
Craftsmen don't get much money, so they naturally don't spend money locally.
Without consuming the willing population, instead of bringing vitality to Yanjing, it will become a burden to Yanjing.
"Liu Ji, please listen to me."
"Please give me your instructions, Your Majesty." Liu Ji quickly perked up his ears.
Liu Ji had seen Zhu Han like this several times. Every time, Zhu Han's plan brought about earth-shaking changes in the entire Ming Dynasty.
"From now on, all funding for Suncheon will be suspended!"
Zhu Han's first words made Liu Jiru struck by lightning.
"My lord, you must not do this! In order to build Yanjing, the second batch of craftsmen hired by the Ministry of Industry will arrive soon. If we stop funding now and let them go back the same way, it might cause a civil uprising!"
Zhu Han glared at Liu Ji fiercely: "Whose fault do you think this is?"
"All the civilian laborers recruited will be given one month's salary in return. At the same time, they will be told to just wait patiently. Someone will continue to hire them for work within half a month at most."
After thinking for a while, he added: "Just tell the craftsmen and the people, this is what the king said personally."
The reputation of the King of England among the people is not generally high.
It's even taboo to say something.
There may be people in the Ming Dynasty who don't know Zhu Yuanzhang's name, but there is absolutely no one who doesn't know the name of the King of England.
Everything Zhu Han created had an extremely far-reaching impact on the world.
"I understand." Liu Ji breathed a sigh of relief and then asked, "My lord, what are the materials allocated by the imperial court."
"Put these things away for now, I have other uses for them."
"Let me tell you the second thing. Except for the imperial palace, all other projects are subject to bidding by Ming merchants within the Chinese territory."
"Tendering? What is this?" Liu Ji looked at Zhu Han confused.
It is obviously a word consisting of only two characters. If you take it apart, you can recognize each character, but when you put them together, you can't understand it at all.
"We announce to the world every project that needs to be built, the size of its use, the time it needs to be completed, etc."
"Let competent people bid and transfer the project to the one with the lowest bid."
"As for how they build it, we don't care at all, as long as they can deliver the work on time and complete our acceptance." Zhu Han explained patiently.
After all, Liu Ji was also a talented prime minister and assistant, so he immediately understood what Zhu Han meant.
"Your Majesty, this idea is really wonderful. In this way, we only need to keep an eye on those businessmen. As for how to recruit civilian workers and how to arrange the construction period, we can let the businessmen solve it by themselves, without the court having to worry about it.
"
After the initial excitement, Liu Ji said distressedly: "But Your Majesty, there is a problem with this. Even if we give the requirements, how can we guarantee that the merchants and craftsmen can build it in full accordance with our standards?"
Since Zhu Han proposed this method, he was naturally prepared: "Of course we can't just let them do it on their own. We need to send people to keep an eye on them during the construction process."
"Once any problem occurs, correct it immediately to avoid greater losses."
"But Your Majesty, we also can't find so many craftsmen who can supervise the construction work of the merchants."
Zhu Han laughed: "I will solve this problem for you."
He brought so many students from Shuntian Mansion.
These people have always received new education.
Although they are not as good as those experienced craftsmen, they can all understand the drawings.
It's a bit embarrassing to ask them to build according to the drawings directly. But there is absolutely no problem in finding faults according to the construction drawings.
This may be a good opportunity for them to practice before they can truly do things independently.