Chapter 714 Establish a new Daming Breeding Company with retired soldiers as the mainstay!
It was not an easy task to organize more than 10,000 scholars to be exiled to the northwest frontier. After moving north from Nanjing, when they arrived in Zhengzhou, they did not have the convenience of canals and railways. In order to make them remember a little longer, Zhu Youjian also ordered people along the route to
The government should not arrange carriages for people to ride in, but only vehicles for transporting people to pay homage.
It is not an easy task for a group of pampered scholars who have never traveled far to just go to the northwest. What should the scholars do if they can't go? Use whips to make them go. If they don't obey on the road, use whips as well.
Come to solve the problem. What to do with the dead? Just bury them. For the scholars on the northwest branch, Zhu Youjian's instructions were to let Duo Rang suffer a little on the way, and basic material support should be in place when they arrived at the place.
Without being punished on the road, it would be difficult for the pampered scholars to recognize their situation. The northwest is not an easy place to survive. Without the spirit of enduring hardship, it is difficult to survive. After arriving in the northwest, they mainly have to rely on self-reliance.
To solve the problem of survival through production, the imperial court cannot move them all the way there. It has to find ways to transport food from other places to feed them, right? Transporting food from outside is unavoidable, but we cannot rely entirely on transporting food from outside.
In addition to being relatively expensive, relying solely on transporting food from outside is also prone to accidents. In later generations, there seems to be an incident in the northwest where a large number of exiled intellectuals starved to death. It is probably because there is a problem with the organizational arrangements. The exiles must be allowed to have basic self-sufficiency in production.
, to prevent any accidents from happening and causing a large-scale humanitarian crisis.
In recent days, farewells have been going on everywhere in Nanjing, with family members crying and shouting to see off their loved ones. Fortunately, the policy is still a bit humane, and family members can bring some salutes to the scholars who are about to go to support the border, so as not to
After they arrived in the northwest, they had nothing. Clothes to keep out the cold and money were the main items they brought with them as gifts, because this incident also set off a wave of consumption in Nanjing and promoted the recovery of market transactions that had been somewhat depressed due to the impact of the scholar-rebellion.
Farewells are not just a scene that occurs in Jiangnan. At this time, farewells are being staged all over the Ming Dynasty. A new round of conscription for military service has officially begun. The total number of conscriptions this year exceeds 100,000, and most provinces have arranged conscription tasks.
The scope of joining the military is quite broad.
The scale of conscription is relatively large, but the conscription area is also large. After being divided into prefectures and counties, the number of conscripts is not very large. There are only a few thousand people in each prefecture. For some areas that have tasted the benefits of joining the army, this number of places is simply not enough. Like
In a place like Beizhili where there is already a tradition of joining the army, in order to compete for these pitiful places, the people can be said to have tried their best.
Faced with the enthusiasm of civilians joining the army, the recruitment department had no choice but to introduce relatively strict standards to persuade most of them to quit. In terms of physical quality and cultural quality, the soldiers recruited this year should be the strongest group in recent years.
The booming wave of military recruitment has greatly improved the work efficiency of the recruitment department. The work that was originally planned to take more than three months to complete was basically completed in just one month. By October, most areas had completed recruitment, and people were gradually recruiting soldiers.
Transporting new recruits to various locations.
With the iron-clad camps and flowing soldiers, while new recruits enter the military camp, veterans who have served for many years are also retiring. The number of retired soldiers this year is quite large, with more than 70,000 people planned to retire. This scale can be said to be unprecedented, directly compared to
It more than doubled last year. Fortunately, in recent years, there has been a relatively large shortage of grassroots officials in various places, otherwise it would have caused employment problems...
This year's veterans will continue to be diverted to the southern region to enrich the grassroots governance power in the south.
"Your Majesty, there will be more retired soldiers to be resettled every year in the future. In recent years, it may not be a big problem, but in three to five years, it will be a problem. Although the court has announced that not all retired soldiers in the future may be resettled, but
People's expectations for retirement resettlement are relatively high, and veterans are afraid that there will be some twists and turns if the policy is suddenly changed in the future." Zhu Dadian has also been working on retirement resettlement issues recently, and he is a little worried about the large-scale resettlement of veterans. Now there are 70,000 to 80,000 people
, based on the current size of the army, which is close to one million, the annual mission in the future may be hundreds of thousands.
Hundreds of thousands a year, the pressure is extraordinary. The cabinet is worried about finding employment for tens of thousands of college students every year, and the number of retired soldiers is much larger than this. Now it is time to consider the future without delay.
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"Let's try to divert people from next year! Judging from the current situation, the number of officers who retire every year will not be too large, only a few thousand.
Already, we must ensure their resettlement. As for ordinary soldiers, my idea is this. Starting from next year, they will be arranged to choose their own jobs according to a certain proportion. The palace labor system, the railway operation system, and some large private industries and commerce
In the industry, recruitment should be organized during the retirement season and errands should be arranged for soldiers to choose freely. At the beginning, the proportion of independent career choices will be smaller, and then increase year by year.
In order to further help demobilized soldiers find a way out, and at the same time help the court share the pressure of resettlement, I am planning to establish an overseas colonization company in the name of the royal family and nobles, called the New Daming Colonization Company. It will mainly recruit retired soldiers.
Engaged in maritime trade and farming business in overseas areas. In addition to maintaining its own operations, the money earned by the farming company is shared by investors. The royal family holds 30% of the shares, and the other shares are owned by the nobles of the country, and officials of third grade or above.
, general-level officers contribute capital to subscribe. The capital is always a fixed amount. Those who are qualified can freely choose to subscribe according to the fixed amount. Those who are disqualified can withdraw their shares. It can be regarded as an extra benefit for meritorious officials."
Zhu Youjian plans to imitate the European colonial company model and establish a mercenary group composed of retired soldiers. It will not only find a way out for retired soldiers, but also effectively develop overseas interests, benefit senior bureaucrats and military officers, and also provide
The Ming Dynasty retained an extra force with strong combat power. It could serve multiple purposes with one stone and its uses were endless.
"Your Majesty, how much is the investment to build such a company, and what is the profit profile?" Zhu Dadian was more concerned about whether it would cost a lot, whether it would make money, and whether it would be worthwhile.
"Based on my rough estimate, it can be started with fifty to one million silver dollars. Let's calculate based on an investment of one million silver dollars. The royal family will contribute 300,000, and the share capital claimed by others will only be over 700,000.
, the number of nobles and nobles is calculated as three thousand, and the average cost per person is about two to three hundred silver dollars, which is not much. As for profit, there is a similar company over there in Hongmao, and the Zheng family’s company does the same thing.
It’s similar to this. It’s no problem to have a net profit of 30% to 50% a year. There are some additional advantages for the country to do this, such as being able to get goods on credit from the palace system, and some weapons and ships retired by the army can be transferred to colonists at low prices.
As an independent company, the profit will only be higher. According to my estimation, it will be no problem to recover the investment capital through dividends in two years. If you have difficulty in investing, you can also borrow money from the Royal Bank to invest."