Great Ming: I, Zhu Di, Declare My Intentions to Seize the Throne from the Start!

Everyone in the carriage was stunned by the sight before them.

Rows of round cement covers with a diameter of four to five meters, like soldiers buried deep underground, are lined up on the plains on the outskirts of Yanjing.

Each round cement cover is connected to an iron pipe as thick as an arm and painted black.

Countless iron pipes, neat and orderly, finally converged into a thick black iron pipe that was as thick as a person's thigh.

Rows of camphor trees are planted around this large, industrial building.

There was no smell of feces or urine as I expected.

On the contrary, the unique scent of camphor tree is refreshing, repelling insects and deodorizing. In just a short moment, it permeates through the cracks in the car window glass.

Workers in blue overalls are busy.

Every worker also wears a mask on his mouth.

Everyone present already knew about this thing called a mask.

The Yanfan army's rescue team often wore it.

When the imperial court reorganized the army and fully introduced the Yanfan army rescue team system, it also introduced masks.

This kind of mask is made of two layers of cotton with several layers of spun yarn sandwiched between them.

"Not only the common people of Yan Fan wear canvas clothes, but look, even these lowly people who play with shit and piss wear clothes made of canvas, and those ignorant women of our Ming Dynasty actually regard canvas as high-end fabric...

Lu Ben looked at the busy workers in the distance and sneered.

The corners of Hu Weiyong's lips twitched fiercely.

Yan Fan's canvas was indeed turned into high-end fabric by a group of Jinling City ladies who secretly learned Yan Fan's new clothes.

The price is very expensive.

In fact, Zhu Silang said that because this kind of fabric uses cheap linen and cotton and linen blends, the cost is actually very cheap.

It is cheaper than the silk-cotton blend that first appeared in Fujian.

The production process is not difficult to imagine.

However, the noble lady of Jinling had no interest in promoting the Ming Dynasty to produce its own canvas.

In the eyes of these powerful people, if the Ming Dynasty produced cheap canvas, how could those mud-legged people show off their status by wearing the same clothes as them?

Moreover, he was certain that even Ming could produce it on his own.

I am afraid that the ladies of the Ming Dynasty will still pursue Yanfan canvas.

No matter whether you want to admit it or not.

With new carriages, clocks, bicycles, hand sewing machines...

These things were introduced to the Ming Dynasty. Everything labeled as Yan Fan, even if it was owned by the Ming Dynasty, seemed to be more noble than the Ming Dynasty.

Just like the bicycle factory that Tuqiao Village of Yanfan helped build the concubine Taisun.

As far as he knows.

Even this bicycle factory will soon be able to produce Daming's own bicycles.

But children from families like theirs would rather buy a more expensive Yanfan bicycle.

In fact, this is what they are afraid of.

The evil spirit of Yan Fan is uncontrollably affecting the psychology of everyone in the Ming Dynasty!

In the end, if one day, everyone in the Ming Dynasty will think that everything Yan Fan has is better and more outstanding.

How can they deal with Zhu Silang?

…

It took Zhu Yuanzhang a while to come back to his senses and said, "Let's go, take dad to have a look."

As he spoke, he opened the door and walked out.

As soon as Zhu Yuanzhang moved, everyone who was shocked by the monotony, order, and majesty of the industry displayed in front of them all got out of the car one after another.

Zhu Di led everyone forward.

When they came to the first row of ten circular cement lids with a diameter of five meters, everyone discovered that there was a small lid on top of the huge lid.

Zhu Di pointed and introduced: "Father, this is the biogas tank. All kinds of domestic sewage in the city, as well as human and livestock feces, will be washed here through the toilets and feces collection areas in the city and washed here by the water flow."

Yanjing has a population of 700,000.

The domestic waste generated requires one thousand circular biogas digesters with a diameter of five meters and a depth of eight meters for recycling.

"Biogas is a gas produced by retting fertilizers. The daily work of the workers here is to crush the collected straw with animal-powered guillotines, and then discharge the domestic sewage into the biogas pool according to the cycle rules. Almost It takes more than ten days to generate biogas..."

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Zhu Di moved forward.

Zhu Yuanzhang listened carefully and counted the workers he could see.

What he saw alone was at least a thousand people!

"How's the profit?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked at a certain moment.

Zhu Di glanced at Xiongying and Cailu who were following him, "This biogas plant was built two years ago. Investments were made in the construction of the biogas plant, the laying of gas pipelines, and the installation of street lights... In short, the entire Yanjing lighting system was invested. It’s all taken care of by the biogas plant.”

"Our Yan Fan regime holds 30% of the shares, and the workers and the biogas factory union hold 70%."

"The construction of this project cost two hundred thousand taels of silver."

At that time, it happened to be at the peak period of relocation and transfer of Mongolian captives.

They could not arrange the huge population arriving in a short period of time.

It’s not that there is no land.

At that time, the construction of immigrant villages lagged far behind the speed of relocation.

You can't just ignore all the people who migrated to Yanjing, carve out a piece of land, leave it alone, and let the people open up wasteland and build houses on their own, right?

This is irresponsible.

Whether they are Mongolian captives or people who migrated from the Central Plains.

The place of birth is unfamiliar and the order and discipline brought by socialization have not been learned.

In a place like Luzon where malaria is extremely easy to get, if you don't care about it, it will definitely cause a lot of deaths.

Therefore, the resettlement can only be managed in a semi-military manner.

Used as a work-for-relief method.

On the one hand, we organized and dispatched some strong laborers to reclaim wasteland and build a complete immigrant village.

The remaining population will be used to build Yanjing's infrastructure projects.

Roads, industrial areas, biogas plants, etc.

During the construction process, a group of industrial workers were also trained, and many people who originally wanted to farm decided to stay in Yanjing as workers.

At the same time, when these relocated residents queued up for diversion arrangements, each household earned a sum of money during the work-for-relief period.

This money also gave these people, who were almost impoverished when they moved to Luzon, the capital to start over.

This money eventually turned into expenses for purchasing farm tools, livestock, pots, pans, and kitchen utensils.

Promoted Yanfan's industry and trade.

Of course, during the years when Yanjing was built.

The deficit rate is also high.

Almost every year, he had to carry out huge amounts of loans with factory owners and businessmen like Shen Zhi.

Economic Research Division under the Ministry of Finance.

This also puts forward a discussion: a certain effective deficit ratio (used for basic people's livelihood construction, not for enjoyment) is conducive to economic development.

The concept of deficit finance was also proposed.

The terms deficit rate and deficit finance were named by him.

But he was not involved in these concepts.

It was all done by the people from the Economic Research Department led by Jiang Jinzhong and based on the results of Yan Fan's practice.

Now, this group of people is studying what is the maximum tolerable upper limit of the deficit rate in an environment where gold and silver currencies are used.

And, at what position the deficit ratio is most beneficial to economic development.

for their research.

He was very supportive.

The importance of the Economic Research Department is even more important than that of the Technical Research Department!

In this era, China's economic research, like technology and agriculture, is actually ahead of the world.

The famous "On Salt and Iron" is the best proof.

Wang Anshi's reform was actually an economic reform.

However, the original economic research results in the Central Plains were largely based on the small-scale peasant economy.

It is not suitable for an economy like Yanfan where the proportion of industry and commerce is increasing.

If the industry develops.

However, the operating laws of the industrial economy, based on industry, and the operating laws of the regime's implementation of economic policies have not developed with progress.

Something will happen in the future.

He is very confident now.

Start at this fork in history.

China continues to lead the world not only in technology and culture.

Regarding economy and finance, it will definitely continue to lead the world.

"In the two years since it was completed, we have not only paid wages to the workers, but also expected that the entire initial investment cost will be paid off by the end of this year. Starting next year, we will enter the profit period, and such a project will serve Yanjing The factory with a population of 700,000 has fed a total of 1,500 people, allowing 1,500 people to live with an annual income of at least ten taels of silver."

"Although working in this industry is a bit demanding, the salary and dividends are actually higher than that of an ordinary factory worker. Therefore, there are many people in Yanjing who want to work in a biogas factory."

"In the future, the Yan Fan court will gradually withdraw from the management of the factory and hand over the factory to the management of the labor union. We will only retain a certain number of shares, collect certain dividends, and at the same time play a supervisory role."

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"Uncle Fourth, how can you make money just by selling retting fertilizer?" Xiongying interjected and asked.

Everyone looked at Zhu Di.

This profit really surprised them.

Invest two hundred thousand silver.

Cost recovery in two years.

Not to mention the maintenance costs during the period, the costs incurred by workers' compensation.

Just recovering the cost means that the retting fertilizer can be sold for one hundred thousand taels of silver every year? !

When Zhu Di saw everyone's faces full of surprise and disbelief, he knew what they were thinking. He looked at Xiong Ying and Cai Lu and asked with a smile: "Do you know how many gangs from three religions and nine streams in our Jinling City control the seemingly unscrupulous business of collecting night incense? ?”

"How many poor people are responsible for collecting night incense? How many people are supported by the industry chain of night incense?"

Although the night fragrance is ugly.

But it is such a humble thing, but it feeds many people.

A big city like Jinling with a population of millions.

The economic benefits generated by night fragrance are actually huge.

Just because this matter was so strange, no one present had really understood it.

And those gangs with three religions and nine sects are making money silently.

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Although he has not investigated it.

But it is also very certain that the gang leader who controls the Yexiang industry chain in Jinling City can make at least thousands or even tens of thousands of taels of silver from this industry chain every year.

There are not a hundred such gangs in Jinling City, but twenty or thirty!

"Take the biogas factory in Yanjing as an example. Each biogas tank must be cleaned every other month. One biogas tank can produce three thousand bags of highly fertile retting fertilizer every month, and this factory has A thousand digesters.”

"The annual output of fertilizer is more than two million bags. If people drive to the biogas factory to buy it, one bag will cost only one penny..."

"One acre of land only costs five cents and uses five bags of retting fertilizer. According to our statistics, the yield can be increased by 20%."

…

It's approaching noon.

When the weather gets hotter and hotter.

Zhu Di took everyone away.

When the convoy left the biogas plant, more than a hundred flat-bed bullock carts passed by the convoy and headed towards the biogas plant.

"Boss Wang, are you here to pull fertilizer again?"

"Yes, Village Chief Wang is here to buy fertilizer for your village? Why bother with this? It will be more convenient for me to deliver it to the village for you."

"Haha, Mr. Wang, our village has just been established a year ago and is still very poor. It would be nice to save a little. When our village becomes rich, I will buy from Mr. Wang's family. I won't have to walk more than fifty miles just to save a penny. The way to go."

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Everyone in the car was thoughtful as they listened to the discussion.

Zhu Yuanzhang kept watching as the bullock cart walked away, entered the factory, and disappeared from sight. Then he turned his head and looked at Zhu Di, "Is there anyone else engaged in this business?"

Zhu Di smiled and nodded, "Not only are there, but there are many. Buy them in the factory and bring your own sacks. Each bag costs a penny. If sold to a village with a radius of a hundred miles, a bag will cost at least one and a half cents, or even two cents. , some rural village communities, during the slack season, gather their own or neighboring villages’ horse-drawn carriages to work together to haul fertilizer to the factory, and some businessmen hundreds of miles away directly hire ships for transshipment.”

"Don't the people make their own fertilizer?" Ma Xiuying asked curiously: "My mother remembers that when you were in Tuqiao Village, you took the villagers to make your own fertilizer."

Zhu Di nodded, "The rural areas in Yanfan also make their own retting, but in a village, the amount of retting fertilizer is small and cannot satisfy all their cultivated land. If it is simply made from crop straw, the fertilizer effect is not as good as that made in a biogas factory. In addition, even if you buy it, the additional cost of one acre of land is only ten cents. Compared with the 20% increase in production, this cost is very small, so almost all rural villages are willing to buy some as a supplement. .”

Zhu Yuanzhang gently kneaded and patted his knees, looked at Zhu Di, and said with emotion: "In recent years, your rice from Yan Fan has been imported into the Central Plains at a very low price. Dad thought it was just because you have a vast land and few people, and everyone has less land." More means more output and less consumption, resulting in lower prices.”

Now it seems that this is not simply the case.

Retting fertilizers, when used on a large scale, can produce great results.

This factory is more like a fertilizer factory than a lighting factory.

"Father, in fact, Yanjing is the only place where we can build such a factory on such a large scale."

other places.

The nominal county seat.

In fact, there are no large cities with tens of thousands of people.

It is said to be a county capital, but the maximum population of a county capital is just over 10,000.

A large number of people are located in the rural areas where the county capital is located.

"In our Ming Dynasty, even a lower county has a population of at least 15,000, and the population concentration reaches this order of magnitude. According to research by our Economic Research Department, investing in a biogas plant can recover the cost within five years, and a In a city with a population of 100,000, the cost of building a biogas plant can be recovered within three years.”

"If biogas plants can implement a worker-share system, biogas plants in cities with a level of less than 100,000 can be liberalized and allowed to be constructed and operated by private parties."

"It is absolutely possible to arrange some in this type of factory. In the city, people who live in very poor circumstances can work. This will first solve the survival problem of some people."

"Secondly, our Ming Dynasty's city can be illuminated at night, and the economic effects produced by the night economy are also very large. For the court, it can promote the increase of commercial taxes. For ordinary people, wealth circulates in the night economy, regardless of How, they can also get part of the money in their hands."

"Finally, for farmers, a large number of biogas plants are also fertilizer plants. One barrel of night fragrance and domestic garbage can be mixed with straw for retting, and the fertilizer efficiency is not reduced. The amount of fertilizer can be 20 barrels. The amount has increased twenty-fold. The large-scale and centralized retting fertilizers, coupled with the self-retting fertilizers in rural areas, cannot fully meet the needs of agricultural fertilizers."

"It covers 30% of the farmland in Ming Dynasty. If this part of farmland increases production by 20%, how many more people can be fed?"

"In addition, there are actually many benefits. In fertilizer transportation, either sacks or large wooden barrels with iron hoops are used. Let's talk about sacks. In the Central Plains, hemp was the first to weave clothes. With the emergence of silk and cotton , the economic benefits generated by hemp are gradually decreasing, which is actually a waste in economic operation.

Hemp cultivation does not require much land or manpower. It can be grown even in mountains, forests and slopes, and it does not require too much manpower to weed, water and fertilize.

Our Research Department under the Ministry of Finance tracked and investigated the hemp industry in Yanfan and came to the conclusion that every million sacks are weaved and used, and the entire industry chain starts from people growing hemp on the mountain slopes, to rural women weaving sacks, When sold and used, one million sacks can generate an economic benefit of one million silver! "

"The people can benefit from it, and our Yan Fan regime can collect one hundred thousand taels of tax silver from this industrial chain for every one million sacks! The other nine hundred thousand taels of silver, in the circulation of the industrial chain, flow to common people and merchants.”

"So many?" Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes widened.

Zhu Di and Xu Miaoyun smiled.

Zhu Di nodded very seriously.

Zhu Yuanzhang was silent.

Thinking.

Actually, there were some things that the fourth child didn’t say.

However, from Laosi, cities with a population of less than 100,000 are allowed to privately operate biogas plants that employ workers.

He knew what the fourth child was hinting at.

After a long time.

The carriage has entered Yanjing Avenue.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the flow of people on the street, came back to his senses, and turned to look at Zhu Di, "Fourth, you want to tell me that by controlling the access policy and through the biogas plant, we will establish a group of demonstrations of the employee-share system in the Ming Dynasty. As for the project, let the people living in the city understand the model of the employee-shareholding system through the biogas project first, and secondly, let me be the hero to innovate in the future and be the first to break the situation, right?"

In fact, the system of employing workers is limited to places like Jinling, Peiping, and Fujian where Laosi used to be more active.

Most of the other people in the city didn't understand.

This is because many people who hate the employment-share system deliberately restrict the dissemination of information.

After all, the spread of news about the Ming Dynasty was largely in the hands of gentry, merchants and officials.

"Yes." Zhu Di hummed softly, "With my father's prestige, no one dares to stop me when I come to break the situation. If anyone dares to stop me, my father can take advantage of the situation and kill a group of die-hards on behalf of Xiongying."

"By controlling access policies, establishing a number of privately owned biogas plants with a shareholding system for employees can also cultivate a group of businessmen who support the shareholding system. As long as these people dare to take risks and establish a shareholding system, there will definitely be Some people agree, and some people, because they are hated by conservatives, can only turn to reform. Of course, there will also be some people who engage in the employment-working-stock system on the surface, but in fact they are in the Cao camp and their hearts are in the Han Dynasty. For example, Our Mr. Hu."

"But no matter what, supporting such a group of people is tantamount to revolutionizing the heroes and completing the most difficult breakthrough,"

"In addition, once such a batch of biogas plants are built in the entire Ming Dynasty, the demand for iron will be greatly increased. If nothing else, even if it is only built in Zhili, the iron smelting in Jinling Industrial Zone can be completely revitalized. As for technology, , it’s not a problem at all, children can help with the process of casting large thin iron pipes and glass firing process.”

Zhu Yuanzhang glared slightly and asked with a smile: "Aren't you afraid that after assisting in the construction of glass production technology, there will be competition and squeeze on your Yanfan glass firing factory?"

This is very possible.

Zhu Di smiled, "Don't be afraid. If the access policy to control glass firing technology is adopted and a group of employee-owned factories are supported, the child will only be happy."

First of all, the innovation situation of Ming Dynasty will get better and better.

At the same time, full competition will also be conducive to the industrial upgrading of Yan Fan.

Now burn a glass, blow a glass, blow a glass lampshade.

To be honest, this kind of industry is too low-level.

Anyway, he doesn't like it.

The most advanced thing is to grind a telescope lens.

He hopes that through full competition, Yanfan's glass industry will develop into telescope lenses on a large scale.

Secondly, the people of Ming Dynasty had more money in their hands.

You can also buy Yanfan's sewing machines, new carriages, bicycles and other products with more advanced industrial technology.

So, in fact, there is no disadvantage at all.

"Fourth, are you willing to come back and inherit my father's throne!" Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly spoke, staring at Zhu Di.

The fourth child’s words.

Make him understand better.

In terms of mind, Biaoer is actually far behind Laosi.

To be honest, he didn't know how Biao'er would treat the second and third vassal kings after his death.

But through what Lao Si just said about technical assistance, he knew it very well.

If he were the fourth child, he would be his successor.

The fourth child will definitely use the manpower and material resources of the Ming Dynasty to support the second child and the others to go out of the Ming Dynasty and start a career outside the Ming Dynasty, as he had originally advised him to do.

Like the descendants of Genghis Khan.

Just like the Mongolian Hulitai Conference!

This question was indeed asked impulsively, but it was definitely not to test the fourth child.

As long as the fourth child nodded.

After he returns, he will not hesitate to persuade Biao'er to give up his position as crown prince.

Ma Xiuying was stunned for a moment.

Looking into Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes, she knew clearly that Chongba meant it.

Looking towards Zhu Di and Xu Miaoyun who were also stunned...

Relatives came to the house and they rested, so I started typing. It didn’t reach 8,000 words, but it was back to 6,000. I will strive for 8,000 words tomorrow, but today I have no shame to ask for votes (crying), sorry, sorry...