Chapter 605 What should these people do?
Emperor Chongzhen suddenly missed the Spanish and Dutch people a little. Although the unified name of these people was Franji Barbarians, representing half-orcs, Emperor Chongzhen still missed them.
Because Emperor Chongzhen suddenly felt that without these barbarians, there seemed to be a lot of fun at the sea, and tying the South China Sea fleet to Xi Kunlun was not in full swing at the moment.
Before killing the Spanish barbarians, we should actually have a good talk with the Dutch barbarians about the big business of labor export.
Especially when these barbarians don’t mind selling their compatriots as coolies, this business should be discussed even more.
But now it’s useless, and no business needs to be negotiated - everyone is dead, can it be possible for someone to talk to the ghost?
Emperor Chongzhen, who was secretly in pain, once again chose to go out of the palace to relax, and deliberately did not bring the queen and Concubine Yi and other concubines in the harem. The last time he was slapped in the face, he would not have to contract all their laughs for the thirteenth year of Chongzhen!
Emperor Chongzhen, who left the palace alone, suddenly realized that the capital city had a much larger population.
The capital, which was already slightly crowded, became more and more crowded after so many people suddenly flocked in.
Moreover, these people almost all have a common characteristic, they are wandering around not far away from Shuntian Mansion intentionally or unintentionally, never far away. People who have no place to live have already created groundbreaking paves.
This damn, even more exaggerated than later generations, is it really the end of the 12th year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty?
I don’t know when it started, but a few snowflakes began to float in the sky. These seemingly homeless people leaned against each other to keep warm, or spread the broken quilts from somewhere that came from, and it was over.
Many people selling roasted sweet potatoes or other snacks nearby, just shook their heads when they looked at the group of people, but they just turned their eyes to the coming and going.
Emperor Chongzhen's face looked a little bad--Is this a slap in the face? Or a slap in the Ming Dynasty?
After finding a restaurant nearby to sit down, Emperor Chongzhen whispered: "Tell me that Xu Xianchun is here."
Xu Xianchun, who rushed over, saw the extremely gloomy face of Emperor Chongzhen, and his heart was shocked. The Jinyiwei hadn't done anything that was angry and resentful recently, right? Even if he did it, he was outside the Ming Dynasty. His Majesty the Emperor shouldn't care, right?
After bowing and bowing, Xu Xianchun said carefully: "Young Master?"
Emperor Chongzhen nodded, pointed to the chair opposite and said, "Sit down and say."
Xu Xianchun responded, carefully sat down next to the chair with half of his butt, and waited quietly for Emperor Chongzhen to speak.
Xu Xianchun never understood why his boss summoned him so anxiously, and his face was so gloomy.
Speaking of surveillance officials, it is no exaggeration to say that even if Emperor Chongzhen wanted to know what a magistrate in Guangdong ate at night and which concubine sleep in the concubine's room, all he needed was the time for information to be transmitted back and forth.
When it comes to the trends and infiltration outside the Ming Dynasty, although it is not as powerful as in the Ming Dynasty, we know the trends of the surrounding foreign countries. Only small countries that are far away, and those Western barbarians are slower.
However, the Ming Dynasty is not in a hurry to use troops there now.
Then why did the person in my family look like someone else owed him tens of millions of taels?
Xu Xianchun was thinking randomly, but Emperor Chongzhen pointed to the wall opposite outside the window of the restaurant and said lightly: "What's going on with those people?"
Xu Xianchun felt a sigh of relief in his heart.
Since it involves these people rather than the Jinyiwei themselves doing something bad about it, it will be much easier to deal with. If you are slaughtered, you will be scolded. What is really uncomfortable is the officials of the Ministry of Revenue and Shuntian Prefecture.
And the personal army of the emperor like himself has always been hostile to these civil servants. If the factory guards get together with the civil servant system, what would Emperor Chongzhen do?
After bowing to Emperor Chongzhen slightly, Xu Xianchun whispered: "Young Master, those people are originally fugitives or hidden households. Although they have been newly registered, there is no land for them for a while, and there is no place for them to build a house. Therefore, these people stayed in Shuntian Mansion and refused to leave."
Emperor Chongzhen said with a hush, "Where is Shuntian Mansion? There is no place for it? What about Yangjiyuan?"
Xu Xianchun said with a little bit of pain: "Young Master, these people are all hands and feet, and some even take care of their families. The Yangjianyuan does not accept these people.
As for Shuntian Mansion, now I have to give them some porridge every day, so that these people can’t starve to death.”
Emperor Chongzhen's face became even darker.
Ma Mai Pie, there are so many people in front of Shuntian Prefecture that I saw, what about other places? How many other prefectures will be like this?
For things like this that require query operations, since there are no good things like computers, Emperor Chongzhen could only choose to ask Xu Xianchun - who made the Jinyiwei master the intelligence.
Faced with the problem of Emperor Chongzhen, Xu Xianchun thought for a long time but could not give a specific number: "Young Master, there are more and less people in the prefectures like this, tens of thousands, and thousands or tens of thousands.
And how many prefectures in the Ming Dynasty are there? There is no way to count the exact number for a while, and it will take at least half a year to count it."
After Xu Xianchun said that, Emperor Chongzhen's face was no longer as dark as it was, but was so gloomy that it was about to twist out the water.
According to the minimum standards, it is okay to have 5,000 prefectures in the Ming Dynasty?
If there are 10,000 people per state, that is 50 million?
This is still the lowest standard...
Among the 50 million people, the elderly, weak and women must be eliminated, and the remaining young and strong men must be between 10 and 20 million, right?
What a good labor force!
It turns out that in order to compete with the barbarians, the Ministry of Railways and the Ministry of Works have almost become dog-brained. Isn’t it just that there are more coolies working, and the progress of their own department can speed up the project, so that it will leave a good impression in front of the emperor?
The question is, how many barbarians have been obtained over the years? Before capturing the 400,000 Tatars, the unit was at most one million!
Now I have ten times more young and strong people than that in front of me, and I really am the one who is the one who is a mother!
After pointing to the wine pot on the table, Emperor Chongzhen said in a low voice behind him and said, "I ordered Xue Fengxiang, Hong Chengchou and Zhang Ruitu to come."
The three guys, Xue Fengxiang, the Minister of Works, Hong Chengchou, the Minister of Railways, and Zhang Ruitu, the Minister of Transportation, are they quarreling all day long that there is not enough manpower, and the lawsuits of the snatching people often go to the cabinet?
Now that I'm fine, there's no need to fight. More than 10 million people should be enough for them, right?
After Hong Chengchou and others arrived, they saw Emperor Chongzhen drinking with a leisurely look on his face. The three of them felt relieved.
I am afraid that my own emperor will be crazy and will make people feel uneasy!
After pointing at the chair, Emperor Chongzhen pointed to the people at the base of the wall facing the restaurant: "Didn't the three always shout that there is not enough manpower? Isn't this ready-made?"
After Hong Chengchou bowed to Emperor Chongzhen, he smiled bitterly and said, "Young Master, the three of us have already made the decisions about these people, but they can't do it at all."
Emperor Chongzhen looked at Hong Chengchou curiously, waiting for Hong Chengchou to give him an explanation, or give him an explanation later?
Hong Chengchou thoughtfully and said, "Young Master, we can't recruit some people now, but most of the people who come here are ordinary people with land and land, and they plan to make some money while the farm is slack.
The people on the other side are now waiting honestly for the arrangements of Shuntian Prefecture, or they just want to wait for Shuntian Prefecture to allocate land to them, no matter where they are, even from Liaodong or Nuergandus.
As for working, these people basically don’t plan to go because they feel that the land is unstable and they are willing to work."
I have a saying that if you don’t know whether to talk about it or not?
Emperor Chongzhen wanted to scold people very much.
This kind of uneasy thinking without land is still like a bird after hundreds of years. It just turns from land into a house, and then gives birth to a group of Tianchao-style mother-in-laws, raising housing prices.
The question is, isn’t it said that since the Song Dynasty, it has been highly urbanized, and then freelancers and small handicraftsmen are popular?
Why did the Ming Dynasty still reverse history?
After thinking about it, Emperor Chongzhen simply said, "What if they were given higher wages?"
Just as there is a saying in later generations, there is no need to be loyalty, loyalty is just because the price of betrayal is not high enough.
Although this sentence is biased and beat everyone up with one blow, it makes some sense after all.
The same is true for these people in front of you. If you don’t want to pay less wages, then what if you give more? Are you willing to pay?
After Hong Chengchou, Zhang Ruitu and Xue Fengxiang looked at each other, he said carefully: "Young master, the salary is higher, is the cost of this expense too high?"
When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, his old face turned red.
If you double your wages, there will definitely be a large number of people willing to work, and even if you don’t need to double it, there may be a large number of people willing to work.
But as Hong Chengchou said, the cost is too high!
The Ministry of Revenue has had some surplus of money in recent years, and it has a lot of money in its own treasury, but is there an egg for it?
Just like the sudden heavy rain in Zhejiang at the end of the 12th year of Chongzhen, does the Ministry of Revenue have to use silver to provide relief? Does the treasury have to use silver to win people's hearts?
Who knows what kind of bird look like in the thirteenth year of Chongzhen and after the thirteenth year? In which year did the climate of the Little Glacier last?
What's more, there is a Royal Academy that is constantly burning money...
After repeated expansion, the Royal Academy was really a giant gold-swalking beast. A large sum of money was thrown into it, and often it disappeared without a trace without even hearing a sound.
But I hope that I rarely pass the physics, chemistry and mathematics from a junior high school. I went to vocational high school in high school and the programmer emperor from a five-level college to show the Royal College a clear path. It is obviously unrealistic...
Emperor Chongzhen, who had a headache, rubbed his forehead again and said, "I guess there should be nearly ten million people like this outside, or even more. It's a pity that he's just idle."
So you plan to throw the pot to three of us to carry it, right?
After complaining in his heart, Hong Chengchou thoughtfully and said, "Otherwise, please come over and discuss it?"
Emperor Chongzhen nodded, but turned the topic back to these people: "Suppose that the government promised them to allocate land and then let them do the work first?"
Hong Chengchou pondered for a while and said, "It's not impossible, but in this way, the work period for these people?
In addition, this matter needs to be negotiated with the Ministry of Revenue. With the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Railways and the Ministry of Transport alone, it is impossible to decide such a big thing?"
Emperor Chongzhen said: "One year? Two years? Then look at the performance of labor to determine the size of the land they allocated?"
After thinking about it, there was still no good solution. Emperor Chongzhen simply ordered: "Let's book this restaurant first, and then go and send Wen Tiren and Guo Yunhou over."
Xu Xianchun's movements were very fast, and it was really easy for Jinyiwei to clear a restaurant.
As for Wang Chengen's speed of ordering people to find Wen Tiren and Guo Yunhou, it was not so fast. It took less time to get from the offices of the cabinet departments to this restaurant not far from Shuntian Mansion.
Moreover, Wen Tiren and Guo Yunhou were not able to come over quickly like Xu Xianchun, so the speed was naturally slower.
When the two arrived at the restaurant, the food and food had already been redesigned, and the original ones had been removed.
After greeting Emperor Chongzhen, Emperor Chongzhen pointed to the chair and said, "Sit down, let's discuss things while eating."
In fact, among the people present, except Emperor Chongzhen, the few people left didn’t like this meal very much - eating with the emperor was under a lot of pressure!
Do you want to pick up the dishes you like? Do you don’t pick them up? Do you don’t give the emperor face if you don’t pick them up? Can you give the emperor a drink when you want to drink? Will it be considered as intentional drunkenness of the emperor?
In short, eating with others is all kinds of comfort, and eating with the emperor is all kinds of awkward.
Even Emperor Chongzhen felt uncomfortable - having dinner with these ministers was far less casual than having dinner together when he led his troops on an expedition.
Seeing the squeamish ministers, Emperor Chongzhen also took a few bites and ordered people to take the banquet down and bring the tea again.
Chapter completed!