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Chapter 16 Three Poverty Alleviation Strategies (Part 2)

Emperor Aoki asked again: "What else is there to design? Let's take it out together."

Zhu Cheng said: "There is another idea that has not been formed, so I need the emperor to help improve it."

Emperor Apocalypse said, "Oh, let me hear it."

Zhu Cheng said: "The current horse-drawn carriages in the Ming Dynasty are two-wheeled carriages. In addition to pulling the car, horses also have to bear part of the weight of the car, which wastes the horse's strength. If it is a four-wheeled carriage, the horse's strength will be used entirely on pulling the car, and the car's load capacity will be greater. But the trouble is that the four-wheeled carriage cannot turn at all..."

Emperor Tianqi said, "Leave this to me, let me show you my brother."

Zhu Cheng said: "This carriage is also related to what I mentioned."

Emperor Aoki said: "Tell me in detail."

Zhu Cheng said: "Zhongshou is to improve urban management and let citizens willingly pay the emperor. What citizens need is a convenient city and a clean city. If the emperor's brother invented the four-wheeled carriage, he can establish a complete public transportation system and make money by using transportation. The emperor's brother can set up bus stops in various parts of the capital, and let people drive the four-wheeled carriage to carry passengers along a fixed route. The station charges are calculated. I believe many people are willing to take this car. In the future, long-distance transportation can be carried out, such as passenger and freight from southern Zhili to northern Zhili."

Emperor Tianqi suddenly stood up, walked a few steps, and said, "Da Cai, brother Cheng, is a great talent! In this way, the whole country will be unblocked, and even the officials will not say that I have made money. Let's continue."

Zhu Cheng said: "Beijing is the capital of the best, but the sanitation situation is not optimistic. It is better for the emperor to form a cleaning team to sweep the streets and alleys of Beijing, and regularly charge residents sanitation management fees. This will clean the city of Beijing and will have a lot of income."

“Is there any more?”

Zhu Cheng stopped, thought for a long time, knelt down, and pronounced: "The emperor forgives me for being guilty of death, so I dare to continue."

Emperor Tianqi said: "There are all his family members here. Let's say it, no matter how difficult it is, I will do it. It doesn't matter if it is wrong."

Zhu Cheng stood up, gritted his teeth, made up his mind, and said, "Open the Taimiao to the people of the Ming Dynasty."

Emperor Tianqi, Zhu Youjian, and Wei Zhongxian exclaimed at the same time.

Zhu Cheng said: "The ancestors of the Ming Dynasty are all the ancestors of the Ming people. Letting the people worship the Taimiao can make the people remember the achievements of the former emperor and fight back against some false rumors about the Ming royal family in unofficial history rumors."

It took Emperor Tianqi a long time to digest Zhu Cheng's words and said, "This suggestion is very good. Some people now may have forgotten that if Emperor Taizu Gao had not risen to resist, perhaps the people of the Ming Dynasty would have been classified as fourth-class and were bullied by the Mongolian Tartars. But only you dare to make such suggestions."

Seeing that Emperor Tianqi agreed with his suggestion, Zhu Cheng continued: "I also suggest that several temples be built outside the Taimiao, one is a temple for Chinese heroes to pay homage to the heroes who have contributed to the rise of China from ancient times to the present; one is a temple for the heroes who have contributed to the prosperity and strength of the Ming Dynasty since the founding of the Ming Dynasty; one is a temple for the warriors who have sacrificed on the battlefield since the founding of the Ming Dynasty; the other is a temple for the group of ugly people, casting bronze statues of traitors from ancient times to the present and putting them in for people to curse."

Zhu Youjian clapped his hands and shouted, "Okay, Brother Cheng's suggestion is good. When I heard "Shuo Yue", I always wanted to slap Qin Hui a few times, but I didn't have a chance. After the temple was built, I would like to spit a few more saliva."

Seeing Zhu Youjian’s sincerity, Emperor Tianqi said: “Since that’s the case, I will borrow 4 million taels from my two younger brothers and return them in a year. Brother Cheng, your three strategies are very useful and can help me get rid of poverty.”

Wei Zhongxian said: "I have the fourth strategy."

Emperor Tianqi smiled and said, "Oh, you have a plan, let's talk about it."

Wei Zhongxian said: "It is to use three strategies at the same time."

Everyone laughed.

Back at the children's playground, Wei Honglian took Zhu Cheng's hand, wiped his tears again, and then poured him a big bowl of soup as usual.

Wei Honglian said: "Two groups of people came to get the invitation just now. One group of people is their own family. Dad invites you to go to his house for dinner tomorrow at noon, and the other group is Gu Qingqing's aunt, please invite you to their house for dinner."
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