Sixty [     www.biqugex.co] Chapter Six Steampunk Era

This is a matter of equal benefits.

Many, many years ago, after the mighty Emperor Wu of Han, Liu Che, used all the accumulation of the two generations of Emperor Wen and Jing to fight against the Huns, the people in the country were already poor, and Liu Che resolutely continued to attack the Huns.

Finally, in the later years of Emperor Wu of Han, Liu Che, the entire Han population dropped sharply to two million households, almost half, and the remaining half also lived a miserable life.

It was at this time that Emperor Wu of Han, Liu Che, witnessed the tragic situation of the people's lives with his own eyes, and then ordered the end of the war, and issued the famous "Self-Sin Edict" in history, and then went all out to rest and recuperate.

This allowed the great man of the glorious existence to continue!

Could it be that the Han attacks the Huns were really a pure money-loss transaction?

This is not necessarily the case. Whether it was Huo Qubing, Wei Qing, or other generals of the Han Dynasty, they had rich seizures after defeating the Huns. Even when the generals of the Second Division went to Dayuan to seek Tianma, according to historical records, his seizures were quite numerous.

Unfortunately, these seizures have nothing to do with the people, and they all entered the pockets of the emperor, heroes, generals and ministers. The people are the only ethnic group in this vigorous war to expel the Huns that both contributed people, efforts and life.

So, they are not poor, who is poor?

Therefore, Zhang Guozhu believes that if the people cannot enjoy the benefits of the empire's expansion of territory, this is wrong, and it is also very bad for the empire.

In the long run, if the dynasty has firmly tied its interests with the people, this dynasty should be iron-clad.

The people will object if they suddenly put food into the market because it will harm them.

If the grain is given to them for free, the grain will also enter the market. However, these grains enter the market in the form of a huge denominator. At this time, the people are the actual beneficiaries.

As for the food price, there will be no major fluctuations...even if it will drop... the people can still accept it happily.

This is the different effects brought about by different methods of doing things.

The cost of allocating food to the people is very high? But? Both Yun Zhao and Zhang Guozhu chose to distribute food with huge expenses instead of choosing a simpler method of reducing taxes and fees.

Taxation is the foundation of a country’s existence? This foundation should not be shaken.

The effect of tax reduction and exemption of taxes is completely different from directly paying food or paying money.

Over the years, the people of the Ming Dynasty have actually enjoyed the dividends brought by the expansion of the Ming Dynasty, such as cheap livestock, cheap ironware, cheap meat, cheap fur, and cheap textiles. These things have truly affected the lives of the people of the Ming Dynasty.

It’s just that the people don’t feel this change? After a long time, they think it’s natural.

This is a process of carnival for the whole nation.

The grain was still floating on the sea, so Zhang Guozhu had already issued the plan to distribute the grain to the local government.

According to the plan, the grain from the sea will first fill the grain warehouses of local governments in coastal ports, and the grain in these local grain warehouses will be distributed to the mainland? And so on, until the state capital farthest from the sea.

At that time? Every prefecture would have more grain, seven million pounds of grain? There was actually not much in the hands of everyone in the Ming Dynasty, and only five kilograms of grain was added to everyone's heads.

In addition to the cost of transportation? Based on the base of the Ming Dynasty's population of 160 million, the food you can get is only three or four kilograms? Well, it's a day.

Yun Zhang believes that all these grains should be used to build railways, Yun Yang believes that this batch of grains should be used to expand the navy and army, and strengthen military equipment. Han Lingshan believes that if this batch of grains is handed over to him, he promises to spread his eyes all over the Ming Dynasty, and even the most remote mountain villages will not be spared...

In short, there were many people who wanted these foods. Yun Zhao and Zhang Guozhu still decided to distribute these foods according to the heads.

No one knows the value of the people in the Ming Dynasty better than Yun Zhao and Zhang Guozhu.

In September, grain ships docked one after another.

All the places where grain ships could be moored in the thousands of miles of the Ming Dynasty were filled with grain ships.

It was not until this time that Yun Zhao, Zhang Guozhu and others realized that Hong Chengchou, together with Sun Chuanting, Han Xiufen, Shi Lang, and all the merchants in Nanyang organized nearly 30,000 merchant ships to transport the grain to the Ming Dynasty at one time...

Except for places near the sea and with harbors, Guanzhong is one of the first areas to distribute grain because it has a lot of grain reserves.

The procedures for receiving food are very troublesome. The head of the family must receive food from the family. It is not allowed to collect it on behalf of others, and it is not allowed to impersonate it.

The head of the Yun family is Yun Zhao, but he can only receive seven portions of food from his mother, two wives, and himself and three children.

This time, everyone in Guanzhong, including the babies born before giving out the food, all had food.

Each person had three pounds and seven ounces. The Guanzhong government was generous and thought that it was not good-looking or not nice, so he made up four pounds. Therefore, Yun Zhao could receive twenty-eight pounds from the grain warehouse this time.

No one dared to rank ahead of Yun Zhao, so Yun Zhao was the first to receive the food. After opening the bag for a long time, he said to Zhang Guozhu, who was carrying the bag, "Didn't it be rice?"

Zhang Guozhu smiled and said, "There is no rice produced in Guanzhong, so he has to produce wheat."

Yun Zhao shook his head and said, "No, there is a lot of price difference between four kilograms of white rice and four kilograms of wheat."

Zhang Guozhu said: "Some roads are not good and not well connected. Do we need to repair them to facilitate the delivery of food?"

Yun Zhao nodded, feeling that this was reasonable.

"Does the river silt need to be cleaned in some places?"

Yun Zhao looked at Zhang Guozhu and said, "You can see that you didn't think about giving the food to the people."

Zhang Guozhu mentioned the twenty-four kilograms of grain he had allocated and said, "Isn't this food? If I can't take advantage of this big event to deal with a lot of accumulated troubles, I will be the prime minister of this country for nothing.

The people actually don’t care about taking less than one or half a pound, they just care about whether they can really get good food from the government.

You look back and see which of the two-mile-long queue is here to collect food? They are all here to see the prosperous scene."

Yun Zhao looked at Chu Yongping, the largest porcelain merchant in Guanzhong not far away, staring at the weight and the official who gave the food, and smiled and said, "It's true."

Everyone who left the granary had a grain pocket on their backs. This was discovered by everyone that the emperor and the prime minister were walking with their own grain pockets. They felt that they were not as noble as the two of them, so they carried their own grain security back home, and walked all the way, laughing all the way.

"Thirty thousand merchant ships--"

Yun Zhao stopped and looked at Zhang Guozhu.

Zhang Guozhu smiled and said, "I can guarantee that Your Majesty will never find a merchant ship with a load capacity of more than 200 dan on the Nanyang Sea at this time."

"Do it on purpose?"

"That's right, this is Han Xiufen, Shi Lang, Hong Chengchou, and Sun Chuanting showing off their strength to the court, that is, we are the ones who show off our strength."

"If they stop all the commerce and transport food specifically, the loss should be huge for them."

Yun Zhao and Zhang Guozhu carried the grain in the same way. After leaving the warehouse, the grain bag naturally fell on the guards.

What Hong Chengchou planned was indeed a waste of water. He served meat dishes as soon as he came up, and the gift of seven million harboring grain caught Yun Zhao off guard, but the effect was still very good.

"Although Nanyang is a treasure land, we are still a little too hasty when developing it now. We can only adopt the principle of voluntary action, not force it, and we cannot just transport prisoners there. Any prisoner must have an objection to the state.

There are too many prisoners, and I am worried that something will happen."

Zhang Guozhu is still seeking stability, but his tone has begun to loosen.

The emergence of these seven million dans of grain made the entire Lantian Dynasty re-evaluate the importance of the South China Sea. Han Xiufen and other naval generals used nearly 30,000 ships to show the court the huge power of the South China Sea shipping to the court.

A sail-powered ship is still not enough for Yun Zhao to bear such a heavy responsibility. Unless it can become a steam-powered ship, Yun Zhao will agree to deliver the burden of replenishing the Central Plains' food to the Navy.

"Take you to see something new!"

When Yun Zhao thought of this, he told Zhang Guozhu.

Zhang Guozhu smiled and said, "Did you say that your Qianliyan and Shunfeng Ear Plan have been completely successful?"

The development trend of cable telegraph Yun Zhao once talked to Zhang Guozhu, which was described as whimsical by Zhang Guozhu. He also believed that Yun Zhao had a hysterical idea after reading some strange stories.

Yun Zhao looked at the stupid prime minister in front of him and said, "Fifteen years ago, could you know that you can see things like this in the distance with a telescope? Ten years ago, could you know that I could drive hundreds of thousands of kilograms of goods everywhere with just one teapot?

Seven years ago, could you know that through a microscope, you can find that a drop of water is a complete world?

Five years ago, could you know that with a copper wire, I could have instant calls with people hundreds of miles away?"

Three years ago, could you know that with a pair of wings, people can fly in the air?

Two years ago, could you know that after heating the air, we can fulfill our dream of flying travel?

Look, you know nothing.

So, don’t be surprised after seeing something strange, just worship me with all your heart.”

Zhang Guozhu sniffed and said, "I want to see what His Majesty is going to use to make me provoke my body!"

Yun Zhao looked at the azure blue sky and said, "I hope you don't be too surprised. After all, in front of me, you are on the same level as those ignorant savages in Nanyang."
Chapter completed!