It turns out that Emperor Zhu’s intention was not only to raise some money for infrastructure construction in the north, but also to take the opportunity to promote land concentration and the development of capitalist farms in the north!

The benefits of infrastructure construction are obvious! Especially when infrastructure is extremely lacking, the rate of return will definitely be satisfactory.

The Ming Dynasty is now in a period of extreme lack of infrastructure. The wealthy areas in the southeast are a little better. Emperor Zhu has spent a lot of money on infrastructure in recent years. In addition to the Huanghuai Transport Project, the Ming Dynasty has also invested heavily in the south in the past ten years.

The dams of rivers that are prone to flooding have been repaired, and a large number of irrigation canals have been built on both sides of the Huaihe River, turning a lot of land with unpredictable floods and droughts into paddy fields with stable and high yields.

The official roads, canals, and ports in various parts of the southeast have also received a lot of infrastructure investment in the past ten years or so. High-end railways and steam locomotives are something that Emperor Zhu would not even dare to think about. All he can do is be honest.

It is necessary to renovate the official roads and water transport network. The official roads should be paved with stones as much as possible, and the large and small rivers should be dredged and opened as much as possible to increase the coverage density of the water transport network. Before the popularization of railways, the economic value of inland water transport was extremely high.

Second to shipping.

Of course, most of the water transportation networks and bluestone roads built by Emperor Zhu in the southeast were tolled! Therefore, these projects were not handled by the Ministry of Industry but by the Ministry of Household Affairs, and sometimes they were contracted to businessmen who undertook the construction.

Although these toll roads, toll canals, and toll bridges are hated by people, they are better than nothing at all!

However, the economy in the north is too sluggish now. There are not many toll roads and canals, but infrastructure still needs to be built. Otherwise, the economy in the north will not be able to get off the ground at all, and the gap with the southeast will become wider and wider in the future. If things go on like this, it will not be good for the Ming Dynasty.

Domestic stability.

So Emperor Zhu discussed with Zheng Zhilong and Shen Tingyang all afternoon and planned to invest 100 million for the construction of cities, ports, roads, and canals in the north!

And this 100 million actually does not have to be raised by issuing bonds. Zhu Cihong, Zheng Zhilong, and Shen Tingyang can still raise this money. They are the richest, the richest, and the second richest in the Ming Dynasty! How can they be stumped by a small target?

However, combining bonds and land certificates can help some northern soldiers or volunteers who are good at business to develop capitalist farms.

Capitalist farm!

What is hated by many people, but this capitalist scourge has already appeared in Jianghu, Guangdong, Fujian and Guangdong!

Can Emperor Zhu stop them from developing in the north? I guess he can’t stop them! What happened to the farmers in the southern United States who tried to stop them?

Therefore, the peasant uncles in the north can only suffer this fate, so they should work together to capitalize on it! As for the mixed large-scale farmers, it depends on fate.

However, Emperor Zhu could ignore the life and death of the good people under the Qing Dynasty, but he could not care about the life and death of the Northern Army and the righteous people who followed him. He could not let them blindly go north and stay in the southeast. It would be great to be a Ming army, eat the emperor's food, and be with Emperor Zhu

How happy is it to ride on the heads of the working people in the southeast and dominate?

It is not easy to make money by running a farm in the north. Unless you are a northerner who can make a good family fortune in the southeast, otherwise you will become capitalist cannon fodder if you go north!

Now it’s free capitalism, cruel competition, survival of the fittest!

So Emperor Zhu came up with this idea, combining debt notes and land certificates. Those who had already saved a family business in the south would buy other people's land certificates at a low price, and then go back to the north to get a large piece of land and become agricultural capitalists.

According to Emperor Zhu's vision, these land certificates only stipulate the size of the land (using medium land as the standard, if you get upper land, you will get a discount, if you get lower land, you can get more), but do not specify the specific location. Therefore, investors who hold land certificates

You can receive large tracts of real estate, which is conducive to the development of horse farming and crop rotation.

As for those Northern soldiers and volunteers who have not made a fortune in the booming Southeast, don't mess around. Southeast has been able to make a fortune in anything in the past few years, but they have not succeeded in starting a business, and they have gone to the North to farm in the Little Ice Age.

Damn it, you can't pay for it with death!

It would be better to sell the land certificates for bonds, earn interest from the bonds, and then serve as an officer and soldier for Emperor Zhu in peace and harmony!

To be honest, Emperor Zhu was so kind to his own people! He really thought about them! This also included Wei Zaode, the confused chief assistant who almost surrendered.

As soon as the collegial meeting between the two governments ended on the third day of April, Emperor Zhu detained Wei Mingxiang in court!

"Long live my lord, I, I, I, I was confused for a moment."

Wei Zaode knew he was going to do something bad, so he didn't dare to sit or stand, so he knelt down with a plop.

Zhu Cixiang shook his head repeatedly: "Wei Tongzhou, how can you say you are confused for a moment? You are obviously confused all the time!"

Can you be a "Zhuge" for so many years without being confused?

Now that the "race against Zhuge" has come to an end, who can replace him? Zhu Cihong began to think about it, who else in the court is more confused? Not only must he be confused, but he must also be obedient, and he must be from the north! "Deputy Prime Minister" Zheng Zhilong is already

He is a southerner, and he is also the head of the country. If there is another southerner as prime minister, the northerners' party will decline.

If the power of the Northern People's Party weakens, the Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Sen, and Zheng Jiangong families will surely raise their tails.

So there must be a Northern prime minister to suppress Lao Zheng, but who can do it? King Fu is actually good, but there is no precedent for the clan to be the prime minister in the Ming Dynasty. Hey, it is really troublesome!

"What your Majesty said is absolutely true. I am confused, I am really confused." Wei Zaode's voice came to mind again, "I am guilty, I only ask for it."

"Stop, are you drunk?" Zhu Cixiang raised his hand and stopped Wei Zaode again, "Have I ever said you are guilty? Have I asked someone to check you?"

"No"

Zhu Cixiang glared: "Then what crime are you guilty of? Even if you are really guilty, I have to protect you! You are the first prime minister I have ever used, and you have been here for thirteen years, how can you be guilty?"

Wei Zaode was so moved that he burst into tears. The emperor was so kind. How could he not resist becoming a corrupt official?

Zhu Cihong saw Wei Zaode crying and said quickly: "Don't cry, don't cry and think about how to deal with the aftermath! You can't be the prime minister anymore, and it's not appropriate to be the governor or governor. Wei Tongzhou, I have to find a place for you to hide from the limelight.

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Wei Zaode thought to himself: Should I not be a governor or a governor, should I be a magistrate?

Zhu Cixiang was silent for a while, then suddenly said: "Why don't you go out of the country for me?"

"Going abroad? Where to go?" Wei Zaode looked at Emperor Zhu pitifully and thought to himself: Or am I going to be exiled and not know where to go?

Zhu Cixi thought for a while, "Let's go to Japan first. Japan sent Tokugawa Mitsukuni to visit and protested to us again! They also threatened to cancel the right of our ships to dock at Uraga Port. We must have a person with enough weight.

Explain."

You have to explain it properly, and maybe even apologize. The Chinese Empire has to be unreasonable! Now the Ming Navy is flying the Japanese flag every day in the waters around Japan and fighting water wars with the Spaniards flying the Mongolian Navy flag. What kind of thing is this?

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"Don't worry, Your Majesty, I will explain it to the Japanese properly." Wei Zaode breathed a sigh of relief. Japan is not far away, and you can come back easily.

However, Zhu Cixiang increased the price for him, "After going to Japan, go to the New World and find a place to establish a stronghold in the northwest of the New World, and then stay there to avoid the limelight!"

Let’s go to the other side of the Pacific Ocean!

Wei Zaode was dumbfounded.

Seeing that he was silent, Emperor Zhu knew that he had agreed, and then said: "You can pay for the cost of establishing a stronghold in the northwest of the New World!

The stronghold established will be regarded as the internal vassal I gave you, and the lord of the vassal will be hereditary to your family for three generations. In the future, you should not be the Duke of Tongguo. Westerners call the New World America, so you should be the Duke of America who overcomes difficulties!"

From now on, Wei Zaode will be the governor of the United States, and he will overcome the difficulties of the United States! This is a good job that will go down in history!
Chapter completed!