Chongzhen chat group

Chapter 1200 Instant Messaging Yamen
There was silence in the Wenhua Palace group for a while, but what Emperor Chongzhen did not expect was that the assistant minister Min Hongxue broke the silence first: "Your Majesty, it is said that the matter of building roads was also repaired in Yunnan and Guizhou. At that time , just to build a road for the army to pass, it consumes a lot of manpower and material resources. It is not easy to build roads!"

In this feudal dynasty period, road construction and other things were all conscripted by the court.Ordinary people have to prepare their own dry food and tools to serve.Therefore, sometimes, this kind of labor is far more feared by the people than land tax.Especially for some important and long-term labor servitude, sometimes, the people who are expropriated have to say goodbye to their families.Because, this time, it is very likely that you will never come back.

And according to what the emperor said now, the road construction is definitely the biggest project. Compared with the previous construction of the Great Wall and the opening of the canal, it will take longer and be more extensive.

Therefore, after Min Hongxue finished his speech, Sun Chengzong, the second assistant, followed suit and said: "Your Majesty, the country is now in peace, and there are signs of prosperity. If there are too many roads built, I am afraid that it will waste the people and waste money, and the people will be full of resentment. The disaster of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty will repeat itself! "

What he said was a little heavy.Among the courtiers, he was the only one who had the qualifications or the courage to say this.

In history, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty had a project that benefited future generations for thousands of years, that is, the construction of the Grand Canal.But as a result, the national power was exhausted, the people complained, and finally the world turned against each other. It has to be said that it is a great pity that the powerful Sui Dynasty, like the Qin Dynasty, died in the second generation.

Of course, it would be an exaggeration to say that the demise of the Sui Dynasty was due to the construction of the Grand Canal.The demise of the Sui Dynasty was also related to a series of his policies, such as the three conquests of Goguryeo, the promotion of imperial examinations, and the interests of the family.

The topic was brought back, but it was said that Emperor Chongzhen was slightly angry after reading Sun Chengzong's speech, but it soon dissipated, and he replied patiently: "What Qing and others said actually proved what I said, the post station became independent. , become a necessity of the Ministry of Communications."

"Building roads is not a one-time thing, but a matter for generations to come! Do what you can, gradually build the roads of the world, and repair the roads of the world. Have a plan, and continue to build roads within the scope of Ming Dynasty. In this way, road building The adverse effects will be minimized. And this is what the Ministry of Communications should do well!"

Emperor Chongzhen had already talked about the benefits of building roads before, and now he also learned the lessons of history, acted according to his ability, and did it with a plan. As a result, many officials were silent for a while.

No matter what Min Hongxue said or Sun Chengzong's alarmist words, just like what Emperor Chongzhen said, just proved the necessity of establishing the Ministry of Communications.

As in the previous discussions, Cao Huachun, the eunuch in charge of the supervisor of ceremonies, first expressed his opinion and seconded.But his statement doesn't mean anything.After all, the Supervisor of Ceremonies is the inner court, so it would be strange to oppose the emperor's will.

Another one is that the Ministry of Communications belongs to the Outer Court, and it mainly relies on the Outer Court to handle affairs. Therefore, the position of civil officials is also important. Emperor Chongzhen has been waiting for the opinions of civil officials.To set up one more department, if you want to do it properly, it is not enough for the emperor to issue an imperial decree.Even in the history of the West Factory, the emperor set it up as soon as he said it, because it belonged to the inner court and had nothing to do with the outer court.

Although now he can use his own prestige to forcibly establish it, but he doesn't like this kind of monotonous style. If possible, he certainly hopes to get the support of the outer court.

Therefore, for major government affairs, the first step is to try to persuade his courtiers to make them understand, so that there will be no situation of obedience, unless this first step is useless, and he has to implement it, then It's time to use the power of the emperor, just use the power of the emperor, just like when we just crossed over.

Without waiting for a while, the first assistant Wen Tiren spoke up and said: "The old minister thinks that the Ministry of Communications should be established!"

Anyway, what the emperor said makes sense, and one more minister is also under the cabinet and has no effect on him.But there was one thing he couldn't figure out.It was the emperor who asked him to experiment with the main chat group before, but what does this have to do with the establishment of the Ministry of Communications?
"Your Majesty, the subject also agrees that for the sake of our future generations, we should set up a Ministry of Communications!" Bi Ziyan, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, followed closely.

As the emperor said just now, the benefits brought by road construction are obvious. For him, the Minister of the Ministry of Households, it will be of great help. Of course, he must agree.But he also has a question, he has doubts in his heart, and he is going to ask later if the emperor doesn't say anything.

The other courtiers listened and expressed their approval one after another.Seeing this, Shen Yongmao was a little helpless, but he had no choice but to agree.

Then this matter was settled like this, and Emperor Chongzhen was also happy, and he had also selected the candidate, that is, Liu Mao, who is currently in charge of the Ministry of War for Luqiao, will be the first minister of the Ministry of Communications.

In this regard, one is that the appointment of these high-ranking officials is not under the control of the Ministry of Officials, but directly comes from the emperor's order; the other is that Liu Mao has been in charge of the Daming Road and Bridge for the past few years, so he was promoted to Minister of the Ministry of Communications, all in these imperial courts. As expected by senior officials.

After a while, Liu Mao, who was hit by a pie falling from the sky, was dragged into this group of Wenhua Palace in a daze. Now, he has the qualifications.

Liu Mao was overjoyed when he learned that he had become the second-rank minister of the newly established Ministry of Communications. No, he almost cried with joy. Fortunately, it was not a voice communication, but he could also know his excitement from his repeated thank you.

Emperor Chongzhen reassured him, and then continued: "Trains and steamships will also be assigned to the Ministry of Communications in the future. In this way, the task on Liu Qing's side is very heavy. We must make good plans and repair cement roads." The construction of railways, water and land transportation must be comprehensively planned and considered, and the construction of each road must be controlled within the scope of the imperial court, and support the economic construction of Daming to the greatest extent possible!"

"My minister would like to obey the holy will!" Liu Mao immediately responded.

At this time, the courtiers in the Wenhua Palace group suddenly became terrified again. Could it be that the emperor had planned a long time ago, interlocking, starting from the invention of cement, even until the train came out, the ultimate purpose of these is For Daming traffic?No, it should be to make everyone in Daming rich in the end?
Thinking of this, they were surprised again. You know, when cement was first invented, it was still a time when Jianlu had a great momentum.At that time, everyone in the court was troubled by Jianlu, thinking about how to deal with Jianlu.But the emperor has already thought further, thinking of today's step!
Thinking of this, they suddenly thought of a word in their minds: foresight!
However, Bi Ziyan still had doubts. Seeing that Emperor Chongzhen had not said what he wanted to say, he finally couldn't help but asked: "Your Majesty, the expenses for the Ministry of Communications are quite a lot. , money is being used everywhere. Although building roads is a good thing, I can’t squeeze out too much money.”

In the past, if the national treasury received so much income every year, he might wake up laughing from his dreams.But who knows, the income of the national treasury is increasing year by year, but it makes him feel that the money is not enough year by year.Thinking about it carefully, he found that although he earned more, he also spent more!

In the past, the salaries of soldiers all over the world were given half, but never more, and delayed as long as they could, but now, these salaries are distributed through the Daming Construction Bank system, and they are all real.

In the past, the salaries of officials all over the world were only so small, and they would think of using some unused real objects, or even the previous Daming treasures to lower part of it.But now, not only the salaries of officials all over the world have been increased, but even the officials who did not need to pay salaries from the court before have become officials and receive monthly salaries.All the officials in the world plus the salaries of the former officials, this is definitely a large amount of money, but it is actually distributed every month through the Daming Construction Bank system.

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At this moment, in Bi Ziyan's mind, he thought a lot at once, and the more he thought about it, the more painful he felt, so he hurriedly added: "Although the court's income at the end of this year will be more than last year, the minister has already Forget it, there will be more places to spend money in the coming year, the Ministry of Communications..."

He was complaining here, and Liu Mao saw that his enthusiasm seemed to have been poured with cold water.Although he built cement roads in the past two years, he tried to use various methods of raising funds.However, others are not stupid. In a prosperous area with a lot of traffic, some people will participate in the shares. This is no problem.

However, if the matter of road construction is raised to the position of the Ministry of Communications, then it is not just a selective construction of prosperous areas.For the sake of the future generations of Ming Dynasty, even if it is not a prosperous place, it must be repaired.As the emperor said, only when the roads are repaired will there be more prosperous places.And the roads in these places really cost the court money.

Now that the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs is already crying for poverty, what should the Ministry of Communications do? Will it end up being just an idle office, a yamen that makes people laugh?
Unexpectedly, Emperor Chongzhen smiled in his heart when he heard this. In fact, he had been prepared for a long time, and immediately replied: "Bi Qing doesn't have to worry about this, I can just open up the source for Qing."

As the saying goes, if you want to be rich, there are only two ways to increase revenue and reduce expenditure.

The so-called increasing income and reducing expenditure are actually two ways to find new ways to make money and save money.This is easy to say, but it is too difficult to do it.Compared with throttling, open source is more difficult!
There are always smart people in the world, and there are always people who will think of ways to make money and will do it.Therefore, it is actually very difficult to do open source.

When these people in the Wenhua Palace group heard this, they immediately lifted their spirits.The emperor actually has another way to make money?How do you feel that making money is so easy in the emperor's place?

If it is said that others say that he has an open source method, many people may doubt it.However, when Emperor Chongzhen said so, none of these high-ranking Ming officials would doubt it.In fact, the past of Emperor Chongzhen has proved that he has this ability!

Bi Ziyan immediately replied in the group with a little surprise: "Your Majesty, how do you open source?"

Everyone else was staring at the chat area of ​​the temporary group, waiting to see the emperor's reply.They want to know, what kind of whimsical idea did the emperor have this time, to create a new way of making money for the court!
Emperor Chongzhen saw the question, so he said in the group: "You should all understand the benefits of this chat group, instant messaging! Therefore, I decided to launch an upgraded version of the letter in Daming, that is, charge for instant messaging!"

If you are a person of later generations, you may immediately understand what Emperor Chongzhen wants to do.But these people in the Wenhua Palace group still don't quite understand, the upgraded version of the letter?What's the meaning?
Emperor Chongzhen probably knew that they didn't know much about it, so he explained in detail: "I will give you an example. For example, in Yingtian Mansion, the court announced that if the people in Yingtian Mansion have something, they want to tell the people in the capital. relatives and friends, or business partners, the imperial court can help them bring the news to the corresponding person immediately, or send the news to the corresponding person in half a day. Pay?"

"As for the specific operation, I will set up a new yamen, which can be assigned to the Ministry of Communications or the Ministry of Households. This is to be determined. The core of the people in this yamen is the people in the chat group. They are responsible for sending and receiving news from the two places, and then the local Others sent the news to the local people. This matter is impossible for others, but for me, it is extremely simple, how about it?"

To put it bluntly, this is actually an idea that Emperor Chongzhen thought of before, which is similar to the telegram of later generations, and if it goes further, it is equivalent to a telephone.

Hearing this, no one in the Wenhua Palace group spoke.For future generations, this should not be too normal.But for people at this time, it is unimaginable to use the chat group to set up an instant messaging office.It's also fortunate that they are all in the chat group, otherwise, if you tell them, they won't believe you even if you kill them.

Seeing that everyone in the group was shocked, Emperor Chongzhen didn't care about it, and continued to say in the group: "As for how to charge, you can discuss with the Qing and wait to make a regulation. What I mean is to benefit the people, not to be arrogant! When the time comes , I set up such yamen all over the world, so that the people of Ming Dynasty can benefit from it, and can also increase their knowledge, so that they will no longer be complacent!"

Compared with the telegrams of later generations, Emperor Chongzhen's can be said to have no cost at all.No, there is also a little cost, that is, the people who send news from the local yamen have to pay wages for these.There are also yamen and so on, but these costs are low.

The courtiers in the group, after a long while, immediately praised him one after another. Words like the emperor's wisdom were like swiping the screen.

You know, this chat group belongs to the emperor, and now he is using it to benefit the people, which actually benefits these officials.They also have the need for remote communication, especially instant messaging.

And Wen Tiren didn't understand why the emperor asked him to do that before the meeting until now.Because of this, in fact, members of the chat group can do it.But now, only those appointed by the emperor can do this, and it has become a unique business!

In addition, this approach has many advantages!

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