Back to the Ming Dynasty to be a tyrant

Hong Chengchou's first reaction was that Emperor Chongzhen started to go crazy again.

Now that so many barbarians are building the railway, you are still not satisfied, and you plan to recruit the common people to build the railway?

How many barbarians died on this railway, Your Majesty, do you really have no idea?Is it because the humble minister exhausted the 40 Tatar barbarians to death within a month, so that you, the old man, can understand?

Or do you want to learn from His Majesty Yang Er?Are you not afraid that you will hang there when the railway is repaired to Yangzhou?

It can be foreseen that if Emperor Chongzhen really intends to consume people's power as desperately as His Majesty Yang Er built a canal, no matter how good his reputation among the people is, he will not be able to withstand such consumption!

At that time, just wait for the world to be in chaos, and the 36th road will rebel against the king, and the 72nd road will start to smoke and dust!

Especially 12 years before Chongzhen, when was there no war?In which year was there no natural disaster?What's going on in your own country? You haven't figured it out yet?

After deliberating for a while, Hong Chengchou bowed and said, "Your Majesty, the natural disasters in our country have just decreased, and the people are recuperating. I'm afraid it's not suitable to recruit people at this time?"

Emperor Chongzhen asked curiously: "Why isn't it suitable? I didn't intend to recruit the people in vain, but let the people voluntarily allow them to build railways during their slack.

At that time, the government will pay wages according to the market price, and the people will earn money, and the speed of railway construction will also increase. Why not kill two birds with one stone? "

Hong Chengchou breathed a sigh of relief.

If it is just to let the common people voluntarily participate in the railway construction project and pay wages during the slack season, then there is no problem.

I'm afraid that Emperor Chongzhen thought that the railway was being repaired too slowly, and he would conscript a large number of civilian husbands to serve in corvee as soon as he slapped his head.

Emperor Chongzhen continued to ask: "Didn't several sections of the railway use this method before? Isn't it being used now? According to common sense, the speed should be much faster if there are people working together to build it?"

Hong Chengchou said: "Your Majesty, this method is still being used now, but the progress is not satisfactory."

Emperor Chongzhen was very curious—the people of the Ming Dynasty were the people of the later generations of the Celestial Dynasty. It was absolutely no problem to endure hardships and stand hard work. How could the speed with which the infrastructure madman was working on the construction site be unsatisfactory?

Hong Chengchou smiled bitterly and said: "The local government sent the people to the construction site in the name of making them serve corvée, but those Japanese slave supervisors didn't dare to control them.

If it was the barbarians, the whips in the hands of these Japanese slaves would have been whipped up long ago, but facing the people of Ming Dynasty who were in corvée, the Japanese slaves didn't even dare to ask, so the progress naturally slowed down. "

Emperor Chongzhen was a little puzzled: "Could it be that these common people are just messing around, and they are allowed to mess around like this on the construction site?"

Hong Chengchou said: "At the moment, this is the only way to go. After all, it is a corvée, and the wages paid are very little, which is better than nothing. In addition, there are local government to protect the people, so let's just mess around. The main work is those barbarians. .”

Emperor Chongzhen shook his head and said, "It's not right. No wonder these barbarians died so quickly, they are always not enough. It turns out that the root cause is here."

After pondering for a while, Emperor Chongzhen continued: "My original intention was to let the people of Ming Dynasty rely on those non-dangerous construction sites to make money, and let the barbarians take their lives to fill in dangerous sites, but I didn't want to make it like this."

When Hong Chengchou heard the words, he immediately broke into a sweat—not only the Ministry of Railways, but also other yamen like the Ministry of Industry, they were all using barbarians as consumables!

If this is really pursued, his Ministry of Railways made a bad start, and by the way, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Communications, and the Shaofu were all taken astray!

Before Hong Chengchou pleaded guilty, Emperor Chongzhen continued: "I have planned to abolish corvee for a long time, and it seems that it will be implemented as soon as possible."

After thinking about it, Emperor Chongzhen simply ordered: "Chuan Wen Tiren and Guo Yunhou come to see me."

After Wang Chengen ordered the little eunuch to pass on Wen Tiren and Guo Yunhou, Emperor Chongzhen continued: "After the corvee is abolished, the railway road can recruit people to work through the local government, and the wages are calculated according to the progress and the amount of work. It’s just a matter of sending more small officials.”

Hong Chengchou bowed and said, "Your Majesty is wise."

Those people who were out of corvé before were dawdling on the construction site, firstly for wages, and secondly to finish their days of corvée. Naturally, it is impossible to work hard, and the progress will naturally not be fast.

But if the people are recruited to work in the way that Emperor Chongzhen said, it will surely speed up the progress of railway construction by a large margin!

Whether the corvee is abolished or not is out of the hands of the minister of the Ministry of Railways. Naturally, Wen Shoufu and Guo Shangshu will accompany His Majesty to have a headache.

When Wen Tiren and Guo Yunhou who came here in a hurry learned that Emperor Chongzhen was going to abolish corvee, their first reaction was that the emperor was messing with something, or that the emperor had made a decision again!

Is the abolition of corvee a good thing?Definitely is!

"Han Feizi Bei Nei": If there are fewer corvees, the people will be safe, and if the people are safe, they will have no weight of power. If the power is not heavy, the power will be destroyed.

Everyone knows that light corvee and low endowment can bring peace to the people!

There are three types of corvettes in Ming Dynasty, one is lijia service, which refers to the affairs of one li;

And it's all free!The government will not give a penny of wages!

In particular, the collection of corvee can be compulsory. When it comes to emergency construction of river embankments, is it convenient to hire people temporarily or to directly conscript the people for compulsory work?

But that was not the case for Emperor Chongzhen.

Corvettes have been changed a lot since Emperor Chongzhen came to the throne, including wages, and even wages paid in the market.

But the thinking of the people can't be changed for a while. Even if they can get paid, they still think that these jobs are done by themselves, and they can be lazy if they can.

All officials in Ming Dynasty are well aware of this point.

But just in response to that sentence, bullying the superior and not concealing the inferior, anyway, the common people take advantage of it, and their official reputation will be improved. If the official reputation is good, the Beijing inspection will have extra points, and the chance of promotion will be great. Why bother? Can't you find happiness for yourself in such a small matter?

Moreover, the angle of standing is different, and the way of looking at the problem is also different.

For Wen Tiren and Guo Yunhou, now that Emperor Chongzhen decided to abolish corvee with a slap in the face, what should he do if it involves river embankments, dormitory mausoleums and other issues in the future?

Could it be said that the mausoleum of Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty was not repaired by conscripts from the Shaofu, but by hired laborers?

It hurts to think about it!

Emperor Chongzhen sneered at these reasons: "Nowadays, the people are spoiled. Most of the time when they are actually out of corvee, they let those laborers work. The people just fiddle with it a few times and it's over. This is fooling someone. Woolen cloth?

Yes, my Daming is not short of money now, whether it is the national treasury or internal funds, there is a lot of silver in it, and it needs to be taken care of frequently so as not to rust, but it is not such a waste!

After the abolition of corvee, people will be paid according to their work in the future. If you work more, you will get more, and if you work less, you will get less. It is fair! "

Wen Tiren bowed and said: "Qizou Your Majesty, I think your Majesty's words are reasonable, but they are too one-sided.

Whether it is the construction of railways or other minor corvee, it is natural that His Majesty wants to abolish it, but His Majesty also wants to abolish corvee such as sleeping mausoleums and river embankments? "

Emperor Chongzhen, who was only thinking about how to improve the enthusiasm of the people to work, also hesitated - both the sleeping mausoleum and the river embankment are dangerous, and if these corvees are really abolished by then, will the common people be willing to do it? These two jobs are really hard to say!

Especially for some other jobs that may involve danger, it is very likely that there will be no common people to do it, and you can only rely on those savages!

It was okay when I was alive, and even my son should be fine at that time, but what about when Daming really unified the blue star?

What should we do when there is no barbarian one day?Who will do the work?

After hesitating for a long while, Emperor Chongzhen still gritted his teeth and said: "The corvee labor on the river embankment is handed over to the local guard!

As for my tomb, let’s talk about it later, or the Shaofu will pay for the employment of the people, or the Shaofu will confiscate the guards.

In short, abolish all corvees and let the people recuperate! "

Is the Three Gorges Project in later generations dangerous?No, the people are not forced to work!Why can't Daming do it?