In addition to a large amount of cash, a large amount of assets were also seized, which could be slowly cashed out. Basically, a part of the assets are taken out every once in a while to avoid too many assets sold at one time and not being sold at a price.&1t;/p>

The Royal Consortium and other private merchants compete for these assets, but if the Royal Consortium is determined to win a certain excellent asset, it does not need to pay too much attention to the price, because the money is just for the left hand to the right hand, but the procedure still needs to be done.&1t;/p>

The value of these assets is at least 80 million yuan.&1t;/p>

Zhu Youzai directly obtained hundreds of millions of fiscal revenue this time. How can Zhu Youzai not be excited?&1t;/p>

Suddenly, with a large amount of funds, many things can be started. The first thing Zhu Youxiao did was to set up a forestry bureau, and at the same time allocated 50,000 yuan to start planting trees and afforestation in northern provinces.&1t;/p>

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were both natural disasters and **. The reason why disasters in the north were sometimes difficult to contain was because the environment was destroyed. After a large number of hills were cut down, no one planted trees, resulting in poor water and soil conservation capabilities, and bare hills were everywhere.&1t;/p>

Therefore, in northern provinces, restoring vegetation is also a feasible way to weaken disasters and strengthen disaster resistance. In addition, afforestation can provide some social ≦↙ding≦↙point≦↙small≦↙small≦↙say, 2+3.※o Employment, allowing ordinary people to have more jobs, is also a good expenditure project.&1t;/p>

At the same time, compulsory education has also been included in the plan. Royal Normal University has once again expanded the scale of further education classes to cultivate more elementary school teachers.&1t;/p>

The main purpose of learning the basic teachers is to learn pinyin, Arabic numerals, and simple mathematics. However, it will take some years to promote compulsory education across the country. Even if it is necessary to implement compulsory education in the Northern Zhili area, it will take three to five years.&1t;/p>

Then Zhu Youxiao invested 20 million yuan in water conservancy management and began to repair water conservancy facilities in northern provinces.&1t;/p>

These things will be carried out by the cabinet. However, the construction of the project will be undertaken by the Royal Infrastructure Company to avoid embezzling project funds by local governments and thus creating tofu and shoddy projects. These water conservancy projects formulated by the central government will adopt the employment system rather than the corvee system, and the young and strong people will have a wage of 30 cents a day.&1t;/p>

This 20 million yuan water conservancy investment can repair the water conservancy in the main river basins of Shandong, Henan, Shaanxi and Shanxi. It can also increase a large amount of employment and increase a certain commodity market size. It is also a relatively good choice.&1t;/p>

Zhu Youxiao and the cabinet discussed the remaining 11 million yuan budget and invested it in the highway construction. Soon the cabinet came up with a bidding plan for highway construction.&1t;/p>

This plan includes all northern provinces and will build a highway network centered on Zhili, north, connecting Shandong, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan and Liaodong. The main roads are built by the imperial court and the branch lines are invested by private capital for bidding and construction.&1t;/p>

After these highways are completed, the imperial court will have faster and more efficient in disaster relief or suppression of rebellion. At the same time, it will make the goods in Northern Zhili popular in various northern provinces and more convenient to transport them to sales locations.&1t;/p>

Therefore, the construction of highways is very necessary. In addition to the investment of the imperial court, royal capital will also become the main force in the construction of northern highways. In addition, private investment.&1t;/p>

"It is expected that within the next five years, the northern provinces will form a complete highway network. Heavy carriages can be produced without obstacles. It is expected that about 20 million yuan will be invested every year to achieve this goal." Chen Yan reported the plan to the emperor, "In addition to the imperial court's capital investment in the first year, the next funds will be invested with private funds."&1t;/p>

"Just implement this plan!" Zhu Youxiao nodded and agreed to this plan. If you want to be rich, you should first build roads! Only with transportation can you have the opportunity to have economic development.&1t;/p>

The highway network in Beizhili is about to be improved, and at this time, the goods in Beizhili have strong external market demand, so the road must be repaired.&1t;/p>

"Your Majesty, I think it's time to increase taxes for each province. The court can set up checkpoints in various areas with busy water and traffic, and charge tolls for business trips, but it must be done by the royal family." Chen Yan suggested to Zhu Youxiao.&1t;/p>

"This matter is too much to affect, so you need to act cautiously and slow down!" Zhu Youxiao hesitated a little, but in the end he still didn't make a decision.&1t;/p>

The tolls for the goods in the past are collected in each province, which is a disguised tariff. At that time, the existing economic structure of the Ming Dynasty will be directly divided, which will easily cause a large number of people in Jiangnan to be unemployed.&1t;/p>

Zhu Youxiao must stabilize the north and the south.&1t;/p>

The benefit of southern provinces to the Ming Dynasty is that they are stable enough and have strong disaster resistance. Even if the people change, rebellion and inability to shake the rule of the Ming Dynasty. However, the stability of the southern region is based on a certain commercial basis. At this time, the commodity economy exhibition in northern Zhili had caused a certain impact on the southern economy. This problem can be seen from the miner riots not long ago.&1t;/p>

If tolls are collected in southern provinces now, if unemployment is caused, the problem will be serious. After all, the working class living in cities will cause trouble once they are not full. At that time, the imperial court will not kill all the workers in southern provinces!&1t;/p>

"I think it's better to start from the sea, improve import and export tariffs first, and then make local adjustments." Zhu Youchao said, "I plan to open ports in coastal provinces soon and completely lift the sea ban."&1t;/p>

"It is indeed more stable to build import and export tariffs first, so the Maritime Bureau will expand its scale first." Chen Yan said, "In addition, the imperial court can now open up maritime trade in Northern Zhili, Liaodong and Shandong immediately."&1t;/p>

"This can be implemented immediately, and I want an honest and efficient Maritime Bureau." Zhu Youxiao reminded him and bowed calmly and said, "I must do my best."&1t;/p>

Not long after, the cabinet introduced the policy of fully opening up maritime trade in Beizhili, Shandong and Liaodong, and of course there was no big change.&1t;/p>

Because in foreign trade, currently, North Korea and Japan are not in the open ranks, and only merchant ships from the royal consortium can go to Japan for trade. North Korea's maritime trade can go to private merchant ships last year.&1t;/p>

Taiwan belongs to the province of the Ming Dynasty, and merchant ships from Northern Zhili can also be used to travel to the province. And Taiwan is still in the new policy system of Northern Zhili. As long as goods transported from Taiwan to Northern Zhili, as long as they are issued a certificate when leaving the port, they can be exempted from tariffs when entering Northern Zhili.&1t;/p>

Trade with Nanyang and other places has not yet been launched.&1t;/p>

However, a good news came from the shipyard, that is, the Imperial Power Number being built was finally launched. Because the new keel manufacturing technology was used, the keels could be spliced ​​directly, and experience was accumulated through the construction of the Imperial Power Number. The Royal Shipyard has begun to build a 15oo-ton merchant ship and is also preparing to build a 2ooo-ton merchant ship.&1t;/p>

The most important thing is that the launch of the Imperial Power means that the Ming Dynasty had the most advanced sailing warship. The disadvantage of this Western ship model is that its navigation comfort is too poor, far less comfortable than that of Chinese sailing ships. However, using soft sails means that lifting sails is lighter. Although the traditional Chinese ship model is very scientific and similar to later ship types, it is also a problem to be too advanced. With current material technology, it is still impossible to obtain light hard sails. Although it can be lifted and lowered by tools, once damaged, it is quite inconvenient to maintain.&1t;/p>

The Royal Shipyard will start to manufacture soft sail merchant ships, but it is not a comprehensive hard sail merchant ship. Hard sails still have more economical and comfortable characteristics. It is obviously more convenient for hard sail merchant ships to be used in coastal transportation, and sails are easily replaced during coastal transportation. Both ships can be manufactured and used.&1t;/p>

At the same time, when transporting fragile goods such as porcelain and glass, it is also more useful for hard sailing merchant ships.&1t;/p>

While the Imperial Power was launched, another fifteen thousand-ton warships have been launched and delivered to the navy for use.&1t;/p>

This means that the Ming Dynasty Royal Navy already owns twenty-one thousand-ton gunboats and a 1,500-ton Imperial Power gunboat.&1t;/p>

Zhu Youxiao was very happy when he saw the shipyard's report. He finally formed the navy, so he immediately ordered the Royal Trading Company to form a merchant fleet to trade in Nanyang.&1t;/p>

With the navy, maritime trade can be launched.&1t;/p>

Of course, what Zhu Youxiao wanted was to snatch the Philippines and Malaysia from the Spaniards and the Dutch. It wouldn't matter if you couldn't grab it for a while. Just beat the Dutch and the Spaniards first so that they would not dare to harasse the Ming Dynasty's maritime trade.&1t;/p>

At that time, the Ming Dynasty's merchant ships can continue to travel to the countries on the Indochina Peninsula, and get the food that Ming Dynasty needs most from there.&1t;/p>

The most important significance of maritime trade is to obtain raw materials from overseas.&1t;/p>

However, what surprised Zhu Youxiao was that after the Yangzhou salt merchant was seized, it actually caused financial problems in Jiangnan. Because the salt merchant capital was seized, many commercial activities were forced to be suspended, and soon a chain of financial storms was triggered in the Jiangnan area.&1t;/p>

Among them, more than a dozen bankers were run and closed down. After discussing with the senior management of the Royal Bank, Yang Guorui applied to Zhu Youxiao to enter the Jiangnan market and provide loans to Jiangnan merchants to calm the financial problems.&1t;/p>

"Royal Bank has the ability to expand into the Jiangnan region, and the size of the financial market in the Jiangnan region is not comparable to that of the northern provinces. If the Royal Bank enters the Jiangnan provinces, it is expected to obtain a large amount of deposit funds." Yang Guorui reported some financial situation in the Jiangnan region to the emperor, and Royal Capital has long been salivating about the Jiangnan region.&1t;/p>

"Jiangnan Capital is very hostile to our royal capital, and is calling us to compete for profit with the people all day long. If we enter Jiangnan at this time, will we be rejected?" Zhu You proofreader Yang Guorui and asked.&1t;/p>

"This time the financial crisis in Jiangnan is a great opportunity for the Royal Consortium to enter Jiangnan. It will not be excluded by Jiangnan capital. There will always be some businessmen who will defect to us." Yang Guorui said.&1t;/p>

"Since that's the case, then open the bank to Jiangnan!" Zhu Youxiao nodded and agreed. (To be continued...)&1t;/p>
Chapter completed!