Chapter 57                                                             �

The lowest food in the Ming Dynasty was 250 syr.

However, it was the atmosphere that only existed during the Xuande period and during the early years of Zhengtong.

Zhu Qizhen was also a little ashamed.

After he took power, he was a big deal in the world, so the price of grain has never fallen. Of course, Zhu Qizhen also paid great attention to his reputation. The price of grain among the people has always been on Zhu Qizhen's desk.

No matter which grain price in the capital city, Zhu Qizhen could find it from the desk.

Once the food price increases, Zhu Qizhen always has to ask about it.

Generally speaking, after the seventh year of Zhengtong, the grain prices in various places in the Ming Dynasty remained in the range of 250 to 500 ci. If it was a bumper year, it would be a little lower, but no less than 250 ci. If it was a normal year or a disaster year, it would be more likely to jump higher. It would even exceed 500 ci, 600 ci, 700 ci, or even higher.

Especially in the past few years after the Zhengtong 14 years, the grain prices in various places have been hovering around 400 ci.

Now, no matter how Zhu Qizhen controls this disaster, it is inevitable that the food price will rise.

In other places, Zhu Qizhen may be more relaxed, but Beijing cannot. Beijing is a city where grain is imported entirely. If the grain prices are high, many common people will not be able to afford it.

You should know that there are many craftsmen in the south of the city. They are almost the same as workers. The food price has increased several times, so there will be problems.

Li Xian also understood this and said, "Please rest assured that, by May next year, the grain price in Beijing will definitely not exceed 500 cents."

There is a decisive meaning in Li Xian's words.

In this way, Zhu Qizhen felt a little relieved.

Don’t look at Li Xian’s compassionate heart on weekdays, but Zhu Qizhen knows that Li Xian is also a tough side. If Li Xian was just a good man, he would never be able to reach his current position.

Some of the things that Li Xian has done are really powerful. He doesn’t kill people and doesn’t know who takes the action until he dies. If Zhu Qizhen hadn’t had the extraordinary control over Beijing, he would have been deceived by Li Xian.

Of course, for a prime minister, this is not a subtraction term, but an addition term.

To put it bluntly, it is called excluding dissidents. But not excluding dissidents. If a chief minister manages this way, if he can't even do this, how can he control a country?

So, since Li Xian said this, Zhu Qizhen felt sad for the grain merchants in Beijing. If they stock up on goods, they don’t even have to stock up on goods, as long as they need to use it, Li Xian will not be afraid to borrow people’s heads.

Sometimes civil servants kill people, which is more vicious than Zhu Qizhen.

Li Xian continued: "It was not too late to make up for the bribe after the loss of sheep. This is the memorial that Wang Yonghe had just come to the tour. Please check it out."

Zhu Qizhen said: "No, I have seen it."

After all, the process of government affairs is always to go to the Sili Supervisor to transfer it to Zhu Qizhen and then to the cabinet.

If an emperor who is not diligent, Zhu Qizhen might have missed it, but Zhu Qizhen never reads the memorials of the governor. It is also after reading the cabinet and reading it together with the cabinet's ticket.

However, Zhu Qizhen must first read the memorials of the cabinet, six ministries, governors and governors from all over the country, and even generals from all over the country before transferring the cabinet ticket.

In his memorial, Wang Yonghe proposed three major water conservancy projects.

The first is Jing Prefecture Changti.

After the Yangtze River emerged from the Three Gorges, it was the most dangerous place in Jingzhou. This flood proved this point even more. Therefore, Wang Yonghe proposed to build the Changli Stone Dike in the Jingzhou section of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River so that the river defense can be strengthened. Even if there is heavy flood in the future, such a big thing will not happen.

You should know that even if the Jingzhou section of the Yangtze River is now under flood control every year, it is a big problem.

Secondly, it is to start the Huaihe River entering the sea project.

This time, the Huaihe River is another key disaster area, not only the downstream, but also the upstream. Many floods are caused by the poor drainage of the upstream, and the Huaihe River is overflowing.

This is another big project.

The third major project is the project to clear the Taihu Lake into the sea.

This is the smallest of the three projects, but the most important one. The reason is very simple, that is, the economic center of the Ming Dynasty has always been in Jiangnan.

Even though Zhu Qizhen has always wanted to boost the northern economy, for a long time, the northern economy was not as good as the Jiangnan area, and the location of Taihu Lake is the center of the Jiangnan area.

There is a problem with Taihu Lake, which affects the surrounding prefectures and counties and causes great economic losses.

If this project is successful and the economy of Jiangnan is preserved, even if there is a major disaster in the future, the court will have more room for maneuver.

This project was actually completed by Hai Rui in later generations, that is, the Wusong River went out of the Huangpu River, laying the foundation for the current Shanghai water system.

Zhu Qizhen looked at it and had a headache.

After many years of the emperor's arrival, he also heard the string sound and realized the elegant meaning.

Li Xian was not the kind of person who was very fond of merit and liked to promote water conservancy. But now he is becoming more and more biased towards the water conservancy sect, which is the official who rose from the Hebei water conservancy project.

Like the Water Conservancy College, every place you go, you must study water conservancy.

Of course, this is also influenced by Zhu Qizhen.

But Li Xian, like them, was determined to build water conservancy to promote the benefits of the people and destroy the harm of the people? No, Li Xian wanted to oppose the war against Annan.

Just as Li Xian spoke, some of his thoughts could not be hidden from Zhu Qizhen. Even if Zhu Qizhen did something bypassed the cabinet, it would not hinder Li Xian's judgment of Zhu Qizhen.

That is, Zhu Qizhen has the intention to destroy Annan.

When he remembered that he fought in Annan for 30 years during the Yongle period, the battle was exhausted and the people were in trouble, and the world was in full swing. Li Xian had a sense of mission. That is, he must stop what the emperor did?

Li Xian even came forward to summon Wu Shilian. Although he had not promised anything, the cabinet chief minister was willing to meet Wu Shilian, which was a signal in itself.

Li Xian's actions seemed to give up on himself.

Since the current emperor is unwilling to be active and silence-free and not to cause any big news, then just cause trouble in China. Don’t you like to build water conservancy?

Li Xian took the initiative to search for water conservancy projects that need to be built in various places, including the Changdi of Jingzhou, the Huaihe River entering the sea, the Taihu Lake entering the sea, the Weishan Lake plan, the Qianli seawall in Zhejiang, and even the Poyang Lake and Dongting Lake embankments.

These projects, at least one or two years, at most ten years, and could not be built at the same time. Otherwise, they would have decided to let Zhu Qizhen follow Emperor Yang of Sui in one fell swoop.

There is also the Chidao Network that Zhu Qizhen has always insisted on building.

Li Xian didn't believe it anymore. Under such circumstances, Zhu Qizhen still had money and food to fight Annan thousands of miles away.

However, Li Xian could not shake Zhu Qizhen's intention to expand south, and even for nothing else, just for food. Who would not know from later generations that the convenience of grain production in Southeast Asia is the case.

Among the world's rice production countries, China accounts for 30% of the world, while Vietnam, the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia and Myanmar are all in the top ten, and the total of these five countries should account for about 20% of the world's rice production.

This is because farmland development in many countries may not be sufficient except for Vietnam.

This is just rice.

Southeast Asia is a granary. Although grain production is still very inefficient now, Zhu Qizhen believes that after he occupied these places, he immigrated a large number of people. In the future, it will not be better than the South China Sea, but the future.

In this era, grain production is something that cannot be emphasized too much.

Even if you don’t say anything, the benefits of sailing and commerciality will be destroyed by this point alone, and it is nothing more than a crime for every man to be innocent and possess a treasure.

But Zhu Qizhen didn't want to break up with Li Xian. After all, he still had to rely on Li Xian for governing the country, so he blew up and said, "The court is now in a difficult situation. Taihu project can be done. I will make the decision, allocate 500,000 taels of silver from the treasury, and raise funds in the place. It's almost done. Let's put other things aside."

Although Zhu Qizhen decided to be careful to destroy Annan, it is not that Zhu Qizhen had no idea about the advancement of the Ming water conservancy project.

It's just that there are differences in the order of front and back.
Chapter completed!