My Daming New Empire

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In this era, it is common for generals in the army to accept bribes. In the past, it was normal for the military guards to eat empty salaries and exploit the salaries of the soldiers at the bottom.

But now the Daming Development Bank has opened outlets in all counties across the country, and the salaries of all Ming officials, including soldiers, are directly distributed to soldiers through the bank.

In this way, it is almost impossible to eat empty salary, but it is impossible to stop the exploitation of salary.

This is not just a matter of supervision, but also because the superior can take whatever he wants from his subordinates, and even the subordinates' lives are controlled by the superior.

In such an environment, even if the superior does not exploit, those subordinates will give most of their salaries.

The corruption brought about by the limitations of this era cannot be eradicated unless the social hierarchy is overthrown.

However, this kind of change in the social structure cannot be easily touched. No matter how you say it, there is no reason to rebel against yourself.

After reporting on the bank's affairs, Mao Xun began to report on Daming's current infrastructure construction work, which is also an aspect that Zhu Zhanji is more interested in.

The truth that if you want to get rich, you must first build roads is not understood by later generations.

Since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, businessmen from various countries have regarded smooth roads as an important basis for business development.

Although Zhu Di was not an emperor who valued business, the business of Daming is almost controlled by internal monitoring, and he will not make things difficult for his own money bag.

More importantly, he is a war mad.In his vision, Ming's mobile field troops could be mobilized to any corner of the country in a short period of time, which was what he had always dreamed of.

Although it was for the sake of war, today's Ming Dynasty has regarded the construction of three vertical and three horizontal concrete roads as the current basic national policy.

Although the three vertical and three horizontal roads are basically centered on Yingtianfu, the capital city, this kind of planning is more in line with the actual situation of Daming today.

Because in today's Daming, except for the slightly richer southeast, the rest of the region is still poor.Especially in the northern region, where there were ten rooms and nine empty spaces at the beginning, thousands of miles of uninhabited people, after decades of recuperation, they still haven't been able to recover.

Building roads in other areas is a great waste of resources.Building roads with Yingtianfu as the center point can not only quickly mobilize the Jingwei and Jingbing to other places, but also allow the business of the capital to get greater resource support.

Zhu Di has already seen it now. When Zhu Zhanji told him that the Jiajiang Industrial Zone would bring greater benefits to Daming than the Beimingshan Copper Mine, he still didn't believe it.

But now, the Jiajiang Industrial Zone has only been developed for more than two years, but it has already driven the business of the whole world.

Now Zhu Di doesn't know how to manage the Jiajiang Industrial Zone, because there are so many things in it that he doesn't really understand.

And this place has brought him great benefits. An industrial zone now brings him more than 500 million taels of pure income every year, which is more than a quarter of the entire Daming tax.

With less than one county seat, it can generate nearly [-]% of Daming's revenue. Zhu Di would never believe it before.

But now that the facts are in front of him, Zhu Di is reluctant to part with this money bag. Even if he doesn't understand it, he can only let it go and study it slowly by himself.

The only thing he can understand now is that the development of Jiajiang Industrial Zone is definitely not something that can be imitated by copying a few of the same factories.This is a miracle that occurred when the technology and resources of the entire Ming Dynasty were concentrated together.

A minister wrote a letter to expand this industrial model in other places, such as Wuchang, Luoyang, Hangzhou and other places that also have great rivers.

But Zhu Di did not agree.Because he hasn't seen the essence of this industrial zone clearly, but he has already seen the horror of this industrial zone.

He would never agree to the emergence of such a large-scale industrial cluster outside of the capital, which would bring countless funds and resources to local officials, and also have the capital of rebellion.

The current model is actually in line with Zhu Zhanji's plan.

The main reason why the Jiajiang Industrial Zone can develop so fast now is to suck the blood of the entire Ming Dynasty and supply this industrial zone.

Before Daming's scientific research and technical strength have not really developed, and before this model can be easily imitated, he will definitely not expand vigorously, leading to technology leakage.

He seems to be focusing on the Jiajiang Industrial Zone now, but in fact, he attaches the most importance to the ten research institutes at Xiamaqiao Farm.

It's just that this is a research institute. Apart from the emerging Medical Research Institute, the other research institutes are more like Zhu Zhanji's private hobbies supported by his own private money.

But others don't know how much Zhu Zhanji attaches importance to these research institutes.He would rather bring Jin Kuo and Sun Lin with him, but not Chen Cheng, who was in charge of the Xiamaqiao Farm, so that Chen Cheng could help him take care of the house.

Although Jin Kuo is in charge of half of the Ming Dynasty's business, but the power is tied to Zhu Di's thoughts.

Although Sun Lin is in charge of the internal monitoring network of the entire Ming Dynasty, if Zhu Zhanji is not at home, this monitoring network will only be tabooed by Zhu Di.

The foundation of the bank has been established. As long as Zhu Di doesn't mess around, the system can slowly develop and gradually control the entire financial affairs of Daming.

Now Zhu Di still can't understand these things, he can only see that the bank has helped Daming save a lot of energy and a lot of extra links.

Therefore, in the short term, it will only vigorously support the expansion of the bank, and Zhu Zhanji is not worried.

Even if the bank is in such a mess right now, it was banned by Zhu Di.But Zhu Zhanji can also learn from experience, and he can build this structure in a few years.

Only the talent and research direction of the research institute cannot be interrupted, because the entire foundation has not been laid, and any loss will be huge.

And once it is interrupted, not only time will be lost, but those talents, the entire research direction and ideas will be lost.

After reporting on the affairs of Daming in the past few months, Mao Xun said with a flattering smile: "Your Highness, Your Majesty appreciates His Highness's Sinicization strategy very much, and has praised His Highness more than once in the court. Now, in order to cooperate with His Highness's strategy, I have ordered the world's talents To emigrate overseas, if every scholar voluntarily emigrates overseas, he should be entrusted with Jinshi and given an official position below the seventh rank."

Zhu Zhanji was shocked. "Doesn't that mean that scholars all over the world hate me to the bone?"

Mao Xun was stunned for a moment before he smiled and said, "How could this be? There are countless poor and talented people in the Ming Dynasty. They are just ordinary people in the Ming Dynasty, and they may not be selected in the whole life. But as long as they are willing to emigrate overseas, they can be awarded official positions. , and now there is an endless stream of people signing up in various counties, which has exceeded ten thousand households!"

Zhu Zhanji thought about it carefully, and it was true.The scholars who can be selected are all extremely talented.There are only more than 300 people every three years, and an average of only more than 100 people a year.

As for the number of scholars in Ming Dynasty, at least it will not be less than hundreds of thousands. This ratio is very scary.

Moreover, not all the scholars in Ming Dynasty were from wealthy families, and many scholars were also poor.When there is no hope of passing the exam, I can only serve as a teacher, accountant, or even write letters for others on the street to make a living.

Nowadays, as long as one is willing to emigrate overseas, one can get a settling allowance and become an official, even if it is a county teacher, it is also a noble position.

What's more, as long as you can pass the official examination of the imperial court, you can be awarded the post of county magistrate, which is an official post that only Jinshi can hold.

Although today's Ming Dynasty does not have different assessments for Mingjing, Mingfa, Mingsu, Mingshu, Shike, Sanzhuan, and Daoju, like the Tang Dynasty, it also has many different official assessments.

Among them, of course, is to test Mingjing, and being a Jinshi is the most promising.However, many hopeless talents will also participate in the assessment of tax officials, transshipment officers, and some technical jobs.

After Tumubao, the civil servants completely controlled the government. At that time, they had the final say on everything.

Then the examination of officials in the imperial court was completely abolished, and they reduced most of the officials to officials, and only the chief officials were served by trash who knew nothing and could only recite poems and fight against each other.

The civil servants have lost their control, and the family dominates. You have to listen to them in business and war.This kind of layman leading the expert also completely brought the ancient eastern country into a dark age.

It is not yet that era, and although the status of scholars is a bit higher, it is not so high.

So at this time, they are still very happy to give them a chance to stand out.

After figuring this out, Zhu Zhanji also became happy.This time he brought two or three thousand literati, most of whom were young people.

These people are still full of hope and confidence in the future, so they don't want to stay in the barbarian land.Zhu Zhanji can only use two or three years to make them work, and then give priority to promotion to lure them.

However, if the general trend of literati relocating to serve as officials has emerged among the people, then the great prosperity of Confucianism in the Nanyang region in the future will not be a dream.

There are Confucianists who go to Nanyang to compete with the Green Sect, Zhu Zhanji does not have to worry about the comprehensive afforestation of the Nanyang countries, and may even wipe out their living soil.

The arrival of Mao Xun not only brought the latest news about Daming, but also brought Zhu Zhanji the news that he had a few more children, as well as letters from the concubines in the harem.