Chapter 583 – The Many Constructed Vassals

Zhang Anshi needs silver now.

He is in the capital, but his heart is in Xinzhou.

Nowadays, the population of the new continent has grown quite a bit, and many industries, indeed, are considered to be thriving.

But compared to the vastness of the new continent, this area of development, in fact, is just a drop in the bucket.

What’s more, the lower right corner of the new continent, where that south and north islands are located, is not a small area, and now it has been discovered that the new continent has set up four counties.

It’s just that the most important thing to really develop is manpower.

On the contrary, now, the military and civilian people of Daming are no longer as resistant to traveling to the clans as they once were.

After all …… under the persistent efforts of the vassal kings, at least at the level of public opinion, there is indeed a great improvement.

Occasionally there will be some people who return home, after returning to their hometowns, take out a large amount of silver to build ancestral halls, to the township to repair some of the roads, it is considered that although people overseas, but in the townships of a few more points of support.

The problem is that it is not possible to have empty people, such a vast and fertile land, if there is not enough infrastructure, it is not possible to reclaim a large amount of land, build a pasture and establish a market place.

Moreover, because of the lack of infrastructure and the vastness of the land, which makes some lawless people, attempting to penetrate into the various parts of the new continent, disobedience to the jurisdiction of the new continent of the Song royal family, over time, it is very likely to produce the situation of the cut-off.

Therefore, Zhang Anshi and Yang Shiqi, who was far away in Xinzhou, entered into a gigantic plan almost unanimously.

New Island Railroad Loop.

Yes, a railroad along the vastness of New Chau, following the coastline, and then lending connections to the ports, making the whole of New Chau, as a whole.

In this way, more mines could be excavated, and they could also be easily transported, and countless lands could be reclaimed along the route, countless new ranches could be built, and bazaar after bazaar could be established.

The biggest disadvantage of this program, once it starts to be implemented, is that it requires a sky-high amount of money, but the benefits and gains are, well, unimaginable.

To build the railroad, itself can lead to a large number of local workshops in Xinzhou, and mining, smelting, logging, machinery are also prosperous, in addition, is the need for countless craftsmen and laborers, in the labor force is limited, but also inevitably lead to the rise of salaries.

And the rise in salaries will certainly attract more people to New Chau.

Even countless merchants and traders are bound to flock to the city.

Then, in order to build the railroad, the various ports, will need to be responsible for the transportation of a large number of raw materials, goods, is bound to …… greatly increase the need for sea vessels! Right now the new continent vigorously develop, is the shipbuilding industry, the future benefits of shipbuilding, is almost imaginable.

It can be said that this is a plan to benefit all of the new continent, for the royal family, naturally, is also greatly beneficial, plainly speaking, this is called the strengthening of the rule, so that the original territory of the original large, in a state of disorder, and gradually by means of the convenience of transportation, you can begin to transition to the county system.

The Song royal family in Xinzhou, also holding a large number of dockyards, workshops, mines shares, the future prosperity of these industries, will certainly make the Song royal family in the future to have a sufficiently stable income.

Not to mention, almost all of the land in this new continent is in the hands of the Song Wangfu, and the development of any piece of land is a gold ten thousand taels deal for the Song Wangfu.

In fact, there was another reason why Zhang Anshi was painfully determined.

That is to take advantage of the moment, the new continent is not densely populated, the vast majority of the migrant population, is still only in a few newly built towns around, at this time, the construction of a railroad around the continent, almost ignoring the impact of the villages and towns along the way and the farmland, which means that the cost of migrant population, as well as the planning can be reduced to a minimum, or even to the point of negligible.

And the Song royal family can do whatever they want with the planning of the new continent, just consider the impact of the terrain.

This is not comparable to Daming, Daming various Buzhengji, railroads, new, even if the land can be expropriated from the squires, construction, but there are many areas, with a large number of people living, and thus had to choose to modify the program.

With so many benefits, as a matter of course, it should have been started long ago. After all, it can bring about the flow of capital, bring about a large number of people moving in, strengthen the rule, develop a large amount of land, expand the tax source, and drive the development of all kinds of industries, so it would not be an exaggeration to say that it is a perfect ten.

It is just a pity that the construction of railroads in Xinzhou is even far from the construction of railroads by the various Buzhengzhi Division comparable to even the recent railroad plans in Annam, in front of Zhang Anshi’s big plan, it is just a child’s play.

The land of Xinzhou is too vast, even comparable to the territory of the Great Ming Guannei, such a vast land, to build out a railroad along the coastline, such a project, almost equivalent to the immediate Great Ming Ministry of Railway’s railroad construction program.

A program of this magnitude means astronomical amounts of money.

And that funding can only be raised by Zhang Anshi himself.

The Zhang family has a lot of silver, these years, it can be said that a large amount of income, unloaded to the new continent.

But that still, doesn’t satisfy the needs of this program.

Yang Shiqi’s side of the discount, the immediate shortfall of funds, at least in the ninety million taels of silver up and down.

This is why, Zhang Anshi had to take advantage of this telegram to buy low and sell high, thereby making a big profit.

This time, on the contrary, it made more than 30 million taels, which can be considered to be a pitfall for the merchants.

But right now, there is still a significant funding gap.

So, Zhang Anshi had to play other ideas, after all, …… can t always catch a group of people to death. Whatever it is, Zhang Anshi prefers a thin stream!

Early the next morning, Zhang Anshi took a copy of the charter and went into the palace to see Zhu Di.

Zhu Di carefully looked at the statute, nodded, casually put the statute down, then said: “Da Lisi and the Ministry of Justice, law survey? How, right now the law of Daming, what are the deficiencies?”

Zhang Anshi said, “Your Majesty, it is not that there are insufficiencies, but when Emperor Taizu was around, his laws and decrees were geared to the situation at that time, but nowadays, many of the situations in the world have changed. Because of this, it is only out of place to continue to follow the laws and decrees from the time of the Great Ancestor’s Gao Emperor. I understand that there are many disputes between merchants, or disputes between employers and their employees, and the government has no law that can be invoked …….”

Zhu Di revealed a bit of displeasure and interrupted Zhang Anshi with a frown, “This is where you are confused, what do you mean by the anachronism of Emperor Taizu’s decree? What do you mean by “Emperor Taizu’s law is out of fashion?” How saintly was Emperor Taizu, and how could his law be out of fashion? I am the most filial, and your saying so is called scolding the father to the son.”

That is to say the person who said this was Zhang Anshi, if it were anyone else, Zhu Di would have stormed out long ago.

Zhang Anshi naturally understands that this is considered to have touched Zhu Di’s bottom line, so he was busy saying, “I will die.”

Zhu Di waved his hand, then looked serious and said: “You have to learn more from the solution to the Qing, more to learn a study of Emperor Taizu, Emperor Taizu weekdays, the most good is to adapt to the time and place, according to the conditions, according to the conditions, the so-called things are dead, but people are living, Emperor Taizu to take the world in cloth, the valuable place, lies here. Therefore, you this charter, go back to rewrite, do not write the law anachronisms, and should write: according to the ancestral teachings of Emperor Taizu Gao, the world has no unchanging law, future generations of children and grandchildren, when always remembering Emperor Taizu’s saintly virtues, the effect of Emperor Taizu Gao’s love for the people like a son of the heart, when the revision of the law of Daming to benefit the world’s people and the military ……”

Zhang Anshi was very truthful in correcting his mistakes, and said resentfully, “Yes, yes, yes, I am really confused.”

Zhang Anshi’s attitude finally made Zhu Di’s face look better. Instead, Zhu Di seemed to remember something at this time, and slowly said, “And this line of your writing, there’s not much growth in it now.”

Zhang Anshi then said bitterly, “I am truly ashamed, I have intensified my practice in recent days.”

After a moment’s pause, he continued, “Turning back, I will ask Your Highness, the Crown Prince, to kindly discipline me to practise the line of calligraphy diligently.”

Zhu Di would have liked to catch this line of the book rebuke a few words, but Zhang Anshi said, Zhu Di was mute for a moment.

Please Prince discipline means that, after all, Zhang Anshi is the East Palace grew up, this line is not good, but also when the Prince improper discipline.

So to get to the bottom of it, who disciplines this Prince?

If we continue to pursue the matter, won’t it be traced back to his Zhu Di’s head?

Zhu Di helplessly shook his head, to say that this Zhang Anshi confused, this Zhang Anshi in the statute on the head, far less than Xie Jin, these university professors this smooth.

But if you say that this kid is stupid, this kid is flying in all kinds of sets in order not to practice the line and to be scolded less.

Zhu then gently said, “Well ……”

Zhang Anshi looked at the face of His Majesty, and knew that His Majesty was no longer chasing after his lineage, and smiled, “There are still some things in this new charter …….”

Zhu Di then subconsciously looked down again, then puzzled: “And …… how I did not see it?”

Zhang Anshi pleasantly digressed, said, “I these days, listen to the ministers complaining, said that it is not easy to live …… in this capital city ……”

Zhu raised an eyebrow and said, “Who croaked?”

Zhang Anshi said, “Hu Gong ……”

Zhu’s face pulled down.

Zhang Anshi, however, said, “Your Majesty, in fact …… this is justifiable, Duke Hu is already considered to be in a position of power, and his annual salary is not a small amount, even he has such feelings, other ministers …… hey! ……”

Zhang Anshi sighed quietly, his face revealing a few moments of pity.

Zhu said, “They can be fastidious ……”

Zhang Anshi said, “Everyone is not easy, in fact …… I thought that it is better to find a way to solve one or two, not to mention that …… if we let the Qixia Merchant Bank to do this matter … …I thought …… that I could take this opportunity to make a big profit.”

Zhu Di to the first words, obviously not very interested, but only to the latter of the words, but suddenly nourished the interest, he narrowed his eyes, said: “What do you mean?”

Zhang Anshi, however, said, “It is better for Your Majesty not to know.”

Zhu Di said with a cold face, “You’re getting bolder and bolder ……”

Zhang Anshi shook his head: ”There are some things that if I don’t say, then even if I am cross-examined in the future, it will be my fault. However, if Your Majesty knows too much, I am afraid that it will damage the reputation of the Holy Spirit. Your Majesty, isn’t this what Your Majesty taught me just now? Your Majesty, the High Emperor of Taizu ……, taught me just now that I should learn some of the ways of the world.”

Zhu Di heard, carefully looked at Zhang Anshi, a long time before saying: “efforts to strike …… I intend to the overseas continents, the feudal towns, in the continents to set up the feudal towns long, the control of the kings ……”

After Zhu finished saying such words, Zhang Anshi’s heart immediately understood something.

You know, right now, there are not many clan kings in Daming, so…theoretically, it is only necessary for the court to restrain the kings.

However, it is conceivable that in the future, as the clansmen begin to spread their wings, there will be more and more feudal lords who will develop and build cities in different parts of the world.

Not to mention other people, just take King Zhou Zhu Zhaoshao alone, he has fifteen sons, except one son who is going to inherit the title of Prince, the other fourteen, but they are all county kings.

According to the current feudal system, inevitably these fourteen county kings, but also to put out, to develop the feudalization of the.

This is a reference to the system of the Zhou Dynasty in the pre-Qin Dynasty, the son of the son of the son of the emperor and brothers of the feudal lords, the sons of the feudal lords of the feudal lords, and the sons of the feudal lords for the Shi.

Even when they went overseas, most of even the daiyoukai had their own fiefdoms.

This means that, in the near future, there will be many princes and county kings’ clans on all the continents of this world, and perhaps, there will even be quite a number of county kings’ sons and daughters who will be feudalized in the ports of various places.

The court had no problem managing a dozen or so princes; managing hundreds of princes and county kings might have to be a stretch!

What’s more, the future emperor will have to seal out many more vassals, and God knows, how many vassals there will be in the world in the future.

As a matter of fact, for example, the King of Zhou, he has a vassal town, his fourteen sons, and respectively to each place to build a city to build a clan, according to the rules of the past, it should be the King of Zhou to manage the lower county king, which is the so-called clan system.

But obviously, Zhu Di saw the risks involved, and if the blood relatives were allowed to run the show, it would inevitably lead to the fact that, after a few generations, these princes, county kings, and generals of the Bongguo, who were much closer by blood, would hold together, and in time, the world might turn into one gigantic armed entity.

If you want to make sure that all the clans in the whole world are obediently bowing down to the court, the best way is not to follow this system of management by blood relatives, but to divide the world into regions, and within a certain region, the clans here are under the control of a certain major clan.

The advantage of such a practice lies in the fact that, on the surface, the big clan towns restrain the small clan towns, but after all, this big clan and the small clan do not have too close blood, the big clan’s power of domination is not derived from the bloodline, but from the authorization of the imperial court, thus, on weekdays the big clan’s orders, the small clan have to obey, but if the big clan has other ambitions, the small clan will not hesitate to side with the imperial court.

It’s actually a very simple driving technique.

In fact, Zhang Anshi heard, know, in all likelihood, it is not Xie Jin’s idea, is Yang Rong secretly on the rustic.

Zhang Anshi heart is hot, think carefully, feel that if you really can be similar to the Zhou Dynasty, similar to the role of the vassal chief, not to mention the future descendants can be overseas, want to manage, it is necessary to set up a lot of institutions, and the clan had to station a large number of people in the new continent! This alone was enough to give birth to a huge city that would become the political and economic center of a certain region.

Can turn a thought, his majesty these words, seems a little familiar, the emperor is always the best at drawing big cakes of that person, and his majesty has a previous record, we must know, when the war, Zhu Di even his own son, the king of Han, Zhu Gaoxu pit it, from this can see, his majesty is really good at this way.

This is …… not a matter of haste, but it is better to inquire about it.

Zhang Anshi then, pressed down his inner excitement, but his face was calm, ancient wells without waves, said: “I comply with the decree.”

At that moment, he excused himself and went out.

Zhang Anshi, however, did not immediately go back to his Song Wangfu, but hurriedly came to Wenyuange.

He thought carefully, if this is true, then, must be Xie Jin and Yang Rong two people in one of the idea.

Both of these two were very deep in their city, and it was not easy to get words out of them.

So think for a moment, Zhang Anshi finally vetoed Yang Rong, Xie Jin this person …… is better than Yang Rong is good, this person is the most talk about the interests, from his mouth to set words, the most easy.

As long as it is determined whether or not it was Xie Jin’s proposal, then Yang Rong can be ruled out.

So Zhang Anshi came to understand Jin’s public room, after taking a seat, first smiled and said, “Xie Gong.”

Xie Jinyin eyes from the ticket to draw out, looked up at Zhang Anshi a glance, calmly said, “Your Highness …… party to see the driving went?”

Zhang Anshi said, “It’s about the Da Lisi and the Ministry of Justice.”

Xie Jinyin nodded, but did not ask more questions, just said: “Your Highness is very resourceful, must be on the mention of a lot of good ideas.”

Zhang Anshi then said, “How dare I, how dare I, compared to Duke Wen, I am really ashamed.”

Xie Jin smiled and looked at Zhang Anshi with a smile, Zhang Anshi was suddenly so modest, enough to cause Xie Jin’s vigilance.

Xie Jin then slowly and methodically said, “I do not know your highness down here, can you do what?”

Zhang Anshi thought for a moment and said, “It’s about the clan towns, there are some things that this king would like to discuss with Ungong.”

Xie Jin said, “I would like to hear more.”

Zhang Anshi said while gauging Xie Jin’s reaction, “This Annan started to build a railroad, and I was wondering if the railroad will grow the strength of the feudal lords if the technology of steam locomotives spreads out ……”

Xie Jin suddenly interrupted Zhang Anshi: “Is your highness, not also a vassal king? Why are you so wary of this?”

Zhang Anshi said, “This is different, this king is a loyal vassal king, of course everything should be considered with the court.”

Xie Jin smiled, then said, “Your Highness has heard of something else, so you are using this to test me.”

Zhang Anshi froze, Xie Jin’s directness was unexpected. However, he still said without blushing or jumping, “What Mr. Xie said ……”

Xie Jin calmly said: “In the Western Han Dynasty, Wen Jing in order to cut the feudalism, so the Jia Yi approach to build up the vassals and their power. That is to say, as long as the more feudal vassals, in a sense, but more to ensure the status of the court. Therefore, on this basis, the old man did go up a zhang鐤�, for the …… is on top of this congregation of building vassals, to introduce some solutions to solve the problem of clans and towns are as many as the hair of the head, and the court is difficult to worry about.”

Zhang Anshi fixedly looked at Xie Jin, slightly opened his eyes, said: “Still really Xie Gong mentioned?”