Although Zheng Sanjun was very dissatisfied with Fang Congzhe, Wang Yingjiao, and Bi Ziyan, he could only watch as these three people wrote the Ministry of Revenue's question book that carried out infrastructure projects to benefit people's livelihood.

"Who made the person in power not his Donglin Party? There is no way."

Zheng Sanjun sighed in his heart.

After Fang Congzhe entered the palace, the second assistant to the cabinet, Han Gong, also felt the same when he saw Fang Congzhe passing by the cabinet.

Because now he could only watch Fang Congzhe take the Ministry of Revenue's inquiry book and go directly to the Ganqing Palace by car.

Han Du felt that his second-level cabinet assistant had become a decoration.

"Your Majesty! This is a question book by the Ministry of Revenue on how much money can be allocated for additional construction projects. Please read it at the emperor."

After Fang Congzhe came to the Political Affairs Hall, he handed the Ministry of Revenue question book to Zhu Youxiao.

Zhu Youxiao looked at it and said, "You can take out more than 5 million taels of silver and more than 7 million stones of grain. This can be done a considerable project. Immediately drafted an order. Bi Ziyan also served as the Right Minister of the Ministry of Works and the Governor of Shuntian. Immediately, he agreed with the Ministry of Works to build a project to allow these refugees to live and work in peace and contentment."

"I obey the order!"

Fang Congzhe replied.

Zhu Youxiao continued to ask: "How many refugees in the capital are now? Are there so many people who starve to death this year?"

"Your Majesty, there are no less than 300,000. At present, there are far fewer people who have starved to death than last year. Although the grain transportation this year was temporarily interrupted, the king raised grain in Jin in time, so he did not starve to death. In addition, the grain food was restored next, and a lot of grain after being urged to be sent to Beijing one after another, so many refugees in the capital were fed. Moreover, because the canal freezes after entering the winter, many grains could only be transferred to the land transportation, requiring more manpower. Therefore, many refugees were added along the way to the capital. These new refugees and refugees in the capital were temporarily relied on transporting the grain after being urged to be brought to Beijing for a while. However, the grain transportation has basically ended now, and these refugees have to continue to starve next year. It depends on whether the canal can be opened to navigation next year."

Fang Congzhe replied.

"In this way, there are more than 300,000 idle refugees in the capital at present? It's just right for projects!"

Zhu Youxiao nodded. He had to admit that the Ming Dynasty's canal transportation was really an economic artery. There were so many refugees who made their living by relying on this canal transportation alone.

At that time, the gentry in Jiangnan cut off the grain and food not only the military food, but also the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of refugees.

Fortunately, the emperor, as a Western Factory, promptly used the Western Factory to stop the ambition of Jiangnan gentry from cutting off grains, thus preventing countless refugees from starving to death.

Next, the Ministry of Works held a ministry discussion.

Because the main purpose of the Ming Dynasty's infrastructure project was to use the surplus treasury money and grain to feed the refugees in the capital, and most of the refugees in the capital gathered in Tongzhou and Tianjin, making a living by remitting the transportation of the grain. Therefore, the Ministry of Works proposed to dredge the transportation of the grain, rebuild the three guards and Tongzhou city of Tianjin, as well as the official roads along the way.

After reading the advice of the Ministry of Works, Zhu Youxiao directly ordered: "This is not enough. These refugees must be resettled and re-entered households to become new residents in the capital. To make them live and work in peace, they cannot just not starve to death and have a straw shed to sleep. They must allow these refugees to settle down here, find out their family background, and no longer become refugees. Their descendants can study, become officials, and have the opportunity to become rich, and have the opportunity to pay taxes to the court again."

"What Your Majesty said is that I have also thought about re-entering households for refugees, but there is no idle land in the capital. I have been assigned to Tianjin, Tongzhou and other cities to settle down, and I am worried that spies will get involved in the city, so it is really difficult to reorganize households and people."

Fang Congzhe replied.

"As far as I know, there are many saline-alkali lands in the Tianjin Wei area, which has caused serious abandonment. I immediately issued an order to change the Tianjin Three Guards to Tianjin Prefecture and become Zhili Prefecture. All refugees in the capital were appointed as Tianjin Prefecture households, and a saline-alkali land was selected to rebuild a new city as a resettlement place for refugees. All refugees were placed here. The city name is Tianjin City, and it is also the four cities of Tianjin Prefecture, along with the Tianjin Three Guards, the city is also the four cities of Tianjin Prefecture."

Zhu Youxiao said it and said: "The former Tianjin Tongzhi Department retained it and still managed the affairs of the three guards of Tianjin. The power of affairs remains unchanged. Tianjin City has another magistrate to manage Tianjin City, and then set up one day for the magistrate of the Zhili Prefecture of Tianjin. To follow the fourth rank, it will coordinate the management of the four cities in Tianjin."

"Abide by the order!"

Fang Congzhe replied.

Then, after returning to the Ganqing Palace, Zhu Youxiao reported to Liu Ruoyu and ordered: "Shanggongjian, a reliable person is also sent to Tianjin City to open wood, iron and other processing plants. Some parts manufacturing that are not technically demanding but require a lot of manpower to participate are moved from Beijing to these places. After hiring refugees to process wooden, iron and even bamboo parts needed by the inner court to increase the scale, and then transport these parts back to Beijing to assemble. However, it is important to note that the core parts must be manufactured in the inner court's own workshop. When ordinary parts are made by refugees, they must also be opened separately to allow different refugees to make different parts to avoid them connecting and revealing the opportunity of our inner court."

Zhu Youxiao intends to engage in manufacturing in the north. This is just the beginning.

"I obey the order! I will do it now."

Liu Ruoyu replied.

Next, after receiving the emperor's order, Bi Ziyan officially began to be responsible for the project discussed.

First of all, the renovation of Tianjin Sancao City, Tongzhou City, the construction of Tianjin City and the renovation of official roads.

Zhu Youxiao directly gave Bi Ziyan sixty members of the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of Works, each with thirty members, so that Bi Ziyan would recommend a group of scholars to serve these official positions, and formed an engineering group with Bi Ziyan, while Bi Ziyan served as the governor of the engineering group, responsible for leading these scholars to carry out the task together.

According to the previous model, Bi Ziyan needed to spend money on his own to hire his staff, and then let the staff be responsible for what Bi Ziyan was responsible for.

However, in order to improve government affairs efficiency and the enthusiasm of specific executors below, Zhu Youxiao directly increased the official position.

The Ming Dynasty was indeed not short of officials who wanted to be officials. Many tribute students came to Bi Ziyan to find them, so they actively came to Bi Ziyan to recommend them. Although what Bi Ziyan did now was not in line with the interests of the gentry class, for many gentry individuals who were eager for power but were unable to become officials for a long time, this was a good opportunity for them to enter the career of the officialdom.

You should know that even if you have very few opportunities to apply for a magistrate or even a county magistrate in the Ministry of Personnel to obtain an official position, it usually takes several years to obtain it. There are still many juren and tribute students waiting in line.

Now that Bi Ziyan holds 60 official positions for the Sixth Ministry of the Sixth Ministry, the gentry naturally came to sign up enthusiastically.

Because there are too many scholars in the Ming Dynasty.

And there are indeed not many official positions.

Therefore, Bi Ziyan quickly recommended sixty Yuanwailangs, and then he took these sixty Yuanwailangs to plan out the scope of Tianjin City, and began to recruit refugees to this area, establish households and set up shops, and then appointed Fangzheng, and then organized these refugees to start building cities and roads based on the office.

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Located on the bank of a canal in Yinjiawan, Zuowei, Tianjin, a group of refugees live in this area with straw sheds. Their main job is to pull fibers for ships entering Beijing in the canal.

But now the canal has been frozen, and there are fewer and fewer ships entering Beijing, and even the canal ships no longer transport grain. Therefore, they have very few living now, so they naturally have little income to earn, so they can only endure hunger in this cold winter.

Not far from them is the imperial court's official warehouse.

The official warehouse stretched for dozens of miles, and because of the effective hiring of tuition this year, the court increased its income a lot and the granary increased a lot.

But because the government troops protected these granaries, these refugees were used to being obedient to the people, and no one dared to rob the granaries even if they starved to death.

"Dad, I'm hungry! I'm still very cold!"

A boy without clothes, Tang Douya trembled and said to Tang Youshan, who was one of countless refugees in the capital.

Tang Youshan, who was rubbing his son with heat, looked at the flying snow outside the straw shed and said, "Son, bear it, bear it for another day, let's drink that bowl of porridge! The Chinese New Year is coming soon, and there is no living to transport food. If we can't bear it, we can't live this winter!"

Tang Douya nodded: "Where is the mother?"

"Shh! Don't ask your mother, be careful that someone will come to dig your mother out to eat after hearing this!"

Tang Youshan hurriedly reminded Tang Douya.

Tang Douya nodded obediently. He was hungry and only looked at his father's thin shirt.

And at this moment, an excited shout came from outside: "There is life! There is life!"
Chapter completed!