Chapter 704

After Liu Bu entered the East Palace, the first thing he ordered was to recruit a large number of craftsmen to renovate the imperial city.

Nanjing imperial city has been built for more than 200 years. It is very dilapidated. As an accompanying capital and a symbol, it is of great significance, but it can not stand the financial shortage of the Ming court. It has always been a shortage of grain and silver. Therefore, the maintenance of this huge palace city is second only to the surface.

For example, the walls of his palace city are very well made, and its yellow tiled roofs and tall buildings are still very good. From a distance, they are resplendent and have great dignity and momentum. However, after entering, you will find that they are really dilapidated. Many places are full of dust and rats are running in groups, There are spider webs and so on. Compared with the old houses that haven't lived for hundreds of years, it's the difference between them.

It's just the gold and jade. Among the bad news, Liu Bu went to the Duke Xu's house easily. He found that if it comes to this side, the Duke Xu's house is better than the imperial palace. If it's only based on living conditions, the Duke Xu's house is better than the Imperial Palace. At least there's nothing missing. He checked in with his bag.

However, after all, this is the Imperial Palace, which has an irreplaceable status. The imperial palace is the Imperial Palace, and its significance and status are supreme. Even if the Duke of Xu is magnificent, it does not have such status and momentum.

If the Liu family lived in the state government after controlling Nanjing, it would give others a wrong signal.

In the past, they could never say that they wanted to be the emperor, which was to kill the nine tribes. But now, they must tell everyone that we must be the emperor, which will strengthen the hearts of all followers and more people come to take refuge. Therefore, they have no choice but to live in the palace.

Of course, the imperial palace is very huge. Its scope is even larger than the Forbidden City in the capital. After renovation, it can still live. Although the Imperial Palace has many problems, at present, it is still the most tall place for them, and more importantly, its special significance.

The first palace city was built by Zhu Yuanzhang who mobilized millions of craftsmen in several provinces to do corvee. The so-called corvee, that is, voluntary work, in short, is to eat without giving money.

However, the Liu family's practices are different. Although they are the masters of this land, they do not exercise such rights. They directly force others to work. Instead, they spend money and invite craftsmen to work. Anyway, the money is not much. The Liu family has made so much money, which is not bad.

In the past, the imperial court was very short of money, because they only ate in the soil. There was no other income except the land tax. What's more, even the tax on their land was intercepted by these corrupt officials layer by layer, and there was not much corruption in the hands of the imperial court.

As a new force, the Liu family has not formed an inherent ruling class, and the corruption atmosphere at the top has not been formed. More importantly, the Liu family started from business, and they pay more attention to this aspect.

When the emperor of the Ming Dynasty did business, he would be accused by the ministers. This was a struggle for profits with the people and a very low price. However, there was no problem in this regard here in Liu Yuanqiao. He not only encouraged commerce, but also did it himself.

No matter how arrogant Liu Yuanqiao is, he can't say that businessmen who do business are cheap, because his ancestors are businessmen. Your ancestors are cheap. You can give birth to a noble and fly into the sky.

Therefore, the Liu family is really not short of money. There is no need to force these people to bear such heavy corvee. On the one hand, it is so. On the other hand, it is also because they have just begun to rise and did not seize the world. Naturally, they have to compete for the hearts of the people and make more people tend to them.

One of their policies is to promise the people that their taxes will be lower and their labor will be lower.

Liu Bu doesn't want to cause a new civil commotion in order to save hundreds of thousands of liang of silver. Daming is not afraid of itching when he has more lice, but his Liu family is different. There are no lice at all. A lice can make you go away.

When the Liu family posted a recruitment notice, many people didn't believe it at all. It's just that the Liu family recruited a large number of craftsmen to build the imperial city. Many people think it's inevitable. No matter who captured here, he will occupy the Imperial Palace, and then repair it before he can live in it. There's no problem.

Many craftsmen and ordinary people are worried. In this way, it is estimated that Liu Jun will levy corvee on a large scale. These craftsmen will have to work hard and tired in vain.

Who knows, Liu Jiajun didn't summon craftsmen and ordinary people to work for him for free, but asked them to work for them. Every day, there are more than 20 copper plates, which is the market price. At the same time, they also manage food. This is a good job. Even when the world is peaceful, craftsmen can't guarantee that they will do such work every day.

As soon as the notice came out that day, countless craftsmen and people and refugees came to watch.

Because the literacy rate is very low in this era, many people explain and read aloud next to each recruitment advertisement to explain what is written on the wall.

Their large-scale recruitment is aimed at these ordinary craftsmen and people. Most of these people don't know the word when they fall on the ground. If you write recruitment advertisements, I'm afraid these people are wide eyed. They don't know what the so-called thing is. They think it's a wanted notice or a government notice.

But after they arranged a large number of scholars to read and interpret in public, these people believed and knew.

Moreover, they also followed the way of newsboy selling newspapers and carried out publicity in the streets, hoping to recruit more people. Liu Bu was not bad for money. After capturing the south of the Yangtze River, he was even more rich and not bad. He wanted people and enough people to work for him.

Liu Bu has also calculated an account. If he recruits so many people and catches so many craftsmen and people to work for him, he also has to dispatch a large number of officers and soldiers to maintain, so as to prevent others from being lazy, escaping and cutting corners.

However, if we use the recruitment method to contract these projects to some capable people, it will be different. He can draw out a large number of government personnel to do other things for him, which can also save money in a way.

Once these recruitment advertisements were posted, I heard that there were 20 copper coins a day for people to work, and they still managed to eat and live. Many people were not calm. They came to watch and inquire one after another. A thin man asked the scholar, "how can there be such a good thing to bear corvee for the government and pay back the money?"

The scholar in charge of reading the manuscript vowed: "this is the guarantee made by Dashuai Liu. Dashuai Liu has plenty of money. He just sends people to work for him. If no one gives you money and no one gives you food after a day's work, you can beat me up. If you cheat you, you can cheat you for a day, and you can cheat you for a few days?"

The scholar explained this way. If they didn't believe it, they had to believe it. They signed up one after another and said, "count me! Count me."

Nanjing city is undergoing post-war reconstruction. The siege of the city a few days ago has lost a lot of manpower and made a large number of people unemployed. They all stop talking. Seeing that Liu Jun has occupied Jinling City, it has become a fact. Life still has to continue, people still have to eat, and they have to find a way to find work.

Many people are worried about where to find a job and who dares to open the door to do business in Nanjing, which is in chaos and awaits all kinds of waste. I'm afraid that when some people are hungry, who knows that Liu Jun has just gone out and recruited a large number of people.

If Liu Jun went out to catch people on a large scale, these people would probably believe it, but now they take the initiative to pay people to work and eat and live, which is far beyond their imagination.

Is it true that people still work for the government and give money to eat?

However, someone explained immediately. He said, "everyone knows Liu Jiajun. Do you know which Liu family this Liu family is?"

The passer-by asked, "which Liu family? Isn't it the Liu family in Shandong?"

The man said, "of course, it's the Liu family in Shandong. Do you know what they come from? They are the descendants of Emperor Guangwu of Han Dynasty, but they are the richest family in the colorful world in Linqing, Shandong. It's the so-called Liu family in Linqing. They are the richest in the world. They have money. Why so many people are willing to follow them to rebel against the world? This is because they have money."

The passer-by heard this, but he asked: "isn't it better for the government to issue corvee? Didn't it save money?"

The man explained: "What do you know? Who is Liu dashai? Do you need it like this? In his eyes, if you want to launch such a large-scale corvee, you have to send a large number of troops and a large number of servants, which will waste a lot of his manpower. As long as you contract the project to several large families, and then they recruit manpower on behalf of the official, won't this person come? And And what kind of person is Liu dashai? He doesn't need that money at all. It's said that millions of people were going to starve to death in the Shandong disaster that year. It was the Liu family who almost lost all their wealth that made the people of the three East houses spend the winter. People can spend money for disaster relief free. What's the money for working with you now? Brother! I'll tell you, the world is different now. Sit in the world The son of heaven is different from the past. "

The man was discussing, "what's the difference?"

The scholar explained: "His difference is that the Liu family has plenty of money and never lacks money, so they don't point to the little grain dug out by your people from the fields. According to Liu dashai, they don't collect any land tax at all, but they all stare at the merchant's old wealth. This is the appropriate and correct way. They only collect taxes from the rich, and what taxes do the poor collect?"