OBS Chapter 766 Isn't this just pure bullying of honest people?
Chapter 766 Isn't this just pure bullying of honest people?
To be honest, the methods proposed by these students in Ningyang County were not particularly sophisticated, and were even somewhat simplistic.
Its core principle can be summarized in one sentence: "Make money in the Ming Dynasty and spend it in the Ming Dynasty; don't even think about taking a single penny home."
Their so-called increase in wages for workers is not actually to allow workers to buy what they want or improve their lives, but rather to give people the opportunity to set up stalls near the construction site to make money.
As more people set up stalls to make money, small markets gradually form, creating a clustering effect. As the number of businesses increases, people's opportunities to make money naturally increase significantly.
Similarly, as more goods are sold, the workshops will need more manpower. Although the people of the Ming Dynasty will no longer need to repair bridges and pave roads, they will have the opportunity to work in the workshops and still earn money.
As for the claims about Japanese pirates and Japanese women...
Li Shanchang unconsciously glanced at Yang Shaofeng.
This perfectly illustrates the saying, "If the upper beam is crooked, the lower beam will be crooked too!"
They were practically saying outright that as long as they captured the Japanese pirates, they would have an inexhaustible supply of laborers that wouldn't cost them any money.
Li Shanchang suddenly felt that Jia Xu might not necessarily be the cunning strategist of legend.
Compared to the students in Ningyang County, Mr. Jia Xu's moral standards are far superior; he can be described as "of noble character," "kind-hearted," and "unparalleled in benevolence and righteousness."
Despite his complaints, Li Shanchang still summoned the steward and instructed him, "When the Second Master returns later, have him go to the Ministry of Revenue again and invite the Minister of Revenue and the Minister of War to come to our house together."
After all, he was the Grand Secretary of the Ming Dynasty, and he had to consider the national treasury.
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As the Minister of Works, the Minister of Revenue, and the Minister of War arrived at the Han State Palace one after another, things gradually took a strange turn.
First, a group of ministers from the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of Rites, and even the newly established Ministry of Transportation arrived at the Han Gong Mansion. Then, Zhu Biao, the Executive Vice Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, made a dazzling appearance.
Then came Liu Bowen, the head of the Censorate, followed by the heads of other departments such as the Imperial Academy, the Imperial Censorate, and the Imperial Temple.
Dozens of people gathered at Li Shanchang's house for a meeting, turning Yang Shaofeng's plan to freeload a meal and vent his anger into a small-scale court assembly.
Then, because Emperor Zhu was not present, these powerful figures, such as the ministers, the chief ministers, the supervisors, and the ministers of the treasury, started arguing as they talked.
"All you in the Ministry of Works ever do is propose plans, without ever considering the fate of the national treasury!"
"Oh right, right right, your national treasury is so damn empty, even a rat would leave with tears in its eyes!"
"What can be done without tears? A huge pile of gold and silver, yet not a single grain of food can be found. Who wouldn't feel heartbroken seeing that?"
"You big idiot, the national treasury isn't supposed to be a place to store grain. All the grain is stored in the imperial granary!"
(The word "傻扚" appeared no later than the Yuan Dynasty, in the second act of Ma Zhiyuan's "Jianfu Stele": "傻扚, let go quickly, I'm chasing my husband away!")
After a long, chaotic argument, the gang leaders suddenly remembered the instigator.
Yang the Madman is definitely not someone to be trifled with, after all, he is already the Prince Consort and Duke of Ying, and no one in the entire Ming Dynasty can order him around.
But the dozen or so students that Yang Dianfeng brought were different.
Although there's a saying that if the upper beam is crooked, the lower beam will be crooked too, and with that bastard Zhou Jingxin as a role model, these dozen or so students are probably not good people either, but they do have real skills.
At worst, I'll just order them around at noon from now on.
Steal people!
Keep arguing!
Roll up your sleeves and argue your way out; if all else fails, try to persuade the other party with physical means!
The Minister of Transportation spoke first: "It has been said that if you want to get rich, you must first build roads. If you don't give people to our Ministry of Transportation, you are sinners against the Ming Dynasty!"
The Minister of Personnel scoffed, "Everyone knows that we need to build roads first, but so many prefectures and counties are short of officials who are close to the people, and there are so many newly established prefectures and counties. You just open your mouths and transfer people to the Ministry of Transportation. What will you do to fill the gaps in local officials?"
The Minister of Industry sneered: "Yes, yes, yes, it's more important for your Ministry of Personnel to lack officials who are close to the people, but it's not important for our industry to produce water presses and steam engines."
The Minister of Agriculture slammed the table: "You are all important, more important than our Ministry of Agriculture, alright? I won't compete with you for people, and you shouldn't eat the grain grown by the farmers!"
"Without a water pump, all the crops in the fields will die of drought!"
"Even in the worst drought, I haven't seen you starve to death, you old bastard! Even in the worst drought, I haven't seen you go out on an empty stomach to build a water pump!"
"Don't you understand the chicken-and-egg analogy? We should allocate more resources to the Ministry of Rites so they can set up more schools and train more people. Then everyone won't have to fight over them."
"..."
The once peaceful second hall of the Korean government office was turned into a bustling marketplace by these officials.
The dozen or so students from Ningyang County who were brought by Yang Shaofeng were also dumbfounded.
I originally thought it was just my husband who was acting strangely.
But look at the current state of the Korean government offices.
A large group of dukes, marquises, and earls were arguing amongst themselves, while a dozen ministers, along with a large number of court officials, ministers of the treasury, supervisors, and scholars, were spewing profanities.
The key issue is that the reason these officials are arguing is actually because of people like us; it's like we've been caught in the crossfire of gossip ourselves.
Seeing the strange expressions on the faces of the students from Ningyang County, Li Shanchang finally couldn't help but cough and said, "That's enough. We're just making a fool of ourselves in front of the children."
child?
You call these guys, each one more vicious and wicked than the last, "kids"?
Liu Bowen completely ignored Li Shanchang and instead sneered, "You all want to bring your men back to your own offices, but none of you want to give any to the Censorate."
"I've figured it out now. Many of you have something to hide. You're afraid that once they come to the Censorate, they'll find something to exploit. You're scared!"
"If they had nothing to hide, they would have given at least five of these people to the Censorate!"
No sooner had Liu Bowen finished speaking than the Minister of Personnel retorted, "Listen to what the Marquis of Chengyi has to say! There are only seventeen people in total, and he's already asking for five to leave!"
When Yang Shaofeng saw that someone was targeting Liu Bowen, he immediately perked up.
"Lord Chengyi, it's not that I'm criticizing you, but your Censorate has really gone too far."
Yang Shaofeng immediately started speaking sarcastically: "I've only been in the capital for a short time since I came from Dengzhou Prefecture, and I've already heard a whole bunch of nonsense rumors."
"For example, there are rumors that people are being dismembered at the Dengzhou Medical College."
"There are also rumors that people are deliberately made sick at the Terengganu Medical College and then used as test subjects for drugs."
"They even said that every road in Dengzhou Prefecture was built with countless bones."
"I, Yang, am a dignified Duke of Ying. Are you, the Censorate, just going to stand by and let others smear me?"
"It's just too much!"
As Yang Shaofeng finished speaking, Liu Bowen couldn't help but roll his eyes and snorted coldly, "Which one of these is false?"
Yang Shaofeng was furious and said, "Even if it's true, it's still not acceptable!"
"The dismemberment of living people was done by the Fifth Prince Zhu Su and the imperial physician Yang Qing."
"The practice of testing medicine on living people was carried out by the imperial physicians Yang Qing and Wang Hu, master and apprentice."
"The piles of white bones were the work of the Dengzhou Prefecture Urban Construction Office and the Second Prince Zhu Shuang."
"Your Censorate doesn't impeach them, but instead impeaches me. Isn't this just bullying an honest person?!"