After receiving Xiao Ruxun's clear instructions, the officials immediately expressed their understanding.
"Yes, Your Majesty."
Xiao Ruxun nodded.
"In addition, when building the Dazhi Road, don't reduce the rations of the young and strong, and reduce the old and weak to the minimum. There is no need to provide medical care. They are just a burden, and we should consume them as soon as possible to reduce the burden of Daqin."
All the officials expressed their understanding and recorded it down.
Xiao Ruxun added, "Another thing to pay special attention to is that before sending prisoners of war to Daqin, we should first do a good job of screening, and make special arrangements for those who know craftsmanship and technology.
This group of people is relatively special, and the army should wait for notification. Don't hurt them. They are useful to Daqin, whether blacksmiths, carpenters, or locksmiths. Yang, you should be responsible for arranging them. "
Yang Yikui expressed his understanding.
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
"Then, it is also very important to arrange for all fertile young and strong women between 14 and 36 years old. There are still many people in Daqin who can't afford to marry. Let the local government count them and arrange one for each person.
These women don't need money, but the population of Daqin is still too small. The policy of encouraging childbearing that we have discussed should be issued to every village, so that every family knows the policy of the imperial court to encourage childbearing. "
The Ministry of Civil Affairs expressed its understanding.
Xiao Ruxun made another conclusion.
"Regarding the situation in Nihon, let's not completely destroy it. We should selectively preserve it. Troops should be stationed in the conquered areas, and then the population should be screened and arranged according to the arrangement we have discussed before.
Bring back the old and weak to be consumed, and bring back the young and strong women to be distributed to bachelors who can't afford to marry, or to be used as camp prostitutes in various garrisons and frontier garrisons. The lives of those soldiers are also very boring.
Pay special attention to the literate and noble women. Try to capture them alive and put them into the Musical House and official brothels in various places. They are very valuable, and those rich people are willing to pay hundreds or thousands of taels of silver.
Young and strong men must be specially arranged to be brought to Daqin in batches to build the Grand Highway. The rest of the group will be placed in fertile places to cultivate the land, or to build a city to live in, or to mine. Try to maintain self-sufficiency and not consume the food in Daqin. "
After Xiao Ruxun concluded, he said, "That's the arrangement for the specific situation. Officials, please pay more attention. This victory against the Wei Nation will be remembered in history."
"As you command!"
The high-ranking officials of Daqin began to act.
One order after another was issued from the Palace of Heavenly Purity. Then, people were quickly arranged to send the orders into the distance according to the will of the Emperor.
The population screening team organized by the central government was also ready to set off. They would go to Kyushu first and start to select and arrange the population of Country R from Kyushu Island. They would implement the idea of this meeting and let the tens of millions of people of Nihon contribute to the great construction of Daqin.
Daqin needed a lot of people. It really needed a lot of people.
Not to mention the most basic labor force, people who knew craftsmanship were also needed. The Ministry of Works needed them, and so did the internal court of Xiao Ruxun.
Bringing them back could greatly alleviate the gap in this area.
In the trade with Europe and Southeast Asian countries, a large number of handicrafts and some iron products were needed. The orders from the rich people in Europe were hundreds of thousands of dollars. It was not enough to rely on some private technicians and could not meet the production expectations.
Xiao Ruxun's countermeasure was to set up an internal court department in Nanjing, send experienced stewards and diplomatic officials to take charge of foreign trade, and set up government-run workshops.
This was also the prototype of Xiao Ruxun's plan for China Enterprises. With the organizational power of the central government and certain benefits, surplus labor force would be attracted to join the state-owned enterprises. They would be organized to improve production efficiency and output, mainly responsible for the production of foreign trade.
Production efficiency and output were greatly improved. Under the guiding principle of "more work, more pay", the number of orders could gradually catch up, but the shortage of manpower had not been alleviated.
After all, the land had just been divided from the local tyrants, and there was not that much surplus labor force.
Also, the treatment of the government-run workshops stipulated by Xiao Ruxun was better than that of some private workshops, and the burden was not small. Therefore, the captive foreign technicians did not need to be paid, and only food was provided. This could reduce expenses and increase profits.
The official workshops were not limited to just this. The metal mines all over the country were all government-run or even royal enterprises.
The stewards there were all eunuchs of the internal court personally appointed by Emperor Xiao Ruxun. They were different from the government-run workshops that were engaged in foreign trade. The income from the mines went directly to the national treasury, and all the income from the mines went to Xiao Ruxun's personal funds.
At the same time, Xiao Ruxun also ordered the purchase of some salt works and wineries, making them state-owned enterprises, and expanding the economic chips in his hands.
In addition, Xiao Ruxun also instructed the eunuchs of the internal court to use foreign beauties as the main selling point. He set up government-run brothels in the major cities, and the women inside were all foreign beauties that had been captured or bought from abroad.
There were Southeast Asian, Korean, Japanese, Mughal, and even European women brought back from Europe by merchant caravans. There were also women from the Middle East and Africa. They were for the enjoyment of those who were curious and had spare money.
As a result, the business was booming, and the income was very high. The people in the three southeastern provinces who were starting to get rich would even directly spend large sums of money to buy some beauties from the government-run brothels. This became a very profitable business.
As Xiao Ruxun strengthened the control of the grassroots government's household registration and vigorously cracked down on human trafficking, he also knew that he had to leave a gap for the rich and ambitious to enjoy. This kind of novel enjoyment just happened to satisfy the desires of those people.
Starting in June of the first year of Longwu, more than 70 government-run brothels were set up all over the country, and they were still opening. They ranged from low to high, and the fees varied. But there was no doubt that this was a good profit.
For the government, this was a business that had almost no expenses. The management personnel were all internal servants of the internal court, and the income was guaranteed. The money was divided equally between the national treasury and internal funds, and it was another stable source of income.
Wine and salt were also necessary for many people. Whether it was the ordinary wine that the common people drank or the fine wine that the rich drank, they all needed it. Salt was even more so. It was something that everyone needed.
And all of this was to serve the construction of the Daqin.
The Great Path needed manpower and money. The control of locusts needed manpower and money. The reform of education needed manpower and money. Immigration also needed manpower and money.
Each of these required a lot of money. Just the annual government tax was far from enough. It could not be done even in 20 years. And Xiao Ruxun did not have that much time. There were too many things that he wanted to do, and there was not enough time at all.
In order to lay a sufficient foundation for the Daqin in a limited time, he had to do his best to earn money, and then spend lavishly to leave a solid foundation for the future generations.
The government must have money, and the Emperor must have money. This was an important prerequisite for the stability of the country.
Only with money could things be done, and without money, it would only do bad things.
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