amaotonovel Chapter 355 Labor Dispatch?
Chapter 355 Labor Dispatch?
Isn't it just a matter of "four no's and two straights"?
all!
If the imperial inspectors are unhappy, how can they possibly make the local officials happy?
Let's arrange it without any prior notice or direct approach!
With this mindset of "if I'm unhappy, nothing will be good," the thirty censors present slowly unfolded the crumpled paper in their hands.
"Lishui, Zhili?"
"Pu County, Shanxi?"
"Xixian County, Henan?"
"..."
Looking at the names of the counties on the slips of paper, the thirty imperial inspectors present showed either joy or anger.
Only the last censor, the imperial inspector, had a gloomy face, clutching the slip of paper tightly in his hand without uttering a word.
Another censor standing next to him glanced at him and asked, "Brother Shen, where have you arrested them?"
The censor, addressed as Brother Shen, remained silent for a long while before speaking in a deep voice: "Ningyang."
Ningyang?
As Imperial Censor Shen finished speaking, the remaining twenty-nine imperial censors almost burst out laughing.
Ningyang County!
Of all the more than a thousand counties, he could have drawn any of them, but he just had to pick Ningyang County!
Tsk tsk.
Ningyang County? That was the first county that Yang the Madman managed. Now there are two princesses there. Go investigate Ningyang County?
Just as the censors were about to laugh but were too embarrassed to do so, Censor Shen, with a dark face, snorted coldly, apologized to Liu Bowen, and left the censor's office.
……
While the imperial censors were drawing lots, Yang Shaofeng was entertaining Park Deok-hwan and Park Sung-sung in the back office of Penglai County.
To be fair, while Park Deok-hwan and Park Sung-sung, the two so-called Goryeo envoys, were ugly, they were quite cunning.
Especially Park Sung-sung, I don't know what this idiot was thinking, he actually proposed that the Ming Dynasty send a few scholars to Gaegyeong as instructors to teach the Goryeo scholars to study the "Hongwu Zhengyun" and the "Hongwu Dictionary", and also wanted Yang Shaofeng to arrange a few clerks to go to Gaegyeong to guide the Goryeo officials in distributing land to the people.
If Park Sung-sung had simply sent a few scholars to teach the Goryeo scholars the Hongwu Zhengyun and the Hongwu Dictionary, Yang Shaofeng might have agreed in a moment of pleasure.
Anyway, Ningyang County has no shortage of scholars, and Dengzhou has no shortage of scholars either. Just grab a few from the conscription and give them some emergency brainwashing and training.
But asking Yang Shaofeng for a clerk was out of the question.
The clerks in Dengzhou Prefecture are already insufficient, so where would they find extra clerks to support the Koreans?
Besides, what if experienced clerks were sent to support the Koreans and ended up explaining the land allocation process clearly?
Yang Shaofeng grew increasingly displeased, so he simply shook his head with a smile and said, "To be honest with Envoy Park and Vice Envoy Park, our Great Ming Dynasty doesn't even have enough clerks, so where would we find any extras to support Goryeo?"
At this point, Yang Shaofeng simply smiled and pointed to the front yard of the Penglai County Government Office, saying, "Envoy Park and Deputy Envoy Park probably don't know yet, do they? In the previous case of the plowshare and the case of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, there were at least eight hundred or a thousand officials involved. You came to me asking for clerks, but actually I was also having a headache about who to ask for clerks from."
After a slight pause, Yang Shaofeng continued, "Also, have Ambassador Park and Vice Ambassador Park decided what they want to sell after the market opens?"
Park Deok-hwan and Park Sung-sung exchanged a glance, then cupped their hands and said, "Your Highness, our Goryeo Kingdom is small and sparsely populated, so we don't have many products that we can sell. Ginseng is the only one that's not bad."
Park Sung-sung added, "And pearls. Besides the finest pearls offered to His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Goryeo also produces some small pearls of decent quality every year, which can be sold at the border market."
"mink."
"And what about honey fruit, oil-honey fruit, and medicinal fruit?"
"others……"
Seeing that Park Deok-hwan and Park Sung-sung could only come up with a few things after thinking for a long time, Yang Shaofeng couldn't help but shake his head with a smile and said, "Envoy Park, Vice Envoy Park, ginseng, sable fur, and pearls are acceptable, but let's forget about honey fruit, oil honey fruit, and medicinal fruit?"
The so-called honey fruit, oil honey fruit, and medicinal fruit that Koreans talk about are actually just like candied fruit. Is it really a joke to bring this stuff to the market to trade?
Park Sung-sung gave an awkward smile and said, "Korea is a small country with a small population..."
Seeing that Park Sung-sung was about to start complaining about being poor at the slightest disagreement, Yang Shaofeng couldn't help but rub his forehead and sigh, saying, "How about this, don't bring things like honey fruit and oil honey fruit to the market. I have two suggestions."
"The first one, naturally, is wood."
"As the saying goes, 'Those who live near the mountains live off the mountains, and those who live near the water live off the water.' Goryeo is not short of timber, whether it is timber used for building houses or timber that can be used to build ships."
"As long as Ambassador Park and Vice Ambassador Park can get Goryeo merchants to transport timber to Dengzhou, our Ming merchants will surely buy it up in large quantities. Moreover, I can make the decision not to give them any opportunity to arbitrarily lower the price."
Park Sung-sung's heart skipped a beat, and he looked at Yang Shaofeng, asking, "What about the second one?"
Yang Shaofeng smiled and said, "The second thing is that Ambassador Park Jeong and Vice Ambassador Park will go to the capital to request an audience with His Majesty the Emperor of the Great Ming Dynasty to discuss labor dispatch."
Park Sung-sung paused slightly, then asked, "Labor dispatch?"
Yang Shaofeng nodded and said, "Our Great Ming has many projects to build roads and bridges, and we are short of a large number of laborers. If your Goryeo could send some laborers to Great Ming, I believe our Emperor and the officials of the court would agree."
"By the way, these laborers are paid, unlike the hard labor that Vice Envoy Park promised to me before."
"But the wages will definitely have to be settled using the Ming Dynasty Treasure Notes. And because there are so many laborers, they may have to be scattered to various prefectures and counties in the Ming Dynasty to build roads. It would be troublesome to settle accounts with them individually. Would it be better for the Ministry of Revenue or the Ministry of Works to settle accounts with the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of Works of Goryeo?"
Upon hearing this, Park Sung-sung was overjoyed.
Selling timber is both the best and worst option.
Selling timber is the best strategy because Goryeo is not short of timber at present. The large amount of timber that was prepared for building ships for Ho Won can be sold to the Ming Dynasty, and money can be obtained in a short period of time.
Selling timber is a poor choice because once the timber prepared for Hu Yuan is sold, the only option left is to cut down trees. It takes at least ten years, or even longer, for a tree to be ready for felling, and it also requires a lot of manpower.
In comparison, the "labor dispatch" method is much, much better.
Is Korea short of manpower?
No shortage.
Not only is there no shortage of people, but there is also suspicion of overpopulation.
If we could send some laborers to work and earn money in the Ming Dynasty...