Officials from the six ministries were all very excited!
When Liang Licang heard that such a big project could be built without the Ministry of Revenue having to spend a penny or a single person, he wondered if there was such a good thing in the world.
If every project was like this, Liang Licang felt that being the Minister of Revenue would be the easiest job in the world.
Minister of Works Lu Zhengping was also very excited. This was a major project that required the efforts of the entire country, and their Ministry of Works must definitely be involved.
As long as the project is completed, promotions and advancement will be no problem, and their Ministry of Works will be able to go down in history.
To put it bluntly, as long as the Grand Canal exists in this world and as long as the people of this land continue to enjoy the convenience brought by the Grand Canal, they will all remember the Ministry of Industry led by Lu Zhengping.
The people in the Ministry of War were very excited. With the Grand Canal, it would be much easier to mobilize troops in the future, which would give them great strategic mobility.
The people in the Ministry of Rites were very excited. For such a big project, a ceremony to worship the heavens must be held from the beginning to the end. This was the time for the Ministry of Rites to show up.
The Ministry of Personnel was also very excited. Once the Grand Canal was opened, many positions would inevitably emerge around its management, and the power of the Ministry of Personnel would increase again!
Lu Chen has been busy in the court for such a long time, and they have finally benefited from Lu Chen's help.
The Ministry of Justice is also very excited. The emergence of the Grand Canal will inevitably change many laws and regulations, and new laws will definitely have to be formulated. It’s time for the Ministry of Justice to show up!
It is rare to see such a thing that can make all six departments very happy, so the six ministers hurriedly stood up and said that our emperor is brave and wise, and there is no need to wait any longer for such things!
Li Zhuo was also very excited. He had actually been a little skeptical when he heard Li Mingyue describe the bank so beautifully.
There is no such thing as a free lunch in this world. Apart from your parents, who in this world will lend you money for free?
Many times, even biological parents may not do this.
Now suddenly there is such an institution that the country can get money from it in the future, as long as it pays it back within the specified time. Can such a good thing really happen to him?
But now Lu Chen has used practical actions to tell Li Zhuo that this kind of thing is true and there is no need to doubt it at all.
This kind of institution can not only lend you money, but also wants to help you build the country and help you carry out projects that would likely cause chaos if the country took action.
Doesn’t Li Zhuo know that the communication between the north and the south of the Great Qi Dynasty is not smooth?
Can't Li Zhuo see the many benefits of the Grand Canal?
Why didn't they build the Grand Canal before? Because it would have cost too much money and required forced labor.
The so-called conscription of corvee labor means calling the people to work.
This is free work, there is no such thing as wages, and you even have to provide your own food.
Just imagine how much money an ordinary person has at home. If the breadwinner of the family does something like this, the family will lose all their income.
You can still hold out for a month or two, but a national project will take at least three to five years. During these three to five years, what will your wife and children at home rely on for a living?
This is why once a large-scale national project is launched, it can easily lead to chaos in the country.
Think about the Great Wall back then, and think about the Grand Canal that sank into the sky. Which one of them did not cause chaos and misery for the people?
The people in the world are already starving, if you don’t die, who will?
But now Lu Chen told Li Zhuo that he would not have to spend a penny to dig a large canal, and there would not even be any need to conscript labor.
Everyone working on the Grand Canal construction site was paid, so there would definitely not be a tragedy of starvation.
The only price the court had to pay was to give up the so-called operating rights for twenty years.
Even though Lu Chen did not explain in detail, Li Zhuo understood what the so-called operating rights were.
Isn't it that after the Grand Canal is opened, he will set up checkpoints on the Grand Canal and all passing ships will have to pay.
Li Zhuo felt that this was very normal and absolutely natural.
If he had spent so much money and expended so much manpower and material resources, he would have started collecting money to recover his costs when the Grand Canal was completed.
After twenty years, Li Zhuo felt that Lu Chen was really conscientious.
Only a few dollars can be collected from a merchant ship. Li Zhuo felt that if Lu Chen really expected to recoup his costs by collecting tolls, he should have set the term not at twenty years but at two hundred years.
What's more, the Grand Canal hasn't won yet, which means that he used something that didn't exist to get tens of millions of taels of funds from the central bank. The more Li Zhuoyue thought about it, the more he felt that this matter was a bit mysterious.
He couldn't understand why Lu Chen's business style, which was almost like doing charity, was so confusing.
Lu Chen was also puzzled. He didn't understand why the civil and military officials of the Great Qi Dynasty thought that the management rights of the Grand Canal were not important?
What is that? That’s the livelihood of millions of workers!
He admitted that there were not many merchant ships traveling from Yangzhou to the capital, and the cargo they transported was not much, but this was only temporary.
First of all, there is more than just Yangzhou in the southern region. Secondly, once the Grand Canal is successfully dug, it will definitely become the busiest waterway in the world.
Once merchants have tasted the sweetness of Grand Canal transportation, they will flock to it and use water transportation to transport goods as much as possible.
Once it reaches a certain scale, it will be more than just the small things we have now.
By that time, making money would actually be a small matter. As long as Lu Chen wanted to, he could completely control the prices of certain products in the entire Da Qi through this Grand Canal.
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