Zhu Cixuan originally hoped to return to Jinan before the Shangyuan Festival. Shangyuan was also a big festival. The family reunion was a banquet. If they were missing a eldest son, it was not a happy enough. However, the progress of the Technical College deviated from his preset. These top elites of the Ming Dynasty started with science and improved their technology. The way they were right, but the initial effect seemed a bit weak.

What the Technical College can do now is all inventions written by Wang Zheng in "Strange Artifacts" that year. It can be said that the only collective achievements are four-wheeled carriages and flat glass, and four-wheeled carriages and flat glass are both major exported commodities and have no direct military value. This has to be said to be contrary to Zhu Cixuan's original intention.

So Zhu Cixuan simply lived in the academy and ordered the various departments to draw soldiers with quick hands and feet, flexible brains and excellent eyesight to come to learn how to use hot air balloons. He immediately discovered that in order to speed up the sewing of air bags, Song Yingxing was thinking of a machine that could save manpower - a sewing machine.

Regardless of whether there is the conditions to invent this machine, Zhu Cixuan would not allow him to continue to be so stubborn. Spring is about to come, and after a winter is over, the Mongolians will not be able to survive, so the new military operations will inevitably be launched between February and March. As long as there are a few hot air balloons that can be used in Shanxi and North China, the effect can be seen. If it is really necessary to manufacture on a large scale, it will be a matter of the future.

Song Yingxing also realized that the crown prince was dissatisfied with the current progress, so he could only speed up the time to improve the small parts, striving to meet his perfect image.

In addition to keeping a close eye on Song Yingxing's accelerated manufacturing of hot air balloons, Zhu Cixuan also needs to build a real scientific research system. Now, popularizing village studies in Class A areas can only be considered literacy at most. However, if it can be implemented stably for three years, with the increase in subjects, this literacy class can be transformed into real primary education.

Only after primary education can secondary education and higher education have a foundation. However, the current situation is that the country cannot wait for three to five years, and Wang Zheng and Xiong Mingyu are no longer young. Although they have children and nephews to follow and learn, their talents are obviously far inferior to their parents. Therefore, even if the first batch of talents educated have some shortcomings, they can only recognize them and must devote themselves to young students to follow and learn. Otherwise, a lot of knowledge will be divided into generations.

If you want to attract the scholars of the Ming Dynasty to participate in research, then the word "technician" obviously cannot appear.

Due to such changes, Zhu Cixuan's time to stay in Laizhou had to be extended so that he could separate some of the teachers and students of the Technical College, take the direction of pure academic research, and establish the first comprehensive science and engineering university in Huangming. The original Technical College would further follow the vocational education route. The admission standard was a Class A diploma or above, with five years of academic schedule and work study.

Judging from the current literacy rate of Daming, such two-level schools are already higher education. As for the secondary and primary education below, we can only spend time slowly consolidating it. Fortunately, the education system of the countries in Taixi was not ahead of the Ming Dynasty. Reading and literacy is still a privilege of the elite class, so there is still time.

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On the 18th anniversary of Chongzhen, Zhu Cixuan sent someone to send a letter back to Jinan to celebrate his father and mother. At the same time, Liu Ruoyu asked him to publish a letter of appointment after the New Year to recruit Baohe Storekeepers.

There was no "Company Law" in the Ming Dynasty, and all business names did not need to be registered, nor did they need to be verified. However, there were six names that no one dared to use. That was Baohe, Heyuan, Shunning, Fude, Fuji, and Baoyan. These six shops were six royal shops, and all the income was the emperor's treasury. Because the hall of the admiral and eunuchs was located in Baohe Store, Baohe had the most famous.

In the year after leaving Beijing, Zhu Cixuan had basically not conducted normal business activities, and even killed many normal business activities in Shandong. This was simply unimaginable for former businessmen. However, the main reason was that Zhu Cixuan himself was really useless and relying on the regime and military power to seek benefits is much simpler than following the rules of the mall to get rich legally.

However, now he has mature high-value-added goods in his hands. If he wants to obtain greater profits from Jiangnan, he must have an equal exchange subject, otherwise plundering alone will only aggravate the difficulty of future reconstruction.

What's more, he has no troops to plunder Jiangnan now.

...

On the 19th day of the first lunar month of the 18th year of Chongzhen, Zhu Ciyang arrived in Qingdao. Due to the Little Ice Age, even if the Yellow River did not inject a large amount of fresh water into the Bohai Sea, the ports of Laizhou and Dengzhou still had varying degrees of freezing, so Shen Tingyang left a small number of patrol ships. Other ships of the navy moved to Jiaozhou Bay for the winter - it was the largest unfreezing port in Shandong.

Qingdao Naval Office is a confiscated property, with three rooms and two small courtyards. At this time, it was winter and spring, and there were no green in the yard, and even the water in the pond had a thick layer of ice.

Zhu Cilang stepped on the stone path that had just been swept over and tightened the fox fur on his body. Shen Tingyang was beside him, wearing a cotton jacket with a sable collar. Shen Tingyang and Zhu Cilang were far apart, and he still remembered the first summoning of the crown prince at the outer residence of the East Palace. Looking back at the words of the crown prince at that time, it seems that they have come true. And at that time, I still felt that the crown prince still had a little childishness on his face, but now I look at it, but I look at it with a decisive and majestic look.

"In the 16th year of Chongzhen, when I first left the palace, I said I could use advanced technology to compensate your family, but now there is nothing I can do." Zhu Cixuan said mockingly.

"I am today, relying on the support of Your Highness, how dare I be more greedy for Shu?" Shen Tingyang added the title of Minister of War and commanded the navy. Although he donated a large amount of property, he also gained a lot of benefits. Last year, Shen made a large part of the trade with Japan in Jiangnan.

"I'm not used to taking advantage of others." Zhu Cixuan stood by the frozen pond, looking at the shaking water under the ice: "This time I came to see you specially to give you something real."

"Your Highness, how dare I..."

"The shares of Baohedian, as well as the sales rights of flat glass and four-wheeled carriage in Zhejiang, Nanzhi." Zhu Cixuan smiled and said, "How?"

Shen Tingyang felt a little helpless, his lips were bloated, and he didn't know what to say. As a businessman in Jiangnan, he finally said: "The shares must not be taken in vain. I am willing to invest in the subscription."

"I'm afraid you can't afford it." Zhu Cixuan said: "Baohe Store is the first of the Royal Six stores. The assets are not clear yet, but in my opinion, if you start a large-scale maritime trade in the future, you may not have less income."

Shen Tingyang took a breath secretly. He naturally knew the profits of running the sea. If the crown prince also wanted to run to the sea, who could pass by him? Isn’t it a patent? By this calculation, not only can he not afford to buy this share, but he also dare not buy it!

Will anyone in this world be willing to give the money they have given to others for free?

"I have roughly calculated the income distribution of this store," Zhu Cixuan said with his fingers, "Sheng Jia Nanxing, many people in the capital have bought national debts for the money. Although the interest rate is not high, the money has to be paid back."

Chen Tingyang had a slight head, and he also knew that the Crown Prince had built silver mountains in Beijing to buy peace for the people. However, he did not expect that the Crown Prince would still remember it, and seemed to really plan to pay back the money, which surprised him a little.

"After arriving in Shandong, the princes and princes gave money to mine, build roads, and work hard on the army, so this was their investment, and they were divided into 5% of the dividend." Zhu Cixuan emphasized the tone on the "dividend" and separated from the equity mentioned just now.

Chen Tingyang naturally understood and nodded.

"As for equity," Zhu Ciyang said, "only those who have made outstanding contributions can get it. After obtaining the equity, they can not only distribute dividends, but also participate in Baohe Store's operation decisions. If the children and grandchildren cannot hold on, they can also resell... Of course, the original shareholders have the right of first refusal under the same conditions."

Zhu Cixuan patted Chen Tingyang on the shoulder: "I know your credit very well and have never forgotten it. Without you, Shandong would not have had the foundation to survive this year. So, I will give you one percent of the equity. Although I don't know what the total trade volume with Japan is now, Zheng Zhilong can earn 3,000 taels a year and can earn tens of millions of taels a year. I think this percentage is quite valuable."

Zhu Ciyang didn’t know about the total trade volume, and Chen Tingyang certainly didn’t know either. But anyone would calculate it: if he was drawn three thousand taels and there was no high enough profit, no one would run to Japan? Now Shen’s ships running to Japan can earn more than 10,000 taels of net profit. If the power of the court carried out maritime trade, what would the income be?
Chapter completed!