In the winter of the 22nd year of Chongzhen, the mailings of the Yima Ma who led all over the capital almost caused congestion in the official roads.

An unprecedented scene was staged in the Ming Dynasty. Almost every day, more than a hundred riders rushed to various places, conveying letters, official letters, texts, and newspapers. Every day, hundreds of riders poured into the capital from all over the country, bringing local requests, reports, and news.

Wu Qi became prime minister twice. The former only felt that he was an official, while the latter felt more and more deeply that he was doing things and doing major things in the world, and truly held the borders of various places in his hand. This illusion of power prime minister made him excited, intoxicated, and alert. He was unwilling to enter the black prison again - the crown prince was in full bloom, and if he went in, he would not be able to stand up.

The huge traffic also brought prosperity to the commodity economy, and high-quality Korean paper alleviated the insufficient hardware for issuing banknotes. The country collected silver from the south and issued banknotes in the north, while reducing transportation costs, and balancing the economic gap between the north and the south. As knowledgeable people have seen clearly, a major reason for the bankruptcy of farmers in the north was that there was no silver. At that time, the country only collected silver for taxes, which caused man-made disasters.

Now that the country is stable, the land has been distributed again, and the contradictions have been reduced to the historical lowest point. A large amount of money flows into the hands of the people through various channels, purchasing daily necessities has also improved the ability to pay taxes, and life has been earth-shaking. Moreover, due to climate reasons and the impact of war on the population, northern agriculture has not been truly restored. Even a grain-producing place like Huaiqing Prefecture, Henan, is only self-sufficient.

After Shen Jiaxian became the governor of Huaiqing Prefecture after Shen Jiaxian became the political party in Henan.

When he first took office, the Henan Provincial Administration issued a document that the tasks of Huaiqing Prefecture in the next three years will be labor export and greening to solidify soil, and assist in the control of the Huanghuai flood.

Seeing that the positions of Xianyao were about to be filled, Zhang San was of course not satisfied with the work of counting the population, inspecting stations, transporting labor, and planting trees. Huaiqing Prefecture has the advantage of river water, and it is also the Taihang Channel. It is adjacent to Shanxi, which is a good place to show its strengths.

The most important thing in the examination is the tax ratio and the four people.

Nowadays, the definition of the "scholar" class has become vague. Local culture and education are not considered as juren, and the number of Jinshi is only about the new academic system. However, there are not many issues to be concerned about, mainly the allocation of money and grain and supervision. In addition, the transfer of farmers' population to industry and commerce is the shift of this. This is easier said than done, but the key is the channel issue.

As long as farmers can live a good life on the land, they are unwilling to leave the land unless they can believe that other professions can get a better life. Moreover, the threshold for industry and commerce is not low, especially in the business field, there are risks, so it is not possible to take the initiative to drive people away.

When Zhang San was studying in the Administrative Academy, his friend Shen Jiaxian was the prefect of Huaiqing Prefecture. Shen Jiaxian proposed the principle of double income, that is, the salary for recruiting workers should be twice the income of farmers who earn a year of farming.

For example, a strong laborer has 100 mu of land. The yield per mu is two stones, and the gross income per year is 200 stones. According to the price of grain collected by the imperial court, you can get 200 taels of silver. Excluding the cost of his own life and seeds, agricultural tools and fertilizers, the net income of this strong laborer is only fifty taels of silver a year.

Then when setting wages, the workers' net income per year must be guaranteed to exceed one hundred taels.

This theory is indeed helpful for farmers' transformation. At the beginning of the country, farmers have become afraid of farming and relying on the weather for their income. Not to mention twice, they are even slightly worse. They are willing to do it every day when they are paid for their salary. It is precisely because of this that Shen Jiaxian perfectly achieved all the examination tasks of the Ministry of Personnel and promoted to the General Secretary.

During Zhang San's term of office, the task of converting agriculture into industry and commerce became heavier, but the world was peaceful and people felt more secure after they had a piece of land to farm. This led to a return of the number of workers, which made Zhang San very worried. Therefore, two new policies were proposed to be tried in the prefecture of Hanoi.

The first is to double the income twice, increase the wages of workers, and reach four times the rate of farming. Use heavy profits to make them unwilling to return to farming.

The second article is to provide government guarantees to merchants who are interested in operating, so that banks in the government can provide credit loans. These loans that do not require collateral and have low interest rates allow many people to buy cheap and high-quality coal and iron from Shanxi and transport them back to Henan for sale, increasing commercial tax revenue.

In order to increase the amount of coal used in Huaiqing Prefecture, not to reduce the price of coal, Zhang San was very sensitive to the steam engine, a big coal eater, and organized Henan students to conduct trial production.

From the technical aspects, the steam engine used for water pumping in the first generation of mines is low in difficulty and high in safety, but the usage restrictions are high, and it is mainly used to extract irrigation water in the river area.

The role of the second generation of flywheel steam engines on factories is revealed. Especially as blowers, replacing livestock bellows, increasing the temperature of the kiln, and mechanical hammer forging, it can have amazing results.

When the steam engine is freed from the hard shell of the "locomotive", even if it only has three or five horsepower, the effect will be obvious.

However, when developing the steam engine, all participants were in their own positions, understood the principles and structure of the steam engine, and carefully created it, and there were no serious accidents.

Once the steam engine is placed in the folk, the process is poor and the operation is improper, and all kinds of strange phenomena appear one after another, and two or three hundred-degree steam hurts people. This puts forward a great test on the process requirements in various places and provides more constructive suggestions for the reform and formulation of the steam engine.

Huaiqing Mansion is a major mansion with foundation in the Central Plains. After the steam engine technology was released, as of New Year's Day of the 23rd year of Chongzhen, thirteen second-generation flywheel steam engines were imitated in just one month, ranking first in the country.

The place where steam engines are the most used is the iron plant, which has significantly improved its production efficiency and quality. Even large iron plants that can smel Sugang in Xuzhou, Wuhu and other places have to come to learn from the scriptures and conduct technical exchanges.

This spontaneous technological upgrade has given Huaiqingfu a new flagship product. Huaiqing Sugang is strictly speaking, just an improved variety of pyrodite in Sugang, but it is sufficient to be competent for the manufacturing of high-end civilian iron.

Similar good news from various places has been reported, and the use of steam engines is various, as if the steam engine can be used as long as there are places where power sources are needed.

"It's all fools!" Xu Jiafu, president of Huangming Iron and Steel Group, commented.

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Xu Jiafu dragged his fat body and squeezed into the carriage of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. The carriage immediately sank. Min Ziruo looked at him nervously, feeling that his fat body was a very dangerous weapon.

Zhu Cilang looked at Xu Jiafu gently and said, "You are getting richer."

Xu Jiafu smiled and said a little embarrassedly, "Your Highness, you haven't changed at all."

Zhu Cilang touched his beard and signaled that he could start moving.

The carriage galloped all the way from the Forbidden City to the Jingxi Iron Factory, a newly completed large iron plant. Zhu Cixuan did not know the technical conditions of the steelmaking method and did not dare to show his fear. His instructions to the steel plant could only be simply said: bigger, more, and better. After the element theory gradually became accepted, the research methods of steel formulas also came on track, which also greatly promoted the improvement of smelting technology.

As the president, Xu Jiafu didn't need to come to the Beijing West Railway Factory in person, but because he heard that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was very interested in steel, he hoped that the Beijing West Railway Factory would become a smelting base for all varieties and cultivate more smelting technical talents, so he personally rushed to participate in the layout and expansion.

Who knew that the crown prince actually gave the honor of riding a carriage with a shared carriage?

"I heard you are not happy with the popularity of steam engines?" Zhu Cixuan's first question was not about steel.

Xu Jiafu was a little surprised and immediately hated the newspaper interviewers, who really didn't miss anything. However, the crown prince was able to notice a word of gossip about himself from so many newspapers every day, and it seemed that he was still concerned about him.

Xu Jiafu said: "Your Highness, I said those people are fools. It's not that the steam engine is bad, but that they use the wrong place. It's obvious that a few horses can do better and more economical, but they also have to build machines that can explode when they move. Isn't this stupidity?"

Zhu Cilang believes that he believes that "there is no best, only the most suitable", but he does not agree with this issue.

"This is the beginning of an era. The more people we use, the more technical reserves we get." Zhu Cixuan said: "You are now in charge of the entire Ming Dynasty's iron government, including the research direction and talent reserves of steel. I have to remind you: be keen at all times and don't be self-confidence. Especially our steel group, we do not allow outsiders to interfere, and it is easier to lose complacency."

Unlike steam engines, steel is the lifeblood of the country on the one hand, and on the other hand, it is also non-renewable resources. The worse the technical conditions, the more serious the pollution and the greater the waste. Therefore, for the sake of the descendants, Zhu Cixuan finally held the steel in his hand and did not release it.

Xu Jiafu wiped his sweat: "Thank you for your advice, I will wake up at that time."

"Steel is the skeleton of my Ming Dynasty. If you hurt the bones of the Ming Dynasty, I will definitely not spare you." Zhu Cixuan looked at his fat body and said, "What do you think of Liao Tie?"

Because the chemical engineering degree is almost zero now, steel and metallurgy also relies on the nature to make a living. The quality of iron ore is good, and the iron produced is naturally of good quality and the formula is easy to master. If it is a poor iron ore with extremely high phosphorus and sulfur content, the iron produced is highly brittle and can be made into agricultural tools.

The iron ore in China generally contains phosphorus and sulfur, and there is a great loss in this regard. On the other hand, there are natural phosphorus-free iron ore in the UK, so it took a lot of advantages during the Industrial Revolution.

After recapturing Shenyang, a huge open-pit iron ore was found in the mountains south of Dongningwei. Not only was it easy to mine, but it was also low in phosphorus, sulfur and low impurities. It was a high-quality iron ore rare in the country. Especially there were high-quality coking coal mines nearby, which were simply a treasure house for gods. If this was left untie, Zhu Cilang would have no shame to claim to be the manager of the Ming Dynasty.

Xu Jiafu has also heard of Liaotie and read related data performance reports. After hearing the prince’s question, he was shocked: Could your Highness want me to preside over the development of Liaotie?
Chapter completed!