Chapter 450: Yan Fan, Metamorphosis!

Fire gun factory.

Zhu Biao led a group of people walking in the spacious brick and tile wooden roof factory.

The factory is ten meters wide and the factory is almost one hundred meters long. In the middle is a passage for people to walk and transport materials. On both sides of the passage, there are two rows of vertical pedal machine tools.

There are a total of two thousand machine tools, and at the same time, there are four thousand craftsmen under the supervision of the craftsman working on the fire gun barrels.

A small furnace is preheated one after another, even in the twelfth month of the lunar year near the Spring Festival.

The whole factory, with wide windows around to let in air, is still hot.

One by one, the craftsmen, wearing the lining without the sleeves, bare their strong, dark, and broad arms, worked hard to process the gun barrels.

Zhu Biao pointed at the craftsman who wrapped his head with cloth, making a big bun, "Wrap your hair in this way, and there will be no more accidents later, right?"

In the past two years, because the craftsman was not careful, the hair was ignited by the preheating furnace next to it, or the person in charge of pedaling the machine tool with two people working together, the hair of the person in charge of processing the fire gun was rolled into the machine tool, causing many accidents.

Although no one was killed.

But in the first year, after the craftsman who was responsible for technical guidance sent back by the fourth brother left.

Such accidents happened almost every day, so that the craftsmen were a little timid.

Moreover, frequent injuries also greatly affected the progress of fire gun manufacturing.

The court has a million elites, and my father wants to strive to complete the comprehensive reorganization within three or four years.

Even if the artillery can be deployed more slowly.

The annual demand for fire guns is as high as 200,000 to 300,000.

Since the establishment of the fire gun factory.

The output has been unable to meet the demand.

So far, only 150,000 of the 200,000 elites in the Beijing camp have been reorganized!

On the other hand, the fourth brother helped the second and third brothers to train the prince's guards.

So far, the fifth brother's prince's guards are said to have been trained.

A total of 100,000 new troops were trained!

After the second and third brothers were trained, Lan Yu and Mu Ying went to inspect on behalf of the court and came back to say that the fourth brother might have wanted to save face for the court.

So he deliberately controlled the speed of training the prince's guards.

And he also took back several fire guns made by Yan Fan.

Whether it is exquisite workmanship or quality, it is much better than the Jinling Fire Gun Factory.

Lan Yu once proposed that since the production capacity of the Jinling Fire Gun Factory could not meet the needs of training new troops.

Can it be purchased from the fourth brother Yan Fan.

The price is low and the quality is high.

He was also tempted at the time.

Like the generals in the army headed by Lan Yu, he wanted to complete the reorganization of one million elites as soon as possible.

Anyway, the Ming Dynasty is not short of money now.

These years are probably the best years since the establishment of the court.

Throughout the Ming Dynasty, the completion rate of rural villages reached 40%, and the people gradually became wealthy.

In addition, sea trade was fully liberalized.

Although the sea merchants in Hebei, Shandong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang did not have large ships that could sail far, they drove small boats to travel between Goryeo and Japan under the drive of interests.

Especially Japan.

It is said that the whole of Japan is now crazy about killing.

The five Japanese supported by the fourth brother were sharply counterattacked by the Japanese elite for their rural villages and employment share system in Japan.

Considered as heresy.

After entering the rule of the five Japanese, ordinary Japanese people who engaged in rural villages were also regarded as heretics and killed.

The other party seemed to uphold the idea that if the problem cannot be solved, the person who created the problem will be solved.

They vowed to completely produce the idea of ​​rural villages and employment share system through physical elimination.

And the five Japanese headed by Goro Ono also competed with each other.

Fight out, kill all the elites!

It is said that he went to extremes and completely lost the doctrine of the mean.

The situation in Japan undoubtedly verified that his decision to promote the rural community and openly deny the employment share system was correct.

The war in Japan led to Japan's need for various materials.

As a result, a large amount of silver and gold from Japan flowed into the court.

At the same time, the gold and silver coins flowing into the fourth Yan vassal made the court's treasury full.

In just over a year.

The court has gone from almost balancing its income and expenditure every year, or having a slight surplus, to saving 5 million taels of silver this year!

Therefore, the court is fully capable of supporting the purchase of fire guns and artillery from abroad and training new troops.

But this proposal was just put forward by Lan Yu and others in the court.

It was rejected by Xiong Ying, who had already started to participate in politics.

Xiongying said this in front of his father, him, and all the civil and military officials: Although the cost of the court is high, the exquisiteness and quality of the fire guns are a bit poor, but it does not affect the normal service life. If we buy fire guns and cannons from the fourth uncle, we will not be able to achieve the purpose of training craftsmen.

For Xiongying's advice, the father was very happy.

Afterwards, he asked the father and learned that the fourth brother had predicted that the Ming Dynasty's industry would develop slowly.

But the fourth brother suggested to the father.

As long as the factory's income and expenditure are balanced and corruption is controlled, workers can be trained in this way.

He asked the father, why did the fourth brother judge that the development of the court's industry would definitely be slow?

The father only said one sentence: stale atmosphere! Bureaucratic atmosphere, noble and humble atmosphere...

This time he came to the industrial zone for inspection, just to find out what exactly restricted the development of the court's industry.

But it seems that Lu Zhao and others have done a good job, not blindly conservative, and are also actively looking for ways to change.

For example, this hair.

It was scattered behind the back before, but now it has become flexible, right?

…

Lu Zhao didn't know how many things Zhu Biao was thinking about in just a short moment. He took credit and said, "Prince, since the last time Yun Wen came to observe and proposed this method, there have been no injuries."

Zhu Biao heard this and looked at Zhu Yunwen who was following him in surprise.

Everyone looked at Zhu Yunwen together.

Lan Yu frowned slightly.

Zhu Yunwen bowed politely and said: "Father, I just made some random comments, but I didn't expect that it really made a difference..."

In fact, this was not what he came up with.

Not long ago, he came here to observe.

He found an old craftsman wrapping his head in a towel. He asked and found out the purpose.

Then I assigned my uncle to try to promote it and see if it works.

The purpose at that time was simple.

Just want to make Jinling Industrial Zone stronger.

We must catch up, surpass, and crush Yan Fan.

Unexpectedly, his uncle gave him the credit for other people's work.

However, he does have credit for it.

Not long ago, the eldest brother was praised by the imperial grandfather for his insistence on making and training workers.

He also wanted his father to appreciate him.

…

"Yunwen, you did a good job on this matter." Zhu Biao praised with a smile and turned around to continue the visit.

Xiongying took Yang Rong with him and asked the craftsmen from time to time, gradually falling behind.

At some point.

Yang Rong saw Zhu Yunwen following Zhu Biao, talking and laughing from time to time. He frowned slightly and pulled Xiongying who was talking to the craftsman.

Xiongying ended his conversation with the craftsman, stood up, and asked as he walked: "Brother, what's wrong with you?"

"My grandson really believes that His Highness Yunwen came up with the idea of ​​issuing contracts? He didn't even go deep into the front line to work in person, how could he think of it? Moreover, a tinkering method like issuing contracts can really have a great impact on our Ming Dynasty's industry. Environment, produce breakthrough promotion effect?”

Zhu Yunwen was particularly good at pleasing the prince.

The prince is a moderate, gentle and elegant person.

He noticed that for more than a year, Zhu Yunwen seemed to be deliberately imitating the prince.

He couldn't tell whether this was Zhu Yunwen's own idea or whether someone was teaching Zhu Yunwen behind his back.

…

Xiongying looked at Yang Rong's worried but very calm expression and couldn't help but smile. He patted Yang Rong on the shoulder and said, "Brother, I know what you are worried about."

Xiongying did not continue to talk about Zhu Yunwen and Zhu Biao, but just told Yang Rong openly that he knew everything.

Then he said: "Actually, I don't like this kind of patchwork method, which is similar to hair buns. Originally, I thought that the huge inconvenience would eventually prompt people to let go of their parents' old ideas about their body and skin, and take the initiative to cut their hair. , but I didn’t expect…”

Your skin and hair is from your parents!

There are many, many more traditional and old ideas like this that constrain the development of Ming Dynasty.

If these shackles are not broken, the industrial development of Ming Dynasty will never be able to speed up and be active.

"Actually, the problem lies there. The management headed by Lu Zhao, except for the emperor's grandfather and father, will come to the front line during inspections. On weekdays, they sit in the official room and drink tea almost every day. The people below have made great contributions. They are rushing to How can the craftsmen be motivated in this situation?"

This is typical bureaucracy.

Although my father hasn't noticed it yet.

But the emperor's grandfather already knew.

But what can be done?

Thousands of years of bureaucracy, if we do not comprehensively implement rural village communes and employee shareholding systems, and comprehensively improve the economic, social, and political status of people from all walks of life.

Bureaucracy can never be curbed.

Fourth Uncle said that all forces in the world must be balanced and evenly matched.

Only when the power of the people increases can the bureaucracy be effectively curbed.

Otherwise, the Jinling Industrial Zone can only be run successfully unless a truly good functional official is replaced.

It can be said in the words of my fourth uncle.

The vast majority of people in the world are mediocre, and similarly, the vast majority of officials are mediocre.

There are too few truly good functional officers!

You can't put the Left Prime Minister and Mr. Bowen in the Jinling Industrial Zone to engage in industry, right?

…

Xiongying saw that Zhu Biao had walked out of the gun factory and gathered his thoughts, "Let's go."

An hour later.

Zhu Biao walked out of Jinling Industrial Zone.

Looking at Lu Zhao who was diligently escorting them out, he warned: "I can see that you are also attentive, but don't always sit in the official room. We have all gone to Jilongyu Industrial Zone to see it. Haven't you noticed that Jilongyu Industrial Zone Are the people in charge of the Long Island Industrial Zone on the front line every day?”

"Hui Zu and Lao Si were setting up a rural village community at that time, and they went into the countryside every day to conduct research..."

The smile on Lu Zhao's face froze and he hurriedly lowered his head.

Is it possible that his brother, the prince's concubine, still has to spend time in such a harsh environment, with high temperature, noise, and flying dust?

Is it useful?

Stop talking about him.

The prince asked the civil and military officials of the entire dynasty who would be willing to do this!

You guys are here to be officials, not to be lowly craftsmen.

Now it seems that from now on I will have to go to the factory every day and put on a show.

"I will remember the prince's teachings. From now on, I will definitely be on the front line every day!"

…

Yang Rong looked at Lu Zhao, shook his head, leaned into Xiongying's ear, and whispered: "Look, these officials in the industrial zone used to sit in the government offices and drink tea. Next, they will go to the front line to engage in formalism. They must be in a bad mood, and their bad emotions will definitely be vented on the craftsmen, which will have a greater impact on production and the enthusiasm of the craftsmen! His Royal Highness seems to have seen the problem, but the method to solve the problem is completely wrong..."

Lan Yu secretly listened to Yang Rong's analysis.

Full of admiration.

Yang Rong’s prediction is surprising.

After hearing the prince's advice to Lu Zhao, he also felt that it should promote the Jinling Industrial Zone.

But Yang Rong believes that instead of promoting it, it will have a counterproductive effect!

Yang Rong’s analysis is irrefutable!

As expected of Zhu Laosi’s student!

And Zhu Laosi placed such an outstanding student next to Xiongying to help Xiongying.

The Lan Chang family cannot repay this kindness.

Lan Yu stretched out her hand and pressed it on the top of Yang Rong's hair. When Yang Rong and Xiong Ying looked at it, they laughed in a low voice and asked: "After spending New Year's Eve in the palace this year, are you going to the Tuqiao Village Camp to join your group of brothers?" New Year?”

Zhu Xiongying nodded with a smile, and Lan Yu asked, "Can my uncle go with you?"

…

One person and two children followed Zhu Biao's inspection team and walked forward.

We arrived not far from the industrial zone, outside a courtyard at the Qinhuai River dock.

Outside the yard, there was a long queue, including young people alone and those with their families.

There is a sign hanging on the pillar on the left side of the courtyard gate, which reads: Yan Fan Resettlement Office.

Zhu Biao looked at the lively queue.

Many officials behind him became embarrassed.

Zhu Biao asked: "This year, the relocation office in Jinling, excluding the landless people mobilized by the imperial court, how many people are willing to take the initiative?"

Fang Xiaoru looked at his colleagues on the left and right, and all of them looked embarrassed and remained silent. He took a step forward slightly and bowed: "Prince, I came here a few days ago to learn about it. According to the office staff, spontaneous relocation takes about one month." Almost 80% of the thousand people are local people in Jinling..."

Although Jinling is an imperial city.

The people in the imperial capital will be proud.

But there are also some people who don't care about these false things. They prefer the Yan Fan who fully implements the rural village community and the employee-share system.

It is believed that Yan Fan has more prospects than Ming Dynasty.

I also believe in King Yan.

Therefore, he sold off the few family properties in the city and took the merchant ships between Yanfan and Jinling to sea with the old and young.

"Prince, I have also learned that there are only three active relocation offices in various places. One is Fujian, one is Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and the other is our Jinling. In other places, except for the mobilization of the imperial court, the situation is generally very deserted."

Fang Xiaoru glanced at Qi Tai and wanted to refute, but moved her lips and swallowed again.

What he was going to say didn't sound good.

There is no need to say it directly.

Find the prince in private and talk alone.

He believed that Ming Dynasty must seize the time to change.

Because he has conducted surveys and statistics, many of the people who have left overseas have read books!

Although I didn't pass the exam.

But not illiterate!

He is very worried that in the future, all those who have achieved fame will want to go to sea!

Ming Dynasty will not seize the opportunity to change.

Maybe this will happen in a dozen years.

Even faster!

"Um!"

Zhu Biao nodded, looked at the lively scene in the resettlement office, and turned to leave.

At the beginning, when I signed the agreement with Lao Si.

Many people sarcastically said: It would be great if a thousand people are willing to go to sea every year.

Facts have proved that after more than a year, the person who said this was slapped in the face.

I'm afraid, it won't take a few years.

The annual quota of 50,000 is not enough.

"Martha!"

"Martha!"

…

"Hey, I'm here!"

A strong man lined up at the door retracted his gaze from Zhu Biao, shouted, and hurried in.

There is a table in the courtyard of the office.

Two clerks sat behind the desk.

The scholar sitting on the left urged impatiently: "What did you do before? Where are you from? Why did you move to sea? How many people are there in the family? Will your parents leave? Do you have a consent form from your parents? Tell me all these questions."

Ma Dashan took out a piece of paper from his arms and handed it to the scholar who asked the question, "I am from Shanxi and an orphan. I used to be a clerk of the Sun family, a wealthy businessman in Shanxi. There is no one in my family anymore. This is a letter of introduction written by my boss. ”

The scholar took it and glanced at it a few times, then raised his head and looked at Martha.

snort!

Suddenly he snorted coldly, "I don't think you are from Shanxi, you look like a Mongolian!"

"Yes, yes, I followed King Yan to the demonstration area, and then I was spotted by the boss of the Sun family, a wealthy businessman in Shanxi, and became a clerk..."

The scholar looked at Martha again.

Handing the document to the young man next to him, "There is no problem with the court."

The young man didn't mind the scholar's coldness and arrogance at all. After receiving the letter of introduction, he stood up and clasped his fists at Ma, "Brother Ma, Yan Fan welcomes you to join. Our office provides short-term accommodation and free meals. However, the accommodation It’s a Datong shop, and the food is ordinary food. Does Brother Ma live in our office, or can he find a place to live by himself..."

"I'll live here. I also want to know everything about King Yan's rule as soon as possible. I heard that there is someone in the office who can introduce it..." Ma Da smiled honestly.

Ha ha……

The young man smiled and nodded, "Yes."

In the conversation, after registering Ma Da, he made a gesture of invitation: "Brother Ma, go to the left and enter the courtyard on the left. Someone will arrange accommodation for you."

Ma Da smiled and left.

Walked away.

Turned his head and looked at the scholar and the young man.

Muttered softly, "The young representative Yan Fan is quite kind. I want to see what it looks like under the rule of Yan Fan, the fourth prince of the Ming Dynasty!"

Ma Da is his pseudonym.

His name is Choros Mahamu!

During the Ming Dynasty's northern expedition, Zhu Silang turned the tide and destroyed the Northern Yuan Dynasty. He led millions of grassland tribes southward. Before leaving, he established a Mongolian-Han demonstration area for the Ming Dynasty north of the Great Wall and south of Yinshan Mountain.

After the Guangmiao grassland north of Yinshan Mountain lost a leadership core.

It was completely chaotic!

He led the tribes of the Choros family, united with Taiping and Batuboluo of Western Mongolia, formed an alliance, fought several fierce battles with Arutai, Guilichi and others of Eastern Mongolia, and completely gained the upper hand.

But he was unable to annex Eastern Mongolia.

After sorting out the tribes of the Choros family, he passed the position of leader to his son Tuohuan and went south.

He went to the demonstration area first.

There were not many Han people in the demonstration area.

Only tens of thousands of landless Han people migrated from Shanxi and Shaanxi.

But the changes in the demonstration area have been very obvious.

He went there this winter.

He saw with his own eyes that snow fell in the demonstration area, and the snow buried the grassland, making it difficult for cattle and sheep to graze.

The herders slaughtered the fat and strong sheep that had been raised for a spring, summer and autumn, cut them into pieces, and marinated them in large jars with sheep fat and salt that could be found everywhere on the grassland.

Then they were bought by the caravans from the Central Plains.

They were replaced with tea, salt, and iron pots from the Central Plains, which were in short supply in the northern grasslands.

Ten households formed a half-farming and half-herding household in a rural village.

In winter, they ate corn dumplings in addition to meat, or boiled corn kernels directly.

They drank corn wine brewed from corn stalks in autumn. The brewed stalks were not wasted, and they actually dug a big pit, compacted them, and buried them.

In winter, the ewes that gave birth ate this fermented corn stalks.

He observed that although the ewes still lost weight in winter, they did not starve to death or freeze to death on a large scale like in the past.

The survival rate of lambs was extremely high!

The next year, the lambs that did not give birth grew up, and in winter they would be pickled and transported back to the Central Plains.

He was really shocked at the time.

His former compatriots.

Now they are the people of the Ming Dynasty. They stay in yurts all winter and use an iron stove transported back from the Yan vassal state.

In the warm yurt, the men drank and played grassland songs with horse-head fiddles and erhu, while the women sang and danced.

If there is any disharmony.

It is that when men and women walk out of the warm yurt to feed cattle and sheep, there will always be some disputes.

The women on the grassland will say: Look at the Han immigrant families next door, the men are the pillars of the family!

At this time, the drunk Mongolian men always yell: You are a Mongolian woman, you must preserve the Mongolian tradition!

Finally, staggering out of the warm yurt, peeing in the snow, shivering, cursing and feeding cattle and sheep.

He saw that millions of Mongolians were giving up their Mongolian traditions.

Take the initiative to embrace the Central Plains! Embrace the customs of the Central Plains!

Such scenes, seeing them in the eyes, make people feel cold all over.

And all this was created by the fourth prince of the Ming Dynasty!

So, he wanted to go out and see the rule of the fourth prince of the Ming Dynasty!

Go and learn from the former enemy!

It is said that next month, sea merchants will come to Jinling, drifting on the sea for a month, first go to Dongfan for a short rest, and after another month, they will arrive at Luzon, where the fourth prince of the Ming Dynasty is concentrating all his efforts to develop!

...

Dongfan.

Industrial zone.

In front of a huge blast furnace that is four feet high and more than two meters in diameter.

Zhu Di looked up.

Jiang Jinzhong introduced beside him, "Prince, this year, we have sold a thousand ships of various agricultural tools to the court. As the court's rural villages and communities begin to be fully rolled out, the demand for agricultural tools will be very high in the future. At least, this demand will not end in two or three years..."

"In addition, Yongchang Marquis Lan Yu and Zhongxin Marquis Zhang Yu, in the name of the demonstration zone, ordered 100,000 sets of cast iron furnaces from us, and only 10,000 sets were delivered this year..."

...

Zhu Di listened carefully.

Zhang Lao Da was canonized as Zhongxin Marquis by his father.

It's a bit low.

However, for the Ming Dynasty court, this title is more suitable.

After all, brothers like Lan Yu and Mu Ying were only marquises.

He estimated that after the demonstration area was built.

With this great contribution, Boss Zhang should be able to be granted the title of Duke.

"This year, I finally don't have to worry about money. So far, after deducting the cost of relocating people, developing Luzon, war costs, and building new warships for the navy, I still have a surplus of one million taels of silver. This is the only year since we came to Dongfan that we don't have famine at the end of the year and have money in our pockets."

Zhu Di couldn't help but smile.

Turning around and patting Jiang Jinzhong on the shoulder, "Hold on for another three or four years. This year, Tan Yuan and Liu Sheng will have wiped out all the hostile forces in the two areas north of the central Luzon region. Liu Sheng's second town will be in the war." Expansion, actual combat training, and an army have been formed. Next year, our two towns and four mixed associations will sweep through the forces in southern Luzon and eradicate their elites in one year. Next, it will be a period of stability and construction. Military expenditures will be reduced. Overall The expenses will be much less.”

"Come on, take me to the new iron factory!"

Jiang Jinzhong smiled and nodded, and couldn't wait to walk in front.

Soon, we came to the upper reaches of the Jilong River, where the river channel is relatively steep, the water flow is turbulent, and the impact force is greater.

"Your Majesty, the new iron plant needs more water power, so it can only be relocated to this immigrant village. The people here have moved to other places. I have compensated each household and person with five taels of silver and helped build new houses. I absolutely owe nothing to the people.”

"Jin Zhong, I can rest assured that you will do things." Zhu Di nodded and quickened his pace.

Rumble...

As we get closer to the wall in front, the roar gradually becomes clearer.

Under the leadership of Jiang Jinzhong.

The moment Zhu Di entered the courtyard, he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.

I walked over quickly and felt a wave of heat.

Through the leakage of the molten iron, the fiery red molten iron flows out and flows into the thin and wide troughs.

As soon as it solidified, several craftsmen used large iron pliers to hold a huge piece of iron about one centimeter thick and brought it to a square furnace with a water-driven bellows in front.

After a short warm-up, the huge iron piece is clamped and placed into the front water-driven roller.

The rollers with increasingly narrow gaps are continuously squeezed, and after passing through all the rollers, a huge iron sheet is formed.

It's nice to think of using water power.

Zhu Di walked to a small blast furnace that was as tall as one person.

Jiang Jinzhong introduced: "Your Majesty, this is a small blast furnace for steelmaking. After passing the crucible experiment, we can only build such a large steelmaking furnace for the time being. No matter how big it is, it cannot be stirred. The craftsmen said that it is impossible to fully stir and blow into the blast furnace." The air cannot fully come into contact with the molten pig iron, and the steel that is directly used to cast cannons and muskets cannot be produced..."

Zhu Di nodded.

Full exposure to oxygen is mainly to reduce the carbon content in pig iron.

too big.

Inhomogeneous stirring and insufficient oxygen contact.

It is simply impossible to do it under current technical conditions.

Unless a converter can be designed.

Now this small blast furnace is, to put it bluntly, just a larger crucible.

"Don't be in a hurry, take your time. The current technological improvements have greatly facilitated us." As Zhu Di spoke, he looked at the water-driven roller devices in front of the small blast furnace.

A square piece of iron, after being preheated and red-hot, is passed through a set of rollers and squeezed through holes one by one, and finally becomes a round iron rod.

In the last process, a hydraulic guillotine is set up.

When the long iron rod reaches the end and is blocked by the iron plate, the knife mechanism is triggered, and the knife falls, cutting the iron rod into the standard length of the rifle tube.

Regardless of the iron sheet making process just now.

It is still the process of making gun tubes and iron rods at this moment.

In fact, there is already a trace of the prototype of steel rolling.

"Your Majesty, we are encountering some trouble now..."

Upon hearing this, Zhu Di came back to his senses, turned around, and asked with a smile: "What troublesome thing is it? We are developing so well, but there is still trouble?"

Jiang Jinzhong smiled bitterly, "In order to meet the needs of Daming, our side is very busy this year. We work in two shifts in the morning and afternoon. Other workshops are fine, but the blast furnace has encountered some troubles. The first is clothes. The craftsmen have always insisted on wearing them. Wearing long clothes, I became more and more constrained at work, and finally gradually accepted the split-style clothes in our military. However, the hair issue was very troublesome. A young man in the iron smelting plant felt that it was too hot to have long hair, and the iron smelting plant was dusty. He was also very big, and his hair was too long to take care of, so the young man shaved his head. The young man’s old father got angry and broke his legs..."

"Actually, I secretly encouraged this young man to shave his head. I just wanted to use him to test whether the new trend we have set can be accepted."

"Jinzhong..." Zhu Di couldn't help but patted Jiang Jinzhong on the shoulder, "You are very familiar with every process in our industrial zone. This proves that you are not an official sitting in the government office every day. You are really on the front line. Do it in a down-to-earth manner, otherwise, you wouldn’t be able to understand it in such detail..."

Some details, if you have never done it before, it is impossible to understand it in detail like Jinzhong.

"In this matter, it proves that you are not bureaucratic, but in the new hair accessories, you are guilty of bureaucracy. You are pushing for one thing, but we don't take the lead and encourage others to test the direction of the trend. What are you not a bureaucracy?"

"I came back this time to completely resolve this matter. Whether we are filial to our parents or not depends on our hair. Yong Ming followed me back. He has already returned to the palace to inform the princess in advance. The princess is already making preparations. After I go back, The princess will cut my hair first, and then Yong Ming, our father and son will take the lead!”

"With development, some of our traditional things must be broken, and they will definitely be broken. If we don't break them, we will not be able to adapt to development, and development will stagnate due to our own reasons."

"The imperial court's Jinling Industrial Zone has the support of the entire Ming Dynasty and a vast market. Why can it only maintain a barely balanced balance of payments? Why does it not dare to expand iron smelting at all? Because expansion will lead to more bureaucrats, which is not conducive to supervising corruption. In this outdated bureaucratic atmosphere, workers do dirty work and achieve merit, but the credit belongs to the bureaucracy. There is no enthusiasm, and production efficiency is low. The more you produce, the more you will lose, even if there is a broad market, it will be the same... "

Ming Dynasty now encountered almost the same problems as the Qing Dynasty’s Westernization Movement.

The majority of farmers lack iron farm tools and have a broad market.

The larger the scale of the iron smelting plant, the weirder the situation, the greater the losses.

"We must first set an example and break some traditions that restrict production and development and can no longer keep up with the times!"

"Do you know why young people in our factory dare to propose shaving their heads? Although you encouraged it, this young worker had such an idea in the first place, so he was encouraged by the people you sent."

"Because our workshop is an employee-share system, we have a clear and detailed reward system. The more profitable the factory is, the more the workers will receive. Therefore, when things that restrict production efficiency arise, the workers will be motivated. Go break!"

"Our small steel furnace, the hydraulic roller for making iron sheets...the reason why innovation and development are so fast is because everyone in our factory is highly motivated!"

"Now, the strong tradition of inheriting the body, hair, and skin from our parents has suppressed enthusiasm. We only need the last little bit of strength to break out of the cocoon. This strength can no longer be accomplished by relying on the people below. It is up to us people to exert our efforts. , the product after the cocoon breaks is a colorful and beautiful butterfly! "

“If we don’t exert our strength now, when will we wait?”

"If we don't work hard on this matter, we will just be bureaucrats with nothing to show for it!"

…

After Jiang Jinzhong heard this, he nodded solemnly, "Your Majesty, I understand!"

…

The palace.

Wu Yunqige held Jindouzi, and Narentuoya stood beside him, watching Xu Miaoyun preparing hot water and scissors.

Wu Yunqige said in surprise: "Sister-in-law, does my adopted brother really want to cut his hair?"

Does she know how much importance the Central Plains people attach to their hair?

As for beards, once you grow a beard, trimming it depends on the auspicious zodiac.

Hair is even more important.

Narentuoya couldn't help laughing and said: "I don't know how ugly my fourth uncle will be after he cuts his hair."

"certainly not!"

Little Qihua, who was already eight years old, immediately became unhappy and said, "Sister Toya, you are talking nonsense. My father will definitely look more handsome after he cuts his hair!"

That’s it.

He turned to look at Yong Ming, "Brother, dad hasn't come back yet, why don't you cut it first?"

puff!

Giggle...

Xu Miaoyun, Wu Yunqige, and Naren Tuoya suddenly laughed forward and backward.

Yong Ming rolled his eyes helplessly.

Narentuoya poked little Qihua's forehead gently, "Qihua, you are so weird."

This little girl.

He kept saying that his fourth uncle looked more handsome after cutting his hair.

He turned around and encouraged his brother to cut it first.

It was obvious that he was experimenting on his own brother.

If it doesn't look good.

The little girl must be crying to stop her fourth uncle from cutting his hair!

…

In fact, hair cutting does not only refer to hair cutting, but to adapt to the development situation, a butterfly change that breaks through the traditional shackles and represents the traditional shackles.

I will write about this plot in a little detail, because this plot is actually quite important for industrialization.

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