Chapter 453 Finally Back!

"Sister-in-law, why are you afraid that we are still people of the Ming Dynasty? The Ming Dynasty also established rural village societies.

Wu Yunqige couldn't help but asked curiously.

The sister-in-law who spoke obviously migrated from the Central Plains.

It has only been a few years, why are you so worried about becoming a citizen of the Ming Dynasty again?

According to her understanding, Daming is not bad now.

Under his brother's command, a group of economic scholars came up with terms such as inflation under his guidance.

In other words, the obvious rise in prices that occurred in the Ming Dynasty in the past year was caused by too much money.

To be honest, this was the first time she heard that having too much money was not good.

The sister-in-law looked at Wu Yunqige and then at Zhu Di, a little timidly.

As soon as the words came out of her mouth, she realized that the prince was also his majesty's son, and the person in charge of the Ming Dynasty was still the emperor who saved them from the war in the late Yuan Dynasty.

She had experienced the war at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, so of course she was very grateful to Emperor Zhu for bringing peace to the world.

But I am even more grateful to His Highness King Yan.

Everyone had never thought of such a day before.

Seeing that the sister-in-law did not dare to speak, Zhu Di smiled and said: "Sister-in-law, actually I also want to hear why you are afraid of becoming people of the Ming Dynasty again. This means that the Ming Dynasty did not do the things that our Yan Fan has done well. Well, your voices can help us understand what we should insist on and what should be changed in Yan Fan's governance in the future."

Zhu Di tried his best to restrain his awe-inspiring majesty from being in charge of one party for many years.

The sister-in-law was greatly encouraged. She gritted her teeth and said, "Your Majesty, we have heard that although the imperial court has promoted rural cooperatives on a large scale, it has not implemented the system of employee-employed shares. If the imperial court takes one step and half a step back, the future of rural cooperatives will be ruined." , will you also go back?"

"besides……"

A group of women then all let go, chattering about their worries.

"The imperial court also did not implement free village education."

"The officials in the imperial court are not as friendly as our Yan Fan. Our officials in Yan Fan will never yell at us people. Some county magistrates even personally provide our villages with things produced by village workshops and contact merchants... …”

…

The new side-opening carriage started slowly.

Zhu Di sat in the car and waved to the people waving to them. After a long time, he turned his head and thought quietly.

Why!

After a long while, he sighed and said, "You may say that the people do not have a long-term vision, but they see the problem very realistically. Just because they heard that the imperial court did not implement the employee-share system, they took one step forward and half a step back. Village communities will go back."

As for officials being polite to the people.

It's not surprising that he didn't dare to boss around the people like Ming Dynasty did.

I understand why the official is polite to the gentry.

You can understand why you are being polite to the people now.

If the tax collection is not completed, the officials will be punished by the superiors.

It’s about your own official hat.

But now the people in rural villages have formed small economically integrated groups.

It is no longer the original piece of loose sand.

It turns out that the family was bullied by the official power. Even if they were from the same village or even the same surname and clan, most other people would look on with cold eyes.

But not now.

"Before, someone wrote to me and advised me to hand over the task of tax collection to the leadership group of rural village communities. At that time, I was a little moved, but at the same time, I was also a little hesitant. Once the power of taxation is given to the leadership of rural community communities, The collective is equivalent to a disguised empowerment of leadership groups that are not originally within the power system. The democratically elected leadership groups are very likely to do whatever they want because of this power. "

This time I came out, walked around, sat down and chatted with the people.

He would never do this again.

"These officials who made such suggestions to me have clearly felt that with the increase of people's political status, economic status, and collective strength, the issue of taxation is no longer something that can be bossed around, bossed around, or even profitable. Of course we don’t want to do things that are thankless!”

Even if they don’t want to do it, he will force them to do it!

"We must not let the pressure on officials from civil society disappear. This kind of pressure can be effective in the long term and effectively curb bureaucracy."

He had imagined it at first.

When commerce develops further, agricultural taxes will be completely abolished.

It now appears that agricultural taxes can be continuously reduced.

But it can never be cancelled.

“Agricultural tax, it seems, now not only provides financial support for the operation of the government, but also is a powerful tool to curb bureaucracy. Once officials cannot feel the pressure from this kind of interaction with the people, their bureaucracy will inevitably deteriorate rapidly. Rampant and rampant.”

Xu Miaoyun smiled and asked, "When will the people's supervision system you envision be implemented?"

Shiro imagined.

A county will have hundreds of scattered villages in the future.

Within these villages, representatives from outside the leadership of rural village communities must be selected to participate in county-level supervision.

For example, supervise various public constructions, such as farmland water conservancy, road maintenance, recruitment of corvees, expenditure details, etc.

In the future, there will also be supervision of trials.

For example, if the county government tried a person who was punished and believed that he was wronged, as long as he gathered the collective support of several nearby villages, local village communities, and villagers' representatives, he could ask the higher-level state government to reopen the trial and investigation.

The results of the trial will eventually be announced to the people of the county.

The advantage of this is that once several villages believe that the trial is unfair.

This situation means that the outcome of the trial has indeed caused great public dissatisfaction.

The next level state government conducts a public hearing.

That is to say, it can effectively reduce unjust, false and wrongful convictions.

At the same time, it can also alleviate public grievances.

If you can't even get support from the villagers in several surrounding villages, either the trial decision is correct.

Or, it's just a trivial matter, and even the people around me think that there is no need to go to great lengths just to get a breath.

There are many people who go to extreme lengths just to make a living.

And there are quite a few.

Just like there is no absolute fairness in this world.

Government operations cannot please everyone.

Always taking care of and winning over the vast majority of people.

Zhu Di shook his head, "It's not yet time yet. It will have to be at least twenty years later. After the new generation is generally literate,

The more elite you are, the dirtier you are.

This is inevitable.

"The common people do some bad things, which are outrageous. They just steal a few eggs or pinch a few ears of wheat. But the elites are dirty and dirty. That's the real evil. Take me as an example. In order to bring about a bright future for the entire Ming Dynasty. It served as a warning, warning local village communities in various parts of the Ming Dynasty not to accept gentry participation in shares. I could know clearly that what happened in several villages in Fujian, and the people lived like cattle and sheep, but I could harden my heart and let it go, just to sound the alarm. When it sounds, it’s enough to make people laugh.”

"My starting point is still for the majority of people, but I knew it well but let the inside story spread out. Based on the simplicity of the people, what will they think?"

"And many times, the dirty and dirty power struggles at the top do not have a good starting point like mine. Most of them are done for the benefit of themselves or a certain small circle, and they do some dirty and dirty transactions and activities. These things are rumored to be Go out, how can the people’s simple values ​​identify with our regime?”

He is not just trying to maintain the political power of his faction.

Also thinking.

Even if the people overthrow his group of regimes because of the dirty and dirty power struggle at the top in the future.

How can another regime be better than the one he has constructed now?

Nothing in this world is ever perfect.

It's nothing more than the taller one among the short ones.

…

It's approaching noon.

Zhu Di and his party arrived at Manila Bay.

Today's Manila Bay has completely changed after several years of development.

Luzon has a population of three million.

The entire Manila Bay has a permanent population of 700,000 and a floating population of hundreds of thousands.

The floating population mainly comes from the merchant fleet and merchants from all over Luzon who come to Manila Bay to do business.

Manila is no longer called Manila.

Called Yanjing.

The best natural bay in the world is now called Yanjing Port.

The entire capital city is located on both sides of the bay.

On the north side, in the northeast, near the dense mangrove area is the palace chosen by Zhu Di.

In addition, there are also sports competition areas, garden squares, the Imperial Academy, and offices of various central ministries in the north of the bay.

The entire north is a political, cultural and sports center.

On the south side of the bay, among the mangroves, there is a wide cement-hardened permanent road that directly connects the army camp in the south and the naval port.

In addition, there are cement factories, steel factories, brick factories, hand sewing machine factories, glass factories, and newly built bicycle factories and watch factories...

A series of industrial plants, all in the southern part of the bay.

The reason for choosing to build the factory in the southern part of the Gulf.

Mainly because, according to statistics on the wind direction in Luzon throughout the year, in most cases, the wind blows from north to south.

People live in the north and work in factories in the south.

at first.

The scale of the industry was small, so people had to make do by building sheds near the factory. Later, as the scale of the industrial zone became larger and larger, a major fire occurred.

Zhu Di strictly ordered that people not be allowed to live near the industrial zone in order to make it easier to build sheds.

But how to get from the northern bay to the southern bay has become a huge problem.

For this reason, a large iron bridge spanning both sides of the bay, ten feet high, which does not affect the navigation of sea ships at all, appeared.

"Young Master, should we go back to the palace directly, or go to the industrial area on the other side to have a look. When the Young Master left Beijing, Yang Laoba invited the Young Master to take a look at the bicycle factory they were building..."

Mao Xiang, who was sitting at the front of the carriage and driving Zhu Di personally, suddenly asked.

Zhu Di smiled and said, "Let's go to the industrial area first, and then go back to the palace. Several businessmen led by the Shen family bought the patented technology for the clock that Dongxu made, and are building a factory. Let's go and see it together. "

"okay!"

"Dad, let's go see Grandpa Eighth and his friends first!"

Yongming pedaled, and Qihua sat behind. When passing their carriage, he smiled and waved.

A group of children rushed onto the large iron bridge spanning the north and south of the bay, laughed and disappeared from sight.

The carriage passed through the north-south main road in the northern district and drove onto the iron bridge.

Zhu Dixiao watched the children disappear from sight, withdrew his gaze and looked at the large iron bridge outside through the car window.

On four concrete pillars with a diameter of two meters and poured with steel bars, a large iron bridge that can accommodate four carriages in parallel and spans 500 meters spans the bay.

"Do you dare to make a bet with me?" Zhu Di looked at Xu Miaoyun with a smile, "Soon after the three bicycle factories started mass production, countless workers would ride bicycles across this large iron bridge every time the factories were off work. !”

Xu Miaoyun couldn't help but laugh, "I won't make a bet with you, either. I bet that such a scene will happen, and you bet that it won't happen."

Now when the day's work is over, workers always ride their donkeys and horses home.

But for workers, raising cattle and horses is really not cost-effective.

There is no such thing as a bike without food or drink.

Inside another carriage.

Naren Tuoya and six-year-old Jin Douzi crawled by the car window and looked at the bridge slowly retreating.

Narentoya said with emotion: "Miss, every time I pass this big iron bridge, I will be deeply shocked. I always feel that my fourth uncle is so powerful. I am afraid that this is the greatest in the whole world and in history." project?"

At that time, in order to build this large iron bridge, my fourth uncle asked the steel factory to build 500 small steel-making furnaces in a short period of time.

It can produce one ton of steel every day.

Later, the number increased to one thousand small steel-making furnaces.

Average daily steel production doubled to two tons.

The entire bridge used 600 tons of steel, 100 tons of pig iron, and 20 tons of wrought iron!

She still remembered that when the rivets were being driven into the steel bridge, small red crucibles were placed on the steel bridge. After the rivets were preheated in the crucible furnace and turned red, they were driven into the reserved connections of the steel bridge steel structure. at.

Thousands of people, wielding big hammers, hammered red-hot rivets tightly into the connection.

Such magnificent scenes are still unforgettable to her.

When she and Shixian got married, the steel bridge was built.

The first thing to pass was her sedan chair.

The construction of this large iron bridge had a great impact on the later industry of Yanjing.

Hydraulic steel rolling technology is getting better and better.

A complete set of steel rolling production lines capable of rolling various styles and specifications has been produced.

A thousand small steel furnaces were built that could produce 100 to 200 kilograms of steel at a time, but now they can only produce 200 kilograms at most.

After the completion of this large iron bridge, which was named the Bridge of the Century.

Steel furnaces and steel rolling production lines are facing no use.

At this time, some people suddenly came up with an animal-drawn harvester.

Many of the key components use steel.

Immediately afterwards, some craftsmen developed the hand-operated sewing machine.

Although this kind of hand-operated sewing machine is very inconvenient to be used by one person, it often requires the assistance of two people. One person turns a small cast iron wheel, and the other person jumps up and down to sew clothes under the threaded needle, or it has become popular in Yanjing. Shoes and boots made of various animal skins.

Although inconvenient.

But once hand-operated sewing machines appeared, they became a hot commodity.

Because the clothes sewn by this kind of hand-operated sewing machine have better-looking stitches and are stronger than those sewn by hand.

In the past year, all over Luzon, anyone who didn’t prepare a small hand-operated sewing machine for the woman when she got married would be laughed at!

Today, bicycles require more steel and lots of prefabricated parts produced on steel rolling lines.

Even Dongxu, whose research on ballistics requires precise time, said that the clocks he made must be made of steel and have very precise springs.

Animal-drawn harvesters, hand-operated sewing machines, bicycles, and the more comfortable horse-drawn carriages they now ride on, and all other new gadgets, have successfully absorbed the thousands of new small steel furnaces that were built regardless of the cost when the iron bridge was built.

The steel rolling production line can be slightly modified to provide prefabricated steel parts for these new things.

Now, under the rule of Fourth Uncle, the comfortable carriage they ride in has become a fashionable means of travel.

Rich people buy.

Even ordinary people buy them and provide services to transport people, making a lot of money.

That is, the demand is too great.

The production output of this kind of carriage cannot keep up, so now it is only used internally by Yanfan, and is not sold to the Ming Dynasty on a large scale like sewing machines.

Otherwise, she was sure, there would be more and more immigrants.

Last year, the number of people who migrated to Yan Fan from the Ming Dynasty exceeded the 50,000 quota, reaching more than 51,000 people.

Thousands of people came to their fourth uncle Yan Fan because they heard about Yan Fan's various affairs, secretly bribed maritime merchants, or hid directly on merchant ships without registering them with the court!

Regarding this situation, Fourth Uncle was worried about causing misunderstandings from the Ming Dynasty court, and he had repeatedly reminded the maritime merchants who were traveling to and from Ming Dynasty to check every corner of the ship before setting off from Ming Dynasty.

It's not that Fourth Uncle doesn't want the people.

Yanfan was too short of manpower.

It's just that I'm worried about causing misunderstandings from the Ming court.

Just as Narentuoya was thinking about it, a year or two after the completion of the big iron bridge, a sudden wave of new things broke out in Yan Fan.

The carriage arrived in front of the factory opened in Doqiao Village

Uncle Ba, Zhou Shixian and others were already waiting outside the factory.

The brick factory building, which is 20 meters wide and about 100 meters long, has no other decorations except for a wooden sign that reads "Pegasus Bicycle Manufacturing Factory" hanging on the side of the door.

The ruggedness also shows the magnificence of industry.

The carriage stopped.

Before Zhu Di and Xu Miaoyun could push the door to get out of the carriage, Uncle Eighth and Shixian had already walked over. Uncle Eighth opened the door and said with a happy smile: "Your Majesty..."

Zhu Di smiled helplessly: "Uncle Eighth, please call me Shiro. It's cordial."

As his authority grew stronger, there were no more people around him who could talk to him on a regular basis.

Uncle Eighth and the others are also cautious now.

Uncle Eighth was wearing a split work suit made of labor cloth. He didn't look like a factory manager at all, but more like a worker. He smiled and scratched his head, "Shiro, you are finally here."

Zhu Di and Xu Miaoyun got out of the car with smiles.

"Uncle Eight, that's right. If you don't even talk to us normally, then our life will be meaningless." Zhu Di smiled and held Uncle Eight's hand, begging him with a little force.

Uncle Yang understood, sighed secretly, and nodded with a smile.

"Come on, Uncle Eight, take us in to see your Pegasus bicycle."

Uncle Eight smiled and waved: "Silang, I will accompany you and Daya, let Shixian introduce you."

Zhu Di looked at Zhou Shixian, who was also wearing a work suit.

In the industrial zone, there are many private factories with hired workers.

In addition to iron smelting, it is still under the control of the Yanfan regime headed by him.

Factories such as carriages, bicycles, hand-cranked sewing machines, and animal-powered harvesters are all privately undertaken.

Even the steel rolling production line, after the bridge was built, the research team supported by Yanfan helped to complete the transformation and upgrading, and then all were sold to private individuals.

In some important industries, he must maintain government control.

For example, steel smelting.

This is related to a country's military industry, as well as the people's livelihood.

As for other industries, he opened them up to private individuals.

For the patents of the Yanfan regime, Yanfan only collected patent fees.

Just like setting up rural villages, he didn't want power to intervene.

He didn't want power to be too involved in the shareholding system for industrial and commercial employees.

He was always vigilant against any economy developing into a bureaucratic economy.

Anyway, as long as the shareholding system exists, no matter how much wealth the merchants earn, they must be distributed directly among the people without the power of the government.

The wealth of the people's economy will never flow completely to a few people like the elite economy.

Zhu Di and Xu Miaoyun walked in and asked: "Uncle, did you see that crazy girl Qi Hua? She said she came to see you first."

"I'm here. I heard that the Shen family watch factory in front, after repeated experiments, finally made a smaller, exquisite watch about one person tall. When it was ready to be given to Silang, a group of children rode their bikes and ran to see this small watch..."

Zhu Di nodded and didn't ask too much about the watch factory.

Anyway, I'll go and have a look later.

Walking into the factory.

Zhu Di was instantly attracted.

Zhou Shixian introduced: "Sir, our factory, according to your instructions, uses the production method of the assembly line to assemble a bicycle, which is divided into 32 processes in total, namely: putting on the wheel, installing the tire... There are a total of four production lines in our factory..."

Zhu Di listened and went to the production line to check.

In fact, this is not an assembly line.

It's just that one person, or several people, are only responsible for one process.

Now it is impossible to achieve the direct transmission of parts in the future.

After it is done, it can only be sent to the next production process by the workers.

The advantage of this is that it is easier to get familiar with only one process, and the quality is more guaranteed.

"Have you compared it with the other two factories? Is there any difference in the production speed between your Pegasus bicycle and the other two brands of bicycles?"

The quality is definitely higher in assembly line production.

After all, there are many connection structures that require rivets.

Without an assembly line, many times, in the production process, it is easy to forget or ignore certain processes.

Zhou Shixian smiled and said, "Your Highness, after more than ten days of adaptation, we have calculated that we can produce one bicycle every half an hour on average, which is about twice as fast as the other two factories. As our proficiency increases, it should be even faster..."

...

Zhu Di continued to visit until he came to the back door of the factory.

Before going to Shen's watch shop, he smiled and asked, "Eighth Uncle, Shixian, notify the other two factories. The three of you will help me make another 200 bicycles. Next year, Xiongying will get married. Even if I don't go back, Daya, Qihua, and Yongming will represent me to return to the court..."

"Silang, no problem, leave it to us!"

...

"Your Highness!"

When Zhu Di arrived at Shen's watch factory.

Shen Zhi was already waiting outside.

Zhu Di smiled and asked, "I heard that you have reduced the size of the clock to the size of a person?"

In order to calculate the acceleration of gravity and ballistic acceleration, the clock that Dongxu made was simply too big.

It was as big as three tables!

The main reason was that the clockwork technology was too difficult.

Steel was refined, but Dongxu did it himself, even with the help of craftsmen under the rule of Yan Fan.

When the spring was first made, the size of the spring could not be made small, it was too big!

Shen Zhi smiled and nodded, "I invited many craftsmen to study the steel used for springs based on the technology provided by Dongxu. Through forging steel and repeated experiments, I finally found the steel technology suitable for making springs small."

Zhu Di listened carefully.

The main reason why Dongxu's springs were not small was actually the problem of steel.

And Dongxu was only doing acceleration research and was not interested in repeatedly looking for a more suitable steel for springs.

The carbon content of steel refined now is between pig iron and wrought iron.

Each furnace can only ensure that the carbon content belongs to steel.

But the amount of carbon content is very unstable.

This results in that once it is used to make springs, unless the springs are enlarged, the more refined, the greater the error in production.

"That's great." Zhu Di patted Shen Zhi on the shoulder. "Your Shen family is the richest family under the rule of our Yan vassal state. You don't make simple things like hand-cranked sewing machines and bicycles, but are willing to spend money on things that require higher craftsmanship and better technology. This is great..."

Businessmen should actually be like this.

If you have the ability and deep foundation, go for the more difficult ones.

Leave the less difficult ones to others.

This is also an expression of social responsibility of responsible businessmen.

At this point, the Shen family has done very well.

Today, the Shen family has completely withdrawn from maritime trade and is focusing on developing the shipbuilding and watch industries.

From the perspective of private businessmen, we assume the responsibility of exploring new technologies.

Shen Zhi smiled happily, "Your Majesty, Princess, please!"

"Abba!"

A group of children were surrounding a mahogany clock that was as tall as one person. Qihua was the first to notice Zhu Di and shouted excitedly: "Look at this clock, it's so beautiful! It's like a small house."

Zhu Di and Xu Miaoyun came closer.

It really looks like a small house.

The external structure of the clock combines traditional Chinese architectural style.

Inside a glass.

The hour hand, minute hand, and second hand are ticking.

The names of hour hand, minute hand and second hand were named by him. Dongxu came up with it at that time, and the naming was very difficult to pronounce.

However, the sexage has nothing to do with him.

It was created by Dongxu based on the twelve heavenly stems and earthly branches and the Sixty Years of Ancient Astrology study, combined with the existing solar corona.

Looking at the three hands painted with different colors and thicknesses slowly turning, Zhu Di asked: "Does it still need to be wound every half a day?"

The clock that Dongxu made must be wound every half a day.

Otherwise, the error will be very large and the time will be inaccurate.

"Your Majesty, with the steel forging technology we now master, the clockwork we have made can be wound up once a day to ensure accuracy. At the same time, this kind of clockwork, after repeated trials, has been produced for a thousand and three times. After a hundred times of tightening and tightening, it will break, which means that our current clock can be used for three years. "

Zhu Di smiled.

Technology and processes have made great progress.

The spring that Dongxu first developed would break after being used for more than 20 days.

"You have improved and upgraded the core technology. According to our Yanfan regulations, you can give Dongxu and the others a little less patent fee..."

"No, no! The patent fee is not high in the first place. If we sell such a clock outside, it will never be less than one hundred taels. In fact, the cost is only thirty taels. If we take 1% of the profit, the patent fee is really not tall……"

Shen Zhi waved his hands repeatedly.

How could he argue with Dongxu and several other craftsmen over the patent fee?

Zhu Di smiled and patted Shen Zhi on the shoulder, and warned: "At the same time, we will also make some cheaper ones. I hope that you can continue to improve your technology and simplify the process, thereby achieving lower manufacturing costs. In the future, watches will enter thousands of households." , when I was a farmer in Tuqiao Village, we worked in the fields every day and finished work, all by looking at the sun. If it was cloudy, we couldn’t even tell the time, morning or night. Many times, we couldn’t see the sun. I’m not hungry either, so I keep working. When I finish my work and go home, the rice prepared by the princess has been heated several times..."

Ha ha……

Everyone couldn't help but laugh.

Qihua held Xu Miaoyun's arm and asked in a low voice: "Mother, is what dad said true? Qihua is so envious of you and dad."

Xu Miaoyun smiled and raised her hand to poke Qihua's forehead.

When Zhu Di left the Shen's Watch Factory, he also told Shen Zhi to prepare more watches of this style for him.

…

"Your Majesty!"

After Zhu Di and Shen Zhi finished speaking, when they were about to get on the carriage, a carriage hurriedly came. Ye Mao hurriedly got out of the car and shouted from a distance: "Tongzhi Yu and the others are back!"

Zhu Di was stunned for a moment, then said excitedly: "Uncle Six, hurry up, send us back quickly!"

More than three years!

He was convinced that Yu Jing and Jin Mi were killed!

Unexpectedly, after three years, they are back!

"Jin Mi is back!"

"Senior Brother Jin Mi is back!"

…

Qihua and Yongming, a group of children, shouted excitedly, got in front of Zhu Di, got on the car, and hurried towards the navy camp.

Shen Zhi watched Zhu Di and others leave and waved: "Quick, prepare the carriage, let's go and have a look, good guy, you are back after three years!"

Shen Zhi got on the carriage and looked at the factories lined with thick smoke.

Looking across the coast, there are two, three, three and four-story houses with red brick roofs.

There was unconcealable excitement in his eyes.

Yan Fan has changed too much!

Is the prince about to ascend the throne and establish a kingdom?

When the court arrives, who will it send?

He witnessed it with his own eyes and felt a huge impact from time to time. Even if there were royal guards in the imperial court, if they hadn't seen it with their own eyes, they probably wouldn't be able to feel the impact!

Forcing the prince to leave the Ming Dynasty will definitely be a loss for the Ming Dynasty!

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