manynovel Chapter 1026
Chapter 1026
Chapter 1026
Peng Yingyue was pregnant, so Yuzhu took Chen Qiongbao and the rest of the ladies from Jiangnan, and took a boat from Wuchang and went straight down the river to Wusongkou.
Since Yuzhu decided to move the capital to Wuchang, Chongming Island at the mouth of the Yangtze River has become an important military town.
On the island, a total of six permanent forts with steel bars buried in the walls have been built.
There are nearly three hundred 64-pound heavy guns.
Fortress heavy artillery, technically speaking, is much less difficult than naval artillery.
The quality of the gun barrel is not enough, you can add several layers of copper hoops or iron hoops to the gun barrel to prevent the chamber from exploding.
In addition, it is entirely possible to wrap a few more turns of rope on the gun body of the heavy gun to buffer the recoil.
In order to reduce the cost of making cannons, both the cannon factory and the gunpowder factory were simply located in Luanzhou.
In this way, a complete modern military industry was preliminarily established near Luanzhou.
From gunpowder factory, coal mine, iron mine, steel factory, forging factory, steel rolling factory, gun factory, cannon factory, to steam engine factory, it can be said that everything is available.
In order to ensure the safety of the modern military industrial base, two permanent forts were built on both sides of the Luanhe Estuary, which leads directly to the sea, and heavy troops were stationed there.
Ten days later, under the protection of the expanded 109341 troops, Yuzhu arrived in Taicang Prefecture by boat smoothly.
Songjiang Mansion in the era of small farmers was far less prosperous than Wuchang Mansion.
Because the foundation of the prosperity of Songjiang Mansion is that after Changmao's uprising, a large number of bureaucratic landlords and wealthy businessmen in Jiangsu and Zhejiang were forced to take refuge in Songjiang Mansion.
With more rich people, the economy can be more prosperous.
The same is true of Hong Kong in history.
Due to the economic siege of the West, Hong Kong has become the only window for the mainland to obtain overseas technology, equipment, foreign exchange and materials.
The famous patriotic businessman Mr. Huo Yingdong, his fleet of fast ships had dozens of ships in its heyday.
Therefore, after Mr. Huo passed away, he enjoyed a state funeral.
The first town and the third town have actually arrived in Chongming Island long ago and are undergoing adaptive training.
After Yuzhu arrived at the mouth of the Yangtze River, he didn't go to the inland Songjiang Fucheng, but went directly to Chongming Wharf.
It is worth mentioning that at this time, Chongming County was not under the jurisdiction of Songjiang Prefecture, but under the jurisdiction of Taicang Zhili Prefecture.
Taicang Zhili Prefecture is directly under the jurisdiction of Jiangsu Province and has four counties under its jurisdiction, namely Taicang Prefecture, Zhenyang County, Chongming County, Jiading County and Baoshan County.
When Yuzhu arrived, Lu Wu and He Wenda went to the pier to welcome His Majesty the Emperor.
As soon as they met, Yuzhu asked Lu Wu: "Has the foreigner's fleet arrived yet?"
Lu Wu smiled wryly and said: "Back to the emperor, the foreigner's fleet thought the money was not enough, so they took a short-distance transportation to Ningbo in private, and they can earn a little bit."
Yu Zhu nodded, before the Chinese Empire's ocean-going fleet was fully established, only foreigners' fleets could be recruited.
In order to make more money, foreign businessmen often like to do some private work of sea transportation, so as to minimize losses.
This is mainly due to the fact that foreign ships are actually in a state of meager profit for transporting troops and weapons and equipment.
However, if they don't help Yuzhu transport troops, the huge Huaxia Empire market will be closed to them.Even if the cabin is full of goods, there is no way to trade.
Therefore, when the military operations were not particularly urgent, Yuzhu always kept an open-eyed attitude towards the private work of foreign ships.
After all, it doesn't make sense to want the horse to run fast and also not to eat grass!
Going to reinforce North Korea is not a very urgent matter, so Yuzhu didn't say anything more.
Yuzhu took the women to live in the villa of the largest salt merchant in Chongming County.
The salt industry monopoly will be canceled sooner or later.
However, salt tax still accounts for a large proportion of the imperial court's current fiscal revenue.
The salt tax cannot be abolished hastily before the industry has developed greatly.
Since Luanzhou's high-quality cast iron has continuously flowed into the market, the iron monopoly system has become useless.
The reason is very simple. The pig iron smelted by local methods in the government-run iron factories in various places has a low-cost, high-impurity output, which is completely incomparable with the modern steel-making factories in Luanzhou.
In the face of crushing scientific and technological progress, the old government-run iron factories are bound to close down door by door.
Yuzhu is well aware of the disadvantages of government-owned enterprises, as long as they are old-fashioned government-run iron factories that cannot make ends meet, they will all be shut down and dismissed.
Government-run enterprises cannot develop high-tech, and there is only one fundamental problem: they can live comfortably by relying on monopoly, and since they are not their own factories, how can they have the power to advance technologically?
The most typical example is the automobile industry.
A joint venture state-owned car company makes money while lying down, so where does it need to work hard on research and development?
Enterprises that truly lead technological progress must be private enterprises, not government-owned enterprises.
The Westernization Movement in the late Qing Dynasty failed, and the disadvantage was that it was run by the government or supervised by the government.The so-called government-supervised business operation is ultimately the bureaucrats' final say, and it is a miracle not to fail.
On the second day after Yuzhu arrived at Chongming Island, Tian Wenjing, the acting governor of Jiangsu, quietly came to pay his respects to His Majesty the Emperor.
"Acting governor of Jiangsu, minister Tian Wenjing, I respectfully greet Sheng An." Tian Wenjing knelt down to pay his respects honestly.
Yuzhu smiled slightly, waved his hands, and said, "Get up. Come, give me a seat and serve tea."
Tian Wenjing is indeed a well-known cruel official. The land reform in Jiangsu presided over by him can be said to be very effective.
In Zhejiang, because there are so many people and so little land, the common people especially like to do business.
The plain in southern Jiangsu is a real land of fish and rice, with fertile fields stretching as far as the eye can see.
Before the land reform, there were many big country gentry with more than [-] mu of fertile land in Jiangsu province.
Nowadays, if the fertile land exceeds a thousand mu, they are considered big landlords.
This is all thanks to Tian Wenjing!
Therefore, in the next step, Yuzhu intends to arrange Tian Wenjing to be the governor of Liangjiang. In the entire jurisdiction of Liangjiang, Yuzhu's four major policies will be strongly implemented, namely: allotment into mu, gentry and gentry pay grain and errands, return fire consumption to the public, and raise clean silver.
Everything else is easy to say, but Tian Wenjing has a slightly different view on Yang Lianyin.
"Your Majesty, just a magistrate in the district has issued nearly 2000 taels of Yanglian silver, which seems to be too much?" Tian Wenjing tentatively asked a question.
Yuzhu laughed immediately, raising Lianyin was only the first step.
To put it bluntly, only a high salary can maintain integrity, and a low salary must mean that there are no officials and no corruption.
The original intention of the fourth child to promote Lianyin must be good.However, a clean bank without supporting anti-corruption measures will inevitably become a high-paying corruption-supporting bank.
Yuzhu is much more far-sighted than the fourth child.
Let the officials get the Yanglian Bank first, and then use the police stations around the country to thoroughly measure the land and issue certificates.
In a country dominated by agriculture, as long as the issue of land ownership in the whole country is clarified, it is tantamount to the complete disclosure of property.
This is the second step.
Anti-corruption has a long way to go, and there is absolutely no rush. There are still many steps ahead, so there is no need to elaborate on them one by one.
(End of this chapter)