Chapter 123 Recruit Song Yingxing, Brother Song Yingsheng Enters Beijing
After hearing Liu Dachang's expectations for the industry, Zhu Youjian took some reassurance. As long as the enamel factory can earn more than 1.5 million yuan this year, his financial pressure will not be so great.
"Dachang, you stay in Beijing for the next few days. After the felt cloth I have asked to trial-produce comes out, you can see the original goods before going to Miyun. In this way, when you arrive, you will have an idea in your mind and can roughly figure out what the wool cloth factory should do.
How to develop."
Liu Dachang was a little touched by what the emperor said. Although he was in charge of a large factory, his status in the palace was not high. Today, he felt that the emperor was treating him as an important figure in the palace when talking to him.
Isn't this touching?
After sending Liu Dachang away, Zhu Youjian asked the young eunuch to find Zhou Yanru because he needed to be used for something.
"Grand Master, I recently heard someone say that a scholar from Fengxin, Jiangxi, named Song Yingxing, with the courtesy name Chang Geng, wrote a strange book, saying that it contained many methods for making military and state heavy objects. After that, I asked someone to look for it for me. Since you can
The person who wrote such a wonderful book must not be a mediocre person. After that, let the officials check where he was appointed as an official and draft the decree, and send the Jin Yiwei to bring him to the capital as quickly as possible. I want to see him.
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Why did the emperor suddenly become interested in a certain person and the books he wrote? I don’t know who recommended this person to the emperor. Song Changgeng and Zhou Yanru seemed to have some influence, but the feeling is very vague. It seems that in which year he took the scientific examination
I met this guy once.
"Your Majesty, I will ask the officials to investigate when I get back. However, Your Majesty, don't pay too much attention to this kind of magical book. The country must be governed with integrity and with the official list of Jinshi."
"I know the importance. By the way, I also heard that Song Changgeng had an elder brother named Song Yingsheng. He had served as a county magistrate and was quite talented as an official. Since we are looking for his disciple, let's recruit him to the capital at once. Miyun
The county is an important area in the north of the city, and now a large number of factories are being built. Let Song Yingsheng, a talented official, be promoted to Miyun County, which can be regarded as making the best use of the people. The current Miyun County Magistrate should be transferred elsewhere."
Why did Song Yingsheng come out again? Hey! This man seems to have some impression of himself. He should be working in Guangzhou now!
"Your Majesty, Song Yingshengchen has some impressions. He should be serving in the Guangzhou Prefecture now. His rank seems to have been transferred from the fifth grade to Miyun as the county magistrate. I'm afraid it is a bit inappropriate."
Why is Song Yingsheng's official position so high? This is a bit embarrassing. Zhu Youjian thought for a while and said: "Grand Master, a county with more than 150,000 taels of tax money a year is not considered a county in our Ming Dynasty.
?”
“Of course this is the best county!”
"The factory in Miyun can pay at least 150,000 taels of tax to the court this year. This is only the first year, and it will not be a problem to pay taxes of 200,000 to 300,000 taels in the future. If a place like this is treated like an ordinary county,
It’s a little inappropriate. I think it’s better to let Song Ying be promoted to Miyun County, but giving him a post in the yamen in central Beijing will also reflect the importance the court attaches to Miyun.”
Can the factory in Miyun pay a tax of 150,000 taels this year? When Zhou Yanru heard this, his mind suddenly became alive. Now he is very short of money. If the factory in Miyun can pay a tax of 150,000 taels, how can the imperial palace and the
If the mines pay more, they can get at least 300,000 taels of silver to the national treasury a year. Is this a rare good thing? In this way, the deficit this year will be much smaller.
This year's situation is not optimistic for Zhou Yanru. Last year he borrowed 3.5 million taels of silver, and this year he will need more than 800,000 taels to repay the principal and interest. This is a calculated decrease in income. In fact, it is due to
Due to the siege by rogue bandits and the emperor's delegation of fiscal and taxation powers in Sichuan, Shaanxi and Hubei provinces to Sun Chuanting and Zuo Liangyu, the maximum amount of official tax the court can collect this year is more than two million. The reduction in the three-year salary will be even greater.
Zhou Yanru estimates that the tax revenue collected across the country this year is 10 million taels, which is already considered a miracle. This money will also be distributed to military leaders in various places. The amount of money that can really be used to pay officials is a few hundred thousand.
Desirable results.
So the palace can allocate more than 300,000 yuan, which is a lot of money that can save lives.
"Your Majesty, I think this proposal is a good idea. It would be best if Song Yingsheng could raise the tax amount in Miyun County to 300,000 next year in Miyun County."
Zhou Yanru, this old boy, seems to be extremely poor. It is quite speechless for a dignified chief minister of the cabinet to be so happy with the tax of two to three hundred thousand taels of silver.
Go ahead! Now Zhu Youjian is having a hard time, and probably Zhou Yanru and other important ministers in the six cabinets are also having a hard time. The Ming Dynasty is short of money and all those doing business are in great difficulty. I don’t know where the Ming Dynasty’s money has gone. The national treasury and the treasury
There is no money, there is no money in the inner treasury, there is no money in the inner treasury, and the common people have no money. Ministers like Zhou Yanru always have money, right? It seems that they don’t have much money. Zhu Youjian doesn’t know if others have money, but Zhou Yanru is indeed
There is not much money, and Zhu Youjian knows this very well.
There is a public case about Zhou Yanru in historical records. His second return to the prime minister was only successful because of the sponsorship of Zhang Pu and others from Fushe. It is said that Zhang Pu and others collected tens of thousands of taels of silver for Zhou Yanru to bribe his chamberlain.
Only then was the reinstatement successful. Because he was sponsored by Fushe to regain the prime minister, Zhou Yanru was hampered and manipulated everywhere after taking office. In other words, tens of thousands of taels of silver was also a lot of money for this guy, who had already served as the first minister.
An important minister was caught with tens of thousands of taels of silver, so it can be imagined that he is not a rich man.
After negotiating with Zhou Yanru to summon the Song brothers to Beijing, Zhu Youjian felt that he suddenly had energy. The Song brothers were historical celebrities he knew in later generations. The eldest Song Yingsheng may not be that famous, but he is also a rare person.
He was a loyal official and placed him in Miyun as a local magistrate. He was very reassuring to watch over the industrial park. Needless to say, Song Yingxing, although he is not well-known at the moment, he will be a household name in later generations.
Let’s not talk about his scientific level, but let’s talk about his historical evaluation. He is an encyclopedic figure in the history of ancient Chinese science. An encyclopedia! With him, it is basically equivalent to collecting all the most mainstream science and technology of the Ming Dynasty in one place.
, this is of great help to industry and chemical industry, which cannot be described in words.
After recruiting Song Yingxing to Beijing, Zhu Youjian designed the position for him as his general scientific consultant, chief engineer of the Craftsman Research Institute, and technical director of Miyun Industrial Park. In short, he will be the chief engineer of all projects that have been launched or are about to be launched.
Take. The most gratifying thing is that his current status is that of an old juren, and he has never been a serious official. This kind of status is most useful. As long as he is not appointed to numerous important and practical positions in the court, what kind of official position can he be given?
He will not be criticized by others. Moreover, he will accept the appointment himself. After all, it is better to work beside the emperor than to work as an official or something like that.