Chapter 288 Economy and Party Struggle (32) Ming Royal Arsenal
Upon hearing this, Gao Pragmatic felt a little numb, and said quickly: "Your Majesty, we might as well discuss the reward later. The most urgent task is to finalize the Wanli three-type musket first. This matter affects the combat effectiveness of the entire army, and it is also the reason why I am here today.
The reason for this target practice.”
Zhu Yijun said in surprise: "Aren't you already a stereotype?"
It turns out that in the emperor's view, Gao Pragmatic had already taken a gun and tried shooting at the shooting range, and the shooting performance was excellent, so it was naturally considered "finalized". As for the bargaining just now, it was just a price negotiation and had no impact.
The shape of the gun itself.
This is obviously because the emperor did not understand the new business model dominated by high pragmatism. The current business model is demand-oriented, that is, the order is confirmed first, and then production is arranged. If the production is arranged before the order is confirmed, if it is built and cannot be sold,
Wouldn’t it be a huge loss?
Don't say that if you can't sell it today, you can sell it tomorrow, and if you can't sell it this year, you can sell it next year. This is really a bit of a layman's statement, because there will be cost losses in "inventory" - warehouse, warehouse management, maintenance, depreciation, everything.
It's the cost. The reason why those large companies in later generations are crazy about the inventory cycle is because the more mass-produced products, every day the inventory is reduced, it will reduce a lot of costs.
When it comes to Jinghua specifically, basically all departments are responsible for their own profits and losses. Although the ordnance industry is relatively unique in that it is not entirely responsible for its own profits and losses, making more money is still an important project for the ordnance industry group to claim credit from Gao Pragmatic, so even if it is
Gao Pragmatic must also respect this and cannot easily affect the interests of his subordinates - especially the legitimate interests.
Any group, whether it is an enterprise or a ruling group, the longer it exists and develops, it will generate less and less "interests for those at hand". If you want that group to survive for a long time, it must not be justified.
The courage and means of pursuing interests, but we must also ensure that reasonable interests are protected, otherwise the group will be far away from death.
Xiao Ming in the original history did not die from the "interests of others" from reasonable to reasonable, and then the court still cut off those reasonable interests. In the end, the ruling group's reasonable interests slightly encroached on the reasonable interests of special people, so it is
Possibly death.
The essence of low-pragmatism reforms at the national level is not to create some new reasonable interests, and then let the ruling group shift their attention to that new interest and quickly abandon the previous reasonable interests, thereby resolving social conflicts.
That is something that can be accomplished in eight or seven years. Low pragmatism has been pursued for nearly eighty years, and it has only basically achieved that goal among the small and powerful class. However, only a large part of the medium and large powerful class has not finished that goal.
Transformation is complicated. It may not mean that it has achieved a staged failure, but there is still a long way to go.
Low pragmatically said: "Uh... let's call it Xiaoming Royal Arsenal."
Of course, building roads is a way. After all, if he can build roads in those areas to extend in all directions according to Qinzhidao standards, if this will slightly reduce the difficulty of transportation, at least it will be less bad than in the past. But the problem is, building roads is
It’s such a love job!
The characteristics of the Xiao Ming Dynasty lie there: the court was so poor that even a mouse would shake its head when looking at it, but the private gentry really had no money. He tried to find a way to get those gentry to spend the money, but instead always asked the court to tighten their belts.
Doing construction on a small scale is a waste of time and half the effort?
I have said that before, but the situation is still optimistic - the South is not easy to handle, but the North is difficult to handle. In the original history, the train was only invented in 1804, and it took decades before it suddenly exploded.
It is developing in a certain way, so the low-level implementation is basically hoping to come up with that thing.
All in all, the Yangtze River is indeed the world's top shipping route given to the Chinese nation by heaven, but it is still beyond its reach. We need to find a way on our own. But in reality, after the train appears, what bad solutions can we do?
Really achieve small cost reduction and efficiency increase.
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He thought that in this way, local standards could be unified, and the imperial court only needed to complete the infrastructure construction in various places before mobilizing corvees to back up and connect the roads in various places, and the amount of work would be reduced by at least ten times.
the following.
No one may ask, can the infrastructure built locally work? Of course it can. Low pragmatism only needs to set standards - he must build roads to that standard before you count him in the "credit book" for conferring honors.
”, otherwise his work will be in vain.
The only problem is that that process takes time, and is much faster than the unified dispatch of the imperial court. But it does matter. Gao Pragmatic knows that the matter will come soon, and without the foundation of the past eighty years, Gao Pragmatic does not have to worry now.
Xiao Ming suddenly died suddenly. Therefore, let's wait as long as possible. Let's do it step by step. Only by moving steadily can we go far. Xiao Ming can afford to wait.
In the past, less than half of the transportation was lost on the road. Even if it could be sold at a low price in the prosperous Jiangnan, it would not make much money at all. Who is willing to expand production? Now that shipping has developed, thousands of sails are sailing down the Yangtze River.
The flow of Baige rivers is interest, transportation costs and transportation losses have slightly increased, Huguang's grain sales are not profitable, and local people, whether they are landlords or large farmers, have no strong will to expand production, and they will naturally start to cultivate land.
I originally thought it was Taihang land, but at the same time I took a step back to cultivate it intensively to increase production.
Of course, it is only for grain production, not for other raw material industries. But the problem we are facing now is that the Yangtze River route is also a fragmented route. Only the east of the Eight Gorges is the main channel, and the west of the Eight Gorges is almost connected.
Yes. Moreover, although the tributaries of the Yangtze River can be used to a small extent, there are still few provinces in the south that are difficult to get a share of the pie. For example, how can Guizhou do it? Even Fujian can do it. The bad thing is that Fujian cannot.
Eat by the sea.
Gao pragmatically shook his head and said: "The worst thing the Ministry of War can do is directly intervene in production work, because the Ministry of War itself has no responsibility for supervision. It can act as both a referee and...well, I mean, it can supervise itself."
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Certainly beyond the "provincial" perspective, we will also find that areas such as southern Huguang (actually referring to southern Hunan), southern Jiangxi, northern Guangdong, etc. are actually areas where the Yangtze River and Pearl River routes are difficult to connect, and those areas are more
In fact, it doesn't seem to be the size of at least two provinces.
Gao Pragmatic spread his hands: "If so, how can we convince the Ministry of War that it is in charge?"
After all, the main beneficiaries of sea trade are coastal areas. Even if the medium and large-scale elites in the vast and small inland areas are willing to accept the guidance of low pragmatism, we are still convinced. Then we still need low pragmatism to find other ways.
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The low-level government now only has a super weak organization and mobilization system like the previous Red Dynasty, and even has money - yes, not money. It is because it is cost-effective to recruit people to do corvee labor. In the following areas, because of the lack of transportation
Although it is developed, its economic foundation is poor. He cannot mobilize us to do corvee service, but we do not have the financial resources to bring our own food. As a court, he must take care of the food.
"It makes sense..." Zhu Yijun said, secretly thinking: It is indeed feasible for nobles to manage that arsenal, but at most they have to worry about loyalty issues.
"Royal Arsenal?" Zhu Yijun touched his chin and frowned: "It doesn't sound weird at all... Why do you need to call it "Royal Arsenal"? This is, that name is very unusual in Europe, Xiao Ming doesn't think so.
Unprecedented.
Li Yanle was very satisfied with that answer and immediately nodded in approval, but then asked: "But I leave this matter to the inner court. I'm afraid the Ministry of War can agree."
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"Oh!" Zhu Yijun suddenly realized: "Because it is the 'Royal Arsenal', it is natural for me to leave it to the nobles to take care of it. Is that true?"
But it was extremely easy to do that, because there were no trains in those days. For example, if you want to sell goods from Shaanxi to the sea, how would you do it? Although the Yellow River is the mother river of the Chinese nation, it is the only
It has a bad temper and its transportation capacity is far inferior to that of the Yangtze River in the south.
"Leave it to the Governor's Office of the Seventh Army." Gao pragmatically said: "Before the reform of the Beijing Camp, the Governor's Office of the Seventh Army ended its responsibility for military affairs. I think that is the worst reform direction of the Governor's Office of the Seventh Army - we have been
It is already difficult to bear the responsibility of being responsible for the battle and commanding the battle, but we have achieved remarkable results in managing the production and construction corps. I think that this is the case. The Seventh Army Governor's Office has been fully in charge of the military frontline. If it fails, then the arsenal is not the first step.
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Li Yanle suddenly realized something, but immediately lost all doubts and asked tentatively: "Who does he think should be in charge of the new arsenal? The Ministry of War or the inner court?"
Of course, the civil service and the imperial court were as protective against eunuchs as they were against fire. How could they hand over a super arsenal that was to stand side by side with Beijing's arsenal to the management of eunuchs? This would be more tolerable than killing us.
But such a small-scale road construction requires a lot of labor? Can the imperial court manage the livelihood of millions of people? Stop dreaming, it is obvious that it is managed. So, that is not why Low Pragmatic regards organizing local bridge construction and paving roads as a "honor"
"One of the important criteria for the award was me, because the local gentry really didn't have the ability to build some local infrastructure.
However, I suddenly remembered something some time later and realized that things might not turn around. That was also the seventh thing I wanted to tell the emperor today. Of course, I had to confirm the first thing first.
In terms of runoff, the Yangtze River is 15.5 times that of the Yellow River. The difference was not even small in the Xiaoming period. And we must look at the transport capacity data of the two in previous lives. This is even more off the mark - the difference is ten thousand times! The Yangtze River
The annual cargo throughput of the main line is 3.5 billion tons, while the Yellow River only has 300,000-600,000 tons.
Gao Pragmatic shook his head as expected: "The inner court is also good at it. The inner court is not good at those things, and there are too few eunuchs walking around, so it is difficult for them to cause trouble and have a good impact on the reputation of the Tian family."
After making up his mind, Zhu Yijun paused and asked again: "How to name it?"
"Of course."
That's not why Beijing's inland shipping is so developed along the Yangtze River that the small-scale conversion of rice to mulberry in the south of the Yangtze River is such a process that it's so pragmatic to interfere - because Huguang's grain production is expanding like crazy, and then transshipped to supply the south of the Yangtze River. So.
, why has Huguang not expanded production crazily in the future, but is now willing to expand production? Of course it is because the grain can be transported!
The economy has always been linked to each other, and the driving force is profit. Exports are prosperous in the Jiangnan region, and industry and handicrafts are developing slowly. We cannot earn a small amount of silver from sea trade, but because we all go to industry
and handicraft industry, the agricultural population is slowly declining, and it is necessary to buy food from the inland, which has led to a food production frenzy in the inland.
Gao Pragmatic gave a complicated explanation of Jinghua Ordnance Industry's business model to the emperor, and then said: "So to sum up, the order must be placed by the Ministry of War and the first batch of advance payment is in place before Jinghua Ordnance Industry can finalize its shape and prepare for production.
The production line is ready for production. In addition, the ordnance industry group established separately by the imperial court is also unable to obtain technical support from Jinghua Ordnance Industry during this period and determine the final production ratio between the two parties."