Chapter 288 Economy and Party Struggle (33) Animal Powered Railway
Gao pragmatically wanted to give this arsenal a royal name, which actually had a certain intention. This was not necessarily to learn from Western naming habits, but an attempt at transparency, which would be conducive to public opinion supervision over time.
Of course, it is not just about transparency. Just like he also named the military academy the Ming Dynasty Royal Military Academy, this is to subtly establish a kind of thinking: military power belongs to the royal family.
This is not to flatter the emperor deliberately, but Gao Pragmatic believes that the army must have a clear target of allegiance, otherwise it will easily become a warlord. Now it is impossible to expect the Ming Dynasty's "feudal army" to be loyal to the people, then
Just make it clear that you are loyal to the emperor. You can always take this as a matter of course, right?
Although theoretically speaking, he is probably the most warlord-like leader now because of his high pragmatism, but he also has his own defense: My private soldiers are in southern Xinjiang and do not occupy "territory" in the Ming Dynasty. Although there are many armed servants in the mainland,
But they rely on Jinghua's business income, rather than separatist "territory".
In line with the principle of transparency, in the future Gao Pragmatic also plans to let some industries of the royal family carry out corporate reforms according to Jinghua's model, and then each of them will be named "royal" and accept the supervision of public opinion in Shilin - of course, this will cause civil servants to
The court can also better supervise them.
At the same time, the Tianjia also needs to establish some charitable organizations, such as the "Da Ming Royal Charity Federation" and the like. The royal family will take the lead in doing some high-sounding charitable deeds. This will also help the Tianjia maintain a good reputation among the people, thus
This increases the cohesion of the country and weakens the simple idea that "the emperor is always a bad emperor. Even if good things happen, it must be because there are no treacherous ministers around the emperor."
How difficult is that thing in itself? Because the internal funds are not relatively poor, and because Xiao Ming's country is booming, the Secretary of Ceremony has become more and more concerned about reputation. He can definitely spend a lot of money to buy reputation. Will the emperor agree?
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Now, what Gao pragmatic makes determined is who will be responsible for the charity association. According to the past rules, that job is left to the inner court, such as Zhu Yijun, who takes the lead. But when Gao pragmatic mentioned this matter to Liu Xin, Liu Xin suggested that
It would be bad to leave the work to the emperor - even in name only.
Everyone knows that your reason is pragmatic. You think it will not help improve the status of men to a certain extent. At most, the emperor, as the mother of a country, can only manage a front palace. Yes, you are
If you have a low opinion and are pragmatic, you will reject it.
Even if we look at the problem from the perspective of the previous life, according to the traditional point of view: the head wife of a special family should also aim to be a good wife, and as the emperor's head wife, it is also true for the emperor to help her husband create a bad reputation.
Is it reasonable?
"It's appropriate, it's so appropriate." Gao pragmatically said: "There are rules to form a circle. Just because this is your property, once you violate the rules, you must be severely punished. Otherwise, how can you serve as a warning to others?"
"Say." Shu Zhelu said: "There are no conditions yet, so I'll put them forward together."
Although Gao Jingshi deliberately changed the topic just now, the emperor immediately confirmed the small matter of Gao Jingshi returning to the cabinet to take care of the matter, and once again emphasized that the court should leave me now, even for a day.
Therefore, Chen needs the two arsenals to compete with each other and rely on product quality to complete the Ministry of War's public bidding. In Chen's vision, the Ministry of War's future bidding will not allow the two arsenals to each produce their own products and compete in public, with the winner getting the order.
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At this moment, whether there was anyone in the palace or not, Low Pragmatic had a little more scruples, and said bluntly: "It will take a few more days to return to the cabinet to review the matter. However, if the court really has nothing to do, it will be difficult to make a decision. Your Majesty cannot let Zhu Yijun send someone to find the minister."
After asking, I will definitely know what I said and what I said."
There is a problem with that, and it is unacceptable to pragmatism. However, the problem is that once the emperor comes to run the charity association, then the headquarters of the association can only be managed by eunuchs. After all, Xiao Ming can accept it if everyone from top to bottom can do it.
The emperor and the abnormal woman work in the same place, and the Charity Federation must have no contact with the outside world, so it is appropriate to let the palace men do it.
"Things are bad, goods are also bad, but as pointed out in the bullet, few local officials would really be worried if Jinghua Infrastructure took over those jobs, so we agree that it would offend the chief minister of the government.
"Gao Pragmatically said: "It is indeed not suspected of pretending to be powerful or even using power for personal gain."
Gao Pragmatic smiled and said: "This matter is difficult to say and easy to say. As long as the imperial court authorizes this arsenal, which is in a worrying situation, to produce a part of the order - the proportion can be low. Basically, it only needs to ensure that the arsenal can survive.
, and then we can squeeze out a little profit to reduce R&D investment.”
Gao Jingshi quickly thanked him, and Shu Zhelu said: "Oh no, no, that's settled... It will take at most eight days to complete the process. During those eight days, you ask Zhu Yijun to come to him directly with Shu Wen.
, wait until he has decided how to deal with a few small things. Then, let’s talk about the arsenal now.”
Liu Xin even proposed an idea, that is, various married women in the capital would withdraw into the inner committee of the Charity Federation and share some of the work - but you have made it clear that sharing work is a big deal, and gaining reputation for your family is a small matter.
There is no doubt that the Charity Federation can bring a bad reputation. Whether a married woman has a bad name in the Charity Federation or works in the Charity Federation, it can bring prestige to the family.
That's strange. Those enterprises run by low pragmatists are really too weak. The Director of Ceremony feels that although the business of these nobles under his control seems to be okay, if they do it too lowly and pragmatically, such free competition will probably
It would be a good thing if you can lose all your money in a few years.
The Supervisor of Ceremonies thought for a while and felt there was something wrong, so he sighed: "Since he insists so much, I can let him go. That's right, since he has been punished, he should return to the cabinet to take charge of the matter, right?"
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"Oh?" The Superintendent of Ceremonies was not interested: "How do you say that?"
This chapter is not finished yet, please click the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Horse-drawn tracks were wooden tracks after the Industrial Revolution. It was not until 1760 that tracks reinforced with iron bars appeared, and in 1767 iron tracks appeared. As for why
This was done, of course, because horse-drawn track wagons could not transport less cargo with the same power.
As for the traditional saying in China's feudal era that "the front palace must be involved in politics", is there any conflict? - How can you become involved in politics after doing some charity? The money you spend outside is all internal money, and it is also money from the national treasury.
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Gao pragmatically said: "I don't have a brand new road project called a railway..."
Gao Pragmatic thought for a moment, shook his head and said: "You can't do it like this in the early stage, but when everything is ready in the Royal Arsenal, Beijing and China will be able to provide a fixed supply to a certain army, and they will have to bid on a yearly basis or a certain type of equipment."
"You know that, he is worried." The Chief of Ceremonies waved his hand and said: "First you issue an order to send us all to eight thousand places, and when he invites us, you can resign and return home; if he invites us seven more times, you can change our ways.
Downgrade one level; if he asks eight more times, you can change it to the next level as an example - that's all right, right?"
In this regard, Liu Xin put forward an idea, saying that the Charity Federation cannot engage in the "inner court" system, that is, an inner council is set up in the palace, and an inner council is set up in the palace. The emperor himself only appears in the inner council and communicates with the inner court.
The eunuchs were in charge, and the lihui had various restrictions and could not fully play its role.
Now the term "low pragmatism" is very bad. Even if we are better than Jinghua, at most we can maintain it, at least we will lose everything. As for whether we can destroy "Jinghua's competitors" in the future, that depends on our own performance.
Okay... Of course, if you don't have enough internal funds, you can still support Yiqi a little or a lot.
After talking about those things, the two of them spent some time. The Supervisor of Ceremonies saw that it was early and planned to return to the palace. Unexpectedly, Gao Jingjing stopped me and said: "Your Majesty, there is nothing to do..."
The Superintendent of Ceremonies asked: "Do you remember that he once said that building a factory is a science, and it requires the support of certain important resources, as well as convenient water and land transportation, etc., right?"
Shu Zhelu also took this view and asked directly: "You see, it will take some time to build a new Royal Arsenal, and it will also take time to get the manpower and materials in place. If we rush to produce the first batch, and there is no Kaiping Industrial Zone on the four sides, it will be enough.
Well... So, if the Royal Arsenal is located in the south, its products in the future will mainly be supplied to the four armies and ten armies, what does he think?"
Gao pragmatically nodded and said, "Your Majesty, you don't have any inquiries?"
Similarly, if the Royal Arsenal can provide bad weapons, the various B armies will feel that they can only use those inferior goods, so they will be even less interested in training their troops. Over time, how can this be said to be rotten?
Gao pragmatically said: "Of course."
The term "four sides and ten armies" is meaningless. "Four sides" is an old system, and "ten armies" is obviously based on the idea of the military reform after Low Pragmatism, and it also refers to the ten A-type armies.
Suppose that the quality of the weapons produced by Jinghua deteriorates in the future, and the border troops complain. However, since the emperor stipulates that the border troops use Jinghua weapons, Jinghua also cares about the feedback from the border troops and still supplies some scrap copper and iron. Will the imperial armament be immediately improved?
Wasted?
Gao Pragmatic fully agrees with that idea, and I know that Liu Xin may have considered another important factor: As the saying goes, people who are closer to the center of power have less power, so few officials will actively make themselves
His wife withdrew from the Charity Federation - the fateful woman's approach to the emperor is essentially the same as our approach to the emperor.
Gao pragmatically said: "Return it to the local government offices and divide it according to their actual project expenditures."
Shu Zhelu said: "He has bought all the bad places in Kaiping a long time ago. Now they are built in a bad way. The production scale and other things are wrong. You see, it is necessary for the Royal Arsenal to make peace with it."
"Because that's why I insist on cultivating a competitor for Jinghua Arsenal." Gao pragmatically said: "If the two factories each divide their supply forces, how can there be no competition?
"The rules must be enforced, otherwise no one will follow suit." Gao Pragmatic shook his head and said, "I don't have a plan to fine Jinghua Infrastructure so heavily, for example, tens of thousands of taels of silver."
"Railway?" It was obviously the first time that the Director of Ceremonies heard such a strange word, and he wondered: "What does this mean? He wants to pave a road with iron? It's useless?"
The Chief of Ceremonies sat down again and asked, "What's the matter?"
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If this works, there will be nothing bad to say if the whole play is done?
That idea was wrong, and Shu Zhelu was very satisfied. In fact, the reason why I just wanted to divide the "spheres of influence" of the two arsenals according to the military was not mainly because of my confidence in the yet-to-be-established Royal Arsenal.
Gao pragmatism pondered: "Your Majesty, you can pursue the case first, and I will ask for mercy..."
Yes, although the steam engine is still fully influential, Gao Pragmatic has not yet planned to propose an "animal-powered railway" plan.
The establishment of the royal arsenal was a trivial matter. Seeing that the emperor had no intention of discussing it in detail, Gao Pragmatic explained it to Meng Guzhezhe and his entourage. Gao Mo made the first arrangements, and the seven monarchs and ministers went to the rest room on the edge of the racecourse to prepare for the disaster.
Talk about bad things.
The Chief of Ceremonies carefully looked at Gao Pragmatic's subtle expression. Seeing that I seemed polite, he hesitated and said: "Does he really think it's not necessary? It's bad, he is the chief minister, and he can handle all the affairs of the court... Isn't that right?
How to deal with the money from fines?”
The truth is of course the truth, such a poor process is not that little or that, it is too low-key, but now I want to do it like that. I sincerely said to the emperor: "Your Majesty loves me, and I am naturally grateful. This is the first impeachment after this.
These remarks made by the minister are not unreasonable. At least in the matter of Beijing Capital Infrastructure promoting the construction of sewers, in my opinion, its methods are not open to question."
The Supervisor of Ceremonies waved his hand and said, "But he knows all about it. The blame falls on him. Besides, since the incident itself was a bad thing and there was some trouble caused, why should we go into it further?"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Gao Pragmatic smiled and said: "That can be regarded as a condition... I hope that the emperor will pursue the officials who impeached me this time."
The Superintendent of Ceremonies frowned and said, "Why go to all the trouble? He can just go back to the pavilion and take matters into his own hands. In the past two days, the attacks against him have basically stopped, but the number of memorials to intercede for him has been decreasing every day."
In one day, as long as you take advantage of the situation and deal with the group of people who will impeach him later, the whole crisis will be over."
As early as the 16th century, horses were commonly used to pull cargo in tunnels and coal mines. Almost all mines built in the 16th and 17th centuries used horse-drawn track coal cars as the only mode of transportation. Holy Roman Empire - So did this past life
Wooden tracks used in mines appeared in Germany before 1550.
Hey, the emperor has really made a small step back, and he has no business thinking at all.
"Uh... I think that's how it should be." Gao pragmatically replied.
The Chief of Ceremony was stunned and asked, "Why is that?"
The Director of Ceremonies was stunned, but after thinking about it, he discovered another problem: "But according to what he said, if none of them get orders several times in a row, doesn't it mean that there will be no refunds, and they will have to go bankrupt in the end?
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"Is it to pursue?" The Chief of Ceremonies shook his head and said: "That's OK. If a minister impeaches a junior minister without any investigation, he will definitely mess up the rules and make the subordinates superior and inferior."
For a moment, Gao Pragmatic knew what the emperor wanted to express, and felt that the emperor still had something to say, so he answered and just looked at the Supervisor of Ceremonies with an inquiring look.
In fact, the "railway" proposed by Low Pragmatic is essentially a kind of "trackless transportation", which is equivalent to the "horse-drawn carriageway" in history. In the original history, the horse-drawn carriageway was used to pull freight cars after the steam-powered railway.
Horses, equipment and tracks.
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"The most suitable place far away from the capital is his Kaiping Industrial Zone, right?" asked the Director of Ceremonies.
The Superintendent of Ceremonies was surprised: "That is his own property, and there has been some serious trouble. Is it appropriate to fine him tens of thousands of taels for the first time?"
Gao pragmatically said: "There is nothing that requires His Majesty's consent."