Chongzhen and I became partners

Chapter 245 Industrialized Countries

It is actually inappropriate to use cannons to beat mosquitoes to describe the situation in Gyeonggi recently.

However, killing chickens with a sledgehammer is perfectly appropriate.

Tens of thousands of soldiers from the Beijing Camp and Yongwei Battalion were divided into groups of hundreds of people, at most no more than 1000 people, and they were spread like a big net to the North Zhili area on the side of the capital. Fish and shrimp.

The so-called small fish and shrimps just refer to the kind whose power is not enough to attack the state capital.But it has a great impact on the lives of local people.

There are robbers blocking the road, road tyrants, I planted this tree, bandits who drove this road, and even Bailian believers.In addition, there are also hidden households, powerful local evil slaves and so on.

In short, no one thought that the imperial court would let those thieves not fight, and suddenly use Yongweiying and Jingying to deal with them.

You know, the dispatch of the army costs a lot of money and food.

Unprepared, it can almost be said that the area south of the Beijing Normal University in Beizhili, after the Yongwei Camp and the Jingying soldiers swept away, almost had a situation where there was no way to pick up lost things.

This caused the local people to have a kind of ideological confusion. This is not a chaotic world, but a return to the era of peace and prosperity!At least for them, there is no need to worry about safety when going out!This is simply unimaginable!

Emperor Chongzhen was very happy when the factory guards who followed the soldiers of the Yongwei Camp and the Jingying Camp reported the situation to Emperor Chongzhen.

Since he ascended the throne, he has always wanted to realize the revival of the Ming Dynasty, and now there are signs of this in some areas of the Ming Dynasty!

Although compared to the entire Ming Dynasty, it is only a small area, but after all, there are already such signs.

It's worth the money!
There was more than one thing that made him happy.

When the Ministry of Officials sent people to inspect the war preparations in the area north of the capital of Beizhili, many problems were found, and the factory guard followed up with the verification, and also reported that the local government was rectifying and reforming.

Also, after Yan Yingyuan arrived in Jizhou, he did not make any public appearances.Even the soldiers of the Ming army at the bottom didn't even know that there was a special envoy from the imperial court. On the surface, Bai Tengjiao, the chief soldier of Jizhou, was still in charge.

However, the treatment of soldiers in Jizhou has obviously improved.The owed wages were reissued, and the old and the weak were cleared out of the army.They didn't know why, but the Chief Soldier suddenly changed his temper. In short, everything got better, and his enthusiasm also increased.

The same is true of the Malanyu Pass not far from here. The commander-in-chief Bai Guangen suddenly changed his previous style and became law-abiding.

Emperor Chongzhen received a report from Yan Yingyuan, saying that in the two barracks of Jizhou and Malanyu, the servants of the two chief soldiers could still fight.However, the number is too small. The main reason is that the imperial court has repeatedly defaulted on the military payment, so that the army has no money.The two chief soldiers are still capable.Therefore, he did not make a public appearance, but prepared for battle after stealthing the two generals.

In the original history, the Jianlu army joined forces in Jizhou and launched the Battle of Jizhou.In this battle, Bai Guangen, the commander-in-chief of Malanyu, did not run away, but reinforced Jizhou, and together with Bai Tengjiao, the commander-in-chief of Jizhou, fought Jianlu to the death. Chuoketuo, Zuoling Ebei, Shenling Wudana, and Hun Dashan of Hujun Academy.

You know, Captain Qingche is the title of title on Jianlu's side, and below the baron is the third rank, which is definitely the core figure on Jianlu's side.All of them can be killed, which shows how fierce the battle is!
Emperor Chongzhen actually knew about this record.Now Yan Yingyuan's feedback is similar to what he has.The two chief soldiers are both usable, which will naturally make him happy.

The same is true, he did not pursue some minor mistakes of Bai Guangen and Bai Tengjiao, such as changing the military system to a servant system, and using the money allocated by the court to support their own servants.

In fact, the family system will eventually emerge in the Ming Dynasty, and the imperial court has a lot of responsibility.

Not only in the Chongzhen Dynasty, but since the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the military pay and food in the important towns on the nine borders began to gradually fail to be replenished in time.However, the Mongol Tartars outside the pass are still invaded every year, so-called raiding grass valleys, going to the pass to rob things and kill people.

One thing to note is that when the Mongolian Tartars invaded, they were also a small part of the elite of the Mongolian nobles, most of them were herdsmen.

The generals of the Ming Frontier Army discovered that if they could defeat a small part of the elite Mongol Tartars, they would be able to win the war.Because those herdsmen cannot fight tough battles.

Therefore, the generals of the Ming Frontier Army spontaneously mobilized elite troops to start targeted operations against the situation of the Mongol Tartars.

That's how, slowly, the family system appeared.

This is actually a helpless move. Everyone thinks that their subordinates are elite soldiers and strong generals, but if the court does not pay enough, what will they use to support the entire army?That is impossible!
Of course, there are also some generals who deduct military pay, which will also make it impossible for the entire army to be elite!
Such a variety of things led to the occurrence of this situation in the late Ming Dynasty.

Someone once said that this is a bad age, but there is nothing wrong with it.

The Ming army was bad, but the Mongol Tartars were even worse, so the Ming army could fight the Mongol Tartars.But the sudden emergence of the Jianlu army took the path of all the people as soldiers, relying on robbing Mongolia and Ming Dynasty to obtain supplies to feed the entire army.

In this way, in this bad age, Jianlu wins!

Having said that, seeing the things he deployed, every piece of feedback was a good result, which made Emperor Chongzhen naturally happy.His attention was focused on the logistics side again.

That night, Emperor Chongzhen had a video communication with Liu Weichao again, and told Liu Weichao about the situation on his side.

After hearing this, Liu Weichao said with a smile: "This is very good, everything is developing in a good direction!"

"It's thanks to you!" Emperor Chongzhen said with emotion after hearing this, "If it weren't for you, even if I knew who was loyal and who was traitor, I wouldn't be able to turn things around in this muddy pond! Among other things, Just the method of smelting fine steel and the production of gunpowder, I can’t reduce the cost, let alone deploy troops on a large scale. These two things are really useful to me!”

Compared to this, the glass factory was almost forgotten by him.

Liu Weichao smiled and said: "Let me tell you, from an agricultural country to an industrial country, the indicator to measure a country is no longer the output of grain fields, but the output of steel! From this we can see how much steel is in a country. It's important!"

Upon hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen took it for granted and nodded immediately.

Liu Weichao looked at him and continued: "Now your strong army is on schedule, just waiting for the harvest. From my side, I will formulate an industrialization path for you, so that Daming can become the world's first industrialized country..."

Emperor Chongzhen knew nothing about these contents, but he knew that industrialized countries were stronger!Therefore, he listened carefully.

"If we want to realize the industrialization of the country, there must be enough workers in the factories! And now in Daming, most of them are working on the farmland, so they need to be liberated!" Liu Weichao continued to tell Emperor Chongzhen, "And to do this, we must We must vigorously develop productivity. In the future, with the help of tools, one person can do the work of a few people, or even a dozen people, and this manpower will be liberated, right?"

Upon hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help but be overjoyed.

How about industrialization?However, as Liu Weichao said just now, if one person can work as hard as the previous few or dozens of people, then of course he is what he wants most!

So, he hurriedly asked: "What tool? Send the information quickly!"

Seeing Emperor Chongzhen's urgency, Liu Weichao couldn't help but smiled and said: "Don't be in a hurry, this kind of thing can't be rushed, you have to take it step by step."

Upon hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen realized that he had lost his composure, so he blushed a little and said, "I'm in a hurry, tell me!"

"One is a steam engine!" Liu Weichao said with a smile immediately, "You have already made it. What you need to do now is to use the steam engine. It will be very economical to use the kinetic energy generated by the steam engine for various industries, such as pumping water to irrigate farmland. Manpower; it can also be used in transportation. On weekdays, you can travel for a month, but now you can get there in five days, how much time does this save, right?"

Upon hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen laughed.

Because he remembered that none of the courtiers he bullied understood, so he fooled them and brought the railway into the palace.Now the courtiers in the outer court think that he is a bit stupid, and he is doing this at a loss.After the railway is built in the future, it is estimated that they will cry and cry to return to the foreign court, right?

Thinking of this, Emperor Chongzhen was not without complacency.

In the past, his courtiers fooled him, but now he can fool his courtiers too!

On Liu Weichao's side, he didn't know what the meaning of Emperor Chongzhen's cheap smile suddenly appeared, but he didn't care, and continued to say: "There is also a tool called the flying shuttle, which is also a good thing that will greatly improve the efficiency of the textile industry. Let’s add the spinning jenny, so the textile industry of Ming Dynasty will undergo earth-shaking changes..."

Emperor Chongzhen naturally didn't understand this, he only knew how to dress.

Therefore, facing Liu Weichao, a good friend who talked about everything, he was not afraid of exposing his ignorance, and quickly asked curiously: "Is this shuttle and the spinning jenny more complicated? How is it more complicated than a steam engine? Also, How will the textile industry undergo earth-shaking changes?"

Liu Weichao knew that in order for Emperor Chongzhen to be motivated to do things, he must see great prospects.

Therefore, when he heard this question, he smiled and said: "These two things were invented by Xiyi, more than 100 years later. But they are not steel machines, but just carpentry. Especially the flying shuttle, In fact, it is a very simple thing to put it bluntly. Whether it is a flying shuttle or a spinning jenny, they are all very practical and simple. With these two things, from cotton to cotton cloth, it is estimated that the cost can be reduced by more than ten times, or even More!"

(End of this chapter)