Traveling through history leaving a name

Chapter 377
Following Arima Harunobu's order, the Japanese side began shelling again.

The shelling time was a bit long, from the afternoon to the dark.

During this period, Arima Harunobu also organized several tentative attacks again, but they were all beaten back by three hundred musketeers.

The next day, the Japanese artillery continued to attack, but it still did not cause much damage to the Ming army in the Royal Commercial Hall.

From the beginning of the battle to the present, more than 300 musketeers have lost only a dozen or so people.

Chen Guangping believed that it was unreasonable that fifty or sixty men on the Dutch ship could withstand the attack of 300 Japanese soldiers with arquebus guns, while the more than [-] musketeers on his side could not withstand the attack of thousands of Japanese soldiers with flintlock guns.

What's more, there are also weapons for defending the city such as mines and grenades.

At this time in the capital of Shuntian Prefecture, no one knew that the Japanese had already taken action against the Royal Commercial Hall.

At this time, Zhang Qingfeng was participating in the largest school celebration of Daming University of Technology since its establishment.

Now, Zhang Qingfeng earns more than 800 million taels of silver profit for Emperor Wanli every year, so the scale of the institute of science and technology he runs is getting bigger and bigger.

Various industries and factories require a large number of workers with science and engineering knowledge, so Zhang Qingfeng has the Polytechnic University recruit more and more students every year.

From the beginning, it recruited 3000 people per year, and now, it has basically exceeded 5000 people per year.

Don't think that there are a lot of 5000 people. In fact, these people start from the most basic knowledge.

It takes about seven or eight years to graduate from university, and even for fast learners, it takes five or six years.

That is to say, although the name of the Polytechnic University is a university, it includes teaching at all stages of elementary school, junior high school, high school, and university.

At present, there are more than 3 students in the entire polytechnic university.

Most of these students were sent by Shuntian Mansion and surrounding prefectures. The reason why they came here to study was because the graduates of the University of Science and Technology had a guarantee of a monthly salary of at least ten taels of silver.

Moreover, when studying at school, no matter it is food or other expenses, it is all paid by the school, and the parents of the students do not need to pay any money.

Of course, after graduation, the students must also work for the Royal Firm for more than ten years, otherwise they will be held legally accountable.

In order to allow so many students to study for free, Zhang Qingfeng has to invest more than 80 taels of silver every year, including teachers' salaries, students' meals and school supplies, and the expansion of teaching buildings, etc.

Many people complain about Zhang Qingfeng spending so much money on teaching every year. For example, many court ministers think that it is a waste of so much money to set up a university of science and technology, because so much money is enough to support a tens of thousands of students. An army of men.

However, Zhang Qingfeng just told Emperor Wanli: Only by training more workers can he make more money. Now that he invests 80 taels of silver every year, after these students graduate, they can earn back several times the money.

In fact, many students have already made a lot of profits for Zhang Qingfeng.

For example, medical alcohol has now become Daming's miracle medicine for trauma, and the price is dozens of times more expensive than ordinary alcoholic drinks.

Nowadays, medical alcohol earns more than 30 taels of silver to the Royal Commercial Bank every year.

For this reason, Zhang Qingfeng also specially invested in a medical research institute, extracting 1 taels of silver from the profits of alcohol every year, so that students who like medicine can study medicine exclusively.

In addition to this aspect, there were many workers who started working with Zhang Qingfeng in the past. With Zhang Qingfeng's support, they also opened many private factories.

Such as furniture factories, umbrella factories, oil paper factories, sack factories, packaging box factories, pen, ink, paper and inkstone factories, brick and tile factories, carriage factories, and various downstream metal processing factories that Zhang Qingfeng needs, etc.

The Royal Bank of these factories has invested in shares, and the technology is not enough for the Machinery Manufacturing Bureau, and the funds are not enough for the Royal Bank to give loans.

In just a few years, hundreds of factories were established with the support of Zhang Qingfeng. After that, the annual dividends from these factories alone to the Royal Trading Company exceeded one million taels of silver.

This also made Zhang Qingfeng's reputation in Shuntian Mansion and even the entire business circle of Ming Dynasty very popular.

The wealth myth he created has completely surpassed Shen Wansan, a businessman in the early Ming Dynasty.

Because Shen Wansan was too rich, he was feared by the emperor in power, and finally ended up as a guest and died in a foreign country.

But such a situation would never happen to Zhang Qingfeng, because the money he earned belonged entirely to the emperor, and he did not make any money from himself except for investment.

For this alone, there is not a single person in the Manchu Dynasty who does not admire it.

If Zhang Qingfeng was not a eunuch, it would be more than enough to be a secretary of the household department.

In the eyes of Emperor Wanli, the importance of the Machinery Manufacturing Bureau at this time has completely surpassed that of the Supervisor of Rituals.

The Rites Supervisor has armed organizations like the East Factory, and the Machinery Manufacturing Bureau also has a security department.

Unlike Dongchang who selects its personnel from Jinyiwei, the security guards of the Machinery Manufacturing Bureau are selected from ordinary and kind-hearted families.

At present, the security guards of the Machinery Manufacturing Bureau are mainly responsible for protecting the safety of hundreds of large and small factories, bank vaults in various places, and the safety of the silver transport teams in various places.

Therefore, there are a lot of security personnel in the Machinery Manufacturing Bureau, more than 2 people.

These people are all people who have undergone strict training. Equipped with the best firearms, they are completely capable of taking down 20 royal guards.

In addition, Zhang Qingfeng has now begun to train more than 1 firearms troops for Wu Wang Zhu Changxun. If the Ryukyu King Zhu Changhao's [-] troops are added, in case of need, as long as it is not a rebellion, Zhang Qingfeng can mobilize more than four troops at any time. Thousands of troops came to do something great.

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Time entered March 1610 AD, and the first group of people who went to Ryukyu Island finally arrived at their destination.

The first to arrive this time was the more than 1 fully armed troops led by King Duan Zhu Changhao.

The arrival of these troops immediately changed the situation on the entire island drastically.

In the past few months, under Wei Zhongxian's instigation and connivance, various Ryukyu nobles were fighting openly and secretly, fighting to the death, just to compete for the position of King of Ryukyu.

Over the past few months, many Ryukyu people have suffered greatly, and they have complained about the Ryukyu nobles.

After the arrival of more than 1 Ming troops, together with Wei Zhongxian's original 3000 troops, a major cleansing of the entire Ryukyu Island was immediately carried out.

Countless Ryukyu nobles were arrested and killed, and many of their lands were distributed to the people of Ryukyu. For a while, Duan Wang Zhu Changhao also won the support of many Ryukyu people.

In ancient times before the concept of a nation was formed, the common people did not have a strong sense of patriotism.

No matter who rules them, as long as they can give benefits, they will support whoever, just like the Qing Dynasty, 10,000+ Manchus ruled tens of millions of Han people, which is basically impossible to happen in the era of national awakening all over the world after hundreds of years.

If the people at the end of the Ming Dynasty had the national awakening of the Republic of China, there would be no Qing Dynasty.

In the following time, groups of people from the Ming Dynasty also came to Ryukyu Island. In addition to carving up the land of some nobles, they then started to open up wasteland for themselves.

At present, many places on Ryukyu Island have not been reclaimed. According to the current degree of reclaimed land, the land is less than one-tenth of that of later generations.

In addition, there are many students from the Institute of Technology who came with the common people of Ming Dynasty.

After these people came to Ryukyu, they immediately opened many schools.

Then, the new Ryukyu King Zhu Changhao, who was conferred by the Ming Dynasty, issued an order requiring all Ryukyu children from seven to 13 years old to go to school to study and learn Chinese characters and Chinese culture.

"Sorry, Lord Governor, Admiral Chen Guangping is being attacked by the Japanese. Here is a letter for help..."

(End of this chapter)