Lord of Ming Dynasty

We can’t always let Sebastian and Francois do research, they need helpers, and it’s too slow to rely on them to train some apprentices, which is not good for the technological development of the Huaxia Army, so Zhang Qiang has to find those folk talents from Huaxia Come out and send them to their research institute, let them learn while helping and inspiring the two of them, so as to speed up their development.

The new carriage was made under the inspiration of Zhang Qiang and with the help of old carpenters and blacksmiths.

At the same time, under the advice and promotion of a businessman or a treasurer-born researcher, he quickly entered the army and civilians of the Huaxia Army, and gained commercial and national interests.

Let the society promote its own development. Zhang Qiang is only a bystander and a guide. Otherwise, with his knowledge structure, insight, and historical knowledge, he will not be able to reach the level of other traversers in 100 years. years of development.

Chapter 665 Little Xiangjiang

There are still many people in the court who do not understand the decision to let Hong Chengchou go to the Lu Kingdom, especially the officials from the Nanming Kingdom. They both disturbed each other and made their own voices in their own ways, which even made Zhou Congee hesitate for a long time.

But this kind of voice disappeared after the Ministry of Supervision intervened in the investigation. The new minister of the Ministry of Supervision, Du Ge, is Du Ge. , and returned to the court, but there was no place for him to do it. Although there are many positions where people work part-time, they can do better than him.

When Zhang Liang of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was still outside, he could only temporarily act as the minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the name of the Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but he had nothing to do. Tea, walking around, very leisurely, until one day when Zhu Yujian saw him like that, he was very annoyed, and felt that he was not doing anything, so he went to Zhou Congee to sue him, and Zhou Congee called him immediately, and let a The deputy prime minister complained that even Zhou Porridge had to do something, so he was fined for half a year, and he was sent to a punishment camp as a deputy director. He ran around in mines, in rivers, and on road construction sites every day. , ran for a year, and did not return to the court until Zhu Yujian retired due to age and health.

After he came back, he was assigned to the Ministry of Supervision as a minister. The minister was equivalent to a deputy minister and did some clerical work, but it was still very difficult for him, because the minister of the Ministry of Supervision was Chen Hanhui, an old revolutionary. He had been anti-Qing since 1644. The righteous man, the leader of the rebel army, is serious and responsible for his work. After retiring, he was called back to the court and served as the Minister of the Supervision Department. The relationship between Chen Hanhui and You Haibo did not target him very much, and he was allowed to be so idle. It was not until Chen Hanhui passed away that he was forced by You Hai to be the Minister of Supervision.

After becoming the Minister of Supervision, he couldn't afford to be idle, so he was very busy. Because of his relationship with Zhu Yujian, he was also not very friendly to those Nanming officials. Many corrupt Nanming officials were found out by him and thrown directly into prison, so this The next time when everyone was arguing about this matter, he took down several people with thunderous means, and the officials of Nanming shut up.

This aspect also shows that it was a mistake for Zhang Qiang to include officials from the Nanming Kingdom in the Huaxia Kingdom Court, and he obviously included a group of people who knew how to fight all day long.

But Zhang Qiang didn't get angry after hearing the report from the Ministry of Civil Affairs, but laughed it off.

What he cares about is what benefits Huaxia can gain by keeping Lu as a window.

The benefits are not small. After the Lu State signed an armistice agreement with the Huaxia State, it got in touch with the Qing Dynasty. Although this process was difficult and difficult, Emperor Kangxi, who was already in power, forgave Hong Chengchou's betrayal and recognized Hong Chengchou's betrayal. The State of Lu also signed an armistice agreement with Hong Chengchou, and made Hong Chengchou recognize that it was a vassal state of the Qing Dynasty, and paid tribute gifts and money to the Qing Dynasty.

But because there are actually Han officials in the court, the Qing Dynasty was deeply influenced by Confucianism, and Hong Chengchou was once a Han official, so he only gave some symbolically, but only 100 million Chinese yuan, which is a lot for a few months. It was not a big deal for the State of Lu, who had already tasted trading with the trading ships of the Taixi people and obtained a lot of tax revenue from trading with the Chinese army.

Afterwards, the State of Lu once again fought a naval battle with the Japanese daimyo. The Japanese fleet was annihilated in the naval battle, and the Japanese daimyo, the general of the daimyo on Kagoshima, began to contact and please the Lu State, thus opening up the Japanese market. Ren's trading fleet also came to Lu for trade.

In the next few months, the Huaxia Army gained huge income from trade. Many commodities were exported to the State of Lu for transfer. The lost gold and silver stocks pushed Huaxia yuan to Daqing, Dajin, Lu, and Taixi at one time. Although Huaxia does not trade with Taixi, the relationship between Huaxia Army and Zheng Chenggong is good, so it can be transferred from Zheng Chenggong. , So I got a lot of Nanyang products.

But the most important role of Lu State is to contact the market of Daqing, Dajin, Korea, and Japan, so that the domestic products of the Huaxia Army can be transported to the above countries nearby.

Among them is the Jinkai 1 matchlock gun replaced by the Huaxia Army. Now the Huaxia Army has replaced the entire army with smoothbore flintlock guns. A large number of Jinkai 2 matchlock guns in their hands have been handed over to the militia teams on the territory of small Southeast Asian countries. The garrison was also armed with smooth-bore flintlocks, and the field brigades were armed with muzzle-loading rifles and muzzle-loading flintlocks.

As an improved version, the front-loading flintlock gun must be much more advanced than the front-loading smoothbore flintlock gun, but there is a problem that although it is accurate and far away, its speed is still not as good as the front-loading smoothbore flintlock gun. Even sometimes it is not as good as Jin Kai 2 matchlock guns, so those equipped troops are all elite shooters in the army. There are not many people, but they can be used to deal with those damn guerrillas in critical moments.

One shot at a time, if there are more than a dozen people in a company, then the guerrillas will basically be blinded or collapsed after being killed by more than a dozen people, because the front-loading rifle can hit farther, which is better than the front-loading. Smoothbore flintlocks and breech-loading flintlocks are still far away, not to mention 100 meters, but 150 meters, 180 meters, 200 meters. Good gunners and elite gunners can shoot one at a time. With those big knives and spears, they snatched the firecrackers and shotguns in the hands of the militiamen, and further snatched the Jinkai 200 arquebus. When it comes to you, you can't call people.

This time the equipment was upgraded and replaced. Those elite militia brigades directly used front-loading smoothbore flintlock guns. The militia brigade used Jinkai 2 matchlock guns. They are all Jinkai 1 matchlock guns, so in terms of firepower, the guerrillas cannot suppress the militia at all.

But despite this, the Jinkai 1 matchlock guns and Jinkai 2 matchlock guns in the Huaxia Army warehouse were constantly being replaced, more and more, so Zhang Qiang thought of doing business with the State of Lu.

They sold them all the big knives, spears, firecrackers, and shotguns that had been captured, and then sold them a lot of Jinkai 1 matchlock guns and Jinkai 2 matchlock guns.

As a result, Hong Chengchou, who knew Zhang Qiang's wishes, directly sent someone to buy the Huaxia Army's Jinkai 2 matchlock gun, because Hong Chengchou suffered enough from the Jinkai 2 matchlock gun in the battle against the Huaxia Army.

Zhang Qiang also twitched and sold him 2 Jinkai [-] matchlock guns directly. Anyway, he had a more advanced flintlock gun.

So Lu State became Huaxia State's window to the outside world. Zhang Qiang proudly named Lu State "Little Xiangjiang", which means Xiangjiang when our country was just founded in later generations.

Chapter 666 Huge Profit

A gold modified 1 matchlock gun costs 100 Huaxia yuan, which is equivalent to the previous ten taels of silver, a gold modified 2 matchlock gun costs 300 Huaxia yuan, which is equivalent to 30 taels, and a three-pound gun cast by the Huaxia army is [-] yuan. Huaxia Yuan, [-] Huaxia Yuan for a six-pound gun, [-] Huaxia Yuan for a nine-pound gun, [-] Huaxia Yuan for a [-]-pound gun, and [-] Huaxia Yuan for an [-]-pound gun.

Broadswords and spears are sold by catty, 120 Huaxia yuan per catty, shields, armor, 120 Huaxia yuan each, these are all captured from Lu and Qing, the Huaxia army’s own broadsword is [-] Huaxia yuan, and a spear is [-] yuan Huaxia yuan, because it’s just the head of a gun, you need a gun barrel, a white wax rod will cost [-] Huaxia yuan, a shield, an iron shield will cost [-] Huaxia yuan, a steel shield will cost [-] Huaxia yuan, and a pair of armor will cost [-] Huaxia yuan.

In short, Zhang Qiang disposed of all the seized things from Lu State to Lu State, and then sold all the cold weapons in his inventory to Lu State.

Within a few months of signing the armistice agreement, the Huaxia Army processed hundreds of thousands of such materials and sold them to the State of Lu, earning an income of 2000 million Huaxia Yuan.

Zhang Qiang thought that Hong Chengchou would not equip all his soldiers and horses. He bought these and sold them to the Qing army, the Koryo army, and the Japanese army.

Of course, the products he sold to the above countries were inferior products. He equipped his army with good things and new things. He even sold the second-hand goods replaced by his army to the Korean army, earning a profit of 500% for the Korean army. A sum of money changed hands and made an extra [-] million Huaxia Yuan.

But Zhang Qiang is not angry. Do you want to do business? You can’t let others not sell things and use them on yourself. Anyway, Huaxia Army has already made a lot of profits from it, and has also disposed of its own inventory, or put it in the warehouse Inside waiting to rust, sell scrap iron?

A group of three people, hiding and shimmering, walked on the country road, walking on the paved stones from time to time, and poured a layer of earth-lime glutinous rice cake and other local method cement on the stones.

This makes the road have the appearance of cement and the hardness of stones. Although it is not very beautiful, it is stable and firm when walking on a cart. The key is to accelerate the speed of pedestrians running on the road, which is far faster than Dirt roads are much faster and much cleaner than dirt roads, because Daming does not have cars that weigh dozens of tons like later generations. Even if there are carriages for transportation, they will definitely not exceed a few tons in weight. As far as the road is concerned, it is more than enough. This is the change that Zhang Qiang brought to this era.

It can't be said how advanced or advanced it is, but it is absolutely convenient.

And with the increase of R&D personnel, it is mainly because the Huaxia Army has added other industry exams on the basis of the imperial examinations, 360 lines, and there are exams for all walks of life. Low-level personnel can get a government-certified industry qualification certificate. With these certificates, you can engage in research in related industries, and sell the research results to the government, and the government pays a certain amount of money to buy the research results.

This is the qualification certificate for all people in the industry. It is an honor to have this certificate, just like a scholar who has been admitted to Tongsheng. In the village, you can also get the reception of the village head, the head of the security, or the head of the township, and let everyone look at you highly. In these low-level administrative positions, you can also get a good income and a basic monthly salary.

People in the village read a letter, recognize a character, or build something, find an authority to authenticate it, and they will come to you, or the price of what you come up with is higher than the price of other people who have not been authenticated. I have to find you when dealing with the government.

Zhang Huangyan walked all the way, passing through the countryside, and learned about these things through the mouth of the young guide who led the way.

Low-level certification does not require you to be literate or have read books, as long as you can get something in the industry and get government approval.

And can get the qualification to go to adult night school for free. If you graduate from the night school, that is to say, you know ten Arabic numerals and more than one hundred characters, you can take the qualification certification level two examination.

These exams are all focused on industry leaders. If you can speak clearly about farm work and record it with the help of others, and if you can understand it yourself, you will be able to obtain a second-level qualification certification.

These people were all requisitioned by the government to help solve problems such as going to the countryside to count the amount of farmland, how much it produces, how much iron can be smelted, how much iron can be hammered in a day, whether some things made by carpenters meet the standards set by the government, and help the government solve the problems of contact with people in these industries. Task.

Of course, these people do not need to receive wages. They will be paid when they are requisitioned.

When you want to go one step further, the government has launched a three-level qualification certification. These people must be able to speak well and be able to count and write. These people are generally veterans or businessmen's buddies, old officials in the government, or have been famous for a long time Some of them are directly recruited by the government and given to a clerk. These clerks spend more than half of their time working in the government, and they are called the low-level clerks of the government.

They have no possibility of being promoted to government servants, but they can assist the government in doing things, even put forward some good suggestions, and develop good things. The government will sell their suggestions and research and development at a high price. This is the government's achievements. The civil servants above have to rely on them if they want to be promoted to higher-level section officials.

The fourth level is usually those who have read books and have profound attainments in the industry. They also have the heart of being an official. Members can be promoted to official positions, and can be promoted to positions such as clerks, document offices, book books, etc., which are equivalent to the assistants of township heads and town heads.

These people who can read books and study skills in various industries will eventually become deputy township heads, deputy mayors, or research officials. More senior officials can take the imperial examination and then enter a higher research institution.

This is Zhang Qiang cultivating talents for the few smart scientists in his hands.

We can’t always let Sebastian and Francois do research, they need helpers, and it’s too slow to rely on them to train some apprentices, which is not good for the technological development of the Huaxia Army, so Zhang Qiang has to find those folk talents from Huaxia Come out and send them to their research institute, let them learn while helping and inspiring the two of them, so as to speed up their development.

The new carriage was made under the inspiration of Zhang Qiang and with the help of old carpenters and blacksmiths.

At the same time, under the advice and promotion of a businessman or a treasurer-born researcher, he quickly entered the army and civilians of the Huaxia Army, and gained commercial and national interests.

Let the society promote its own development. Zhang Qiang is only a bystander and a guide. Otherwise, with his knowledge structure, insight, and historical knowledge, he will not be able to reach the level of other traversers in 100 years. years of development.

Chapter 667 Letting go of commercial trade

The establishment of the Lu State as a bridgehead for foreign trade, coupled with the trade between Baodao Prefecture and Zheng Chenggong, and the movement and connection of Zheng Chenggong's caravans in Lu State, Baodao Prefecture, Jinling, Quanzhou, and Guangzhou made the tax revenue of the Huaxia Army And sea trade revenue has doubled as before, but within half a year, the sea trade revenue of the Huaxia Army quickly reached 5000 million Huaxia Yuan, and the arms revenue, as well as the trade and tariff income from the Lu State reached 8000 million Huaxia Yuan Yuan, which made the Huaxia Army's finances finally improved.

At this time, the foreign wars of the Huaxia Army are almost all over. Many major battles are left to the end, and many planned battles have not yet started. Now they are only trying to improve the living standards of the people, and trying to stabilize those who have been immigrated. There are constant conflicts between various ethnic groups and the Han population, conflicts between the North and the South between the Han people, conflicts between regions, and conflicts between language and living habits.

Zhang Qiang took this conflict as his lifelong matter.