I am rich in martial arts, but choose culture to win

Looking at the inaugural issue of "Da Ming Times" in his hand, Zhu Fugui frowned: "Zhao Qing, Yin Qing, didn't I say it? You should open up your voice and choose the best manuscripts. You don't have to put my articles on the headlines of the homepage. Why didn't you do it?"

Zhao Aqian, a member of the Ministry of Rites of the Ming Dynasty, and Yin Hu, the head of the Department of Publicity of the Ministry of Rites of the Ming Dynasty, will all turn their heads into rattles.

Zhao Aqian even said hastily: "Long live Lord, it's not that you are courteous and courteous, but it is really Long live Lord, you have surpassed the Qin and Han Dynasties and covered the Tang and Song Dynasties. The heroic feelings in the article are not comparable to those of ordinary scholars Yes, I really can't find a better article!"

Zhu Fugui nodded, and reluctantly said: "I heard that the Holy Son of Heaven should investigate clearly, this time it seems that I am too impatient, how about this, I will write a poem in every issue of the newspaper in the future, and give it to all the great scholars of Ming Dynasty Let us leave a message."

Zhao Aqian said with emotion: "Long live the mind, although Qin Huang and Han Wu, it can't match it!"

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The daily life between the rulers and ministers of the fourth Ming Empire is so simple, straightforward, and sincere.

After Zhu Fugui reviewed the sample draft, he ordered Zhao Aqian and Yin Hu to print and publish it.

To be honest, Zhu Fugui remembers that the highest education in Ming Dynasty is a scholar named Xia Zhixin, who is currently working as a helper in the magazine.

As far as my level of copying is concerned, it is a proper first stroke.

This is the truth!

After reading Daming's own newspaper, Zhu Fugui picked up several American and British newspapers.

These newspapers record the news that happened a week or two ago, and they are another important source for Zhu Fugui to understand the world's major events besides Baidu.

This time with the papers came a fresh shipment of Virginia cotton and letters from the Confederate Army.

Zhu Fugui ordered someone to notify Ma Er to come to collect cotton.

The director of the Ma Er Ma factory played good cotton, and he brought people to make the quilts of the Xinhua workers before.

In fact, he didn't save Zhu Fugui a few dollars, but after all, it was a wish, so Zhu Fugui just let him go.

When the medical death squad was formed to eradicate the plague in the Raven tribe, Ma Er was the only important minister who shrank his head.

So during this period of time, he has been trying to make up for it, and come up with some new tricks to restore his image in the heart of His Majesty the Emperor.

It's a pity that when the nails on the board are pulled out, the pits will remain.

Can't go back, never go back!

Ma Er may be a successful businessman, but he will never be able to enter the inner circle of Zhu Fugui Group.

After sending the cotton away, Zhu Fugui opened Robert Lee's personal letter.

To be honest, this is the first historical celebrity that Zhu Fugui has officially come into contact with.

It is estimated that the old slave owner did not know that the person he was writing to was a person of color, and thought it was a northern factory owner who cared about freedom.

In his letter, Robert Lee warmly called Zhu Fugui a fighter for freedom and a brother from the northwest.

Zhu Fugui agrees with this evaluation very much.

I am old and free!

I firmly defend the freedom of the southern states of Citigroup to secede from the federal government!

This is the freedom of "States"!

In addition to compliments, the letter also praised the quality of the military uniforms provided by Zhu Fugui.

This light and washable military uniform has almost unanimous praise from the entire regiment.

Especially the cute cartoon image is a stroke of genius.

The animals chosen were pigs rather than cows, sheep, or horses, which must have been carefully chosen.

Because there are no large grasslands in the southern states, pigs are the representative of animal husbandry here, while cattle, sheep and horses are the representatives of the northern states.

The pink color of the pig represents the reddish skin of the southern farmers in the plantations, showing their hard work and silently mocking the northern capitalists.

As for Page's unique revolver shape, it also represents the national character of the south who is brave, staunch and fearless of power.

In short, this allegorical cartoon image has now become the spiritual totem of the Southern Army, especially the Northern Virginia Army, and has also become the nightmare of the Yankees!

Zhu Fugui stared dumbfounded at Robert Lee's evaluation of the batch of school uniforms.

To be honest, Zhu Fugui knew that the school uniforms were of good quality.

But what is the pile of words behind him? Emperor Zhu can understand each word separately, why can't he understand it at all when put together?

But these are not the key.

The point is, Comrade Lao Li has placed an order again!

The order is good, everything is easy to say after the order!

Seeing Robert Lee waving his hand, Zhu Fugui ordered another 10 sets of summer military uniforms, and asked whether your factory would undertake the business of winter clothing. Zhu Fugui couldn't help but smile.

Through the previous newspapers, Zhu Fugui also roughly understood the reason for the new order.

The Army of Northern Virginia won the battle and should have quickly marched into Pennsylvania and Maryland to encircle Washington in one fell swoop.

However, the second person in the army and the actual leader of the general, Stonewall Jackson, was seriously ill, and the Northern Virginia Army had to take a rest.

During this period, General Robert Lee, who was better at building relationships, raising funds, and mobilizing soldiers than fighting wars, was not idle. With the prestige of a big victory, he crowdfunded and expanded the army in his hometown of Virginia, North Carolina and other places, and the number of troops soared. 7 people.

This is also the peak number of the Army of Northern Virginia in history.

Thanks to Robert Lee's long-sleeved skills, he was able to bring in so much military spending.

Now that people have come here with real money, Zhu Fugui is naturally satisfied with such a small request to buy clothes.

The reply letter to Robert Lee was being prepared together with the second episode of "Detective Zhuge Watson", Zhu Fugui called the correspondent to send the letter to Prash.

"and many more!"

Zhu Fugui suddenly stopped the correspondent, and found a letter from the drawer.

Here is a letter from a lady in New York.

Zhu Fugui had forgotten the content of the letter, and only remembered that it was a reminder.

However, the $30 Zhu Fugui sent with the letter was still impressive.

"Reply a letter to her too. You can't offend book friends if you offend anyone these days!"

Thinking in this way, Zhu Fugui took out the letter paper, thought for a while, and replied in the tone of "a mysterious oriental businessman".

The final inscription is of course Huang He.

After finishing writing the letter, he also handed it to the correspondent. Zhu Fugui rubbed his wrist and continued to read the magazine.

In addition to news newspapers, there are also a lot of magazines in this era, which should be good to pass the time.

In order to further understand the spiritual life of the decadent American imperialists, Zhu Fugui also had to spend money to subscribe to several such magazines.

Just looking at it, Zhu Fugui was disappointed.

Don't say it's better than my own "Korean Manga Collection", it's even worse than the fashion and health magazines in the Huaxia region of later generations!

These cover girls are all wrapped up tightly, look at the hammer!

How dare you sell it for 15 cents?

Zhu Fugui was very angry and felt cheated.

In contrast, as the only official reading material in the Ming Dynasty, "Daming Times" not only has a printing quality far superior to these third-rate magazines, but also the appearance of the characters on the cover ("His Majesty the Emperor at the Shooting Range") even kills them instantly.

Most importantly, each magazine sells for only 1 cent.

Chapter 087 Preparations for Minting

1 cent.

This price is equivalent to 1/500 of the monthly income of a skilled Ming lumberjack.

At present, the monthly salary of a logger in Daming is actually only 5 or 6 US dollars, and the annual income is less than 100 US dollars.

This income is significantly lower than the current average salary of white Americans of $300.

However, the average wages of white people have been raised by the economically developed and densely populated areas in the East, especially New York and Boston.

Simply looking at the northwestern part of the mainland, the wages of Ming workers are close to the average level.

Considering the relatively low cost of food, clothing, housing and transportation within the Ming Dynasty (at present, the Ming Dynasty has basically given up on agriculture and relies on the system to purchase cheap food for later generations, and will develop in the future), the living standards of workers in the Ming Dynasty have surpassed those in the Midwest of the United States rednecks.

For the Huagong and Yin people who have just climbed out of the abyss of hell, such a living state is almost a good day that they can't even imagine.

This makes this initial small city-state present a strong centripetal force.

That's right, the current Ming Dynasty can only be regarded as a small city-state that hasn't even built a city yet.

Not even half of Plato's ideal of 5040 citizens.

But today's Ming Dynasty is full of waste, and everyone is full of hope.

This point can be seen from the enthusiastic submissions received by the "Da Ming Times".

Thanks to the uninterrupted learning to exchange rice activities, as well as the promotion of pinyin and some simplified characters, the literacy rate in Daming has increased to 22%.

More than half of the contributions to the "Da Ming Times" come from these Ming people who have just lost their blindness.

Although these manuscripts are full of white text and even the punctuation marks are wrong, Zhu Fugui can feel the feelings of supporting His Majesty the Emperor and the Great Ming Dynasty revealed between the lines.

Ordinary people don't have to worry about food and clothing. As for the soldiers of the Royal Army, their treatment is even better.

Not to mention the royal family's all-inclusive food and clothing.

Even in terms of annual income alone, a head soldier has reached 150 US dollars.

This is equivalent to the annual legal income of a six-rank thousand in the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Of course, this does not necessarily mean that the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty are too rich, it may just be that the beggar soldiers of the Manchu Qing Dynasty are too poor.

The Royal Army of Ming Dynasty cannot be said to be an advanced people's army in essence.

It is almost the same as saying that it is the emperor's personal armed force.

To be more precise, this is a special army established with advanced organizational relationships, preserving the feudal ideology of loyalty to the emperor, patriotism, and defending the emperor.

Therefore, Zhu Fugui must focus on the ideological construction of the army with one hand, and guarantee the living standards and social status of the soldiers with the other, so as to ensure the absolute loyalty of the army.

But then a new problem arises.

That is, military spending and workers' wages will waste the foreign exchange reserves in Zhu Fugui's hands...

Although the U.S. dollar is not an international currency in this era, it is definitely the most circulated currency on the North American continent.

Even the Indians, who have long been used to bartering, have long accepted the dollar.

Zhu Fugui wants to buy production lines and arms, the most convenient way is to use US dollars to buy directly.

There are three main sources of dollars in Zhu Fugui's hands.

One is to sell some agricultural and sideline products to the La Push mining area in exchange for US dollars.The volume of this part is very small, and the trade volume is only tens of dollars per month.

The second is Zhu Fugui's manuscript fee.The amount is not too much, about one or two hundred dollars per month.

The third is the big head, Zhu Fugui's quilt business with the United Kingdom and the Confederacy in exchange for US dollars.

More than 50 sets of school uniforms for junior high school students can be exchanged for another [-] US dollars.

According to the current 550 soldiers, an average of $150 per person per year;

1200 workers, with an average of $100 per year, Zhu Fugui spent $20 a year on internal wages.

Moreover, two months later, the second batch of more Chinese laborers will arrive soon, and Zhu Fugui will pay more wages at that time.

It sounds like the increase in population has become a burden on the Ming Empire.

This is not the case.

Soldiers aside, the profit generated by each worker for Zhu Fugui far exceeds the resources he consumes.

The reason for today's US dollar crisis is, in the final analysis, the reason why foreign currency is used as the currency in domestic circulation.

Unless it is a highly export-oriented economy that firmly kidnaps Daming on the financial carriage of the Citigroup federal government, this model cannot be maintained at all.

This requires that Zhu Fugui must realize currency independence as soon as possible and partially decouple from the US dollar.

It is actually quite difficult to achieve this goal in future generations.

How can a small country without sovereign credit issue a currency that is trusted by others?

Even if there is a reserve of precious metals, it is easy to be run out.