Palace Flower as Employment [Red Mansion]

When the news of the emperor's death was made public, Jia Qi had just received the Nanyang Battle Report.

Hundreds of water dragons were dispatched to fight the fire, but contrary to the fire fighting, the buckets of these water dragons were not filled with water, but kerosene. The kerosene was sprayed into the poppy field by the water dragon, and then a fire In the Golden Triangle, millions of acres of poppy fields were burned, and the aborigines here, regardless of whether they were related to poppy cultivation, were slaughtered.

In the name of revenge, the soldiers below were all dressed in sackcloth and filial piety when they attacked, and the kerosene they used was made by the Ministry of Industry overtime.

No one is impeaching Jiaqi.Because everyone who should know knows that the emperor of Wei was poisoned by poppies.

Of course, it is not that no one has expressed doubts about the death of the emperor.There is nothing wrong with the emperor being addicted to opium, but opium has been a traditional Chinese medicine since ancient times, so the emperor was infected with drug addiction. will die?And still die at this moment?

However, no one is so ignorant. At this time, Uemoto expressed doubts and demanded a thorough investigation.

Because the empress dowager compiled the script perfectly, after Wen's madness, the emperor indulged in drinking and sex, refused to deal with the government affairs, and blindly searched for Jindan, and finally ate himself to death.

For the specific method of death, refer to Jia Jing from that year.

The eldest son of the emperor who had just been born and was not yet one year old became the new emperor, the queen mother was promoted to the empress dowager, and the queen was promoted to the empress dowager.As soon as the succession ceremony was over, the empress dowager declared that she was unwell and handed over all the government affairs to the empress dowager.

The empress dowager, who was less than 20 years old, started her regency career in this way.

It's not that the empress dowager doesn't want to find a regent, it's that the royal family is dying. Instead of letting those princesses who are already married come out as regents, it's better to let the newly released empress dowager be regent.

Regarding this, Liang Jian, Qi Qian and Jia Qi all had no objections.

Before being demoted, Liang Jian was in charge of the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Officials. The selection, promotion, and transfer of officials all over the world basically had to go through Liang Jian's hands. Qi is in charge of the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of War.

After the new Empress Dowager became regent, she felt that it was not a good thing to entrust the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Officials to one person, so she put Qi Qian in charge of the Ministry of Households and the Ministry of Officials, Liang Jian in charge of the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Punishment, and Jia Qi continued to manage the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of War. , because of the need for external expansion, the Privy Council was also handed over to Jia Qi.

In addition to the Shenji Battalion and the Artillery Battalion, the royal family is still in the hands of the Jingying Battalion, which is responsible for the safety of the capital, including the imperial forest army guarding the forbidden palace and the imperial army guarding the entire capital.

With the Empress Dowager regent, Wei began to enter a period of relatively stable but rapid development.During this period, the population of Great Wei increased rapidly.

The ministers who knew the truth were fine, but the ministers who didn't know the truth believed that it was God's will for the Empress Dowager to come to court, and they didn't care much about the death of the late emperor.

For this reason, the empress dowager, who had just come into contact with the government, also specially asked three political advisers.

Upon hearing this, Qi Qian, who was in charge of the household department, immediately said: "Your Majesty, instead of asking your ministers about this matter, you might as well ask Jia Zhiyuan."

"Oh? How do you say this?"

Qi Qian looked at Jia Qi who was silent on the side, and said: "In the past, when Jia Zhiyuan recruited refugees to settle in his Zhuangzi, he paid special attention to women and children. Under normal circumstances, ordinary people's Zhuangzi workshops I like to recruit men, because men are strong laborers and able to work. Therefore, after a catastrophe, it is easier for men to find work than women. Jia Zhiyuan did the opposite. At the beginning, the minister also thought that Jia Zhiyuan It is pity for those poor women and children. Now I know that Jia Zhiyuan has a long-term vision."

The Empress Dowager said: "After saying this, I am curious. Could it be that Jiazhiyuan has been preparing for today since then?"

Jia Qi laughed and said, "Your Majesty made fun of me. In fact, at the beginning, I deliberately paid attention to women and children because I knew the relationship between women and children and the population. However, at that time, I planned to implement the policy of strengthening the grassland and clearing the wilderness."

"Strong walls and clear fields?"

When the empress dowager heard this, she immediately became interested.

Jia Qi had to explain to the Empress Dowager that he originally wanted to use wool and Buddhist beliefs to control the grassland, and said: "Of course, the prerequisite for this plan is that the Great Wei must first conquer the grassland by force. It's just that year... ..."

Hearing what Jia Qi said, the empress dowager and everyone in the cabinet sighed.

That's right, back then the main enemies of the Great Wei were the grasslands and outside the customs, especially the grasslands. For thousands of years, the grasslands have always been the confidant of drawing lines.If it wasn't for the smallpox, I'm afraid that Huaxia would change hands.

After sighing with emotion, the empress dowager said, "What about now? More than ten years have passed, and I'm afraid that the grassland will regain its vitality."

Liang Jian and Qi Qian exchanged glances and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, the Mongols are different from women. When women fight, there are men and women who go to battle together. There are also men who charge in the front and women who manage the logistics and the family behind. However, when the Mongols fought wars, most of the entire clan went out together. This is related to the Mongolian lifestyle of living by water and grass all the year round and frequent migration. The roots of women are in Changbai Mountain, while the roots of Mongols are It’s the entire grassland. Therefore, most of the more than [-] Mongols who died in the Central Plains were women and children.”

"That is to say, they also came out in full force, but in the long run, female straights suffered less losses than the Mongols, and they recovered faster from the war. That's why Jiazhiyuan mobilized the forbidden army with a strong attitude. Clean up the girls outside the pass. Is that so?"

Jia Qi hurriedly said: "My lady, I didn't think too much about it at the time. The minister decided to clean up the pass, not mainly for women, and the cabinet and the Privy Council did not receive any relevant information. The minister will ask to dispatch the imperial army, but it is actually for the sake of To deter North Korea, and for Vladivostok, a natural ice-free port."

The Empress Dowager said: "I remember. At the beginning, many ministers objected. But the facts have proved that Aiqing is right."

The unremarkable actions back then, and the arrangements that others didn't care about at all back then, can now be combined to play such a big role.

Not only the empress dowager, even Qi Qian and Liang Jian were also surprised.

Originally, there were more women than men in Jia Qi's Zhuangzi.Who made the fate of women and children more miserable than men after the famine?It's rare to have a place to settle down, and you don't have to worry about becoming a humble one.So there is a place where you can work as a female worker, and the household registration is considered a tenant. Why do women not want to come?

Not to mention that Jia Qi encourages women to set up female households.Anyway, women also pay taxes, and women also have household registration. Instead of being a daughter-in-law or a second-class citizen in the husband's family after marrying with a dowry, and not being able to eat at the dinner table, it is better for them to set up their own houses and eat their own food. .

High-ranking families pay attention to bloodlines and chaste women, but the folks really don't pay so much attention.Not to mention widows at home, there are many married three, four married, and remarried.

It is because the atmosphere in Jia Qi's Zhuangzi is particularly open, so many textile workers have the same idea.Anyway, I earn a lot of money in the workshop, so why marry out and be angry with others?Anyway, even if you get married, you raise your children by yourself. When you meet a mean mother-in-law, she gives birth to a son and pays all the income. It’s not good. Why bother?It's better to set up a female household, at worst, borrow a plant, anyway, the child crawled out of his stomach, Zhuangzi went to a ready-made school, and now the sons raised by himself send them to study and read. In the future, when I am old, some people will take care of them In the end, why do you have to marry someone to make yourself uncomfortable?

With the first person to eat crabs, there will be a second.In the beginning, widows only borrowed seeds from men after setting up a female household. Later, even young girls were unwilling to marry, and they also set up female households. The sons they gave birth to still took their own surnames, so they didn’t have to worry about the children being adopted. You have to not kiss yourself.

This mode of thinking and behavior was brought to the outside of the customs, to the New World, and to Southeast Asia along with the migration of the population.

Where there is a woman, there is a newborn.

As long as women are willing to have children, as long as the environment allows it, the population will grow rapidly.

Jia Qi's protection of women back then has finally yielded results after more than ten years.

After the outbreak of smallpox that year, the entire north of the Yellow River was a no-man's land. People who were killed or died of smallpox abounded, and not one or two whole villages were turned into ruins.At that time, what was the population of North China?But ten years later, the population of North China quadrupled.

Now North China, after three large-scale population migrations, still has a population of more than 2000 million.

This is not much less than when Emperor Sejong was ten years old.

Jia Qi valued the expansion of Southeast Asia and the New World, but Qi Qian and Liang Jian valued the control of the grassland more.

They pestered Jia Qi and took out the strategy of strengthening the wall and clearing the wilderness from Jia Qi's mouth. After several days of analysis, they demanded that this strategy of strengthening the wall and clearing the wilderness be the national policy for the next ten years.

Jia Qi felt very speechless about this.

Times change.

The current grassland is no longer the main contradiction of the Great Wei.However, both Qi Qian and Liang Jian are Jia Qi's colleagues, and they are also the Optimus Prime in the officialdom of the Wei Dynasty. If they like it, then it's done. Anyway, what he has to do is just to give the following few sentences.

Moreover, things on the prairie are not just things on the prairie.Jia Qi felt that he could take this opportunity to update Zhuangzi below.Among other things, now that Wei has a steam engine with stable performance, can the fire-power spinning machine and fire-power loom be used?And the train, can it be done too?

While Qi Qian and Liang Jian were perfecting the strategy of clearing the walls, Jia Qi gave orders to the Ministry of Industry at the same time.

Fortunately, the Wen family and the Wen family were busy taking over and controlling the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of Rites at the time, and they didn't do much to the Ministry of Industry. Therefore, the technical officials of the Ministry of Industry were not implicated, and Wei's knowledge and strength reserves were all leveraged.

It is in this situation that the train was born.

Although Jia Qi laid a ten-mile circular track, the steam locomotive stopped after only three miles, but Jia Qi was still very satisfied, and even asked the relevant technical officials to continue to improve the process with a pleasant face.

Knowing that Jia Qi spent nearly a million taels of silver on this big iron lump, even the empress dowager couldn't help asking.

They really couldn't see the benefit of this iron lump.

Jia Qi said: "Don't you think that one day, the forbidden army in Beijing will sit on the car and sleep, and the big iron car powered by steam engine will send the soldiers from the capital to Datong overnight. At that time, Who dares to make a move against me, Dawei?"

Liang Jian frowned, thought for a while, and said, "But if someone pries open the track and removes the track, then this kind of smart car that runs on the track will overturn, right?"

The Empress Dowager immediately said: "Then directly order that anyone who dares to pry the rails will be punished with death!"

The empress dowager would not easily vote against Jia Qi's decision.On the contrary, she will agree with Jia Qi within the scope of her authority, let alone, so far, she has not seen Jia Qi make a mistake.

Among other things, now that Jia Qi's strategy of strengthening the wall and clearing the wild has begun to be implemented, the empress dowager has seen those data with her own eyes from the documents of the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Households.

Person tax, business tax.

The increase in the population tax means the growth of the population, and the increase in the business tax means the local prosperity.

If it's just a ledger, it is possible that someone deliberately faked the ledger, but who can fake the whole set of ledgers?That's the account books of seven or eight state capitals in all directions, and it can't be faked at all!

The young empress dowager knew Jia Qi was very capable a long time ago, but it was just heard about it, but after seeing the data, the empress dowager realized that it is no wonder that the benevolent and wise Emperor Gaozong (that is, once The Supreme Emperor) took all kinds of precautions against Jia Qi, and even Emperor Sejong couldn't wait for Jia Qi to pass the Jinshi exam before calling him into the cabinet.

It's not that Emperor Sejong can't wait for such a short time, but Jia Qi's energy is too great.If Jia Qi officially passed the imperial examination, then the imperial court could not isolate Jia Qi from the imperial examination, and Jia Qi would have to be the chief examiner of the imperial examination in the future.The energy in Jia Qi's hands is so terrifying now. If Jia Qi recruits more disciples and fills the world with peaches and plums, then the prime minister of the Han Dynasty will appear on this land again.

There is no doubt that this is not good for imperial power and centralization.

If you are not in this position, you will not understand the overlord and fear back then.

However, the young Empress Dowager would not care about things that the Taishang Emperor, Emperor Sejong, and Emperor Daxing would worry about.

For this young empress dowager, the Great Wei Jiangshan is just a reason for her to get close to the person she likes.

After being exposed by the Empress Dowager, the young Empress Dowager knew that she couldn't hide her thoughts from those old foxes.

The Empress Dowager is also a bachelor, anyway, her attitude is always there. If she is exposed in public, then she will simply admit it;

The empress dowager didn't believe it anymore, and there were still people who dared to make themselves uncomfortable in front of her.

It has to be said that because of the current situation of Great Wei, no one really dares to make fun of himself in front of the empress dowager.

There are only a few kittens in the royal family of Great Wei now, and there is no one in the royal family except for the three newly born babies. There are only a group of women left in the royal family of Great Wei, and even the closest members of the royal family are only left. A group of married princesses and princesses.

What else can these women do?The reason why the princess regent was able to control the government and was even posthumously named Emperor Gaozu was because of her military achievements on the battlefield.

In contrast, how many princesses and princesses of the royal family dare to go to the battlefield?

Anyone who can hang out in the inner circle of power is not an idiot. Although Jia Qi didn't realize it at the beginning, Qi Qian told him in private, what didn't he understand?

Jia Qi is also single, and the Empress Dowager didn't directly mention it, so he just pretended not to know.

Not only did Jia Qi pretend that he didn't know, but he also took advantage of this to make out the electromagnetic reaction experiment.Of course, the person who handled it was actually a technical official from the Ministry of Industry.

When the electricity was brought out, the officials of the Ministry of Industry were frightened to death.Dai Zi made a decisive decision and decided to take responsibility, intending to suppress the matter with his own death.But who made Jia Lian the Minister of Yubu?Who made Jia Lian happen to be looking for Dai Zi for something?Dai Zi still did not die in the end.

For this reason, Jia Qi made a special offer.

At that time, it happened to be a good day for the second anniversary of the Empress Dowager's Regent. The Empress Dowager happily took the three political counselors to visit the relevant experiments of the Ministry of Industry, and then asked the courtiers around them what to do.

The three views of Qi Qian and Liang Jian have been severely impacted, and they have long been in chaos. Instead, Jia Qi said directly: "Since the power of thunder and lightning can be controlled by humans, I am more concerned about how much we can get from it." benefit."

The Empress Dowager said: "Ai Qing is saying, is it good?"

"Yes. Empress Dowager," Jia Qi said, "Since the coil generates electricity when it turns, can this electricity make the coil turn?"

"Ai Qing, do you mean those spinning machines and looms?"

"Queen Mother, not only textile workshops, but also gun manufacturing, firearms manufacturing, and other things can be used. If it can be done, then the production capacity of the Ministry of Industry and the various workshops under the Ministry of Industry can at least double some."

"In that case, let the Ministry of Industry continue the experiment."

"According to the order."

This time it was a trial, and Jia Qi was very satisfied with the result.

The young queen mother is enlightened enough, and the new emperor is young.As long as the arrangements are made properly, when the new emperor grows up, the Great Wei may even complete the second industrial revolution.

This is definitely good for improving China's competitiveness.

For a moment, Jia Qi felt that it was really worth it for him to let the late emperor become addicted to opium.If the first emperor returned it, then he would never have such a chance.The first emperor would definitely kill a large number of people from the Ministry of Industry.

These technical officials of the Ministry of Industry, in future generations, will surely be senior academicians of the Academy of Sciences, and Jia Qi can't afford to lose any one of them.

Because of the queen mother's order, Jia Qi issued a confidentiality order to the Ministry of Industry and gave the Ministry of Industry an additional big red envelope, so that the officials of the Ministry of Industry received three times more money for miscellaneous materials.

That is to say, during this period of time, various achievements of the Ministry of Industry continued. Of course, the notebooks as experimental records were also piled up in the reference room of the Ministry of Industry.

Different from the theory guiding practice in Western society, what the Ministry of Industry and Commerce of the Great Wei Dynasty did well is to practice theory.There are often a lot of successful experiments before the final summary report will come out.

For this reason, Jia Qi had to guide the relevant personnel of the Ministry of Industry to think about the inevitable laws inside.

On this basis, the Great Wei Ministry of Industry also published many scientific experiment reports and quite a lot of theoretical derivations.However, Jia Qi believed that even if there was a second time traveler here, most of the time, he would not be able to understand what was written in those reports.

The experimental records mixed with classical Chinese and vernacular are enough to cause headaches, not to mention the various professional terms and terminology that came out of those experiments.

In the West, various experiments are named after the discoverers, while in the East, these experiments are named after myths and legends, some are taken from the Classic of Mountains and Seas, and some are taken from the Ci of Chu All kinds of classics and allusions to all kinds of classics are very familiar, otherwise, don't try to figure out what those experimental reports are about.

What Jia Qi did the most here was to pay.

This experiment needs funds, so it will be given to the experiment; the experiment has produced results, and the relevant personnel will be rewarded; the things written by the person over there have now been fulfilled, and they will be paid for the embellishment...

What should I do if many financial and household departments refuse to give a reply?It doesn't matter, Jia Qi directly talked to the relevant personnel: How about selling this thing to me?How much money do I pay.What?You don't want money?That split is also possible.

Thanks to Jia Qi's generous gift, the technical officials of the Ministry of Industry are like chicken blood. It is said that several of them originally lived in a small house with only a dozen or so rooms. In the small yard, everyone now buys a big yard with three entrances and four entrances, and the women in the family are all wearing new clothes!

Are the officials of the Ministry of Industry happy?Happy!

They worked even harder, just to earn the red envelope in Jia Qi's hand.

Anyway, what I do is the work of the Ministry of Industry, but the work has come out, and there are people waiting to buy it, but the identity of the person who bought it is not ordinary, and the money given is not ordinary.

Just as the Ministry of Industry will never lack new achievements, Jia Qi is always able to quickly turn these new technologies into productivity.

When the train technology was solved, Wei had already repaired the railway from the capital to Tianjin, and was preparing to build the railway from the capital to Datong, the Westerners surrendered.

They can't do without surrender.Because Wei's ships kept coming out of the dock and plunging into the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean, ships from the Western Ocean could still reach India before, but now, ships from the Western Ocean will be attacked as soon as they enter the Indian Ocean.Unless they raised the white flag to surrender at the beginning, and then moved under the surveillance of Dawei the whole time, otherwise, what awaited them would be annihilation.

There are too many Western ships that have sunk into the Indian Ocean in the past few years, too many for the European countries to bear. What else can they do besides surrender?