The great talent Bo Jue thought that his "fairy power" seemed to have some room for improvement. With enough fairy power, he would be able to successfully drive the fairy car, so he began to climb the balance beam repeatedly, and he never tired of it.
Taking this opportunity, a certain prince quickly sent people to move the balance beam to the Academy of Sciences, so that Bo Aiqing could study it there and increase his immortal power to 250.
Otherwise, without the blueprints and pamphlets, this guy would still have to pester a certain prince to talk about mathematics, physics and chemistry, treating the prince as a gold mine. He didn't feel tired listening, but a certain prince would have to talk until his mouth was dry.
Bo Jue is currently learning English letters and bearded numbers. Although he has already understood this knowledge, he feels that he cannot cope with it freely and must strengthen it.
This is also the basis for learning the physics and chemistry of the fairy world. If Bo Jue wants to understand the internal changes of substances during reactions, he must first learn the basic skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing of these symbols.
Because a certain prince showed Bo Jue the chemical equation for refining sulfa, Bo Jue once again felt like a frog at the bottom of a well. He had no idea what it meant.
In front of the booklet, Bo Jue was like an illiterate villager in the wilderness. Without reading the Chinese characters below, he really couldn't understand an equation.
This also prompted him to make up his mind to make great efforts to understand the relevant meaning, and at least learn a rough knowledge of chemistry. This was the bottom line for Bo Jue's study.
As one of the leaders of the airship project, Bo Jue knows that the fuel for the airship needs to be obtained by refining kerosene. If he does not even know the corresponding chemical process and is asked by his subordinates but cannot answer, it will really cost a lot. As embarrassing as it is.
For every part and every material used in the airship, you must be clear and understandable. If you don't understand it, the people below will be even more confused.
Furthermore, the prince has already said before that the airship is the simplest aircraft. After that, a steam engine will be developed. After passing this threshold, an internal combustion engine can be developed. With this kind of object, an aircraft with a speed and altitude exceeding that of a falcon can be developed. .
Bo Jue's long-term goal is to develop an airplane. The structure of an airship can be understood at a glance. He only regards it as a stepping stone to explore more advanced cutting-edge science.
Of course, even if some stepping stones were understood, Bo Jue still couldn't figure out how to control them smoothly for a while, so he worked tirelessly to improve his immortal power.
The craftsmen believe that immortal power is a real thing, but it is invisible and intangible like air. After the great talent Bo Jue thought about it carefully, he felt that what they said made sense...
In order to appease the old Wangtou, Yaoji arranged Wang Zheng's son to enter the Academy of Sciences. Since he had no inventions or works, he could only start as an apprentice.
But the annual salary is two hundred taels, and the salary is equivalent to the salary standard of an official who has not entered the ninth grade. The higher up are students, whose annual salary is as high as five hundred taels.
To become a student, the prince's nod of approval is required, because the salary is equivalent to that of a seventh-grade student, and the project he is working on will be top-secret, so he must not only be literate in writing, but also fully understand some mechanical structures and principles.
You also need to have a certain understanding of Western science. More importantly, you need to look up three generations, that is, people of your grandfather's generation. There must be no felons or wanted criminals in the court to avoid revenge. You must have a guarantor to enter the Academy of Sciences. .
As long as one's life experience is innocent, it doesn't matter to a certain prince that a certain talented person has no fame or a mess in the imperial examination, and it doesn't matter if his family is poor. No matter how poor you are, how much poorer can you be?
This guy has set a good example for you. As long as you have real talent and practical knowledge, when you get to the Academy of Sciences, you will not only have enough food and clothing to support your family, but you will also earn more money than you can even spend.
Of course, only those who are at or close to the level of Bo Jue can become academicians and enjoy an annual salary of one thousand taels. Academician is not an official position, it is just a title.
Currently, the Academy of Sciences only has one president and two vice-presidents who are court officials. The others are just ordinary office workers and do not have grades recognized by the court. This also avoids criticism from people when it was first established.
If a large number of people without meritorious titles are appointed as officials without passing the imperial examination, it is equivalent to opening a big back door, and a certain prince will definitely be criticized by both the government and the public.
So Song Yingxing was appointed as the dean and Xiong Renlin was appointed as the vice-dean. These two were court officials themselves. They were transferred to the Academy of Sciences and were only promoted until death. At most, their colleagues were envious of their salaries.
Except for Xue Guoguan, there are currently very few officials whose annual salary reaches Song Yingxing's level. But to a certain prince, Dean Song's value is much higher than that of his cheap father-in-law...
The Academy of Sciences was also one of the many yamen of the imperial court. This was the result of a compromise between a certain prince, the cabinet, and six ministers. The benefit was a share of the gold mine.
The Shaanxi gold mine was divided into 40% for the imperial court and Shaanxi province, and only 20% for a certain prince. The public gold mines to be mined in the Shandong area are also at this ratio. As for the private gold mines whose property rights are entirely owned by a certain prince, the prince accounts for 80% of the output, and the remaining 20% is taxed.
Excluding the miners' salaries and calculating based on medium work efficiency, each miner can dig out gold worth three taels of silver per month, and 500,000 miners can produce a huge output of 1.5 million taels.
The Ministry of Household Affairs can get 40% of it, which is 7.2 million taels per year. Including the private gold mine where a certain prince pays taxes, which is about 1 million taels, the total income is about eight million taels.
If you want to make more annual income, it is easy to organize more miners to mine. There is nothing else. The idle labor force can be calculated in millions of people.
As long as the organization and supervision are adequate, Taicang's annual income can be stable at more than 8 million taels just by relying on mining, and Haiyan's income will not be much higher than that of the mining area.
The re-imposition of the three taxes is also proceeding in an orderly manner, especially those tea merchants who were initially in tit-for-tat with the prince. Now the survivors have all turned their guns and become the prince's hardcore supporters, starting to cheer for the prince's victory.
Because the benefits are obvious, choosing to support a certain prince is equivalent to choosing the power to monopolize the market in the Jifu region. Regardless of any industry, as long as you monopolize the market, it will be difficult not to make money.
The prince has already said it before. As long as tea merchants pay taxes according to the amount, it doesn't matter in other places. In this region, tea merchants can set the price of tea by themselves on the premise of ensuring quality, so...
Tea merchants place advertisements in the advertisement column of Jingshi Daily every day, especially the reputation of the two tea merchants who initially chose to advertise have long been known to everyone in the Kifu area.
Any unsophisticated layman who wants to buy tea will choose to shop at their two houses after reading the newspaper. This arouses the jealousy of his colleagues. Everyone has become a chamber of commerce, and they can't use hidden tricks, so they can only They all chose to advertise.
All the disobedient merchants were dealt with in various ways, and even those who survived were all obedient to a certain prince, and the benefits they received were great.
Each industry has a quota of general agents in the Kifu area. If you want to join, you can only beg a certain prince for permission, and the cost will be astronomical.
For the merchants, the reward for supporting the prince is to monopolize the market. Only a dozen companies in each industry can share such a huge cake. Of course, they are very grateful for this.
If they are disobedient, let alone cakes, even if they cannot save their wealth and lives, they will naturally pay taxes honestly, and the Ministry of Revenue will no longer have to worry about tax collection.
With mining tax, commercial tax, and salt tax as the three pillars of fiscal revenue, the annual revenue of the Ministry of Household Affairs will be no less than 25 million taels of silver in the future, and it will only be higher but not lower.
A certain prince established his own Academy of Sciences, which cost 500,000 taels of silver per year, accounting for only one-fiftieth of the fiscal revenue. Li Shiwen, the Minister of Household Affairs, had no choice but to settle the matter, seeing this as a reasonable requirement to deal with the current war situation.
The ministers have formed a basic understanding, that is, the prince is the guarantee of the court's annual income. As long as the prince does not go too far, everyone can acquiesce to it. Even if there is a memorial from the imperial censor, it must be suppressed, otherwise everyone's life will be ruined. It won't be easy.
If a talented person like Fang Yizhi is willing to join the Academy of Sciences, he can also be directly awarded the title of academician. However, the editor-in-chief is no longer willing to part with the job of the academy.
Although the newspaper was not an official office of the imperial court, and the editor-in-chief was not an official of the imperial court, its reputation was growing day by day. Many merchants saw the benefits of advertising, so Fang Yizhi's schedule was full.
As long as you attend the banquet, the editor-in-chief will definitely be treated like a star, because businessmen all want to get the best advertising positions on the ninth page and the bottom page of the Jingshi Daily.
For them, money is not an issue. As long as they can get the best advertising space, no matter how much money they spend, they can make it back several times.
The boss of the newspaper is Gong Yonggu, and the editor-in-chief is considered a shopkeeper. However, the prince-in-law is so valuable that he cannot attend all events. What's more, if a princess finds out about participating in some activities that are not suitable for girls, she will be furious.
Fang Yizhi was not a court official, nor was he married. Apart from the fact that his father was the governor of Huguang, there were no other taboos. Everyone drank and chatted happily, and except for the important matters of the court, they were not allowed to make rash remarks. In other respects, they could talk freely.
Excluding power, the newspaper editor's personal treatment and prestige were no less than those of Shuntian Fuyin. It was regarded as an honor by businessmen to exchange cups with Fang Yizhi.
Many merchants in this era were not mine owners at the primary school level. There were many who could recite poems and songs. Talking about women at a cocktail party would be considered vulgar and arty.
The prince also attached great importance to the Capital Daily that he had planned, so Fang Yizhi was greatly satisfied, both materially and spiritually, and he had no intention of moving away in the short term.
For Yao Ji, giving Fang Yizhi a good job that would not be easily grasped by villains would bring him both fame and fortune, and it could also be regarded as a reward for Fang Kongzhen, who was commanding troops in the Huguang area.
After practicing in this position for several years, accumulating enough experience and passing the corresponding examinations, it would be a matter of course for him to be transferred to the imperial yamen.
"Your Highness, I don't know why you have called me here?"
Xue Guoguan works in the imperial city. The prince specially approved a special place for the first assistant and the second assistant. This way, if something happens, they don't have to worry too much and save time.
"That's right, I would like to know how many carriages and horses each of you, my beloved ladies, have at home."
The officials from the seven departments were all working in their respective yamen, and it would take a while before they arrived. Yaoji first asked about his prospective father-in-law.
"...I have a sedan chair, two carriages, and four pack horses at my home!"
This question made Xue Guoguan feel a little nervous in his heart. The prince looked kind, but Xue Guoguan did not dare to make a conclusion.
Originally, the number of bearers and animals raised by the Xue Mansion was much more than what was reported. After being dealt with by a certain prince, Xue Guoguan became more honest and no longer dared to show off in the forest.
"Hmm, where is Wu Aiqing?"
Yaoji didn't make any comments. As the chief minister of the Ming Empire, the family's means of transportation was fairly simple.
"I have a sedan chair, a carriage, and a pack horse at my house!"
Wu Di is not like Xue Guoguan, who has a great cause for everyone. He is honest and dedicated, and he is not a person who is extravagant and wasteful, so everything should be kept simple and sufficient.
"I have learned before that each bearer of a sedan chair needs about one and a half to two taels of silver per month, and the horse fodder is worth no less than that of two bearers. Even after the salary adjustment, it is not easy for officials below the eighth rank to raise horses. It will consume a lot of money every month. I intend to improve the way of travel so that the court officials can improve their work efficiency."
The main modes of travel will be changed to official cars, buses and rickshaws. Officials who live near the main roads can wait for the shuttle bus specially used to pick up officials.
If you live in a relatively remote location, you can either take a bus that passes there, or just ask a rickshaw to pick you up, so there is no need for the official shuttle bus to take a detour.
For example, using a rickshaw to get to and from get off work costs fifty cents a day, which only costs about one, two, or three cents a month. It is much more economical than raising a horse at home, and there is no need to spend time taking care of it.
As long as you book a specific time with the rickshaw driver to pick you up in the morning, you can enjoy the treatment of a special car every day. It will be much easier to get home from get off work. There will be a pile of rickshaws waiting for customers outside the Yamen.
Rickshaws can also create nearly 10,000 jobs, and can stimulate the consumption of large, medium and small-scale wealthy people. For them, one hundred copper coins is not enough to eat a decent meal, but in the eyes of the poor, this money is enough for the whole family. Eat and drink enough.
A certain prince once inspected various yamen of the imperial court, and especially saw that there were horse dung dotted in front of each door, and some even left traces of being shoveled. be improved.
In the future, in addition to factory guards and police officers who are out in the field, other civilian officials can use these three means of transportation as long as they are on errands not far away from the capital and surrounding areas, and the cost of expenditure will also be saved a lot.
The horses allocated by each ministry will be replenished to the Yongwei Battalion and the East Palace Guards. This is also a response strategy when war horses cannot be supplied in sufficient time.
There were at least a thousand horses. A certain prince could not demand the quality for the time being, so he had to first make up the quantity that Huang Degong and Zhou Yuji had submitted.
If the Ministry of Revenue has money, it is impossible to buy war horses immediately. At present, they have to demolish the east wall to repair the west wall. Mules, donkeys, and oxen can be temporarily used as pack horses.
