It is very difficult to satisfy the orders of a certain father, Zheng Zhilong, the Tokugawa general, the Menggu tribe outside the pass, the Putmans, and the northern eight corners at the same time.
Fortunately, the Ming Dynasty had an abundant labor force, especially in the Jifu area. There were many idle men and idle women.
Not counting arms factories, a certain prince already owns thirty-five companies and hundreds of factories in the military field alone, most of which are concentrated in the inner city, outer city, and middle city development zones.
There are more than 50,000 workers who receive money from a certain prince to support their families. For practical reasons, flexible measures have been adopted in the payment of wages.
Generally, it is not like the monthly salary system of officials and the army, but half-monthly salary and weekly salary. In factories that can work on piece-rate wages, they can receive piece-rate wages every day. At the beginning of the next month, workers will receive the attendance bonus and basic salary of the previous month.
As long as you work six days a week and make no major omissions or mistakes, even a female worker's monthly income will not be less than one or two or five yuan.
Working in a certain prince's factory, the income is guaranteed, lunch is provided free of charge, and workers from other places can live in dormitories.
If the arsenal is included, the number of workers has steadily exceeded 100,000, and including the army and factory guards, the number has reached 200,000.
If one person could support three families, the total would be less than 800,000, more than a quarter of the capital's permanent population.
After a certain prince repeatedly cleaned up borers, the number of people who relied on agriculture as their source of livelihood has been greatly reduced.
Smart people all subcontracted their land and either worked in the city or invested in business.
By the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, the total number of companies registered in the capital exceeded 2,000.
Although every industry is a chamber of commerce, the eight major categories are salt, tea, grain, porcelain, silk (cloth), iron, wine, and sugar, and the monopoly market situation is relatively obvious.
It is difficult for outsiders to enter and make money. The most they can do is become their downstream distributors and agents. The artificial fertilizer industry in Beijing is completely monopolized by the four famous fecal valves.
But the entry threshold for emerging industries is very low. For example, in the lime industry, as long as you have a mine, you can make money.
In this industry, there are many people who become rich overnight because of the discovery of a new mine.
As long as a certain prince insists on improving the sanitation of the capital, the lime from the mines outside the city will never have to worry about selling.
In the past, building houses was barely a business, but to become a company that can keep pace with major salt merchants, tea merchants, and grain merchants is something that many people cannot even dream of.
First, a certain prince asked Zhang Guowei, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, to build a large number of houses in Zhongcheng in order to accommodate the families of the soldiers of the East Palace Guards.
Although it is a bungalow with a simple layout, it cannot support its large scale. Even if one set can earn ten taels of silver, if a thousand sets are built, the net profit can be as much as tens of thousands of taels.
Later, due to Donglu entering the city from underground caves, the west bank of the Cao River in the inner city was reduced to ruins by fire.
A certain prince decided to rebuild this area, but because many people had died on the spot before, the old residents were unwilling to move back.
In view of this, a certain prince decided to buy this area at the market price. Of course, he was only buying land. Since the house was destroyed by the fire, there was no need to pay.
The old residents happily took their money and left, never wanting to return to a miserable place where ghosts and wolves howled at night.
In the past, many officers and soldiers paid for a group wedding held by a certain prince. After the wedding, they either rented a house or rented a house.
A certain prince planned to use this ruins to build a dormitory for officers and soldiers. As long as he served for a certain period of time, made military exploits, or sacrificed his life for the country, he would be able to directly obtain the deed to the house.
Soldiers won't mind living here. This is a free house, and it's financed by the prince. Don't pay out of your own pocket if you can afford it.
Since the quality of all-reinforced concrete houses has yet to be tested in the long term, the houses in this area are all reinforced concrete load-bearing structures, but the floors are made of wood to reduce the possibility of collapse and killing people.
In line with the principle of maximizing the use of unit area, all the houses are built with three floors, and there are no four floors because the number on the top floor is unlucky.
The appearance of this kind of house is not very different from the old buildings, but they are all equipped with more expensive glass windows, which is quite eye-catching decoration.
Specifically divided into two types, the officer style is unit type, with five units per building and two households per unit. Each building can accommodate 30 households, with a usable area ranging from 50 square meters to 200 square meters.
Even the smallest apartment has a living room, bedroom, kitchen, and toilet. It provides running water and a tall toilet in the toilet.
Although there are no electric lights or telephones, the cost is too high and a certain prince cannot afford it, but there is a telephone in the mailroom at the entrance of each courtyard, and you can call at any time...
The building where the soldiers lived had a layout of ten units on one floor, with stairs on both sides. Outside each door was a semi-open corridor, which was similar to the design of teaching buildings in many schools.
The reason why it is not designed to have twenty or thirty households per floor is that in the event of an earthquake or fire, many people would have to be evacuated, which would easily lead to crowding and stampede accidents.
The internal layout of each set is similar to that of an officer, except that the toilet is squatting. If someone is willing to pay out of his own pocket to buy a toilet for his wife, the management can also send someone to replace it at any time.
Bungalows and buildings each have their own merits, and the living conditions vary from person to person, but most officers and soldiers like the new-style buildings that the prince sent people to build.
After all, water will come out when you turn the faucet, and there is a flush toilet. Compared with the cesspits used in bungalows, it is much more convenient.
The safety of the community is also guaranteed. The property owners are officers and soldiers who were injured while braiding and became disabled. Some of the female employees are also the family members of officers and soldiers.
People with weak legs and feet can give priority to the first floor, which is no different from a bungalow in terms of entry and exit.
Although the trees have not yet turned green and it is a time when the ground is not frozen, but a certain prince ordered to move at this time, no one was dissatisfied.
It would be a great blessing to be able to move to a new home. As for the new home, many people died before...
The people who live here are all officers and soldiers, and they have the support of the prince who has learned the magic of immortality. Are they still afraid of demons and ghosts?
If it's really powerful, don't hide it, let's go for it with real swords and guns!
How is it? Don't you dare? ? ?
Originally, a certain prince planned to use the land to the north of Fuchengmen Street as the thermal power station and arena, and to the south was the Jumin District.
However, after the new building was put into use, it received continuous praise and was sought after by officers, soldiers and other admirers.
A certain prince decided to turn the entire area along the west bank and even the east bank of the Cao River into residential areas.
The residents in this area are mainly military members, so if something happens, they can rush to help Da Nei.
In the first phase, it is planned to build 1,000 residential buildings and house 30,000 households. Now all of them have been put into use.
The initial plan for the second phase was to build the same number of residential buildings as the first phase, but due to demand factors, the number was forced to be doubled.
Veterans of the Qin Army who stayed in Beijing on duty were reluctant to return to their hometown in Shaanxi for fear of being owed pay again.
A certain prince brought their family to settle in the capital, and this time they were given priority in resettlement.
As long as he was loyal to the Ming Dynasty and fought hard for himself, a certain prince always treated the lackeys under his command well.
All those who are lucky enough to be among the first to live in the building are sighing - they are contented in this life!
In order to prevent a fire in one household from spreading to the entire building, a certain prince specially arranged for multiple fire brigades to be stationed in this area.
Each community has a large water tower, which is not allowed to be used during normal times. In the event of a fire, it can provide water protection for the fire brigade.
The fire brigade is equipped with multiple steam engines, not for driving, but to provide water pressure for water cannons.
There is always a quarter of the steam engines in the fleet on standby, ready for dispatch at any time.
Otherwise, if it catches fire and starts again, by the time the steam engine finishes warming up, the building will be burned beyond recognition.
This time it was not only military members who moved to their new homes, but also some employees under a certain prince who had performed very well.
The employees include management, ordinary workers, and even eunuchs...
The high-end eunuchs are not short of money and have already purchased one or even multiple houses somewhere in the inner city.
Only those eunuchs who were down-to-earth, hard-working and low-ranking eunuchs who had not saved enough money to buy a house waited for this good time.
More than a hundred eunuchs and maids received rewards, all of whom worked as errands in the twenty-four yamen or a certain prince's company.
Everyone was overjoyed to be able to live in the building, and even burst into tears, and they were extremely grateful to a certain prince.
Needless to say, the advantages of living here are the advantages of the house, but the disadvantage is that it is far from work, so you have to leave as early as possible.
Unless you work in Da Nei, if you work in the eastern part of the inner city, it means you need to pass through East and West Chang'an Avenue.
Even those who don’t know the exact time can get the time from the giant clock built on the main street when they go to work in the morning.
This is also one of the resettlement projects for retired soldiers. The clock tower does not use a Western-style gear structure, but the time is controlled by a small clock inside.
The soldiers guarding the bell tower adjust the hands every five minutes. In order to avoid disturbing the surrounding people too much, the bell rings three times on the hour.
This kind of building has been built at the entrance of the first-class streets in the old city and the middle city. It can not only tell time and remind people coming and going, but also act as a giant billboard.
In terms of advertising fees alone, a certain prince has already helped the Ministry of Industry recover its previous investment costs.
A certain prince dared to build residential buildings on a large scale and spent a lot of money because he got an unexpected fortune.
It was definitely not because I, the Holy Gong of Dayan, realized my conscience and donated five million taels of silver, but it came from the Middle East!
After the Ming Dynasty envoy arrived in Istanbul, Sultan Ibrahim I of the Ottoman Empire who had just succeeded to the throne warmly entertained him after seeing the treasures presented by the envoy.
It then agreed to finance the purchase of Ming's novel weapons and to dig the Double Sea Canal, a canal from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea, in order to collect tolls.
Ibrahim I got two revolvers and five hundred rounds of ammunition, and he "played" in his palace for a long time before he felt that he was satisfied.
In order to surpass his predecessor, his eldest brother Murad IV, Ibrahim I wanted to obtain the decisive weapon to defeat the Habsburg enemy-the airship!
He does not believe that besides birds, there are things in the world that can go to heaven, and that it is even possible to carry people to heaven.
However, the appearance of the revolver and snow candy that can fire continuously made him doubtful about the airship.
Considering that this empire has always maintained good relations with the Ming Empire, Ibrahim I decided to invest two million taels of silver to purchase an airship.
He also invested another one million taels of silver to buy a revolver. If his elite troops could be equipped with this weapon, they would definitely be able to capture Vienna!
In order to save time, the Ottoman Empire's mission took a boat from Istanbul to Alexandria, then walked to the Red Sea, took a boat again, and embarked on a mysterious journey to the East.
In fact, the Ottoman merchants in the capital had already seen the true appearance of the airship with their own eyes and sent the photos to Ibrahim I.
Ibrahim I is not short of money now, but what he lacks is military exploits that can demonstrate his abilities.
The advanced weapons of the Ming Empire could just meet his demands.
Especially the beauties in the rear mansion who had received the full-length mirrors were blowing their hair frequently, hoping to get more good things from the Ming Empire.
Not only the beauties received gifts, but also the civil servants and military generals received souvenirs from the Ming Empire.
All the ministers around Ibrahim I were given fifty pounds of snowflakes each, plus pencils, soap, mirrors, glass balls, tin toys, and toilets!
In order to bribe Ibrahim I and the men, women, and children around him, the mission sent a total of novel products worth no less than five hundred thousand taels of silver.
Now no one objects to continuing to get closer to Daming, and it seems that becoming Daming's agent can make a lot of money.
Especially the million-dollar snowflake candy business. After Ibrahim I heard about what the Tokugawa generals had done, he directly planned to monopolize this business for himself!
Ibrahim I thought so, and so did the civil servants and generals below.
Even if you only monopolize the market in a certain place, you will increase your income a lot every year. No one wants to have trouble with money.
Therefore, the 125 ships that set sail from the Ottoman Empire transported a total of two million taels of silver.
Almost all ocean-going ships in the Red Sea and Persian Gulf were requisitioned. This voyage also highlighted the necessity of building a canal.
It was the inland obstacles along the canal that prevented the empire's Mediterranean fleet from assisting the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea.
Seeing this, Ibrahim I ordered that the surveying and mapping work along the canal be completed this year.
The requisition of hard laborers and the large-scale construction of the canal will be officially started as early as next year, and the project is tentatively scheduled to last ten years.
This is not a money-losing deal. As long as the canal is put into operation, merchant ships from the Ming Empire can sail directly to Istanbul.
Ibrahim I also wanted to see the two empires realize the exchange of thousands of merchant ships every year, reaching a trade volume of tens of millions of taels of silver.
In addition to the danger of passing through the Strait of Malacca, the Ottoman Empire has merchants who run this route all year round to be responsible for navigation, and the fleet has been very smooth.
From a military perspective, it was impossible for the Dutch East India Company to organize a fleet of hundreds of ships to intercept the Ottoman Empire's fleet without obtaining intelligence in advance.
There was no conflict of interest between the Ming Empire and the Ottoman Empire, let alone territorial conflicts.
One is in the east and the other is in the west. Cooperation far outweighs disputes, and the history of exchanges has always been very friendly.
In terms of diplomacy, a certain prince has always attacked from all sides, sowing widely but reaping little. As long as he can reap some benefits, he will never let it go.
Apart from oil, Ottoman territory was worth little.
Once the Ming Dynasty's army captures Sumatra, the famous Minas Oil Field can be exploited.
It will probably be thirty to fifty years later when the Ming Dynasty develops to the point where it cannot even satisfy the oil fields in China and Southeast Asia.
