According to a certain new emperor's personal experience, the summer temperature in Beidu this year is almost the same as that at the end of the Little Glacier. At least that's what the thermometer really says.
The highest temperature has reached 40 degrees, and the asphalt roads have been bubbling due to the sun. Heavy physical labor has to be done in the morning or evening.
The only advantage is that cold drinks and electricity consumption have increased sharply. Ice cream and popsicles are basically in short supply. Refrigerator and fan manufacturers have already received orders for next year.
Air conditioners had just come out and were still relatively high-end. Their output was much smaller than that of electric fans. The price of a basic model was as high as a thousand taels of silver, which was comparable to the telephones of the year.
The air conditioner jointly manufactured by a certain new emperor and the Academy of Sciences only has the function of releasing cold air. In the snowy winter, there is no need for this thing in the northern capital.
The poor people's homes have fire pits, and the rich people's homes have heating systems. A single function can also avoid hidden dangers caused by an overly complex structure, thereby reducing the machine's failure rate.
The first-generation air conditioner was a variant of the refrigerator, except that the latter cooled the interior, while the former created cold air in the stomach and released it to the outside.
Theoretically they are similar, but in practice, the R&D team worked hard for several years before they came up with a basically qualified product.
But at the moment of mass production, all the efforts turned into tears of excitement, and everyone in the entire R&D team received a huge sum of money.
Even the lowest-ranking personnel can receive an air conditioner and one thousand taels of silver for free in addition to their monthly salary. A certain new emperor also exempted them from mortgage payments for ten years.
Assume that you have worked at the Academy of Sciences for ten years and paid the mortgage for twenty years at the beginning of your admission. Now you have acquired the property rights of your house.
The Academy of Sciences occupies an area six times larger in the new city than in the old city. There are not only several scientific research buildings, but also dozens of family buildings and a bunch of small foreign-style buildings where senior staff live, eliminating the need for commuting to and from get off work. Various hidden dangers.
In terms of area, the Academy of Sciences is about the same size as a new emperor's residence. If you include the surrounding undeveloped land, it is the number one land unit in the new city.
A certain new emperor has always spared no effort in investing in scientific research. Even in the most difficult times, he has never thought of reducing R&D funding or even the salaries of scientific researchers.
Because the principle is very simple and easy to understand, the things developed by the Academy of Sciences are all valuable. Only by continuous investment can you get rich returns, similar to venture capital.
After spending one hundred thousand taels of silver on the air-conditioning project, once mass production is achieved, the sales of one thousand air conditioners will be one million taels of silver.
This was the case with the previous refrigerator project. Now, multiple freezers converted from refrigerators are installed on each ironclad ship to preserve food.
With this thing, the crew no longer need to eat canned food or rotten meat that may go bad, and the speed of improving combat effectiveness is very obvious.
In the hot summer, the crew can still eat ice cream. This is one of the reasons why many generals from overseas buyers choose to return to their homeland on ironclad ships.
Ironclad ships are expensive because they are the result of technology. Not only are they equipped with advanced weapons, they also have fans, freezers, and telephones. From the forecastle to the stern, the captain can issue orders just by picking up the phone.
Now some large butcher shops in Beidu City have purchased freezers before spring to store various meats to avoid unnecessary losses.
The people in the city have also learned wisely. Unless they are watching the stall owners slaughter livestock to ensure the freshness of the ingredients, they would rather buy frozen meat than buy room-temperature meat that is easy to attract flies.
The medical department has also absorbed a certain number of Jinyiwei, either for other projects or to do a good job in health and epidemic prevention, especially in food safety management.
After the livestock arrive at the pen outside the city, they will be quarantined first, and the diseased parts will be identified. Those that pass will be stamped with purple safety stamps and transported to the slaughterhouse in the city.
The slaughterhouse uses ether injection to prevent the animals from screaming, and then workers send the finished products directly to large cold storages for storage.
Owners of various sizes of dried meats or restaurants and restaurants go to the cold storage of the slaughterhouse to select the parts they like. They are also sold here at wholesale prices, and the smallest ones are half a fan.
The old city, middle city, and new city each have a slaughterhouse, as do Tongzhou and other surrounding cities, but the scale is slightly different.
In order to ensure the freshness of the ingredients, the owners of the meat jerky and restaurant would also buy live animals from the pens in and outside the city, and then let the cooks cut them after bringing them back.
Summer is the peak season for meat sales, and with the introduction of refrigeration equipment, sales are much better than before.
Pork ribs, crispy bones, and pork belly are the best-selling three types, and the rest are beef and mutton that are very suitable for barbecue.
In order to stabilize their suppliers and regular regular customers, many hot pot restaurants also serve as barbecues in the summer.
In summer, at least 30% of shops selling cooked food sell barbecue.
The arrival of beer, especially cold beer, has taken barbecue to a whole new level.
Generally, barbecue restaurants use large one-liter wooden wine glasses, which are very enjoyable for male diners to drink.
Glass cups are not only expensive, but also fragile. Stainless steel cups are not fragile, but the price is higher than glass cups.
Many coopers had seen glass and steel cups before and were worried about their own livelihood and the food bowls of their families.
But a bitter new wine put that concern to rest, and wooden tankards were in short supply.
A barbecue restaurant needs to purchase at least two hundred standard beer mugs, and the military can purchase thousands or even tens of thousands of them at a time.
Not only various units, but also many wealthy families, because they often go out to restaurants to have barbecue, and if they are too lazy to go out, they want to drink like this at home, so they have to buy their own beer mugs.
Guys who fall in love with drinking beer, especially workers, bring their own glasses to work so that they can grab a cold beer on the street and drink it home after get off work.
Soldiers who have retired or are on leave gather in groups to drink on the street, which is much more casual than in the military camp.
According to relevant regulations, when they are on duty, they can only relax during holidays.
The logistics department provides alcohol to the officers and soldiers during holidays, but they can only go out and drink on their own during holidays.
The bold and unrestrained drinking method was then promoted by these soldiers to Beidu, even Jifu and the entire Beizhili region.
Take a large cup of Sanqi. After drinking, you should turn the rim of the cup downward. If no wine flows out, it is considered to be completely drunk.
A certain new emperor had previously thought of many crops suitable for the dry climate for the people of Henan. He had previously included potatoes, sweet potatoes, and corn, but later he thought of hops.
Unlike the previous crops that still faced market competition, a certain new emperor sent people to the countryside to spread the word before encouraging farmers to plant hops.
As long as the hops are picked in time after maturity, Beidu Beer Company will purchase them. The specific price depends on the quality of the respective hops.
Today's Henan is not so fierce, and the Yellow River is no longer drying up, but it is not much better. Wheat production is still reduced, which is nothing more than starvation.
Taking advantage of the perennial drought, a certain new emperor ordered Shanxi, Henan, and Shandong provinces to vigorously build water conservancy facilities, and now they have begun to bear fruit.
Moreover, water conservancy facilities adopt the method of fragmentation and contracting. The province takes prefectures and counties as the unit. Once a flood disaster occurs, especially a dam failure accident, the local officials in the place where the accident occurred must be held accountable first.
If someone deliberately destroys it, then all criminals must be brought to justice. Otherwise, local officials will accept the benefits and cause disaster to the people.
A certain new emperor just likes this kind of gameplay. He will confiscate one nest at a time, confiscate all the property, and directly provide relief to the poor people at the bottom.
Li Yan is now the censor of Zuo Qiandu of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, with an official position of the fourth rank. His main task is to inspect the status of all water conservancy projects along the Yellow River in Henan.
Li Yan has inspected all water conservancy projects in the province from entering Shanxi in the upstream to exiting in Shandong downstream.
Of course, you can't open the dam to see if there is tofu inside, but on the surface, it makes sense.
Li Yan also wrote down everything he saw and heard during his inspection in a memorial, and reported it to the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Ministry of Works. Especially important ones were reported directly to the cabinet.
A certain new emperor is quite satisfied with Li Yan's work, especially his work attitude. Even if something happens, he will not be dismissed from his post and investigated.
There are government orders from above and countermeasures from below.
A certain new emperor knew very well the thoughts and tactics of those below.
Anyway, if something goes wrong, arrest someone. You can't make a mistake. It's just a matter of arresting as many people as possible.
Even if a dam breach occurs, it will not cause much harm because most of the disaster in Henan has been transferred away.
After twenty years of hard work, the province's population did not exceed 10 million.
Thanks to a certain new emperor, Henan people are everywhere from the northern vassal kingdom to the southern vassal kingdom...
Although those who went out left their hometown, once they took root in the new place, their living standards were much better than before.
If those who went to open up wasteland in the North had not been threatened by pigtails, every household would have hundreds of acres of land, and they would still be able to use birds, beasts, and river fresh food to make tooth sacrifices.
People who went to Nanyang to cultivate crops finally realized what it means to have three crops a year. As long as they are diligent enough, they can't eat enough food, let alone many fruits that cannot be named.
As long as Yimin from the two places could have enough food and clothing and prevent his family from starving to death, they would be extremely grateful to a certain new emperor, so much so that the ranking of a certain new emperor was enshrined on every table...
As for the living conditions of overseas people, a certain new emperor knew a little bit about the living conditions of overseas people through various understandings, even if he had not conducted on-site inspections.
They are all considered as Zimin under the vassal state or the commander-in-chief. If they die, it will directly be equivalent to a reduction in taxes and fees.
These people are the basis for maintaining local stability. Without them, the indigenous people will have second thoughts again.
A generation is counted every twenty years, starting from the 13th year of Chongzhen (1640), and this year is considered the "Hai Generation".
Next year will be the "second generation of the sea". A certain new emperor believes that with the help of the court and the army, by the time of the tenth generation of the sea, there will be no such thing as overseas territories.
From the North to Nanyang, except for the vassal states, they were all areas directly under the Ming Dynasty.
The local indigenous people can either choose to be submissive for generations, or choose to die directly!
As time goes by, it has become more and more obvious that the father-in-law is trying to get rid of the blame.
In the letters exchanged with a certain filial son, he often asked many questions.
For example, it's humid in the south. If I don't use a full set of iron armor, is there an alternative?
A certain filial son told his father a simple alternative, that is, the vine armor soldiers.
At that time, Zheng Chenggong used rattan armor soldiers to defeat braided soldiers repeatedly. This thing was made of vines, so it was very light and had good defensive performance.
The disadvantage is that it is afraid of fire. For this reason, a certain new emperor who had already planned to go to Southeast Asia asked the Academy of Sciences to develop a rattan armor soaked in fire-retardant paint and covered with a layer of iron.
The fireproof effect is greatly improved compared to the original version, and it has reached the standard of uniformed troops. It has now been put into mass production, and a certain new emperor generously gave the production process of this product to the dumper for free.
After the Nandu Academy of Sciences and the arsenal have figured it out, mass production can begin. In order to retaliate against the white-eyed wolves of the Lao Mang family, a certain new emperor can fully support the father-in-law Yujia's personal expedition.
On a half-sale, half-free basis, 3,000 bolt-action rifles, 10,000 revolvers, 60 royal cannons, 100 steam tanks, and 20 airships were sold to Nanting.
Flintlock guns and grenades can already be mass-produced in Nandu, not to mention mortars made of iron barrels.
As for tactical missiles, I believe that after watching the first part of "The Battle of Mountains and Rivers", the dumper also highly praised the missile land-washing flow.
A certain Xinhuang sold a batch of low-end versions of Scud to him at a low price. The main reason was that the high-end versions were expensive to make, and it was easy to lose money if sold at a discount.
In his study room, a certain new emperor was eating skewers, drinking beer, and thinking about his father who was so vigorous and vigorous, he couldn't help but feel funny in his heart.
It’s not that I feel funny about the blame-shifting dad, but I’m worried about that country bumpkin king in Myanmar.
Mang Bai never dreamed that he would be defeated or even die at the hands of the "Emperor of Ming Dynasty's Reverse Submission"...
It seems that the blame dumper never defeated any major enemy in his lifetime, and Mang Bai was the first sacrifice!
This is his fate if he seeks death to the end.
The boss also stated in the letter that Mu Tianbo had recruited 10,000 officers and soldiers, supplemented by 20,000 chieftains, to send troops on the northern road to attack Burma.
Most of those chieftain soldiers were sent by chieftains who were oppressed by the local king. Not only did they want revenge, but they also wanted to make good on Mang Bai.
It is conceivable that once the Northern Route Army invades the hinterland of Myanmar, it will be as scary as a swarm of locusts crossing the border...
Mu Tianbo once wrote a letter saying that the chieftains were originally disappointed with the court and believed that the Ming Dynasty King's army was decadent and far from being a match for the Burmese army.
But after seeing the airship taking off, especially the mortar salvo display, after being shocked, they all expressed their intention to take the lead and charge for the Ming Dynasty.
Most of them saw the hope of making a comeback, almost the same as gamblers, but it was not unfounded that the local kings of the past had bullied them.
It's time for revenge. There will be no place like Myanmar on the map in the future. It will only be a province of Ming Dynasty, and the people living there will be mainly Ming people.
The dumper also inquired in the letter, offering a reward of 100,000 taels of silver to capture Mang Bai. Is this feasible and is the price appropriate?
A certain new emperor felt that this father-in-law was probably going to capture the country king and send him to Nandu...
It doesn't matter Ling Chi, what's important is to see if that guy's heart is dark!
