"Hahaha, the ministers are indeed loyal ministers of the country. Gu and his father are both very pleased!" When Zhu Heji said these words, Huang Zongxi and Wan Si were really disappointed!
"Azai," Zhu Tianwang Zhu Cijiong suddenly spoke at this time, which gave Huang Zongxi and Wan Sida some hope, "Are we going to live in Nanjing City in the future?"
Zhu Heji nodded and said with a smile: "Abba, Nanjing City is the land of Emperor Taizu's Longxing, and it is the southern capital of our Ming Emperor... Although Guangzhou Chengtian Mansion is good, in the future we will only If I can only go back and live there for a while, the only place I can stay for a long time is Nanjing."
King Zhu Tian nodded, "Azai, then you have to build me a palace that is even more magnificent than the Pingnan Palace in Guangzhou... let the name of the palace be called Tianwang Palace!" He smiled, "For my father When we fought against the Qing Dynasty and restored the Ming Dynasty on Danan Mountain, all the heroes in Guangdong's arena called me Tianwang Zhu. My palace is called Tianwang Palace, how about that?"
"Okay, okay, let's call it Tianwang Palace!" Zhu Heji nodded repeatedly. How could there be no Tianwang Palace in Nanjing?
Besides, Zhuge Sanhe has settled down - first there will be the King of Heaven and then there will be the cannon!
"Pao" is Zhu Heji, maybe he will be called "Emperor Ming Pao Wu" from now on? You can't call him "Emperor Guangwu". He doesn't have a "light sword", only various "cannons".
And the King of Heaven is King Zhu Tian!
Therefore, Zhu Heji had already told King Zhu Tian that when he arrived in Nanjing, he would be granted the title of Heavenly King, while Zhu Heji himself would use the title of King Jianguo Ming next year.
With such a Ming king and a heavenly king, even if Wu Sangui entered Beijing first and became emperor, Ming Dynasty would not lose much.
"Abba, the land in the Liangjiang Governor's Office in Nanjing City is good. It's not far from the imperial city. It's convenient to play in the Qinhuai River. There's plenty of fireworks around. It's a good place... Why not just go there? Let’s give you a Heavenly Palace there!”
"That's it, that's it..." King Zhu Tian said, "Hurry up and start the construction, I'm waiting to live in it!"
"Okay." Zhu Heji said with a smile, "I will build a house for you first. You are old, so I can wait here for a while."
King Zhu Tian nodded, "A filial son, a filial son...Azai, your back house is a bit deserted, so you have to choose it carefully."
Huang Zongxi and Wan Sida sighed together and said to themselves: "You two can be considered a kind father and a filial son, right?"
Zhu Heji stroked his beard and said with a smile: "Abba, my son, I am not a womanizer either... But during this period, Ah Ling became obsessed with weaving and spinning, and wanted to have a weaver girl in the Forbidden City. Palace. If it’s done, we won’t have to bother those weaving yamen for our clothes in the future.”
Zhu Heji is now a master of entrepreneurship. What he runs is not a government-style business firm or factory, but a capitalist enterprise that truly masters core technologies.
Before Zhu Heji went north to Nanjing this time, the five strongest companies and factories in the "Southeast, Southeast, and Northwest" had all realized joint-stock reform and employee shareholding. Zhu Heji also transferred from Qiu family, Zheng family, and Yu family He selected a group of loyal and capable young people from among his students, and asked them to take over the "Southeast, Southeast, Northwest and Inner" five factories together with Eunuch Pang, so he was no longer needed to participate in management.
Among these five factories, Dongyin Coin Factory has now developed into a central bank and an official bank, so its strength is naturally very strong.
The granular black powder and military white sugar produced by the Nei Gunpowder Factory are unique in the world.
The weapons and equipment such as rocket launchers, panzerfausts, grenades, and small mortars from the Southern Ordnance Factory are also very powerful.
Bei Distillery's Daming Spring Wine, Daming Royal Wine, and Daming Perfume are more competitive, especially perfumes, which have almost no rivals. They are simply making money!
Xichang got involved with smelly fish, rotten shrimps, and all kinds of excrement. Not only did it become the largest supplier of saltpeter in the Ming Dynasty, but it also got involved in the mining of guano... and it turned out to be silver!
Among the five factories, except for the perfume business of Bei Distillery, controlled by Zhu Heji, which has been moved to Nanjing, the other factories have left their main business in Guangdong.
However, Zhu Heji’s entrepreneurial footsteps will not stop!
He still has core technology in his hands!
One is the dolomite refractory bricks, coking technology, and graphite crucible steel explored in the pilot plant on Huangpu Island in Guangdong... He has now sent people to search for iron ore and coal mines in Yingtianfu and Taipingfu. Once found, , you can start building the steel plant immediately.
The second entrepreneurial project is of course the Weaver Girl Palace!
Zhu Heji believed that the dyes he had mastered could help the products of Zhinv Palace enter the market, and by the way, he would also bring silk and cotton from Jiangnan.
So his purpose in setting up the Weaver Palace was really to enter the textile industry...
Of course King Zhu Tian believed in his son, so he raised his voice and said to the counselors below: "You have all heard... The prison country is not fond of women, so the Weaver Girl you choose must be If you are proficient in textiles, you can’t just look at beauty, you must have both color and art!”
What is "both sex and art"? Zhu Heji felt a little misunderstood after hearing this, so he quickly coughed and said, "Everyone, the Weaver Girl Palace is just a small matter. But there are three big things to do right now!"
Huang Zongxi and Wan Sida finally breathed a sigh of relief, and now they can finally discuss some serious matters.
Only Zhu Heji said in a deep tone: "The first major thing is land equalization! Land equalization and annexation are the foundation of the country... Now the land equalization in Guangdong has been basically completed, and it is still continuing in Fujian. South Zhili , Jiangxi, and Zhejiang have not started yet, but they will start soon!
The second major event is the establishment of schools...and the gradual abolition of imperial examinations!
The first purpose of establishing schools is to educate all people without distinction, so that everyone can read, at least go to Mongolian school to read and learn calligraphy, so as not to become illiterate. The second is to allow the talented and intelligent children in the folk to be admitted to elementary school, to middle school, and finally to become students of university, military science, magic, law, medicine, business and other studies.
After the great prosperity of the school, the method of selecting scholars will of course change...the selection of scholars through the imperial examination will gradually be changed to a combination of many methods such as school selection, civil service examination and recommendation by the Ministry of War, etc., to select scholars with a broad approach. , use it strictly! "
After what Zhu Heji said, the counselors below, especially the counselors from South Zhili, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi, all changed their minds.
One is equalizing land, the other is establishing schools and abolishing the imperial examination... If you want to do this, how can the scholar-bureaucrats in South Zhili, Zhejiang and Jiangxi still be so messy?
The population density in South Zhili, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi is higher than that in Guangdong and Fujian, and the clans there are not as close as those in Guangdong and Fujian.
The clans in Guangdong and Fujian are actually still in the process of continuous development - although they have almost developed Guangdong and Fujian, there is still a lot to be done in Nanyang!
Therefore, in this era, the clans in Guangdong and Fujian are not so "voluptuous" within themselves, and it is easier for them to stick together.
It is normal for clans to share land. Except for those Manchu bureaucrats, there are basically no big landowners. In Guangdong and Fujian, fighting for land and water sources relies on clan fighting. What can big landowners without strong backgrounds do? ?
On the other hand, the scholar-bureaucrats and landlords in Southern Zhili, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi mainly used their fame to secure and occupy land, and did not rely much on their clans. Although there was a certain amount of clan land and school land, it was far less numerous than in Guangdong and Fujian.
Therefore, land equalization and annexation are cutting off their flesh!
In addition, the scholar-bureaucrats and landlords in southern Zhili, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi had a narrow path to advancement. Unlike Guangdong and Fujian today, there are a lot of military nobles, and the road to the sea is wider.
They were trying hard to make a comeback in the imperial examination and "examine" the Ming Dynasty from the hands of Cantonese and Fujianese!
But the imperial examination is gradually no longer being taken... If the imperial examination is no longer taken, and schools are mainly used to select scholars, then the universities, military science, magic, law, medicine, business and other schools in Guangdong and Fujian Definitely no less than South Zhili, Zhejiang and Jiangxi!
By then, there will definitely not be a big difference in the number of officials from various provinces who have gone through the schools in the officialdom, and there are many military aristocrats from Fujian and Guangdong...
At this moment, Zhu Heji suddenly spoke again: "The third major event is to gradually implement a new tax system and strengthen the collection of indirect taxes in the circulation of commodities!"
We also need to strengthen taxation!
This sentence suddenly came to the minds of the counselors in Southern Zhili, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi: "Think of the Ming Dynasty, hope for the Ming Dynasty, but when the Ming Dynasty comes, we will suffer even more disasters!"
