"Teach?" Luo Fangbo was stunned, "How to teach? Do we need to set up a school?"
Emperor Zhu smiled.
"Of course there is no need to establish any schools, but I will decree that local magistrates and prefects come to Songjiang Prefecture and Guangzhou Prefecture in batches for study and inspection. In addition, the Industry and Commerce Promotion Association will also prepare teaching materials for them, give classes, and study!"
"From now on, as an official in the Ming Dynasty, I must have business and industry in mind!"
Emperor Zhu said.
Asking Luo Fangbo to handle this matter was naturally a matter of careful consideration.
Because Luo Fangbo had the experience of traveling to Southeast Asia and had been the Prime Minister of the Ming Dynasty for so many years.
He has experience and prestige, and no one dares to say anything when he guides the local officials in their work.
And he actually doesn't have much to do.
Emperor Zhu has already begun organizing the compilation of textbooks.
The performance appraisal of metropolitan and local officials is also mainly based on "GDP".
If local officials in the Ming Dynasty wanted to be promoted, they had to concentrate on developing the local economy.
And the Ming Dynasty is the best place to develop now.
It belongs to Songjiang Prefecture and Guangzhou Prefecture.
On the one hand, these two places have a tradition of industry and commerce; on the other hand, they are the estuaries of China's two rivers with the largest runoff. They are the leading regions of the Pearl River Delta and the Yangtze River Delta, and their locations are excellent.
Guangzhou is where Emperor Zhu started his career, and is now the southern capital of the Ming Dynasty. It was already prosperous in industry and commerce.
The Shanghai County of Songjiang Prefecture was drawn in a circle by Emperor Zhu.
Shanghai County was promoted to Shanghai City. Administratively, the entire Shanghai city belonged to Songjiang Prefecture, but economically and financially it was directly under the Ming Dynasty, and it was regarded as a "separately planned city".
With the heavy investment from the Ming Dynasty royal consortium, Shanghai quickly became the region with the fastest economic development in the entire Ming Dynasty.
in this era.
There is no foreign market ten miles away.
However, there are a large number of factories that have sprung up on both sides of the Huangpu River, and a large number of poor people from all over the Yangtze River come to Shanghai to seek life in Shanghai.
They will all be old Shanghainese from now on.
They are all Gangboning, and they are always famous.
But now Shanghai is full of "urban villages" where workers gather, which really has nothing to do with the later Western style.
And there is a high probability that it will never be involved.
Because this will become one of the largest industrial areas in the Ming Dynasty, and it will also be the starting point for exporting industrial products.
This place will forever be branded as an "industrial city".
Engage in industry.
Naturally, it is impossible to be foreign.
Workers don’t like drinking coffee either. Most of them eat pancakes rolled with green onions, or Hunan dishes heavy in oil and salt. It’s physical work, so you need to add more carbohydrates and salt.
Compared with Shanghai, which is full of villages in the city.
Guangzhou in this era has a bit of a "foreign style".
Because this place belonged to the Ming Dynasty relatively early, and Guangzhou City is different from Shanghai. Guangzhou City has a lot of people and factories are built at the mouth of the Pearl River. Guangzhou instead plays more of a central city role. Not much industry is seen, but the headquarters of a large number of commercial banks and banks are built here.
It has become a gathering place for a large number of companies and headquarters.
It became the center of Ming Dynasty’s financial industry.
In addition, Guangdong is a place with many honors and meritorious officials, and there are also many veterans who have made a fortune as soldiers for Emperor Zhu.
And Guangzhou is the capital of Guangdong for thousands of years, and its status as a provincial capital is unshakable. Rich people in Guangdong like to live in the provincial capital if they have some money.
Guangzhou's real estate has been booming in recent years.
At least the average person cannot afford a house in Guangzhou.
A group of wealthy people gathered, and Guangzhou's consumer culture also developed.
As a result, Guangzhou has become the fashion and consumption capital of the Ming Dynasty.
If someone were to look at the current Guangzhou and Shanghai from later generations, I am afraid there would be a little confusion in time and space.
These two places actually changed their positions
Of course, Shen Song, Bai Ning, Wu Xinzhong, and Du Ruchong who came to Guangzhou would never know this.
Emperor Zhu wanted to send his local officials to Shanghai and Guangzhou for inspection.
I didn't expect that.
Shen Song and Bai Ning, who were remnants of the Qing Dynasty, first traveled from south to north, from the northern capital to the capital, then to the central capital, then to Songjiang Prefecture, and now to Guangzhou Prefecture.
If it weren't for the prosperity of the transportation industry in the Ming Dynasty, it would have been impossible to walk in these places for many years if we had to walk on two legs.
But things are different now.
With the unification of the world, the canal connects the north and the south, and the Yangtze River shipping connects the east and west. At least the river transportation network in the Han provinces is very extensive. In addition, the Ming Dynasty has no forbidden seas, and coastal shipping is also quite developed.
Coupled with the progress of the shipbuilding industry and the frequent population movement during the Ming Dynasty, the development of passenger shipping was promoted.
Taking a boat directly from Zhongdu to Guangzhou only takes five days.
Wu Xinzhong and Du Ruchong are very famous now, but everyone knows that they have offended Emperor Zhu, so no dignitaries want to contact them.
Isn't this just a matter of frustration?
On the contrary, Shen Song, a young and old man from the Qing Dynasty who missed the Qing Dynasty, was very interested in these scholars who dared to go against Emperor Zhu. He took the initiative to contact them, and paid for the shipping to take Wu Xinzhong and Du Ruchong south to Guangzhou.
Although Guangzhou is the southern capital, because the wars and major problems of the Ming Dynasty in recent years were in the north, the Ming Emperor rarely visited.
In addition, there are many rich people, many honors, high consumption and far distance from the court.
So much so that the atmosphere in Guangzhou seems too "free".
Various citizen cultures such as opera and opera that serve the urban class are developing very prosperously.
There are also quite a few newspapers of all kinds.
And I’m quite brave enough to write.
Anyway, as the Ming Dynasty loosened its grip on public opinion, the local public opinion atmosphere will naturally become much more relaxed.
Various tabloids appear.
Among them, the most popular ones are of course erotic pictures, H and the like.
As long as this thing is not banned, there will definitely be a very large market.
Of course, not everyone is a pervert.
In order to increase sales, some newspapers also serialize many of them in newspapers.
What’s popular recently are some “exotic adventures”.
The content is nothing more than the common people from the mainland venturing into wild foreign lands and getting riches and gold at every turn, and beautiful stories about foreign princesses throwing themselves into their arms.
Although the routines are similar.
But it also greatly satisfies the spiritual pursuits of the masses.
It's selling like hot cakes.
Now Bai Ning is holding a newspaper and reading it with gusto. It tells the story of a young man from Guangzhou who went to Australia to discover a big gold mine and made a fortune.
"Is there really a gold mine in Australia?"
Bai Ning finished reading the last chapter and put down the newspaper without finishing it. He secretly cursed the dog author in his heart for breaking the chapter and simply not being human.
Suddenly I saw a long queue of people ahead.
"That is."
Before Bai Ning could react, someone shoved a leaflet over.」
"Go to Australia to dig gold mines, go to Australia to make a fortune!!"
(End of chapter)
