When Zhu Jingyuan first spoke, the logic he subconsciously wanted to talk about was not actually about productivity and distribution.
Instead, we use high-tech products and high value-added products to sell at high prices outside Daming to obtain high profits.
But Zhu Jingyuan immediately realized that the Ming Dynasty in this world was too big.
The current population accounts for basically half of the world, and this proportion may be even higher in twenty years.
Simply relying on technological differences and IQ taxes on luxury goods to draw the blood of hundreds of millions of Europeans will not make all the people of the Ming Dynasty prosperous, but can only make some people prosperous.
Of course, you still have to draw blood. How much you draw counts. Your own gain is not important, but Taixi's loss is important.
Zhu Jingyuan and Chu Yuqiang have been doing this.
Now that the Europeans are unable to produce stretch yarn and rayon, Zhu Jingyuan supports Chu Yuqiang to sell the products at a hundredfold profit.
They are just daily necessities such as pantyhose, and have nothing to do with military and industrial technology.
At the same time, allowing a small number of vassal states to export special resources, such as allowing large food states to rely on oil sales and petrochemical products to maintain a high level of living in some vassal states, may breed separatism.
Except for Zhu Jingyuan, the prince's big food country, other places are really not suitable for doing this.
So Zhu Jingyuan had to improve his level and put the solution to the problem on productivity and distribution.
This is a principle that applies to the current Ming Dynasty and will also apply to the Ming Dynasty in the future. Even if the Ming Dynasty unifies the world, it will still apply.
Zhu Jingyuan chatted with Hao Zhongyi and other craftsmen and workers for a while, and finally encouraged them to work hard, make more money and live a better life, and then let them go back to work.
I continued to have a meeting with Lin Zexu, Niu Jian and other officials to discuss the direction of subsequent preparations for the exam:
“I still have some ideas about the plan to allow certain ethnic groups and mixed-race people to pass the exam and obtain citizenship treatment in the Mozhou region of the great food country, and I would like to remind you in particular.
"First of all, please note that this kind of assessment does not test ability and knowledge level. If the elites of foreign races are purely allowed to join, it will not be a good thing for our big food country and even the Ming Dynasty."
Zhu Jingyuan paused for a moment while Lin Zexu, Niu Jian and other officials were stunned for a moment, and then after a brief consideration, they all nodded with serious expressions.
At the same time, I once again felt in my heart Zhu Jingyuan's sensitivity and directness.
Assessing abilities and knowledge is tantamount to bringing in foreign elites to compete with Ming Dynasty’s own elites and even ordinary people for jobs.
Not to mention the ordinary people of Ming Dynasty were unhappy, the elite groups of Ming Dynasty were also unhappy.
Zhu Jingyuan was actually thinking in the longer term, and was not just concerned about the interests of the Ming people.
Zhu Jingyuan was thinking about the future ethnic policy of the Ming Dynasty. This was a thought that began to emanate when chatting with Hao Zhongyi.
The current status of Ming Dynasty may be similar to that of the United States during World War II and the United Kingdom before World War I in Zhu Jingyuan's previous life.
But this is just a status comparison, and Ming's situation is completely different from theirs.
Compared with the United States, Ming Dynasty is not a country of immigrants. Ming Dynasty has its own basic ethnic groups, and they are very strong.
The United States can be relatively open to absorbing all white Thais and Westerners, and after integration, the white Thais and Westerners will become the main body of the United States.
Ming Dynasty must put the interests of its own natural dominant group above other outsiders, and no one can do the opposite.
Compared with Britain, the Ming Dynasty had a larger base, enough to suppress and control the vassal states, and the Ming Dynasty's traditional culture was strong enough.
Britain must consider the conditions of the colonies, formulate management plans based on the colonial culture, and must accommodate the colonial culture.
The purpose of British colonization was to obtain markets and raw materials, which was not in line with the original intention of "colonization".
Ming's "colonial" actions were more in line with the original intention of "colonization".
The largest market of the Ming Dynasty was the mainland. Some vassal states were resource supply bases, but most of them were "colonial land."
The Ming Dynasty did not need and could not pay too much attention to the natives in the colonies.
You cannot ignore or even go against your own basic interests in order to accommodate or even satisfy the interests of the people in the domain.
The result of doing that is to cut off the roots of your own dynasty.
Moreover, the main ethnic group of the Ming Dynasty is also large enough. After the reform, there are 420 million pure-blood Ming people.
Relative to the total population of more than 700 million, this still accounts for 60%.
What's more, these 60% of Ming Dynasty people are directly related to 140 million mixed-race children.
In daily life, it is difficult for them to tell each other apart.
There are only 150 million pure natives left.
Therefore, Ming Dynasty cannot learn from the historical strategies of Britain, France and the United States in colonial and ethnic management.
We cannot allow the elites of various ethnic groups around China to directly join the Ming Dynasty, just like the United States opened its doors to absorb the elites of Europe and the West.
The main ethnic group of Ming Dynasty will not allow policymakers to do that, which would harm the interests of the main ethnic group of Ming Dynasty.
The key is that after absorbing the elites of the other ethnic group, the other ethnic group itself still exists.
What Ming wants to absorb is the other party's ethnic group, not some special individuals.
The object that Ming Dynasty can refer to is the historical Lucia Empire.
A negative teaching material that needs to be taken as a warning, and a general teacher who has repeatedly lied.
The problems that the Lucia Empire had in ethnic affairs had actually already existed and appeared within the Ming Dynasty.
The secondary ethnic group that was supposed to be assimilated and absorbed did not really fully integrate into the main ethnic group.
The Slavic branch groups in the west and south each established their own ethnic identity rather than integrating into one.
The best time for ethnic integration was before the emergence of modern nationalism, that is, during the classical dynastic era.
The process of industrialization and the continuous process of civilization and enlightenment are also the process of building the cognition of modern ethnic groups.
The situation in Ming Dynasty has actually reached a critical point.
If the current system of ethnic management continues, the remaining natives may end up in a situation similar to that of the Slavs.
Koreans, He people, Luzon people, Siamese, and Burmese all belong to the Celestial Civilization Circle, but they are not Ming people.
Zhu Jingyuan wanted them to be equal to Shandong people, Suzhou people, and Zhejiang people, and become a subset of the Ming people, rather than an intersection.
If you pass this critical point and still want to completely control the land where they live, you can only let them disappear completely.
Zhu Jingyuan looked at his two staff with quite complicated emotions and had high hopes for them:
“The direction we want to examine is the other party’s way of thinking, or cultural fit.
“Look at the way the other person lives and does things, whether they look like an ordinary person from the Ming Dynasty.
“These assessments should especially avoid factors that can affect personal abilities and knowledge levels.
“So the questions in the exam should be as life-like and daily-based as possible, without being intellectually difficult.
"Only examine the other party's expressive ability, mode of expression, and proficiency in using Ming Yayan."
Lin Zexu, Niu Jian and the officials nodded again.
Through such an examination, most of the people recruited will be ordinary workers, which will not affect the interests of the Ming elite.
It will not affect the interests of ordinary people, because foreigners who pass the assessment can also receive the same remuneration as Ming workers.
This will cause these foreigners to lose the relatively cheap advantage they originally had.
These foreigners and Ming people originally lived together, rather than being specially imported cheap labor from outside.
The exam is not difficult. As long as you learn the elegant dialect of the Ming Dynasty and get the certificate, you can join the group of Ming people.
Direct salary and benefit standards will drive these ordinary people to use all means to learn the Mingyu.
It can also add some positions and employment opportunities, so that ordinary Ming people can also become Ming language teachers.
The entire ethnic group of Koreans and He tribesmen who basically speak the Ming language will disappear soon.
Other images that are not significantly different from those of Ming people should also be able to dissolve quickly.
As for those with obvious differences, let's continue to wash them out through intermarriage. Not everyone is qualified to become a Ming Dynasty person.
Zhu Jingyuan has planned the direction. As for the specific effect, he can only estimate it at present and thinks it should be feasible.
The Mengxian Industrial Zone in the Mozhou area of Dashiguo can be regarded as the experimental field for this plan and system.
If the effect is not good, or a major problem occurs, then you have to stop or make adjustments.
If the effect is good, or the effect is good after adjustment, it can be promoted in other vassal states and even the Ming Dynasty itself.
Zhu Jingyuan is a decision-maker. Unless he is the only one who can do it, he rarely directly participates in specific work.
After arranging the direction and requirements, Lin Zexu and other officials were left to fiddle with the details and specific implementation.
Zhu Jingyuan began to plan other work, designing air conditioners.
Although I came to Meng County to escape the summer heat, I couldn't forget my work.
The more comfortable environment allows Zhu Jingyuan to work with more peace of mind.
Air conditioning is a very important piece of equipment. Its purpose is not only to make people's lives more comfortable.
More importantly, industrial air conditioners can directly improve production efficiency.
I can go to Mozhou for vacation, but my people and workers can't all come over, otherwise who will exploit the oil fields?
Military air conditioners improve the mechanical efficiency on battleships, improve the efficiency of soldiers, and thereby improve combat effectiveness.
The key is, if you want to use a battleship as a yacht, then the battleship must also have air conditioning...
The principle of air conditioning is actually very simple.
It uses the three-state changes of matter to continuously absorb heat from inside the room, release heat outside the room, and continuously transport heat in a cycle.
When designing an air conditioner, you can also make a refrigerator.
Air conditioners and refrigerators actually work on the same principle. The refrigerator uses the internal space as an air conditioner in the room.
The principle of air conditioning is very simple, so related attempts have actually been studied very early.
But the key to making air conditioners and refrigerators is "refrigerant", or "refrigerant".
This carrier and medium is responsible for repeated vaporization and liquefaction cycles and constantly transporting heat.
Human beings have experimented with refrigerants throughout history, using alcohol, gasoline, carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, and even sulfuric acid.
Most of these guys have strong side effects. Think about the effect of sulfuric acid as a refrigerant...
Therefore, air conditioning has not been widely used for a long time.
It was not until the 1920s that "chlorofluorocarbons" known as "Freon" emerged.
The refrigeration effect of chlorofluorocarbons is very good. The key is that the chemical properties are very stable, they are non-flammable and non-toxic.
This type of compound was once considered the perfect refrigeration material, allowing air conditioners and refrigerators to be rapidly promoted.
It was not until decades later that scientists gradually discovered that although chlorofluorocarbons are not toxic, they can damage the ozone layer.
Driven by the trend of environmental protection, people began to look for more suitable refrigerants.
Zhu Jingyuan doesn't know what other materials can satisfy the refrigerant that is non-toxic and harmless, has good refrigeration effect, and does not harm the environment.
Except for groundwater…
Groundwater can be used as a refrigerant, but the usage scenarios are severely limited.
The temperature difference between winter and summer in groundwater is very small. It feels warm in winter and cool in summer.
As long as the groundwater is pumped out, passed into the heat sink, and a blower is used to drive air circulation, the space can be cooled.
The key is what to do with the water after it has absorbed the heat.
The best way, of course, is to go back to where you came from.
But the problem is that groundwater can be continuously pumped out, but it cannot be poured back at the same speed.
To maintain a balance between pumping and irrigation, an extremely large seepage system is required, and the construction cost is of course prohibitively high.
The next best solution is to purify the water used in air conditioners and use it as domestic water.
But this is equivalent to opening up the groundwater extraction. If the entire city pumps groundwater for water conditioning, the city will settle sooner or later.
Even if a "big dog" like Zhu Jingyuan can freely spend money to buy a water circulation air conditioner for his palace, its effect will be very limited.
The groundwater temperature has a constant depth, that is, the water temperature is exactly the same point in winter and summer.
Usually within ten to twenty meters underground.
Above this depth, the temperature of groundwater changes with surface air temperatures.
The temperature will decrease in winter and increase in summer.
If you want to use groundwater to adjust the temperature, you must pursue the lowest water temperature in summer and the highest water temperature in winter.
Therefore, the source of water for groundwater air conditioners can only be selected at a constant point in summer.
The temperature at the constant point of groundwater temperature is the theoretical limit of groundwater air conditioning to regulate the temperature.
In addition to the heat loss during heat transfer and water flow, the actual adjustment capability will be reduced by a few degrees.
However, the water temperature at the constant point of groundwater temperature and the annual average temperature of the local surface are a pair of very close numbers.
Typically the temperature is slightly higher than the local average annual temperature.
Over in Liusha City in Dashi Country, the average annual temperature is estimated to be around 27 degrees.
If Zhu Jingyuan really did not hesitate to build underground water air conditioning in the Liusha City palace, then it would be a very ideal situation to lower the room temperature of the palace to less than 30 degrees.
What do I need from you for an air conditioner that can only cool down to 30 degrees in summer...
Groundwater air conditioning should only be suitable for temperate areas where the annual temperature difference is huge but the annual average temperature is not too high.
For example, the northern region of the Ming Dynasty and the northern region of Beiyinzhou.
And there's no way this thing can be used on a ship.
So if Zhu Jingyuan wants to make an air conditioner, he should just focus on Freon.
