When there is no partisan wrangling in the court, administrative efficiency can be obviously improved.
No, just the day after the imperial meeting ended, the Ministry of Industry posted a notice.
This was discussed overnight by Emperor Chongzhen, the Supervisor of Liturgy, the Cabinet, and the Ministry of Industry, regarding the transformation of the engineering corps into a trading company.
Of course, there was no such experience in ancient times, but Zhang Mingwei had seen and heard it, so it can be said that the big framework was set by him.
As soon as this notice came out, it immediately caused a sensation in the whole city.
"Have you heard? The Engineering Corps is going to be changed to Daming Transportation Construction Group!"
"What is Communications Construction Group? Why is the name so weird?"
"It's about building roads. As for the meaning of group, it means to unite as a group. Anyone who has money can contribute money and share shares, and you can get dividends later!"
"Is this true? Why does it sound a little unreliable?"
"How could it be unreliable? It is said that most of the money will be allocated from the national treasury to occupy the majority of the Daming Transportation Construction Group, and then a small part will be allocated for private auctions. But it is said that there is an internal decision, and the palace , and the royal family and nobles are all rushing to pay for it!"
"No way? There is such a thing, so it must be profitable, right?"
"That's for sure! If you don't look at the steam train outside the city, it pulls goods back and forth every day without any rest. How can you not make money? It's a one-man business!"
"Besides, even the people above are rushing to contribute money. How can we lose money on this?"
"..."
Everyone has ideas.
Business people interpreted this matter from a business perspective, and they saw that steam trains were a separate business.
Ordinary people don't know who they can buy this stock from, so they know whether they can make money or not!
Suddenly, everyone was extremely curious about the appearance of this new thing. Many people have begun to ask, how to buy the shares of Daming Transportation Construction Group?
Although some people are saying that the imperial court will compete with the people for profits! However, because the shares were open to the public and many people might be able to buy them, they did not second the proposal.
In fact, regarding transportation construction, there were no directly conflicting interest groups in ancient times, so the opposition was not loud.
Generally speaking, for large-scale projects in ancient times, such as building roads and bridges, the government conscripted labor and used manpower for free. Nowadays, the establishment of a trading company can eliminate the need for labor, and many people support it.
The same is true. Those voices that compete with the people for profit will disappear automatically as soon as they appear.
With everyone's concern, more details about Daming Transportation Construction Group came out.
Forty-nine percent of the shares of Daming Communications Construction Group will be used for private auctions. If you want to auction this share, you must first deposit a deposit, that is, a deposit to the Central Bank of Ming Dynasty. Each share is auctioned at one tael per share, ten shares, one hundred shares, and one thousand shares.
And there is a stipulation that each family has only one right to auction proceeds. This means that if a company has auctioned its shares once, it will no longer be able to participate in other auctions. The purpose is to allow more people to participate in this share auction.
The reason why you have to pay a deposit to the Central Bank of Ming Dynasty first is to support the Central Bank of Ming Dynasty in disguise and make more people aware of the benefits of this bank.
For the time being, the capital pool of the Central Bank of Ming Dynasty is too small to lend to such large capital needs. One of the reasons is that people in this era are still accustomed to hiding money in their cellars.
Changes in this matter cannot be achieved overnight, but can only be affected slowly.
The auction time is set in two months' time, in the capital and Yingtianfu. The reason for this is that the transportation is inconvenient and the message delivery is too slow. Dividing it into northern and southern areas will allow more people to participate.
As for other places, there are currently no banks, so we can only give up for now.
Another very important reason why it takes so much time to conduct an auction is because this is the first time this has been done, it is very demonstrative, and involves many aspects. It will take time to sort out all of this.
For example, if the Engineering Corps exists as a trading company in the future, it will become a state-owned enterprise. It will need to operate independently and its financial affairs will be disclosed to shareholders.
As a result, the raw materials needed by the trading company cannot be given free of charge, and they cannot rely on the court's orders to coordinate them. They need to spend money to purchase them from upstream and downstream. How to do this depends on the upstream and downstream aspects. For example, steel mills, mining yamen, etc. will all be affected.
It can be said that when this first trading company is established, it will inevitably trigger a series of innovations in Ming Dynasty's finance. The state treasury revenue that used to be mainly farmland taxes has been transformed into a revenue model supplemented by profits turned over by state-owned enterprises.
This approach has never happened before. Although they didn't need to cross the river by feeling the stones because of Zhang Mingwei's presence, it was still their first time and there were still many aspects to try.
In other words, the restructuring of Daming Communications Construction Group is a very important matter.
It was also a shame that there were steam trains before, and they ran between the bustling capital and Tongzhou, so everyone saw the inevitability of making money. Otherwise, it’s hard to say whether the auction will be successful. After all, it takes a lot of courage to be the first to eat a crab.
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While the people in the capital were discussing the matter of Daming Communications Construction Group, Zhang Mingwei and Emperor Chongzhen were inspecting the military situation.
Based on the details about Jianlu provided by Zu Dashou, Zhang Mingwei believed that Jianlu should not be left idle. Although he is not going to fight a decisive battle with Jianlu at this stage, he must find something to do for Jianlu. One of the most important goals is to consume Jianlu's manpower and material resources.
Otherwise, if left alone, Dorgon obviously focuses on farming, and Liaodong is a black soil. Maybe one day, Jianlu will really be forced to become self-sufficient.
In addition, the situation on the Dongjiang Army side is not clear. If Jianlu is really relieved of his worries, he will find something to do for Jianlu and pin Jianlu to Liaodong. This is what must be done.
For this reason, there was this inspection by Zhang Mingwei and Emperor Chongzhen.
The invention of the steam engine, especially the lathe, significantly improved the Ming Dynasty's gun manufacturing. Even things like rifling are much faster.
After an inspection, Zhang Mingwei smiled and said to Emperor Chongzhen: "The court's current reserves of gunpowder, flintlock guns, and preparations for grain and grass supplies should be enough to launch a war!"
Emperor Chongzhen nodded repeatedly when he heard this, and immediately said with a smile: "The incendiary bombs invented by Mr. are even more powerful weapons against the enemy. I don't believe it. Aren't Jianlu afraid of this kind of fire?"
After a pause, he added: "The new Beijing camp has been training for the past two years, and several people have been useless in flintlock training alone. This kind of training, haha, if I had done it at the beginning, I wouldn't have even thought about it. Dare to think!”
The new Beijing camp had been established before, and 20,000 people were selected from Jiubian. The first year, which was actually only half a year, was dedicated to training the troops and following orders and prohibitions. In the second year, starting from last year, flintlock guns were officially issued and live ammunition training began.
As Emperor Chongzhen said, just the flintlock rifles alone were used to destroy several of them. It can be said that now that Emperor Chongzhen is rich, he has the confidence to do this.
From a certain perspective, he really wanted to see the effect of this army's training.
It's just a pity that there are many places to spend money at this stage. Emperor Chongzhen could not spend all his money on the military. Therefore, after Zhang Mingwei accompanied Emperor Chongzhen on his inspection, he felt that the material reserves were enough to launch a major war.
This is because there has been basically no major war consumption in the past two years. When the cavalry sent troops to the grasslands, most of them were fighting to support the war, and the materials consumed were actually relatively small.
Just over there in Dongjiang Town, military expenditures, food and grass are all filled in. Although in name it opened up territory and gained the Korean Province. However, this North Korean province has actually gained nothing at present, and even in the future, a large amount of money will have to be invested in the North Korean province.
Most of the military expenditures for the southwest encirclement and suppression of bandits were raised by Prince Zhu Cihong in the south of the Yangtze River, but it did not affect the north.
In the process of the Ming Dynasty's army transforming into hot weapons, it has become increasingly obvious that wars are actually fought for logistics, money and food.
At this time, Emperor Chongzhen asked Zhang Mingwei: "Sir, if we want to go to war, where should we fight?"
Without thinking, Zhang Mingwei said directly: "Of course it is Jinzhou. We have transported grain and grass troops by sea, and we have already stocked up part of it on Juehua Island in the early stage. This time, we can also rely on sea transportation to reduce the consumption of grain and grass on the road. In addition, if we attack Jinzhou , the Jianlu reinforcements will arrive too late, so that we can withdraw by sea after the battle."
Hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen nodded. But then, he fell silent, seeming to be thinking about the problem.
Zhang Mingwei didn't bother him when he saw him, and was thinking about things in his mind.
After a while, Emperor Chongzhen stopped and looked at Zhang Mingwei. Judging from his expression, he made up his mind and said: "Sir, although the capital cannot do without you, I still don't trust others to lead this war. I’d better trouble you, sir, to go to Jinzhou, right?”
Zhang Mingwei led troops to conquer the north and south, and within two years he reversed the entire Ming Dynasty situation. His experience has long been rooted in Emperor Chongzhen's heart. Not to mention, the previous battle of Ningyuan was also commanded by Zhang Mingwei.
From a certain perspective, Zhang Mingwei is the Ming God of War.
In this battle of Jinzhou, it is impossible to send only military generals, and if Governor Shanyong Zuo Ying is selected to lead the army, he has no experience in such large-scale battles. Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen thought about it and felt that Zhang Mingwei should go there before he would let him go.
