Prince of Chaos

Chapter 458 The Noble Traveler

Yang Junmin left, while Shen Shixing and others stood in Ciqing Palace.

And Zhu Changluo didn't intend to let them sit down anymore.

Now Zhu Changluo seems to have become a domineering dictator.

"Yang Shangshu is gone, but the affairs of the household department can't be left behind. I decided to let Mr. Shen temporarily take charge of the household department, and Liu Pinru will assist in the management. All matters related to the issuance of national bonds will be reported to the Ciqing Palace for ruling."

After Shen Shixing heard Zhu Changluo's order, he immediately replied: "The minister leads the order."

Zhu Changluo continued: "Speed ​​up and come up with a practical plan. I hope that the next plan will be well-founded and feasible. Don't tell Gu Lai that it's not surprising and deadly. I have been dealing with the affairs of Xishanhuangzhuang for many years, and there are some things that I don’t say alone, but it doesn’t mean that I don’t understand.”

Shen Shixing couldn't help but wiped the sweat from his forehead, he was really panicked.

It turned out that he thought that although His Highness the Crown Prince was extremely intelligent, he was only a teenager after all.

However, Zhu Changluo's reaction to him today is no longer comparable to that of a "boy".

Zhu Changluo obviously knew more about some things than the few standing there.

Therefore, if you still try to fool the past with the original method, you have to consider the consequences of doing so.

"Your Majesty must take care of this matter."

Shishi Bank immediately reassured.

Zhu Changluo said: "I trust Mr. Shen alone."

Then Zhu Changluo continued: "Okay, it's nothing, the three gentlemen will go down first."

"My minister retire."

After Shen Shixing and the others left Ciqing Palace, the three couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief at the same time.

"His Royal Highness is an extraordinary person."

Wang Xijue sighed.

Shen Shixing and Wang Jiaping glanced at Wang Xijue, and they couldn't help but nodded slightly to express their agreement.

Today's experience really taught the three of them a vivid lesson.

The official at the Shangshu level just said what he said, and he acted vigorously and resolutely, as anxious as a shower, and did not cause any unnecessary entanglements in this matter.

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The chime bell sent by Matteo Ricci suddenly rang at this time, Wei Zhongxian and others were startled, and hurriedly searched for the sound, for fear that an assassin would break into the Ciqing Palace.

Zhu Changluo turned his head to look at the two chime clocks. At this moment, the hour hand on the chime clock was pointing to the Roman numeral IX. Seeing this number, Zhu Changluo knew that it was nine o'clock.

It feels so good to see the exact time again. Although the two self-ringing clocks only have hour and minute hands, they are undoubtedly the representatives of the highest mechanical technology in this era.

Zhu Changluo said to Wei Zhongxian who was still watching the chime clock cautiously: "Don't be nervous, this is the chime clock telling the time, and the time is now nine o'clock in the morning."

Wei Zhongxian looked at the chiming clock in disbelief, he couldn't figure out why this square box made its own sound.

However, when he heard Zhu Changluo's words, he was even more surprised. Obviously, he did not expect His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to be so familiar with this thing.

Wei Zhongxian asked: "Master, what is nine o'clock?"

Zhu Changluo said: "Gu is talking about Taixi's counting time. Daming divides a day into twelve time periods and calls them hours, while Taixi divides a day into 24 time periods. This is equivalent to one hour in Daming It is equal to two Western and Western times. This kind of time division is called hours alone, which means small hours."

"Now the shortest hand on this chime clock is the hour hand, and the longer one is the minute hand. The minute hand circles around the dial, and the hour hand moves one step. The number pointed by the hour hand is a Taixi number, which is equivalent to a Ming number." Nine', and this time is also the beginning of Si time among the twelve hours."

After listening to Zhu Changluo's words, Wei Zhongxian didn't know what was going on. He thought His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was the kind of saint who was born with knowledge. Otherwise, how could he know so much?

Involuntarily, Wei Zhongxian's reverence for Zhu Changluo became even more devout.

Then Zhu Changluo said: "Send these two chiming clocks to Xishan Institute of Technology and Xishan Institute of Physics, and ask them to copy them in the shortest time. Whichever is copied first, I will give an extra 5000 taels in the college budget for the coming year." expenses."

Wei Zhongxian said: "Yes."

Then Wei Zhongxian looked at the other tributes that Matteo Ricci sent, and asked, "Master, what should we do with the remaining tributes?"

Zhu Changluo said: "Yaqin kept it, made a few copies of the map of the world, and then handed it over to Chen Zhenlong, who asked Chen Zhenlong to check and fill in the gaps in this map, and strive to draw a map of the world belonging to my Ming Dynasty as soon as possible. As for the three oil paintings and the Catholic scriptures and Let the pearl cross be stored in the inner treasury."

After arranging these things, Zhu Changluo began to think about how to plan his next move.

Although the issue of national bond issuance has a rough outline in his mind, but when it comes to implementation, there are still many details and steps to consider.

Otherwise, you will lose everything if you are not careful.

Zhu Changluo is looking forward to the success of the national debt.

In his eyes, the success or failure of the national debt is directly related to whether he can win the huge class of literati and landlords.

In this feudal society dominated by scholar-officials and landlords, although the imperial power is supreme, in many places, this is not the case.

The power of the scholar-bureaucrats and landlords is still very large. They directly control the grassroots and control the vast majority of the land and farmers.

If, if you are tough with them, although Zhu Changluo may have the upper hand at the beginning, and kill the Quartet, killing many feudal landlords.

However, during the slaughter, when the remaining landlords found that the land wealth after being slaughtered had not been circulated into their hands, they would involuntarily form a group to resist.

When their resistance becomes stronger and more violent, Zhu Changluo's end will be miserable, and it is definitely not the kind of crooked plot that appears in online novels.

After all, in the feudal era of thousands of years, they have overthrown countless dynasties.

Unless there is a force that can replace them, otherwise, these strata with scholar-bureaucrats and landlords as the mainstay will never be exhausted.

If the new dynasty does not cooperate with these literati and landlords, then this new dynasty is destined to be a short-lived dynasty.

And the power that can replace them is the power of industry and capital.

In the original historical time and space, due to the rise of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment in the West, the capitalist class dominated by industry began to rise.

During the process of their rise, this group of people behaved extremely cruelly.

Charles I of England and Louis XVI of France were pushed to the guillotine successively. The intensity of the revolution was no less than the rise and fall of any court that changed the world.

Therefore, if Zhu Changluo wants to succeed, he must also borrow this power, and the cultivation of this power must also center on him. The feudal landlords were guillotined by the emerging class.Then this is a big joke.

However, before that, Zhu Changluo still had to stabilize the situation and slowly tighten the noose by boiling a frog in warm water.

Otherwise, if these literati and landlords reacted, Zhu Changluo would be the one to suffer.

The interests of these people have penetrated into their souls. If their interests are shaken, their combined power can definitely turn mountains and seas, and make the world go crazy.

After all, the number of illiterates in this era is almost as high as 90.00% nine!
And these poor illiterates are the most easily instigated and driven group of people.

The lowest level of illiteracy has no feelings for family and country, and some are just simple and unadorned plots of eating.

Whoever can give them food, they are their vassals.

The political situation in the last years of the Ming Dynasty was gloomy, and various natural disasters brought about by the Little Ice Age kept tormenting the people at the bottom.

At this time, whoever can give them a little favor for a short time, they will be grateful to Dade for obeying the rule of the new master, not to mention shaving their heads and making them easier to wear, they can change their original living habits. . .

And this is why they were able to quickly occupy the whole country after the Qing Dynasty entered the customs.Because, their arrival is to give these bottom people a chance to breathe invisibly.

Moreover, more importantly, there are too few people of insight who would rather sacrifice their heads than defend their homes.

And their vigorous death will not cause any waves among the people at the bottom, because, in the eyes of the people at the bottom, these people are no different from the coming Manchus, they are all a group of people wait sir.

For the upper-class gentlemen and the gods fighting, for the ordinary people at the bottom, winning or losing is the same,

As long as they obey instinctively and plant the land well to survive, that is the happiest thing.

Therefore, in this era of illiteracy everywhere, imitating Lu Xun to make a cry, that is really a brain twitch.

Because the illiterate people at the bottom do not understand at all.All they want is a meal that will allow them to survive. As for who the emperor is, it doesn't make sense to them at all.

Therefore, Zhu Changluo's top priority now is to strive to improve the literacy rate and cultivate a group of new classes that can replace the old landlords.

Otherwise, this world is doomed to fall into an endless cycle, just like the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties. Although they have different names, their essence is the same.

Therefore, Zhu Changluo is also extremely concerned about the way the national debt is used this time.

In his plan, the money raised by the national debt cannot be directly handed over to the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Industry.Instead, it is necessary to set up a special bidding and procurement agency.

Put this money into the market to activate the production potential of the market, so as to cultivate a group of interest groups who make a living from industry.

Of course, this money will not be given for nothing. Zhu Changluo will try his best to collect taxes from these emerging industries.

After all, he didn't travel to this era to make money by doing his own business.

Although money is good, but at the point where one's own status is extremely prominent and one has no worries about food and clothing, the attractiveness of earning money has dropped greatly.

What he thinks more is that if he can use his foresight ability to shine a beam of light in this world full of corruption, and guide the invincible giant ship of Daming to continue to ride the wind and waves!

Therefore, a long time ago, Zhu Changluo did not take the formula of the glass as his own because of his own selfishness. He not only made the formula public, but also gained huge benefits because of it. At the same time, he also increased the production of glass and fairy happy water. , This wave of operations can make more money than selling glass under cover.

And the later cement formula, Zhu Changluo also made it public.

Because, Zhu Changluo knew that no matter how big Xishan Huangzhuang was and how much money it made, it would not be able to form a community of interests, nor would it be able to form a huge industrial chain.

Therefore, Zhu Changluo disclosed the cement formula to allow more people to participate, thereby creating more jobs and realizing more industrial taxation.

It is also these taxes and the huge amount of cement production that supported Zhu Changluo's construction of the cement passage from the capital to Ningxia this time.

Now, more than half of this road has been built, and the transport caravans have quickly connected Ningxia and the capital. The exchange is in the originally barren hinterland of Ningxia.

And these huge changes have also made the influence of the Han people further affect the Western Regions and other places after hundreds of years.

When the conditions are ripe, not only Liaodong will be stable, but the Western Regions and places further west will return to the embrace of Ming Dynasty again.

Therefore, for Zhu Changluo, the advantages of making these unique businesses public always outweigh the disadvantages.

Because, his current status is not only the initiative of these new things, but also the maker of new rules.

Therefore, as the rule maker, Zhu Changluo can always obtain greater benefits from this rule, and this benefit is definitely more than what he can earn from doing his own business alone!
Now, what Zhu Changluo expects is that the new group he has worked so hard to guide will be strong enough!

When this emerging interest group is attached to Zhu Changluo's guidance.

At that time, it was easy for Zhu Changluo to take the lives of the bureaucrats and landlords again.

After all, after their lives are overthrown, Zhu Changluo will be supplemented by new interest classes.

When this emerging class is completely oriented towards the industrial revolution.

Zhu Changluo can calmly solve the problem of land annexation, thus giving most of the bottom-level people a dignified way of life.

Let them live decently, study, work, farm, and discover their potential in various ways.

At this time, these ordinary people at the bottom will wake up and realize that they are also people with dreams and pursuits.

If this step can be achieved, even if Zhu Changluo dies, he will die without regrets.

Thinking of this, Zhu Changluo felt that he was really an extremely noble time traveler!
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