The Great Industrial Ming Dynasty Started from Beiping

Chapter 195
Beiping Mansion is based on the Chasi Yamen.

The new official took office three fires, not to mention so many chief officials came at once. The officials of the Yamen have been very honest recently, and they are afraid of becoming bad luck.

According to the inspection envoy Wang Li visited the Prison Division and was in charge of the affairs of Beiping Prison.

There are officials who commit crimes, servants who violate the rules, gangsters who commit crimes, unfilial offspring, and farmers who owe taxes...

Jiang Yande, the chief inspector and prison officer of Beiping, accompanied the inspector respectfully, and patrolled the prisons to check whether there were any murdered good citizens who had been wrongly locked up.

Finally passed the test without causing any trouble, Jiang Yande turned around and went to Shizifu, and told Zhu Gaochi what happened today.

"If he wants to investigate, let him investigate generously. This is a good thing and improves the security environment in Peking."

Zhu Gaochi said calmly while flipping through the official documents.

Although Zhu Di reprimanded him, there was no actual punishment. As usual, after Zhu Di returned to Peiping, although the things were collected in Zhu Di's hands, the official documents after processing would be transferred to the Shizi Mansion and handed over to Zhu Gaochi to read it again, so that Zhu Gaochi could learn how to deal with it. Deal with government affairs.

"It's okay to investigate normally, but what I'm afraid is that the inspector Wang press deliberately picks out the problem, so the official is disturbed."

"He won't be unruly." Zhu Gaochi disagreed.

What the government was afraid of was that the palace would not follow the rules. In order to avoid this, they did not dare to mess around, otherwise it would be an opportunity for the palace to mess around.

The government itself is messing around, and the palace is even more messy.

Jiang Yande felt that what the little prince said made sense, and he breathed a sigh of relief. The new official took office three times. Who knows what the situation in Beiping will be like in the future.

Relying on the advantage of the vacant period, the Wangfu blocked Daquan. If he wanted to return to the situation before the Lanyu case, the third division would have to fight the Wangfu.

These lower-level officials, with small arms and legs, really don't want the gods above to fight, and they will suffer.

The chief envoy and the palace have cooperated very well. I hope that these new chief officials can also reach a tacit understanding with the palace as soon as possible.

"In the Ming Dynasty, if the parents of unfilial people sued the government, it would be a serious crime. There are advantages and disadvantages to this move."

After reading the official document, Zhu Gaochi smiled and said to Jiang Yande: "Everything has advantages and disadvantages, and all efforts must be within the limit. If it exceeds this limit, any good thing will turn into a bad thing."

"According to the inspectors, inspect the prisons to check whether there are any good citizens who have been imprisoned by mistake. If there is no good thing, if there is, you must correct it. Otherwise, he will be punished after the incident and his own future will be affected. That's why he is serious about you. , don't scare yourself."

No matter how hard the enforcement is, at least the rules are like this.

As for how people implement it, it depends not only on the level of governance of the officials, but also on the level of resistance of the people.

If they are all honest people, it will naturally embolden the officials to do even more egregious things.

Every event where the rich and powerful persecute honest people, every honest person who pretends to be subdued, he is an accomplice that promotes the arrogance of the powerful and powerful.

These honest people who had been subdued and swallowed their anger hoped that someone else would come forward, but their actions only contributed to the momentum of the powerful.

In any case, officials in the middle and late Ming Dynasty defended their rights and dared to sacrifice their lives in the fight against imperial power.

In the Qing Dynasty, officials stopped fighting and became servile slaves, and the emperor would sing praises whenever he farted.

Comparing the two, the officials of the Ming Dynasty were stronger.

As for the victims.

Those rebels who dared to make trouble faced injustice, they ate meat and drank alcohol, killed officials and nobles, and those honest disaster victims faced injustice, they sold their sons and daughters, begging for food and dirt.

The progress of civilization has never been given by the ruling class, but by the struggle of the common people.

If he is afraid of death and does not dare to fight, and does not know how to fight, then he deserves his suffering.

As a dignitary, Zhu Gaochi touched the bottom line of the common people, understood the current atmosphere, and felt more confident in his heart.

The common people in the early Ming Dynasty, because of population and land, were honest people as long as they could eat enough, and not many people were dissatisfied with the status quo.

Above the subsistence line and below the well-off level can make the vast majority of ordinary people docile.

Ever since the pre-Qin period in China put forward the remark that princes and generals would be willing to cut the emperor off his horse, the common people had the spirit of resistance.

Compared with the thousand-year-old royal family, it is a huge progress in civilization, and there are still people in later generations who envy the thousand-year-old royal family.

Zhu Gaochi is sometimes very confused, whether the ancestors have more fighting spirit, or the later generations have more fighting spirit.

Even in the most ignorant and insensitive Qing Dynasty, there were people who organized Hongmen and other forces.

Before the surrender of the last prince of Dayuan Island, he also knew how to put the list of Hongmen in an iron box and sink it into the seabed to prevent it from falling into the hands of the Qing court.

Now that the officials are powerful, Zhu Di is worried that the content of the technical newspaper will attract the attention of the officials, so Zhu Di banned the publication of some of the content of the technical newspaper.

Zhu Gaochi was afraid of the power of the government, so he naturally compromised. Anyway, he was still young and had a long time.

Mo Lin outside made an unannounced visit to Beiping, returned to Beiping City, met Wang Li, the inspector, and told him in detail what he saw and heard along the way.

Steam engines, railways, land reclamation...

"I heard that the matter of cultivating the land was proposed by the eldest son of the Wangfu, which attracted Yan Fantai. I think this is a scheme of the Wangfu." Wang Li said with a frown.

Both Mo Lin and Wang Li are students of the Imperial College, and they have mentors, teachers and colleagues in the same department behind them. They have a close relationship and belong to one of them.

Officials take the imperial examination every three years, and they can only have a future after struggling for a lifetime, while nobles and generals get it when they are born.

This is unfair and not good for the country.

Wang Li is an orthodox official, and so is Mo Lin, but Mo Lin is more conservative, while Wang Li is more inclined towards Qi Tai.

"Cultivating land is a major plan for the people's livelihood. It is impossible for Yan Fantai to refuse, and he should not refuse. If his tenure can lead to the cultivation of millions of mu of fertile land in Beiping Province, such achievements may be remembered in history."

Mo Lin said enviously.

The historical materials are very long, and there may not be many people recorded, but anyone who has made great achievements in building water conservancy or cultivating fields can be recorded in it.

The same is true in history, no matter whether it is Wang Ren or Mo Lin, they just mention the appointment and dismissal of an official position in the Dazong Shilu.

And the officials who reclaimed acres or built water conservancy will leave relevant pages in the historical materials.

"The palace's conspiracy." Wang Li looked worried.

The Wangfu is already powerful, and the rights of the three divisions have been more or less taken by the Wangfu. In order to restore the previous situation, they should have cooperated with each other.

But the biggest official of the chief secretary, the chief envoy, is busy with land reclamation and doesn't want to cause trouble.

"Do you know when Shen Butai will come back?" Wang Ren asked suddenly.

Mo Lin shook his head, "Shen Butai just went to inspect the place, and I'm afraid he won't be able to return to Beiping in a short time."

"One doesn't take care of things, the other hides things. The court uses no human beings." Hearing this, Wang Ren sighed, seeing through the intentions of the new right minister Shen Kui.

Now that this person left Beiping, he was avoiding the vortex.

He was waiting for the situation to calm down. After a while, the movements of their group of new officials subsided, and it was estimated that it was time for this person to return.

"No, I want to write a letter to Qi Tai to inform Beiping." Wang Ren made up his mind, without the Chief Secretary to come forward, he alone cannot change the situation.

"Will it cause the dissatisfaction of the two chief envoys?" Mo Lin felt that Wang Ren was a little impatient, and he still hadn't figured out the situation in Beiping.

"I can't wait. You have seen the prestige of the palace in the guard." Wang Ren's voice was a little softer. "The emperor's grandson is young, and the saint is old. I have to be anxious."

Hearing this, Mo Lin sighed and stopped trying to persuade him. Since the crown prince died of illness, the country has gradually become troubled.

It would be nice if the prince was still alive.

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Research and Development Division.

Zhu Gaochi was beaten by Zhu Di, and his attention was shifted from Beiping political affairs to the factory. Apart from reading the official documents approved by Zhu Di every day, he began to return to the headquarters to work.

Today, the R&D Department has formulated a batch of standard weights and measures, including rulers, measuring buckets, weights, containers, etc.

Zhu Gaochi was holding an iron ruler with even scales carved on it.

"We have studied the tooth ruler in Shangzhou. There is no unearthed ruler from the Qin Dynasty, and the Han ruler from the Han Dynasty. The Han inherited the Qin system. The Han ruler should be similar to the Qin ruler."

Xiao Jiu introduced on the side.

"The Han ruler is the most precise silver-stitched iron ruler unearthed so far. The front and back are divided into ten inches each, of which the third inch of one side is divided into three equal parts, the fifth inch is divided into five equal parts, and the seventh inch is divided into five equal parts. There are seven equal divisions, and nine equal divisions within the ninth inch."

That is to say, it is more than [-] centimeters long, the most detailed section, and the scale unit is cent.

One inch is equal to a little over three centimeters, which is equal to tenths, and one cent is nearly one-third of a millimeter. The scale is already relatively accurate.

Straightedges have been born in Shangzhou. There are scales on them, and the decimal system is applied. The lengths are 16.95, 15.78, and 15.8 centimeters, which can be used as a reference for the actual length of a chi in the Shang Dynasty.

In the Song Dynasty, 31 centimeters was the tentative standard for rulers.The scales of the Ming and Qing Dynasties are roughly the same, and the Jiajing tooth ruler in the Ming Dynasty is 32 cm long.

"To be precise, it can't be regarded as setting standards, but adopting our standards and building a set of original rulers at the headquarters to make the rest of the rulers."

Zhu Gaochi nodded in satisfaction, and then saw the "balance".

Seeing that Zhu Gaochi was interested in this object, Xiao Jiu took the initiative to introduce: "This object is called 'Weighing'. The bronze wares of the Western Zhou Dynasty are engraved with such inscriptions: "Golden Ten Stones", "Silk Three Stones", and Jin Shiyun". "Gold" is not gold, but refers to copper; "寽" and "Yun" are units of measurement. "

"From these inscriptions, we can know that as early as the Western Zhou Dynasty, the ancestors had mastered the principle of levers and made the tool "weighing" to weigh the mass of objects.

Xiao Jiu knew that the little prince liked to hear about the origin of these technologies, so he explained the trade-offs from the Western Zhou Dynasty to the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and even the current development.

"Early weighing consists of a beam and two weighing pans. The center of the beam is hung with a thin rope as a fulcrum, and the weighing pan is hung at both ends of the beam with a thin rope. There are holes at both ends of the beam, and the thin rope is passed through the hole fixed."

"We improved it and replaced it with iron." Pointing to the iron balance, Xiao Jiu said with a smile.

"This thing is good."

Zhu Gaochi laughed.

(End of this chapter)