The Great Industrial Ming Dynasty Started from Beiping

The new science had a second big explosion, and it was more detailed and larger than the first big explosion. The concepts of various disciplines entered a new track, and basic concepts of mass, temperature, speed, force, etc. were put forward.

Fast or slow, high or low temperature, strong or weak strength began to have unified theories and anchor points, such as the anchor point of temperature. People quickly thought of ice and regarded ice as the anchor point of temperature.

The difference from the West is that the West has the suppression of gods, but the East does not. Although the East also has gods and Confucianism, they do not have as much oppression and restraint as the West.

Therefore, although there are some objections in society, it does not make scholars give up research.

Just like the Ming Dynasty in history, a large number of scholars communicated and learned from each other with Western missionaries. There were also voices of opposition and even proposed legal restrictions, but this could not stop this phenomenon.

Even if the imperial court tried to restrict such cultural exchanges, it would involve respecting ancestors.

However, the pursuit of new knowledge was a passion of ancient literati. There were words of sages very early on. Especially in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, new learning itself was based on great development.

In the end, Western missionaries were still able to travel to every corner of China. Even when Sichuan was in the hands of Zhang Xianzhong, there were many missionaries, leaving a large number of historical records.

This is because during the Ming Dynasty, from another perspective, the imperial power had long been locked in a cage. The emperor's voice could not even affect the capital, but could only restrain the imperial city, because the eunuchs in the imperial city were the emperor's slaves. The subjects were not the emperor's slaves. This phenomenon changed in the Qing Dynasty. Everyone in the world was the emperor's slaves.

Tianjin.

In the Daming Chemical Industry Base, the ammonia water from the coke refinery is simply distilled into powder, which is transported to the factory in Tianjin, where it is made into fertilizer and then supplied to the whole country.

Farmers combined the use of farmyard manure, and their output increased by about [-]% on the original basis.

This [-]%, based on the high agricultural yields of ancient China, provided a strong guarantee for the industrial development of the Ming Dynasty. Coupled with economic development, more cultivated land was developed, such as the original Desheng Lake in Baoding.

This area was originally a depression and swamp area. Over the past twenty years, it has become one of the most fertile areas in Peiping. More than one million acres of fertile land have been cultivated, supplying millions of shi of food every year.

The North Parallel Province does not even need to use this batch of food, because the food in various places is self-sufficient. These millions of stones of food can be used to move more people off the land and do other things.

How to consume the food profitably instead of rotting in the warehouse has also become a headache for the court.

If this cannot be done, the food prices in the hands of farmers are already very low. If they are any lower, they will exceed the bottom line of food and clothing for farmers and bring more troubles. The stability of agriculture is the foundation of industry.

On the dock in Tianjin.

Workers operated cranes to transfer the ship's logs to trucks.

The ship's wood is processed in the wood factory in Jinzhou, where there are rolling iron machines using steam engines. After dozens of turns, the trees can be processed into smooth logs.

The logs were loaded into the truck one by one. After the goods were filled, the driver turned on the handbrake, and the steam engine truck made a loud noise, pulling the truck to a nearby warehouse.

According to the seal and registration of the terminal management department on the manifest, you enter the arranged warehouse, either on the same day, or three to five days, or no more than ten days at the latest, and you will be pulled to the platform by the steam engine truck.

Workers use a special-shaped railway tool, which only needs to be docked on the rails. Another section of the track is laid on the ground. The steam engine truck head follows the workers' instructions, and when the wheels under the truck compartment move along the track, " With a click, the truck carriage climbed onto the rails.

Then the front of the steam engine freight car is connected to the freight car, and the freight car is connected to the freight car. The railway freight car that specializes in transporting goods leaves the platform and transports the goods to various stations along the way.

Railways accounted for more than [-]% of the function of transporting goods, replacing the role of post roads and becoming the new "blood vessels" of the Ming Dynasty.

In winter time.

On the docks of Jinzhou, ships transporting ice blocks transport large blocks of ice to the north and south, and enter various cold storages or ice caves to become warehouses for storing commodities, especially grain and meat.

On the river in Jinzhou, workers wear thick fur coats and thick gloves. Workers are all on the ice of the river. They use the tools in their hands to cut large ice cubes. The neat ice cubes can also be sold for money. .

Because of the demand for ice, although there are glaciers in many places, they cannot meet local demand. Purchasing ice from Liaodong has become the choice of many commercial banks. Now the ice making factory in Jinzhou has encountered challenges.

Anping Dusi's cheap labor has allowed Anping Dusi's ice-making industry to grow exponentially.

Many businessmen from the Ming Dynasty came to Anping and opened an ice-making factory in Anping Dusi. They recruited Korean workers who were paid so little that they could only keep their families from starving to death. Everyone worked from morning to night.

They wore thin clothes, not even cotton-padded clothes.

Song Jixing was shivering all over from the cold. He had worked hard for most of the day but could not warm up. He was hungry, cold and tired, but he did not dare to stop. There were still two children waiting for him to take care of him at home. Return the food.

"Pfft."

"Pfft."

Song Jixing held the iron drill and dug holes into the ice. The ice was half a person's height thick, which was very difficult. Every impact made Song Jixing's hands sting. Even so, he still couldn't help it. Dare to rest.

He is lucky.

Song Jixing, a native of Lishan, was originally a member of the local two-class class, that is, a country squire. However, he was a small country squire. The refugees in Lishan destroyed everything and burned down his village.

The merchants of the Ming Dynasty helped King Nan defeat the refugee army. They forced King Nan to fulfill his original promise. The two groups of honorable ministers who fled their own land and the "uninhabited" land were repaid to the merchants of the Ming Dynasty.

The powerful two classes of ministers were qualified to negotiate with the merchants of the Ming Dynasty and conducted many exchanges of interests. They exchanged the interests of Goryeo for their private interests and preserved their own land.

Song Jixing and the others, who were unable to exchange benefits, became local small shrimps and became bankrupt proletarian refugees. They eventually entered the factory of the Ming Dynasty Trading Company, and were no different from the refugees.

There is no shortage of people who can read in the Ming Dynasty business houses. They pay more attention to domestic workers and will not use people like Song Jixing, so Song Jixing does the same menial work as the illiterate Goryeo refugees.

"Hoohoo."

Howling from the north.

"Pfft."

Not far away from Song Jixing, a worker collapsed from exhaustion. The supervisor stepped forward to take a look and asked someone to take the sick worker away from Binghe. This was considered to be his dismissal. As for whether this person could wake up, what would happen next? Life is not considered by the factory.

There is no shortage of workers in factories. The annexation of land in Goryeo has exceeded all periods in history, leading to the proliferation of refugees in Goryeo. A large number of refugees only need one mouthful of food, and they can recruit as many as they want.

Song Jixing got off work numbly.

He has forgotten how proudly he watched the tenants tilling their fields ten years ago in front of his family's compound, as if it happened a lifetime ago.

After getting two hard pieces of steamed buns from the factory, my body was frozen into a ball, and I endured the wind and rushed home.

The wife and daughter-in-law went to Daming.

The company said that he was going to Ming Dynasty to work as a servant. Song Jixing didn't believe it, but he could get a chance to work in the factory. Even if he saw the recruitment manager looking at his daughter-in-law with lustful eyes, what could he do.

His son died fighting against the mob, and he still had to support his two grandsons.

Song Jixing only regarded his wife, daughter-in-law, and granddaughter as if they were dead. As long as he could support his two grandchildren, that was the only motivation for him to live.

The thatched hut is well ventilated.

The mountains and forests belong to the Ming Dynasty Trading Company, and no one can cut them down, otherwise they will lose money or have their legs broken.

The factory's protective team was very cruel. Among them were eunuchs from the Japanese country. No less than twenty Koreans died in the eunuchs' hands. The look in the eunuchs' eyes made people scared.

But the effect is indeed very good. The poor Korean people in the surrounding slum areas would rather freeze to death than go to the mountains to cut down trees.

Song Jixing returned "home".

He didn't see his two skinny grandsons.

He searched the shack area.

Around the factory, I don’t know when refugees began to settle here, hoping to work in the factory one day. More and more refugees came here, and it became a messy shack area.

"My grandson."

Song Jixing's miserable voice floated in the dark night.

The slum areas are becoming more and more cruel, and even the factories are alarmed. The factory owners ask the factory protection team to patrol the slum areas to ensure local security.

Although the cruel factory guards and the eunuchs in charge are inhumane, there are many poor people from the Ming Dynasty in the factory guards. The women in the slum areas can get food in exchange, and the public security is better than before.

The refugees in the slum area accepted the management and protection of the factory protection team.

"Little Baga."

The castrated steward had a wild look in his eyes, and his teammates went to their old friend's shack to relieve their boredom. He targeted the children in the shack area. Children who were targeted by the castrated steward would not survive more than three days.

The eunuch steward looked at the Goryeo children with a smile and called them Xiao Baga.

The extreme cruelty made every regulation of the factory, which was not legally stipulated by law, complied by the refugees and Korean workers. No one dared to offend the factory's regulations, so the factory owners turned a blind eye.

Everyone is affected by the environment.

The Ming Dynasty businessmen in Goryeo only wanted to make quick money.

Make the most money in the shortest time.

As for the future, as for the overall interests of Goryeo, no one cares. They are here to make money. Everyone is making money crazily, and no one cares about human nature.

As long as you are brave and willing to take risks.

Many people borrowed a sum of money to open a factory in Korea that imitated domestic factories, and they could quickly repay their capital. The faster they could repay their capital, the better. Not only did they repay the loan, but their capital also increased day by day. .

What is capital. Capital is the act by which one can sell the rope with which one hangs himself. This allowed Ming merchants to ignore the national justice and sell strategic materials such as iron and grain for high-profit ginseng regardless of the ban.

Uncontrolled capital is the mode that swallows up all total moral laws. But the economic development brought about by the high pressure of capital is indeed more efficient business behavior.

The power and capital of private commercial banks in the Ming Dynasty were able to catch up with the Industrial Bureau of the Ming Dynasty, and the Goryeo region played a huge role.

The feast is attractive, and even the Ming Dynasty Industry Bureau cannot help but be attracted. The Ming Dynasty Industry Bureau does not dare to violate the domestic system, but His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has opened an opening in Nuergan, and the Ming Dynasty Industry Bureau can follow this opening to exert its efforts.

After the defeat of the refugee army, the Ming Dynasty banned the killing of the Korean army on the grounds of civilization and became a prisoner of war of Nu Ergan.

A world covered in ice and snow.

In the summer, there will be ships of all sizes transporting materials and people further northeast along the Huipa River, Zhu River, Suihua River, Heilongjiang and other large and small rivers, because of the agreement between His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and the major local officials last year. , each ministry provides supplies to the Nuerqian Railway Engineering Department.

In return, the Nuergan Railway Engineering Department brought a large amount of goods to various ministries for trade. With domestic demand, the fur trade became a large-scale local trade.

Tribes exchanged furs and other local specialties for Ming products and supplies.

Between the North Sea and the Tartar Sea, on the other side of the Sakhalin Sea, soldiers of the Ming Dynasty built a simple wooden village there, which became the temporary location of Nurgandusi. The surrounding ministries joined the Ming Dynasty.

Yemuhewei, Tatingwei, Gejihewei, Fushanwei, Youtiewei

In Harbin in later generations, the Ming Dynasty built Shangjing City here, and in Changchun in later generations, the Ming Dynasty established Yidonghewei and Yimihewei here.

Hellery Station, Beerzhen Station, Hubaxi Station.

Zhu Yuanzhang's strategy of governance and recovery laid a solid foundation for Nuergan. Based on the original guard post system left by the Hongwu Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty easily strengthened the governance of Nuergan.

Stations were established one by one through various inns, rivers and roads.

Hamgyong Dusi.

The stewards drawn from the eunuchs organized the Korean refugees into a system of corps, detachments, divisions, and squads. More than [-] refugees were enslaved in Hamgyongdusi for a month.

In each of the major supervisory teams, half were eunuchs in charge and half were Ming people.

Plus the garrison army.

The refugees, who had been eating rice porridge for a month, entered Nuergan in batches.

Each station had a certain amount of food supplies, and each team arrived at its destination as planned. With the addition of more than [-] eunuchs, it took half a year to finally reach the scale of [-].

Half a million railway slave workers were jointly supervised by local officials and the Ming Dynasty Guards, forming an army of up to [-] people. Basically, more than [-]% of the young strength of many tribes was removed.

Because of interests.

Help the tribes of the Ming Dynasty and join the young men who supervise the army to get food.

The overall stable situation ensures the smooth progress of the railway project.

Maleheng Ancient Station was built by local officials during the Hongwu Dynasty under the orders of Emperor Taizu. Such inns were not limited to Nuergan in history, including Wuszangdusi and Duogandusi in the southwest. All over the country, no matter how big or small the Dharma kings and chieftains were, under the decree of His Majesty the Ming Emperor, they established post roads to make the administration of the imperial court smooth.

Now they have become the foundation of Ming Dynasty's development in the border areas.

A dozen young tribesmen and five soldiers from the Ming Dynasty were searching the woods on war horses.

There are no roads on the ground, just rotting vegetation and leaves.

Every year, leaves fall to the ground. Because the trees are densely packed in the forest and the sunlight rarely shines on the ground, they rot layer after layer, exuding an unpleasant smell.

But the cold weather covers the smell, making it unbearable only in summer.

The iron hooves of the war horses stepped on the soft rotten ground. The young men of the tribe discovered some footsteps based on the clues. They quickly followed the traces and finally found more than twenty escaped slaves.

These people were killed and hung on the construction site.

There are wild beasts in Nuergan.

People fight against the harsh nature in a tribal situation, and as unarmed escaped slaves, they are not only unable to fight against wild beasts, but also cannot live in the forest in a cruel environment.

But even so, many people still escaped.

The environment in Nurgandusi is too harsh. More than half of the fields are covered with ice and snow all year round. The surface is soft soil, but the bottom is frozen hard ground. If you want to build a road through Nurgandusi, most of the land It's all tough.

Hundreds of thousands of railway workers endured the cold, braved the threat of tigers that came out to snatch people away, and used shovels and other tools one after another. The progress was still very slow, and it was more than three times more difficult than building a road in the mainland.

There are many swamps and depressions in the Nurgan area, but they are also plains, which makes railway construction more difficult than in the mainland. There are good factors and difficult factors.

but.

On the railways in the seven western provinces, people can resist some difficulties and only need to put in more physical strength. But on the railways built by slaves, people have to endure the threat of death, including freezing to death, exhaustion, and whipping.

The death rate of workers was too high. In order to prolong the lives of workers, the Nuergan Railway Engineering Department provided more food.
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Beijing Social Newspaper.

"Goryeo is so poor that refugees have no source of food. It is common for people to starve to death. For a meal, people sell their dignity. The establishment of the Nuergan Railway Engineering Department has rescued hundreds of thousands of Goryeo refugees."

"Not only do they get jobs, but they also get three meals a day."

"You must know that there are still a large number of people in Goryeo who do not have enough to eat, but those refugees who were rescued by the Ming Dynasty only need to work and can already eat three meals a day."

"The Nurgan Railway Engineering Department has also prepared doctors and medicine for them. Injured and sick workers can receive medical treatment and free medical treatment."

"The people in our country don't have such treatment yet. Their living conditions and material benefits are better than those in the country. The Ming Dynasty is too civilized. This is wrong."

Newspapers in the capital published the story of Nu Ergan, which aroused dissatisfaction among the people.

How can this be.

Not to mention three meals a day, people in the Ming Dynasty now, regardless of north or south, basically eat three meals a day. Even in the Jianghuai area and Peiping, there are already four meals a day, and many workers still eat at night. night snack.

But the free medical care is the envy of the people in the country.

Medical treatment is not cheap.

People have money and the number of people who can see a doctor has increased, which has led to a substantial increase in demand for medicine, which has also contributed to the prosperity of the herbal medicine growing industry in Duogandusi, Uszangdusi, and the Western Provinces.

But even so, the cost of medicine is still not low. How can people in China still afford medical treatment? Nuergandusi has provided free medical treatment to foreign people.

soon.

The Nurgandosi Railway Engineering Department published an apology letter in the newspaper, apologizing for the dissatisfaction caused by their efforts to improve the living standards of Korean refugee workers and causing dissatisfaction among the domestic people, and would make corrections.

Because the treatment of the refugee workers in Goryeo was so good, Ming Dynasty was originally helping Goryeo to solve the problem of refugees, but instead it became an economic burden for Ming Dynasty. Major newspapers from Ming Dynasty flowed into Goryeo, and even the two classes in Goryeo could not help but start to reflect.

Based on such public opinion, Kang Binji, the governor of Goryeo, quickly went to visit the King of Goryeo and King Nam of Goryeo.

Finally a new agreement was reached.

Central Goryeo and southern Goryeo must provide a fixed amount of grain to the Nurgandusi Railway Engineering Department every year to make up for the losses of the Ming Dynasty. When it was published in the newspaper, the two classes of Goryeo ministers smiled with satisfaction.

Shangguo was satisfied, and so were they.

Because the imperial court of the previous country officially announced a new law.

Any foreigner who is allowed to enter and live in the Ming Dynasty does not violate the laws and morals of the Ming Dynasty. A newborn born in the Ming Dynasty can obtain the nationality of the Ming Dynasty and become a Ming Dynasty citizen.

But there are many constraints, such as Korea.

Korean newborns born in the Ming Dynasty cannot think that their homeland is Korea, let alone call themselves Koreans. They can only think that they are from the Ming Dynasty. As long as they are found to be from the Ming Dynasty, their Ming nationality will be revoked, and whether to be expelled will be decided based on the specific circumstances.

Yongle thirteen years.

According to the latest statistics, there are probably nearly [-] people in Korea, Japan, Ryukyu, and Laos who have obtained permission from the Ming Dynasty to live in the Ming Dynasty and brought a large amount of wealth.

Foreign craftsmen and scholars were still the absorbing groups of the Ming Dynasty and were given loose policies.

With the prosperity of the country, the size of Ming's army has finally been expanded, reaching [-] million. Military households in the south account for a high proportion of the navy.

The Navy, unlike the Army, is a technical branch.

With the launch of various warships, the navy has also formed a hereditary system. It is a common phenomenon in the navy that sons succeed fathers.

The new army of [-] million is like an unstoppable beast.

Under the decree of Emperor Zhu Di of the Ming Dynasty, the number of military garrisons in various places was strengthened. Nuergandusi, Duogandusi, Zhanchengdusi, Uszangdusi, etc. all increased the number of troops to a greater or lesser extent.

Local security is more stable.

In the southern part of the country and the northern part of the country, another large-scale exercise was carried out from east to west to eliminate signs of horse thieves and other signs. It put an end to the two-year-old ranching model of dividing households into households and gained the greatest peace.

Each household has a fixed pasture, giving military households a place to rotate their grazing, and the guard station strictly regulates the number of horses, cattle and sheep that each military household can raise. Over the years, the pastures in Sainan Province and Saibei Region have become more and more prosperous. .

Until the South King of Goryeo, the Right Army Temperance Envoy, and the original king of Korea in history, Lee Bang-won, died of illness. It was said that he could not close his eyes after his death. People were scolding him. Goryeo's current situation is all because of this person.

News of his death from illness spread to the capital, and how to treat southern Goryeo aroused controversy among the courtiers. (End of chapter)