Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 458 The Coming of the Great Ming Industrial Revolution Era

Because of this.

Now the Northern Expedition is no longer a political need or a national emotional need.

It has also begun to become the interest demand of the entire Southern Group of Ming Dynasty.

This is something that the civil official group represented by the traditional gentry cannot resist, and they themselves often have no choice but to get involved in such a torrent.

In the face of huge commercial profits, they can no longer invest money in land.

The best-selling publication in the "Knowledge" magazine founded by Liu Rushi is the analysis of the commercial interests of the North after the Northern Expedition.

What Shanxi has a large number of coal mines, Liaodong has a large number of iron mines, and the population in the north is cheap are all used as reasons to increase commercial profits.

All of this is Zhu Youjian behind the scenes.

Ruan Dayue naturally doesn't understand economic incentives, he's just more obedient.

Zhu Youjian told him that to be the Minister of the Ministry of Households is to dare to spend money.

Therefore, Ruan Dayue only knew how to invest money everywhere, invested almost all of the treasury savings, and even opened a precedent for the Ministry of Accounts to borrow from the central bank, causing the Ming Dynasty's finances to once again run into deficit.

Zhu Youjian, on the other hand, took advantage of the economic stimulus provided by the Central Bank of Ming Dynasty to desperately increase the fiscal revenue of the Ministry of Accounts.

At the same time, Zhu Youjian also asked Ruan Dayue to ask the Ministry of Households to issue "Northern Expedition Vouchers".

He raised funds from the society based on the credit of the Ministry of Households, while his Huangzhuang and other royal capital enterprises preemptively purchased the "Northern Expedition Tickets", which enabled the Ministry of Households to quickly raise a large amount of funds to continue to maintain domestic political rule and economy before tax revenues were collected into the treasury. invest.

And because the country is developing in a healthy way, the scale of business is constantly expanding, and the tax revenue of the Ministry of Households is continuously increasing, so the profits of the national debt, that is, the "Northern Expedition Bond" are increasing.

In addition, the issuance of "Northern Expedition Tickets" is limited, but more and more people buy them, which makes more and more private capital buy "Northern Expedition Tickets".

The ability of the Ministry of Finance to raise funds is also getting stronger.

It also means that the financial phenomenon of national debt has begun to appear in the economy of the Ming Dynasty, and the financial market has begun to be derived from the prosperity of economic activities in the Ming Dynasty. This not only means that the emergence of banknotes has become possible, but also the emergence of securities. possible.

The central finance began to issue, and it was no longer unable to cope with sudden major natural disasters and military changes due to the lack of tax revenue. The imperial central financial system became more flexible.

Of course, Huangzhuang and other imperial capital companies also made huge profits by purchasing the "Northern Expedition Ticket" first.

As long as the Ming Empire can continue to maintain healthy development, continue to expand externally, and increase the financial revenue of the empire, the national bonds issued such as "Northern Expedition Bonds" will become more and more valuable, and capital will continue to develop upwards.

And once the empire stagnates and begins to decline, the capitalists who bought the national debt will suffer huge losses, so the Ming Empire has quietly changed into an imperialist country.

No matter who is in power, if he wants to protect the interests of most people in the country, he can only continue to expand abroad and increase the central government's fiscal revenue. Otherwise, the entire empire will collapse and no one will be able to escape.

And the capitalists can no longer wish the country to be poor, or they will suffer the most.

During this time, Zhu Youjian also began to pay attention to the development of the imperial industry.

The Northern Expedition was no longer just a war to regain the northern capital, but a means for the expansion of the southern business group of the empire.

And the biggest representative of this group is Zhu Youjian's Royal Capital.

His royal capital controls the largest army, the most land and minerals, and the most advanced productivity.

But Zhu Youjian knows that the most important thing for Royal Capital to maintain its advantage is to maintain the most advanced technological level.

As long as you have the most advanced technology level, you can control the most advanced productivity and thus control the most profits, and control the largest army to occupy more land and minerals.

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Less gossip.

The time returned to the day after Zhu Youjian clearly issued the Northern Expedition.

Zhu Youjian decided that the Northern Expedition conformed to the interests of most people in the southern group, and thus successfully resolved the mass demonstrations provoked by himself.

And he himself has also obtained great psychological satisfaction. This is the first time he has counterattacked civil servants by controlling public opinion.

This feeling makes him very happy.

Especially after Gao Hongtu's look of despair and fear, he felt even more proud.

He knew that Gao Hongtu and other civil servants could only obediently listen to him, and in order to commit crimes and meritorious deeds, he could only work hard to perform the duty of the chief minister of the cabinet according to his emperor's will.

Zhu Youjian is in a good mood.

After the day was over, he came to the Queen's Kunning Palace as promised, and the Queen Zhou accompanied him for dinner.

Empress Zhou also thought about it a lot, and became more docile: "Speaking of which, the emperors are indeed more sensible now that they are older, and they are more filial than before. When they heard that His Majesty was ill, they all rushed to come here. The palace begged the courtiers and concubines to bring them to see His Majesty, it can be seen that although Your Majesty is usually stricter with them, they still have you as the emperor in their eyes."

Hearing what Zhou Hou said, Zhu Youjian couldn't help but think of the fact that after Zhou Hou left, King Hui Zhu Cihong and King Ding Zhu Cihuan shifted the responsibility for breaking into the palace to his mother, Queen Zhou.

But Zhu Youjian didn't expose it, just smiled and said: "I hope so, children and grandchildren have their own blessings, and we don't need to talk about others tonight, let's talk about Fengyue. Recently, we have met all new chicks. The bed is very shy and clumsy, not as mature and tasteful as the queen."

"Old and unscrupulous, there are still people."

"What are you afraid of? This is my harem. Even historians dare not say anything. If you don't call Concubine Yuan together, you can't say that I will forget the old one when I get a new one. It just so happens that she is also born."

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Today's Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youjian often exercises frequently and his body quality has improved a lot after his mood is not as depressed as before.

And only Zhu Youjian knows how it feels, so there is no need to say more here.

On this day, just half a month after the 22nd year of Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youjian received a memorial from Fang Yizhi, saying that a practical steam engine had been developed and had begun to be used for the function of pumping water.

This made Zhu Youjian very happy.

He has always paid attention to the development of science and technology, so he left the palace in a hurry and rushed to the Daming military base.

Zhu Youjian put forward the idea of ​​the steam engine several years ago. From the 17th year of Chongzhen to the 22nd year of Chongzhen, Zhu Youjian paid close attention to the development of this industrial product almost all the time.

Because every advancement of this mechanical product means a major advancement in the field of science and technology in Daming, and if the steam engine is really available today, it means that the industrial level of Daming has entered a new era!

Zhu Youjian couldn't help being unhappy.

The 22nd year of Chongzhen is just an ordinary year for many people in the Ming Dynasty, and the biggest significance is that the Northern Expedition will start this year.

But only Zhu Youjian, who is the emperor, knows that starting from this year will mark the arrival of the era of the Ming Industrial Revolution!
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