Lord of the House

(The two chapters are updated together, ask for a red ticket)

Sun Jingxuan, Jiang Yue, and Lin Fu directly talked about the steam pump, put their hands on the blueprint, and said, "I have carefully read the structural drawing, and I have a suggestion from the Machinery Manufacturing Division that it will be trial-produced at the Xipo Coal Yard in Yushui after the year. I have some different ideas; after the feast tonight is the New Year's Day, I can't drag you guys to talk about this after today, and I'll gather today..."

"Twenty thousand Huaiyuan is a bit too much, and I can save some more." Jiang Yue opened the steam-driven window paper by Lin Bing, and he could already see a wider world. The Department of Mechanical Manufacturing, but all the trivial matters are called to the deputy. His mind is almost all used on the steam engine, and he also knows that the prototypes that have been created are both simple and expensive.

In fact, Jiang Yue once presided over the construction of the world's most sophisticated astronomical instrument, the hydraulic armillary sphere. It can be said that he is a master of classical mechanics, learning from ancient and modern, and the four-wheeled carriage built by Huaidong in his early years. In addition, the improvement can be practical; and the Heishuiyang waterway has been closed for nearly a hundred years, and Jiang Yue first came up with complete information-with the work of nearly a hundred craftsmen, in just one year, he could only Steam prototypes were built to this extent.

20,000 Huaiyuan can recruit 2,000 laborers, and the new water pump built with such energy may not even be able to keep up with the 200 to 300 people who use manpower to drain water around the clock. Without the strong support of Lin Bing, I want to It is no doubt a dream for the coal yard to take the initiative to adopt such an expensive and simple water pump.

"Just trial production in Lishui coal yard is not enough," Lin Fu cut off Jiang Yue's words and said, "Lishui, Xuanzhou, Huaiyang, Xiling, Putang, Zhuxi, Shouzhou and Yuanzhou Luxi have eight coal mines. If you want to make a trial production of this pump, the military commander will allocate another 200,000 silver dollars to you. At this point, you don’t need to go to the coal yard to watch, and assign eight groups of craftsmen to make them improve independently. For the prototype model, you coordinate in the middle of Jiangning..."

If Lin Fu didn't push hard, just trial-produced a set of new water pumps in a coal yard, it might take thirty to fifty years, maybe hundreds of years, before the steam engine could be miniaturized and practical...

He hopes to see steam ironclads rampage across the East China Sea in his lifetime, so what if he doesn't step up?

"It might be a little stressful to try to make eight sets of water pumps at once." Sun Jingxuan asked hesitantly, thinking that too many things happened today, he hesitated for a while, and it was inconvenient to directly object.

According to the standard of the old military system, 200,000 silver dollars was enough for the rations of a town's soldiers and horses that year.

After the Lijin Bureau controlled by the Privy Council merged the household taxes, the total annual revenue this year has just reached 20 million silver dollars. 200,000 silver dollars seems to be only 1% of this year's annual income, but there are too many key things to do. Sun Jingxuan and Lin Mengde discussed that the total amount of money to be allocated to the Machinery Manufacturing Company next year is only 200,000 silver dollars. .

At this time, Lin Fu has to draw an additional 200,000 silver dollars to test the coal yard pump. How can Sun Jingxuan not feel extravagant and wasteful?

Sun Jingxuan has been in charge of shipbuilding, iron smelting, equipment, armor and other affairs over the years. Naturally, he also attaches great importance to the development and practical application of craftsmanship, and he is very clear about the meaning of this. In fact, Jiang Yue has been leading machinery manufacturing since last autumn. Secretary, his main energy is devoted to the design of the steam engine. In addition to the nearly 100 craftsmen who directly used it, the ordnance supervisor and the iron smelting supervisor have all cooperated vigorously to build the trial-produced pipes, cylinders, and rod wheels. After investing a lot of manpower and material resources, it was only with the support of Sun Jingxuan that the prototype model that seemed to be placed in front of Lin Bie was brought out. It was also Sun Jingxuan who gritted his teeth and supported Jiang Yue with 20,000 silver dollars to trial-produce a new type of water pump at the Xipo coal yard in Lishui, but he never thought that Lin Fu would suddenly increase his budget tenfold.

And the prospect of war application currently seems to be the most promising. The Privy Council members have high hopes, and Lin Fu himself is always concerned about the progress of Fuhuosulfurdan. Sun Jingxuan only plans to spend less than 40,000 silver dollars for further development next year.

Fuhuosulfurdan, Lin Fu himself is more used to calling it gunpowder; the Northern Expedition may not be delayed for three years, and he wants to popularize Fuhuosulfurdan in the whole army within three years, mainly because the cost is too high, and it is not possible at present. Mass production. And if the new firearms and guns cannot be equipped in batches, it will not have a significant effect on the improvement of the overall combat power.

Therefore, in Lin Fu's view, the related research and development work on Fuhuo Sulphurdan should continue, and a small number of elite soldiers will be selected to gradually try out new weapons, but in Lin Fu's view, it is not as urgent as the steam engine.

"Yan Hu will probably also think about recuperating for a period of time. In the past few years, I will also think about resting in Jiangning for a while to straighten out many relationships," Lin Fu said, "If there is no accident, Ming In the next year, they will only invest troops in Haidong to help the Zhen clan seize the Korean Peninsula—whether to seize the entire Korean peninsula or let the Zhen clan and the Lee clan govern the Korean peninsula, it will be another discussion, but the scale of the war in the next year and the next year will be far less. It will be as dense as this year, and I will ask you to take a breath..."

"If there is no big military plan tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, the trial production of eight sets of water pumps will barely be able to handle it, but the mechanical construction can save 200,000 silver dollars." Sun Jingxuan said.

The scale of revenue that Huaidong can control at this time is almost two and a half times the revenue of the central Yanjing before the Northland is not lost. Even if this is the case, an additional 200,000 silver dollars must be pulled out, and an extra 200,000 silver dollars must be withdrawn from the Ordnance Supervision. Squeeze, you can know the tightness of the support.

Lin Fu smiled and said to Jiang Yue: "Look at Duke Jing Xuan's frowning face, these 200,000 silver dollars, if you don't help me use them, then I will be reprimanded for you as 'excessive extravagance'. But don't put too much pressure on you." After a short pause, he said, "Of course, I made the coal yard try out the new type of water pump first, not without a trade-off..."

"Water power in the world has the advantage of far less than human and animal power. However, there are too few coal fields that can obtain water power. Right now, there is only one in Zhuxi, Yizhou. Sun Shangwang wrote in a letter saying that Zhuxi coal is very cheap and has the advantage of water power. There are still huge profits to be made in Mingzhou and other places sold by sea ships; Hu Qiaoyi wrote another letter saying that the coal price in Mingzhou is 20% lower than that in Jiangning. The coal consumed in Jiangning is all produced in Lishui and Xuanzhou. The transportation canals are connected, and the water transportation is no more than 200 miles away. I calculate that the coal in Xuanzhou and Lishui can be drained by new equipment, and the price of coal can be reduced by one-third. Porcelain, lime and brick and tile industries consume how much coal and stone in a year; how much is the consumption of Jiangning, Weiyang, Hangzhou, Mingzhou, Pingjiang, Chongzhou, Jiangxia, Tanzhou and Jiangzhou in a year Coal! Calculate how much money will be saved in the six major coal yards such as Huai Li and Xuanpu in a year?"

Lin Fuyouxin temporarily controlled the world with the structure of "Chongguo Gongfu - Privy Council". In addition to firmly controlling military power, there is another, and arguably more important, measure, which is to continuously strengthen the financial power that the Privy Council can directly control.

Lin Fu took the five counties of Chongzhou and Yizhou Island as private towns, except for the income of private towns and the lichen of sea trade; as early as after the Jiangning War, Lin Fu declared the mines in various places as public ownership in the name of Zhengshitang, and set up a mine supervisor under the Privy Council. Secretary to govern mining affairs; there is also the workshop department to govern the world's workshops.

In later generations, in addition to the income of private towns and directly-operated workshops, customs duties and industrial and mining value-added tax are the direct sources of income of the Privy Council.

Before Huaidong, these incomes were almost not included in the scope of the central revenue, but were embezzled by gentry and tycoons from all over the country, and almost no one could estimate the scale. Therefore, after the Jiangning War, Lin Fu demanded that the mine and the The workshops were all under the jurisdiction of the Privy Council. At that time, Chen Xiyan, Cheng Yuqian and others who presided over the center had no objection, and because the local government was devastated by the war, the gentry and township forces were suppressed to the extreme. Even if they wanted to object, it was far from impossible. twist into a force.

Workshop is second.

The war was called ploughing all over the place. Even though the workshops in Weiyang, Pingjiang, Hangzhou, Danyang and other places were not devastated by the war, they were directly connected with Huaidong due to weaving and dyeing, nest silk, shipbuilding, iron smelting, and porcelain firing. The gap between the controlled factories is too large and will be eliminated. At present, the large-scale factories and workshops that really have Italy are mainly concentrated in Chongzhou, Jiangning and other places, which are easy to control.

What Lin Fu started to do in the middle and late stages was to control the mines scattered in various places, and no longer make the mines a source of profit for the gentry and villagers in various places.

Although coal has been burning for four or five hundred years in this world, and almost all counties have a large number of coal cellars, they were destroyed by wars that lasted for several years or even more than ten years. There are only two main coal quarries left: one is Taihu Xiling and the other is Xusi Huaiyang.

In order to recover the mining rights in Xiling of Taihu Lake, Lin Fu sent three thousand soldiers to stay in Changxing for three months before negotiating the conditions. , and additionally levy the mining right tax at the ratio of ten to one and belong to the central government; this has also become an example for the Privy Council to deal with private kilns in the future.

The Huaiyang Coal Yard was actually built after the war in Xuzhou. Lin Bingzhu ordered Li Wei to restore the old kiln in Xuzhou and expand production to supply the iron smelting and living needs of the people in Shanyang, Chongzhou and other places. East direct control - At that time, Sun Shangwang had just built the first coal well in Zhuxi, Yizhou.

In order to meet the needs of millions of baskets of coal a year with a population of more than 100,000 households in Jiangning, Lin Fu directly requisitioned the old kilns in Lishui, Xuanzhou and other places, and recruited thousands of hungry people and prisoners of war to expand production for the miners.

In order to ensure the coal used in the Putang iron yard, large-scale coal mining was carried out in the coal mountain to the south of Putang; and after the Huirao War, the coal from Putang took the waterway and entered Fuliang, which was used exclusively for Fuliang to burn porcelain. .

Fuliang is Jingdezhen in later generations. At that time, it was famous for porcelain smelting, but the domestic porcelain industry and the world-famous Fuliang tea industry, which once produced five million catties of tea per year, were destroyed.

Lin Fu used Yang Zichen to govern Jiangzhou, and temporarily placed Fuliang, Duchang and other counties under the jurisdiction of Jiangzhou Prefecture, hoping to restore Fuliang's porcelain and tea industries as soon as possible...

After the Yuanzhou war, the old kilns in the Luxi coal yard were also acquired as public property, and the prisoners of war were invested in digging coal to supply cities such as Yuanshui and Ganjiang rivers that could be reached by waterways; Dong Yuan also dug coal kilns in Shouzhou, which were quite large. Lin Fu's envoy Ning Zechen led his troops to seize Shouzhou, and naturally he mercilessly took the old kilns in Shouzhou as public property, and wanted to invest manpower to expand production.

Excluding those produced in Luxi, Shouzhou and Xiling of Taihu Lake, only Huaiyang, Lishui, Xuanzhou, Zhuxi, and Putang coal yards have produced more than 20 million baskets of coal a year so far. , worth five million silver dollars, with nearly a quarter of the profit.

It is precisely because of the huge demand for coal and the existence of a large amount of cheap coal in the coal yard that it is possible to endure the crude, cumbersome and expensive cost of the new water pump in the early days, and because it is put into practice early in the morning, the new technology will really take root. Go on, get nourishment and development, and not put it on the shelf.

Of course, Jiangning City used to be the most important coal-burning area in the world. Nearly two million baskets of coal were transported in a year to make up for the shortage of firewood. The devastation of the war and the continuous reduction of the population did not reduce the consumption of Jiangning. The amount of coal has nearly doubled.

On the one hand, under the control of Huaidong, the Jiangning workshop has even increased in the past two years on the basis of restoration - more importantly, the war has destroyed the traditional production model to the extreme.

In the past, men ploughed and women weaved and weaved by themselves. After the devastation after the war, the primary task of all localities was to restore farming, and almost all labor was devoted to farmland, water conservancy and roads. The traditional family-style weaving and dyeing production model was destroyed. And Huaidong's new cloth with good quality and low price came in - the traditional charcoal-burning industry also completely collapsed, so that the high-quality and cheap briquettes also began to enter ordinary farmers' families smoothly.

If the traditional governance model is used to restore the world from chaos, the first thing to do is to restore self-sufficiency to the natural economy. Jianghuai, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Fujian, two lakes, Guangnan and other places have formed a huge market for the dumping of primary industrial products...

Due to the collapse of traditional industries such as weaving and dyeing, charcoal burning, and house building, a large amount of labor was saved, and even made up for the labor shortage caused by the decline of the war population. More labor to farm—

In the past, in the Jianghuai region, the average household was ten mu of land, and a family with a couple and four children could cultivate ten mu of land with only one husband, and get thirty stone of grain. At that time, the men in the village supported each other, built houses and repaired houses - now the husband and wife can cultivate 15 or even 30 acres of land, get 40 or even 80 stone of grain, and the cloth and farm tools needed for life and production. , ceramics, bricks and other materials, you can sell food for exchange - this process seems simple, but itself is a substantial increase in production efficiency.

At least in Huaidong, Pingjiang, Danyang, Hangzhou, Huzhou, Mingzhou, Jiaxing and other prefectures, in recent years, the per capita grain output has exceeded that before the war by a large amount. This is due to the large-scale use of iron agricultural tools, and there are also primary The formed industrial and mining business system promotes production efficiency.

With the traditional political model, it is difficult to imagine that after Huaidong has fought two major battles in a year, it can continue to transport a large amount of goods from Huaidong, the seven prefectures in the south of the Yangtze River, and eastern Zhejiang to the two lakes and Jiangxi. Food to settle local people's livelihood.

Of course, the formation of this process also requires several developed industrial areas such as Chongzhou and Jiangning, which can provide so many primary industrial products to such a large population; With the necessary cheap transportation conditions, Huaidong new cloth can be transported to Ganzhou in the hinterland of Jiangxi through Yangzijiang, Poyang Lake and Ganjiang two or three thousand miles, and the freight does not account for 10% of the selling price.

In Lin Fu's memory, after the Jiangnan area was fully developed in the Song and Ming Dynasties, the commodity economy grew rapidly, and traditional workshop industries such as weaving and dyeing, nest silk, porcelain firing, and iron ware developed greatly. Capitalism has sprung up in the Jianghuai region, not without reason.

Lin Fu still can't make a fine judgment on the world he lives in, and how big the deviation is from his memory, but the traditional commodity economy in the Jianghuai region was quite developed in the current world. The party and the commercial activities of the world have long been inextricably linked - this is also the fundamental basis for Lin Funeng to vigorously develop maritime trade, build factories, develop banks, and strengthen maritime commerce in Jiangning and Huaidong.

Right now, Lin Fu's first choice is whether to speed up the process or cut it off.

In the new dynasty to establish a monarchical autocracy that strengthens the center, it is necessary to cut off this process.

The growing power of factory owners and merchants, the formation of a broader overseas market and a unified market that is more closely linked at home, the large-scale movement of population, the demand for a large number of skilled workers, the use of new machinery and new technologies, Greatly improving production efficiency, further enriching living and subsistence materials, and enabling more people to receive education, will greatly promote the enlightenment of the people's wisdom, and will also help the traditional bureaucratic group and the landlord class who rely on the benefits of land rent to produce. In addition, there will be more groups with inconsistent interests and even sharply contradictory groups - the set of things that are granted by the monarchy and the gods will inevitably go bankrupt.

In Lin Fu's memory, some emperors in later generations clearly realized the destruction of imperial power by this process, so they deliberately cut off this process by force. Seclusion is just a typical means to cut off this process.

If there is only one country and only one nation in the whole world, that's fine.

Lin Fu has the memories of later generations, and clearly realizes that if he wants to cut off this process now, it will be easy, and he can completely trample hundreds of millions of subjects under the feet of one person. After a hundred years of his death, the new empire may continue for a hundred years, two hundred years or even longer, but the history of being invaded, ravaged and slaughtered by aliens will inevitably repeat itself again and again...

In order to reverse the cycle of history, with Lin Bing’s insights from later generations, it is necessary to accelerate the process of advancing from an agricultural society to an industrial society; to avoid the **** storm caused by the intensification of contradictions, it is necessary to actively accept this process according to the situation. The gradual weakening of imperial power - although this process will also have many negative effects, it needs to be reduced by external expansion.

But Lin Fu was obviously more willing to invade and ravage the alien race than to invade and ravage the alien race.

At present, the coal yard directly controlled by the Privy Council has an annual output of more than 20 million baskets of coal. If it is only used to consolidate the imperial power of the new dynasty, this output is not only sufficient, but also far redundant; With the recovery of the situation and the further penetration of primary industrial products into various places after the war, as well as the further development of workshops and workshops, the coal consumption in the area south of Huaishui will increase several times or ten times.

If the new water pump reaches the practical level, it can really reduce the cost of coal mining by one-third, even with the existing coal price and output, it can also increase the profit by nearly two million silver dollars per year, then the new water pump can be used again. It is worthwhile to carry out trial production and development regardless of the cost.

Of course, when it comes to lower costs, Sun Jingxuan can see more than 140,000 prisoners of war in Hanjin, Huangpi, and Xiangyang.

In the past, Huaidong was victorious, and the most captives were captured in the Huaisi War. In the first battle, nearly 100,000 refugee soldiers surrendered, but they were all organized as workers and soldiers, which became the most important source of Huaidong’s sharp soldiers in the future and the source of their combat effectiveness. It is guaranteed that a large number of outstanding generals such as Sun Zhuang, Zhang Gou, and Chen Zhu have also emerged. After that, he fought against the extravagant family, and successively obtained tens of thousands of prisoners, but the number was not particularly large. Over the years, it was used for canal management, land reclamation, and mining, and many were scattered.

After the Jiangning War, the production of many coal fields was vigorously enhanced, mainly recruiting hungry people as workers in the form of food-for-work.

Although the cost of recruiting hungry people is not high, it is necessary to basically ensure that they can support their families, and even ensure that the refugees can settle down in the local area. In the early days, the price was uniformly set at three liters of rice for labor, and then gradually increased to five liters of rice.

Compared with the use of prisoners of war, only two liters of coarse food are needed to be able to work hard, and the cost of recruiting famine is still much higher. In a current mine, the environment is harsh and dangerous. To pay a large amount of pension settlement funds, if the prisoners of war are pressed in the mines, the pension settlement funds will naturally save a lot of money.

Think about it, how much can the 140,000 prisoners save for the industrial and mining industries directly controlled by Huaidong?

If one prisoner saves 15 stone of rice and grain labor costs a year, 140,000 prisoners can create an additional annual revenue of nearly 3 million Huaiyuan for the Privy Council.

According to the requirements of various coal yards and iron mines, Sun Jingxuan wanted to take 40,000 prisoners in total—since Lin Bie called them in to talk about the new type of lighters in the coal yards, Sun Jingxuan casually mentioned the prisoners of war.

"The source of the prisoners is complicated, and further screening is needed," Lin Fu said. "This will be discussed later in the year. The people in the front yard may be impatient, so let's go out first..."

Sun Jingxuan and Jiang Yue didn't say much, and accompanied Lin Fu to the front yard to have a banquet with the officials.

Lin Fu stepped into the front yard, Lin Tingli, Lin Xuwen, Hu Wenmu, Song Fu, Lin Mengde, Qin Chengzu, Cao Zi'ang, Sun Jingxuan and others led more than 100 Huaidong generals and officials to line up in the vast atrium to welcome...

Lin Bie looked at the scarlet flag on the flagpole in the courtyard with the north wind hunting and hunting with the north wind. The opening of the government means that the government of the Chongguo government has officially begun to control the military and government of the world.

The Yueting under the name of the Yuan clan has some authority in addition to the six ministries. Even if the local armaments will not be eager to change the flag, it is actually in the hands of officials and generals in Huaidong - except for Huaixi and Shu in the name of allegiance Beyond Yuan Yue, Yuan Yue has essentially been hollowed out.

When Lin Fu entered the banquet, he said with Lin Tingli, Lin Xuwen, Song Fu, Lin Mengde and others around him, "I want to transfer Sun Shangwang, Wang Chengfu, Li Shuyi, and Zhu Ai to Jiangning. Think about it, who can replace them? …”

Song Fu and Lin Mengde looked at each other. Lin Fu used Gao Zongting and others to run the Military Intelligence Department. This time, Sun Shangwang, Wang Chengfu, Li Shuyi and Zhu Ai were transferred to Jiangning, presumably for political affairs - Sun Shangwang, Wang Chengfu, Li Shuyi The three of them have a high status in Huaidong, but they are always on the edge of the core, and Zhu Ai came to prominence only after Lin Fu governed Huaidong. At this time, he was only the magistrate of Qichun—Lin Fu urgently transferred these four people to Jiangning to join the center. , Probably because some people in the Privy Council and the Lin Clan don't want to be over-inflated, probably the sequelae of the fight tonight?

When I looked at Lin Fu again, I found that he was living in a high place, and began to show his ruthless and ruthless side; Lin Tingli, Lin Xuwen, Song Fu, Lin Mengde and others all praised him...

(Well, both the steam engine and gunpowder appeared, but it is unlikely that they will be used in actual combat on a large scale. "Xiaochen" is already the final volume, and some students cannot be dissatisfied at the end of the shouting: neither gunpowder nor steam engine appeared. , how can it end? So some processes will be appropriately accelerated.) My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter