Save the Bachelor of Heaven

After the opening of the Beijing-Tianjin Railway, it has demonstrated its strong transportation capacity.

It transports furs and medicinal materials produced outside the customs and exports to Tianjin, and then from Tianjin to the south and even around the world; the south produces rice, fruits, silk, tea, etc., as well as perfume, cane sugar, clocks and watches brought by Western merchants etc., will also be transported from Jinmen to the capital, and from the capital to outside the customs and outside the mouth.

Frequent logistics between the two major commodity distribution centers not only creates a large amount of tax revenue, but also facilitates the exchange of products and personnel.

Xiang Nan has already begun preparations to build a second railway from the capital to Shanhaiguan, so as to open up the connection between the Central Plains and outside the customs.

During the Qing Dynasty, the Qing court did not allow Han people to go outside the customs without authorization. Anyone caught would be beaten or killed.

One is to prevent the Manchus from being overly Sinicized. After all, in the early days of the Qing Dynasty, the Manchus had a total population of less than 300,000, while the Han population at that time was 70 million.

Three hundred thousand versus seventy million is really not worth a grain of sand. Therefore, in order to maintain rule in the early Qing Dynasty, it had to put the banner people first and adopt methods to both win over and suppress the Han people. Those who win over are the Han Banners, and those who suppress them are naturally ordinary people.

Secondly, there are a lot of ginseng, deer antlers, Dongzhu, fur, etc. outside the pass. The Qing government regarded these as its own property and did not want the Han people to get involved, so they were prohibited from going to the Northeast to pick, hunt, and hunt.

The third is to prevent Han people from colluding with external forces. At that time, the Rakshasa Kingdom was already on the verge of making a move in the Northeast, and the Qing Dynasty borrowed the power of traitors to start its business, so it was naturally afraid that retribution would come back to it.

However, in less than two hundred years from the entry of the Qing army to the Daoguang period, there were more than 4,000 recorded natural disasters in Qilu alone, with an average of more than 20 a year. It can be said that the common people Life was miserable.

Pu Songling's "Liaozhai" recorded more than a dozen natural disasters, such as floods, droughts, locusts, earthquakes, hail, etc.

Therefore, the people in Guan Nei had to cross Guandong in order to survive. Because the imperial ban was too strict, people inside the pass used the word "chuang" when they went outside the pass.

Because he really risked beheading and went outside the gate with the determination to break through the gate of hell.

However, Xiang Nan has long been interested in abolishing the ban.

First, the Northeast is empty, which is not conducive to preventing the invasion of the Rakshasa Kingdom. In fact, when the Rakshasa Kingdom invaded the Northeast, the population was only a few thousand people. However, because the Qing Dynasty did not allow people to leave the country, the border areas were sparsely populated, so the Rakshasa Kingdom continued to penetrate.

Secondly, during the Qing Dynasty, the population of the Central Plains increased explosively. When the Qing Dynasty was first established, the country's population was only 70 million. Now the country's population exceeds 200 million, a three-fold increase.

There is still so much land in the Central Plains, so many people live in poverty. The book "Views of China by the Macartney Mission" recorded by the British envoy Magartney records another side of the prosperous era of Qianlong.

The people were extremely poor, always hungry, and barely clothed. Even the soldiers were sallow and thin, and only the officials were fat. And abandoned babies can be seen everywhere...

It can be seen that the lives of the people are very difficult, so Xiang Nan is willing to give them a way out.

Over the years, he has continuously moved people from the mainland to Nanyang and the Western Regions. Doing so is not only beneficial to the rule of the court, but also beneficial to the lives of the people.

And he will soon send troops to conquer the Northeast. By then, not only the northwest, but also the entire Siberia would be the territory of the Qing Dynasty. Let alone the Qilu people who invaded Guandong, even if all the people from the world invaded Guandong together, it would still be enough to accommodate them.

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At the beginning of the 21st year of Qianlong's reign, the alkali plant of Zaohua No. 2 Plant was finally completed and put into operation.

The production of alkaline surface and ammonium chloride from Baihuahua marks the smooth operation of this factory.

The mass production of soda ash has not only reduced the production costs of industrial products such as glass and soap, but has even increased the production of explosives.

Because glycerol, a by-product of soap production, is the raw material for making explosives. When mixed with nitric acid, it becomes nitroglycerin, and when mixed with diatomaceous earth, it becomes Dana explosive.

The reduction in the cost of glass has led to the rapid spread of glass products, and glass windows have been given priority in the palace.

The windows in the Forbidden City are made of expensive Korean paper in order to block the wind and let in light. This kind of paper is made from cotton cocoons or mulberry bark. After it is made, it is soaked in oil. A piece of paper costs four cents of silver.

Because it was so precious, in the 37th year of Qianlong's reign, more than 300 pieces of Korean paper were used to decorate the portals of Yangxin Palace and Qianqing Palace, and the officials in charge were punished with a drop in silver.

Now that it is replaced by more transparent and bright glass, the Korean paper can naturally be saved.

But if something is good at the top, it will be very bad at the bottom. As the palace adopted glass as windows, other princes, nobles, civil and military ministers, and wealthy businessmen also rushed to follow suit.

For a time, glass quickly became popular among the people. Tiangongfang continued production around the clock, but the supply still exceeded demand. Even foreign businessmen imported large quantities of glass from the Central Plains and shipped it back to China.

Because of the production technology of sodium carbonate, it was not produced abroad until 1859. Prior to this, foreign glass production also relied heavily on trona, and the output was still relatively limited.

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In addition, the third pharmaceutical factory of Zaohua has also begun production.

The sulfonamides, aspirin, artemisinin and berberine produced are all valuable pharmaceuticals.

The reason why people in ancient times had short lifespans and could die from a cold was because there were no anti-inflammatory drugs and the virus could not be effectively eliminated, so they could only rely on physical strength to resist.

Therefore, people's life span is generally short. The average life span is only forty-five years for men and fifty years for women. And the more common people are, the more miserable they will be.

Both sulfa and berberine are special anti-inflammatory drugs. Xiang Nan named sulfa as Kangbid, berberine as Zhengqi Pill, artemisinin as Anleshu, and aspirin as Baitongjie.

Later, he rewarded these medicines to the harem, princes, nobles, and court officials respectively, and told them detailed usage, so as not to take them all at once as elixirs. That is, no matter how good the elixir is, it will inevitably kill people.

And soon these drugs came in handy.

People who eat whole grains will inevitably have headaches and fever. In ancient times, the treatment of headaches generally focused on dispelling wind and unblocking meridians. Not only was the effect slow, but the efficacy was not very good either.

Especially those ministers who worry about state affairs every day and use their brains too much are prone to headaches. And they followed Xiang Nan's doctor's advice and took a piece of Baitongjie, and the pain was greatly relieved within a moment.

There were even a few people who were unlucky enough to suffer from tuberculosis, diarrhea, and dysentery, but they were all cured by taking Kangbi De and Zhengqi Pills. Therefore, once it was spread to ten, it was spread to hundreds, it was spread to thousands, and it was spread to thousands. These magical medicines were blown to the sky.

People want to buy these medicines, but they have no way to ask for them. After all, only the emperor has them in the world, and they have no place to buy them.