Volume 3: Confrontation! The Run of Civilization Chapter 493: Governing is becoming increasingly difficult
Iprahin's letter was very long, but the text content only accounted for a small part, and most of it was drawings: Although the Czech ZB26 light machine gun was famous for its simple structure and reliable performance in the 20th century, it was too high-end for the deformed technology tree of this era. Therefore, Iprahin was very considerate and drew many detailed structural drawings, and made clear explanations of the material ratios of each component.
In this regard, Yiplashin did not hold back: thanks to the fact that China was already the second most powerful country in the world before the time travel, he had never underestimated the Chinese. You tampered with the blueprints, do you really think that Chinese scientists of this era can't see it? If he offended China at this time, when the Indians were completely unreliable, there would really be no one to help him on a large scale.
On Zhu Youdong's side, after having the ready-made blueprints, he did not start with the light machine gun first, but spent several years to develop the submachine gun. This was of course not advisable. So he and Xu Guangqi quickly returned to Fangshan, and at another meeting of the firearms group, they made a decision with many engineers: Zhao Shizhen and his team would try to make a few light machine guns according to the blueprints for testing, and Sun Yuanhua would use the blueprints of the light machine guns as a reference to continue developing the submachine gun.
In addition to firearms, the arrival of celluloid technology also means that the industrial production of the Ming Dynasty will have a great leap forward: yes, this is a primitive plastic, which has many problems such as flammability, high brittleness, and even the risk of spontaneous combustion if left for a long time. However, this is plastic. After this thing is available, it can be foreseen that the various plastic industries of the Ming Dynasty will have a blowout development!
As for the practicality of plastics? Well, which modern human being in the future does not have a large number of plastic micromolecules in his body? Although this is a large-scale environmental pollution that will sooner or later endanger the survival of the race, isn’t the reason for this situation because plastics have entered every aspect of human life?
Zhu Youdong had no intention of looking down on Yiprahin: he became a powerful minister despite being unable to ascend the throne of the Sultan due to his family background, which was remarkable. He was also generous in the technology he provided to his side. Although these technologies were certainly not the most advanced ones he had mastered, the sincerity he showed was completely different from the stingy and petty nature of the Japanese time traveler towards Siam.
Anyway, this favor is a bit too much to owe.
When they came out of Fangshan School, the sun had already disappeared. Zhu Youdong yawned and said, "Mr. Xu, you have worked hard today. Go back and have a rest. We will discuss how to provide assistance to the Ottoman Empire at tomorrow's State Council meeting."
"Yes, Your Majesty, please take care of yourself and get some rest early."
In response to Xu Guangqi's words, Zhu Youdong smiled and said nothing.
It's probably around 7 or 8 in the evening. How can I rest after going back? The work of rebuilding the Yellow Book started in the 41st year of Wanli, and it has been eight years now. The new round of Yellow Book statistics will be completed in two years - that is to say, at the latest after the Spring Festival next year, the whole country will start again, and now it is November. The court has not yet come up with a specific plan!
It's not that the officials were incompetent, but that they had too much to do in recent years. The military yellow books were cleared, but the migration of millions of military households was a huge project: the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Revenue, and the Ministry of Works were all involved, and the Censorate and the Ministry of Justice were also busy.
In addition to the resettlement of military households, with the liberalization of sea transportation, profit-seeking merchants quickly abandoned grain transport and turned to sea transportation. The living standards of the canal workers on both sides of the canal dropped sharply. According to the intelligence of the Jinyiwei, the Wenxiang Sect and the White Lotus Sect on both sides of the canal began to flourish rapidly: there is no doubt that an uprising, uh, no, a rebellion, is about to happen.
The fighting power of folk religions that cannot is basically rubbish. Not to mention the new army now, even the guards of the Ming Dynasty before would not lose to them. Therefore, Zhu Youdong was not worried about what these guys could do: in his opinion, the best way to treat abscesses is to wait for them to rot and burst.
No matter how diligent and caring the people he was, he could not provide comprehensive social security with the current level of productivity. In addition, the emerging capitalists in the Ming Dynasty were still working hard to accumulate primitive wealth. Therefore, a considerable number of people in the Ming Dynasty must have lived in poverty. In this case, folk religions naturally had their living space. If the Smell Incense Sect was banned, there would still be the Smell Stinky Sect. If the White Lotus Sect was gone, there would still be the Green Lotus Sect.
Normally, these folk religious leaders are highly respected by the people. If they don't rebel, it would be bad to arrest and kill them directly. But if they really raise the flag of rebellion, send elite troops to arrest and kill their leaders , then there will be no pressure from public opinion.
As for the fools who followed these religious leaders to rebel? Well, in the original plane of history, Emperor Chongzhen said something like "the bandits are also my children". I can't be a time traveler who is worse than Emperor Chongzhen, right? Those people living at the bottom of society, can't they join the rebel team and shout a few times to vent their grievances? When the imperial army arrived and the backbones were arrested, these guys dispersed and went home to do what they had to do. What's wrong with that?
In short, a good emperor should be cruel to the outside world but tolerant to the inside world: he should be as cruel as possible to the external enemies, various conspiracies and intrigues, and even start wars, but he should be patient with the people at home.
But he had to wait for the other party to rebel and then quickly capture and kill the leader. He had to do enough intelligence work beforehand. These were things that he, as an emperor, had to know in advance and control the overall situation.
In addition, it was already November, and the provincial examinations in various places had been completed one after another, and the candidates were on their way to Beijing. In Zhu Youdong's plan, he would tentatively propose a reform plan for the imperial examination in the next year's joint examination.
The scholars of the Ming Dynasty were much more open-minded than the scholars of the Qing Dynasty in the historical dimension, and their actual working ability was much stronger. But in any case, these guys were only educated in the Four Books and Five Classics. Compared with the Han and Tang scholars who could switch from civil service to military service and from military service to civil service at will, they were far behind. In the reality that this country is changing with each passing day due to the rapid increase in productivity, the existing traditional education and examinations can no longer provide the country with enough high-quality officials.
Since the Bingchen exam more than five years ago, two batches of 17 students from Fangshan have passed the imperial examination and entered officialdom. A typical representative of these people is Li Jia, the governor of Singapore.
Through these years of practical work and systematic and comprehensive learning, the Fangshan officials' ability to govern is generally stronger than that of ordinary scholars. This has been clearly demonstrated in the successive assessments of the Ministry of Personnel.
Now, Fangshan School has expanded to nine grades and nearly 30,000 students. It is said that more than 200 candidates who passed the provincial examinations across the country this year had studied at Fangshan School.
Therefore, the time is ripe to propose a plan for imperial examination reform.
Of course, the imperial examination is the main way for ordinary people to become officials. In a country like China where most people still want to be officials, the reform of the imperial examination must be done with great caution. Zhu Youdong still needs more time to make the relevant plans more perfect. In the next year's joint examination, it is just a rumor to see the reaction.
In addition to the domestic mainland, there are also many things happening in overseas states and other vassal states. For example, the overseas Yangon State now strictly prohibits drugs. However, according to Hong Chengchou's report, opium poppy cultivation has spread in Myanmar: not only the Burmese are planting, but also the Mon and Shan people who used to be extremely submissive to the Ming Dynasty are planting - money can move people's hearts.
To be honest, as the scale of Yangon Port grows, its ability to attract money from Myanmar is getting stronger and stronger. Myanmar's dignitaries and ordinary people instinctively want more money to buy things in Yangon Port, and poppy cultivation undoubtedly makes money much faster than growing grain .
Well, this is a good opportunity to completely take Myanmar under control through drug control. However, there is still the raging war in Manila...
Alas, being an emperor is not that easy. Although Zhu Youdong has been very careful not to take power and has only made the final decision on many things. But now, due to the rapid development of society in the Ming Dynasty, all walks of life are becoming more and more closely connected, so that often one move affects the whole body. This requires the ruler to have a high level of understanding and control over all aspects of the country. And this, to put it bluntly, puts higher and higher demands on Zhu Youdong's ability to govern.
God have mercy on me. Before I traveled through time, I was just an ordinary person who saw patients at work and played games after get off work.
"Square."
"The servant is here."
"Let's go back to the Qianqing Palace. After we get back, send someone to tell the Queen and the Imperial Concubine that I will sleep alone in the Qianqing Palace tonight and will not go to Kunning Palace or anything like that."
"..." After frowning slightly, Fang Zhenghua could only reluctantly agree: "As you wish."
