Longevity begins with Jinyiwei

He has always had the idea of ​​expanding the capital, but he is really dissatisfied with the capital of Beijing.

In history, the three dynasties of Yuan, Ming and Qing, who established their capital in Beijing, all showed their inability to rule the south of the Yangtze River.

Establishing the capital in Beijing, although it is easier to coordinate the military forces of the border towns to deal with the border troubles in the north, it is also easier to control the border towns, so that the border towns will not be out of control.

But these are important, but the future trend lies in the ocean.

As long as the productivity develops, it is not too difficult to establish the capital in the south and control the north. The only concern is that after the capital is established in the south and the benefits of the ocean are tasted, the southern center will ignore the northern border and even shrink the northern border. defense……

The emperor's thoughts flowed, and Hong Chengchou also slowly reported.

As far as they are concerned, they are naturally not aware of the emperor's intention to move the capital.

But for today's capital city, expansion is inevitable.

Today's capital is not only the center of north-south commerce, but also the magic needle for controlling the continuous natural disasters in the north.

The previous south-to-north transportation of grain was to supply the capital, but the current south-to-north transportation of grain is to maintain the stability and tranquility of most of the northern provinces under natural disasters.

All grain is transported by water and sea to Tianjin, stored in the capital, and then allocated to the local area.

The same is true for all other materials that need to be allocated by the court.

It is precisely because of the power of the whole country to do this matter that the capital is now more prosperous than usual, and it has also brought about a surge in population.

Coupled with the gradual prosperity of commerce, the population brought together, and the current capital, or this capital, has not been prepared to undertake the commercial prosperity of the north and the south since the beginning of its construction.

Obviously, the current capital city can no longer bear the various functions under the changing times. Under the influence of various factors, the expansion of the capital city is already an urgent matter.

"The Ministry of Industry will discuss the expansion and renovation plan again."

In the end, the Son of Heaven did not express any obvious objection or approval, but only left behind this immodest discourse.

"The minister obeys the order."

Hong Chengchou responded immediately.

The emperor nodded, took a step forward, and then went under the tower.

Seeing this, Hong Chengchou and Liu Qiyuan looked at each other, and hurriedly followed, following in the footsteps of the emperor, towards Baichuan Port...

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Chapter 653 Demand Promotes Production

If it is said that the Dongcheng District of the capital city is full of hustle and bustle among the marketplace, then this Baichuan Port is obviously bustling and bustling in a deformed way.

Because it is outside the capital city, and it is a gathering place for caravans and tourists from all over the world, and the complexity of the personnel, there are probably few places in the world that can compare with this Baichuan Port.

Not to mention, there are still these large shanty towns left over from history. Even if there are officials under the jurisdiction, the effectiveness of the jurisdiction in this intricate place is obviously questionable.

Of course, the Son of Heaven does not doubt the existence of order, but... is there anything else mixed into this order?

Just from the city gate to the port, the emperor was keenly aware of a familiar aura along the way.

He used to be in Jinyiwei for more than half a year, and the area he managed was still a famous mess in the capital. Naturally, he knew very well what kind of darkness there was under the order.

Not to mention, it is still a place like Baichuan Port where there is a mix of good and evil, and the personnel are extremely complicated.

The breath of the ground snake is very clear.

Forming cliques is not only prevalent in the officialdom, but also among the people.

The emperor frowned, but he soon felt relieved. He knew that behind this, there must be an intricate network of interests. Wouldn't it be a joke to be able to gain a foothold at the feet of the emperor without any background.

Back then when he joined Jinyiwei, among the famous bandits near the capital, all of them were white gloves of dignitaries.

The port was very noisy, with river boats berthing at the pier, and groups of men carrying goods could be seen everywhere on the pier.

It can also be seen that a vehicle frame is docked at the pier, and after the cargo is loaded, it sets off amidst bursts of shouts, heading towards the gate of the capital.

It can also be seen that the materials in the north, such as wheat, beans, corn, and coal, are boarded at the port, and finally leave Baichuan Lake, along the Grand Canal, or by sea, and go to the south of the Yangtze River.

But it is obvious that, limited to the production technology of this era, everything in the port is mostly at the stage of manpower.

Whether it is a horse or a cow, even if it is just a mule, in this era, it is extremely precious.

Manpower, compared to this livestock, is extremely cheap.

Obviously, carrying shoulders and hands is the main theme of this era.

Thinking of this, the emperor seemed to think of something, but the eyes in his eyes flickered uncontrollably.

Changes in productivity have never occurred when demand has been greater than output.

The industrial revolution in history was due to the huge market brought about by the huge colonies, and the output of the colonial suzerain country could not meet the needs of the colonies at all, and it also fundamentally affected the colonial suzerain country's plundering of the colonies' wealth.

Therefore, the innovation of productivity was born.

This is the most fundamental reason.

If not, it would be like this Baichuan Port, or in other words, in Daheng World, manpower is extremely cheap.

Merchants often don't even want to use livestock.

After all, livestock are expensive and expensive, while manpower is cheap and cheap.

Cheap manpower, coupled with the Confucian environment of the era...

It can be said that most of the possibilities of productivity innovation will be snuffed out.

The new learning that seems to be booming now is actually all supported by his emperor's policy, and apart from him, few people can really understand the true meaning of the new learning that is being promoted today.

Just like the steam engine of the Academy of Engineering, after more than ten years of research, although it is not as good as the steam train that the emperor wanted, it can definitely be used in production.

Such as mining, such as pumping water, etc...

But the high cost is destined to be just a product of the policy.

Just like the commercial firms under the supervision of the Ministry of Households, which belong to the inner court, all those who can make the current clumsy and heavy steam engines useless are all under the will of the emperor, spending a huge amount of silver to purchase steam engines in the Academy of Engineering. Manpower can also replace the work.

Compared with the high cost and manpower of steam engines at this stage, it is simply not too affordable.

Even, it is completely losing money and making money.

In the history of Britain, the reason why the steam engine was able to be invented, and there was no obstacle to its extremely rapid popularization and use, research and development and replacement, directly brought about the industrial revolution.

The fundamental reason is also because of mining, to be precise, because of coal mines.

Most of the coal mines in the UK are shallow mines, which means that mining is extremely easy.

Mining is easy, coupled with abundant underground water resources, when mining coal mines, it is necessary to continuously pump water from the pit. At the same time, due to the ease of mining and the accumulation of coal, water is also needed to pour coal to prevent fires.

In this way, it is naturally incompetent to carry manpower on shoulders and hands, which has also given birth to the need for productivity innovation.

Moreover, the ease of mining means that the cost of mining is low and the profits are huge. In this way, there is a strong demand for innovations in productivity, even though the effectiveness is worrying.

Of course, this also has a lot to do with the social environment.

In Daheng, and even other places in the world, most of them are deep-layer mines, and the difficulty of mining has increased by tens or hundreds of times.

Mining is difficult, which means that profits are low. In the pre-Ming period, private mining transactions, coal prices have always been high, and profits may still be considerable.

In Daheng, coal mines, like grain, salt, and cloth, are designated as necessary for people's livelihood, and prices are strictly controlled.

The mining industry, which was supposed to be a monopoly profiteering industry, still has profits, but it is obviously not much higher.

The production technology of deep coal mines is also difficult to innovate, mining is difficult, the output is small, and with the support of a huge population base, the environment for innovative productivity has not yet formed even with the strong support of his emperor.

In other words, the idea of ​​the environment has not changed, and there is no urgent need to promote productivity innovation.

And these two points are what the emperor has been working hard to solve.

The transformation of thinking, and the demand for productivity improvement under the policy.

This is also the fundamental reason why the emperor disliked the traditional civil servants and gentry in the court.

To rule the world, civil servants are indispensable.

However, most of the traditional civil servants and gentry who received the influence of the big environment education from an early age still stay on the traditional way of thinking.

The deep-rooted concept of strange obscene skills and not doing a proper job is difficult to eliminate until the thinking is replaced.

While his thoughts were flowing, accompanied by two important ministers, the emperor wandered around this Baichuan Port.

Under the private visit of Weifu, everything is displayed very clearly, without any hidden.

For example, the tax department's requirements for eating and receiving cards, such as the fact that gangs are rampant, are clearly divided, and even the navy stationed at Baichuan Lake and the Imperial Army of the Beijing Army obviously have their tentacles involved.

Everything was in his eyes, but the emperor didn't change much.

It wasn't until it was getting dark that the emperor stopped walking, and the two ministers who followed the emperor for a day were obviously exhausted, especially Liu Qiyuan, who was already old and weak, and this high-intensity walk for a day was really exhausting. Can't live.

"The focus of the court should be shifted to internal affairs."

But the emperor's next sentence immediately wiped away all the fatigue of Liu Qiyuan.

Center of gravity shift?

The implication is to stop this turmoil that has turned into an embarrassing situation for them?

The emperor had no intention of explaining, and stepped into the carriage, leaving Hong Chengchou and Liu Qiyuan alone looking at each other.

But they all seemed to be relieved. They are all civil servants. Even if they have different positions, no one wants to be caught and beaten. It is best if it can end...

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Chapter 654 Military Focus

In the twelfth lunar month of winter and the arrival of the new year, the turmoil that lasted for a year came to an end quietly.

Although the turmoil has ended, the conflict between civil and military affairs has been entangled for more than a year and is deeply rooted.

But now that the emperor is in power, this contradiction can only be hidden, waiting for the next opportunity to erupt wantonly.

But it is obvious that it is difficult to see big movements, but small movements on weekdays, stabbing people in the back, probably indispensable...

The Son of Heaven is naturally aware of all this. Although the one-year civil and military struggle has caused considerable turmoil, it has also cleaned away a large number of moths.

The most important thing is that civil and military have torn their skins and clung to the opposite side's braids, which will inevitably lead to deep estrangement, and the supervision under the estrangement and opposition can barely be regarded as a virtuous circle.

Of course, the premise of this virtuous circle is that the emperor can control civil and military affairs.

If not, it would be a party struggle in the late Ming Dynasty that changed the soup but not the medicine.

It's just that the object of party struggle has changed from civil officials to civil and military.

Time passed by little by little in this calm, and this world has also entered the seventh year under Zhaowu's rule.

According to the Daheng system, there are big discussions at the end of the year to summarize the development of the year for the court.

There are also big discussions at the beginning of the year, in order to formulate national policies for the new year and set a development plan.

And these plans are often phased supplements to the major policies implemented by the state in previous years.

Such as relocation policy, such as engineering disaster relief, such as the implementation of fiscal, taxation and land reform, etc., will all be planned at the big meeting at the beginning of the year, and then implemented. At the same time, there is also a very clear evaluation basis.

And these are just matters at the level of civil servants governing the country. Wu Xun also has major issues to discuss.

Such as the addition of the naval restructuring, such as the strategic progress of the Southwest, Northwest, and Grasslands...

It's just that these are not matters above the big discussions, but the separate court discussions of civil and military officials.

Although the focus of Daheng is now on domestic development, it is obvious that the emperor's desire to expand the territory has not weakened at all.

The strategic actions in the northwest, southwest, and grassland over the years, as well as the restructuring of the navy, all clearly reveal the emperor's intentions.

All this, in the government and the opposition, is naturally well known to the officials and generals.

Compared with the stability of most provinces in Daheng, outside of Daheng, Tibet in the northwest, grasslands in the north, and Yunnan and Guizhou in the southwest, these three important places, are obviously much more chaotic.

For example, in Northwest Tibet, it can be said that it has been difficult since Zhou Yuji led heavy troops from Shaanxi to invade Northwest Tibet.

The military power of Daheng lies in large-scale frontal warfare, and the terrain in northwest Tibet should not be too steep, there is no basis for large-scale warfare at all, and it can only be harassed and eroded by a small group of elite troops.

And this is the simplest question.

After all, the sphere of influence of the Zhungeer tribes currently entrenched in northwest Tibet has not yet spread to the northwest border of Daheng.

What Daheng is facing is only some native tribes in the borderlands. Before it touches the core of northwest Tibet, it will not have too much conflict with the tribes in northwest Tibet.

What is really difficult is the terrain and the road!

Daheng's erosion of Northwest Tibet naturally has strict strategic goals.

According to the strategic plan formulated by the general staff, given time, the Daheng horse will definitely do its best in one battle when it steps on the grassland!

That is... one battle to settle the grassland, one battle to flatten the Tibetan area!