Daming: I, the emperor who trains the carpenter

Chapter 527 Apocalypse's seven-year fiscal revenue—more than 4000 billion yuan!
Zhang Haogu never thought that he had completely defeated the gentry now.

Hundreds of years later, some people still call this group of lonely ghosts back.

It's just that Zhang Haogu now has the power in the court and has the advantage of public opinion. In addition, there is another very crucial point, Zhang Haogu has really brought effective financial revenue to Daming.

However, this does not mean that the gentry will not come back.

"Donglin Daily" is evolving, and "Taizhou Daily" is also evolving. They began to vigorously advocate the politics of rural virtuous people, and some even put forward slogans.

The construction of this farm may not necessarily be done by the sages of the village. Anyway, what the court needs is tax revenue.

In the imperial court, Zhang Haogu seems to be powerful, but there are definitely not a small number of people who advocate gentry and country sages.

Although the Datong Party occupies power, in fact, there are also Zhang Haogu's opposition parties. These people may be the Qi Party, the Chu Party, the Zhejiang Party, and also the Donglin Party and the Eunuch Party. They are the main ones who oppose Zhang Haogu. strength.

This group of people is mainly headed by Huang Liji.

In fact, Huang Liji didn't want to confront Zhang Haogu, but the group who opposed Zhang Haogu recognized Huang Liji, and you had to confront Zhang Haogu.

Of course, it has developed to the present, and many people also support the New Deal. It is not impossible to want the New Deal, but you have to see who will preside over it. Zhang Haogu wants to mobilize the masses and call on the masses. It seems that is absolutely impossible.

This is really dividing up the interests of the gentry. The farms are fine, and the gentry are even willing to pay [-]% of the tax, but they must not be ruined. The owner of the farm must let them be the gentry and be responsible for educating the people It must be the group of people who cultivated and studied the heirlooms.

But in Zhang Haogu's view.

This shit is nonsense, it’s really just a tax figure set by the imperial court, you bastards must put all the taxes on the peasants, increase the tax level by level, and still suffer the common people.

His ideas are very plain and simple.

The central government's decrees must be implemented to the end, directly to the grassroots.

The owner of the farm can only be a selected government official, and further improve the transportation, education, medical care, infrastructure, etc. between the farm, village, town, and county.

It is absolutely impossible for the local sages to grow up on their own.

Don't talk about the sages of the village, farming and studying heirs, you are a bunch of vampires, and building bridges and paving roads is just a nice word, and you are so smart that you can't kill the Ming Dynasty one by one?
"emperor!"

Zhang Haogu asked casually: "Now, how is the design of the steam engine?"

But Zhu Youxiao immediately smiled: "Master, you don't know, you are wrong!"

"I, I was wrong?" Zhang Haogu was slightly taken aback, and couldn't help saying: "Why is it wrong?"

"The master said before that rubber is used to keep the seal of the steam engine, but in fact, this rubber is not good at all. Rubber is not suitable for high temperature and high pressure sealing at all, and it is easy to break!"

Zhu Youxiao quickly said: "I was puzzled at first, but later, I simply gave up rubber. The most important problem is steel. Cylinders, gears, and transmission rods all need a certain quality of steel. The quality of the steel is not good enough to really drive the steam engine at all!"

"I recently discovered a problem. The best way to seal is to use copper piston rings. The technology is completely feasible. The cylinder head and tail are sealed with copper gaskets."

Zhang Haogu took a deep breath. If you really asked Zhang Haogu to study steam engines, he would naturally not have this ability. He only knows the principle, but he knows the specifics.

The first practical steam engine was made by Newcomen in 1712. However, due to its low thermal efficiency and high fuel consumption, it was only used to pump water in coal mines. This steam engine took 70 years, and it took nearly 20 years for Watt to improve it. forming.

However, what Zhang Haogu brought with him from the very beginning was steelmaking technology. Now, Daming has also improved this steelmaking technology step by step. When he came to Zhu Youxiao, he concentrated his strength to do big things, but he did it abruptly. up the steam engine.

Not to mention Zhu Youxiao, who put forward suggestions for every modification of the steam engine, and craftsmen who can improve their skills are rewarded.

In this way, it doesn't take that long. In a short period of time, the technology has made a major breakthrough.

Looking at Zhu Youxiao, he said, "Your Majesty, has the steam engine been successfully debugged?"

Zhu Youxiao nodded quickly: "Naturally, a great breakthrough has been made. Master, I've been waiting for you to ask, but I've been waiting for a long time!"

"Then, take the minister to have a look!" Zhang Haogu suddenly became interested.

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Yongding County

Zhang Haogu looked at Zhu Youxiao's steam engine silently. At the beginning, the steam engine Zhu Youxiao made could only pump water in small strands, but now it started to be completely different.

A steel pipe as thick as a bucket can easily draw a large amount of water from the Yongding River, and the other end is used to discharge water, which can be used to irrigate farmland.

It is still a bit strenuous to rely on this steam engine to propel the train, but it is not a big problem to use it to pump water and improve textile technology.

"Your Majesty, you really have a genius, a peerless genius!" Zhang Haogu said sincerely.

"Hey, is that right? I think so too!" Zhu Youxiao rubbed his forehead.

Zhang Haogu thought for a while and said: "Your Majesty, how is the quality? How long is the service life? If it is damaged, can it be repaired quickly? If it is repaired, do we have enough technical masters?"

Zhang Haogu asked a series of questions, which made Zhu Youxiao pat his forehead: "Zhen, I didn't think about this question!"

"Marketization!" Zhang Haogu said: "Even if you can't pull the train, even if it is used to pump water, it will be of great help to agriculture. Your Majesty, you have made great achievements!"

Zhu Youxiao just smiled: "Really? I think so too!"

"Look at the financial problems. The second is the cost, service life, whether it can be repaired after damage, and train enough technical masters!" Zhang Haogu said quickly: "The emperor, the people of the world, all depend on the emperor!"

Speaking of which, Apocalypse's seven-year fiscal revenue has basically come out.

A ten percent increase over last year.

It is already more than 4000 billion Daming treasures.

On the one hand, the profits created by Shandong and Jingshi are higher. On the other hand, on the Jiangnan side, Zhejiang merchants, Anhui merchants, and Fujian merchants are also willing to pay commercial taxes, especially in the north, where the business environment is much better than that in the south. Yes, as long as you pay taxes, you don't have to worry about being exploited by officials, who dares to trouble you.

The imperial court would deal with him harshly, and he was not polite. As a result, more businessmen were still willing to come to the north to do business and set up factories.

(End of this chapter)