Nanming: I can build wonders

Chapter 527 "The Collection of His Majesty Zhu Kezang's Northern Inspection Inspection Speech"

Since the past two years, the mining depth of Daming Coal Mine has gradually increased, and the amount of water in the mine has increased accordingly, which has become a bottleneck for the increase of coal production.

In order to improve this problem, Huang Lvzhuang, a scientist of the Ming Dynasty, manufactured the world's first practical steam water pump, which solved the mine drainage problem.

This machine was later widely praised by miners and was called "Friends of Miners"!
After leaving the Datong Coal Mine, Zhu Kezang visited the Datong Iron and Steel Plant, the Datong Construction Stone Company, and the Datong Frontier Command of the National Defense Forces.

Datong is the main traffic throat of Shanxi, Hebei, and Mongolia. It is also located in the agricultural and animal husbandry transition zone. It is a composite transition zone between agricultural areas and animal husbandry areas. It is heavily guarded here.

However, at present, Monan and Mobei Mongolia have already surrendered, and the pressure on border defense is actually not great.

Zhu Kezang's main purpose is to build northern industry!
For this reason, His Majesty Zhu Kezang gave a series of forward-looking speeches on these key projects of the First Five-Year Plan, pointing out the direction for the production of Daming State-owned companies and state-owned factories.

Relevant speeches have been collected and set up by officials of the Ministry of Rites, and a volume of "His Majesty Zhu Kezang's Northern Inspection Speech Collection" was printed and published overnight, and all yamen and the whole army are organized to carry out extensive study!

The last stop of Zhu Kezang's northern tour was the headquarters of the Northeast Railway Company in Shenyang Prefecture.

At present, the Northeast, Outer Northeast, Central Siberia, and West Siberia are still within the borders marked on the latest version of the administrative map of Ming Dynasty, but in fact, Ming's control over the Outer Northeast and Siberia is still relatively weak.

The construction progress of the Anbei Protectorate in Siberia is relatively slow, and it will take at least two years to actually control Siberia.

In order to strengthen control over these areas, railway construction must keep up.

Fortunately, for the Jurchen ministries in the Northeast and Outer Northeast, that is, the Eight Banners of Ming Dynasty, Ming has relatively good control.

Zhu Kezang's policy towards the Eight Banners of the Ming Dynasty was actually "tie it up for his own use".

It is necessary to use it, but the binding rope is getting tighter and tighter, and there is no relaxation at all.

At the beginning, Zhu Kezang also divided the territory around the outer northeast to the Ming Eight Banners and asked them to set up several guards.

But later, in order to weaken the Ming Eight Banners, Zhu Kezang first separated the Saurons and Barhu people from the Ming Eight Banners, and established the Sauron Left and Right Banners and the Balhu Left and Right Banners, which were independent of the Ming Eight Banners. The cavalry and Baerhu cavalry were accepted as the personal soldiers of the Son of Heaven!

Then, Zhu Kezang ordered to reorganize the Ming Eight Banners. The original Ming Eight Banners were a collective name, and the internal divisions were not clear.

According to Zhu Kezang's order, the Ming Eight Banners were also divided into two yellow, two white, two red, and two blue banners according to the flag colors of the Qing Eight Banners.

There are five participating leaders and 25 assistant leaders under each banner, and each assistant leader has 150 households.

There are only 750 households left in one banner, and only [-] households left in eight banners.

Moreover, Zhu Kezang issued an imperial decree that a household in the Eight Banners of the Ming Dynasty could only have five people at most, and all the "Qiyu" in the Eight Banners of the Ming Dynasty were given the status of Han households.

For such an imperial decree, the Ming Eight Banners headed by Sabsu naturally did not dare to resist, so they could only grit their teeth and obey.

But in this way, the population that the Eight Banners of the Ming Dynasty could control was greatly reduced to only 15, and their self-sustaining ability was also weakened at the same time, so they had to rely more on the supply of food and salaries from the Ming court.

In the future, the Eight Banners of the Ming Dynasty are likely to move closer to the Weisuo system of the early Ming Dynasty.

Of course, Zhu Kezang would not let the Ming Banners settle down. He asked those unruly guys inside the Ming Banners to form a sweeping cavalry force, with about [-] people.

Let them cross the Yenisei River and find trouble in the Raksha Kingdom.

The slogan is: Grab the wealth of the Raksha country, get rich and work hard!
This sweeping cavalry regiment, due to the BUFF bonus, was not bad in loyalty, effectively preventing the stubborn Raksha people from crossing the border and stealing the territory of Ming Dynasty.

The specific location of the headquarters of the Northeast Railway Company is ten miles west of Shenyang City.

If it was in the late Qing Dynasty, it would be called Huanggutun.

Now Huanggutun is also called Huangguiwopu.

To be honest, coming to this place is not very auspicious for Zhu Kezang!
Because there are many Japanese people here now.

Fortunately, these Dongying people were loyal to Daming, and there was absolutely no assassin among them.

From here, more than 2 Koryo workers and Dongying workers are building a railway to the southwest.

The railway will follow the northeast plain, cross the Liao River, and connect to Shuntianfu in the southwest.

Standing on the mountain, watching the winding railway disappear into the distant horizon, Zhu Kezang couldn't help but sigh with emotion. This time, the bones of Korean workers and Japanese workers may be buried under each sleeper.

Eliminating the population of these two places is considered a small contribution of mine, right?
Looking at the bustling scene in front of me, 2 people gathered to work together. It seemed chaotic, but there was a clear division of labor, orderly and well-organized.

The four-wheeled carriages transporting soil, rocks, and materials shuttled back and forth from one construction site to another. A large amount of cement was transported and poured continuously on the pillars that had been fixed everywhere.

Seeing such a lively scene in front of him, Zhu Kezang couldn't help feeling that Daming was no longer the former Daming.

If it was in the past, if you wanted to organize thousands or tens of thousands of people to carry out infrastructure construction, you would need the imperial court to recruit farmers in the form of corvee to complete it.

Serving corvee is definitely a very, very difficult thing for farmers, because during the period of corvée, not only is there no pay, but even food for food and mats to live in need to be brought with them.

In the era of turmoil and famine, the common people had no food at all, and they often died of exhaustion or starvation during the corvée period, so that in all dynasties, peasant uprisings often broke out during corvée service.

But it’s different now, the current Daming doesn’t need corvee system at all, and now when Daming wants to organize people to carry out big projects, they all pay silver, but with the drive of silver dollars, everyone’s doing things is completely different.

The construction site is in full swing, everyone is working hard, and no one even needs to be supervised, because the amount of work is related to one's own income. If you do more and get more, it is very natural to do things. hard work.

The Northeast is always cold and cold, Zhu Kezang was reluctant to let the people of Ming Dynasty do this kind of hard work, so he vigorously recruited Koreans and Dongying people to do it, and they were willing to do it.

"Your Majesty, it's windy outside, go back to the company!"

It was Song Shiyi who was speaking. He was the youngest son of Song Yingxing. He was a member of the Railway Bureau of the Ministry of Industry, and participated in the design of Daming Zhupi trains many times.

Today, he is also the person in charge of the Northeast Railway Company sent by Daming.

Zhu Kezang tightened his woolen coat, nodded and said, "Song Aiqing, you should continue to strengthen your studies in terms of technology, but on the other hand, you must also keep an eye on the company's accounts, and don't be deceived by the people below!"

"Please rest assured, Your Majesty..."

(End of this chapter)