Villager of Daming

Chapter 853 Strategy adjustments are simple

After dinner, Zhu Wentian took his friends to work. He could carry more than three hundred kilograms of copper telephone wires at a time, so he pushed a cart with more than a thousand kilograms of telephone wires on it for wiring.

Three hundred kilograms is the Ming Dynasty's three hundred kilograms, and one kilogram is nearly six hundred grams. Many of the guards in the Prince's Mansion can carry it, but they are tired and can't walk too far.

Zhu Wentian has no problem, but he is not stupid. Why should he carry a car if he has one?
  The force of the push cart is borne by the cart. He is only responsible for giving the force to change the direction. An ordinary person can push a cart weighing more than [-] kilograms. It is a two-wheeled human-powered cart.

A few sacks of rice are placed on top, and a teenage child can drag them away.

Ming Dynasty does not have such good tires now, and the car itself is heavy, and children will get sick from fatigue when doing deadlifts.

The guards helped push other telephone lines and equipment, so there was no need to use asphalt-soaked wood as shelves.

There are electric wires in the imperial city, and the telephone wires are placed next to them.

The Imperial City is safe and uses copper telephone lines. Naturally, Yingtianfu also uses copper. That is the section of the road from Nanjing to Xiaqiu Village. It depends on whether iron lines are used. Copper is easy to be stolen.

"It should be longer. Copper wire is better than iron wire?" Zhu Yuanzhang walked to eat and talked with the chief who accompanied him.

The ministers each found a place to take a walk. The Qingming Festival in Nanjing was hot. Unlike the north, it was relatively cold, and the spring breeze penetrated the bones.

The seasonal flowers are blooming and catkins are flying. The village hangs sticky nets at wind vents and other places to prevent the catkins from flying everywhere, for fear that children will inhale them into their mouths. At the same time, spray trucks are used to spray them into the sky.

Zhu Yuanzhang did not let the ministers follow him. He only asked the eldest children and the head of the village, Empress Ma, to chat with the women.

"Your Majesty, just like wires, wires are made of copper, and some switch contacts are made of silver."

The chief told Zhu Yuanzhang to sit in the pavilion in front and eat some fruit.

"In that case, just use copper wire. People won't steal it. There will always be a place to sell the stolen goods. Add a reward for reporting and we will solve the smuggling problem!"

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded and walked towards the pavilion. He decided not to use iron wire as a telephone line. Copper could not be used as collateral for the issuance of treasure notes. In addition to making bullets, it was the application of electricity.

For example, the core of a motor is made of copper, and so are the wires.

As for using copper as a utensil, it is a copper hot pot. It is used when eating sauerkraut, and the sauerkraut will turn green.

When everyone went to the pavilion, the palace maids and eunuchs helped spread thin mats, wiped the stone table, and placed tea and fruits.

The fruits that are available all year round are watermelon and cantaloupe, and there are greenhouses where you can grow them at different times.

By the time the watermelons and cantaloupes from the earth come out, those from the greenhouses will be gone.

"When we were young, we only dreamed about eating watermelon in the winter. It was because we were sick and had a fever and wanted to eat watermelon. We are still poor in the Ming Dynasty!"

Zhu Yuanzhang picked up a tooth of watermelon, looked at it and spoke. Now he was as emotional as eating watermelon during Qingming Festival.

The head of the village also picked up a bite of watermelon and said: "Your Majesty, why don't we make money by exporting glass and encourage private capital to grow vegetables in greenhouses.

With glass windows, you can block the wind. Otherwise, if you want light, you have to open the windows, and the wind will blow in, and flies and mosquitoes will come in in summer.

With the promotion of education, the demand for lighting in schools is particularly high. In a few days, our own trading fleet will set off and make more profits.

At present, we are looking for people who can speak the languages ​​​​of the Yi people from all over the country, and we are selecting officials in the Ming Dynasty who can learn languages ​​​​quickly to facilitate communication abroad. "

The chief once again mentioned that it didn't matter if glass was popularized. There was no need to keep it secret. Ming's technology could maintain foreign trade in other aspects.

In the beginning, I made money with colored glass. Transparent glass could be used as a telescope, and it could be used for anything. Things have changed now. The telescope has a prism in the middle, which has been upgraded. Just relying on two glass pieces is not good.

Ming Dynasty also needs to provide glasses for people with myopia and hyperopia. Compared with a little foreign trade benefit, the people of Ming Dynasty need it more.

What really makes money from selling glass is mirrors, glass mirrors made of silver mirror reaction.

The Yi people outside did not know how to make money by selling mirrors. The glass village had tin float technology, which was used by the people to make windows.

At the same time, make more glassware and bottles for canned fruits. After eating, you can also use them to pickle food.

In the early stage, transparent glass is recycled and transported to the glass factory for further processing.

Zhu Yuanzhang ate watermelon while listening. After the mayor finished speaking, he also finished: "Then let it go? We have to make a sum of money from the barbarians first and sell it to them in large quantities, which is slightly cheaper, and then encourage the merchants to buy all kinds of watermelon." Build greenhouses with glass and liberalize private capital.

When the gains from foreign trade are far less than the improvement in the Ming Dynasty's overall economy after liberalization, we can no longer restrict something.

It just so happens that our next step is to sell them diesel and let them exchange it for oil. The kerosene lamp needs glass, which is good if it is transparent. "

The chief also took the opportunity to eat his own watermelon and nodded: "Your Majesty thinks long term! The common people admire you!"

"Believe it or not, I'm going to kick you into the water? You've never fought before, right? When we fight, we kill people, and we let you go for free."

As soon as Zhu Yuanzhang heard what the chief said about a commoner, he wanted to beat him up. Pretend, pretend to be a commoner. Do you really think of yourself as a commoner?
  "We are not afraid. We are good at water and our village is by the Huangchi River." Li Chang responded with a smile.

"Yichang, what would you do if you suddenly fell into the water?" Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly became curious.

"It depends on how far it is from the shore. If it's close, we'll just swim there. If it's far, we'll take off our clothes in the water, ball up our clothes and swim back. Our clothes will get in the way and we won't be able to swim."

The head of the village thought for a moment and answered according to normal measures. Jiangnan people are good at water and are not willing to swim with clothes on.

"Therefore, the Ming Dynasty Navy should look for more people with good water quality near lakes and rivers, and expand the scope of recruitment, no longer limited to military households.

As long as they are given money, other non-military households are willing to become sailors, and there are no restrictions on them. One day they no longer want to be sailors and will go ashore.

Is this okay? The watermen we were looking for before were the children of ordinary people in Fujian who couldn't survive, and now they all got a lot of money. "

Zhu Yuanzhang considered the rationing problem of the army and the source of troops.

Now his horizons have broadened and he can think of more situations, unlike those of the ministers before.

The ministers of the previous dynasty were experienced but rigid, while the ministers who followed him to conquer the country were flexible but inexperienced. There was still a struggle between the two sides.

When he first established Ming Dynasty, he did it step by step, including the laws of Ming Dynasty.

Since following the village, the village's arrangements have been step-by-step and systematic, with plans for the Ming Dynasty's economy, politics, military, education, medical care, etc.

In this way, he discovered that it is not difficult to govern the country. It is all laid out. It is just such a structure and framework that can be coordinated with each other.

It's so simple. Why didn't you see it before? Isn’t it just to use production technology to promote productivity, and then stabilize politics and military through external trade and internal economic growth?

Then use technology to create new military weapons, arm the army with weapons, and stabilize the political power. What else?

As for finance, no matter how hard you study it, it will still be that simple after you learn it and look at it later.

(End of this chapter)