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Chapter 299 Don’t take soft and hard measures 2
As the saying goes, the world is not benevolent and treats all things like straw dogs, and the officials are unkind and treat the common people like straw dogs.There are only two greatest evils in the world, nature and officials.The former is uncontrollable and is an indiscriminate harm; the latter is controllable and is a product created by human beings themselves.

If there were no officials, there would be no large-scale wars in the world, and there would be no tragic situation of starvation and bones everywhere.Humans can live a carefree life as long as they find ways to avoid natural disasters.

But officials not only cannot avoid it, but they also actively come together. In order to compete for power, they can easily push the whole village, the whole county, and the whole country into a pit of fire. The greater their ability, the greater the harm.

The people of the Ming Dynasty had enough to eat and drink, they could live half-full without being frozen to death, and they had some hope that future generations could be fed and clothed, so they would never risk their lives in rebellion and send all their armor and weapons to their homes. Don't worry.

The self-sufficient small-scale peasant economy does not require the intervention of officials. In some places, the people have not seen the county magistrate for several lifetimes, and do not even know that dynasties have changed, but one generation after another is still living a good life.

Therefore, Hong Tao is not worried about the Ming Dynasty officials using foreign labor to fight his New Deal. As long as they do not go on strike completely and can complete the most basic government affairs, it is enough.

The more actively they work, the more destructive they are and the more bad things they do. Not only do they make no contribution, but they also have to help wipe the mess afterwards.If you don't work or work less, the harm to the court and the people will be reduced, which is what you want.

If you don't even do the most basic government affairs, it would be better to deal with it according to the law.The so-called matter of eating the emperor and being loyal to the emperor, if you don't even have this awareness, you can still be called a scholar, and leave it to the Jin Yiwei to investigate.

Whenever problems such as corruption of power, abuse of power, and disregard of human life are discovered, the person involved will be killed, the entire family will be assigned to hard labor in the factory, and all the family property will be confiscated.There is no faster way to make money in the world than ransacking homes, and the treasury will soon turn from losses to profits.

In fact, as long as a few outstanding people are caught and handled according to this method, most officials will not dare to go too far.Officials may not be afraid of death, but few people are willing to be known as corrupt officials after death and have their whole families suffer together.

Likewise, no one is willing to watch the family property accumulated over generations disappear in an instant, leaving future generations to become homeless without houses, land, wealth, home, and begging on the streets.It does not conform to the scholar's ideals of self-cultivation, family management, country governance, and world peace.

You can't have fun in the capital, and you can't act recklessly in the local area.The total number of eunuchs in Beijing and Nanjing has not decreased in recent years, but the number of eunuchs in the Forbidden City in Beijing and the Imperial City in Nanjing has decreased significantly.

Where have all these people gone?They were all sent to various places to serve as military supervisors, gun supervisors, and tax supervisors, but they were very different from the mine supervisors sent by Emperor Wanli.

They did not have any privileges when they arrived at the local level, and were not allowed to interfere in government affairs in the name of the emperor. Their only role was to keep an eye on the performance of officials at all levels and make regular written reports to the Supervisor of Ceremonies.

With these eyes, the emperor could not say that he could see everything clearly while sitting in the palace, but he could also roughly grasp the trends in various places. He could deal with problems in principle in a timely manner, and he could pretend not to see things that were not very destructive to stability.

The possibility of large-scale civil strife and foreign war has been temporarily avoided, and there is no need to worry too much about the safety of one's life. What else do I have to fear?

Hundreds of people starved to death in a certain place, thousands of people died in a flood and earthquake in a certain place... Isn't this normal?Just look through the history books and see, in which dynasties and generations and years did no people starve to death or freeze to death?As long as it is not a common phenomenon, it is not necessary to be an official or an emperor, and only the common people will be unlucky.So Hong Tao also started to have some leisure time. Except for the morning morning meeting every ten days, he would either go to Guanghan Hall to do chemical experiments or lead the Cuju team to practice. If he was really free, he would go to Nanhai Zihuangzhuang to serve as a teacher. Personally teach the orphans mathematics, geometry, world geography, etc.

Today happens to be March [-]th. I have been tinkering in Guanghan Hall for most of the day. While eating lunch from a carved lacquered wooden box, I watched Zhang De and Gao Bao use concentrated nitric acid, mercury, and ethanol to make crude mercury fulminate. come out.Wash it with clean water in the afternoon and you can get the mercury fulminate crystals.

With mercury fulminate, theoretically speaking, you can make primers and detonators, as well as metal-cased fixed ammunition, mines, grenades, bolt-action rifled rifles, machine guns, mortars, etc.All of them are powerful weapons of this era. With just one regiment, they can defeat tens of thousands of cavalry.

But in theory, these three words are very unreliable. Adding this prefix to many questions means that they can only be thought about and basically cannot be realized.

Hong Tao cannot escape this definition. The current preparation method of mercury fulminate is only at laboratory level. There is still a long way to go before large-scale mass production. There is no end in sight for safe use, so there is no such thing as the big ones behind. A murder weapon.

But anyway, the beginning was relatively smooth.Tomorrow Hong Tao plans to try silver fulminate again and compare the two to see which one is more suitable for the current technology and materials.

After finishing all this work, I realized that it was actually snowing heavily outside. If I wanted to enjoy the snow scenery, the best place in the city would be the top of Meishan Mountain.It's a pity that I regretted it when I climbed up to see it. The so-called beautiful scenery is just like that. It would be more interesting to go to Xiyuan to dig an ice hole for fishing.

"Are the Supervisors and Dongchang really so idle?" He was wondering if he would miss going down the mountain to go fishing in Xiyuan at this time. When he lowered his head, he saw Wang An struggling to climb up the mountain road.This made Hong Tao even more irritable. He could be lazy, but he didn't want to see others idle. Anyone who wasn't busy would definitely be unlucky.

"This slave is here to report the good news..."

"This is not the first time I have said this. You need to exercise more. Why are you not as good as a child when you are in your early forties?"

Well, he was criticized before he even got there. Looking at Wang An Hongtao who was panting, his brows were furrowed.He is less than 99 meters tall. How can he serve the New Deal in the future with such a good body?It’s not easy to cultivate a confidant. If you don’t work until you retire at the age of [-], you will lose it!
"Long live the Lord's instruction, please keep it in mind and go run with the Cuju team tomorrow... Long live Lord, I'm so happy. Jian Nu finally relented and brought many good things to Beijing to pay tribute. We should have arrived before the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Unexpectedly, heavy snowfall on the road delayed the trip."

Facing the emperor's rebuke, Wang An dealt with it very comfortably, mainly because he was tired from being reprimanded too many times.His mouth was perfunctory, but his face was full of smiles.

The imperial court has been treating the Jurchens with kindness and power for so many years, but it has not had much effect. Long live the Lord is still capable. He gave up Liaodong Town at the expense of retreat, and let the rebellious Jianlu take the initiative to enter the capital. This time, look at those eyes What else can the high-ranking courtiers say.

(End of this chapter)