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Chapter 1024 Rising Trend

Just four days after the birth of the new blast furnace, two sets of brand-new forging equipment imported from the Watley Forge in England arrived in Luanzhou by sea and river.

The function of the new forging equipment was to re-melt billets of steel, hammering them to remove the slag and thus producing malleable iron.

This kind of malleable iron, because of its certain plasticity and toughness, is commonly known as malleable iron and horse iron, also known as malleable cast iron or ductile cast iron.

Yuzhu was originally a high-level executive in a steel factory, so he naturally knows well. The basic tasks of steelmaking are: decarburization, dephosphorization, desulfurization and deoxidation, removing harmful gases and various impurities.

The development direction of the steelmaking plant is to continuously increase the steelmaking temperature, adjust the composition, and achieve the goal of "four removals, two removals, two adjustments" by means of oxygen supply, slagging, alloy addition, and stirring to increase temperature.

The British are only willing to give a 0.5-ton steelmaking furnace, which is not important. The important thing is that Yuzhu is willing to spend a lot of money on foreign steelmaking engineers.

The loss of the experiment is the cost that Yuzhu should pay for developing the strategy of rejuvenating the country through science and education.

The experiment was successful, the foreign engineer received a huge amount of pounds, and Yuzhu reaped real technological progress.

This is not a win-win situation, what is it?

The monarchs and big capitalists of European countries are still stingy and unwilling to reward engineers and technicians.

That's all, workers in various European countries are suffering to death. They have to work at least 14 hours a day without a day off.

Yuzhu has long recognized that as long as the continuous vigorous development of science and education is not considered a temporary economic account, but is calculated from the macro situation, the entire Chinese Empire will make a lot of money sooner or later.

History has long proved that countries that are serious about education have become developed countries!

After more than six years of development, more than 200 of the first batch of more than [-] students who came to Dagukou have completed the corresponding studies and received graduation certificates from the Dagukou Branch of Haller Academy.

As the first generation of locally cultivated talents, Yu Zhu naturally regarded them as treasures.

With a swipe of Yuzhu's pen, in addition to the official uniforms of Cong Jiupin for all members, the monthly salary of each person is 30 taels of silver.

What is the concept of 30 taels of silver?

These days, due to the steady flow of grain imported by Yuzhu from overseas, the price of grain has been greatly stabilized, and the overall price level is shockingly low.

A catty of high-quality japonica rice in the capital costs at most three Wen.

Under normal circumstances, buying an ordinary little girl is only 3-5 taels of silver.

As long as they are willing to pay 30 taels of silver, the mothers of Jiyuan can already buy extremely beautiful little beauty embryos.

The Beiyang government is indeed very corrupt, but the Beiyang government attaches great importance to education.

At that time, a piece of ocean was in the city of Beijing and could buy 40 catties of rice.

Chen Duxiu, who teaches at Peking University, earns 400 yuan a month and can buy 16000 catties of rice.

Hu Shi, who also teaches at Peking University, rented a 20-room courtyard house in Zhonggusi. The monthly rent was [-] yuan.

In order to rejuvenate the country through science and education, one cannot just rely on word of mouth to propagate, one must spend real money and ruthlessly spend a lot of money.

In the entire empire, there are exactly more than 200 prefectures.Among them, the most affluent coastal and riverside prefectures have a total of more than forty.Yuzhu sent the first batch of graduate students to these places.

Yuzhu personally allocated funds to build a brand-new modern middle school in each of these forty mansions, namely: Qiangguo Academy.

Qiangguo Academy gives priority to recruiting young people who are qualified to be children, that is, young people who can read and write.The treatment of the academy, in addition to including board, lodging, and clothing, there is also a monthly pocket money of two taels of silver.

You know, even if a scholar these days runs a private school to teach, his annual salary is about ten taels of silver.

In fact, Qiangguo Academy is just a replica of the old technical school and the old technical secondary school.

When Yuzhu was a child, his family was really poor, and many students who were good at reading chose to go to technical secondary schools or technical schools instead of colleges.

Because, when studying in technical secondary schools and technical schools, not only tuition fees are waived, work is assigned, but pocket money is also given every month, which can greatly reduce the financial burden of the family.

In that era of extreme lack of knowledge, the treatment enjoyed by technical secondary school students was even better than that of later master students.

Today's master's students do not need to be assigned work. After graduation, they still need to take the system examination by themselves.

The technical secondary school students at that time, as long as they graduated, they had a cadre establishment, and they went straight to the unit to report to the unit with the dispatch card.

After finishing the chores at Dagukou, Yuzhu led the 109341 troops, took a boat by sea, went westward from Songjiang Mansion against the Yangtze River, and went straight to the city of Wuchang.

Several years later, the situation of Wuchang Mansion in the southern capital has undergone earth-shaking and astonishing changes.

The city wall of Wuchang Mansion has been expanded more than five times?

Because it was planned first and built later, Yuzhu's palace was located in the suburbs outside Wuchang City, and covered the entire plum garden on the bank of East Lake.

Well, the plum garden where Yuzhu lives comfortably will become the emperor's imperial garden in the future.

In order not to affect the traffic in the capital, Yuzhu's new palace was built by the lake.

Near the imperial palace, almost all the official offices and residential areas of the imperial court.

This is equivalent to building another new city on the outskirts of Wuchang.Inside the new city are mainly various bureaucratic institutions of the imperial court and residences of officials.

This is to the greatest extent, avoiding the excessive disturbance of the government office due to its excessive dispersion.

Today's rule is that when officials go out, gongs are played to clear the way and drive away idlers.

With so many bureaucrats from the imperial court gathered in Wuchang Prefecture, how can they not disturb the people?

When I came to Wuchang again, the picturesque Meiling No. [-] became the residence of Yuzhu as a matter of course.

After coming to Wuchang this time, within a short time, Yuzhu didn't intend to leave.

Therefore, the entire class of military ministers, cabinet scholars, military commanders, and six ministers with real power also came to Wuchang.

Regarding the matter of moving the capital, Yuzhu's attitude was very clear, whoever opposed it would immediately step down and leave.

In today's northern capital, apart from the lack of water, there is another major disadvantage, namely: large sea-going ships can only call at the port of Dagu.

There are still two hundred miles between Dagukou and Chaoyangmen in the northern capital.

This is invisible, increasing the transportation cost within the capital.Over time, the consumption will be great.

In contrast, Wuchang Prefecture has no water shortage problem at all.Not to mention tens of millions of residents, even if the population of the metropolitan area exceeds [-] million, it is impossible to lack water.

More importantly, large sea-going ships can sail up from the mouth of the Yangtze River and go straight to the wharf in Wuchang.

Not to mention anything else, just when the capital is temporarily short of food, Yuzhu only needs to give an order, and the food in the south of the Yangtze River and overseas will be continuously transported to the city of Wuchang along the waterway of the Yangtze River.

Which of the capitals of the great powers in modern times has no smooth sea or river transportation?

The so-called dangers of mountains and rivers, with the continuous development of hot weapons, are becoming more and more insignificant.

Yuzhu's entire plan to move the capital belongs to a conspiracy planned in advance and promoted step by step.

Well, the military aircraft, the cabinet and the six ministers have all arrived in Wuchang. Will the ministers, doctors and Yuanwailang of the various ministries come?Heads of various ministries and officials, will you come?

Moving the capital is a big deal, and the vested interest groups involved are extremely large.

As long as there is an argument, there is bound to be a delay, and a decision cannot be made in time.

Therefore, Yuzhu's strategy for moving the capital is just six words: don't argue, just do it.

In the morning, when the first call was made, Zhang Tingyu said with some concern: "Your Majesty, the status and salary of the newly built Qiangguo Academy are really too high, which has provoked constant criticism from scholars all over the country."

No matter how capable Zhang Tingyu is, he is the spokesperson of the feudal scholar-official class after all.

Historically, the whole of Europe has entered the eve of the first industrial revolution, and the feudal scholar-officials of the Qing Dynasty, completely ignorant of the majesty of the heavens and the earth, blindly embraced the incomplete. In the end, they were swept into the garbage dump together with the Qing Dynasty.

Yuzhu glanced at Jiang Sheng, um, although this guy kept his head down, he didn't gnaw, he probably agrees with Zhang Tingyu's opinion in his heart, right?

"My lords, the general trend of the world is vast and mighty. Those who follow it will prosper, and those who go against it will perish." Yu Zhu set the tone with one mouth, "The ingenious and obscene skills of the West that you all despise, are actually extremely powerful. Huge. Not to mention anything else, the Imperial Army just purchased British weapons and equipment, and wiped out the Junggar Khanate and the Huohan Kingdom.”

"You know, in the former Qing Dynasty, the Junggar Khanate has always been a confidant of the western border." Yuzhu gave a living example.

However, Zhang Tingyu was entrusted by others and had to finish speaking.

Therefore, Zhang Tingyu asked Yuzhu cautiously: "Your Majesty, if the new learning of Qiangguo Academy is so valued, it will definitely affect the ambition of scholars all over the world."

Yuzhu smiled slightly and said: "To put it bluntly, the Tao of Confucius and Mencius and Neo-Confucianism of Cheng and Zhu are far behind the general trend of the world. Sooner or later, their status as national studies will be abolished."

Although Zhang Tingyu had already guessed what Yu Zhu was thinking, he was still taken aback.

"Your Majesty, there are millions of scholars in the world. Once what they have learned is abolished, they will definitely incite trouble." Although Zhang Tingyu is fond of personal goods, he also has a public heart that fears that the whole country will be in chaos.

Yuzhu picked up the teacup, took a sip, and said lightly: "For scholars who are willing to accept new learning, the imperial court has given them a very wide way out. Not only will they be granted official uniforms upon graduation, but they will also be given extremely high salaries. You should be content with that." ah!"

Jiang Sheng didn't dare to say anything, because he was a representative of Jiangnan Shilin with tattoos on his head, which was too conspicuous.

Yuzhu asked Tian Wenjing to implement a harsh policy in Jiangsu.If Jiang Sheng hadn't personally gone to the south of the Yangtze River to save the big bureaucratic landlords who refused to bleed, the whole class of Juren and above in the whole south of the Yangtze River would have been killed by Yuzhu, and countless families would have been destroyed.

Chen Cixiu's level of commanding and fighting is really not good.However, in the isolated island, he carried out land reform with great fanfare.

The real land reform is not that everyone has to share the land, but that everyone must pay taxes according to the regulations.

For example, everyone is divided into three acres of land.After 20 years, the next generation will have three sons, with one mu of land per person, who can't even support themselves.

The tax system for the first distribution is particularly important.The more you earn, the more you pay taxes. This is a fair tax system.

The first allocation was seriously unfair, and all the subsequent allocations were done by the paper-maker, which was not useful for its appearance.