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The imperial government's finances are still sufficient for the development of industry.
But for the purpose of importing armaments, no amount of money is enough to spend.
When the cannon goes off, there is a thousand taels of gold.
The equipment exported to you by the other party must take into account the labor price, material price, freight, and monopoly profit. The profit is often several times or even dozens of times. How many wars can you support by just buying it?
What's more, during the war, the difficulty of transportation skyrocketed. If three copies were shipped, two would be sunk.
In the feudal era, you could still fight by buying weapons, but in the industrial era, you definitely couldn't.
Without self-manufacturing capabilities and its own industrial system, no matter how much money you allocate, it will not be able to support modern wars.
The capable people in the court quickly saw through this.
The Qing Dynasty still wanted to establish a Tongzhi Zhongxing, let alone the Dacheng court, which was in its prosperous age and had sufficient finances at this time?
As a result, plans to build arsenals, build private factories, and introduce steam engines began to unfold.
Two years have passed.
The factory made a lot of them, and problems also appeared.
The government-run factories passed off inferior quality products and made more and more losses. Both the Navy and the Army found that the cost was higher than what they purchased...
This is even playing with yarn!
After the report was submitted, it turned out that Lu Zhi was a modern person after all, and could still hear his inner voice.
The money used by the government-run factories to build guns, artillery and ships all belongs to the imperial court. They have no market pressure, so they just make up the numbers. After dealing with the ignorant Shangguan, they cut corners and keep the money in their own hands.
If it were not for the Fountain of Youth to collect money, the losses of hundreds of factories alone would be enough to bankrupt the imperial court.
"All government-run arsenals will be converted into private ones, and the Ministry of War will focus on procurement and bidding," she said directly.
"No, Queen Mother. This is an important military weapon. How can it be in the hands of ordinary people? If someone uses it to rebel, wouldn't it be fatal?" The important ministers unanimously advised.
Lu Zhi was disdainful.
In the past, McCann was also a private arsenal, so why weren't they worried about someone using it to rebel?
Yes, the money spent by the rebels can be used to run for president dozens of times, so as long as the rebel leader is not a charlatan, he will choose to run instead of buying weapons and going to war...
After she understood this, she understood why the important ministers were worried about the people's rebellion.
Because their position is to stand with themselves, not with the people. Although they usually provide disaster relief, they still mainly deceive.
So they are afraid of the people.
Is she afraid?
Look at the fur ball in your arms. It seems like there is nothing to fear?
"It doesn't matter, send more Xuanyi guards to the factory to monitor the production flow and prevent secrets from being leaked." Lu Zhi decided.
However, she soon discovered that this was not enough...
"Your Majesty, many private factories have stopped operating. They say they really can't withstand the blackmail and tax imposed by the local officials..." Huang Xiong VI, the Minister of Household Affairs, secretly reported.
"Damn it, these bastards can't see silver in their red eyes. I issue an edict that all arsenals will be exempted from apportionment. Anyone who extorts or blackmails will be executed immediately!" Lu Zhi continued.
This still doesn't work.
Extortion has decreased, but collusion between factory owners and purchasing personnel has become a big problem again.
How difficult is it to work hard to innovate weapons, but how easy is it to pay for meals, build relationships, and give away women?
Bad money drives out good money, everyone does it.
The warship was built, but as soon as it was launched into the water, it broke into two pieces...and drowned more than 30 naval officers who tested the water.
When Wen Rensheng saw this scene on the shore, he shook his head helplessly.
This is the style of the third brother in his previous life.
In feudal society, the lower limit was very low.
The reason for all this is very simple. People's thoughts are imprisoned, people have no fundamental protection of rights, and they only care about the present. Everyone does not have a unified centripetal force and is always in a state of division.
In feudal rule, those in power are most afraid of the people below uniting, because in that case, the status they obtained through deception will be unstable.
They hope that the lower levels will fall apart, so they create all kinds of checks and balances, all kinds of diversions, and use the small to control the big...
The foundation of the industrial revolution is ideological enlightenment, and industry needs industrialized thinking.
Based on reality, we develop in strict accordance with the thinking of being replicable, scalable, innovative and competitive.
If you want to have this kind of thinking, you must have a solid heart and be able to ensure that your wealth will not be plundered.
Lu Zhi couldn't figure it out.
It takes stronger and better people to see through all this.
The current Dacheng Dynasty is roughly equivalent to the enlightened and financially wealthy version of the previous Ming Dynasty.
Much better than the Qing Dynasty, but many stubborn problems still cannot be solved.
Due to his own reasons, Lu Zhi was unable to undergo a thorough renewal. Without a thorough renewal, it would be impossible for the Dacheng Dynasty to be reborn.
In the previous life, the Qing Dynasty built many factories, but in the end they didn't even have the ability to repair them.
It's because officials develop factories for business purposes, not for the common people, not for prosperity.
If the goal is wrong, the more you do, the more deviations you will get.
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Lu Zhi was stunned.
She felt powerless, and there were so many things. The complexity of the industrial era was tens of thousands of times that of the agricultural era, and far exceeded the ability of the feudal monarch to handle it.
"Tuantuan, what should I do?" She kneaded the round dumplings vigorously and asked patiently.
Finally, I no longer call him a hairball.
Maoqiu thought angrily, and then hurriedly said: "I have told you that you have contradictions. You want to be quiet and you want to reform the government and the public. How is this possible? When people are enlightened, they will think wildly, and all kinds of filthy thoughts will appear.
Without civilization, it is impossible to develop industry well."
"Can't it be difficult to develop industry without enlightened thinking? Before reincarnating here, the East Island was also a feudal court and there were many factories striving for excellence." Lu Zhi said dissatisfied.
"That's true, but their method is to give a few chaebols and aristocratic families the rights in the industrialization era, allowing them to share in the government and lead industrialization." Mao Qiu understood it very well.
"Then let's do it this way." Lu Zhi felt that he could still control a few plutocrats, but he couldn't tolerate an overly civilized society.
"Well, you actually have the reincarnation fantasy I gave you. It is very simple to create a chaebol. It has already taken shape. However, they still lack political rights and lack protection for their own wealth, so it is difficult to seriously develop industrialization." Mao
The ball can be seen at the root at a glance.
Without the power of the government, the chaebol transformation will not be successful.
Big landowners will still be big landowners, businessmen will still be businessmen, they will not become chaebols.
"What exactly should be done?"
"Split the existing factories into systems, train different chaebols according to the system, and sell to them at low prices. At the same time, change the imperial examination system and turn the imperial examination into a tool for selecting officials, and set up local councils to facilitate the entry of chaebols... Anyway, they can make more money.
If there are many, you can recycle them." Maoqiu threw out a rough innovation plan with a lot of feudal remnants.