After reading Li Xiangjun's memorial, Chongzhen was delighted and said happily: "The decree is passed to commend Li Xiangjun, the deputy commander-in-chief of Huguang, and the female soldiers under his command. In addition, as requested by Li Xiangjun, Sichuan will be established after Sichuan is pacified.
All the local soldiers who participated in the counter-rebellion were sent to Sichuan to suppress Taiwan, and they enjoyed the same treatment as other towns."
"Old slave accepts the edict." Gao Qiqian received the oral edict and rushed to the political hall to announce the edict.
When Chongzhen looked back, he saw that Zhengqi No. 1 was still running rapidly.
It's a pity that Gewuke didn't have time to develop the machine tool, so it could only run idle.
However, as long as the steam engine has been developed, the rest will be easy.
Everything is difficult at the beginning, and the most difficult thing about the Industrial Revolution was building the first steam engine.
At that moment, Chongzhen called Fang Yizhi and Song Yingxing to him again. Pascal was sent away by Chongzhen, asking him to quickly return to the Imperial College to do experiments.
By the way, Pascal was studying the law of gravity.
One more thing, Pascal was inspired by Chongzhen to carry out the study of universal gravitation.
If nothing unexpected happens, the law of universal gravitation in this world will be discovered twenty years in advance, the discoverer will be changed from Newton to Pascal, and the basic unit of mechanics will probably be changed from Newton to another name.
"Fang Qing and Song Qing, have you drawn up the design sketch of the lathe?"
"Your Majesty, the design sketch of the lathe has been drawn up."
After Fang Yizhi finished speaking, he quickly presented a set of sketches he had just drawn to Chongzhen.
The sketches used three views, which were inspired by Chongzhen and introduced into the teaching of the Imperial College by Pascal, the dean of the Institute of Physics of the Imperial College. Fang Yizhi and Song Yingxing also quickly accepted the concept of three views, because they found that drawings drawn with three views
Processing drawings are more accurate.
Looking at the drawings, Chongzhen asked several questions.
"The lathe spindle rotates extremely fast, is there any problem with the bearings?"
"No problem, bearing manufacturing is actually not difficult, but it is labor-intensive and time-consuming."
[Note: As early as the Yuan Dynasty, cylindrical roller bearing mechanisms already existed]
"The rotation speed of the lathe needs to be different, how do you achieve it?"
"Of course it's gears. You can change the speed through gears of different sizes."
"How do you plan to solve the transmission problem of lathes and steam engines? Use cloth belts? Iron chains? Or directly use connecting rods?"
Fang Yizhi and Song Yingxing looked at each other and said, "Your Majesty, it is inconvenient to use iron chains and connecting rods for transmission. I still want to find a few weaving workshops to develop tough and durable cloth belts for transmission."
"Okay, just try it boldly and don't be afraid to make mistakes."
Chongzhen nodded happily and said: "That's it for now, you go and do your work."
"In this case, I'll take my leave first." Fang Yizhi and Song Yingxing went to work separately.
The matter of Gewu Ke came to an end, and Chongzhen was finally able to return to the Imperial Academy.
Although most of the Forbidden City in Nanjing has been restored, especially the Qianqing Palace where the emperor lived, Chongzhen did not like to live there, preferring to live in the Imperial College.
Because there was neither a large-scale draft nor a large-scale recruitment of eunuchs in Chongzhen, but there were very few palace maids and eunuchs who escaped from Beijing, the huge Forbidden City seemed very empty. It was fine during the day, but it was very crowded at night.
Ran Sanniang and several serving maids hid in the palace gate and did not dare to come out.
Chongzhen never went to the Forbidden City except for the imperial meetings.
Although the imperial censor often submitted impeachment memorials, Chongzhen never paid attention to them.
Chongzhen would rather live in the Qingliang Mountain Palace than in the Forbidden City. He really didn't want to do that, so he sent Gao Qiqian to take Ran Sanniang to the Qingliang Mountain Palace or the Yilun Hall.
The Yilun Hall in the Imperial College may soon be renamed Dunlun Hall.
If Zhu Xi knew something under the spring, would his anger break his guard?
When Chongzhen returned to the Imperial Academy, students who had gone out to practice had already returned one after another.
It can be seen that although these students have become thinner, darker, and the shirts they wear are dirty and torn, the spirit of their bodies has changed significantly.
The specific changes are difficult to describe in words.
But it can be seen that these students have really changed.
When Chongzhen looked at the students, the students also stopped and bowed to Lu Jiude.
This time, Lu Jiude was wearing Chongzhen's golden mountain armor. The teachers and students of the Imperial College also said that Lu Jiude was Chongzhen, so they all bowed to Lu Jiude.
Lu Jiude did not dare to speak and only made a flat gesture.
When he walked into Yilun Hall, Zhang Huangyan was already waiting.
While removing his armor with the help of the eunuch, Chongzhen asked: "Zhang Huangyan, have you found out?"
"Your Majesty, we have already asked clearly." Zhang Huang said, "It was the Luo family brothers who sent people to do it. Because they could not find a chance to assassinate the Holy Majesty, they retreated and turned to the next best thing, Master Ma."
Zhang Huangyan used questions instead of checking, because it was really about asking.
Luo Zuochang, the eldest brother of the Luo family brothers, has been instigated by Zhang Huangyan to rebel.
In other words, all the bosses of the slave-building spy organization have become traitors.
So now every move of the slave-building spies is under Zhang Huangyan's surveillance.
Zhang Huangyan asked again: "Your Majesty, will you take this opportunity to arrest Luo Zuojiu?"
"It's not necessary." Chongzhen waved his hand and said, "Let's keep Luo Zuojiu to cover for Luo Zuochang, lest Dorgon and those Shanxi merchants become suspicious and cut off the Luo family brothers' financial path."
Zhang Huangyan added: "Speaking of financial resources, I have already investigated and found out that several businessmen who are planning to invest in the steam engine factory are actually Shanxi merchants, including the Fan family."
"Okay." Chongzhen said with a smile, "Isn't it good to use the money from slave creation to do our Ming Dynasty affairs?"
Hearing this, Zhang Huangyan said nothing more. He originally wanted to request an order to arrest these merchants, but now it seems that it is not necessary, because Chongzhen had no such idea at all.
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The steam engine factory's stock prospectus is being held in Bailuzhou.
This prospectus attracted nearly a thousand businessmen.
Among them are good friends Wang Tao and Sun Tinglan.
At this time, Ma Mingluan has not arrived yet, and the prospectus has not officially started yet.
So Wang Tao and Sun Tinglan were sitting in the corner whispering.
"Brother Tinglan, I have something unclear." Wang Tao treated Sun Tinglan like a brother.
Sun Tinglan still respected Wang Tao and asked with a smile: "Does Mr. Wang think this business is not worth it?"
"Isn't it?" Wang Tao said with a matter-of-fact expression, "Every time before when recruiting new shares, the Ministry of Internal Affairs would sincerely offer workshops or factories, and the shareholding would be lower than the actual value."
"But this time for the steam engine factory's IPO, the Ministry of Internal Affairs actually wants nothing."
"You talk about technology investing, and the shareholding ratio is as high as 30%. Isn't this robbery?"
After saying this, Wang Tao said angrily: "If we really buy shares in this steam engine factory, according to the prospectus, the equity amount is set at 100 million yuan, wouldn't the Ministry of Internal Affairs take away 3,000 yuan without doing anything?"
Ten thousand?"
"How can it be that nothing has been done?" Sun Tinglan said in a low voice, "The steam engine was made by the Ministry of Internal Affairs' Gewu Branch. Didn't it say in the prospectus that if it does not count as a shareholding, you have to pay a patent fee? In fact, it does not count as a shareholding.
The same, anyway, if a steam engine factory wants to produce steam engines, it must pay this money, but the patent transfer fee is deducted from each steam engine, and the technology investment is based on annual profit dividends. It can only be said that each has its own advantages and disadvantages. "
"But 100 million shares is too scary."
Wang Tao said: "Daming Arsenal only has a capital of 500,000 shares."
"That's true." Sun Tinglan nodded and said, "The Royal Exchange only has a capital of 100 million shares."
After a pause, Sun Tinglan whispered again: "However, I think this Daming Steam Engine Factory is still worth taking shares. If Wang Gong believes in me, he might as well subscribe for tens of thousands of shares."
"How many tens of thousands of shares?" Wang Tao's face fell, "Then how many did you buy?"
Sun Tinglan estimated the number of people present and whispered: "About a thousand people came to this IPO. If the shares are distributed according to the number of people, each person can subscribe for up to 70,000 shares. I want to buy them all."
While he was talking, Ma Mingluan, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, had already walked in hurriedly with Qian Bo Ke and Zhang Dai.
Ma Mingluan didn't even say a polite word and went straight to the point: "Everyone in the business and the shopkeepers must have read the prospectus. The situation is basically like this. The Daming Steam Engine Factory will be run by the Weng family. The Weng family
It was originally the largest loom manufacturer in Suzhou. The looms it produced were of reliable quality and were sold as far away as Huguang. Everyone knows this. I won’t go into details today. Today I just want to talk to you about the future prospects of steam engines.
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"In the future, steam engines will be widely used in arsenals, flour mills, iron smelting plants and other factories. Even the navy's warships will be equipped with steam engines to provide driving force. Therefore, the demand for steam engines is foreseeable.
, not hundreds or thousands of units, but tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of units!”
After a pause, Ma Mingluan continued: "But a steam engine is different from ordinary industrial products. Its price is not a few hundred or a few thousand yuan, but tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of yuan. We might as well take a
The middle value is simply calculated based on the unit price of 50,000 yuan. What is the output value of the demand for 50,000 units?"
Sun Tinglan answered almost instantly: "2.5 billion!"
"Sun Weng is very capable." Ma Mingluan naturally recognized Sun Tinglan.
There are not many speculators who can make more than 500,000 yuan from the two markets.
After a pause, Ma Mingluan added: "I can responsibly tell you that 2.5 billion is conservative, but even based on this output value, the annual profit will exceed 500 million yuan."
"Of course, there won't be so many in the beginning."
"The Holy One once said that any industry needs to be cultivated."
"But you must also see that the original equity capital is only 100 million."
"Opportunities like this that risk ten or even one hundred are really rare. You must not miss it easily."
"Finally, let's talk about the shareholding structure. The Ministry of Internal Affairs will invest in technology, accounting for 30% of the shares, but will not participate in the actual operation. The Weng family will invest in management, accounting for half of the shares, but they can only pay dividends and cannot be resold, leaving 65 million shares.