On the fourth day after the birth of the new blast furnace, two sets of new forging equipment introduced from Whateley Forge in the UK arrived in Luanzhou via sea and river transport.
The function of the new forging equipment is to remelt the steel billets and hammer them to remove the slag, thereby producing malleable iron.
This kind of malleable iron is commonly called malleable iron or malleable iron because it has a certain degree of plasticity and toughness. It is also called malleable cast iron or ductile cast iron.
Yuzhu was originally a senior executive of a steel plant, so he naturally knew that the basic tasks of steelmaking are: decarburization, dephosphorization, desulfurization and deoxidation, which remove harmful gases and various impurities.
The development direction of steelmaking plants is to continuously increase the steelmaking temperature, adjust the composition, supply oxygen to make slagging, add alloys, stir and heat up, etc., to achieve the goal of "four removals, two removals, and two adjustments".
The British are only willing to give 0.5 tons of steel-making furnaces. This is not important. What is important is that Yuzhu is willing to continue to spend a lot of money on foreign steel-making engineers.
The failure of the experiment is the cost that Yuzhu should pay for his strategy of developing science and education to rejuvenate the country.
The experiment was successful, the foreign engineers received huge pounds, and Yuzhu gained real scientific and technological progress.
If this isn’t a win-win situation, what is it?
The monarchs and big capitalists of various European countries are still reluctant to reward engineers and technicians.
That's all, workers in various European countries are miserable as hell. They have to work at least 14 hours a day without a day off.
Yuzhu had long been convinced that as long as science and education continued to be vigorously developed, the entire Chinese empire would sooner or later make a lot of money, not just temporary economic accounts, but the overall ledger.
History has long proven that countries that take education seriously have become developed countries!
After more than six years of development, among the first batch of more than 2,000 students who came to Dagukou, more than 200 have completed corresponding studies and received graduation certificates from the Dagukou branch of Halle Academy.
As the first generation of locally trained talents, Yuzhu naturally regards them as treasures.
With a stroke of Yuzhu's pen, in addition to the official uniforms of the ninth rank, all members were rewarded with a monthly salary of thirty taels of silver.
What is the concept of thirty taels of silver?
These days, due to the continuous flow of grain imported by Yuzhu from overseas, the price of grain has been greatly suppressed, and the overall price level is shockingly low.
A pound of fine Japonica rice in the capital costs at most three Wen.
Under normal circumstances, buying an ordinary little girl only costs 3-5 taels of silver.
As long as they are willing to pay thirty taels of silver, mothers in 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 could buy 40 kilograms of rice in Beijing.
Chen Duxiu, who teaches at Peking University, has a monthly income of up to 400 yuan, which can buy 16,000 kilograms of rice.
Hu Shi, who also teaches at Peking University, rented a 17-room courtyard house in Zhonggu Temple, and the monthly rent was 20 yuan.
To rejuvenate the country through science and education, we cannot just rely on words of propaganda, we must spend real money and spend a lot of money.
There are exactly over two hundred prefectures in the entire empire. Among them, there are more than forty prefectures along the coast and along the Yangtze River, the richest. Yuzhu sent the first batch of graduating students to these places.
Yuzhu personally allocated funds to build a brand new modern middle school in each of these forty prefectures, namely: Qiangguo Academy.
Qiangguo Academy gives priority to young people who are eligible to be born as children, that is, young people who are literate. In addition to food, accommodation and clothing, the Academy's treatment also includes a monthly pocket money of two taels of silver.
You know, even if a scholar these days sets up a private school to teach, his annual training is only 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 young, many students whose families were really poor and who were good at reading chose to attend technical secondary schools or technical schools instead of going to university.
Because studying in technical secondary schools and technical schools not only provides free tuition, but also includes work assignments and monthly pocket money, which can greatly reduce the financial burden on the family.
In that era when knowledge was extremely lacking, technical secondary school students enjoyed better treatment than later master's students.
Nowadays, master's degree students are not assigned a job, and they need to take the establishment examination themselves after graduation.
At that time, technical secondary school students, as long as they graduated, were assigned to cadres, and they went straight to the unit to report with their dispatch certificates.
After finishing the chores at hand in Dagukou, Yuzhu took the 109341 troops by boat and sailed westward from Songjiang Prefecture against the Yangtze River to Wuchang City.
A few years later, the situation in Wuchang Prefecture in the southern capital has undergone earth-shaking and astonishing changes.
The city walls of Wuchang Prefecture were enlarged more than five times?
Because it was planned first and then constructed, Yuzhu's palace was located just outside Wuchang City, covering the entire Plum Garden on the shore of East Lake.
Well, the plum garden where Yuzhu lived comfortably will become the emperor's royal garden from now on.
In order not to affect the traffic in the capital, Yuzhu's new palace was built beside the lake.
Right near the palace, there are almost all official offices and residential areas of the imperial court.
This is equivalent to building a new city on the outskirts of Wuchang. Inside the new city are mainly the various bureaucracies of the imperial court and the residences of officials.
This will, to the greatest extent, prevent the government offices from being too scattered and disturbing the people.
Today's rules are that when officials go out, they blow gongs to clear the way and disperse idlers.
With so many court officials gathered in Wuchang City, how can they not disturb the people?
When we return to Wuchang, the picturesque Meiling No. 2 naturally becomes the place where Yuzhu stops.
After coming to Wuchang this time, Yuzhu does not plan to leave in a short time.
Therefore, all the military ministers, cabinet bachelors, military commanding agencies, and the powerful ministers of the six ministries also came to Wuchang.
Regarding the matter of moving the capital, Yuzhu's attitude is very clear. Anyone who objects will immediately step down and leave.
Today's Beidu, in addition to lack of water, also has a major drawback, namely: large sea vessels cannot dock at Dagukou.
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From Dagukou to the Chaoyang Gate of Beidu, there are still two hundred miles.
This invisibly increases the transportation cost within the capital. Over time, the consumption will be huge.
On the contrary, there is no water shortage problem in Wuchang Prefecture. Let alone tens of millions of households, even if the population of the metropolitan area exceeds 100 million, there is no water shortage.
More importantly, large sea-going ships can sail up from the estuary of the Yangtze River and directly reach the dock in Wuchang.
Not to mention anything else, when the capital is temporarily short of food, Yuzhu only needs to give an order, and food from Jiangnan and overseas will be continuously transported along the Yangtze River channel to Wuchang City.
Which of the capitals of the great powers in modern times does not have smooth sea or river transportation?
The so-called dangers of mountains and rivers are becoming increasingly insignificant with the continuous development of thermal weapons.
Yuzhu's entire capital relocation plan is a conspiracy that is planned in advance and carried out step by step.
Well, the military planes, the cabinet, and the ministers of the six ministries have all arrived in Wuchang. Are the ministers, ministers, and ministers of each ministry coming? Are the chief ministers and officials of each ministry coming?
Moving the capital is a huge matter, and the vested interest groups involved are extremely large.
As long as there is a debate, it will inevitably be delayed and decisions will not 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 one was called, Zhang Tingyu said with some worry: "Your Majesty, the status and salary of the newly built Qiangguo Academy are so high that it has attracted constant criticism from scholars across the country."
No matter how capable Zhang Tingyu is, after all, he is the spokesperson of the feudal scholar-bureaucrat class.
Historically, the whole of Europe has entered the eve of the first industrial revolution. However, the feudal literati of the Qing Dynasty had no idea that the sky was high and the earth was high, and they insisted on clinging to the old. In the end, they and the Qing Dynasty were swept into the garbage heap.
Yuzhu glanced at Jiang Sheng, well, although this guy lowered his head and made no sound, he probably agreed with Zhang Tingyu's opinion, right?
"My lords, the general trend of the world is vast. Those who follow it will prosper, and those who go against it will perish." Yuzhu set the tone with just one opening of his mouth, "The Western ingenuity and obscene skills that you all look down on are actually extremely powerful.
Huge. Not to mention anything else, the Imperial Army only purchased British weapons and equipment and wiped out the Junggar Khanate and the Hohan Kingdom."
"You know, during the pre-Qing Dynasty, the Junggar Khanate was always a thorn in the side of the western frontier." Yuzhu gave a living example.
However, Zhang Tingyu was entrusted by others and must finish what he said.
Therefore, Zhang Tingyu asked Yuzhu cautiously: "Your Majesty, the new learning of Qiangguo Academy has received such attention, 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 Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism have fallen far behind the general trend of the world, and their status as Chinese studies will be abolished sooner or later in the future."
Although Zhang Tingyu had already guessed what Yu Zhu was thinking, he was still surprised.
"Your Majesty, there are millions of scholars in the world. Once what they have learned is abolished, they will definitely instigate trouble." Although Zhang Tingyu is good at personal things, he also has a public spirit that is afraid that the whole country will be in chaos. Yuzhu picked up the tea cup, took a sip, and said calmly: "For scholars who are willing to accept new learning, the imperial court provides a very wide way out. Not only is they awarded official uniforms upon graduation, but they are also given extremely high salaries. They should be satisfied."
Ah!"
Jiang Sheng never dared to say anything, because he was the representative of Jiangnan Shilin with tattoos on his head, which was too conspicuous.
Yuzhu asked Tian Wenjing to implement harsh policies in Jiangsu. If Jiang Sheng had not gone to Jiangnan in person and saved the big bureaucratic landlords who refused to bleed, the entire class of people in Jiangnan and above would have been killed by Yuzhu, and the whole country would have been destroyed.
Countless homes.
Chen Cixiu's level of commanding wars is really not good. However, within the isolated island, he carried out land reform with great success.
The real land reform does not mean that everyone is allocated land, but that everyone must pay taxes according to regulations.
For example, everyone is allocated three acres of land. Twenty years later, the next generation will have three sons, each with one acre of land, and they will not even be able to support themselves.
The tax system for the first distribution is particularly important. The more you earn, the more you pay. This is a fair tax system.
The first allocation was seriously unfair, and all subsequent allocations were done by the paper-pasting craftsman, which is only for good or bad.