Peng Yingyue was pregnant, so Yuzhu took Chen Qiongbao and several other Jiangnan ladies with him, and took a boat from Wuchang down the river to Wusongkou.
Since Yuzhu decided to move the capital to Wuchang, Chongming Island at the mouth of the Yangtze River has become a military center.
On the island, a total of six permanent forts with steel bars embedded in the walls were built.
There are nearly three hundred 64-pound heavy guns.
From a technical perspective, the fortress heavy artillery is much less difficult than the naval gun.
If the quality of the gun barrel is not enough, you can add several layers of copper hoops or iron hoops to the gun barrel to prevent the barrel from exploding.
In addition, you can wrap a few more turns of rope around the body of the heavy gun to cushion the recoil.
In order to reduce the cost of making cannons, the cannon factory and gunpowder factory were simply located in Luanzhou.
As a result, a complete modern military industry was initially established near Luanzhou.
From gunpowder factories, coal mines, iron mines, steel mills, forging plants, rolling mills, gun factories, artillery factories, to steam engine factories, it can be said that they are all available.
In order to ensure the safety of the modern military industrial base, two permanent forts were built on each side of the Luanhe Estuary, which leads directly to the sea, and heavy troops were stationed.
Ten days later, under the protection of the expanded 109341 unit, Yuzhu successfully arrived in Taicang Prefecture by boat.
Songjiang Prefecture in the era of small farmers was far less prosperous than Wuchang Prefecture.
Because the basis for the prosperity of Songjiang Prefecture is that after the Changmao uprising, a large number of bureaucratic landlords and wealthy businessmen in Jiangsu and Zhejiang were forced to take refuge in Songjiang Prefecture.
The more rich people there are, the more prosperous the economy will be.
The same was true for Hong Kong in history.
Due to the Western economic containment, Hong Kong has become the only window for mainland China to obtain overseas technology, equipment, foreign exchange and materials.
Mr. Huo Yingdong, a famous patriotic businessman, owned dozens of fast fleets at its peak.
Therefore, after Mr. Huo passed away, he enjoyed the treatment of a state funeral.
The first and third towns have actually arrived at Chongming Island a long time ago and are undergoing adaptive training.
After Yuzhu arrived at the mouth of the Yangtze River, he did not go to Songjiang Fucheng, which is located inland, but went directly to Chongming Wharf.
It is worth mentioning that Chongming County at this time was not under the jurisdiction of Songjiang Prefecture, but under the jurisdiction of Taicang Zhili Prefecture.
Taicang Zhili Prefecture is under the direct administration of Jiangsu Province and has jurisdiction over one prefecture and four counties, namely Taicang Prefecture, Zhenyang County, Chongming County, Jiading County and Baoshan County.
When Yuzhu arrived, Lu Wu and He Wenda went to the pier to welcome His Majesty the Emperor.
As soon as they met, Yuzhu asked Lu Wu: "The foreign fleet has not arrived yet?"
Lu Wu smiled bitterly and said: "Back to the emperor, the foreign fleet felt that the money they gave was not enough, so they secretly arranged a short-distance transportation to Ningbo. I can make a little bit of it."
Yuzhu nodded. Before the Chinese Empire's ocean-going fleet is completely established, it can only recruit foreign fleets.
In order to make more money, foreign businessmen often like to do some private work in maritime transportation and strive to reduce losses.
This is mainly to transport troops and weapons and equipment, and foreign ships are actually in a state of low profit.
However, if they do not help Yuzhu transport troops, the huge Chinese Empire market will be closed to them. Even if the cabin is full of goods, there will be no way to trade.
Therefore, when it was not a particularly urgent military operation, Yuzhu always turned a blind eye to the matter of private work on foreign ships.
After all, it doesn’t make sense to want a horse to run fast but also not eat grass!
Going to reinforce North Korea was not an urgent matter, so Yuzhu didn't say anything anymore.
Yuzhu took the women and moved into the villa of the largest salt merchant in Chongming County.
The salt industry monopoly will be canceled sooner or later.
However, salt tax still accounts for a large proportion of the imperial court's current fiscal revenue.
Before the industry develops greatly, the salt tax cannot be canceled hastily.
As the high-quality cast iron from Luanzhou continues to flow into the market, the ironware monopoly system has become useless.
The reason is simple. The pig iron produced by government-run ironworks in various places using local methods has a low-cost, high-yield, high-impurity content, which is completely incomparable with the modern steelmaking plant in Luanzhou.
In the face of overwhelming scientific and technological progress, the old government-run iron factories will inevitably close down one by one.
Yuzhu is well aware of the shortcomings of government-owned enterprises. As long as they are old-fashioned government-run iron factories that cannot make ends meet, they will be shut down and dismissed.
Government-run enterprises cannot develop high technology. The fundamental problem is that they can live a comfortable life relying on monopoly. How can they have the motivation for technological progress if they are not their own factories?
The most typical example is the automobile industry.
A joint venture between a state-owned car company and a state-owned car company can make money by just doing nothing. Why does it need to work so hard on research and development?
Enterprises that truly lead technological progress must be private enterprises and cannot be government enterprises.
The Westernization Movement in the late Qing Dynasty failed. The disadvantage was that it was run by the government or run by officials and supervised businesses. In the end, the so-called government-run and supervised businesses had the final say. It would be a miracle if it did not fail.
The day after Yuzhu arrived at Chongming Island, Tian Wenjing, the acting governor of Jiangsu, quietly came to see His Majesty the Emperor.
"Acting Governor of Jiangsu, Chen Tian Wenjing, sincerely greets you." Tian Wenjing knelt down to greet you.
Yuzhu smiled slightly, waved his hand and said: "Get up. Come, give me a seat and serve tea."
Tian Wenjing is indeed a well-known cruel official. The land reform in Jiangsu he presided over was very effective.
In Zhejiang, because there are many people but little land, people especially like to do business.
The plains in southern Jiangsu are a real land of plenty, with fertile fields stretching as far as the eye can see.
Before the land reform, there were many big country gentry in Jiangsu Province who owned more than 10,000 acres of fertile land.
Now, with over a thousand acres of fertile land, he is already considered a big landowner.
This is all the credit of Tian Wenjing!
Therefore, in the next step, Yuzhu planned to arrange for Tian Wenjing to serve as the governor of Liangjiang, and vigorously implement Yuzhu's four major policies throughout the jurisdiction of Liangjiang, namely: sharing the land with the peasants, paying the grain to the gentry as a whole, returning the fire to the public, and raising honest silver. Everything else is easy to talk about, except for Yang Lianyin and Tian Wenjing, who have slightly different views.
"Your Majesty, a mere county magistrate has issued nearly 2,000 taels of Yanglian silver. It seems too much?" Tian Wenjing asked tentatively.
Yuzhu immediately smiled, raising Lian Yin was just the first step.
To put it bluntly, only with high salary can one be able to maintain integrity, while with low salary can one be without officialdom and without corruption.
The original intention of Laosi to promote the anti-corruption bank is certainly good. However, a bank without supporting anti-corruption measures will inevitably become a high-paying institution that supports corruption.
Yuzhu is much more far-sighted than Lao Si.
Let the officials get the Yanglianyin first, and then use the police stations in various places to thoroughly measure the land across the country and issue vouchers.
In a country dominated by agriculture, as long as the issue of land ownership across the country is clarified, the property will be completely disclosed.
This is the second step.
Anti-corruption has a long way to go, so there must be no rush. There are still many steps ahead, so there is no need to go into detail one by one.