It took about fifteen years for taxes on industrial and handicraft products to go from being completely negligible to accounting for 10% of the empire's fiscal revenue.
However, it only took five years for the proportion to soar from 10% to 50%. Among them, the textile industry, steelmaking industry and cement industry can be said to have contributed a lot.
Especially the textile industry, with more than one million 64-shuttle advanced spinning machines, the textile industry has officially become the pillar industry of the Chinese Empire.
High-quality and low-priced woven cotton fabrics are not only popular in China, but also in short supply in Southeast Asia and South Asia.
As for the development of the cement industry, the main reason is the extremely strong demand for building official roads and grain drying fields.
If you want to get rich, you must first build roads. This is an indisputable fact.
Under Yuzhu's plan, a total of 20 million corvees were recruited nationwide, and ten main official roads with five vertical and five horizontal arteries were built.
The construction of official roads has turned the sea-land transport of goods from a dream into a reality.
The grain drying ground in front of the farmhouse was not in Yuzhu’s plan.
However, after the big landowners started doing this, the homesteaders who struggled to distinguish between food and soil also learned this good method.
In the past, when there were no cement drying grounds, farmers could only dry grain and cereals in loess fields.
Although the grains and cereals were dried in the sun, they were stained with a lot of loess that could not be washed away, and the white rice turned into yellow rice.
Although the cost of a drying yard paved with cement is a bit higher, without horse-drawn carriages, the cost is not that expensive if it is spread out over twenty years.
The development of the steelmaking industry was followed by the military industry. The most important thing was that after the gradual popularization of kitchen knives, various iron farm tools, and even threshing machines, the sales volume became extremely amazing.
Practice has proved that industrialization that only develops military industry is lame industrialization and will definitely not last long.
Serious industrialization means that civilian industry and military industry advance hand in hand.
The money earned from civilian products and the technology cultivated can feed back investment and technological deficiencies in the military industry.
The rapid development of industry has caused the small-scale peasant society to face rapid disintegration and changes.
Seeing that the time had come, Yuzhu decisively exempted the Western Regions, Gansu, Yunnan, Guizhou and Shaanxi from land tax.
Of course, in the process of gradually merging counties in the west, police stations in various places have gradually reached the level of one auxiliary police officer per village.
With the auxiliary police stationed in the village, you can keep track of the happenings in the village at any time.
Unknowingly, the judicial power originally in the hands of magistrates in various places was gradually replaced by courts with jurisdiction in other places.
Yuzhu is well aware of the disadvantages of localized justice. Under his deliberate arrangement, all lawsuits in County A will be tried by the courts in County B.
The court cannot be moved, but the judges rotate collectively once a year, which avoids local interference in the judiciary to the greatest extent.
The judicial system of the Qing Dynasty was actually not a pure civil law system. Its principle was to follow laws and not to follow rules.
This creates conditions for the comprehensive implementation of the maritime law system based on precedent.
When the empire's national power was booming, Yuzhu gradually divided the princes out, leaving only Xuanyu in the capital.
The ministers all secretly speculated that the throne would be passed on to the eldest son of the emperor, Tong Xuanyu, right?
On this day, Yuzhu suddenly summoned all the military ministers and publicly said: "I plan to pass the throne to the eldest son of the emperor."
"Your Majesty, we must not do this. The empire cannot live without you." Zhou Quan was the first to kneel down and beg Yuzhu.
"Your Majesty, I will not dare to obey the order even if I die." Zhang Tingyu knelt down a little slower, feeling secretly annoyed.
"I beg your Majesty to take back your chaotic life!" Jiang Sheng frowned and argued with reason.
Ma Qi was already very old, and his reaction was much slower. He knelt down tremblingly and cried loudly: "Your Majesty, do you want the prosperous age to end here?"
Confused, this was said so well that even Zhou Quan couldn't help but secretly give it a thumbs up in admiration.
Yuzhu had long expected that showing loyalty was a must.
Because everyone is afraid that Yuzhu is just a test.
Besides, when a new emperor comes to power, who doesn’t understand the principle of one emperor and one courtier?
"I have made up my mind, this is definitely not a test!" Yuzhu said with emotion, "It has been twenty years since I ascended the throne. Apart from the state body, I have nothing to worry about anymore."
The military ministers could not believe it, so they kept lying on the ground and begging Yuzhu to take back his life.
After several distance battles, the ministers saw Yuzhu's true thoughts, and Jinshang really wanted to abdicate.
Now, the development of industry has gradually got on the right track, and the budding state of the first industrial revolution has become more and more obvious.
What Yuzhu is most worried about is that Xuanyu, who succeeded the throne, is unwilling to implement his various policies to develop industry.
Therefore, Yuzhu simply pushed Xuanyu to the front desk and asked him to be responsible for promoting various reform measures.
The biggest problem with the dynasty cycle rate has always been the problem of succession.
In the Western Jin Dynasty, when Sima Zhong came to power, there was the Eight Kings Rebellion.
In the Sui Dynasty, after Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, there were disastrous defeats in three expeditions to Liaodong.
In the Tang Dynasty, Li Longji's ignorance in his later years ruined the prosperous Tang Dynasty.
How to limit the imperial power has become the biggest issue before Yuzhu.
However, man’s calculation is not as good as God’s calculation.
In the second year after Yuzhu passed the throne, he suddenly suffered a heart attack and completely knocked him down.
When Yuzhu was ill in bed, Lao Ba and Lao Si were brought to his bed together.
"Fourth brother, today's empire is cleaner than before, how about it?" Yuzhu leaned on the hospital bed and asked the fourth brother with a smile.
The fourth child, who had been retrieved from Southeast Asia, was silent for a long time and said coldly: "Thieves who steal the country will eventually fall into the lower class."
Lao Ba, who had been hiding in India for a long time, suddenly sighed: "Yu Jie Qing has indeed usurped the Qing Dynasty."
The three of them are not too young, and the fact that the fourth and eighth children did not criticize him is the greatest compliment to Yuzhu.
Yuzhu took a breath and said: "It's a pity that it's not a holiday. Otherwise, at least I can see that treasure."
The fourth child said nothing, and the eighth child subconsciously asked: "What baby?"
At this moment, the chamberlain suddenly came to report, "Your Majesty, I am so happy that the steam locomotive has been built."
"Quick, quick, lift me up and touch it."
Everyone also knows that the old emperor is dying, so it is better to fulfill his wish.
So, Yuzhu was carried to the railway in the suburbs.
According to the appearance of the locomotive drawn by Yuzhu, British engineer Newcomen spent ten years actually building the first locomotive.
The steam engine is actually the most difficult thing to create from 0-1.
Now that there is a steam engine, and Yuzhu has drawn detailed drawings of the old-fashioned locomotive based on his memory, Newcomen will save more than a hundred years of detours when he invents it again.
Imagine that it would take a long time to explore in a completely dark environment.
However, if a beam of light comes in and you follow the light to find your way out, it will be much easier.
Yuzhu was extremely excited and stroked the cold steel beast over and over again. This was one of the greatest achievements in the first industrial revolution.
"Emperor, pardon the fourth and eighth children." Just after Yuzhu gave the order, his heart hurt sharply and he immediately passed out.
I don't know how long it took, but in Yuzhu's remaining consciousness, he suddenly heard a cry, "The Supreme Emperor has passed away!"