"I hereby enjoin you to submit all memorials to the Military Aircraft Department for review. I hereby express my gratitude!"
After the decree was made known to the world, the Military Aircraft Department transformed into a central authority that overrides the cabinet.
There were four ministers in the first term of military aircraft, namely: Zhang Tingyu, Ma Qi, Zhou Quan and Jiang Sheng.
Three Han Dynasties and one Manchu Dynasty have a very strong symbolic meaning.
The smart people in the court had already smelled something unusual and were secretly delighted.
The spring when the Han people will take power may come in the near future.
The governor of Zhili was originally stationed in Baoding.
It is nearly four hundred miles from Baoding to the capital, and can only be taken by land.
According to Yuzhu's wishes, the governor of Zhili will definitely be promoted to the governor of Zhili in the future and will be stationed in Tianjin.
Why?
Tianjin's Dagukou Wharf was already the largest foreign trade port in the entire Qing Dynasty, and its strategic and economic significance was particularly extraordinary.
Apart from agriculture, what else is there in Baoding?
To paraphrase modern discourse, the united front value of Dagukou in Tianjin is obviously higher than that of Baoding!
In modern times, almost all developed cities in major developed countries around the world are close to the sea. Even if they are not close to the sea, they are still close to the big rivers that connect to the sea.
The low transportation costs of sea and river transportation determine that the economic development prospects of inland cities that are neither near rivers nor seas are extremely mediocre.
In the PK between Tianjin and Baoding, Tianjin, which had the advantage of developing the foreign trade port first, won completely!
However, the governor of Zhili moved to Tianjin, laying the groundwork for the future capital move.
As a transitional plan, Yuzhu planned to imitate the Ming Dynasty and create a two-capital system.
Besides Beijing, look for Nanjing.
However, it is absolutely impossible for Jiangning to be selected as the new capital.
Jiangning, also known as Jinling, is known as the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties. Its royal power seems to be soaring, but in fact it has declined to the extreme.
Since ancient times, all the imperial courts, large and small, that once had their capital in Jinling, except for the Qian Ming Dynasty, were quickly destroyed in the end!
More importantly, Jinling was too close to the east, which was not conducive to the imperial court's control of the central and western regions.
As far as Yuzhu's heart was concerned, it was just right to choose Wuchang Prefecture as the southern capital.
Starting from Hubei Province, the distance to all parts of the country is almost the same.
Even if you go to Liaodong, you can also go by boat. It is not only convenient, but also much faster than going by land.
Of course, the biggest problem with Wuchang Prefecture, the capital, is the flooding in the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River.
However, this problem is actually easy to solve.
The main problem with flooding in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River is that the Jingzhou section of the Yangtze River has a low, meandering terrain, gentle water flow, and river embankments higher than the city.
Once a flood occurs in the upper reaches, the embankments of the Yangtze River in the Jingzhou section will burst and flood thousands of miles.
In the early Qing Dynasty, due to the thorough implementation of the immigration policy of Huguang to fill Sichuan, more than half of the farmers in Jingzhou and Yichang were forcibly expelled.
This has resulted in the current total population of Jingzhou Prefecture being pitifully small.
It’s easier to get things done when there are fewer people!
As long as the imperial court decrees that the entire southern area of the Jingzhou section of the Yangtze River be turned into a flood discharge area, the problem will be easily solved.
Anyone who has seen the topography of Hubei will know that Zhijiang County, Songzi County, Shishou County and Jianli County in the south of Jingzhou Prefecture are just sandwiched between the Yangtze River, Dongting Lake and Honghu Lake.
Currently, most of the aborigines in these four counties have been relocated to Sichuan, leaving them sparsely populated and suitable for use as flood discharge areas.
As the saying goes, flooding four counties will revitalize the entire Yangtze River Basin.
In future generations, why would we not dare to open the floodgates to release floods even when the biggest flood peak hits?
There is no way, it is the failure of the local government to allow a large number of people to migrate into the flood discharge area.
Think about it, there are millions of people living in the originally planned flood discharge area, so how can we discharge the flood?
Apart from this method, there is no other way to deal with the flood when the Yangtze River becomes angry.
In the year when the floods were most dangerous, the slogan of flood control was: Sacrifice Xiaojingzhou and protect Wuhan!
Now, as long as we plan ahead and sacrifice agricultural land in the four counties, we can achieve a flood control effect that is more effective than the Three Gorges Dam.
Once and for all, the success will be in the present time and the benefit will be in the future!
From then on, the entire Yangtze River Basin no longer feared major floods.
After the Military Aircraft Department was officially opened, Yuzhu became the hands-off shopkeeper again.
To be honest, Yuzhu, who has the soul of a modern man, is really impatient and spends all day reviewing all kinds of things about small-scale peasant society.
In a small peasant society, there is no emphasis on business. Most affairs in various places revolve around relief for floods, relief for drought victims, and civil unrest.
Yuzhu didn't bother to deal with such a small matter at all, and simply left it to the military and aircraft ministers for discussion.
Instead of grading meaningless things like An Zhe every day, Yuzhu would rather stay with the foreign metallurgical engineers from London.
Anyway, Yuzhu has set the rules. The four military and aircraft ministers will vote. Whoever votes more votes will listen.
If the vote is 2:2, it will be submitted to Yuzhu for decision.
However, in areas involving military matters, the Military Aircraft Division has no authority to deal with them and must directly submit them to Yuzhu for decision.
Zhang Tingyu was so shrewd that he immediately realized that the East and West mansions of the Northern Song Dynasty were likely to appear again in the future imperial court.
Hehe, Zhang Tingyu is indeed very smart. Yuzhu has long planned to separate the military and political affairs. The military is the military and the government is the government, so they should not be confused with each other.
Isn't it nonsense to let civilian officials take specific command of the war?
From now on, all government affairs of the imperial court will be handled by the Military Aircraft Department.
As for the military field, a base camp will definitely be established in the future to oversee the country's military.
The most essential difference between modern countries and feudal countries, and the most easily overlooked difference, is actually the ability to mobilize in wartime.
During the Opium War, Daoguang had an army of millions, but every time he fought against the British, he always used less to defeat more. The root problem was that the Qing Dynasty had almost no mobilization ability.
The First Opium War has been fought, and representatives from both sides are negotiating the Sino-British Treaty of Nanjing, which was humiliating and humiliating the country. Chieftain wolf soldiers mobilized from Guangxi are still on their way to assemble.
During World War I, the Rakshasa Kingdom did not want to fight, but issued a nationwide mobilization order in an attempt to intimidate Kaiser Wilhelm II.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The Kaiser was afraid of suffering a big loss, so he issued a general mobilization order without any sign of weakness.
To put it bluntly, in modern countries, whoever mobilizes late will suffer the consequences. They must complete mobilization first.
As a result, a war that the whole of Europe thought could not be fought miraculously started.
Yuzhu quietly left the capital, took his entourage, took a boat up the Luan River by sea, and arrived in Luanzhou.
What is more interesting is that most of the entourage who followed Yuzhu to Luanzhou were not serious people.
Feng shui masters, fortune tellers, alchemists, fake Taoists who play with elixirs, fake monks who play with gunpowder, etc. are all low-level crooked talents.
To be honest, Yuzhu doesn't mind their low-level status.
How could another person in power lead people like them to study prospecting at public expense?
In traditional small-scale peasant society, the soil for creating gods is deeply rooted.
Confucian disciples especially like to make up lies about saints coming out to rule the world.
In fact, if you look through the history books, where did the saint come from?
Didn’t the highly praised Sage Kong also kill people indiscriminately to avenge his private revenge?
Yuzhu has an extremely broad mind, and he still reuses technicians who are talented but not moral.
No one with virtue but no talent has Yuzhu’s knowledge and experience.
In this world, talented people are bound to have moral flaws, without exception.
Li Bai may have been talented, but he was arrogant and forgot about himself.
What is virtue?
In Yuzhu's view, obeying the law is the most basic virtue!
People who don't abide by the law, no matter how good they are about their so-called personal ethics, are still sanctimonious and shameless people!
Human beings' animal nature determines that it is an iron law to be lenient to oneself and to be strict with others!
If the same thing happens to others, they are traitors.
What happened to Wu Xiang is that you know nothing, but he has other reasons and has to sacrifice you to serve the country.
Morality, this thing, can only be used for self-discipline, and there is no unified standard.
Even if we argue for a hundred million years, we still won't be able to make it clear.
On the contrary, Yuzhu doesn't care about morality at all.
Because, in the entire country, there must be only a handful of people who are truly loyal to him.
How could every official be loyal to him?
Therefore, Yuzhu saw clearly and set up rules and systems. He would reward people if they got things done, and punish them if they didn't.
There is no way to do practical things with people!
Before disembarking, Yuzhu personally convened a meeting with his entourage.
Yuzhu warned him very seriously: "You gather around the foreign miner and remember everything he said. Whoever remembers it most clearly and completely will be awarded an official position."
In an official-based society, when these low-ranking crooks hear that they can become officials by taking notes, their emotions are immediately aroused.
Taoist Priest, if you think about it, being an official is the best person!
As long as you have the official uniform to protect you, it will be much more convenient for you to cheat in the future.
There were nearly thirty people who came with Yuzhu, and Yuzhu gave each of them three hundred taels of corruption funds, no, entertainment funds.
The foreign miner likes to drink, so buy him wine.
The foreign miner likes women to drink with him, so he lets him choose from among the foreign horses that come with the ship.
Foreign miners like to take advantage, so let him take advantage. Anyway, with the white note, you can also ask Yuzhu for reimbursement.
However, the premise that the IOU can be reimbursed is that there must be something interesting about Yuzhu in the foreign miner's conversation record.
After getting off the ship, these crooks split up and entangled the foreign miners, foreign steel-making technicians, foreign blast furnace operators, etc.
If you don’t know how to make steel, what are you afraid of?
Copy first, then learn, and then surpass!
Yuzhu really doesn't believe it. As long as he is willing to learn and work hard, he can't build a steelmaking blast furnace with more than ten tons?
Steelmaking is very important.
The steel-making technology of the Rakshasa Kingdom is not good, and the 12-pound cannon weighs more than 4,000 kilograms.
Britain's steelmaking technology is currently leading the world, and a 12-pounder cannon weighs just over 2,000 kilograms.
As we all know, the lighter the artillery, the easier it is to tow and maneuver.
After scattering all the entourage, Yuzhu took Niu Tai to a familiar yet unfamiliar place.
That year, the third uncle who loved Yuzhu the most was the one who unfortunately died when he led the troops to the disaster relief site in Tangshan.
If the third uncle had not sacrificed, Yuzhu's future and destiny would not be so bumpy!