When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, his heart tightened. It was absolutely impossible for such a beautiful prospect to turn into empty talk. He quickly asked: "Master Zhong, what are the premise?"
Wen Tiren was also very concerned. If such a prosperous Ming Dynasty emerged as a result of feudal feudal clans overseas as described by Zhong Jinwei, his achievements as the chief minister would surpass those of any other chief minister in the Ming Dynasty and his name would go down in history.
Therefore, like Emperor Chongzhen, he would never allow such a beautiful prospect to become just an empty talk.
"Your Majesty, the prerequisite for these is that enough materials must be produced. Otherwise, if the Ming Dynasty does not have enough supplies, how can it support the North American continent?" Zhong Jinwei pointed out this issue that the Ming Dynasty people easily ignored, and at the same time, he also felt sorry for him.
It paved the way for subsequent ideas.
This idea just came to his mind. On the way back to the capital, he only considered the issue of how to arrange the clan, and did not think about it in depth. This kind of discussion is really necessary to discuss deeper things.
Discuss issues that are easily overlooked when one thinks about them.
When Wen Tiren heard this, he couldn't help but nodded. If the Ming Dynasty didn't have enough food alone, how could they support North America? Are they going to let the people in the country starve to death?
As soon as this idea came up, Wen Tiren shook his head. He didn't know whether this kind of thing had happened in other dynasties or whether it would happen. But in the Ming Dynasty, it was never allowed to happen.
This is not a question of whether you agree or not. If someone does that, the government and the public will be able to overwhelmingly discuss it and make those who do this pack their bags and go home.
"Master Zhong, what should we do?" When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he thought that this matter might not be easy to solve. There is a limit to what one person can do. At most, one more person can do it. But in this way, that person was originally
What you are doing will stop.
Wang Chengen also shook his head and sighed secretly. Everything that Zhongxing Hou said just now turned into the moon in the water, the flower in the mirror, and the existence of nothingness.
He always believed that everything in the world has a ration, and the total number is certain. If there is more of this object, then there will definitely be less of another object.
But they saw that Zhong Jinwei was unhurried and even said with a smile: "This matter still requires the joint efforts of all Ming Dynasties. Once this goal is achieved, our Ming Dynasty's national power will be invincible. Even those Western countries
Together, we will not be our opponents."
Wen Tiren was very dissatisfied after hearing this. He felt that what Zhong Jinwei said was that a baby was thinking about running away before it could walk.
He coughed, attracting Zhong Jinwei's attention, then frowned and asked with slightly flaring nose: "Zhongxing Hou, our difficulty is how to achieve this goal. The materials obtained can not only meet domestic needs, but also have spare capacity.
To support the North American vassals."
Zhong Jinwei looked at Wen Tiren and said in surprise: "I just said that as long as everyone in the Ming Dynasty works together and works together, we can achieve this goal."
"Master Zhong, what Wen Qing means is how to work hard and how to do it specifically?" Emperor Chongzhen understood that the two of them did not get to the point of the topic, so he reminded Zhong Jin of Wei Dao.
"Ah," Zhong Jinwei smiled slightly awkwardly, turned to Emperor Chongzhen and said, "I was just thinking of talking about this next."
When Wen Tiren heard this, he realized that he was anxious. So he stopped talking and listened to Zhong Jinwei's speech.
"Your Majesty, the specific method is to improve the efficiency of doing things. For example, if we can only build a one-bow ship today, we must find a way to let the existing people build a three-bow ship. There are two specific methods."
When Wang Chengen heard this, he couldn't help but interrupt: "Marquis Zhongxing, if I want to do what you say, what will happen when the ship is finished?"
Zhong Jinwei was speechless after hearing this, and looked at Wang Chengen and said: "Eunuch Wang, this ship can't be built, or the raw materials can't be used up. There is no more Ming Dynasty, but there is still the outside world. The earth is so big, you want to
When I can finish making all the raw materials, I feel like I am no longer in the Ming Dynasty, but on Mars."
Although Zhong Jinwei's words were not very clear, he meant that Wang Chengen's idea was childish. Wang Chengen smiled sarcastically and did not dare to speak anymore.
Zhong Jinwei turned back, looked at Emperor Chongzhen, stretched out the index finger of his right hand and continued what he just said: "First, improve the way of work, work together, and figure out how to do things better. This requires the court to increase rewards to encourage
Such behavior."
Then Zhong Jinwei extended his middle finger and said: "Second, change the concept, which is the concept of automation that I mentioned to Your Majesty before; anything that can be done automatically will never be done by hand, and anything that can be mass-produced will never be done one by one."
Zhong Jinwei shook his two fingers when he said this, and then continued: "If these two points can be achieved, social productivity will be greatly increased. In the process of historical development, this will also be realized in the future, which is called industrialization. By that time
At that time, the total economic output produced by society in a year will be the sum of the past few decades. In this way, it will not only meet domestic needs, but also support the expansion of the Ming Dynasty, acquire more territory and resources, and support the people.
More people. At that time, the Ming Dynasty will be an existence that people overseas look up to."
When Zhong Jinwei said this, he became excited. If the Ming Dynasty had achieved industrialization hundreds of years ahead of schedule, which country could beat the Ming Dynasty?
Emperor Chongzhen and Wen Tiren didn't quite understand the many new terms in Zhong Jinwei's words just now, but after listening to them together, they could still tell that Zhong Jinwei meant being able to obtain a large amount of supplies quickly.
Emperor Chongzhen was also excited by the prospect described by Zhong Jinwei. He slammed the table excitedly, causing the dishes on the table to clang, but he did not hesitate at all and said to Zhong Jinwei: "Okay, Master Zhong, I will do it."
How about letting Ming Dynasty do it in this industrialized way?"
Seeing Zhong Jinwei nodding vigorously, he turned to look at Shoufu Wen Tiren.
When Wen Tiren saw Emperor Chongzhen looking at him, he said with a smile on his face: "I will do my best to help your majesty revive the Ming Dynasty and make the world famous. However, this industrialization matter needs to be carefully discussed and planned. I believe that it will not be implemented.
Easy."
Zhong Jinwei's concept of industrialization, starting from how to deal with the clan, has actually touched on all aspects of the Ming Dynasty. Without an overall plan, things would easily go wrong.
But Zhong Jinwei proposed it, which is at least better than the spontaneous industrial revolution in the past history, or even the passive industrial revolution in China.
When he mentioned industrialization just now, he thought of many things. For example, the large amount of manpower required for industrialization was obtained through the land enclosure movement in history; the capital required for industrialization was obtained through the methods of the colonial world.
The original capital was lost; the driving force for the industrial revolution was the bourgeoisie taking control of the political power.
But today's Ming Dynasty has different national conditions from Britain, but it also has the foundation of the Industrial Revolution.
For example, manpower, the Ming Dynasty had a population of at least 150 million, and due to serious land annexation, many people lost their farmland, became refugees, farmed for landlords, or worked in small workshops. These are the basis of manpower.
For example, capital, the wealth of Ming Dynasty is the highest in the world. As long as private capital is effectively mobilized, there will be original capital.
Such as power, the Ming Dynasty urgently needs to resettle the clan and solve a series of problems that the Ming Dynasty urgently needs to solve from point to point. In other words, the ruling class of the Ming Dynasty also has an urgent need for this.
Therefore, Zhong Jinwei can think in his heart that as long as the Ming Dynasty is implemented in a planned and step-by-step manner, no matter whether it is feudalism or capitalism, the industrial revolution will be carried out on the land of the Ming Dynasty, allowing the Ming Dynasty to continue to stand on top of the world.
Zhong Jinwei smiled happily when he thought of this. He seemed to see that the Ming Dynasty in later generations would be just like the United States, no, even prouder than the United States! At that time, there would no longer be the word "favoring foreigners", and Chinese people would not need to learn English.