Compared with the frequent and endless wars in the past, the sixth year of Yongxing seemed much calmer.
Even in the Asan battlefield of Goryeo, the Haedong Marching Army landed from the Asan Peninsula on the flank in time, forcing the Goryeo royal army to retreat and break the siege of Qingyang, so the Asan battle could not be fought in the end; while on other fronts, the scale of the battle was
Even more limited, all parties are recuperating and trying to take a breath from the wars that have not stopped over the years.
The severe drought in western Zhejiang was alleviated by a heavy snowfall that lasted for two days before the Chinese New Year.
Lin Fu left Haizhou before the New Year's Day and returned to Jiangning, but he did not have to stop even after returning to Jiangning. The heavy snowfall that alleviated the drought in western Zhejiang caused a serious snow disaster in Xuanzhou.
Lin Fu had just returned to Jiangning, and he had to take Jun Xun and his eldest daughter Lin Zhengjun, accompanied by Zhou Pu, Zhou Xiazi, Lin Jingzhong, Li Shutang and others, to Xuanzhou to inspect the disaster situation before the New Year.
Xuanzhou is only two hundred and fifty or sixty miles away from Jiangning City. The horse-drawn carriage can arrive day and night on a clear snowy road.
A snowstorm in Xuanzhou collapsed thousands of houses and caused nearly 3,000 civilian casualties.
Due to timely response, after the snow disaster, the garrison was promptly transferred to the disaster-stricken counties in Xuanzhou for relief, so that the casualties did not increase. Lin Fu walked non-stop for three days in the counties of Xuanzhou Prefecture before inspecting the disaster-stricken areas.
On the last day, when he went to the Xuanzhou Coal Field, which was a hard-hit area, Lin Fu didn't pay attention. He stepped into a snow pit and fell to the ground, covered with snow, and got up in despair.
The Xuanzhou Coal Field is run by the government, and relatively strict military management is currently being adopted. Although many buildings collapsed, there were few casualties. At least in the early stages, it showed the high efficiency of government-run military control.
Lin Fu sat on the ridge where the snow had not yet cleared, and asked Jun Xun to help dust the snow particles on his body, and said: "This is a country, and I find it difficult to govern it. I can't imagine that all my descendants are in the greenhouse."
When you grow up, even if your intelligence is not weaker than others, but you have not experienced the suffering of the world, how can you have the ability to govern this country?"
"What is good above will be followed by below", this sentence is still absolutely valid truth at this time.
Liu Shidu's concerns about overpopulation were ignored by Lin Mengde and others at first. However, after Liu Shidu's special letter from Dingkou addressed Lin Fu's head with the words "Ruling the country should take a century to take into account", the people below also quickly understood that Lin Fu
The meaning of binding began to change.
Before Lin Fu returned to Jiangning, Ge Siyu wrote the title "On the Flood and Drought in Guanluo" in the "Xuanzheng Post", discussing the Dingkou, cultivated land, Guanluo drought and the Yellow River in Guanzhong, Heluo and other places in the past thousand years.
relationship with floods.
For more than a thousand years from the Qin Dynasty to the Chen Dynasty, there were a total of eleven drought years in the Guanzhong, Jinzhong, and Heluo areas, with one drought occurring every hundred years. However, about five hundred years since the Chen Dynasty, there have been a total of sixteen drought years.
, there is a drought every thirty years; the frequency has increased three times.
Disasters such as overflow, overflow, and diversion of the Yellow River in the past four hundred years have been far more frequent than before the Chen Dynasty. Since the Yuan Dynasty, there have even been major disasters every ten years and minor disasters every three to five years.
Ge Siyu pointed out in the article that this kind of thing is directly related to the over-exploitation of cultivated land in the Guanluo area and the sharp decline in forest and grass.
There is no shortage of visionaries in the world, and the problem of ecological deterioration in the northwest region was not discovered only today.
Lin Fu also knew in his heart that if he had not supported Liu Shidu semi-publicly, the issue of Guanzhong would not have been brought to the table explicitly.
Lin Fu would not blame Ge Siyu for taking advantage of the situation. Ge Siyu has extremely high academic attainments. Ge Siyu can write an article "On Guanluo Water Drought", which is better than those who only sing praises.
I don’t know how many times better the moral articles are, but they also truly combine academic research with people’s livelihood, and cannot force him to have the will and courage of a politician.
However, in terms of population control, Lin Fu really planned to regain the north, so he would start with the areas west of Guanluo and to the north first.
Before the Chen Dynasty, there were six dynasties in Guanzhong. The key was that the soil and water conditions in the early Wei River Plain were excellent. The farming areas in Guanzhong had been able to support the consumption of hundreds of thousands or even millions of people in the capital during the six dynasties.
After the Chen Dynasty, due to over-exploitation of the Wei River Plain in Guanzhong, the environment began to deteriorate, but it was not enough to sustain the consumption of the capital. The Chen Dynasty had no choice but to abandon the Guanzhong area with excellent defensive conditions and set its capital in Daliang, Henan.
Since entering Yuanyue, the ecology of Guanzhong has deteriorated into a bitter cold land in the northwest. Although the Cao family tried to rebuild the Zhengguo Canal on the Wei River Plain in the later period, in fact, within three to five years, it was impossible to restore the prosperity of Guanzhong during the Qin and Han Dynasties.
The Yellow River is the lifeblood of the Central Plains. In the past three to four hundred years, the Yellow River has become a hanging river due to accumulation of sand, and the river problems have become increasingly serious. By the middle of the Yuan Dynasty, in order to control the river problems, the imperial court moved the permanent minister of river affairs to the third rank.
The minister of the Ministry of Industry also led it. In the ninth year of Chongguan, Yan Hu invaded and dug up the embankment on the north bank of the Yellow River, impacting the Yannan Plain. There was no way to restore the river course naturally. The subsequent uprising of 300,000 people who built embankments on the Yellow River directly destroyed the centralization of power in Yanjing.
The basis of governance.
In the Northern Expedition to kill Yanhu and recover the Central Plains, the first thing the Central Committee faced was the issue of regulating the Yellow River.
Lin Fu had already used Ge Siyu, who led the Tianshui Division, to make preparations in advance. He could not wait until after the Northern Expedition to recover the Central Plains, and then slowly gather people to study the Yellow River floods.
To treat river problems, there is a difference between treating the symptoms and treating the root cause. To treat the root cause, it is necessary to control the scale of farming in the Guanluo and western Shanxi areas on the upper reaches of the Yellow River, and return farming to forests. It will take hundreds or even longer to call the areas north of Guanzhong and west of Shanxi.
The water and soil ecology has been restored.
To control the scale of farming in Guanluo, Shanxi and even the Guanxi region, the most critical thing is to control the population in these areas.
Lin Fu even planned to implement strict grazing bans on Hetao and Yanxi areas after the success of the Northern Expedition, and drive the Hu, Qiang and other tribesmen in Yanxi who could not completely surrender northward to the Rouran Sea (Lake Baikal).
North and west, drive to the west of the Yili River.
Because of Lin Fu's statement, Liu Shidu's special letter was not casually dismissed at the government meeting, nor was it given special attention. After all, the current mainstream still hopes for more Dingkou, but it has also passed two new system adjustments:
First, men need to be crowned, and women need to be sixteen before they are allowed to get married. This is an ancient ritual, but under the policies of previous dynasties to encourage childbirth, most of the marriages of women today are between the ages of fourteen and fifteen. Restoring the ancient rituals is to make
A woman's childbearing years have been shortened. However, the increase from fourteen or fifteen years old to over sixteen years old is not of great significance.
The greater significance is to reduce the mortality rate of dystocia among girls under 16 years old.
The data from Chongzhou and other places have been improved first. The mortality rate of dystocia for girls under the age of 16 is as high as 10%, which is comparable to the casualty rate on the battlefield. For a woman who is 20 years old and gives birth to her first child, the mortality rate of dystocia will drop sharply to 1%.
Although there were no accurate statistics in the past, the world still has a clear understanding of the difficulty of giving birth to young women.
Another adjustment made is to abolish official matchmaking.
In the past, men did not marry when they were 20 years old, and women did not marry when they were over 18 years old. The marriages were forced by official media. After the abolition of this old system, women were allowed to postpone the marriage and childbearing period with relative autonomy. Currently, in Chongzhou, Haiyu, Jiangning, etc.
In this country, the phenomenon of employing female workers is becoming more and more common. Women's work can make up for the family's shortfall, so the woman's family is naturally willing to delay the woman's marriage. Even more extreme, it often happens that fathers and brothers restrict women from getting married and work for profit.
Tradition is relatively strong, and the mainstream of the Privy Council does not want to put an emergency brake on the nationwide high population growth. Some preventive measures may take thirty to fifty years to gradually take effect.
As for strict population restrictions in areas west and north of Guanluo, Lin Fu had only discussed it with a limited number of people.
Strict population restrictions in the areas west and north of Guanluo have many meanings, and they are more related to the governance strategy after the Northern Expedition to regain the north. In particular, the ban on grazing is equivalent to the future control of the Hu and Qiang Yi foreign forces in Yanxi.
Adding a hoop over his head to strictly limit the growth of his power is very popular with the military.
Obviously, the military and the Privy Council were confident of military victory and would not stop after retaking the Northern and Central Plains.
The plan drawn up by the military and the Privy Council is to bring all the areas in the northeast formerly inhabited by the Donghu people, including the Uulun Mountains (Xiao Xing'an Mountains), under the direct jurisdiction of the central government, completely eliminating border troubles in the northeast.
As for the Rouran Sea and the Yili River, the Han people have not set foot in such remote areas for six to seven hundred years. Even Gao Zongting, Song Fu and others did not expect that the border could extend to such a distance.
Lin Fu disagreed. Steam engines should be able to be used for transportation within a hundred years, and the technology of the Fire Crossbow will mature first. The central control of the Rouran Sea and the Yili River is not a delusion.
However, the entire plan cannot be discussed to a wider area in advance, for fear that if the plan is alerted, the Yanxi Hu, Qiang Yi tribes and Donghu will be more united to resist the Northern Expedition.
Lin Fu sat on the ridge, dusted off the snow particles on his body, and complained to Jun Xun about the political difficulties.
Although Zhengjun is the eldest daughter, she is only seven or eight years old and innocent.
Lin Fu brought her out so that she could understand the sufferings of the world, but her mind was completely attracted by the water pump in the mining area.
Although the snowstorm collapsed a large number of houses, there were no serious casualties. The Xuanzhou coal yard quickly resumed production. When the steam pump is operating, it will spray out water vapor and condense into white mist in mid-air, covering a large area and also destroying the water pumping tower.
It was shrouded in it, attracting the political monarch's curiosity.
Xiao Zhengjun stared at her and asked a group of guards to surround her. He was also worried that there was something wrong with the steam pump.
Lin Fu dusted off the snow particles on his robe, walked over and grabbed Zhengjun's little hand, preventing her from getting too close to the water pump out of curiosity. He just stood on the edge of the water pumping tower and watched the water pump operate.
Streams of condensed white steam spurted out from the side mouth of the working chamber. The furnace burner was continuously feeding coal into the fire chamber under the spherical boiler, and the chimney connected to the boiler also emitted a wider range of white steam.
steam.
It was the end of the twelfth lunar month in the cold winter, and the burner who was fetching coal into the furnace was shirtless and still sweating profusely. Lin Fu wanted the craftsmen to perform their respective duties, but only assigned the general office and chief craftsman of the coal field to
The teacher was summoned and asked about the new water pump.
Jiang Yue's initial plan was to use 20,000 silver dollars to trial-build a set of steam engines for mine drainage. Lin Fu intended to speed up the improvement of the steam engines and asked the Machine Building Department to squeeze out 200,000 silver dollars so that Jiang Yue could build eight sets at a time.
Steam pumps are used for drainage in government-run coal yards. The purpose is to make the eight coal yards relatively independent and improve the technology of steam pumps.
It costs 20,000 silver dollars to build a set of new pumps. However, since the boiler, working chamber, piston connecting rod and other components can be made from the same mold, the average cost of building eight sets of new pumps is much lower than 20,000 silver dollars. In the end, the
Eight sets of new water pumps did not cost 100,000 silver dollars.
The excess funds are also used exclusively for the maintenance and technical improvement of new pumps in major coal yards.
By almost August, eight sets of new pumps were being built and shipped to coal yards in Xuanzhou, Lishui, Shouzhou, Huaiyang, Putang and other places for installation to remove accumulated water in the mines.
At the same time, the eight new groups operate relatively independently, investing seven or eight times the technical force and resources, and the efficiency of discovering and improving problems is naturally far beyond that of one group.
Of these eight sets of new water pumps, except for one set of boilers that had major problems and had to be stopped for renovation due to poor casting, the other seven sets of water pumps have been running stably for almost four months. Many problems that have been exposed during this period have been solved in a timely manner at the coal yard.
Transformation; the Machinery Manufacturing Department also follows up on the operation and improvement of new pumps at any time.
A set of new water pumps, spread out over ten years of operation and maintenance costs, is enough to be worth the cost of employing nearly two hundred young workers.
However, to drain the coal yard, drainage wells are drilled above the mine tunnels. A drainage well can cover such a large area at a glance. Even if two to three hundred young people can be hired, there is no way to send so many people without stopping.
Go up and drain.
The new water pump can provide continuous, high-intensity and high-power drainage. Although it is expensive, it shows its advantages over human and animal power after three or four months of use.
In the past, animal power was used to drain water. Due to insufficient driving force, the water could be pumped to a depth of only ten or twenty meters. With the new pump, although the airtightness is still not satisfactory, it can pump water to a depth of thirty-six or seven meters. This makes
Coal yards in Lishui, Putang, Xuanzhou and other places with higher groundwater levels need to dig out one or two more layers of coal, and old abandoned mines can also be reused.
At present, coal consumption in the Jianghuai region has increased significantly, causing coal prices to return to pre-war levels. Lin Fu also restricted the scale of employment in government-run coal yards and no longer restricted government-run iron yards. The kilns must use coal on a selective basis and no longer restricted the use of officialdom
Coal - Lin Fu wants to give up part of the market to merchants and civilian mines to balance the relationship between the government and the people. However, it involves huge coal profits. A basket of coal in Jiangning can net a dime of silver dollars. Even if the government-run coal mine cannot increase the scale of employment,
We will also do everything possible to increase coal production.
Old mines that are geologically stable and not prone to collapse can be reused, and the cost savings are enough to offset the expensive cost of new pumps; the use of more new pumps, and even the use of steam engines to lift mine cars, can reduce manpower on a large scale
and the use of animal power.
At the Xuanzhou Coal Yard, in addition to ordering two new pumps, they also began to organize craftsmen to design and manufacture the first mine car hoist powered by a steam engine. This was somewhat beyond Lin Fu's expectations.
Although the steam engines at this time had very low efficiency due to imperfect sealing and working chamber design, and there was still a big gap between them and real steam engines, there was plenty of cheap coal in the coal yard, and as long as it worked, there was no need to worry about low efficiency.
Regarding steam engines, Lin Fu only knew a general principle, and the specific techniques were far less proficient than professional craftsmen.
As long as the coal yard thinks it is cost-effective to use the new pump, Lin Fu is satisfied.
In the final analysis, the key to whether a new technology can be used is whether it is relatively cheap. As long as the government uses new pumps to improve efficiency and reduce coal mining costs, iron mines, copper mines, kerosene wells and even commercial mines will all benefit from it.
The drive to pursue profits leads to the adoption of new technologies.
In the past, when the Xuanzhou Coal Field was privately run, it employed 500 young men. Based on each person digging four baskets of coal out of the well per day, it could only produce more than 600,000 baskets of coal a year. At this time, the coal mining volume of the Xuanzhou Coal Field increased.
Eight times, reaching 5 million baskets, but the scale of labor only increased four times.
It is obvious that the use of new technologies has improved the efficiency of coal mining. Of course, compared with the mechanical coal mining of later generations, the efficiency may not be as high as 11%. Lin Fu does not expect to make much progress at once, as long as he can continue to make progress.
This shows that the New Deal is gradually taking root in the hearts of the people.
Lin Fu stood there, discussing the new pump with the coal yard general office and the chief craftsman. Lin Jingzhong, Li Shutang and local officials from Xuanzhou were all accompanying him.
Lin Jingzhong, Li Shutang and others were nothing. Most of the local officials in Xuanzhou were bureaucrats from the old lineage, with traditional scholar backgrounds. Their understanding of the new learning was only obtained from the post, and they had no in-depth understanding at all. In the ice and snow, they could hear loudly.
I was dripping with sweat and couldn’t understand it at all. I couldn’t help but listen attentively and didn’t dare to be distracted at all…
Lin Fu saw that the local officials in Xuanzhou were also working hard, so he stopped the inspection and told Zhou Pu. Blind Zhou was preparing to return and had no intention of staying in Xuanzhou anymore.
He took a break in the forest scenery to report to Lin Fu about the preparations for the construction of the iron bridge.
From the Jiangning area, rivers crisscross the area, and if land transportation is to be developed, many contradictions will be encountered.
Chidao does not build bridges but only has ferries. The traffic efficiency of Chidao is too slow, but building bridges will hinder river transportation; building high arch bridges will also be detrimental to the smooth transportation of large carriages; and there is no way to build high-span suspension bridges in plain areas.
Therefore, many pontoons are built when official roads in the south of Jiangning meet rivers. Ships gather together and open the pontoons at a concentrated time to let the ships pass. Usually, pontoons are used to connect the rivers. However, pontoons are not permanent buildings and have many shortcomings. Maintenance is extremely troublesome. Opening and closing
The speed is also very slow.
Lin Jingzhong discussed with officials from the Engineering and Construction Department for several months that he would try to build an open-type iron bridge near Jiangning City.
The first experimental iron bridge was sited at the mouth of Jinchuan River where Lin Fu first made his fortune.
After years of development, the Jinchuan River Estuary, including Prison Island, has replaced the Yongzangpo inland river port and has become the main port of Jiangning. Lin Zhengjun-class merchant ships can also dock directly at the riverside wharf at the river mouth. The original Hekou Town, residents
There are already tens of thousands of people, and a large number of new factories are located there. It is already extremely prosperous at this time.
The Privy Council even planned to establish a new city and county based on Hekou Town for governance.
It's just that Hekou Town occupies both sides of the Jinchuan River and is divided into two parts, making transportation very inconvenient. And the Jinchuan River is the main river entering the city in the east of Jiangning City. It is impossible to build a flat bridge without allowing large and medium-sized sailing ships to pass;
The opening speed of the pontoon bridge is too slow, which has seriously affected the traffic efficiency of water and land routes.
When building an iron bridge, the middle section of the iron bridge is manually opened at regular intervals using the city gate lifting method, and ships are allowed to pass during concentrated periods. The efficiency will be greatly improved. However, the river channel at the mouth of the Jinchuan River is 56 meters wide, so building a 56-meter-long iron bridge will greatly improve the efficiency.
The pure iron bridge was the first of its kind in the world and was estimated to cost more than half a million silver dollars.
Even if Jiang Ning can come up with this amount of money and invest so many resources in an iron bridge, it is obviously not something that Jiang Ning Mansion can decide on its own. Even the Privy Council strongly opposes it - the central government is still tight; after the new tax policy
, the local income of Jiangning Prefecture suddenly increased a lot, but no matter how much money Jiangning Prefecture had, it could not invest so much money on a bridge.
You must know that when building Chongzhou New City, the amount of money invested in the first two years was not so much. In the future, it is expected that the cost of building a new warship will only be six to seven hundred thousand silver dollars. How can the Privy Council not be angry now that such a big fight is being made for an iron bridge?
Lin Jingzhong could only learn from Liu Shidu and take a roundabout way to win Lin Fu's support.
Lin Fu took out the drawings of the iron bridge designed by Jiangning Mansion and the Engineering Department, and sighed slightly in surprise: "We need to build an iron bridge!"
Lin Fu has no objection to the fact that the Jinchuan Iron Bridge consumes nearly two million kilograms of iron materials. Without continuous consumption, how can the iron smelting and casting industry develop and how can technology progress?
Lin Fu had no objection to investing an estimated amount of more than half a million silver dollars.
After tax sharing, there are more local tax sources, especially Jiangning Prefecture's lijin revenue. When the financial resources are sufficient, they must be used for local people's livelihood. If they are not used, how can they build silver kilns and save them? If used for people's livelihood, in addition to benefiting people's livelihood, it also
It can promote the development of new industries and increase the total economic output. Building a silver kiln will precipitate silver coins, which is a big drawback.
Lin Fu was just worried that the technology of suddenly crossing from a traditional stone bridge or wooden bridge to an iron bridge would be immature.
There is no problem with iron castings for bridge paving. The iron yard can even cast the ribs and keels of very large ships, so casting bridges is not a problem. The key is the standing water bridge foundation. The bridge foundation plan designed by the Engineering and Construction Department abandons the traditional
Instead of using a stone base, stone slurry is injected into the iron cylinder and iron bars are added, which is completely different from the traditional new manufacturing technology.
It has only been five years since Mount Borneo ash was used to build a lighthouse, and less than two years after Zhao Zuiguier developed the stone slurry, Lin Jingzhong is about to use the stone slurry on an iron bridge costing more than half a million silver dollars - although it is still under construction.
Many new construction methods have been tried in the lighthouse, but the cost of building a single lighthouse is still low. If there is any problem, it can be repaired in time without causing big losses. The Jinchuan Iron Bridge requires more than 500,000 silver dollars to be invested.
Once the key goes wrong, the traffic on both sides of the Jinchuan River will be seriously hindered and the losses will be even greater. Lin Fu suddenly discovered that the officials below him began to show more radicalness and enthusiasm than him in developing new learning and new technologies.
attitude and posture.
Lin Fu frowned and looked at the iron bridge design laid out on the long desk.
The carriage rumbled along. Due to the special design of the carriage, Lin Fu sat in the carriage handling government affairs and was not very aware of the vibrations that usually occur when the carriage is moving.
Lin Jingzhong looked at Lin Fu nervously. Without Lin Fu's support, there was no way this plan would pass.
He took this plan to Lin Mengde, who almost pointed at him and called him a prodigal, and said that he would propose to the government meeting to lower the tax share of Jiangning Prefecture.
"Make it," Lin Fu pressed his hand on the long table and made up his mind, "As long as the Jiangning government thinks more carefully about fundraising, don't be afraid that there will be problems in the future. The new policy is to cross the river by feeling for the stones. You can't wait for the stones to emerge from the water.
Crossing the river... However, the Privy Council took out Wang Xueshan's old house to build a museum. There is a meandering stream and a stone bridge in the house, but the stone bridge cannot show the achievements of Xinxue at all. I hope Jiangning Mansion will get a sum of money first.
, build a small iron bridge over this winding stream, and first test the technology used in the Jinchuan Iron Bridge in the museum, which can also be regarded as adding a scene to the museum!"
"If you tell me that you can't gain any advantage by bargaining with my lord, the Jiangning Mansion will have no choice but to accept this iron bridge." Lin Jingzhong said with a smile.
Lin Fu laughed and said: "Now the financial branches are divided, and the branches that can be used by the inner government are also fixed. There are many things I want to do, and I have to find additional ways. In addition, it is not a good idea to be moderately extravagant financially.
It will definitely be harmful. The key is to master the degree and change our thinking. This time, I support you."
Lin Fu is currently mainly using the huge military purchase market to support the development of new industries and new technologies. Even if the Northern Expedition succeeds, he has no plans to stop military expansion to the west and north...
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Lin Fu returned to Jiangning and stayed there for half a month. After the Beginning of Spring Sacrifice, he went back to Haizhou to supervise the army.
Seven years after entering Yongxing, Lin Fu still had no intention of a large-scale Northern Expedition. He still focused his energy on reorganizing the army, and everything seemed calm. Perhaps Jiangning Mansion planned to invest 500,000 silver dollars to build the Jinchuan Iron Bridge, which would become the final project after the year.
Lively discussion.
Yue Lengqiu returned to Jiangning in early February to report on his work.
Although the Military Staff has officially taken over the military administration of the country, Yue Lengqiu, as the military envoy to the towns in Henan, must first be responsible to the Military Staff. However, as an envoy at the governor-general level, he still has to enter the palace to pay homage to the Liang family, Emperor Yongxing and others.
Various ministers from the Political Affairs Hall met to report Henan military affairs.
"If you don't think about the Northern Expedition, you have to invest 500,000 taels of silver to build a broken bridge in Jiangning. Does Chong Guogong want to put all the public wealth and wealth into his own pocket?" Liang sat on the rhinoceros platform with the sickly-looking Emperor Yongxing.
After the Gao case, he felt a little better. In front of Cheng Yuqian, Shen Rong, Zhang Yan and others, he complained to Yue Lengqiu that Jiangning Prefecture was building the Jinchuan Iron Bridge.
At present, apart from a few complaints, the palace and political affairs hall are almost completely out of touch with military and political affairs.
The Mint uses pure silver to mint silver dollars. The value of one silver dollar is slightly higher than one tael of silver. Five hundred thousand silver dollars is equivalent to five hundred thousand taels of silver.
Yue Lengqiu was also surprised that Jiangning Mansion invested 500,000 silver dollars in building an iron bridge. Henan towns had 120,000 generals, and the total military resources allocated by the Privy Council this year was only 2.5 million silver dollars. Jiangning Mansion
But they had to invest 500,000 silver dollars for an iron bridge fifteen or six feet wide. The money that could be used to expand the number of fifty thousand soldiers was invested in just one bridge. It was simply extravagant.
But it was also obvious that Lin Fu did not need to use this method to put the money into his own bag.
Queen Mother Liang's frustration is also obvious:
In fact, many people here, including Emperor Yongxing, hope that Lin Fu can immediately organize the Northern Expedition. It is not that everyone expects Lin Fu to achieve another great victory in the Northern Expedition. In fact, for Emperor Yongxing, the Liang family and the
Including the imperialists, they all knew in their hearts that if Lin Fuuo won another great victory in the Northern Expedition, his reputation would rise to a higher level and the dynasty would change. However, everyone hoped that Lin Fu's hasty organization of the Northern Expedition would fail, and the imperialists could only
Only in this way can there be a chance to regain the disadvantage.
Lin Fu obviously also understood this truth. He was not in a hurry to organize the Northern Expedition, but implemented the New Deal first. Not only was the authority of the imperial family and the political hall emptied out, most of the officials in the six ministries were absorbed by the supervisory departments of the Privy Council. Now there are only a few empty posts left.
Damn it, if we delay it for another year or two, the foundation of government governance will be firmly established, and the Yuan clan's imperial family will become dispensable and no one will care about it.
This is probably why Liang was most resentful and dissatisfied with Lin Fu for spending a large sum of money on building bridges instead of rushing to the Northern Expedition, right?
Yue Lengqiu thought secretly, and really didn't know how to comfort Mr. Liang. A group of veterans talked about some random things. When he was about to leave, Yu Yuqian stood up and took out a memorial letter hidden in his sleeve. , raised it to his forehead, and said respectfully: "I am already very old. I occasionally caught wind and cold a few days ago. I still feel like a candle in the wind, unable to withstand the ravages of time. When I am mentally and physically exhausted, I want to retire to the thatched cottage to wait for my old age. At this time, I sincerely ask the Queen Mother that your Majesty remembers that the old minister is loyal to the court. Although he is dull, he is diligent and diligent to the country. May the old minister retire and return to his hometown..."
Yue Lengqiu was stunned there.
"Cheng Qing, are you going to abandon the Yuan family too?" Liang asked in panic.
"I don't dare, I forgive you for being stupid and old. Staying in the court will not benefit the country." Cheng Yuqian walked to the front of the palace, knelt down and kowtowed, and begged to go.
Zhang Yan and Shen Rong looked at each other, feeling sad in their hearts: Cheng Yuqian, an old fox, had to retreat to save himself!