After hearing these words, Yunxi didn't say anything else. He just picked out a few newly made firearms and tried them with his own hands. He found no defective products. He praised Lu Fang for his good management of the firearms workshop and rewarded him.
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Lu Fang felt that Yunxi's expression was not happy, but it was obvious that there was no problem with the workshop he was in charge of, so while thinking about why Yunxi was doing this, he knelt down and said, "Thank you for your kindness."
‘Where was your Majesty’s previous inspection? We don’t know yet. We will find out when we visit the nearby workshops tomorrow.’ Lu Fang thought.
Yunhe rewarded him, looked at him casually, and was about to leave.
But before leaving, Yunxi told him again: "If you open a small school here, you must teach all young craftsmen to know the same weights and measures, and you must make firecracker parts of the same size in the future. It doesn't matter if the output is smaller.
, now that the firearms needed for Kamizhiwei are basically all available, there is no need to rush production now."
"In addition, you ask the craftsmen in the workshop to study and see what things can be left to machines instead of relying entirely on manual work. I will also ask Mei Yin to send out craftsmen to study later."
Lu Fang didn't quite understand Yunxi's emphasis on standardization. Of course, they could understand the benefits of standardization, but now it's enough to use craftsmen to make firecrackers one by one, so why force standardization? But of course he would not violate Yunxi's wishes.
He meant it and agreed: "Yes, Your Majesty. I will definitely do it."
Yunxi glanced at him, turned around and left the firearms workshop without saying anything.
He inspected here for a while. Although this is the heavy industry center of the Ming Dynasty, except for the steel plant, which is a modern chemical plant using blast furnaces, the others are still traditional small workshops. However, because there are many craftsmen, the output is not low.
It can meet the needs of the current royal family and the army.
Yunxi walked around, and it was almost dark, so he got on the carriage and returned to the palace.
It was already dark when he arrived at the palace, but he did not go to the harem immediately. Instead, he told Wen Yuan: "Go back to your mother first and ask your mother to tell the imperial kitchen to prepare dinner. Dad will be there soon." Wen Yuan said.
Yuan agreed and returned to Kunning Palace under the service of the young eunuch.
Yunxi himself sat down and thought about it, and at the same time murmured: "Industrialization must be further promoted."
Compared with industrialized factories, the production efficiency of traditional handicraft workshops is extremely low. Yunxi is not sure how much the production efficiency has improved after some Western countries used machines to produce muskets and artillery in history, but now the new steel plants built in the Ming Dynasty and
Compared with the original steel workshop, the production efficiency has increased by more than ten times.
The improvement of production efficiency not only increases the number of products that can be provided within a period of time, but also reduces the cost of unit products, lowers the price of the product, and more people can afford a certain product, thus promoting the development of people in the entire society.
Living standards. That’s what the so-called development of productivity is.
At the same time, industrialization can also directly bring about social progress. No matter from any perspective, industrial society is more advanced and civilized than agricultural society. The pastoral rural life imagined by some people only exists in dreams. Agricultural society
The system of farmers under the system is quite fragile. Weddings, weddings, bad weather, bad weather, etc. can consume a family's savings. If there are natural disasters for two consecutive years, they can only borrow debt to survive, and are controlled and exploited by the landlords.
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Now, not long after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the contradiction between vast land and sparsely populated areas in many places is not prominent or even non-existent. People are more important than land. After landlords make farmers owe debts, they usually only get their land through hard and soft tactics, and still let farmers continue to cultivate. Landlords
The oppression of farmers was not heavy yet; but in the middle and late stages of each dynasty, there were more people and less land. Landlords squeezed farmers to the maximum extent in order to extract money. Most landlords never cared about the life and death of farm laborers, because there were many people.
Want to farm.
Of course, there are some places where there are no landlords. For example, a famous official named Xi who was originally from Shaanxi once said that "there are no landlords in Guanzhong." A large field is cultivated by members of the same family. There are also such villages in Jiangxi in the south. But
In such places, the land yield per mu is very low. The total yield of the land that one family can cultivate after deducting the taxes paid can only barely be enough for one family to chew. If there is a landlord above, it will be exploitative.
There is really no way to survive, and this kind of living situation is the result.
The promotion of industrialization can change this situation to a certain extent. Yes, in history, factory owners in the early industrial revolution also squeezed workers to the extreme, but this is inevitable. If industrialization is not carried out, the final result can only be
Farmers and countries are still rising, prospering, declining and dying in this cycle.
At the same time, industrialization can also make the country more consolidated. No industrialized country is simply overthrown by ordinary people in the country. Under normal circumstances, the ruling machinery of industrial countries can suppress those who want to rebel. All countries that have subsided have
It was because the foreign war was unfavorable and ultimately ended. What the Ming Dynasty needed was to position itself in the stage when the production relationship changed from landlords-peasants to capitalists-workers (including agricultural workers), and then there was nothing to worry about.
Therefore, whether it is to increase productivity, improve people's living standards, or consolidate the Ming Dynasty, industrialization must be carried out.
Yunxi thought for a long time, wrote his thoughts in simplified Chinese in his most secret notebook, hid the notebook, and got up to go to Kunning Palace.
In Kunning Palace, Xiyao was asking Wenyuan where Yunxi had been today. "Mom, today my father took his son to the residence of Cao Zhen, Marquis of Jingchuan, then to the Imperial Academy, and then to the Martial Arts Hall.
, then left the city and went to Meishan, and visited several workshops, one of which produced steel and another one that produced firearms. It was almost dark by this time, and the father came back with his son." Wenyuan said.
"Steel workshop? Is it a steel plant?" Xiyao said, "Your father took you in to see it?" While modern steel plants have greatly improved production efficiency, the casualties in the event of an accident have also greatly increased. There was a
Six people died in an accident, but no bones were left. The family members made trouble in the factory and complained in Shangyuan County and Yingtianfu. The commotion was very big. Some civil servants also took the opportunity to propose the cancellation of the steel factory, and Yunxi also abolished a large number of people.
It takes effort to solve the problem.
Because she knew there was such a thing, Xiyao had a bad impression of the steel factory. When she heard that Yunxi was taking her son to inspect, she immediately asked worriedly.
"Mom, dad didn't take his son into the place where there was black smoke. He only walked around the yard for a while and looked at the steel that had been made. Steel, what kind of steel was it? Yes, steel ingots." Wenyuan said.
: "But dad himself took the guards into the place where there was black smoke."
"It's not bad." Xiyao said, covering her chest.
"Did your father ask you anything along the way?" she asked again.
"Not yet, mother."
"Then tell me in detail where your father went today and what he said to the officials or craftsmen on duty."
Wen Yuan started talking immediately. When he talked about Yun Xi's reform of the official appointment system, his eyes moved slightly, but he didn't say anything. But then Wen Yuan interrupted when he talked about Yun Xi summoning workers to chat about home affairs.
He asked: "Did your father take you to meet the workers?"
"No. Dad said that he had received ordinary people before as the grandson or the emperor, but the ordinary people were just frightened and could not say anything. Therefore, if he was summoned as an ordinary official, he could not bring his son with him.
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"But my son later learned from the guards that his father asked them how their families were doing. These workers had no choice but to come to work because their families owed a lot of money." Wenyuan said.
Xiyao didn't say anything, just let Wen Yuan continue to talk about the situation of leaving the palace today; after Wen Yuan finished speaking, she said: "If your father asks about the Imperial College and the Martial Arts Hall, just say whatever comes to mind.
That’s it, what do you think about the workshop, Yuan’er?”
"My son didn't think about anything," Wenyuan said.
"What are you thinking about? You..." Xiyao was about to speak when a voice came from outside: "His Majesty has arrived!" She quickly stood up and took Wen Yuan to the palace gate to greet him.
"What are you doing? Where are Min'er and the others? Where are Wen Qi?" Yunxi asked with a smile when he saw Xiyao pulling Wen Yuan over to greet him.
"Husband, Min'er, Siqi and Xianqin are playing in their bedroom. Wen Qi is also there, and Wen Yin has already fallen asleep. Since husband is here, I have called Min'er and the others to have a meal together." Xiyao
smiled.
Yunxi nodded, picked up Wenyuan and asked him, "Have you already taken a bath?"
"My mother asked my servants to wash her." Wenyuan said.
"That's good. I left the city today and stayed in the heavily polluted place in Meishan for a long time. I have to take a shower when I come back." Yunxi said with a smile.
Wenyuan didn't know what "pollution" meant, but he didn't speak in his arms. Yunxi reached out and touched his head, then carried him to the dining hall and sat down.
As soon as he sat down and was about to say a few words to Wen Yuan, he suddenly heard a voice from outside: "Daddy!" Yunxi turned around and saw a pair of small hands pushing open the half-open door and running in to grab Yunxi's legs.
Then he said: "Dad."
Yunxi picked up Min'er, smiled and said a few words to her, and then answered Xianqin and Siqi. Wenqi asked them to sit down after saying hello.
After a while, the people from the imperial kitchen will bring the meals prepared as quickly as possible. The maid poured him a bowl of soup. Yunxi took it and took a sip, announcing that the meal was ready.