Shuan Zhu was still young and lacked experience in fighting enemies, so he was quickly defeated by the cunning young master.
He confessed that when he came back, Sichuan General Wang Fu gave him one thousand taels. Chengdu Town Deputy General Chang Bingzhong, Jinchuan Town Deputy General Zu Yingyuan, and Chongqing Town Deputy General Ma Dayuan each gave him 500 taels, plus those given by others.
, a total of more than four thousand taels.
This is a lot of money. Calculated based on purchasing power, it is almost over 800,000 yuan.
"Do you know why the eunuchs in the palace in the past liked to run away? It's because these eunuchs can compete with others and collect money from people in the name of the emperor!"
"Yang Zhi, Yang Zhi, what do you want me to say about you? Just ignore my words, right? You really think I won't put you in a coffin and bury you alive!"
Jia Liu was so angry that he spat, and counted the banknotes that Shuan Zhu had handed over one by one, making sure that the numbers matched what Shuan Zhu had told him.
"Master, you really can't blame me for this. I said I didn't want it, but they insisted on giving it to me. If I didn't want it, they wouldn't be happy, saying that I looked down on them. I thought that these people are all generals whom the master trusted, so I gave it to the master.
Keep it first”
Zhuan Zhu turned in the same direction very quickly. When he saw something was wrong, he quickly complained and claimed that he was uniting his subordinates for the young master, not that he was greedy and amassed money in the name of the young master.
"Shut up, I don't know about others, but I don't know about you Yang Shuanzhu!"
"You are not honest when you are by my side, and you are not worthy of heaven if you are not by my side!"
"Since this is your first offender, let's forget it this time. If the next time comes, don't blame the young master for being cruel and burying you in a coffin with the old master!"
Jia Liu glanced sideways at Shuan Zhu, then counted out a two hundred tael silver note and threw it on the table, snorting: "Take your half away, don't stain my eyes!"
"Isn't it right?"
Shuan Zhu blankly took the two hundred taels of silver notes from the table, his face turned red from holding back, and finally plucked up the courage to ask: "Master, you just agreed to surrender to half, why are you so small? No.
Should I be given 2,300 taels?"
Jia Liu said "Hey" and raised his eyebrows angrily: "Theoretically, that's the case, but I have repeatedly warned you not to collect money, but you took the lead in breaking my rules. Do you have to be fined a thousand taels?"
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Shuan Zhu's head drooped, "Even if I'm fined a thousand taels, won't I still have 1,300 taels?"
Hearing this, Jia Liu didn't even raise his head: "Then you still have to compensate me one thousand taels."
"A thousand taels in compensation?"
Shuan Zhu was confused. He had already been fined, so what else could he pay?
"I trust you so much and treat you as a brother, but you go behind my back and accept money from people below. Do you think my heart hurts? Do you want to use money to make up for the trauma in my heart?"
Jia Liu was heartbroken and looked at Shuan Zhu with hatred that iron could not become steel.
Shuan Zhu was completely speechless and muttered unwillingly: "That should be 300 taels, and it's still 100 taels short."
"You still have the nerve to say it?"
Jia Liulai got angry and asked, "Do you want a gift for marrying Qiu Tao?"
"ah?"
Shuan Zhu was stunned: Qiu Tao never told him about the bride price.
Jia Liu rolled his eyes at the silly Shuan Zhu: "Qiu Tao is your third young mistress's personal maid. They are called masters and servants but are actually sisters. As a sister, the one hundred taels of bride price received by your brother-in-law is not much, right?"
"Not much, not much!"
Shuan Zhu's eyes almost burst into laughter.
"Then it's over."
Satisfied, Jia Liu put the 4,400 taels of silver notes into his pocket and signaled Shuan Zhu to find some food by himself, as he was going to turn on the light and go to sleep.
"Okay, Master!"
Shuan Zhu happily walked out of the door. He walked halfway and looked left and right like a thief. After confirming that no one was there, he ducked into the stable, squatted down, picked up his trouser legs, and tied the 1,000 taels of silver tied to his knees.
He took off the ticket, held it in his hand like a treasure, and took a deep sniff under the moonlight.
The taste is so fragrant.
Master, I predicted your prediction, you can’t believe it!
Shuan Zhu stood up happily and put the thousand taels of silver notes together with the 200 taels of silver notes. He carefully wrapped them in a handkerchief and gave them to Qiu Tao for safekeeping after returning to Baoding.
Without thinking, he turned around and found that the young master, Baozhu and others were lying on the horse stall and watching him quietly.
"You old man!"
Jia Liu shook his head, sighed softly, put his hands behind his hands and went back to sleep silently.
At this moment, he finally understood why the people around leading cadres have always been the group most prone to problems.
But knowing that people around him are prone to problems, he just can't solve them.
Because of the limitations of the times.
If we really want to pursue this matter, we must pull out Wang Fu and his gang to criticize him. The question is, can he, the leader, do this?
The basis for the establishment of the Joint Advancement Association is common progress.
At that time, his definition of progress was power and money.
This organization is essentially a corrupt organization, but it is more advanced than the Qing Dynasty, so it is a historical necessity to replace the Qing Dynasty.
But what happens next?
That night, Jia Liu sat in front of the window on the third floor of the inn, looking at the bright moon in the sky, smoking a dry pipe, and his mind was filled with the great chapter of the country's destiny.
Finally, he came to the conclusion that his mission is to lead China to become the number one great power, so that everyone has food to eat, meat to eat, money to spend, the right to speak, and the freedom to go wherever they want. What else?
Corruption issues and class consolidation issues are actually false propositions for him.
Because, even if he lives for two hundred years, he can't solve the problem. The most he can do is treat it with substandard treatment and short-term relief.
It's going to rain and my mother wants to get married, so let it be.
How can he solve the problem that no one can solve?
Human nature is selfish.
What's more, he was still eight thousand miles away from stealing the power of the Qing Dynasty, let alone allowing China to enter industrialization ahead of schedule.
Without industrialization, China will still be in a mess and it will take another two to three hundred years to get back on track.
But he still wanted to beat the bolt, so he ignored him for the next two days, even if the boy handed over the twelve hundred and two hundred taels.
Finally, the last stop of this trip arrived in Tianjin.
However, he did not enter Tianjin City directly. Instead, he was led by his second brother-in-law Gao Delu, who came to greet him, and arrived at the Zhili Military Industrial Park.
Because Jia Liu required that the construction of the industrial park should be coordinated with the development of Tianjin Port, the industrial park was chosen to be located at the estuary of the Haihe River. Most of the land here is saline-alkali wasteland, so the interests of the people will not be infringed upon during the expropriation process.
The planned industrial park not only includes weapons production plants, but also steel mining plants and many factories producing civilian facilities, covering an area of several square kilometers.
It is not only necessary to build a highway directly to Tianjin, but also to build a road to the port. There must also be various supporting facilities within the park. It can be said to be a construction process from scratch.
The project actually started last year, and currently a large dormitory area and expert building have been built.
The dormitory area is for workers in the park to live and stay, while the expert building is for foreign monks and craftsmen hired from the capital.
Due to limited conditions, currently all buildings are made of wood except for a few buildings made of bricks and tiles.
Construction sites of all sizes are in full swing, and the largest construction site must be the Zhili Iron and Steel Plant.
There was steel production in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and the steel manufacturing technology in the Ming Dynasty was the most advanced. There were many steel mills across the country, and steel production ranked first in the world.
In the Qing Dynasty, steel production declined year by year. This was partly because the Qing government restricted firearms and did not need too much steel to cast cannons and guns. Even so, the Manufacturing Office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs also has relevant files on iron production over the years.
Last year, the 40th year of Qianlong's reign, the national steel output was about 40 million jin, or about 20,000 tons in tons.
During the Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty, it was about 45,000 tons.
After a hundred years, the steel production in the Qing Dynasty declined instead of increasing compared to the previous Ming Dynasty.
Jia Liu wanted to build industry in Zhili, and steel was the foundation, and it was also the foundation of the military industry.
To make guns and cannons, you have to use steel.
It's just that before, steelmaking was done in a workshop style, with bellows and small earth furnaces, but this time he gave the idea of blast furnace steelmaking, and it was large-scale and standardized.
The Qianlong Dynasty did not lack skilled craftsmen, but what it lacked was financial support and ideological support.
Jia Liu gave money and ideas, and let the craftsmen develop it. With the help of the Western monks, except for the steam engine, which was temporarily unavailable, other achievements of Western industrialization could actually be achieved.
The second brother-in-law hired a craftsman surnamed Qin from the Yangxin Hall Manufacturing Office and combined it with Master Jia Jia's ideas to successfully build the first blast furnace and also successfully smelt molten iron that met the standards.
Therefore, Jia Liu came here this time to watch the blast furnace steelmaking results on the spot, to prevent his second brother-in-law from reporting false accounts to him like a bureaucrat and bragging to claim credit.