Duke Zhou was afraid of the day of rumors, but Wang Mang was humble and did not usurp the throne.
Xiangshi died at the beginning, who knows whether he will be true or false throughout his life?
Jia Liu's respect for technicians must come from the bottom of his heart, and is by no means a pretentious show, because he knows that technology is the primary productive force in social innovation.
Technology is also the only password to master wealth.
It may be biased, but Jia Liu believes that reading thousands of books and traveling thousands of miles is not as valuable to society as a big job.
Traditional scholars are "scholars", and the education they receive is useless for social progress, because the core of Confucianism is the idea of "the king, the king, the heaven, the earth, and the master", to put it bluntly, the idea of "official status".
If you are good at learning, you will become an official.
Studying is not for social development, not for rejuvenating the country and strengthening the army, not for the prosperity of the people, but to learn how to manage people and how to be managed.
This idea was severely criticized at some time in Jia Liu's previous life. Unfortunately, the people died and the government ceased. As a result, bureaucracy continued to run rampant, causing the entire society to always develop around the "official standard", which caused many drawbacks.
There is a joke somewhere that if the new son-in-law has a job, the mother-in-law will flip her hair happily, and the father-in-law will take the opportunity to go fishing.
Although it is a joke, it is not difficult to see that the idea of officialdom is deeply ingrained even hundreds of years later.
However, it is technology that truly drives social progress.
It is a pity that technical personnel have always been in the lower ranks since ancient times. In today's imperial examination system, it is even impossible for technical personnel to become generals or ministers.
The reason is that I have no academic qualifications.
In the area of thought and humanities, Jia Liu will definitely not be able to defend it, because he cannot even come up with a system that can defend Confucianism, but he can make scientific and technological personnel the main target of support in his own territory.
That is pragmatism.
Official position, money, fame and fortune.
As long as scientific and technological personnel can bring wealth to Zhili, Jia Liu will not be stingy with rewards.
If someone can get him a light and telephone, we can discuss the throne.
We can talk about everything.
In fact, Jia Liu only needs to send a message in the name of the Governor's Yamen, or let his second brother-in-law Gao Delu represent him. Why go into battle personally and put on this big show like a hard-working performance?
Because he understands a saying - if something is good at the top, it will be bad at the bottom!
As the governor of Zhili, the head of the feudal territory, the promotion of any official in Zhili is in the hands of Jia Liu. In this way, if these people want to get rich and climb up, they have to figure out what Lord Jia wants.
You have to do it according to Mr. Jia’s wishes.
If you do it well, you will be promoted and make a fortune.
If it’s not good, you will be responsible for the consequences.
It is certain that after today's incident spreads, Zhili will definitely start a trend of paying more attention to technical personnel. Those officials who may not understand what industry is will also carefully read the "What is Industry" recently published by "Qing Daily"
interpretation.
Just like Mr. Jia wants to make steel, as long as there are conditions, steel plants of various sizes will definitely appear.
This is what Jia Liu would like to see.
At the macro level, he only needs to control the situation well so that industrial steelmaking does not evolve into national steelmaking.
There is a limit to everything. Although we are eager for success, we cannot violate objective economic laws and the actual conditions of people's livelihood, and go beyond the British and follow the law regardless of reality.
Because he was so happy at the celebration banquet, Jia Liu drank too much this time. In the end, he held Qin Taiping's hand and said that he had to cut off the chicken head and burn it with yellow paper to become brothers.
Fortunately, Shuan Zhu and the others responded in time and carried the drunken Governor back to his room.
As a result, as soon as he lay down on the bed, without even counting three times, Jia Liu lost his will in an instant, and fell asleep like a computer crashing until the middle of the night.
"Water, water."
After waking up, Jia Liu instinctively wanted to drink water, his throat was so dry that it was burning.
"Sir, you're awake!"
When the soldiers guarding outside heard the commotion, they quickly pushed the door open and handed over a bowl of warm water.
After a few mouthfuls of "gudu gulu", a bowl of water fell into my stomach.
After taking a long breath, Jia Liu couldn't help but shake his head when he learned that it was already midnight, and asked someone to bring hot water to wash his face. He walked out of the National Treasure Building with his hands behind his back, looked up at the stars, and smelled the faint smell of the sea blown by the sea breeze.
After about half an hour, Jia Liu felt that his mental state had recovered, so he had his second brother-in-law Gao Delu called over.
At the same time, someone brought over the "Zhili Industrial Park Plan" that he spent several days formulating, and explained it to the second brother-in-law one by one from the park construction, road facilities, living facilities, logistics facilities, etc.
The second brother-in-law's family is in business. He has helped his father manage the store since he was a child. He has the natural acumen and careful observation of a businessman. In addition, he has worked in Tianjin for several months. He has personally implemented the existing facilities in the park, as well as the workers.
He was recruiting everywhere, so after listening to his brother-in-law's explanation, except for not understanding some terms, he basically understood what the industrial park his brother-in-law was talking about was.
"Everything else is fine. As long as you have enough money, you can make it. The problem is the raw materials."
Gao Delu told his brother-in-law that if he wanted to increase the iron production rate of the steel plant, he must have the raw material ore in his hands. However, half of the main iron ore mines in Zhili are now controlled by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the other half are monopolized by local tycoons, so if he wants the ore, he only needs to
You can buy it at a high price, which greatly increases the cost.
"Over at the Ministry of Internal Affairs, I will come up with a solution. For other iron mines, you send people to talk to the mine owners. If it is best to sell them to us, don't sell them."
Jia Liu didn't say what to do if he didn't sell it, because there was no need to say it.
He is the governor of Zhili. If he can't even help the local tycoons, he might as well go to the mountains to fight guerrillas.
But then he said that there was a foreign priest named Friend Chiang who was engaged in surveying and mapping. He could be arranged to lead a team to conduct surveys in the Tangshan area. The mineral resources in that place were relatively rich, and construction of large-scale iron mines could be started there to ensure the ore in the park.
supply.
The second brother-in-law took note and will arrange this later.
Jia Liu also told his second brother-in-law that he planned to open a Beiyang Trade Office in Tianjin Port. The second brother-in-law would be the trade minister. He hoped that the second brother-in-law could use the influence of the Gao family in the business community in Beijing to attract more businessmen to Tianjin.
Doing sea trade business, try to develop sea trade this year.
This matter is not difficult, the difficulty lies in who to sell the goods to.
Jia Liu thought for a moment, then asked someone to wake Shuan Zhu, and then asked Shuan Zhu where the generals he had hired in Beijing who could speak Western languages were.
Shuan Zhu said: "According to the young master's instructions, they are all placed in Tianjin City. If the young master wants to see them, he will ask someone to bring them tomorrow."
Jia Liu nodded, and then told his second brother-in-law and Shuan Zhu that he was going to set up a Western trade mission, which was to organize a group of people to visit Western countries, establish diplomatic relations with Western countries on behalf of the Qing Dynasty, and purchase various industrial equipment in Western countries.
, spending a lot of money to hire technical personnel and collect books.
"The point is I'm going to buy a steam engine."
Jia Liu said his ultimate goal was that he needed a prototype of a steam engine.
Because steam engines are not only widely used in the mining industry, but also play a huge role in smelting, textiles, machine manufacturing and other industries.
The problem is that this thing may be like a national treasure, and I don’t know if the British are willing to sell it.