MTL - Longevity Begins with Jinyiwei-Chapter 654 military center of gravity

If it is said that the Dongcheng District of the capital is the bustling and bustling between the city wells, then the Baichuan Port is obviously a deformed bustling bustling.

Because it is outside the capital, it is a gathering place for caravans and tourists from all over the world, and the personnel are complicated. Looking at the world, I am afraid that there are few places that can compare to this Baichuan Port.

Not to mention, there is also this large area of ​​shanty towns left over from history. Even if there are officials under the jurisdiction, in this complicated place, the effectiveness of the jurisdiction is obviously very questionable.

Of course, the Son of Heaven does not doubt whether there is an order, but... Is this order mixed with other things?

Just walking from the city gate to the port, on the way, the emperor was keenly aware of a familiar atmosphere.

In the past, he also served in Jinyiwei for more than half a year, and he managed a well-known chaotic area in the capital. Naturally, he knew very well that it was in order. What kind of darkness.

Not to mention, it is still a place where fish and dragons are mixed, and the personnel are extremely complicated.

The breath of the ground snake is very clear.

Gang formation is not only popular in the officialdom, but also among the people.

The Emperor frowned, but he quickly eased away. He knew that behind this, there must be an intricate network of interests. To be able to stand at the feet of the Emperor without any background, wouldn't it be a joke.

Back then, when he entered Jinyiwei, among those mountain bandits who could be called famous near the capital, one of them was a white glove of the powerful.

The port is very noisy, river boats are docked at the dock, and groups of men carrying goods can be seen everywhere on the dock.

It can also be seen that a vehicle frame* was parked at the wharf. After loading the goods, it set off with a burst of shouts, heading towards the city gate of the capital.

It can also be seen that materials from the north, such as wheat, beans, corn, and coal, board ships at the port, and finally leave Baichuan Lake, along the Grand Canal, or by sea, towards the south of the Yangtze River.

But it is obvious that, limited to the production technology of this era, everything in the port is mostly at the stage of manpower.

Whether it is a horse or an ox, even a mule is extremely valuable in this era.

Manpower, compared to this livestock, is extremely cheap.

Obviously, shoulder-to-shoulder carrying is the main theme of this era.

Thinking of this, the emperor seemed to have thought of something, but his eyes couldn't help but flicker.

Change in productivity. Innovation in productivity occurs only when demand exceeds output.

The industrial revolution in history was due to the huge market brought by the huge colonies, and the output of the colonial suzerain could hardly meet the needs of the colonies, which also fundamentally affected the colonial suzerain's plunder of the colony's wealth.

Therefore, the innovation of productivity was born.

This is the most fundamental reason.

Otherwise, it would be like the Baichuan Port, or in other words, in the Daheng world, manpower is extremely cheap.

Merchants are often reluctant to use livestock.

After all, livestock are expensive and expensive, and human labor is cheap but incomparably cheap.

Inexpensive manpower, coupled with the Confucian environment of the era...

It can be said that the vast majority of productivity innovation is likely to be extinguished.

The new school that seems to be booming today is actually all supported by the policy of the emperor, and this, apart from him, few people can really understand the true meaning of the new school that is being implemented today. …. .

! Just like the steam engine of the Academy of Engineering, after more than ten years of research, although it cannot reach the level of the steam train that the emperor wants, it can definitely be used in production.

Such as mining, such as pumping, etc…

But the high cost is destined to be only the product of the policy.

Just like the businesses that belong to the Inner Court and are under the supervision of the Ministry of Households, all those companies that can make the cumbersome and heavy steam engine at this stage useless are all under the will of the emperor, spending a huge amount of silver taels, purchasing steam engines in the Academy of Engineering and making them. Humans can also replace jobs.

Compared with the high cost of steam engines at this stage, manpower is not too affordable.

Even, it is completely at a loss to make a profit.

In the history of the United Kingdom, the reason why the steam engine was able to be invented without any hindrance to the extremely rapid popularization and use, the research and development and the replacement, directly brought the industrial revolution.

The fundamental reason is also because of mining, to be precise, because of coal mines.

Most of the coal mines in the UK are shallow mines, which means that mining is extremely easy.

Mining is easy, coupled with abundant groundwater resources. When mining coal mines, it is even more necessary to continuously extract the water from the pit. At the same time, due to the ease of mining and the accumulation of coal, water is also needed to pour the coal to prevent fires.

In this way, manpower is naturally incompetent, and it has given birth to the need for productivity innovation.

Moreover, the ease of mining means that the mining cost is low and the profits are high. In this way, it is rich and powerful, and the innovation of productivity, even if the utility is worrying, also has a strong demand.

Of course, this also has a great relationship with the social environment.

In Daheng, and even the rest of the world, most of them are deep mines, and the difficulty of mining has increased by dozens or hundreds of times.

The difficulty of mining means that the profits are low. In the former and Ming Dynasty, private mining and trading, coal prices have always been high, and the profits may still be considerable.

In Daheng, coal mines are the same as grain, salt, and cloth. They are defined as people's livelihood needs, and prices are strictly controlled.

The mining industry, which was supposed to be a monopoly and profiteering, although the profits still exist, it is obviously not that high.

The production process of deep coal mines is also difficult to innovate, mining is difficult, the output is small, and with the support of a huge population base, the environment for innovation of productivity, even with the strong support of the emperor, has not yet formed.

In other words, the thinking of the environment has not changed, and there is no urgent need to promote the innovation of productivity in the world.

And these two points are what the Son of Heaven has been trying to solve.

The transformation of thinking, and the need for productivity improvement under the policy.

This is also the fundamental reason why the emperor dislikes the traditional civil servants and gentry in the DPRK and China.

To rule the world, civil servants are an indispensable existence.

However, most of the traditional civil servants and gentry who have been influenced by environmental education since childhood, most of them still stay on the traditional thinking.

The ingrained concept of **** skills and not doing proper work. It is simply difficult to eliminate until the thinking has not changed.

Between thoughts ~www.novelbuddy.com~ Accompanied by two important ministers, the emperor wandered around the Baichuan Port.

Under the private interview, everything is displayed extremely clearly, without the slightest concealment.

For example, the tax department's requirements for eating and taking cards, such as the gangs running rampant, and even the navy stationed in Baichuan Lake, the Beijing Army's forbidden army, also obviously have tentacles mixed in.

Everything is in sight, but the emperor's expression has not changed much.

It was not until it was getting dark that the emperor stopped. The two ministers who followed the emperor around for a day were also obviously tired, especially Liu Qiyuan, who was old and frail. This high-intensity walk for a day was really supportive. not live.

"The center of gravity of the court should be shifted to internal affairs."

But the next sentence of the emperor suddenly wiped away all of Liu Qiyuan's exhaustion.

Shifting focus?

The implication, isn't it to end the storm that has evolved to embarrass them?

The emperor didn't have the idea to explain, he stepped into the carriage, leaving Hong Chengchou and Liu Qiyuan alone to look at each other.

But they all seem to be relieved, they are all civil servants, and even if their positions are different, no one wants to be caught and beaten. It is naturally the best to end it...

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