Qiming 1158

Chapter 1487 The Industrial Revolution Plan
At the same time as the Battle of the Western Regions was launched, the joint technical team of the Mining Department of the Ministry of Industry and the General Administration of Mines of the Ministry of Finance rushed to Liuqiu Island.

After professional exploration, they found that this gold mine is of high value, of very superior quality, and it is not difficult to mine. It is conservatively estimated that there are tens of thousands of kilograms of gold available for mining.

In addition, some traces of copper mines were also found around the gold mine. It is suspected that there are larger copper mines near the gold mine, and it is believed that the veins of this gold mine can continue to be detected, and there may be other surprises.

They believe that setting up a mining farm here and starting mining will provide Daming with precious metals worth 10,000+ or ​​even hundreds of thousands of copper coins every year.

Su Yonglin was very happy and immediately instructed the General Administration of Mines of the Ministry of Finance and the Mining Department of the Ministry of Industry to form a large-scale joint working group, headed by Li Le, the Mining Secretary of the Ministry of Industry, to organize a professional prospecting team and a series of equipment to go to Liuqiu Dadao Gold Mine for construction .

Su Yonglin's hope is to start production before the end of the year, to mine the gold and copper from Liuqiu Da Island, and transport them back to Zhongdu into the national reserve for the next step of currency reform.

After Lin Jingchun learned about it, he also attached great importance to this matter.

He personally organized a professional team from the Ministry of Finance to go to the Liuqiu Dadao Gold Mine to evaluate and estimate the value, and then planned to send relevant personnel to stay at the mine to make specific statistics on the gold and copper produced by the mine.

And because of this discovery on Liuqiu Da Island, Lin Jingchun believed that Liuqiu Da Dao had better development value, so Lin Jingchun suggested that Su Yonglin could consider officially operating Liuqiu Da Dao.

He suggested that Daming's administrative divisions be formally established on this big island and included in direct rule, and then experiments were carried out according to Su Yonglin's earlier plan.

Earlier, Su Yonglin had a plan and plan to build an industrial city centered on the mining industry, and was planning to find an area in eastern Liaoning to experiment.

The specific plan is to rely on the mining farm to gather the population, develop the surrounding area, build the agricultural area, the living area, and the industrial area together to develop into a new-style industrial settlement, so that the population will gradually increase.

Now Liaodong has not found a suitable place, but Liuqiu Island has found it.

Su Yonglin was very happy about this, so he decided to experiment with the plan he had planned for a long time on Liuqiu Island, as a follow-up experience package for building an industrial city and developing and strengthening the working class.

As soon as he thought of this, Su Yonglin immediately convened a joint government affairs meeting with multiple departments of the imperial court and various departments of the Renaissance Society to conduct specific consultations on Lin Jingchun's proposal.

Because Daming had no experience in building industrial cities before.

The existing cities are basically water and land transportation hubs, and because of the agricultural status, commercial status, military status, and transportation status as the core, there are no purely industrial cities.

In the future, the construction and transformation of industrial cities will be almost inevitable after the rapid development of science and technology in Ming Dynasty.

In the near future, there will be some thriving industrial cities in Liaodong, grassland, southwest, and Lingnan traditional remote areas. In order to accumulate relevant experience, Su Yonglin said that he is very willing to do an experiment on Liuqiu Island. .

Regarding the latest scientific and technological progress of the Ming Dynasty, the senior officials who participated in the government affairs conference and the high-level officials of the Renaissance Association had a little understanding.

They know that Su Yonglin is promoting a wonderful power reform with genius ideas, and intends to use brand-new power equipment to bring unprecedented changes to Daming.

He called it the "Industrial Revolution Project."

In his description, in the future, Daming, which uses new power equipment, will develop ten times or even a hundred times faster than now, and everyone's life will undergo earth-shaking changes in just a few decades, and everyone will be from another angle. Enter a new era.

At the government affairs meeting, Su Yonglin made a very clear speech.

"The industrial revolution plan is the core plan of Daming in the future. In order to realize this plan, Daming has made a lot of preparations. As long as the technological breakthrough is completed, then everything will come naturally, so that we will not be in a hurry when the new era comes. , I think it is necessary to build an industrial city on Liuqiu Island."

Officials and members, look at me, I look at you, everyone has an undisguised curiosity and yearning in their eyes.

They were used to the victory and glory that Su Yonglin brought them, and they were passively used to the changes that Su Yonglin brought them that they were willing or unwilling to accept.

Some of these changes are in their interests, and they are willing to accept them.

If something is not in their interests, they are reluctant but eventually forced to accept it.

For example, Su Yonglin has become more and more strict with the control requirements for officials and Renaissance members.

The industrial revolution plan is not aimed at a certain person or group, but the entire Ming Dynasty. When Su Yonglin took them to visit the No. [-] steam engine, they were also shocked.

When Su Yonglin said that this machine will be used in all walks of life in the future, they were surprised.

They couldn't imagine such a strange machine being able to drive a car and run a [-]-mile accelerated limit speed to a lithe daily speed.

In the 14th year of Tianbao, there was a rebellion in Anlu Mountain, Tang Xuanzong got the news within six days, and traveled three thousand miles for six days, which is equivalent to the news being transmitted five hundred miles a day.

This is already the limit speed for the heyday of national power, including the feudal dynasty's road administration and Ma Zheng, to transmit military information in the most urgent situation.

In order to complete this extreme transfer, the post station system needs to pay an extremely expensive price, including but not limited to more than [-] horses becoming a one-time product, which will be abolished from now on.

Because of the extremely expensive cost, such a limit speed is basically not used on a daily basis, and it may not happen once or twice a year that the news is transmitted [-] miles a day.

According to Su Yonglin's description, once the steam locomotive succeeds, the heyday limit speed of the prosperous feudal dynasty will become the starting speed of the new era, and it will continue to accelerate in the future, easily throwing off the limit speed of the prosperous feudal dynasty.

The cost is also very low.

Seeing the big from the small, the development speed of Daming will be far behind all the dynasties in history, and at a very low cost, it will go to the sea of ​​stars that the predecessors could not dream of.

For the future described by Su Yonglin, each of them was shocked, and they felt that their souls were shaking.

They accepted very early that Su Yonglin would come up with a brand new idea from time to time and then put it into practice and achieved great benefits and success.

But they had absolutely no idea how much Daming was planned in Su Yonglin's head.

They don't know what Daming's future looks like in his head.

Is it a kingdom of God flying in the sky?
The brand-new ideas they had never been exposed to, the brand-new political system they had never had contact with, the brand-new weapons they had never had contact with, and the industrial revolution they could not imagine were all brought about by Su Yonglin.

So much so that they believed in their hearts that Su Yonglin was a special existence, and without him, it really wouldn't work.

Even the degenerates who are most disgusted with the reform of Su Yonglin's system can't imagine how much the Ming Congress without Su Yonglin's leadership has fallen. They don't like Su Yonglin's idea of ​​continuing the revolution, but they can't move on without the line planned by Su Yonglin.

They wanted to get rid of Su Yonglin, but found that they couldn't do it at all, no matter from which point of view, they couldn't do it.

So they are desperate.

(End of this chapter)