Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 636 Crazy Devotion
Taichang's handwriting really startled people.

Fang Yizhi worked hard for less than two days, and developed a simple voltmeter. He raised his hand and got 1 taels!

Moreover, according to what he meant, this is only the starting price, and there will be more rewards in the future.

Isn't he taking money too much for money?
In fact, this reward is really nothing, 1 taels is equivalent to 600 million in later generations.

If things such as electric lights, motors, and telegraphs are really developed, the value of each of them will be at least tens of billions!
1 taels may be a large amount for ordinary people or even ordinary officials, but for these geniuses who can promote the development of Ming Dynasty's technology, it is not much at all.

This small amount of money is just a piece of cake for Taichang, and the real investment is yet to come.

After Fang Yizhi accepted the bank note with gratitude, he waved his hand and said, "Let's go out and have a look."

At this time, Du Linzheng, a member of the Ministry of Industry, was taking several directors of the Ministry of Industry and a few foremen to gesture to the layout of Gecheng.

Taichang walked over with Fang Yizhi and others, and asked with a smile: "How is it, Bozheng, have you figured it out?"

Du Linzheng quickly pointed to the layout map and introduced: "Your Majesty, this is a standard grid city with a length of five miles and a width of five miles. If roads and roads are removed, there is still about [-] acres of land where factories and houses can be built. Now More than a dozen houses occupy an area of ​​less than [-] mu, and four factory buildings occupy an area of ​​less than [-] mu, so there are still plenty of places.”

very good!

Taichang asked Fang Yizhi again: "What do you think about the planning of the factory building and the house?"

I don't know what you want to build!

Fang Yizhi thought for a while, then simply cupped his hands and said: "Students just want to study hard, and the planning of factories and houses is up to the emperor."

Okay.

Taichang thought for a while, and then made gestures on the layout plan: "Here, build a one-hundred-acre house for Mi Zhi, and here build ten ten-mu houses for the head of the Ministry of Industry. Here, build one hundred five-mu houses. The house is for the disciples of Mizhi, and a thousand houses of one mu are built here for the craftsmen.

These houses must be warm in winter and cool in summer. There must be enough heating in winter and enough ice in summer. Where facilities such as boiler rooms and ice cellars are built is up to you. "

Uh, the cost of doing this is a bit high.

At present, the average craftsman's house is just equipped with a hot kang head. It is very good to heat the kang head when it is cold in winter. As for summer, you can only fan yourself.

Not to mention the troublesome connection of heating and simple air-conditioning, it is also very expensive. The copper pipes leading to each house will cost a lot of money, not to mention the supporting facilities such as boilers and ice cellars.

Du Linzheng made a rough estimate, and then carefully reminded: "Your Majesty, the house with heating and simple air-conditioning is relatively expensive. Even a one-acre house may cost 30 taels. After the construction of more than 1000 houses At least 5 to [-] taels!"

Do you feel bad for this little money?
Taichang said without hesitation: "How about this, the money for the establishment of the research institute will be allocated from the internal treasury, not counting the expenses of the Ministry of Industry.

You just need to list the details and hand them in. Don't feel bad about the money.

In addition, each house is equipped with household items.

Craftsman households live in 20 taels, close students live in 50 taels, industry chiefs live in 100 taels, and secret houses live in 500 taels.

These are all allocated from the internal treasury and do not need to go to the account of the Ministry of Industry. "

Uh, well, this is tens of thousands of taels again.

If all the expenses of the Ministry of Industry are counted, the Ministry of Industry really can't bear it.

The research institute to be built this time is not one or two, but several.

If it were all built like this, it would cost at least a million taels of silver. Except for the Ministry of Households, which government office could afford such a large expense?
Of course, it's different when the emperor pays.

It is not a problem for Neiku to take out a few million taels casually.

Upon hearing this, Du Linzheng nodded quickly and said, "I understand."

Taichang then pointed to the layout diagram and said: "This factory will be divided into groups of four like this, and three groups will be built in the other three directions, and an experimental building will be built in the middle.

There should be at least [-] small study rooms in the laboratory building, [-] large study rooms, and at least [-] laboratories with a size of half an acre, as well as meeting rooms, drawing rooms and so on. "

Upon hearing this, Du Linzheng thought about it carefully, and then asked carefully, "Your Majesty, how many floors does this laboratory building have?"

Without hesitation, Taichang said: "Let's build two floors to save the trouble of climbing up and down. The laboratories are all built on one floor, which is convenient for experiments."

Du Linzheng hurriedly cupped his hands and said, "I understand."

The planning of this research institute is almost the same.

Taichang thought for a while, and then said to Bi Maokang: "Meng Hou, write a notice and post it together when the rankings are released. Candidates who fail this time can apply to come to the academy to be students of Mizhi and the others. As long as the performance can meet the secret requirements, they are guaranteed to have the title of Jinshi."

Uh, these are all recruiting people, and if they are asked to do research, they have to be paid, otherwise who will come.

Bi Maokang asked cautiously: "Your Majesty, how are these people's salaries calculated?"

Taichang thought for a while, and then said decisively: "Let's count them as the seventh-rank treatment first, and those who perform outstandingly will be promoted in rank."

That should be fine.

Bi Maokang hurriedly cupped his hands and said, "I understand."

Taichang thought for a while, and then said: "Meng Hou, all craftsmen who come to the research institute to participate in the development of new things must be above two levels. In addition, considering that the research institute is mainly research and development, there may not be many finished products. , Their wages are doubled according to the grade, try to make up for their piecework wages."

Well, this month is at least 5000 taels, and 6 to [-] taels a year!
This is just a research institute, and all other research institutes add up, and the salary will cost an extra 10 taels a year.

Bi Maokang hesitated for a moment, but said cautiously: "Your Majesty, I dare you, we calculate the piecework wages of this artisan household according to the profits of the output, and the profits of each factory must be turned over to the national treasury."

This means, if people don’t work, you have to pay us double wages, we can’t afford it!

There is no way, the profits of the major yamen of the imperial court must not be allowed to be distributed by themselves. If they do this, it will be messed up. Some officials estimate that they can easily earn tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of taels.

Therefore, the profits of the major yamen must be turned over to the national treasury, and the salaries of all officials, including the wages of craftsmen, must be calculated by the Ministry of Households before being distributed.

Of course Taichang knew this.

This is also the reason why these officials of the Ministry of Industry plan carefully, because they don't have much money to spend.

Still without hesitation, Taichang said: "Okay, all these will be allocated from the internal treasury, so as to save you from having to calculate with the Ministry of Accounts."

Bi Maokang hurriedly cupped his hands and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty."

Taichang thought for a while, and then ordered: "There is also the equipment of machine tools. Regardless of whether you need to use all kinds of machine tools at the moment, you have to equip them with a few sets, so as to save time. Have extra, they may need it anytime."

Bi Maokang hurriedly cupped his hands and said, "I understand."

Even if it's almost arranged here.

Immediately afterwards, Taichang took Bi Maokang and other officials from the Ministry of Industry to another vacant Gecheng.

This time he didn't just build an electric power research institute, he wanted to build more research institutes.

For example, Song Yingxing's Materials Research Institute, Wang Zheng's Steam Engine Research Institute, Sun Yuanhua's Weapons Research Institute, Zhang Jimeng's Ship Research Institute, Cheng Jiashuo's Aviation Research Institute, Shen Yunpei's Petroleum Research Institute, and so on.

Every research institute, no matter whether it is a factory building or a house, is built according to the highest standards, and all personnel involved in research and development are paid quite high.

There are also project rewards and so on, which are even more insanely high.

In short, he is crazy about investing regardless of cost, and he doesn't care about money at all.

Of course, this kind of investment is not wasting money, on the contrary, it is creating profits, and it is still huge profits.

Because as long as there is a project that can be successfully researched, the income will be calculated in millions or even tens of millions of taels in terms of money!
(End of this chapter)