Bury the Qing Dynasty

Chapter 356
Zhu Jinsong knew very well in his heart that fushou ointment is a double-edged sword, no matter how well it is played, it is easy to hurt others and oneself.

Especially as the living conditions of the people of Ming Dynasty are getting better and better, maybe someday some people will want to try something exciting.

After careful consideration, Zhu Jinsong said in a deep voice: "For the time being, let's settle the matter of the drug ointment, and when the troubles on Europa are almost over, we will completely ban this thing, and only keep the medicinal research." .”

"On the contrary, we, Ming Dynasty, should invest more in the Royal Academy right now to further widen the gap with the European countries, make them completely desperate, and completely stop their pursuit."

However, before Zeng Cheng and others bowed down to respond, Liu Huaiwen jumped out first: "Your Majesty Qizuo, I think that it is not appropriate to invest more in the Royal Academy, just keep the status quo."

Seeing Zhu Jinsong, the Emperor of Ming Dynasty, Zeng Cheng and other bigwigs all looking at him, Liu Huaiwen, who was feeling the pressure in his heart, could only bite the bullet and explain: "Our Daming's investment in the Royal Academy every year is not enough. Low, last year it reached one billion dragon yuan, which is equivalent to ten million taels of silver."

"This is ten million taels of silver! How much money is there in our Daming treasury?"

"What's more terrible is that when so much money is dropped, many times you can't even hear it."

"If we invest more in the Royal Academy, I'm afraid that other projects will be affected?"

Liu Huaiwen is right.

Daming has been pouring money into the Royal Academy all these years, and every year, a lot of money is poured into it.

At the beginning, the results were produced one after another. Either a new type of musket was developed today, or the efficiency of the steam engine was improved tomorrow.

It can be said that it was precisely because of the continuous achievements of the Royal Academy that Da Ming successfully caught up with the progress of the European countries in terms of industrial technology and surpassed them, so that they would not fall behind too much due to the scourge of the Qing Dynasty in these years.

The problem is that the Royal Academy is a research-oriented academy, not an old hen raised by a farm. A hen can lay eggs every three days, but a research-oriented academy cannot produce results every two days.

The reason why it was able to continuously produce results in the past few years was because Ming Dynasty was still in the stage of learning, absorbing, researching, and improving. Many projects were already researched or are being researched by European countries, or Zhu Jinsong, a traveler. The emperor opened it up.

As the research progress of the Royal Academy gradually caught up with and even surpassed the progress of other countries on the small broken ball, Zhu Jinsong, the emperor who traveled through, became more and more busy, and he could provide the Royal Academy with fewer and fewer ideas. The blowout period has effectively come to an end.

The current Royal Academy has entered the leading echelon of scientific research. Most of the projects are just a little bit of a small broken ball at the moment or do not exist at all. There are many projects that Zhu Jinsong only relied on a little impression from his previous life. Just put forward the concept.

It belongs to the real way of crossing the river by feeling the stones. Every step forward must be carefully repeated experiments, summaries, and improvements.

Under such circumstances, the Royal Academy naturally became a gluttonous gold-swallowing behemoth.

Let's put it this way, every experiment of the Royal Academy now represents a large amount of silver being evaporated.

If it weren't for Daming's own relatively high tax revenue, and the continuous sucking blood from the European countries to feed itself, I'm afraid that Daming's finances would be exaggerated by the Royal Academy!
But Zhu Jinsong, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, is good. He just wanted to increase his investment in the Royal Academy—but Daming's investment in the Royal Academy was already ridiculously high, okay?
Liu Huaiwen even wanted to let Zhu Jinsong, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and Zeng Cheng and other bigwigs in the court have a look at the bills that Daming had invested in the Royal Academy.

In the first year of the Holy Emperor, the Royal Academy was established, and the treasury allocated 1000 million taels of silver as the start-up capital—this 1000 million taels of silver almost emptied the treasury!
From the second year of the Holy Emperor to the fifth year of the Holy Emperor, the treasury allocated 3000 million taels of silver to the Royal Academy every year. In the past three years, the national treasury allocated 5000 million taels of silver to the Royal Academy every year. Until last year, it reached an unprecedented 12 million taels of silver!

One hundred million taels of silver almost crushed France, and the fiscal deficit of France that sent Louis XVI to the guillotine was only two hundred million taels of silver, and it was a deficit that France owed for so many years!
In order to pay off the deficit of [-] million taels of silver, Louis XVI did not know how many homes of French nobles, how many profits from the Dutch East India Company, and how many houses of the Habsburg family he looted. It took several years to pay off the land.

Fortunately, the Royal Academy, just last year's investment reached [-] million taels of silver!

Therefore, even if he knows the importance of the Royal Academy to Daming, and knows that the many researches of the Royal Academy are the key to Daming's ability to continue to lead other countries in Xiaopoqiu, Liu Huaiwen will definitely not agree to continue to increase investment in the Royal Academy. .

However, what Liu Huaiwen did not expect was that Zhu Jinsong just laughed and said: "What I said about increasing investment in the Royal Academy is not just about increasing investment in the Royal Academy in terms of money and materials. It is to increase investment in scientific research personnel of the Royal Academy."

"In other words, I plan to increase the proportion of mathematics, physics, science, biology and other subjects in school subjects, guide more and more people to engage in study and research in these areas, and expand the scale of the Royal Academy."

Hearing Zhu Jinsong's words, Liu Huaiwen's face darkened immediately.

What is the difference between expanding the scale of the Royal Academy and increasing the investment in money?
Absolutely not!

The larger the scale of the Royal Academy, the more scientific researchers it has, the more scientific research projects it can carry out, and the more money it needs to spend.

After thinking about it, Liu Huaiwen couldn't help persuading him: "Your Majesty, our Ming Dynasty has been ahead of other countries in Xiaopoqiu for many years now. Even if our Ming Dynasty advances step by step, they can't catch up with them?"

Zhu Jinsong sneered and asked, "How many years ahead of them?"

"Then I'm here to ask you, since the Jiashen state was in disaster and Jianyi entered the Central Plains, the scientific development of the Central Plains has stagnated, but the countries of Europe have been making progress for more than 150 years. The gap in science and technology among European countries has been completely widened by Jianyi for more than 100 years, isn't that true?"

"But now?"

"Since our Ming Dynasty successfully overthrew the Qing Dynasty, it has only been a short period of ten years. Many science and technology have caught up with the European countries and even successfully overtaken them. Isn't that true?"

"Now, does Uncle Huaiwen still think that the gap of many years is beyond the reach of other countries?"

Without waiting for Liu Huaiwen to answer, Zhu Jinsong tapped his fingers on the table slowly, and said word by word: "As far as I know, the countries of Europa and the silly thieves have never given up on the study of electricity, nor have they given up completely. For the study of the steam engine."

"For example, the ordnance is better. After all, they are fighting now. As long as France buys ordnance from our Ming Dynasty, other countries will have to buy ordnance from our Ming Dynasty. They will not have spare energy to invest in ordnance research and development in a short time. Our Daming is somewhat ahead."

"But what if they stop fighting? Or, what if some European country is fighting against our Ming's ordnance, and at the same time developing their own research and development?"

"Our Ming Dynasty is making progress, and we are already ahead of the European countries in many places. This is indeed good, but the gap is not so big that the European countries are completely desperate, and it is not enough for us to rest on our laurels. when."

PS: There was an update yesterday, but yesterday's update was 404...

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