Bury the Qing Dynasty

Chapter 395 Make money, not shabby

Zhu Jinsong has never believed in the integrity of officials and gentlemen, because the system is dead, but people are alive.

Sometimes, the darkness and cruelty of the officials are far beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

For example, you fell asleep and died before you went out; you went out, but you were stopped back; you finally arrived in the capital, but you were stuffed into the car and sent back to your hometown, and you may even have a happy birthday. Mental Hospital Lifetime Package.

Anyway, there are only things that ordinary people can't think of, and there are no officials who can't play.

Even if it is a step back, these officials and gentlemen of Ming Dynasty dare not speak out and be greedy anymore, but what about the world?
As the saying goes, as long as there are people, there are rivers and lakes. The rivers and lakes are not simply fighting and killing, but the sophistication of the world and the entanglement of interests.

Just like the folk saying: Qin Hui still has three good friends.

Which official master doesn't have many relatives?

Which official master doesn't have many friends?

It's okay to give convenience to relatives and friends without violating the laws of Ming Dynasty, right?
No problem this time, what about next time?

The embankment of a thousand miles collapses in the ant's nest!
It’s okay to treat guests to dinner this time, and it’s okay to help out with small things next time, but next time, can you do big things?
Therefore, as long as people have to rely on people to implement the system, such things as corruption are indispensable, but it is just a question of the level of means.

Therefore, the high-salary Da Song cannot solve the problem of corruption, nor can the murderous Zhu Chongba and Zhu Laosi.

Even Zhu Jinsong, the traveler emperor, can't cross the river by touching the rabbit eagle sauce.

But Zhu Jinsong believes in a truth - the officials are not disciplined, if the beating is light, these officials can play the officialdom well, if they are often beating, these officials will be more or less honest .

It is precisely because of this that Zhu Jinsong chose to raise the butcher's knife again, and at the same time allowed the people to sue the officials, and allowed the people to tie up the officials and lords to go directly to Beijing to sue.

He even did not hesitate to ring the Jingyang Bell to beat the officials and gentlemen of Daming.

As for whether the local people will mistakenly tie up a clean and honest official, and even threaten the official with this?

Stop talking nonsense, ordinary people who would care about officials and gentlemen, as long as they can live their lives well, many people will never care about the name of the magistrate in their lifetime.

Thinking of this, Zhu Jinsong glanced coldly at the officials and gentlemen again, and returned to the Wenhua Palace with a cold snort.

The backs of Zeng Cheng, Liu Heming and other bigwigs who came back with Zhu Jinsong were all drenched--today's incident, it seems that the emperor lost his temper inexplicably, and he was idle and had nothing to do. They were convened and scolded, but the meaning and influence behind this was too terrible!
First of all, more than 2000 officials will be pulled to the guillotine at Caishikou, and most of them will be stripped of real grass.

For example, in the Qing Dynasty, it was better. When the officials were killed, the onlookers were not allowed to applaud loudly, because it was "disgraceful to the state system." , the people like to cheer loudly.

Secondly, behind more than 2000 officials and lords, there are at least tens of thousands of people involved.

Even if every official and lord is just an ordinary family of five, there are tens of thousands of people. Tens of thousands of people may die or be exiled.

Again, it is how many people will be implicated by these more than 2000 officials.

For example, their accomplices, for example, who pulled them into the water, and for example, who acted as their accomplice.

If it gets involved like this, it is estimated that it will be another big case involving 4 to [-] people.

Even if [-] people die and [-] people are exiled, this movement will definitely not be small.

It's just that Zhu Jinsong obviously didn't intend to just let Zeng Cheng and other big shots go.

"Besides these bastard things, our Daming still has a lot of problems now."

While knocking on the table slowly, Zhu Jinsong said slowly: "According to the information provided by Jin Yiwei and Tiandihui, there are many businessmen in Ming Dynasty who are no longer satisfied with the money they can earn now."

"They came up with more advanced gameplay."

"For example, they will arrange manpower to go overseas to build some workshops, take advantage of the low labor cost of overseas countries to mass-produce, transport the goods back to Daming, put the label of Daming on them, and then sell them at the price of Daming goods to overseas."

Is there any problem with this way of playing?
Actually there is no problem.

Just like the supplier of the Hexagonal House of the Silly Eagle, they dare to hand over the order of the Hexagonal House directly to the rabbit for production, and then put on the brand of the Silly Eagle, and then sell it to the Hexagonal House at a high price.

This kind of gameplay can offset part of the labor cost to a large extent.

Make money, not shabby.

The same is true for Ming Dynasty - as the national power of Ming Dynasty becomes stronger and stronger, the social status of people of Ming Dynasty will also become higher and higher. The cost of hiring people of Ming Dynasty to work is definitely much higher than the cost of hiring people from small countries overseas.

The problem is, these businessmen of Ming Dynasty don't seem to care about the golden plaque of "Made in Ming Dynasty".

For these businessmen, reducing costs and increasing profits are what they have to consider. As for the quality problems of the products produced by the people of small overseas countries, these businessmen in Ming Dynasty don't care.

Keep the good quality in Ming Dynasty for sale, so as not to spoil the reputation, and then sell those with problematic quality to the barbarians, and sell them at a high price, so as to make money.

So here comes the question: businessmen in the Ming Dynasty can ignore the words "Made in the Ming Dynasty", but what about Zhu Jinsong, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty?If Zhu Jinsong, the emperor of Ming Dynasty, didn't care anymore, who else would care about these four words?
Just like Germany back then.

Many people probably don’t know that Germany, which is known for its rigor, rigidity, and reliable product quality, actually started its business by imitating England’s products, and the quality was so bad in the early days that even England’s products were affected. Forcibly require German factories to mark the words "made in germany" on the counterfeit products.

This is why Germany later strived for success, strictly adhered to the quality control, and gradually turned the negative impact of German manufacturing into a synonym for reliable quality.

Then the problem arises again: Deutschland is doing everything possible to increase the gold content of the words "Made in Germany", but the merchants of Ming Dynasty don't care about the words "Made in Daming" that have been cast into gold.

Is this a moral decline?Or a distortion of human nature?

neither.

It is profit at play.

Of course, if it was just like this, Zhu Jinsong would not be angry because of it - as the emperor of the Ming Empire, Zhu Jinsong could get angry because of the excessive corruption of the officials, but he couldn't get angry because of the misconduct of a few businessmen.

As long as things like this are handed over to the officials and gentlemen, they can make clear arrangements for these businessmen.

What really made Zhu Jinsong angry was because some businessmen in Ming Dynasty had already exceeded Zhu Jinsong's bottom line: "According to the information sent by the factory guards and Tiandihui, as well as the feedback from the garrison of Lanfang Military Region, it can be confirmed that , Our Ming Dynasty indeed has someone smuggling guns out.”

"These bastards sold the muskets to Lanfang, the monkey remnants of the Old Port, and they have their shadows in Tianzhu."

The expression on Zhu Jinsong's face became more and more icy: "Sometimes I feel curious—you said that you can't do something well, why do you have to focus on these beheading deals?"

Hearing what Zhu Jinsong said, Zeng Cheng and the other bigwigs suddenly felt dizzy - compared to someone smuggling ordnance, the two or so cases where many officials and lords are about to be skinned can be counted. What?
Liu Heming, the man in charge of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, even wanted to die.

However, just when Liu Heming was completely in despair, Zhu Jinsong snorted coldly and said to Ke Zhiming, "Tell Zeng Qing and the others about this."

Ke Zhiming first agreed, and then said to Zeng Cheng and other bigwigs: "According to reports from Tiandihui's spies lurking in Tianzhu, Jiugang, Lanfang and other places, these smuggled muskets are not equipped by our Ming army. Standard ordnance, but matchlock guns and flintlock guns made by someone in a small workshop, are much worse than standard ordnance in terms of range, accuracy and service life."

Hearing this, Liu Heming breathed a sigh of relief, while Zeng Cheng and other bigwigs no longer knew what to say.

Is the musket difficult to handle?

It is definitely not easy to do, because to manufacture ordnance, not only have to solve raw materials such as steel, wood, gunpowder, but also a lot of problems such as gunpowder ratio, ammunition packaging, steel strength, wood strength, etc.

These messy problems can be solved individually, but they are very troublesome when added together.

Otherwise, Europa would not come to Daming to import guns and artillery now.

However, if someone does not consider quality, range, and accuracy, but only considers whether this thing can be used, and only considers how to make this thing cheaper?

Based on this premise, matchlock guns and flintlock guns do not have much technical content.

At least for those literate Ming people, there is no technical content.

The "History of Firearms Development" in the libraries of various places records in detail the manufacturing methods of matchlock guns and flintlock guns. It is not difficult to make matchlock guns and flintlock guns, and even the ratio of percussion guns and gunpowder used is not a secret.

This created a very painful situation-Da Ming banned the common people from owning firearms, but it was very easy for the people of Daming to privately manufacture firearms.

Thinking of this, Zeng Cheng and other bigwigs couldn't help but feel a little bit pained.

Who said that these technologies are just for ordinary people to see?Who said that as long as the imperial court treats the people well, the common people will not create guns and artillery to fight against the imperial court?
Yes, no one in the Ming Dynasty is making guns and cannons to fight against the court. The people in the Ming Dynasty are very obedient. Those who should pay taxes and taxes have always paid taxes and taxes honestly. You Emperor Zhu said that you want to accept a concubine. The people of Ming Dynasty will happily give their daughters to you.

However, someone in our Ming Dynasty manufactured matchlock guns and flintlock guns and sold them to the monkey rebels from the Chief Commissioner of Jiugang and the Chief Commissioner of Lanfang, and a considerable part of the ordnance flowed into other countries !
If you think about it further, do these bastards still dare to sell matchlock guns and flintlock guns to Japan?Do you still dare to sell it to other remnants of all walks of life?
Today they dare to make matchlock guns and flintlock guns, but tomorrow they dare to make percussion guns?

From this point of view, His Majesty the Emperor was furious today, but it was not just because of the corruption case?

You know, over the years, Daming has successively killed Annan, Burma, Siam, and Bangzi, and has successively taken back a lot of sites such as Lanfang, Jiugang, etc. It cannot be said that the enemy is all over the world, anyway, there must be a lot of countries from all over the world Yu Nian wants to add fun to Daming.

After thinking about it carefully, Zeng Cheng felt that the more he thought about it, the more he had a headache, and then he simply said to Ke Zhiming: "Commander Ke, I need to trouble your Jin Yiwei to take action on this matter, and find those bastards who made guns without authorization?"

Ke Zhiming nodded, and replied: "I have already sent people to investigate, and there are already some clues. I believe it will not be long before the net can be collected."

After receiving Ke Zhiming's statement, the expression on Zhu Jinsong's face gradually eased.

There is no way, as the saying goes, the same rice feeds a variety of people. The central plains don’t know how many kinds of rice there are, and it is really normal to raise a hundred kinds of people and a thousand kinds of people.

Just like corruption can never be eradicated, there are always some sand sculptures with hair on their guts, which cannot be eradicated.

Wealth is moving!
It's just that Zhu Jinsong suddenly felt a little uneasy when he thought of money touching people's hearts.

After thinking for a while, Zhu Jinsong simply ordered Ke Zhiming again: "In addition to the ordnance case, by the way, let someone go and check things like Cai Sheng Zhe Ke, longevity cream, and cottonseed oil."

Ke Zhiming immediately bowed and replied: "Yes, I have made a note."

Zhu Jinsong hummed, and then changed the topic: "I just said a lot of disturbing things, but I almost delayed today's business."

If this was a cartoon, the expressions of Zeng Cheng and other bigwigs would be full of black lines, and there would be a few more crows croaking and flying past on the screen.

Right?
Your old man first rang the Jingyang bell today, and then sentenced more than 2000 officials to death. By the way, Emperor Zhu angrily scolded the officials. Now your old man said that the business was almost delayed?

So, who is delaying business?
It's just that the slander belongs to the slander. After Emperor Zhu angrily reprimanded the officials, Zeng Cheng, Liu Heming and other bigwigs felt a little trembling in their hearts. They didn't even dare to argue again when reporting the budget of each yamen for next year.

(End of this chapter)