golden scales

Zhu Cihong originally hoped to return to Jinan before the Shangyuan Festival. After all, Shangyuan is also a big festival, and the family reunite to watch lanterns and feast. It would be unsatisfactory to lack an eldest son.However, the progress of the technical college has deviated from his assumptions.These elites at the top of the Ming Dynasty started from science and improved technology. The way is right, but the initial effect is a bit weak.

The things that the technical college can sell now are all inventions written by Wang Zheng in "Illustration of Strange Weapons".It can be said that the only four-wheeled carriages and plate glass are collective achievements, and both four-wheeled carriages and flat glass are the main export commodities and have no direct military value. This has to be said to be contrary to Zhu Cihong's original intention.

So Zhu Cilang simply stayed in the academy, ordering all the ministries to recruit soldiers with quick hands and feet, flexible minds, and excellent eyesight to come and learn how to ignite a hot air balloon.Soon he discovered that Song Yingxing was thinking about a machine that could save manpower——sewing machine in order to speed up the sewing of airbags.

No matter whether he has the conditions to invent this kind of machine now, Zhu Cihong will not allow him to continue to be so half-hearted.Spring is about to begin, and after a winter, the Mongols will not be able to survive, so new military operations are bound to start in February and March.As long as a few usable hot air balloons are deployed in Shanxi and North China, the effect will be seen. If it is really necessary to manufacture on a large scale, it will be a matter of the future.

Song Yingxing also realized that the crown prince was dissatisfied with the current progress, so he could only speed up the time to improve the small parts, and strive to conform to the perfect image in his mind.

In addition to keeping an eye on Song Yingxing to speed up the manufacture of hot air balloons, Zhu Cihong also wants to build a real scientific research system.Now the popularization of village education in Class A areas can only be regarded as literacy at best.However, if it can be carried out steadily for three years, with the increase of subjects, this kind of literacy class can be transformed into real primary education.

After primary education.Secondary education and higher education have the foundation.However, the current situation is that the country cannot wait for three to five years in vain, and Wang Zheng and Xiong Mingyu are not young anymore. Although they have children and nephews to follow, they are obviously far inferior to their parents in terms of talent.Therefore, even if the first batch of educated talents are somewhat insufficient, we can only admit that we must invest in young students to follow and learn.Otherwise, a lot of knowledge will be lost.

If one wants to attract scholars of the Ming Dynasty to devote themselves to research, then the word "technician" obviously cannot appear.

Because of this change, Zhu Cihong had to extend his stay in Laizhou, so that he could separate some of the teachers and students from the Technical College, and focus on purely academic research, establishing the first comprehensive science and engineering university in Huangming.The original technical college will further take the route of vocational education.The enrollment standard is a first-class diploma or above, and the schooling period is five years, with work-study progressing concurrently.

Judging from the current literacy rate of Ming Dynasty, such two-level schools already belong to higher education. As for the secondary education and primary education below, it only takes time to slowly consolidate.Fortunately, the education systems of the Thai and Western countries were not ahead of Ming Dynasty.Literacy is still the privilege of the elite, so there is still time.

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On the Shangyuan Festival in the 18th year of Chongzhen, Zhu Cihong sent someone to send a letter back to Jinan to congratulate the emperor's father and mother.At the same time, let Liu Ruoyu publicly issue a letter of appointment after the year to recruit the shopkeeper of Baohe Store.

There is no "Company Law" in Ming Dynasty, and all business names do not need to be registered, and there is no need to verify their names.However, there are six names that no one dares to use.That is Baohe, Heyuan, Shunning, Fude, Fuji and Baoyan.These six stores are the six imperial stores, and all income is the emperor's internal funds.Because the office of the admiral and eunuch is located in Baohedian, Baohe's reputation is the loudest.

In the year since he left Beijing, Zhu Cihong basically did not carry out normal business activities, and even killed many normal business activities in Shandong.This is unimaginable for former businessmen.However, the main reason is that Zhu Cihong himself is really incapable of doing things, and it is much easier to rely on the regime and military power to seek benefits than to follow the rules of the market to get rich legally.

However, now that he has mature high-value-added commodities in his hands, if he wants to obtain greater profits from Jiangnan, he must have an equal exchange subject, otherwise plundering alone will only increase the difficulty of future reconstruction.

not to mention.He also has no troops to plunder Jiangnan now.

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On the 18th day of the first lunar month in the [-]th year of Chongzhen, Zhu Cihong arrived in Qingdao.Because of the Little Ice Age, even if the Yellow River did not inject a large amount of fresh water into the Bohai Sea, Laizhou and Dengzhou ports were still frozen to varying degrees, so Shen Tingyang left a small number of patrol boats.All other ships of the Navy moved to Jiaozhou Bay for the winter—the largest ice-free port in Shandong.

Qingdao Naval Official Hall is a confiscated property with three entrances and three rooms, and two small courtyards.At this time, it was winter and spring, and there was no green in the yard, and even the water in the pond was covered with a thick layer of ice.

Zhu Cihong stepped on the stone path he had just swept, and tightened the fox fur on his body.Shen Tingyang was beside him, wearing a padded jacket with a mink collar.Shen Tingyang and Zhu Cihong were separated more often than together, and he can still remember the first summoning of the Crown Prince in the East Palace Mansion.Looking back at what the crown prince said at that time, it seems that it has come true one by one now.And at that time, I still felt that the crown prince still had some childishness on his face, but looking at it now, it was a resolute and majestic look.

"In the 16th year of Chongzhen, when I first left the palace, I promised to use advanced technology to compensate your family, but now there is nothing I can do." Zhu Cihong laughed at himself.

"The minister has today, thanks to His Highness' support, how dare he win Longwangshu." Shen Tingyang was added the title of Minister of the Ministry of War and commanded the navy. Although he donated a lot of family property, he also gained a lot of benefits.Last year, the Shen family earned a large part of Jiangnan's trade with Japan.

"I'm not used to taking advantage of people." Zhu Cihong stood by the frozen pond, looking at the swaying water under the ice: "This time I came here specially to give you something real."

"Your Highness, how dare I..."

"The shares of Baohe Store, as well as the right to sell plate glass and carriages in Zhejiang and Nanzhi." Zhu Cihong smiled and said, "How?"

Shen Tingyang felt quite at a loss, his lips parted, not knowing what to say.As a Jiangnan businessman, he finally uttered a sentence: "The shares must not be taken for nothing, and I am willing to subscribe for it."

"I'm afraid you won't be able to afford it." Zhu Cihong said, "Baohe Store is the top of the six Royal Stores, and its assets are not yet clear, but I think that the income will not be less if it opens up sea trade in the future."

Shen Tingyang took a deep breath.He naturally understands the huge profits of running overseas.If the crown prince wants to run across the sea, who can run faster than him?Isn't it a patent?Calculated in this way, not only can he not afford the shares, but he also dare not buy them!

Is there anyone in this world who is willing to give away the money they get to others?

"I roughly calculated the income distribution of this store," Zhu Cihong said with a wrinkled finger, "Sheng Jia Nanxing, many people in the capital bought treasury bonds for silver. Although the interest is not high, the money has to be paid back."

Shen Tingyang nodded slightly. He also knew that the Crown Prince piled up mountains of silver in Beijing to buy peace for the people.But he didn't expect the crown prince to remember it, and he seemed to really plan to pay back the money, which surprised him a bit.

"After arriving in Shandong, several princes and county kings gave Yinzi to open mines, build roads, and labor in the army, so this is their investment, and a total of 5.00% dividends will be distributed." Zhu Cihong emphasized the "bonus" , which is separate from the equity just mentioned.

Shen Tingyang naturally understood and nodded.

"As for the equity," Zhu Cihong said, "only those who have made great achievements can get it. After taking the equity, not only can they get dividends, but they can also participate in the operation and decision-making of Baohe Store. If the children and grandchildren can't keep it, they can resell it...Of course, the original Shareholders have the right of first refusal under the same conditions."

Zhu Cihong patted Shen Tingyang on the shoulder: "I am very aware of your contribution, and I have never forgotten it. Without you, Shandong would not have the foundation to survive this year. Therefore, I will give you 3000% of the shares. Although not I know the current total trade volume with Japan, but Zheng Zhilong smokes [-] taels per boat, and can earn tens of millions of taels a year, so one percent of this is quite valuable.”

Zhu Cihong didn't know the data on the total trade volume, and Shen Tingyang certainly didn't know either.But there is an account that anyone can calculate: If there is no high enough profit after being drawn 3000 taels, no one will go to Japan?Now that Shen's ships are running in Japan, each Dafu ship can earn more than 1 taels of net profit. If the sea trade is carried out by the power of the imperial court, how much will the profit be?

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