Chapter 527 "Collection of Speeches of His Majesty Zhu Kezang during his Northern Inspection"

Author: Linjiangjun

Chapter 527 "Collection of Speeches of His Majesty Zhu Kezang during his Northern Inspection"

In the past two years, the mining depth of Daming Coal Mine has gradually increased, and the amount of water in the mine has increased, becoming a bottleneck in increasing coal production.

In order to improve this problem, Ming Dynasty scientist Huang Lvzhuang built the world's first practical steam water pump, which solved the problem of mine drainage.

This machine later became widely praised by miners and was called the "Friend of Miners"!

After leaving the Datong Coal Mine, Zhu Kezang visited the Datong Iron and Steel Plant, the Datong Construction Stone Company, and the Datong Frontier Army Headquarters of the National Defense Forces.

Datong is a choke point for transportation between Shanxi, Hebei and Mongolia. It is also located in the agricultural and pastoral ecotone. It is a composite transition area between agricultural and pastoral areas. Since ancient times, it has been an ideal place for nomadic people to move south and east into the Central Plains. Therefore, the National Defense Forces

It's heavily guarded here.

However, now that Mongolia in southern and northern Mongolia has surrendered, there is actually not much pressure on the border.

Zhu Kezang’s main purpose was to build northern industry!

To this end, His Majesty Zhu Kezang gave a series of far-sighted speeches on these key projects of the First Five-Year Plan, pointing out the direction for the production of Ming Dynasty state-owned companies and state-owned factories.

Relevant speeches have been collected and established by officials of the Ministry of Rites. A "Collection of Speeches of His Majesty Zhu Kezang's Northern Inspection" was printed and published overnight, and all yamen were organized to conduct extensive study by the entire army!

The last stop of Zhu Kezang's northern tour was the headquarters of the Northeast Railway Company in Shenyang Prefecture.

Currently, the Northeast, Outer Northeast, Central Siberia, and Western Siberia are still within the borders marked on the latest version of the Ming Dynasty administrative map, but in fact, the Ming Dynasty's control over the Outer Northeast and Siberia is still relatively weak.

The construction progress of the Anbei Protectorate in Siberia is relatively slow, and it will take at least two years to actually control Siberia.

In order to strengthen control over these areas, railway construction must keep up.

Fortunately, the Ming Dynasty had relatively good control over the Jurchen tribes in the northeast and outer northeast, that is, the Eight Banners of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Kezang's policy towards the Eight Banners of the Ming Dynasty was actually to "bundle them for his own use".

You have to use it, but the binding rope is getting tighter and tighter, without any relaxation.

At the beginning, Zhu Kezang also divided the territory around the outer northeast to the Ming Eight Banners and asked them to set up several guards.

But later, in order to weaken the Ming Eight Banners, Zhu Kezang first separated the Sauron and Barhu people from the Ming Eight Banners, established the Sauron Left and Right Banners and the Barhu Left and Right Banners, which were independent of the Ming Eight Banners, and separated the Sauron and Barhu people from the Ming Eight Banners.

The cavalry and the Barhu cavalry were accepted as the personal soldiers of the Emperor of Heaven!

Then, Zhu Kezang issued an order to reorganize the Ming Eight Banners. The original Ming Eight Banners was a collective name, and the internal divisions were not clear.

According to Zhu Kezang's order, the Eight Banners of the Ming Dynasty were also divided into eight flags: two yellow, two white, two red, and two blue according to the colors of the Qing Eight Banners.

Under each banner, there are five chiefs and twenty-five subordinates, and each subordinate has one hundred and fifty households.

There are only 3,750 households left under one banner, and there are only 30,000 households left under eight banners combined.

Moreover, Zhu Kezang issued an imperial edict that a household in the Ming Eight Banners could only have a maximum of five people, and all "Qiyu" in the Ming Eight Banners were given the status of Han households.

For such an imperial edict, the Ming Eight Banners headed by Sabusu naturally did not dare to resist, so they could only obey with gritted teeth.

But as a result, the population that the Ming Eight Banners could control was greatly reduced, with only 150,000 left. Their self-sustainability also weakened, and they had to rely more on the Ming court's food and salary supply.

In the future, the Eight Banners of the Ming Dynasty are likely to move closer to the Weisuo system of the early Ming Dynasty.

Of course, Zhu Kezang would not let the Ming Eight Banners stabilize. He asked the unruly guys within the Ming Eight Banners to form a mopping up cavalry, with about four thousand people.

Let them cross the Yenisei River and find trouble in the Rakshasa Kingdom.

The slogan is: Steal the wealth of the Rakshasa Kingdom and work hard to get rich!

This mopping up cavalry regiment, due to the BUFF bonus, was fairly loyal and effectively prevented the stubborn Rakshasa people from crossing the border and stealing Ming Dynasty territory.

The specific location of the Northeast Railway Company headquarters is ten miles west of Shenyang City.

If it were in the late Qing Dynasty, this place would be called Huanggutun.

Now Huanggutun is still called Huanggui Wopu.

To be honest, coming to this place is not very auspicious for Zhu Kezang!

Because there are many Japanese people here now.

Fortunately, these Japanese people are loyal to the Ming Dynasty, and there are absolutely no assassins among them.

Starting from here, more than 20,000 Korean and Japanese workers are building the railway to the southwest.

This railway will run along the northeastern plain, cross the Liaohe River, and connect Shuntian Prefecture to the southwest.

Standing on the mountain and watching the winding railway disappear on the distant horizon, Zhu Kezang couldn't help but sigh. This time, the bones of Korean workers and Japanese workers might be buried under every sleeper.

Eliminating the population of these two places can be regarded as a small contribution, right?

Looking at the lively scene in front of me, 20,000 people gathered together to work. It seemed chaotic, but it had a clear division of labor, order and order.

Four-wheeled carriages transporting soil, rocks, and materials shuttled back and forth from construction site to construction site. A large amount of cement was transported and poured continuously on the pillars that had been fixed everywhere.

Seeing such a lively scene in front of him, Zhu Kezang couldn't help but sigh, Ming Dynasty is no longer the Ming Dynasty it used to be.

In the past, if you wanted to organize thousands or tens of thousands of people to carry out infrastructure construction, you would have to recruit farmers in the form of corvees to complete the project.

Serving as a corvee is definitely a very, very difficult thing for farmers, because during the period of corvee service, not only do they not get any reward, but they also need to bring their own food and mats to live in.

In times of turmoil and famine, the people themselves had little food at all, and they often died of exhaustion or starvation while doing corvee labor. In all dynasties, peasant uprisings often broke out while doing corvee labor.

But things are different now. The Ming Dynasty does not need the corvee system at all. Now when the Ming Dynasty wants to organize people to work on big projects, they all have to pay money. But with the driving force of silver dollars, everyone does things completely differently.

The construction site is in full swing, and everyone is working hard. There is no need for supervision, because the amount of work is related to one's income. The more you work, the more you get, and the more you do, the more you do.

of hard work.

The Northeast was always cold and freezing, and Zhu Kezang was reluctant to let the people of the Ming Dynasty do such hard work, so he vigorously recruited Koreans and Japanese people to do it. They were happy to do it.

"Your Majesty, it's windy outside, please go back to the company!"

The speaker is Song Shiyi, the youngest son of Song Yingxing. He is a capable official in the Railway Bureau of the Ministry of Industry and has participated in the design of the Ming Dynasty Zhupi train many times.

Today, he is also the person in charge of the Northeast Railway Company assigned by Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Kezang tightened his woolen coat and nodded: "Song Aiqing, you have to continue to study the technology, but on the other hand, you have to keep an eye on the company's accounts and don't be deceived by the people below!"

"Your Majesty, please rest assured..."
Chapter completed!