Chapter Twenty-Eight: Zhenzong Dies, and the Crown Prince Ascends the Throne.
As far as ordinary people are concerned, as the saying goes: the year is good, but the spring is hard. That is, people still have to live, and the plan of the year lies in spring. This is not Meng Ming's several factories opened on the eighth day of the first month, from the eighth day of the first month to the end of the first month, the salary increased by forty percent, and it was a day to finish. The employees were all grateful, and secretly said that Meng Ming was the reincarnation of the Bodhisattva. He smiled when he heard it. Do things with conscience and kindness, think about the black-hearted bosses in the previous life who were in arrears of wages, the weak farmers who begged for nothing, those who jumped off the building, and those who impulsively killed the boss; Wage arrears have become a stubborn disease that the government in the previous life was difficult to solve, and when the Spring Festival came, there were some vicious group incidents caused by wage bargaining, and the government was anxious to grasp a few typical things, but could not solve them fundamentally.
I am fifteen years old this year, Jade Cicada is eighteen, the family is ready to let Meng Ming get married next year, I am ready to be eighteen years old, the family is unanimously opposed, next year my father can also go back to Tokyo, my mother is planning to wait for my father to come back, I will choose an auspicious time to get married, and let Jade Cicada pass the door. Meng Ming's objection was invalid, so he should go.
There are a lot of things this year, and the university will officially enroll and open this year; The steam engine should be mass-produced, and the power of textile mills and ironworks should be changed from hydraulic drive to steam engine drive; The coal mine in partnership with the Cao family will be mined, and the cement plant will also expand its production capacity. In particular, the most important thing is that the steam locomotive is going to be put into trial operation, which is nothing yet, it is all on the drawings.
On the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, Meng Ming summoned the heads and shopkeepers of all his family's properties to Fanlou for a gathering, and he also came to report on his work. We should sum up the lessons and lessons of last year, find out the deficiencies and deficiencies, and rectify them. The directors reported on the achievements and difficulties of the previous year. The profit of the farm is the profit of planting cotton and grain, and Meng Ming does not calculate the profit for the time being; Due to the openness of movable type printing, the sales of bookstores have declined, but with the script, it still has little impact, and last year's profit was 140,000 yuan, which is to hope that the script can keep up with the progress of distribution; The textile mill made a profit of 800,000 yuan, hoping to improve the spinning machine, the existing spinning machine technology is backward, can no longer keep up with the production schedule, and hopes to improve; The ironmaking plant made 100,000 tons of iron, 50,000 tons of steel, and because the steel was used for its own use, 38,000 tons were used, so the profit was the profit of ironmaking, and the profit was 600,000 yuan; The cement factory and the brick and tile factory consumed a lot of money for the construction of the university for its own use, but due to the cement order for the construction of the official road, the income and expenditure were even balanced. This year, a total profit of 1.54 million yuan. It took nearly 500,000 yuan to build a university, and Meng Ming's family still has 3 million and 50 yuan. There are three or four hundred people in Tokyo who have more than 10 million, and Meng Ming is not a rich family. , unobtrusive.
This year's big investment is the mining of coal mines, and then the trial operation of steam locomotives, and the plan is to ask the imperial court for approval to lay twenty miles of railroad tracks for laying. The mining of coal mines is not so difficult, the Cao family has its own coal mine, there are ready-made technology and personnel, and then they can be directly mined, at most Meng Ming will improve the mining process, use steam engines to pump water, blow air, and transport coal, improve efficiency and save labor; Compared with the steam locomotive, it is much simpler, and now the most important thing is the steam locomotive, Meng Ming calculated the cost of laying a kilometer of rails is 17,000 yuan, and the standard of the straight gauge of the rails is 1435mm; A steam locomotive has a head of 6,000 cross, and a freight car (with a carrying capacity of 30 tons) is 1,200 runs, and 20 cars; Coupled with the messy costs, the total cost of these 20 miles is 200,000 guan, and the double line is 400,000 guan. In the case of mass production in the later stage, the cost can be reduced by two or even three percent. But this time I'll have to pay out of my own pocket.
Zhang Qinian went to Pingdingshan to guide the installation and commissioning of the steam engine, and to train relevant technicians. After about two months, Zhang Qinian recommended a few like-minded friends, there were seven people, most of them were the children of officials of the Ministry of Industry and Dagong, and they were not very old, the eldest was only 17 years old. Meng Ming is now suffering from too few helpers around him, so he decided to surprise train these people, work with me during the day, and I will give them lessons at night, teaching them some physics knowledge, the principle of the steam engine, the internal structure, the assembly of parts, etc., and in about a month, they will become proficient. The six of them also equipped five small versions of steam engines, and they all had intuitive understanding and hands-on operation ability. Meng Ming first designed a miniature locomotive, like a small locomotive in the playground of the previous life, with a nose only two and a half meters long, pulling three two-meter-long carriages, which can seat eighteen people, and the length is only ten meters. It is planned to lay a circular railway track that can be used to and from the royal street, and the exhibition will be used only.
In the busy, unconsciously it was March, Zhenzong was also unconscious, Meng Ming knew that it was not far from Daxing, and it was not surprising that on March 21, Emperor Zhenzong died. On this day, the whole country mourned, and the officials and people of the whole country hung up their white clothes in front of the door. All entertainment activities in Bianliang and even in the whole country were ordered to stop, and during the state funeral, no marriages were allowed, no birthday celebrations were allowed, in short, all celebrations had to be stopped.
Explain the funeral process of the emperor of the Song Dynasty, which can be divided into three stages: pre-funeral funeral, funeral, and post-funeral sacrifice. After the death of the emperor, the edict was first read by the courtiers. The edict, also known as the "testament system", is an edict drawn up by the emperor during his lifetime to explain the affairs after his death. or that he did his best during his reign, lest he fail to live up to the emperor's entrustment; He also explained the reason for his illness, and the reason was nothing more than that he had become ill from overwork, and although he had tried all possible treatments, his condition had never improved.
second, when it comes to the candidate for succession, he describes the character of the heir and explains the reason for the heir, which is also full of praise, usually saying that the crown prince has excellent character, so he is chosen to be the prince, "he can be the emperor in front of the coffin"; He instructed the new monarch to respect the Empress Dowager as the Empress Dowager, the Empress Dowager as the Empress Dowager, and the Empress Concubine as the Empress Dowager, and ordered the concubines to assist the new monarch in handling political affairs. The heir "the emperor is the emperor in front of the coffin", showing the significance of the emperor's funeral, which is not just a simple funeral ceremony. In the process of presiding over the funeral, the new monarch also inherited the throne, symbolizing the continuation of the regime.
Third, "all the armies are rewarded", the edict instructs the heir to handle it independently, and there are not many existing relevant records, and the detailed situation is unknown.
Fourth, regarding the mourning and mausoleum system, it is said that "mourning clothes change to the sun and the moon" and "the mountain and mausoleum system is thrifty" can be found in each edict, and its legacy system of the Southern Song Dynasty emperor clearly stipulates that "there is no prohibition on ancestral shrines to marry".
Finally, at the end of the edict, the minister of civil and military affairs was exhorted to assist the heir to ensure that the country and society could be stabilized.
On March 23, under the worship of hundreds of civil and military officials, Zhao Zhen ascended the throne and became the emperor. The current topic is the funeral of the first emperor, and the survey of the cemetery and the name of the emperor are important procedures in the emperor's funeral. The Song Dynasty changed the system of pre-building the Shou Mausoleum in the Han and Tang dynasties, and the construction of the mausoleum began after the death of the emperor, and it had to be completed before the burial, that is, within seven months. Zhao Heng's name is: Emperor Yuanxiao of Civilization Zhangsheng, and the temple number is: Zhenzong. Buried in Yongding Mausoleum. After the accumulation of the Fu Ji ancient divine merit to make the virtue of civilization Wuding Zhangsheng Yuanxiao Emperor.
The era of Zhenzong has passed, the era of Renzong has come, and the Great Song Dynasty has ushered in the most prosperous and heyday period.
Time flies, the years are merciless, and the years will not stop because of that person's departure, even if the emperor who controls all the people in the world, he can't. The secluded waters of the Bianhe River, as always, flow eastward, looking at the people on both sides of the river in Tokyo, accustomed to seeing the hustle and bustle of the world, joys and sorrows, birth, old age, sickness and death, and all kinds of life. The cold moon is silent, the flowing water is ruthless, the four seasons are cold and warm, the flowers bloom and fall, alternate reincarnation, and people still continue to live, whether they are sad or happy. Zhenzong's departure was just like a stone thrown in a pond, rippling for a while, stirring up layers of ripples, and soon the water surface returned to calm, as if it had never happened.