In Wu Zheng's view, after this purge, the fruits obtained need to be consolidated, and it is necessary to start with internal affairs.

Just like curing a disease, after cutting off the carrion from the affected area, the most important thing is to maintain and nourish it.

The development of internal affairs is the most effective way to maintain and nourish at this time.

If you have a grudge against anyone, you will not have a grudge against money.

Making the people under his jurisdiction rich is the purpose of Wu Zheng's internal affairs.

When these opponents who have lost their interests taste the sweetness, they will naturally change their attitudes invisibly.

Just like the only time Wu Zheng did in Hangzhou at that time, "robbing the rich and helping the poor".

At that time, the merchants of Hangzhou Mansion were afraid that they hated Wu Zheng and hated itchy.

But now?

They are one of Wu Zheng's most loyal fans.

The influence of the Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce today makes the businessmen of the various provinces involved have a feeling of raising their eyebrows.

The improvement of social status satisfies spiritual appeals.

This, coupled with the substantial multiplication of earnings, made businessmen not want to go back to the past.

To exaggerate it, if someone dares to openly oppose Wu Zheng in front of them at this time, hehe, they will be drowned by these businessmen one by one.

A guillotine in one hand, candy in the other, rigidity and softness, invincible.

The contradictions in the right governance should be eased by economic means until the contradictions are resolved.

Wu Zheng has been doing this, and it has worked.

Chen Shoujie, Qi Daokun and others have successfully developed steam locomotives.

It took them only seven months to go from a simple up and down movement to a gyration.

Similarly, the steam engine forged steel, repeatedly forged, hundreds of times more than manpower forging, so that the toughness of the steel in the military workshop has been improved beyond the times.

This provides a solid foundation for the improvement of many instruments and accessories.

For example, gun barrels, gun barrels, crankshafts, gears, and farm tools.

Wu Zheng has always fantasized that before the first industrial revolution in Europe, Huaxia will lead the revolution.

Now, when the first locomotive of the military workshop was running on the track only five miles away from the workshop, Wu Zheng smiled and laughed strangely.

There is nothing more comfortable for Wu Zheng than changing history.

Although the speed of the locomotive is not fast, no, to be precise, it is too slow.

It's like a dying old cow, panting and ploughing the fields.

But Wu Zheng knew that it would not be long before the huge wheels would spin rapidly and run on the land of China, and at that time, any enemy would be terrified by the delivery of the Northern Expeditionary Army.

The General's Mansion issued an order to take the remaining 10,000 prisoners from the previous replenishment of the Northern Expeditionary Army to form a construction corps and officially build a railway from Hangzhou to Songjiang.

And, in an extremely strange way, Wu Zheng set a number for the width of the railway track - 164.9 centimeters.

No one understands why they don't round it up.

But Wu Zheng never explained.

Even when Zhang Huangyan asked Wu Zheng what this number meant when Wu Zheng went to his house, Wu Zheng just smiled and did not answer.

I smirked!

……。

It's autumn.

The weather is slowly getting cooler.

The people of Hangzhou, Jiaxing, and Songjiang are busy sweating.

Railways, dockyards, and military workshops have almost exhausted the manpower in the three prefectures.

To put it precisely, even if someone wants to make trouble, they don't have time.

When there is money to be made, no one wants to make trouble.

This is due to the huge amount of investment and pooling of funds.

The Financial Secretary had no money to support this huge project.

Wu Zheng came up with an idea for Mo Zhi - to issue bonds to the provinces in the south of the Yangtze River, with a ten-year term, annual interest, and one percent.

At this time, the people of Jiangnan were rich, compared with the provinces in the north and west, Jiangnan was a place full of silver, and even a beggar disdained copper coins in his pocket, because the Financial Secretary had already tried to issue five million taels of silver coins.

What are nine silver, seven bronze, and three points, God knows.

There are two specifications of silver coins, five coins and one coin, the figure is round, and it is beautifully forged, smooth, heavy and exquisite.

The obverse is a "Han" character (traditional), and the reverse is the Santan Yinyue (Santan Yinyue was built in the Wanli period), and there is no engraved money, because there are only two specifications, five coins and one coin, and fools can distinguish the value of the currency, which is called "Han Yuan" by the folk.

Therefore, the Financial Secretary did not make as much profit from the minting as Mo obsessed with estimating.

Because, the casting technology at this time made the casting cost very expensive.

However, the success of the trial of silver coins is that the "Han Yuan" is exquisite, and the second is the high purity (compared with the folk miscellaneous silver, ninety percent of the silver is indeed high).

The first batch of 500,000 taels was sold out in just one day.

The folk exchanged it for collection, gifting children and nephews, and rewarding, which really surprised Mo Zhinian a lot.

As a result, within a month, five consecutive pushes were issued, and a total of 5 million taels of silver coins were issued, and the financial secretary received only a hundred thousand taels of minting profits, equivalent to three cents of profits.

However, the implementation of silver coins has completed the small circulation of the people, and the bills of Hanming Bank are limited to large-amount payment, and the people are not suitable at all, so with the continuous issuance and circulation of silver coins, the retail industry around Hangzhou has greatly prospered.

And gradually spread to the surrounding areas that were not under the jurisdiction of the Great General's Mansion.

The silver coin brought not only the equivalent of three cents of profits to the Financial Secretary, but also indirectly increased the growing voice in commerce and trade around the world.

Because of the people's dependence and trust in the "Han Yuan", they gradually became reluctant to use and receive broken silver that was difficult to carry.

In particular, the merchants who traveled to and from Shaoxing, Hangzhou, Jiaxing, and Songjiang were accustomed to using "Han Yuan" for delivery and payment of bills of exchange.

As a result, all forces wanted to trade, and they had to exchange silver for "Han Yuan" from Hangzhou to meet the private commercial circulation of their own jurisdiction.

And this has caused the shortage and shortage of "Han Yuan", the distance is close to Yingtianfu, two five coins "Han Yuan" can be exchanged for one or two one money silver, and to Yangzhou, Jiangbei, can be exchanged for one or two or two dollars, and farther away, north of Huai'an, one or two or three coins can not be exchanged.

Steam-powered large textile machines were popularized in the six coastal provinces.

While the rapid increase in textile production has had a huge impact on small and medium-sized businesses and the handicraft industry of the common people, resulting in the unemployment of hundreds of people and the closure of handicraft workshops.

After summarizing the situation of each prefecture, Wu Zheng used the credit of the General's Mansion to submit a guarantee to Hanming Bank to provide free loans for private merchants in the eleven prefectures under his jurisdiction, which were dedicated to the purchase of textile machinery by merchants.

In this way, the small and medium-sized businesses that were originally affected by the large textile machines began to expand their scale, and the handicraft retail investors who could not survive entered the major new workshops in the form of hired workers.

The situation gradually calmed down and entered a virtuous circle.

Wu Zheng knew that this was only a temporary stability, ten years at the earliest, thirty or forty years at the latest, and the impact on society in the initial stage of the industrial revolution had just begun.

But that didn't matter anymore, Wu Zheng didn't bother to bother to think about it.