Chapter 840: The Great Ming is changing with each passing day
Now, apart from the threat of naval warfare in the British, Western and Dutch countries, the Ming Dynasty has no other threat.
However, the European mainland is extremely far away from the Ming Dynasty, and it is completely impossible for the envoys of the British, Western and Dutch countries and the fleets of the three countries to come and go without more than a year, so even if they know that an unprecedented sea battle is approaching, the Ming Dynasty has not been in the slightest eagerness recently.
Shipyards should continue to build warships, and where railways and bridges need to be repaired, they must continue to build them.
In terms of railways, because Zhu Ci mobilized the whole people to participate in the construction three years ago, including food and wages, a large number of young and strong people of the Ming Dynasty went to participate in the construction of railways and cement roads during their leisure time, and tens of millions of people participated at the same time at the peak of the number.
After nearly three years of construction, at least in the traditional territory of the Central Plains, county-to-county railways and cement roads have been achieved. Non-traditional territories, such as Myanmar, Annam and other Southeast Asian regions, have also been built to the point of the government to the point of the government, the southernmost railway of the Ming Dynasty has been built to the Strait of Malacca, the northernmost part of the Khingan Mountains and Lake Baikal, Xinjiang has also been connected to a railway.
Now, Siberia and the Cossacks had just been incorporated into the Ming Dynasty, and in order to effectively control these places, the construction of railways was also necessary.
Siberia and Cossacks are far away from the Central Plains, and it is obviously impossible for ordinary people of the Ming Dynasty to build across such a long distance. Moreover, after three years of national construction, the large amount of balance accumulated by the original treasury and the central bank has been almost spent, and there is no more money to continue to move the national construction.
However, ordinary people in the Ming Dynasty could not cross such a long distance to participate in the construction, but the war between the Ming Dynasty and Tsarist Russia captured a total of no less than 200,000 young Russians, and there were also millions of prisoners of war coolies, all of whom were captured in those years in the Wa Kingdom, Korea and Annam and other places.
With so many prisoners, it was only necessary to give them a bite to eat, and it was not too much of a problem to undertake the construction of the Siberian and Cossack railways.
Zhu Ci made a holy decree, and a large number of prisoners of war were escorted to the remote and cold Siberia to build a railway.
Not only Siberia, but even the Indonesian archipelago, which is far from the Central Plains, and Australia are preparing to build several major railways.
After nine years of transformation of the Indonesian archipelago, the original three million aborigines have all been able to speak Chinese, write Chinese characters, and celebrate the Han Festival, which looks no different from the ordinary people of the Ming Dynasty, plus the millions of authentic Ming people who originally immigrated to the Indonesian archipelago, although many of the original immigrants chose to return to the Ming Dynasty in recent years, but more people continue to immigrate to the Indonesian archipelago, at present, the Indonesian archipelago has a population of more than eight million, of which the Central Plains immigrants accounted for the vast majority in the past.
Nearly 1,000 prefectures and counties have also been established, not to mention the county-to-county connections, at least the railways between each prefecture must be built.
On the Australian side, although the Ming Dynasty is only a small number of immigrants of tens of thousands of people, and has not yet begun large-scale immigration, counting hundreds of thousands of Australian aborigines who are recruiting and indoctrination, the entire Australia has a population of less than one million, but if you want to completely control Australia, a coastal railway must be built first.
However, the Australian side was in no hurry, and after the construction of the Trans-Siberian and Cossack railways, it would not be too late to free up prisoner coolies to build them.
The large-scale construction of railways, especially the connection between counties in the Central Plains, not only narrowed the time and distance between regions, but also because of the construction of the whole people, a large amount of money was properly distributed, and the people could afford to buy more things, which indirectly stimulated the sales and production industries.
The economy of the entire Central Plains is growing like a rocket.
In addition, the steam machinery technology is becoming more and more mature, and it has been widely used in all aspects of production, and the production capacity in all aspects has been greatly increased, and Daming has officially embarked on the road of comprehensive industrial revolution.
In addition to steam automatic machinery, the industrial revolution is also inseparable from the support and operation of high-quality talents.
It has been six years since the implementation of universal compulsory education in the Ming Dynasty, and these six years are enough for the Ming Dynasty to establish a complete education system, from primary school to junior high school to high school, and then to university. In particular, the establishment of the university has completely changed the education model of the Ming Dynasty.
Universities are no longer so-called institutions of higher learning where only the Four Books and Five Classics are read, but technical education in all walks of life.
For example, medical universities, mechanical engineering universities, and so on. Take the medical university as an example, it is located in the city of Nanjing, the Tai Hospital of the Tai Doctor teaches, the Ming Treasury includes a variety of classic medical books to support the teaching, the doctors who teach are the best doctors, all of them are assigned to the hospitals of various prefectures and counties to serve, the salary is extremely high, and even the top doctors are not lower than the ministers of the court, and the top doctors have various honors awarded by the imperial court and so on.
There are also mechanical siege cities, most of which are hired by various manufacturers to engage in industrial production, and the price is also frighteningly high.
All of a sudden, the university has become a sweet spot, and those who come out of the university will almost inevitably become the upper class in society and get ahead. Studying is no longer for the sake of taking the imperial examination, but also for the purpose of entering the university.
The imperial court also encouraged innovation and research, and set up a technology patent system, any people, regardless of men and women, as long as they developed new and useful technologies, will be reported to the Academy of Science and Technology for review, once it is confirmed that the technology he developed is really useful, he can immediately obtain the technical patent issued by the imperial court, and from then on he can get a huge amount of money every year with the patent without working, and such examples are increasing every year with the implementation of the patent system.
Even in the first half of the 11th year of ZTE, more than a dozen people who were originally just ordinary people developed technologies obtained patents after passing the audit. A few months later, their patents were applied, and a lot of money was converted into royalties into their personal central bank accounts, and even the largest one, with patents, earned millions of silver dollars a month!
The income of millions of silver dollars a month, what kind of concept is this, it is simply envious, jealous and hateful!
The most commendable thing is that one of the patent winners turned out to be a woman, with the patent, this woman actually earned hundreds of thousands of silver dollars every month! Even a woman can be so powerful with a technology patent.
All of a sudden, the whole society of Daming exploded! For the first time, innovation and technology were talked about in the streets and alleys, and more and more people poured into innovation and research, and countless new technologies were frantically developed, which further stimulated the industrialization process of the Ming Dynasty.
Because of the rapid advancement of industrialization, the material of the Ming Dynasty is becoming more and more abundant, the people's lives are becoming more and more simple and happy, and the economy is growing.
The Ming Dynasty is changing with each passing day, and the national strength of the Ming Dynasty is getting stronger and stronger.