Chapter 664: Maritime Trade
The signing of the armistice agreement with the Lu State has alleviated the long-term closed state of the Huaxia Army, which has caused the income of the Huaxia State to drop sharply, although there are also some scattered Taixi merchants who came to the Huaxia State to trade, but generally speaking, because the Huaxia Army cooperated with the Southern Ming State to defeat the Taixi coalition army, so that their relationship with the Taixi people is not good, and it is even hostile, but because of the strength of the Huaxia Army and Navy, the strong blockade, This made it impossible for the Tessian coalition, which had little strength in the Far East, to break this blockade by forceful means.
This even affected their trade with Japan, because they needed to sail far away from the east coast of the outer island to reach Japan, and the Japanese merchant ships could not easily pass through the waters of China because of the blockade of the Huaxia army, and sent goods to the territory of the Taixi people to trade with the Taixi people, so this trade route was almost cut off.
At the same time, because the Huaxia Army traded with the Qing Dynasty, Dajin, Yongli Daming He Tengjiao, the Qing Dynasty Shang Kexi Department, and even the Mobei Mongolia and Moxi Mongolia outside, the Huaxia Army's trading objects, whether on the road or at sea, were private smuggling transactions.
With the expansion of Huaxia's territory, this kind of trade has been basically digested through internal digestion, and it has not greatly affected the income of Huaxia, but with the stability of the life of the Huaxia army, merchants continue to emerge, commodities continue to be enriched, and materials continue to accumulate, this way is somewhat harmful to the country, and a feasible way must be found to deal with excess materials.
How to deal with it?
Of course, it is to strengthen trade with nearby countries, only trade can have income, and Zhang Qiang also wants to promote Huaxia Yuan to farther places, always hostile countries, which makes the implementation of Huaxia Yuan very difficult, because everyone knows that there is a hard currency in this world, gold, silver and other things can be used to buy products, materials, not necessarily Huaxia Yuan, some closed places, they recognize gold and other things.
Is a country that can't collect all the enemy's gold in its own warehouse with a piece of paper still called a strong man?
A group of three people, hiding, shining, walking on the country road, from time to time walking on the paved stones, and pouring a layer of earth-based cement mixed with earth, lime, glutinous rice cakes, etc.
This makes the road have the appearance of cement, and there is the hardness of stones, although it is not too beautiful, it can walk up a big car, stable and strong, and it is not a foot, the key is to accelerate the speed of pedestrians running on the road, far faster than the dirt road, much cleaner than the dirt road, because the Ming Dynasty does not have the kind of car weighing dozens of tons in later generations, even if there is a carriage for transportation, it will definitely not exceed a few tons of weight, this weight is more than enough for this low-level road, this is the change that Zhang Qiang brought to this era.
Can't say how advanced it is, how advanced, but it's definitely convenient.
And with the increase of R&D personnel, mainly the Huaxia Army has added other industry examinations on the basis of the imperial examination, 360 lines, there are examinations in all walks of life, and low-level personnel can get a government-certified industry qualification certificate, with these certificates, you can engage in research in related industries, and sell the results of research to the government, and the government pays a certain amount of money to buy the research results.
This is the industry national certification qualification certificate, with this certificate is like a scholar admitted to the child's life, is an honor, in the village can also get the village chief or the chief, the township chief's reception, and let everyone look up to you, in these low-level administrative positions, you can also get a lot of income, as well as a basic monthly salary.
The people in the village read a letter, recognize a word, or build something, find an authoritative certification, and look for you, or the things you take out are sold at a higher price than those who have not been certified, and you have to find you to settle accounts and deal with the government.
Zhang Huangyan walked all the way, and when he passed through the countryside, he learned about these things through the mouth of the young man who led the way.
Low-level certifications don't require you to be literate or read, as long as you can get something out of your hands in the industry and get government approval.
In addition, you can obtain the qualification to attend adult night classes for free, and if you graduate from night school, that is, you know ten Arabic numerals and know more than 100 words, you can take the qualification level 2 exam.
These exams are focused on the best in the industry, and if you can speak the whole story of farm work, and record it with the help of others, and you can understand some of it yourself, you will be able to obtain a Level 2 qualification.
These people were requisitioned by the government to help solve problems such as going to the countryside to count the amount of farmland, how much was produced, how much iron was produced, how much iron could be made in a day, whether some things made by carpenters met the standards set by the government, and to help the government solve the tasks of contacting people in these industries.
Of course, these people don't have to receive a salary, they will pay you when they are requisitioned, and when they are not requisitioned, you will still do your old job, and the government will give priority to using your things.
When you want to go one step closer, the government has launched a three-level qualification certification, these people must be able to speak and write, these people are generally some veterans or businessmen, government veterans, or industry leaders who have been famous for a long time, some of them are directly requisitioned by the government to give a clerk, these clerks have more than half of the time to work in the government, called the bottom clerk of the government.
They have no possibility of being promoted to government civil servants, but they can assist the government in doing things, and even put forward some good suggestions and develop good things.
The fourth level is often those who have read books, and have a deep knowledge in the industry, they also have a heart to be an official, they will generally be arranged as clerks first, pass the official examination, become the official office clerk, the clerk can be promoted, can be promoted to the clerk, clerk, book and other positions, equivalent to the township head, the town mayor's auxiliary personnel.
These people who can read and study the skills of various professions will eventually become deputy township heads, deputy town heads, or research far-reaching, and this is the end of the bureaucracy, and the researchers can be selected into the government research institutes of various industries, become more senior officials, can take the imperial examination, and then enter the higher research institutes.
This is Zhang Qiang's cultivation of talents for many intelligent scientific personnel in his hands.
They can't always let Sebastian and François study, they need helpers, relying on them to train some apprentices is too slow, and it is not good for the scientific and technological development of the Huaxia Army, so Zhang Qiang wants to find out those civilian talents in Huaxia and send them to their research institute, so that they can help and inspire the two people while studying, so as to speed up the development.
The new carriage was built under the inspiration of Zhang Qiang and with the help of old carpenters and blacksmiths.
At the same time, under the advice and promotion of businessmen or shopkeepers, they quickly entered the military and civilian of the Huaxia Army, and obtained commercial interests and national interests.
Let the society promote its own development, Zhang Qiang is only a bystander, a guide, otherwise, with his knowledge structure, with his insight, with his historical knowledge, it will not be able to reach the development level of other travelers in a hundred years.
(End of chapter)