In the spring of Chongzhen's eighth year, after careful planning and weighing, Xiao Xuan made many changes. The first is the "road map" that is long overdue. Xiao Xuan had heard the shortest joke before: Xiao Yan was a traverser. The meaning is, if a time-traveler doesn't make the most of his advantages, what difference does it have from an indigenous protagonist? Therefore, from the steam engine and some related technical indicators, the basic principles of the internal combustion engine and some related technical indicators, rubber and petrochemical industry to understand some very superficial bits and pieces, steamships and smokeless gunpowder, shotguns and other various technological inventions and changes that appeared from the seventeenth century to the nineteenth century, Xiao Xuan has made a general sorting.

These things have also been consciously published in the past, but at that time, it was more of a kind of enlightening "science fiction literature", and now, Xiao Xuan intends to tell the truth: this is not "science fantasy", it is the revelation of God, there may be some errors in indicators, but nine times out of ten it is accurate, and it will definitely be able to be made. Among them, Xiao Xuan, as a layman in the field of engineering, of course, has countless "don't know", such as the basic structure and principle of the steam engine and even the principle of Wilkinson's boring machine, Xiao Xuan is basically black-eyed. In response to these iconic inventions, Xiao Xuan also proposed a number of rewards of different specifications, ranging from 100,000 taels to millions of taels, with a total reward plan equivalent to 100 million taels of silver or tens of millions of taels of gold, and more than 500,000 hectares of overseas fields.

In order to avoid controversy and clarify the details, there is even a "Critical Completion Contribution Award" and a number of criteria are put forward with profitability and commercial promotion as the core. Because it is clear that many historical technological inventions are not very mature and perfect at the beginning, but have a gradual process. In order to reward these efforts to cross the most basic threshold, the entire incentive program had to be doubled again to a total of 20 million taels of gold or 200 million taels of silver, with millions of acres of overseas land.

Although there were sporadic skepticism when the "Roadmap Plan" was first announced, for the sake of huge wealth and benefits, many private businesses and even local officials still invested huge sums of money in relevant research. There has even been a boom in loan sharks and private finance related to the pursuit of rewards for ideas and intellectual property rights, as well as "secondary rewards" for ideas and intellectual property rights.

This trend lasted for at least three or four years before cooling down slightly, as many people began to understand that the so-called "road map" reward point puzzle was not so easy to overcome. Even if it is the minimum reward scale, the assets of 100,000 taels of silver and tens of thousands of acres of land are by no means so good.

Xiao Xuan did not pin his hopes entirely on relying solely on the use of folk wisdom at the beginning, and he undoubtedly had to lay a solid foundation in many aspects to be able to compare with the whole of Europe in the eighteenth and even nineteenth centuries in history.

One of the first steps is the recruitment assessment of the research workshop affiliated to the Central College. There are no overly cautious and conservative ones, just middle-aged craftsmen with mature skills or too young apprentices. After talking to many people in the Central College, many people believe that at least after the age of 30 when they start a family, people's worries gradually increase. There is no significant difference in the ability of a young apprentice in his twenties to acquire new knowledge compared to a child of seven or eight years old. In other words, the threshold for whether a person is truly psychologically aging is only whether to start a family or not.

In this case, in the first phase alone, about 10,000 young people who had just come out of school or become a teacher came to apply with a variety of skills such as blacksmiths, carpenters, miners, coppersmiths, and even arithmeticists. In terms of admission criteria, only some people whose discipline is too poor, or some who have to be eliminated due to overcrowding, at least more than 5,000 craftsmen from all walks of life have remained to participate in cultural learning and engineering education practice.

Xiao Xuan told these people without hesitation: the important thing is not only their own craftsmanship, but also the pursuit and spirit and even the attitude for exploration, in the next three years of make-up classes and internships, the most innovative people are expected to get a "decreasing state loan", that is, not only no interest, but also with the year and the need to repay will decrease, and finally only about half of the original scale, which can be regarded as a kind of gratuitous assistance to a large extent.

At the same time, Xiao Xuan is not stingy with the regulations: a wide range of adult education and related assessments are organized in the areas with southern Jiangsu and northern Zhejiang as the core, and the winners of the assessment are eligible to obtain the "official title", and behind the "official title" is the "hardcore crops" ranging from 20 years to 100 years and different scales. It is aimed at groups with sufficient professional skills, and the purpose is, of course, to complete the intellectualization of the entire Oriental craftsman system.

The resources worth nearly seven or eight billion taels of silver plundered from all over Europe were used to compensate for the considerable expenses of the roadmap plan. "New banknotes" such as "gold bills" and "silver bills" that could be exchanged for century silver or gold also began to be widely issued. There are many medium- and long-term government bonds.

Of course, Xiao Xuan also understands that in a situation where he is not able to make progress in technology, if gold and silver are in and out, I am afraid that it will not be able to support ten years, only about ten years, and Xiao Xuan is not sure that the whole society will be reborn at the economic and institutional level.

Another unexpected event is that with the introduction of ink and metal type obtained from Europe, as well as the transfer of technology from many other fields of the Central Academy, the entire publishing market in Koto began to change dramatically in less than a year.

In addition to the above-mentioned retail services, the professional and business services industries in the United States are also the areas where employment has increased significantly. In February 2015, 19.13 million people were employed in professional and business services, and in February 2016, the number of people employed increased to 19.74 million, an increase of 610,000. Professional services include law, accounting, management consulting, scientific research and development services, advertising, etc. Business services include office management, employee services, business support services, tourism, waste disposal, etc., and from February 2015 to February 2016, employment in these areas increased, which also indicates that the U.S. service industry home materials and yard stores, food stores, health care stores, gas stations, clothing stores, etc.

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