Chapter 152: Pioneering
"Eh, one, two, three! Rise! A few laborers shouted and moved a huge log, lifting it off the ground.
On several slipways next to Ava City, more than a dozen wooden boats of 200 materials are in full swing to start construction, this part of Myanmar has always been humid, so the ship materials are mostly spliced. However, civilian ships are not warships, and this quality is acceptable.
In order to gather the workers needed for the workshop, the apprentices who had studied for several months were driven to the shelves, the whole ship was dismantled into parts for cutting and sawing, and the simplest laborers were hired from outside, doing nothing but moving things.
Every few days, someone from Delong Boat Line comes to pick up the boat, and then sails upstream against the current, one knot at a time, and everyone is very happy.
"This Zhao Dongjia is really financially strong, and has already ordered more than 20 ships. There are so many ships, I'm afraid that there are no such boats in Myanmar before, and I don't know what they are for. A master muttered.
"Eighty percent of them are transported from above to reclaim the wasteland." The newly recruited apprentice answered.
"Do your job!" The master raised his hand to his brain. "It's really a stubborn character, the owner recruits so many people, and it has brought bad atmosphere in the workshop!"
With the sudden explosion of orders, the workshop had to break down every part of the vessel to the smallest detail possible, which previously led to a loss of quality and wasted time, but in the absence of enough highly skilled personnel, things went in the opposite direction. Of course, this is not good for the interests of this old master.
However, this apprentice is really right! In order to prevent future troubles, Zhu Youlang decided to move all of them to the southern part of Burma and the place close to the Arakan country to immigrate to Shibian. Of course, there were inevitably some violent elements, but under the absolute superiority of force, the villages and villages that had lost their leaders had no choice but to obediently admit their accounts and were caught up in boats by the national army and drifted south.
This rebellion also made the suspicion of the Tusi gradually increase within the court, and the new officials who gradually grew up showed their willingness to speed up the reform of the land and return to the stream. These people are not in high official positions, but they control the vast majority of the grassroots at this time. The examinees, who had been educated in the form of officials for almost a year, also agreed with this view. In the court, Dou Mingming and Wang Xi, the two martial artists with the highest rank in Ava, had the idea of directly training with them.
The remaining part of the old bureaucracy in the court did not object, but felt that it was too much to spend and that the money might as well be spent elsewhere.
"Your Majesty, this is the reaction in Ava City after the official leaked the matter of Longgan's immigration according to the instructions."
"Well, that's good," Zhu Youlang looked at the internal reference briefing and said, "Pick a good day, and you can let the newspaper open." Let's call it Wabang News. ”
"Yes. But, Your Majesty, what does this Wabang mean? ”
"I once read a book, in which the overseas orphans of China are named after Wabang, and Myanmar before I moved to Burma is not just like Wabang?"
"I understand. Please also ask Your Majesty to inscribe the masthead. ”
Zhu Youlang nodded, asked people to bring paper and pens, splashed ink, and wrote the four big characters of "Wabang News" in cursive. Since then, "Wabang" has "moved" hundreds of miles south and has become synonymous with the city of Ava.
"The newspaper currently has four pages, written in Chinese and New Burmese, and the content of the two languages can be different, but not too big."
"Don't you use the old Burmese... The new Burmese language has not yet been popularized. ”
"No, the old Burmese language can only be understood by a few landlords, and it will be useless when they all die, but those who understand the new Burmese will have more traffickers and pawns, and there will be more and more of them. Therefore, it is natural to use the new Burmese language. ”
"Your Majesty sees thousands of miles, and Weichen can't reach it!" Liu Xiang bowed his head and bowed.
"Tomorrow's front page will be written about my article on the question of toast; However, do not use my name, but publish it under my pen name, Liu Jing. ”
"What's this man's pen name?"
"When the newspaper was published in Tessie, all kinds of commentaries were published under the name of the newspaper's main office, and I published under my own pen name, and different personal pen names can reflect different styles and ...... nature."
Liu Xiang was dizzy when he heard this, and he really wanted to take out a small notebook and write it down.
The next day, the Printing Office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs printed 1,500 copies of the Wabang News, which were sold through newsboys, teahouses, etc., using a network built by Jinyiwei, and each newspaper was penny long.
Because of the laying of sales channels, people in the city who knew a little bit of literacy had heard the news that the government was going to publish the newspaper to the public. But a penny of silver is too expensive for them, so most people still listen to Dr. Tea read the newspaper in the teahouse. Only those well-off families will buy newspapers and read them.
"From the founding of the feudal state to the unification of counties and counties, this is the constant trend in China for nearly 2,000 years......
"In the center, whether it is the division of the prince and grandson of the heavenly family, or the division of the meritorious heroes, it is just an honorary title. In the locality, the toast is also being removed one by one, and with the growing strength of China, the revocation of the toast is only a matter of time......"
This article, titled "Analysis of the Inevitable Trend of Centralization from the Longgan Rebellion", became the focus of attention in Ava City, and for a time it went viral in the city, and the Ming army planned to directly exterminate the remaining Tusi from the north and south.
"Wu Sangui can catch it, those toasts don't obediently offer the land, it's really looking for death!" In the streets and alleys, some small workshop owners who saw the thriving business of the shipbuilding workshop said that if the fight broke out again, they might be able to make more money.
However, Zhu Youlang knew very well that war was not a beast game, and if so many toasts were exterminated at the same time, at least five full regiments would have to be invested in a three-month battle, and no matter whether they won or lost, this year's finances would not be able to bear it.
However, Zhu Youlang can suddenly change his course and "play tricks", there is also dependence, dependence, naturally it is a steam engine, with a steam engine, the balance of power in the current situation can be quickly broken---- of course, this has to wait for mass production. He didn't have the idea of doing it directly, but issued an edict to invite the local Tushi officials to come to Ava.
"You have recognized the situation in the Longgan Rebellion, and there is no rebellion, and the emperor is very satisfied with you, so he summoned you to give you a reward." The same article was passed down to the ravines and ravines, and this holy decree was also transmitted.
In the backyard of the Yongchang Military and Civilian Mansion, a bad old man in a long robe was anxiously discussing with the prefect, and the Qin messenger sent by the imperial court had arrived here, and he had collected the money before the decree was announced, and revealed the content in private. At this moment, the government can fry the pot.
(End of chapter)