Zeng Yuheng, the former minister of public works, was transferred to the new Ministry of Minerals and Metallurgy, and the candidate for the minister of public works became vacant. Feng Yunshan did not let the post of chief official of the Ministry of Public Works vacant, and immediately transferred Shen Guifen, the governor of Fujian, to serve as the minister of public works, and directly renamed the Ministry of Public Works as the Ministry of Industry.

The name of the Ministry of Public Works was originally an institution established when Feng Yunshan conquered Liangguang and established the Taiping Holy Kingdom, because there were not many affairs at that time, as one of the staff agencies of the palace, mainly responsible for the construction of workshops, factories and mines, roads and the preparation and maintenance of weapons, etc., and was named the Ministry of Public Works. And now, with the development of the empire, the volume of work in this department is getting larger and larger, and the entire empire attaches great importance to industry, it is somewhat inappropriate to call it the Ministry of Public Works.

In addition, now there are departments such as the Ministry of Communications, the Ministry of Mines and Metallurgy, and many functions of the Ministry of Public Works overlap with them.

The original Ministry of Public Works was divided into several departments, the main body was the Ministry of Industry, and then the Ministry of Minerals and Metallurgy and the Ministry of Communications. Feng Yunshan originally wanted to further subdivide the Ministry of Industry into the Ministry of Light Industry and the Ministry of Heavy Industry according to the industry, in fact, when the later generations just founded the country, the Ministry of Light Industry was divided into the Ministry of Food Industry and the Ministry of Textile Industry, the Ministry of Electronics Industry, etc., and the Ministry of Heavy Industry was divided into the Ministry of Fuel Industry, the Ministry of Machinery Industry, the Ministry of Construction Engineering, the Ministry of Petroleum Industry, the Ministry of Coal Industry, the Ministry of Electric Power Industry, the Ministry of Metallurgical Industry and so on. However, considering that the empire's industry is still dominated by iron and steel, electric machinery and so on are still just beginning to develop, and oil and coal can also be counted as a kind of minerals, therefore, at this stage, as long as a ministry of industry is established.

Considering that Shen Guifen, the governor of Fujian, was always steady, in history, Shen Guifen was the first Han man in the Manchu Qing Dynasty to hold the real power of the central government, the first prime minister of the so-called "Tongguang Zhongxing", and the central representative of the Westernization faction. Moreover, since Shen Guifen became the governor of Fujian, he not only vigorously supported Shen Baozhen to make the Fuzhou Shipbuilding Bureau the first of the four major shipbuilding bureaus in the empire, but also took this opportunity to build four major civilian shipyards in Xiamen, Quanzhou, Anping Town, Taiwan Prefecture and Ryukyu, specializing in the manufacture of large fishing boats and merchant ships, organizing commercial trade from Fujian to Korea, Japan, Nanyang, and even North America and Western Europe, integrating Fujian's merchants together, making Fujian merchants the fourth largest merchant group after Jin merchants, Hui merchants, and Guangdong merchants, and greatly increasing their strength. The income of the originally poor Fujian people has also been greatly improved, which has impressed other provinces.

Because of this, the imperial court attached great importance to Shen Guifen's ability to breed and prosper, and after recommendation, Feng Yunshan appointed him as the newly established Minister of Industry.

To tell the truth, when the empire had to take industrial development as its most important task, the responsibilities of the Ministry of Industry were very heavy compared to those of other ministries. Therefore, Feng Yunshan is ready to give the Ministry of Industry a higher status than other ministries, and allocate more deputy ministers.

The entire Ministry of Industry is divided into the Machinery Department, the Construction and Electric Power Department, the Textile Department, the Petroleum Department, the Chemical Fertilizer Department, and the Light Industry Department and the Heavy Industry Department, which are divided into two other departments, which are divided into large industries. According to Feng Yunshan's plan, when these divisions develop, for example, when the machinery industry grows to the point that a division can no longer be managed, it will continue to expand and become a separate department.

As soon as Shen Guifen arrived in Shengjing, she followed Li Hongzhang to the palace and accepted Feng Yunshan's summons.

"Shen Aiqing, I heard that you have a great deal of research on industry, and you have also done a good job in Fujian, developing Fujian's original industry with zero foundation into a strong industrial province with an annual output value of more than 20 million Shengyuan, Aiqing has made great contributions. This time, I transferred you to Beijing to make you the Minister of Industry, do you know my intentions? As soon as Feng Yunshan saw Shen Guifen, he asked directly, he valued Shen Guifen very much, and Li Hongzhang stood by Shen Guifen's side, presumably he had already explained what should have been explained, because he asked deliberately.

Shen Guifen first saluted respectfully, thought for a moment, and then replied: "Your Majesty, Premier Li has already told Wechen, Your Majesty wants Wechen to take up the burden of the Ministry of Industry, which is a great importance to Wechen. His Majesty set up this Ministry of Industry, presumably because the imperial court had already made up its mind to vigorously develop industry. Therefore, on the train to Beijing, Weichen has been thinking about how to live up to His Majesty's expectations. ”

Feng Yunshan showed a relieved expression and said with a smile: "Shen Aiqing is very good! Sure enough, I understand the intentions of me and the imperial court. Now that Shen Aiqing has known my intentions and is prepared, let's talk about how the empire should develop industry under the current situation? It's also good to be lenient and widen the hearts of me and Li Aiqing. ”

Shen Guifen replied calmly: "Your Majesty and Premier Li have already made a plan in their hearts, and they are strategizing, and the ministers are courageous, so they will get an axe."

Your Majesty, when Weichen was in charge of Fujian, he had carefully studied the development history of Britain and the United States, and wanted to learn from it to provide ideas and methods for the industrial development of the Chinese Empire, so as to directly and fastest develop industry and enter the industrial age. The reason for studying Britain is that Britain was the world's largest power at the beginning, while the United States actually has many similarities with China's Chinese Empire, both of which have a vast territory, rich resources, and have just started their industries, and are far away from Europe, so they have a unique geographical location.

First of all, let's talk about Wechen's pondering of the British.

If it weren't for the fact that Britain was defeated several times in a row by His Majesty and by the Chinese Empire, and the civil strife in India and Ireland that led to independence, Britain would have been the most powerful country in the world, and all this is based on a population of just over 30 million people, which is nothing short of a miracle. And the root of all this is the high development of industry, I remember that His Majesty once mentioned a word, called the Industrial Revolution, yes, the reason why Britain has such a status is because they are the initiators and pioneers of the Industrial Revolution!

Judging from some of the information collected by Wechen, the industrial revolution in Britain has been close to a hundred years, they started with the technological innovation of the cotton textile industry, the improvement and extensive use of the steam engine as the hub, and finally the realization of the mechanization of the machine manufacturing industry 20 years ago as the basic completion of the symbol, the main manifestation is to replace the handicraft industry with a large machine industry, machine factories, and even large companies instead of manual workshops and workshops. ”

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