Another turmoil in Mincheng will not spread to the capital so quickly. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

It has been two years since Jian Chen last went to the capital.

In the past two years, many subtle changes have taken place in the capital. Many of these subtle changes can go down in history, like the first cloud under a clear sky, which seems faint but is the beginning of the rainstorm that follows.

And there are too many things, all of which are inseparable from the Minjun, the Mo Party, and Chen Jian in the south.

The two battalions of Yu Linwei were equipped with new flintlock pistols, bidding farewell to the old arquebuses and spears.

During a post-outfit exercise, many generals witnessed first-hand the horror of a salvo after a redress. The redressed soldiers had not yet had time to practice the reload rate of two rounds per minute, but in contrast to arquebuses, which had to be more than one step apart from each other, flintlock pistols could bring people shoulders together.

A battalion of 400 people lined up in three thin lines, densely packed like sugar gourds strung together.

After the order was given, there was a crackling sound, white smoke three or five times thicker than that of the arquebusiers rising in an instant, and a smashing grass target that had been hit by a salvo on the opposite side......

All this made the officers present dumbfounded. When, after the volley, the soldiers hastily and unskillfully inserted their bayonets into their muzzles into short spears, the officers finally proved with their own eyes the birth of a new era of land warfare - henceforth, only one type of infantry was needed. Spearmen are eliminated, arquebuses are eliminated, armor is eliminated, melee swordsmen are eliminated......

This battalion, equipped with flintlock pistols, couldn't wait to show it to the visiting envoys of Qi to increase the bargaining chips in this negotiation.

The envoy of Qi State did not stand in fright, nor did he say anything but that, but expressed his convincing attitude with appreciation.

The people in the military are not afraid of anything happening, as long as there are enough craftsmen for this kind of thing, it cannot be hidden.

On the contrary, in this kind of era, it is completely the era of national strength and population, and if this kind of gun is fired, a group of new soldiers can be trained in three months, which is a kind of dignified deterrent.

This time, the envoys of Qi were of extremely high standard, and they were personally led by the son of the Marquis of Qi, which can be said to be the highest standard after decades of war subsided.

It's like a signal, there is a lot of speculation from the outside world, and rumors are constantly coming out, but there is no official statement on what is going on.

It is said that the old nobles led by the Marquis of Qi who were divided into feudal feuds were ready to present the oath of the year, giving up the title of Hou Bozi and the nominal ownership of the land.

It is also said that the two sides are ready to sign a treaty of permanent peace, or to open up maritime trade, and maybe even fight piracy together.

Among the various rumors, none of them said that Qi Hou was ready to give up all rights, because this was obviously unlikely.

The merchants and the owners of the capital's workshops were of great concern about this, and they would make a fortune once the sea was opened.

There are too many rumors about the Qi country, and what is closely related to ordinary people is some wide cotton cloth brought from the Qi country.

There is no difference in quality and cotton here, but the cloth is wide and cheap.

The rumors about this cloth were soon revealed with a semi-factual truth: this was a new type of loom sent by Mr. Chen Jian of the Academy, because it was too expensive to apply for a patent and the law enforcement was not strict. It is said that the cotton spinning guild in Mincheng refused to pay any fees, and only gave those craftsmen sixty silver coins, and would not give one more. Mr. Chen believed that science should not be so cheap, so he angrily applied for a patent in Qi country, so that the efficiency of Qi weavers was twice as high as that of native weavers......

This rumor has a nose and eyes, and the people in the market have always known the faces of those in the guild, and they are even more convinced.

However, this was only rumours among the market, and a pamphlet entitled "Division of Labor, Labour, Wealth, Trade, and Perpetual Peace" was being circulated at a higher level.

With the help of this cloth and the open sea trade, this booklet illustrates the importance of trade from another perspective.

The pamphlet positively imagined that as long as trade was free, interconnected, and trade would be used to connect each other, it would be possible to reach a delicate and permanent peace, and that would be beneficial to both sides. And from the vast data, the comparison of wealth and handicrafts at the time of the establishment of the Hou Boguo and after the unification after the elimination of local barriers was taken out as evidence to support.

In addition to these, he also expounded the analysis of the source of wealth, labor as a means of increasing the total wealth of society, and the increase in efficiency caused by the division of labor.

In the section on profits, a simple example is given to the operator of a farm: the farmer's profit is equal to the price of the harvested produce sold, minus the input of seed fertilizer, minus the rent received by the landowner, and then the wages of the hired laborers.

It's a simple formula, and there's certainly something wrong with it, but it's the first attempt to explain an economic problem mathematically.

And this simple formula also explains a terrible problem plainly and simply: the bourgeoisie and the landowners are opposed, the bourgeoisie and the hired workers are also opposed, and the hired workers and the landholders are still opposed.

Whether crude or not, it is a precedent for using theory to explain the operation of the real world economy.

With the help of the spring breeze that everything that can be written into formulas and the way of heaven and earth can be revealed by logic and theorems in the past few years, some things that I don't know if they can be written into formulas have also begun to appear.

These bits and pieces show that this race is slowly moving forward in chaos, and may make mistakes, but it does not stand still.

One of the most convincing aspects is about the spread of newspapers.

A genius solution was proposed, and a printing tax of twenty coppers was added to each newspaper printed. In this way, the possibility of most people reading newspapers is cut off, so that these wildfire-like ideas do not sprout everywhere, and newspapers are not banned, but a little tax is added.

After the news was transmitted, there was no follow-up, and after blowing the wind and finding that there were too many objections, he retracted it.

If you still know how to shrink, there is great hope.

In addition to these, the capital had its first photo studio, its first concrete road, its first kerosene lamp, its first murder with high explosives, its first extremely cheap tabloid, and its first wooden track.

It was the first time that someone in the academy proposed an instrument that could measure the magnitude of electricity using the principle of electromagnets, the first time that antimony was discovered, the first time that a thousand silver coins were spent to get a balance that could measure more accurately, the first time someone began to calculate a complete table of trigonometric functions, the first time someone was poisoned by hydrogen fluoride when trying to make white phosphorus from apatite, and the first time someone traveled north and south to measure the precise latitude of various places......

For the first time, someone in the medical department performed appendicitis surgery with ether anesthesia, for the first time observed clotting due to blood group problems in blood transfusion with a microscope, and for the first time, someone put forward a primary theory of cytology called nest in a journal......

Some of the first time were human-influenced, some were caused by the need for spontaneous transmission, and some were meaningless for the first time but proved to be a way out.

Some of these firsts will be remembered and recorded in history, and most of them are just news at this time and have little impact.

For the first time, these extremely useful things in reality, such as photography, cement, kerosene, glass, explosives, mercury, and wooden rail transportation, have changed from meaningless to meaningful, and have opened up a new way to turn science into money, technology, and practicality like Chen Jian.

Under the influence of this subtle and silent slowness, the Mohcan Party also continued to expand its influence in the capital in a tenacious, secretive, and unnoticed way, completely different from that of Mincheng.

At least, the people of the capital do not see the Mexican Party as a political force, but as a philanthropist association or a group to help the poor.

Aside from the occasional out-of-place discussion or thought-provoking pamphlet, it didn't attract much attention.

This is the development strategy of the capital, and it has grown tenaciously here in a way similar to religious relief and healing.

Today, the influence is huge.

All of this stems from last summer's smallpox epidemic.

There's smallpox, there's syphilis.

Jian Chen once wrote a letter to Lin Xi, telling her that vaccinating against cowpox could prevent smallpox.

His original intention was to let Lin Xi have enough reputation in medicine and biology in the capital, and accumulate enough to use the knowledge of circumnavigating the world and his own influence to make her have the idea of evolution in her lifetime, and use her fame to spread quickly.

Nobodies can never get the attention of others.

For this reason, Chen Jian took great pains, and after Lin Xi relied on a microscope to write "Microscopy" and caused a sensation in the capital, Chen Jian asked the sea ship to carry a few letters along the way.

With the help of the opportunity to become famous, Lin Xi completed the curved neck flask experiment of bacteria, proving that the air contains things that are invisible to the naked eye that can make the broth corrupt, and for the first time scientifically explained the reason for using alcohol to prevent infection that has been circulating hundreds of years ago, and put forward a scientific disinfection theory, and believes that these things that cannot be seen by the naked eye are also a kind of life.

Subsequently, according to the agar sent by Chen Jian - there is no Hainan Island here, so the name of this thing should be Min fat at this time - as well as glass dishes, reproducible experimental reports, etc., the penicillium experiment that was accidental in actual development was repeated, and the idea of using the juice after growing Penicillium as an external wound to remove the infection was proposed.

In just two years, with the reputation of Jian Chen, the attention of Mr. Xuegong, and Jian Chen's almost plagiaristic repeated experiments, Lin Xi became famous in the Xuegong, and he was very famous.

After Jian Chen told her about vaccinating against smallpox, Lin Xi believed Jian Chen too much, so he took himself and did an experiment, but he really didn't die, so he happily published another theory.

Soon after, a smallpox outbreak broke out in the slums of the capital, and for a time people were panicked, so they decisively locked down the slum in order to prevent contagion.

Lan Qi, who was the first to become a full-fledged member of the Mexican Party in the capital, was not a person like Lin Xi who was buried in the mysterious world of life, she was an energetic social activist.

Immediately after the outbreak of the epidemic, the official members of the Mexican Party in the capital held a meeting, at which Lan Qi took an article written by Lin Xi and proposed that the Mexican Party should handle the epidemic in order to expand its influence.

The Mexican Party does not have many industries in the capital, and the funds for activities are limited, but Chen Jian's trading company has a large amount of money in the capital every month. Jian Chen had already said that if there was any accident, she could use her private property, and if it was not enough, she could go to Lin Xi, she still had more than 10,000 silver coins in her hand, which was enough to save the emergency.

Unlike the well-established organization in Mincheng, the grassroots organization of the Mexican Party in the capital basically did not exist, but was only an organization of charitable relief associations or salon discussions.

No one had the experience to deal with such an emergency, so Lan Qi relied on a whole day of speeches to persuade most of the internal members, and after the vote was passed, he wrote down the situation to Mincheng and used the assets of the trading company in the capital.

Lin Xi also took out 10,000 silver coins in his hand and donated them.

For the first time, Lan Qi took on the task of co-ordinating, organizing the small number of members of the Mexican Party, and with the help of money and some quarantined relatives and poor people who were not afraid of death, they were vaccinated with cowpox in batches with knives.

After recovering, he took these people deep into the blockaded neighborhood, maintained order inside, used silver coins to buy a large amount of food, inoculated cowpox for people who had not yet been infected in the blockade area, and promoted the concept of vaccinia vaccination outside the blockade area.

This kind of behavior caused a violent sensation in the capital, and what was even more sensational was that a girl had such organizational skills - in fact, a party's backbone organization supported her, but she was a woman, so it was particularly sensational.

Soon after, the epidemic subsided, and none of those vaccinated with cowpox died of smallpox after a few days of fever.

The people who survived the catastrophe carried all those who had penetrated into the lockdown zone at the height of the pandemic, cheering through the streets.

Purple robes were offered to the girl who was the first to experiment with her own body, the other who organized to rebel against the plague god in times of panic, and the first to try to use human power to conquer the terrible diseases of death, and soon the purple robe was officially recognized.

It was the first time in decades that a woman had worn a purple robe, and the last time was during the War of Unification.

The government also resolutely seized the opportunity and fully compensated the party for its expenses, which was greatly appreciated. The names of the two women were engraved with the Temple of the Wise Man, and a plaque was given to the branch of the Mexican Party in the capital.

The Mexican Party also took the opportunity to open a vaccination school in the capital, training simple doctors in batches, and shouted the slogan that 36 counties would be free of smallpox within 72 years.

So, from the original honeycomb coal to the winter poverty relief in the middle, and then to this smallpox epidemic.

The Mexican Party used a very different model from Mincheng to expand its influence in the capital, and because it did not participate in the political struggle in the slightest, it left such an impression on everyone.

The Mexican Party is a charity society. Mincheng's should be the same.

Many people thought so, and the result was that when the miners' petition spread to the capital, no one felt that there was anything wrong with it: they had seen a lot of this group of well-fed parties, and it was normal for something like this to happen, otherwise it would be easy to cause a nationwide riot if they kept holding back.

The big news of the election accident in Mincheng has not yet reached the capital, and a small piece of news has come out of the capital.

Nan'an ordered the distant mountains to be well governed, and was promoted to the deputy guard of Min County, in charge of the affairs of the industrial and commercial city of Min County. Zhang Yu, the tax officer of Mincheng, was promoted to the county tax officer for the contribution of stamp duty......

In addition to the change of promotion or decline or reward or punishment, there is also reasonably unexpected news.

The officers of the garrison near Min County returned to the capital, and a new high-ranking officer was sent from the capital, along with a cavalry battalion of 500 Liangjiazi. The new county order of Nan'an County was also sent directly from the capital, not from the local area.

This gossip was quickly confirmed and became an official resignation.

People know that this Yuanshan is going to be reused, which is to let him do a good job in Minjun, perhaps in the hope of tossing a new road, which has the meaning of letting go of his hands and feet.

The cavalry sent and the replaced garrison generals confirmed this even more from the side, which was for surveillance. There are not many counties that are eligible to be monitored, and they are all two or three counties that are trying to make new roads.

Appropriate changes can, don't go too far and burn the foundations, these armies can put out fires when the time is right.