When Zhu Youxiao returned to the palace, he was in a happy mood, the industrial revolution was coming, and then the Ming Dynasty would rapidly increase productivity because of the appearance of the steam engine.

"Haha, once the steam engine is applied to various fields, the increase in productivity compared to the previous one is absolutely earth-shaking. With such productivity, are you afraid that you will not be able to survive the difficulties of continuous natural disasters at the end of the Ming Dynasty? Zhu Youxiao laughed when he thought about it, although the earth-shaking changes in the productive forces are a bit exaggerated, but the productive forces have indeed changed by leaps and bounds, and people's ability to transform and resist nature will be greatly enhanced.

Most importantly, it is possible to shift the disaster to other countries. The leap in productivity brought about by the steam engine will make the number of Ming commodities continue to increase, and the competitiveness of commodities will surpass that of other countries, especially for Europeans, compared with their commodities, they definitely have a crushing advantage.

In the industrial age, one step ahead of technology is an artifact, one step behind is ****, leading means that the goods are competitive, and they can plunder the raw materials, food, and luxury goods of other countries through advanced goods, which in turn is to plunder the labor wealth of other countries, and can also suppress the industrial development momentum of other countries.

What about backward countries?

The only way for backward countries is to create tariff barriers to avoid commodity shocks from developed countries, which is the only viable option. In this way, its own industry can be incubated in a safe environment, and after the incubation is completed, it can come out to compete with developed countries.

However, advanced developed countries can use advanced military technology to knock open the 'eggshells' of backward countries and destroy their trade barriers. Even unequal treaties. As a result, domestic goods are flooded in. The only industry in the backward countries has been swept to pieces.

Why are there so many soy sauce countries in the world that cannot compete for world hegemony? It is precisely because these countries were unable to build a regime with full sovereignty at the stage of the industrial era, and the result of compromising with the powerful countries was that it was impossible to develop a complete industrial system.

At the same time, there are also different constraints in terms of geography, culture, population, etc., which makes them out of the arena for world domination.

Therefore, some countries or nations that were very awesome in the era of cold weapons have been reduced to the existence of soy sauce one by one in the era of industrialization.

For example, Mongolia, for example, what the Ottoman Turkish Empire, for example, the Persian dynasty.

Therefore, if the Ming rate completes industrialization, then it can be through commodity trade. Plunder the world's labor wealth.

In this way, what natural disasters cannot be overcome?

"Your Majesty, why are you suddenly so happy today?" Zhang Yan was happy when he saw that the emperor came back, and asked a little strangely.

"Today, the machine building factory has made a high-pressure steam engine, and the performance is very good." Zhu Youxiao told her the situation with a smile.

"Is it really that amazing?" Zhang Yan naturally knows what a steam engine is, but the current steam engine is to pump groundwater in a mine, although it has a certain scale of application, but it has not reached the level of changing the entire country.

"Of course, when a ship is built, I will take you out to sea." Zhu Youxiao said confidently. The queen was a little unconvinced, and the emperor had never seen it with his own eyes. How do you know that thing can make an ironclad ship? But after thinking about it, since the emperor ascended the throne, he has relied on these technological inventions to turn the situation around, and he suddenly doubted his own judgment, maybe it is really possible......

In this era, few people dare to think about trains and ships, after all, although the production technology has been developing, it has never changed so dramatically.

Even when the productive forces were relatively developed in the Song Dynasty, they were still in the stage of applying manpower, animal power, and water power. Perhaps the lack of an industrial revolution in the Song Dynasty is also related to territorial constraints, because the territory of the Song Dynasty was not full of coal, especially in the economically developed Jiangnan region, where coal was relatively lacking.

In addition, the scholars of the Song Dynasty put a lot of their minds on studying the study of Heluo, which was too advanced and had nothing to do with the low-level industrial revolution.

Like the first industrial revolution caused by the steam engine, all you need is Newton's three laws, and it is completely superfluous for you to come up with an Einstein theory of relativity, and people don't know how to use it! As for Heluo's learning, the generation gap is even bigger.

The main thing is that the economy of the Song Dynasty was also dominated by the government, and the official elite was not very interested in these things, so the technological development was relatively slow. It's just that the Song Dynasty attached great importance to economic development and had that general direction to promote. If there were no northern nomads to make trouble, it would have been a matter of time before the Song Dynasty completed the industrial revolution.

Now, Zhu Youxiao, as a traverser, uses the power of the government to carry out research, recruits outstanding craftsmen all over the country, and also develops mathematics, physics and chemistry teaching materials to cultivate industrial talents, and provides research funds and research ideas.

In the early days of the Industrial Revolution, Europeans were all researchers working alone, at best, in groups of three or five. And there are not necessarily people who fund them, let alone a complete set of mathematical, physical and chemical theories and straightforward research directions.

Therefore, it is indeed not difficult for Zhu Youxiao to make a steam engine.

The news of the successful development of the high-temperature and high-pressure steam engine did not appear in the newspapers, and the newspapers did not mention it, and after dark, it was clear that few people were aware that an industrial revolution was breaking out, and the officials were completely secretive about it.

People are more concerned about the news that the imperial court decided to hold the imperial examination and the national civil service examination next year, and many of those who can read the newspaper are readers, and many of the people who read the Daming Daily today are one copy a day, and in academies across the country, students are all around the newspaper every day to point out the country and comment on the heroes of the world.

"What is this? The imperial examination will be held together with the civil service examination, and 35,000 civil servants will be admitted across the country? ”

"I'm not dazzled, am I? Thirty-five thousand? ”

Everyone was stunned when they saw this number, this is too much, right?

The number of officials in the entire court is several times less than this, okay! Do you need to recruit so many civil servants at once? Do New Deal districts need so many civil servants?

The answer is yes.

The pressure of the lack of administrative talent caused by the reform is so great that the Han Emperor Party is now unable to clean up some of the corpses and vegetarian people.

The New Deal reform not only increased the number of civil servants in the prefecture and county local governments, but also increased the number of township and town governments, and also increased the number of departments at the local level, and at the same time the tasks of the government became much more. (To be continued.) )