Chapter 222: A Weapon for Collecting Money
An Bangyan was a well-known dog skin plaster at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and the rebellion began in the second year of the Apocalypse, and it was not completely eradicated until the second year of Chongzhen.
During the period, he repeatedly fought with the Ming army, using various mountains and dense forests, which were sticky like dog skin plasters, and he had to tear off the skin ruthlessly.
Zhu Youxiao didn't know about this person, but after the rebellion of Yu Chongming, he had long been wary of the Southwest Tusi rebellion, so he sent a garrison mixed brigade to Sichuan.
Qin Liangyu was the chief soldier of Sichuan at this time, and his white pole soldiers also enjoyed the military expenditure of 1 million yuan allocated by the internal fund in the second year of the Apocalypse, and the strength of the army had expanded to 30,000, and the weapons and equipment were extremely sophisticated.
Zhu Youxiao's order to advance and suppress was quickly sent out, and it was sent to Sichuan seven days later at an expedited speed of 800 miles, and Zhu Xieyuan received the order and immediately ordered Qin Liangyu to lead the army to aid Guiyang. At the same time, the supply of grain and grass along the way was arranged, and Zhu Youxiao not only issued the order to enter and suppress, but also sent the military expenses for the battle three days later.
A total of 2 million yuan was spent on the war, and Zhu Xieyuan was ordered to purchase war materials at market prices, so as to ensure the supply of military supplies and strictly prohibit private factions from disturbing the people.
You must know that in the late Ming Dynasty, when the official army fought, the logistics support was simply a mess, so much so that many times the officers and troops mutinied halfway.
And those officials and soldiers who did not mutiny, usually robbed the common people, called 'thieves are like combs, soldiers are like shaving', and when it came to the stage of Yang Sichang's attack and suppression, Li Zicheng even shouted the slogan of 'suppressing the soldiers and reassuring the people', and then was welcomed by the people.
Historically, the crossing of the border has been a disaster.
Zhu Youxiao took this into account. So let's go to the Holy Decree. Immediately allocate 2 million yuan of silver tickets and send them to Sichuan. Sichuan naturally also has a money system. By the end of the first year of the Apocalypse, most of the country's money banks had formed a cooperative relationship with the Royal Bank, forming a capital flow network.
The holy decree was issued, and the war funds were also sent, but Zhu Youxiao was still not very relieved, and immediately sent another official to Guizhou with one million yuan for disaster relief.
This time the toast is in turmoil, and the people will inevitably suffer a lot. Relief still has to keep up.
After some scheduling, Zhu Youxiao no longer bothered about the problem of the Tusi rebellion in Guizhou, and he didn't worry too much about the battle situation in Guizhou.
As an emperor, everything that should be done has been done.
The boss has arranged it, the soldiers have been dispatched, the money has been paid, and the disaster relief has been arranged. What happens next is the next thing.
Although the end of the year encountered the bad thing of An Bangyan's rebellion, the year still has to go on.
Zhu Youxiao left the palace a few years ago and inspected the royal military factory. The Royal Arsenal at this time. The scale has grown a lot.
In addition to manufacturing military equipment, military factories also produce civilian products. After all, military orders are not available all the time. There are many craftsmen.
Therefore, when there were no military orders, these craftsmen arranged to produce various civilian products.
Heavy carriages are the fist products of today's military factories, and because of the development of commodity economy and the construction of roads, there is a great demand for heavy carriages. At this time, only the Royal Military Factory could manufacture these sturdy and heavy carriages.
The large number of horses traded from Mongolia and Tibet also provided the basis for the development of overland transportation. At this time, there are cars, horses, and roads in Beizhili.
At the same time, the machine factory under the Royal Military Factory also made a large pendulum clock. This is a very popular Western product in Daming, which was not manufactured in Daming before. However, after some research, it was very easy to imitate it.
The mechanical devices of this year have not yet been sophisticated to the level of later generations, and it is naturally very simple to catch up. And the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty are not not able to make precision, those gold and silver jewelry are simply ingenious, why not precise enough?
It's just that this era doesn't need to be so sophisticated, so it doesn't seem to have much development, but it's very simple to catch up with Europeans in this age.
The precision manufacturing industry of Westerners obviously started from this era, and then passed down for hundreds of years, so that later generations of China could not catch up. After all, to what extent can precision manufacturing be relied on at the beginning of the 21st century.
The large pendulum clock made in the Ming Dynasty not only has Arabic numerals, but also engraves the twelve earthly branches 'Zi Chou Yin Mao Chen Si Wu Wei Shen Youhai', and there are corresponding zodiac patterns on the side, which is lifelike. Such a large pendulum clock is obviously more in line with the local culture, and it is also divided into various grades. As soon as it was launched, it was immediately rushed by the wealthy.
After all, in the past, the large pendulum clock exported by Europeans to Daming was a relatively expensive commodity, but the price of the large pendulum clock made by the Royal Machinery Factory was nearly half cheaper, and it was more in line with the local aesthetics in art. In these years, the people of Daming are still relatively confident, and there is no concept of admiring foreign countries, and localization is more popular.
Of course, it also launched a limited edition of the scary supreme local tyrant with a high price, which was used to install B for those rich businessmen and magnates who had a lot of money, and a large pendulum clock cost 100,000 yuan.
Those super-rich families are not stupid. They mainly value 'limited edition', although the price of the previous fitting mirrors has plummeted, but those fitting mirrors that cost 100,000 taels are still strong now.
After all, something priced at 100,000 is not a fool artistically. From the material to the workmanship, to the art decoration on it, it is all superb. If you keep it in your hand, it will become an antique in the future, and it can even appreciate in value.
The same is true of these large pendulum clocks, the value is so high, and the workmanship of the materials is naturally not in vain, and the beauty of the workmanship is simply excellence.
However, the news that these things will appreciate is obviously secretly hyped by royal capital, just like the Dutch hype tulips in this era. The Dutch can blow tulip seeds into valuable things, not to mention limited-edition mirrors and pendulum clocks that can see the real thing.
What Western capitalists are best at is to collect the works of an unknown painter, and then begin to manipulate public opinion to trumpet the works of these LWO painters. and then hyped the worthless paintings to the level of hundreds of millions of dollars in the future.
This model is obviously not very easy to operate in Daming, after all, Daming's artwork is genuine, whether it is worth it depends on the market, second, it has to be excellent, and third, it depends on the preferences of collectors.
At this time, the royal capital also became the largest antique dealer in Beizhili, and after copying so many mansions, it naturally obtained a large number of antique calligraphy and paintings.
The royal capital's promotion of beautifully crafted mirrors and pendulum clocks as something that can become antiques in the future is indeed not a lie, even if it is the most ordinary pendulum clock, it will become an antique for hundreds of years. It's just that everyone knows that after they all have this awareness, it will naturally be easy to sell.
So those rich and noble families, since they have a large amount of cash in their hands, they might as well buy it back. This kind of novelty can not only show off the expensive B at home, but it will not depreciate in the future, and it will not be a loss to buy. (To be continued......)
PS: The second update is here, it's 5,000 words today, the weather has cooled down recently, and people are very adaptable, sorry!