A week passed quickly, and after Li Yongji and his young technicians kept exploring and demonstrating, they finally got a good idea of the power plant that Li Yongji had packed and transported from modern society, at least he knew how to operate it.

After figuring out how to operate, especially after figuring out the precautions, a week later, at nine o'clock in the morning on Monday, the generator set appointed by Li Yongji as the Daystar No. 1 was officially ignited for power generation.

Although at the beginning, for the sake of safety and the low demand for electricity, only one of the two generating units was started, and the maximum power generation was only 1,000 kilowatt hours, that is, the maximum power generation was only 1,000 kilowatt hours, and only one-fiftieth of the total fixed power generation, but this was the first official power generation in China in the 19th century, which has great historical significance.

In addition to its own use, this part of the power generated by the Venus-1 generator set is mainly used to provide industrial electricity for the nearby brick kiln factory, cement factory, carpentry factory and smelter, and the remaining electricity will be used to supply power to the searchlights on the construction site to provide night lighting.

That is to say, since there is a Qixing No. 1 generator set, whether it is factory electricity or night lighting, you can completely get rid of diesel generators, especially night lighting, you can increase the searchlights and increase the lighting range in a large range, and similarly, this can also increase the number and scope of night construction and speed up the construction progress.

Here I have to mention the smelter, this smelter is a newly added plant, and the main equipment in it is three intermediate frequency electric furnaces, with these three electric furnaces. Not only can inferior iron such as scrap iron and pig iron be smelted into carbon steel, but also copper and silver can be smelted and smelted, which is equivalent to building a small steelmaking plant in advance.

In fact, he sent an electric furnace to Li Yongji. The idea of building a smelter is still Zhang Xinda's, and the main purpose is to consume the electricity produced by the power plant.

At the beginning, Li Yongji was greedy and asked for a power station with a power generation capacity of 50,000 kilowatts at one time, but after the power station was moved, Zhang Xinda's tonnage was exhausted, and he could no longer transmit large-scale coking equipment and ammonia equipment in the short term. After all, they are all big guys, and the quality is not light.

In other words, in the short term, there is no need to build a coking plant and a synthetic ammonia manufacturing plant. However, a thermal power plant is nothing else, because it uses a steam turbine that uses high-speed steam, and there is a limit to how slow it is, so once the power plant is ignited, it generates electricity. There is usually a minimum amount of electricity generated. This minimum power generation is usually much higher than hydro, wind, etc.

In order not to waste the power plant's production capacity, Zhang Xinda sent three electric furnaces over, the purpose is to consume the electricity in it and turn the power generation into a more tangible product, and the reason why Li Yongji has to wait for a week before the official ignition is not only more cautious, but also to wait for Zhang Xinda to accumulate enough tonnage, and then pack and transmit the small smelter.

At present, this smelter has two main functions. One is steelmaking, and the other is making money.

Among them, the No. 1 electric furnace is the largest main furnace. The collected scrap iron is mainly refined into ordinary carbon steel ingots, and then this ordinary steel is made into kitchen knives, hoes, shovels and other living utensils, which is called steelmaking.

Furnace No. 2 and Furnace No. 3 are both small furnaces, mainly for making money, of which No. 2 is responsible for smelting silver and turning silver into new silver dollars, and No. 3 is responsible for smelting brass and making new copper coins.

Not to mention the No. 1 furnace for steelmaking, the main task of the No. 2 and No. 3 furnaces at present is to smelt new money and prepare for the upcoming monetary reform.

In other words, Li Yongji planned to stabilize the dìng for a period of time, and then officially issued a new currency under his rule, and the new currency implemented the silver coin standard, mainly based on the new silver dollar, but at the same time, paper money was also circulated, and the paper money and the silver dollar could be exchanged for huàn. The purpose is to replace the inferior coins in the market with this high-quality new currency, rectify the entire financial market, and promote the prosperity of commerce.

After the issuance of new coins, whether it is silver coins or paper money, they will be issued in parallel with the original silver and copper coins for a period of time, but the government and the military will only use the new currency for procurement.

This is done in order to have an excess, because if paper money is forcibly issued all of a sudden, the people do not recognize it at all, so it is necessary to issue the silver coin standard system first, and also circulate paper money and other old currencies, and so that everyone is used to it, and the new currency, especially the new paper money has established a certain degree of credibility, and then slowly transition to paper money.

Li Yongji has cheap silver in modern society to rely on, so the silver coin standard is the most suitable system for him, but it is always inappropriate to make new silver dollars on a large scale in modern society, so he officially made his own new silver dollars and new copper coins in this time and space.

In any case, after the power plant was set up and officially operating normally, Li Yongji was finally able to catch his breath and focus on other things.

Not to mention, when Li Yongji was hiding in the mountains and forests of Guangde County to play with the power plant, many major events had happened outside recently.

First of all, the first major event was the campaign against the reactionaries in the Jiangnan area, but Li Yongji himself preferred to fight the local tyrants.

Reactionary is a new fashionable term that has recently emerged in the Jiangnan region, which means that the small group of reactionaries who oppose Li Yongji, oppose the new government, oppose the elite armed forces, and oppose the pursuit of a happy life by the common people, and in fact they are aimed at the gentry class who own a large amount of land resources.

After the rise of this class, because of the accelerated prosperity of commerce, this group of people urgently needed to break the shackles on their heads, urgently needed to obtain more land resources and labor resources, and desperately wanted to become the new riche, so there were many contradictions with the gentry class who originally controlled a large number of means of production.

This contradiction was not obvious in the past, but after Li Yongji continued to suppress grain prices and continue to support merchants, there were more and more conflicts between the emerging commercial elites and the old landlord and conservative forces, but they were limited by the strength of the elite army, so they did not immediately intensify.

But when high-yielding rice emerged, the huge profits involved in it excited a new breed of business elites, who desperately needed to acquire large amounts of land. Become a new farmer to produce this high-yielding rice that is destined to change the world.

In other words, the new elite did not intend to promote high-yielding rice for free from the beginning. They only plan to use it for their own cultivation and make money by themselves, and in the same way, Li Yongji's preferential policies for livestock breeding, especially those new breeds, such as large white pigs, such as high-yielding laying hens, etc. They also intend to take it completely on their own and not give it to others to play with.

As a result, these people are in dire need of land. But most of the land is in the hands of the old big landlords, what should we do?

It's easy to do, just one word, grab it!

Most of the new bourgeoisie, represented by Li Yongchang, came from the bottom. I won't talk about anything su. It is the nature to be stingy, and the pursuit of strength is the essence, in their opinion, they obviously have a knife in their hands, and they still play redemption with the group of people who oppose them, it is really stupid, and they don't look down on themselves, and they may not necessarily sell their land.

That's it. For the sake of the land, for the sake of profit. The new power deputies, headed by Li Zhengxiang and Li Yongchang, drew up a plan to crack down on the reactionaries.

On the surface, this plan was aimed at rectifying local public order, suppressing the reactionaries who were plotting to rebel, and purging the remnants of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

However, at this time, not all of the landlords were extremely evil, in fact, many landlords had a good reputation in the local area, but these people with a good reputation often occupied a lot of land and wealth, and it was difficult to convince people to rebel, so what should I do? I can only give Ann a reactionary crime.

The word "crime of reaction" is similar to the crime of hooliganism in later generations, and it is a very broad new crime, that is, no matter whether you really have rebelled or not, as long as you are determined to oppose the new government, oppose the elite army, and have your heart set on the Manchu court, you are a reactionary, and you are guilty of the crime of reaction.

In the plan to crack down on the reactionaries, since most of the local officials who were executed were officials from the old government offices in various localities, and they were quite clear about the situation of the big local households, Li Yongchang was also calculating or unintentional, and he obtained the support of the garrisons in various localities in advance, and used radio communications to draw up a unified arrest plan in advance, which was launched at the same time and did not give the other side a chance to react, so the results were remarkable.

In practice, the new magistrates from all over the country led the police force and the local garrison to arrest them one by one according to the list. When you are arrested, you usually read out your charges first, and then forcibly arrest someone and take them away.

This arrest is not only the first offender, but the whole family, that is to say, except for the slaves, as long as they are related to you, all of them will be arrested, and if they resist, they will be killed on the spot.

Don't underestimate these magistrates who have been transformed from officials, once they turn over and become the masters, their appetite is so great and their methods are simply outrageous, because they not only arrest people, but also personally interrogate and torture them, and must torture all the wealth hidden by the other party.

Usually the men will be sent to labor camps, that is, as laborers, until they die, and the women are usually sent to be prostitutes or female laborers, in short, there is no good end.

In less than a week, more than 50,000 reactionaries and their families were arrested in various parts of the southern part of the Yangtze River, and the exact amount of property confiscated by speculators has not yet been calculated, but only preliminary statistics show that there are more than 10 million taels of silver, more than 5 million stones of grain, more than 30,000 hectares of confiscated land, and all kinds of jewelry are innumerable.

This result made Li Yongji himself a little stunned, he suddenly thought, in the history of another time and space, after the Taiping Army conquered southern Jiangsu, it seems that there is not so much wealth, if there is, can it be defeated so quickly? But after thinking about it, when the Taiping army came, these people either ran away or hid their wealth, unlike themselves, they were suddenly launched at the same time in various places, and the effect was naturally different.

However, what is even more incredible is that such a ferocious act of raiding homes and destroying doors has been unanimously praised by the people, if it is a local tyrant and inferior gentry who are very notorious in the local area, it is just that, as far as Li Yongji knows, it is clear that many people who have been raided have a good reputation in the local area, but after this bad luck, many local people also applauded, which is surprising.

In fact, the reason is very simple, it is just the typical psychology of Chinese people to watch the excitement, the psychology of hating the rich, or the psychology of falling into the well.

In the past, you were rich and powerful, and you were in a high position, and I had no choice but to please you and obey you, so once you did something good and good, we sang praises and spread them everywhere. However, once you fall, then everyone immediately attacks you, and the good deeds you did in the past have become hypocrisy, and in the process of scolding, you have received the greatest relief from your soul.

Maybe. It is precisely because Li Yongchang and others are familiar with this mentality of the Chinese people that they dare to launch such a blatant action against the reactionaries, and the result is. Not only did he gain a huge amount of wealth and land, but he also gained a lot of people's hearts!

It can be said that as soon as the act of cracking down on the reactionaries came out, the people in all parts of Jiangnan were jubilant and applauded endlessly, and the centripetal force towards the new Jiangnan government became stronger and stronger, and the effect was unimaginable. is even better than Li Yongji's previous tax exemption effect.

"You're sighing." Hearing Li Yongji's story, Zhang Xinda looked indifferent, "Modern society is inevitably in this situation." Not to mention the Qing Dynasty in the 19th century? For the majority of people, many times they don't want to know what the truth is, they just want to see the truth they want to see.

Or rather, it's okay if you're not doing well. Seeing that people who were better off than themselves suddenly had a worse life than themselves. That's happiness, that's happiness, and the person who causes this qiē has to be supported, and that's a good person.

It just so happens that the fight against local tyrants that you are engaged in, uh, is a policy of cracking down on reactionaries. It just hit their G-spot and gave them a spiritual orgy. It is only natural that this will bring about the support of the people. ”

"I understand what you're saying." Li Yongji sighed, "I'm just...... Anyway, it's a little psychologically unacceptable. ”

"Damn, I can't accept it...... Brother, you've been there for more than a year. Zhang Xinda pouted, "Why hasn't you changed psychologically?" I won't talk about it if it's not toxic or not, but at least you have to understand and adapt to the worldview and outlook on life in that world. You're going to be like this...... Well, how can I say it, if the hypocrisy continues, something will happen sooner or later, you know. ”

"Before I came here, I lived for more than 30 years, and the outlook on life that I have built up over the years is so easy to overturn at once, and besides, it is not a bad thing to have good thoughts." Li Yongji shook his head, "Okay, I'm just complaining to you, and I don't really want to do anything, your comfort is really bad." ”

"I'm all for your good." Zhang Xinda said, "You are hypocrisy, this is the difference between your heart and mouth, this matter is nothing to be said to ordinary people, and it is a fatal thing for a dictator." That's why I advise you to change as soon as possible, you must be tough and tough, and then tough, otherwise, others will leave you with no bones left, I don't want to lose you as the owner, let alone lose you, the only guy who can talk to me like this. ”

Speaking of this, Zhang Xinda also sighed: "Do you know, Lao Tzu is rich now, and he is still a wealthy master with a net worth of tens of billions, and he has to bring bodyguards when he goes in and out, it can be said that in my world, he is at the peak of his life, but for some reason, I always feel that I am not as happy as when I was with you before." Those young models, yachts, and private jets were still excited when they first bought them, but then there was a burst of nothingness and discomfort, no wonder many people took drugs, and it was no wonder that the rich people wanted to find a more ambitious new goal, such as investing in science and technology, saving the earth or something. Nima, if I hadn't had your big game to play, I probably would have to go down this path. ”

"Oh, so you think of trading with me as a game." Li Yongji said with a smile.

"Aren't you?" Zhang Xinda smiled, "So, it seems that what background really determines what is suzhì, we are a diao silk in our bones, even if we are rich, it is difficult to change." I summed it up, the happiness I enjoy in this world is actually not as exciting as when I trade with you, when I prepare all kinds of materials for you, do you say that we are cheap. ”

"Perhaps." Li Yongji shrugged his shoulders, "Why shouldn't I?" I've been here for more than a year, and I'm still a dead house in essence, and I'm still incompatible with this society. As you said, our origins determine who we are. ”

"Don't talk about that." Zhang Xinda suddenly waved his hand, "When will you establish the country and become the emperor?" ”

"This topic has changed a little quickly, why did it suddenly become persuasion." Li Yongji smiled bitterly, "When will the country be established and become the emperor, at least we must defeat the Qing court." Didn't you say it a long time ago, you want to play the Three Kingdoms, and play the high wall to slowly become the king. ”

"I used to think so too." Zhang Xinda said, "But suddenly I found that you are doing this too slowly, too much time waste, and it is also very inappropriate, and even dangerous." ”

"What do you mean?"

This means that since you have forcibly propped up a mercantile bourgeoisie in nineteenth-century China, this new magnate has already stood up. also has such a strong aggressiveness, then in this case, if you don't ascend the throne and become emperor. Everybody's going to be upset. ”

"Everybody's going to be upset?"

"That's right." Zhang Xinda nodded and said, "Who are the new elites of your new government?" It is a small and medium-sized businessman, a servant, a servant, a craftsman, and a tenant! These people were in the Qing Dynasty, no. It was China in 1860, all of them were inferior, and they were all people who had suffered from despise for a long time. And they themselves have all kinds of bad habits. This group of people has come to power, and the ability to counterattack cannot be ignored at all, this is a fire, if you are not careful. It's really going to burn you. ”

"I have the army. Don't be afraid. Li Yongji said lightly.

"It's just that there is an army that is in trouble." Zhang Xinda said, "The desire of soldiers for honor and profit is not bad at all, and even stronger. You are now somewhat similar to Napoleon, the spokesperson of the new magnate, who desperately needs a lord from above to protect the wealth and power they have acquired through all means. In China, there is only an emperor, only a supreme emperor. to be able to make such a guarantee.

That is to say, the action against the reactionaries. Even if the old bureaucrats and the old landlords are not at odds with you, they are full of hatred, no worse than hatred of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and all you can rely on is the new magnates.

At the same time, in order to ensure their vested interests, the new magnates also need a backbone and a new direction.

If you become the emperor, it means that there is no way out, and you have to go all out to fight for the world, which shows your bearing and ambition to the world, and everyone will automatically unite to follow you, and even those who ride the wall will choose to follow you.

But if you keep dragging on like this and not being the emperor, everyone will be nervous, doubt your courage, doubt whether it is worth following you, and suspect that you will be beaten back to its original form in the end.

In ancient times, there was a so-called injustice is not good, those strategies of building high walls and slowly becoming kings are lurking in the case of their own lack of strength, but now it is clear that your strength is stronger, or it seems to be stronger, then you need to strengthen this kind of toughness, let everyone see your strength and ambition, so that you can eliminate differences and unite to run the future. Do you understand me when I say that? ”

"You didn't say that." Li Yongji shook his head.

"At the beginning? At the beginning, I didn't have the strength and vision I have now. Zhang Xinda said, "People will change, and with different statuses, their mentality and vision will also change." For example, many of the things I am doing now, do you think they are all smooth sailing and safe and sound? I have encountered many dangers here, and I was scared at first, but then it was like that. ”

After a pause, Zhang Xinda said again: "This person is all forced out, I am like this, and you are the same." The army listens to you, the government listens to you, the people listen to you, and even foreigners are optimistic about you, the foundation is so good, why don't you call yourself the emperor and build the country? Do you know, many things are completely different between you building a country and not building a country, for example, when dealing with foreigners, after you build a country, you can send ambassadors to each other, and the right to speak is different. There is also trade, after you founded the country, doing business in the name of the government, and doing business with yourself are two different things.

I won't talk about the other benefits, in a word, since you have come to this point, what are you still afraid of? Just build the country and become the emperor, and push the world. First take down the world, or at least half of it, and then concentrate on construction, you are now like this, you are now like this, you are now like this, you are now in the military, the economy, and the industry, I am also very tired, you know? ”

"Hehe, it seems that this is your main purpose." Li Yongji smiled, "Isn't it tiring to engage in the industrial system recently?" ”

"Nonsense, of course tired." Zhang Xinda said, "It's easy to do smuggling business, even if it's to give you arms, it's easy, but the whole factory, Nima, do you know how troublesome it is?" I had to buy the factory first, and all the equipment was installed and debugged, and then I had to send everyone away, and even had to arrange an explosion. Otherwise, a whole factory is suddenly gone, and everyone knows that there is a problem.

Moreover, due to the limited tonnage of teleportation, once you are provided with industrial equipment, the munitions will be suspended, but in fact, it is better to buy the things you produce with industrial equipment in that time and space.

Of course, I also know the importance of your establishment of industrialization, but I feel that this is secondary. You know, you should go all out to fight for the world now, first bring down the world, wait for a stable environment, no need to fight a big battle, and then I will go all out to build industrial equipment for you and help you climb the science and technology tree. But now, I have to send you industrial equipment, industrial raw materials, arms materials, and cultured pearls and other trade materials. ”

"I see." Li Yongji nodded solemnly this time, "All in all, I don't have a detailed plan for doing things, and I want to do it one by one, isn't that so?" ”

"Pretty much." Zhang Xinda said, "Although I am also such a person, but I am in the modern society, and there are a large number of modern talents to help me, so it doesn't matter if I have an unplanned life." But you are in 19th century China, your time is really lacking in talent, I can't give you talent, you have to rely on yourself, in this case, you are still so unplanned, really terrible. ”

"Thank you for the reminder." Li Yongji said, "I will think about your construction carefully." ”

"The big coking and ammonia plant, do you think you should stop first?" Zhang Xinda said, "To be honest, these two sets of factory equipment are more complicated and difficult to get, if I help you get these, I will be troublesome, and you will waste your energy, right?" Also, I have two submarines, three sail training ships, and a lot of new munitions waiting to be delivered to you. ”

"Okay, let's stop for now." Li Yongji sighed, "But what about the power of the power plant?" I don't need it at all."

"Well said." Zhang Xinda said, "I'll give you the transfer point machine tools and production equipment, so that you can build more factories and start production first." In particular, the silk reeling factory and the silk factory must be built more. Hehe, the silk you produce over there is very good to sell here, let's make money first, okay? ”

"It's fine." Li Yongji nodded, "However, the synthetic ammonia can be slowed down first, but the coke oven has to be sent to me, not to mention anything else, at least the asphalt pavement needs that." ”

"You don't have a cement factory, why don't you build a cement road?"

"Cement roads are not as good as asphalt roads." Li Yongji shook his head, "This is not negotiable, and I don't need you to give me a complicated one, just be able to produce coke and tar asphalt, this is not difficult, right?" ”

"Okay, okay." Zhang Xinda said, "Half a month, give me half a month at most, and I will definitely do it for you!" Well, what else is there to ask for? ”

"Heavy artillery, I want heavy artillery, heavy artillery that can siege the city!" Li Yongji said, "In the field, mortars are enough, but if you want to attack the city, I still lack real heavy artillery." Whether it was the Taiping army or the Manchu Qing Dynasty, most of their cities were made of blue bricks and were very strong, and if there was no heavy artillery, I would have lost a lot in the siege. Although I have a bazooka, I have tried, but the bazooka is still not powerful enough, and the shooting distance is too close and too dangerous. ”

"Understood, rest assured!" As soon as he heard this, Zhang Xinda's eyes immediately lit up, and he rubbed his hands, "Heavy artillery, isn't it?" Well, I'll go find it, and I'm sure you'll be satisfied! ”

"You're a natural arms dealer!" Li Yongji shook his head.

"Hehe, arms are a man's aphrodisiac." Zhang Xinda laughed, "Anyway, you can rest assured, about heavy artillery, in fact, some arms dealers have talked to me about it, but at that time, I wasn't sure if you needed heavy artillery, so I didn't pay much attention to them." Now that you've spoken, I'm going to finalize the heavy artillery matter once and for all, at least to see what the goods are. Don't worry, it won't take a few days, just wait for the good news. (To be continued......)