Chapter 602: The Bitter British
Yuan Muren hated Zhu Fugui to the bone, and the first thing he did when he got up every day was to lick the bitter gall of the pig hanging in front of the bed.
However, later, the pig's bitter gall was too easy to deteriorate, so he replaced it with a more shelf-stable pig allantois.
Anyway, the efficacy and meaning are the same.
It may be that Phi Dao is short of supplies and lacks spices from the South Seas.
Yuan Muren licked and licked, and actually felt a trace of deliciousness from the pork allanto.
And as time goes on, the delicacy becomes more and more intense.
Eventually, Won fell in love with the taste and became pee-free.
And the boy urine abalone is one of his inventions.
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After figuring out the ins and outs, Zhu Fugui ordered that all scallop abalone imported from Liaodong should be strictly inspected in the future and quality control should be strengthened.
At the same time, the Tongliao side was asked to demolish a street in the Japanese style and send all the Japanese people to the Great Northern Wilderness to plant potatoes.
The Great Northern Wilderness is the second largest black soil plain under the Daming Domain, and it must be developed for agriculture.
It's just that Zhu Fugui knows very well how much manpower and material resources have been spent on the development of the Great Northern Wilderness in history, and how many people have died.
Let these Eight Banners go to open up mountains and rivers and burn mountains to pioneer the wilderness, which can reduce the casualties of the Ming Production and Construction Corps in the future.
As for these Japanese people, they naturally went on to develop Siberia.
For these stubborn Japanese people who fled from the Imperial Protectorate of Wadao Island, Zhu Fugui did not regard them as his subjects at all.
Now relying on the Tongliao Khan to deceive if he can, and use it if he can.
One day, if you go to the goof, you can't go on, and it's not a big deal to let Sottna dig a pit and bury it.
Anyway, this job, whether it is the Mongols or the Japanese people, they are all skilled, Party A and Party B are both skilled workers, and they must be able to do it beautifully.
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Just like letting the Eight Banners open up the wasteland in the Great Northern Wilderness and pave the way for the Ming Production and Construction Corps, Zhu Fugui raised his hands in favor of our Qing Dynasty's entry into the Entente and obtaining loans from the British and 62 industrial projects.
The British armed the Manchus and supported the Manchu Qing plan, in Zhu Fugui's view, was called Bruce Lee meeting the White Scholar - in vain.
This is doomed to be unsuccessful.
This is a system problem, a real system problem......
If the Manchu Qing Dynasty could succeed in industrialization, Zhu Fugui would write the Zhu character upside down, and even change his name to Aixin Jueluo Fugui the next day.
The collapse of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, especially the Chinese men's football team.
Whether it is increasing investment, inviting foreign coaches, or naturalizing foreigners to play football, the stability of the Chinese men's football team has never disappointed Chinese fans.
The same is true of the Great Qing Kingdom.
Historically, the British also tried to arm the Manchus to prevent Tsarist Russia from moving south and carrying out the so-called Yellow Russia plan.
Most of the achievements of the Westernization Movement were largely achieved in this context.
However, in the end, the British still found that the Qing Dynasty was a mud that could not be supported, and turned to support the Japanese.
The British did not have the advantage of being a traverser, they did not have the perspective of God, and they still chose to support the Manchus this time.
Of course, this time the target was not the Russians.
A few months ago, the Russians had secretly signed the "Compact for the Stability of the Framework of the International Order" with Britain, or simply and bluntly the "Secret Pact Against Germany and Anti-Ming".
Alaska-Canada, Kazakhstan-Afghanistan, Indo-Tibet-Western Regions, these three areas where Britain and Russia wrestle, have been separated by the emergence of the Ming Dynasty.
Except in the Iranian region, where there is a slight overlap of interests between Britain and Russia, there is not much conflict between the two countries.
On the contrary, the rise of Germany and the Ming Kingdom is a very significant geopolitical threat to Britain and Russia, which cannot be ignored.
Therefore, it is logical that Britain and Russia signed the "Anti-German and Anti-Ming Secret Entente".
Of course, the Tsarist side hoped that the old enemy Ottoman Turkey could also be added to the name of the Entente, but the British side still had the idea of co-opting the local chickens for the time being, and did not agree.
However, what the British didn't know was that the three kingdoms of Mingde and Turkey had signed the "Three Emperors Alliance", and they were ready to carve up the world.
And the Ottoman Turkish "caliphate" was still the most active one.
After all, Turkey in the country, Husky in the dog.
Although the local chicken is a dish, his addiction is great!
In short, in order to further find allies who could contain the Ming in the Far East, the British started the idea of supporting the Qing government.
Poor British, Zhu Fugui, who did not open God's perspective, were saddened by their low-interest loans.
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The ignorant British did not yet know what kind of bottomless pit they were facing.
Beginning in the middle of the eighth year of Dewu, engineers and materials from the Indian Viceroy and the Malay Governor's Office began to be shipped to Beijing one after another.
During this period, instead of blocking the British transport ships at sea, the Ming Dynasty sold them a lot of supplies at a low price.
Even many projects in order to catch up with the construction period, compress the budget, embezzle more money, and hire a construction team from Daming under layers of subcontracting.
The labor of the Ming construction team is actually not low, but the Ming Liangzong has special subsidies for these construction teams that undertake Manchu business, even if the price is lower, they can complete the task with quality and quantity, and send the drawings back to the Fengdu Archives for later use.
Jingshi Manufacturing Bureau, Tangshan Iron and Steel Plant, Baoding Ordnance Institute, Ulanqab Arsenal, Luanping Coal Mine Bureau, Tongzhou Weaving Bureau, Weihai Shipbuilding Bureau......
The little oil and water that the British Empire squeezed out of the marrow of Indians, Malays, and Burmese was continuously sent into the pockets of Britain's honest politicians, corrupt officials, and simple contractors.
New factories have been built that are at or near the level of the Second Industrial Revolution.
It's just that......
Just like the historical Hanyang Iron and Steel Plant and the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, these factories operated by the Manchu Yamen faced problems of poor management, low output, and even the verge of closure once they were completed.
The Tangshan Iron and Steel Plant, which can give a factory to fight the world in the future, was now completed on October 26, the ninth year of Dewu.
The whole factory cost a total of 1.8 million taels of silver, equivalent to about 1.2 million Ming Yuan and 165,000 pounds. (Because of the depreciation of silver, the Ming Yuan has depreciated benignly against the pound, and the current exchange rate is around 7.27.) )
Nearly one-half of these are low-interest loans from the British bank HSBC, secured by exploration rights in Jilin Province.
The steel plant includes a steel mill, an iron mill, an iron foundry, 7 large and small factories, 2 furnaces, 3,000 workers, and 1,000 coal miners.
The designed annual output is 5,200 tons of steel.
In the first month of construction, the Tangshan Iron and Steel Plant lived up to expectations and suffered a boiler explosion and was shut down for maintenance for nearly half a year.
That was already April of the tenth year of Dewu.
Moreover, the output and quality are completely not up to the design standards, and various accidents continue.
In total, only 200 tonnes of steel were produced throughout the year, barely a fraction of the designed capacity.
The Tangshan Iron and Steel Plant is just a microcosm of a series of collapse events in the Manchu Dynasty.
The shrewd British also had to swallow this long-lost bitterness in the face of our own national conditions in the Qing Dynasty.