After the establishment of the Prince Growth Fund.

On February 25, the outstanding teachers carefully selected by Xujiazhuang arrived in the capital, entered the East Palace, and officially intervened in the enlightenment education of the crown prince Zhu Cihong.

There is a Chinese teacher (teaching simplified Chinese and pinyin reading).

A math teacher.

A teacher of Gewu (i.e. Physics + Chemistry).

A military teacher.

A life teacher (understand agriculture, industry, commerce, breeding and other production activities).

For the time being, there are only five of them.

In the future, according to the learning progress, history teachers, geography teachers, moral education teachers, and art teachers (teaching music, painting, architectural design, etc.) will be added, in short, covering all aspects.

The salaries and benefits of these teachers are all reimbursed by Xujiazhuang, and are not covered by the Prince Growth Fund.

It can be seen that in order to participate in the education of the prince, Xu Jiazhuang has invested a huge amount of money and transferred valuable talents, but what he is doing is to cultivate feudal monarchs.

But even with these risks, Xujiazhuang still invested in the project.

The reason is very simple, as long as the future emperor can be drawn to Xujiazhuang's side, so that the new emperor's ass is completely inclined to Xujiazhuang, the benefits will be huge.

For example, make better use of all the resources in the Ming Dynasty.

For example, in the name of the emperor, he did something justifiably and obtained an excuse to make himself feel at ease.

You must know that the feudal imperial system has lasted for thousands of years, and in the hearts of hundreds of people, it still has an unshakable position, and it is impossible to eradicate this influence in the short term.

Just like the Western colonial missionaries, as long as they hang a cross on their chests and shout two words of God in their mouths, they can slaughter the indigenous people at will, and there will be no unbearable and guilty in their hearts.

In Xujiazhuang's future foreign development activities, it also needs a similar 'God', and also needs a reasonable name, such as 'Under the whole world, it is not the king's land; On the shore of the land, it is not the king's minister', as long as the name is right, there is no doubt about what to do, and even beating people will be more powerful.

Therefore, cultivating a crown prince who is inclined to Xujiazhuang is an absolutely cost-effective deal.

The effect is of course also significant.

On the 28th, it was only three days to contact Xujiazhuang's new education.

After class.

Zhu Youzhen specially inquired about the prince's study, and asked whether the teacher in the morning taught well or the teacher in the afternoon?

"The teachers taught well in the afternoon." Zhu Cihong, who was tiger-headed, thought for a while.

"Why, the teacher in the afternoon has only taught you for three days." Zhu Youzhen was puzzled and asked.

"Because I can understand what the teacher teaches in the afternoon, what the teacher teaches in the morning is not only difficult to understand, but also wrong." Zhu Cihong said.

"Wrong? Why is it wrong, tell me? Zhu Youzhen was taken aback, those Confucians shouldn't mislead people's children, right?

"Mr. Jiang taught me the Analects, saying, 'When you learn, you learn it, and you don't talk about it', which means that if you review the knowledge in the books frequently, you will feel happy, but how can learning be so hard, how can it bring happiness? In the afternoon, I asked Teacher Qi to understand that the correct meaning of this sentence means that the fighting moves must be practiced often, and you will feel happy when you hit someone. ”

"What?" Zhu Youzhen's eyes were about to pop out.

"There is also 'threesome, there must be my teacher', which means that among the three people, there is a teacher who is worthy of you to learn, but the strength of the three students together is equivalent to one teacher, so we must be united." Zhu Cihong said again.

“？？？”

Zhu Youzhen felt that his head was about to explode, and the inherent concepts in his brain were being challenged, so he hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Don't say it!" Who is that Teacher Qi who taught you? What course is taught? ”

I still overestimate Xu Jiazhuang, it's only been three days, and I have begun to mislead people's children, and I want to bring my prince crookedly, which is simply intolerable!

"Teacher Qi is not a formal teacher, he teaches me these things after class, and every time he comes, he brings me candy and toys, which is good to me, I like Teacher Qi, and he also said that he likes me very much as a disciple, and he will often come to see me in the future." Zhu Cihong shook his head, blinked his simple big eyes, and said truthfully.

"Qi Chunnian? Is that guy Qi Chunnian? ”

Zhu Youzhen's brain flashed, and a figure of extreme disgust immediately appeared, because Qi Chunnian's hand has a waist card certificate that allows him to enter and leave the palace freely, although it is more difficult to see him as the emperor, but it is not difficult to enter the palace, and it is also very possible for him to take advantage of the loophole to contact the prince.

Secondly, Qi Chunnian has been in and out of the palace too many times, and he has long been familiar with countless people in the palace, and even called him a brother, even if he doesn't show his waist card, he may also be released.

"Bastard, General Zhu, from today onwards, increase the investigation of idle people in the imperial city, unrelated people like Qi Chunnian are not allowed to enter the palace, and if he dares to come over tomorrow, take him down immediately, I will slash him!"

Zhu Youzhen gritted his teeth.

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

As for the crown prince Zhu Cihong, his black eyes rolled, and he immediately noticed that something was wrong, but fortunately, the way of secret contact with Teacher Qi was not explained, otherwise it would be over, and seeing that his father was so angry, he wanted to kill Teacher Qi, this is absolutely impossible, by the way, let's use the walkie-talkie to ventilate the message tonight, save Teacher Qi's life, it's so decided, he said secretly in his heart.

……

It's March.

With the exception of a few areas in the north, the snow on the ground has largely melted.

Road traffic has been restored.

Most of the production activities are carried out in full swing.

Xujiazhuang's "three-year 50,000-kilometer road repair plan" has also been officially launched, planning to recruit millions of infrastructure workers, build at least 1,000 main roads and bridges, and build a total length of 100,000 miles of standard cement roads, with an estimated total investment of no less than 500 million silver dollars.

The aim is to basically complete the roads covering all the prefectures, counties, and townships in Nanzhili within three years, and then build one or more main roads leading to Shandong, Henan, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Shanxi, Huguang, Beizhili, and other regions.

But the question is, Xujiazhuang has invested so much, and the bridges and roads repaired are free for people to use, but there is no obvious profit point, when will the investment cost be recovered?

There is an old saying that "murder and arson gold belts, build bridges and repair roads without corpses", which describes the behavior of the wronged boss.

Could it be that Xu Jiazhuang is going to be a big injustice this time?

Of course not.

In fact, building roads and bridges will only lose money, but related supporting facilities can bring countless huge profits.

For example, inns and freight stores are set up on both sides of the road, and at the same time promote the development of passenger flow and logistics industries.

For example, where the road leads, the minerals, agricultural products, manpower and other resources can be used by Xujiazhuang.

In addition, as long as you hold the control of the choke point and the core arterial road, even if you do not charge any tolls, you can make the opponent obediently surrender, play an excellent control role, and bring countless potential benefits.

In short, it is the routine of capital, in a word, it is described as 'free is the most expensive', first lure you on the thief ship, and then kill or chop, whether to swallow or eat with a blade, it all depends on the mood of the capital, the user can not resist, unless a new way is found.

Besides.

In March, there was another major project completed in Xujiazhuang, which is also of great significance.

That is, the telegraph station project.

Xujiazhuang is located in 38 major cities in the Ming Dynasty, such as Beijing, Nanjing, Jinan, Yangzhou, Hangzhou, Suzhou, Chengdu, Wuchang, Quanzhou, Guangzhou, etc.

plus the two locations of Xujiazhuang Zero Manor and Harbour City.

There were 40 telegraph stations in 40 places.

All of them are equipped with a maximum power generation of 50 kW.

It is equipped with a medium and low frequency digital telegraph transceiver with low operating power but long transmission distance, and the rate of receiving and transmitting information exceeds 100kb/s.

The relevant technicians have also been trained to use these telegraph devices proficiently and can deal with some simple fault problems.

In addition, a special telegraph office was set up to manage the forty telegraph stations scattered throughout the Ming Dynasty, so that an important piece of information could be transmitted throughout the country within five minutes, and an extremely rapid response could be made.

After the establishment of this telegraph system, the significance brought by it is too great, which is equivalent to entering the primary information society, and can enjoy all kinds of conveniences.

For example, if you send a letter to your family and send it at a telegraph station, your family may receive it in two or three hours, and the timeliness is excellent, without having to wait for a long one or two months, and there is also the possibility of losing the letter.

For example, the transmission of military intelligence and intelligence.

For example, assisting with bank transfers.

And so on and so forth.

It is unimaginable that all kinds of conveniences brought by informatization can be described as unimaginable, even if it is only a primary informatization.

Of course!

The main purpose of Xu Yuan's establishment of this telegraph station system is not to transmit family letters, military information, etc., but to be able to simultaneously distribute the "Oriental Times" in the Ming Dynasty, and promote this newspaper to the entire territory of the Ming Dynasty at the speed of light.

……

March 7, afternoon.

Harbour City, the newspaper office of the Oriental Times.

Wu Siming, the president, took the first edition of the printed newspaper that had just been released, and introduced to Xu Yuan beside him: "Lord Zhuang, this is the first edition of the "Oriental Times" that we are about to issue, and tomorrow morning, it will be published in forty places in the Ming Dynasty and appear in front of everyone. ”

"It uses color printing technology, and the pictures are close to the truth, which makes people more confident in the authenticity of the content of the report."

"The simplified vernacular text used for horizontal reading, ordinary people can understand the content of the report, of course, in order to make the Ming intellectual group understand, we also attach a comparison table of 2,000 commonly used words in the back to facilitate them"

"As for the content of newspapers and periodicals, it is military, current political commentary, social and people's livelihood, human geography, etc., and the font is clear, the pictures are beautiful, the content is rich and interesting, and it simply includes all the big and small things in the world.

Wu Siming said excitedly.

"Hmm~"

Xu Yuan nodded, he spent hundreds of millions of dollars in modern society, purchased countless equipment, and then built a telegraph station, and set up a newspaper office, and he was busy so much, didn't he just want to win the right to speak and the leading power of public opinion in the Ming Dynasty?

Even color printing has been obtained, isn't it just to establish the advantage of dimensionality reduction?

"Starting tomorrow, in the territory of the whole Ming Dynasty, the official release of the "Oriental Times", the first issue will print 1 million copies, priced at 10 articles, no, just price 5 articles, so that the vast majority of people can afford it."

Xu Yuan clapped his hands and said.

"Yes, owner!"

Wu Siming's heart was dripping with blood, the cost of paper for the first issue of "Oriental Times" was four or five wen, counting other costs, it would be a loss to sell twenty wen a copy, but in order to get the so-called right to speak, no matter how much the loss was, it was worth it.