Chapter 148: Power Station, Incandescent Lamp
On the high platform of Xingjing Square, Zhou Xian was wearing a black dragon robe and was burning incense to worship his ancestors, while Wang Yongji was reciting the sacrifice next to him.
The reason why he wears a black dragon robe is because Zhou Shi Huang believes in the Taoist theory of yin and yang and the five elements, according to the difference between gold, wood, water, fire and earth in the five elements, the north corresponds to the water is black, and Zhou Shi Huang used a black dragon robe.
Since Zhou Xian is under the banner of recovering the Zhou Dynasty, he naturally has to inherit the mantle of Zhou Shihuang in terms of surface clothing, as for what some people say about black and ominous superstitious words, Zhou Xian, as a modern person, scoffs.
Xingjing and all the officials of Shandong and Shanxi stood below and waited, their faces were happy, Zhou Xian became the emperor, and they would rise and be reused, after all, Zhou Xian had too few civil officials under him, and they were not enough at all.
Two hours later, Zhou Xian finally completed the ancestor worship and returned to the former mansion, which is now the palace, under the escort of a group of special forces.
Zhou Xian's mansion has been fenced for several miles, and the mansion has also been renovated to be magnificent.
Originally, Zhou Xian didn't want to go to such great lengths, but under the repeated requests of Zhou Fugui and others, Zhou Xian had no choice but to give in and ask for a simple repair.
In fact, this is mainly for Zhou Xian's safety, after all, Zhou Xian is the emperor, and safety is naturally the first.
In the main hall of the new mansion, Zhou Xian was sitting on the dragon chair, and all the Xingjing cadres and Shandong officials were standing in the main hall.
"Long live my emperor, long live!"
The people bowed and bowed.
"Zhong Aiqing is flat!"
Zhou Xianxue said as he had seen it on TV before.
"Our goal of establishing the Great Zhou Empire is the same as our goal of establishing the Star Society, which is to protect our Han family, build a dignified country where everyone can eat and live, and let our Chinese people no longer be harassed by foreign enemies!"
After everyone got up, Zhou Xian announced in a high voice.
"Long live the Great Zhou Empire! Long live our emperor!"
Everyone congratulated in unison again.
After talking about ideology and politics again, it is the appointment and dismissal of official positions, and Zhou Xian plans to roughly use the official system of the Ming Dynasty now, because this system is relatively complete, and it will be slowly changed in the future.
If the change is too big now, it may backfire, and the main task now is to let more talented people join their Great Zhou Empire, and after they unify the world, how to reform is not just a matter of their own words.
Then there was the arrangement of official positions, Zhou Fugui served as the Taifu, and the Taifu was the emperor's assistant minister, in charge of the formulation and promulgation of the etiquette law.
Daniel Zhang made a general, and because Zhou Xian practiced the separation of military and government, Daniel Zhang was only a title and had no real power in Korea.
Zhang Changfeng served as the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, also known as the Winter Official, in charge of various projects, craftsmen, tuntian, water conservancy, transportation and other government decrees.
Teng Haoran served as the secretary of the household department, also known as the local official, in charge of the country's land, household registration, taxation, currency, official income, fiscal revenue and expenditure.
Zhang Jixiang served as the political envoy of the general political envoy.
Chen Kaizhi and Song Yingxing both served as ministers of science and technology, and they were the second grade of official residence, which was a special department of Zhou Xian.
Wang Yongji used to be the governor of the Ming Dynasty, so Zhou Xian promoted him to be the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, also known as the Spring Official, who was in charge of the country's rules and regulations, rituals, schools, imperial examinations and foreign affairs activities.
A few hours later......
The appointment and dismissal of all official positions have been completed, and basically all those who have joined the Star Club have been given official positions, although some people have high official positions and some people have low official positions, but everyone has no complaints.
Because they all have a thought of both awe and worship for Zhou Xian, they have no complaints about any decision Zhou Xian makes, they will only behave well in front of Zhou Xian, so that Zhou Xian will pay attention to them.
After arranging all the official positions, Zhou Xian also ordered to vigorously publicize in the newspapers that the Great Zhou Empire welcomes all people of insight to join, as long as they have real skills, they can be officials.
After this news was sent, the entire Ming Dynasty suddenly shook, and everyone who felt that they had a little talent rushed to Xingjing.
After becoming addicted to being an emperor, Zhou Xian summoned Xue Yi, director of the Electric Power Bureau, at his mansion.
Xue Yi was also named a five-rank official, and the department was called the Electric Power Bureau, and as soon as Xue Yi saw Zhou Xian, he knelt down, "Xue Yi meets the emperor!"
"Director Xue, please get up!"
Although Zhou Xian doesn't like this set of etiquette, he can't abolish this all at once, after all, this is something that has been in China for thousands of years, and it is not so easy to abolish it.
This needs to wait until science and technology develop in the future, and everyone has a scientific spirit, so that these etiquettes can be slowly abolished.
"I came to you to ask you how the construction of the thermal power station is?" After Xue Yi stood up, Zhou Xian asked.
"Back to the emperor, the thermal power station has been basically completed, and it will be ready for use in about seven days." Xue Yi replied respectfully.
"Okay, well, your construction speed is quite good, how many generator sets are there, how much power is there?" Zhou Xian first praised him, and then asked.
"So far only three generator sets have been built, one with 10,000 kWh of power."
A kilowatt-hour is a unit of energy measurement that represents the amount of energy consumed by an appliance with a power of one kilowatt after one hour of use.
These are the basic knowledge that Zhou Xian handed them the Academy of Electric Power.
"That's 30,000 kilowatt hours of power, which should be enough for our current Xingjing, how about the installation of street lights and transformers?"
Zhou Xian asked about the street lights and transformers again, if there were no transformers, the electricity generated by the power station would not be available.
"The street lights and transformers have been installed, and we are waiting for the generators at the power station to start generating electricity."
These Xue Yi had already been arranged, if it weren't for the fact that the generator was really difficult to manufacture, he would have been able to use the generator to generate electricity.
"Well done, after the official work of the power station, I will give you a credit, more power stations will be built in the future, we will replace the steam engine of the factory with electric motors, and we Xingjing will first fully enter the era of electricity!"
Zhou Xian is really nostalgic for the days when there was electricity, and finally has electricity again, which makes Zhou Xian very happy.
Then he asked Xue Yi to give his mansion, no, it should be said that it is the palace now, install wires and light bulbs, and Zhou Xian wants to make the entire palace as bright as day at night.
The incandescent lamp has already been manufactured in the Electric Power Academy, under the leadership of the deputy squad leader Nie Qingyu.
In Yixing County, Changzhou Prefecture, Zhou Yanru looked at the letter in his hand, and his hands trembled unconsciously.
Zhou Yanru, who is 54 years old, does not look old, but looks very haggard, after all, anyone who falls from the high position of the first assistant of the cabinet to the bottom of the top 10,000 people under one person will be deeply hit, or Zhou Yanru has a good mentality, otherwise it is possible to commit suicide.
Although Chongzhen thinks that what Zhou Yanru did should be killed, but from Zhou Yanru's own point of view, what he did was not wrong, and now that the Qing army is strong, he negotiated with the Qing army just to stabilize the situation.
Many things are not under people's control, and the development of things is not carried out according to Zhou Yanru's ideas, and he has no choice.
This is a letter from the capital, sent by one of Zhou Yanru's protégés, the letter said that because someone exposed his crime in front of the emperor, the emperor may have to hold him accountable and let him not enter the capital, otherwise he may be kicked to death.
Zhou Yanru knew Chongzhen's character, if he really entered Beijing, it would definitely be a dead end, but Zhou Yanru didn't want to die yet.
Just as he was thinking about what to do, he suddenly saw the Xingjing Daily on the table.