Scholars from Peking gathered.

There happened to be a doctor from Jinzhou, and Zhu Gaochi overrode the public opinion and invited two Jinzhou doctors to help consult Guo Cailian.

The two medical scholars congratulated Zhu Gaochi, and everything was normal during pregnancy.

Guo Cailian also complained a little about Zhu Gaochi's troubles.

"Some things need more than less, and some would rather have more." Zhu Gaochi said to Guo Cailian with a smile.

Guo Cailian complained, but her heart was still full of happiness and felt her husband's heart.

Guo Cailian's delivery is approaching, so she stays in the Shizifu.

Zhu Gaochi went to ask Concubine An.

and the third brother Zhu Gaosui went together.

"Big brother, a lot of people below have been making small moves recently, you really don't care?" Zhu Gaosui asked worriedly.

Beiping City is now full of emotions, in addition to the efforts of businessmen, there are also many actions of yamen and departments.

It has been a few months since Zhu Gaosui went to Shandong, and only two brothers remained in Beiping.

Zhu Gaochi shook his head.

"Some things I would rather take care of, and some things I would rather take care of."

Hearing what the eldest brother said, Zhu Gaosui didn't understand it a little, and asked curiously: "Hasn't the eldest brother been controlling all aspects of affairs?" ”

Zhu Gaochi smiled.

In fact, he really didn't control anything.

So far, what is really in control is energy prices on the one hand, and workers' wages on the other.

What is the Industrial Revolution?

Many people have seen some eye-catching self-media remarks, and even shouted that there must be a Renaissance before there is an industrial revolution.

All sorts of sanctify the West.

These people haven't read a few books.

Books that do not mention the theories of the industrial revolution by domestic scholars, just take the books written by the Englishman Robert Allen.

The Industrial Revolution was the reason for the British Revolution.

It was because of the lucrative environment in England that had three revolutionary technologies: the steam engine, the Jenny spinning machine, and the coke iron smelting.

These new machines and technologies have been used on a large scale in the UK, which happens to be a country where coal is relatively cheap and labor costs are quite expensive.

The opposite is true for countries outside the UK – labor is cheap and coal is expensive, so naturally these new inventions are not popularized there.

In countries outside the UK, the reality of the cost advantage of manpower over coal dictates the direction of new inventions – and the effort to invent a new set of machinery that cannot be marketed because of the high price of fuel will inevitably outweigh the costs.

Therefore, the steam engine for pumping water can be vigorously promoted in the United Kingdom, because the coal resources in the United Kingdom are abundant and the labor wages are high.

And Da Ming.

The Jianghuai region was the same as the original environment of the United Kingdom.

Relying on the prosperity of the textile industry, the per capita income of cottage industry is much higher than that of other regions.

However, the price of coal resources in the Jianghuai region is high, and the steam engine used for pumping water cannot be profitable.

Although Beiping has abundant coal resources, the labor price is low, and too much cheap manpower offsets the role of machinery.

In the course of the great development of British productivity, the first generation of steam engines that were operated in large quantities were given new developments.

The efficiency of the steam engine was greatly improved, and the use of coal mines was reduced, which allowed the steam engine to be promoted outside the United Kingdom.

After the physical environment did not have an advantage in the face of new technologies, the first industrial revolution took place in Britain, but in the second industrial revolution, Britain declined in an all-round way.

It is also the reason why Zhu Gaochi has depressed energy prices and raised per capita wages. Only by satisfying these two things did the steam engine for pumping water be vigorously promoted at the beginning.

Invention is inseparable from the market.

Therefore, Zhu Gaochi founded Zhonghua Heavy Industries, controlling all aspects of energy and organizations, and has done only two things so far.

Lower energy prices and raise per capita incomes.

But outsiders seem to be as if Zhu Gaochi is controlling everything.

Seeing the eldest brother's expression, Zhu Gaosui asked in wonder: "Then the spontaneous actions below, the eldest brother really doesn't care?" ”

"As long as we are within the framework of a unified purpose, we must allow the following to have their own ideas, so that we can form vitality, and we will not do extremely stupid things."

Zhu Gaochi said.

Things should be managed, but the specific process of affairs should not be controlled too much.

Otherwise, it will not only form an obstacle, but even some unreasonable things will happen, making the people feel extremely stupid and completely incomprehensible.

It is an absurd decree to be able to make the result of hurting others in the goal and not achieving it, but to hurt one's own people first.

The military-industrial joint office will crack down, and the military-industrial enterprises will also fight, and now even the cotton merchants have changed their attitude.

Both the people and the army want to fight.

It's already a profitable thing, why should Zhu Gaochi oppose it.

Just because he has bigger goals.

How to turn unfavorable things into favorable things, Zhu Gaochi found Chen Cheng.

"The population of Daming is too much."

For the first time, Zhu Gaochi said his true thoughts.

Chen Cheng didn't know why, and looked at Zhu Gaochi inexplicably, but the imperial court counted population growth into the performance evaluation project.

"When there are more people, there is no sense of crisis."

Zhu Gaochi said with a smile.

The best regions occupy the multiplying population, in the name of great unification, while the rest of the regions are full of tribal situations, and the population is 100,000 times more than the other.

So people are too comfortable.

Comfort does not repent until the end of death, because it has been covered by ease.

Opposite.

Because of the harsh living conditions and the confrontation with the cruel natural environment, the people of those areas are more united.

These are all things that history proves, including the Han Chinese.

In the great development of Fujian, which was called the land of smoke miasma in ancient times, the people who went south were very united in the struggle against nature and wild beasts and poisonous insects.

But as these places in Fujian were also developed, the originally united clans also began to fight infighting.

In a word.

It's so cozy.

Compared with the unity of others, it looks like a puddle of loose sand, laughed at and ridiculed without realizing it.

Crowds are strength.

However, if there are many people but there is no unity, they will not be able to exert their due strength.

"There is also the question of living space." Zhu Gaochi told Chen Cheng about his philosophy.

"The large well system will be unswervingly implemented in the whole Ming Dynasty, in addition to allowing people to maintain the environment of getting along with nature, knowing the existence of animal nature, and obtaining higher per capita resources, so that industrialization can be truly developed."

"Then we need more land, and the land in the north becomes more and more barren the further north you go, and the same goes to the west, and the rainfall is much lower."

"Then we can only go south, and the best is the area that Timur now occupies, where there are vast plains, numb people, all of which are problems that we can easily defeat."

Zhu Gaochi pointed to the map.

Chen Cheng looked dumbfounded.

"The railway from Jiayuguan to Hami, from Hami to Yili, when the railways in the two places are repaired, they will continue to be repaired."

"Following Timur's footsteps to the south, how he went, we built the railway along his route until the end."

Industrial sea.

Zhu Gaochi's industrial sea was pushed down all the way along the construction of the railway.

Whoever stands in the way will be extinguished.

Industrial hegemony.

As long as this expansion continues, Zhu Gaochi's large-scale infrastructure projects can be maintained and an unlimited market will be driven.

The development of domestic demand is a road, but relying purely on domestic demand cannot support such earth-shaking changes in Beiping in six years.

Daming will definitely not enter this mode internally, so it can only be external.

"To put it bluntly, it's looting, and unlike tradition, it's mainly resources that are looted, not pure gold, silver and jewelry."

Chen Cheng looked at the map blankly.

His heart went blank, and he was completely shocked and speechless.

Suddenly.

From the little prince beside him, Chen Cheng felt a chill, and he actually felt fear in his heart.

This path has not been possible in the past.

Because of the lack of productivity.

But Chen Cheng suddenly discovered that what the little prince said was possible, and the only concern was the railway.

Only by relying on the railways can the rest of the world keep up with such expansion.

"No wonder the little prince attaches so much importance to the railway built in Yili." Knowing Zhu Gaochi's plan, Chen Cheng had an understanding.

The profits of the cotton trade are not comparable to the construction of railroads.

But the social resource allocation model is not so simple to contrast.

In the process of building railways, it is the result of the great production of land resources, which is also a great increase in productivity, increasing the total social production and increasing the average resource possession of people.

And the process of expansion can be described as a fulcrum.

Although the profit is not enough to spend, it is still inseparable from this fulcrum, with this fulcrum, in order to maintain the development of the resource allocation model benignly.

"It will take a long time to build this railway, so I need to carry out reforms in the south and "evicte" the surplus agricultural population from the land. ”

Zhu Gaochi used the word expulsion.

"Only with sufficient manpower can we "force" them to go where we want them to go. ”

"Although the result is good for them, in the process, there will be a large number of people who cannot understand and even confront."

"It's going to take a lot of people."

Chen Cheng said bitterly.

It is not one or two hundred thousand immigrants, not even millions, but more likely millions, tens of millions, which only occurred when the Northern Song Dynasty fell.

"It's also creating a new market, isn't it?" Zhu Gaochi said with a smile.

Looking at the little prince's smile, Chen Cheng couldn't laugh a little.

He really didn't know how to describe the little prince's plan, let alone see whether it was good or bad.

Zhu Gaochi needed Chen Cheng to go to the Western Regions Province.

Only a talent like Xiang Chen Cheng who knows how to take advantage of the situation can make his plan get twice the result with half the effort.

A few days passed.

Chen Cheng left Beiping with Shami Chagan and Toto.

The two were in the carriage, reluctant to give up on Beiping City, which was far away, while Chen Cheng looked at the two silently.

What is the future of the region?

The attitude of the two decided everything.

Whether to die out or completely join the Ming Dynasty and become the power of the Ming Dynasty's expansion to Timur.

The two young men did not yet know how heavy the burden was on them.

(End of chapter)