Daming: The system rejected my request for salted fish

Chapter 1141

The current problem of the Ming Dynasty is that the reserves of iron ore are insufficient, and there are not enough iron smelting sites capable of smelting the ore.

After the iron ore reserves were smelted, most of them were used in railway construction, and there was not much iron left.

Even when Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the surrounding small countries to pay tribute of iron ore, those small countries happily agreed.

However, due to limited transportation capacity, it was impossible to transport large amounts of iron ore to the Ming Dynasty as quickly as possible.

Even if it is transported here, the iron ore still needs to be transported to various ironmaking plants separately, which takes a lot of time.

Fortunately, Wei Wu went back halfway and solved the problem, which saved a lot of time later.

Another problem is manpower. The ironworks are not so bad, as there are many craftsmen among the people. We just need to recruit and train them.

There are many talents in this field in the Academy of Science and Technology. Letting them share their experience and knowledge will solve this problem.

But the most important aspect is manufacturing. In order to make a rifle, in addition to steel, you also need the help of machine tools.

The quantity that Wei Wu took out was limited. Although Sun Chang was also making them, this thing was much more troublesome than making a gun.

In addition to the problem with the motor, the key is to debug the accuracy. If the accuracy is not enough, it is impossible to process metal.

At the same time, there are not enough people who can operate machine tools, so some people were specially selected and recruited for training.

Fortunately, the imperial court fully cooperated with the Academy of Science and Technology, and solved any problems in a timely manner and provided considerable assistance.

However, even so, it took a year and a half to barely replace 80% of the guard posts with new equipment.

In comparison, Xu Miao made rapid progress. It must be said that this student is indeed a genius in chemistry.

Not only did he master the relevant knowledge very quickly, but he was also very good at teaching when imparting knowledge to others.

The Miaohua Institute is now different from before, and he has a group of very good chemical talents under his command.

He also led these people to prepare sufficient mercury fulminate to supply the Military Academy with for the manufacture of bullets and artillery shells.

During this process, Xu Miao did not stop pursuing knowledge, and of course this was inseparable from Wei Wu's help.

During this year and a half, Wei Wu returned to the capital twice, and both times he took some time out to teach Xu Miao.

Xu Miao himself was also very hardworking. Despite his busy schedule, he still took time out to learn the knowledge taught by Wei Wu.

Now the relevant knowledge of three acids and two bases has taken root in his mind, and what remains is only the matter of practical operation and application.

Of course, Wei Wu not only taught Xu Miao, but also others. He also taught them a lot of basic knowledge.

I have to say that interest is really the best teacher. Wei Wu’s teaching quality may not be as high as that of later teachers.

However, the students' ability to absorb knowledge is many times stronger than that of students in later generations. It can be said that each of them is a super academic master.

In the two and a half years since the establishment of the Institute of Science and Technology, they have learned the basic knowledge of the subjects they are good at.

Wei Wu did not plan to teach the subsequent advanced knowledge himself, but directly gave them books and let them study it on their own.

It’s not that Wei Wu wants to be lazy, but he is a little desperate in teaching. The researchers only need to study their respective subjects.

But he needs to learn all the subjects before he can teach them. He was not so diligent when he was in school!

Anyway, the current situation of the Academy of Science and Technology is enough to cope with the current development of Ming Dynasty, so he doesn't want to be so tired.

In the following period of time, the researchers only need to study on their own, while Wei Wu will control the general direction.

In addition to the Academy of Science and Technology, Daming has also seen very big changes in other aspects in the past year and a half.

The first step was to distribute the tax based on the amount of land used. After a year and a half, the entire Ming Dynasty had completed the land reform.

Although it was still the early Ming Dynasty, a large number of hidden household population were released by relying on the policy of equalizing the land tax.

It has to be said that the landlords and gentry were really powerful. Only a dozen years after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, they had hidden more than one million illegal households.

You have to know that this was only the early days of the dynasty, and the entire Ming Dynasty had a population of only 70 million, and as many as one-seventieth of the population were unregistered.

After these people were released, the court did not punish them, but only recorded all of their details.

At the same time, they were told that the court would not pursue the matter, but would relocate them to other places to live.

And we guarantee that they will be provided with the most basic living security so that they can settle down and live a good life in the new place.

Although the imperial court did not specify where it was, those illegal residents were still very excited. After all, they had hope for the future.

As for where these people will be assigned, it is of course to make preparations in advance for building a city outside the Great Wall in the future!

These illegal immigrants have no land, and many of them don’t even have the means to make a living, and they can’t even find their families.

It was not possible to just leave it alone, so the court simply arranged for them to build cement roads and railways.

After all, whether it is a cement road or a railway, Wei Wu has repeatedly emphasized that it is absolutely not allowed to withhold workers' wages.

In addition, two meals a day must be provided. As long as there is work, food and wages, the illegal immigrants will be happy.

Although the construction costs will be higher, the efficiency is beyond doubt. Today's cement roads have completely changed.

Due to time constraints, the entire Southern Zhili could not be completed, but most of the area had been built.

In addition, the imperial court abolished the road permit system, and now there are too many pedestrians traveling on the cement roads in the south of the Yangtze River.

The income generated from various supporting facilities and tolls also made the investors of the Sihai Chamber of Commerce smile from ear to ear.

Such a profitable thing naturally attracted people who wanted to participate, so Zhu Biao launched two more biddings.

Cement road construction projects in other areas were also released, but several conditions were set in the bidding.

First of all, the standards for building cement roads must be the same as those built by Wei Wu. The court will send people to inspect them, and if they do not meet the standards, they will be rebuilt.

Secondly, all successful bidders must recruit a large number of unregistered workers during construction, and their treatment will also be based on Wei Wu's standards.

Although the bidder was somewhat dissatisfied, he still accepted it. When Wei Wu learned about this, he laughed on the spot.

It was just one bidding, but it achieved the result of killing three birds with one stone. It was all thanks to Zhu Biao!