Wang San came back from a walk around the streets and alleys. After washing up, he solemnly tore off the page of yesterday on the month card with his hands that were still smelling fragrant. So a brand new day appeared on the calendar, and a red hook was also written on the calendar. This day was the day when he went to the Academic Affairs Department for an interview. n∈n∈,

As long as he passes this interview, he will be officially transferred to the Beijing University to be a lecturer.

For Wang San, the world has changed its dynasty and his life has also changed a lot. Not to mention that he may be promoted now, even the house he lives in is new, and there are many new decorations in his home.

Just like the fragrant panicles used for bathing, the month sign hanging on the wall, and the self-ringing bell on the table that kept making rattles, they were all useless before.

The seven-day and one-week seven-day calendar, day, month, fire, water, wood, metal, and earth start from the sun, and the seven-day calendar is a week, and it starts again and again.

The 24-hour record of the day has now begun to be passed through various government agencies. The new day starts from midnight to midnight for officials, but from the bottom of his heart, he still likes to see the morning light penetrate into the courtyard as the beginning of the day.

The biggest impact of the Seven Yao calendar and twenty-four hours is that the officials can rest for two days every seven days, which is more time to take a break than the original ten-day break. In the yamen, it is also working from 9 to 5 now. If you go early, there will be no rewards. The new court pays more attention to work efficiency. The examination method strictly supervises the work process of the officials.

I don’t know who advocated the 24-hour timing method.

The self-tone bell on the table rang, and the sound was crisp, like a golden bell and bronze bell, and it hit seven times in a row. This was seven o'clock in the morning. Wang San liked this self-tone bell very much. Last month, he spent 100 silver dollars to buy one from the Royal Department Store.

The self-tone bell is actually nothing new. As early as a hundred years ago, Western missionaries brought this self-tone bell to China. However, for a long time since then, the self-tone bell belonged to Western people. It is both mysterious and precious, and only the homes of famous maritime merchants and high-ranking officials and gentry. In the palace, the royal relatives and nobles owned it, which is a symbol of identity.

In the past, Wang San's old boss had a self-tone bell at his home. His boss even specially built a bell tower for the self-tone bell and placed it inside. When guests and friends came to visit, they would invite guests and friends to have a banquet inside to enjoy and play together. He had the opportunity to see it once, and was amazed.

I remember that at that time he heard from his colleagues that his boss's bell was said to have cost thousands of taels of silver.

But now he also owns one, and even his clock is not as good as his boss at that time, but it is even more exquisite. This self-ringing bell bought from the Royal Department Store for 100 yuan is gold-plated copper, with a magnificent appearance. It has exquisite shapes and is decorated with brightly colored enamel paintings. The characters, birds and beasts are vividly painted.

The self-tone bell also has a glass door, transparent and colorless glass light, which adds a bit of luxury and dazzlingness of the self-tone bell.

But this gorgeous self-ringing bell costs only 100 yuan.

Wang San knew that although the self-tone bell was first brought by the Western Yi, the self-tone bells are now produced in the Xin Dynasty. There is a workshop in the suburbs of Beijing. There are industries under the emperor's name. Among them are workshops that specialize in the production of candles, matches, pancreas, and products such as glass, Qianli Miles and self-tone bells.

I heard that the bell factory has several large workshops, with more than a thousand bell craftsmen, and there are also tens of thousands of workers, apprentices, etc. The scale is so large that the people in the capital have called the bell factory Zhongcheng.

Several workshops in Zhongcheng manufacture different clocks, not only clocks but also watches. Clocks come in several sizes, usually two feet high, and some are three or four feet high, and even big clocks that are more than 1.

The largest clock they built was more than two meters in diameter and weighed more than 30,000 kilograms. This clock also has a special bell tower, just outside Chengtian Gate, the south gate of the imperial city. The newly built bell tower is as high as 33 meters, the hour finger and minute hands are nine feet and one 2 meters long, and the pendulum weighs seven hundred and twenty kilograms. It is more imposing and majestic than the original Bei'anmen Bell and Drum Tower in the north of the imperial city.

Now the imperial city is one north and one south, with bells and drum towers in the north and large bell towers in the south.

After the completion of this bell, it immediately became one of the new coordinates of the capital. The bell was called every hour, and the huge bell ringing could be heard throughout the capital. It was louder than the firecrackers in Xuanwu Gate and Desheng Gate in the past.

The full name of the clock factory is the Royal Watch Manufacturing Bureau of the Han Dynasty. They not only built this large bell tower that amazes countless people, but also built a large bell weighing tens of thousands of kilograms, but also built many smaller watches.

In addition to ringing the clock, they also make pocket watches. A watch that is not much bigger than a dragon yuan can be hung on the body with a chain and placed in a pocket. In this way, the clock is no longer just kept at home, but can be carried with you.

However, this small pocket watch is expensive and is more expensive than a self-tone clock.

Now, officials like Wang San can still buy a self-ringing bell if they want to buy it. However, only those rich and wealthy people can afford it. He has seen pocket watches in the Royal Shopping Mall, and they are basically gold watches. Each watch is extremely exquisite and has a high price, with almost starting at least 200 yuan.

He also saw a more peculiar watch in the mall, which was a watch tied to his wrist. However, these watches were made for noble women, but the price was even higher. A small watch would start at least 500 yuan.

What Wang San didn't know was that the Royal Watch Manufacturing Bureau has now become one of the most profitable industries under the emperor's name. His huge scale has given them extremely high production capacity, and the market has been quickly expanded through Royal Department Stores and East India Company. Now, from the Central Plains to Korea, Japan, even Vietnam, Myanmar, Nanyang and other places, the clocks they manufacture have been sold everywhere, while European watches cannot compete.

Like Dahan’s military manufacturing, the clocks and watches of the Manufacturing Bureau have long implemented division of labor, unified standard parts and assembly line operations. Different parts are handed over to a special part production workshop, and various parts are finally assembled and packaged.

Whether it is a self-tone clock, a pocket watch or a watch, it is a luxury product, something that only rich people can afford, so its profits are also extremely high.

The Royal Watch Manufacturing Bureau can produce one clock almost every ten minutes, reaching tens of thousands of clocks a year. This watch factory can bring considerable profits to the emperor every year, provide more than 10,000 jobs to the people of the capital, and pay a huge tax for the court.

Today, the great man has far surpassed Western European countries, whether it is muskets, artillery, or even shipbuilding, clocks, telescopes, glass, etc.

The Dutchman's shipbuilding industry ranks first in Europe. There are hundreds of shipyards in Amsterdam alone. The country can start construction of hundreds of ships at the same time. Their shipbuilding technology is also extremely advanced. The cost of ships is one-third to one-half less than that of the United Kingdom. Many European countries have come to the Netherlands to order ships.

Their merchant ship tonnage accounted for three-quarters of the total tonnage in Europe at that time, and had more than 10,000 merchant ships. There were often two or three thousand ships parked in the port of Amsterdam.

But now, countless Dutch shipbuilders are rushing to the Han Empire in the East, because the Han Dynasty had better conditions, stable domestic conditions, high salaries, no various taxes, light burdens, and the Han Dynasty did not discriminate against outsiders, especially without religious discrimination and persecution.

As long as you live by law and pay taxes according to law, everyone can live freely.

A large number of Europeans came to the East by boat, especially those who were stolen by war, such as Germany and Spain.

The Han naval expansion plan made the shipbuilding industry in Dahan quite prosperous today and won the golden age. In addition, the prosperity of maritime trade, the demand for merchant ships was also extremely high.

Now Dahan has thousands of shipyards of all sizes and sizes, and thousands of shipyards are started at the same time, and a ship can be built almost every hour.

As an old Beijing native, Wang San felt the changes brought about by the new dynasty.

The more abundant supplies, the more food and food, everyone's income has generally increased. There are opportunities to work and make money everywhere.

He changed into a new robe that he had just customized a few days ago and put on a pair of lambskin boots. Wang San stood in front of the dressing mirror, one-man tall, and looked up and down, left and right in the mirror many times. He didn't find any problems, and then he left the bedroom with a smile.

He took the hat from his maid and walked out with brisk steps. At the gate, the coachman at home had prepared a carriage, which he had newly purchased this year. The Mongolian horses transported from the mouth, the complete set of newly built carriages, and the accessories inside were also brand new.

He spent nearly 100 yuan to buy this carriage, and the horse price was 30 yuan. Because the carriage was a four-wheeled carriage, the accessories inside were also very good, so it was more expensive than the horse. In addition, he also paid a livestock transaction tax for buying a horse, and the carriage also paid a car and ship tax and license payment, which was about 100 yuan.

However, he felt that the money was worth it. He was driving on the wide street of Beijing in a four-wheeled carriage, which was more respectful and comfortable than before. The four-wheeled carriage did not shake, and it was much better than the two-wheeled carriage.

When the coachman saw him coming out, he quickly trotted forward and opened the door of the carriage with glass windows for him.

"Go to the Academic Affairs Office!"

"Okay, lord!" the coachman nodded in response.

The coachman waved his whip and the majestic Mongolian horse moved its hooves and ran lightly. The iron hooves hit the bluestone slab, making a crisp sound.

Wang San leaned against the soft seat, and there were several newspapers and magazines published today on the small table in front. Now there are more and more newspapers and magazines published in Beijing, including various morning newspapers, evening newspapers, weekly magazines, monthly magazines, etc., including dozens of newspapers, including the Royal Times, which have a huge circulation, and some tabloids with only a thousand copies.

Wang San has a hobby. He reads all the big and big newspapers. Now he has a carriage, and every day he goes out and sits in the carriage, which is when he reads the newspaper.

He picked up the Imperial Daily on the top, and the front page headlines were the news that the Holy Emperor left Beijing.

"The Holy Emperor of Longhan led 100,000 tigers out of Beijing, inspected the northern border outside the empire, and joined the Mongolian tribes!" (To be continued.) Mobile users, please visit http://m.piaotian.net
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