Based on the news about several overseas gold and silver mines, you want to take away 40 million taels of silver?

Even if there is news about overseas gold and silver mines, wouldn't it be our Ming Dynasty that we have to send troops to fight them down? If we want to send troops to fight them down, don't we have to ask the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion to expand the army first?

Do you think Honbudo is stupid?

Also, after raising my little Nier for seventeen years, she has been targeted by Zhu Erdan for a long time?

Okay, Mr. Yu, I, Liu Huaiwen, lost my hair for your old Zhu family in the court, and privately, your brother, Emperor Zhu, wants to kidnap my little Nier and elope?

It’s so bullying!

The more Liu Huaiwen thought about it, the angrier he became: "If Zhu Erdan dares to elope with my little Nier, I will break his legs!"

Zhu Jinsong's face turned dark immediately: "Uncle Huaiwen, I said that once I kidnapped my little girl, I didn't say that he would dare to kidnap her and run away with her, right? If he has the guts, I will break his legs first.

, it’s not your turn.”

Liu Huaiwen snorted dissatisfied and said: "Why can't it be my turn? If he gets married to Xiao Nier, I will be his father-in-law. Isn't this a natural thing for a father-in-law to beat his son-in-law?"

Zhu Jinsong also snorted: "Okay, okay, I won't argue with you on this. Anyway, I will give you at most 40,000 taels from the treasury, and the rest will have to go to internal funds. I will increase investment in the Royal College and the University."

, without this money, what do you want me to do with it?"

Liu Huaiwen was stunned and asked: "Forty million taels, all of them were thrown at the Royal Academy and the University?"

Zhu Jinsong nodded and said: "I want to turn these 40 million taels of silver into four million taels of silver, half of which will be poured into the Royal Academy, and the other half will be used for the construction of private schools and universities."

"It's not too late to smash them now. If it takes a few hundred years for other barbarians to develop, even if we want to spend money to smash them, we won't be able to get results."

Now is indeed a good time to spend money, because the world's technological level is the same. Daming has achieved a lead in many aspects. The next thing to do is to continue to spend money to maintain its advantage.

If it were later, when other countries had developed and built their own patent barriers, even if Ming wanted to spend money, it would be difficult to achieve any results.

But Liu Huaiwen still felt a little distressed - that was 40 million taels of silver!

As the saying goes, those who are close to Zhu are red, and those who are close to Mo are dark. After spending a long time with Zhu Jinsong, Liu Huaiwen also likes to study other people's things. He has to study both good and bad ones, and then "choose the good ones and follow them."

, if it’s not good, then change it.”

Liu Huaiwen had communicated with Pierre, Macartney, Thomson and others, and studied how the financial systems of Britain, France and the Foolish Eagle family worked.

The problem is that Liu Huaiwen feels doubtful about life precisely because he has studied it.

Although these countries also attach great importance to education and scientific research, I have never heard of anyone spending as much money on infrastructure and basic education as the Ming Dynasty did.

For example, the investment in education in these countries accounts for about 4% of fiscal revenue. This includes basic education and higher education. However, Ming Dynasty only invested in basic education such as social studies and county schools.

The investment accounts for about 10% of the fiscal revenue.

Now Emperor Zhu feels that spending money on infrastructure and basic education is not enough, and he wants to spend money on scientific research and university education?

After thinking about it, Liu Huaiwen couldn't help but persuaded: "Your Majesty, this money did not come from the strong wind after all. There is only one He Zhongtang in the world. Once this money is spent, what will happen in the future?"

Zhu Jinsong said: "So I have to use these 40 million taels of silver to make money - as long as the Royal Academy can maintain its leading position in the world, the treasury of other countries will be the leeks of our Ming Dynasty."

"For example, it is precisely because the steam engine developed by the Royal Academy is more advanced than that of the barbarians in Europa, so they have to buy it from us. It is precisely because the percussion gun developed by the Royal Academy is more advanced than the flintlock musket, so we can use the percussion gun

Sold all over the world.”

Liu Huaiwen also accepted Zhu Jinsong's statement.

After a while, Liu Huaiwen raised his head, looked at Zhu Jinsong and said, "Let's talk about the gold and silver mines."

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Being an emperor is a tiring job.

Although my wife is a stunning beauty who is chosen only one out of ten thousand or even one out of a million, and although I am rich all over the world, and my words are easy to follow, and a word can make a country prosperous, a word can destroy a country, but being an emperor is really tiring.

Just like now, Zhu Jinsong had just been knocked off 40,000 taels of silver by Liu Huaiwen, and then he was caught in the back by Liang Xiude, the leader of the Royal Academy.

The purpose of Liang Xiude's visit to Zhu Jinsong was simple: the current oil reserves of Ming Dynasty could not be said to be insufficient, but quite sufficient, and even the consumption of the Royal Academy could not be satisfied.

Don't doubt why the word "oil" appeared in Ming Dynasty, because the first person to name oil was Shen Kuo who wrote "Mengxi Bi Tan", which dates back to the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty.

"Mengxi Bi Tan·Petroleum": There is oil in the Yan territory. It was said in the past that "Gaonu County produces fat water", that's what it is... I know that the smoke can be used, and I tried to sweep the smoke into ink. The black light is like paint, but not as good as pine ink.

Yes, this thing will become popular in the world.

This is just a name for oil.

Historical records of the application of oil can be traced back to the Western Han Dynasty. According to records in the "Book of Han", in the northern Shaanxi region of the Western Han Dynasty, local people began to collect and use oil to make fire.

In the Han Dynasty, people in the Central Plains began to use it to illuminate and lubricate axles. Even since the Northern and Southern Dynasties, petroleum once became a good medicine for treating hair loss and other diseases in traditional Chinese medicine. By the Song Dynasty, graphite and paraffin made of petroleum were even more popular.

An indispensable luxury item for the class.

Of course, based on the principle that any good thing should be used in the military first, the most important use of oil is in fighting wars.

Compared with the ancient Greeks who used oil to light fires on the battlefield, the Central Plains Tangkou developed a "fierce oil tank" that specifically sprayed petroleum flames. The Song Dynasty developed a "tube" that used petroleum as fuel, which was the Song Dynasty's version of burning.

bomb.

Gu Ying/span It is recorded in the Song Dynasty document "Yesterday Dream" that during the Song-Xia War, the Song Dynasty army built a fortress. The first thing they had to do was to dig trenches, usually several feet deep trenches, to reserve the oil needed for the battle.

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During the Qingli period of the Northern Song Dynasty, Zhongyuan Tangkou developed the percussion drilling technology. This technology of deep drilling using simple tools was the predecessor of modern oil industry drilling technology. By the 16th year of Zhengde in the Ming Dynasty, Jiazhou, Sichuan

The first official oil well in the Ming Dynasty was built.

Until this time, Zhongyuan Tangkou is still at the forefront of the world in terms of oil application and mining technology!

Such advanced oil extraction technology was also written into the scientific book "Tiangong Kaiwu" by Song Yingxing in the late Ming Dynasty, becoming another witness to the brilliance of ancient Chinese science and technology.

It is a pity that the Ming monarchs and saints of the Qing Dynasty are not interested in things like science and technology. Instead, they prefer to play with words. Including "Tiangong Kaiwu", any books involving science and technology cannot escape.

Forbidden destiny.

What's even more pity is that the Qing Dynasty was able to prevent the spread of these books in China, but it could not prevent them from becoming popular overseas. As a result, a large number of advanced craftsmanship was lost. In the end, it was learned and improved by others, and a lot of bronzes were successfully upgraded to kings.

, the original king was turned into scrap metal by the Qing Dynasty.

After the Treaty of Shimonoseki, when the Qing Dynasty wanted to dig its own oil wells, they were shocked to find that all oil-related technologies, from oil location exploration, to mining technology, to equipment, etc., were gone.

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Of course, Zhu Jinsong is not particularly concerned about King bronze and scrap iron now. After all, Zhu Jinsong has recovered the password of the original King number. Daming is back online, and there will probably be no scrap iron or the like in the future.

Bad things.

Zhu Jinsong is concerned about why there is not enough oil in Daming.

Although thanks to the miraculous operations of the Qingming emperors and saints, the oil mining technology in Zhongyuan Tangkou has not made any progress in the more than 150 years since the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, and most of the original oil wells have been mined out.

, only a few artesian wells can be used now, so that even the consumption of the Royal Academy cannot be met.

But then again, in a land as big as Ming Dynasty, there are many artesian wells. No matter how low the daily output is, it must be at least several hundred kilograms, right?

How many kilograms does your Royal College consume in a day?

Faced with Zhu Jinsong's question, Liang Xiude became anxious at the time: "How many kilograms? A few thousand kilograms is barely enough!"

"Wei Chen discovered that the scientific research His Majesty mentioned is actually boiling water in a different way."

"Steam engines boil water, and steam engines and locomotives naturally boil water. All machines based on steam engines boil water."

"Since it's also about boiling water, why not use oil to boil water?"

"I and my colleagues in the college are finally trying to distill and separate oil. We plan to see what is in the oil and why it is so resistant to burning. This will inevitably consume a lot of money."

"This test really allowed me to try something out - several different oils can be extracted from petroleum, and the residue left over from the oil refining can also be used to pave roads. It can be considered as a good use of everything."

Zhu Jinsong looked at Liang Xiude with a confused expression.

If these experts in the Royal Academy can distill several different oils, Zhu Jinsong has no doubt that the kettle distillation method can do it.

The question is what did Liang Xiude just say?

The essence of scientific research is to boil water?

Although there is nothing wrong with this conclusion, why is it so awkward?

Just when Zhu Jinsong was thinking about how to explain the problem of boiling water, Liang Xiude continued: "There are also steam locomotives and lathes, and some breakthroughs have been made recently."

"As long as the goods being pulled remain unchanged, the speed of a steam locomotive can already reach a speed of eighty miles per hour, which is nearly twice as fast as the earliest steam locomotives."

"There are also textile machines, the efficiency of which is much higher than before."

"In short, the money Your Majesty spent on the Academy of Sciences in the past few years has paid off more or less recently."

"Only in terms of electricity, there has been no progress recently."

Speaking of this, Liang Xiude said with confidence: "However, Academician Fan from the Royal Academy has proposed a new theory. As long as it is verified and passed, then the research on electricity will usher in a major breakthrough."

"Of course, if Academician Fan's theory comes true, then boiling water will still be indispensable in the end - this is why Wei Chen said that the essence of scientific research is to boil water."

"It is also for this reason that the demand for oil is greater."

Zhu Jinsong continued to be confused.

After finally getting rid of Liang Xiude, Zhu Jinsong simply summoned Zeng Cheng and other big guys.

There was no way, these things proposed by Liang Xiude involved almost every aspect of the Ming Dynasty, and directly disrupted all the plans for the next three years that Zeng Cheng and other big guys had just made.

The first to bear the brunt are the Railway Department and the Transportation Department, which have just been subordinated to the Ministry of Industry.

The third one is the Commercial Department under the Ministry of Household Affairs.

By the way, there is also the trouble of the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion - not to mention that there are not many oil fields in Ming Dynasty. Even if oil can be dug out everywhere, Zhu Jinsong doesn't want to dig it.
Chapter completed!