Wanli is indeed a thief, and he completed the major event of coal mine specialization without saying a word.

I accidentally established the largest printing factory in the world.

The textbooks from the North and South Military Academy, Songjiang Academy of Literature, Beiyang and other places were all printed and published by Wanli Bookstore. Now he has formulated the rules for joining the "Epidemic Code" for the imperial examination, and then he has taken the power to complete the printing of this set of books.

"Fight with the people for profit? Which people I have competed with? I have paid for the miner's salary and the coachman's money. The coal prices in various places are high and low due to different routes, but they are generally 30% cheaper than before I was transferred to the Three Feudals. Those who say they compete for profits will go home and take a good look at my report and print it when you leave the palace."

"What, Wanli Bookstore? Wanli Bookstore is even more amazing. The total price of the five volumes of the "Epidemic Document" is five cents and silver. The whole world is unified. The farther I send, the more I lose money. It depends on the Beijing trip. No one in the world thinks it is expensive, and I don't expect the bookstore to make money."

Wanli was a stubborn and straitor in the court. For this data emperor, no one can beat him in a quarrel. When others say they compete for profit with the people, he put forward the coal prices two years ago, last year, and this year three years, and issued a wave of dimensional reduction attacks at a glance.

In the past, the court argued that it was to grasp the moral high ground and grasp it accurately. Now, just letting the people make profits, Wanli has already raised himself to the level of shit on the moral high ground and is invincible in the world.

After all, to be honest, no one is as sincere as him to go without making money.

Who does business without making money?

He is the only one, just don't pay too much money.

The different starting point of people confused the emperor. When the plague passed, he jumped out of the Forbidden City that made him bored and went to Tsinghua Park to play. There, he met Xu Guangqi, who managed the iron factory.

Xu Guangqi just returned from Wu'an County, Zhangde Prefecture, and opened fourteen iron factories there for Wanli in one go. There was no way, there were many iron ore in the area. He also encountered the difficulties Chen Mu encountered in Asia - Tielu and craftsmen were unwilling to work for the maximum production efficiency. Everyone thought it was against the circumstances and was not conducive to sustainable development.

Fortunately, behind this is the little emperor, who speaks a little better than Chen Mu in Asia.

"The thing was resolved?"

"After solving it, we are not using corvee labor. We have all paid wages. If we should worship the kiln god, we should worship the kiln god. If His Majesty's edict is issued, the craftsmen will understand." Xu Guangqi took a deep breath, feeling like he was living up to his trust, and said, "Nine of the fourteen iron plants are on the right track. Because the mines are located in the unfavorable location, the ore needs to be transported out of the mountain. I have chosen the most suitable location for building the cast iron bureau in the remaining five iron plants. 60% of the iron materials are used for casting rails every year. The rest of them process iron ingots and transported to the Beiyang - they are all in my report."

"In addition, the mining exploration craftsmen are also in Zhenbao Town, Shuntian Prefecture, Wanquandusi prospecting, and the northern Zhili area is really a blessed place."

Wanli shook his head with his hands behind his back: "What do you say, you report it to me in detail."

"There are many iron, gold, fluorite, limestone, and quartz inside and outside the Great Wall in the north of the Great Wall in the north of the Seitou area; there are many iron ore; there are many iron ore in Guangping Prefecture and Zhangde Prefecture in the west, and iron ore in the iron ore."

"These ores from south to north can be processed in Beiyang, but the transportation capacity cannot keep up. The terrain in the Beizhi area is flat and the water network is intertwined. You have to build bridges and build railways."

Xu Guangqi was extremely serious when he said this. He took out a map from his arms and gave it to the emperor, and compared it with his hands to draw a tic toe on it, saying, "I suggest that Your Majesty surround Beijing and build such four tic toe railways."

Wanli looked at the map and raised his hand to gesture to the east of Beijing and said, "This road already exists, which means I have to build three more roads? After all, can Beiyang survive? "

"able."

"The Beiyang has the world's leading military weapon bureau. All the best craftsmen go there, guarding both the river and the sea kou. Nanyang is also purchasing from Beiyang for steamboat decks, at least the iron ore can be eaten."

The deck Xu Guangqi mentioned is not a ship deck, but a steel deck that is riveted and covered by a steamer outside the wooden hull.

Steamboats are a little faster than ordinary sailboats in a short distance, but they are limited. Their coal-eating characteristics make it faster and their speed advantage is less obvious. However, they have a low impact on the environment. No matter where the wind blows, the steamboat can run, which gives it a great advantage in long-distance voyages.

But it is more fragile and requires a thicker hull.

Generally speaking, it is not a big problem for sailboats to penetrate the thick hull on the waterline by artillery, but this is fatal to steamboats. Whether it is the air pipe or the boiler, as long as they are hit by shells, it is a small matter, and it is a big matter to not be able to serve people in the cabin.

Better protection requires a thicker hull, while the steamboat holds two or even four largest models of Huod Star Lord, and its load capacity is much smaller than that of sailboats. To seek better protection, steel plates have to be used - of course, the iron is much heavier, but a certain thickness of wood shell is combined with a certain thickness of iron shell, which has better protection against shells than a thicker wood shell.

Especially the iron shell has excellent protection against rockets, which is the flowering bullet that cuts out different lead lengths in advance and is lit and stuffed into the muzzle and blasts it out and then blows it up again.

The researchers at the Nanjie Hall were bored and tried the wooden boat with large Shenwei arrows. As long as they were lucky, they could pierce the sailboat, which would have certain lethality to the ship. The ignited flowering bomb was embedded in the hull, and the destructive power could only be described as horror.

Therefore, newly built steamships often choose this protection method.

"I understand. I will go back to discuss with the Minister of Works. The plague has just passed and I am a little tight on my hands."

Wanli said this deeply, but in fact, it was a plague that made him spend all his pocket money.

He learned very well from Chen Mu. For example, when Chen Mu was in Nanyang, the income from the initial establishment of the Nanyang Military Palace was divided into several parts, including those who encouraged education, those who encouraged the development of science and technology, those who saved it for the emperor, those who handed it over to the court, and those who kept it for disaster relief.

The same is true for Wanli's money. He secretly kept the money and left several copies for one expense. For example, for disaster relief, he kept five copies, three of which were kept last year, and the other two copies were 50,000 taels each, which were used to provide relief to the victims outside the court.

This year's plague is not considered disaster relief. Wanli had no experience in encountering such a thing before, so he rewarded the doctor and the money he used to provide relief to the people. He used his pocket money.

He has been thinking about a question in this period, whether to withdraw a little from the other money he left to help him.

After all, he had just started this year and had already spent all his pocket money.
Chapter completed!