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Volume 4: The Empire Ascends to the East Chapter 105: Beijing City

After the death of Alexei Mikhailovich reached Moscow, the ministers supported him and his ex-wife's eldest son Fealdo as the third tsar of the Romanov family. After a ritual was held, the new tsar led his ministers to withdraw from Moscow. On the third day after the new tsar withdrew from Moscow, Racine's team entered the unguarded Moscow. With the support of many subordinates, Racine announced that he became the Russian tsar and Russia entered the era of the double emperors.

When the Ming Dynasty received the news of Alexey Mikhailovich's death, it was July of the 28th year of Hongguang. The emperor was in the Forbidden City in Beijing. This was the second time that the emperor had moved into the Forbidden City since he captured Beijing.

The railway between the two Beijings has been opened last year, which greatly shortened the journey from Nanjing to Beijing, from the original few months to only two days, greatly facilitating the emperor's travel. Since the recovery of the capital, the emperor has never come to the north again. At the moment, the Ming Dynasty is peaceful, so the emperor naturally moved to You Xing.

Beijing City, which has not had an emperor for decades, seems to have dispersed its monarchy. Although it has been more than twenty years since the Manchus withdrew from the capital, the population of Beijing has also recovered to as many as 500,000, and it is still the largest city in the north. However, compared to the prosperity of the Ming capital, it cannot be compared to the same day.

Although Beijing is still the center of goods exchange between the north and the south, it is just that without hundreds of thousands of troops stationed, without royal concubines and hundreds of thousands of consumer groups, how can it be as prosperous as before?

The arrival of the emperor was warmly welcomed by the people in the city. As a resident of Beijing, of course, I hope that Beijing can become the capital of the Ming Dynasty again and restore its previous prosperous situation.

As the Imperial City of Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years, the Forbidden City has been a symbol of the capital of Ming Dynasty. Since the regaining, the Ministry of Works has been allocating funds for maintenance. Now the burned Hall of Supreme Harmony has been renovated, and the rest of the places have been renovated. The entire Forbidden City looks magnificent.

Although the imperial palace in Nanjing has been renovated several times, it is not comparable to the Forbidden City in terms of area and appearance. After living in the Forbidden City for more than ten days, Wang Fu was reluctant to leave.

In the end, the Forbidden City cannot last long. When Chengzu moved the capital from Nanjing to Beijing, in addition to being his earlier fiefdom, he was more in order to maintain military pressure on the Mongols. Now that things have changed, both Mongolia and Jurchens have become past mists. The entire Siberia has become the object of the Ming Dynasty. Naturally, Wang Fu did not need to move the capital from Nanjing again.

After staying in Beijing for a few more days, Wang Fu's carriage would have to conduct an intermittent tour of the north. Of course, the emperor went out of Beijing not only to go out for a trip, but also to understand the details of the local area and comfort the local area. Today, he suddenly heard the news of the Tsar's death and couldn't help but sigh.

Although Wang Fu did not know much about Russian history, he knew that if the Ming Dynasty had not sold so many weapons to Racine, the Tsar would never have died at the hands of the peasant army.

"His Majesty Tsar, I didn't think you died at the hands of the rebels. It's just that you were too careless. Well, I'll give your son some compensation."

The emperor said to himself, and said to Dong Na, the attendant of the Hanlin Academy standing beside him: "Transfer the order to reduce the weapons transactions with Racine."

"I obey the order." Dong Na replied quickly.

Dong Na was the first in the Jinshi class in Hongguang in the 22nd year of Hongguang. The Ming Dynasty's scientific examination had abolished the eight-legged essays and changed to a junior college entrance examination to abolish the eight-legged essays. In order to reduce the dissatisfaction of scholars with the abolition of eight-legged essays, the Jinshi class was still retained, and even the admission ratio was not reduced. Every time, the exam was performed in three years, more than 200 scholars were obtained, while the other junior colleges were tested every year, and more than 1,000 or even thousands of scholars were selected each time.

The reason why there are so many scholars is that one is because of the increase in official scholars and the other is the increase in official positions. Before the Ming Dynasty, officials did not go to counties, but now the official system is established to the township level. With this item alone, the number of officials has increased by ten times sharply than before, and the number of people needed to be hired by the court is naturally ten times.

However, among scholars, the first place in the Jinshi class is still the same as the original top scholar, and he is extremely noble. Wang Fu did not want to break the previous rules and agreed to this fact. After all, he is the emperor and the most profitable person with various rules.

When Dong Na entered the officialdom, he reached the sixth rank in six years, and appeared with the emperor, which was inseparable from his identity as the first in the Jinshi class. Many of them were in the same year, especially those from the miscellaneous ranks, most of them were still in the eighth rank, and a few of them were only from the seventh rank.

Dong Na quickly drafted the order according to the emperor's wishes. The top scholar was worthy of being the top scholar. The first hand was written neatly and beautifully. Wang Fu was satisfied with the view. He stamped the seal and took it out of the telegram room and sent it quickly with the telegram. The imperial edict would eventually be handed over to the parties involved, but the deadline was long past at that time.

The death of the Tsar made Wang Fu feel a little sad. Thousands of people came, and the peasants were always the most oppressed people, but once the oppressed one could no longer bear it, the power that burst out could change the world and bury a glorious dynasty. This was the case in the Han and Tang dynasties in China. If there were no self, the Ming Dynasty would be buried under the peasant uprising, and the Qing Dynasty only picked up a bargain.

This made Wang Fu more alert to the current situation in the Ming Dynasty. Through immigration, the land conflicts in the Ming Dynasty were greatly alleviated, and land rents had been reduced to an extremely low level. It can be said that there was basically no risk of large-scale peasant uprisings.

But it does not mean that there was no contradiction in the Ming Dynasty, the contradiction between clans and basic government rights, the contradiction between workers and factory owners, the contradiction between traditional concepts and new machinery production...

Since the Ming Dynasty was the leader in industry, factories had huge profits, and workers' wages were much higher than farming. The conflict between workers and factory owners was not obvious at present. Instead, clan forces often confronted the basic government. Most of these places were in backward areas, which accidentally caused the situation of officials forcing the people to rebel, which made local governments very troubled.

However, this kind of conflict is a headache, but it will not lead to major unrest. As long as the government makes a decision, the clan has no power to resist at all. The key is a matter of time. Wang Fu believes that as long as the economy develops, this clan power will naturally collapse.

However, the conflict between workers and factory owners has to be wary of. Once industrial development stagnates or falls into an economic crisis, the contradiction between workers and factory owners will turn into the main contradiction. The emperor has countless historical experiences and lessons learned from later generations in his mind.

In recent years, the Ming Dynasty has successively promulgated several laws that protect workers, including the Workers' Welfare Law, the Workers' Employment Contract Law, and other laws that basically cover various rights of workers. When these laws were first introduced, they encountered a lot of opposition, but under the emperor's insistence, the opposition gradually dissipated. The emperor was the largest factory owner of the Ming Dynasty. Almost all heavy industries in the country have royal shares. Since the emperor is willing to suffer losses in his own interests, what else can others say?

The workers were naturally excited about the laws promulgated by the court and praised the emperor for their wisdom. Wang Fu himself was also extremely proud. However, after he came to his senses, Wang Fu still discovered the shortcomings of these laws. Compared with the factory owner, workers can be said to be absolutely weak. If there is no institution that speaks for workers, whether these laws can be implemented is a big question. If it cannot be implemented, no matter how good the laws are, they will be empty.

If you want to find an institution that speaks for workers, then the trade union is undoubtedly the best organization. Wang Fu's heart is full of contradictions about whether to attract workers to form a trade union. Although the trade union can fight for rights for workers, it may also become an organization that opposes the court. Thinking about the possibility that his descendants may be killed by workers in the palace, Wang Fu felt a little chilled.

As a time traveler, Wang Fu naturally knew that the development of history was that the royal family could not always hold real power like him. This was irresponsible to the people, and even more irresponsible to the people behind him. Constitutional monarchy was the best way out for the Ming Dynasty.

The death of the Tsar made Wang Fu realize that the Chaoliu formed by the trade union could not be stopped in the end. Instead of acting passively in the future, it is better to take the initiative to regulate the trade unions, at least not allow future trade unions to target the royal family. It seems that after returning to Beijing this time, it is necessary to promulgate another "Worker Organization Law".

After staying in Beijing for several days, on July 15, Wang Fu left Beijing and continued to patrol north. Since the construction of the Northern Railway had just begun, this inspection could only walk like before, relying on horses and feet to escort the emperor's carriage and escort the emperor's carriage and cross the city of Beijing.

Seeing the emperor's carriage leave, the people in the city look extremely reluctant.

"Oh, the emperor is leaving now, why don't you stay in Beijing for a few more days?" A strong man with a fat face looked at the carriage.

"The emperor is really a saint. Even such a vulgar person is reluctant to leave the emperor." A scholar couldn't help but sigh when he heard the strong man's words.

"Chi." A smile was heard, and a person next to him said, "Wang Xiucai, don't be deceived by him. He is a butcher. He opened a Qianjia butcher shop in the vegetable market. He originally only sold three pigs every day. On the first day of the emperor's visit to Beijing, he sold more than a dozen pork. He was not reluctant to leave the emperor, but he just couldn't bear to leave his pork business."

"What nonsense? I have a sincere respect for the emperor. If it weren't for the emperor, how could my two boys read and read? You are a gentleman, and you can judge the villain with a gentleman's heart." Qian Butcher retorted loudly.

Qian Butcher Qian's words caused a burst of laughter. He was confused by the laughter and asked the person next to him in a low voice: "What's wrong, what am I wrong?"

The man held back his smile and said, "It's the villain who judges the gentleman's belly."

Qian Butcher couldn't help but patted his head: "Yes, it's a villain who judges a gentleman's heart. My boy just taught me, why did he say the opposite?"
Chapter completed!