Chapter 391 The landlords of the Ming Dynasty wanted to transform and invest in steam locomotives!

Zhang Gui wanted to see what the differences in the future situations of these two people will be.

Moreover, at this moment, Zhang Gui began to think that if the Ming Dynasty in the future would still allow the Ming Dynasty to despise labor creation, which was called Brother Jiao, to be powerful and even to be a slave, or even to be a slave, to continue to be a slave; and if a person like Xie Qian is willing to change himself, learn a memory, and recreate wealth with his own hands, he still lives worse; that means that the reforms of the Ming Dynasty have not been successful, and the changes he brought to the Ming Dynasty have not made the Ming Dynasty better.

Zhang Gui is now like an experimenter, thinking about judging his own changes to the Ming Empire through the two experimental subjects Xie Qian and Jiao An, and hopes that the results of the experiment will meet the results expected by his experiment.

When the wealth of the world was transferred from the hands of the powerful and noble bureaucrats to the court, the population resources were naturally transferred from the hands of the powerful and noble bureaucrats to the court.

At the same time, the phenomenon also manifested is that the powerful and wealthy bureaucrats did not need so many Han people who raised their lives and provided their respective services to them. Instead, the court needed more Han people to achieve many policy-making goals for the court.

Building bridges requires people, access to roads requires people, building ships requires people, and reclamation of borders requires people...

However, the people needed by the court were more technical talents, but they did not need service-oriented talents.

Even service-oriented talents must be talents who provide various spiritual consumer goods to the general public, such as providing popular dramas, storytelling and even lyrics. In principle, they are also technical talents.

Therefore, when the Ming Dynasty court met its population needs, it needed to set up various types of official schools and transform its own citizens.

Once the transformation is effective, the Ming Dynasty will undoubtedly see a large number of technical talents appearing like a blowout.

This will undoubtedly make a big leap forward for the entire Ming Dynasty economy. In addition, the emergence of steam engines will undoubtedly indicate that the industrial age will really appear in the Ming Dynasty!

Instead of the industrial age first appeared in the West like the original history.

Zhang Gui decided to bet once.

Therefore, Zhang Gui bought out the steam engine patents of Tianqi and Song Yingxing at a high price.

He wants to revolutionize himself first!

Let oneself go from a powerful person whose main social nature is feudal landlords to become a capitalist who relies on capital games and industrial development to make profits.

Of course, Zhang Gui gambled like this, not because he wanted to make more money.

Because he is actually not short of money.

As a feudal landlord, his family already has several farms and has dividends in the official industry in the court. As long as the Ming Dynasty does not fall, he will be prosperous and prosperous for the rest of his life.

Therefore, like the general feudal landlord, Zhang Gui, as a feudal landlord, did not have the original driving force for technological revolution and industrial revolution.

And he bet like this just to try what the effect would be if the Ming Dynasty ushered in the industrial revolution first.

Zhang Gui knew that at this time he needed to take the initiative to make changes first.

After all, in the entire history of China, there was not a time when advanced technologies emerged, nor was there no opportunity to cause the industrial revolution.

In fact, textile technology similar to Jenny spinning machine and enough to set off an industrial revolution in the textile industry had already appeared in the Song Dynasty.

It is just because the population of China often becomes a resistance to technological updates and iterations, although such textile technology is advanced, it will be obscured in the long river of history. Instead, it requires more manpower and the technology with low-level level is easily retained.

Therefore, if Zhang Gui did not make any changes and was the first to eat crabs, the other landlords of the Ming Dynasty would not be even more unfamiliar with it.

It’s not because they are stupider than Zhang Gui, they may even be smarter than Zhang Gui.

It is precisely because they are smarter that they are more likely to refuse to transform into capitalists.

As natives of this era, they could not predict that if they did not change themselves, there would be an island country in the distant West because Watt invented the steam engine and became the sun never set. Even hundreds of years later, there were still many countries around the world licking the Anglo-Saxons, one of his representatives.

In addition, Zhang Gui also knew that if he did not make changes and only became a feudal landlord with peace of mind, his fate would still be destructive.

Who gave feudal landlord society an irrefutable cycle law?

When the land does not support more people, it will inevitably collapse.

What's more, he was a reformer among the feudal landlords who had attacked his own class, and the reformer basically would not have a good ending. Even though Wang Anshi was not liquidated, he was scolded very badly.

Therefore, Zhang Gui wanted to become a capitalist with a longer survival cycle.

At least the intensity of the struggle is no longer so intense, and it will not be defeated so miserably when it fails, so miserable that it endangers life and family life.

In Zhang Gui's view, in this way, he may be able to withdraw from political struggles in the future and maintain his wealth without having to engage in political struggles.

Because political struggles are really cruel, no matter how powerful a person is, it is difficult for him to guarantee that he can finally laugh in the political struggle.

Even if you are self-protection-free and have the best of both worlds, you can't stand the encounter of a hooligan who is unruly in politics.

Even the emperor with the highest status, no matter how powerful he is, he may not be assassinated. Isn’t he as smart as Emperor Jiajing almost strangled to death by the palace maid?

To be honest, if it weren't for the land of the Ming Dynasty that emphasizes learning and is good at being a good official, only by participating in political struggles can you protect your own interests and realize your ideals, Zhang Gui really didn't want to participate in political struggles.

As an ordinary villain before traveling through time, he actually wanted to live well at the beginning, and because he just wanted to live well, he wanted to save the Ming Dynasty of the Zhu family.

"You really plan to use the steam technology created by me and Song Yingxing to build a steam locomotive?"

Tianqi got a large amount from Zhang Gui to buy out his patented steam engine technology and said that he planned to invest in the silver tickets for steam locomotives based on this, so he asked Zhang Gui.

Zhang Gui nodded his head and smiled, "Of course it's true, otherwise why should I give so much money to His Majesty?"

Tianqi reminded him kindly: "You have to think clearly. Don't say that you haven't built any steam locomotives yet. Even if you build a steam locomotive, the Ming Dynasty may not be able to use the steam locomotives you want to build in the future, and you may lose a lot of money."

Zhang Gui said: "I know, but I want to try it and want to be the first to make a change."

After hearing this, Tianqi said, "Well! If you want to try it, try it. I don't know what the result will be if you succeed. Anyway, I don't spend my money, I just use my skills."

As Tianqi said that, he held his eyes and continued to draw on the drawings, saying, "I prefer to study skills with Song Yingxing and others. As for how to benefit the people after studying skills, I have little interest. I will give it to you to try. It is naturally a good thing to try well. If you don't try well, it's just a skill that's left to the shelves."

Tianqi really likes to study skills more, so he really gave Zhang Gui the application development of technology and asked Zhang Gui to apply these technologies.

But if Zhang Gui wants to transform into a capitalist, he naturally needs more technical workers to do things for him in the future and consume his products. Therefore, Zhang Gui said at this time:

"Your Majesty, before I try to use steam locomotives to benefit more people, I think the court should further allow more people to gain freedom and become free people, and then work and participate in the construction of the entire Ming Dynasty Zhongxing cause."

“How to go further?”

Tianqi didn't look up, but continued to draw while asking Zhang Gui.

"Destroy Buddha! In short, we must rectify Buddhist temples and Taoist temples!"

(End of this chapter)
Chapter completed!