I’m The King Chapter 1124: : Carry on the past and open up the future (14)

Patting the black cannon body, Gao Yuan looked at Ye Chong, "Although this thing has been made and its power is not bad, the cannon body is too heavy, maybe it weighs a few thousand catties? '

Hearing Gao Yuan say that the power is acceptable, all the councilors behind him showed disapproval expressions. If it is just that the power is acceptable, then what is the power? In their view, this is already A rare artifact.

"The gun body is a bit heavier, but with our current domestic roads and newly used tires, it is no problem for two horses to pull this kind of cannon and walk a hundred miles in a day."

"Could it be that we developed this cannon for domestic wars?" Gao Yuan looked at Ye Zhong with a half-smile, "Have you considered that our pig-pig island-novel... The battlefield will basically be on the enemy's land. As far as I know, they don't have roads that lead in all directions like our Han Kingdom. Even if there are, it is very restricted by the weather. When it rains, the roads will be muddy. , when the time comes, your cannon will be immobilized and become a target for your opponent.”

"Your Majesty is right!" Ye Chong froze for a moment, and the joy he had been immersed in the power of the cannon slowly faded, "This subject understands what the King means, and the weight of this cannon will be even heavier. down."

"This is just one aspect. You can let go of your thinking and study other types of artillery, such as infantry artillery, which is the kind of small artillery that can be carried by one or two infantry. Although the power is small , but the application is actually very wide, right?" Gao Yuan said with a smile.

Ye Zhong looked distressed, "Your Majesty, I have been working on this thing for a year or two, and then I don't know how long it will take to develop a new gun?"

Gao Yuan smiled and caressed the still warm cannon body: "With the successful foundation of research, it will be much easier to develop other categories. Just put down the reward, those who specialize in this stuff will make good results that will surprise you.”

"The security must be done well this time, and the Maowei incident must never happen again. Don't let us work hard to research this cannon here, and then turn around and let someone else take it away." Wu Kai reminded.

"This cannon is not so easy to get away!" Gao Yuan smiled: "Gunpowder is only the most basic thing, the threshold is not high, but to build this cannon, it needs a whole set of related industries to cooperate , if their iron-smelting and steel-smelting technology can’t reach our level, they won’t be able to make this gun.”

"Although this is the case, we must be careful." Jiang Jiaquan thought for a while and said: "Your Majesty, this time we are publicly selling the mining rights of the mineral deposits in the three counties of Liaodong. There will be supporting facilities to follow up with iron and steel smelting, and it is not ruled out that there will be spies from Qin and Chu in the process, once the technology of iron and steel smelting is opened, it will be much easier for them to learn.”

Gao Yuan scratched his head. Everything has its advantages and its disadvantages. It is always impossible to cover everything. Opening up the mining rights of minerals and allowing private participation. The lifting of the ban on corresponding technologies will greatly increase domestic production capacity. Promoting the great development of the economy will also bring more income to the country, but the negative side will also be revealed. Just like what Jiang Jiaquan said, some of the previous unique technologies will not be able to be kept.

"Sir, you are right, but this matter can only be seen as tricks and tricks. This time, the Overwatch Council should wipe out almost all the people in the Black Ice Terrace in the Han Dynasty. It may not be a short time before you want to recover. For the things that can be done within, I think when they have a little strength, we have already left them too far. I will ask the Overwatch Council to pay more attention to this matter later." Gao Yuan said: "Wait for Tang He When the illness is cured, let him take charge of this matter."

"Tang He made these mistakes just now, so it's fine if he doesn't punish him. It's because he worked hard before, but let him go out to take charge of such a big event, isn't it a bit..." Yan Shenghao frowned.

"The Mao Wei incident is not solely his responsibility!" Gao Yuan shook his head, "Tang He is capable, and he has stumbled once on this, so he is more experienced than others, only failure Only those who have experienced it will be more vigilant and motivated to do this well.”

Hearing what Gao Yuan said, Yan Shenghao also shut his mouth, after all, the Overwatch Council is not under the jurisdiction of the Chamber of Commerce, it is independently under Gao Yuan's direct management, and the only one that has the right to supervise them is the Great Council.

Bringing their heads full of excitement, a group of deputies surrounded Gao Yuan and returned to Jicheng from the training ground. The previous dissatisfaction with Gao Yuan for dragging them out of their busy affairs has long since dissipated. Along the way, everyone was excited Discussing the power of this cannon, Wang Wudi is more concerned about the cost of each cannon, and has been pulling Ye Zhong to discuss this issue, hoping to reduce the cost of this cannon.

The current structure of the Han Dynasty is that the deputies are in charge of their own affairs and are extremely busy, and all the ministries and government offices are tense under the watchful eyes of those idle councilors. Some omissions, if there is a problem, in the big council, there will definitely be big councilors jumping out to criticize you, and the ministries and governments that have been accused have to send people to explain it. If it is indeed a problem, they will have to come back in disgrace rectification.

So now the chief officials of various ministries and yamen hate and fear these councilors who are stationed in Jicheng from various states, but they can't afford to offend them, so they have to do their jobs carefully, So as not to be poked by them.

As for Gao Yuan, who is supposed to be the busiest in the Han Kingdom, he is actually the most leisurely person in Jicheng. He holds a meeting with the councilors once a week to determine the problems that even the councilors can't handle. The chief officials of the various yamen, unless there is a particularly important matter, generally will not go to Gao Yuan, because even if you do, their king may bring you back with a few words. As long as it is something within the scope of your duties , you have to try to do it well, don’t expect the king to stand up and support you. If you go to the king to complain about your troubles, you will only leave an image of your limited actual working ability on the king.

There is only one month left before the opening of the annual Great Assembly, and all the deliberatives are extremely busy, and congressmen from various states are also beginning to come to Beijing one after another, staring at the eyes of various ministries and government offices. There are more, and the heads of the various departments dare not neglect. If these big councilors catch their mistakes, the departmental budget for next year will definitely be discounted, and many planned things will not be carried out smoothly.

This year is a year of earth-shaking changes in the Han Kingdom. First of all, the patent law is officially implemented. All inventors will get huge benefits because of the promulgation of the patent law. In a busy department, more and more people pour into the patent office, hoping to register a patent for something they invented. Many things are ridiculous, but you still have to handle them for him, but Wu Kai was a shrewd person after all. The businessman, who has also been in power for many years and has rich experience, after a short period of turmoil, he brazenly ordered that when the inventor registers his own patent, he must pay the registration silver in addition to submitting the necessary materials. The registered silver is as high as fifty taels of silver.

This threshold stopped many people at once, unless the inventor has full confidence that his invention can be used in practice and can produce higher benefits than fifty taels of silver. Of course, if you have money If you are willing to be a fool, the Patent Office will not stop you. If you bring fifty taels of silver, it will be registered for you. As for whether it will make you rich in the future, that is up to you.

In this way, the patent office has changed from a pure service department to a revenue-generating department, which made Wang Wudi of the Ministry of Finance smile crookedly, and sent people to every state to review the patent offices of each state in a hurry. Income, see if they have filled their pockets, but it has added a lot of income to the national treasury.,

The second thing that caused a national sensation was Gaoyuan’s public auction of all kinds of mineral deposits in the three counties of Liaodong. Anyone who is a Han citizen is eligible to participate in the auction. Of course, you have to pay a sum of money in advance to fully prove your strength , to obtain the right to mine, no matter which dynasty or generation it is, it is a lucrative business. The Han Kingdom does not lack rich people. The land reforms over the years have accumulated a lot of money in the hands of the original big landlords. Especially the big landlords in the original Qi land and the original Wei land that were newly returned to the Han state. They had a large amount of cash because of the land reform. Even if they plugged in, the harvest would not be satisfying. Gao Yuan's newly opened hole undoubtedly gave them an opportunity to increase their wealth on a large scale. Naturally, they flocked to the three counties of Liaodong to participate in this A feast. The scale of this feast was so large that the instigator, Gao Yuan, couldn't have expected it. He had to sigh that the people are really rich now, so they need to invest at least one hundred thousand taels of silver in order to benefit from it. , and fought hard.

However, I am emotional. As for how busy the work is, Gao Yuan is too lazy to care about it. He just wants to see the final result. Anyway, according to the situation reported by the Overwatch Council, Sun Xiao of the Liaodong Governor's Mansion It was so busy that the first three big ones were busy, and the big council and the Overwatch Council also sent a lot of people there to ensure that the bidding this time was open, fair, and fair.

Gaoyuan needs to raise enough money in the three counties of Liaodong to ensure the connection of Guo Quan's east-west artery, and also needs a large number of people to flood into the three counties of Liaodong to enrich the population there. The three counties of Liaodong are all good places, how can it be possible? How about making them a barbaric place in the mouth of the Central Plains people? When the hot money pours into the three counties of Liaodong, there will inevitably be earth-shaking changes in a short period of time.

At this year's Great Council, Gao Yuan is going to throw out a bill that will shake the world again, that is, the property law that private property is inviolable. The engulfment of private property, this will be another far-reaching bill, and it will surely become a milestone above the laws of the Han Kingdom. (To be continued...)