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Spain received hundreds of millions of dollars of silver from South America, and the Spanish royal family and aristocracy were able to squander it and live in great luxury.

They don't produce at all, anyway, we don't have anything, we have money, and we can buy what we want from other countries.

In the end, the plundered wealth was spent, Spain itself became a withered state, and the country's industry and commerce not only did not develop in the slightest, but continued to shrink, and finally led to the decline of Spain as a whole.

In order to avoid repeating the mistakes of Spain, Qin Mu felt that it was necessary to formulate some decrees stipulating that in the future, the wealth plundered by the army from overseas should be used as much as possible for education, scientific research, and the improvement of people's livelihood infrastructure.

In the end, with a tough attitude, he allocated half of his income to education funds, and set up a new type of education across the country, and promoted it nationwide in the model of royal Mongolian learning, so that all children from middle and lower families can go to school for free.

The only difference with the Royal Mongolian School is that the Royal Mongolian School provides students with three meals a day, while these official schools do not provide them, only textbooks.

Anyway, in a word, you can solve the food yourself, you don't have to worry about the rest, textbooks, teachers' salaries, classrooms, are all provided by the imperial court. All children from lower-middle-income families only need to bring their own food to go to school.

As for the upper households, most of them are wealthy officials and gentry, and if you are richer, you will not be exempted for the time being, and with your wealth, it will not be a problem to send your children to school.

After repeated discussions by the imperial court, this policy was promulgated in the world, and the whole world was in an uproar, and the people's support for the emperor really reached an unparalleled level. Countless ordinary people set up immortal cards for the emperor at home. Burn incense in the morning and evening.

Chinese have always paid attention to the education of their children, in successive dynasties. Many families who can't afford to eat are desperately trying to provide for their children's schooling.

In a word. There is only a chance, and there is hardly anyone who does not send their children to school.

It's just that in the past dynasties, taxes were heavy, and it was difficult for the people to even solve the problem of food and clothing, and only a few could send their children to school.

Today's Great Qin, a qiē has undergone earth-shaking changes. Of course, the key is that Great Qin has a good emperor, at least the people of the world think so;

From the promotion of new crops, so that the people do not have to worry about food and clothing. and then to the implementation of free education, so that the children of poor families have the opportunity to study, this qiē, the people are attributed to Qin Mu, the emperor.

Qin Mu knew in his heart that if you want to spend these stolen windfalls, you always turn them into dragon coins first, in fact, no matter what way you go, you can invest in scientific research or education. In fact, this is an increase in the total amount of domestic money, and if there is no corresponding output in the country, it is still possible to lead to inflation.

Daqin now has a thirty tax and one tax on both commercial and agricultural taxes. And now there is a total of agricultural tax and commercial tax a year, which is about 60 to 70 million dragon coins, which is converted into silver. It's about 40 million taels.

From the current tax rate and annual income, we can estimate the approximate GDP of the country. It should be around fifteen to two billion dragon coins. Relative to this gross domestic product, a huge sum of 100 million yuan was rashly put into circulation. It's a very dangerous thing;

Moreover, the navy will plunder more than these in the future, and there will certainly be tons of gold and a shipload of silver in the future, and if these riches are not well planned, the consequences will be more harmful than good.

How to spend money when you have it, is this really a problem?

If the government buys domestic goods through the government, on the one hand, it can boost the scale of domestic production, and on the other hand, it will definitely raise the price of the country, which is beneficial to the industrial and commercial owners and not to the ordinary people.

For example, a piece of cloth was originally five dimes, but after the government purchased a large number of them, it became six or even seven jiao, and the people who produced the cloth benefited, but the ordinary people who consumed the cloth were affected.

So how much to spend and how to balance the two, this requires a more accurate calculation. If the rate of inflation is higher than the rate of growth of GDP, then it will definitely be a problem.

In response to these problems, after the early dynasty, Qin Mu summoned the cabinet ministers and household officials to the Huagai Hall to discuss, and even lunch was hastily used with the ministers in the Huagai Palace.

In this regard, there are many mechanisms to be perfected, and it is not possible to negotiate a perfect plan in one day.

In the afternoon, the meeting came to an end temporarily, Qin Mu walked out of the Huagai Palace, and Han Zanzhou trotted up with a happy face, and shouted from afar: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, it's done, the spinning machine has been successfully improved."

"Really?" Qin Mu couldn't help but stop.

"Your Majesty is really a discerning talent, Huang Sheng, who made wooden dogs, really improved the spinning machine, how dare the slave and maid visit Your Majesty"

"Tell me, how many spindles can be spun at one time on today's spinning machines?"

"Back to Majesty, a full thirty-six spindles, Majesty, according to Huang Sheng, as long as it is improved, it is possible to spin more."

"Thirty-six ingots?" Qin Mu couldn't help but show joy on his face.

Most people may not know, in fact, spinning takes more time than weaving, and now spinning machines, one can usually spin and bloom at a time, and people spend most of their time spinning.

Now Daqin's industries are booming, but there is a shortage of labor, if the problem of spinning can be solved, it will be able to save a lot of labor for Daqin.

Qin Mu asked people to improve the textile machine early on, and even issued a reward, but unfortunately for so long, no breakthrough has been made.

And Qin Mu himself doesn't know what Jenny's spinning machine looks like, this thing has long been withdrawn from application in later generations, and there are not many people who really know what it looks like, Qin Mu is the kind of person who only hears its name and doesn't know its shape.

"Take me to see it."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Qin Mu put aside political affairs and followed Han Zanzhou to the Internal Supervision R&D Department. Here in the Ming Dynasty is the Nanjing pedestrian official office, located on the west side of the noon gate, Daqin streamlined a lot of central institutions, like the pedestrian division is in the list of abolition;

The vacant compound is now home to the R&D Division, home to nearly 270 top talents who specialize in a wide range of research.

Huang Sheng is a native of Wu County, Suzhou, a young man of twenty-six or seventeen years old, his family asked him to concentrate on studying, but he likes to fiddle with some "strange tricks and tricks", the wooden dog that can only bark last time shocked Qin Mu, and felt that this is a talent that can not be found, so he asked Han Zanzhou to send someone to find him, but he did not expect that after more than two months, he really succeeded in improving the spinning machine.

The people in the R&D Department knelt on the ground, and Qin Mu personally went up to help Huang Sheng and said, "Huang Sheng, where is the improved textile machine, take me to see it." ”

"Your Majesty, please come here."

Huang Sheng took Qin Mu to a small cross-courtyard, and there were two spinning machines in the courtyard, one was very small and old-fashioned, and the other was much larger and relatively complicated.

"Majesty, please see, in fact, the improved spinning machine, the biggest difference is only that its spindle is no longer horizontal, but vertical, please see here on the same shaft, originally only one yarn can be spinned, after the yarn is erected, a shaft can drive many yarns to rotate at the same time, without affecting each other.

In addition, here, the way of feeding yarn has been improved, and His Majesty may not know that in the past, spinning was fed by hand, and ordinary people, some of them cranked the spinning wheel with one hand and fed the yarn with the other hand, and could only feed one yarn at a time. In the case of a pedal spinning wheel, only two to three yarns can be fed at a time.

Now after the improvement, please see, this is a leather roller core, and the leather roller iron, next to the gear, when rotating, the leather roller core and the leather roller iron can clamp the cotton up, to the front of the yarn to lead the yarn, no need to use the hand to feed the yarn one by one"

Huang Sheng explained, and at the same time asked Qin Mu to give Qin Mu a test on the spot, sure enough, as long as the big wheel next to him was turned, the transmission power of the yarn, the leather roller core, and the leather roller iron tong guò gear would rotate together.

Thirty-six spindles, one by one, rotated, at the same time to spin out thirty-six yarns, because the core of the roller and the iron clamp of the roller clamp cotton uniform, the spun yarn is also more uniform than the hand spinning, the quality is better.

Huang Sheng continued: "Your Majesty, as long as the power is sufficient, the transfer force provided by the gears is uniform, theoretically as long as the length of the clamp stick and the number of spindles are increased, more yarn can be spun at a time, fifty or one hundred are possible, and the grass people are preparing to further improve." ”

"Okay, very good, Huang Sheng, this is a very impressive improvement." Qin Mu was full of praise, and without hesitation, he gave him a seven-rank official and a bounty of five thousand dragon coins.

Don't look at the five thousand dragon coins that don't seem to be much, if converted into the renminbi of later generations, it can be equivalent to at least two million yuan of purchasing power, which is a huge amount of money that ordinary people can hardly earn in a few lifetimes;

What's more, he also sealed a seventh-grade official, and when he was idle and won the Jinshi, he only put a seventh- or eighth-grade official at first, which was what Huang Sheng was grateful for.

His family wanted him to study and take the imperial examination, and now he can not only do what he likes, but also overcome the difficulties of the imperial examination, become a seven-rank official given by the imperial gift, and achieve the family's wish to glorify his ancestors.

"Huang Qing, in the future, you will concentrate on scientific research in the R&D Department, and if you have produced results, I will never be stingy with rewards, if you don't want to engage in scientific research, after you are familiar with it, I can also transfer your Ministry of Industry and other departments, in short, the weight of this seven-grade official will not be lighter than the Jinshi with the title of the gold list."

"Weichen Xie Majesty xià Longen, Xie Majesty xià"

Huang Sheng was very excited, he didn't know what to say for a while, so he bowed down and bowed repeatedly.

Qin Mu turned to the other personnel of the R&D Department and said, "This is the same for you, no matter who it is, as long as there is a result, I will treat everyone equally and reward them." ”

More than 200 skilled craftsmen in the R&D Department were overjoyed when they heard this, the status of the craftsman in the past was very low, and no matter how great the contribution was, you were still a craftsman, a craftsman who was looked down upon.

Now Qin Mu has opened up a Yangguan Avenue for them, even if they don't pass the imperial examination, as long as they have made important achievements in scientific research, they can still be officials, which is a subversive initiative for all dynasties, and it is bound to make more people devote themselves to scientific research.

This matter will definitely be opposed by many ministers in the DPRK and China, but Qin Mu doesn't care about it, he just doesn't say anything.

Anyway, there will not be many people who produce heavy research results, which means that there will not be many people who can be crowned officials.

Occasionally, the ministers objected, and the peace and mud passed...... (To be continued......)