The noisy Bohai Bay is on the sea that is even more crowded than during the first phase of the Beiyang voyage, and the majestic fleet is ready to go.

On the tall Rokka ship, the young martial arts champion Yuan Zizhang was wearing armor of a gangster, and his eyes swept across the huge ships flying flags on the sea, focusing on the civilian ships that were thrusting in the distance.

He was the first in the martial arts examination in the second year of Wanli. He studied literature and martial arts since he was a child. He hoped to be the top martial arts master when he was young. However, in this turbulent military technology, it was indeed a not so wise decision to take the martial arts examination.

From candidates to examiners, there is embarrassment openly and secretly.

I have been practicing martial arts for twenty years. Not to mention becoming a general, even if I am a soldier, how can I make a reason for shooting someone to death?

I was used to dancing at home with a hundred kilograms of heavy knife, and a huge bow of 100 kilograms. I passed the imperial examination and became a Jinshi. I thought I could get the job of a general, but I didn't want to be dismissed by the Minister of War Tan Lun, and I rolled up my luggage and rushed to the Xuanfu Martial Arts Hall for another two and a half years.

Although the martial arts of the Ming Dynasty were not so reliable, the candidates learned the dragon-slaying technique and found that the exam questions were killing chickens when they came to the examination room, the selection process of the imperial examination itself was very scientific.

Whether it is a martial Jinshi or a literary Jinshi, through layer by layer, they are undoubtedly the best among all the candidates in those three years. They have close to perfection of diligence and hard work, and extremely excellent learning ability, which can help them encounter most problems in their future life paths.

In the Xuanfu Mansion Martial Arts Hall, people often compared him with Yang Ting of the Guangzhou Martial Arts Hall, but there was no more praise in words. People praised Yang Tingxiang as the second Yu Dayou, but no one thought that Yuan Zizhang was the second person.

No matter what, he was like a sponge, absorbing all the knowledge about new military, but he didn't have that good luck. After leaving the martial arts lecture hall, he only got a thousand-household position in the central trunk of Yao'an Prefecture, Yunnan with little real power.

Fortunately, the governor Li Zhi appreciated him very much. Not only did he often exchange his experiences with him in military affairs, but he also often informed him of the latest news about the general trend of the world sent by friends from all over the country.

Li Zhi always encouraged him, believing that his talent could make great achievements in the world where the current situation changed.

Finally, he made up his mind to find a new future. He was entrusted by the turning relationship. He was recommended by Yu Dayou to the second phase of the Beiyang Army and began to walk around the world as a Beiyang general.

He had been training and learning almost all the time in his first half of his life, which made him name the Liujia battleship built in the Nanyang Guard as the Chuiyun, and his infantry also ordered the Chuiyun Camp.

This warship with thirty-two artillery and the 1,100 Beiyang Army under its command are Kunpeng's wings, which can help him soar.

The adjutant on the ship stood beside him, followed Yuan Zizhang's gaze and sighed: "The second phase of Beiyang will set off two months later than originally scheduled, but the scale is more than three times larger than the first phase. I really don't know what Chen Shuai would think in the past."

"Don't you feel proud?"

Yuan Zizhang turned around and looked at the adjutant, pointed to the sea and said, "There are probably no place in this world that can gather such a huge fleet."

The adjutant held the bird gun on the deck, holding the top of the bird gun with his hands, and inserted the exquisitely crafted gun gun pierced between his waist, slowly shook his head and said, "I don't want to go with them. It would be great if I could go with the people of Shandong."

The adjutant was not talking about the Mongolian Jurchen army, but the people around the world who responded to the emperor's call and went to the East to find wealth.

Yuan Zizhang shook his head and said, "The changes have been so fast in recent years. No one would have thought that the situation would be like this today. Ten years ago, who would have thought that even tenants could not find the fields in the capital, and that horse meat shops would be closed one by one?"

It sounds like it is a bit jumping. The fields seem to have nothing to do with the eating habits of Northern Zhili, but the adjutant can understand it. People can understand it when they are in this era and live in this place.

There is only one reason for this situation - industrialization.

The industrialization of Zhili in the north and south developed rapidly with the support of officials and merchants seeking profits. Large factories in all walks of life entered the era of collective labor. From factories to the closure of horse meat shops, there was a huge game in all aspects.

The factories in various places that guard the coastal routes have endless market dividends from the Ming Dynasty overseas, making each of them want to expand their production capacity. The booming shipbuilding industry caused by the Beiyang expedition last year has driven many chain industries. Those merchants who manufacture shipwood, iron parts, and canvas all chose to introduce steam engines when recruiting workers are difficult.

It is easy to build a factory in Daming, but if you want to build a large-scale factory, for example, there are more than a thousand workers? Don’t even think about it!

Because of the existence of parents and officials, they will never allow a large number of people in a county to leave the farming process and cause the land to be abandoned. This is related to tax revenue and their political achievements, and it is not possible to say anything.

Officials can limit themselves, but they cannot be firm in the face of production capacity that needs to be expanded. Especially in Beizhili, near Beiyang, a large number of iron ore in Zunhua area have been discovered, and large-scale mining is carried out through Sino-French combinations of the "Complete Book of Mining and Metallurgical" translated from the West; the backends of various factories in Beiyang are even harder than officials, and this is not something that local officials can stop them if they want.

If they cannot recruit suitable workers, some merchants will start to train workers themselves. The easiest people to become workers are refugees and tenant farmers. The relatively higher income makes them more willing to become workers, which further increases the remuneration given to tenant farmers by the landlords. Then, the factory bids higher, and both parties engage in manpower robbing.

During this period, Master Wanli issued an order to the imperial village, not allowing the imperial village to participate in the robbery of tenants and encourage industrial development. The imperial village was the first to use horse farming, and the horses that were cultivated were drawn from horse meat restaurants in various places. Then the landlord followed suit and almost took all the ingredients of the horse meat restaurant from the source.

People can't eat horse meat.

The booming industry has increased the population mobility in Zhili in the north and south, and public security has also become worse. The unemployed population wandering in cities in various places has increased. This kind of thing has been reflected by local officials to the court, and Zhang Juzheng has adopted another method.

These unemployed vagrants were encouraged to go overseas to find new development opportunities, just as Emperor Wanli was willing to share overseas development with Altan, Jurchens, North Korea and Japan. The court allowed refugees to work as craftsmen, and also allowed them to go overseas to find new ways out.

In Zhang Juzheng's opinion, the war in the East is not important. He does not think that the Asian strategy would lose to anyone, any army, especially the Spaniards who were defeated by his subordinates. Instead, that land made the middle-aged man feel that there was a big problem with the land of the Ming Dynasty - how could there be no Ming people?

It was precisely because of this subjectiveness that after Zhang Juzheng discussed with the emperor, the Ministry of Revenue officials submitted a memorial, and the cabinet voted to the Ministry of Revenue to approve the honorary order entitled "Moving the Escapist of the Four Provinces to the Asia Memorial".
Chapter completed!