"The Damin Empire is rotten to the core. Your Majesty, are you aware of this?" In the palace, He Li said to Dong Mu Yuncang.
Hearing this, Dong Muyuncang smiled bitterly: "How could I not know this, but there is nothing I can do."
When a dynasty reaches its end, those in power will definitely know more than ordinary people.
Knowing it is one thing, but changing it is extremely difficult.
Why did Wang Anshi of the Song Dynasty want to reform? Didn't the entire Northern Song court, including the Emperor Song Shenzong, know that there was a problem in the country?
When Wang Anshi started his reform, Ouyang Xiu supported him. Unfortunately, Wang Anshi messed up the reform, which led to Ouyang Xiu's opposition.
There was also Zhang Juzheng of the Ming Dynasty, including Emperor Chongzhen in the late Ming Dynasty. They all knew that the country had reached a critical juncture of life and death. Chongzhen worked hard to handle government affairs every day, and his hair turned white in more than ten years. Didn't he know that the Ming Dynasty had reached a very dangerous point?
Unfortunately, at this stage, it is almost impossible for the emperor to change alone.
If the emperor wanted to reform, he would most likely fall into the water and die.
Dong Muyuncang didn’t want to change, but this involved the interests of too many people.
If he damages the interests of most of the powerful people, he may die of illness or fall into the water.
Don’t think that the emperor of an empire can decide life and death and do whatever he wants. However, if the emperor really wants to do whatever he wants, he will be close to death.
Of course, if it were in the past, Dong Muyuncang would have no way to break the impasse.
And now, there is a group of immortals coming to help him, what is he afraid of?
"Mr. He, tell me how I should cooperate with you. I will do my best." Dong Muyuncang said to He Li.
Although He Li is only a cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Stage, he is the boss among this group of people. Even the generals in the Fusion Stage have expressed their full support for He Li.
After hearing Dong Muyuncang's words, He Li thought for a moment and said, "If we want to change this country, the first thing we have to do is to control the country's army."
"However, the country's military is currently rotten to the core, so we must destroy it and then rebuild it. I suggest training a new army, then using the new army to transform the old army, and finally completely control all the armies of this country."
"As long as we control the army, the next step will be much easier. We can simply eliminate those who are hindering our progress." He Li said to everyone.
"Okay." General Hou nodded in agreement.
"Emperor, how much money does your country have left?" He Li asked Emperor Dong Muyuncang.
"Well, the national treasury is basically living beyond its means right now, and I don't have much money in my treasury. The most I can take out is 800,000 taels of silver." Dong Muyuncang said somewhat embarrassedly.
Hearing this, everyone couldn't help but shake their heads.
"It seems that the first thing we have to do is to make money. Without money, nothing we say will be of any use."
He Li looked at Academician Luo: "Academician Luo, can you develop products that can make money? For example, soap, glass, mirrors, etc."
"Sure." Academician Luo nodded. "It's very simple for me. Give me some people and another three months. I guarantee that we can achieve mass production of glass."
"Where's the soap?"
"Making soap is basically impossible. Making soap requires a lot of oil, and oil was a very scarce commodity in ancient times." Academician Luo shook his head.
Hearing this, Dong Muyuncang quickly said: "I can ask the government to collect it. I guarantee that a large amount of grease can be collected."
Hearing this, Academician Luo shook his head and said: "If you let the government collect all the oil, then the people will suffer. This is not advisable."
Hearing this, He Li thought for a moment and said, "Forget about soap, let's just use glass. Glass is a high-end product, and it will only make money for the rich."
"Oh, by the way, we also need to get the cement out. Cement is so important."
Hearing this, Academician Luo said: "In fact, the most profitable thing is steel. I can build a blast furnace and smelt hundreds of tons of iron at a time. This iron can not only be made into various farm tools for sale, but also the weapons we will need in the future will also require a lot of steel.
So I suggest that we should give priority to developing large-scale iron and steelmaking technology.”
After hearing what Academician Luo said, everyone felt that it made sense.
"That's right, so let's build a steel plant first. This way we can not only make money but also contribute to agricultural development."
Finally, after some discussion, the group of people decided that they should smelt iron first.
Of course, the military did not give up.
The next day, General Hou joined the Emperor's Royal Guard under the arrangement of Dong Muyuncang.
Two days later, the emperor proposed to hold a grand competition among the Imperial Guards. All the Imperial Guards had to participate. Whoever could take first place would be rewarded handsomely by the emperor.
A week later, General Hou won the first place as expected.
Afterwards, the emperor directly appointed Dong Mu Yuncang as a general and made him the commander of the imperial guards, and put him in charge of protecting his safety.
At the same time, He Li and his group used hundreds of thousands of taels of silver from Dongmu Yuncang's treasury and started building a factory in the suburbs of the imperial capital.
In addition to the suburbs of the imperial capital, near an iron mine two hundred kilometers away from the imperial capital, Academician Luo led his team to start building a blast furnace.
In fact, there are some small iron mines near the imperial capital. However, Academician Luo did not choose to build a steel plant near the imperial capital because there are no coal mines near the imperial capital.
Two hundred kilometers away, there are not only iron and coal mines, but also a large river for water transportation.
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