In the second half of the three years of ZTE, Daming began a blowout period of development and innovation.

In August, the Firearms Bureau came with a major piece of good news, after more than two years of research and development, the new gunpowder has finally been developed!

Zhu Ci sighed, it's not easy, even if there are some theoretical points of his memory in advance, it has always been developed in the right direction, but it still took more than two years, but after all, it was developed, and now it is only used as a primer!

"Your Majesty, this is a sample of the new gunpowder!" Chen Xin came to report the good news in person, and took the sample with him and put it in a wooden box the size of half a palm.

"Show me!" Zhu Ci couldn't hide his joy and took the box containing the new gunpowder in his hand and slowly opened it!

Inside, the yellow-gray powdery object made Zhu Ci's eyes widen!

"Hahahaha, that's it!" Zhu Ci laughed instantly, what a familiar thing, this should have been a new type of gunpowder that appeared in the eighteenth century, but now it is more than a hundred years in advance.

Historically, it is precisely because the West has mastered this fierceness that it really began to sweep the world, and now this thing has been mastered by the Ming Dynasty for more than 100 years, and there is no need to say what the world will be like in the future.

"How's it going?" Zhu Ci asked.

Now that the new high gunpowder has been developed, it is almost used as a primer, as long as it is made again, the Ming Ying Dragon Army can be fully replaced with new equipment beyond the times, and it will really sweep the world, and the battle is invincible!

"Back to the emperor, there has been progress in the aspect, as little as a month, as much as four months, and it will definitely be developed!" Chen Xin's expression was solemn, and he assured with great confidence.

There were originally some correct principles provided by Zhu Cijiao, and they have also been developed in the right direction, and the Firearms Bureau already had eyebrows two months ago, as the director of the Firearms Bureau, Chen Xin knows very well what it means that the new gunpowder and the development of it will mean, so he has been treating these two things with the most solemn attitude.

Zhu Ci staggered and nodded, with Chen Xin's assurance, it means that there has been a lot of progress, so it's fine.

"I know that there is a lot of danger in the experiment with the new gunpowder, although I have already made an eyebrow, but I must also advance steadily, and don't make any irreparable mistakes!" Zhu Ci hesitated.

"Yes, Your Majesty, the minister knows!" Chen Xin nodded.

In fact, when the new gunpowder was being developed, three craftsmen were burned, and the research and development was no less dangerous than the new gunpowder, or even more dangerous, especially his granddaughter Chen Xiuxiu was also involved.

Speaking of his granddaughter Chen Xiuxiu, Chen Xin felt a trace of indescribable complexity in his heart, and even secretly looked at Zhu Ci with strange eyes, and let out an inexplicable sigh in his heart.

Chen Xin reluctantly thought that if Xiuxiu hadn't played a leading role in research and development, he really didn't want his granddaughter to get involved anymore, and it would be more practical for the girl's family to marry and have children after all.

Maybe after it is thoroughly developed, he should also find a way to find a husband for his granddaughter, and cut off the little budding in his granddaughter's heart that should not exist as soon as possible.

Nearly an hour later, Chen Xin returned to the Firearms Bureau with Zhu Ci's reward.

Because of the great importance attached to the new gunpowder, Zhu Cicheng gave a lot of rewards this time, and each craftsman who participated in the research and development was rewarded with 1,000 taels of silver.

This is undoubtedly a huge amount of money for ordinary people, you know, a family of five lives a full meal a year is only ten taels, and a thousand taels is enough for a family to live a quite rich life.

The Firearms Bureau shook immediately, and everyone envied it, which also invisibly inspired everyone in the Firearms Bureau, and even more inspired the R&D craftsmen of the project.

After all, a reward of 1,000 taels of silver per person, according to the emperor's equal importance to new gunpowder, as long as they develop it, they will definitely have a reward of 1,000 taels of silver per person.

The craftsmen of the R&D project are all on fire, and the movements in their hands are much faster.

Since Chen Xin came back with the reward, the only girl in the Firearms Bureau has been disappointed on her face, no one knows what she is disappointed about, of course, because she has kept her head down, and no one can see the disappointment on her face, except for the girl's grandfather Chen Xin!

Chen Xin sighed helplessly again in his heart, what a wrong! He couldn't understand why his granddaughter had not been in contact with the emperor for several years, why it could still develop like this, and who created it. As a result, after the project, Chen Xin's desire to find a husband for his granddaughter became stronger and stronger.

Compared with the Firearms Bureau, the Science and Technology Institute, which has just been established for more than a year, also breaks out good news from time to time.

Hundreds of projects, thousands of top craftsmen from all walks of life demonstrated each other, experimented, and constantly improved from small wooden plows, iron plows, large looms, dyeing machines and other machinery, a variety of technologies.

After more than a year of brewing, various improved new technologies have also been developed in the second half of the year, contributing to the continuous progress of Daming.

Zhu Cicheng did not promote these improved or developed new technologies to the society for free, but published all the effects of these technologies or the benefits they could generate in Daming Daily and sold them to various merchants by auction.

This is equivalent to the patent of posterity! It's just that this patent is only valid for eight years, and when the time comes, the Academy of Science and Technology will directly publish it widely in Daming Daily. In other words, the merchants who paid for the technology of the Institute of Science and Technology have eight years to make money on this technology.

It's not that Zhu Ci is open to money, but the experimental research and development of thousands of craftsmen in the Academy of Science and Technology, plus the money and rewards that the craftsmen themselves need to give, the cost is too great, and the Academy of Science and Technology must have its own input, otherwise the Ming treasury will not be able to support it at all.

This method is naturally extremely effective, and to date, the Academy of Science and Technology has sold more than 200 patents and achieved break-even!

Some businesses that buy the technology of the Institute of Science and Technology get no more benefits, and some businesses gradually throw away other peers from the technology of the Institute of Science and Technology, and even directly monopolize the business of a place.

As a result, in order to survive, each business has to set up its own R&D team and invest in R&D.

Daming began to enter the stage of continuous technological innovation and continuous emergence of new technologies, driving the progress of society to flourish, and ordinary people continued to get benefits, often extremely expensive things in the past, after the new technology came out, it became cheap overnight, and more and more people could afford it, and Daming also continued to prosper and thrive in business.

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