As for the name of such a continent, Lu Xiangsheng and others chose to acquiesce.

Although this kind of naming the New World is enough to go down in history, don't forget your identity - minister.

The emperor is still there, and he is the emperor with real power in the military and political power of the hand house, even if Emperor Chongzhen likes to call that continent a shit continent, then it is up to Emperor Chongzhen.

Of course, if you really take such a fucking name, it will become impossible to immigrate there in the future.

"Shit Continent is going to immigrate, are you going to go?"

"Ahh Lao Tzu's dignified Yanhuang Miao descendant, go to the shit continent? Lao Tzu can't afford to lose this person, even if Lao Tzu starves to death in Daming, he will never go to any shit continent! ”

This scenario is not out of the question, and there is a high probability that it will occur.

After thinking about it for a while, Lu Xiangsheng bowed down and said: "Your Majesty, the breadth of that continent is not yet a fixed number, and non-human ministers can name it, and the ministers ask Your Majesty to give it a name?" ”

Emperor Chongzhen hummed and said: "Since the ancient road east has Penglai, the ancestral dragon sent Xu Fu to look for immortal medicine, and "Liezi Tangwen" has clouds, the east of the Bohai Sea does not know hundreds of millions of miles, there is a big gully, but there is a bottomless valley, there is no bottom under it, and the name is called the ruins.

The water of the eight strings and nine fields, the flow of heaven and Han, all pay attention to it, and there is no increase or decrease. Among them, there are five mountains: one is Daiyu, the second is Yuanqiao, the third is Fanghu, the fourth is Yingzhou, and the fifth is Penglai.

Daiyu and Yuanqiao both flow in the North Pole, the east is visible, the square pot does not exist, and this place is not as good as Penglai Zhou. ”

The name of Penglai Continent is decided, as for how to divide the states and counties in the future, and how to divide the territories of the vassal kings, it is a matter for the cabinet and the Zongren Mansion.

If you immigrate there in the future, as soon as you say that Penglai is such a lofty name, presumably the people will be willing, and it will not be as offensive as taking the name of a shit continent.

As soon as the name of Penglaizhou was decided, Wang Xingguo, the head of the Jinyi guard, hurriedly found the cabinet.

As early as three years after Chongzhen, Jinyiwei, who was in charge of the overseas part, was like a wild dog out of Xinjiang to operate overseas, and even Europe already had the shadow of Jinyiwei.

And now that Emperor Chongzhen has decided to scare those barbarians, Wang Xingguo, who is the head of some of Jinyiwei's overseas leaders, has also begun to sort out the information sent back by Jinyiwei, and some of the information about Europe has aroused Wang Xingguo's interest.

Judging from the news sent back by Jinyiwei, the whole of Europe is now about to beat people's brains into dog brains, and the number of people killed in the war has skyrocketed.

After taking the information and letting the think tank deduce it first, Wang Xingguo came to Emperor Chongzhen with the intelligence of Jinyiwei and the results of the think tank.

The news fed back by the think tank is not as optimistic as Jinyiwei.

According to the deduction of the think tank, even if the barbarians in Europe beat people's brains into pig brains, they will calm down the war in the near future.

Among them, France, which has the strongest combat power, has begun to shift its attention, drawing a large number of soldiers out of the battlefield, and the center of gravity has begun to be placed in New France, and England is also drawing a large number of troops, and the center of gravity has also begun to shift to New England.

Because no matter who the whole of Europe is, it is impossible to afford the continuous war, nor can it afford the consequences of a large number of deaths, and there will be a compromise in the war after all, and the greatest possibility is that the war will end in about 20 years of Chongzhen, that is, next year.

One of the biggest reasons is also the lack of strength of the Holy Roman Empire, the entire battlefield is losing one after another, and once Rome, which can not bear it first, admits defeat, this war that has lasted for more than 20 years will end.

The opinion of the think tank is that since the Ming Dynasty has now set its sights on the Penglai continent in the far east, then the life and death of Europe should not care about them for the time being, but should take advantage of this time to give support to some European countries.

For example, the Holy Roman Empire, which was at a disadvantage, must have wanted to seek peace for a long time, but after being slapped in the face by Sweden and France again and again, Ferdinand III must not mind buying a large amount of arms from the Ming Dynasty to slap them in the face.

Well, there's nothing wrong with that judgment!

Although Emperor Chongzhen is a little unlearned, for example, he has not understood the history of his family for more than 5,000 years, and he is not very interested in the history of those barbarians for hundreds of years, but he still knows the final result.

Sweden and France will still exist in later generations, but the Holy Roman Empire has long since disappeared into the long river of history.

Now that we know that the Holy Roman Empire will run out of calves, why not support them now, such as arms, guns and cannons, which are sold to them in large quantities at low prices, with Fushou ointment to talk to them, what kind of effect will it have?

In fact, according to the meaning of the think tank, even if it is not profitable, the Ming should provide a batch of arms and weapons to the Holy Roman Empire.

Because as long as the Ming Dynasty supplies arms to the Holy Roman Empire, there is no possibility of losing money - as long as the Holy Roman Empire tastes the sweetness of the Ming Dynasty's arms, will they endure the evil anger of being bullied for many years? They won't counterattack back?

Once the Holy Roman Empire counterattacks, you can get a large amount of silver coins through countries such as Ruihuang and France, and then buy more arms from the Ming Dynasty.

It is impossible for the coalition forces of Sweden and France and other countries that have been scared not to care about where these arms come from, and they will definitely find a way to contact Daming to buy them at that time.

If the same arms are sold to two companies, Daming still has the possibility of losing money?

The only problem is probably how to contact the Holy Roman Empire before the end of the war of the European barbarians, otherwise, the Holy Roman Empire will be killed by people, and then it will not make much sense.

After throwing the deduction analysis report in his hand to the cabinet, Emperor Chongzhen said: "What do you think? ”

Lu Xiangsheng bowed and said: "Judging from the results of the think tank's deduction, it is natural to give a lot of support to the Holy Roman Empire, even if it is to provide them with arms first.

But if the arms were given to the Holy Roman Empire too easily, it might not have cared much.

In the opinion of the ministers, it is better to send envoys to negotiate with them, order them to guarantee them with customs duties, commercial taxes, etc., or sign other agreements, such as the Kyushu Island Agreement, and then provide them with arms. ”

Emperor Chongzhen nodded, indicating that he was already clear.

Which of the five mobile arms dealers in later generations is not a good player, it doesn't matter if you have money or not, mines, land, or anything can bring a lot of profits? Bad to transport? No problem! The five hooligans even repaired the road for you!

Of course, after the road is repaired, there will be taxes and tolls, so naturally the five hooligans should be collected for a few years, right? Otherwise, do you really think that the five hooligans are opening a good church?

Zhang Yingxuan, the secretary of the Ministry of Works, was very unhappy, and bowed down and said: "Your Majesty, there are still some guards in my Ming Dynasty that have not been updated to the latest equipment, if they supply the barbarians first?" ”

Emperor Chongzhen heaved and said, "Naturally, it is to supply the barbarians first." Except for the border army, it doesn't hurt for my Ming guard's guard to change weapons more slowly.

It's a newly developed weapon, and those with uncertain performance can be thrown to the barbarians to use first, and then decide whether to equip it in large quantities to my Ming guard. ”

Zhang Yingxuan is still unhappy.

Emperor Chongzhen said the routine, Zhang Yingxuan naturally knew - those guys in the Royal Academy were killed or buried, and all kinds of new weapons were tossed out by them for a simple trial, and then thrown to the Ministry of Industry for mass production, and then let the Beijing camp and the new army try them out.

After the Beijing camp and the new army have been tried for a period of time and the advantages and disadvantages have been fed back, they will improve accordingly, and then throw it to the Ministry of Industry to give them a headache, and then repeat the process.

As a result of this toss-up, the weapons used by the border army were relatively stable, and the internal guards were relatively backward, while the Beijing battalion and the new army were constantly experimenting with new weapons while maintaining their combat effectiveness.

The biggest headache in the whole chain is the Ministry of Industry.

In the case of firearms, for example, the advent of the steam engine made it possible to drill and boring stably and quickly, and it was no longer a problem to manufacture standard barrels in large quantities, and the quality was guaranteed.

But do the scum of the Royal Academy think that the big barrel will bring more damage?

With a pat on the brain, design, production, trial, throw it to the Ministry of Industry to mass produce some and then let Jingying try it, and then look at Jingying's feedback, the whole chain came out like this.

The Ministry of Engineering has to continue to build a new drilling and boring machine according to the design requirements of the Royal Academy, and then start tossing - in this case, the production of Chongzhen 13-style firecrackers cannot be delayed!

It's okay to do it once or twice, but if you often do it like this, the prison will naturally complain for days, and then complain to the Ministry of Industry, and in the end, the Ministry of Industry will also be in pain, and Zhang Yingxuan will also feel a big headache.

Now Emperor Chongzhen simply threw the trial pot on the barbarians, and it was the Beijing camp and the new army that were relaxed, and the workload of the Ministry of Industry was not reduced, but was constantly increasing, in this case, it was strange that Zhang Yingxuan could be happy.

Emperor Chongzhen simply set his sights on Jin Xuan, the secretary of the Ministry of War: "Why don't you set up another department under the Ministry of War to be responsible for the production of these firearms, and then set up a guard for trial?" ”

Jin Xuan didn't have any extra nonsense, and responded with a straight face: "Yes, Wechen will set up another arsenal to be responsible for the creation of firearms, and specially dispatch people to set up an ordnance department to be responsible for testing." ”

Jin Xuan has long wanted to take the matter of firearms production from the Ministry of Industry to his own hands, but there has been no suitable opportunity, and now Zhang Yingxuan intends to dump the pot, and Emperor Chongzhen also intends to let the Ministry of War be responsible, Jin Xuan's heart has long been happy.

It's just that although this kind of thing is easy to say, if you want to achieve it in earnest, you can't do it in a while, you can only take it slowly.

Especially the problem of manpower, it is enough for the arsenal to have a headache - the Ordnance Department is easy to handle, as long as you pull a random guard station over, this matter can be solved by looking for Zhang Zhiji.

However, the arsenal needs experienced masters, and if you want to train yourself from scratch, it takes not two a day, or even a year or two.

After thinking about it, Jin Xuan simply hit the head of the general as a prisoner: "Your Majesty, the arsenal is responsible for creating trial firearms and mass-producing them, and it can't be done without an experienced master." Will the prison be on the side, can you transfer some people over? ”

Without waiting for Emperor Chongzhen to answer, Zhang Yingxuan hurriedly spoke: "Your Majesty, the task of being a prisoner is already heavy, how can you get people to be sent to the military department?"

However, because they are all serving His Majesty and serving His Majesty, the minister is willing to transfer five experienced masters from the general supervisor to the military department. ”

Jin Xuan sneered and said, "Why don't you say that you don't transfer any of them?" Why don't you let the military department start from scratch? ”

Zhang Yingxuan said: "I didn't think about it! How many things do you think you will have to deal with as a prisoner? ”

Emperor Chongzhen was also a big headache: "In this way, the Ordnance Bureau, the War Bureau, and the Gunpowder Bureau are all split in half and then expanded, and some of them are still under the Internal Prison and Shaofu, and the other part is under the Ministry of War." As for the prison, it is better not to move for the time being. ”

In fact, Emperor Chongzhen has long intended to subdivide these messy institutions, but he has not yet figured out how to plan, and it is not a matter of a while.

Now taking this opportunity, it can be regarded as the first step of splitting.

Probably appeased Jin Xuan and Zhang Yingxuan, who were staring at each other wide-eyed, and Emperor Chongzhen, who had a headache, ran away directly to the Royal Academy.

The Imperial Academy, which is dozens of miles south of the capital, has a level of secrecy that is still above the cabinet and the eight departments, and its defense level is no less than that of the Imperial Palace.

If someone can prepare enough explosives and detonate them on the territory of the Royal Academy, it can be said unceremoniously that the development of the entire Ming Dynasty will stagnate for decades, and even regress to a certain extent.

Of course, if this really happens, it's hard to say what Emperor Chongzhen will do in a fit of rage.

Because Emperor Chongzhen regarded the Royal Academy as much more important than the Imperial Palace - even if the Imperial Palace in the capital is gone, there is still the Imperial Palace in Nanjing, and the Summer Palace in the fishing sea, it is a big deal to rebuild it.

If the Royal Academy is bombed, in addition to showing that Jinyiwei and Neirenchang and the Jingying responsible for guarding it are derelict or even out of control, it will also slow down the industrialization process of the entire Ming Dynasty.

For example, now, a miniature steam engine warship is coming back on the huge artificial lake, doing forward and turning and other actions, which makes Emperor Chongzhen's eyes a little obsessed.

If in terms of combat effectiveness, one treasure ship is enough to send ten steam engine warships in front of you to the bottom of the sea to feed the dragon king, even if this thing wants to be distributed to the fleet, the three fleets that are used to the tall treasure ships are not eye-catching.

A warship of about 300 materials is only about 100 tons in displacement, about 10 meters in length and about 3 meters in width, which is about equivalent to a 16-wheeled truck.

Moreover, a large amount of space on this steam engine battleship is used to house the steam engine and the coal to be used, so the space for installing artillery is naturally much smaller, and the deck area is not large, and it can't even fit a hundred households.