The policy of apportioning the land into the mu and the township pavilion system came one after another, and the whole world was in an uproar for a while.

Even the ministers of the court couldn't sit still, and wrote to Zhang Lingyang one after another.

There is no way, and it is not okay if these ministers do not go to the book.

If so many protégés and former officials, if they only consider the gains and losses of the court and do not care about them, I am afraid that it will not be long before those protégés and former officials of theirs will choose to change the lintel.

Among them, Gao Pei and Cao Rui ran the most actively.

It's also because the feudal officials have been doing it for too long, and they still haven't fully understood the situation in the imperial court, and they are actively running around every day, constantly writing to Zhang Lingyang.

And Zheng Yongji is undoubtedly much smarter.

Zheng Yongji's personality is already sleek, and he doesn't want to offend too many people.

What's more, it is Zhang Lingyang who is going to be convicted now?

Therefore, Zheng Yongji just took a book of books without pain at the beginning, and then he kept pretending to be deaf and dumb at home.

Compared with Zheng Yongji, Chen Yiming, the secretary of the ministry, is even more deaf to the forty of the township pavilion system in line with the principle that it has nothing to do with himself.

Besides, Chen Yiming himself does not have a daughter as a concubine in the harem, and there are not many protégés and old officials, so it is strange to be active.

And Zhu Kaishan, the head of the household, although he is a relative and a big mountain in the court, but like Zheng Yongji, he is cold and indifferent to this matter, and he is not enthusiastic.

What was Zhang Lingyang, who was at the center of the storm, doing at this time?

At this moment, Zhang Lingyang is in the Firearms Bureau, developing flintlock pistols with those craftsmen.

Although the Great Zhou had not yet begun the process of industrialization, it was not difficult for skilled craftsmen from all over the country to develop a few experimental flintlock pistols together with European craftsmen who had been recruited.

Da Zhou had already been able to forge an arquebus, and although the flintlock pistol was slightly more technically difficult than the arquebus, it was only a little bit, not a world of difference.

Bang, bang, bang......

Seeing that a soldier in front of him shot more than ten shots with a face, but none of the guns hit the bullseye a hundred steps away, Zhang Lingyang subconsciously frowned.

However, after thinking about it, the current flintlock pistol is only experimental and has not been forged on a large scale, and Zhang Lingyang is relieved.

If after large-scale forging, it is all such an accurate head, I am afraid that no one will be satisfied.

"A little bit better!" Zhang Lingyang instructed the craftsman beside him, "Be sure to find out the reason, I will give you a month."

If it's still the same in a month, then you're just waiting to lose your head! ”

This sentence is not only said to the skilled craftsmen of the Great Zhou, but also to those craftsmen in Europe.

It is said that without pressure, there is no motivation.

Now Zhang Lingyang is just giving them some pressure to develop a qualified flintlock pistol as soon as possible. At that time, the soldiers of Da Zhou can also try it out as soon as possible.

Of course, if a qualified flintlock pistol can't be developed after a month, Zhang Lingyang doesn't mind cutting off a few heads.

Whether it is the craftsmen of the Great Zhou or the craftsmen from Europe.

Zhang Lingyang is treated equally.

According to Zhang Lingyang, in Da Zhou, you must abide by the rules of Da Zhou.

What's more, even if Zhang Lingyang cut off the heads of several European craftsmen, no one can say anything.

After all, in the eyes of the subjects of the Great Zhou, Europe was a land of barbarians.

Even Zhang Lingyang thinks so.

Because Europe is ahead of the big week, only technology.

As for the state system and system, Europe is indeed much behind the Great Zhou.

First of all, the state system, although the tide of capitalism has now been set off in Europe, the government affairs of European countries are still in the hands of the aristocracy.

As for the civil service?

In this era, there was only a civil service system practiced by the Great Zhou and several surrounding vassal states.

The benefits of the civil service system are naturally self-evident, otherwise the European and American countries in the future would not have learned from our Qing Dynasty and used it now, and it will soon be popularized and become the mainstream of later generations.

On the other hand, the capitalist reforms in Europe are too violent, and 'sheep eat people' is not uncommon.

If this kind of thing happened in Da Zhou, I am afraid that the government and the opposition would have boiled long ago.

But in today's Europe, 'sheep eat people' is a normal thing.

In terms of humanity, Europe of this era was indeed no different from the barbarians.

As for humanitarianism?

Is there humanitarianism in a country and a nation that is crazy about colonizing other countries?

Now Europe is ahead of the Great Zhou, and the level of science and technology is also concerned.

If one adds a little more, there is naturally the adventurous spirit of the European peoples, which is commendable.

In fact, in the final analysis, this is also the difference between agricultural civilization and maritime civilization.

In any case, in this era, in the eyes of any country and nation, the Great Zhou is a 'Heavenly Empire'.

In Europe, both the common people and the aristocracy are particularly yearning for the Great Zhou Dynasty and this ancient country that produced porcelain, silk and tea.

Even the monarchs of European countries are full of yearning for the Great Zhou.

Especially after Wilson returned to Europe from his first mission to the Great Zhou, he described to the European nobles how the people of the Great Zhou lived and worked in peace and contentment, how gentle and elegant the officials were, how noble the emperor was, and how magnificent the palace where he lived.

Wilson described to the European aristocracy the opulence of the south of the Yangtze River, the grandeur of the canal, the grandeur of the capital, and the differences in the lifestyles of different regions of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

All these made the European aristocracy yearn for it.

Especially after the monarchs of European countries heard that the palace where the emperor of the Great Zhou lived was dozens or even hundreds of times that of them, and that there were tens of thousands of palace maids and eunuchs served, and that their wives could marry dozens of them, they yearned for the Great Zhou even more.

In the past, it was not that businessmen who went to Da Zhou talked about the customs of Da Zhou.

However, except for Guangzhou, there were no other treaty ports in the Great Zhou that were open to European merchants.

Therefore, they have no way of knowing the customs and customs of the mainland of the Great Zhou.

What they now learned from Wilson was what Wilson himself had seen and heard along the way, and it was obviously more reliable and more true than the hearsay from the businessmen before.

For a country as rich as Da Zhou, it would be false to say that the European powers were incomparably coveted.

But when they heard about the population of the Great Zhou was hundreds of millions and the standing soldiers were also two million, no one dared to fight the idea of the Great Zhou anymore.

What's more, in Wilson's description, it took a full month to reach the capital of the Great Zhou Dynasty from Guangzhou, the southernmost point of the Great Zhou Dynasty. The European aristocrats all exclaimed: "Oh my God, the land of the Great Zhou is so vast? ”

You know, from Paris in France to Moscow in Russia, the trip doesn't take so long......