Ma Zhicai had a house in Yingtianfu, and the people of the Ma family lived in his house temporarily, but Zhu Zhanji also set aside a piece of land for his family by the river of the farm as their future residence.

In Zhu Zhanji's overall plan, this farm will be a science and technology research center. It's just that because it is too close to the Ming Tomb, you can't move the ground at will, so if you want to build a kiln, you need to choose another site.

Since Zhu Di dismissed the plan to move the capital, Zhongshan Mountain stretched from the foothills on the north side of the palace to the easternmost side, and this almost ten square kilometers of Xiangyang foothills was determined to be the royal tomb.

In addition to Zhu Yuanzhang, Empress Xu was also buried here, and Zhu Di also built a mausoleum for himself.

Because the area of Zhongshan is not large, and the southern foot is only ten square kilometers, the scale of the mausoleum here is not very large, which also indirectly reduces the burden on the people.

What's more, because the place is small, Zhu Zhanji once deliberately said in front of Zhu Di that the children and grandchildren of the Zhu family will sleep in Zhongshan, so the concubine who is not a heavy concubine cannot be buried in Zhongshan.

Although he didn't mention canceling the bad custom of accompanying the concubine to the funeral, it was almost the same thing.

Since Emperor Qin, the emperor has gradually canceled the bad habit of martyrdom of concubines, but when he came to Zhu Yuanzhang, he picked it up again.

This is arguably one of the most disgusting laws of our time, and the burial of the living is definitely the greatest insult to the right to life.

Although Zhu Di did not express his position, he could consider this matter, and Zhu Zhanji felt that it was a good thing. After a few years, his health is not good, and when he gradually comes to power, he will definitely cancel this law.

In addition, there is foot binding, although the current foot binding is only to trim the foot shape, but under the development of those disgusting rotten Confucians, the foot binding finally develops into deformity.

This is also a great injustice to women and a great waste of social productivity.

These two laws are the most disgusting of Zhu Zhanji, and they are also the laws that must be revised after taking power.

In Zhu Zhanji's plan, the planned farm will be built into a number of research institutes. In line with the current level of science and technology of the Ming Dynasty, the industry will be vigorously promoted.

For example, he has determined to establish, including the Geographical Research Institute, the Mineral Research Institute, the Iron and Steel Casting Research Institute, the Gewu Foundation Research Institute, the Mechanical Research Institute, the Chemistry Research Institute, the Medical Research Institute, the Textile Technology Research Institute, the Shipbuilding Technology Research Institute, and the Building Water Conservancy Research Institute.

Although these 10 research institutes do not represent all the fields of today, they are able to conduct research on the existing basis and make direct use of it.

In this era, there is no shortage of cutting-edge technology, but they all serve a small number of people.

When promotion is unprofitable, the widespread application of many technologies is confined to a small range.

For example, astronomy, comets, satellites, and folk learning these knowledge is a crime, and it can only serve the royal family.

There are other technologies, but they are deliberately monopolized. The porcelain firing of the Ming Dynasty is divided into official kilns and private kilns, but the technology of the official kiln cannot be leaked to the private kiln, and the offender will lose his head.

In today's whole society, the economic operation is not a whole, but an intricate single-line economic model, which is also the biggest disease of today's Ming economy.

It is not easy to change everything, so Zhu Zhanji just wants to use his own strength to slowly promote and gradually improve the entire economic environment.

At the end of this year, he received about 100,000 taels of silver dividends from Yinlou, plus the less than 200,000 taels of silver he left before, and he was ready to directly take out 50,000 taels for infrastructure construction, and the other more than 200,000 taels of silver will be used to promote basic science.

Although the cost is not small, he believes that as long as these research institutes have research results, and then force them to promote, they will definitely be able to earn more wealth.

The key is to build a mature, regulated economy.

"Your Highness, Song Shangshu and Wu Shangshu have arrived......"

Zhu Zhanji and Ma Zhide were checking the address of the house by a small tributary of the Qinhuai River on the south side of the farm.

Hearing the guard's report, Zhu Zhanji paused. "Both of them are here?"

"Yes, the two Shangshu lords are here together."

Just to take a look at the base of the house, Zhu Zhanji, the grandson, accompanied him, which had already flattered the Ma Zhicai brothers. Hearing this, he immediately said, "Your Highness, go and entertain the two adults, and there is no need to delay time with us." ”

Zhu Zhanji looked at Ma Zhicai and said with a smile: "Deputy Ma is also a member of the Ministry of Industry, and accompany me to greet the two Shangshu!" ”

Ma Zhicai looked at Zhu Zhanji in surprise, and was so excited that he couldn't stand anymore, but he was still modest. "Your Highness, is it appropriate for Weichen to be in a humble position?"

Ma Zhicai used to be only from the ninth grade, and now he is only a technical officer of the seventh grade, and he is still too far behind the two Shangshu of the second grade.

If it weren't for Zhu Zhanji's support, he would not have the qualifications to come forward and speak at all on this occasion.

"It's okay, come with me."

Today's Ministry of Industry has two Shangshu, and they are large and small, which was very rare in the early Ming Dynasty. This is also because the two Shangshu are hard-working and highly accomplished, and they are rare technical officials in the Ming Dynasty, and even Zhu Di can't bear to treat anyone coldly.

Song Shangshu's surname is Song Mingli, and the word is big. A native of Yongning, Henan. In Hong Wuzhong, he was promoted to Shanxi according to the judge and the head of the left relocation department. At the beginning of Jianwen, he recommended Shaanxi to investigate the affairs and re-sit the left to move the criminal department to the outsider. Chengzu ascended the throne and ordered the Ministry of Rites to be appointed to the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Rites to be promoted to the Ministry of Rites. Yongle worshiped the Ministry of Labor in the second year. Please give Shandong Tuntian cattle breeds, and ask those who are unable to work in Beijing to migrate to Beijing for the people, and report it. For seven years, Ding's mother was worried, and the edict stayed to see things.

The reason why Zhu Di attaches so much importance to him is because he is now the most famous water conservancy expert in the court. Nowadays, almost all the rivers dredged in the Ming Dynasty have his credit, and he cut down giant trees from Sichuan and built the Ming Imperial Palace, and he also opened the Yangtze River waterway to transport the wood out.

And Wu Shangshu's surname is Wu Mingzhong, and the word is positive. A native of Wucheng, Shandong. He is a well-known architectural expert in the Ming Dynasty, and he is responsible for the restoration of the Ming Emperor's palace and the construction of cities in various places, including the mausoleum built by Zhu Di for himself and Empress Xu.

Although these two Shangshu are in the same position, both of them are often sent abroad, so during the year, most of them have only one Shangshu in Beijing.

In addition, both of them are technical officials, and they cherish each other, but there is no dirt between other officials, and the relationship between the two is still very good.

Zhu Zhanji has always admired technical officials, but he has no contact with the government, so even if he knows that these two scholars are very good, he has never had private contact.

This time, he asked for a large number of people from the Ministry of Industry, and almost half of the technical personnel of the Ministry of Industry were requested. Therefore, even if Zhu Di has given an order, the two Shangshu must ask Zhu Zhanji's plan clearly before releasing them.

Moreover, Zhu Zhanji's farm construction, including the construction of industrial zones, also needs these two scholars to give advice.

However, he never expected that these two Shangshu would come together today.

Obviously, the two of them also attached great importance to this opportunity to get in touch with him, the grandson, in an open and honest manner, so they both wanted to come to meet Zhu Zhanji in person and get close to him.

If it weren't for this reason, they wouldn't have been able to contact Zhu Zhanji at all before Zhu Di allowed Zhu Zhanji to be in power.

Military power: Zhu Di can delegate power, because as long as the people want it, the system is perfect. Any marshal, whose power to lead troops is restricted, can only carry out orders that should be carried out.

They only have their own soldiers who can obey each other, and other than that, it is difficult for even a small soldier to command.

However, the government is different, because the formulation and implementation of any system affects the country.

Sometimes, even if you know that a decision is wrong, in order to protect the face of the imperial court, you can't change the order overnight, you can only make the mistake wrong.

A bad decision can take countless costs to remedy.

Therefore, in any era, even if the emperor can let some military power out, he will never let people interfere in the government.

During the New Year, the machine tool of Zhu Zhanji Farm became famous, a machine that could process wood by manpower, but it was spread in the capital that the grandson could borrow the power of ghosts and gods, which made people laugh.

However, in this way, the people are more convinced of Zhu Zhanji, the grandson, which is also a good thing.

When Zhu Zhanji returned to the farm, two Shangshu and a group of officials from the Ministry of Industry were studying the principle of this machine tool.

Many things are just a film, and when you don't understand it, you can't think of it, and when you pierce it, you will find that it is so simple.

These professionals have already figured out the principle after just observing this for a while, and everyone is talking about the role that this machine can play.

More people are more interested in bearings, because the function of machine tools is still relatively simple, and they need to continue to study if they want to be practical.

And the role of this little thing is obvious and can be used practically. Today's Daming has countless ox carts and horse-drawn carts, and only need to add this thing to increase the loading and transportation capacity by more than half, and save labor.

So this little thing attracted most people to talk about it, and when they saw Zhu Zhanji coming back with Ma Zhicai, everyone greeted Zhu Zhanji according to the level of his official position.

At this time, the most excited person was Ma Zhicai, who could only look up to the big people in these official offices, but because he was now following Zhu Zhanji, he treated him differently.

Wu Zhong looked like an anxious man, and after Zhu Zhanji saluted everyone one by one, he couldn't wait to ask: "Your Highness, this thing can be said to be beneficial to the country and the people, but the production of this thing is complicated." Not only does the steel ball need to be rounded, but it is not easy to polish the card groove inside and outside the steel ring. ”