Social needs are the driving force for technological development, such as the emergence of the steam engine because the social development at that time needed a power to replace human or animal power.

For example, large-scale mining, there are many heavy operations, and manpower and animal power are not up to the requirements; Like spinning and weaving, the population is increasing, the standard of living is getting higher and higher, the demand for cloth is getting bigger and bigger, and the demand for cloth is not reaching the demand at all by hand weaving, and people can't always have a set of clothes for a lifetime, or simply this one, so people urgently need to find a power to replace human or animal power, and steam power came into being.

Of course, the history of this time has been rewritten by Zhu Cijiong, and steam power first appeared in the East, and appeared decades earlier.

This makes the great powers have to find ways to speed up the pace of technological development, because they know better than anyone that if they fall behind, they will be beaten!

The military demand is also a social need, especially in the Age of Discovery, the military demand is particularly strong, because if the technology is advanced and the weapons are advanced, they can rob the colonies everywhere, plunder the wealth, make themselves richer and richer, and the country will become richer and stronger.

It is this demand that makes all countries increase investment in technology research and development, and the technological development of the whole world has accelerated, and the first industrial revolution can be said to have broken out decades in advance, so how can Daming ensure that it takes the lead in this industrial revolution?

This is exactly what Zhu Cijiong is thinking about now, and he is very pleased with the successful development of sniper rifles and super cannons, but these two are not conventional weapons, and they have an impact on the battle situation, but they cannot form an overwhelming advantage.

Like a sniper rifle, due to the production volume, it is simply impossible to have one per person, and its impact on the battlefield is very limited, at most it can kill the enemy commanding a few officers on the front line, causing a little chaos, and it is almost impossible to use a few sniper rifles to collapse the enemy's tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of troops.

As for the limitations of the Super Cannon, it is even more powerful, because of its terrifying weight and recoil, it can only be equipped on the treasure ship giant, not on the Super Battleship and the Fuchuan battleship.

If it is to be equipped on a super battleship and bombed out, it is estimated that the super battleship may be shocked and cracked apart; It should be equipped on the Fuchuan battleship, and if it is bombarded out, it is estimated that the Fufune battleship will be shaken apart!

Of course, you can also consider equipping the Super Cannon in the turrets or bastions of the forward base, which is also quite terrifying.

However, with the current expansion rate of the Ming Dynasty, the front line is moving forward almost every year, and it is really difficult to determine where the equipment is, but there are a few in the fortresses and batteries of Xingcheng Port and the Eurasian Canal, because these two places are not only front-line bases, but also hold the choke point, no matter how much they strengthen the defense.

Although the appearance of sniper rifles and super cannons cannot determine the success or failure of the battle, it makes Zhu Cijiong see Daming's current technological research and development strength, he doesn't know how many advanced things are in his mind, he always thinks that even if he says it, no one will do it, but now it seems that many things, Daming has the strength to develop them!

Perhaps, there are many things, and he is still in the Arabian Nights when he says it now, but it was not a fantasy before the train was built, and now it is not the whole Ming Dynasty running around.

Engaging in research and development is like this, as long as the direction is right, there will always be a successful day, his mind is full of successful things in the future, naturally there will be no directional mistakes, now it depends on how to promote the development of technology.

In this regard, later generations also have a very successful experience, that is, scientific research projects, encourage development, give sufficient financial support to scientific researchers, and improve their enthusiasm, so that a good scope of research and development can be formed, coupled with his foresight, the technology will surely advance by leaps and bounds.

Being an emperor is like this, what you want to do, just speak, and saying it is a holy oracle, as long as it is not too outrageous, the people below are desperate to complete it, of course, the premise is that this emperor must have real power.

Zhu Cijiong's principle of employing people is to be loyal to the monarch and patriotism, and now the entire court really can't find anyone who dares to contradict him, and he is naturally the emperor who holds real power.

So, in the days that followed, he held a unique seminar while resuming the early dynasty.

This so-called seminar is actually where he describes what he has seen in the future, and the people below record and ask questions in their hearts, and everyone discusses how much money to invest, how much manpower to invest, and how long it will take to develop this thing.

Why is this seminar unique, mainly because the form of this seminar is unique, Zhu Cijiong actually asked people to arrange a side hall of the Qianqing Palace to look like a classroom, that is, a podium above, and a row of desks and seats below.

In other words, the emperor lectures above, and the people below sit and listen to the lectures!

This way is a bit shocking at this time in the Ming Dynasty, the emperor is standing, and the people below are sitting and listening to the class, can there be?

Of course there can be, and the emperor said that if there is, there can be it.

The people who participated in this seminar can also be described as unique, Zhu Cijiong made a special will, and some people must attend.

Like Bi Maokang, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry;

Sun Yuanhua, the secretary of the military department;

Wang Zheng, the left waiter of the Ministry of Works;

Xu Fuyuan, a waiter in the Ministry of Works;

Xia Yunyi, the waiter of the Ministry of Works;

Song Yingxing, dean of Daming Institute of Metallurgy;

Moreover, these people can bring two proud disciples to participate, and the other members of the imperial court above the third rank can participate in the seminar, and they can come to listen to it when they have time, and they don't force it if they don't have time.

What are you talking about? This is also a very important question, if you say something too advanced, it is really a fantasy, such as mobile phones, computers, televisions, these things are naturally good, but in the Ming Dynasty, did it make sense to say this?

If you want to talk about something that can be made in this era, such as tanks, now that the Ming Dynasty has a dragon and artillery, it is not very difficult to combine the two things.

Another example is the car, which can also be developed on the basis of the ground turner, that is, the track is replaced with rubber tires, and the rubber is available, and the tires are naturally possible.

There are also guns like later generations, in which mercury thunderate fired by impact and smokeless gunpowder with almost no smoke after combustion can be tested, and as for raw materials, nitric acid and glycerin should be almost able to be refined under existing conditions.

There are also like wired telephones, simple wired telephones are actually to use sound waves to vibrate the vibrating diaphragm on the electromagnetic coil to form a sound current, and then in turn convert the sound wave current into sound.

Of course, to promote the development of technology, it is not enough to give a holy oracle, that is tantamount to fishing with all its might, and if the R&D personnel do not get the treatment they deserve, they will form inertia, which is extremely unfavorable to the development of technology, so Zhu Cijiong decided to reward the R&D personnel.

For projects that are not difficult to develop such as tanks and automobiles, the entire project team will be rewarded with no less than 1 million taels, and for projects such as mercury thunderate, smokeless gunpowder, and wired telephones, the entire project team will be rewarded with no less than 10 million taels!