Since two years ago, Ma Zhicai's life has changed completely from the unpredictable life when he carved the globe.

At the beginning, he was just an ambassador of the ninth grade, and later he was promoted to the deputy of the eighth grade. When his sixteen-year-old nephew Ma Di was also given by His Majesty to serve as a deputy envoy to the Ministry of Industry, he was promoted to the rank of the seventh grade.

When he was reminded by Zhu Zhanji, he developed a reverse mold casting barrel, drilled a fine hole with a drill bit, and then used a sand rod to polish the inner hole, this time he was directly promoted to become a member of Wupin.

In the entire Ministry of Industry, the staff has entered the entire leadership.

Although Ma Zhicai, a foreigner, is only in charge of the machine tool factory and the barrel factory, these two yamen are the most important departments today, and the Ma family has now become a noble relative, Ma Zhicai, a foreigner, has become a new force that cannot be ignored in the Ministry of Industry.

But Ma Zhicai did not get carried away because of this, he knew very well that the Ma family had a thin background and had no help in officialdom.

Their only reliance is Taisun, but Taisun is a person who attaches importance to practice and results. If the Ma family wants to continue to be taken care of by their grandson, in addition to Ma Xin's favor, their Ma family must do things in a down-to-earth manner.

Because he had only made achievements in carving, Ma Zhi knew very well that his technical accumulation was not as good as those old craftsmen who had been immersed in the Ministry of Industry all their lives.

The only thing he surpassed them in terms of technology was to accept Taisun's series of ideological influences on new technologies.

From the very beginning of the simple machine tool, he has been carefully researching on this, and wants to develop the linkage machine tool that Taisun said.

Since the invention of the machine tool, many craftsmen in the Ministry of Industry have derived countless functions from the machine tool. In addition to the barrel, even the wooden butt can now be sharpened using a machine tool several times faster than the original hand grinding.

In addition, craftsmen directly develop molds based on the principle of die-casting, and many parts are mass-produced.

The vigorous development of new technologies, coupled with the implementation of patents, has given the Ministry of Industry many opportunities to intervene in business from the hands of internal supervisors.

In particular, the comprehensive construction of cement roads, bearings, and the wide application of horse-drawn carriages, today's Ministry of Industry is no longer the Qingshui Yamen two years ago, and has become the most concerned Yamen in addition to the Ministry of Officials.

Ma Zhicai knew very well where his abilities were, and he did not cherish some of the ideas for the derivative development of technology that his grandson had told him, but took them out and shared them with his colleagues.

Therefore, today's new technologies in the Ministry of Industry are changing with each passing day, and many new technologies have been verified and applied almost every month.

After solving the problem of grinding the inner diameter of the barrel, he focused on the grinding of bearing steel balls, which was his old business, and the Ma family had processed jade for generations, and had its own complete set of technical solutions for the polishing of jade.

The material of steel balls and jade is different, and the processing is of course different, but their working principles are similar.

He used two machine tools to drive the iron mesh grinding, solved the problem of grinding the steel ball, and then together with other craftsmen, solved the quenching problem of the steel ball, and now Daming, has perfectly solved the production problem of the steel ball in the production of bearings.

Today's bearing factory has expanded its output by more than 10 times compared with the beginning, and has gradually been able to meet the demand for bearings in the market.

And Zhu Zhanji saw this grinding and polishing machine some time ago, and from the linkage of this machine tool, he thought of the wire drawing machine.

Zhu Zhanji knows the specific working principle of the wire drawing machine, that is, the semi-melted molten steel is pumped and extruded through multiple machine tools.

But that's all he knows, and he doesn't know exactly how it works.

Whether it is iron wire, steel wire, copper wire, aluminum wire, the demand in the industrial age is very large. Not to mention, just one filter can consume a lot of wire.

Moreover, in today's era, the application of iron wire on the battlefield is also very huge.

The barbed wire mesh made of iron wire could directly hinder the offensive of the cavalry. As long as there is barbed wire, it can be said that the threat of cavalry will be reduced by more than half.

A board car can pull thousands of pounds of barbed wire, and thousands of pounds of barbed wire can basically stretch the barbed wire nearly 100 meters long and half a meter high.

It only takes two rolls of barbed wire to be spread out side by side, which is equivalent to blocking the path of the cavalry and making them no threat.

After listening to the function and function of iron wire, Ma Zhicai has been thinking about how to make iron wire during this time.

During this period, the crankshaft stamping proposed by Zhu Zhanji gave Ma Zhicai a new idea. By using the rotation of the crankshaft to leave a gap of different sizes between the swing shafts of the two crankshafts, the semi-melted molten steel can be turned from coarse to fine into the desired filament.

However, it took Ma Zhicai more than a month to make a crankshaft that met the requirements, and it was not until a few days ago that he barely made the wire drawing machine composed of five machine tools work together.

However, there are still many problems, such as many wire burrs made, and there are many problems with the linkage of machine tools, which are often easy to break.

He feels that in recent times, he has a lot more gray hair.

However, his mood was pleasant. Seeing the birth of a technology that he never thought of from scratch, and in the process of continuous development, countless new technologies have been derived, he has an indescribable sense of satisfaction.

For example, using this kind of mold and extrusion, a large number of steel bars can be produced, and many iron tools can be used without the need for craftsmen to work hard to build them, and the corresponding shapes can be directly produced and used with a little polishing.

Zhu Zhanji, who returned to the palace, saw the work report submitted by Ma Zhicai. In it, he elaborated on the difficulties encountered at present and the wide application of this standardized basic industrial package.

This made Zhu Zhanji feel like he was drunk, because he only now realized that he had neglected a very important thing, that is, the application of standard parts.

In modern society, standard parts have become something closely related to life, so much so that he is negligent for a while and forgets the most basic things in this industrial field.

A nail, a screw, a nut, a bearing, or a clamp nail are all produced in a standardized manner after a certain standard has been formulated, and then applied to all corners of society.

Although these things are inconspicuous, they are indispensable things for the whole society, and the production and development of standard parts is the basis for the development of the entire industry.

He annotated Ma Zhicai's recital, and asked Ma Zhicai to go to Ma Di, who was formulating the Ming Dynasty industrialization standards, and asked his uncle and nephew to formulate the weights and measures standards for the entire industry.

This set of standards was formulated, and then screws and nuts of various sizes were made, and this alone was given to the Ma family, and no one could give an opinion.

"Your Highness, Your Majesty has finished your work, let you go to the audience."

"Got it. …… Send this piece to Ma Zhicai, and ask him and Ma Di to come up with a plan as soon as possible. Armed with a saltpeter sample, we went to the temple of the body. ”

The weather gradually cooled down, and the Fengtian Temple was empty, with a lingering coldness.

Zhu Di has rheumatoid arthritis, and in winter, it is not very easy, so the office is basically in the greenhouse next to the temple.

Zhu Zhanji lifted the curtain of the door, and as soon as he entered the door, he was almost swept out by the heat wave. Not only did there be underfloor heating, but there were also four braziers, which were steaming hot.

He sniffed it, because it was charcoal, and he didn't smell the smell of gas, but there was definitely much less oxygen in this room than outside.

He commanded, "Although the weather is cold, you must open the doors and windows every half an hour to breathe, and you must not be negligent." ”

Wang Yan looked at Zhu Di, who was smiling, and responded, "Your Highness, Your Majesty is afraid of cold. ”

Zhu Zhanji nodded and said, "Of course I know, but Eunuch Wang should go to Xiamaqiao Farm to see the air test done by my research institute." In the atmosphere, only one-fifth of the gas is useful to the human body, and this gas is also needed for ignition, without this gas, no matter how much air people will suffocate. Staying in this environment for a long time can be far more harmful to people than wind cold. ”

Since Zhu Zhanji did that air combustion test at Xiamaqiao, now the printing and dyeing craftsmen of the Taoist priests like to do some strange experiments all day long.

They have also put together a lot of basic chemistry experience, and the existence of a minimum of oxygen has been confirmed.

In the past, everyone only knew that Kong Ming Lantern could take off, but they didn't know why they could fly, but now they can explain it clearly with reason.

Zhu Di said with a smile: "Listen to the grandson, open the doors and windows for a moment." What is the matter with Kier's post today? ”

Zhu Zhanji said, "Grandpa Huang, my grandson congratulated you." ”

Zhu Di looked at him, as well as Li Liang and Liu Wan who were dragging wooden plates behind him. The wooden plate was covered with a yellow cloth, and it was not known what was inside. "What's the joy of?"

Zhu Zhanji waved his hand at Liu Wan, Liu Wan took a step forward, Zhu Zhanji tore off the yellow cloth, and a small roll of iron wire was placed on the wooden plate.

Zhu Di looked at the wire and didn't quite understand what medicine was sold in Zhu Zhanji's gourd. "What's so strange about wire?"

"Grandpa Huang didn't know that this wire was not forged by hand, but stretched by a machine tool. Over time, after the technology matures, it can produce tens of millions of meters of iron wire a day. ”

"What's the use of so much wire?"

Zhu Zhanji smiled and picked up a piece of wire that had been wrapped with spikes and handed it to Zhu Di. "Grandpa Huang, please see, use this wire loop to form a cylinder, and then stretch it out, it can become a horse rejection pile, there is such a thing, and then the cavalry will no longer be a threat to the Ming Dynasty."

Zhu Di's expression moved, he tried the spikes of the wire with his hand, and sighed: "Is it really possible to produce tens of millions of meters in a day?" ”

"There are still some technical problems, and the Ministry of Works is still working on some problems. But over time, it is not difficult to produce tens of millions of meters a day. ”

Zhu Di laughed and said: "Okay, good, with this thing, then the country of Timur will no longer be a threat." When that day comes, I will reward all the labors. ”

Zhu Zhanji saw that he was in a happy mood, and said while the iron was hot: "My grandson has a bigger happy event, since my grandson learned that there was a saltpeter mine in Jiangyou, he sent someone to investigate, and now there is a harvest. Grandpa, please take a look at ......"

He drove the tray in front of Li Liang, and there were several small groups of saltpeter samples on it, and they appeared in front of Zhu Di.

Iron wire is an unexpected joy for Zhu Di, but it is an unforgettable miss for saltpeter mines. As soon as he saw these samples of saltpeter, he stood up with excitement. "Bring it to me."

Zhu Zhanji took the tray, and then put it in front of Zhu Di, he didn't care about the poison of saltpeter, put it on the end of his nose and took a deep breath and smiled: "It's really a saltpeter mine!" What are the reserves? ”

"Five mine holes have been discovered, and the Ministry of Industry is organizing local farmers to dig them."

Zhu Di laughed and said: "Okay, good, good, with saltpeter, my Daming gunpowder is no longer shackled, this is God bless my Daming!" ”

Zhu Di used three good things in a row to express the excitement in his heart, and now Daming vigorously develops firearms, and only saltpeter is the biggest limitation. This problem was solved, and the combat effectiveness of the entire Ming army was fully brought into play, and no country was afraid.

Especially with barbed wire, now even the other party is not afraid to escape. When this barbed wire is applied, it is a movable trench, and for an emperor like Zhu Di, who has fought all his life, he can understand the role of this with a little thought.

encountered two happy events in a row, Zhu Di glanced at Zhu Zhanji, who was laughing, and asked, "While I'm in a good mood, if you have any requests, hurry up." ”

Zhu Zhanji said solemnly: "It is the duty of the grandson to serve the country, how can you ask for it......"

Zhu Di sighed for a moment and said, "Since this is the case, then step down, I made wild ginseng and pheasant soup today, and I want to enjoy it." ”

Knowing that he was playing tricks, Zhu Zhanji also deliberately pretended to be anxious and said: "Grandson does have a small request......

Thinking that he had pinched Zhu Zhanji, Zhu Di laughed proudly. "Then don't hurry up."

Zhu Zhanji laughed and said: "Sun Er wants to set a model in the army and promote the heroic killing of the enemy. Therefore, I want to recruit personnel from the teaching department from all over the country to specially arrange big dramas and send them to the army. In addition, I want to recruit Zhu You, the prince of Zhou, to stew the prime minister of the world's green building, theaters, and drama troupes, and guide the people to martial arts. ”

Zhu Di didn't expect Zhu Zhanji to make such a request, and he was a little stunned for a while.

This matter has little to do with Zhu Zhanji, on the contrary, it is a civil affairs affair, and Zhu Zhanji actually does not have the slightest benefit in this matter, but he still attracts taboos.

And although this matter is not big, it is very complicated, involving the struggle for power in the Ministry of Rites, the opening of the door to convenience in the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, and the sensitive issues of violating the ancestral system in the clan.

Zhu Di frowned, glanced at Zhu Zhanji, and asked, "Why do you want to do this?" ”

Zhu Zhanji Zhengrong said: "My grandson is going to sea after the New Year, and this move is definitely not for the sake of fighting for power and profit. It's just that now the country and the people in the Ming Dynasty are safe, and the people are heavy on literature and light on military force, so after a few decades, there are almost no available soldiers in the Ming Dynasty. Thinking of danger in times of peace, my grandson thought that the civil and military should go hand in hand, cultivate the wolf nature of the people, and go to sea to expand the territory for my Ming Dynasty. So ......"

If Zhu Zhanji had no plan to go to sea, Zhu Di would definitely think that he couldn't wait to seize power now.

However, Zhu Zhanji will go to sea in less than two months, and this will be a year or two, and even if he intervenes, it will not be beneficial to Zhu Zhanji.

Zhu Di pondered for a while and said: "The Teaching Workshop Division is subordinate to the Ministry of Rites, and the sect is a member of the clan, these things are very complicated, and let me think about it. But it's good to promote martial aspirations, and I'll think about it and tell you. ”

Coming out of the Jinshen Palace, Zhu Zhanji thought about his decision today for a while, and felt that there was no major mistake, and it should not cause Zhu Di's taboo.

Although this matter itself is taboo, it is fortunate that he is going to sea.

When he comes back from going to sea, Zhu Di is going to fight with Timur again, and he will definitely let himself be imprisoned.

There is such a time difference, even if Zhu Di is afraid that he will seize power, he will not care too much, but will deliberately cultivate his management ability in civil affairs.

Even if Zhu Di is a little taboo, he can't care about it now, the sooner these ideological influences are implemented, the greater the impact and the better.

When people have formed a fixed concept, it is much more difficult to correct it.

On the second day, Zhu Di personally visited the Jiajiang Industrial Zone, and after he saw the dozens of bags of saltpeter samples, he immediately ordered Guangyuan to seal Laojun Mountain according to the Inspectorate, Ningqiangwei, Pingqiangwei, and the local inspection department.

The Ministry of Industry and the Internal Supervisor respectively set up a saltpeter field and supervision in Laojun Mountain, recruited agricultural workers in the local area, and made every effort to excavate saltpeter.

Subsequently, under the guidance of Zhu Zhanji, he inspected the musket factory, the artillery factory, the mint, and the machine tool factory.

The development of Jiajiang Industrial Zone is a small change in ten days and a big change in one month. Today, the industrial zone has expanded in size, and the rice field and noodle mill that were originally located here have been relocated to the open space of the shogunate mountain and the river downstream due to the small area.

The Jiajiang Industrial Zone will be turned into a closed military base and mint in the future, and all advanced industrial technologies will be kept strictly secret.

Although Zhu Di knows that this place is developing rapidly, he does not have a complete concept without seeing it with his own eyes.

When he saw with his own eyes that the hundreds of pounds of giant hammer rumbled, boomed down. The 20-meter-high giant waterwheel drove an entire production line, dozens of spinning wheels rotated together, dozens of women workers worked together, and then produced cloth and silk, and only then did you really feel the power of industry.

Zhu Di's heart went from excitement to fear, because these were completely incomprehensible to him, such a huge power, but not completely controlled by him, but by his own grandson.

Although he is his grandson, he still has a bit of a taboo because of fear.

Fortunately, he is going to sea now, and he was a little reluctant before, but now it seems that letting him leave for a while is the best arrangement.

While he is no longer there, he must take this power completely into his own hands.

Because this power is so terrible, he can't be at ease if he doesn't control it in his own hands.

As for the closure of these workshops, Zhu Di never thought that if he closed here, who would be able to make guns and cannons for Daming!

Zhu Zhanji didn't expect to bring Zhu Di to visit the industrial zone today, but something bad happened, which made him have a knot in his heart for the first time.

He has been thinking about the improvement plan of the wire drawing machine in his heart, and wants to make the wire energy production as soon as possible, but he didn't notice the shadow in Zhu Di's eyes.

took the building boat back to the inner city together, and when they were about to arrive at the Gongyuan, they heard a cry on the Zhuangyuan Bridge.

Zhu Di's eyes lifted from the reports of the factories and ordered, "Go and see what happened!" ”

When the emperor traveled, everything was cleaned up, and there were also three battalions of people patrolling on both sides of the Qinhuai River.

The boat paused and stopped. After a while, Wang Yan returned to the cabin and said, "Your Majesty, it is the students of Dongying, it seems that King Guang is seriously ill, and they cry and beg Your Majesty to send a doctor to treat them. ”

After the Dongying royal family was caught in Yingtianfu, they were divided into two groups. Today, the first line of the emperor was arranged in a large mansion near the Confucius Temple, and the first line of the Southern Dynasty was arranged in a large mansion near the Taiping Gate.

Both houses are said to have been bought at the expense of the Muromachi shogunate, and then settled them.

These people were imprisoned and could not go out, but in order to appease the hearts of the Dongying people, representatives of the Dongying people were allowed to visit every month, indicating that the Ming Dynasty did not abuse their royal family.

Zhu Di frowned and said to Zhu Zhanji: "The King of Light was captured by you, you go and take a look." If he can be treated, don't let him die now. If the diagnosis and treatment can't be made, arrangements should be made as soon as possible to let those Dongying people know. ”

instructed Zhu Zhanji, and he asked people to directly send a message to the Tai Hospital and send a doctor to the residence of King Chengguang.

When Zhu Zhanji went ashore, someone naturally brought him a horse. Zhu Zhanji asked if the destination was not far away, and asked people to lead the horse back.

When they came to the Zhuangyuan Bridge, a group of Dongying students saw Zhu Zhanji and cried even louder.

Zhu Zhanji soothed and said: "Your Majesty has ordered the Imperial Hospital, let the Imperial Doctor go to your prince for diagnosis and treatment, and Gu should also visit in person." Although due to the ravages of the Japanese invaders, I imprisoned the king of the two in Yingtianfu, but it was only a slight punishment, and there was no intention of destroying your royal family. And don't cry and cry, and lose the face of the widows. ”

Dozens of Dongying students knelt down together to thank Zhu Zhanji for his benevolence.

Zhu Zhanji walked in front, followed by his guards, these students also wanted to follow, but were stopped by the guards, Zhu Zhanji smiled and let them follow.

This is the first time Zhu Zhanji has come to this palace, Dongying is rich in gold and silver, although there is a lack of materials, but there is no shortage of money.

The house bought by the Muromachi shogunate was the original palace of King I, and among the various branches of the Ming Dynasty, the King of Yi ranked twenty-fifth, and the Yi domain was also the worst and worst.

When Zhu became the queen of Yi, he did mischief in Luoyang City and brutalized the people. He is a martial artist and wears of literature, likes to slash and kill, often carries bullets and swords to the city to hunt, and when he encounters people who can't dodge, he often chops and makes blood splashed, and he actually likes blood-spattered clothes.

He also likes to have fun in front of the public, naked and mixed with men and women, and lives a shameless life. After he died of illness in the twelfth year of Yongle, the Ming Dynasty courtiers also played a request to strip him of his title.

However, Zhu Di was afraid that this move would arouse the fear of other vassal kings, so he did not directly deprive this branch of the title, but only took back the palace in the capital and ordered them not to enter Beijing in Luoyang.

Because Zhu is so luxurious, the environment of this palace is still very good, and there are less than 100 people in the branch of King Guang, who live in this palace, which is more than enough.

Now there are brocade guards on the outside and internal monitoring systems on the inside, and all of them have become canaries raised by the Ming Dynasty.

When they came to the door, those Dongying students were stopped, and they didn't expect to come in again, but they didn't want to leave, and wanted to stay here and wait for news.

Zhu Zhanji glanced at them, turned around and walked into this palace.