It wasn't yet dawn, but the frosty rime formed a crystal clear world.

A waterfall-like sea of clouds flows slowly, forming a dreamy fault cloud beneath your feet.

The eastern sky is a golden color, a sign that the sun is about to rise.

Zhu Zhanji stood against the railing, looking at the eastern sky, not caring about the howling cold wind.

Zhu Jianshen took his child Zhu Youzhu and stood behind Zhu Zhanji a few steps apart, not daring to disturb his grandfather's Yaxing.

Zhu Youjiao, who is only five years old this year, only entered school after the New Year, and Zhu Jianshen deliberately took him to Huangshan with his grandfather.

Zhu Youzhu was still careless, and he was chilled by the cold wind on the top of this mountain, and couldn't help shouting: "Great ancestor, cold ......"

Zhu Zhanji turned his head, and a kind smile appeared on his majestic face. "Severe cold and heat, the cycle of the four seasons, sunrise and sunset, clouds, fog, wind and snow, this is the world we live in. When the emperor can't be high, he must also go deep into the people and know the people's suffering. Son, come to great-grandfather. ”

The little guy took a few steps forward, didn't dare to look down at the railing, pulled Zhu Zhanji's shirt and said, "Grandson doesn't understand." ”

Zhu Zhanji glanced at Zhu Jianshen before he said: "Knowing is knowing is not knowing is not knowing, and if you don't understand, you can ask your father more." ”

Zhu Jianshen understood very well that this was not said to the ignorant Zhu Youjiao, but to him.

He bowed down and said, "My grandson is taught." ”

Zhu Youzhu jumped up, pulled Zhu Zhanji's shirt and said, "Great ancestor, the sun is out." ”

Zhu Zhanji looked back, and a round of red sun emerged from the sea of clouds, like a red crescent moon, without the slightest temperature, nor dazzling.

The sun gradually rose, and a round of red sun slowly revealed its full picture, sprinkling a golden coat on the peaks of Huangshan Mountain.

The originally crystal clear rime has also turned golden yellow, which is extremely charming.

In addition to Zhu Zhanji and them, there were hundreds of guards on the mountain, and they couldn't help but be fascinated by this beautiful scenery at this time, and let out bursts of admiration.

When the sun hung high and the golden yellow gradually became dazzling, Zhu Zhanji said lightly: "Let's go." ”

Descending to the bottom of the mountain, everyone boarded the convoy that had been waiting there for a long time, and took a car from the bottom of the mountain to Taiping County, and then there was a train to Yingtianfu.

Today's cars are still very rudimentary, the engine is a simple four-cylinder, the car has the engine hot air heating, but there is no air conditioning, driving in winter, you have to open the window from time to time to wipe the glass.

So it is not comfortable to drive a car in summer and winter, and Zhu Zhanji now travels long distances and prefers trains.

Before getting into the car, Zhu Zhanji said to Zhu Jianshen: "You prepare, after the Spring Festival, the Nanzhou inspection team will set off, and you will go with you." Before you go, think about what your grandson should do. ”

Zhu Jianshen bowed down and was about to take Zhu Youzhang to take other cars, but Zhu Zhanji stopped him again and let Zhu Youzhu get into the car with him.

Zhu Jianshen was very excited, pretending to explain to Zhu Youzhu calmly, and then carried him into Zhu Zhanji's nearly ten-meter-long RV.

Today's technology is almost as high as it was at the end of the nineteenth century in Europe, surpassing it in some places and failing in others.

For example, ironclad ships and two-man planes have appeared now, but ironclad ships of tens of thousands of tons cannot be built today.

This is because the welding process is not up to scratch.

In terms of chemicals, this era is stronger than Europe in the nineteenth century, but it is mainly concentrated on certain drugs, and in the overall chemical industry, the Ming Dynasty is going faster, but it is not an all-round improvement, and there are many shortcomings.

In terms of power, industry, and electronics research and development, there are even more shortcomings. Although the telegraph has been built now, it is still the Morse telegraph that Zhu Zhanji first directed the research and development.

Not to mention wireless, electromagnetic telegraphs, even wired integrated telegraphs, have not been invented now.

In just a few decades, although Zhu Zhanji can guide the direction of scientific and technological development, he cannot comprehensively improve the overall improvement of the entire industry system.

In terms of talent reserves and ideological reform for the whole people, it is also insufficient to complete the path of hundreds of years of development in a few decades.

For example, in the original world, if there was such a level of development, the invention of the telephone should be easy.

However, when Zhu Zhanji contacted the phone, the mobile phone had already appeared. He had no idea what the basic principles of the telephone were, and although he was being studied, it had little effect.

Today's Da Ming is like a lame giant, in the eyes of ants, the giant can go far in one step, but in fact, only Zhu Zhanji knows that Da Ming is struggling.

At any time, the development of the times should be balanced and comprehensive.

Relying on him and Blue Smoke alone, that is, in a few industries that can exceed the limitations of the times, this kind of development is deformed and incomplete.

Of course, for other countries, today's Daming is high and powerful.

Take his special car as an example, the body of 9.5 meters is the longest among all passenger cars, except for his car, the length of any car is less than nine meters.

Because of the limitations of technology, his car is not leading in terms of technology except for the luxurious decoration.

This has resulted in today's Daming cars, not in terms of science and technology research and distinction, but to length as the level of value, the level of identity.

The prince's car is nine meters, the duke's is eight meters, the marquis's is eight meters, and the earl's is seven meters five.

When it comes to first-class officials, the car is six meters, while the car of ordinary people cannot exceed five meters.

When Zhu Zhanji knew about this situation, this concept had already formed a rule among the people.

This really made him a little crying and laughing, it seems that Oriental people like big cars, like face, this is not only in later generations, but from ancient times to the present have this concept.

This journey was relatively short, and Zhu Zhanji didn't read the official documents, so he teased and talked to Zhu Youzhu along the way.

In his memory, his son is Zhu Qizhen, Zhu Qizhen's son is Zhu Jianshen, and Zhu Jianshen's son is Zhu Youzhang.

Among the emperors after him, Zhu Qizhen was a capable and uninformed person, who was coaxed by Wang Zhen, which led to the change of Tumubao.

But then he regained the throne and changed the era name several times. Because of power struggles, he actually promoted too many corrupt officials in his later years.

Zhu Jianshen is only a middle-of-the-road talent in history, but because he has been imprisoned several times, he has a weak personality and stutters.

Zhu Zhanji's deepest memory of him is that he doted on the nanny Wan Zhen'er, that is, Wan Guifei, and almost made himself a queen because of this woman.

Of course, history has long changed, although this Zhu Jianshen's name is the same, he is no longer the person in history.

He was born a few years early, and he didn't go through several detentions, it was smooth sailing, and he didn't marry a woman with Wan Zhen'er, but now he seems to be magnificent.

This led to the fact that Zhu Youzhang, the Hongzhi Emperor Ming Xiaozong, who was known as one of the most outstanding heirs among the ancient emperors, was born decades ahead of schedule.

Not to mention that decades in advance, even if a fertilized egg is different, the children born by a couple are different, not to mention that the parents have changed.

This Zhu Youzhu is definitely not the Zhu Youzhu in history, but Zhu Zhanji still treats him differently.

And although he is only five years old, he is really good. It's like playing with Zhu Zhanji, he doesn't cry or make trouble, and he rarely spoils.

Zhu Zhanji sometimes teased him, he burst into tears, and he didn't cry out loud, let alone get angry with Zhu Zhanji.

Of course, if Zhu Zhanji was kind to him, he would be more willing to play with Zhu Zhanji.

He is five years old this year, just one month younger than himself, sixty years old, and he is also a tiger.

Zhu Zhanji has changed his life, believing that he can live to at least eighty, or even ninety, and he does not want to give up in the short term.

Although he decided to vigorously cultivate Zhu Jianshen now, in his heart, he preferred this great-grandson Zhu Youzhu to succeed directly to the throne in the future.

In less than half an hour, the car arrived in Taiping County. The onlookers on the roadside were not expelled, but Zhu Zhanji did not have the idea of having fun with the people and meeting them.

Surrounded by the crowd, the car drove directly onto the platform, and the driver Li Yuan helped Zhu Zhanji open the door and look at the surrounding environment.

Li Yuan is the only son of the second dog Li Zifeng and Jiaxing, and is thirty-five years old at the age of Chinese New Year's Eve.

Jiaxing was not in good health, and he went in the orthodox ten years. Since then, Li Zifeng has not married, until Li Yuan became an adult, and with the support of Li Yuan, he took two concubines to take care of his own life.

Li Yuan learned martial arts with his father when he was a child, and his mother died early, so he developed a taciturn but tenacious character with his silent father. Yu Lin Wei went to school, and then followed in his father's footsteps and entered Jinyiwei.

After five years of training in Jinyiwei, he was arranged by Zhu Zhanji's uncle. Now that Zhu Zhanji goes out, he is basically the driver.

On the train, Zhu Youzhu was taken away by the palace maid, and his attachés also gathered around him.

Under his restrictions, the cabinet has always been only a secretariat, although it can be in contact with national affairs every day, but because there is no court official, it is impossible to have power.

What's more, now that the power of the ministries is delegated to the ministries, they will not want the cabinet to intervene.

The task of the cabinet is to act as Zhu Zhanji's staff officer and secretary, and the rank of this position is not high, and now the first assistant of the cabinet is only a subordinate of the third grade, and it is not as good as a squire with real power.

However, this position is still favored by countless courtiers, and being the emperor's secretary will always be the fastest promoted.

There are also some ministers who are not for real power, but only for false names, and also regard this position as the supreme glory.

Today's cabinet chief assistant is called Li Xian, who is an orthodox twelve-year second-class jinshi. He has served in various ministries of the imperial court for many years and is relatively familiar with the situation of all ministries in the capital.

In the thirty-second year of orthodoxy, Zhu Zhanji noticed him, because he was loyal and upright, virtuous and capable, and took cherishing talents and opening up the way as an urgent task, and many famous ministers praised him.

Less than two years after entering the cabinet, Zhu Zhanji admired his talent and fairness, and he was promoted to first assistant above a number of famous ministers.

Now when he is with his second assistant Peng, Shang is Zhu Zhanji's most trusted three cabinet scholars.

Shang is upright, generous, and decisive, a bit like Yang Rong forty years ago.

And Peng Shi is the champion of orthodoxy for 24 years, this person has good conduct and excellent knowledge, but he is a little pedantic.

And Zhu Zhanji's personality is a bit strong, and he also needs such a person like Xie Jin to explain from time to time.

The youngest in the cabinet is Xie Jin's nephew, Xie Yun, the son of Xie Zhen.

Xie Yun was born in Luzon in the second year of orthodoxy, and went to Nanzhou with his father in the eighth year of orthodoxy, until the fourteenth year of orthodoxy, when he was twelve years old, he returned to Daming to settle down.

Although he grew up overseas since he was a child, he has been taught by his father since he was a child, and his Chinese culture is not weak, but also because of his rich knowledge, he is the most open-minded among the ministers.

He is only 38 years old this year, and in Zhu Zhanji's heart, he is one of the candidates who can succeed Prime Minister Yu Qian and Speaker of the National Assembly in more than ten years.

Now the three ministers of the imperial court, in addition to the secretary general of the Court of Justice, Yu Shiyue, who is 76 years old, is a thirteen-year jinshi of Yongle.

Prime Minister Yu Qian and Speaker Xie Zhen are all Yongle 19 years of the same science and technology, and they are also the champion and the list of eyes, which is also a good story in the court.

As usual, Xie Yun, who was still the youngest, began to read official documents to Zhu Zhanji.

Kumon first reads emergencies, then military incidents, then diplomatic incidents, civil affairs second, and finally some typical cases.

Unless Zhu Zhanji is dictatorial in everything, general affairs will be discussed, and they will each give their opinions, and then Zhu Zhanji will make a decision.

As for domestic civil affairs and diplomatic affairs, basically there are already opinions of the State Council, and Zhu Zhanji only needs to review them here, and those that meet his wishes will be approved, and those that do not meet his wishes will be reconsidered.

Among them, the most troublesome thing is often the affairs of the parliament, because almost all the affairs they report involve legislation, law changes, and popularization of the law.

Even if Zhu Zhanji has the experience of later generations, many issues must also be considered whether they can be in line with the current world conditions.

He was most concerned about the situation in the Western Regions now, and when Xie Yun heard that Zheng Hong, the governor of Samarkand, had noticed that the whites had begun to assemble again in winter, and thought that the white coalition might start a war in the early spring, and asked the Ministry of Defense for help, he groaned.

Seeing that Zhu Zhanji did not speak, he said: "Samarkand's current strength is only 200,000, plus the three cities of Tanglin in the north, it is only 250,000, and the white coalition army is based in Haixi (Ukraine) and can dispatch more than 500,000 troops each time. The minister thinks that now I should no longer indulge his repeated offenses, and should be severely punished. ”

Zhu Zhanji said: "Although they are numerous, our Ming soldiers are not alone. Yi Li added up the people of all ethnic groups, and he was not weaker than the other party. Is there any news from the Ottomans? ”

"They fought fiercely with Ulugh Beg in Bulgaria, and Huang Shenzhi, the commander of the horses, did not have much success on this trip."

Zhu Zhanji originally deliberately drove the Ulughgh Beg forces to Ukraine, but later the Ming Dynasty occupied Ukraine and drove them to the south.

Although Ulugh Beg couldn't defeat the Ming Dynasty, his cavalry was still very good at bullying the Europeans.

But it never occurred to me that because of the appearance of muskets, the Europeans, who were outnumbered, were now not afraid of the Hussars of Ulugh Beg.

Although the Ulugh Begs later acquired the technology to make muskets, they were not as numerous as the Europeans, so they had to retreat to the plains between the two mountain ranges between Romania and Bulgaria, roughly around Bucharest, the capital of Romania.

This territory was still snatched by Ulughgh Beg from the hands of the Ottomans.

Bulgaria had already been destroyed by the Ottomans by this time, and they did not dare to go east, so they expanded to the west and north.

The butterfly effect caused by the appearance of muskets prevented the Ottomans from becoming a powerful empire in history. Their advantage over the Europeans turned into a disadvantage after the proliferation of muskets.

Now the Ottomans did not dare to march westward, and they were a man of faith who did not care about going to war with the Europeans, and they were happy to fight.

However, Zhu Zhanji suspected that they were faking a fight, the purpose of which was not to become a pawn in the hands of the Ming Dynasty and deal with the Europeans.

He sent his son-in-law Huang Ting to Osman to put pressure on the other party and find out the situation.

Zhu Zhanji was still thinking about it, and Li Xian said: "Your Majesty, all the tribes in Yili are now going to help diligently, and it will not be possible to fight a war." Although they were outnumbered, they lacked muskets, and this time they wanted to provide 100,000 muskets and 5,000 barrels of gunpowder. ”

Zhu Zhanji looked at Xu Youzhen, a cabinet scholar who had been silent, and said: "I have been hesitating, it seems that it is imperative to change the clothes of the army. ”

Xu Youzhen has been in charge of the affairs of the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and when she heard this, she said: "Bai Shangshu has already debugged the machine and is in full production, and it can produce 2 million bullets and 20,000 new muskets in a month." ”

After returning from the Western Regions in September, Zhu Zhanji summoned Bai Gui, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, and asked him to arrange for craftsmen to produce two bullet production lines and two new musket production lines.

In the eighteenth year of Yongle, Zhu Zhanji developed a new type of musket that separated the gun and bullet, but now forty-two years have passed, and the new type of musket has not been popularized.

The main thing is that it is not necessary, because the original Ming reloading musket is already invincible.

But now, the gap is being narrowed by the Europeans, and if they want to gain an advantage in some parts of the region, it is up to the population to fill it.

In the past 40 years, the population of the entire Ming Dynasty has grown to nearly 200 million, but compared to the vast land of the Ming Dynasty, 200 million people are far from enough.

In Nanzhou and Dongzhou, there are still large tracts of land that are uncultivated.

In the Hezhong region, although Zheng Heng, Zheng Neng, and Zheng Hong's ancestors and grandchildren are all loyal, it is based on the fact that there are strong enemies all around, so they dare not stand on their own.

And in order to prevent the Zheng family from becoming bigger, the local number of soldiers has been controlled at 100,000.

The original 100,000 soldiers, plus their families, were almost 300,000 Han Chinese.

Forty years have passed, and because of the bad climate and less products, their population development is not as good as that of the central and southern regions.

In the past 40 years, the population of the central and southern regions of the Ming Dynasty has increased nearly three times, and the population of Dongzhou is similar, and the population of Nanzhou has also increased by more than two times.

But in the north and in the Transoxiana region, the population has just more than doubled. At present, there are only more than 600,000 Han people in the Hezhong area, and even if the people are recruited, there will be a maximum of 200,000 soldiers.

If troops were to be transferred from the interior, it would be very costly.

The white coalition seemed to be powerful, but in fact they did not dare to directly attack Samarkand, but only dared to occupy some pastures and fertile fields.

Their lack of gunpowder is one aspect, which angered the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty's 1.6 million navy and 1 million army are not vegetarians.

For Da Ming, they are just ringworm of the skin, and they are not worth fighting.

It costs a lot to send people, so the timing is just right to take out the repeater rifle that has long been technologically mature.

In recent years, although the new musket has not been produced, the technology for the production of muskets has not only not been shelved, but there is also a special research team that has been researching and improving.

In the Xiamaqiao Farm, there has always been a production line, and in small-scale production and commissioning, Zhu Zhanji's guards use new muskets.

Therefore, if you want to produce a new type of musket, you only need to rush out a few production lines.

Only the production of pistols was really sealed, and the only two new pistols in the world were all returned to Zhu Di after his death in the third year of orthodoxy.

Zhu Di lived two years longer than in the original history, and in the first year after Chan Rang, he went to Nanzhou with the fleet without waiting for the change of yuan.

When he went to Nanzhou, he took all his concubines away and lived on the Yongle.

In the first year of orthodoxy, he went around Nanzhou, and in the second year of orthodoxy, he followed the equator line from Turtle Island all the way to the east and bravely entered Dongzhou.

However, when he arrived in Dongzhou, his health was not very good, and in Peru in later generations, there was no rain all year round and the climate was hot, which was very good for his rheumatism and cold legs.

So he stayed there, lived for a year, and returned to Daming in May of the third year of Orthodoxy.

When he returned to Daming at the end of June, he began to let people write books. By this time, he felt that his time was running out.

But less than a month and a half later, on August 12, only half of the story of his life was written, and he had already returned to heaven in the Ninety-Five Flying Dragon Hall in the northeast corner of the palace.

Hearing Xu Youzhen's answer, Zhu Zhanji nodded and said: "After the production line is debugged, we will make every effort to produce." In addition to transporting 100,000 muskets and 5 million bullets to Zheng Hong, the rest of the muskets produced were replaced with new muskets in the order of Jingwei, Jingjun, border army, border guard, and local guards. ”

"What about the Navy?"

"The navy can be a little later, does my Daming fleet have an opponent at sea?"

Everyone laughed, the current Ming Dynasty can produce iron keel, iron ships with inner wood and outer iron, but other countries can't even build big ships with more than 4,000 stones.

What's more, the development of artillery in the Ming Dynasty has not stagnated, and now there are shells to separate real artillery, and other countries are still playing reloading and running.

They really can't learn this if they want to, because chemical raw materials are either technologies that can be learned by looking at them, or they put new explosives in front of them, and they can't make them without that technology and ideas.

Zhu Zhanji blocked new explosives, various medicines, new chemical raw materials, rubber, ceramics, petroleum refining and other technologies at the highest level.

Even all kinds of chemical knowledge are never taught by the Polytechnic, and only all kinds of selected children from good families can learn this knowledge.

And all the children who have learned this knowledge are basically not allowed to go to other countries. Even out of the Ming Dynasty, it will be strictly controlled.

This anti-technology tree, Zhu Zhanji will definitely not let his country ignite it easily.

Xie Yun cleared his throat and continued to report: "King Huai's fiefdom was hit by hurricanes and torrential rains, and suffered heavy losses. He asked the imperial court for help through the Nanzhou Governor's Mansion, but because of this, he built the palace and defaulted on taxes, which was vetoed by several court officials. ”

Zhu Zhanji nodded and said: "The local government will properly settle the people, and as for King Huai, he will be ordered to pay taxes before the autumn harvest......"

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