Accidents at steel mills were a common occurrence even in later generations.

Large equipment, high-temperature environment, more than 1,000 degrees of molten iron, any negligence in any aspect may cause major accidents.

Therefore, Zhu Zhanji did not take this matter to heart, if it were not for the fact that this steel plant was a model factory of internal supervision, specially designed to refine pure steel and supply military factories, this matter would not have even been reported to him at all.

The next morning, after the morning court, Zhu Zhanji had breakfast and immediately met with Huang Sheng, the eunuch in charge of the internal prison, and Liu Shang, the director of the iron and steel plant.

The cause of the explosion has not yet been ascertained, but it has killed nearly 20 people, injured more than 10 others, and destroyed most of a smelting plant.

However, when Zhu Zhanji knew that a large amount of ferrosilicon powder was stored in the workshop, he thought of the dust explosion.

Ferrosilicon is an iron-silicon alloy made by smelting coke, steel scraps, and quartz (or silica) as raw materials. Because silicon and oxygen are easy to synthesize silica, ferrosilicon is often used as a deoxidizer in steelmaking, and because a large amount of heat is released during generation, it is also beneficial to increase the temperature of molten steel while deoxidizing.

At the same time, ferrosilicon can also be used as an alloying element additive, which is widely used in low-alloy structural steel, spring steel, bearing steel, heat-resistant steel and electrical silicon steel.

Although the Ming Dynasty could not understand the chemical effects of ferrosilicon powder in detail in this era, it was by no means lacking in application skills, and ferrosilicon powder was added to molten steel to make steel, which had been applied as early as the Eastern Han Dynasty.

After understanding the situation, Zhu Zhanji asked people to call Blue Smoke, gave them some people to popularize the cause of the explosion of ferrosilicon powder, and then asked them not to store ferrosilicon powder directly next to the blast furnace in the future.

At the same time, he asked the Internal Supervisor and the Ministry of Industry to strictly inspect the safety precautions of various workshops to prevent such incidents from happening in the future.

Regarding the pension, the steel mill is very profitable and will not care about a little compensation for silver.

The common people of this era will not ask for a sky-high price, and regard life and death more as their own lives.

However, Zhu Zhanji still gave instructions that in the future, all the workshops in the Jiajiang Industrial Zone controlled by the imperial court should have a pension of no less than 120 taels of silver.

One hundred and twenty taels of silver is not a small amount, and most people cannot save ten taels of silver in a year.

After sending them away, Lan Yan was still thinking there, and finally sighed and said: "My major is not in this aspect, otherwise, I can write a variety of chemical popularization books to strengthen the safety precautions of the factory." ”

Liu Wan, who was next to him, heard Lan Yan's words, and was a little puzzled in his heart, but he didn't dare to show it.

He had only left the palace for half a year, and now Lan Yan's status in Zhu Zhanji's mind suddenly became extremely important.

With Jin Kuo and Sun Lin here, he knows very well what has happened in these days, and he also knows the reincarnation identity of Blue Smoke Doumu Niangniang.

But now, what does this profession mean?

Zhu Zhanji doesn't care about this, because a person's ability is limited, and it is impossible to know everything.

The biggest role of Blue Smoke is that she can popularize the medical and chemical research foundation of Daming, and lead the direction of development.

If she is really asked to do research, how much can she do alone?

Just like Zhu Zhanji, his role is to adjust the Ming Dynasty to the right path of development, rather than to lead the army to fight wars, or to do technical research.

"How many books have you written?"

"It's almost finished, and Hu Liangzhi has been sorting it out day and night."

Hu Liangshou is the female official next to Lan Yan, and he is also the apprentice who was brought out by Lan Yan. Zhu Zhanji has seen her several times, and he far surpasses him in some chemical knowledge and theory.

Although she is a woman, Zhu Zhanji is also ready to be reused. Not to mention anything else, if you go to the Institute of Chemistry as a director, or go to Yulin Weixue to be a professor, you must be qualified.

Zhu Zhanji nodded and said: "I want to focus on the major events of the autumn season in the past few days, and after these few days, I will go to see your results." ”

Today is August 17, the last day of the Nine-Day Township Examination. Whether it is the Counseling Department, Jinyiwei, or the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the six departments, they dare not be sloppy now, staring at the 20 examination rooms across the country to prevent fraud.

Daming has two capitals and fourteen prefectures, a total of sixteen provincial-level units, which are sixteen examination rooms.

In addition, there are 16 capital divisions in the Ming Dynasty, and some of the capital divisions are not counted as the intersection of the political division, and the four capital divisions in the southwest set up an examination room, and the northwest seven military guards set up an examination room.

In addition, the Secretary of the Administration of Cochin and the Secretary of the Old Port Propaganda and Consolation, a total of 20 examination rooms were formed.

It's just that both Jiaozhi and the old port are in Nanyang, and there are not many people who read there, and even fewer can reach the level required by the Ming Dynasty.

This year, the examination hall was set up there, not for the local people, but for the students who provided cultural assistance.

Before Zhu Zhanji went to sea, the Ming Dynasty sent thousands of talents, and even raised people to Nanyang countries to spread culture, teach the locals to speak the Ming dialect, and learn to write the Ming characters.

They were all directly awarded the position of scholars, and some of them have given up the idea of scientific examination, but most of them still want to go from an orthodox background.

Although even if you are promoted and admitted to the Jinshi, you will not have a higher status when you enter the officialdom, but the upper line of the Jinshi can be a second-class minister.

If they don't take this road, the upper limit will only be to the county at most, which is completely different.

It is also because of them that the imperial court has decided that next year's Spring Festival, that is, the examination, will be postponed to March, leaving them with enough time to enter Beijing.

Zhu Zhanji actually has no interest in the Spring and Autumn Period righteousness of these people, but these are the selection criteria of the imperial court today, and Zhu Zhanji must follow this rule before he popularizes other disciplines and has no alternative examinations.

So that afternoon, accompanied by Xie Jin and Hu Yan, he came to Yingtianfu Guozijian to cheer up the students who had finished the exam.

Ying Tianfu Guozijian is the highest educational institution in the Ming Dynasty, in the fifteenth year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang decreed the establishment of the Ming Dynasty national education management institution and the highest institution.

The official name of Yingtianfu Guozijian should be Daming Guozijian, located in the south of Yingtianfu Jilong Mountain, covering an area of thousands of acres.

The number of students in the 12th year of Yongle and the 15th year of Yongle exceeded 10,000.

As long as you enter the gate of the school, it means that the identity of this student has been completely changed, and even if you fail to pass the imperial examination in the future, it is easy to make up for the errand of a clerk.

Although the number of students here has exceeded 10,000, it does not mean that it is easy to progress.

If the local students in Tianfu want to enter, they must at least have the status of a showman, and students from other places can only enter if they are lifted.

And he must also be recommended by local officials, and a state government can recommend no more than five people a year, and he must also be evaluated.

It is much more difficult to enter here than Peking University and Tsinghua University in later generations.

In addition to the Ming students, there are also many students from Dongying and North Korea, and there are hundreds of students from Jiaozhi.

Most of them are the outstanding elites of those countries that are deeply influenced by Confucianism, and most of them, after coming to the Ming Dynasty, are reluctant to go back and want to become real Ming people.

As the future of the empire, the hope of the empire, those talented students who had originally experienced nine days of torture, saw Zhu Zhanji's arrival, and immediately resurrected on the spot with full blood.

Their madness was much more fanatical than that of the students in later generations, and even if Yu Linwei was in strict formation, they were still shocked by a chaotic situation.

In the face of these future officials, the soldiers of Yu Linwei did not dare to treat them roughly, so they could only wrap their arms around and deal with their impact with difficulty.

Later generations of students have experienced the idea of ideological enlightenment and equality for all.

But now that Confucianism is in power, the ethics of heaven and earth have been integrated into everyone's blood.

Seeing Zhu Zhanji's appearance, the students wept excitedly and couldn't cry.

Zhu Zhanji, like the leaders of later generations, waved to the students while walking to the review stand of the school yard.

When Hu Yan saw this scene, he couldn't help but whisper to Zhu Zhanji: "Your Highness, this Ming student has great respect for you!" ”

This is indeed the case, although there have always been rumors that Zhu Zhanji does not like Confucianism, but for the entire Ming Dynasty, Zhu Zhanji is still the most trusted heir of the vast majority of people.

Because of Zhu Zhanji's ability, it has gone through many years of experience and presentation.

In the twelfth year of Yongle, the sixteen-year-old Zhu Zhanji personally went into battle and killed 43 enemies.

It was also in this year that the Beimingshan copper mine was discovered, and the gold and copper produced here not only alleviated the money shortage of Daming, but also drove an economic circle in the entire northern part of Daming.

made the Ming garrison in the north no longer a burden, and then completely changed the situation in the north.

The Great Wall does not need to be repaired anymore, because the territory of the Ming Dynasty has reached as far as Mobei, and the area around the Great Wall has become a hinterland.

Especially in the thirteenth year of Yongle, the emergence of new muskets completely changed the situation of the war, and the cavalry of the steppe no longer had any advantage.

A lightly trained soldier with a musket in hand can take on several cavalrymen who have been trained for many years.

The number of people on the grassland was originally small, and in the past, they relied on cavalry mobility to become a big problem for the Ming Dynasty, but now, they can't pose a threat at all.

Then, Zhu Zhanji established various research institutes in Xiamaqiao, although these are strange and ingenious in the eyes of some people, but no one can deny that these strange and obscene skills have changed the Ming Dynasty and made the lives of the people more and more convenient.

Moreover, Zhu Zhanji vigorously developed trade in his childhood, and after 13 years of Yongle, he changed the original exploration trade to free trade.

This not only made the imperial court profit, but also led to the development of the private economy and made the people's lives better and better.

Later, he exterminated the pirates, and directly captured Dongying, which Meng Yuan did not conquer twice, and captured the Dongying royal family to the Ming Dynasty.

After going to sea for three years, Zhu Zhanji didn't seem to have done anything big, but when he came back, he directly brought back more than 20 million silver worth of goods, which was comparable to the tax of the Ming Dynasty for a year.

There is also the transportation of rice back from the Nanyang region, although it is unprofitable for the people to farm the land, but no one can deny that the people of the Ming Dynasty do not have to worry about starvation no matter whether they encounter natural disasters or man-made disasters.

Whether it is civil rule or martial arts, Zhu Zhanji, the heir, is qualified, and none of these students does not think that he is not a master.

At such a time, some of his small shortcomings were naturally covered up.

An heir who can bring long-term peace and stability to Daming and make Daming thriving can no longer be demanding.

He doesn't like Confucianism, so in the future, it's a big deal to learn a little more mathematics in addition to Confucianism.

For the sake of this grandson, they are willing to change themselves.

The sensation brought by Zhu Zhanji gradually subsided after a cup of tea, and all the students were divided into different phalanxes according to their grades under the arrangement of the professor and sat on the campus grounds.

This review stand is based on the way of stage amplification, eight large vat is buried under the review stand, and the sound is transmitted by using the principle of sound resonance.

Although there is some distortion, the sound amplification effect is still quite good.

It wasn't until all the students in the audience were crowded tightly and sat down half-around the review table that Zhu Zhanji walked in front of a hollow copper pipe in front of the stage.

The sound of his voice would pass through the brass pipe and onto the vibrating membrane sewn from thin sheepskin beneath the brass pipe. Underneath the copper pipe is a trumpet-shaped sound, which passes through a vibrating membrane to form a space that resonates with the eight vats, and then transmits out.

This technology has appeared in the Tang Dynasty, and for hundreds of years, it has been developed very perfectly, and the sound amplification effect is still very good.

Even if the folk stage does not use brass pipes, only an echo wall is built on top of the stage, and the sound can be transmitted far away.

Zhu Zhanji is tall, and he stands on a high platform, overlooking the more than 10,000 professors and students in the audience.

The audience immediately boiled again, and many people turned over and knelt down again.

Zhu Zhanji pressed down with both hands, which made the audience gradually calm down, and then said: "Those who cause today's boss China will also be the injustice of China's decay; Those who produce the future youth of China are also responsible for the Chinese youth.

He is an old man, and the day when he will say goodbye to this world is not far away, and my youth is new and related to the world.

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If my young man has a vast future, and the future is boundless, and China is a cow, a horse, a slave, and a subordinate, then it will be cruel to cook and whip, but my young man deserves it.

If China dominates the universe and dominates the earth, then the honor of commanding Gu Pan will be enjoyed only by my youth. What is the difference between those who are dying and neighbors with ghosts? He is indifferent to it, and it is still to be said; I didn't care about it, and I couldn't say anything.

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Therefore, the responsibility today is not for others, but for my youth.

If the youth is strong, the country will be strong, the youth will be wise, the youth will be rich, the youth will be independent, the country will be free, the youth will be free, the youth will be progressive, the youth will be strong on the earth, and the country will be strong on the earth. The red sun is rising, and its way is bright; The river flows out of the subterranean and flows into the ocean.

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Beautiful, I am young in China, and I am not old with the sky! Strong, I am a Chinese boy, and I have no borders with the country!"

Everyone in the audience had just calmed down, but when they heard Zhu Zhanji's speech, they immediately boiled again.

However, no one made a sound, just their faces turned red with excitement, and many people couldn't help but burst into tears.

In particular, when Zhu Zhanji said that if the youth is strong, the country will be strong, the youth will be wise, and the youth will be rich, and if the youth is rich, several students could not bear this stimulation and fainted.

Zhu Zhanji also suspended his speech and asked others to wake them up by pinching them.

This Liang Qichao's "Juvenile China Says" is very suitable for today's environment. In the face of these most outstanding talents of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Zhanji naturally praised them greatly and stimulated their fighting spirit and fighting spirit.

Of course, this article is not something that he, a scumbag, can remember, but he found it in Lan Yan's study, and immediately shamelessly took it for himself.

Guozijian wanted to come for a long time, but after he came, he didn't have a score in his heart.

He has been suppressing Confucianism, and he can't praise these students for learning Confucianism after he comes, and if he rashly raises the status of other knowledge, he will also encounter some criticism.

This "Juvenile China Theory" does not involve academics, but it is inspiring, and naturally it has become Zhu Zhanji's first choice. He only deleted the sentence about Europe.

After all, at this time, Europe was still in the stage of ignorance, not to mention that compared with the Ming Dynasty, even those countries in Central Asia were much stronger than Europe.

Hu Yan was also a little dumbfounded, he originally prepared a speech for Zhu Zhanji, but Zhu Zhanji didn't ask for it.

No matter how colorful his articles are, they are not detached from the limitations of the times.

Hearing Zhu Zhanji's speech, he couldn't help but whisper to Xie Jin beside him. "Brother Great Squire, Your Highness, did you write this article?"

Xie Jin was also shocked and threw himself to the ground, and he said dumbfounded: "No, even I can't write such an exciting article." ”

Neither of them wrote it by the literati of the royal family, so it is even more unlikely that it was written by someone else. Because if it is written by someone else, it must be reviewed by them first.

Both of them looked at each other, looking at Zhu Zhanji on the stage with some horror, and felt more and more unable to see through this highness.

Hu Yan couldn't help but say: "Originally, His Highness liked to use the vernacular, I thought His Highness was shallow, but now it seems that His Highness is not unable to write good articles, but deliberately wants to speak in the vernacular!" ”

Although this article was not written by Xie Jin, everyone in the world knew that Zhu Zhanji was his student, and at this time, he couldn't help but say: "His Royal Highness is a great talent, and he uses the vernacular to make the people understand his words." ”

And the tens of thousands of students in the audience, after hearing this article, couldn't hold back their excitement, and knelt down and kowtowed.

"I, Guo Kai, am willing to throw my head for Daming and spill my blood......"

"Your Highness is wise!"

The audience was talking miscellaneously, everyone was excited, if they hadn't all experienced the cultivation of cultivation etiquette, I don't know how many people would want to flock to the stage.

Under the deliberate guidance of Liu Wan and his servants, the chaotic slogans gradually turned into three sentences:

"I am willing to die for His Highness......"

"Willing to die for the Ming Dynasty......"

"Willing to serve ...... for China"

Zhu Zhanji was very satisfied with this effect, he clenched his right hand into a fist, raised it up and down, and shouted with the students in the audience with his movements.

After a while, he changed to press his hands flat, and the audience gradually calmed down.

Zhu Zhanji said again: "Many people don't like Confucianism, which is prejudice. Confucianism flourished since the Spring and Autumn Period, and the Western Han Dynasty was the only one, forming the social ethics of China for more than 1,000 years. How could Lone be biased against Confucianism? But ......"

Everything is afraid of everything, but Zhu Zhanji said: "But Confucianism has its own limitations, in addition to the Spring and Autumn Period, social ethics, and the suppression of other disciplines, it has hindered the development of the Ming Dynasty......

Without craftsmen, how can we build big cars and big ships? Is it true that a physician who can treat hundreds of people does not contribute more than a scholar?

Confucianism is the basic and the norm for us to be human, but everyone should not be limited by Confucianism and then look down on others.

Whether it is a scholar, a farmer, a craftsman, or a doctor, they all have the same importance to the Ming Dynasty.

Everyone should have more abilities outside of Confucianism and be able to make their own contribution to the country.

This time, the imperial court has already announced to the world that it will increase overseas affairs. All students should not 'turn their ears to what is going on outside the window and concentrate on reading only the books of the sages.'

Lone can also tell you that this is just the beginning, and in the future, the selection of officials by the imperial court will gradually change the current pattern. It doesn't matter if you do well or not in the future, as long as you understand the righteousness of the Spring and Autumn Period, it is more important to have the ability to use what you have learned to educate sentient beings.

Confucianism is the body, and miscellaneous studies are used. This will be the direction of the imperial court's selection of scholars in the future.

In the future, the election of court officials will also change greatly. If you don't know agriculture, you can't be a local official; I don't know how to arithmetic, and I can't go to the household department as an official; If you don't know the law, you can't go to the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the Criminal Department is an official; does not understand military affairs, and is not enough to be an officer in the military department; If you don't know how to do things, you can't be an official in the Ministry of Industry.

All officials will gradually become professional in the future, and officials who only know how to chant poetry and righteousness, but do not know how to lead the people to live a good life, will be gradually eliminated in the future. ”

Hearing Zhu Zhanji say this, there was a sound of inhaling in the audience, and obviously everyone was very shocked.

Zhu Zhanji is not afraid that it will arouse "official indignation," because people with a discerning eye know that the implementation of any policy requires the actions of officials, and even if it is to change, it will not change in a moment and a half.

So he said: "Lone knows that to do this, you need to wait until you all grow up, and different periods need different policies.

At the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, there were very few literate scholars, so Grandpa Taizu used eight shares to take scholars, and many scholars had been elected as officials before they had completed their studies from the Guozi Supervisor.

Many officials have not been confirmed their competencies and have been placed in different positions, which can only be adjusted gradually.

But now that the Ming Dynasty is strong, there are more and more scholars, and the border is peaceful again. When my Ming Dynasty is thriving, I should turn the center of the imperial court to the people's livelihood.

However, from now on, each scholar should choose his or her own direction and then make full use of his or her own strengths, so that he can make his own contribution to the country.

Therefore, the selection of scholars in the imperial court cannot be static, cannot rest on their laurels, and should adapt to the needs.

In 20 years, Gu is ready to completely change the criteria for selecting scholars today, so that every scholar can become the humerus of the country, and every scholar can become a useful person.

And all this starts with you, from the future humerus of you, the Ming Dynasty.

Ladies and gentlemen, would you like to be alone? Let the people of Daming have their own land and their homes. Let the people of Daming, everyone have surplus food, so that the people of Daming can eat meat at once. Let the people of the Ming Dynasty have new clothes. ”

These students are the stage when they are most easily deceived, and each of them has lofty ideals and the idea of helping the country and the people.

Listening to Zhu Zhanji's words, they were all excited, and roared with all their strength: "Yes!" ”

Even Hu Yan, a sixty-year-old Confucian, was a little excited at this time. "I want to live to be eighty years old and see His Highness turn the world into what he says!"