According to the system formulated by Zhu Yuanzhang, the artisan household is the artisan registration, and the future generations are like this, they cannot be an official if they cannot conduct scientific examinations, and their status is much lower than that of farmers. If Chen Yue could really remove them from their craftsman status as promised and appoint them to the official positions of the hundred households, there would definitely be a large number of people willing to follow. But......

"Lord Chen, we people can only work and make things, you want us to be officials, we won't, let alone lead troops to fight!" After Liu San was excited, he asked cautiously.

"Who wants you to fight, although I will give you the official position of thousands of households, I will not let you lead troops, you are still responsible for building weapons for me, but it is no longer a craftsman's status, but has the identity of a hundred households." Chen Yue said with a smile.

"I see!" Liu San nodded with satisfaction, it was really good to be able to engage in a field he was familiar with and get an official body.

"In this way, Liu San, as long as it is a craftsman who can make ordnance, I will give as many as I want, and I will give the official title of 100 households, and I will set up a craftsman battalion, with you as the director, and the official title is 1,000 households. But you must ensure that every craftsman who joins the army is a truly capable person, and never allow indiscriminate filling! Chen Yue said solemnly.

"My lord, don't worry, who has the ability to be a warmaker in this Manjing division and who is a grass chicken, I Liu San knows it very well, but according to the rules of the imperial court, craftsmen are not allowed to leave at will, what if the imperial court asks?" Liu San said worriedly.

"You don't have to worry about this, I'll help you solve this problem!" Chen Yue said, after all, his father Chen Jianghe is a guerrilla general in Beijing, and there is no problem with such a trivial matter as transferring a few craftsmen.

"By the way, do you know anyone who can make a redcoat cannon?" Chen Yue asked. In the Ming Dynasty, the most powerful firearm is the red-coated cannon, which is inseparable from the siege and defense of the city. Chen Yue plans to find some talents who can cast artillery first, so that he can have the opportunity to build artillery on a large scale in the future.

"The redcoat cannon is too troublesome for us to build. However, most of the red-coated cannons in the Ming Dynasty were made with the help of foreign adults, and our craftsmen made some tiger squat cannons and the like, but the red-coated cannons were not good at it. Liu San said a little shyly.

"Lord Yang?" Chen Yue was stunned. I haven't heard of a person surnamed Yang who can make cannons!

"Well, he is a Westerner, with deep eyes and a high nose, blonde hair, and we Ming people look very different, by the way, his surname is Tang Ruowang, but everyone likes to call him Lord Yang." Liu San explained.

John Soup! It turned out to be him! Chen Yue couldn't help but get excited, this is the most famous missionary in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, who understands the astronomical calendar, can build artillery, telescopes, and is familiar with modern scientific knowledge, he is a bull in the real sense! Although he came here for the purpose of preaching, he spent his life's work on the exchanges between the East and the West, bringing modern basic scientific knowledge to the East, but it is a pity that whether it is the Ming Dynasty or the pseudo-Qing Dynasty, they only use him as a cannon to compile a calendar, and they don't look down on his full of scientific knowledge at all.

Such a talent, if you can hold it in the palm of your hand, it would be great! Chen Yue thought secretly, but Chen Yue knew that this matter was not so easy, because Tang Ruowang was not an ordinary missionary, but an official of the imperial court Qin Tianjian! But no matter what, Chen Yue decided to give it a try, if he can get such a talent, he will no longer have to worry about ordnance production in the future!

"Okay, that's it, you hurry up and contact me in the next two days with the craftsmen who are willing to follow me, and prepare the firecracker, and I will send someone to receive it tomorrow." Chen Yue said.

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After leaving Blacksmith Alley, Chen Yue thought about how to convince John Tang to follow him to the post. Tang Ruowang has achieved the supervision of Qintian, and he is a court official of the fifth grade, and under normal circumstances, he will not go with him, and he must do what he likes. But what does a foreigner like? Money, beauty? No, no, no, these missionaries have come to Daming from thousands of miles away, they are all people with lofty ideals, and they definitely don't care about these worldly things, I am afraid that all they really care about is God! Oh, God? Thinking of this, Chen Yue's eyes lit up.

Chen Yue, the place where John Tang lived, knew it, because it was near the Xuanwu Gate, it was the only Catholic church in Beijing, covering a very small area, it was an ordinary house with two depths, if it were not for the pointed Gothic roof and a cross on the roof, it was no different from other houses, this church was called "Immaculate Church of Our Lady of the First Birth", which was rebuilt by the Western missionary Matteo Ricci from his residence in Beijing, and after Matteo Ricci's death, it became the residence of other missionaries. When John Tang was not on duty in the Qin Heavenly Prison, he would stay in this small church.

Blacksmith Hutong is very close to the church, and Chen Yue walked to it quickly. I saw that the door of the church was open, but it was empty and there was no one inside. Western missionaries have been coming to the Ming Dynasty for a long time, although they have tried their best to learn the language and culture of the Ming Dynasty, but the effect of the mission is still minimal, and there are not many real apprentices at all, because for the Ming people, they worship their ancestors, believe in countless gods such as the Jade Emperor, Dragon King, God of Wealth, etc., and the Catholicism that advocates monotheism forms a natural contradiction, and habits and traditions are the most difficult to change. It wasn't until 200 years later, after a poor man improved the doctrine of Catholicism, that Catholicism spread rapidly in the southern half of China, and he became the son of God the King of Heaven, thus triggering a vigorous uprising!

Chen Yue walked into the gate, passed by the quiet courtyard, and then pushed open the door of the church, only to see a person bent over cleaning in the church. The church is nothing more than a house with a spire, and the space inside is the same as that of an ordinary house.

Hearing someone come in, the cleaner turned around and was a young man in his twenties, wearing ordinary green cloth, and his clothes were white but very clean.

"Who are you looking for?" The young man asked politely.

"May I ask if Master Tang is here? I'm looking for him. Chen Yue replied.

"My stepfather is playing chess with a guest in the backyard, why don't you wait a while?" The young man smiled.

"You're the son of Lord Tang?" Chen Yue asked curiously.

"Yes, my name is Pan Xuezhong, I am an orphan, ten years ago, when Master Tang went to Chang'an to preach, he saved me from dying, and I have been by my father's side since then." This young man named Pan Xuezhong seemed to like talking very much, and without waiting for Chen Yue to ask, he told his life experience.

"Can I go to the backyard to watch Master Tang play chess, don't worry, I won't disturb them." Chen Yue asked with a smile.

Pan Xuezhong thought for a while and nodded: "Okay!" ”