"Without him, one word, foolish." Zhu Youlang put down the teacup, grinded the lid of the purple sand cup and said.

"Compared with changing the name, keeping the same name in Yunnan is more able to bluff people, look at the people who come from the north and wait for Kaienke, you know that these people are really stupid." Zhu Youlang laughed loudly.

"Your Majesty sees a thousand miles." Liu Xiang slapped a sycophant.

"But Nko still has to open. Slap in the face and give a sweet date. ”

Five days later, news of the imperial court's opening of the Enko in early July was published in the Wabang News.

"This time, Enke plans to admit three people in the first grade, ten people in the second grade, and fifty people in the third grade. This time, Enke uses a 100-point system, in which 8 strands are 50 points, mathematics, Burmese, history, geography, and natural science are 50 points......"

In the eyes of the officials who passed the examination and entered the system, Zhu Youlang made a lot of compromises, and even gave them eight shares of fifty points, but in the eyes of those scholars, when they were preparing for the exam for a long time, they could only touch half of the score? However, after grinding for so long, and remembering what happened before, everyone had to give up, and for a while, the bookstore that sells teaching and auxiliary materials has a large number of customers.

Actually, it's a good choice! In any case, I finally pressed their heads and forced them to touch something new.

At Kyaukpyu Port on the lower Irrawaddy River, a schooner with soft sails sets sail. Since ancient times, sailing ships in China have been hard sails and schooners, while at this time Western ships were hung with soft sails. For Fuchuan and Canton ships sailing in offshore waters, the stiff sails with bamboo and wood muscles are more conducive to adjusting the direction and applying wind power from all directions. However, for the far sea where the wind direction is relatively stable, the small wind area makes the speed of the hard sailing ship not as good as that of the soft sailing boat, and the wind and waves in the open sea are larger, and the sail is often required to be lowered, and the weakness caused by the difficulty of raising the sail after the sail is not easy to be lifted. In contrast, the construction of schooners became an inevitable choice.

A gust of north wind blew, sending the 600-material ship out of the wharf, and the lanterns on it that were "all the way smooth" fluttered in the wind, and the ship would turn around and go east, cross Manchu Thorn, enter the Taiwan Strait from Qianli Shitang and Changsha and sail into the Zhongzuo Institute. Before, I was not able to sail and had to venture by land, but now that I have the ability to build ships, it is naturally safer to ship by sea, although there is the possibility of interception by Western colonists everywhere, but it is much safer than the land route of the Qing army that has to guard against and control the main transportation routes everywhere!

Eight twelve-pound naval guns were installed on each side of the splints, and iron ramming angles were also installed in front. In this era, broadside warfare was not completely out of history, and the Ming Dynasty often used this tactic to defend against the Yangyi in the coastal seas, from the Portuguese to the Dutch.

The purpose of sending a ship to Zhongzuo this time was to give Zhu Chenggong a wave of life. According to intermittent news, Nanjing was solid until February, but then there was no news. Therefore, Zhu Chenggong decided to import some of the technical achievements from here into the past.

As the sailing ship called "Fuxing" continued to sail into Malacca, a ship of about the same tonnage sailed in the opposite direction, and a black cannon was also set up on it.

The gunners quickly rushed to the gun emplacements and set up alert. These people have more professional measuring tools (in fact, they are large protractors), and they don't panic even if they don't have much experience.

"Ready! If the cannon is fired from the opposite side, immediately return fire. The first mate shouted, and asked the sail operator to slowly close the distance of the boat and press it up.

At this time, merchant ships and pirate ships were the same concept, there was no law at sea, and it was pure law of the jungle. So when I saw the ship on the other side pressing over, I dropped the sail and borrowed the wind to run away.

"What kind of ship is that? It feels like a Chinese junk ship, just with so many cannons. On the ship on which they had met each other, the boatswain touched the sweat on his forehead and said curiously.

"What, you want to go up and take a gamble?" The captain took a sip of the sailors' favorite brandy into the jar and said, "Those junks are not easy to mess with, they look so scary." ”

"The Chinese are not good at seafaring, otherwise they would not have stayed near the sea forever." The boatswain came out of his tension and smiled slyly.

"But, have you ever seen the Chinese have such a big junk ship?"

"It seems to be!" The boatswain laughed and snorted.

The crew of the Fuxing did not know that they had escaped a thrilling experience, and that night they were served double drinks, and the sailors were so happy that they fell asleep drunk in the moonlight.

……

While the Fuxing was still sailing in the Strait of Malacca, the situation outside Nanjing became more and more serious, and Aobai's army began to try to land from the north of the river. Under the continuous attack of fireships, the advantages of Zheng's navy were also increasing--- facing a huge empire, the Min Wangfu, which had lost the supplies of several prefectures, gradually became a little overwhelmed...... The iron material transported into Nanjing City became less and less, and Zhu Chenggong's brows became more and more frowning day by day.

After a year of fighting, the Qing army had come to understand the advantages that the Zheng army relied on: flintlock pistols and blasting city walls. At this time, Aobai's army had already reloaded flintlock pistols at all costs, and although the technique of blasting the city wall had failed several times, it had gradually found some doorways......

"Lord Wang, this is a report on the consumption of materials in various places in the past ten days, among them, iron consumption is 4,100 catties, and grain consumption is ......."

"In terms of armament, three hundred and ninety-six flintlock guns, twenty-seven bribes, four general cannons, two hundred and nine spears were broken, and one hundred and seventy-seven bowstrings were broken......

"Production, transformation of three hundred and seven flintlock guns, six lifts, fifty spears..."

Zhu Chenggong used to listen carefully to the report, but today, he finally couldn't help it: "Okay, just report to the following." ”

"Yes." The clerk left and returned to his room. Faced with another stack of reports, he got back to work.

As the duty study room under the Min Wangfu, this clerk has to receive official documents inside and outside the city of Nanjing every day, and send these official documents to various official offices (corresponding to the six departments, in fact, the six "departments" under the jurisdiction of the Min Wangfu), and some of the content will be directly presented to the Min King, which can be said to be twelve hours a day.

Hastily piled up a few chores together, and opened a thin inscription book, according to the official document format of the Ming Dynasty, the shorter the content, the simpler the matter, but as soon as he opened it, the dazzling red letters on it made his eyes widen in fright.

"There are several inferior gentry in Suzhou Mansion who gathered thousands of people including their families, raided the government, accepted the puppet officials of the court, and rebelled!"

(End of chapter)