"I am the sacrificial wine of the Ming Advanced Military Preparation Hall, Shen Qing means that it is not appropriate for me to master this Ming Advanced Military Preparation Hall, or do you have to master it from your military department? Your military department already has the right to transfer troops, and you want this right to command troops......" Emperor Chongzhen said this, leaned forward slightly, and asked with a little majesty, "Where is the intention?" ”

In fact, in the past, the military department had the right to transfer troops, and the final assessment of military generals and the power to serve were also snatched from the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, making the Governor's Office of the Five Armies a vassal of the Ministry of War. But from beginning to end, there was no time when the military department had a powerful minister, let alone an example of rebellion. However, this matter cannot be put on the surface, and no matter who it is, no matter how reasonable it is, it cannot hold the right to command the troops and the right to transfer troops in their hands.

Only the emperor can, after all, the world is the emperor's world, whether it is the governor's office of the five armies or the military department, it is said that they are all under the emperor's subordinates, and they do things for the emperor, and the power they have is given by the emperor.

If the sacrificial wine of the Ming Dynasty Senior Military Reserve Hall is someone else, such as the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies or the Emperor's Honors, maybe the military department Shangshu can still argue with reason, but now it is the emperor himself, he wants to fight for this, it is with the emperor himself, therefore, how does Shen Yongmao answer the question of Emperor Chongzhen?

Shen Yongmao immediately knew that he had lost his words, he couldn't wait for the hat thrown by the emperor, whether it was a rebellion or a minister, it was not something he could bear, so he quickly knelt down and pleaded guilty, and tried to explain: "The old minister doesn't mean this, the old minister just thinks, the martial artist is vulgar, he doesn't know the teachings of the sage, he will have delusions if he supports power, and the minister is just according to the practice of the previous dynasties, thinking that he will not give the martial artist this opportunity, and ...... for the long-term stability of my Ming Dynasty."

"Huh!" Emperor Chongzhen listened, looked at Shen Yongmao, who had already knelt there, and sneered: "Therefore, my Ming Dynasty is full of beacons, and tens of thousands of barbarians in Liaodong can hit the city of Jingshi, and even I, the emperor, have to go to the city to defend against the enemy." The Tusi in the southwest has been in turmoil for many years, and the thieves at sea are ravaging the coast, tell me, what about my elite army? Don't think I don't know, after your military department has the actual power to command the army, where did the elite army of the Ming Dynasty go? ”

This is actually a bit excessive, even if the Governor's Office of the Five Armies still holds the power to command the army, after a few hundred years, the army should still be corrupt, and this responsibility should not be completely resisted by the Ministry of War.

But at this time, since you Shen Yongmao came over to oppose the Ming Senior Military Arsenal, Emperor Chongzhen naturally moved his mouth and made the matter more serious, seeing that Shen Yongmao was sweating on his head, he continued: "I have innovated the military system and organized and trained the new army, and the effects are all there, and the continuous defeat and retreat of Jianyu is empirical evidence, which proves that my approach is useful." Therefore, in addition to the primary martial arts hall, I also established the Ming Senior Military Hall, and I did not hesitate to take the time to personally serve as a sacrificial wine, just to want my Ming army to become strong again, so that the four Yi can be subdued, and let the people of the Ming Dynasty no longer suffer from military disasters. Do you have any comments on this matter? ”

Even Su Qin and Zhang Yi are alive, and in front of the fact that the new army has proven its combat effectiveness, he can't say anything. However, Shen Yongmao is not a fool, he naturally knows that the premise of the Ming Dynasty's continuous victories is not only the innovation of the military system and the use of new training methods, but also the solution of food and salary, the ability of the people who command the army, and so on. For example, in the suppression of the Tusi rebellion in the northwest, the new army did not participate, and it was Zhu Xieyuan who led the army to suppress it.

But even if Shen Yongmao understands this, it's useless, the identity is here, the emperor is reasonable, the right to command the army should not be owned by the military department in the first place, and then he will deal with the emperor and justify it one by one, then the emperor's words asked before may really be suppressed.

Therefore, Shen Yongmao could only bow his head: "Your Majesty is wise!" ”

Originally, he wanted to say that there was no direct instruction from the Son of Heaven on the road of literati and scholars, but only a matter of the palace examination, so he thought he was a protégé of the Son of Heaven and put gold on his face. But now the martial artists are the real protégés of the Son of Heaven, such a comparison, how can the literati be embarrassed, and the tails of those martial artists have not been raised to the sky?

But now he can't say this. It is not precisely because of the importance of the power to command the army, as Shen Yongmao was worried, so the emperor personally served as the sacrificial wine, and this power was equivalent to the emperor himself. When it comes to martial affairs, the emperor wants to guard against martial artists like this, isn't this something that has been emphasized and sought after by literati in previous dynasties? It can't be said openly that the reason why this power is emphasized is actually to be in the hands of civil officials, not your emperor! No matter who it is, the emperor himself went into battle shirtless, who can go and rob the emperor?

So, the matter of the Ming Senior Military Arsenal was decided. This is also due to the fact that the people in the cabinet are all recommended by Wen Tiren, and they can stand on the side of Emperor Chongzhen with one heart, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate is being renovated, and all the imperial historians are concerned about where they are assigned, how many subordinates they have, etc., and not many people can have extra thoughts, thinking about going to the emperor's troubles. If the emperor is not happy, then this unprecedented innovation of the Metropolitan Procuratorate is likely to be out of the game.

But even so, there are still officials who have been recitaled, and Shen Yongmao can't refute it from this angle, so he adds chaos from another angle, saying that Li Zicheng and them are not worthy of becoming protégés of the Son of Heaven, look at their origins, see what merits they have, and if they want to enter the Ming Advanced Military Hall, why can't they be the turn of these people, right?

Emperor Chongzhen didn't bother to refute these recitals, and stayed in the middle until they accumulated to a certain extent, and only then did he hold a court meeting and say again what he said to Li Zicheng about the importance of Siberia.

As a result, almost everyone doesn't pay attention to what happened to Siberia, they all care about what the emperor said about the artifact, what is it? Zi said, don't say strange, force, chaos, God. Your Majesty, there is something wrong with you!

The authority of the emperor, in the eyes of civil officials, is naturally not as important as in the hearts of military generals. To put it mildly, these civil officials, all of whom are literate hooligans, have pursued all their lives to overthrow the authority of the emperor. The glory of the emperor's court staff is an example of this. Therefore, what Li Zicheng and they could believe at once was questioned on the side of the civilian officials.

Emperor Chongzhen was not angry about this, and on the side of the civil officials, the most important job was not to quarrel! The ability of civil officials is a mouth. Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen looked at the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military affairs, his face was slightly serious, and he said seriously: "This artifact I said has a name, called technology!" ”

As soon as they heard this, all the courtiers, regardless of whether they were cunning or not, old and serious, were all surprised, what technology? What is this?

Shoufu Wen Tiren, as Emperor Chongzhen's confidant, is the person who knows Emperor Chongzhen best. As soon as he heard this, he keenly felt that the emperor was likely to have something new to say. Since this is the case, he came out and asked, "Your Majesty, what is this technology?" ”

Hearing Shousuke's question, the others remained quiet, they all wanted to hear what this technology was?

"Science and technology, in fact, is a combination of science and technology!" Emperor Chongzhen's answer to Wen Tiren's question was actually a lesson to all his courtiers, "Discovering the relationship between conclusive facts and phenomena in all things in the world, and establishing theories to connect facts and phenomena, this is science." And the application of scientific results to practical problems is technology. ”

Seeing that the courtiers below were confused, Emperor Chongzhen gave another example and explained: "For example, heat expansion and cold contraction, you know this, right?" After getting this conclusion, we can further analyze the further details such as how much heat will rise and how much cold will shrink, and this is science. Let's take a simple example, such as the Kong Ming lantern, which is actually related to thermal expansion and cold contraction, the heated gas floats upward, driving the Kong Ming lantern to fly into the sky, and making this Kong Ming lantern is the technology. The artifact I am talking about is science and technology, or technology for short! ”

Originally, when giving this example of thermal expansion and cold contraction, Emperor Chongzhen wanted to talk about steam engines. But he thought about it, many of the officials present didn't know about the steam engine, so he temporarily changed his mind and used the Kong Ming lantern that everyone knew as an example.

Unexpectedly, after this example came out in one fell swoop, some courtiers immediately came out of the ranks, with a serious face, and said loudly: "Your Majesty, what is the use of things like Kong Ming lanterns except for floating in the air to look better?" Such tricks are futile, and they cost money and materials. Your Majesty wants to say that such things are an artifact for the benefit of the country and the people, and Weichen really dare not agree! ”

Since the beginning of history, many people have tried to gain the pleasure of kings and thus obtain official positions. For example, in the absence of the needs of the market economy, things that can only be used for court entertainment are dedicated to the queen, and the king will naturally be rewarded when he looks happy, and maybe he can also get an official because of it. Kong Ming lanterns, bamboo dragonflies, firecrackers and other things came about in this way.

Therefore, as soon as Emperor Chongzhen said Kong Ming Lantern, some civil officials jumped out and said it. Not only that, but another courtier followed and said loudly: "The minister heard that His Majesty accepted a craftsman as an apprentice in Jiangnan, so he just made this Kong Ming lantern." The minister thinks that His Majesty's mind is also fallacious! For the sake of the great plan and the plan of the ancestral society, the minister implores His Majesty to set things right......"

Before he finished speaking, Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help but laugh out loud, interrupting the courtier's words.

He thought that the emperor would either be angry, or he would be beaten with a court rod, or even condemned, but he never thought that the emperor would laugh and laugh at himself as if he had heard something very funny...... Ignorant?

I don't know when, Shoufu Wen Tiren has already returned to the queue. Seeing this scene at this time, I knew in my heart that the emperor was going to start going crazy and say something unheard of.

Sure enough, after Emperor Chongzhen laughed for a while, he suddenly stopped looking at this courtier, he had a rare impression that this courtier was from the Jiangnan side, and because of this, he knew about Carpenter Xu!

I heard Emperor Chongzhen say loudly: "It's really an ignorant person who is fearless, and he actually said such an uninformed word. The frog at the bottom of the well is nothing more than this! Do you know that at night in the army, military orders are conveyed by hanging Kong Ming lanterns in the air? That's one ......"

Obviously, the two courtiers who rushed out to advise were from the wealthy Jiangnan. In his life experience, he is mostly gentle in the countryside, and he knows the purpose of Kong Ming lanterns, which they usually use to play when they are playing, but they don't know that Kong Ming lanterns have been used in many ways.

When these two courtiers were said in public by Emperor Chongzhen, their faces immediately turned red, and they wanted to argue, but the emperor was still talking, and he was not qualified to interrupt the emperor's words, so he had to hold back first.

"Second, the technology of thermal expansion and cold contraction that I mentioned is just an example of it. Let me ask you, if this Kong Ming lantern is extremely huge, its buoyancy in the air must be very large, and when it is large enough to a certain extent, will it bring people to the sky? If the current Kong Ming lantern is not suitable, then according to the scientific and technological principle of thermal expansion and cold contraction, and then improve, will it be able to bring people to the sky? At present, the Kong Ming Lantern can only float in the sky, so if other devices are added, can it be controlled to rise and lower in the air according to people's minds, forward and backward......

Emperor Chongzhen's series of rhetorical questions based on thermal expansion and cold contraction are simply deafening to people in this era. For a moment, the scene became very quiet, and only the gushing voice of Emperor Chongzhen remained.

Human beings have always longed to be able to fly in the sky like birds, but at the same time, human beings know that they cannot fly in the air like birds. But the civil and military officials present, hearing Emperor Chongzhen's description at this time, seemed to open their eyes, according to the emperor's description, it seems that it is really possible to do it, people fly in the sky!

Think about the impossible, how can it be possible? What did the man feel when he flew in the sky and looked down on the earth?

“…… I did take in an apprentice, and it was I who saw in Jiangnan that he was interested in making a tool that could fly in the sky. Therefore, I asked him to ponder the Kong Ming lantern and let him understand the scientific and technological principles contained in the Kong Ming lantern. Because it is impossible to do it because you know it but do not know why it is. I can tell you clearly that what can bring people to heaven will appear in these two years. “

It was another deafening statement, and for a while, the ministers were a little unacceptable. Subconsciously, they were thinking, it's always an artifact that can take people to the sky, right?

At this time, the two civil officials who came out to oppose stood there a little helpless. Because the emperor's series of words seem to prove that they are frogs at the bottom of the well! This conclusion really made the two of them a little ashamed to stand in the middle, so they thought about hiding in the crowd, hiding in a place where no one could see.

Emperor Chongzhen looked at the expressions of the courtiers below, and was still very happy in his heart, today, he is going to tear a hole for science and technology in Daming, so that the concept of science and technology can take root in Daming!