For the treatment of Tu Wenfu, Zhu Youxiao made other arrangements. Tu Wenfu's behavior of asking someone to make a flintlock pistol is undoubtedly very much in line with Zhu Youxiao's mind.

"Tu Wenfu, although your flintlock pistol is not finished, you want to make it yourself, which is very meaningful." Zhu Youxiao said happily.

"The minister has the responsibility of His Majesty, and the minister is guilty of death." Seeing Zhu Youxiao's expression, Tu Wenfu knew that he would not be blamed by the emperor.

"You go to Bi Maokang at once. I have a great deal to do with the two of you. Zhu Youxiao thought of Bi Maokang, the first person to manufacture flintlock pistols in China.

Bi Maokang can definitely be said to be an expert in weapon production in the Ming Dynasty, not only made the first flintlock pistol for the Ming Dynasty, but also manufactured ordnance equipment such as Wugang cars and Shenfei cannons. Seeing the flintlock pistol made by Tu Wenfu, Zhu Youxiao immediately thought of Bi Maokang.

……

Song Yingxing entered Beijing.

Now Song Yingxing is only thirty-seven years old, it is the prime of life, the early year of the Apocalypse failed again, and after returning to Jiangxi, he once again prepared for the imperial examination. But this time after receiving the emperor's summons, Song Yingxing understood that his opportunity to come, "learning to become a scholar and martial arts, goods and the emperor's family" is the dream of a scholar, and he immediately rushed to Beijing non-stop.

Zhu Youxiao finally met Song Yingxing, an outstanding scientist and thinker in Chinese history. After the death of the Ming Dynasty, Song Yingxing refused to leave the army and spent his later years in poverty, while his brother Song Yingsheng took poison and died for the country. The Song family is extremely virtuous, and they are also people that Zhu Youxiao sincerely admires.

In the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Youxiao and Song Yingxing had their first meeting. Song Yingxing obviously didn't expect that this time it would be summoned by the emperor personally, as a commoner, seeing the emperor for the first time, the mood at this time is far from being described as sincere and fearful, coupled with Zhu Youxiao's attitude towards him, so that his whole person is still confused.

"Song Changgeng, I recruited you to Beijing this time to prepare to hand over the newly established money bureau to you to be responsible." Zhu Youxiao said.

"No." Song Yingxing replied respectfully.

"Every move of the Money Bureau this time is related to the safety of the empire, but I have high hopes for Song Aiqing, and there must be no mistakes." Zhu Youxiao looked at Song Yingxing, who was still confused, and said very seriously.

As soon as the word "......Nuo" Song Yingxing came out, he instantly understood that the emperor recruited him into Beijing not only to preside over the money bureau, if he was just to preside over the money bureau, such a thing should not be too difficult for him, but listening to Zhu Youxiao's tone, it was obviously more than that, he remembered that the emperor wanted to mint new money, he tried to calm himself down, and then asked, "Your Majesty, but let the grass people preside over the money bureau to mint new money." ”

"Exactly, the minting of the new money this time is different from the past, I will not only mint copper coins, but also prepare to mint silver coins, and the coins will no longer be printed with the Apocalypse Tongbao, but with a pattern printed on the front and a tael on the back." Zhu Youxiao said.

Zhu Youxiao's words were not very clear, and Song Yingxing also knew nothing, Zhu Youxiao saw this, and said: "Song Changgeng, you come forward, I will draw a sketch for you, and you will understand." ”

According to the normal procedure, Zhu Youxiao should have painted it, and then the eunuch handed it to Song Yingxing, but Zhu Youxiao didn't have so many rules, so he directly asked Song Yingxing to come forward to see him paint, Song Yingxing was also stunned now, and when he heard that the emperor asked him to come forward, he really stepped forward.

Zhu Youxiao has a very good carpentry, and he can also show his intentions in painting, he said while painting: "The head of Ran Min, the king of martial mourning, is printed on the front of the silver coin, and one or two big characters are printed on the back, and on the two big characters of 'one or two', five small characters of the 'Ming Empire' are printed, and the whole circle is also solid, and the sky is round." Do you understand? ”

"The grass people get it." But Song Yingxing was still a little worried, standing far away, and only roughly saw it clearly.

"The net weight of one tael of silver coins is eight coins, which contains ninety percent of silver, one percent of copper, and three specifications of silver coins, including one tael, half a tael, and one coin. The copper coin is cast with brass (i.e., copper-zinc alloy), and the four specifications of one yuan, five coins, one coin, and half a coin are cast. Zhu Youxiao continued.

"The grass people understand." Song Yingxing nodded and said.

"How long will it take you to mint the sample?" Zhu Youxiao asked.

"Ten days is enough." Song Yingxing thought about it and said.

"I give you a month, Song Aiqing, you have to understand that in the future, only new money will be used in the empire, and the old money will not be used again after three or five years, I require that the new money is not only beautiful, but also able to be manufactured on a large scale, so you have to think of a way to make it on a large scale. You can go to John Tong and other Westerners to consult on how to mint them, and the coins minted by Westerners are the same as what I just said. Zhu Youxiao said.

At present, the Ming Dynasty roughly uses the stacking casting method and the sand turning method, while the Westerners use two methods of spiral pressing and roller rolling to manufacture.

"The grass people understand that the grass people will not disappoint His Majesty's expectations." Song Yingxing said.

"Song Yingxing was promoted to the position of the director of the Money Bureau, awarded the five products, and took office on the same day." Zhu Youxiao commanded.

"Your Majesty, thank you." Song Yingxing was really promoted exceptionally, from a civilian to a positive fifth grade, which made Song Yingxing full of gratitude to Zhu Youxiao from the bottom of his heart. As for the rest, Song Yingxing didn't think about it at all.

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The 15,000 recruits recruited by Li Yongzhen had already arrived on the outskirts of Beijing, and the location of this training was placed in Huangzhuang on the outskirts.

Zhu Youxiao decided to go to the new barracks before the training officially began. This army will be the foundation of Zhu Youxiao and the cornerstone of supporting his reforms.

The phrase "power comes out of the barrel of a gun" was an unbreakable truth in that era.

Zhu Youxiao inspected the new barracks this time and decided to let several cabinet ministers accompany him. After receiving the news that the emperor and cabinet ministers were coming to inspect the new barracks, Xiong Tingbi took half a day to stand up for the 15,000 people in a plausible formation.

"Xiong Aiqing, I have a training manual here, you can take it and take a look, combine your experience, and compile a new training booklet, and in the future, I will follow a unified model for recruit training." Zhu Youxiao took out the booklet he wrote and said.

Regarding how to train soldiers, Zhu Youxiao is definitely an idiot in this regard, but fortunately, when Zhu Youxiao was a university student in that time and space, he participated in military training for half a month and watched a lot of TV in this area. After all, Xiong Tingbi can be regarded as a person who has led troops for many years, and his experience in this area is much more sufficient than Zhu Youxiao.