In contact with the King of Shu, Zhu Changhao understood that it turned out that these clan vassal kings from all over the country had no sense of belonging to the Ming Dynasty at all.

In their hearts, Daming is just Daming on the dragon chair of Jingshi, and the success or failure of Daming has nothing to do with him, as long as Jingshi does not deprive himself of his throne or title.

From this point, it can be seen that the Ming royal family has been separated from morality, but didn't they think that they have royal blood, that is, other people ascend to the throne, and these people with royal blood are estimated to have a bad death.

Huanhua Creek, the Mansion of the King of Shu.

Zhu Zhishu and Zhu Changhao sat down in the Sanyou Hall of the Shu Palace, and recounted the helplessness of their respective vassal kings over the years.

It's not that these vassal kings can't recognize the word and the Ming royal family secretly lose and die, but over the years, the life of these vassal kings is like raising pigs, as time goes by, the descendants of these vassal kings have gradually increased, but their fiefdoms and princes have not increased much, plus imprisonment, many princes and grandchildren due to blood relations, the gap in living standards is too large, and the extreme life has made their bodies and minds a little distorted and perverted, and they can't wait to bury this Wang Ming Empire.

It's just that in terms of ideas, the more Zhu Changhao and Zhu Zhishu chat, the more speculative they become, and they have an amazing agreement on many issues in their views on the future of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, the two also have a lot of differences, mainly because when Zhu Changhao introduced the political and military structure of the palace to Zhu Zhishu, he talked about the daily operation mode of the palace.

Zhu Zhishu disagrees with this model, after all, a prince with some ambitions, for military power, it is absolutely impossible to delegate, after all, during the Tang Dynasty, political affairs were entrusted to others, coupled with the decentralization of military power, how many knots have already been made, and eventually led to the demise of the Tang Empire.

Generally speaking, Zhu Zhishu, the king of Shu, was still worried about the reason, but he forgot that the soldiers under the jurisdiction of the Rui Wangfu, the water division and the land division, there are at least three people in a team to manage.

Besides, the ordnance and salaries of these naval and land divisions are provided by the palace, and once the logistics and baggage support of the palace are cut off, the ordnance in their hands is estimated to be a pile of scrap copper and rotten iron, and besides, the warriors can only lead troops to fight, and cannot interfere in local political affairs, that is to say, the separation of military and political affairs will make the future warlords lose the breeding ground.

Also, the personnel power is in his own hands, and Zhu Changhao is not afraid that someone will make those moths.

The most important thing is that the taxes collected must be escorted to the royal palace, and the household department of the royal palace will allocate funds according to the budget of the local officials for the year.

There is no money in the local area, how do they recruit troops and buy horses, and how do they have bad intentions?

After Zhu Changhao also told Zhu Zhishu about his back hand in detail, this middle-aged King of Shu was immediately amazed.

Sanyoutang, pine, bamboo, plum Sui Han three friends, so it is called Sanyoutang.

After the smoked winter sun came out at noon, Zhu Changhao invited Zhu Zhishu to his ironclad boat to swim the river together.

In the ironclad ship, Zhu Zhishu and his entourage, who felt the industrial atmosphere, looked quite surprised, when the ironclad ship in a copper horn whistle "whoa-" in the long sound, Zhu Changhao and Zhu Zhishu set off.

In this alluvial plain formed by many rivers such as the Minjiang River and the Tuojiang River, looking at the surrounding rice fields, as well as the wheat fields on the high platform, the farmer's manure has been transported to the ground by the little donkey, Zhu Changhao is very envious in his heart, this soil is fertile.

When the copper whistle "whooped" did not stop, it also alarmed the people on both sides of the Minjiang River.

They looked at the ironclad ships as if they were a rarity.

Zhu Changhao and Zhu Zhishu did not avoid suspicion, but sat on the deck, drank wine, and talked about the boat.

"Lord Rui, can you buy one for your steam-propelled boat?"

According to the genealogical backup of the Ming royal family, Zhu Zhishu and his father, Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun are of the same generation, so there is nothing wrong with Zhu Changhao calling Zhu Zhishu Uncle Wang.

Zhu Changhao of course agreed to Zhu Zhishu's request to buy an ironclad ship, but he still wanted to take care of it.

"Uncle Wang, it's not that my nephew won't sell it to you, it's because this ironclad ship costs a lot of money, and besides, you have to repair the boiler and install it in charcoal in normal times. The nephew thinks that the trouble is not small, but Uncle Wang still thinks about it? ”

"Hehe, as your uncle Wang, will this king still be stingy with those few small coins, tell me, how much silver?"

"Since Uncle Wang wants to really buy it, in this way, the price will be 300,000 silver dollars, and in addition, Uncle Wang can send a few henchmen to Hanzhong for training in ironclad ships. The nephew doesn't want the money for this training, of course, if there is a problem with this ironclad ship in the future, what if the nephew repairs it to Uncle Wang for free? ”

Zhu Zhishu pondered for a long time, but finally agreed to the price.

To tell the truth, in Zhu Changhao's heart, for the ironclad ship sold to Zhu Zhishu, it only cost about 20,000 silver dollars, but this time it will add 300,000, which is fifteen times the usual amount, but who let the technology be in the hands of King Rui's Mansion!

What a terrible technological monopoly!

Three ironclad boats sailed along the course of the Minjiang River to the northwest outside the city, and according to Zhu Zhishu, this was to see the famous water conservancy project Dujiangyan.

More than an hour later, Rui Wang Ye and his entourage have arrived at the mouth of the treasure bottle, and everyone took advantage of the sun that was already a little westward, standing on the water-dividing embankment, looking at Dujiangyan, which has spanned thousands of years.

Just when Zhu Changhao was touching the stone statue of Li Bing's father and son, Zhu Zhishu said, "King Rui, you see, this Dujiangyan is mainly composed of three major river embankments: Yuzui, Feishaweir and Baohuakou. The three organically cooperate, restrain each other, coordinate operation, divert water to irrigate, divide floods and reduce disasters, and have the effect of "dividing four or six, leveling drought". ”

Of course, Zhu Zhishu couldn't say anything like organic combination and coordinated operation, but in order to make it easier to read, Zhu Changhao had to elaborate in the style of the 21st century.

Zhu Changhao listened, and sure enough, as Zhu Zhishu said, he said with a smile, "This Dujiangyan water conservancy project makes full use of the local geographical conditions of high northwest and low southeast, according to the special topography, water vein, and water potential at the mouth of the river, takes advantage of the situation, diverts water without dams, and irrigates artesians, so that embankments, water distribution, flood discharge, sand discharge, and flow control are interdependent, and they are a common system, ensuring that the comprehensive benefits of flood control, irrigation, water transportation, and social water use are fully exerted." After the completion of Dujiangyan, the Chengdu Plain is fertile for thousands of miles, "water and drought from people, do not know famine, there is no famine year, called Tianfu". ”

Zhu Zhishu nodded when he heard this, Zhu Changhao looked at the dam for a while, and then understood.

Dujiangyan is actually composed of the water division of the fish mouth of the Minjiang River, the overflow and sand discharge of the flying sand weir, and the water diversion at the mouth of the treasure bottle.

The mouth of the fish is made of pebbles in a bamboo cage. Because it is built in the center of the river where the Minjiang River rushes out of the mountain pass and circulates in a bend, the river water is relatively dry in winter and spring, the water flows through the bend above the fish mouth and bypasses, and the main stream rushes straight to the inner river, the water inflow of the inner river is about 60%, and the water inflow of the outer river is about 40%; In summer and autumn, the water level rises, the water potential is no longer restricted by the bend, the main stream rushes directly to the outer river, and the proportion of the inner and outer river water is automatically reversed: the water inflow of the inner river is about 40%, and the water inflow of the outer river is about 60%. This makes use of the topography to perfectly solve the problem of water use for farmland and people's daily life in the dry season of winter and spring in Neijiang irrigation area, and the problem of flood prevention in summer and autumn flood season.

In addition, the main reason for this flying sand weir is that when the water volume of the Neijiang River exceeds the upper limit of the flow rate of the treasure bottle, the excess water will overflow from the flying sand weir by itself; In the event of a catastrophic flood, it will burst its banks on its own, allowing a large amount of water to return to the normal flow of the Minjiang River. Another function of the flying sand weir is "flying sand", the Minjiang River gallops from the ten thousand mountains, carrying a large amount of sediment and stones, if they are allowed to go down the inner river, they will silt up the mouth of the treasure bottle and the irrigation area.

Finally, let's talk about this treasure bottle mouth, the treasure bottle mouth plays the role of "control gate", can automatically control the water inflow of the inner river, is a hole cut on the long ridge of the Minjiang River stretched out by Mao Mountain (now known as Guankou Mountain and Yulei Mountain), it is artificially chiseled into the throat of the water inlet of the inner river, because it resembles the bottle mouth and the function is strange, so it is called the treasure bottle mouth. The hill left on the right side of the mouth of the treasure bottle is called Lidui because it is separated from the mountain. Before the pile was excavated at the mouth of the treasure bottle, it was a part of the Hutou Rock of Maoshan Mountain.

Looking at Dujiangyan, Zhu Changhao almost spent more than an hour, and besides, the time was not early, and they began to rush back to Huanhuaxi in an ironclad boat.

In the evening, Lu Lun, Qin Ruzhen, and Li Zhizao were in the North Garden of this palace, chatting with the long history of the Shu Palace, the Cheng Division, the Trial Division, the Commander, and the Honor Guard.

Let's talk about it here, the largest subordinate official of the Ming Dynasty is Changshi, there are left and right in the name, and it is generally designated by the emperor himself, which is somewhat similar to the baogong (not nanny) of the vassal kings, and the princes are not allowed to recruit themselves. The people in this position are very strange, the chief of the Gu Wang's Mansion is very loyal to the Gu King, and often admonishes him not to have a disobedient heart, but he was actually killed by him, and the emperor didn't care too much about this matter.

Another department with more authority is the Department of Confession, which consists of Principal, Left, Right and Inner Ministers, all of whom are eunuchs.

There is also a department called the Adjudication Division, which consists of Trial, which is a civilian staff who work in the outer court and are not eunuchs.

There are full-time officials guarding the door, which is called the door chief and the door deputy, which is a very oily position.

The general manager of management, in charge of the kitchen and the kitchen, and the management of the inner library is called the inner treasure, and there have been many celebrities in this position, and the secretary who manages the letters, in addition to the letter officer, does not know his specific position. There was also a professor, who was responsible for the education of the feudal lords and their children.

There are guests of honor in the palace, civil servants, generally for handsome people, but later, the guests often become the son-in-law of the palace, so the guests of honor have become the son-in-law of the palace, just like the emperor's son-in-law is called a horse.

The military rank consists of a commander and a number of honor guards, who are in charge of a guard of honor with dozens of people, whose duties are mainly the honor guard of the vassal king when he travels and the guards of the entire palace. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the number of guards in the vassal palace was still quite large, and there were thousands at every turn, and later after Emperor Jianwen and Emperor Yongle cut the domain, they were slowly reduced.

From each other's land, minerals, and the advantages they have, Zhu Changhao understands that Zhu Zhishu is "begging with gold bricks", this advantage of Sichuan and Shu, if someone integrates it, it is a huge force that is enough to turn things around.

When Zhu Changhao got up to bid farewell to Zhu Zhishu and returned to the room, he looked up at the starry sky and muttered in his mouth, "Xinghan is flowing west at night, maybe I should plan a thing or two." ”

What exactly Zhu Changhao wants to plan, please see the next chapter.