As the name suggests, cinchona cream is taken from the alkaloids on the cinchona tree.

As for the cinchona tree, Zhu Youzhen is aware of it, which belongs to a tropical plant that is more common in South America and India.

But Zhu Youzhen naturally wouldn't let Xu Wenjue go so far away to find the cinchona tree.

Daming itself has a rainforest!

That is Xishuangbanna in the south of Yunnan.

Whether it's called Xishuangbanna now, Zhu Youzhen doesn't know.

Zhu Youzhen only knew that Daming's current control over Yunnan was still relatively strong.

The ancestor of the Mu family in Yunnan is after Zhu Yuanzhang's son Mu Ying.

And Mu Ying and Xu Da are both relatives of the Ming Dynasty, and it is naturally not difficult for Xu Wenjue to go to Yunnan to find cinchona.

However, what made Zhu Youzhen overjoyed.

Zhu Youzhen actually found this species in the garden of Xu Wenjue's Wei State Mansion.

According to Xu Wenjue, this is still the Yunnan Mu family likes this plant as a landscape plant and cultivates it in the garden, and this kind of plant does have the medicinal effect of reducing fever according to the natives of Yunnan.

Therefore, after the Xu family learned about it, they also introduced some from Yunnan.

"Your Majesty said that this thing does come from Yunnan, but now the scholars in Jiangnan will plant this thing, this thing is as tall as a pine, and there are also short as shrubs, so Wei Chen will find someone to take its bark and mash it, first grind it into powder, give it to Bi Gong to take some, and then find a way to make the cinchona cream medicine that His Majesty said, wouldn't it be better?"

When Xu Wenjue said this, Zhu Youzhen also agreed, he originally wanted people to use some Artemisia annua to rescue Bi Maokang, but now that there is a cinchona tree, it is naturally better: "Very good, it seems that you, the Duke of Wei, are not useless, and you know how to draw inferences." ”

Zhu Youzhen handed over the task of developing cinchona cream to Xu Wenjue.

As the emperor, he can only send all the tasks as much as possible, and he can't do all kinds of experiments himself like the protagonists in other time-traveling novels.

In that case, he would have to die of busyness and exhaustion.

Zhu Youzhen didn't know if Bi Maokang's illness could be cured.

But the Ming gunsmith cannot be delayed.

"Your Majesty, the slave maid remembers that you once talked about firearms, and the West West is ahead of us, since Bi Gong is now sick with the disease, we might as well let the West Fan make us guns, Your Majesty has forgotten that Qin Tianjian has a Tang Ruowang, and His Majesty specially ordered Fan Ge Lao to take him south with him."

Wang Chengen reminded him like this, and Zhu Youzhen remembered that there was a Westerner among the officials who went south with him.

"Thanks to Aiqing's reminder, I almost forgot about this person, and immediately summoned him to see me at the ordnance!"

After Zhu Youzhen said that, he ordered to drive the ordnance station.

At this time, Wu Mengming, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, also came to Zhu Youzhen and replied that the 300 Portuguese soldiers hired from Macao, namely the Francophone people, had also arrived in Nanjing after half a month.

At this time, most of the Ming Dynasty was unclear about Portugal and Spain, and of course, Portugal and Spain were not separated in this era, and they were all commensurate with each other.

When it comes to the Franc machine, in addition to the Franc cannon, it is natural not to mention Macao.

Zhu Youzhen, as the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, naturally could not sit idly by and watch the territory of the Ming Dynasty be taken by outsiders.

Fortunately, the ownership of Macau is still vague, and Zhu Youzhen is too busy dealing with the Tartars to pursue this.

What's more, Taiwan is also controlled by the Red Devil, that is, the Netherlands, and Zhu Youzhen is also beyond the reach of the whip at this time.

Although he is the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, his control over the sea is not as good as that of the Zheng family.

At this time, the Daming Ordnance Institute was located in the lower reaches of the Qinhuai River, close to the outer city and outside the inner city.

Zhu Youzhen did not dare to directly set up the ordnance station outside the city, after all, no one knew whether there would be a Tatar attack around Nanjing in the future.

The ordnance institute is a military equipment manufacturing center, just like an eighteen-year-old flower girl can't go out of the boudoir and let people look at it casually, and no one can approach it at will.

Zhu Youzhen has even decreed that this place will be set as a forbidden place.

Except for the skilled craftsmen and the officials in charge of the ordnance department of the Ministry of Industry, they all had to enter here, and the Second Army of the Ming Guards also stationed a battalion directly here.

Xu Shilin, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, was not removed by Zhu Youzhen in the end, and at this time he was in charge of the construction of the building complex of the Daming Ordnance Institute.

Song Yingxing, the right attendant of the Ministry of Industry, was responsible for the new recording and distribution of more than 10,000 craftsmen and grassroots officials such as the Ordnance Bureau of the Ministry of Industry and the Military War Bureau of the Inner Government.

Because the production workshops of the various bureaus of the Ordnance Institute are still being rebuilt, like the Huai'an Lecture Hall, only some blue-tile bungalows can be built as temporary workshops.

At present, according to the pattern preliminarily determined by Zhu Youzhen, the Daming Ordnance Institute is five bureaus and one factory, namely the Iron and Steel Smelting Bureau, the Artillery Bureau, the Gunpowder Bureau and the Wang Gong Factory.

Song Yingxing, who is now in charge of the Ordnance Institute, focuses on the new manufacturing and assembly of steel equipment in the Iron and Steel Smelting Bureau.

The other four games and Wang Gongchang are still in a state of chaos.

Only a little more than 10,000 craftsmen were re-selected.

According to Song Yingxing's report, there were 13,042 craftsmen in the Ming Dynasty.

About half of the craftsmen are involved in ironmaking and ironmaking, and more than 3,000 craftsmen are skilled in tandem steelmaking.

Song Yingxing divided them into a total of 300 groups, each group of about 20 people, and selected a skilled person as the team leader and two deputy leaders.

At the same time, Zhu Youzhen also promised that the team leader would enjoy the treatment of the seventh-grade official, the deputy team leader would enjoy the treatment of the eighth-grade, and the skilled craftsmen would be divided into grades according to their skill level, and the senior would enjoy the treatment of the eighth-grade, the intermediate would enjoy the treatment of the nineth-grade, and the low-level would enjoy the treatment of the nineth-grade, and the apprentices would not enter the stream.

In this way, it is equivalent to Zhu Youzhen giving the craftsmen official status, which is equivalent to improving their political status, which can be regarded as changing the low treatment of craftsmen.

In addition, Zhu Youzhen also said that the craftsmen were allowed to leave the imperial ordnance station to find their own way out, and those who chose to stay were also employed and could have the right to leave.

In this way, it is not considered to restrict the personal freedom of craftsmen, but Zhu Youzhen gave the craftsmen of the Ordnance Institute a status of origin, and not many craftsmen wanted to leave.

What's more, Zhu Youzhen has already issued an order to abolish the lowly nationality system, and the imperial examination implements no threshold operation for origin, even unlimited nationality.

Naturally, the craftsmen were more willing to stay in the armory than to go back to be civilians.

Next, the Fire Gun Bureau accounted for 4,000 craftsmen, but Song Yingxing had not yet had time to group them specifically, which was related to the current situation that the manufacturing direction of Daming firearms was too complicated.

In the Ming Dynasty, there are a variety of firearms such as bird guns, three-eyed guns, Lumi guns, and abduction guns.

Zhu Youzhen has already decided to change the way of thinking about the development of the Daming firearm, and from development to production, it is necessary to make clear what firearms the Ming army will be equipped with, and then the main direction of developing firearms.

Therefore, when he came to the armory, he first came to the Gun Bureau.

At this time, three hundred Portuguese soldiers and John Tong also arrived here.