Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Autumn Wind Rises

Time flies.

The autumn breeze is rising, and Beijing is getting colder than the south.

Zhu Houhuang has been extremely busy for a period of time.

He had a lot to do, such as training the 300 troops.

Just as there are not many armies. There are only 300 people, but Zhu Houhuang regards these 300 people as his own starting capital, no matter what he does, he has an army in his hands, which is always easier to manage.

I don't train soldiers, and I don't know the doorway inside.

Although Zhu Houhuang has little time to train personally, and it is generally practiced by Wu Ming, all the training standards are set by Zhu Houhuang himself. Zhu Houhuang's main task is the logistics of the entire unit.

For example, the mandarin duck jackets they were wearing.

However, in Zhu Houhuang's eyes, such a mandarin duck jacket is just a big red cotton jacket. Zhu Houhuang had an impulse to try the anti-sword function of the military coat in later generations. But to be honest, it can't be said that these mandarin duck jackets are useless, at least the mandarin duck jackets are not simple cotton clothes, the cotton in the mandarin duck jackets is not ordinary cotton, with a few catties of cotton, hit hard, pressed into thin sheets, with the sun does not collapse as the standard. Such cotton can already be called cotton armor.

Among these cotton armors, there is also barbed wire, and there are iron pieces nailed to the outside. The copper nail looks very powerful. Overall, there are about fifteen catties and twenty catties. It's not too heavy either.

However, it is not without reason that Zhu Houhuang complained about them.

Throughout the summer, all the soldiers wore such cotton armor for training, and there were not too many people suffering from heat stroke. And the entire military-industrial system of the Ming Dynasty had problems.

What Zhu Houhuang wanted, Qian Ning said hello, and no one offended Qian Ning for just three hundred sets of cotton armor, but the mandarin duck battle jackets of other troops in the Ming Dynasty were not like this. There is a shortage of cotton catties and two catties, there is no iron wire in the middle, and the iron pieces on the outside are all like goods, which are not as good as the military coats of later generations.

However, Zhu Houhuang knew what.

He knew that for his little thing, especially the hundreds of flintlock pistols, had already made the craftsmen of the entire Jingshi complain.

It's not that Daming doesn't have skilled craftsmen, but Daming's treatment of craftsmen is not good at all.

All craftsmen are craftsmen. The life of the artisan household was extremely difficult, and there was no social status, and the Ming army system, especially the Beijing camp, had long been a big hole. Since the change of Tumubao, Jingying has become a formal existence, and this is not counted, Jingying is almost useless, 300,000 Jingying, can only be used by Zhengde to pick and choose the east and west two halls, but tens of thousands.

This is still the result of Zhengde, a martial emperor, cheering up, after Zhengde, it is even more declining, in Jiajing, there is a situation where the Beijing division is surrounded, which shows the decline of the Beijing camp.

However, the combat power of the Beijing camp is like this, but the silver is not lacking at all.

However, all the silver was divided among the nobles in charge of the Jingying Dynasty.

This is especially true of the artisan household, as a subordinate part of the Ming military system, and the most neglected part. Under the artisan system, one person is a craftsman, and his children and grandchildren are all artisan households, according to the regulations, he must sit on duty, and the so-called work is to bring his own dry food and go to the officially designated place to build weapons for the government, which has to be five years and one year, or three months a year.

Well, it's bitter enough on top. But forget about the above data, because the artisan is facing more obligations that are not visible on paper. For example, the private work of the chief.

Now many people are still talking about doing private work for their bosses. Not to mention the exploitation of artisans by officials in ancient times, there were many artisans who were not allowed to go home for many years, so that the artisans fled one after another, and there were also pawns who sold their daughters. However, there are policies and countermeasures, and craftsmen also have their own ways to deal with it, that is, to cut corners. No way, everyone is alive.

In the end, I had to think of a way to rely on raw materials, ancient iron, cotton, are very valuable. A little deduction can cope with a year's life.

Under the corruption of the collective, the system, there is nothing to do.

This situation is reflected in firearms, and it has evolved into a dislike for the use of firearms in the military.

Why so, because of iron. Chinese iron ore is not of high taste. The requirements for iron are very high, and ten catties of iron must be forged into one catty of iron, and this kind of iron is suitable for building a fire system. Cold weapons can tell at a glance whether they are good or bad, while firearms, if you don't fire, you don't know if he will blow up, and you don't know when he will blow up. There's a lot of doorway in there.

Zhu Houhuang demanded that the flintlock pistol provided by Qian Ning must be of high standard and strict requirements. Qian would rather not care about this question. He directly forced it down and asked the craftsman to come up with a qualified product.

As a small craftsman, when he embezzled raw materials, he only had to be small, and even the raw materials supplied to them were problematic in themselves, but under the pressure of Qian Ning, those officials didn't care so much. It must be a qualified product, and it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice. Zhu Houhuang even knew that for the sake of hundreds of fires, several lives had already been thrown into it.

Zhu Houhuang also found out later.

Only then did he know that he was regarded as a man-eating demon king by the craftsmen of the entire Jingshi.

This is another slap in the face to Zhu Houhuang.

He had no idea what he had done wrong. Why is this happening?

He even felt as if he were Don Quixote, fighting the whole world alone.

Since then, Zhu Houhuang has been silent and no longer does anything in a hurry. Instead, they settled down and only did two things, that is, training the troops, and the problem of latitude and longitude, but the problem of latitude and longitude has evolved into a problem of calendar. After Zhu Houhuang suggested to Zhengde, Zhengde was also good, and met with Zhu Yu with Yang Tinghe, Yang Tinghe here, Yang Shen has already done the work. Yang Tinghe nodded here. And the matter was settled.

The central decree of Zhengde has also become the Eight Classics of Zheng'er, with the holy decree signed by the cabinet. A large number of mathematicians, astronomers. The heliocentric theory was fully verified, and on this basis, the calendar began to be deduced. On the contrary, it has become a grand event in the Zhengde Dynasty.

However, Zhu Houhuang's dominance is completely gone, because now the dominance of this matter is in the cabinet, and the only thing he has influence on this matter is two things, Zhu Yu promised to give Zhu Houhuang a report on the process of deducing the calendar in Arabic numerals, and the other thing is that Zhu Houhuang proposed the law of longitude and latitude, which will be resolved through negotiation.

The rest of Zhu Houhuang couldn't intervene at all.

Among Shilin, he only knew that it was Yang Shen's credit, and did not mention even a word of Zhu Houhuang. It was not that Yang Shen wanted to rob Zhu Houhuang of the credit, but that Yang Shen said truthfully, everyone didn't believe it, but felt that Yang Shen must be giving Zhu Houhuang an eye, and doubted that Yang Tinghe would have bet on Zhu Houhuang, so scared that Yang Shen didn't dare to speak.

The battle for the throne may be a river of blood, where does Yang Shen dare to talk nonsense.

Under the blows again and again, Zhu Houhuang not only had time to brush up his sense of existence by Zhengde's side, but also worked hard to train soldiers, study hard, read the Four Books and Five Classics, and read hundreds of schools. History.

Before, Zhu Houhuang still felt that he was a traverser and had a sense of superiority. But now, Zhu Houhuang doesn't feel superior at all.

Facing Yang Shen, no, Zhu Houhuang has a feeling that his IQ is suppressed in the face of anyone.

In fact, it is not that IQ is suppressed, but because Zhengde is the center of the Ming Dynasty, and anyone who can stand beside Zhengde is a first-class talent, and they all crawl out of the unknown number of people, and it is not at all that people like Zhu Houhuang who can't even play with office politics can afford to play, and he is facing a system that is incompatible with the protagonist.

It was not one person who suppressed him, but the Ming Dynasty left by Zhu Yuanzhang.

Zhu Yuanzhang was a person who developed the small peasant economy to the extreme, and the entire Ming Dynasty was a dynasty based on yeoman farmers. After being given dominance by civilian officials, the dynasty was distorted in the direction they wanted. In the face of such a layered and intertwined system, as the master of the empire, Zhengde has no way, and can only seize force to show his existence, not to mention a mere Zhu Houhuang.