Chapter 220: Iron Work and the Artillery Range

Seeing that Zhu Houhuang's brows were scattered, Lu Wan continued: "Your Highness, Wang County Order, although the palace is out of order, please also ask His Highness to remember his loyalty and be light." ”

Although Lu Wan wants to adapt to Zhu Houhuang's style, but after all, he is a scholar, in his opinion, Wang Yuanhe's exhortation was originally correct, but it was not the time, so it was natural to maintain one or two.

Zhu Houhuang looked at Lu Wan's appearance, sighed, and said, "Mr. Lu, is etiquette really so important?" ”

"Etiquette, don't be humble, and determine all things, which is the legal practice of etiquette. The holy king is honored and humbled in order, and the different cars are virtuous. Etiquette has always been the foundation of the imperial court, but when the etiquette is caused, it is reduced by the country. Yongmin is only 100,000, a small country and a widow, His Royal Highness is happy to reduce the ceremony, and it is the right time. It's just that His Royal Highness is not deeply accomplished in Confucianism, and it is the right ceremony to invite the great Confucianism to govern the ceremony and report it to the court for implementation. ”

After listening to Lu Wan's words, Zhu Houhuang was silent for a while, and then promised Lu Wan not to punish Wang Yuanhe. However, Zhu Houhuang has decided to let Wang Yuanhe sit in the position of the county magistrate for the rest of his life.

But he was still depressed.

The world he wants to build is by no means supported by Confucianism now, for example, he wants to dominate the world and build colonies anywhere in the world. But none of them can support such a trend of thought.

There is no support of Confucianism in this part of China, and there is no moral height, even if Zhu Houhuang relies on this authority to forcibly act against him, after his death, I am afraid that people will also die.

Zhu Houhuang secretly said in his heart: "Do I want to do it, if I expand the interest group to a large enough size, I will naturally ask people to brag about it morally." ”

This idea was the famous assertion of later generations that the economic base determines the superstructure, but Zhu Houhuang wanted people to advocate for himself, obviously to reduce the pressure of his own expansion, which could not be done.

Zhu Houhuang faced this problem, sighed, and couldn't find a suitable way, so he could only put this matter down first.

The whole Spring Festival was not happy because of this incident. But what to do after the year is still what must be done.

Zhu Houhuang wanted to inspect Shaofu.

Zhu Houhuang's Shaofu institution was built after the 24 prisons of the Ming Dynasty and the internal affairs office of the Qing Dynasty, modeled on the Shaofu of the Han Dynasty. Zhu Houhuang did not have a detailed plan for it, but in the hands of Empress Dowager Wu and Xu Lan, the current system was gradually formed. Empress Dowager Wu first took a resume to the Inner Mansion, which is responsible for the maintenance and cleaning of the Yongwang Mansion. Wait a minute. In the era of the Empress Dowager Wu, this inner mansion was the most important position of the Shaofu because it was close to the Empress Dowager. Empress Dowager Wu is a deep house woman who is indifferent to many things, so the Shaofu is in the hands of Empress Dowager Wu, and it can only be maintained.

Since Zhu Houhuang got married, the responsibility of Shaofu has been transferred to Xu Lan's hands. However, the most favored inner government is still in the hands of the Empress Dowager Wu.

After Xu Lan took charge of Shaofu, he had an important helper, Xu Song. Because Xu Song has the support of Xu Lan, although he is a Shaofu Cheng, he almost became the home of Shaofu Ling.

Xu Song has been in business for many years and has rich experience, so he is comfortable in handling many affairs. However, he inevitably can't get rid of the habits of a businessman, and he is more interested in profitable businesses. For things that don't make money, it's more negligent.

Zhu Houhuang said that most of Xu Lan's words had to be detained on Xu Song.

The first place Zhu Houhuang wanted to go was the artillery factory. It was not for nothing that he chose the gun factory in the first place, because Wei Ruizhou. Although Zhu Houhuang said that Wei Ruizhou should become the commander of the Nanyang Detachment, this Nanyang Detachment is not something that can be made casually.

First of all, this Nanyang detachment must be based on the old team of the Wei family, but it does not mean that the old team of the Wei family is directly used. Zhu Houhuang had to send some personnel to ensure that the Nanyang Fleet would not get out of his control. Coupled with the team of Zheng Lu, who has recently defected, the sailor is obviously going to have a big adjustment.

This major adjustment is not something that can be done all at once. In addition, even if Zhu Houhuang has a draft in his heart just after the New Year, he will not be able to implement them one by one until the New Year.

In other words, Zhu Houhuang's first inspection of the artillery field was also to prepare for this adjustment. Because the person in charge of the artillery field is Wei Ruizhou.

This artillery range is in Taiwan.

The small city of Taiwan located on a kun is not as prosperous as it was in history, if it were not for Zhu Houhuang's imitation of the decision of the Dutch colonists in history, then this small city would not have appeared here at all.

Since Zhu Houhuang realized his shortcomings in general affairs, and later served as the chief historian of King Yong, he did not take this small city in Taiwan to heart.

However, according to Zhu Houhuang's original plan, there are salt farms around this small city, and the salt produced by this one, plus the salt produced in Penghu, supplies the salt of the entire Dongyong, and even some of them are sold inland, which is called sea salt. It became the first step for Zhu Houhuang to become self-sufficient in Dongyong.

However, it is limited to the area of the sandbar near Taiwan City, and the area of Penghu suitable for drying salt, coupled with the serious shortage of manpower in Dongyong, and the problem that sea salt cannot be sold in the mainland. Because sea salt is private salt on the mainland.

And then there's the Artillery Range.

However, the artillery yard was originally called iron work, and it was originally a place for iron struck. A lot of iron was needed to build Dongyong. Originally, he bought iron directly from the mainland, but Zhu Houhuang was not reconciled to this, so he bought iron from the mainland, set up an iron here, and then made iron into iron. Later, Zhu Houhuang's foundation expanded, and more weapons were needed, all of which were built here, and those firearms with relatively large technical content were relatively rarely built, and the cold weapons with almost no technical content were all built here.

Later, the proportion of firearms gradually increased, but cold weapons were still the mainstay, but after the Penghu Peace Conference, there were earth-shaking changes.

Zhu Houhuang fought twice with the Francophone, and was unspeakably miserable by the Franco's cannon. Therefore, Zhu Houhuang felt deeply ashamed, but also made up his mind to build a Franco cannon.

As far as the level of iron smelting in China is concerned, building the Franc cannon is not a big problem at all, plus Zhu Houhuang has a prototype in his hands. At this time, Old Man Wei sent his second son Wei Ruizhou over. Along with it, a group of veteran craftsmen who had built the Franco cannon.

So, with the addition of this group of skilled hands, the Franc cannon was naturally built, and the efficiency was very high, half a year's work, accumulating dozens of guns. made great contributions to Zhu Houhuang's expedition.

And the iron work was naturally transformed into an artillery field.

And the artillery range is in this place, and it won't be long there.

Because the source of iron in Dongyong has changed greatly. Wu Fengyi discovered iron ore in Taipei, although it is not known how much it is and what the quality is, but with what Zhu Houhuang knows, the rich mineral resources of Taipei in later generations are enough for Zhu Houhuang to make a decision. He was ready to relocate the artillery yard to Taipei, relying on Taipei's abundant coal and iron resources. Build Dongyong's industrial system.

"Minister Wei Ruizhou pays a visit to His Royal Highness King Yong." Zhu Houhuang thought about it, and when he arrived at the gate of the artillery field, he sighed in his heart and said secretly: "The change is really big." ”

Originally, the iron work was inside the city of Taiwan, but now it has been transferred to the outside of the city of Taiwan, not to mention, the scale of the entire artillery field is larger than the city of Taiwan, which of course has the city of Taiwan under construction, repeatedly reduced the specifications, from the county town that is not much different from the big man, into a small castle on a sandbank. But it also shows the prosperity of the artillery range.

Zhu Houhuang said: "Flat." He looked at the black smoke billowing in the artillery field, as well as the smell of burning coal in the air, as if it was the industrial exhaust gas of later generations, which made Zhu Houhuang feel a sense of intimacy in his heart.

Zhu Houhuang hurriedly expelled this ridiculous feeling from his mind in his heart, and said, "Wei Qing, just take Gu to take a look at this artillery field." ”

Wei Ruizhou said loudly: "The minister is ordered." He leaned slightly and gave way to the way. Zhu Houhuang walked into the artillery field, and Wei Ruizhou followed closely behind Zhu Houhuang, half of his body, occupying a position that not only made Zhu Houhuang not feel offended, but also made Zhu Houhuang not feel alienated.

Wei Ruizhou said softly: "Your Highness, please go this way." ”