Talking with Song Yingxing, Bi Maokang, Tang Ruowang and other officials of the Ministry of Industry, Zhu Youzhen naturally became more casual, and directly put on the drawings and began to explain what the Ministry of Industry should do next year.

"This year can thwart the southward trend of Jiannu, flintlock pistols and the latest development of the Ming cannon are very important, this is the credit of the Ming Ordnance Institute, but also the important role played by the Ming industry here, next year I hope that the Ministry of Industry can make more achievements;

Agriculture is the foundation of the Ming Dynasty, and whether the business is prosperous or not is the foundation of taxation, but industry is the foundation of commerce and the biggest promoter of agriculture.

Ordnance needs to go further in steel smelting, and then the shooting accuracy and range of flintlock pistols must be further improved, reducing the probability of barrel explosion and simplifying the loading process, etc., as well as whether the artillery field artillery and heavy artillery also need to be further improved in power and mobility, gunpowder to reduce the interference of smoke to shooting, and even better to one day appear smokeless gunpowder, and melee explosive weapons such as earth-shaking thunder need to be improved, it is best to further improve the lead device, shorten the explosion waiting time and increase the explosion power;

In addition, next year, the Ministry of Industry will have to work shipbuilding, and it will also need to manufacture some military auxiliary equipment, telescopes, navigation equipment, and incendiary flares. ”

When Zhu Youzhen said this, Song Yingxing, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, Bi Maokang, the left waiter, and Tang Ruowang, the right waiter, all laughed, but at the same time felt a little embarrassed.

They have never given up on improving the iron and steel smelting and gun manufacturing of the Ordnance Institute, but in many cases, if it were not for Zhu Youzhen's guidance, they would have been in need of inspiration for natural science research as if they were writing articles.

Otherwise, they can't figure out which direction to improve, for example, John Tang, who made flintlock pistols, actually didn't know that the more advanced rifles in later generations still had rifling, and they were rear-loaded, and they didn't even know that there would be automatic rifles hundreds of years later.

Of course, Zhu Youzhen also knew that they were also blind people catching elephants now, and he didn't strictly require Song Yingxing and the others to reach any level as soon as possible, so he just said that they would make further improvements.

What Zhu Youzhen is mentioning now is the military industry.

In addition, Zhu Youzhen also mentioned the civil industry, what Daming water conservancy projects and various ports and wharves need to be repaired, as well as Chidao Post Stations also need to be repaired, etc., all of which require Song Yingxing to draw up plans as soon as possible.

"My imperial mausoleum and palace can be put aside for the time being, and then we will talk about these important matters after we have dealt with them first, and Song Yingxing, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, should draw up a construction plan before the year before the year, and how much it will cost to build various projects and industrial development will be reported to the cabinet at that time, and then the cabinet will coordinate according to the financial plan of the Ministry of Household and the needs of other ministries;

The Daming Academy of Sciences must establish a complete scientific knowledge system as soon as possible, just as Confucianism has four books and five classics, the scientific system of the Daming Academy of Sciences must have Gewu, chemistry, arithmetic, biology and other subjects, and a set of theoretical systems can be summarized by specialized people, which can not be comprehensive, but need to be summarized as soon as possible according to the classics of the past dynasties, especially the Yongle Canon and the doctrines of the Westerners;

If you can, you can apply to me for a large sum of money to go to Western countries and invite the most respected Taixi Confucianism to come to the Academy of Sciences for research. ”

Song Yingxing did not expect that one day the engineering construction and industrial manufacturing of the entire country would receive the attention of an emperor, and even as the focus of the entire empire, and would be coordinated by the cabinet, and even have to draw up a plan.

This made Song Yingxing feel a little more respectful and surprised by the current Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen.

Like the officials of the Ministry of Households, he did not expect that His Majesty would be so assertive and planned to govern the Ming Empire now, you must know that in the previous Ming Empire, many times it was just advancing according to the inherent procedures, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year, there were various sacrifices and ceremonies, and the empire was concerned about nothing more than border passes and disaster relief. Where there is now, His Majesty the Emperor has his own goals, and the officials have their own goals, and the whole empire seems to be beginning to end an inherent cycle and begin to enter a ladder of development.

Just as he proposed to the Ministry of Household that the Ming Dynasty would one day completely exempt the agricultural tax, now Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen also put forward a goal to the Ministry of Industry, that is, the Ming Dynasty must be at the forefront of the world in industrial manufacturing and theoretical knowledge in all aspects.

Song Yingxing, Fang Yizhi and others all agreed to Zhu Youzhen's request.

For them, the current Ming Empire is undoubtedly enterprising and idealistic under the governance of Zhu Youzhen, instead of being overwhelmed by just to suppress thieves and resist Jiannu as before, and the people will be miserable.

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After summoning the officials of the Ministry of Completion, Zhu Youzhen continued to summon the officials of the Ministry of Rites.

Eighteen years before Chongzhen, the Ministry of Rites was more responsible for the ceremonial order and sacrificial ceremonies of the whole country, and now Zhu Youzhen attaches the most importance to the educational function of the Ministry of Rites.

Liu Zongzhou, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, Huang Daozhou, the left attendant of the Ministry of Rites, and Wang Siren, the newly inaugurated right attendant of the Ministry of Rites, are all famous people in Jiangnan and contemporary Confucianism, but Zhu Youzhen let them enter the court naturally not to let them really not do things, and specialize in learning.

Liu Zongzhou, Huang Daozhou, and Wang Siren also understood that His Majesty was a pragmatic emperor and did not like empty talk, so he did not dare to speak easily at this time, and asked Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen to advocate Confucian etiquette.

"I summoned you for only three things, one is that next year will be the year of Dabi, and the imperial examination is a ceremony for selecting talents, so you must not slack off in the slightest; Another thing is the popularization of enlightenment education; The last thing is the proclamation of loyalty to the king and service to the country."

Zhu Youzhen said that he asked Jinyiwei to command the envoy Wang Shide to hand over the list of officials who had been surrendered to Liu Zongzhou, Huang Daozhou, and Wang Siren:

"Look at it, these are my Ming bureaucrats who surrendered to the Qing court, many of them are your relatives and friends, I wonder why they are all people who have read poetry and books, and they have read the principles of loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness since childhood, but there are so many scum, is there something wrong with the way of morality of my Ming Dynasty, and many military attaches have also surrendered to the Qing court, is it because the indoctrination has not been fully popularized?"

Liu Zongzhou, Huang Daozhou, and Wang Siren all showed a look of embarrassment, because Chongzhen and Zhu Youzhen undoubtedly gave them a difficult problem at this time, let them talk about Cheng Zhu Lixue, they can talk about the Tao, but now let them analyze why so many officials surrendered, and they are difficult to give an answer for a while.

(End of chapter)