Since Zhu Youzhen already thought that the nineteenth year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty would be a constructive year, he naturally conveyed his thoughts to the household department before the year.

After all, the household department is now in charge of the money bag of the Ming Dynasty, and is the planner of the empire's economic construction in the coming year, and it is even the most valued department of the six ministries, Zhu Youzhen, otherwise Zhu Youzhen would not let the first assistant of the cabinet concurrently serve as the secretary of the household department.

Liu Wanchun, the left attendant of the household department, and Qi Biaojia, the right attendant of the household department, accompanied Fan Jingwen, the first assistant of the cabinet, left the Qianqing Palace, and the three of them walked step by step in the snowflakes with the instructions of Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen, and sometimes discussed a few words with each other, until Fan Jingwen entered the sedan chair, Liu Wanchun and Qi Biaojia got on the horse, and the three of them were still separated.

Han Shoujing, the eunuch and president of the Daming Central Bank, and Wang Jiaqin, the right attendant of the household department, and Wang Jiaqin, the deputy governor of the Daming Central Bank, were also discussing quietly when they retired from Chongzhen and Zhu Youzhen.

Only Yang Mingshen, deputy governor of the Central Bank of Daming, the right attendant of the household department, made an order, and after running up to salute Han Shoujing, Han Shoujing didn't pay attention to him, and still only waved his hand to Wang Jiaqin and entered the sedan chair, leaving Yang Mingshen aside.

Zhu Youzhen only smiled slightly when he saw this, and now the textile industry is at the forefront of the industrial revolution, and the two textile companies of Han and Yang are still very competitive with each other.

It is normal for Han Shoujing not to have a good impression of Yang Mingshen, but fortunately, there are not so many internal contradictions among the household officials, although Fan Jingwen is a northern official, and Qi Biaojia and Liu Wanchun are both southern officials, but there is no suspicion.

Chongzhen and Zhu Youzhen looked at them for a while, and returned to the hall under Chen Yuanyuan's persuasion.

He had already decreed that due to the cold weather, when it was freezing three feet, in order to sympathize with the officials, the officials above the second rank allowed to enter the palace could enter the Qianqing Palace in a sedan chair, and the officials below the second rank could ride into the Qianqing Palace on horseback.

Before the ministers naturally admired Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen's compassion, Zhu Youzhen naturally only slightly understood the ministers.

At present, the snow is knee-deep, and even teenagers can't bear the cold of this harsh winter, let alone a group of middle-aged and elderly people who are weak.

If the Ministry of Household is the planner of the economic construction of the empire, then the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of War, and the Ministry of Rites are the executors of the economic construction of the empire and even other aspects of the construction.

Therefore, after summoning the officials of the Ministry of Industry to discuss the matter, Zhu Youzhen immediately summoned the officials of the Ministry of Works.

The Ministry of Engineering is in charge of engineering construction and industrial manufacturing throughout the empire, and it is a department with a very strong atmosphere of science and engineering.

Although it has always been a very fat yamen, it has not been taken very seriously in the past dynasties, and many times the cabinet ministers are mostly selected from the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Officials, and rarely from the officials of the Ministry of Industry.

Now in the eyes of Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen, the status of the Ministry of Industry in the administrative department of the entire empire is naturally different from before.

Especially in non-war periods, the basic transformation of the empire requires the overall arrangement of the Ministry of Industry in order to apply the wealth of the empire to national production in an orderly manner.

Xu Shiqian, the secretary of the Ministry of Works, submitted his resignation to Zhu Youzhen after the winter solstice.

Maybe it was because he was dissatisfied with Zhu Youzhen's blow to the gentry class, or maybe he really couldn't adapt to the science and engineering atmosphere of the Ministry of Industry, especially after Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen moved south, he always had nothing to do and gave some science and engineering engineering construction tasks to the Ministry of Industry, so that Xu Shiqian, who was still hoping to raise himself in the Ministry of Industry and make some money by the way, had to ask for a decree to return to his hometown.

Zhu Youzhen naturally agreed to Xu Shiqian's resignation, and was directly promoted to Song Yingxing as the secretary of the Ministry of Industry.

He also felt that the Ministry of Industry was a highly professional department, and Song Yingxing, who had strong knowledge of science and engineering, could keep up with his own pace and understand his intentions, and the simple Confucian who was born in the two rankings of Jinshi was obviously not suitable for leading the affairs of the Ministry of Industry.

Song Yingxing was only born in the imperial examination, and now he has been directly promoted to the secretary of the Ministry of Industry in less than two years, which can be regarded as a miracle in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty.

Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen's move undoubtedly stimulated the interest of the entire Ming scholar class in natural science.

Because of Song Yingxing's affairs, everyone can see that His Majesty the Emperor today seems to be less interested in Confucianism, but more interested in the study of miscellaneous schools such as the Mohists.

Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen is now considered to have broken the long-standing official system in the Ming Dynasty, and no longer determines the appointment of officials based on the background and qualifications of the imperial examination, but in order to block the mouth of the world, Zhu Youzhen still changed his way, basically he will give you a jinshi background first and then promote your official.

Since then, the number of Jinshi in the Ming Dynasty has increased, and it has become less and less valuable, and it has also made people all over the world understand that if you want to win good achievements, you can no longer rely on the imperial examination, as long as you can enter the eyes of the emperor, you can still get fame and official position.

Bi Maokang has been cured under the effect of cinchona cream medicine, he should have died of illness last year, and now he is still alive in this time and space, but his body is still very weak, Zhu Youzhen specially approved him to enter the palace in a sedan chair for this, and he is still supported by the Wei Guogong Mansion with the ability of the entire Guogong Mansion.

Zhu Youzhen has now also asked Bi Maokang to directly serve as the left waiter of the Ministry of Industry.

And in the former Ministry of Industry Fire Gun Bureau Langzhong, Shao Zhan Shi Tang Ruowang was also promoted by Zhu Youzhen to the right waiter of the Ministry of Industry because of his work in manufacturing Chongzhen's fourteen-style flintlock pistol.

Let a Western fan serve as a senior official in the ministry, which is the first time in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Youzhen is now an enlightened emperor who uses talents in an eclectic manner.

And John Tong has now almost forgotten his missionary career, and has begun to devote all his attention to industrial manufacturing, and the pleasure brought to him by power has surpassed the pleasure brought to him by spreading religion.

At this time, although the Qianqing Palace was still extremely cold outside, it was still warm as spring inside the palace.

The left attendant of the Ministry of Works, Bi Mao Kangde, and Zhu Youjian sat on the official hat chair paved with three layers of mink, his thin face hung down, and he still didn't dare to be too casual in front of His Majesty.

And Song Yingxing, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, and Zhu Youzhen are now both monarchs and ministers and friends who study natural science, and they are much more calm than Bi Maokang.

Tang Ruowang, the right attendant of the Ministry of Works, did not look at Zhu Youzhen, but kept muttering something, and kept thinking about the technical problems encountered in the process of technical improvement of the flintlock pistol.

At the same time, in the palace is also Fang Yizhi, the president of the Daming Academy of Sciences and the Zhan Shi Mansion.

Song Yingxing, Bi Maokang, Tang Ruowang, and Fang Yizhi can be regarded as the most important people in the field of science and technology in Zhu Youzhen, and the most important one is naturally Song Yingxing, because Song Yingxing's knowledge is relatively comprehensive, and he has been with Zhu Youzhen for a long time, and he is most deeply influenced by Zhu Youzhen's sacred studies.

Today's Song Yingxing's knowledge level in science and engineering is no less than that of a university undergraduate, and even surpassed in some aspects, don't believe it, before Zhu Youzhen's contact, Song Yingxing already knew the physical law that sound is produced by vibration in the original history.

Zhu Youzhen is now just perfecting his basic framework and knowledge structure system of natural science, so that Song Yingxing's theoretical knowledge is less messy.

(End of chapter)