The situation in the outside world is turbulent.

At this time, the south of the Yangtze River is still singing and dancing.

In order to stabilize the hearts of the people, it is mainly the heart of the gentry.

Zhu Youjian ordered Jinyiwei to concentrate all his efforts on the collection and placement of military intelligence from the outside world.

And the East Factory has no large-scale and high-frequency arrest of wrongdoers in China.

The whole Gangnam has become very quiet.

In addition to the Huaiyang area, hundreds of thousands of people are still training.

In Yingtian, Suzhou, Songjiang, Hangzhou and other prefectures, because of the influx of a large number of northern population, coupled with the stimulation of the one-year tax exemption policy.

In the winter of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, the commodity economy in the south of the Yangtze River appeared in a deformed and abnormal state of prosperity.

The silver coins of the Central Bank of the Ming Dynasty were minted constantly.

Wealth is like flowing water around a whirlpool.

It seems that the world has been peaceful.

Zhu Youzhen has already begun to ask Liu Zongzhou, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, to prepare for an Enke.

In this way, he will receive the hearts of the world's soldiers.

At the same time, while the Ming Dynasty still controlled the northern land, more scholars in the north moved south.

In addition, some time ago, the gentry were killed too heavily, and the imperial court urgently needed a large number of talents to be added, so it was imperative to open Enke.

This also made people in the world think that the war seemed to end like this.

The seventeenth year of Chongzhen is not the end of the Ming Dynasty, but a new beginning.

After all, the two Song Dynasty things are still in the ears, and the Ming Dynasty may also become like the Southern Song Dynasty, which is biased towards the southeast and becomes the Southern Ming, many people will think so.

Otherwise, Zhu Youzhen, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty at this time, would not have stayed in the newly established ordnance station all day, and even the frequency of court meetings was not as before.

Only the Imperial Historians will say that His Majesty is lazy.

But more people are optimistic that this is the overall situation of the world has been decided, and we can still live a hundred years in the south peacefully, so Your Majesty will no longer think about the first few months so nervous, and pay attention to what tricks and tricks.

The civilian officials began to focus their attention on the struggle for political power.

There are more and more recitals for the impeachment of Ma Shiying and others, and there are more and more recitals for inviting the prince to study, and there are also those who advise Zhu Youzhen to choose a good family daughter and take concubines, and there are also those who advise Zhu Youzhen not to get close to the eunuchs.

In short, these internal trivial matters began to be taken seriously by these DPRK and Chinese officials.

Zhu Youzhen did not bother to pay attention to the struggle between the Lin Party and the Eunuch Party in the DPRK and the alliance of officials from the north.

As the emperor, no matter who scolds who is bloody now, no matter how heinous the crime is, he will not be punished, or at most he will be punished.

Anyway, the military power and financial power are in his own hands, and Zhu Youzhen feels that these people can't make much waves.

Zhu Youzhen sometimes wonders whether the Donglin Party deliberately paralyzed itself by releasing smoke bombs to cover up a larger conspiracy when it began to make such desperate reports and impeachments.

However, Zhu Youzhen, who is familiar with history, believes that the biggest conspiracy is that Zuo Liangyu will lead his troops eastward.

But Huang Degong and Yuan Jixian, plus Zuo Liangyu's lifespan, will make the Donglin Party understand what the general trend is over.

Zhu Youzhen still focuses on the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which still only occupies Shuntianfu, Jizhou, Shanxi and other places.

Without Caoyun, without the grain of Huguang, and without the taxes of Jiangnan, it would be impossible for Dolgon's Qing Dynasty to gain a foothold in Guannai, and his southward movement was certain, and he certainly would not easily have to divide the river with himself.

Spring will begin next year.

The real enemy is the Tartars!

Zhu Youzhen has been secretly thinking like this, and he doesn't dare to take it lightly for a moment.

In the past few days, he has almost eaten and slept with Song Yingxing as an emperor.

Zhu Youzhen is preparing to completely build the frame between the theoretical study of natural science and the development of science and technology.

Song Yingxing is a relatively versatile person in the field of natural science and technology applications, and Zhu Youzhen decided to teach him all the understanding of his later generations, hoping that Song Yingxing would help him build the entire science and technology system of the Ming Dynasty.

At present, there are more than 10,000 craftsmen under the Daming Ordnance Institute, plus a group of scholars with a certain natural science foundation such as Song Yingxing.

Zhu Youzhen is confident that Daming will reach a higher level in the field of science and technology in the short term.

After all, the Ming Dynasty at this time was not the late Qing era in the original history.

With him, the emperor, taking the lead, and a group of scholars and doctors who have already opened their eyes to the world, it will not be like the Han bureaucrats in the late Qing Dynasty who had to fool Lafayette in order to change the country, and had to deal with the obstacles of the diehards.

The Ming Dynasty is still essentially an agricultural country.

And in this era, the smallholder economic system has begun to enter its end.

In the future, the industrial countries will dominate the world.

What Zhu Youzhen wants to do now is to turn Daming into an industrial country dominated by a commodity economy in Jiangnan.

As mentioned earlier, the humanistic foundation of the Ming Dynasty already exists, and coupled with the fact that Jiangnan is already commercially developed and open-minded, it is naturally more suitable for the ancient empire of the Ming Dynasty to be reborn here.

The basis of a country's industry is heavy industry.

Before the theoretical knowledge of chemistry was fully popularized, and before the emergence of chemical industry, the heavy industry base of the Ming Dynasty was steel smelting.

Whether it is a cold weapon or a hot weapon, its advantages and disadvantages are closely related to the steel production level of the Ming Dynasty.

At that time, the Han Dynasty was able to completely abuse the Xiongnu, which was not the result of the developed steel industry of the Han people.

At present, if Zhu Youzhen wants to improve the quality of weapons, especially the quality and service life of firearms, as well as the improvement of new firearms, it is necessary to raise the level of iron and steel smelting and production.

"Put the willow sticks side by side on the wall, then dry the sludge, sift out the flour with a sieve, wait for the pig iron juice in the stove to directly enter a pond, one person quickly sprinkles the tide mud into the pond, and then everyone else stirs quickly with willow sticks, and when the willow sticks burn to two or three inches, then more yellow, and after cooling, they can be divided into squares, or hammered out of cylinders."

Song Yingxing replied while wiping his sweat: "Your Majesty, if you fry and refine in this way, you can forge all kinds of wrought iron and steel with different brittleness by burning willow sticks, that is to say, the kind of steel with different carbon content you mentioned, so that you can make all kinds of firearms and artillery with different requirements for brittleness." ”

"Not only that, your method can save the process of pig iron reheating, the cost is reduced a lot, and the man-hours are also reduced a lot, and this method should be promoted immediately!"

Zhu Youzhen was born in science and engineering in his previous life, although he didn't know much about the specific steel process, but he also knew some basic knowledge of steel smelting.

The iron-making method proposed by Song Yingxing is considered to be a relatively advanced iron-making technology at present, and the carbon content of molten iron is determined by the amount of burning of willow wood, and willow wood is actually used as a reducing agent to promote the oxidation reaction of liquid molten iron.

I have to admit that this is a very innovative idea.

Although the ancient people did not know that the difference between steel and iron lies in the carbon content, this tandem frying method is undoubtedly much more advanced for the method of determining the carbon content of steel and the method of double-chamber frying steel, which can only rely on hundreds of steels, that is, constantly hammering.

However, Zhu Youzhen is still not satisfied with this, in his opinion, Daming's steel smelting can go further.