The steel production, the rails, and the big iron plant have shocked the Seven Elders enough, but in fact, the Seven Elders feel that they are still too young......

"In the battle of Dushikou in Xuanfu, the defenders were able to inflict a heavy blow on the little prince's 50,000 elite cavalry with only 5,000 foot soldiers, what did they rely on?"

Zhu Houwei held a spear in his hand, aimed at the straw man fifty paces away, and pulled the trigger.

"It depends on the musket, and the musket from its invention to today's improvement depends on the craftsmen that you Confucian scholars look down on!" Zhu Houwei said solemnly: "It is precisely because these craftsmen have studied day and night and tirelessly polished that we have this sharp firearm that can be called a unique killer!"

Zhu Houwei threw the musket to the craftsman next to him, and sighed in his heart after all, today's military workshop has already formed a complete set of assembly line operation mode.

firing pins, gunpowder, barrels, cartridge cases, charges, assembly......

These have separate workshops, and the combined number of workers in these workshops is more than five thousand!

If the technical strength is not enough, it can only rely on a large amount of manpower, even if there are the most grinding machines, drilling machines, forging machines and other lathes in the military workshop.

Mature processes do represent advanced and fast productivity to a certain extent, but musket manufacturing has never been able to achieve large-scale mass production.

There is no problem with the material of the musket itself, and the main reason why it is difficult to mass produce is to depict rifling, which is biased, crooked, deep, or shallow.

It is precisely because of the constraints of many factors that Zhu Houwei returned to the capital to develop the military industry for seven years after he arrived in Huzhou, and in eight years, with the efforts of thousands of craftsmen, there were only 60,000 or 70,000 qualified muskets forged.

Therefore, after the three battalions of the forbidden army were reorganized into the Shence Army, the new Shenji Battalion only had 50,000 musketeers.

It's not that Zhu Houwei doesn't want to completely eliminate cold weapons, but it can't be achieved at all, at least within five years.

The emperor's words made the faces of the seven old men in the cabinet not look good, and this was another undisguised dissatisfaction with Confucianism in front of the Son of Heaven.

But is Confucianism wrong? Everything is inferior, but reading is high, is it wrong?

Absolutely!

Chao is Tian Shelang, and the twilight is the ultimate goal of every scholar in the world, for which they have studied hard for more than ten years, and then on the road to the imperial examination, they have overcome all the thorns and thorns all the way, and finally enjoy the status they deserve, what is wrong with this?

Confucianism looks down on craftsmen, and indeed, nine and a half out of ten scholars look down on craftsmen, and it can even be said to be more direct!

Confucian scholars looked down on any non-scholar class, and in their eyes, what kind of military generals, nobles, merchants, craftsmen, and peasants......

It's all rubbish!

Accustomed to the traditional concept of being high above the top, thousands of years of deep-rooted traditional concepts, so that Confucian scholars never think that their ideas are wrong, even if they themselves were once born poor, but as long as they leap into the dragon gate, they will reveal disdain and contempt for the non-scholar class from their bones.

But these things cannot be said in the mouth, let alone from the emperor's mouth, because all the people in the world, including the scholars, are the emperor's people.

Confucianism aspires to rule the world together with the emperor, and they don't like kings who are too strong, and naturally they don't want to be the target of the emperor's disgust.

Zhu Houwei's words have already released a strong signal to Confucianism.

This signal is that Confucianism must give up the idea of being empty-eyed and high-minded, otherwise sooner or later he will do something to the scholars!

The faces of the seven pavilion elders were not very good-looking, Zhu Houwei naturally didn't care, and said directly: "In your eyes, the current Ming Dynasty is smooth, and the Ming Dynasty after experiencing Hongzhi Zhongxing is even more prosperous and peaceful, but in my eyes, the Ming Dynasty is full of holes, internal and external troubles!"

This was too serious, and Yang Tinghe finally couldn't help but say: "Your Majesty said this, the minister dare not agree!" Whether the dynasty is strong or not depends on the minister's view, as long as there is no harsh government inside and no strong enemies outside, it is the peace and security of the country and the people......"

Zhu Houwei stopped Yang Tinghe's next words with his eyes.

"There is no harsh government in it?" Zhu Houwei sneered: "In my eyes, there are many harsh governments, you don't know or can't see it, but you would rather whitewash the peace than uncover that layer of scars, such as taxation, the taxes of the imperial court are those, but how much do the people actually pay?"

Xu officials and even officials themselves set up names to collect all kinds of miscellaneous taxes, are such examples rare in the Ming Dynasty? There are few people who set up blockades on the canal to extract the wealth of merchants in all kinds of strange names?

The so-called salt and iron official camp, during the Zhengde period, how much salt was sold, and how much salt tax was received by the household? Iron ore mining is controlled by the noble and wealthy families, how much wealth did they get from the mines, and how much mining taxes did they pay to the Ming Dynasty?

In the year of the catastrophe, the imperial court gave money for disaster relief, and how much of the silver for disaster relief was used for disaster relief? When they ignore the lives of the people, have they ever thought about whether their conscience will hurt, whether they will think about the words of the saints, and know that they don't know what people are doing, and the heavens are watching!

Harsh government is fiercer than a tiger, what I said is just the tip of the iceberg, and Yang Qing's statement that there are no strong enemies around Daming is even more nonsense.

The Central Plains Dynasty and the grassland peoples have fought for thousands of years, and the grasslands are sometimes divided and sometimes unified, once they are unified, they will inevitably look at the Central Plains, just like the little prince, what he wants most is probably to destroy the Ming Dynasty and restore the Great Yuan world.

There are barbarians in the north, there are robbers in the southeast, and there are even more bandits in the Ming Dynasty, such as Jiangxi, where bandits are repeatedly suppressed, why?

The officials forced the people to rebel, and the people had to rebel! My Chinese people are the most obedient, but if the government can give them a way to live, so that they can have food to feed themselves and their mothers-in-law and children, will they rebel?

Rebellion is not only a day of pinning your head to the waistband of your pants and licking blood, but also a great crime to destroy the nine clans!

All this, does Yang Qing still think that today's Daming is worthy of the four big words of Guotai and Min'an? ”

Yang Tinghe said that the big truth is the strength of the reader, but the big truth can't be empty talk, you have to be reasonable before talking about the big truth!

And the Son of Heaven is different, he doesn't talk about big truths, he only puts the facts on the surface, and puts one thing after another on the surface to gag people's mouths.

Do you want to refute it with empty truths? That's unreasonable talk, and in the end it's a futile laugh......

Of course, the most important reason is because the Son of Heaven is the Supreme, and if you want to refute him, you can't even put on a tough posture, unless you can make the Son of Heaven speechless......

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